Wednesday, April 23, 2003

IP Filtering for Win2k

Working on one of my server's external IP filters. Currently, I have it configured to allow VPN traffic only using the following rules:

Enable TCP/IP Filtering (All adapters) is checked.
TCP Ports permitted: 1723
UDP Ports permitted: none
IP Protcols permitted: 47

But, now I need to open it up to allow DNS traffic as well (my DNS queries are failing...). Ah, but which ports/services do I need to open? First off, there's the IANA port numbers listing which says that DNS is port 53 on TCP (and UDP?). Well, I'll start by just adding 53 to the allowed TCP port list.

posted by Wuphon's Reach at 9:50 AM

Monday, April 21, 2003

IE6 and the HR Element within Table Cells

Well, looks like IE6 no longer properly renders table cells that contain a HR tag. (At least, I think that's the issue at hand with the vanishing text.) I'll be cruising through the archives and trying to remove any spot where I used a HR tag inside of an entry... (replacing it with the not-so-pleasant line of dashes). That, or I'm going to take the HR line out of the upper area on the template (and just put a BR tag in instead).

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Also, blogger.com's software is acting up again, and not properly naming the archive files. Found a help topic that addresses this problem, and managed to get the missing archive weeks republished.

posted by Wuphon's Reach at 9:53 AM

SARS

Well, Hong Kong and China are still trying to contain the SARS outbreaks in their areas... I'm a bit dubious that it's going to be effective at this point in the game. (Once you get a certain number of people infected, it's not really likely that you're going to be able to track/quarantine everyone who might possibly infected now.)

posted by Wuphon's Reach at 9:43 AM