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Played some more with dselect. |
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Played some more with dselect. It upgraded a load more stuff for me, including font stuff which should be useless on a console system.
Installed vim-python which is vim with integrated python. It Just Worked.
Installed qpopper which appears to be THE pop server. It Just Worked. I could use it to receive email on the laptop. I managed to send email via the server as well, although I had to enable relaying for the laptop's ip address. Looking at the headers, the isp has added a warning about the message originating from a dialup. Cheek.
Anyway, the pop gives me limitless email accounts.
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posted at 21:54:08
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Got the key-based login to ssh working. |
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Got the key-based login to ssh working. The steps to do this are:
use puttygen to genera SSH 2 RSA keys.
Copy the public key to a text file and copy it to the ~/.ssh/authorised_users file on the server
Save the private key file
Configure putty to read the private key file when it connects
Login asks for a user name but then goes smoothly in.
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posted at 13:22:08
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Discovered FileZilla.. |
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Discovered FileZilla (http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/) a nice FTP and SFTP client. GPL so I can use it at work. I will disable FTP on my home server, I want to use SSH as much as possible.
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posted at 11:12:00
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Why ISPs provide an SMTP server to send mail? |
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Why ISPs provide an SMTP server to send mail? Because your average dial up account has no fixed IP address and any reverse DNS lookup to check the sender out would fail.
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posted at 10:59:12
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Yesterday I was pondering upon the role of MX.. |
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Yesterday I was pondering upon the role of MX records. Now I understand that MX is a type of DNS query. It allows you to ask for the address where email for a domain should be sent. Here I do an mx dns lookup using the proper name server address:
C:\>nslookup -querytype=mx - 80.88.200.119
Default Server: charlie.orbitalnet.co.uk
Address: 80.88.200.119
> itl.co.uk
Server: charlie.orbitalnet.co.uk
Address: 80.88.200.119
Non-authoritative answer:
itl.co.uk MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = ftp.itl.co.uk
itl.co.uk nameserver = jack.orbital.net
itl.co.uk nameserver = ns0.ns0.net
ftp.itl.co.uk internet address = 80.88.204.40
jack.orbital.net internet address = 80.88.198.200
ns0.ns0.net internet address = 80.88.192.2
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posted at 10:18:40
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Playing email again and laptop can send email. |
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Playing email again and laptop can send email. I had to set the email address to the dyndns.org domain to allow reverse lookup to work. I have the power.
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posted at 09:27:28
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