Re: OpenLDAP question

2007-05-22 Thread Henning Brauer
* Bryan Irvine [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-05-21 09:01]: Older versions of bdb went bad a fairly regular basis. I had DB's go corrupt as often as once a day under older verson of OL using bdb. This hasn't been a problem for a while though. I havn't had a db go bad in 2 years, even after power

Re: OpenLDAP question

2007-05-22 Thread Henning Brauer
* Dave Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-05-21 08:26]: Henning Brauer wrote: * Uv Pzaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-05-20 23:12]: I wonder why OpenBSD packages (i.e. openldap-server-2.3.24.tgz) still uses ldbm as database backend especially since the OpenLDAP folks are stating that this is no

Re: OpenLDAP question

2007-05-22 Thread Dave Harrison
Henning Brauer wrote: * Dave Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-05-21 08:26]: Henning Brauer wrote: * Uv Pzaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-05-20 23:12]: I wonder why OpenBSD packages (i.e. openldap-server-2.3.24.tgz) still uses ldbm as database backend especially since the OpenLDAP folks are

Re: OpenBSD 4.1 install issue?? [RESOLVED]

2007-05-22 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Mon, 21.05.2007 at 18:00:30 +0200, Toni Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this problem worth opening a bug on the OpenBSD web site? after reading the great advice of Rob Waite, the answer is obviously NO. Sorry for the noise. Best, --Toni++

Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-22 Thread Renaud Allard
Hello, I just used dnsstuff to test one of my domain names and it showed me (the first time only) that my server is an openrelay, which is obviously not true. This is due to the default behaviour of spamd of accepting everything, even when a spamd.alloweddomains file is present. I think this

Re: 4.1 upgrade and squid

2007-05-22 Thread Laurens Vets
Bryan Irvine wrote: I've upgraded my firewall to 4.1 and all of the packages. Now squid fails to start with the new version. I get the following errors: 2007/05/21 16:22:32| aclParseAclLine: WARNING: empty ACL: acl BlockSites url_regex /etc/squid/blocksites.txt 2007/05/21 16:22:32|

quick pppoa howto. get the ip and bypass the router nat

2007-05-22 Thread Luigi Tarenga
hi all, i have an Adsl internet connection with the tiscali provider and i just solved my problem of getting the IP address on my openbsd machine. i wish to share my experience here, feel free to correct my english :P tiscali's adsl support only pppoa protocol (rfc 2364) and this is a problem if

Re: Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-22 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Renaud Allard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just used dnsstuff to test one of my domain names and it showed me (the first time only) that my server is an openrelay, which is obviously not true. This is due to the default behaviour of spamd of accepting everything, even when a

Re: OpenBSD 4.1: pf is not blocking anything

2007-05-22 Thread Bohdan Tashchuk
Marcos Laufer wrote: Hello, I am testing pf in an OpenBSD 4.1. This same configuration works fine on OpenBSD 3.9, but in 4.1 it is not filtering anything, everything is passing thru, just like as if there was no 'block all'. What worries me most is that anyone on the outside can see my ssh

Re: OpenBSD 4.1: pf is not blocking anything

2007-05-22 Thread Stuart Henderson
I am testing pf in an OpenBSD 4.1. This same configuration works fine on OpenBSD 3.9, but in 4.1 it is not filtering anything, everything is passing thru, just like as if there was no 'block all'. Is pf enabled? (pfctl -si) Did your ruleset load ok? (pfctl -sr) What worries me most is that

Re: OpenBSD 4.1: pf is not blocking anything

2007-05-22 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Marcos Laufer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am testing pf in an OpenBSD 4.1. This same configuration works fine on OpenBSD 3.9, but in 4.1 it is not filtering anything, everything is passing thru, just like as if there was no 'block all'. Are you sure that your rule set actually does get

Re: wpi and wpa

2007-05-22 Thread Cabillot Julien
WPA is not implemented in OpenBSD On 5/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! The man page of the wpi driver states that WEP is supported, but i cannot see WPA (WPA2) mentioned. I have a laptop with a 3945 wifi chipset that works under linux with WPA2. I need WPA2,

PF: round-robin routing and multiple gateways, one outgoing interface.

2007-05-22 Thread Thomas Jager
Hi list. My network is extremely strange i know, nothing i can do about about it. Just working with what i got. I have a local network 10.0.0.0/16. This local network has several gateways to the internet. for example 10.0.1.1, 10.0.2.1, 10.0.3.1 are all gateways to the net. I want to make a

Re: Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-22 Thread Renaud Allard
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Renaud Allard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just used dnsstuff to test one of my domain names and it showed me (the first time only) that my server is an openrelay, which is obviously not true. This is due to the default behaviour of spamd of accepting everything,

Re: Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-22 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Renaud Allard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Indeed, but it could cause you to get blacklisted by some automated checkers, which is clearly something you don't want. I know this kind of checker is not accurate, but some local checkers will do it that way and you will end up with the problems.

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Re: Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-22 Thread Renaud Allard
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Renaud Allard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Indeed, but it could cause you to get blacklisted by some automated checkers, which is clearly something you don't want. I know this kind of checker is not accurate, but some local checkers will do it that way and you will

Re: Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-22 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/05/22 14:49, Renaud Allard wrote: I speak mostly of SMTP-time checkers. Imagine you are sending a mail to someone and while you are doing the SMTP transaction, the remote host also connects to your server to see if it may be an openrelay. They are broken then... Workaround: use

A change in libasn1.a

2007-05-22 Thread Dmitry Mikhin
Hello, all! I run an OpenBSD 4.0 system, all patches installed. The installation is rather basic, the only port open to the world is ssh, which provides access to a subversion server and to shell logins, both via keys, or one-time :skey passwords. As the system is exposed to the net, I

Re: Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-22 Thread Renaud Allard
Stuart Henderson wrote: They are broken then... Workaround: use different mailer instances on different IP addresses for incoming and outgoing mail (this is often a good idea anyway). This workaround only works if the checker connects to your MX, not to the host sending the mail. I know they

Re: Sun Netra X1 Firewall Throughput?

2007-05-22 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:16:33PM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: On May 18, 2007, at 2:09 PM, Daniel Ouellet wrote: [drive 137GB on Sun X1?] No it doesn't. I have about 30 of them and putting any drives bigger then that will simply not work. Well, actually it work, but you can't use

Re: Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-22 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/05/22 15:50, Renaud Allard wrote: Stuart Henderson wrote: They are broken then... Workaround: use different mailer instances on different IP addresses for incoming and outgoing mail (this is often a good idea anyway). This workaround only works if the checker connects to your

Re: Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-22 Thread Renaud Allard
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/05/22 15:50, Renaud Allard wrote: Stuart Henderson wrote: You wouldn't need spamd on the address of a send-only instance.. (if mail's only submitted on 587/465 or from known address ranges, it could just RST port 25 to the rest of the world). Good point :)

Re: Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-22 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Renaud Allard wrote: I think a better solution would be for *more* people to use greylisting implementations which do this, so that more MSexchange users will either bother Microsoft to fix their bug, or script 'net stop smtpsvc;net start smtpsvc' to run a few times a day so they can send

Re: Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-22 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/05/22 17:12, Renaud Allard wrote: I have only seen this when the 4xx error is sent at DATA time, not when sent at RCPT TO. How about: --i-dont-want-to-receive-mail-from-people-using-exchange-2003 and --i-dont-want-to-receive-mail-from-people-using-callout-verification Those are

Re: OpenBSD 4.1: pf is not blocking anything [solved]

2007-05-22 Thread Marcos Laufer
Hello , Just found out what was wrong. I knew that the ruleset was allright... I just forgot to activate pf by placing pf=YES in rc.local.conf I'm glad that OpenBSD works just fine, and it's me who needs to be repaired :) I am very sorry for the noise , thanks to everybody for the tips and

Re: Sun Netra X1 Firewall Throughput?

2007-05-22 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On May 22, 2007, at 7:09 AM, T. Ribbrock wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:16:33PM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: That's too bad. I was hoping I could put larger drives in them. Oh well, 120 GB it is. Maybe you can use the same approach I used with my U10 - I've put in a Promise PCI IDE

Re: Sun Netra X1 Firewall Throughput?

2007-05-22 Thread Edd Barrett
On 22/05/07, T. Ribbrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know whether the X1 has free PCI slots, but if it has, it might be an option. I just checked mine. It has no PCI slots, however there are USB ports. You could add an external one, but I wouldnt rely on it for production environments.

smtp auth + greylisting

2007-05-22 Thread Stephen Schaff
I just moved my super-fantastic spamd soekris in front of a new mail server that requires SMTP Auth to send mail... and it broke. No one can send mail from that server. My old server didn't require SMTP Auth and it worked fine. I couldn't find anything in the docs or on the net that suggests

Re: flowcharts

2007-05-22 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:41:18AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Howe Sent: 18 May 2007 07:00 PM Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: flowcharts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to

Re: Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-22 Thread Renaud Allard
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/05/22 17:12, Renaud Allard wrote: I have only seen this when the 4xx error is sent at DATA time, not when sent at RCPT TO. How about: --i-dont-want-to-receive-mail-from-people-using-exchange-2003 and

Re: smtp auth + greylisting

2007-05-22 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Stephen Schaff wrote: I just moved my super-fantastic spamd soekris in front of a new mail server that requires SMTP Auth to send mail... and it broke. No one can send mail from that server. My old server didn't require SMTP Auth and it worked fine. i have spamd setup at work and have users

Re: Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-22 Thread Bob Beck
I just used dnsstuff to test one of my domain names and it showed me (the first time only) that my server is an openrelay, which is obviously not true. This is due to the default behaviour of spamd of accepting everything, even when a spamd.alloweddomains file is present. I think this could

Re: smtp auth + greylisting

2007-05-22 Thread Peter Hessler
have your smtp-auth people use port 587/465[1]. That will also solve the problem of traveling users being blocked at public access points. [1] smtp+sasl or smtp wrapped in ssl, depending on the client. Don't forget to enable this in your MTA. On 2007 May 22 (Tue) at 10:22:19 -0600

Re: Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-22 Thread Renaud Allard
Bob Beck wrote: Any automated test I've ever set up for open relay, (and I run them) as well as any sane ones I ever see test for open relay by actually relaying a message not looking at the smtp dialoge. You're making much ado over nothing and spreading FUD - the tester you

Re: Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-22 Thread Darth Lists
Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: Renaud Allard wrote: I think a better solution would be for *more* people to use greylisting implementations which do this, so that more MSexchange users will either bother Microsoft to fix their bug, or script 'net stop smtpsvc;net start smtpsvc' to run a few

Re: Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-22 Thread Renaud Allard
Bob Beck wrote: Any automated test I've ever set up for open relay, (and I run them) as well as any sane ones I ever see test for open relay by actually relaying a message not looking at the smtp dialoge. You're making much ado over nothing and spreading FUD - the tester you

Tcpdstat

2007-05-22 Thread OBSD
Hi, does anybody get on a OpenBSD 4.x tcpdstat installed? Tcpdstat from http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/talks/core02/tools/tcpdstat-uw.tar is a very nice tool to get summary information of a tcpdump file. The output includes the number of packets, the average rate and its standard

Re: smtp auth + greylisting

2007-05-22 Thread Chad M Stewart
Since having users change their settings can be problematic in many environments, instead change the MX record. This way you can implement spamd right away and your users will not have to change anything. Though I would suggest moving the users to 587/465 in the future so that they don't

Watchdog card for OpenBSD

2007-05-22 Thread Bill
We've been having a locking up problem with our openbsd based router for a while now. I upgraded to 4.1 about a week ago and so far it has not locked. Later this week we have scheduled some time to take down the router and run some memory / disk tests on it to make sure its not a hardware

duplicate filenames, sftp to mounted CD

2007-05-22 Thread Stuart Henderson
I just noticed this which seemed a little unusual, so thought I'd throw it out here in case anyone's interested in looking at it. I just mounted a CD on my desktop machine to copy some files across to my laptop (in this case OpenBSD 4.1 CD1, but the same happens with other CDs that I tried). I

Re: OpenLDAP question

2007-05-22 Thread Uv Pzaf
I still want to push this little points directly from the OpenLDAP faq: * back-ldbm is /obsolete/ and /should not be used/. *As a historical note, the back-ldbm code is a direct descendant of the original University of Michigan code. The age of the code and its byzantine data structures were

Re: vpn in OBSD 4.1

2007-05-22 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Fri, 11.05.2007 at 08:33:03 -0400, Lars D. Noodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, by connecting MS Windows machines into your VPN you neutralize many of the security benefits that you may have in place. I'd say that depends on your setup. Imho, for many people, using a VPN is meant to

re0: watchdog timeout on landisk

2007-05-22 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi. I know this is not a proper bug report, but I wanted to know if other landisk owners experienced the infamous re0: watchdog timeout? When using the landisk as NFS server, I can't write to it without getting this error which basically cut the network for a minute. I have hundreds of entries

Re: smtp auth + greylisting

2007-05-22 Thread Bob Beck
Trust me - bit the bullet and change to 587/465 anyway. we had to for road warriors because 25 is blocked in so many places anyway from walkups. You're better just getting your users to switch. * Chad M Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-05-22 12:46]: Since having users change

Re: Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-22 Thread Renaud Allard
Darth Lists wrote: Unfortunately, this little MS-behaviour is very likely to be the last straw that gets our greylisting turned off here. Despite my logs that prove that greylisting has removed over 95% of incoming spam before spamassassin has to deal with it, the fact that some legitimate

Re: smtp auth + greylisting

2007-05-22 Thread Stephen Schaff
That's a really good point. However we have about 200 users we'd have to get to switch their mail settings - 99% of don't know what mail settings are of course. Changing ports could prove very painful. I will definitely consider it though, given how painful email is without greylisting.

Re: Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-22 Thread Bob Beck
just deduced from trial and error. Also greylisting should happen at RCPT TO, and probably not at DATA as there are some widely used MTAs that are buggy and choke when a 4xx error is sent in the DATA phase. I've been running this at DATA for months, and not seen any issues with it.

Re: smtp auth + greylisting

2007-05-22 Thread Peter Hessler
Write them step by step instructions, with screenshots for the client they use. Tell them they have 30 days (for example), remind them at 15 and the day before. I've done the above at several work sites (400ish and 50ish), and once management was on board, it was very simple. A tiny bit of

Re: smtp auth + greylisting

2007-05-22 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Stephen Schaff wrote: That's a really good point. However we have about 200 users we'd have to get to switch their mail settings - 99% of don't know what mail settings are of course. Changing ports could prove very painful. I will definitely consider it though, given how painful email is

Re: ssh tunnel device forwarding dies occasionally

2007-05-22 Thread Martin Toft
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:50:05AM +0200, Martin Toft wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 12:02:11PM -0700, Myk Taylor wrote: I used to have this problem as well. It went away when I upgraded the remote endpoint (your AP, in this model) to OpenSSH_4.5p1. Okay. Thanks for the advice :) I'll

Re: smtp auth + greylisting

2007-05-22 Thread Bob Beck
arlo guthrie ... We walked in, sat down, Obie brought up the the help desk page with the twenty seven 800 x 600 colour glossy screenshots with circles and arrows and a paragraph below each one explaining what each one was to be used to show Windows users what to do. Luser came in and

Re: Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-22 Thread Renaud Allard
Bob Beck wrote: just deduced from trial and error. Also greylisting should happen at RCPT TO, and probably not at DATA as there are some widely used MTAs that are buggy and choke when a 4xx error is sent in the DATA phase. I've been running this at DATA for months, and not seen any

Re: Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-22 Thread Bob Beck
I manage about 30 mail servers, all using greylisting for years (not OpenBSD spamd, but a version running in the MTA). But as I greylist at RCPT TO, I only noticed the problem it when clamav did go down and the server was producing a 4xx error at DATA when it should have scanned the mail.

solar power / openbsd handheld

2007-05-22 Thread Austin Hook
We have a need for a low power OpenBSD device or handheld that can connect to a small SCADA device (serial or USB) to collect some temperature and voltage data, plus control one light switch, on a remote solar powered wifi repeater tower. Any suggestions on the lowest powered OpenBSD runnable box

Re: Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-22 Thread Renaud Allard
Bob Beck wrote: I have definately seen issues here with other implemntations, because the 4XX code given, the XX's matter... Have you seen this with OpenBSD spamd? (As opposed to something else..) I have seen this with 451 errors, not on spamd but with the exact same error code as

Re: solar power / openbsd handheld

2007-05-22 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/05/22 15:54, Austin Hook wrote: We have a need for a low power OpenBSD device or handheld that can connect to a small SCADA device (serial or USB) to collect some temperature and voltage data, plus control one light switch, on a remote solar powered wifi repeater tower. Soekris 4501

Re: smtp auth + greylisting

2007-05-22 Thread Peter Hessler
Ah, yes. That refers to normal instructions, usually by corporations that charge you obscene amounts of money to send you gibberish. But it is possible to write instructions that people can follow. And if you get mgmt to agree, you can require people read your instructions. Do this, or your

Re: solar power / openbsd handheld

2007-05-22 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, We have a need for a low power OpenBSD device or handheld that can connect to a small SCADA device (serial or USB) to collect some temperature and voltage data, plus control one light switch, on a remote solar powered wifi repeater tower. Any suggestions on the lowest powered OpenBSD

Re: smtp auth + greylisting

2007-05-22 Thread RW
On Tue, 22 May 2007 16:08:10 -0600, Bob Beck wrote: arlo guthrie ... We walked in, sat down, Obie brought up the the help desk page with 8snip And you can get anything you want at Bob Beck's Restaurant, as long as it's moose! Loved it Bob! You are not just a good coder. Thanks, the

Re: US Export of Cryptography

2007-05-22 Thread Siju George
On 5/19/07, Reiner Jung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the moment the OpenBSD core system is not controlled by the EAR so long you don't download it from a US server. As a private person it is not a problem, but when a company want use OpenBSD and there is US crypto in, the thing will become very

Re: solar power / openbsd handheld

2007-05-22 Thread Jason George
We have a need for a low power OpenBSD device or handheld that can connect to a small SCADA device (serial or USB) to collect some temperature and voltage data, plus control one light switch, on a remote solar powered wifi repeater tower. Soekris 4501 or 4801 would be ideal, they use around

Re: solar power / openbsd handheld

2007-05-22 Thread Timo Schoeler
Thus Austin Hook [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake on Tue, 22 May 2007 15:54:32 -0700 (MST): We have a need for a low power OpenBSD device or handheld that can connect to a small SCADA device (serial or USB) to collect some temperature and voltage data, plus control one light switch, on a remote solar