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52: Reverse Takeover
Coming up this week, we'll be chatting with Shawn Webb about his recent work with ASLR and PIE in FreeBSD. After that, we'll be showing you how you can create a reverse SSH tunnel to a system behind a firewall... how sneaky. Answers to your emails plus the latest news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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FreeBSD foundation August update
- The foundation has published a new PDF detailing some of their recent activities
- It includes project development updates, the 10.1-RELEASE schedule and some of its new features
- There is also a short interview with Dru Lavigne in the "voices from the community" section
- If you're into hardware, there's another section about some new FreeBSD server equipment
- In closing, there's an update on funding too ***
NSD for an authoritative nameserver
- With BIND having been removed from FreeBSD 10.0, you might be looking to replace your old DNS setup
- This article shows how to use NSD for an authoritative DNS nameserver
- It's also got a link to a similar article on Unbound, the new favorite recursive and caching resolver (they work great together)
- All the instructions are presented very neatly, with all the little details included
- Less BIND means less vulnerabilities, everybody's happy ***
BIND and Nginx removed from OpenBSD
- While we're on the topic of DNS servers, BIND was finally removed from OpenBSD as well
- The base system contains both NSD and Unbound, so users can transition over between 5.6 (November of this year) and 5.7 (May of next year)
- They've also removed nginx from the base system, in favor of the new custom HTTP daemon
- BIND and Nginx are still available in ports if you don't want to switch
- We're hoping to have Reyk Floeter on the show next week to talk about it, but scheduling might not work out, so it may be a little later on
- With Apache gone in the upcoming 5.6, It's also likely that sendmail will be removed before 5.7 - hooray for modern alternatives ***
NetBSD demo videos
- A Japanese NetBSD developer has been uploading lots of interesting videos
- Unsurprisingly, they're all featuring NetBSD running on exotic and weird hardware
- Most of them are demoing sound or running a modern Twitter client on an ancient computer
- They're from the same guy that did the conference wrap-up we mentioned recently ***
Interview - Shawn Webb - shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org / @lattera
Address space layout randomization in FreeBSD