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Re:Implement Looking Glass in Netquery?

  • 2004/10/11 14:18

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Hmmmm ... not exactly an overwhelming demand. I think you may need to refine/relocate your "target market" for that idea.

Anyhow, it's not a big hassle to add Looking Glass capabilites for interrogating routers (Cisco, zebra, etc.) if you think they might have even a small measure of usefulness. I'll build some IPv4 and IPv6 daemon queries into a Netquery v1.1 package and upload it to your dev.xoops project for you to play with.

I just wish whoever manages that XOOPS dev server and the XOOPS module repository would fix some of their broken features. Trying to edit/update anything in either place is a real pain in the you-know-what. Luckily for me, Postnuke's NOC is a lot easier to work with. I think you got the bad half of our partnership on this one.
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Re: The problem with Norton and Xoops

  • 2004/9/18 1:57

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Basically, yes. But Symantec designs its Norton Internet Security product with a configuration interface that isn't exactly the world's easiest to negotiate and presents a fairly bewildering array when the user gets there.

Having initially set up defaults, the user must then:

(1) locate a "Web Content" configuration tab under several menu "layers"

(2) add the site's domain name

(3) select it and uncheck five (5) boxes for using defaults

(4) set site specific preferences which include:

Global Settings
- "information about your browser"
- "information about visited sites"
- "animated images"
- "scripts"
- "flash animation"
User Settings
- "cookies"
- "java applets"
- "activex controls"
- "pop-up ads"
Ad Blocking
- "permit" + html strings

That may not seem like too much for people familiar with setting up CMS sites. But sorting it all out is a bit of a challenge for "joe average" web surfer. So most just assume that the tightest global defaults are best and don't even look further into the guts of the thing.

Regards,
Richard
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Re: Web Hosting module

  • 2004/9/17 16:18

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There's an interesting whois download available at EP Dev from which you might derive some inspirations for your project. It included more options than I was intersted in for my little Netquery experiment, but it's lookup and price table features seem closer to what you have in mind. It might at least be worth taking a quick look at if only as an example of thinking somewhat parallel to yours.

Regards,
Richard
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Re: Free Giveaway - New "Netquery" Needs a Home

  • 2004/9/16 22:05

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Quote:
by jmass on 2004/9/16 17:15:46 -- Damn! He's quick. Already slicing and dicing on the module.


Quick, and a *nix snob too by all appearances. All tar.gz and not a .zip file in sight for us poor Windoze saps.

Kidding aside, I'm very happy to see the community interest. If it serves no other purpose than as a kind of testing zone for people to get their feet wet in an experimental dev environment, that's not a bad thing in itself. I think, BTW, that joining the dev process requires the admin (JM) to add you to the worker list viahttp://dev.xoops.org/modules/xfmod/project/admin/?group_id=1119

As for me, I'm now going to fade away into the background so as not to be one of those irritating nitwits who invite others aboard only to drive them crazy with second guessing. My PM and email are there if anyone does want to get in touch.

All the best -- and thank YOU, James, for taking in a "homeless puppy".

Richard.
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Re: Free Giveaway - New "Netquery" Needs a Home

  • 2004/9/16 18:55

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DonXoop: Heheh -- sounds like your "revenge" was right on the mark.

jmass: The initial population of Netquery's whois lookup table in the CMS dB configures it to use external whois servers appropriate to each of the pre-entered domain name.ext TLD entries (whois.crsnic.net for .com, whois.cira.ca for .ca, etc.). But that table can be reconfigured any way you wish from the Netquery admin menu. So all of those choices (and others) are entirely up to the site administrator.

If you look in the install help file, I think I included a very long list of whois servers, although I can't recall if I put that into all of the ZIPs. So you may need to download one of the other editions.

Regards,
Richard.
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Re: Free Giveaway - New "Netquery" Needs a Home

  • 2004/9/16 17:08

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Good advice. That part of the module does query port 43 directly on the designated whois servers. As this was an "experiment" developed in our corporate environment, behind closed doors so to speak, I gave no real attention to the "hijacking" issue as such. On the other hand, XOOPS makes prevention of anonymous usage a readily available option. And, of course, the admin can disable Netquery's whois function entirely if s/he so chooses.

Regards,
Richard
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Re: Free Giveaway - New "Netquery" Needs a Home

  • 2004/9/16 15:55

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Hi Jason.

Glad you liked it. Our friend JMorris (above) is now in the process of making it into a "proper" Xoops Dev project. So he may add blocks and all kinds of other "bells and whistles" at some point. It's entirely up to him.

In the meantime, I'd be interested in hearing about the difficulty you had "integrating" it. It should install itself like any other XOOPS module creating both user menu and admin menu entries automatically. It should also create and initially populate the dB tables that it uses for configuration of its feature availability and whois lookups. If it failed to do any of that, it has nothing to do with the lack of blocks and I'm curious about what the problem might be. If you can elaborate a bit more, it would also be helpful to its new developer.

Regards,
Richard

P.S.: The Postnuke edition also creates its own admin entry, but, unlike the XOOPS and Xaraya versions, does require a {Netquery} item to be added manually to the items in the CMS's main menu block list. I got lazy.
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Re: Free Giveaway - New "Netquery" Needs a Home

  • 2004/9/14 1:38

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Great!!!! Repackage and rebrand it any way you wish. It's a trifling "payback", as far as I'm concerned, for all the open source stuff that has come my way over the years.

Best to all,
Richard
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Re: Free Giveaway - New "Netquery" Needs a Home

  • 2004/9/14 1:16

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Well, I don't have a personal HTTP/FTP server and, as I said, I can't provide external access to our corp servers. So we'll try a Yahoo "briefcase" and see how that works.

In case anyone wants to start a "factory" and hoping that the XOOPS folks won't mind, here are links for all three versions:
xoops_netquery
postnuke_netquery
xaraya_netquery

Have fun. And please let me know how it works for you, especially if you have a *nix box available to try it out.

As for picking a "winner", anyone who works for a large bureaucratic outfit will conform that at least six more meetings will be needed for that kind of major decision.

Regards,
Richard
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Re: Free Giveaway - New "Netquery" Needs a Home

  • 2004/9/14 0:18

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Yeah, OK, I took a look. BUT I don't want to start a whole new "development project" with CVS and all that other related stuff.

I've already completed my "project". If anyone else wants to carry it further and add some more "bells and whistles", that's up to them. But it already works and has served its purpose as far as I'm concerned. Now I'm just trying to give the damn thing away to anyone who wants it.

Regards,
Richard
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