[rescue] DNS on SS2 OpendBSD questions?

[Chris Hedemark]

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On Sunday, November 10, 2002, at 10:04 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo 
+1.717.201.3366 wrote:

> It was dropped after 2.9 came out.  I think it was a licensing dispute.

Jepp.

Since then, 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 have come out sans ipf.

> PF has been quite nice during the small amount of time I have used it.

I'm quite fond of it myself.

> I have heard that in certain cases it is much more efficient than IPF,
> but do not have personal experience with it.

I've built a number of them on Pentium 100 boxes for friends, family, 
$client etc. mostly to replace those appliance firewalls you find in 
shopping malls.  IMHO pf is quite low latency.  I couldn't detect a 
difference between having it enabled vs. disabled (i.e. OpenBSD becomes 
a simple gateway without filtering).  Add a local caching nameserver 
and transparent squid and it actually improves the performance of most 
Internet apps, especially web browsing.

> I dunno, I am pretty sure that OpenBSD still supports 4c architecture.
> And NetBSD too.

Yes, it is officially supported.  But no one seems to thrilled with 
investigating sun4c bugs right now (at least not with OpenBSD or Linux).

Chris Hedemark
Hillsborough, NC
http://yonderway.com


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