From mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Mar 7 03:53:34 2010 From: mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Mitch Kelly) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 03:53:34 +0800 Subject: [tech] Rome Upgrade Message-ID: <00a601cabd66$b754eaf0$25fec0d0$@gu.uwa.edu.au> Hi, I plan to upgrade my personal Colo box (Rome.ucc), It will have a decent graphics card on it that will support OpenGL on the ticker screens as well as better support for the TV tuner, If anyone wants to help with dev on it speak to rvvs89 J Rome will go off next Friday for about 1hr, No data will be lost on it as the old drive will just be mirrored. The TV tuner in it will be upgraded to a Digital Card, Most likely a Conexant or Bt878 or similar. The Video card will be a 9600GT. This is NOT a Club PC(Personal Colo box), But this email is more of a FYI for those who have accounts on it. Heat will be reduced to a minimum and power also, I plan to have the new box an Intel Dual core Atom (16Watts) Mitch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20100307/e06ca5a7/attachment.htm From bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Mar 7 09:21:01 2010 From: bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Bob Adamson) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 09:21:01 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] Rome Upgrade In-Reply-To: <00a601cabd66$b754eaf0$25fec0d0$@gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <00a601cabd66$b754eaf0$25fec0d0$@gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: If you want to reduce temperature, you might want to put it somewhere other than sitting on top of musdea (which is a nice hot Delta). Is there any way you could rack mount it instead? Bob Adamson UCC Wheel Member |"Bureaucracy is a challenge to the be conquered with a righteous | |attitude, an intolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary" | | ---Peter's Laws | On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Mitch Kelly wrote: > > Hi, > > ? > > I plan to upgrade my personal Colo box (Rome.ucc), It will have a decent graphics card on it that will support OpenGL on the ticker screens as well as better support for the TV tuner, If anyone wants > to help with dev on it speak to rvvs89 J > > ? > > Rome will go off next Friday for about 1hr, No data will be lost on it as the old drive will just be mirrored. > > ? > > The TV tuner in it will be upgraded to a Digital Card, Most likely a Conexant or Bt878 or similar. The Video card will be a 9600GT. > > ? > > This is NOT a Club PC(Personal Colo box), But this email is more of a FYI for those who have accounts on it. > > ? > > Heat will be reduced to a minimum and power also, I plan to have the new box an Intel Dual core Atom (16Watts) > > ? > > Mitch > > ? > > > From mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Mar 7 09:52:28 2010 From: mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Mitch Kelly) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 09:52:28 +0800 Subject: [tech] Rome Upgrade In-Reply-To: References: <00a601cabd66$b754eaf0$25fec0d0$@gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <00c201cabd98$da1ef120$8e5cd360$@gu.uwa.edu.au> The VGA and DVi Leads are only just long enough, Does anyone have longer DVi and VGA? -----Original Message----- From: tech-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [mailto:tech-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au] On Behalf Of Bob Adamson Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 9:21 AM To: Mitch Kelly Cc: tech at ucc.asn.au Subject: Re: [tech] Rome Upgrade If you want to reduce temperature, you might want to put it somewhere other than sitting on top of musdea (which is a nice hot Delta). Is there any way you could rack mount it instead? Bob Adamson UCC Wheel Member |"Bureaucracy is a challenge to the be conquered with a righteous | |attitude, an intolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary" | | ---Peter's Laws | On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Mitch Kelly wrote: > > Hi, > > ? > > I plan to upgrade my personal Colo box (Rome.ucc), It will have a decent graphics card on it that will support OpenGL on the ticker screens as well as better support for the TV tuner, If anyone wants > to help with dev on it speak to rvvs89 J > > ? > > Rome will go off next Friday for about 1hr, No data will be lost on it as the old drive will just be mirrored. > > ? > > The TV tuner in it will be upgraded to a Digital Card, Most likely a Conexant or Bt878 or similar. The Video card will be a 9600GT. > > ? > > This is NOT a Club PC(Personal Colo box), But this email is more of a FYI for those who have accounts on it. > > ? > > Heat will be reduced to a minimum and power also, I plan to have the new box an Intel Dual core Atom (16Watts) > > ? > > Mitch > > ? > > > From zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Mar 7 11:34:33 2010 From: zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (David Adam) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 11:34:33 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] Rome Upgrade In-Reply-To: <00c201cabd98$da1ef120$8e5cd360$@gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <00a601cabd66$b754eaf0$25fec0d0$@gu.uwa.edu.au> <00c201cabd98$da1ef120$8e5cd360$@gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: UCC has a fairly long VGA cable (as well as old KVM cables which can be used as VGA extension cords); could we put a DVI-VGA converter on one? David On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Mitch Kelly wrote: > The VGA and DVi Leads are only just long enough, Does anyone have longer DVi > and VGA? > > -----Original Message----- > From: tech-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [mailto:tech-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au] > On Behalf Of Bob Adamson > Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 9:21 AM > To: Mitch Kelly > Cc: tech at ucc.asn.au > Subject: Re: [tech] Rome Upgrade > > If you want to reduce temperature, you might want to put it somewhere > other than sitting on top of musdea (which is a nice hot Delta). Is there > any way you could rack mount it instead? > > Bob Adamson > UCC Wheel Member > > |"Bureaucracy is a challenge to the be conquered with a righteous | > |attitude, an intolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary" | > | ---Peter's Laws | > > On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Mitch Kelly wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > ? > > > > I plan to upgrade my personal Colo box (Rome.ucc), It will have a decent > graphics card on it that will support OpenGL on the ticker screens as well > as better support for the TV tuner, If anyone wants > > to help with dev on it speak to rvvs89 J > > > > ? > > > > Rome will go off next Friday for about 1hr, No data will be lost on it as > the old drive will just be mirrored. > > > > ? > > > > The TV tuner in it will be upgraded to a Digital Card, Most likely a > Conexant or Bt878 or similar. The Video card will be a 9600GT. > > > > ? > > > > This is NOT a Club PC(Personal Colo box), But this email is more of a FYI > for those who have accounts on it. > > > > ? > > > > Heat will be reduced to a minimum and power also, I plan to have the new > box an Intel Dual core Atom (16Watts) > > > > ? > > > > Mitch > > > > ? > > > > > > > Cheers, David Adam zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Ask Me About Our SLA! From frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Mar 7 20:39:25 2010 From: frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James French) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 20:39:25 +0800 Subject: [tech] 4x Sunfire v20z's from FAHSS In-Reply-To: <560b011002160603q42dee796r60e0ee3420dc535f@mail.gmail.com> References: <560b011002091949p2196ceedyd1b73e5957ee067b@mail.gmail.com> <560b011002151909o3c61ae2blbc09efb02215dab0@mail.gmail.com> <20100216031734.GE15610@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> <560b011002151919u291f07c2qce8d6c29593b8f96@mail.gmail.com> <20100216032048.GF15610@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> <560b011002151929q71e5d0d1sb63bcff1f6837a8c@mail.gmail.com> <560b011002160603q42dee796r60e0ee3420dc535f@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <560b011003070439o164214yc7cb11b8f3e895ba@mail.gmail.com> Status Update: Lugged the one I was playing with back to Arts and netinstalled win2k8 r2 STD but ran out of time before I got it configured. Will finish up tonight/tomorrow and then bring it back. F. On Tuesday, February 16, 2010, James French wrote: > After a few hours of fiddling this afternoon, the closest I actually > got was half an install before it crapped out on a corrupted file. I'm > thinking I'll just lug it across campus to the office and do a > net-install there. Think the problems in installing are probably be > argument enough against running AD at this stage. > > F. > > On 16 February 2010 11:29, James French wrote: >> Well, to be quite honst, I'd also prefer it if we stuck with Samba as >> it fits better with the tinkering nature of the club. AD is something >> that's easy to fuck up when you have too many chefs in the kitchen. >> See my first email >> >>> I have both of these prepared, I might take a long lunch and setup >>> Windows on one of the two hosts not intended for VMWare (keeping the >>> one remaining host as spare parts). I'd strongly reccomend that we >>> don't rush into AD and that we actually spend a bit of time thinking >>> about how we're going to do it properly. >> >> The subtle undertone was there about my reservations about AD :). That >> said, a windows server probably _is_ something the club wants, so I'm >> planning on building that all the same. >> >> F. >> >> On 16 February 2010 11:20, Adrian Chadd wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010, James French wrote: >>>> That would be me ;) >>> >>> >>> I'm reading this as "frenchie is the new trs80." in terms of AD. :) >>> >>> >> > From filter79 at gmail.com Mon Mar 8 10:05:17 2010 From: filter79 at gmail.com (Anil Sharma) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:05:17 +0800 Subject: [tech] oops - solder Message-ID: <22e859cb1003071805u7524f376o32f981876c8c6f9a@mail.gmail.com> I accidentally forgot to return a spool of solder that I borrowed on the weekend. Will return tonight, or at the lastest Wednesday. Cheers, Anil. From mattman at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Fri Mar 12 12:01:16 2010 From: mattman at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Matt Didcoe) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:01:16 +0800 Subject: [tech] Changes to internet access Message-ID: <53c752ffd9f6f79e6b2debf553e42b81@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> UCC News is going out soon announcing this and some other things, but for those of you that missed it on IRC, UCC has been granted a subsidised connection to AARNet, which will save us ~$1600 a year. We're going to need to make a couple of changes though to ensure we stay in the good books with AARNet and ITS though: 1) Crack down on any torrenting that's occurring - I think we do this already though quite well (Linux ISO's are OK, but other stuff isn't - ITS made it quite clear this morning they will be watching not only us, but everyone in this regard with central funding). 2) UniComputerClub needs to be locked down - I'm thinking 802.1x, David says that shouldn't be an issue - we just have to hook up RADIUS. Maybe people that don't pass auth can be sent to a "Hey, join UCC, we're pretty awesome page" or just have access to UWA pages like SNAP does (though that's not as funny). 3) Monitoring - we need to be accountable, I'm not 100% familiar with Captain Packet and Proxy box - is there someway of keeping an eye on how much traffic everyone is using? not what they're viewing, just a traffic overview by username so we can slap people about that are hammering the link. Also, ITS have some old APs which they might be sending our way (Reaps is doing stuff wrt this), they also have a 6500 series Packeteer - it's got speed limits on it though (45M up, 45M down) - it's licenced for basic shaping only, no compression or acceleration - while newer than CP, I don't think we want it if it's got speed limits on it...someone want to tell me different on that? Thanks of to Craig, Scott, Conrad and Brian Greene for their assistance in getting this off the ground. We'll terminate our Resnet link as soon as we know AARNet is all working OK. -- Matt Didcoe [MRD] UCC President / Wheel Member From mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Fri Mar 12 12:08:41 2010 From: mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Mitch Kelly) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:08:41 +0800 Subject: [tech] Changes to internet access In-Reply-To: <53c752ffd9f6f79e6b2debf553e42b81@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <53c752ffd9f6f79e6b2debf553e42b81@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <01b401cac199$b9cf2d40$2d6d87c0$@gu.uwa.edu.au> Wireless, Perhaps a captive portal like Tomizone? -----Original Message----- From: tech-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [mailto:tech-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au] On Behalf Of Matt Didcoe Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:01 PM To: tech at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Subject: [tech] Changes to internet access UCC News is going out soon announcing this and some other things, but for those of you that missed it on IRC, UCC has been granted a subsidised connection to AARNet, which will save us ~$1600 a year. We're going to need to make a couple of changes though to ensure we stay in the good books with AARNet and ITS though: 1) Crack down on any torrenting that's occurring - I think we do this already though quite well (Linux ISO's are OK, but other stuff isn't - ITS made it quite clear this morning they will be watching not only us, but everyone in this regard with central funding). 2) UniComputerClub needs to be locked down - I'm thinking 802.1x, David says that shouldn't be an issue - we just have to hook up RADIUS. Maybe people that don't pass auth can be sent to a "Hey, join UCC, we're pretty awesome page" or just have access to UWA pages like SNAP does (though that's not as funny). 3) Monitoring - we need to be accountable, I'm not 100% familiar with Captain Packet and Proxy box - is there someway of keeping an eye on how much traffic everyone is using? not what they're viewing, just a traffic overview by username so we can slap people about that are hammering the link. Also, ITS have some old APs which they might be sending our way (Reaps is doing stuff wrt this), they also have a 6500 series Packeteer - it's got speed limits on it though (45M up, 45M down) - it's licenced for basic shaping only, no compression or acceleration - while newer than CP, I don't think we want it if it's got speed limits on it...someone want to tell me different on that? Thanks of to Craig, Scott, Conrad and Brian Greene for their assistance in getting this off the ground. We'll terminate our Resnet link as soon as we know AARNet is all working OK. -- Matt Didcoe [MRD] UCC President / Wheel Member From mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Fri Mar 12 12:09:45 2010 From: mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Mitch Kelly) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:09:45 +0800 Subject: [tech] Changes to internet access In-Reply-To: <53c752ffd9f6f79e6b2debf553e42b81@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <53c752ffd9f6f79e6b2debf553e42b81@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <01b501cac199$dc614640$9523d2c0$@gu.uwa.edu.au> I have a spare 6500 Packeteer with 100Mb License. UCC want it? -----Original Message----- From: tech-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [mailto:tech-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au] On Behalf Of Matt Didcoe Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 12:01 PM To: tech at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Subject: [tech] Changes to internet access UCC News is going out soon announcing this and some other things, but for those of you that missed it on IRC, UCC has been granted a subsidised connection to AARNet, which will save us ~$1600 a year. We're going to need to make a couple of changes though to ensure we stay in the good books with AARNet and ITS though: 1) Crack down on any torrenting that's occurring - I think we do this already though quite well (Linux ISO's are OK, but other stuff isn't - ITS made it quite clear this morning they will be watching not only us, but everyone in this regard with central funding). 2) UniComputerClub needs to be locked down - I'm thinking 802.1x, David says that shouldn't be an issue - we just have to hook up RADIUS. Maybe people that don't pass auth can be sent to a "Hey, join UCC, we're pretty awesome page" or just have access to UWA pages like SNAP does (though that's not as funny). 3) Monitoring - we need to be accountable, I'm not 100% familiar with Captain Packet and Proxy box - is there someway of keeping an eye on how much traffic everyone is using? not what they're viewing, just a traffic overview by username so we can slap people about that are hammering the link. Also, ITS have some old APs which they might be sending our way (Reaps is doing stuff wrt this), they also have a 6500 series Packeteer - it's got speed limits on it though (45M up, 45M down) - it's licenced for basic shaping only, no compression or acceleration - while newer than CP, I don't think we want it if it's got speed limits on it...someone want to tell me different on that? Thanks of to Craig, Scott, Conrad and Brian Greene for their assistance in getting this off the ground. We'll terminate our Resnet link as soon as we know AARNet is all working OK. -- Matt Didcoe [MRD] UCC President / Wheel Member From mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Fri Mar 12 20:39:09 2010 From: mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Mitch Kelly) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:39:09 +0800 Subject: [tech] UCC now has VoIP Message-ID: <01e401cac1e1$05672a90$10357fb0$@gu.uwa.edu.au> Hi, The VoIP Phone in UCC now works, It can be contacted by dialing 08 6201 0183, This number is my spare un-used iinet phone number.. And is subject to change (but probably wont) Mitch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20100312/835fc28d/attachment.htm From danielax at gmail.com Fri Mar 12 20:42:07 2010 From: danielax at gmail.com (Daniel J. Axtens) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:42:07 +0800 Subject: [tech] UCC now has VoIP In-Reply-To: <01e401cac1e1$05672a90$10357fb0$@gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <01e401cac1e1$05672a90$10357fb0$@gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <4b86c8871003120442w4cf5eb16h5bbb3fd293fb4110@mail.gmail.com> Congratulations! What are its dial-out capabilities? [DJA] On 12 March 2010 20:39, Mitch Kelly wrote: > Hi, > > > > The VoIP Phone in UCC now works, It can be contacted by dialing 08 6201 > 0183, This number is my spare un-used iinet phone number.. And is subject to > change (but probably wont) > > > > Mitch > > From mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Fri Mar 12 20:42:08 2010 From: mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Mitch Kelly) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:42:08 +0800 Subject: [tech] UCC now has VoIP In-Reply-To: <01e401cac1e1$05672a90$10357fb0$@gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <01e401cac1e1$05672a90$10357fb0$@gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <01ef01cac1e1$710229d0$53067d70$@gu.uwa.edu.au> Note: You cannot dial out on the phone ;) From: tech-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [mailto:tech-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au] On Behalf Of Mitch Kelly Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 8:39 PM To: tech at ucc.asn.au Subject: [tech] UCC now has VoIP Hi, The VoIP Phone in UCC now works, It can be contacted by dialing 08 6201 0183, This number is my spare un-used iinet phone number.. And is subject to change (but probably wont) Mitch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20100312/2aa0e5ac/attachment.htm From mattman at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Mar 16 20:48:07 2010 From: mattman at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Matt Didcoe) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:48:07 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] FW: UWA Central Email Gateway service - home stretch. Message-ID: We've discussed this before I know, but given we're dropping our Resnet link, will the changes below now effect us? Matt Didcoe UCC President / Wheel Member mattdidcoe at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:42:54 +0800 From: Matt Didcoe To: "mattman at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au" Subject: FW: UWA Central Email Gateway service - home stretch. From: tech-contacts-bounces at maillists.uwa.edu.au [tech-contacts-bounces at maillists.uwa.edu.au] On Behalf Of John Ludovico [john.ludovico at uwa.edu.au] Sent: Tuesday, 16 March 2010 5:58 PM To: tech-contacts at maillists.uwa.edu.au Subject: [Tech-contacts] UWA Central Email Gateway service - home stretch. Good afternoon, In order to improve the email gateway service we are in the process of replacing the aged email gateways with new Ironport devices. These will offer better resiliency, reduce the amount of SPAM received from external sources and increase the reliability of the email service. Equally important will be the ability of this architecture to assist in reducing the blacklists applied to the University caused by compromised mail servers on campus or those utilizing UWA address space. This project has been running under my supervision for 6 months and during this time, we have spoken with the great majority of email domain owners and migrated an equal number over to the new architecture. We are now aiming to complete this work by the end of April 2010. We are seeking your assistance to complete the migration to the Ironports and/or to pass on this message to other affected groups that you work with or know of. We have a number of small groups for whom contact details are either outdated and/or do not exist and we are hopeful that this message can act as a catalyst to get the information in front of these people/groups. A short recap of what we are asking people to do: For Incoming mail In order to filter incoming SPAM as per the university email policy, we are using the central core routers to redirect incoming mail through the email gateways. This method has caused problems with network stability. As part of the project we have been asking that configuration changes at our customer end are focused at directing this incoming mail to the Ironport gateways. This can be achieved by listing them as the primary MX records for the email domain. For reference, email domains that have been moved over will have MX records that contain: IN MX 10 mail-ext-in1.uwa.edu.au. IN MX 10 mail-ext-in2.uwa.edu.au. We are asking that owners of any domains that have not been changed should contact ITS Service Desk and ask that an incident be raised and assigned to the ITS Networks team. We will work together with you to effect the changes required to adopt the new gateways. >From Monday May 3rd, incoming email not directed to the new Ironport gateways will be blocked at the border router. For Outgoing Mail: >From a configuration perspective, in order to filter outgoing SPAM as per the University email policy, we are using the central routers to redirect outgoing mail through the email gateways. This method has caused problems with network stability. As part of the improvements promised by the Ironport gateways, ITS will be asking that all outgoing email is explicitly sent to the load balanced service instance, ?antivirus.uwa.edu.au?. NOTE: Currently, outbound messages are policy routed to the internal mail gateway, Panacea ITS. This will be replaced by access lists to prevent any message from being sent directly out the University without being relayed by the Ironports first. All University email servers will need to be configured to use ?antivirus.uwa.edu.au? as their email gateway. Email clients, which don't use their email servers as gateways, should be configured to use ?antivirus.uwa.edu.au?. If you have concerns or issues with this configuration change, please contact ITS Service Desk and ask that an incident be raised and assigned to the ITS Networks team. Again, from 3rd May, outgoing email not sent to ?antivirus.uwa.edu.au? will be blocked at the border router and will not leave UWA. Your assistance in helping us complete this work is appreciated. John Ludovico Network & Communications Manager University of Western Australia a m463, 35 stirling highway, crawley wa 6009 w http://www.uwa.edu.au p +61 8 6488 2915 f +61 8 6488 3861 From zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Mar 16 21:29:02 2010 From: zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (David Adam) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:29:02 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] UWA Central Email Gateway service - home stretch. In-Reply-To: <7E0C97968F4AC447B8D9B1F4D71B96F9265294AB@ITS-WIN-009.staffad.uwa.edu.au> References: <7E0C97968F4AC447B8D9B1F4D71B96F9265294AB@ITS-WIN-009.staffad.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: Please assign this incident to ITS Networks. On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, John Ludovico wrote: > In order to improve the email gateway service we are in the process of > replacing the aged email gateways with new Ironport devices. These will > offer better resiliency, reduce the amount of SPAM received from > external sources and increase the reliability of the email service. > Equally important will be the ability of this architecture to assist in > reducing the blacklists applied to the University caused by compromised > mail servers on campus or those utilizing UWA address space. At UCS' request, the UCC implemented some software to ensure that spam-tagged mail was not delivered outside the University border by our servers. Unfortunately, this broke a couple months back, so the fact that this will be handled by central services is good news. > For Incoming mail In order to filter incoming SPAM as per the university > email policy, we are using the central core routers to redirect incoming > mail through the email gateways. This method has caused problems with > network stability. As part of the project we have been asking that > configuration changes at our customer end are focused at directing this > incoming mail to the Ironport gateways. This can be achieved by listing > them as the primary MX records for the email domain. > > For reference, email domains that have been moved over will have MX > records that contain: > > IN MX 10 mail-ext-in1.uwa.edu.au. > IN MX 10 mail-ext-in2.uwa.edu.au. Should we keep our mail server in as secondary MXes? If not, what determines the server to which mail is delivered by the Ironports? > For Outgoing Mail: > >From a configuration perspective, in order to filter outgoing SPAM as > >per the University email policy, we are using the central routers to > >redirect outgoing mail through the email gateways. This method has > >caused problems with network stability. As part of the improvements > >promised by the Ironport gateways, ITS will be asking that all outgoing > >email is explicitly sent to the load balanced service instance, > >"antivirus.uwa.edu.au". Toivo got in touch and asked us to do this, I think, and we have the relayhost defined in our systems. David Adam University Computer Club Wheel Member zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Mar 21 23:07:14 2010 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:07:14 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] Notes from downtime this weekend Message-ID: Hi all, mussel is now running on maraena with a 2.6.30 backport kernel, as lenny's 2.6.26 isn't recognised as a valid kernel by pygrub. You need to run "echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" when installing kernels and using pygrub thanks to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466681 I've moved mussel:/space to martello:/space/mussel for space reasons. mylah is now the Windows domain controller and login server. We should probably review the use of "admin users" in smb.conf and fix all the wheel users whose NTUSER.DAT is owned by root. The various filesystems on musundo are still there, but have canmount set to noauto. I'll nuke them and reinstall it with OpenSolaris 2010.03 when it's released. -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / From frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Mar 23 14:47:42 2010 From: frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James French) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:47:42 +0800 Subject: [tech] UCC Systems Update Message-ID: <20100323064742.GA571@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Hi All, Quick status update for tech (wheel you can stop reading now, nothing new). We've managed to get the core UCC services up and running by moving them to the Faculty of Arts server room. There has been a bit of magic to make it all work (which will need to be undone when we move back). Our priority has been on things which are sensitive to extended downtime (DNS and SMTP). We're currently looking at ways that we may be able to bring up some of the other non-time critical services such as the websites, but are not making any promises about having anything up before the room is available. What services are available: - UCC mail (no webmail or pop3/imap access at this point) - UCC mailing lists - UCC hosted DNS - SSH access to Martello (and /home) What is unavailable: - The website - Member sites - Jabber - Colo machines - Anything Cameron Hall based (doors sensors, dispense, etc) A big Thanks should go to Toivo and Chawa from ITS who've pulled out a lot of the stops today. They rushed our routing changes and mail delivery changes through the door to get us back online. Keep your eyes peeled for updates Frenchie From bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Thu Mar 25 14:40:34 2010 From: bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Bob Adamson) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:40:34 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] UCC Status Update 24/3(fwd) Message-ID: Some other members have asked about the status of things, so I probably should have cc'd it to tech@ yesterday. Better late than never... Bob Adamson UCC Treasurer |"Bureaucracy is a challenge to the be conquered with a righteous | |attitude, an intolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary" | | ---Peter's Laws | ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:17:28 +0800 (WST) From: Bob Adamson To: wheel at ucc.asn.au Subject: [wheel] UCC Status Update Hi All, Here is the current status of things in the machine room: -all racks have been unplugged and moved away from the windows -everything below lorenzo in the right rack got wet, and I will try and write them off for insurance -mermaid and maaxen (sun v20z running windows) got wet (insurance). Matt and I lifted maaxen off the bench today and it was dripping underneath. -will try and write off security camera that was near the window -both window mounted aircons are munted (insurance) -portable aircon works, but as the electronics got soaked I will try and write it off -the room is still drying out, and the windows are boarded up as best we can -looks like the left rack is fine -hopefully the windows will be fixed tomorrow, and may require dismantling part of the machine room roof to get to them -if the windows get fixed on thursday, we can and should have martello and mooneye back in the MR by Friday evening. Otherwise it will be another two weeks before the people who can reroute it are back from leave... Networking and power in the MR are back to square one, pretty much everything had to be unplugged to move the racks. All the powerpoints appear to work still. note: most machines that got wet are _currently_ in a working state, so we should back them up asap. The rain was pretty corrosive; any metal on the project bench went rusty overnight, and the top of the filing cabinet is more rusty than usual. We _really_ can't trust the machines that got wet. The status of the clubroom is: -wet, the carpet is still drying, and until the windows are fixed we can't open them to prevent mould -skylights have been patched over with steel plates -glass shards all over the floor, can't vacuum til it's dry -coblet, sidderrog, 4 HP P4's, 4 CRT's, 3 LCD's, several keyboards and mice, two motherboards, a multimeter (smashed) and soldering iron all got wet (insurance) -our overhead fan is broken :( -other clubroom boxes are in unigames, but they understandably want their clubroom back by the weekend In other news, the guild will be doing a bulk insurance claim, so we don't have to pay the excess ourselves. Bob Adamson UCC Treasurer |"Bureaucracy is a challenge to the be conquered with a righteous | |attitude, an intolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary" | | ---Peter's Laws | From bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Thu Mar 25 14:50:49 2010 From: bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Bob Adamson) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:50:49 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] UCC Status Update 25/3 Message-ID: Machine Room: -roof has been unscrewed so that we can slide it to the side to get to the windows -security is a priority, so the roof will be left in place until the glazier arrives -would be awesome if we could design a new roof that is stronger and can be walked on -portable aircon is in there, set on dehumidify -any cables threaded through the roof frame have had to be taken down -we need someone with clue who can go through the stuff on the top shelf Clubroom -still not vacuumed, not likely to happen in the near future as the floor has MR stuff all over it -the carpet is dryish, and most people think it needs to be lifted so the floorboards underneath can dry. Comments? -got a window open today (I had boarded it up just right) Bob Adamson UCC Treasurer |"Bureaucracy is a challenge to the be conquered with a righteous | |attitude, an intolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary" | | ---Peter's Laws | From danielax at gmail.com Thu Mar 25 15:10:11 2010 From: danielax at gmail.com (Daniel J. Axtens) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:10:11 +0800 Subject: [tech] [wheel] UCC Status Update 25/3 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4b86c8871003250010id04a143kb2e883bd5c4f73fb@mail.gmail.com> Wound up more cables; cleared some of the desk; including sweeping up the glass. Thanks to [TPG], [SLX], matches and Adam. Some carpet tiles were annoying me; they kept getting in the way when moving the racks. So I pulled them up (11 in total). Hope this is OK; AIUI we were writing it off anyway? [DJA] On 25 March 2010 14:50, Bob Adamson wrote: > Machine Room: > -roof has been unscrewed so that we can slide it to the side to get to the > windows > -security is a priority, so the roof will be left in place until the glazier > arrives > -would be awesome if we could design a new roof that is stronger and can be > walked on > -portable aircon is in there, set on dehumidify > -any cables threaded through the roof frame have had to be taken down > -we need someone with clue who can go through the stuff on the top shelf > > Clubroom > -still not vacuumed, not likely to happen in the near future as the floor > has MR stuff all over it > -the carpet is dryish, and most people think it needs to be lifted so the > floorboards underneath can dry. Comments? > -got a window open today (I had boarded it up just right) > > > Bob Adamson > UCC Treasurer > > |"Bureaucracy is a challenge to the be conquered with a righteous ? ? ? ?| > |attitude, an intolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary" | > | ---Peter's Laws ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?| > > From zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Mar 30 22:10:20 2010 From: zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (David Adam) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:10:20 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] SNAP in the UCC clubroom Message-ID: I reconfigured clearwing (the WRT-54GL wireless AP running OpenWRT) this evening so that members can get at least some internet in the UCC clubroom while repairs from the storm are taking place and we argue over how to fix things. Unfortunately I forgot about the rather paranoid firewall and locked myself out at one point, so had to wipe the existing config (for future reference - hold down the front button as the device starts and you should be able to telnet to a read-only system at 192.168.1.1; then run firstboot to wipe the config). It's now set up to repeat VLAN 13 on all of the "LAN" ports (tagged on all ports) and the wireless (untagged), and is connected to the uplink. The IP is 10.11.0.13 for now, and the root password is the same. The UCC uplink is plugged in on one of the ports. The port marked "Internet" is statically configured to 192.168.1.1, so if you want to reconfigure it you can plug a cable in to that port and hit up the SSH server. http://synack.me/blog/openwrt-and-vlans is a useful reference (via [TRS]) - but KISS applies, I'm pretty sure I was trying to be too clever when I messed up the first time. David Adam UCC Wheel Member zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au P.S. Where has the Ubiquti NanoStation Loco that was in the machine room disappeared to? From astro at jaram.net.au Tue Mar 30 23:01:03 2010 From: astro at jaram.net.au (Jeremy Cole) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:01:03 +0800 Subject: [tech] SNAP in the UCC clubroom In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8fe080cd1003300801w55144b51weda17c943d3a2bc3@mail.gmail.com> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:10 PM, David Adam wrote: > > P.S. Where has the Ubiquti NanoStation Loco that was in the machine room > disappeared to? > I last saw it in the machine room next to the mussel/mermaid box. But you may need to check incase it was put in the claims pile since It may have gotten wet. -- "I question the logic of societies which encourage \ us to be individual when we are young and then | beat us into the mould when when deemed appropriate" / -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20100330/4cf113af/attachment.htm From astro at jaram.net.au Tue Mar 30 23:03:16 2010 From: astro at jaram.net.au (Jeremy Cole) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:03:16 +0800 Subject: [tech] SNAP in the UCC clubroom In-Reply-To: <8fe080cd1003300801w55144b51weda17c943d3a2bc3@mail.gmail.com> References: <8fe080cd1003300801w55144b51weda17c943d3a2bc3@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <8fe080cd1003300803k4a848ee3gb7a2adbc3b76512@mail.gmail.com> lovely random capitals and misspellings there. Jeremy fail... On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Jeremy Cole wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:10 PM, David Adam wrote: > >> >> P.S. Where has the Ubiquti NanoStation Loco that was in the machine room >> disappeared to? >> > > I last saw it in the machine room next to the mussel/mermaid box. But you > may need to check incase it was put in the claims pile since It may have > gotten wet. > > -- > "I question the logic of societies which encourage \ > us to be individual when we are young and then | > beat us into the mould when when deemed appropriate" / > -- "I question the logic of societies which encourage \ us to be individual when we are young and then | beat us into the mould when when deemed appropriate" / -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20100330/d5dd9dfa/attachment.htm From mitch at ucc.asn.au Wed Mar 31 23:07:20 2010 From: mitch at ucc.asn.au (Mitch Kelly) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:07:20 +0800 Subject: [tech] SNAP in the UCC clubroom In-Reply-To: <8fe080cd1003300801w55144b51weda17c943d3a2bc3@mail.gmail.com> References: <8fe080cd1003300801w55144b51weda17c943d3a2bc3@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <004901cad0e3$dcc852f0$9658f8d0$@asn.au> What more can we claim on insurance? Surely someone else has something they left in there that doesn't belong to the club :P Anybody happen to have a spare Mac pro we can water damage? MK From: tech-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [mailto:tech-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au] On Behalf Of Jeremy Cole Sent: Tuesday, 30 March 2010 11:01 PM To: David Adam Cc: tech at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Subject: Re: [tech] SNAP in the UCC clubroom On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:10 PM, David Adam wrote: P.S. Where has the Ubiquti NanoStation Loco that was in the machine room disappeared to? I last saw it in the machine room next to the mussel/mermaid box. But you may need to check incase it was put in the claims pile since It may have gotten wet. -- "I question the logic of societies which encourage \ us to be individual when we are young and then | beat us into the mould when when deemed appropriate" / -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20100331/9f09fda3/attachment.htm From zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Wed Mar 31 09:36:00 2010 From: zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (David Adam) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:36:00 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] SNAP in the UCC clubroom In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, David Adam wrote: > I reconfigured clearwing (the WRT-54GL wireless AP running OpenWRT) this > evening so that members can get at least some internet in the UCC clubroom > while repairs from the storm are taking place and we argue over how to fix > things. > > It's now set up to repeat VLAN 13 on all of the "LAN" ports (tagged on all and by VLAN 13 I mean VLAN 11. David From danielax at gmail.com Wed Mar 31 16:02:05 2010 From: danielax at gmail.com (Daniel J. Axtens) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:02:05 +0800 Subject: [tech] 31/3/10 Message-ID: In answer to the famous question posed by Ryan North ("What are the haps my friends"), these are the "awesome fun times" we've had today. - madako's hdd has been moved into a delta, which has been installed into the rack. * grub config and fstab has been changed to point to hdb, not hda. No idea why that was necessary * udev has been battered into submission * no network cables are plugged in yet * it's on KVM 7; 6 doesn't seem to work. This hasn't been written down yet. Thanks to [BOB] for doing most of the work, and [SLX], and [EDO] for helping with this. - clearwing has had hardware ports 2-4 set for wired snap access. Thanks [DAA]. - I set Cichlid to log in with ucc/ucc, and connect to SNAP. * Snap authenticates correctly, but internets don't seem to work and I don't know why. * Having a machine in the clubroom that can get on the internet, even if it's via snap, would be a nice milestone. Thanks [TPG] for helping me fight with windows. - Some server has been hauled in from [MRD]'s car. It's...somewhere. Thanks [BOB]. [DJA] From bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Wed Mar 31 16:56:59 2010 From: bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Bob Adamson) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:56:59 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] 31/3/10 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: " * it's on KVM 7; 6 doesn't seem to work. This hasn't been written down yet." Has this always not worked, or is it a result of the storm? Bob Adamson UCC Treasurer |"Bureaucracy is a challenge to the be conquered with a righteous | |attitude, an intolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary" | | ---Peter's Laws | From danielax at gmail.com Wed Mar 31 16:58:27 2010 From: danielax at gmail.com (Daniel J. Axtens) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:58:27 +0800 Subject: [tech] 31/3/10 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > - I set Cichlid to log in with ucc/ucc, and connect to SNAP. > ? ?* Snap authenticates correctly, but internets don't seem to work > and I don't know why. > ? ?* Having a machine in the clubroom that can get on the internet, > even if it's via snap, would be a nice milestone. Aaaactually, Internets work fine, you just can't be connected to SNAP from 2 places at the same time. You learn something new every day; thanks to [DAA] for the info. [DJA] From zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Wed Mar 31 18:24:13 2010 From: zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (David Adam) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:24:13 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] 31/3/10 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Daniel J. Axtens wrote: > In answer to the famous question posed by Ryan North ("What are the > haps my friends"), these are the "awesome fun times" we've had today. > > - madako's hdd has been moved into a delta, which has been installed > into the rack. > * grub config and fstab has been changed to point to hdb, not hda. > No idea why that was necessary > * udev has been battered into submission > * no network cables are plugged in yet > * it's on KVM 7; 6 doesn't seem to work. This hasn't been written down yet. > Thanks to [BOB] for doing most of the work, and [SLX], and [EDO] for > helping with this. Incidentally, tomorrow is your last chance to get the network switched back to the clubroom before the Easter long weekend, and the LAN. I would say "do it", move martello and mooneye back when we can, and I'm happy to come and show people how to sort stuff out tomorrow at 4ish if it needs doing. David Adam UCC Wheel Member zanchey at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Wed Mar 31 19:05:10 2010 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:05:10 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] 31/3/10 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, David Adam wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Daniel J. Axtens wrote: > > > In answer to the famous question posed by Ryan North ("What are the > > haps my friends"), these are the "awesome fun times" we've had today. > > > > - madako's hdd has been moved into a delta, which has been installed > > into the rack. > > * grub config and fstab has been changed to point to hdb, not hda. > > No idea why that was necessary > > * udev has been battered into submission > > * no network cables are plugged in yet > > * it's on KVM 7; 6 doesn't seem to work. This hasn't been written down yet. > > Thanks to [BOB] for doing most of the work, and [SLX], and [EDO] for > > helping with this. > > Incidentally, tomorrow is your last chance to get the network switched > back to the clubroom before the Easter long weekend, and the LAN. I would > say "do it", move martello and mooneye back when we can, and I'm happy to > come and show people how to sort stuff out tomorrow at 4ish if it needs doing. madako and lorenzo are up and running, it should just need ITS to reroute 130.95.13.0/24 via 192.168.13.2. Wheel members can ssh in to 192.168.13.2, and I've turned off eth0.2 and eth0.3 so you can do so from martello. The firewall isn't in great shape, so I suggest rebooting madako once everything's set up. -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 /