Re: Hotmail (was Re: Insider's scoop: Why FreeBSD is dying)
On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 19:34, Terry Lambert wrote: [...] So if they were widely deployed, you would expect maybe 8 VIPs per colocation facility... but you would not expect them to be in a large, contiguous netblock: you'd expect them to be 8 here, and 8 there, etc., based on geographic location. Microsoft seems to like putting everything in the same subnet - remember their nameserver incident a while ago? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/16321.html Painfully hilarious. I wonder if they hire MCSE's themselves... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: release variability
On Sat, 2002-08-10 at 15:13, Colin Percival wrote: [...] This raises two questions: 1. Is there any way I can set up my system to consistently build the same world? The user and host are of course easy to fix; I'd consider running a daemon to reset my clock every second in order to keep the time stamps consistent, except that I don't think it would work, and I worry that it might break `make` anyway. I think what you're trying to do here is impossible. Every condition would have to be the same as on the initial build machine, and even then, your time will not always match. Whatever you're trying to do, it seems like the wrong solution to me... 2. Is this really a desireable state of affairs at all? As it is, it is practically impossible for someone to `make release` on their own and compare their version to the official version to ensure that the build was correct. Reproducibility and verifiability are rather important matters when it comes to security. There are better ways to check the integrity of the code. The most simple way I can think of, is if you e.g. install from a cd, check the md5sum. (Maybe a md5sum/pgp key could be distributed with the announcement itself?) If your code is clean, so will be your compiled software. Except when you have something (somebody?) in resident memory that screws it after installation, but this is unlikely if you just reinstalled the whole machine, and there's nothing you can do about that either way. If you sync from source and want to build a full release when one is made instead of downloading an iso (which is a pretty reasonable and common thing to do, I think), you have AFAIK no way to check if the source has not been tampered with. It might be better to download the release source packages then, those contain md5sums: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.6-RELEASE/src/ ,,, but this seems like something you don't want to do? wouter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: unsubscribe
On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 19:48, Terry Lambert wrote: It's a means of collecting email addresses, like the joke of the day subscriptions with reply addresses that don't go to the joke of the day site they pretend to be from. The expectation is that people will reply with information on how to unsubscribe, thereby validating their emial addresses... just like you do if you try to unsubscribe from the mailing list that you never subscribed to in the first place. Why not catch (un)subscribe's to mailing lists? That wouldn't only stop people fishing for addresses, but also newbies and distracted people... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: dhcp problems with my ISP
On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 15:23, Scott M. Nolde wrote:
Wouter Van Hemel([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2002.08.03 23:23:11 +:
On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 12:17, Terry Lambert wrote:
Bri wrote:
Hi I have a Cable and have a Cable Modem for my internet connection of which
you use dhcp to obtain an IP address great but this only seems to work
successfully on a Windows machine I've registered all the other mac
addresses of unix boxes and Apple macs I have and they seem to have alot of
difficulty obtaining IP addresses. Especially the UNIX machines which run
FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE or 5.0-CURRENT on sparc64 at the moment the sparc64 box
which is a Sun Ultra 5 which is the worst for detecting an IP with dhclient.
What I would really like to know is what does the windows dhcp do
differently than say dhclient.
I would be very interested to know as I would like a UNIX machine that can
maintain and IP address.
Use the same exact NIC.
Wouldn't it be possible to change the mac address? A friend of mine used
this method once to obtain a new ip address from the server when he was
being DoS'ed on his home ip by some irc kiddies.
Ofcourse, you'd have to change the other cards' mac too, if possible.
[...]
Regards,
wouter
here's the way to change the MAC on freeBSD. I had to do it a few days
ago. No big deal, this is VERY simple.
A little background: If you read /etc/rc.network you'll find, before the
ethernet interfaces are started a particular file is sought in /etc:
start_if.nic:
for ifn in ${network_interfaces}; do
if [ -r /etc/start_if.${ifn} ]; then
. /etc/start_if.${ifn}
eval showstat_$ifn=1
fi
So, for me it was /etc/start_if.fxp1. What I had to put in this file was
the command to change the MAC to the MAC of the old NIC.
#!/bin/sh
# force fxp1 on dual card to 00:a0:cc:28:89:82
ifconfig fxp1 ether 00a0cc288982
Oh... that's even more simple than using arp(1). Does it set the card, or
just the kernel interface? I suspect the latter...
And that took care of it. I don't need to call my cable co to reprovision
the cablemodem for each computer. I just change the MAC at the FreeBSD
firewall.
And that's how you do it in FreeBSD.
- Scott
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Re: dhcp problems with my ISP
On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 12:17, Terry Lambert wrote: Bri wrote: Hi I have a Cable and have a Cable Modem for my internet connection of which you use dhcp to obtain an IP address great but this only seems to work successfully on a Windows machine I've registered all the other mac addresses of unix boxes and Apple macs I have and they seem to have alot of difficulty obtaining IP addresses. Especially the UNIX machines which run FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE or 5.0-CURRENT on sparc64 at the moment the sparc64 box which is a Sun Ultra 5 which is the worst for detecting an IP with dhclient. What I would really like to know is what does the windows dhcp do differently than say dhclient. I would be very interested to know as I would like a UNIX machine that can maintain and IP address. Use the same exact NIC. Wouldn't it be possible to change the mac address? A friend of mine used this method once to obtain a new ip address from the server when he was being DoS'ed on his home ip by some irc kiddies. Ofcourse, you'd have to change the other cards' mac too, if possible. [...] Regards, wouter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
