i suspect a lot of people are used to forwarding TCP sockets with SSH --
for example, to connect locally to a mysql daemon that runs only on the
loopback interface of a remote machine (this is debian's default
mysql-server configuration):
ssh -N -T -oExitOnForwardFailure=yes -L 3306:localhost:3306 remoteuser …i've been on an IPv6 kick recently, getting dual-stack systems up and working for a bunch of folks.
I'd like to make some of these services reachable by IPv6-only clients. this suggests that i need a range of details sorted out, but i think the one piece left for me …
Debian NYC will be holding a workshop next week: What's in a Package? will happen at 7:00pm New York time on October 27, 2010. If you're in the New York area, interested in packaging things for debian and related systems, or just want to understand the packages in your …
Roland Mas writes an interesting article about decentralized naming, in which he says:
Monkeysphere aims at adding a web of trust to the SSL certificates system, but the CA chain problem seems to persist (although I must admit I'm not up to speed with the actual details).
Since i'm one …
If you're not using ssh-agent to authenticate yourself to SSH servers,
you should be. (i'm assuming you're already using
PubkeyAuthentication; if you're still using PasswordAuthentication,
ChallengeResponseAuthentication or KbdInteractiveAuthentication, fix
that please).
You should use ssh-agent for a number of reasons, actually, but the
simplest is this: when you authenticate to …
Apparently, live.com thinks that any browser coming from a ppc architecture is a mobile device. This sucks for the users of the hundreds of thousands of powerpc desktops still in service.
I don't use hotmail myself, but i do support people who use it. I set one of my …
A year ago, i wrote about how New York City's Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) requires the use of Internet Explorer to apply online (and it even appears to require IE just to download the PDF of the application!)
Sadly, the situation has not changed, a year later. Today, I'm …
I'm helping out on the talks committee for debconf 10 this summer in NYC (so yes, i'm going to be here for it, even though i don't have that little badge thingy). This is a call for interested folks to let us know what you want to see at debconf …
i'm aware that people don't always take proper measures during mass OpenPGP keysignings. Apparently, some keys even get signed with no one at the keysigning present speaking for that key (for example, if the key was submitted to the keysigning via online mechanisms beforehand, but the keyholder failed to show …
This is the story of a weirdly unfriendly/non-compliant IMAP server, and some nice interactions that arose from a debugging session around it.
Over the holidays, i got to do some computer/network debugging for friends and family. One old friend (I'll call him “Fred”) had a series of problems …