Apparently calomel is full of bad and/or outdated advice for openbsd, especially the sysctl tuning stuff.
Your best advice is to follow the official FAQ's on openbsd.org, and read openbsd man pages to learn your techniques. Maybe there needs to be a calomel faq on openbsd.org. On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 06:55:54AM +0200, Shaka NKofo wrote: > I'm new to Open BSD but no stranger to *nix OSs. My question here is > simple. I have been reading the man pages and documentation and have > installed and setup a 5.1 box on my lan. Now after understanding its > basic inner workings I wish to put it to heavy and good use. > > All I'm asking is that is it advisable to use some of the tutorials > found on https://calomel.org/ as a sort of map to setup basic services > like DNS and pf? > > I'm used to learning tech from scratch and mastering then using it but > my work load is punishing and I would like to clean up DNS on my lan > since the devices are just adding up too fast... > > Please I would appreciate your individual approaches and viewpoints on > this matter. > > Thanks > > Shaka
