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AMIGO remailer closing

Amigo Admin

2004-09-27, 8:45 pm

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Amigo remailer (and pinger) is closing.

The server that runs the Amigo remailer has become increasingly
unstable and requires rebooting about once a fortnight. Windows
2000 notices the problem and automatically reboots, however
Reliable (the remailer software) cannot run as a service and
therefore all remailer operations are paused after a reboot
until I manually log on to the machine. This does not result in
any lost mail however it does result in delays for you and
annoyance for me.

Unfortunately Reliable is no longer being developed. I have had
enough of this and I am converting my server to Linux. The Amigo
remailer may open again in the future running Mixmaster, but it
will take me some time to convert.

All incoming mail will suffer from increasing delays to reduce
the chance of the remailer being picked automatically as a next-
hop. The remailer will close at the end of September and from
1st of October, incoming mail may bounce.

Amigo Admin

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An Metet

2004-09-27, 8:45 pm

In article <KJUYE3K038258.1704282407@anonymous.poster>
Amigo Admin <admin@remailer.org.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Amigo remailer (and pinger) is closing.
>
<snip>

Thank you and hurry back!

BigappleAdmin

2004-09-28, 2:48 am

In article <KJUYE3K038258.1704282407@anonymous.poster>
Amigo Admin <admin@remailer.org.uk> wrote:
>
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>
> Amigo remailer (and pinger) is closing.
>
> The server that runs the Amigo remailer has become increasingly
> unstable and requires rebooting about once a fortnight. Windows
> 2000 notices the problem and automatically reboots, however
> Reliable (the remailer software) cannot run as a service and
> therefore all remailer operations are paused after a reboot
> until I manually log on to the machine. This does not result in
> any lost mail however it does result in delays for you and
> annoyance for me.
>
>

That's odd. My remailer runs on Win2000 and starts up on a reboot.

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emperor

2004-09-28, 7:53 am

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In article <KJUYE3K038258.1704282407@anonymous.poster>
Amigo Admin <admin@remailer.org.uk> wrote:

>Amigo remailer (and pinger) is closing.
[snip]

Thanks for your services.

Good luck and be back soon. :o)

*** emperor

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Anonymous

2004-09-28, 5:45 pm

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In article <77L1X8YT38257.9488310185@anonymous>
Anonymous-Remailer@See.Comment.Header (BigappleAdmin) wrote:
>
> In article <KJUYE3K038258.1704282407@anonymous.poster>
> Amigo Admin <admin@remailer.org.uk> wrote:
>
> That's odd. My remailer runs on Win2000 and starts up on a reboot.

I run under Windows 2000 server edition as part of a domain.

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panta-admin

2004-09-28, 5:45 pm

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Hi !
>Amigo remailer (and pinger) is closing.

This is very sad indeed.

>The server that runs the Amigo remailer has become increasingly
>unstable and requires rebooting about once a fortnight. Windows

This is most probably either a variant of the randex virus, or a hardware
failure. The first should be cured by good AV software, the second will
still be there even if you change to linux.

>2000 notices the problem and automatically reboots, however
>Reliable (the remailer software) cannot run as a service and
>therefore all remailer operations are paused after a reboot
>until I manually log on to the machine. This does not result in

Put Reliable into the start folder, and supply the passphrase on the
command line. Voila !

>Unfortunately Reliable is no longer being developed. I have had

This is true, but the sources are well documented and as you know Bikikii
admin and myself do a lot of customization on it.
I could help you find the tools needed to compile/modify reliable if you
want. You could also have a binary if you prefer that.
I like the flexibility Reliable gives me, all the things I do in it I could
not have done with mixmaster.

Sad to see you go, any chance to reconsider ?
Cheers,
panta-admin

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Anonymous

2004-09-28, 8:47 pm

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In article <CUP3LNA038258.9729976852@anonymous.poster>
panta-admin <anonymous@panta-rhei.dyndns.org> wrote:

> Hi !
>
> This is very sad indeed.
>
>
> This is most probably either a variant of the randex virus, or a hardware
> failure. The first should be cured by good AV software, the second will
> still be there even if you change to linux.

There's no hardware problem I can detect (the machine is an IBM
Netfinity server and all the diagnostics check out fine). I
already run decent anti-virus (symantec corporate) software with
daily updates.

>
> Put Reliable into the start folder, and supply the passphrase on the
> command line. Voila !

Reliable is already in the start folder - but programs in the
start folder do not run until someone logs onto the machine. My
machine runs Windows 2000 server as part of a domain. When the
machine boots it sits there waiting for a user to log on - and
until a user logs on, Reliable is not running. My MTA (and my
news server) runs as a service so it runs immediately the
machine boots and all the mail is received as normal - it's just
not processed until I log on and reliable starts up.

>
> This is true, but the sources are well documented and as you know Bikikii
> admin and myself do a lot of customization on it.
> I could help you find the tools needed to compile/modify reliable if you
> want. You could also have a binary if you prefer that.
> I like the flexibility Reliable gives me, all the things I do in it I could
> not have done with mixmaster.

I have already modified the source code and recompiled reliable
to fix the few bugs that are present in the last release and add
the same small improvements as most other remops.

> Sad to see you go, any chance to reconsider ?

If you can modify Reliable to run as a service (so it loads
under the system at boot time) then no problem. I've tried the
programs that attempt to run exectuables as a service
(FireDaemon) however they don't appear to work.

I may have a play at reconfiguring the server to run as stand
alone rather than as part of the domain (and then automatically
logging in on boot up), however this will involve me
reconfiguring a lot of the machine and associated software, so
it may still be down for a while. Perhaps Linux is the better
option.

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Anonymous

2004-09-28, 8:48 pm

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In article <CUP3LNA038258.9729976852@anonymous.poster>
panta-admin <anonymous@panta-rhei.dyndns.org> wrote:

> Sad to see you go, any chance to reconsider ?

I have just found a registry hack that may allow me to get
Windows 2000 server to automatically log in to a domain on
booting, which will allow Reliable to work auto,matically if
Windows decides to restart itself.

I may suspend the change to Linux for a short while - let's see
how it goes.

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Max Mustermann

2004-09-28, 8:49 pm

On 29 Sep 2004, Anonymous <BigappleRemailer@Optonline.Net> wrote:
>In article <CUP3LNA038258.9729976852@anonymous.poster>
>panta-admin <anonymous@panta-rhei.dyndns.org> wrote:

>
>Reliable is already in the start folder - but programs in the
>start folder do not run until someone logs onto the machine. My
>machine runs Windows 2000 server as part of a domain. When the
>machine boots it sits there waiting for a user to log on - and
>until a user logs on, Reliable is not running. My MTA (and my
>news server) runs as a service so it runs immediately the
>machine boots and all the mail is received as normal - it's just
>not processed until I log on and reliable starts up.

Frog-Admin published some VB code to run a program under a user
profile
Or look yourself for the API CreateProcessWithLogon Lib "Advapi32"
Alias "CreateProcessWithLogonW"

http://frogadmin.yi.org/DownLoads1/i_Logon.zip

BigappleAdmin

2004-09-28, 8:49 pm

In article <HT7OHD2S38258.7322453704@anonymous>
Anonymous <BigappleRemailer@Optonline.Net> wrote:
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> In article <77L1X8YT38257.9488310185@anonymous>
> Anonymous-Remailer@See.Comment.Header (BigappleAdmin) wrote:
>
> I run under Windows 2000 server edition as part of a domain.
>

Well then, I guess it's different than vanilla Win2000 Pro.

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An Metet

2004-09-28, 8:50 pm

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On 29 Sep 2004, Anonymous <BigappleRemailer@Optonline.Net> wrote:
>In article <CUP3LNA038258.9729976852@anonymous.poster>
>panta-admin <anonymous@panta-rhei.dyndns.org> wrote:

>
>Reliable is already in the start folder - but programs in the
>start folder do not run until someone logs onto the machine. My
>machine runs Windows 2000 server as part of a domain. When the
>machine boots it sits there waiting for a user to log on - and
>until a user logs on, Reliable is not running. My MTA (and my
>news server) runs as a service so it runs immediately the
>machine boots and all the mail is received as normal - it's just
>not processed until I log on and reliable starts up.

Frog-Admin published some VB code to run a program under a user
profile
Or look yourself for the API CreateProcessWithLogon Lib "Advapi32"
Alias "CreateProcessWithLogonW"

Fritz Wuehler

2004-09-29, 5:45 pm

nobody@dizum.com (Nomen Nescio) wrote:

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>
> Amigo remailer (and pinger) is closing
>
> The server that runs the Amigo remailer has become increasingly
> ustable and requires rebooting about once a fortnight. Windows
> 2000 notices the problem and automatically reboots, however
> Reliable (the remailer software) does not run as a service and
> therefore all remailer operations are paused after a reboot
> until I log on to the machine. This does not result in any lost
> mail however it does result in delays. Unfortunately Reliable is
> no longer being developed. I have had enough of this and I am
> converting my server to Linux (from Windows). Amigo may open
> again in the future running Mixmaster.

Good idea, much more suitable for running servers of any kind. For
maximum security OpenBSD is best. The second best choice for security
(although easier to set up and use) is Debian "stable" GNU-Linux.

> All incoming mail will suffer from increasing delays to reduce
> the chance of the remailer being picked automatically as a next-
> hop. The remailer will close at the end of September and from
> 1st of October, incoming mail will bounce.

Thanks for your hard work and contribution to the remailer network.
Hope you decide to start again!

Thanks,
a user

Anonymous

2004-09-30, 7:46 am

In article <HTU6NUCZ38258.865787037@anonymous>, Anonymous wrote:
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>
>In article <CUP3LNA038258.9729976852@anonymous.poster>
>panta-admin <anonymous@panta-rhei.dyndns.org> wrote:
>
>
>I have just found a registry hack that may allow me to get
>Windows 2000 server to automatically log in to a domain on
>booting, which will allow Reliable to work auto,matically if
>Windows decides to restart itself.
>
>I may suspend the change to Linux for a short while - let's see
>how it goes.

If it works, please share the details of this hack with the rest of the
class.

tnx

Stephen K. Gielda

2004-10-01, 5:45 pm

In article < 90876f0afc426792fea24c008fff02a1@paranoi
ci.org>,
nobody@paranoici.org says...
> In article <HTU6NUCZ38258.865787037@anonymous>, Anonymous wrote:
>
>
> If it works, please share the details of this hack with the rest of the
> class.

Regedit:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Wi
ndows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

Enter your domain name, account name, and password in DefaultDomainName,
DefaultUserName, and DefaultPassword, using the values you would
normally type when logging in. If values do not exist, add them.
Double-click the new String Value in the right window pane, and enter
the password, etc. in the Value data box. The data type should be
displayed as "REG-SZ."

/steve
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