Re: OpenBSD VPS hoster with unlimited/limited nonfiltered traffic

2020-05-08 Thread Rich Kulawiec
(This is a cut-and-paste of something I sent in response to a similar question about FreeBSD last month.) I've been a customer of Panix (panix.com) for years and they're terrific. Inexpensive, flexible, responsive support, VERY high clue level, and proactive about patches/fixes. (There have been

Re: Why on earth would online voting be insecure?

2016-11-16 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 05:52:51PM -0500, Alan Corey wrote: > It seems simple to me [...] It seems simple because you haven't studied voting systems and their requirements for privacy, security, integrity, reliability, etc. You have also failed to consider that the privacy, security, integrity,

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:55:13AM +0400, open...@e-solutions.re wrote: I want to install a mailserver. What is the easiest and the most secure solution ? OpenBSD comes with Sendmail. I seen a lot of people use Postfix instead Sendmail. Is there someone to advice me about the choice of the

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Rich Kulawiec
Qmail is best-known among everyone equipped with sufficient experience as the cause of numerous operational issues and a fair amount of abuse thanks to a number of very poor design and implementation decisions. Many of these have been discussed over the year in exhaustive detail on the appropriate

Re: OT: opinions on IDS / IPS solutions

2010-02-19 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:59:05PM -0500, Jason Beaudoin wrote: As I often have greater respect for a much larger portion of this list than the rest of the internet, I am curious what is thought about current IDS/IPS hardware from vendors like Trustwave, Checkpoint, Alert Logic, mod_security,

Re: Dump levels ?

2010-02-19 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:54:55PM +0100, Jean-Francois wrote: Is it possible to clarify what resides behind the concept of levels regarding dump(8) ? For me the level 0 is understood to be a complete dump of all files on at a given mount point and all subdirectories. But I can't figure out

Re: OT, .. but has anyone seen a crontab editor

2010-02-19 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:21:12AM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote: No, that isn't going to work. This isn't some elitist club - if we can't provide a simple, sane, safe way for a [priviledged] user to push a backup image out to a DR server, than *we* have failed as technologists. There's nothing

Re: Backup strategies

2009-01-31 Thread Rich Kulawiec
If you can set up a common data repository and if you can ensure that you always update that repository when you're finished working on computer A before moving to computer B, then that may be the best method for keeping your working set of files synchronized. If in addition to that you need

Re: MS and OpenBSD interportability, a lil list with patented and non patented protocols

2008-04-24 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:48:30AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently read about MS and there's a Blog wich claims (it includes a list) that like 80% of all MS server protocols are not patented right now. This, if true, could propably handy for some developers or anybody else to

Re: Sendmail OpenBSD performance

2008-04-24 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:18:34AM -0400, Morris, Roy wrote: I know this is not exactly a OpenBSD question but I am wondering if anyone can give me a sense of the performance/limitations of sendmail? Basically I have a machine that sends out 20,000 mails a day and once and a while the

Re: Sendmail OpenBSD performance

2008-04-24 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:17:50AM -0400, Morris, Roy wrote: Yes, thanks I have stats running on the DNS server and dedicated bind server on each mail machine, which I would have thought plenty of horse power. Okay, then maybe it's not DNS. The next step might be to check your sendmail logs

Re: Replace sendmail with qmail?

2007-12-01 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:27:32AM -0800, Matthew Dempsky wrote: Is there any interest in replacing sendmail with it to remove another component from the src/gnu/ hierarchy? I strongly recommend against this. There's no need for it, and anyone who insists on running qmail (a course of action