Re: Mail Server Architecture

2005-05-11 Thread Chad M Stewart
On May 11, 2005, at 8:38 AM, J.C. Roberts wrote: On Wed, 11 May 2005 02:23:43 -0400, Bruno Delbono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Smith wrote: alerts. If sendmail has a security alert and OpenBSD is vulnerable, OpenBSD will let me know pretty quickly. I don't need to keep track of sendmail alerts, j

horizontal scaling of spamd

2005-05-14 Thread Chad M Stewart
s? - -Chad _\|/_ (o o) - --oOO-(_)-OOo------ Chad M Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If you don't do it right the first time, you'll just have to do it aga

Re: horizontal scaling of spamd

2005-05-15 Thread Chad M Stewart
Hi Phillip, My situation, at this point is hypothetical, though based on reality in carrier grade messaging systems. I have been building and implementing large scale systems for many years, so I have had time thinking small, which can be good and bad. :) I understand your setup, makes perfect

Re: horizontal scaling of spamd

2005-05-15 Thread Chad M Stewart
Phillip, Thank you for pointing out spamlogd. I never noticed that before and will look into that tomorrow. It looks to be what I might be looking for. Thanks again, Chad

Re: the joys of spamd

2005-09-09 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Sep 9, 2005, at 1:05 PM, Hans van Leeuwen wrote: <..snip..> My all-time record is 3726 seconds. That's not chuckling, that's rolling on the floor laughing out loud :-) I had to check my logs and I found # grep 81.71.83.132 daemon* daemon.62:Jul 8 11:13:21 zeus spamd[13726]: 81.71.83

Re: Spamd/Postfix behaving strangely

2005-09-12 Thread Chad M Stewart
ts disabled, as this "feature" causes harm, and never any good from what I can tell. -Chad _\|/_ (o o) ----------oOO-(_)-OOo-- Chad M Stewart, GCIH

Re: Ports question

2005-09-29 Thread Chad M Stewart
While not at all supported and could break things I have done in the past ## CLAMAV on OpenBSD cd /usr [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs cvs get \ -rHEAD -Pports/security/clamav then go make a package and assuming that works, install it. YMMV and use at your own risk or demise. :) I did it this wee

Re: C++ exceptions with OpenBSD 3.6 on amd64

2005-10-21 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Oct 21, 2005, at 2:16 PM, Sebastian Cufre wrote: Well, the problem is that with OpenBSD 3.7 other thing doesn't work (php4-xslt makes apache crash when used), and OpenBSD 3.8 is no yet released officially. And if you'd pre-ordered 3.8 then you might have gotten an email like I did tod

Re: spamd extension

2005-10-26 Thread Chad M Stewart
James, The more I think about this one, the more I think there is no solution to your issue. Well okay there are two choices, either use spamd or not. :) You would have to have ESP to know from which IP address a particular sender would be sending. If I'm sitting in a hotel and using th

Re: spamd extension

2005-10-26 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Oct 26, 2005, at 11:54 AM, Graham Toal wrote: My experience is that greylisting requires at least 2 failed attempts. Maybe my pf.conf isn't setup properly. But, there's always 1 'extra' failure that seems to me should pass through. James is right, it's a design flaw of spamd that two

Re: perl script for postfix logs to create spamd tables

2005-10-31 Thread Chad M Stewart
Why would you want to do that? Put spamd in front of postfix and sit back and watch the spammers waste their time. Sure the first few hours can be trying as legitimate mail trickles through. Before I deployed spamd for the first time I lowered the passtime and tested. Once I was satisfi

Re: CARP

2005-11-02 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Nov 2, 2005, at 1:41 PM, Dag Richards wrote: True I guess I am just trying to justify the time I spent learning/ configuring STP to quiet the local CISCO nazi's who howled at me for not buying PIX fw's. There is the small feature gap in not being able to fail back though. CARP of course w

Re: perl interface to pf?

2005-11-03 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Nov 3, 2005, at 8:17 AM, Markus Wernig wrote: Well, the only use that came to my mind was a perl daemon running on the FW that accepts rule updates from a remote client. While that can be done with other means (ssh, sh scripts), i can imagine that a perl class for manipulating pf rules w

Re: Problems / questions about CARP

2005-11-16 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Nov 16, 2005, at 3:57 PM, Tobias Walkowiak wrote: I just set up 2 redundant firewalls that use CARP / pfsync. I ran into the fact that everything works fine but when shutting down the MASTER, the BACKUP doesn't take over the states of the connections. Is that intended or did I do somethin

quirk with pf on 3.8 vs 3.7

2005-11-18 Thread Chad M Stewart
While building a new openbsd 3.8/carp/pf firewall pair I discovered the following rl1: flags=8943 mtu 1500 lladdr 00:e0:29:5b:31:00 description: LAN media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active inet 192.168.1.44 netmask 0xff00 bro

Re: Strange behavior with carp and preemption

2005-11-22 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Nov 22, 2005, at 11:52 AM, Ralf Hornik Mailings wrote: Could this be a bug in preemption? Has anyone else successfully set up carp with preemption? My OS is now OpenBSD 3.8 RELEASE. After going to stable, I'll be back! :-) This past weekend I implemented a pair of 3.8 (right of CD) carp/pf

Re: Strange behavior with carp and preemption

2005-11-22 Thread Chad M Stewart
I had tested quite a bit in 3.7 in a lab environment, never found an issue. Now this is 3.8 in production for my business network. I just pulled the patch cable from the switch for the WAN NIC on the master node. Poof the FW service switched to the backup node. I then plugged the patch

Re: remote su root: SORRY

2005-11-23 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Nov 20, 2005, at 10:02 PM, Paul Yiu wrote: Hi Guys, Hope you guys can help on this ssh issue has been posted in 2004. Thank you in advance. I hit the same ssh problem with openbsd 3.7. I got serial console set up, I got a user which assigned in a wheel group, when I log in using ssh

Re: Strange behavior with carp and preemption

2005-11-23 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Nov 23, 2005, at 5:38 AM, Eli K. Breen wrote: I found the problem you describe when I specifically set the advskew on the two carp interfaces. Give it a whirl. Give what a whirl? I do have advskew set on the carp interfaces on the backup node. Since I want one node of the two to be pri

Re: Transparent Bridge fail-over?

2006-05-04 Thread Chad M Stewart
ks, Ken Ebling _\|/_ (o o) oOO-(_)-OOo-- Chad M Stewart, GCIH Phone: 585 202 6643 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://balius.com/ Balius Inc. Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) -

Re: Connecting to Sun Ultra 5 over serial line

2006-05-19 Thread Chad M Stewart
Being a U5, its used, which means someone could have changed the baud rate of the serial port. :) I've got two U10s, a SS20, and 220R in my basement^H^H data center. ;-) If you can use a keyboard & monitor to get to the ok prompt, then you can check the speed of the serial port. I can't

software load balancing

2006-05-20 Thread Chad M Stewart
I worked with a customer once that had a software based load balancing solution. I liked the way it worked. While I was working on the box if I was going to take the service down for maintenance I could tell the local agent and the box was removed from the pool of servers. Anyone know o

Re: software load balancing

2006-05-21 Thread Chad M Stewart
On May 21, 2006, at 10:18 AM, Morten Liebach wrote: On 2006-05-20 20:48:13 -0400, Chad M Stewart wrote: I worked with a customer once that had a software based load balancing solution. I liked the way it worked. While I was working on the box if I was going to take the service down for

Re: software load balancing

2006-05-21 Thread Chad M Stewart
On May 21, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Joachim Schipper wrote: There are various proxies, talking either a specific protocol. Most should either be able to do failover or be able to be re-configured for a new host very quickly. A bit of scripting might glue this all together. Was there a specific ap

dmesg from 3.9 under Parallels Virtual host

2006-05-23 Thread Chad M Stewart
Two dmesg's below, both bsd and bsd.mp, these are from my 15" MacBook Pro.The fun part will be building a 3 or 4 carp/pf group of nodes. :) The softw I also plan on trying to setup an instance of OpenBSD to be the firewall for the host OS. I read about something similar using Wind

Re: CARP

2006-05-31 Thread Chad M Stewart
On May 31, 2006, at 5:21 PM, Bachman Kharazmi wrote: I've a problem when I do "ifconfig carp1 down" on the MASTER host to test if BACKUP takes over the traffic.. You're not alone. I have a pair of boxes running 3.8/pf/carp/etc.. I upgraded them to 3.9 and during the upgrade discovered th

carp preempt not working

2006-06-04 Thread Chad M Stewart
I'm trying to debug why when I take either carp interface (only 2 in a 2 pair fw) not all carp interfaces fail over. Only that interface switches. If I take one of the physical interfaces down, both carp interfaces switch over. fw1 - # uname -a OpenBSD sabus 3.9 GENERIC#617 i386 # sysctl

Re: popular mail & squid virus scanning technique for openbsd

2006-06-05 Thread Chad M Stewart
My firewall is a firewall, provides packet level blocking/allow, ftpproxy, and nothing else. Adding other services can make it more vulnerable, either by software problems or configuration problems. The mail server that gets mail via my MX records sits in my DMZ. On it I use spamd, postfi

Re: Mail Server configuration question(s)

2006-06-09 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Jun 9, 2006, at 7:07 AM, Pancho Cole wrote: I have been building and testing some postfix mail server configurations recently, and I am looking for advice. I currently have postfix authenticating against the password file, but I think I want to use SQL (PostgreSQL) or LDAP, though I have

hoststated - disable and then enabling a service causes hoststated to exit

2007-08-30 Thread Chad M Stewart
I'm playing around with hoststated. I have two systems behind the firewall running hoststated. I setup Apache on the boxes to act as proxies, everything works nicely, until I disable the service and then enable the same service, hoststated dies. (full dmesg and other info below) Output f

Re: pf

2007-10-04 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Oct 4, 2007, at 11:11 AM, a.padilla wrote: Hi, I'm a student trying to learn pf on my own. I'm trying to set up a nat. I've read documentation yet I still can't get the internal machine to communicate to the outside world. I've been following this documentation: http://www.openbsd.org

Thank you developers... 4.2 arrived in the mail today

2007-10-05 Thread Chad M Stewart
I'd like to say Thank you to all of the developers around the world who make OpenBSD what it is! If I had the skills to write code I would help, for now my contributions will have to be in other ways. My 4.2 CDs and t-shirt arrived in the mail today (near Buffalo, NY) and this has to be t

Re: Thank you developers... 4.2 arrived in the mail today

2007-10-05 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Oct 5, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Karsten McMinn wrote: On 10/5/07, Chad M Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My 4.2 CDs and t-shirt arrived in the mail today (near Buffalo, NY) drat, I was hoping for first the first post. you forgot the pic. Okay, well fresh from an install on my Sun X210

Re: Prevent circumventing dansguardian with pf

2007-04-25 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Apr 25, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Allen Theobald wrote: pass in inet proto icmp all icmp-type $icmp_types keep state This can be used as a covert communication channel. Allowing internal IPs to send/receive ping is bad. As for your question, only allow internal devices to do what you want

Re: Prevent circumventing dansguardian with pf

2007-04-25 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Apr 25, 2007, at 4:19 PM, Tobias Weingartner wrote: Chad M Stewart wrote: On Apr 25, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Allen Theobald wrote: pass in inet proto icmp all icmp-type $icmp_types keep state This can be used as a covert communication channel. Allowing internal IPs to send/receive ping

spamd synchronization

2007-05-13 Thread Chad M Stewart
I have two mail servers running 4.1-stable and am trying to get spamd synchronization working between them. During testing using a basic set of options /usr/libexec/spamd -y nfe0 -Y nfe0 -d in the resulting debug I see using multicast spam sync mode (ttl 1, group 224.0.1.240, port 8025) on

Re: smtp auth + greylisting

2007-05-22 Thread Chad M Stewart
Since having users change their settings can be problematic in many environments, instead change the MX record. This way you can implement spamd right away and your users will not have to change anything. Though I would suggest moving the users to 587/465 in the future so that they don't

Re: Spamd default behaviour of accepting everything

2007-05-24 Thread Chad M Stewart
On May 24, 2007, at 8:35 AM, Henning Brauer wrote: * Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-24 08:22]: rfc 2821 specifically forbids this behaviour. The DATA command can fail at only two points in the protocol exchange: - If there was no MAIL, or no RCPT, command, or all such command

Re: Routing errors in dual pf/carp firewall setup (no route to host)

2006-11-09 Thread Chad M Stewart
Can you send the output of netstat -rn? Maybe that'll help myself and others a little more. -Chad

whitelists & spamd-setup

2006-11-13 Thread Chad M Stewart
I'm missing something, but I can't figure out what. Below is the contents of the spamd.conf file, nothing but a simple whitelist. A connection from 10.37.129.2 gets directed to spamd, but the IP should have been put into spamd-white by spamd-setup, at least that was what I expected but cl

Re: whitelists & spamd-setup

2006-11-14 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Nov 13, 2006, at 10:03 PM, Darrin Chandler wrote: My understanding about spamd-setup and spamd.conf is that whitelists are removed from blacklists defined in spamd.conf. That is to say, before spamd-setup puts black entries in table it removes anything defined in whitelists. This is NOT th

Re: Problem with grey listing

2006-11-15 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Nov 15, 2006, at 1:47 PM, Eric Merkel wrote: My greylisting system has been running fine for about a month but recently run I've into a problem with greylisting. I had someone tell me that an email they sent to me bounced. Looking at the log file (shown below) it appears that their email serv

Re: openbsd 4.0 installation on soekris box: i am desperated.

2006-11-18 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Nov 17, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Gustavo Rios wrote: I am trying to get openbsd installed in my net4801 box. I can pxeboot it, and get bsd.rd readed from my tftp server. But, the problem is that when i choose installtion by means of ftp. It is too slow to download them, in the order of 4 to 5 KB/s.

Re: please chek my pf

2006-09-28 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Sep 28, 2006, at 7:34 AM, sonjaya wrote: i have bsd machine run as gateway + proxy ( running for internet acces n dns forom my lan ) i want create rule , all internet request by proxy working fine , but i see in pftop some protocol such as p2p aplication pass my gateway , how to block it . p2

Re: Xen?

2006-09-28 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Sep 28, 2006, at 1:26 PM, bofh wrote: On 9/28/06, James Blasius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I listened to Christoph Egger's podcast on openbsd + xen. Yowza. Is this a 4.1 timeframe item? People who do this need to be spanked!!! 8-) Come on, at least give us a URL... I think he m

Re: Running spamd/greylisting on multiple mail servers

2006-09-28 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Sep 28, 2006, at 5:04 PM, Eric Merkel wrote: Would it make more sense to have one system acting as the firewalling bridge in front of the email servers or should I use two bridges? My gut instinct says it would be easier to have one bridge so that I wouldn't have to keep the spamdb synced bet

relayd - configuration issue

2008-06-10 Thread Chad M Stewart
Running 4.3-stable. I am trying to setup relayd as a reverse proxy and have a fail back table. When I enable the fail back table, relayd complains table already specified. # cat /tmp/relay.test.conf ## Macros # relayd_addr="127.0.0.1" relayd_reverse_port="8080" ## Global Options # prefor

Re: recommendation for router (COMMELL)

2008-09-22 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Sep 17, 2008, at 12:49 AM, Aaron Stellman wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:20:08PM -0400, Steve Shockley wrote: Juan Miscaro wrote: Has anyone any experience running OpenBSD on this puppy: http://www.commell-sys.com/Product/IPC/EMB-564.htm I'm looking for a replacement for my tower that

hoststated - some questions

2007-12-05 Thread Chad M Stewart
I am working with hoststated and trying to figure out if it will work for what I want to do. I have some questions that I hope people can answer for me. kern.version=OpenBSD 4.2-stable (GENERIC) #0: Sun Dec 2 13:43:16 GMT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC

Re: not to use pool.ntp.org setup in default configuration.

2007-12-10 Thread Chad M Stewart
On Dec 10, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Daniel Ouellet wrote: Just passing what I found and the request of ntp.org in that regard, nothing more. Further down on http://www.pool.ntp.org/vendors.html I found Open source projects Open Source projects are of course particularly welcome to use the pool i