Re: Vulnerability Note VU#800113 - Multiple DNS implementations vulnerable to cache poisoning

2008-07-09 Thread David Terrell
is due: djbdns isn't. Without specifics on the issue, I can't tell if OpenBSD's bind is truly vulnerable, but it certainly does use a fixed source port. -- David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((meatspace)) http://meat.net/

Re: Saving memory on small machines

2007-03-22 Thread David Terrell
problems you report to the obsd team will probably be ignored. Just run with generic, unless you find it to be an actual problem. 48M is more than enough for a bsd kernel. -- David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((meatspace)) http://meat.net/

Re: Saving memory on small machines

2007-03-22 Thread David Terrell
for future development. Also, stripping static libs has ZERO impact on your installed system, it only affects things you compile from source on that box. (and, as you mention -- negatively). -- David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((meatspace)) http://meat.net/

Re: Is OpenBSD good/best for my 486?

2007-03-21 Thread David Terrell
freezes, you can try getting to a shell (type ! at any of the install prompts) and run swapctl -a to enable swap. Obviously OpenBSD is the best choice, would you expect any less from people on this list? -- David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((meatspace)) http://meat.net/

Re: note - upgrading from i386 to amd64 sameversion.

2007-03-05 Thread David Terrell
and pilot this stuff without hosing your users. Also a best practice. :) -- David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((meatspace)) http://meat.net/

Re: DST patch for OpenBSD 3.5

2007-03-02 Thread David Terrell
/share/zoneinfo and replacing that directory on your 3.5 box. No warranty expressed or implied. YMMV. HTH. HAND. -- David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((meatspace)) http://meat.net/

Re: OpenBSD AJAX

2006-11-01 Thread David Terrell
as it sounds. -- David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((meatspace)) http://meat.net/

Re: [OT] OpenBSD AJAX

2006-11-01 Thread David Terrell
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 03:24:24PM -0500, Mark Bucciarelli wrote: On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 07:20:05AM -0600, David Terrell wrote: On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 02:43:21PM +1000, Damien Miller wrote: I think you would be nuts to write your web applications in C, unless you are a master

Re: [OT] OpenBSD AJAX

2006-11-01 Thread David Terrell
. That data can come from whatever. C works as well as anything else, especially if you're doing most of your user-specific data manipulation on the client. -- David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((meatspace)) http://meat.net/

Re: [OT] OpenBSD AJAX

2006-11-01 Thread David Terrell
who wrote that was seriously confused and STILL didn't get that Java and JS are completely different animals, or Google is doing something that I can only marvel and awe at. It's real: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ -- David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((meatspace)) http://meat.net/

Re: [OT] OpenBSD AJAX

2006-11-01 Thread David Terrell
. If done well, it's a perfectly fine way to make responsive, useful webapps. -- David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((meatspace)) http://meat.net/

Re: hearing complaints regarding pre-orders

2006-09-21 Thread David Terrell
is making an issue of it now. One can only hope it's because OpenBSD is getting new customers. That's good. :) -- David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((meatspace)) http://meat.net/

Re: Why no compiler on prod system [Was: Re: How to update httpd without a compiller]

2006-08-24 Thread David Terrell
not be able to use exploits against it. Removing the compiler does not hurt any serious attacker. If you really care about defending your machine against idiots who can't figure out how to compile an exploit on another machine, well, congratulations, you're already running OpenBSD. -- David Terrell

Re: compiling problems `-Wstack-larger-than-2047'

2006-08-21 Thread David Terrell
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:47:32PM -0300, Marcos Marconcini wrote: Hi I did an upgrade from 3.8 stable to 3.9 current ( I don't know if this is the problem ) You didn't read the introduction. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html Read it again. -- David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What do you use for MIME email?

2006-07-26 Thread David Terrell
, many with non-BSD licenses (mutt is GPLed, pine is not free at all), and you can't include just one or two and make every one happy? Because traditionally BSD didn't ship with anything more complex? Because Theo uses mail(1) so clearly it's good enough for everyone? Who knows. -- David

Re: using torrents for packages?

2006-05-01 Thread David Terrell
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 03:58:57PM -0400, Wade, Daniel wrote: Buy the CDs, no load on the ftp servers at all. As soon as you figure out how to get 3G of packages for i386 alone onto a CD... -- David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((meatspace)) http://meat.net/

Re: quad de, flakiness with 3.9

2006-04-30 Thread David Terrell
at all unless I put the device in promiscuous mode. -- David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((meatspace)) http://meat.net/

quad de, flakiness with 3.9

2006-04-28 Thread David Terrell
0x80 wd1: no disk label dkcsum: wd1 matches BIOS drive 0x81 dkcsum: wd2 matches BIOS drive 0x82 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 -- David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((meatspace)) http://meat.net/

Re: Assembly Language Programs

2006-04-12 Thread David Terrell
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 05:45:30PM +1000, Ash Williams wrote: what I have is #./name #ksh: Operation not permitted Someone knows what is happenig ? I've not done any ASM on OpenBSD although i have a bit of experience with FreeBSD. Have you looked at the syscalls located in

Re: why is 'passwd' located in /usr/bin instead of /bin?

2006-04-12 Thread David Terrell
Bob! And if you need to make a hash, encrypt(1) is your friend. -- David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((meatspace)) http://meat.net/

Re: Bind or Djbdns

2006-04-10 Thread David Terrell
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 01:51:29PM -0300, Jo?o Salvatti wrote: P.S. My intention is not starting a flamed discussion or even an argument. I just want to know your opinion about this issue. When you ask for opinions, they become heated. Had you done your basic homework and looked up previous

Re: It's not about the money

2006-03-27 Thread David Terrell
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:13:58PM +0200, chefren wrote: On 03/26/06 17:35, frantisek holop wrote: Talking about arrogance: everybody seems to be happy about Theo's style .. the problem mr de Raadt fails to see is, What's his name, Theo or mr de Raadt? Mr. de Raadt if you're

Re: openbsd and the money -solutions

2006-03-24 Thread David Terrell
disclosure: I'm a lapsed CD buyer who right now placed his first CD order in a couple years). -- David Terrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://meat.net/

Re: RedHat and Linux emulation

2006-03-03 Thread David Terrell
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 01:58:27PM +0100, Paul de Weerd wrote: Using another distribution (freely downloadable etc) will make it easier to update the port in case of security issues after Red Hat stopped fixing bugs in their legacy RPM's. Not a very strong point, I agree, but a point

Re: Backup MX server

2006-03-02 Thread David Terrell
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 03:38:09PM +, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: Graham, You seem to have some contradicting views on the matter. What is the difference between greylisting and the aforementioned spamtrapping approach? Isn't it essentially a variation of the very same thing, namely

Re: Backup MX server

2006-03-01 Thread David Terrell
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 07:19:18PM -0500, Chris wrote: Hello. Basic sendmail question. I want to set up a backup mx server to field incoming mail when my primary mail server goes down. I understand how to do this from a DNS standpoint, but what I don't know is what should be in my

Re: Backup MX server

2006-03-01 Thread David Terrell
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 11:16:59PM -0600, Graham Toal wrote: Personally I do believe in Backup MX, as long as it does proper relay checking. It's nice if it also does spam checking, but not critical because your primary MX will still do that. However if you do spam checking *and rejection*

Re: mp3 via printer port

2006-02-28 Thread David Terrell
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:19:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once I was watching photos from OpenBSD hackaton and saw there that people listened mp3's by sending them to the lpt port. How is it possible to do? Can somebody describe it in details. Not via the printer port, but via lpd:

Re: mod_python on obsd Apache

2006-02-26 Thread David Terrell
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 09:53:59AM -0500, David Higgs wrote: I managed to run mod_python several years ago and was pulling my hair out for the better part of a week until I got it working. I never got the dynamic module to work, but was successful in building it into apache statically.

Re: Feb 13 X snapshot

2006-02-15 Thread David Terrell
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:32:59PM -0600, Emilio Perea wrote: Installing the latest (Feb 13) i386 x*tgz on two different computers caused the keyboard to lock up. Mouse continued to work, but I was not able to type anything or switch consoles. The systems involved were a Dell Precision 330

Re: Developing under OpenBSD

2005-05-18 Thread David Terrell
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 04:59:28AM -0700, James Couzens wrote: Mina-san, This might be a better post for an alternative more focused mailing list but I felt this might be the best place to start. I currently develop entirely in a Linux environment using a combination of vi and gdb and a

Re: CVS - Lock File

2005-05-04 Thread David Terrell
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:12:42AM -0600, Tobias Weingartner wrote: On Wednesday, May 4, Alan Finlay wrote: I have done significant work with ClearCase and CVS in a software development team environment, and some minor work with other revision control tools. Team size for ClearCase was