Openbsd

After doing a bit of research, and some trial and error as well, I finally found a GPU that works well in high resolution on OpenBSD 7.2 — and the upcoming FreeBSD 14.0 as well: the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT. There are certainly cheaper GPU’s available — and I…

A year's worth of logs yields entertaining but unsurprising findings about spammer behavior. Returning readers will be almost painfully aware that here at nxdomain.no (also known as bsdly.net) we host and maintain a blocklist, which in turn is the product of traffic that hits our mail system with attempts at…

The OpenBSD packet filter PF was introduced a little more than 20 years ago as part of OpenBSD 3.0. We’ll take a short tour of PF features and tools that I have enjoyed using. NOTE: If you are more of a slides person, the condensate for a SEMIBUG user group…

In which we confront the pundits’ assumption that the embarrasment-based extortion attempts would grow more “sophisticated and credible” over time with real data. It’s a problem that should not exist. It’s a scam that’s so obvious it should not work. Yet we still see a stream of reports about people…

The unplanned delay Certainly, I would have done updates of packages earlier, but my workflow was delayed by some unfortunate events that at a glance seemed to have vanished my build environments in a mysterious way, but it turned out to have been hidden by design. Sort of. Well, this…

We are going to be setting up a Bastion Host (or colloquially a ‘Jumpbox’) for our cloud infrastructure. This should be the entry point for all future server, database, and load balancing systems. The purpose of Bastion Hosts is simple and for one reason: to only allow the ability to…

I’ve made an effort to try to port v1.24.4 of Kubernets for both FreeBSD and OpenBSD this time, besides updated the illumos port. Although I have still to experiement with FreeBSD (more than executing the binaries) - they compiled clean and I expect them to behave in similar fashion as…

These are defined by system’s syslogd daemon in its syslog.conf configuration file. messages: acting as a catch-all file (Facility: * all) auth.log: sshd, sudo, proftpd (Facility: auth and authpriv) Called authlog and secure in OpenBSD, respectively. maillog: postfix, sqlgrey (Facility: mail) cron: cron (facility cron) Called log and put into /var/cron…

My blog gets generated with Hugo, which I’m generally happy with. Until recently, I hosted the static files on Netlify but now decided to get my own little server again. There are two main reasons for this: I actually missed doing some sysadmin work. The Internet was supposed to be…