The UNIX® CRONicle |
October 1999 |
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Online version: http://www.sluug.org/cronicle/
Wednesday, October 13, 1999 at 6:30 PM
Sunnen Products, 7910 Manchester
| 6:30 PM | Tutorial |
What is an IP Address and Internet Addressing
by Stan Reichardt
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| 7:00 PM | Call For Help | (An opportunity for you to ask technical questions of the group)
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| 7:15 PM | Social, off-line conversations, & book sales
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| 7:20 PM |
Admittance to building may no longer be possible
See Meeting Directions
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| 7:30 PM | Presentation | DNS/BIND release 8.2 - why you need to upgrade by Dave Dickerson |
Abstract:
This tutorial will be based on two short tutorials developed by
the InterNic 15 minute series. This series of basic tutorial slides
can no longer be found on the Internet.
This material covers the most basic concepts necessary to further understand Domain Name Services. This is introductory material. It is not for the experts, gurus, or sharpshooters out there.
Biography:
Stan Reichardt is the volunteer Editor for The UNIX® CRONicle, the Official
Publication of the STL!/unix/usr/group, i.e., the St. Louis Unix User's Group
newsletter.
Stan has been using Unix and Linux for several years. He started out years ago coding COBOL on a national WANG VS-100 network. Over the years he has been known to administer various Unix/Novell/LAN systems and support desktop PC users. He tolerates main frames and would like to avoid Micro$oft in all forms. He provides 24/7 PC and Internet support to family and friends. Contributing his point of view to the SLUUG steering committee and to the SLUUG UNIX® CRONicle newsletter are secondary to his fascination with books and Linux. He loves his wife and son. He tolerates their dog.
His last SLUUG tutorial was on "Running the SATAN Security Tool under Linux" at the March 1999 general meeting. It was long.
His first SLUUG presentation was on "Learning VI Editing Commands" at the July 1999 general meeting. It was even longer.
Abstract:
BIND, the Berkeley Internet Domain server, is far-and-away the most common
implementation of DNS in existence. A major upgrade to BIND from release
4.x to release 8.2 needs to happen in most organizations during the next few
quarters.
Several factors drive the need to upgrade including security, availability,
and Microsoft's Active Directory's reliance on Dynamic DNS. Windows 2000
and Active Directory require DDNS to function. If your DNS infrastructure
is on release 4.x, it will not provide the DDNS that Windows 2000 requires.
This presentation will describe how DNS works and how BIND release 8 is
configured. We'll discuss some common tools for managing and trouble
shooting DNS, some of the new features in the current release of BIND, and
some of the likely future features for DNS.
Biography:
Dave's last SLUUG presentation was on "NFS, NIS and Core UNIX Services"
at the May 1999 general meeting. His December 1997 presentation for SLUUG
was a singularly outstanding one on using free security tools.
For more info contact Dave Dickerson by sending
mailto:dave.dickerson@mindspring.com .
[ Editor's Notes:
Dave is Mister Security, the kind of guy that is paid for what he knows,
not what he does. But, he does leading edge stuff anyway, and does it
right.
Just being in the same room with Dave will make you smarter. ]
Presentation
DNS/BIND release 8.2 - why you need to upgrade
by Dave Dickerson
The staid, time-proven Domain Name System is fundamentally changing. DNS on
UNIX is generally so reliable that many people configure it and forget about
it. It may be difficult to believe, but it is time for UNIX administrators
to pay attention to their DNS servers.
Dave Dickerson joined the St Louis UNIX user group at it's inception.
With nearly twenty years of UNIX experience, Dave's areas of expertise
include Systems Administration, Networking, Security, and Systems
Management. Dave's recent projects include: network capacity planning and
reporting systems, implementation of a network operations center, creation
of highly available UNIX clusters over both LANs and MANs, and extensive
network and systems management consulting services. Dave is also
well-versed in Internet-related services including DNS, sendmail, firewalls,
and Apache.
WOW!! Even if you don't know what it is, if you can spell DNS, then you
need to attend this meeting!
Special Promotion(s)
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Title of the Month The 25% discount special this month is on DNS on Windows NT, & DNS and BIND, 3rd Edition (UNIX) book. Get a free Tee Shirt with any $30 purchase. |
All regularly priced titles are 10% off retail cost at the general meeting. (Excludes featured, or specially priced or promotional items) |
The O'Reilly and Associates line of books is available at each monthly general meeting as a convenience to our members.
Each month features a book related to that month's presentation or tutorial topic.
| Perl Mongers
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October 7, 1999 at 7:00 PM ( TOPICS: ) To Be Announced CAIT, Training Room 024, 5 N Jackson Ave at Forsyth Blvd, Clayton, MO | ||||||||||||||||||
| Atlanta | October 12-16, 1999 Register at http://www.linuxshowcase.org/ Third annual Atlanta Linux Showcase Cobb Galleria Atlanta GA [St. Louis UNIX Users Group stuff] SLUUG General Meeting |
October 13, 1999 at 6:30 PM | Sunnen Products 7910 Manchester St. Louis, MO Steering Committee |
October 19, 1999 at 6:00 PM | Daugherty Systems One City Place (2nd floor) Creve Coeur, MO Linux SIG |
October 21, 1999 at 7:00 PM | ( TOPIC: ) Something Really Good by Some One Indian Trails Library 8400 Delport Drive (at Midland) San Jose |
October 26-28, 1999 | Register at http://www.ispcon.com/registerfall.html ISPCON Fall '99 - CLECexpo The Largest & Longest-Running Event for Internet Service Providers McEnery Convention Center San Jose CA Perl Mongers
| November 4, 1999 | SLUUG General Meeting |
November 10, 1999 | Las Vegas |
November 15-19, 1999 | Register at http://www.linuxbizexpo.com/ Linux Business Expo Nov 15-19 Co-located with COMDEX Fall '99 Las Vegas Hilton Las Vegas NV Steering Committee |
November 16, 1999 | Linux SIG |
November 18, 1999 | |
The STL!/unix/usr/group meets the 2nd Wednesday of every month at Sunnen Products, 7910 Manchester Blvd, just east of Hanley on Manchester.
Directions From Downtown
See map at http://www.sluug.org/info/sunnen.html
(NOTE: A security guard from Sunnen is scheduled to be at the door from 6:20 PM to 7:20 PM to allow entry. After 7:20, the door will be unattended and attendees may not be able to enter.)
The SLUUG Steering Committee meets the Tuesday following the general meeting at 6:00 PM in the 2nd floor training room of Daugherty Systems, One City Place in Creve Coeur.
The SLUUG Linux SIG (SLUUGLS) meets the 3rd Thursday of every month at the Indian Trails Public Library.
See map at http://www.stllinux.org/directions/
Our cluster of machines known as "the BBS" are still living at CTItek for a couple more weeks. A big thanks to Tony Zafiropolous for helping us out and taking us in.
We had some downtime on Tuesday nite 28 Sept until about 2:30 Wednesday. We moved into the new CTItek offices but there were troubles getting connected on the ISDN circuit. No doubt the storm that nite increased the wait time for getting assistance from SouthWestern Bell.
We will be moving the systems to a more permanent home this month.
See previous month's newsletter article at http://www.sluug.org/~editor/9908.html#Article1 for very detailed background and some good references to alternative resources.
Please contact Gary Meyer by sending mailto:gary@mail.sluug.org if you need more specific information on the hardware or other aspects of these SLUUG computer systems.
http://home.postnet.com/~ellisd/sluug - Alternate SLUUG home page, if our server goes down.
We may continue to forego more survey questions over the next month or so.
"Emacs, not just a way of life but a complete waste of disk space".
"vi has two modes the one in which it beeps and the one in which doesn't."
Latest Release:
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/10718.html- ...Announces Red Hat Linux 6.1
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/10752.html- ComputerWorld: Sun Opens Solaris Code
StarOffice:
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/08/21/0316212.shtml Sun buys maker of StarOffice
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/9376.html- CNET News.com: Sun to offer Microsoft Office competitor for free
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/9402.html- Reuters: Sun Micro free software offer may spur market shift
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/9487.html- Wired: Star(Office) Wars Brewing?
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/9555.html- Procedure for getting fonts to work right for StarOffice on Linux
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/9631.html- Bruce Perens: Sun's StarOffice Release: Is It Really What You Think?
For Your Secrets:
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/9154.html- Security Portal: Kurt's Closet: Linux and Encryption
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/9446.html- Security Portal: Kurt's Closet: Linux and filesystem encryption
Bashing Stuff:
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/9443.html- PRNewswire: Texas Software Startup, Serenity Systems, Advises Business Users to Get Off Windows
http://www.dell.com/r&d/wp/summer99/linux.htm- Linux as a Solution for Dell's Enterprise Customers
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/9476.html- SRO: Why Is Windows 2000 A Moving Target?
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/9485.html- Wired: Hits Keep On Coming Against MS
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/9676.html- ComputerWorld: GM Eyes Linux for 7,500 Dealer Systems
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/10767.html- ZDNet Admits Mistakes in Recent Security Test
Ugly Stuff:
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/9025.html- ZDNet: 'Christmas' virus can destroy PCs
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/9471.html- ZDNet: 'Thursday' [Word macro] virus outbreak reported
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/9491.html- IDG.net: New 'Thursday' [Word macro] virus set to detonate Dec. 13
Other Stuff:
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/9450.html- VNU Net: Developers want tools for Linux, says survey
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/9457.html- LinuxWorld: Configuring Netscape roaming with OpenLDAP
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/9459.html- osOpinion: SCO and Linux
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/9466.html- Bob Young -- Regarding Amazon's concerns over fake Red Hat products
http://207.158.224.44/- NovellShareware.com
Important:
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/8789.html- Linux Journal: The Coming Software Patent Crisis: Can Linux Survive?
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/8190.html Richard Stallman -- U.S. Congress Threatens to Establish a New Kind of Monopoly
To keep up with NET events:
http://www.linuxtoday.com- daily news of mostly (but not only) Linux events.
http://www.slashdot.org- news for nerds - stuff that matters!
http://www.freshmeat.net- daily updates of Internet software releases. (check out the "appindex" button).
http://www.32bitsonline.net- Because There's More Than One Way to Compute.
http://www.lwn.net- Linux Weekly News.
http://www.webwatcher.org- Tracks when numerous WWW pages were last updated.
For the Linux beginner:
http://www.linux.org/ - What is Linux?
http://www.linuxberg.org- Useful info and easy downloads.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/ - ...for newbies.
http://qlink.queensu.ca/~3srf/linux-admin/ - Linux Administration Made Easy" (LAME) Pre-Release
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/ - The Linux Documentation Project
http://www.msnbc.com/news/290531.asp#BODY - Unix/Linux Printing HOWTO Support DatabaseResources:
http://www.linuxdoc.org - The Linux Documentation Project
http://training.eklektix.com/talks/lw99-SystemAdmin/img0.htm- Linux System Administration in a Large Network Environment
http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/linuxlist/linuxlist/linuxlist.html- Linux Software Encyclopedia
To configure a Linux machine:
http://www.monitorworld.com- Specs on over 2100 monitors from 150+ manufacturers.
http://www.monitorservice.com- After Monitor FAQ page follow Performance Parameters link.
http://www.hercules.com/monitors- The monitor data base that had the one that I wanted!
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html- Knowlege base of Linux compatible modems!
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/9561.html- Chicago Tribune: Linux Corner: No noise from your speakers? Here's sound advice
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html- The Linux Modem-HOWTO v0.04, August 1999
Dual-booting:
The following is a quick talk about Dual Booting, with specific steps for using the WinNT boot loader, and mounting NT file systems under Linux:
http://ext2.org/99/06/newbieville/062099-newbieville1.shtml - Linux and Windows on one computer
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/8987.html ILUG: Dual-booting Windows and Linux, a tutorial for beginners
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/8990.html LinuxForum: VMware Review - A virtual machine in Linux to run your Windows programs
http://www.davecentral.com/ - Shareware, Freeware, Demos and Betas for M$-Windoze and Linux
CBS reported today (Mon 4 Oct) that there have been 2 reports of the Y2k problem occuring.
Friday, 1 October was the begining of the Federal government's Fisacl Year 2000. 2 computer systems, one at the Treasury and one accounting system at the FAA had problems. Nothing serious.
Apparently LINUX SIG attendees want more tutorial material.
A number of attendees at the September Linux SIG meeting expressed a desire for an increase in introductory and tutorial level material.
A number of the attendees noted they were reformed Micro$oft victims and were interested in material that was generic UNIX as opposed to specifically LINUX, or advanced subjects.
It was pointed out that it is unlikey that time for a seperate tutorial will be worked into the Thursday nite SIG meetings. But we will try to keep the Wed nite general meetings format of having an introductory level tutorial at 6:30 each month.
People with requests or suggestions for any tutorials should please send them by mailto:editor@mail.sluug.org for consideration at the Steering Committee meetings.
The following PERSONAL COMMENTARY expresses personal opinions and SLUUG exerts
no more editorial control over such content than does a public library,
bookstore, or newsstand. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers,
or other information or Content expressed herein are those of the respective
author and not necessarily supported by SLUUG. SLUUG does not guarantee the
accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any content, nor its merchantability
or fitness for any particular purpose.
There was a report on NPR Tues evening (14 Sept) that the U.S. Army revealed that it had changed the OS on its web site some months ago.
The web site had been frequently broken into by hackers who turned it into graffitti.
The Army decided to give up on Windows NT saying that it was economically impossible to secure that operating system.
The Army replaced it months ago with MacOS! They found that MacOS came "out-of-the-box" with only 1 open door.
Microsoft responded with the comment that WinNT is running close to 36% of all web servers and MacOS less than 1%. MS believed that the hackers will learn to attack MacOS as it becomes more prevalent.
Neither side mentioned the elephant in the corner of the room that is the OS for the over 63% of the web-sites.
ANY OPPOSING COMMENTS MAY BE MADE BY SENDING
mailto:editor@mail.sluug.org
for consideration for future publication.)
Special Interest Groups (SIGS)
As our membership grows, we have had some inquiries about the possibility of having Special Interest Groups in several areas. If you are interested in starting or participating in a SIG for System Administration, Networking, C, Object Oriented Programming, a specific vendor, etc., please call Dave Mills at 230-5151, extension 103, or contact any officer of the group.
Visit the Linux SIG home page (http://www.stllinux.org/) for the latest meeting details.
LOCATION DIRECTIONS:Indian Trails Public Library
8400 Delport Drive
(at Midland)
(314)-428-5424
| Follow 170: | Exit Page east to North-South Rd., go left on North-South Rd. to Midland, go left on Midland one block to Delport, the Library is on your left (see map at http://www.stllinux.org/directions/). |
For more information on SLUUGLS refer to the WWW home page for the group at http://www.stllinux.org/ or contact Matthew Feldt by mailto:linux@www.feldt.com
The CTI SIG is no longer having regular meetings and is currently using a webboard format.
The Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) Users Group is a non-profit organization open to developers, end-users, sales people, and others who share the common interest of melding the telecommunications and computing worlds.
For more information on SLUUG CiTI contact Tony Zafiropoulos by mailto:tonyz@ctitek.com or (314)878-9855.
The Digital Alpha SIG is for those interested in Digital UNIX and the DEC Alpha architecture. Visit the Digital Alpha SIG's home at http://www.sluug.org/~newton/asighome.html for more information.
The SLUUG Steering Committee meets the Tuesday following the general 2nd Wednesday meeting at 6:00 PM in the 2nd floor training room of Daugherty Systems, One City Place in Creve Coeur. The guard can direct you to the meeting location. Anyone is welcome to attend. If you would like to become more involved in the planning of SLUUG, feel free to join us at the next Steering Committee meeting. Meetings usually last 1.5 to 2 hours.
For more information about sponsoring the St. Louis UNIX Users Group, contact Ed Wehner, send mailto:wehner@mail.sluug.org.
The St. Louis UNIX Users Group maintains a WWW page at http://www.sluug.org/. Visit us to learn more about who we are and what we do, visit other UNIX user groups' WWW pages, sign up for a SIG, or just to browse.
SLUUG is looking for volunteers to help with presentations, web page development, managing corporate sponsorships, and many other tasks. If you would like to help out, contact Chris Wanta by mailto:cfw1@mail.sluug.org or visit http://www.sluug.org/~cfw1/help.html.
We publish other user group meeting schedules on a reciprocal basis. If you are a member of another non-profit group, please inform them of our policy and invite them to exchange meeting information by mailto:editor@mail.sluug.org, or call any of the SLUUG officers.
| Address Changes and Membership |
Klaus Mueller | Home: +1 (573) 334-6477
331 S Spring Ave Cape Girardeau, MO 63703 mailto:mueller@mail.sluug.org |
| BBS Questions | Jim (Knight) Ford | mailto:knight@mail.sluug.org
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| Corporate Sponsors | Ed Wehner | mailto:wehner@mail.sluug.org
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| Newsletter Submissions |
Editorial team: | mailto:editor@mail.sluug.org
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| Publisher | Sanjiv Bhatia | Home: (314)519-9272
Work: (314)516-6520 FAX: (314)516-5400 mailto:sanjiv@aryabhat.cs.umsl.edu |
| Editor | Stan Reichardt | Home: (314)298-1183
mailto:editor@mail.sluug.org http://www.sluug.org/~stan mailto:stan@mail.sluug.org |
| O'Reilly Books | Dave Mills | Work: (314)230-5151, extension 103
mailto:mills@mail.sluug.org |
| Presentations | Open Position | Currently send info/ideas to mailto:gary@mail.sluug.org
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| Steering Committee Information |
Gary Meyer | Home: (314)781-8644
mailto:gary@mail.sluug.org |
| SLUUG Treasurer | Mike Kriz | mailto:kriz@mail.sluug.org
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| Special Interest Groups (SIGs) | ||
| Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) |
Tony Zafiropoulos | Phone: (314)878-9855
http://www.ctitek.com/ctiusers/ctiusers.html mailto:tonyz@ctitek.com |
| Linux | Matthew Feldt | Home: (314)429-5433
http://www.feldt.com mailto:linux@www.feldt.com |
If you would like to submit an article to the CRONicle of general interest to the members of the St. Louis UNIX Users Group,send mailto:editor@mail.sluug.org The deadline for article submissions is two weeks before the next general meeting.
The St. Louis UNIX Users Group has a P.O. box. All official correspondence with SLUUG should now be sent to:
St. Louis UNIX Users Group
P.O. Box 411302
Creve Coeur Post Office
St. Louis, MO 63141-9998