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7: Go Directly to Jail(8)

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On this week's show, you'll be getting the full jail treatment. We'll show you how to create and deploy BSD jails, as well as chatting with Poul-Henning Kamp - the guy who actually invented them! There's lots of interesting news items to cover as well, so stay tuned to BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

Headlines
FreeBSD turns it up to 11
  • The -CURRENT branch is now known as 11
  • 10 has been branched to -STABLE
  • 10-BETA1 ISOs are available now
  • Will be the next -RELEASE, probably next year
    • ***
    Stopping the SSH bruteforce with BSD and pf
    • The Hail Mary Cloud is an SSH bruteforce botnet that takes a different approach
    • While most botnets pound port 22 rapidly, THMB does it very slowly and passively
    • This makes prevention based on rate limiting more involved and complex
    • Nice long blog post about some potential solutions and what we've learned
      • ***
      ZFS and GELI in bsdinstall coming soon
      • The man with the beard strikes again, new patch allows for ZFS-on-root installs
      • Supports GELI for disk encryption
      • Might be the push we need to make Michael W Lucas update his FreeBSD book
        • ***
        AsiaBSDCon 2014 announced
        • Will be held in Tokyo, 13-16 March, 2014
        • The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and Mac OS X
        • Call for papers can be found here
          • ***
          Interview - Poul-Henning Kamp - [email protected] / @bsdphk

          FreeBSD beginnings, md5crypt, jails, varnish and his... telescope project?

          Tutorial
          Everything you need to know about Jails
          News Roundup
          New pf queue system
          • Henning Brauer committed the new kernel-side bandwidth shaping subsystem
          • Uses the HFSC algorithm behind the scenes
          • ALTQ to be retired "in a release or two" - everyone should migrate soon
            • ***
            Dragonfly imports FreeBSD KMS driver
            • Hot on the trails of OpenBSD and later FreeBSD, Dragonfly gets AMD KMS
            • Ported over from the FreeBSD port
              • ***
              Get paid to hack OpenSSH
              • Google has announced they will pay up to $3113.70 for security patches to OpenSSH
              • Patches can fix security or improve security
              • If you come up with something, send it to the OpenSSH guys
                • ***
                Feedback/Questions
                • Darren writes in
                • Kjell-Aleksander writes in
                • Ryan writes in
                • Alexander writes in
                  • ***
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