Re: Libressl verify failure with 3.9.0

2024-04-08 Thread Bob Beck
> On Apr 8, 2024, at 5:44 AM, Theo Buehler wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 04:57:24PM -0500, Ted Wynnychenko wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I recently updated to -current (about a week ago). >> >> I see that Libressl is at 3.9.1 just now, but I hope that won't be an issue >> (I did not see anyth

Re: ssl/libssl certificate validation broken?

2020-10-20 Thread Bob Beck
On 20 Oct 21:01, Uwe Werler wrote: > Hi folks, > > before opening a bug report I'll ask here because I want to make sure that I > have not missed something. You should probably submit a real bug report instead of jumping to conclusions on misc@ > > With the upgrade to 6.8 my cert validation se

Re: TOFU/cert pinning in libtls

2020-05-09 Thread Bob Beck
On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 06:18:50PM +, Lucas wrote: > Hello Stephen, > > > My basic idea for the client is: > > > > - load a db of self-signed certs. > > - connect to host > > - if host cert is self signed > > - if not in db, prompt user and add to db > > - if in db, check fingerprint an

Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System

2019-12-31 Thread Bob Beck
read fucking code. change fucking things. send some fucking diffs. get fucking yelled at. learn from your fucking mistakes. show some fucking passion. filter fucking misc@ and all this useless bleating into the toilet. none of us have time to spoon feed you in some “boot camp” there are two ty

Re: bug tracking system for OpenBSD

2018-04-01 Thread Bob Beck
Christoph, your conversation is distracting. Nobody gives a damn about the tool. Everyone gives a damn about the triage. I hate to break it to you, but you are not the first person to broach this discusson. The only way this would work is with a dedicated team of people to triage each area and c

Re: Meltdown workaround enabled?

2018-03-14 Thread Bob Beck
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 05:38 Robert Paschedag wrote: > > > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 14. März 2018 um 06:13 Uhr > > Von: "Bob Beck" > > An: "Brian Camp" > > Cc: "Theo de Raadt" , misc@openbsd.org > > Betreff: Re: Meltdown workarou

Re: Meltdown workaround enabled?

2018-03-13 Thread Bob Beck
Intel make kitty scared... What a fuckmess. On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 22:57 Brian Camp wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:39 PM, Theo de Raadt > wrote: > >> According to some sources, Intel and a handful of others have known > about the > >> issue since February 2017(!), so perhaps it has alrea

Official OpenBSD 6.2 CD set up for auction on Ebay

2017-11-18 Thread Bob Beck
So, the only 6.2 set to be produced is up for auction, featuring hand-drawn artwork by Theo. Artisanally Made in Canada! All proceeds of the sale to fund OpenBSD development. Go have a look at http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Official-OpenBSD-6-2-CD-Set/253265944606

Official OpenBSD 6.1 CD !

2017-05-03 Thread Bob Beck
So. There *Is* an official OpenBSD 6.1 CD Just One. If you are interested, please bid on ebay : http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-only-Official-OpenBSD-6-1-CD-set-to-be-made-For-auction-for-the-project-/252910718452?hash=item3ae2a74df4:g:SJQAAOSwrhBZBqkd (It's a pretty cool little CD set!)

Re: Why isn't OpenBSD in Google Summer of Code 2017?...

2017-04-02 Thread Bob Beck
We tried it for two years, it was too much effort on the part of the foundation organizers mentors to deal with the bureaucracy involved, and we didn't really see enough return in terms of new developers to the project, which, frankly being selfish on OpenBSD's part is the only reason for us to do

Re: white noise about broken manpage (web) links

2016-05-10 Thread Bob Beck
You need to complain at reyk - since these web pages are not in the openbsd www/ tree they didn't get fixed when we converted to man.openbsd.org On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:52 PM, Vivek Vinod wrote: > Dear Misc, > > I could not find a separate mailing list for openiked. Hence posting here. > > web

Re: ftp/www.openbsd.org will be down for an upgrade today.

2016-05-09 Thread Bob Beck
e time schedule for the > maintenance? > > Regards > > Markus > > > Am 08.05.2016 um 23:44 schrieb Stefan Wollny: >> >> Am 05/08/16 um 20:03 schrieb Bob Beck: >>> >>> There will be an extended downtime of the main ftp and www sites for &g

Re: TLS now supported on openbsd.org?

2016-05-09 Thread Bob Beck
>It's great to see OpenBSD Project supporting Let's Encrypt. I am absolutely not supporting Let's Encrypt. The client scares the shit out of me, and shows me how low the bar has become. Considering all I need is put something on a web site that I can convince a DNS server is the one they'll check,

ftp/www.openbsd.org will be down for an upgrade today.

2016-05-08 Thread Bob Beck
There will be an extended downtime of the main ftp and www sites for an upgrade today starting in approximately one hour's time from now. The mirror sites should be unaffected - so use a mirror if you discover the main site is unavailable today. Thanks -Bob

Re: WAPBL?

2016-04-01 Thread Bob Beck
e > > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Bob Beck wrote: >> >> I have more up to date versions of these patches around here. >> >> The problem with them is that fundamentally, the WAPBL implementation >> as it is assumes that it may infinitely steal >> buff

Re: WAPBL?

2016-04-01 Thread Bob Beck
I have more up to date versions of these patches around here. The problem with them is that fundamentally, the WAPBL implementation as it is assumes that it may infinitely steal buffers from the buffer cache and hold onto them indefinitely - and it assumes it can always get buffers from it. While

But wait, there's more.. another 5.8 song!

2015-09-01 Thread Bob Beck
Coming soon to http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html is the next 5.8 release song "A Year In The Life". I seem to have this bad habit of talking to Theo about release themes when drinking alcohol, and it brings out the poet (My inner Weird Al) in me. Then I get cajoled into finishing the Opus befor

BitCoin donations to the OpenBSD Foundation.

2015-07-09 Thread Bob Beck
We've recently noticed a few attempts at larger Bitcoin donations to the OpenBSD Foundation. Due to the nature of these, we don't actually know who is attempting to donate, so I'm posting here. Due to changing laws, our provider (BitPay) had to limit transactions to $1000/day causing these donati

Re: OpenSSL vulnerabilities coming on the 19th

2015-03-17 Thread Bob Beck
And while I will reiterate, stop mailing us privately and asking, I can confirm that the situation has changed, and core LibreSSL developers have now had disclosure from OpenSSL. We will be keeping discusssion of all details strictly to that group until such time as OpenSSL releases publicly. -B

Re: a thankyou to OpenBSD

2015-02-11 Thread Bob Beck
Wave.. Thanks Diana. I still owe you a beer or thirteen. On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Diana Eichert wrote: > I don't post much any more, my OpenBSD systems "just work". > > Just wanted to post a thank you to OpenBSD because it does > "just work". > > My day job entails a lot of Linux support

Re: new OpenSSL flaws

2014-06-05 Thread Bob Beck
I may also remind people that those lists are acknowledged right at the top as experimental. They also do not allow for non personal subscriptions, so they aren't very practical for this. What if I was away for a day or three.. Or more.. Essentially this is a nice experiment, but not really a p

Re: new OpenSSL flaws

2014-06-05 Thread Bob Beck
We are not on a linux distros mailing list, because we are not a linux distribution. And this private mailing list is not really an acknowledged conduit for vulnerability release. I was asked by someone privately if *I* would be on that mailing list on June 2nd. I said I would consider it, but as

Re: panic: softdep_deallocate_dependencies

2014-05-08 Thread Bob Beck
I'll be taking a peek based on what I see in his traceback. Travelling at the moment. On 9 May 2014 06:44, "Philip Guenther" wrote: > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:14 PM, STeve Andre' wrote: > > > On 05/08/14 22:43, Philip Guenther wrote: > > > >> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:59 PM, STeve Andre' wrote:

Re: OpenBSD Foundation 2014 Fundraising Campaign.

2014-04-11 Thread Bob Beck
On the web site at www.openbsdfoundation.org. On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:15 AM, trifle menot wrote: > On 4/10/14, Bob Beck wrote: > >> The Foundation will continue to strive to improve its financial >> resources, and hopes to be able to provide further support to the >>

OpenBSD Foundation 2014 Fundraising Campaign.

2014-04-10 Thread Bob Beck
The OpenBSD Foundation is happy to report that the $150,000 goal of the 2014 fundraising campaign has been reached. We wish to thank our contributors large and small. We will continue our fundraising efforts both in the current year and next year. The success of this year's effort has allowed th

Re: OpenBSD Website, multilanguage faq

2014-04-03 Thread Bob Beck
Well if you're going to have your thousand hands, perhaps they could just do one word at a time, in one language, and pretty soon we'll morph into something that isn't english and you'll all be a happy little umama ofebayo I'll even start, as I looked in the kernel for a phrase to change, and the

Google Summer Of Code 2014.

2014-02-24 Thread Bob Beck
ntors together with students to accomplish things that may become useful to the community at large. This will be our first year doing this, so we hope to learn from the experience and see if it will work out in future years. -Bob Beck - The OpenBSD Foundation.

OpenBSD Foundation Fundraising for 2014

2014-01-20 Thread Bob Beck
Greetings All, About a week ago I warned you all that the OpenBSD project did not have the funds to cover our bills for the past year (especially the ability to handle the electricity) and that our funding sources were not sustainable. As most of you know the news of our predicament has been wide

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2014-01-20 Thread Bob Beck
Greetings All, About a week ago I warned you all that the OpenBSD project did not have the funds to cover our bills for the past year (especially the ability to handle the electricity) and that our funding sources were not sustainable. As most of you know the news of our predicament has been wide

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Bob Beck
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Daniel Cegiełka wrote: > Another example: Google will pay even more than $3000 for finding an > error in OpenSSH (Core infrastructure network services) - do they know > about your problems? > > http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/10/going-beyond-vulnera

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Bob Beck
Yes, I believe so - and we'll be ramping that up shortly . but realisticly the need is for donations in general - electricity is one thing that the funding can be applied to. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:27 AM, Luca Ferrari wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Bob Beck wrote: >>

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-14 Thread Bob Beck
ter that's an idea we'd probably like to put up - as it gets that crowdsourcing type interest going. But in this case it would likely not be 20K, more like a 150K yearly goal would be best. On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Kirill Bychkov wrote: > On Wed, January 15, 2014 00:03, Bob Be

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-14 Thread Bob Beck
here, and often, you (the people who use it and work with it) need to make the case to them that their support is important - far better that explanation comes from you rather than someone they don't know. -Bob On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Bob Beck wrote: >Just to bring this issu

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-14 Thread Bob Beck
Just to bring this issue back to the forefront. In light of shrinking funding, we do need to look for a source to cover project expenses. If need be the OpenBSD Foundation can be involved in receiving donations to cover project electrical costs. But the fact is right now, OpenBSD will shut do

The OpenBSD Foundation now accepts BitCoin donations...

2013-11-26 Thread Bob Beck
I'm happy to announce the OpenBSD foundation can now accept donations to assist in funding project activities in BTC. We are using BitPay.com to host our BitCoin donations, which are converted to CAD for use by the project. If you have been interested in making donations in BitCoin, please visit

Re: softdep issue in 5.3-current ?

2013-06-26 Thread Bob Beck
Update to something that has version 1.27 of sys/kern/vfs_biomem.c and tell me if you still have the issue. On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:35 AM, Tori Mus wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running current snapshot of OpenBSD on amd64 architecture, MP kernel > (Lenovo Thinkpad to be concrete). Based on the official

Still looking for 1U servers in western canada.

2013-06-10 Thread Bob Beck
I'm still looking for 1U servers in western canada. we have an opportunity to build a better build infrastructure for ports but need the gear to do it with. I would be keenly interested in 1) Workable semi-modern amd64 capable intel hardware, 1U - 4 GB of ram or more is nice, One disk drive. (mo

Call for support to continue Radeon KMS work...

2013-06-02 Thread Bob Beck
Some of you may be aware of the recent developments in current that have brought us Intel KMS Support. With this we get proper accellerated X on current and future Intel graphics hardware. There are a few other nice side benefits to this work: - We gain the ability to use the kernel debug

Need for modern i386/amd64 machines in Edmonton AB.

2013-03-19 Thread Bob Beck
The project is looking for some modern i386/amd64 machines in edmonton, AB. They need to be relatively recent, and rack mountable. Ideally they should have rails, or the ability to find rack mount rails for them. 1U is best, ideally something that runs OpenBSD well. We'r

CD ordering problems in the last day or so fixed.

2012-11-15 Thread Bob Beck
The https.openbsd.org machines were under a denial of service attack originating from LeaseWeb USA and LeasWeb Netherlands: Their nets have now been filtered and you should be able to order again. Thank you to those who dropped me a note. -Bob If you know anyone here you could tell them if t

OpenBSD 5.2 Released

2012-11-01 Thread Bob Beck
ing the quality of the software. Our developers are: Aaron Bieber, Alexander Bluhm, Alexander Hall, Alexander Schrijver, Alexander Yurchenko, Alexandr Shadchin, Alexandre Ratchov, Anil Madhavapeddy, Anthony J. Bentley, Antoine Jacoutot, Austin Hook, Benoit Lecocq, Bob Beck, B

ftp/www.openbsd.org downtime today. don't panic

2012-10-12 Thread Bob Beck
Hi Folks, The main web, ftp, and anoncvs servers are going to be down for a short period today while they move from data center to data center at the University of Alberta. The University has been so kind as to offer the project space in two racks in their new state of the art data centre in a ne

Re: quick query.

2012-10-10 Thread Bob Beck
It is for me #export PKG_PATH=http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/amd64 # pkg_add tor tor-0.2.2.39: ok The following new rcscripts were installed: /etc/rc.d/tor See rc.d(8) for details. # pkg_info tor Information for inst:tor-0.2.2.39 Comment: anonymity service using onion routi

OpenBSD 5.2 song - and pre-orders for 5.2!

2012-10-06 Thread Bob Beck
We have made available the song that will come out with the 5.2 release. The song and details of it are linked from: http://openbsd.org/lyrics.html Go have a look and a listen! The details for the upcoming 5.2 release are available at http://www.openbsd.org/52.html A reminder to you al

Re: OpenBSD - UEFI Secure Boot

2012-07-07 Thread Bob Beck
On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > > World is trying much worse stuff than UEFI > > http://extratorrent.com/article/2263/uk+prime+minister+calls+for+online+porn+ban.html > > > What? they're going to ban porn? That's it, I'm quitting the internets.

OpenBSD 5.1 released May 1, 2012

2012-05-01 Thread Bob Beck
hin, Alexandre Ratchov, Anil Madhavapeddy, Anthony J. Bentley, Antoine Jacoutot, Ariane van der Steldt, Austin Hook, Benoit Lecocq, Bernd Ahlers, Bob Beck, Bret Lambert, Bryan Steele, Camiel Dobbelaar, Can Erkin Acar, Charles Longeau, Chris Kuethe, Christian Weisgerber, Christ

Re: Google SoC 2012 is accepting open source organisations

2012-03-06 Thread Bob Beck
> I have done GSoC as a mentor before though I have > not been the admin for a project Have you dealt with the google contract then?

Re: Google SoC 2012 is accepting open source organisations

2012-03-06 Thread Bob Beck
> Actually, there are a couple of organisations that are willing to act as > a proxy for the payments to organisations that are unable to deal with > the legalities imposed by the US IRS - it is not just foreigners that > have issues some projects inside the US just don't have the ability to > deal

Re: Google SoC 2012 is accepting open source organisations

2012-03-05 Thread Bob Beck
> at first, I'd notice, "3)" != "4)", right ? May not be the same, however they do want mentorship from somwhere associated to the projects. > at second, taxes are rather government thing, not googlish ? why should I > sign something with Google about taxes ? It doesn't make any sense. Because c

Re: Google SoC 2012 is accepting open source organisations

2012-03-05 Thread Bob Beck
> they didn't say that Theo refused to sign any paper. Just wonder, what kind > of responsibilty that paper was about ? Accepting student's code to OpenBSD > code base or something ? No, it's actually about personal liability for the mentor (i.e. me) for taxes and other such nonsense. Google SOC

Re: Google SoC 2012 is accepting open source organisations

2012-03-05 Thread Bob Beck
> 1) The OpenBSD Foundation is NOT OpenBSD. > > 2) That application never elicited a reply from Google, so no > contract to read or sign was presented or known of. > > 3) At some later point the required contract was obtained and, as Theo > has said, nobody in the OpenBSD project or at the OpenBSD

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Bob Beck
> So, you're advocating incomplete information? Is that not a bigger problem? No, we don't support old releases. 4.3 is very old. You should update your OS to something supported, and likely your problem will go away.

Anyone got a 48 port gigabit switch, small and lower power? looking for a good home?

2012-01-11 Thread Bob Beck
OpenBSD's building infrastructure has a need for such things. if you are in the process of rewhacking your network, I would love to hear from you if you have such beasts that might be sent our way. We are looking to get these things in Calgary, Canada.

Openbsd 4.9 released May 1, 2011

2011-05-01 Thread Bob Beck
D-ROMs. Those who did not support us financially have still helped us with our goal of improving the quality of the software. Our developers are: Aleksander Piotrowski, Alexander Bluhm, Alexander Hall, Alexander Yurchenko, Alexandr Shadchin, Alexandre Ratchov, Antoine Jacoutot, Ariane van der

Like OpenBSD? Like to see new stuff happening? You really need to order a CD today :)

2011-04-18 Thread Bob Beck
Hi all, A number of you may have noticed the recent flurry of activity, leading to stuff like bigmem being turned on.. Some more good stuff is coming soon (my amd64 at my house is using 7 gigabyes of memory for buffer cache, and I'm doing builds without touching disks..). Some really cool

Re: OpenBSD 4.8 freezes on certain activities

2010-11-05 Thread Bob Beck
Are you able to try the following? see if it solves your problem. Index: sys/kern/vfs_bio.c === RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/kern/vfs_bio.c,v retrieving revision 1.126 diff -u -r1.126 vfs_bio.c --- sys/kern/vfs_bio.c 3 Aug 2010 06:30:19 -

Re: Same shit all over again

2010-08-16 Thread Bob Beck
ore Theo gets back? I'd like to > have some popcorn ready. :-) > > > > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Bob Beck wrote: >>> Well, tinyurl redirects to my box which redirects to trollaxer. Here is >>> the culprit log for falling for such a silly trick.

Re: Same shit all over again

2010-08-16 Thread Bob Beck
> Well, tinyurl redirects to my box which redirects to trollaxer. Here is > the culprit log for falling for such a silly trick. > > 83.101.24.229 - - [15/Aug/2010:19:13:12 -0400] "GET /why.html HTTP/1.1" > 200 136 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) > Gecko/2009070118 Firef

Re: libc/glob(3) DoS PoC for ftp.openbsd.org and ftp.netbsd.org

2010-07-02 Thread Bob Beck
It's rather astonishing what attempts to passfor a credible security advisory today. "oh, I made a lot of connections to the site and they blocked me." Thank you, Maksymillian, for showing us all that you can execute a denial of service attack from 90.156.82.13. I wonder how many connections his

Re: OpenBSD 4.7 Released, May 19 2010

2010-05-19 Thread Bob Beck
well, that looks a bit screwed, since it lists ftp.openbsd.org as not having everything :) On 19 May 2010 12:19, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2010-05-19, Jorge Medina wrote: >> Congratulations but I can't find a mirror with the release > > http://spacehopper.org/up2date.html

Re: OpenBSD 4.7 Released, May 19 2010

2010-05-19 Thread Bob Beck
> Congratulations but I can't find a mirror with the release Did you read the entire message, in that was: ---8<-- 1) Read either of the following two files for a list of ftp mirrors which provide OpenBSD, then choose one near you: http://www.OpenBSD.org/ftp.html

OpenBSD 4.7 Released, May 19 2010

2010-05-19 Thread Bob Beck
our previous CD-ROMs. Those who did not support us financially have still helped us with our goal of improving the quality of the software. Our developers are: Alexander Bluhm, Alexander Hall, Alexander von Gernler, Alexander Yurchenko, Alexandre Ratchov, Alexey Vatchenko, Anders Magnuss

wwww.openbsd.org//ftp.openbsd.org downtime - Sunday Mar 21, 0800-1530 MDT

2010-03-19 Thread Bob Beck
Hey gang The University of Alberta is having a large scale electrician party in our data center on Sunday Mar 21 to bring more power into it. As a result we'll be without cooling for the duration. Expect ftp/www.openbsd.org along with anoncvs1.ca.openbsd.org and the web/ftp fanout machines to be

Re: observed spamd behavior

2010-01-11 Thread Bob Beck
2010/1/7 : > In the absence of any feedback, I would say that I have two feature > requests for spamd (Bob, are you out there?): > > 1) Detect '500 5.5.1 Command unrecognized' loops, and when found, > start to gap response times with an increasing delay. > > 2) When a client does not wait fo

Re: spamd.conf format

2009-12-23 Thread Bob Beck
2009/12/21 Nick Berg : > From the spamd.conf manual: > > The format of the list of addresses is expected to consist of one network > block or address per line (optionally followed by a space and text that > is ignored). Comment lines beginning with # are ignored. Network blocks > may be s

Re: Web Browsers

2009-12-18 Thread Bob Beck
2009/12/18 nixlists : > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote: >> firefox + adsuck > > What is your opnion on Chrome, OpenBSD gurus? Okay we all know about > it's privacy and identity leakage concerns. It's designed by Google > with this built-in - they want to know everything abo

Re: running openbsd 4.6 under qemu

2009-12-14 Thread Bob Beck
> Current qemu releases (more recent than in the ports tree) do not run on > OpenBSD (have not been able to solve this yet *sigh*) so the above person has > Linux running natively and OpenBSD inside a newer qemu. Originally it was > kvm that had this bug but looks like qemu is now bug-for-bug comp

Re: malloc: out of space in kmem_map

2009-12-14 Thread Bob Beck
2009/12/14 Jeff Ross : > Hi all, > > While doing some pgbench runs on a new server before I put in on-line, I > triggered a malloc: out of space in kmem_map panic. > > trace and ps (long) below, dmesg below that. > > I have adjusted sysctl values like so for postgres: > > # For PostgreSQL Port > ke

Re: OT: Have you hugged your local OpenBSD dev lately?

2009-12-14 Thread Bob Beck
> | People are at the core motivated by their own self-interest. Anyone > | who says they aren't is selling something. > > Yes, they're selling hilarity. It's The Onion, after all. Yes, but it's funny because it's true. Even OpenBSD developers are motivated by self interest...Ever wonder why the

Re: OT: Have you hugged your local OpenBSD dev lately?

2009-12-14 Thread Bob Beck
> "The Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry has concluded that an > estimated 98 percent of children under the age of 10 are remorseless > sociopaths with little regard for anything other than their own egocentric > interests and pleasures." > > http://www.theonion.com/content/news/new_study_

Re: OT: Have you hugged your local OpenBSD dev lately?

2009-12-14 Thread Bob Beck
> From past experience, I would expect much waving of hands over a two > weeks periods, with lots of expert telling you "It's a complicated problem", > running around in circle finding even MORE complicated problems to solve, > and then things going back to its general state of apathy with respect

Re: Why is getaddrinfo breaking POSIX?

2009-12-11 Thread Bob Beck
2009/12/11 Theo de Raadt : >> I did a quick perusal of the source (and compared it against the NetBSD >> tree) and it looks like the easiest way to >> make getaddrinfo() thread safe is to TURN OFF Yellow Pages (pee). >> >> NetBSD changes the only "variable" globals to local (in they yp code by >> r

Re: ComixWall terminated [WAS: ComixWall 4.6 released, December 8, 2009]

2009-12-09 Thread Bob Beck
> COMIXWALL isn't a fork, its just a preinstalled configuration panel > for OpenBSD and a collection of nice utilities. > > And considering (and no offence here) the COMIXWALL developers are > enthusiasts not paid professional developers. > So where's the harm asking some advice? >After all let

Re: Free Gorillas

2009-12-08 Thread Bob Beck
2009/12/8 Paige Thompson : > ftp.openbsd.org got rid of the free gorillas, whats up with that? > According to eminent authority, it's because OpenBSD Developers are Masturbating Monkeys - not gorillas.

Re: spamd greylisting and 2nd MX question

2009-12-05 Thread Bob Beck
I certainly do not see this behaviour. sounds to me very likely that your primary is not reachable for some reason and they are trying the secondary. 2009/12/5 : > Hi, > > I am using the -M option of spamd and I am seeing a lot good servers > being > trapped because they tried the secondary MX f

Re: asynchronous I/O

2009-12-04 Thread Bob Beck
2009/12/4 Ted Unangst : > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Luis Useche wrote: > >> Exactly, I am more interested more in something close to aio_read & >> aio_write. I was hoping there was some api I can use. Is there any >> reason why POSIX aio does not exist in OBSD? > > Nobody wrote it. > > And

Re: TiVo + AT&T/squid + web caching issue.

2009-12-01 Thread Bob Beck
Here's a nickel kid - Get a better ISP. Fuck people, if you don't vote with your feet when they do this shit eventually you'll be able to do nothing. 2009/12/1 Christopher Hilton : > I'm having a problem running a TiVo for my mother-in-law. To save some money > she changed her ISP to AT&T. The i

Re: Spamd china and korea lists

2009-11-25 Thread Bob Beck
We're having issues witht them periodically blocking our access to the site - which has happened since we have a failure. I have a version of the lists there now, but I think it may actually be time to retire that example from spamd.conf - those lists just aren't as useful as they were in past yea

Re: Security via the NSA?

2009-11-25 Thread Bob Beck
Like everyone verifies SSL.. right? 2009/11/21 Samuel Baldwin : > 2009/11/21 AG : >> Depends on whether one trusts the NSA or not. > > That's the nice thing about open source software; we don't have to, > because we can verify their code or mathematics ourselves. > > -- > Samuel Baldwin - logik.l

Re: Authpf and more than 992 users

2009-11-18 Thread Bob Beck
2009/11/18 Janusz Gumkowski : >> Is it at all possible to have more than 992 simultaneous authpf users ? >> > Yes, use more than one machine. > Digging out an old post of mine, still not having any real solution > but a couple of ugly hacks instead, trying to get rid of them finally. > > To the

Re: OpenBSD platform of choice?

2009-11-12 Thread Bob Beck
> this was absolutely disturbing to read. misc@ is always disturbing. most of the time it's just disturbing in the i-want-a-belt-fed-weapon-to-make-the-stupid-stop-burning kind of way... You can either be a disturber or a disturbee.. decide which

Re: OpenBSD platform of choice?

2009-11-12 Thread Bob Beck
2009/11/12 Bob Beck : > Kind of, but I don't really think it's got a future. It's kind of like > advocating necrophila with a fresh corpse.. or maybe just doing it > with a really hot coma patient. It might be really good for a short > time but you know there isn&#

Re: OpenBSD platform of choice?

2009-11-12 Thread Bob Beck
2009/11/12 Lars Nooden : > Stupid business decisions aside, you can get if you try Sparc from Sun > or Fujitsu for server work Kind of, but I don't really think it's got a future. It's kind of like advocating necrophila with a fresh corpse.. or maybe just doing it with a really hot coma patient.

Re: OpenBSD platform of choice?

2009-11-12 Thread Bob Beck
i386/amd64. Nothing else is realistic these days. Sparc64 is wonderful but is basically legacy - it's great for finding bugs and I use it for hacking but is not something I run in production. All my production gear is i386 or amd64 - with a few exceptions. Yes, the hardware sucks and the biosen

Re: Truncation Data Loss

2009-11-10 Thread Bob Beck
2009/11/10 Jussi Peltola : > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:18:57AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> If you want to never lose data, you have an option. Make the filesystem >> syncronous, using the -o sync option. >> >> If you can't accept the performance hit from that, then please accept >> that all th

Re: kern.bufcachepercent

2009-11-04 Thread Bob Beck
1/4 Luis Useche : > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Bob Beck wrote: >> 2009/11/3 Luis Useche : >> >>> >>> I read in the 4.6 changelog that his was part of the release. >>> >>> Am I missing something? Do I have to recompile? Or this is just

Re: kern.bufcachepercent

2009-11-03 Thread Bob Beck
2009/11/3 Luis Useche : > > I read in the 4.6 changelog that his was part of the release. > > Am I missing something? Do I have to recompile? Or this is just a bug? Yeah you are missing something. Listen to the *whole* presentation and read the *whole* changelog. This is *not* in 4.6 It is in cu

Re: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/linux_kernel_vulnerability/

2009-11-03 Thread Bob Beck
2009/11/3 Gilles Chehade : > On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 04:58:25PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> [bcc'd to Dan Goodin @ theregister] >> >> If anyone wants a choice quote from me about the recent Linux holes, >> this is what I have to say: >> >> Linus is too busy thinking about masturabating monke

Re: PF challenge dealing with HTTPS URL restriction policies.. would it help, other possible solution?

2009-10-29 Thread Bob Beck
wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> If I use a reverse proxy I would have to know the SSL key of the >> remote SSL site. (gmail.com) so that the reverse proxy server would >> decrypt and encrypt. Iam not mistaken. >> >> -- Matt >> >> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Bob Beck wrote: > apache >> or other reverse proxy...

Re: PF challenge dealing with HTTPS URL restriction policies.. would it help, other possible solution?

2009-10-29 Thread Bob Beck
t; On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Matthew Young > wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> If I use a reverse proxy I would have to know the SSL key of the >> remote SSL site. (gmail.com) so that the reverse proxy server would >> decrypt and encrypt. Iam not mistaken. >>

Re: openbsd ca tutorial

2009-10-29 Thread Bob Beck
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=OpenSSL+set+up+own+Certificate+Authority 2009/10/29 Abdullah Sendul : > Hi, > > I am trying to create my own CA on openbsd. but unfortunately couldnt > find any tutorial on this, there are some on freebsd, linux, but they > are giving some errors. > > can you please point me c

Re: PF challenge dealing with HTTPS URL restriction policies.. would it help, other possible solution?

2009-10-29 Thread Bob Beck
ld have to know the SSL key of the > remote SSL site. (gmail.com) so that the reverse proxy server would > decrypt and encrypt. Iam not mistaken. > > -- Matt > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Bob Beck wrote: >> apache or other reverse proxy. >> >> >> 2009

Re: PF challenge dealing with HTTPS URL restriction policies.. would it help, other possible solution?

2009-10-29 Thread Bob Beck
apache or other reverse proxy. 2009/10/29 Matthew Young : > Hello, > > > Iam looking for a way to have an allowed list of SSL enabled sites > that a end user can browse, but this entirely done on a server level > with _zero_ configuration on the pc. > > In a dream world, squid would be able to tr

Re: privileged instruction fault trap

2009-10-29 Thread Bob Beck
2009/10/29 Roger Schreiter : > Today, the system crashed, . > kernel: privileged instruction fault trap, code=0 > Stopped at ip_output +0xb8: > ddb> _ . > Any helpful hints? http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=crash&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpat h=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386

Re: 200g harddisk after newfs = Available 174g?

2009-10-29 Thread Bob Beck
> There are many stupid ideas in other operating systems, I > don't see why we should be required to implement them. Yeah, and the discussion of my ass is a more productive discussion than talking about making df display "marketing gigabytes" That'll happen in openbsd right after we switch the de

Re: Secure way to delete data in hard disc

2009-10-29 Thread Bob Beck
2009/10/28 Noah Pugsley : > Can I interest you in a pair of steganograpanties? Or for cooler weather, > steganograpantaloons? The problem with steganograpanties is that residual images of my ass are present *underneath* the panties - therfore if the offending Germans were to use high technology pa

Re: Secure way to delete data in hard disc

2009-10-28 Thread Bob Beck
2009/10/28 Henning Brauer : > * Bob Beck [2009-10-28 20:57]: >> > I would rather my family photos >> >> Yeah, but I hike with bastards who take pictures of my ass and put it >> up on the internet for all to see.. So how can I delete the data >> from h

Re: Secure way to delete data in hard disc

2009-10-28 Thread Bob Beck
> What, you have pictures of my ass too? Obviously I must make something to write a random pattern over my entire ass so that It won't be recognized if some germans steal it.

Re: Secure way to delete data in hard disc

2009-10-28 Thread Bob Beck
> I would rather my family photos Yeah, but I hike with bastards who take pictures of my ass and put it up on the internet for all to see.. So how can I delete the data from his web server? Is there some kind of remote bioctl --de-assify I could run?

Re: CVSync problems?

2009-10-19 Thread Bob Beck
ahhh. Nick, you should not be depending on mirrors to run cvsync to do that. Every time you pull the repository from me you should afterwards run a cvscan.. cvscan -c /etc/cvsyncd.conf which recreates the file correctly every time. -Bob 2009/10/19 Nick Holland : > naddy@ told me the solution.

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