postfwd 1.10pre7c-1 in experimental

postfwd [http://www.postfwd.org/] 1.10pre7c-1 [http://packages.qa.debian.org/postfwd] has been accepted [http://bugs.debian.org/470356] and did hit experimental yesterday. If you using policyd-weight [http://packages.qa.debian.org/policyd-weight] you might want to give it a try, since its active development stopped. If…

Kabel Deutschland breaks DNS System for it's customers

Last week I noticed, that Kabel Deutschland [http://www.kabeldeutschland.de/], a cable provider in Germany, returns for any non existing hosts "204.9.89.60". It seems, thats it is rolled out since last fall. Even for DNSSEC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSSEC] enabled infrastructure it…

(old) L-root DNS Server "stolen" (for a short time)

After shutdown of the old L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET the IP address formerly associated with it, the IP continued to answer requests. More informations can be found at the ICANN Blog [http://blog.icann.org/?p=309] UPDATE: Before bothering around, if you read the ICANN Blog [http://blog.icann.org/…

off for vacation

I'm off for vacation for just a week without any internet access (Oh my good, I will hate my inbox). This break will give me some time for my wife and my daughter before my second daughter will arrive in this world which is scheduled for mid June.…

[security] wordpress 2.5.1 which fixes CVE-2008-1930

Cause the subject, I did build a new package which can be installed on etch, lenny and of course sid. You can fetch it from http://ftp.cyconet.org/debian/archive/bpo/wordpress/2.5.1-1~bpo40+1/ or get via > deb http://ftp.cyconet.org/debian etch-backports main…

[security] policyd-weight 0.1.14-beta-6etch1/0.1.14.15-1

This Tuesday Robert Felber released [http://www.mail-archive.com/policyd-weight-list%40ek-muc.de/msg00798.html] a new upstream version. It is a (local) security bugfix (and some minor fixes) which was reported on Sunday by Chris Howells to the Debian Security Team (as well as to other vendors). Today DSA-1531 [http:…

Liquid Sunday 4.1

[![Liquid Sunday 4.1](/contrg/content/images/2008/03/IMG_086.jpg) Like (almost) every year I visited obligatory the event. Since my family^Wreallife is normally preventing me from such a party, this one left cause it's in my old homeland and there are good friends forcing…