Re: [cobalt-users] Re:ORBZ filtering on a RAQ?

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

List wrote:

> JL> He said he was new; it's possible the previous IP owner was blocked.
> 
> yes i am very new i have no idea what the heck i am doing with this t1
> other than i needed it for my stock trading cause i was tired of isp's
> going   down  and  the  blame game they all play.

If you don't know how to administer a T-1, then you probably shouldn't
have gotten it.

> well i have one hop (sprint)  and  i  am  out.

Was it just coincidence that of all the major backbone providers in the
U.S. you chose the one voted most-likely-to-go-out-of-business by all
the major financial consultants <smile>?

I presume you mean you had problems with DSL providers; I did as well. 
But you didn't need a T-1, a friend of mine does very well trading using
ISDN.  Another bought a 64k frame-relay connection.

> i have one person to blame and pro active
> monitoring  ect.   for me it's a dream come true, as a individual that
> is.

I know what you mean.  You might be surprised at how many of us
originally went into the ISP business as kids because we so badly wanted
a T-1 coming right into our bedroom <smile>.

> i  know to you isp's it's mundane.  but i lost 20,000.00+ one day
> because  my  isp, decided  sell  out  to nationwide.net  and not  tell
> anyone, yippeee!

I know someone who fulfilled his dream of becoming an ISP after he lost
300 times that in a sour business deal.  Stuff happens.  Deal with it.

> JL> Right now I can't even reach his server.
> 
> the   screen   shot  i  sent was of post.office - it is the same setup

You miss my point.  I was wondering why you were down.  If you want to
be an ISP you must always be up.  Our colocation center has never been
down.

> typically i will be (just did setup) for my new raq4.  i figured if my
> old  setup  was a spammer, then my new one would be.  anyway i did the
> setup  on the raq4 ans sent it thru the spammer test it passed.  weird
> now  i  went  back  to my old setup with post.office and set it to not
> relay anything - it failed the spam test.  so the software must have a
> flaw?  cause the same settings (other than ip addresses) with the raq4
> passes.  hell i have no idea what i am doing, i am a trader with a t1.

Then you've got a lot to learn.

I'm a consultant to small ISPs.  Learn to make use of good resources
<smile>.  Either here onlist, for small stuff, for free, or to pay
someone for the complex issues that always come up.  Know your
limitations.  I just decided to hire someone outside my organization for
a complex security issue.  Sometimes we have to do that.

> i  want  to supplement some of my expenses by hosting some stinkin web
> sites  and  don't  want  no trouble.  who need's a partner? i have the
> stuff ;-)

We're always looking to partner.  When you've got multiple OC-3s,
>99.99999 uptime, 24/7 secured keycard access, 24/7 live onsite monitoring, two hour battery backup and 7-day diesel-generator backup behind that, let us know <smile>.

> btw i have had to install dual nics on my computers (not the raq4) one
> to  the  t1  one to my cable connection.  i had to set my mail to send
> from  the  cable  and  receive  from  the t1.  SURELY! to god there is
> another  way i can config this to all work off the t1 and that raq4?

Of course.  Why are you using cable if you've got a T-1?  Cable as a
backup for a T-1?  I'm not sure I understand.

> excuse  if  this  is  outta line on this list but i figure this is the
> best place to look.
> 
> 1.) i need web based email so my clients can access from browser. if
> this is a resource hog, i would like to be able to specify what
> domains get to have it.

most of us use neomail because it's easy.  Look up "neomail" in the
archives to this list.

> 2.) i need a web based mail list interface installed. if this is a
> resource hog, i would like to be able to specify what domains get to
> have it.

Don't use the RaQ's built-in majordomo.  It's too early in the morning
for me to remember the name of the maillist program others are using;
someone else please help him here... was it mailman?

> 3.) i have a need for someone who will admin new web sites as i get
> customers who wish to migrate over to my web services.

As I said, our core business is offering admin services,
trouble-shooting, and consulting services to ISPs.  Contact me offlist
if you'd like.

> 3.a.)  i  have  a  need  to  eventually  run my own dns records for my
> personal  domains as they are using tzo.com services now.  i want only
> to do this as the services at tzo expire.

You can do it yourself on your RaQ.  What are you going to do for your
customers?  You can also host primary yourself and have someone else
(us?) host secondary.  Again, contact me offlist.

> 4.) i  need  mail  list  archive  setup like the one a competitor has
> located here http://www.purebytes.com/archives/  i want to incorporate
> all  the  archives  he  has

Don't you think he's got a compilation copyright?  Would you like it if
he stole all your work?  Do you really feel comfortable just taking
his?  Or do you expect to get written permission?

> as well as the archives that i have.  his
> archives  loose the attachments after so many days. my list would have
> the attachments permanently, for retrieval.

Doable... a lot of work.  If you're going to have someone else do it, it
might get expensive quickly.  As Senator Proxmire (some of us called him
Senator Quagmire <grin>) used to say:

A couple of billion dollars here, a couple of billion dollars there,
sooner or later you're talking about real money.

> my  priorities  are in that order as well, i would like to get one and
> two  completed.   since  #4  is  gigs and gigs of data i would like to
> maybe put that on a different machine than the raq4.

Me thinks Senator Proximire was probably right in your case.  This one
may have to remain a dream unless you can find a young high-school kid
who's excited about the 'net, and learn with her/him, together.

> thank you all, spammer brown

I have an 11-year-old godson who's always deprecating himself.  I
recently told him he doesn't have to keep putting himself down, that
there are altogether too many people out there willing to do it for him,
and that he should always keep his head high, his chin up.  The first
time you say it, it sounds cute.  Now its boring and irritating.

Take my advice to Jesse and to you... it's unbecoming.  Please stop.

Thanks.

Jeff
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