It was a peaceful Saturday morning. The sun was out. The skies were blue. A few birds were singing. Overall it was one of those beautiful late May days here in Chicagoland. I was completely unaware that coming my way was attack which no mere mortal could stand in the way of, the slashdot effect was heading my way.
I began by thinking that my broadband connection was just a little slow.
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Addendum: How the Data Was Analyzed This section of information is really part of the article. It’s more just a reference for those of you who might want more information on how the data was analyzed. This section shows the tricks that I used so if you get slashdotted you can figure out what happened too.
The first piece of required information was to get just the views of the article in question.
Background Most true Unix geeks will recognize just how nice LPD is as a distributed queueing mechanism for managing all jobs sent to the printer. It has a beautiful simplicity to it, and some mean power to go along with it. It’s a difficult beast to tame, but once you understand it, everything will start coming out exactly like you want it.
But, what most people don’t realize is that LPD can be used for other things too.
In yesterday’s article I wrote about how to get OpenBSD and IPv6 to play nicely together, so you could get some basic applications running. Today, I’m going to go into some more depth and tell about how to get some applications going.
Finding Hostnames One of the most basic things that you’ll want to do is look up hostnames on the Internet. For IPv4 an address record is an A record, for IPv6 it is an AAAA record.
After some mucking around, I’ve gotten IPv6 and OpenBSD to play nicely together. Furthermore, I’ve got my OpenBSD box acting as a router for my other computers behind it, as such they all have globally addressable ipv6 addresses now too. I got a lot of help from Carl Brewer’s page on making a 6bone router using OpenBSD, but needed to do some small modifications to account for the changes between OpenBSD 2.
There used to be a good page at 2600 Australia about how to set up IPv6 with OpenBSD, sadly that page is gone. However, I did find a little gem from SANS about Building an IPv6 Firewall with OpenBSD. It looks a little up to date as it uses OpenBSD 3.0 (3.3 is the current version right now). Anyway, when I get all mine set up all nice, I’ll post a good walkthrough on how to do it.
I think that the migration of my website to the openbsd server has been successful. It took a lot longer than I wanted because first I had the two ethernet cards in the firewall mislabelled, then one wasn’t accepting DHCP addresses. Now it seems like everything is all cool. I must say, pf is a very cool piece of software.
Anyway, there still are a few things that need to be taken care of on the system.
Today’s award Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf award for public misinformation goes to SCO. They’ve been involved in this whole Linux lawsuit for (use Dr. Evil voice here) $1 billion dollars (end Dr. Evil voice) against IBM. Anyway, SCO has a page with quotes from Linux leaders on their web page. Here are some of the gems of the quotes:
“Linux is a copy of UNIX. There is very little new stuff in Linux.
Just a little note, I hope to be migrating this site back to OpenBSD this weekend. It’s finally the end of the semester and I should have some time to get my old OpenBSD server back up an running. That should alleviate some of the risks that I currently take with having my linux desktop act as the router.
I’m not entirely sure if this is spam or not. It’s pretty funny if it’s meant to be. Someone must have ummm…issues…
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