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4: Teskeing the Possibilities

September 25, 2013 36:22 26.19 MB Downloads: 0

This week we’re at EuroBSDCon (http://2013.eurobsdcon.org/), so we’ve just got an interview for you today. BSD Now will be back next week with a normal episode and lots of stories from the conference. We’ll also try to get some more interviews there. For today, though, we talk to Devin Teske about his work with bsdinstall, bsdconfig and all the other interesting things he’s been up to lately. Interview - Devin Teske - dteske@freebsd.org (mailto:dteske@freebsd.org) / @devinteske (https://twitter.com/devinteske) bsdconfig, bsdinstall, sysrc and fdpv

3: MX with TTX

September 18, 2013 1:01:16 44.11 MB Downloads: 0

We follow up last week's poudriere tutorial with a segment about using pkgng, we talk with the developers of OpenSMTPD about running a mail server OpenBSD-style, answer YOUR questions and, of course, discuss all the latest news. All that and more on BSD Now! The place to B... SD. Headlines pfSense 2.1-RELEASE is out (http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=712) Now based on FreeBSD 8.3 Lots of IPv6 features added Security updates, bug fixes, driver updates PBI package support Way too many updates to list, see the full list (https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/2.1_New_Features_and_Changes) *** New kernel based iSCSI stack comes to FreeBSD (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2013-September/044237.html) Brief explanation of iSCSI This work replaces the older userland iscsi target daemon and improves the in-kernel iscsi initiator Target layer consists of: ctld(8), a userspace daemon responsible for handling configuration, listening for incoming connections, etc, then handing off connections to the kernel after the iSCSI Login phase iSCSI frontend to CAM Target Layer, which handles Full Feature phase. The work is being sponsored by FreeBSD Foundation Commit here (http://freshbsd.org/commit/freebsd/r255570) *** MTier creates openup utility for OpenBSD (http://www.mtier.org/index.php/solutions/apps/openup/) MTier provides a number of things for the OpenBSD community For example, regularly updated (for security) stable packages from their custom repo openup is a utility to easily check for security updates in both base and packages It uses the regular pkg tools, nothing custom-made Can be run from cron, but only emails the admin instead of automatically updating *** OpenSSH in FreeBSD -CURRENT supports DNSSEC (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2013-September/007180.html) OpenSSH in base is now compiled with DNSSEC support In this case the default setting for ‘VerifyHostKeyDNS' is yes OpenSSH will silently trust DNSSEC-signed SSHFP records It is the secteam's opinion that this is better than teaching users to blindly hit “yes” each time they encounter a new key *** Interview - Gilles Chehade & Eric Faurot - gilles@poolp.org (mailto:gilles@poolp.org) / @poolpOrg (https://twitter.com/poolpOrg) & eric@openbsd.org (mailto:eric@openbsd.org) / @opensmtpd (https://twitter.com/opensmtpd) OpenSMTPD Tutorial Binary packages with pkgng (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/pkgng) News Roundup New progress with Newcons (http://raybsd.blogspot.com/2013/08/newcons-beginning.html) Newcons is a replacement console driver for FreeBSD Supports unicode, better graphics modes and bigger fonts Progress is being made, but it's not finished yet *** relayd gets PFS support (http://freshbsd.org/commit/openbsd/7e7bd0a7f61ea0005b5c2f763364ff8dfce03fe2) relayd is a load balancer for OpenBSD which does protocol layers 3, 4, and 7 Currently being ported to FreeBSD. There is a WIP port (https://www.freshports.org/net/relayd/) Works by negotiating ECDHE (Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman) between the remote site and relayd to enable TLS/SSL Perfect Forward Secrecy, even when the client does not support it *** OpenZFS Launches (http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page) Slides from LinuxCon (http://www.slideshare.net/MatthewAhrens/open-zfs-linuxcon) Will feature ‘Office Hours' (Ask an Expert) Goal is to reduce the differences between various open source implementations of ZFS, both user facing and pure lines of code *** FreeBSD 10-CURRENT becomes 10.0-ALPHA (http://freshbsd.org/commit/freebsd/r255489) Glen Barber tagged the -CURRENT branch as 10.0-ALPHA In preparation for 10.0-RELEASE, ALPHA2 as of 9/16 Everyone was rushing to get their big commits in before 10-STABLE, which will be branched soon 10 is gonna be HUGE (https://wiki.freebsd.org/WhatsNew/FreeBSD10) *** September issue of BSD Mag (http://bsdmag.org/magazine/1848-day-to-day-bsd-administration) BSD Mag is a monthly online magazine about the BSDs This month's issue has some content written by Kris Topics include MidnightBSD live cds, server maintenance, turning a Mac Mini into a wireless access point with OpenBSD, server monitoring, FreeBSD programming, PEFS encryption and a brief introduction to ZFS *** The FreeBSD IRC channel is official For many years, the FreeBSD freenode channel has been “unofficial” with a double-hash prefix Finally it has freenode's blessing and looks like a normal channel! The old one will forward to the new one, so your IRC clients don't need updating *** OpenSSH 6.3 released (https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2013-September/031638.html) After a big delay, Damien Miller announced the release of 6.3 Mostly a bugfix release, with a few new features Of note, SFTP now supports resuming failed downloads via -a *** Feedback/Questions [James writes in](http://slexy.org/view/s2wBbbSWGz] [Elias writes in](http://slexy.org/view/s2LMDF3PYx] [Gabor writes in](http://slexy.org/view/s2aCodo65X] Possibly the coolest feedback we've gotten thus far: Baptiste Daroussin, leader of the FreeBSD ports management team and author of poudriere and pkgng, has put up the BSD Now poudriere tutorial on the official documentation! ***

2: Engineering and Powder Kegs

September 11, 2013 1:40:54 72.64 MB Downloads: 0

After a wildly successful debut episode, BSD Now is BACK to talk with Glen Barber from the FreeBSD Release team, show you how to build your own binary package repository and discuss the latest BSD news! Headlines 64bit time in OpenBSD (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20130813072244) Many operating systems face an upcoming challenge, similar to (but more complicated than) Y2K: Y2038. All of the BSDs and most other operating systems track time by counting the seconds since Jan 1st, 1970. In 2038 this value will reach the maximum value of a signed 32 bit integer. Simply changing to a 64 bit counter may not be the best solution, because there may still be 32 bit systems in use for embedded applications Theo will be giving the keynote at EuroBSDCon on the subject, explaining how OpenBSD has implemented the solution ABI incompatibility. Updating to this kernel requires extra work or you won't be able to login: install a snapshot instead. Upgrading by source is for the insane only. (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html#20130813) AESNI pipelining gets a speed boost (http://freshbsd.org/commit/freebsd/r255187) AES-NI is a new processor instruction available on modern Intel and AMD chips that provides hardware acceleration for AES encryption and decryption. This feature is especially useful for encrypted disks, because it removes most of the performance penalty traditionally associated with encryption The new commit has the instructions pipelined, so there is no latency between the instructions Uses SSE2 instructions for calculating XTS tweak factor for further increased performance GELI based disk encryption performance increased by 3x on capable CPUs Should affect PEFS and other AES backed encryption schemes as well Full disk encryption should be more or less transparent now *** OpenBSD 5.4 Preorders (http://openbsd.org/orders.html) Every 6 months there is a new OpenBSD version They include a fun song and nicely-packaged CD set The proceeds from sale of these products is the primary funding of the OpenBSD project The official ISOs will be uploaded on November 1st *** GCC no longer built by default on FreeBSD -CURRENT (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=255321) On platforms where clang is the default compiler, don't build gcc or libstdc++ GCC is still enabled on PC98, because the PC98 bootloader requires GCC to build While the base FreeBSD system has been built by clang for a long time, this change also covers the ports tree *** Patch to update Xorg and MESA on FreeBSD (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2013-September/013599.html) Updates xorg drivers Expected to be committed in about 2 weeks Adds option to use devd instead of HAL for X configuration Updates the MESA stack (9.1.6), libGL, DRI, etc Enables KMS for AMD/ATI cards Mesa 9.2 is available with xorg-dev, OpenBSD has also recently upgraded to Mesa 9.2 for their stable version of Xorg *** Interview - Glen Barber - gjb@freebsd.org (mailto:gjb@freebsd.org) / @evilgjb (https://twitter.com/evilgjb) FreeBSD Release Engineering Tutorial Making your own binary repository (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/poudriere) The Place to B...SD iXsystems hosts FreeBSD Anniversary party (http://www.ixsystems.com/resources/ix/news/ixsystems-to-once-again-host-freebsd-anniversary-celebration.html) Celebrating FreeBSD’s 20th anniversary Saturday, November 2nd at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco Notable FreeBSD figures will contribute words of wisdom on the past, present, and future of FreeBSD *** News Roundup NetBSD gets basic support for the cubieboard 1 & 2 (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2013/09/04/msg047155.html) Very preliminary support for cubieboard 1 & 2 based on the Allwinner A10 & A20 SoCs Many drivers are "stubs with autoconf glue" Contributed by Matt Thomas *** Rayservers ditches Linux for BSD (http://rayservers.com/blog/the-freebsd-daemon-is-off-to-do-battle-in-the-name-of-christ) Used them all, Windows, Mac, OpenBSD, Linux Needed PF, ZFS, disk encryption, lots of networking features, better security In Linux, "The new cgroups based memory management ran out of memory - on a 256 GB RAM system whilst it was not using more than 40." BSD now protects the privacy of their email users *** HPN for OpenSSH 6.2 (https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2013-August/031614.html) High Performance Networking (http://www.psc.edu/index.php/hpn-ssh) is an SSH patchset to improve transfer speeds by removing the fixed window size and take better advantage of TCP Maintained as a patchset separate from OpenSSH First integrated into FreeBSD base as of 9.0 Updated to support 6.2 (available in the ports tree as security/openssh-portable) The HPN patch set also includes threaded AES-CTR support to increase performance and take advantage of multiple CPU cores for encryption. In this latest patch, threaded AES-CTR now works in all situations (it failed in some specific situations previously). Expected performance increase is ~50% NONE cipher is now separate from the main patch set. The NONE cipher allows tools like scp and sftp to switch off the encryption for file transfers (when specifically told to do so) to keep encryption from bottlenecking performance and wasting CPU time *** Call for testing: OpenSSH-6.3 (https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2013-July/031550.html) Mostly a bugfix release SFTP now supports resuming partially-downloaded or uploaded transfers More logging features Six weeks after the initial email, still no release. des@ is not pleased. *** pkgsrc gets signing support (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2013/08/30/msg018511.html) pkgsrc is used on NetBSD, DragonflyBSD and other OSes Comes from an EdgeBSD developer Uses GPG for signing package files Currently just a patch on github and in its infancy Provides a short howto *** FreeBSD vs. Linux: 10 points of superiority (https://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=41750) New FreeBSD user, ex-Linux user writes about his experience Mentions consistency, documentation, security, filesystems, updates, jails, community Really long post, definitely worth a read *** Feedback/Questions hoopla writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21SpCcisW) Juergen writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20vHY9qAK) Sam writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s23uf4vzfQ) Frank writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2Y0qiXJan) ***

1: BGP & BSD

September 04, 2013 1:53:51 81.97 MB Downloads: 0

We kick off the first episode with the latest BSD news, show you how to avoid intrusion detection systems and talk to Peter Hessler about BGP spam blacklists! Headlines Radeon KMS commited (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2013-August/050931.html) Committed by Jean-Sebastien Pedron Brings kernel mode setting to -CURRENT, will be in 10.0-RELEASE (ETA 12/2013) 10-STABLE is expected to be branched in October, to begin the process of stabilizing development Initial testing shows it works well May be merged to 9.X, but due to changes to the VM subsystem this will require a lot of work, and is currently not a priority for the Radeon KMS developer Still suffers from the syscons / KMS switcher issues, same as Intel video More info: https://wiki.freebsd.org/AMD_GPU *** VeriSign Embraces FreeBSD (http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/verisign-embraces-open-source-freebsd-for-diversity/) "BSD is quite literally at the very core foundation of what makes the Internet work" Using BSD and Linux together provides reliability and diversity Verisign gives back to the community, runs vBSDCon "You get comfortable with something because it works well for your particular purposes and can find a good community that you can interact with. That all rang true for us with FreeBSD." *** fetch/libfetch get a makeover (http://freshbsd.org/commit/freebsd/r253680) Adds support for SSL certificate verification Requires root ca bundle (security/rootcanss) Still missing TLS SNI support (Server Name Indication, allows name based virtual hosts over SSL) *** FreeBSD Foundation Semi-Annual Newsletter (http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2013Jul-newsletter) The FreeBSD Foundation took the 20th anniversary of FreeBSD as an opportunity to look at where the project is, and where it might want to go The foundation sets out some basic goals that the project should strive towards: Unify User Experience “ensure that knowledge gained mastering one task translates to the next” “if we do pay attention to consistency, not only will FreeBSD be easier to use, it will be easier to learn” Design for Human and Programmatic Use 200 machines used to be considered a large deployment, with high density servers, blades, virtualization and the cloud, that is not so anymore “the tools we provide for status reporting, configuration, and control of FreeBSD just do not scale or fail to provide the desired user experience” “The FreeBSD of tomorrow needs to give programmability and human interaction equal weighting as requirements” Embrace New Ways to Document FreeBSD More ‘Getting Started’ sections in documentation Link to external How-Tos and other documentation “upgrade the cross-referencing and search tools built into FreeBSD, so FreeBSD, not an Internet search engine, is the best place to learn about FreeBSD” Spring Fundraising Campaign, April 17 - May 31, raised a total of $219,806 from 12 organizations and 365 individual donors. In the same period last year we raised a total of $23,422 from 2 organizations and 53 individuals Funds donated to the FreeBSD Foundation have been used on these projects recently: Capsicum security-component framework Transparent superpages support of the FreeBSD/ARM architecture Expanded and faster IPv6 Native in-kernel iSCSI stack Five New TCP Congestion Control Algorithms Direct mapped I/O to avoid extra memory copies Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot environment Porting FreeBSD to the Genesi Efika MX SmartBook laptop (ARM-based) NAND Flash filesystem and storage stack Funds were also used to sponsor a number of BSD focused conferences: BSDCan, EuroBSDCon, AsiaBSDCon, BSDDay, NYCBSDCon, vBSDCon, plus Vendor summits and Developer summits It is important that the foundation receive donations from individuals, to maintain their tax exempt status in the USA. Even a donation of $5 helps make it clear that the FreeBSD Foundation is backed by a large community, not only a few vendors Donate Today (http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate) *** The place to B...SD Ohio Linuxfest, Sept. 13-15, 2013 (http://ohiolinux.org/schedule) Very BSD friendly Kirk McKusick giving the keynote BSD Certification on the 15th, all other stuff on the 14th Multiple BSD talks *** LinuxCon, Sept. 16-18, 2013 (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-north-america) Dru Lavigne and Kris Moore will be manning a FreeBSD booth Number of talks of interest to BSD users, including ZFS coop (http://linuxconcloudopenna2013.sched.org/event/b50b23f3ed3bd728fa0052b54021a2cc?iframe=yes&w=900&sidebar=yes&bg=no) EuroBSDCon, Sept. 26-29, 2013 (http://2013.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon-2013/talks/) Tutorials on the 26 & 27th (plus private FreeBSD DevSummit) 43 talks spread over 3 tracks on the 28 & 29th Keynote by Theo de Raadt Hosted in the picturesque St. Julians Area, Malta (Hilton Conference Centre) *** Interview - Peter Hessler - phessler@openbsd.org (mailto:phessler@openbsd.org) / @phessler (https://twitter.com/phessler) Using BGP to distribute spam blacklists and whitelists Tutorial Using stunnel to hide your traffic from Deep Packet Inspection (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/stunnel) News Roundup NetBSD 6.1.1 released (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_6_1_1_released) First security/bug fix update of the NetBSD 6.1 release branch Fixes 4 security vulnerabilities Adds 4 new sysctls to avoid IPv6 DoS attacks Misc. other updates *** Sudo Mastery (http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/1792) MWL is a well-known author of many BSD books Also does SSH, networking, DNSSEC, etc. Next book is about sudo, which comes from OpenBSD (did you know that?) Available for preorder now at a discounted price *** Documentation Infrastructure Enhancements (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2013/08/new-funded-project-documentation.html) Gábor Kövesdán has completed a funded project to improve the infrastructure behind the documentation project Will upgrade documentation from DocBook 4.2 to DocBook 4.5 and at the same time migrate to proper XML tools. DSSSL is an old and dead standard, which will not evolve any more. DocBook 5.0 tree added *** FreeBSD FIBs get new features (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=254943) FIBs (as discussed earlier in the interview) are Forward Information Bases (technical term for a routing table) The FreeBSD kernel can be compiled to allow you to maintain multiple FIBs, creating separate routing tables for different processes or jails In r254943 ps(1) is extended to support a new column ‘fib’, to display which routing table a process is using *** FreeNAS 9.1.0 and 9.1.1 released (http://www.ixsystems.com/resources/ix/news/ixsystems-announces-revolutionary-freenas-910-release.html) Many improvements in nearly all areas, big upgrade Based on FreeBSD 9-STABLE, lots of new ZFS features Cherry picked some features from 10-CURRENT New volume manager and easy to use plugin management system 9.1.1 released shortly thereafter to fix a few UI and plugin bugs *** BSD licensed "patch" becomes default (http://freshbsd.org/commit/freebsd/r253689) bsdpatch has become mature, does what GNU patch can do, but has a much better license Approved by portmgr@ for use in ports Added WITHGNUPATCH build option for people who still need it ***