Re: BIND update?

2008-07-09 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Tim Clewlow wrote: Assuming this is NOT a gateway, ie a single homed DNS. nat on $ext_if proto udp from any to any port 53 -> ($ext_if) That's the rule that works for me. You don't need to worry about tcp because tcp is protected by its 32 bit initial sequence number.

Re: BIND update?

2008-07-09 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Tim Clewlow wrote: Can you make a pf rule that NATs all outgoing udp queries from BIND with random source ports? That seems like it would have exactly the same effect as BIND randomizing the source ports itself. Assuming this is NOT a gateway, ie a single homed DNS. Thi

Re: BIND update?

2008-07-09 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 06:54 AM 7/9/2008, Oliver Fromme wrote: Andrew Storms wrote: > http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind-security.php I'm just wondering ... ISC's patches cause source ports to be randomized, thus making it more difficult to spoof response packets.

Re: ProPolice/SSP in 7.0

2008-01-04 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Gunther Mayer wrote: 2. Convince Kris Kennaway to run his mysql benchmarks on a FreeBSD 8 system both with and without SSP to verify that there is no significant slowdown. Hmm, I guess Kris is not subscribed to -security? Maybe I'll have to post in -questions then... Ju

Re: ProPolice/SSP in 7.0

2007-12-31 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: Either I'm doing something wrong, or we have gcc misconfigured and it's not detecting that strcpy is a function which needs to be watched closedly. Actually, you did nothing wrong. Except maybe not wasting time to look at GCC info page ;). % `-fs

Re: ProPolice/SSP in 7.0

2007-12-28 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Gunther Mayer wrote: Btw, I second the motion of having SSP enabled by default in FreeBSD, other OS's have been doing this for years at a negligible performance overhead. Gunther It's too late to make that sort of change for FreeBSD 7.0, but I think that's a good goal

Re: Should I use gbde or geli?

2006-03-13 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote: If some burglar were to steal the computer it most likely would be cut off from power. If I knew that the computer had sensitive information that would be lost to me if the computer got powered off, I would ensure that the computer didn't lose power wh

Re: Non-executable stack

2005-10-29 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, db wrote: On Thursday 27 October 2005 06:35, you wrote: I don't think it will ever be in FreeBSD, but I used ProPolice in the past: I really hope it will. AFAIK OpenBSD implemented this in late 2002 when 3.2 was released. I can see why FreeBSD doesn't want software prote

Re: Information disclosure?

2005-04-21 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Jesper Wallin wrote: Hello, For some reason, I thought little about the "clear" command today.. Let's say a privileged user (root) logs on, edit a sensitive file (e.g, a file containing a password, running vipw, etc) .. then runs clear and logout. Then anyone can press the s

Re: Strange messages in dmesg after DDoS-attack.

2005-04-04 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Jesper Wallin wrote: Hi Mike, First of all, thanks for your reply.. Nope, as far as I can see, I only got 6 of those lines and nothing more. I have a fxp0 in my other server, would you recommend me to switch the NICs since the server using the xl0 got higher priority than the fx

Re: Strange messages in dmesg after DDoS-attack.

2005-04-04 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Jesper Wallin wrote: Dear list, A few days ago one of my machines were attacked by a DDoS-attack using UDP on random ports.. When I later on analyzed the logs, I found this in my dmesg: xl0: initialization of the rx ring failed (55) xl0: initialization of the rx ring failed (55)