The actual server

[Jan Horn]

Our visibility is still improving with only two key words we are now second on the list. I noticed that the overseas traffic is increasing but the spam measures prevent a lot of unwanted spam registrations.

[fugglefeet]

Hi all,

A more recent test revealed the following results and I used the same test used previously to obtain them.

Local Server 1.jpg

Intl Server 1.jpg

The ADSL line has been beefed up to a 1Mbps line as per Telkom's announcement to all 384kbps end users. Thank you Telkom.

Darryl

[craigcul]

Hopefully I can post a pic here of the actual server. So let us try and by the way, it's the one in the middle.

IMG_0556.JPG

Hi there
The pc looks good the wife seems to think that my pc should have all covers in place.

[Bosluis]

Hopefully I can post a pic here of the actual server. So let us try and by the way, it's the one in the middle.

IMG_0556.JPG

Hi there
The pc looks good the wife seems to think that my pc should have all covers in place.

But Why???

Bosluis

[craigcul]

Because women like things neat and tidy.

Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk 2

[fugglefeet]

Hi all,

What should have been normal system maintenance, caught me unawares and unprepared for what followed. The long and short is:-

Telkom did an upgrade to the network and that went off without a problem (as per their email).

Dear Telkom Internet User

In keeping with our continuous transformation towards improved services and customer experience, Telkom Internet will be conducting system maintenance. While it is possible that you may experience intermittent service interruption during the maintenance period, rest assured that your ISP will be taking every measure possible to prevent the same.



The maintenance period is Thursday, 31 January 2013 from 23:30 to Monday, 04 February 2013, 06:00.



Please feel free to contact our Technical Support call Centre on 10210 should you have any queries in this regard.

Warm regards

Telkom Internet Technical Support

Where I got blind-sided was when the firewall decided now is the time to upgrade the system software. After this took place, the custom settings to accomodate for the link to the dynamic dns host got broken by the update. A quick check revealed this at around 23:00 this evening, but by which time is was too late and there were probably many unhappy forum members. Fortunately, a copy of the "damaged" files were replaced with the good ones and all is resolving properly now. Thanks for your patience.

Darryl

[craigcul]

thanks for the hard work darryl we do appreciate it even if we dont always tell you.

[fugglefeet]

thanks for the hard work darryl we do appreciate it even if we dont always tell you.

Ah shucks.

[fugglefeet]

Hi all,

We have had our share of spammers who have not made it past the registration process. We have also had at our disposal a nifty tool that is available at:-

http://en.utrace.de/

This helps us identify where in the world the culprits are coming from. To demonstrate:- This morning we had a visit from the Bing bot collecting data about the forum for inclusion in the Bing search engine (much like Google would also access the forum for us to be "googled', the same happened with Bing and now we can be "binged"). I did a Whois on the Bing bot and the pictures below tell the tale:-

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Viewing Who is online revealed the Bing bot (second from the top) was browsing the forum (the index page) and clicking on the Whois link next to the IP address revealed the following:-

Screenshot - 2013_02_14 , 06_01_30.jpg

Hello Mr. Bill Gates and Co. Here we have a tool to see where in the world our visitors are from.

Hope this is informative and useful.

Darryl

P.S. This feature is available to the Admin for the purpose of providing the users with the added measure of safety from would be spammers.

[dasilvarsa]

Nice One Darryl !