Re: SV: Breakin attempt

http://www.bsdly.net/~peter/hailmary/ and the inital blog post about the phenomenon, http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2008/12/low-intensity-distributed-bruteforce.html - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http

Re: The book of pf...

pier with the second edition. FreeBSD's PF syntax is old-style, but some other relevant network config details changed between 2007 and 2010, and the second edition reflects this. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http:

Re: earlier FBSD distributions...

ub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ or thereabouts has what looks like a fairly complete collection of FreeBSD releases. For older stuff including 386bsd and 4.4BSD-lite there's the archive at ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/BSD/ -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 11

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

d be able to dig up something useful. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[

Re: Auto blacklist ssh connections ...

read your auth log and count, but being sort of a PF guy I found the PF-based solution quite attractive and flexible. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on

Re: pf to block against DDoS?

/pf/>, with the direct link to the part about state tracking and bruteforcers at <http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html>. (and of course there's the book, nudge, nudge) - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.co

Re: Building a FreeBSD based mail server

the opportunity to do greytrapping for added bonus) - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.2

Re: Quick spamd question

The GREY entry may live on for a while, but the existence of a WHITE entry will ensure that the delivery will succeed on the next attempt. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to

Re: top posting (off-topic)

"Brent Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I for one prefer top posting, as usually I have read a particular thread http://www.asciiartfarts.com/20011201.html HTH, HAND -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ ht

Re: Odd PF Denied Message

tially the only sane way to go. See if that doesn't help -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[299

Re: PF & NAT, how to forward GRE?

n't forget to include a matching pass rule. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.1

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

the river etc) so it's really only useful if your own blacklist gets updated and pruned regularly too. - P [1] http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/ (several formats), spamd parts start at http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/spamd.html [2] http://www.freebsddiary.org/pf.php -- Peter N. M

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

d be interested in hearing what the problems were. It's worth noting that spamd from OpenBSD 4.1 onwards differs in several important ways from earlier versions. And also, it's important not to confuse this spamd with the program with the same name out of spamassassin. Cheers, -- Pet

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

e their harvested garbage to trigger their own descent into the spamd tarpit. Details via selected posts in my blog (the blogspot.com ref in the signature). Cheers, -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://ww

Re: How to do Spam Control in FreeBSD

the content filtering up, you may want to look into easing the load a bit by introducing greylisting via PF (packet filter) plugin spamd, which can just as easily run on a separate machine such as your gateway. There are a few in-MTA options too, of course. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, m

Re: How do I prevent unauthorized ssh login attempts?

onnection attempts per time unit and puts the too-chatty ones in a doghouse list of addresses. One way to do it is described at http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http:

Re: advice on anti-spam tools

listing pf/spamd in front of your mail server kills an awful lot of spam. keep spamassassin in there by all means, but after you start greylisting you most likely will see the load on the machine drop considerably. it's fairly easy to implement too. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the firs

Re: Onpening and Closing ports

Dave Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Had a little nasty person trying to break my sshd on port 22. You can head them off rather easily with a short PF rule set, see eg http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html. They can actually be fun to watch :) -- Peter N. M.

Re: Packet rate limiter

in bits per second (or k,M,G multiples of) of percentage of available bandwidth, not number of packets. Your groups of source addresses could be maintained as tables for easy manipulation. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/r

Re: thwarting repeated login attempts

;s problem, see eg the suggestions in my tutorial at http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html (http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/ for the full manuscript in a variety of formats). -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http:

Re: Mystery Spam Piling Up in Mqueue

ion value) try putting that exact string into your favorite search engine. Cheers, -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet

Re: let somebody watch my actions over the network

ned so you can see where things went wrong if they do. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forward

Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

his can be easily done with the other firewalls FreeBSD has on tap) with 'overload' rules, ie http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.n

Re: sshd break-in attempt

ard with an overload rule, see eg http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html Cheers, -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet B

Re: Spam prevention

look into running some sort of greylisting (possibly supplemented with a tarpit for known bad senders). The greylisting/tarpitting part is really easy to do with PF, see eg http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/spamd.html (part of my packet filtering for fun and profit tutorial) -- Peter N. M. Hanstee

Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

which to uses the overload feature, see eg http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html (part of my EuroBSDCon and other places tutorial). See http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/ for a choice of formats and languages. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://

Re: Making a PF Rule that i can process with a graphing application

David Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > process with zabbix agent. The problem is, i dont use ipfw, but pf, > and i dont know how a rule like that could look like using pf. Maybe pfstat (/usr/ports/sysutils/pfstat) is worth looking into? -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of t

Re: Wlan Firewall / Reefedge Dolphin equivalent

"Ian Lord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's an all in one solution that authorize wlan lan users before allowing > them access. It also filter traffic based on their username. you could roll your own without too much trouble using pf and authpf. -- Peter N. M. Ha

Re: pfspamd greylisting stuttering at everything

t; > pfspamd_flags="-v -G7:4:864 -r451" Not related to the main problem, but I think you could probably get away with a 2 or even 1 minute passtime without ill effects. > All of spamd could use some documentation, but that'll happen. ;-) Well, fwiw it's one of the things I w

Re: pfspamd greylisting stuttering at everything

page could do with a bit more text. PS My favorite quote about spamd and greylisting at the moment is this recent message to openbsd-misc: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=116136841831550&w=2 -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http:

Re: Limit p2p with pf n altq

ass from $iptostarve to any port $allowedports keep state queue notalot - you get the idea. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet

Re: ipfw and temporary port access

you to decide which OpenSSH supported authentication methods you require before loading the rules which actually let traffic through. Cheers, -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ &qu

Re: sshd brute force attempts?

(max-src-conn 100, max-src-conn-rate 15/5, \ overload flush global) for more detailed discussion see eg http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.

Re: ipfw and temporary port access

1-RELEASE&format=html -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales" 20:11:56 delilah spamd[26

Re: pf firewall for a server

lishment on this (untested, may contain nuts) is possible, and you could probably do worse than spend a few moments browsing the PF docs or for that matter my rather basic PF tutorial at http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/ to familiarize yourself with the system. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, membe

Re: PF spamd : trouble with homemade blacklist

" entry. That could be the source of your problem. See if it makes a difference. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, &

Re: pf: changing tables with rules

bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales" 20

Re: Domain Name

JP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When running the command: > host -t mx > > It returns: > domaint.tld.domain.tld You forgot the trailing dot. Your zone file probably has something like domain.tld.IN MX mail.domain.tld which should be domain.tld.IN MX mail.dom

Re: pf problem with table

e table entries limits, ie set limit table-entries 15 in your pf.conf would set the upper limit for number of entries in a table to 150000. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ &quo

Re: repeated ssh login attempts/failure/break-in attempts from kiddy script

html If you go down this route, you might want to use expiretable (/usr/ports/security/expiretable) to trim the contents of the table after a while (I tend to use 24 hours expiry). -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http:/

Re: Download

is list should be able to provide pointers. I suppose even people not in your area should be able to burn you an install CD and mail it to you if that is what you need to get started. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ ht

Re: fine grained firewall?

andrew clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to configure the FreeBSD firewall to block ports on a > per-user or per-executable basis? If your firewall is PF, you can use authpf(8) to configure per user rule sets. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the fi

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

old table entries, you might want to look at the expiretable utility (http://expiretable.fnord.se/). -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" T

Re: dlink wireless adapter

Imran Imtiaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > how can i make my dlink DWL-G122 wireless usb adapter work with freebsd? IIRC it's supported by the ural driver. With that knowledge and the wireless networking chapter in the Handbook, you should be fine. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, membe

Re: ral(4) not working on 6.0

couple of seconds of blinkenlights 'ifconfig ath0' showa "status: associated", and finally # dhclient ath0 should get you an IP address, again assuming a DHCP server is within reach. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http:/

Re: For administrators setting-up pf

t up a transparent squid at http://www.benzedrine.cx/transquid.html -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The U

Re: PF default to deny

ut here at least is one that does - http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/ -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet

Re: Illegal access attempt - FreeBSD 5.4 Release - please advise

to set up with max-src-conn, max-src-conn-rate overload in your pass rule. See pf.conf(5) for details. There's probably some magic around to make this doable with other firewalls as well. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linu

Re: Big delay between login as: and Password:

ite what it should be. Delays like these are common when either your reverse lookup isn't correct or the name servers your domain/IP range are unavailable or slow in answering. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ h

Re: where is 5.4 miniinst.iso file

n sent out as far as I can see), so you should not be surprised that one or more iso files have not appeared where you expect them yet. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "F

Re: HELP ME WITH PF! (5th plea)

27; perceived needs. That's where little bits of ftp through NAT and/or firewalls magic comes in very handy. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spamm

Re: HELP ME WITH PF! (5th plea)

ftp-proxy work if i want to disable inetd, and > switch ftpd with pure-ftpd? You could try running ftpsesame or pftpx instead. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, w

Re: PF problem!!!

rom the firewall on the external interface, but none which let traffic in on the internal interface. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers&quo

Re: PF: Blocks my workstation on boot

om $int_if:network to any port $allowedports keep state or even pass from $int_if:network to any port $allowedports keep state (if you can do without the extra per interface housekeeping) would make things a bit easier. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux

very topic there. That URL also takes you within clicking distance of a good number of useful BSD sites. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers

Re: .iso

omes in two flavors in 4.11 - kde and gnome respectively - and I think tihs will also be the case for 5.n releases from 5.4 onwards). disc2 is traditionally the live filesystem, while miniinst is for a minimal install. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http:

Re: Problem with PF

or message looks like the network interface has not been properly configured. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers&qu

Re: Problem with PF

Then again, this is guesswork based on very little information. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers

Re: mot de passe root

away from command line options and scripting/programming language keywords (yes, I have more than 15 years' experience in the localization industry, I've seen quite a bit of such foolishness) and the software is sanely written, messages are fairly straightforward and risk-free to translate. .

Re: mot de passe root

e talking about Windows. Yes, there's been a lot of localization related trouble there. But then we're relatively safe from the secret brainfarts of Microsoft developers here. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ ht

Re: mot de passe root

that day) KDE desktop myself. An ordinary user would get along fine on a typical desktop system in their local language, IME. On the other hand your friendly sysadmin would likely be at a great disadvantage with little or no English. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementat

Re: OpenBSD's pf and traffic

rather longer than I appreciate.) -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales" _

Re: OpenBSD's pf and traffic

ng out - pf@benzedrine.cx - and see if there's an angle we haven't thought of. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all

Re: OpenBSD's pf and traffic

he counters would keep track of all traffic for a connection, so traffic initiated from the inside would match the pass out rule's counters, while connections opened from the outside would count on the pass in rules. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementati

Re: OpenBSD's pf and traffic

client2-out keep state pass from any to $client2 $client2_inports label client2-in keep state and so on. Hope this helps. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "F

Re: Installing FreeBSD on Windows/Linux Shared Enviroment

aving the Windows installer wipe out stuff it does not understand. There are several howtos out there within search engine reach which will be helpful. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ &q

Re: OpenBSD's pf and traffic

tching rule wins (with state instead of sate it would work), so each packet increments the relevant counters only once. > Perhaps you know where I can find workable example of this? Randal Schwartz has a nice article called "Monitoring Net Traffic with OpenBSD's Packet Filter"

Re: OpenBSD's pf and traffic

options (eg pfctl -s info) give you counters of bytes and packets passed or blocked. If you use labels in your pass rules, you'll get per label counters as well. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ htt

sym driver broken in 5.3?

64 at all, for example). The question is, what's the next reasonable debugging step here? (and I know you're dying to ask - we do rsync to an off-site location twice a day) - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.n

Re: IPFW or pf?

gnett.no/~peter/pf/no/ if you prefer the Norwegian version) -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers"

Re: IPFW or pf?

f you want to run pf, leave alone otherwise. Removing all traces of pf would likely take a bit of effort. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers

Re: [repost] ip.forwarding with pf

et.ip.forwarding sysctl. By convention, you would normally use rc.conf settings, ie gateway_enable="YES" #for ipv4 ipv6_gateway_enable="YES" #for ipv6 to enable gatewaying. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ ht

Re: pf issues with anchor

id pf rules? Does including the anchor in the main pf.conf file produce different results? -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" T

Re: Why in the world you should have a vote: was RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchas NetBSD!!!

oint. > All it takes is one copyright holder who withdraws a license and an > entire package can become unusable. i assume you have been told about the 'published under a license' phenomenon. To me it sounds like you need to read up on a few things. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of

Re: Why in the world you should have a vote: was RE: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo suchas NetBSD!!!

Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why are people asserting their own copyrights in the code? Because they wrote the software in question, perhaps? -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.d

Re: ipfilter2ipchains script?

. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, "Twice-forwarded tales" _

Re: I can't boot from the CD...

What do I need to do? What messages, if any, do you get? The help you get here generally improves with the precision in reporting such things as error messages. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http

Re: Book Recomendations

7;Reilly title now, available direct or via good book stores (online or otherwise). -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the s

Re: OT: Funny disclaimers (Was: Re: ssh root@localhost)

idence that MSexchange (IIRC) litters messages with X-ThreadIndex and X-ThreadSubject headers, apparently attempting to reinvent References: and other usenet features. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://

Re: DNS

rld. Check that any firewalling of port 53 udp *and* tcp is turned off while you're at it. These are at least some of the more common errors. Good luck with the debugging! -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://ww

Re: Banning ips for some time?

requiring pf), is available at http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20041231195454 Then again, at least in some cases, the people listed in the whois info for the offending IP appreciate a politely worded notification. Quite likely they do not want this kind of activity either. -- Peter N.

Re: Partition Size

uide is experience from your typical use, or for that matter, from people who run rougly the same things you do. If you need a different configuration for what you want to do, symptoms will show up soon enough. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.l

Re: Uptime?

emons, chickens and a few other items I could tell you about if %#^ NO CARRIER -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The

Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?

ike they haven't gotten around to making FreeBSD 1.1.4 packages yet. Then again, I'm not sure what got fixed between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ &quo

Re: Native 5.3 port of OpenOffice?

ts of people having trouble getting past the java tools install which is needed to build the port. Unless that challence is interesting in itself, it's probably more convenient to download and install a binary package from somewhere in the general direction of http://download.openoffice.org/1.

Re: Help on Compaq Laptop Presario 3000 AMD Athlon 64 -Nvida-gforce3 chipset

x27;s that or not getting the machine to boot at all, well, there it is. I'd venture a guess that whichever software came with the machine originally is not quite 64 bit clean either. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rf

Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent

ecent POP3 and IMAP server? There are several good ones in ports. imap-uw is very easy to set up. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all th

Re: Need help *fast*

to adopt new, incompatible hardware", we never saw problematic media failure rates back then. The awful media quality started after CDs became the default software distribution medium. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1

Re: NDIS and Dell (Broadcom) WLAN 1450 Dual Band card

iver installer at least keeps copies of the .sys and the .inf file in a directory together. After installation in a Microsoft file system that may of course no longer be the case. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www

Re: What version

ming up, unless this is the kind of challenge you were longing for in the first place, I don't think it's worth the effort. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First,

Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

een too quickly. The port also supplies nice and straightforward instructions to add spam and virus filtering to the delivery process. Nice for those of us serving Microsoft desktops. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.dat

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

point, where you can say "I made this, and I'd like to contribute it to the project", not a lot is going to happen. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

ed to do manually was the one-line ZAxisMapping magic to make the touchpad's scroll strip (similar to mouse wheel) work. Then again that was cut&pasteable from somewhere else. Everything else pretty much just automagically worked. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC

Re: none

st, make sure sure that you've backed up any important data, then use whichever tools come with the operating system you want to set up install that system and configure it. The exact steps depend on which operating system you want to run instead of FreeBSD. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member o

correct permissions for firefox extensions files?

utput is from when the program runs). Anybody else seen something like this? -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Use

Re: Windows-based RFC868 Time

com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2003-11/1534.html which seems to do what you ask. Also, ntpd(8) might be of interest. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spa

Re: 5.3: cant install openoffice 1.1 from ports

version which looks to be quite functional so far). There's a bit more info available at http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/ too. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "F

Re: SGML, experienced advice wanted ;)

-primer/index.html (both contain quite a number of useful references). -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet

Re: 4.2 -> 5.2 passwd format change?

Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've moved password entries from 4.x to 5.x with no problem. > > Did you remember to rebuild the database? er, it seems that was the problem, exactly. Thanks! -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 impl

4.2 -> 5.2 passwd format change?

00928: There was a change in the passwd format. Need more information. Any pointers appreciated. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ "First, we kill all the spammers" The Usenet Bard, &

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