Peter N. M. Hansteen @pitrh@mastodon.social

Staying up later than my usual bedtime I see a message actually inboxing somewhere I read that should not see anything incoming and my blacklist swelling as indication that https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-sextortion-scams-numbers-show-that.html is still happening. Here's hoping it turns out teachable.

What security does a default OpenBSD installation offer? (by solene@) https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210228113547 #OpenBSD

dhcpleased(8) - DHCP client daemon https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210227232424 #openbsd

dhcpleased(8) - DHCP client daemon https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210227232424

ICYMI: If you do not want a domain to receive any mail, there is a way to be at last somewhat civil about it. There's a different DNS trick for that.

RFC7505 and a few notes https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/02/rfc7505-means-yes-your-domain-can.html

resolvd(8) - daemon to handle nameserver configuration
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210225084959 #openbsd

Introducing veb(4) - a new Virtual Ethernet Bridge https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210223111210 #openbsd

Introducing veb(4) - a new Virtual Ethernet Bridge https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210223111210

ICYMI: That grumpy BSD guy: RFC7505 Means Yes, Your Domain Can Refuse to Handle Mail. Please Leave Us a TXT If You Do. https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/02/rfc7505-means-yes-your-domain-can.html with thanks to @thorsheim for a flash reminder of that actually useful RFC

That grumpy BSD guy: RFC7505 Means Yes, Your Domain Can Refuse to Handle Mail. Please Leave Us a TXT If You Do. https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/02/rfc7505-means-yes-your-domain-can.html (with thanks to @thorsheim for reminding me of that actually useful RFC)

OpenBSD booting multi-user on Apple M1 https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210221110355

Oh, it's that time of the month or something:

Feb 19 14:19:24 skapet sshd[1336]: Failed password for invalid user / from 203.128.242.166 port 46516 ssh2

Catchup 2021-02-13 https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210213151034

We are now at 6.9-beta, go for snapshots, test! https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210210113553

One more for the #Hailmary chronicles: a glance at recent ssh password guesser logs shows a lot of attempts with 1 or 2 character user names (log for Feb so far https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/newpart.txt) -- weird, why would that be a winning strategy? (notes on previous: https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-hail-mary-cloud-and-lessons-learned.html)

BREAKING pf(4) change: change route-to so it sends packets to IPs instead of interfaces. https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210201231420

I find a measure of comfort in seeing that mailer-daemon at several of domains I admin has made it onto the address lists of somebot claiming to be an amorous woman wanting attention via registering on their website.

OpenBSD KDE Status Report https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210124113220

ujoy(4) added to -current https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210123115934