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Bookmarks for December 8, 2009 through December 10, 2009

11-Dec-09

Links for December 8, 2009 through December 10, 2009:

IPAM Freeware Download – "This IP address management freeware is a complete solution with the complete feature set of the Infoblox IP address manager, including Smart Folders, Network Map (with subnet management) and leading IPv6 capabilities."
Failover with ISC DHCP – "Starting with version 3.0, the ISC DHCP [...]

Bookmarks for November 24, 2009

30-Nov-09

Links for November 24, 2009:

Destruction of Hard Drive Data – "This attachment provides guidance on sanitization by overwriting, degaussing and destruction of hard drives."

Quickly Remove IP Addresses from spamdb

30-Dec-08

To remove all whitelisted entries in – for example - 69.6.0.0/16 run:
# spamdb | grep WHITE | egrep ‘\|69\.6\.’ | \
cut -f 2 -d ‘|’ | xargs -L 1 spamdb -d

Reloading and Testing pf rulesets

30-Dec-08

To test the ruleset in /etc/pf.conf, do the following:
sudo pfctl -n -f /etc/pf.conf
sudo pfctl -n -v -f /etc/pf.conf
The second pfctl command displays the rules you’ve created; however, it can be easy to miss a syntax error warning in the verbosity – the first command will make it easy to spot those.
You can test the ruleset by [...]

Running a chrooted BIND in a FreeBSD Jail

28-Dec-08

(N.B. – This document was originally written in 2006; I have not verified that it remains applicable to FreeBSD in 2008.)
Running a chrooted BIND server within a FreeBSD jail requires mounting its devfs outside of the jail; this document provides an RCng start stop script to do that.
Attempting to start BIND using the stock RCng [...]