IPSEC out in DragonFly
IPSEC hasn’t been maintained in basically forever in DragonFly, so it’s been removed. It was only still mentioned in the VKERNEL configs, so if you have a custom VKERNEL config file, remove any mention of IPSEC, IPSEC_ESP, or IPSEC_DEBUG. Otherwise, nothing to worry about.
Reduce on DragonFly and other BSDs
Reduce, the “second oldest computer algebra system”, has been ported to DragonFly (and there’s work on other BSDs). The post about this has lots of links to more information; if you’re a Maple or Mathematica user, this will definitely interest you.
NetBSD 8.0 Release Candidate 1 availa...
On behalf of the NetBSD project, it is my pleasure to announce the first
release candidate of NetBSD 8.0.
Many changes have been made since 7.0. Here are a few highlights:
- USB stack rework, USB3 support added
- In-kernel audio mixer
- Reproducible builds
- PaX MPROTECT (W^X) memory protection enforced by default on some
architect [...]
Perl @INC – customizing it for FreeBS...
This post is all about creating technical debt. If you accept that, go for it. I’m avoiding porting my FreshPorts scripts into SITEPERL. Why? I’ll migrate them to SITEPERL after BSDCan & PGCon. Right now, I need to get the servers upgraded from Perl 5.24 to Perl 5.26, because 5.24 is deprecated.
FreshPorts uses Perl for p [...]
Lazy Reading for 2018/04/22
Accidental theme this week… video games, though not strongly.
Eaten by a Grue, the Infocom podcast. There’s a lot to listen to here. (thanks, swildner)
Urbigenous Library. There’s a lot to read here.
Modern-Day BBSing on an Epson CP/M-based Laptop from 1984. (via)
Jengo, a new point-and-click game.
Dwarf Fortress dwarve [...]
OpenBSD Errata: April 21st, 2018 (lib...
Errata patches for libtls have been released for OpenBSD 6.3.
Additional data is inadvertently removed when private keys are cleared from
TLS configuration, which can prevent OCSP from functioning correctly.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available via
the syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found on th [...]
OpenBSD Errata: April 21st, 2018 (htt...
Errata patches for httpd have been released for OpenBSD 6.2 and 6.3.
httpd can leak file descriptors when servicing range requests.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available via
the syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found on the respective
errata pages:
https://www.openbsd.org/errata62.html
https: [...]
OpenBSD Errata: April 21st, 2018 (gif...
Errata patches for the generic tunnel interface driver have been released
for OpenBSD 6.3.
In the gif(4) interface, use the specified protocol for IPv6, plug an mbuf
leak, and avoid a use after free.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available via
the syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found on the errata [...]
OpenBSD Errata: April 21st, 2018 (arp...
Errata patches for the kernel\'s Address Resolution Protocol implementation
have been released for OpenBSD 6.3.
ARP replies could be sent on the wrong member of a bridge(4) interface.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available via
the syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found on the errata page:
https: [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/04/21
Opinion time: The Reddit / Hacker News forums have reached the anything/everything point where there’s no longer a focus. Lobste.rs is worth visiting, though, for BSD content and in general.
MAP_STACK Stack Register Checking Committed to -current.
Nextcloud 13 on FreeBSD. (via)
Run OpenBSD on your web server. (via)
Introduction to [...]
BSDNow 242: Linux Takes The Fastpath
BSDNow 242 has no interview and the normal wide range of topics: TrueOS, F-Stack, jails, SmartOS, and most interesting to me, open source business model development with iXSystems.
New core team member – Taylor C...
After nearly 13 years on the NetBSD core team, Yamamoto Takeshi has decided
to step down. yamt has been a regular contributor to NetBSD, and we would
all like to thank him for his work, helping guide the project to where it
is now. It is safe to say that NetBSD would not be the same without his
quiet and (Read more...)
HAMMER2 dirty vnode management
A ‘dirty’ vnode is a disk data reference that has changed but hasn’t yet been committed to disk. This pair of commits adds a syncing threshold, useful for anyone with slower disk resources. Remember, disks lie.
OpenBSD Community Goes Gold for 2018!
Ken Westerback (krw@ when wearing his developer hat) writes:
Monthly paypal donations from the OpenBSD community have made the
community the
OpenBSD Foundation\'s first
Gold level contributor for
2018!
2018 is the third consecutive year that the community has reached
Gold status or better.
These monthly paypal commitments by the [...]
Hardware accelerated AES/HMAC-SHA on ...
In this commit, visa@ submitted code (disabled for now) to use built-in acceleration
on octeon CPUs, much like AESNI for x86s.
I decided to test tcpbench(1) and IPsec, before and after updating and enabling the octcrypto(4) driver.
Read more…
More cross-pollination
I like code that travels through multiple BSDs.
pkg-provides on DragonFly
There’s a plugin for pkg, called pkg-provides, which will tell you what package(s) contain the filename you provide – installed or not. I didn’t even know pkg had a plugin system. Anyway, it works on DragonFly, as the author notes.
Lazy Reading for 2018/04/15
No theme grew this week.
Conserve the Sound, “vanishing and endangered sounds”. (via)
Why does Twitter allow third-party clients? Another walled garden approach winding to its end stage.
z, a tool for navigating by regex. Odd, but powerful. (via)
Ikea-style instructions for programming algorithms. Not sure if this makes them [...]
OpenBSD Errata: April 14th, 2018 (per...
Errata patches for perl have been released for OpenBSD 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3.
Heap overflows exist in perl which can lead to segmentation faults,
crashes, and reading memory past the buffer.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available
via the syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found on the
respective errata p [...]
