computer nerd stuff

Grumpy's is a pretty nice bar. I had never been there before. I really like the name 'Grumpy's' too. It's got such class. Was there for scott's twenty fifth birthday! Can't nobody stop the march of years...

Some compy stuff follows.



I just took a look at the logs of the webserver I've got running on my computer. I use it as a test server for my websites. Usually it's cut off behind a router, but I had it set to forward web requests to me while I was testing some stuff out. Anyway, here's a sample of the interesting lines:

[error] File does not exist: /Library/WebServer/Documents/sillytech/scripts/root.exe
[error] File does not exist: /Library/WebServer/Documents/sillytech/MSADC/root.exe
[error] File does not exist: /Library/WebServer/Documents/sillytech/c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe
[error] File does not exist: /Library/WebServer/Documents/sillytech/d/winnt/system32/cmd.exe

Apparently that's the code red II worm checking to see if it can have any fun on my system. Unfortunately, since I'm running the rock solid apache webserver instead of microsoft's it cannot. However, just to be safe I set my router to not forward HTTP requests. There's no point in trying to access my home computer over the internet anyway because it doesn't have a domain name or static IP address.

I've thought about setting up a home brew dyndns system though. All it would take is making a cron script to ping sillysoft.net with my home comp's IP every so often. Then a subdomain could be set up on sillysoft.net that just forwarded requests to my recorded IP address. Effectively it would give my home computer a domain name without having to set up BIND or anything. I might try it out when I finally get some fecking hard drive space. Then I could set up an FTP server and other stuffs at a stable domain.

Posted by dustin on May 24, 2003 with category tags of

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Did you also notice the little wood carving of a gnome with the Grumpy's sign? It's cool.
   comment by Mariana (#35) on May 24, 2003

Dustin, my nose still hurts from that headbutt you gave me.
   comment by anonymous on May 24, 2003

No I didn't notice it. I'll have to go back some other time and take a look. Although I'm betting it's a dwarf and not a gnome.
   comment by dustin (#1) on May 24, 2003

I'm sorry baby. I love you so much that sometimes I just get crazy...
   comment by dustin (#1) on May 24, 2003

After some further thought I realize that my dyndns scheme would only work for HTTP, and not FTP or anything else. While I could get the webserver to forward requests to my IP, I would have no way of getting the FTP server on the subdomain to forward on requests.

Oh well, I think there are still some free dyndns services out there.
   comment by dustin (#1) on May 24, 2003

   

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