transparent bridge: packets not traversing

2007-07-30 Thread Karl R. Balsmeier
hey there, -I messed with this alot in 3.0 when it came out and think I was the first person to ask Dan about it when testing was going on for 3.0 snapshot. I mean, I lived to wake up and make bridges with pf. -but, alas, that was years ago, and from my hazy memory all I used to do was this:

Re: How to run and manage a DNS server.

2007-06-06 Thread Karl R Balsmeier
Basically since this is openbsd, my last obsd box came with chrooted 'named' already present on the machine. I edited the config files named.conf, dropped in a 'zone file' for mydomain.com, with the proper syntax, serial number (today's date with a 01 as: 2007060601), and restarted

Re: General Question about OpenBSD

2007-05-24 Thread Karl R. Balsmeier
Suzuki Kawasaki wrote: If OpenBSD is the most uber secure why does it run on Solaris? http://www.openbsd.org was running Apache on Solaris when last queried at 18-May-2007 19:52:41 GMT - refresh now Site Report Also, is someone going to change the topic on #openbsd on all servers worldwide?

Re: Friendly registrar

2007-01-15 Thread Karl R. Balsmeier
I have been using domainpeople.com mainly because they are canadian, (e.g. not greedy and impossible to get in touch with like many registrars in my own country, and home of the coolest open source OS project on the planet). they are easy to get in touch with (they have a phone number

Re: 202 days Uptime in OpenBSD 3.6

2007-01-15 Thread Karl R. Balsmeier
Joachim Schipper wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:20:27AM -0700, Darren Spruell wrote: On 1/15/07, Alexander Bochmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...on Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:42:35AM +0100, Marc Balmer wrote: hmm, why are people so proud of their uptimes when it only show they

Re: mindset of OpenBSD users Was: OT

2007-01-03 Thread Karl R. Balsmeier
Diana Eichert wrote: On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:07:16 +0100, Patrick Useldinger SNIP True. I'm currently evaluating OpenBSD and I am trying to understand the mindset of OpenBSD users by reading the newsgroups. And this thread *is* strange. Patrick, I guess I don't understand why someone

OBSD: OS Of The Rad

2007-01-03 Thread Karl R. Balsmeier
I started with OBSD 2.5, reading a book on making an invisible firewall. I remember because my associate flew up from Orange County CA to SF to show me and my friend how to install openbsd on the quick (basically get through fdisk and cylinder settings). Didn't even order pizza, we were

Re: Wanted: OpenBSD Systems Administrator

2007-01-02 Thread Karl R. Balsmeier
Marc Balmer wrote: * Christopher Snell wrote: Hi Folks, I hope you will excuse the commercial nature of this post; I figured that this is the best place to find what we are looking for. looking for people myself, I must admit that I dislike abusing misc for this a bit, misc@ is for

Slightly OT: DNS force client to use authoritative

2006-12-18 Thread Karl R. Balsmeier
Is there a specific way to set a name server so that clients are always *forced* to use an autoritative name server? UltraDNS and some others have mentioned little features they have, but it hints at the possibility that somewhere in the DNS spec. -krb