Last night I have been going through my books researching various distributed denial of service mitigation strategies. While browsing the index of Guide to Firewalls and Network Security: Intrusion Detection and VPNs by Greg Holden the following grabbed my attention
I have purchased this book for my Network Security class from last semester. There is no mention of Cisco, Juniper, nor CheckPoint. It is scary to think that this book is used to teach people about firewalls and security.
Couple of weeks ago I called my Internet Service Provider to discuss various packages that would allow me to host my own servers. After reviewing the offered packages I have decided to upgrade from a residential to a business line. Business packages come with five static IP addresses, 30 Mbps downstream, 5 Mbps upstream, and the freedom to host your own services.
Now that NANOG is finished I am getting around to putting up the servers and migrating web and mail services to my network.
The LiveCD does not allow the user to customize what packages to install, similar to what Solaris 10 and other server operating system do. There is no documented way of removing large package sets like Gnome and Xorg. For a headless server setup you can remove unnecessary desktop applications with the following command:
pkg uninstall -vr \`pkg list | egrep '(aac|acc|atheros|audio|avahi|compiz|evolution|firefox|flac|gamin|gnome|ipp|ipw|iwi|iwk|musicbrainz|ogg|pkg-gui|print|thunderbird|tnetd|wlan|wlan|wpa|wpi|xcursor|xorg|xscreensaver)' | awk '{print $1}'\`
The LiveCD does not allow the user to customize what packages to install, similar to what Solaris 10 and other server operating system do.
There is no documented way of removing large package sets like Gnome and Xorg. For a headless server setup you can remove unnecessary desktop applications with the following command:
pkg uninstall -vr \`pkg list | egrep '(aac|acc|atheros|audio|avahi|compiz|evolution|firefox|flac|gamin|gnome|ipp|ipw|iwi|iwk|musicbrainz|ogg|pkg-gui|print|thunderbird|tnetd|wlan|wlan|wpa|wpi|xcursor|xorg|xscreensaver)' | awk '{print $1}'\`
The first official binary distribution based on OpenSolaris was released yesterday! It comes on a single LiveCD that lets you check out all the much talked about features before installing. Some of the highlights are the new IPS package manager, DTrace, Service Management Facility, XEN, and the new ZFS filesystem!
I have been looking forward to experimenting with Zones and ZFS (after being very disappointed with the current ZFS implementation on FreeBSD) more.
The first official binary distribution based on OpenSolaris was released yesterday! It comes on a single LiveCD that lets you check out all the much talked about features before installing. Some of the highlights are the new IPS package manager, DTrace, Service Management Facility, XEN, and the new ZFS filesystem!
I have been looking forward to experimenting with Zones and ZFS (after being very disappointed with the current ZFS implementation on FreeBSD) more.
Vitaliy Gladkevitch posted a photo:
In the past few months I have started making the transition from reading on my computer monitor to physical books, simply because my eyes can not handle the strain of focusing on the monitor for hours. After reading a good deal of computer related books I have started to realize an annoying pattern, authors and book publishers are trying to appeal to the wrong demographic. It does not matter how technical a subject may be, the author still attempts to write it from a home user perspective.
In the past few months I have started making the transition from reading on my computer monitor to physical books, simply because my eyes can not handle the strain of focusing on the monitor for hours. After reading a good deal of computer related books I have started to realize an annoying pattern, authors and book publishers are trying to appeal to the wrong demographic. It does not matter how technical a subject may be, the author still attempts to write it from a home user perspective.
Operations Analysis and Research Center for the Internet (OARCI) will hold it’s third annual DNS Operations Workshop at Brooklyn College this upcoming June. Registration is now open, and you do not have to be a member of OARCI to attend the workshop! Check out OARCI DNS Operations Workshop website for more information!
