OpenSSH 5.4 released

Contributed by weerd on Tue Mar 9 07:27:47 2010 (GMT) from the hush-hush dept. Damien Miller (djm@) posted to announce@ with the announcement of OpenSSH 5.4. Some highlights of this release are the disabling of protocol 1 by default, certificate authentication, a new 'netcat mode', many changes on the sftp front (both client and server) and a collection of assorted bugfixes. The new release can already be found on a large number of mirrors and of course on www.openssh.com. Please read on for the full release announcement: Read more...

Loongson port about to make 4.7

Contributed by weerd on Mon Mar 1 16:43:59 2010 (GMT) from the here-be-dragons dept. Some time ago, we featured an article with a request for hardware. Specifically, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse (jasper@) was looking for a Lemote Yeeloong and Otto Moerbeek (otto@) had recently received one from a donor to work on the Loongson port. Jasper had his Yeelong sponsored by two donors and received his machine less than two weeks after the article was posted. Quite a few commits have hit the tree (eg. here, here, and here) since then, mostly from otto and miod for src/ and jasper for ports/ and it looks like the 4.7 release will feature an OpenBSD/Loongson port that should work on the Lemote Yeeloong, the Lemote Fuloong and the EMTEC Gdium. Undeadly followed up on the donations and asked Miod Vallat (miod@), Otto and Jasper about the porting efforts, please read on for their story: Read more...

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OpenBSD keepin' it real at SCALE 8x

Contributed by weerd on Sun Feb 21 00:54:10 2010 (GMT) from the life-scale dept. Seth Fulton writes in about the SCALE 8x conference in Los Angeles, that is happening at this moment: OpenBSD will be represented again this year at SCALE 8x in Los Angeles. Stop the exhibitor booth and say hi if you're attending, buy some merch, or perhaps ogle our fully clothed booth babe. (or celebrate the fact that we at least have one). If you live near LA and covet a last minute opportunity to attend the conference, I've got some extra passes to dole out if you'd like to help staff the booth for at least 4 hours on Saturday or Sunday. For more information contact Seth at 619-630-7384

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Ports tree locked for 4.7

Contributed by maxime on Tue Feb 23 22:37:42 2010 (GMT) from the keys-to-locks dept. Update (Tue Feb 23 20:11:00 CEST 2010): Jasper has unlocked the ports tree for a select group of people for "a bit longer". On January 12, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse (jasper@) announced that the ports tree has switched in softlock mode, meaning that users were welcome to test and report bugs. Now, on February 17, he announced on the ports@ mailing-list that the ports tree has been locked for the upcoming OpenBSD 4.7 release. Please read on for Jasper's message: Read more...

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iSCSI hardware needed in Switzerland

Contributed by weerd on Sat Feb 13 08:50:13 2010 (GMT) from the i-am-so-very-scsi dept. Recently, Claudio Jeker (claudio@) added his request for an iSCSI-capable SAN device to want.html. This was a fairly low profile addition to want.html, so David Gwynne (dlg@) made it more obvious with an e-mail to misc@. Please read on for David's full mail: Read more...

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Hackers in need of hardware

Contributed by weerd on Wed Jan 27 22:16:27 2010 (GMT) from the mips-r-us dept. Bret Lambert (blambert@), your friendly OpenBSD hacker in Norway, writes in about some hardware requests that have been added to want.html recently. The requests focus on (for now) unsupported or partially supported hardware that is under active development. Machines like the Lemote Yeelong, more SGI hardware and USB infrared dongles are being asked for and Bret asked some of his fellow developers why they requested this gear. Please read on for their replies. Read more...

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Call for testing: pcc and the OpenBSD kernel

Contributed by weerd on Tue Dec 29 06:48:31 2009 (GMT) from the 32-more-bits dept. Michael Dexter from BSD Fund writes in with an update on pcc developments: Anders Magnusson (ragge@) reports that pcc can now build a bootable OpenBSD -current x86 kernel and that amd64 support is coming soon. Your testing using a fresh snapshot is greatly appreciated. Please report any bugs in the pcc bug database and be as precise as possible. Code samples are welcome. We'd like to thank Jonathan Gray (jsg@) for finding many code-generation bugs that were revealed by the kernel and also the dozen donors who contributed a total of over $750 to this effort this month, bringing us less than $3,000 from our goal. This is great news for software projects in general, as it is another step to try to diminish the GCC monoculture and for OpenBSD specifically as this marks the first architecture kernel that can be compiled with this compiler with hopefully many more to come.

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ospf6d -- Going Crazy with IPv6

Contributed by weerd on Thu Dec 24 16:00:51 2009 (GMT) from the routing-with-larger-addresses dept. Claudio Jeker (claudio@), our favourite network hacker from Zürich, Switzerland, writes in with a story about his work on ospf6d: A few days ago I decided it was time to enable ldpd(8) and ospf6d(8) in the builds since without additional attention they will never get finished. ldpd still needs a kernel with option MPLS enabled to be usable but this does not really matter here. This is about ospf6d and what drives me crazy about IPv6. Check out the rest of Claudio's adventures in IPv6 land below. Read more...

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Tunnelling out of corporate networks (Part 4)

Contributed by mtu on Tue Dec 15 12:04:02 2009 (GMT) from the the-end-is-near dept. Tunnelling out of corporate networks - logs, collection and analysis I haven't heard too many people say good things about log analysis or monitoring but in reality it can be really simple and effective. More importantly, if you take the necessary steps to reduce your network to exposure to malware, log monitoring becomes really easy and fun. Read on to find out more about how we collect and analyse logs: Read more...

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