Active Spam Killer (ASK) protects your email account against spam by confirming the sender's email address before actual delivery takes place. The confirmation happens by means of a "confirmation message" that is automatically sent to all "unknown" users. Once the sender replies to that message (a simple reply will do), future emails from that person will be delivered immediately. You can also specify (regexp) addresses to be immediately accepted, rejected (with a nastygram) or ignored. The package also includes a utility to scan your old mailboxes and generate a list of emails to be accepted automatically.
Angel is a simple yet useful tool to monitor the services on your network. Technically speaking, it's a Perl program that runs every 'n' minutes (usually fired from your cron) and calls different perl subprograms (referred to as "plugins" from now on) to do the actual testing. It will then generate an HTML table containing the status of your network.
Webknock is a program that continuously scans Apache's "access" logfile and executes a configurable command when a certain URL sequence is detected. The IP address of the client can be passed to the command to be executed, allowing one to use iptables to open certain ports (usually, SSH) to certain hosts as soon as the correct URL sequence is activated. No changes to the Web server configuration are necessary.
Re: Challenge response considered harmful > Response:: reply w/o modifications. > > Faults: Sends challenges to innocent > third-parties as a result of > spoofed ehad...
ICQ Client Comparison Nice article. I depend heavily on ICQ to communicate with friends and family abroad. I currently use Licq on Linux (most of my friends use ICQ). I'd say I'm almost...
Gentoo is excellent! In my old windoze days (gone are those days) I used Windows Commander and really liked it. Gentoo is the *only* stable and fully featured FM I've seen for linux that gets c...
Re: Very cool concept. > Now, if you could just make it in C++ so > that it's > scalable enough for a larger server, > it could > actually become something really > B...
From the same Jeff Covey... From the same Jeff Covey that brought you, just a few lines below, "All your base are belong to us"... :) It's an intelligent joke and an interesting c...