Re: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall...

2012-06-10 Thread Chris Smith
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Lars Hansson romaby...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm..I get  This post could not be found. Apparently the original post has been deleted by its author. His prerogative, but I think it's in bad taste to create such history gaps.

Re: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall...

2012-06-10 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 09:44, Chris Smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Lars Hansson romaby...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm..I get This post could not be found. Apparently the original post has been deleted by its author. His prerogative, but I think it's in bad taste to create such

Re: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall...

2012-06-10 Thread James Shupe
On 06/10/2012 12:58 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: some nitwit hijacked the comment thread. I couldn't resist feeding the troll. This thread can die now, too. -- James Shupe [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

Re: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall...

2012-06-10 Thread Chris Smith
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote: The original post had nothing to do with OpenBSD, some nitwit hijacked the comment thread.  I don't think the author has any obligation to play host to a battleground. The original post was about IPv6, someone commented

Re: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall...

2012-06-10 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 02:14:08PM -0400, Chris Smith wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote: The original post had nothing to do with OpenBSD, some nitwit hijacked the comment thread.  I don't think the author has any obligation to play host to a

Re: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall...

2012-06-10 Thread Franco Fichtner
On Jun 10, 2012, at 9:05 PM, Marc Espie wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 02:14:08PM -0400, Chris Smith wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote: The original post had nothing to do with OpenBSD, some nitwit hijacked the comment thread. I don't think the

Re: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall...

2012-06-09 Thread Lars Hansson
Hmm..I get This post could not be found. Cheers, Lars On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Chris Smith obsd_m...@chrissmith.org wrote: ... if you really want a firewall you need pfSense. Also if you walk into any security experts convention and claim that raw OpenBSD is a firewall, you will

Re: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall...

2012-06-09 Thread James Shupe
On 06/09/2012 10:52 PM, Lars Hansson wrote: Hmm..I get This post could not be found. Cheers, Lars On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Chris Smith obsd_m...@chrissmith.org wrote: ... if you really want a firewall you need pfSense. Also if you walk into any security experts convention and

OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall...

2012-06-08 Thread Chris Smith
... if you really want a firewall you need pfSense. Also if you walk into any security experts convention and claim that raw OpenBSD is a firewall, you will get laughed out of the room for lack of clue. Guess I've been wrong all these years: see the comments to

Re: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall...

2012-06-08 Thread James Shupe
On 06/08/2012 12:55 PM, Chris Smith wrote: ... if you really want a firewall you need pfSense. Also if you walk into any security experts convention and claim that raw OpenBSD is a firewall, you will get laughed out of the room for lack of clue. Guess I've been wrong all these years: see

Re: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall...

2012-06-08 Thread Michel Blais
Lmfao Le 8 juin 2012 14:01, Chris Smith obsd_m...@chrissmith.org a écrit : ... if you really want a firewall you need pfSense. Also if you walk into any security experts convention and claim that raw OpenBSD is a firewall, you will get laughed out of the room for lack of clue. Guess I've

Re: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall...

2012-06-08 Thread Brian Hechinger
On 6/8/2012 1:55 PM, Chris Smith wrote: ... if you really want a firewall you need pfSense. Also if you walk into any security experts convention and claim that raw OpenBSD is a firewall, you will get laughed out of the room for lack of clue. Guess I've been wrong all these years: see the

Re: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall...

2012-06-08 Thread Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez
Uuuseems the guy (Keith whatever) has some issues in his brain right now. Hahahahahahaha!! I challenge you to go onto forums.pfsense.org and tell them that. There are plenty of security professionals there who are clearly more experienced than you who will put you straight!

Re: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall...

2012-06-08 Thread Kurt Mosiejczuk
Brian Hechinger wrote: On 6/8/2012 1:55 PM, Chris Smith wrote: ... if you really want a firewall you need pfSense. Also if you walk into any security experts convention and claim that raw OpenBSD is a firewall, you will get laughed out of the room for lack of clue. Guess I've been wrong

Re: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall...

2012-06-08 Thread Chris Eidem
Wow. Just, wow. Nice pineapple, dude... -Original Message- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Chris Smith Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 12:56 PM To: OpenBSD-Misc Subject: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall... ... if you really want a

Re: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall...

2012-06-08 Thread Chris Eidem
From the g+ spew: I grew up and got a life! You boys need a good beating with the clue stick: Hacking configuration files directly does not give you better security. Hacking configuration files directly does not make you better at security. And the converse is true: Using a GUI to make

Re: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall...

2012-06-08 Thread carlos albino garcia grijalba
totally agree From: cei...@primealliancesolutions.com To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall... Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 19:48:45 + From the g+ spew: I grew up and got a life! You boys need a good beating with the clue stick: Hacking configuration

Re: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall...

2012-06-08 Thread Chris Cappuccio
This is all making me very worried about Brad's MailScanner and whether or not it actually caught any viruses that might infect my mutt mail client. I wasn't aware that a firewall needed configuration files or GUI. What is my firewall doing? I don't know. How can claims of pure ignorance,