Re: [swinog] Whats the Reason why Access Provider not Close the rpc in/out of his Customers ?

2004-01-20 Thread netbsd
Hey all this m$ noise come to the ears of a BSD evangelist and I can't resist : I would say that the main problem (that also encounters slightly free OSes) is to help in user education. And m$ is the worst example. Vulnerable by default, not clear how to secure it, buggy patches, full trust to

Re: [swinog] CW bankrupt?

2003-09-23 Thread netbsd
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:55:37PM +0200, Fredy Kuenzler wrote: http://www.dotcomtod.de/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=11180 After renaming of CW Germany the new company died a sudden death. Is CW Switzerland also affected? I always thought CW is serving several ISP's with transit.

[swinog] verisgin illness

2003-09-17 Thread netbsd
hi, here is a quick and dirty hack for bind8 written by an anger guy (as we all are against verisgin) http://achurch.org/bind-verisign-patch.html here for dnscache http://tinydns.org/djbdns-1.05-ignoreip.patch of course, this has already been slashdot'ed. here is another url:

[swinog] [Mark_Andrews@isc.org: BIND 9.2.2-P1 is now available.]

2003-09-17 Thread netbsd
BIND 9.2.2-P1 is now available. In response to high demand from our users, ISC is releasing a patch for BIND to support the declaration of delegation-only zones in caching/recursive name servers. Briefly, a zone which has been declared delegation-only will be effectively limited

[swinog] FYI [from nanog] use of DNS wildcards in TLD

2003-09-16 Thread netbsd
[...] Today VeriSign is adding a wildcard A record to the .com and .net zones. The wildcard record in the .net zone was activated from 10:45AM EDT to 13:30PM EDT. The wildcard record in the .com zone is being added now. We have prepared a white paper describing VeriSign's wildcard

Re: [swinog] qmail dns fix for Versign Breakage

2003-09-16 Thread netbsd
I agree, I would say that we have to react first to avoid any beahviour that can pollute the Net anymore. I will also think about some patches this week end. then we can maybe find a more political solution. however the consequences of the versigin behaviour won't be politically discussed before

Re: [swinog] SUCON '03 - Swiss Unix Conference 2003

2003-08-20 Thread netbsd
yep. i'll be there :-) On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 03:42:27PM +0200, Ihsan Dogan wrote: SUCON '03 - Swiss Unix Conference 2003 The Swiss Unix Conference is taking place for the first time. It is about education intended for open-minded individuals interested in the Unix environment. Friday

Re: [swinog] Job @ Init Seven

2003-07-12 Thread netbsd
Argh :-) home-office isn't popular enough. On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 12:23:30PM +0200, Fredy Kuenzler wrote: Sorry guys, German is a requirement ... Junior-Systemadministrator (Frau/Mann), 100% Pensum per 1. Oktober 2003, allenfalls 1. September 2003 http://www.init7.net/jobs.php

[swinog] ntp authentication

2003-04-05 Thread netbsd
hi, i would like to know if there are entities here which use NTP architecture with authentication? either simple shared key, autokey, or rsa/dsa scheme? if not, is there a plan for it? thank you very much. julien mabillard

Re: [swinog] time stands still.

2003-02-15 Thread netbsd
FreeBSD is a very good choice as you can then play with timecounters :-) On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:50:40AM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote: Felix Rauch wrote: While time.ethz.ch is reachble with ping, it's still not what you want as a replacement for swisstime: ... This means that