Posts tagged with: ipv6

Just a quick heads up - Sun has issued a Security Alert about a vulnerability in IPv6 in Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris builds 101 - 107: SunAlert: 251006 Title: A Security Vulnerability in Solaris IPv6 Implementation (ip6(7p)) May Cause a System Panic An insufficient validation security vulnerability in the Solaris IPv6 implementation (ip6(7p)) may allow a remote privileged user to panic the system using a crafted packet. This is a type of Denial of Service (DoS). An IDR/ISR is available for this issue and is linked to in the SunAlert. If you're in an environment which needs approval before applying ... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 12 Oct 2008 - 14 Oct 2008: ZFS & MySQL/InnoDB Compression Update - Real world ZFS & MySQL compression testing from the guys at SmugMug. Success with OpenSolaris + ZFS + MySQL in production! - Woohooo!!!! Another happy OpenSolaris + ZFS customer. Nice one Don. NetApp faces Sun lawsuit loss - Looks like NetApp's patents are falling apart. BT's 21st Century network, er... isn't - I guess the UK will be last on the IPv6 bandwagon :-( Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder - I have my own reservations about "cloud computing", some of... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 27 Nov 2007 - 11 Jan 2008: 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Storage - And the award for Best Filesystem goes to... ZFS, naturally. No other filesystem has been as innovative, with such wide spread adoption, recently. Official ZFS on OS X Page - Your source for bleeding edge ZFS on OS X from one of the ZFS developers at Apple. 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Platforms - And the award for the Most Innovative Server OS goes to... well, Solaris 10 of course. Who else? shimmer - A great alternative to port knocking,... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 9 August 2007 - 6 September 2007: BIND 8 Has been EOLd - ISC have announced BIND 8 is End of Life as of 27 August 2007 and is encouraging everyone move to BIND 9. I wonder if Sun will be backporting BIND 9 to Solaris 8 and 9, or opting to run their own patch stream until these OSes are EOLd. NetApp Hits Sun With Patent Infringement Lawsuit - I can't help feel this is NetApp showing it's fear of ZFS and Sun's future products based on ZFS. Why else would they file the patent... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 9 May 2007 - 13 May 2007: About Project Indiana - Oooo, so that's what Project Indiana is all about. Pity we heard about it from the press first. That said, it sounds like Ian's got his head screwed on right and this'll really drive OpenSolaris adoption. Experts scramble to quash IPv6 flaw - Ooops. A slight over sight here. Sun hopes for Linux-like Solaris - Not the most accurate of articles, but it does raise a valid point. DTrace for Ruby is Available - Cool!! I can see Ruby evolving and improving dramatically now. As... Continue reading ►