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This week, we'll be talking to Henning Brauer about OpenNTPD and its recently revived portable version. After that, we'll be discussing different ways to securely tunnel your traffic: specifically OpenVPN, IPSEC, SSH and Tor. All that and the latest news, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Strange timer bug in FreeBSD 11 (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2015-February/054295.html) Peter Wemm (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_09_24-beastly_infrastructure) wrote in to the FreeBSD -CURRENT mailing list with an interesting observation Running the latest development code in the infrastructure, the clock would stop keeping time after 24 days of uptime This meant things like cron and sleep would break, TCP/IP wouldn't time out or resend packets, a lot of things would break A workaround until it was fixed was to reboot every 24 days, but this is BSD we're talking about - uptime is our game An initial proposal was adding a CFLAG to the build o

This week on the show, we'll be starting a two-part series detailing the activities of various BSD foundations. Ed Maste from the FreeBSD foundation will be joining us this time, and we'll talk about what all they've been up to lately. All this week's news and answers to viewer-submitted questions, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Key rotation in OpenSSH 6.8 (http://blog.djm.net.au/2015/02/key-rotation-in-openssh-68.html) Damien Miller (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_12_18-cryptocrystalline) posted a new blog entry about one of the features in the upcoming OpenSSH 6.8 Times changes, key types change, problems are found with old algorithms and we switch to new ones In OpenSSH (and the SSH protocol) however, there hasn't been an easy way to rotate host keys... until now With this change, when you connect to a server, it will log all the server's public keys in your known_hosts file, instead of just the first one used during the key exchange Keys that

Coming up this week, we've got something a little bit different for you. We'll be talking with Andrew Tanenbaum, the creator of MINIX. They've recently imported parts of NetBSD into their OS, and we'll find out how and why that came about. As always, all the latest news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines The missing EuroBSDCon videos (http://2014.eurobsdcon.org/) Some of the missing videos from EuroBSDCon 2014 we mentioned before (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_11_19-rump_kernels_revisited) have mysteriously appeared Jordan Hubbard (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_11_27-bridging_the_gap), FreeBSD, looking forward to another 10 years (https://va.ludost.net/files/eurobsdcon/2014/Vitosha/03.Saturday/01.Keynote%20-%20FreeBSD:%20looking%20forward%20to%20another%2010%20years%20-%20Jordan%20Hubbard.mp4) Lourival Viera Neto, NPF scripting with Lua (https://va.ludost.net/files/eurobsdcon/2014/Vitosha/03.Saturday/06.NFS%20scripting%20with%2

This week on the show we'll be chatting with David Maxwell, a former NetBSD security officer. He's got an interesting project called Pipecut that takes a whole new approach to the commandline. We've also got answers to viewer-submitted questions and all this week's headlines, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD quarterly status report (https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.html) The FreeBSD team has posted an updated on some of their activities between October and December of 2014 They put a big focus on compatibility with other systems: the Linux emulation layer, bhyve (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/bhyve), WINE and Xen all got some nice improvements As always, the report has lots of updates from the various teams working on different parts of the OS and ports infrastructure The release engineering team got 10.1 out the door, the ports team shuffled a few members in and out and continued working on closing more PRs FreeBSD's forums und

This week on the show, we'll be talking to Jos Schellevis about OPNsense, a new firewall project that was forked from pfSense. We'll learn some of the backstory and see what they've got planned for the future. We've also got all this week's news and answers to all your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Be your own VPN provider with OpenBSD (http://networkfilter.blogspot.com/2015/01/be-your-own-vpn-provider-with-openbsd.html) We've covered how to build a BSD-based gateway that tunnels all your traffic through a VPN in the past - but what if you don't trust any VPN company? It's easy for anyone to say "of course we don't run a modified version of OpenVPN that logs all your traffic... what are you talking about?" The VPN provider might also be slow to apply security patches, putting you and the rest of the users at risk With this guide, you'll be able to cut out the middleman and create your own VPN, using OpenBSD It covers topics such as protecting your serv

This time on the show, we'll be talking to Ian Sutton about his new BSD compatibility wrappers for various systemd dependencies. Don't worry, systemd is not being ported to BSD! We're still safe! We've also got all the week's news and answers to your emails, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Introducing OPNsense, a pfSense fork (http://opnsense.org/) OPNsense is a new BSD-based firewall project that was recently started (http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/deciso-launches-opnsense-a-new-open-source-firewall-initiative-287334371.html), forked from the pfSense codebase Even though it's just been announced, they already have a formal release based on FreeBSD 10 (pfSense's latest stable release is based on 8.3) The core team (http://opnsense.org/about/about-opnsense/#opnsense-core-team) includes a well-known DragonFlyBSD developer You can check out their code on Github (https://github.com/opnsense) now, or download an image and try it out - let us know (

It's our last episode of 2014, and we'll be chatting with Dan Langille about the upcoming BSDCan conference. We'll find out what's planned and what sorts of presentations they're looking for. As usual, answers to viewer-submitted questions and all the week's news, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines More conference presentation videos (http://2014.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html.en) Some more of the presentation videos from AsiaBSDCon are appearing online Masanobu Saitoh, Developing CPE Routers Based on NetBSD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApruZrU5fVs) Reyk Floeter (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_09_03-its_hammer_time), VXLAN and Cloud-based Networking with OpenBSD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufeEP_hzFN0) Jos Jansen, Adapting OS X to the enterprise (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOPfRQgTjNo) Pierre Pronchery (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_04_01-edgy_bsd_users) & Guillaume Lasmayous, Carve your NetBSD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh-TjL

It's a special holiday episode! We asked you guys in the audience to send in the tale of how you first got into BSD, and we're going to share those with everyone today. We'll also be playing two bonus mini-interviews, so get comfy by the fire and listen to some BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Special segment How our viewers got into BSD Jason's story (text (http://slexy.org/view/s207hi9pTo)) bsdx's story (text (http://slexy.org/view/s20cmh0anD)) David's story (text (http://slexy.org/view/s21r4AL53g)) Brad's story (text (http://slexy.org/view/s2OqEie53V)) Reese's story (video) Bryan's story (video) Pete's story (text (http://slexy.org/view/s2ve2kfgW7)) Anders' story (text (http://slexy.org/view/s20eL5EYMv)) Guillermo's story (text (http://slexy.org/view/s20KRuIaks)) Jonathan's story (text (http://slexy.org/view/s20IFqrc7O)) Adam's story (text (http://slexy.org/view/s2FnnJH9zs)) Chris' story (text (http://slexy.org/view/s21GazXKH2)) Tigersharke's story (text (http://slexy.org/

Coming up this week, we'll be talking with Michael Lucas about his newest BSD book, "FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials." It's got lots of great information about the disk subsystems, GEOM, filesystems, you name it. We've also got the usual round of news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines More BSD conference videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLy8AikPZfWEmzWxUec69PA/videos) We mentioned it a few times, but the "New Directions in Operating Systems" conference was held in November in the UK The presentations videos are now online, with a few BSD-related talks of interest Antti Kantee (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_10_23-a_brief_intorduction), Rump kernels and why / how we got here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoB73cVyScI) Franco Fichtner, An introduction to userland networking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiMNuGTRgbA) Robert Watson (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_08_13-vpn_my_dear_watson), New ideas about old OS sec

Coming up this week on the show, we've got an interview with Patrick Wildt, one of the developers of Bitrig. We'll find out all the details of their OpenBSD fork, what makes it different and what their plans are going forward. We've also got all the week's news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Bitrig 1.0 released (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.bitrig.devel/6) If you haven't heard of it, Bitrig (https://www.bitrig.org/) is a fork of OpenBSD that started a couple years ago According to their FAQ (https://github.com/bitrig/bitrig/wiki/Faq), some of their goals include: only supporting modern hardware and a limited set of CPU architectures, replacing nearly all GNU tools in base with BSD versions and having better virtualization support They've finally announced their first official release, 1.0 This release introduces support for Clang 3.4, replacing the old GCC, along with libc++ replacing the GNU version It also includes filesystem

This week on the show, we'll be talking with Paul Schenkeveld, chairman of the EuroBSDCon foundation. He tells us about his experiences running BSD conferences and how regular users can get involved too. We've also got answers to all your emails and the latest news, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines More BSD presentation videos (https://www.meetbsd.com/) The MeetBSD video uploading spree continues with a few more talks, maybe this'll be the last batch Corey Vixie, Web Apps in Embedded BSD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbks12Mqpp8) Allan Jude, UCL config (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjP86iWsEzQ) Kip Macy, iflib (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4FRPKj7F80) While we're on the topic of conferences, AsiaBSDCon's CFP was extended (https://twitter.com/asiabsdcon/status/538352055245492226) by one week This year's ruBSD (https://events.yandex.ru/events/yagosti/rubsd14/) will be on December 13th in Moscow Also, the BSDCan call for papers (http://lists.bsdc

Coming up on the show this week, we've got an interview with Brendan Gregg of Netflix. He's got a lot to say about performance tuning and benchmarks, and even some pretty funny stories about how people have done them incorrectly. As always, this week's news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Even more BSD presentation videos (https://www.meetbsd.com/) More videos from this year's MeetBSD and OpenZFS devsummit were uploaded since last week Robert Ryan, At the Heart of the Digital Economy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc9k1xEepWU) FreeNAS & ZFS, The Indestructible Duo - Except for the Hard Drives (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1C6DELK7fc) Richard Yao, libzfs_core and ioctl stabilization (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIC0dwLRBZU) OpenZFS, Company lightning talks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmbI7F7XTTc) OpenZFS, Hackathon Presentation and Awards (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPbVPwScMGk) Pavel Zakharov, Fast File Cloning (ht

This time on the show, we'll be talking with Justin Cormack about NetBSD rump kernels. We'll learn how to run them on other operating systems, what's planned for the future and a lot more. As always, answers to viewer-submitted questions and all the news for the week, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines EuroBSDCon 2014 talks and tutorials (http://2014.eurobsdcon.org/talks-and-schedule/) The 2014 EuroBSDCon videos have been online for over a month, but unannounced - keep in mind these links may be temporary (but we'll mention their new location in a future show and fix the show notes if that's the case) Arun Thomas, BSD ARM Kernel Internals (https://va.ludost.net/files/eurobsdcon/2014/Rodopi/03.Saturday/01.BSD-ARM%20Kernel%20Internals%20-%20Arun%20Thomas.mp4) Ted Unangst, Developing Software in a Hostile Environment (https://va.ludost.net/files/eurobsdcon/2014/Rodopi/03.Saturday/02.Developing%20Software%20in%20a%20Hostile%20Environment%20-%20Ted%20Unangst.mp4) Mar

This time on the show, we've got an interview with Kristaps Džonsons, the creator of mandoc. He tells us how the project got started and what its current status is across the various BSDs. We also have a mini-tutorial on using PF to throttle bandwidth. This week's news, answers to your emails and even some cheesy mailing list gold, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Updates to FreeBSD's random(4) (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=273872) FreeBSD's random device, which presents itself as "/dev/random" to users (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8550457), has gotten a fairly major overhaul in -CURRENT The CSPRNG (cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator) algorithm, Yarrow, now has a new alternative called Fortuna Yarrow is still the default for now, but Fortuna can be used with a kernel option (and will likely be the new default in 11.0-RELEASE) Pluggable modules can now be written to add more sources of entropy These

We're away at MeetBSD this week, but we've still got a great show for you. We'll be joined by Pawel Dawidek, who's done quite a lot of things in FreeBSD over the years, including the initial ZFS port. We'll get to hear how that came about, what he's up to now and a whole lot more. We'll be back next week with a normal episode of BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Interview - Pawel Jakub Dawidek - pjd@freebsd.org (mailto:pjd@freebsd.org) Porting ZFS, GEOM, GELI, Capsicum, various topics

This week on the show, we sat down with John-Mark Gurney to talk about modernizing FreeBSD's IPSEC stack. We'll learn what he's adding, what needed to be fixed and how we'll benefit from the changes. As always, answers to your emails and all of this week's news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines BSD panel at Phoenix LUG (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AOF7fm-TJ0) The Phoenix, Arizona Linux users group had a special panel so they could learn a bit more about BSD It had one FreeBSD user and one OpenBSD user, and they answered questions from the organizer and the people in the audience They covered a variety of topics, including filesystems, firewalls, different development models, licenses and philosophy It was a good "real world" example of things potential switchers are curious to know about They closed by concluding that more diversity is always better, and even if you've got a lot of Linux boxes, putting a few BSD ones in the mix is a good idea *** Book of PF

This week on the show we're joined by Olivier Cochard-Labbé, the creator of both FreeNAS and the BSD Router Project! We'll be discussing what the BSD Router Project is, what it's for and where it's going. All this week's headlines and answers to viewer-submitted questions, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines BSD Devroom CFP (https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2014-October/002038.html) This year's FOSDEM conference (Belgium, Jan 31st - Feb 1st) is having a dedicated BSD devroom They've issued a call for papers on anything BSD-related, and we always love more presentations If you're in the Belgium area or plan on going, submit a talk about something cool you're doing There's also a mailing list (https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/bsd-devroom) and some more information in the original post *** Bhyve SVM code merge (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-virtualization/2014-October/002905.html) The bhyve_svm code has been in the "projects" tree of FreeBSD, bu

This week on the show we'll be talking with Hiroki Sato about the status of BSD in Japan. We also get to hear about how he got on the core team, and we just might find out why NetBSD is so popular over there! Answers to all your emails, the latest news, and even a brand new segment, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines BSD talks at XDC 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXlH5v1PkEhjzLFTUTm_U7g/videos) This year's Xorg conference featured a few BSD-related talks Matthieu Herrb, Status of the OpenBSD graphics stack (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KopgD4nTtnA) Matthieu's talk details what's been done recently in Xenocara the OpenBSD kernel for graphics (slides here (http://www.openbsd.org/papers/xdc2014-xenocara.pdf)) Jean-Sébastien Pédron, The status of the graphics stack on FreeBSD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POmxFleN3Bc) His presentation gives a history of major changes and outlines the current overall status of graphics in FreeBSD (slides here (http://www

Coming up this week on the show, we'll be talking to Matt Ranney and George Kola about how they use FreeBSD at Voxer, and how to get more companies to switch over. After that, we'll show you how to filter website ads at the gateway level, using DNSMasq. All this week's news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines NetBSD's EuroBSDCon report (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_developer_summit_at_eurobsdcon) This year's EuroBSDCon had the record number of NetBSD developers attending The NetBSD guys had a small devsummit as well, and this blog post details some of their activities Pierre Pronchery also talked about EdgeBSD there (also see our interview (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_04_01-edgy_bsd_users) if you haven't already) Hopefully this trend continues, and NetBSD starts to have even more of a presence at the conferences *** Upcoming features in OpenBSD 5.6 (http://lteo.net/blog/2014/10/01/a-sneak-peek-at-the-upcoming-openbsd-5-

We're back from EuroBSDCon! This week we'll be talking with Steve Wills about mentoring new BSD developers. If you've ever considered becoming a developer or helping out, it's actually really easy to get involved. We've also got all the BSD news for the week and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines NetBSD at Hiroshima Open Source Conference (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2014/09/26/msg000669.html) NetBSD developers are hard at work, putting NetBSD on everything they can find At a technology conference in Hiroshima, some developers brought their exotic machines to put on display As usual, there are lots of pictures and a nice report from the conference *** FreeBSD's Linux emulation overhaul (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?limit_changes=0&view=revision&revision=368845) For a long time, FreeBSD's emulation layer has been based on an ancient Fedora 10 system If you've ever needed to install Adobe Flash on BSD, you'll be stuck with