http://daemonnews.org Daemon News Ezine Article Feed http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200801/TheBookofPF.html <p> Chris Silva reviews The Book of PF A No-Nonsense Guide to the OpenBSD Firewall by Peter N.M. Hansteen (No Starch Press ISBN-10 1-59327-165-4, ISBN-13 978-1-59327-165-7). </p> http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200801/AbsoluteFreeBSD.html Review: Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition The Complete Guide to FreeBSD by Michael W. Lucas http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200712/Practical_Packet_Analysis.html Practical Packet Analysis Using Wireshark to Solve Real-World Network Problems by Chris Sanders I found this an easy read and it does a great job of taking you into the world of packet sniffing using Wireshark. http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200711/virtualfun.html <p> While just about every major vendor has developed a server virtualization product, often the open source varieties are treated like heirloom tomatoes; overlooked for whatever reason that may be. That is until you accidentally have one and wonder how you could have been living without it for so long. Since I have already covered how to run FreeBSD as a guest operating system under VMWare I thought it was worth an analysis of the virtualization technology built into FreeBSD. </p><p> I have written the subsequent article discussing FreeBSD Jails, which I hope to be both informative as well as entertaining. Additionally, I intend to utilize the article as a reference for future articles and discussions. </p><p> Now without further ado, please follow the URL to the article. </p><p> http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200707/bsdcert_beta_exam.html <p> Public service announcement: Time and location of the BSD Certification Beta Exam. </p><p> Also included is all of the background information on the BSD Certification Exam Beta, including registration requirements, and benefits for participating in the beta exam. </p><p> http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200705/html-utopia.html <p>This article is an in depth review of HTML Utopia. If you have ever desired to truly understand Cascading Style Sheets then take a few moment to check this article out. </p> <ul> <li>Title: HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS (2nd Edition)</li> <li>Co-Author: Rachel Andrew</li> <li>Co-Author: Dan Shafer</l> <li>ISBN: 0975240277</li> <li>Publisher: Siteoint</li> <li>url: www.sitepoint.com</li> </ul> http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200705/pf_review.html <p> Review of The OpenBSD PF Packet Filter Book which includes PF for NetBSD, FreeBSD, DragonFly, and of course OpenBSD. If you are only familiar with a single firewall system, FreeBSD's IPFW for instance this is a very handy book to read. </p><p> ISBN-13: 978-0-9790342-0-6<br/> ISBN-10: 0-9790342-0-5<br/> Editor: Jeremy C. Reed<br/> </p> http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200704/bsd_root_kits_review.html <p> Review of: </p><p> Designing BSD Rootkits<br/> An Introduction to Kernel Hacking<br/> by Joseph Kong<br/> ISBN-10 1-59327-142-5<br/> ISBN-13 978-1-59327-142-8<br/> </p><p> This book seemingly overwhelming at first, as the reviewer Michael Hernandez admitted, is an intense trip through the land of kernel hacking. This is a handy lead by example and certainly well worth your time if you've ever been remotely interested in delving deeper under the hood of the BSD kernel. </p> http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200702/fbsd_and_vmwsrvr.html <p> The original title was 'The Care And Feeding Of Your New FreeBSD 6.x Instance' but it was determined that that would be a bit misleading. Especially since the article really only covers the installation of FreeBSD 6.x into a virtual machine, using VMWare Server. The VMWare Server is deployed in a lab environment on an HP Proliant DL380 running Microsoft Windows Server 2003. </p><p> http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200701/launchd.html <p> This article covers some background on the new startup mechanism from Apple called launchd. It includes a simple demonstration of how to work with it and how the author overcame difficulties as a result of limited documentation. </p><p> Launchd is the default daemon startup mechanism as of Mac OS X Tiger, and there is currently a port underway for FreeBSD. </p><p> http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200701/netvista_s40_part5.html <p> Part 5: Installing BSD on an IBM Netvista s40. </p><p> In this article the author faced several initial setbacks attempting the install. Finally resolved the installation CD driver incompatibilities by PXE booting the system off of a similar machine. http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200608/review_nagios.html Review of the book 'Nagios' written by Wollfgang Barth of No Starch Press. http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200608/gmirror_2.html The follow up to Gregory's article on gmirror. In part one we learned how to build a mirror and in this part we will learn how to tare down a mirror as well as rebuild one. This should give enough background if you encounter a disk failure. http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200608/gmirror_1.html The first in a two part series start to finish building up and tearing down of a gmirror system. The system is built upon the new Sun Fire X2100 series server with two 250GB SATA disks. http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200608/openSourceInitiatives.html An Editorial regarding the state of dn and what you the casual reader can do to help you favorite open source project grow.