November 26, 2019 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

patching your Intel CPU Microcode using FreeBSD ports

Leave a Comment / FreeBSD / By Dan Langille / November 26, 2019

Today this Nagios alert showed up: I admit it. I have not patched my micro code before. I’m doing it only because it turned up in Nagios. Browsing to that URL, I found “Starting with version 1.26, the devcpu-data port/package includes updates and mitigations for the following technical and security advisories (depending on CPU model).”. […]

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Reviewing /var/log/pflog contents

I use pf as my packet filter. Everything blocked gets logged to /var/log/pflog.conf Late last week, I noticed my rules were allowing everything in on one interface. I changed that. Overnight I see that my Let’s Encrypt certificate renewals failed. Nagios also tells me that the DNS servers are not in sync. I suspect firewall