Re: A detail about pf.conf

2016-10-30 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
On 10/30/16 01:46, Nicolai wrote: > BTW, there are generally better options for handling bruteforce > traffic. What kind of bruteforce traffic are you trying to stop? In the classic case of rapid-fire bruteforcers an adaptive, state tracking based approach such as [1] works quite well. However

Routes to downed interfaces

2016-10-30 Thread Jasper Siepkes
Hi all, I've got a question about how OpenBSD deals with routes and interfaces that are considerd 'down'. I've noticed that when an interface in OpenBSD is down the route to that interface will remain in the routing table and is also not flagged with R(eject). The route stays exactly the same whe

Re: Ripping CDs and DVDs

2016-10-30 Thread Simon Ruderich
On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 05:44:59PM -0500, Vijay Sankar wrote: > Hi, > > In preparation for my retirement in 2050, I am setting up a media server > for all my DVDs and CDs. > > For ripping CD's, I was planning to use abcde as follows: > > abcde -q high -o mp3 Hello, For long term storage you might

Redirect all traffic to new server

2016-10-30 Thread Jeff Ross
Hi all, I'm moving to a new server hosted at m5 and I'm ready to pull the trigger on making the switch. In the past doing this sort of move I've run into dns update delays--even with the ttl on my dns set to 300, there is a lot of e-mail especially that continues to attempt to deliver to the

Re: strict separation base system and third party software

2016-10-30 Thread Kenneth Gober
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Mihai Popescu wrote: > Folks, since we are at it, does anyone knows why 'OpenBSD' is spelled > like that and not 'openbsd' . I was ponder that for a time, because I > know you all hate camelCase notation. In this context, "OpenBSD" is a proper noun, and therefore

Tagging files

2016-10-30 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Hi Misc, I was wondering if anybody has a clever way of tagging files on an OpenBSD machine for quick search and recovery. Traditionally UNIX uses hierarchical file system structure. I am looking of the way to organize some of my folders based on tags. This post reveals really what I want to achi

Re: Redirect all traffic to new server

2016-10-30 Thread Philipp Buehler
Am 30.10.2016 18:28 schrieb Jeff Ross: It seems like I should be able to use pf to redirect all inbound traffic except ssh to the new server. I tried redirecting web traffic as a test with the following rule in pf.conf: #pass all non-ssl web traffic to luna pass in quick proto tcp to port www r