pfSense Open Source Firewall Distribution

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pfSense Open Source Firewall Distribution – Home.

pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router. In addition to being a powerful, flexible firewalling and routing platform, it includes a long list of related features and a package system allowing further expandability without adding bloat and potential security vulnerabilities to the base distribution. pfSense is a popular project with more than 1 million downloads since its inception, and proven in countless installations ranging from small home networks protecting a PC and an Xbox to large corporations, universities and other organizations protecting thousands of network devices.

House Kills SOPA

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In a surprise move today, Representative Eric Cantor(R-VA) announced that he will stop all action on SOPA, effectively killing the bill. This move was most likely due to several things. One of those things is that SOPA and PIPA met huge online protest against the bills. Another reason would be that the White House threatened to veto the bill if it had passed. However, it isn’t quite time yet to celebrate, as PIPA(the Senate’s version of SOPA) is still up for consideration.

via House Kills SOPA – Denver Computers | Examiner.com.

BIND 9.7.2 and automatic DNSSEC signing

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BIND 9.7.0 introduced automatic in-server signature re-freshing and automatic key rollover. This allows BIND 9.7, if provided with the DNSSEC private key files, to sign records as they are added to the zone, or as the signatures need to be refreshed. This refresh happens periodically to spread out the load on the server and to even out zone transfer load.

via BIND 9.7.2 and automatic DNSSEC signing | Internet Systems Consortium.