2001-May-02
Made a webpage: http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/mail/mailbox-formats.html.
[debian] Worked on securing BIND. Made a webpage: http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/dns/securing.html. Configured named so no zone transfers except for slaves, no recursion except for internal network, and no queries except for internal network and for specific zone files that the server is authoritative for. Also couldn't get allow-update to be set, but who cares -- it is deny by default.
Also changed CNAMEs to A records.
I want to use pkgsrc (make) to have an option (or environment variable) that will recursively use binary packages (local or ftp) if available. It looks like a target "bin-install" already exists. pkgsrc doesn't allow PKG_PATH to be set. H. Feyrer sent me a patch to have it fetch from a ftp site. Also he says to set "DEPENDS_TARGET=bin-install" -- this worked to recursively grab and attempt to install a local (/usr/pkg/pkgsrc/packages/All) package. But that package needed another binary package that was not available -- it should fall back to using regular pkgsrc source.
I tried the patch; it didn't work so I made one minor change. But I couldn't test much: pacman wouldn't work because ClanLib needed MesaLibs which I already had installed but a different version :( and sharity-light didn't work because no binary package and it didn't fall back to use source.