One of the new features in OpenBSD 3.9 is a different ftp-proxy.
The old (pre-3.9) ftp-proxy wasn’t too bad. I had a couple of issues with it, but this new ftp-proxy is incredibly easy to set up and worked in all of my test cases…
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OS X has a very cool feature built into to its resolver: /etc/resolver. It allows you to specify different DNS servers for different domains. After creating the /etc/resolver directory, I can create a /etc/resolver/erdelynet.com file with “nameserver 192.168.25.10″ in it. Now, my Mac will use 192.168.25.10 for resolving erdelynet.com and whatever my ISP assigned me for everythying else.
When is this useful? erdelynet.com runs a MySQL server. My firewall blocks attempts from the Internet to port 3306. But suppose I want to just run a MySQL admin tool from my PowerBook and don’t want to mess around with SSH tunnels.
With OpenVPN & /etc/resolver/erdelynet.com, I can seemless move from external user to internal user with two clicks.
Tunnelblick is a very nice GUI for OpenVPN. A tunnel icon is added to the menu bar. You can click on the icon to connect/disconnect to your VPN.
The “stable” version (2.0.1) allows for connnecting to a single VPN. You create a ~/Library/openvpn directory and save your configuration file as openvpn.conf.
The 3.0 Release Candidate (I just now noticed that RC2 is out) allows for the ability to connect to multiple VPNs depending on the name of your configuration file. Save your configuration file as Server1.conf, Server2.conf (where “Server1″ is an arbitrary string).
I can’t see using OpenVPN on a Mac without it.
I’ve just installed my first OpenBSD 3.9 box and the first thing I did was set up my binpatch environment. As I explained before, OpenBSD has released a patch for the sendmail vulnerability released March 25, 2006.
So, I’ve created a binpatch for 3.9.
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Firefox 1.5.0.2 was just released! This is especially great news for Intel Mac users. This is the first official release that’s a Universal Binary (meaning that it will run on Intel and PowerMac machines natively).
Besides some bugfixes, there doesn’t seem to be much else new besides being a universal binary.
Enjoy.