Re: Assalamo Alaikum

2006-03-24 Thread Szechuan Death
Haleema Hamza wrote: > Bismillahir Rahmaanir Raheem, > Assalamo Alaikum, Hey, maybe this guy can help the project get some donations. >;-> "DEAR MY DEAREST FRIEND: I am MARY DE RAADT, wife of deceased Canadian software developer Theo de Raadt, in need of your Christian assistance. I have a lar

Re: Portmap non-local set / unset attempt

2005-09-23 Thread Szechuan Death
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Security is everything you've ever said, plus a process. If it is secure, it doesn't need a process. So why would security be a process again? Because of the vendors making "mistakes" and fix it later? Jimmy Scott It is a "process" in the same way that "making toast

PostgreSQL/other DBs and OpenBSD?

2005-09-25 Thread Szechuan Death
Question: Is there any really outstanding reason why a suitably- licensed database or fork thereof, e.g. PostgreSQL, couldn't be fully integrated into the OpenBSD distribution? Alternately, is there any reason why a small-scale SQLish database couldn't be implemented for OpenBSD? (Ex: "Theo th

Re: Which SATA controller to purchase

2005-09-26 Thread Szechuan Death
Theo de Raadt wrote: Don't the OpenBSD developers already work hard enough, that now we are supposed to do even more boring business oriented things for you all? Every release, more people download OpenBSD and fewer people buy OpenBSD. But the solution is not to make OpenBSD developers "web bus

Re: Which SATA controller to purchase

2005-09-26 Thread Szechuan Death
Theo de Raadt wrote: Wow, free advice as to how I can spend my time. Aren't you kind? Want some advice from me? Yes, I _am_ full of grandmotherly kindness, as well as invariably excellent advice. It is well that you realize this. In this instance, that advice was "Do not spurn good ideas",

Re: PostgreSQL/other DBs and OpenBSD?

2005-09-26 Thread Szechuan Death
David Hill wrote: If you want PostgreSQL, install it from the ports tree. What is wrong with dump/restore and using tar for a backup solution? Thank you, I am well aware of the fact that it can be installed from the ports tree. Going back and _reading_ the original post, we find that _that

Re: PostgreSQL/other DBs and OpenBSD?

2005-09-26 Thread Szechuan Death
Chris Kuethe wrote: I was just about to say "SQLite". From their web page: "Sources are in the public domain. Use for any purpose." see http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html SQLite might be easier, indeed. I don't think the actual requirement is for any particular server, although I note that

Re: Which SATA controller to purchase

2005-09-28 Thread Szechuan Death
Jason Dixon wrote: Why do these wackos come out of the woodwork every 6 months to "help" the project? I never said I was here to "help". I wasn't even the one who had this idea, recall. However, I do not think that the idea advanced - by one Will H. Backman, remember? - of having something i

The OpenBSD MetaStore: LSI Logic SATA/SCSI/RAID controllers

2005-09-28 Thread Szechuan Death
According to the manpages, MegaRAID controllers are "supported" using the ami(4) driver. However, I have heard some things to the contrary. Therefore, I am uncertain and will ask the question: ATTENTION ALL OPENBSD USERS! If you POSSESS or HAVE PERSONALLY WITNESSED any of the following cards FU

OpenBSD MetaStore

2005-10-01 Thread Szechuan Death
The MetaStore is at this point essentially complete, save for content. There are links on the page to assist in populating it. There are about 20 pieces of hardware featured on this: IT NEEDS MORE. I have received several bits and pieces of information, but to make this more useful, I need even

Re: Migration to PF - some questions

2005-10-03 Thread Szechuan Death
jared r r spiegel wrote: i'd VERY much like to see someone put up a short little www-type ( or whatever ) illustration of how they were really experiencing a service-affecting performance degredation which was solved by the use of 'quick' in their ruleset. For what it's worth, I've ne

OpenBSD MetaStore: Wireless cards

2005-10-03 Thread Szechuan Death
OpenBSD users: In light of the recent post about ath(4) D-Link cards of particular revision numbers not functioning properly, anyone who has the following cards and can verify their functionality under some version of OpenBSD, please inform me of that fact: D-Link DWL-G520 D-Link DWL-G650 Senao

OpenBSD Metastore: update

2005-10-08 Thread Szechuan Death
The MetaStore has been updated - comments are now enabled, you can post comments under each item listed. Drivers for hardware are also listed. Some other categories have been added, and some other stuff has changed in the background. Also, some new items have been added. The more hardware that

OpenBSD Metastore: New kit, thanks

2005-10-13 Thread Szechuan Death
New stuff has been added. Thanks to those who provided me information on the Plextor PX-716A, the RouterBoard rb44, the Zonet ZEW2500p, and the SysKonnect SK-98xx series. A problem with Internet Explorer (naw, really?) that was reported to me as preventing comments from being added has been fixe

Re: OpenBSD Metastore: New kit, thanks

2005-10-13 Thread Szechuan Death
matt valdes wrote: $ telnet www.sdeath.net 80 Trying 64.4.231.19... Connected to www.sdeath.net. Escape character is '^]'. Try a traceroute or tcptraceroute Nah, he's probably bouncing off my router. While I don't think he's running afoul of my OpenBSD pf-friendly auto-retrieval and aggregat

Re: OpenBSD Metastore: New kit, thanks

2005-10-13 Thread Szechuan Death
Lars Hansson wrote: Our ip addresses are assigned from TWNIC, even though we're not actually in Taiwan, so that's probably why. The CIDR blocks in question is 203.65.244.0/22 and 203.65.248.0/22. # cb findip 203.65.244.1 203.65.248.1 Netblock 203.64.0.0/14 is in country TW (TAIWAN) Netblock 20

Re: OpenBSD Metastore: New kit, thanks

2005-10-14 Thread Szechuan Death
Martin Schrvder wrote: On 2005-10-13 07:15:26 -0800, Szechuan Death wrote: there's nothing I care about in Taiwan enough to do so. Alternately, Then stop buying anything manufactured in Taiwan (or China). HTH. HAND. Martin I'm sorry - by what theory do you claim that I have

Re: OpenBSD Metastore: New kit, thanks

2005-10-14 Thread Szechuan Death
frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 07:15:26AM -0800, Szechuan Death said that Yup, looks like. Sorry, Charlie. Take a flight to Taipei and snuff a spammer or scriptkiddie, if everybody does that TW can be put back on the "Civilized Net Nation" list. Argumen

[Fwd: Re: Theo, I am truely sorry. You misunderstood me.]

2005-10-20 Thread Szechuan Death
Rico wrote: If you need anything - write the stuff yourself, if you can't then just ask nicely, otherwise buy hardware that is supported or run something that works on your hardware - it's your choise! [...] Many of us experience the same as you! I too have experienced hardware that isn't sup

Re: [Fwd: Re: Theo, I am truely sorry. You misunderstood me.]

2005-10-21 Thread Szechuan Death
Daniel A. Ramaley wrote: I submitted the Adaptec 1205 SA to your list. I put it in my OpenBSD 3.7 machine and it just worked. The drive plugged into the 1205 is wd1. I believe these are the relevant dmesg lines: pciide1 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "CMD Technology SiI3112 SATA" rev 0x02: DMA

Re: [Fwd: Re: Theo, I am truely sorry. You misunderstood me.]

2005-10-21 Thread Szechuan Death
frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:01:18PM -0800, Szechuan Death said that This has been a public service announcement, paid for by the "Friends of Civilized Vendors" economic-action committee. The FCV reminds you; FCV also stands for "Fuck Closed Vendors!&qu

OpenBSD MetaStore: Distributed hosting?

2005-10-21 Thread Szechuan Death
Okay, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Having heard the whining about my apparently unpopular policy WRT netblocks in certain filthy, spammer-ridden Third World shitholes that should be nuked from orbit to protect the Internet from their miserable spams, SSH scans, and generally bogus traffic, and after searchi

Re: OpenBSD MetaStore: Distributed hosting?

2005-10-21 Thread Szechuan Death
Gordon Grieder wrote: Why block access to your website in an attempt to block spam? Spam harvesters? If so it's pointless, these lists are archived all over the net, your address is already out there. No, I just block netblocks because I don't care about any traffic from those countries, whose

Re: OpenBSD MetaStore: Distributed hosting?

2005-10-21 Thread Szechuan Death
Jason Dixon wrote: I have no intention of starting a flamewar with you, so please take this as constructive criticism, not a throwing down of the gauntlet, as it were. Tragically, it is not constructive, and yes, it is very much a request for a flamewar. It contains nothing of value; it can

Re: OpenBSD MetaStore: Distributed hosting?

2005-10-21 Thread Szechuan Death
Jason Dixon wrote: Good luck with that MetaStore thing. I'm sure it's going to be a huge success. Thank you, although the goal is not that it be a "success" for me, but rather that it will provide useful information to OpenBSD users and assistance to the OpenBSD development team in negotia

Re: hide NAT with OpenBSD

2005-10-30 Thread Szechuan Death
Okay, misc: As near as I can tell (been talking with Alexey offlist), one of the things he wants is to get an OpenBSD router to not decrement the TTL for packets that it is forwarding. That behavior seems to me to be against RFCs, but I'll ask on the off chance that it's there: is there an option

Re: hide NAT with OpenBSD

2005-10-30 Thread Szechuan Death
Szechuan Death wrote: > Okay, misc: As near as I can tell (been talking with Alexey offlist), Okay, misc, I'm a dumbass. My Russian is really remarkably rusty. Alexey wants to prevent some benighted ISP from counting hosts behind a NAT device; the problem is that they're wise to

Re: Hardware+OpenBSD wiki

2006-01-24 Thread Szechuan Death
Darrin Chandler wrote: Travers Buda wrote: In light of all the recent activity on misc about "will OpenBSD run on X?" perhaps someone would like to host a wiki for strange/new hardware? Travers Are you volunteering? It wasn't long ago that the "OpenBSD Metastore" got going, amid some con

Re: Wireless Ethernet cards ?

2006-02-13 Thread Szechuan Death
Chris Zakelj wrote: I am currently using a Belkin F5D7000, version 3001, as a wifi host in my firewall. dmesg snippet: ral0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "Ralink RT2560" rev 0x01: irq 12, address 00:11:50:14:f6:a0 ral0: MAC/BBP RT2560 (rev 0x04), RF RT2525 and from ifconfig: ral0: flags=8943 mtu 1

Re: auto-adding bad hosts to a table

2006-02-23 Thread Szechuan Death
Daniel Ouellet wrote: > Ray Lai wrote: >> I thought you meant you could do something like: >> >> block in log-table to port 25 >> >> where is updated automatically. > > If you read on the PF and look at what I send you, you will see that > IS updated automatically. > > That's what the line

Re: auto-adding bad hosts to a table

2006-02-23 Thread Szechuan Death
Chris Smith wrote: > But with max-src-conn-rate aren't you actually allowing connections? The > first I want to do is block connections, not allow them. Will use of > max-src-conn-rate work with a block? With attempted connections that > never get allowed? A "block" rule will just block all co