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

Are you looking for a simple operating system tailored to help you participate in all aspects of the global Internet? Allow me to pitch a project that produces free and modern implementations of the most popular Internet protocols! https://medium.com/@jobsnijders/openbsd-6-7-255517d396d6

OpenBSD 6.7 and ffs2 FAQs https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200528091634

This year's edition of EuroBSDCon has been cancelled. We are aiming to be back with a new edition in 2021 in Vienna, likely September https://2020.eurobsdcon.org/

Installation images renamed from .fs to .img https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200520093232

OpenBSD 6.7 Released https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200519141751

First seed for OpenBSD/powerpc64 planted by kettenis@ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200518063754

Undeadly now also supports TLS 1.3 https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200514130641

Using qemu guest agent on OpenBSD kvm/qemu guests https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200514073852

WireGuard patchset for OpenBSD https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200512080047

TLSv1.3 server code enabled in LibreSSL in -current https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200512074150

Catch up 2020-04-30 https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200430063556

Things are returning to normal. The bots with username and passwords columns switched around are back:

Apr 19 12:50:47 skapet sshd[52705]: Failed password for invalid user HHaannjewygbwerybv from 92.246.76.177 port 19714 ssh2

Wow. I just had a new comment on my 2012 article "Why Not Use Port Knocking" https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2012/04/why-not-use-port-knocking.html, essentially saying "YOU'RE WRONG!!!". Oh, the effort they put in.

I take this as early warning .cn is worse off than announced, possibly early second wave of #covid19:
Apr 2 20:53:32 skapet sshd[93041]: Failed password for root from 62.234.44.43 port 40720 ssh2
Apr 2 21:00:21 skapet sshd[20932]: Failed password for invalid user 0 from 31.184.199.114 port 40443 ssh2
Apr 2 22:39:58 skapet sshd[25200]: Failed password for root from 111.21.99.227 port 52060 ssh2

hint: several thousand attempts would have been expeced

Booting from an FFS2 filesystem https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200326083657

Bob Beck Interview from EuroBSDCon 2018 https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200324162615

Possibly #covid19 related, there were no new usernames turning up from ssh password guessers during the first 11 days of this month. Now we've gone 2 days without new made up email return addresses turning up. That's all from this little weird corner of the Internet.

I hear colleagues worrying about spamvertized #COVID19 based scams appearing. But I'm not seeing them so far. In fact there has been no noticeable upware change in the number of entries in any of the badness lists we maintain (see https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2018/08/badness-enumerated-by-robots.html for a condensed summary).

My logs indicate that China is recovering from #covid19. The ssh password guessers are coming back and making up new imaginary friends again after a hiatus of surprisingly many days.

The @eurobsdcon 2020 call for papers and presentations is open -https://2020.eurobsdcon.org/call-for-papers/ - submit before May 24th, 2020 and join us in Vienna in September!