Re: Is this a case of paranoia?

2010-04-24 Thread Henry Sieff
Not surprising at all. I have had to get special dispensation to access undeadly.org, download nmap source, and several other sites with tools that I use. The classifications are made by teams of people who have very little understanding of what the sites actually contain. A lot of breast cancer

Re: OpenBSD culture?

2010-04-15 Thread Henry Sieff
I work with a lot of systems integrator types - they deliver finished platforms to run apps we develop on. A lot of familiarity with Solaris and Centos. One day, a couple of load balancers died and one of them needed a quick solution so I tossed them my 4.6 cd and sent them a link to man for

Re: OpenBSD culture?

2010-04-15 Thread Henry Sieff
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Chris Dukes pak...@pr.neotoma.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 09:15:39AM -0700, Henry Sieff wrote: [SNIP] Unfortunately, for many of us the end goal is to get a pile of crap, as dictated by management, working well enough that we get another paycheck

Re: OpenBSD insecure OS?

2010-02-24 Thread Henry Sieff
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:02 AM, carlos albino garcia grijalba genesi...@hotmail.com wrote: I foud this: http://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/the-insecurity-of-openbsd/ so ? translation trolling trolling trolling::

Re: Looking for Secure Architectures with OpenBSD pdf.

2009-12-10 Thread Henry Sieff
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:44 AM, FRLinux frli...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.openbsd.org/books.html#book3 Thanks for that, was unaware of that book. Just ordered my copy now :) Not sure about the other authors, but I

Re: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/linux_kernel_vulnerability/

2009-11-04 Thread Henry Sieff
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: [SNIP] I realize that I'm preaching to the choir -- you know all this. But I think it's a mistake for (especially) the OpenBSD community to speak of OpenBSD as just about security, when it's so much more than that. I

Re: OT: Juniper SSL-VPN?

2009-09-15 Thread Henry Sieff
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:53 PM, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Johan Beisser j...@caustic.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:39 PM, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't want to hijack the other VPN thread for this purpose,

Re: pppoe(4) outage on Swisscom DSL lines since yesterday

2009-07-14 Thread Henry Sieff
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:37 AM, michael hamerskilists.at.blurb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have several systems (4.2) running over bridged modems which can no longer connect to the service provider's PPPOE servers since last night. What kind of dsl modems?

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-21 Thread Henry Sieff
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Diana Eichert deich...@wrench.com wrote: SNIP . Virtualization is really cool, you could own the virtual hardware and the O/S would never know. It takes the issue related to binary blobs to a whole new level. Entire machine as binary blob - never thought of

Re: differencing subnet's hosts in gateway based on hosts' gateway address

2009-05-20 Thread Henry Sieff
Use pf: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html#outgoing is sort of what you want to do. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Imre Oolberg i...@auul.pri.ee wrote: Hi! I guess that maybe i need to solve my problem using different means i.e. administrative means but i would be thankful if

Re: Shared IRQ

2009-05-14 Thread Henry Sieff
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq12.html 12.7.3 2009/5/14 Joco Salvatti salva...@gmail.com: Hi, I would like to know if a different hardware can shared the same IRQ with another? Eg: inteldrm0 at vga1: apic 1 int 16 (irq 11) ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 1 Intel 82801GB PCIE rev 0x02: apic

Re: Shared IRQ

2009-05-14 Thread Henry Sieff
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Peter Kay - Syllopsium syllops...@syllopsium.com wrote: From: Henry Sieff henry.si...@gmail.com To: Joco Salvatti salva...@gmail.com http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq12.html 12.7.3 2009/5/14 Joco Salvatti salva...@gmail.com: Hi, I would like to know

Re: Shared IRQ

2009-05-14 Thread Henry Sieff
[cleaned up formatting, since I accidentally top-posed to begin with] On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: I worte: I have only ever had an issue with off-brand NIC's, personally. But you are of course correct - PCI devices are supposed to be able to

Re: sendmail vs. other MTAs

2009-05-12 Thread Henry Sieff
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:07 AM, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: On Tue, 12 May 2009, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:26 PM, bofh goodb...@gmail.com wrote: I'm also looking for a very simple MTA that I can use at home and have it configured to relay e-mail without

Re: sendmail vs. other MTAs

2009-05-12 Thread Henry Sieff
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:28 PM, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: At 02:22 PM 5/12/2009 -0700, Henry Sieff wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:07 AM, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: If you want simple, install Webmin. Runs fine with sendmail, default install! Yeah, because

Re: sendmail vs. other MTAs

2009-05-12 Thread Henry Sieff
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Daniel Ouellet dan...@presscom.net wrote: L. V. Lammert wrote: At 02:22 PM 5/12/2009 -0700, Henry Sieff wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:07 AM, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote: If you want simple, install Webmin. Runs fine with sendmail, default

Re: European orders

2009-04-01 Thread Henry Sieff
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:20 AM, ropers rop...@gmail.com wrote: [SNIP] And no offence to you or anyone, but why don't we all just STFU unless we happen to be able to announce substantial new information? DELURK IJWTS that this is like the 20th variation on 'we should all be quiet now' that

Re: European orders

2009-03-30 Thread Henry Sieff
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Dag Richards dagricha...@speakeasy.net wrote: As a rule I generally don't post in response to community discussions as I am essentially nobody here. This time however I just have to ask ...Theo? Why on Earth do you keep doing this? How the hell do you put

Re: arp MiTM

2009-03-09 Thread Henry Sieff
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Eric Furman ericfur...@fastmail.net wrote: On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 16:54:27 +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana felipe.alf...@gmail.com said: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:11 PM, irix i...@ukr.net wrote: Hello Misc, How to protect your server from such attacks without the

Re: Singularity OS

2008-03-06 Thread Henry Sieff
DELURK The OS is coded in an extension of C# - rather than more simple C or C++ - to avoid the flaws of today's operating systems, such as their susceptibility to buffer overruns from worms or viruses. Hahahahahahahahahaha! I needed that laugh. LURK On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Adrian

Re: OpenBSD on VMware

2007-11-26 Thread Henry Sieff
Delurk If the guest computer (your OpenBSD machine) is running in the context of the user who starts it on the host, then when that user logs off the vmware host the guest computer will shutoff. In order for it to be available at all times, it should be running in the local system context OR a

Re: My hard-to-kill OpenBSD

2007-04-13 Thread Henry Sieff
On 4/13/07, stuart van Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SNIP] The way MS has worked to make things easier and easier with all the wizzards etc (crap) it's getting so that fine grained control is all but gone and if the wizz can't do it, it can't be done. That's the real problem with GUI config