Kent J. Chen's WebLog

It is so important that to make sure your mail server is not open relayed.? Otherwise, after a while your mail server is opening your mail server’s IP address will be registed on at least one of the blacklist and you will start getting email problems.? In order to prevent this happening, testing on a regular basis is quite important to a system administrator.? Here is a simply procedure to test if the relay on your mail server is opened.

1. In Dos-prompt window, type telnet domain-name.com 25 to open a SMTP session.
   
2. helo
   250 Hello domain-name.com
   
3. mail from:

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Microsoft provides a graphical UI for the Portqry tool–Portqryui–which you can download at Microsoft download site. Portqryui provides command sets for ports to query for, including

• Domains and Trusts
  
• IP Security (IPSec)
  
• Networking
  
• SQL Server service
  
• Web service
  
• Exchange Server
  
• NetMeeting
  
• miscellaneous

Like Portqry, Portqryui can be configured to run against the local box (IP address 127.0.0.1, the standard loopback address) or a remote IP address or Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN). When you view the output of the Portqryui tool, you’ll see the actual commands that…

And now, the open source software community has the Open Source Awards.

Quote from http://builder.com.com/5100-6375_14-5136758.html?tag=nl.e601

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Referencing the FireFox thread that was going on earlier, here is another different story http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/378632 that concludes as:

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Is there any cost effectively scan and analyze security tools out there? Nessus is one way to go for sure, but others are available including this, the CIS (Center for Internet Security) Benchmarks/Security tools at http://www.cisecurity.org/.

Mark Wagner posted a useful script sample on his blog.  The script allows you to browse through various objects on the DOM as well as JavaScript variables.  I happened many times having the trouble to find those kind of information every time when I need them. So I think it is really a good one to have it in hand to save your valuable time.

See the full article here: http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/articles/652.aspx.  And the sample starts below:

By John Savill
WindowsITPro InstantDoc #44862

‘ John Savill

‘ This is based on Richard Mueller’s script on Interger8Date

‘ conversion, which is copyrighted as below.

‘ Copyright (c) 2003 Richard L. Mueller

‘ Hilltop Lab Web site – http://www.rlmueller.net

‘

‘ I simply changed it to output all objects in a passed DN.
Option Explicit
Dim strLdapPath, objConnection, objChild

Dim lngTZBias, objUser, objPwdLastSet

Dim objShell, lngBiasKey, k
‘ Check that all required arguments have been passed

If Wscript.Arguments.Count < 1 Then

  Wscript.Echo “Arguments required.

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Processing XML file is way easier than CSV or other format of file, so it is good to know how to export the data to XML format from the Excel file.

1. Create a xml map file which acutally is a simply xml file containing at least 2 sets of the data.  See the example below:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”ISO-8859-1″ ?>
<data>
         <users>
                  <id>id</id>
                  <fullname>full name</fullname>
         </users>
         <users>
                  <id>id</id>
                  <fullname>full name</fullname>
         </users>
</data>

2. From Excel, click Data->XML->XML Source… to open the XML Source window on the right side of work sheet.

3. Click XML Maps button and Add button to add the XML…

The link to the web site where you can find out more about oldcmp is http://www.joeware.net/win/free/tools/oldcmp.htm.

Haven’t fully tested yet so don’t have much to comment but thought it is something good to know.