[MLB-WIRELESS] what's on your public wireless server?

Brenton D. ivile01 at yahoo.com.au
Sun Oct 16 12:23:53 EST 2005


anything and everything, except child porn, because we all know that just 
wrong.

I have a disclaimer on my site, so once you download it its your problem.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rowan Crowe" <rowan at sensation.net.au>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 11:21 AM
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] what's on your public wireless server?


>I set up an old box as a wireless server a couple of months ago - more for
> my own use but also with a non encrypted AP and auto DHCP assignment - and
> was surprised today to find two foreign ethernet addresses sitting in
> dhcpd.leases. Not bad for a standard 802.11g AP sitting on top of my
> fridge...
>
> There's currently no functionality besides being able to associate and be
> assigned an RFC1918 IP. It's got me thinking that it's time at least set
> up httpd and put up some content on it.
>
> So, what do others put on their publically accessable servers? I've
> thought about putting up some old public domain cartoons (videos) for fun.
> I'm also considering a "walled garden" where people can access a fixed
> list of sites - such as microsoft.com or freebsd.org - via Squid and my
> internet connection.
>
> Is anyone else interested in Joe Public access or are you mainly into
> networking with known people/members? (Knowing my luck the two foreign
> associations were neighbours firing up their new Windows wireless card for
> the first time, rather than wireless enthusiasts!)
>
> Finally... any idea how "client-hostname" below is generated? I presume
> this comes from the client rather than being assigned by DHCP.
>
> lease 192.168.73.189 {
>  starts 0 1998/06/28 12:14:53;
>  ends 0 1998/06/28 12:16:53;
>  binding state free;
>  hardware ethernet 00:0e:35:75:41:51;
>  uid "\001\000\0165uAQ";
>  client-hostname "P0004JKSA698380";
> }
> lease 192.168.73.188 {
>  starts 6 2005/10/01 13:28:01;
>  ends 6 2005/10/01 13:30:01;
>  binding state free;
>  hardware ethernet 00:0e:35:54:49:8a;
>  uid "\001\000\0165TI\212";
>  client-hostname "your-72486d6880";
> }
>
> Cheers.
>
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