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OT - nmap legal issues in India

Siju George — 2011-07-24T15:02:54

Hi,

Any body know the legal issues associated with random port/os scans
using nmap in India.
I am not looking for some general information but some thing concrete
from an authentic source.

Where does one read about cyber laws concerning this?
Is there any particular mailinglist that discusses cyber lawsin India?

Any instance of any body convicted in India for just port scanning?
Is it categorized under cracking?

Thanks

--Siju

Re: OpenBSD Kernel Internals walk through for Newbies

Abhinav Upadhyay — 2011-07-19T17:17:13

Hi,

Thanks for the link. It looks interesting. :-)

OpenBSD Kernel Internals walk through for Newbies

Siju George — 2011-07-19T16:46:59

http://www.atmnis.com/~proger/openkyiv/openkyiv2009_proger_sys.pdf

--Siju

Real World DragonFlyBSD Hammer DeDup figures - Reclaiming more than 1/4th ( 30% ) Disk Space from an Almost Full Drive

Siju George — 2011-07-19T11:12:31

Hi,


One of the DragonFlyBSD Backup Server has around 10 years of Company  Archives.
This is the result of de-dup feature

Short Sumary before dedup of firtst Hard Disk

Filesystem                Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
Backup1                   454G   451G   2.8G    99%    /Backup1

Short Sumary after dedup of firtst Hard Disk

Filesystem                Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
Backup1                   454G   313G   141G    69%    /Backup1

Reclaimed 138 GB i.e 30% of Disk space without deleting anything or
considerably affecting the perfomance of the Server.

Full Story:

The first backups server was Debian Sarge, then Debian Etch and then
OpenBSD with RAIDFRAME mirrors because it was the only Unix/Linux that
would even detect the 120 GB hard disks we had back then.
Later I turned to DragonFlyBSD due to HAMMER ( No fsck, No RAID Parity
chceks and Easy FS Snapshots )
So this Dragonfly backup server has around 10 years old

Re: Welcome to the FOSS India IRC Network.

Vivek Varghese Cherian — 2011-06-17T20:18:03


The Server is currently hosted on a Linode located in Dallas Texas,
 and I am open to moving it/or starting another node in India in due
course of time.

The Aim is not to create another node to a large network but to start a
small,
secure, independent IRC Network solely dedicated to Free Culture and FOSS
Projects and also India Centric though we don't discriminate anyone on the
basis of nationality on the Network.





Vivek is my nick on irc.foss-india.org

Re: Welcome to the FOSS India IRC Network.

Sahil Tandon — 2011-06-17T02:00:39

+1

Re: Welcome to the FOSS India IRC Network.

Ashish SHUKLA — 2011-06-17T01:19:34

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Hi,

Vivek Varghese Cherian writes:


Other than being yet another IRC network for Indian users, and ofcourse hosted
outside India ;), is there any special point of joining it. IMHO, a better
thing would be to create a .IN hosted IRCd node to existing popular networks
like Freenode, or EFnet. I don't see any nodes in Asia of both of these
networks.



you forgot to mention your nick on irc.foss-india.org ;)

Thanks
- -- 
Ashish SHUKLA

“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is
unhappy in its own way.” (Leo Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina", (1875–1877))
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Welcome to the FOSS India IRC Network.

Vivek Varghese Cherian — 2011-06-17T00:01:46

Hi,

The FOSS India Internet Relay Chat Network (irc.foss-india.org) is a
communications network for friends,well wishers and community members
of the Free Culture and Free/Open Source Movement in India. Come join
us and have a wonderful and intellectually rewarding chat experience.

Regards,

Hammer2 for Clustering Design Document

Siju George — 2011-05-28T08:07:49

http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2011-05/msg00010.html

http://apollo.backplane.com/DFlyMisc/hammer2.txt

Thanks
--Siju
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M:tier uses OpenBSD for Everything

Siju George — 2011-04-20T13:08:02

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20110420080633
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Re: Dual booting DragonFlyBSD with WinXP

Chirag Kantharia — 2011-02-17T17:47:36

| > What really happens, when one enables the 'Packet mode'? Is there a
| > different boot image used for second stage loader?
| 
| Boot loader uses LBA (logical block addressing) mdoe instead of using
| a CHS (cylinder, heads, sector) based addressing.

Okay; I understand this.

I want to know if enabling 'Packet mode' during installation, would
write/use an alternate second stage loader instead of regular
/boot/boot1. In the end, I want to know if I need to alter /boot/boot1
somehow, or is there a existing alternate boot1 image which is used if
'Packet mode' is enabled. Does enabling 'Packet mode' write something
to loader.conf (which doesn't make sense but tossing some ideas to
make my point)?

Re: Dual booting DragonFlyBSD with WinXP

Arun Sharma — 2011-02-17T17:30:34

Boot loader uses LBA (logical block addressing) mdoe instead of using
a CHS (cylinder, heads, sector) based addressing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INT_13H

You'd have to call INT13h AH=41h to check for its presence.

 -Arun

Re: Dual booting DragonFlyBSD with WinXP

Chirag Kantharia — 2011-02-17T17:08:58

| Could this be a BIOS limitation of not being able to read beyond 1024
| cylinders?

Possible; does anybody know what does one gain by enabling 'Packet
mode' during boot blocks installation? From the following link, it
seems like the 'Packet mode' should be checked if the root partition
is beyond 1024 cylinders.

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2005/07/

What really happens, when one enables the 'Packet mode'? Is there a
different boot image used for second stage loader?

| One workaround may be to use a CD or a USB key to load
| /boot/loader and then direct it to load a kernel from your
| DragonflyBSD partition.

I'm hoping I don't have to do such a thing to be able to boot DFBSD.

Re: Dual booting DragonFlyBSD with WinXP

Arun Sharma — 2011-02-17T16:35:48


Could this be a BIOS limitation of not being able to read beyond 1024
cylinders? One workaround may be to use a CD or a USB key to load
/boot/loader and then direct it to load a kernel from your
DragonflyBSD partition.

 -Arun

Dual booting DragonFlyBSD with WinXP

Chirag Kantharia — 2011-02-17T15:16:47

Hello,

Has anybody setup a dual boot system with DragonFlyBSD and WinXP?

I have 3 primary partitions on my WinXP laptop; I installed
DragonFlyBSD on the third partition that is beyond 60G. I skipped the
step to install the boot blocks, since I want to use NTloader to boot
DragonFly. Later, I copied /boot/boot1 to c:\bootsect.dfly and added
the following entry to c:\boot.ini.

C:\bootsect.dfly="DragonFly"

FWIW, this method worked fine with FreeBSD-current. However, upon
trying to boot DragonFly from NT loader, the screen goes blank for a
few seconds, and then, the system reboots.

Upon googling, I found the following mail in the dragonflybsd-user
archive:
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/dragonflybsd-user/2004/12/31/135686

I haven't come across mail/FAQ/webpage which confirms that the method
described above works for DragonFlyBSD.

Thanks,

Re: New server

Arun Sharma — 2011-02-13T06:22:08

Had to fill out this form (try filling it out, just for kicks):

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/bulkv2.html

and then answer some questions like:

* What's your privacy policy?
* How many bounces before you remove a user from your list?

etc via email.

 -Arun

Re: New server

Sahil Tandon — 2011-02-13T06:13:08


How did you resolve this?

Re: New server

Arun Sharma — 2011-02-13T01:22:17

It took me 3 weeks to get this resolved. But yahoo users should be
able to receive email from the list now.

 -Arun

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Re: New server

Arun Sharma — 2011-02-07T08:31:16

Some updates on this:

a) I've filled this form out:

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/bulkv2.html

b) Contacted postmaster< at >yahoo.com, which resulted in a unhelpful
customer service email.

c) Enabled DKIM on bsd-india.org

d) Getting my ISP to install a reverse DNS entry for the IP

But can't get anyone at yahoo to listen. Unfortunately, a lot of
people still use yahoo :(

 -Arun

Re: GNUnify 2011 - A Forum To Unite Open Minds

Arun Sharma — 2011-02-03T06:08:32

You probably wanted to send this to the list, rather than me (list owner).

 -Arun

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Re: New server

Sahil Tandon — 2011-01-27T00:55:25


Ah, a fate familiar to many postmasters around the globe - this is a
risk with running an outbound SMTP server on a 'virtual colo'.


Ouch, that seems a bit draconian.


Aside from not sending to Yahoo or getting a totally new IP, your
options are unfortunately limited. =/