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Tue, 21 Jul 1998 00:00:29 -0700

Message 1: server errors
from Mark <inetmail@fiber-net.com>

Message 2: Self deleting files with IIS4 and War FTP daemon
from "Richard Davey" <rich@kaliba.net>

Message 3: Re: Self deleting files with IIS4 and War FTP daemon
from "Martin" <djmartin@dcdu.com>

Message 4: hitlist standard
from "Carlo Gibertini" <carlo@nw.com.br>

Message 5: unsubscribe
from "Martin" <djmartin@webb.com>

Message 6: game servers
from "Carlo Gibertini" <carlo@nw.com.br>

Message 7: Re: game servers
from "Martin" <djmartin@dcdu.com>

Message 8: Re: game servers
from "Martin" <djmartin@webb.com>

Message 9: Re: game servers
from "Martin" <djmartin@dcdu.com>

Message 10: Fw: Is VIRUS PROTECTION necessary?
from "Adam Greene" <adam@webjogger.net>

Message 11: ASCEND Equiptment for sale
from Mark Tran <mtran@gdex.net>

Message 12: Re: Self deleting files with IIS4 and War FTP daemon
from "Paul W. Wilcox" <paulw@surfthe.net.au>

Message 13: New version of Serv-U
from John Lange <radadmin@palacenet.net>

Message 14: secure email for commerce
from "Lance Julander" <lists@terragon.com>

Message 15: Re:secure email for commerce
from Jay Van Vark <jay@pacific-coast.com>

Message 16: OT: Servers for sale
from "Howie Hamlin" <howie@hoot.com>

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Subject: server errors
From: Mark <inetmail@fiber-net.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 10:24:25 -0400

have had a increase in calls 'bout these two errors.

transfer or server reset by peer

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Subject: Self deleting files with IIS4 and War FTP daemon
From: "Richard Davey" <rich@kaliba.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 17:22:47 +0100

Hi there,

We've got a very very strange problem with one of our NT servers. We are
running IIS4 and have around 50 or so web sites on it. We use War FTP daemon
to let the users upload their files.

Recently (as of the past couple of days) people have been reporting that
they are unable to overwrite existing files that are on the server. Their
FTP clients are giving them access denied messages. When we looked at the
files via Explorer (logged in as Admin on the NT Server) we were unable to
open, rename, copy, move or delete the files. Each one gave an Access Denied
error message. What's more, Disk Administrator showed no files as being
locked or in use and Event Viewer showed nothing strange.

We shut down the server and rebooted it. The files vanished. They'd
literally be deleted from the hard drive with no intervention on our part.

We played for hours and hours.. the end result being this.. if IIS has a
file locked open (i.e. someone had viewed the web page and the browser was
still on that site) and at the same time, the author uploaded a replacement
file, it trashed it. It's as if IIS has a lock on the directory and the FTP
software can't override or use it.

When the web browser was closed down and we knew there was nothing accessing
that site via IIS, the ftp worked perfectly.

Does anyone have ANY ideas at all as to what the hell is going on here? I'm
quite sure this used to work perfectly before in the past, but now we're
being locked out of files on our own server and users are getting a little
upset. Maybe ditch War FTP Daemon and install the new 1.70 version? Maybe
ditch IIS and use Apache instead?! This is really strange, any opinions are
much appreciated. Could it be a disk failure? CHKDSK was reporting strange
things, but nothing it didn't fix. Maybe a virus? although we don't install
any software on the server at all.

Cheers,

Richard Davey
Kaliba Systems Ltd.

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Subject: Re: Self deleting files with IIS4 and War FTP daemon
From: "Martin" <djmartin@dcdu.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 12:46:06 -0400

I have seen this as well with IIS4. One thing I did was turn off server to=
cleint keep alives. This resolved the problem for me. I also think=
apache on unix is better as a web server. IIS seems to have problems with=
quite a few things such as server side includes, configuring perl (unix=
doesn't need .pl or .cgi for a perl script to work). Try turning off=
sever to client keep alives on the root web server and make sure you apply=
this to all of your virtual web servers as well.

I hope this helps.

Also, why are you using war-ftp daemon? (someone likes tucows :) ).

IIS 4 already has an ftp server built in.

Read below...

>Recently (as of the past couple of days) people have been reporting that
>they are unable to overwrite existing files that are on the server. Their
>FTP clients are giving them access denied messages. When we looked at the
>files via Explorer (logged in as Admin on the NT Server) we were unable to
>open, rename, copy, move or delete the files. Each one gave an Access=
Denied
>error message. What's more, Disk Administrator showed no files as being
>locked or in use and Event Viewer showed nothing strange.

Did your files at least show a 0 byte size?

Martin

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Subject: hitlist standard
From: "Carlo Gibertini" <carlo@nw.com.br>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 13:48:13 -0300

Hello,

I lost my copy of the free hitlist standard 3.5, and after the release of
version 4.0 marketwave dont deliver the older versions.

Can someone point me were I can find this old release?

Thanks,

Carlo Gibertini

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Subject: unsubscribe
From: "Martin" <djmartin@webb.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 12:50:56 -0400

unsubscribe

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Subject: game servers
From: "Carlo Gibertini" <carlo@nw.com.br>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 13:55:25 -0300

Hello,

I like to offer to my costumers the possibility of play games on-line, like
doom, quake and others, but I cant find anything about game servers for ISP.

Any direction?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Carlo Gibertini

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Subject: Re: game servers
From: "Martin" <djmartin@dcdu.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 13:10:48 -0400

Carlos I can get you set up with quake at least.
Call 212-242-2912 after 7:00 pm edt and I'll put some files up for you to=
start out with.

You will need a full version of quake. You also need to make a new=
directory called modules (those are the files I will give you). A copy of=
winquake (available from id software but I have it as well - freeware).=
Two utiliies called qhost and qview available from http://www.xoanan.com/

qhost is used to administer the quake sever via qview. Qhost will also let=
you run it as a service.

If you do not want qview or qhost just get winquake and my modules files=
and run this from the command line.

winquake -dedicated 16 -game modules -winmem 16

which means
16 players using modules (ctf) and 16 megs of ram.

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On 7/20/98, at 1:55 PM, Carlo Gibertini wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I like to offer to my costumers the possibility of play games on-line,=
like
>doom, quake and others, but I cant find anything about game servers for=
ISP.
>
>Any direction?
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>Carlo Gibertini

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Subject: Re: game servers
From: "Martin" <djmartin@webb.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:20:07 -0400

please see www.wwaw.com/quake/

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On 7/20/98, at 12:55 PM, Carlo Gibertini wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I like to offer to my costumers the possibility of play games on-line,=
like
>doom, quake and others, but I cant find anything about game servers for=
ISP.
>
>Any direction?
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>Carlo Gibertini

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Subject: Re: game servers
From: "Martin" <djmartin@dcdu.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:20:41 -0400

please see www.wwaw.com/quake/
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On 7/20/98, at 1:55 PM, Carlo Gibertini wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I like to offer to my costumers the possibility of play games on-line,=
like
>doom, quake and others, but I cant find anything about game servers for=
ISP.
>
>Any direction?
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>Carlo Gibertini

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Subject: Fw: Is VIRUS PROTECTION necessary?
From: "Adam Greene" <adam@webjogger.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 15:36:02 -0400

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Hi,

I am trying to decide whether invest in a VIRUS PROTECTION solution for =
the ISP that I run.
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Does anyone have an opinion on how necessary it is to protect one's =
network against viruses?
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Thanks,
Adam Greene
Webjogger Internet Services

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Hi,
 
I am trying to decide whether invest =in a VIRUS=20PROTECTION solution for the ISP that I run.
 
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Thanks,
Adam Greene
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------=_NextPart_000_000B_01BDB3F4.1A2EAAA0--..------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------.| Message 11 |'------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------'Subject: ASCEND Equiptment for saleFrom: Mark Tran Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:51:18 -0400I have the following equiptment for sale:1 Ascend Max1800 16 Ports ISDN (only 3 Months old) - with complete documents.1 Ascend K56Flex Series16 Digital Modem Card.1 Livingston PM2 (5 ISDN BRI).Will negotiate in price. All documents are still available...------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------.| Message 12 |'------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------'Subject: Re: Self deleting files with IIS4 and War FTP daemonFrom: "Paul W. Wilcox" Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 09:00:32 +1000Strange! Personally, I would ditch WAR FTP and use the FTP aspect of IIS4,the only downside I could think of is it's inability to resume brokendownloads, and at least it works in well with the HTTP side of things.You may want to try lowering your idle timeout on files as well. IIS4defaults to 900 seconds (15 minutes) so this is way too long if your sitesare busy, and accessed regularly._______________________________Paul W. WilcoxSurf The Net AustraliaEmail: paulw@surfthe.net.auWeb: http://www.surfthe.net.au_______________________________-----Original Message-----From: Richard Davey To: NTISP@emerald.iea.com Date: Tuesday, July 21, 1998 2:25 AMSubject: Self deleting files with IIS4 and War FTP daemon>Hi there,>>We've got a very very strange problem with one of our NT servers. We are>running IIS4 and have around 50 or so web sites on it. We use War FTPdaemon>to let the users upload their files.>>Recently (as of the past couple of days) people have been reporting that>they are unable to overwrite existing files that are on the server. Their>FTP clients are giving them access denied messages. When we looked at the>files via Explorer (logged in as Admin on the NT Server) we were unable to>open, rename, copy, move or delete the files. Each one gave an AccessDenied>error message. What's more, Disk Administrator showed no files as being>locked or in use and Event Viewer showed nothing strange.>>We shut down the server and rebooted it. The files vanished. They'd>literally be deleted from the hard drive with no intervention on our part.>>We played for hours and hours.. the end result being this.. if IIS has a>file locked open (i.e. someone had viewed the web page and the browser was>still on that site) and at the same time, the author uploaded a replacement>file, it trashed it. It's as if IIS has a lock on the directory and the FTP>software can't override or use it.>>When the web browser was closed down and we knew there was nothingaccessing>that site via IIS, the ftp worked perfectly.>>Does anyone have ANY ideas at all as to what the hell is going on here? I'm>quite sure this used to work perfectly before in the past, but now we're>being locked out of files on our own server and users are getting a little>upset. Maybe ditch War FTP Daemon and install the new 1.70 version? Maybe>ditch IIS and use Apache instead?! This is really strange, any opinions are>much appreciated. Could it be a disk failure? CHKDSK was reporting strange>things, but nothing it didn't fix. Maybe a virus? although we don't install>any software on the server at all.>>Cheers,>>Richard Davey>Kaliba Systems Ltd.>>..------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------.| Message 13 |'------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------'Subject: New version of Serv-UFrom: John Lange Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 18:21:30 -0500HIHas anyone had a chance to try the NEW 2.4 version of Serv-U with theemer-su.dll or the emerauth.dll? Any problems? Any disasters?Prying minds would like to know.ThanksJOhn :}John C. Lange, Sr. PALACE dot NET, INC.microjl@palacenet.net MICRO-TECH Computers, Inc.608.742.1601 & 6980 2800 New Pinery Roadhttp://www.palacenet.net/ Portage, WI 53901Visit our online store @ http://www.microt.com/Authorized iPSwitch WebVar @ http://www.microt.com/iPSwitch/index.html --- __o --- _-\<,_ Fastest Service in Town --- (_)/ (_)..------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------.| Message 14 |'------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------'Subject: secure email for commerceFrom: "Lance Julander" Date: Mon, 20 Jul 98 19:13:00 PDTHi,We will shortly need to set up secure websites for our customersso they can take credit card orders over the net. Some of thesecustomers operate their businesses in more than one location andthey can't always be dialed directly into us (which means thatcredit card orders will travel through others systems).Has anybody got any ideas on how we can encrypt the email orderswithout causing our web customers a lot of grief? Many of themhave very little understanding of the Internet and asking them touse a complicated method of decrypting email will defintelyconfuse them.We're using IIS 3.0 and Imail on separate machines.Thanks,Lance--------------------------Lance JulanderTerragon Medialance at terragon.com..------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------.| Message 15 |'------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------'Subject: Re:secure email for commerceFrom: Jay Van Vark Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 20:40:10 -0800If you use WebCatalog on the server side, there is an Encrypt context whichdoes some decent encryption of any text that you want to send them... We (Iwork for the company) also provide a Eudora plug-in to decrypt the text onthe receiver side...>Hi,>>We will shortly need to set up secure websites for our customers>so they can take credit card orders over the net. Some of these>customers operate their businesses in more than one location and>they can't always be dialed directly into us (which means that>credit card orders will travel through others systems).>>Has anybody got any ideas on how we can encrypt the email orders>without causing our web customers a lot of grief? Many of them>have very little understanding of the Internet and asking them to>use a complicated method of decrypting email will defintely>confuse them.>>We're using IIS 3.0 and Imail on separate machines.>>Thanks,>>Lance>>-------------------------->Lance Julander>Terragon Media>lance at terragon.comJay Van Vark *******************************Pacific Coast Software | eCommerce (WebCatalog)11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | Site Hosting & DevelopmentSuite 453 | http://www.pacific-coast.comSan Diego, CA 92128 *******************************619.675.1106** PGP key available upon request. **..------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------.| Message 16 |'------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------'Subject: OT: Servers for saleFrom: "Howie Hamlin" Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 02:25:16 -0700Sorry about the OT...My company has two IBM 704 servers for sale. Both are brand new and carry a3 year warranty. They have:single PPRo/200/512k processors upgradable to quad processors.256 meg ramdual Adaptec SCSIIBM Raid adapter w/hot swappable bays3 hot swappable power suppliesThese are complete systems ready to go - just add the hard drives.Please forward any offers to howie@hoot.comThanks.