That grumpy BSD guy

Field notes and occasional musings by Peter on Stuff that happens, from a free software perspective, mainly OpenBSD, FreeBSD.

Sunday, August 27, 2017

Twenty-plus years on, SMTP callbacks are still pointless and need to die

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A rarely used legacy misfeature of the main Internet email protocol creeps back from irrelevance as a minor annoyance. You should ask your ...
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Monday, July 10, 2017

OpenBSD and the modern laptop

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Did you think that OpenBSD is suitable only for firewalls and high-security servers? Think again. Here are my steps to transform a modern m...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Forcing the password gropers through a smaller hole with OpenBSD's PF queues

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While preparing material for the upcoming BSDCan PF and networking tutorial 1) , I realized that the pop3 gropers were actually not much fu...
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Monday, January 9, 2017

A New Year, a New Round of pop3 Gropers from China

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They've got a list, and they're sticking to it. Do they even know or care it's my list of spamtraps? Yes, the Chinese are at ...
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Thursday, December 22, 2016

So somebody is throwing HTML at your sshd. What to do?

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Yes, it's exactly as wrong as it sounds. Here's a distraction with bizarre twists for the true log file junkies among you. Happy rea...
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Puffyist, daemon charmer, penguin wrangler. Wrote The Book of PF (4th ed out now, see https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition), rants on sanity in IT (lack of) at https://bsdly.blogspot.com/. Please read https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/rentageek.html before contacting.
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