Jason Sidabras

Ever since Firefox 3 came out and google browser sync was no longer supported, I’ve been looking for a replacement to keep my computers in-sync with each other. The first maintainable sync program I found was Weave. It currently has a little lacking in support across platforms and is in highly beta mode. This will become my bookmark program when it becomes more stable.

As for my current bookmark program I just changed to foxmarks. It supports encryption, your own server and seems fast and stable. I’d like to take the rest of the blog to show you how to set up your own bookmark WebDAV server on Dreamhost, and then generalize it.

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Now that I have OpenBSD installed on my RAID server at work, I figured that I would write a few tutorials about the things I have done with it. If for nothing else, so I can remember and repeat them if something happens.

I noticed looking at /var/log/authlog that a significant number of failed attempts at root and invalid user login attempts were occurring from seemingly random IP addresses (thousands of dictionary attacks). These are probably boxen that have been hacked into and they haven’t figured it out yet. My first approach was to use pf(4) to filter these IP addresses. With this I found simple pf.conf code using tables and reject code to reject an IP address list.

This worked well and good until I realized the endless array of hacked boxen out there. So I had to figure out something more.

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So for quite some time I’ve been dreaming of a perfect backup system. Luckily my current RAIDbox at work was no longer cutting the mustard so I decided to upgrade… big time.

As the system goes:

• Intel Core2 Duo 2.56GHz
• 1 GB DDR2-4200 RAM
• Giga-byte GA-945GCM-S2 Mobo
• Areca ARC-1220 SATA raid controller 8-port
• Seagate ES 250GB
• 5x Seagate ES 1TB

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I figured since I have a little bit of time this morning being lost in a sea of parentheses, I might as well write up the first part in a two part series about my OpenBSD RAID box. If anything, just so I remember how to do it when I buuild my RAIDbox upgrade.
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Well I took some time today to put together a back-up system. Figured I would post this for two reasons: the first is for you guys to critique it, the second is so I remember what I configured.

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