Port-Forwarding With rinetd On Debian Etch

"This article shows how you can do port-forwarding with rinetd on Debian Etch. rinetd allows you to forward ports from one system to another. This useful if you have moved your web sites to a new server with a different IP address. Of course, you have modified your DNS records, but it can take a few days until DNS changes become effective, and that is where rinetd comes into play. If clients still use the old DNS records, rinetd can redirect them to the new server. With rinetd, you do not have to fiddle with iptables rules."

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FreeBSD: 7.1-BETA & 6.4-BETA Availables

"The FreeBSD 7.1-BETA and 6.4-BETA builds are now available on the FreeBSD FTP mirror sites. This is the first step in the release process for FreeBSD-7.1 and FreeBSD-6.4. This set of builds do not include pre-built packages. The ISOs are available from:

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/${arch}/ISO-IMAGES/7.1/
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/${arch}/ISO-IMAGES/6.4/

where $arch is one of alpha, amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, powerpc, or sparc64. For the Tier-2 architectures ia64 and powerpc only the 7.1-BETA builds are available. For the Tier-2 architecture alpha only the 6.4-BETA builds are available.

We encourage people to help out with the testing. Problems can be reported through Gnats or on the freebsd-stable at freebsd.org mailing list. At this point we expect the 6.4-RC1 builds to start in about two weeks, and the 7.1-RC1 builds a week after that."

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Setup a NFS server on FreeBSD

"On a previous post I went through the needed steps to enable NFS client operations on FreeBSD 7.0 so now lets wrap up with the need steps to setup a NFS server."

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The 10 unknown features about PHP

Here’s a short list of cool features that might have slipped under your radar as well.

FreeBSD: Apache + MySQL + PHP

"Setting up a LAMP server is a common task for systems administrators, and FreeBSD is one of the most reliable and stable operating systems available. You can swap out the L in LAMP with F for FreeBSD to build a fast and reliable Web server..."

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5 Most Popular Firefox Web Development Extension

My primary reason of using Firefox, besides that it is a great browser, is the extensions. I’m so dependent on these extensions that I can’t even imagine developing and designing a website without it.

Here’s my Top 5 extension list.

How to run chrome on FreeBSD 7.0

"So as i promised you in my last post (actually posted from chrome!) here is how i managed to get chrome running on FreeBSD. Actually this time around it was simple… The secret key lies in the new 1.1.4 version of wine released today."

How To Upgrade FreeBSD Jail ( OS Level Virtualization )

I've FreeBSD jail configured as explained in man pages using make world options. Now I've upgrade my base FreeBSD 7.0 system to FreeBSD 7 patch level 4. How do I upgrade my Jail (FreeBSD VPS) so that everything get updated inside jail?

Simple Easy Parallel Processing in PHP

The proliferation of multicore CPUs and the inability of our learned CPU vendors to squeeze many more GHz into their designs means that often the only way to get additional performance is by writing clever parallel software.

One problem we were having is that some of our batch processing jobs were taking too long to run. In order to speed the processing, we tried to split the processing file into half, and let a separate PHP process run each job. Given that we were using a dual core server, each process would be able to run close to full speed (subject to I/O constraints).

Here is our technique for running multiple parallel jobs in PHP.

pfsense and Smoothwall

So heres my dilemna for a project I'm working on.
I need a rather broad solution covering DNS, proxying, firewalling, VPN (both site to site and LDAP integrated user access), DHCP, supporting multiple DMZ servers along with routing support. This will act as the centre point for a 40 person network. Clearly hardware wise this will have to be quite a strong system, with load balancing being a possibility, at minimum hardware failover.

For the network security class we got asked to take a look at two firewall solutions, so whilst comparing them I also tried to see how well they would fit into the above requirements.

The firewalls looked at were pfsense and Smoothwall Express 3.0.

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OpenBSD 4.4 is available for Preorder!

"Pre-orders are now being accepted (also in Switzerl and) for Op enBSD 4.4, which is scheduled for release on November 1st, 2008."

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Quick Guide to FreeBSD hostap for FreeBSD 8

"I have a need to setup an access point. Many of the discussions on the web include all kinds of extra goodies that one normally sets up with the access point. But I just needed an access point: no dhcp, bridging, etc. Here's how I did it."

PHP 5.3.0alpha2 is released

"If you check the qa website you will see that there is a new alpha release of our next minor version PHP 5.3.0 out that is awaiting your testing (remember no whining about BC breaks if you did not test the pre-release versions)."

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FreeBSD Security Advisories

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-08:07.amd64


FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-08:08.nmount


FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-08:09.icmp6

MidnightBSD 0.2.1 Released!

"MidnightBSD 0.2.1 has been released. This version focused on adding hardware for newer devices including ATI, NVIDIA and Intel SATA controllers, and wireless support standard."

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NetBSD 5.0 preview: User visible changes in NetBSD-current

"I've found a bit of spare time upgrade a NetBSD 4.0 system to NetBSD-current (4.99.69), and during the usual update procedure (boot new kernel; build.sh install=/; etcupdate) I found a number of user-visible changes over NetBSD 4.0 that I'd like to spotlight here."