Self-hosting Bitwarden / VaultWarden on FreeBSD

The time has come for me to consider another application for my TOTP data (think 6-digit codes produced by Google Authenticator or an RSA device. I’ve been using an app called 2STP – I have long liked it. Support for it ended about 7 years ago, yet it continued to slug along on my phone […]

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kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from x to y packets/sec

For 3 days now, I’ve been seeing these messages. If you search online, it’s usually the result of port scanning. Aug 7 14:05:15 zuul kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 212 to 195 packets/sec Aug 7 14:05:16 zuul kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 219 to 215 packets/sec Aug 7 14:05:17 zuul kernel:

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Why are some emails from Charlie Root and others are from root?

It’s another Saturday morning outside the coffee shop. My abundance of free time, without conferences to run, has resulted in mind shattering pondering. Case in point: In this post: FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE Let’s use these two hosts: r730-01 – email is from root nagios03 – email is from Charlie Root What are the differences? First idea

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Updating some jails from FreeBSD 14.0 to FreeBSD 14.1 via mkjail

I’ve updated all my hosts to FreeBSD 14.1 – but not all the jails. I’m going to do some of that today. In this post: FreeBSD 14.0 FreeBSD 14.1 mkjail-0.0.4 What’s on r730-03 to update? Full disclosure: mkjail was originally written by Mark Felder, and I joined him in maintaining it. I use it for:

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