a2k18 Hackathon preview: Syncookies c...
As you may have heard, the a2k18 hackathon is in progress. As can be seen from the commit messages, several items of goodness are being worked on.
One eagerly anticipated item is the arrival of TCP syncookies (read: another important tool in your anti-DDoS toolset) in PF. Henning Brauer (henning@) added the code in a series of commits (R [...]
HELBUG launch tomorrow
Another BSD User Group event tomorrow, the 7th: HELBUG, a brand new BUG starting in Helsinki, Finland. The announcement has details on where to find it and what they’ll be doing. Go, if you are near.
NYCBUG: Reproducible Builds, February...
This Wednesday, NYCBUG has Christos Zoulas speaking on “Reproducible Builds on NetBSD“. See the announcement for details. Go, if you are near New York City.
Setting up a SVN mirror
Setting up the svn mirrorJust following the steps inhttps://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/subversion-primer.htmlin the Setting up a svn mirror (5.4.7) but have found there\'s some issues...First step, grab the svn seed file% fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/subversion/svnmirror-base-r290116.t [...]
Recent Security Affairs
An update on the recent security affairs and how they are, or were, handled on
NetBSD
DEFCON 25 and 34c3
Ilja Van Sprundel presented at Defcon 25 (July 2017) and 34c3 (December 2017)
the results of his audit of the BSD kernels.
The issues affecting NetBSD were fixed overnight in the NetBSD-current branch,
and were propagated to the stabl [...]
Lazy Reading for 2018/02/04
I finally worked through my Lazy Reading link backlog.
Computer-generated books, a list.
Every Icon, eventually drawing every 32×32 monochrome image possible. I remember a 8×8 physical hardware version of this called All Possible Images, some years ago. Google doesn’t remember it, though, or chooses to give me links to API [...]
Remi Locherer’s EuroBSDcon 2017...
Remi Locherer wrote in:
Last September I gave a talk at EuroBSDcon in Paris. It was about the
VPN setup for connecting the branch offices of my employer.
https://2017.eurobsdcon.org/talk-speakers/#RemiLocherer
It was not my first EuroBSDcon but the first time I delivered a talk!
I feared that only few people will show up at to my talk [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/02/03
Whee!
The history of NetBSD/atari and support for ATARI compatible Milan. Not in English, but it’s a slide deck so lots of pictures. (via)
The OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign. “If a penny was donated for every pf or OpenSSH installed with a mainstream operating system or phone in the last year we would be (Read m [...]
OpenBSD Errata: February 2nd, 2018 (k...
Errata patches for a number of kernel issues have been released for
OpenBSD 6.2 and 6.1.
Specially crafted IPsec AH packets with IP options or IPv6 extension
headers could cause a crash or hang.
Processing IPv6 fragments could incorrectly access memory of an mbuf
chain that is not within an mbuf, which may cause a crash.
If the EtherIP tun [...]
BSDNow 231: Unix Architecture Evoluti...
BSDNow has made it so far that I have to double-check the episode number! In 231, they cover some history and some upcoming software work.
Outage today for DragonFly Digest
dragonflydigest.com is changing providers today, so the site may go missing for a while as DNS updates, and as I scramble my config.
The LLVM Sanitizers stage accomplishe...
I\'ve managed to get the Memory Sanitizer to work for the elementary base system utilities, like ps(1), awk(1) and ksh(1).
This means that the toolchain is ready for tests and improvements.
I\'ve iterated over the basesystem utilities and I looked for bugs, both in programs and in sanitizers.
The number of detected bugs in the userland progra [...]
Microcode updates for AMD too
If you don’t have an Intel CPU, but still want to perform microcode updates, cpucontrol(8) now supports more recent AMD CPUs.
Default kernel config changes
The default kernel config for DragonFly has changed: Sascha Wildner has added the acpi, gpio_acpi, gpio_intel, smbus and smbacp devices. If you are using a custom kernel, you’ll probably want to add these. If you aren’t using a custom kernel – you should have no negative effect.
FreeBSD cumulative commit graphs
FreeBSD Commit GraphI\'ve updated an old graph from a talk I gave in 2010 to have data up through today. The rate of development seems fairly steady.When last I did this release, stable branches were flatter and lived longer. Now there\'s a fair amount of activity after the branch that continues for years.Note: The hash marks are (Read more. [...]
em(4)/emx(4) update in DragonFly
Sepherosa Ziehau’s updated the em(4) driver for Intel network cards, with the 7.6.2 release directly from Intel. For once, Intel news not related to CPU hardware bugs.
The OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraisi...
Details of the
2018 campaign have been added to the Foundation\'s website. The goal for the
year is for $300,000. The total for "smaller" donations has already
taken the OpenBSD community to bronze level sponsorship!
Please show your support by contributing.
Lazy Reading for 2018/01/28
I’m already filling in next week’s Lazy Reading links, there’s so much.
An Open Letter to the Perl Community. Getting from Perl 5 to Perl 6. (via)
chart.business. (via)
Teaching an Almost 40-year Old UNIX about Backspace. (via)
khal, a terminal calendar. (via kerma on EFNet #dragonflybsd)
10 PRINT, (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2018/01/27
Done last minute on Friday, mostly.
grep your way to freedom. (via)
Guides: Getting Started & Lumina Theme Submissions.
Exploring permutations and a mystery with BSD and GNU split filenames. (via)
pfSense home unit. Follow the thread for some interesting hardware suggestions, including this one.
OpenBSD <-> projectors. In case [...]
