Squid 3.0 + HAVP not working

Just switched from squid 2.7 to 3.0. For some reason squid and HAVP refuse to collaborate. Without any reason HAVP drops everything. I will get back asap with the solution.

FreeBSD dyndns howto

A few days ago I’ve moved to a bigger apartment and I needed to change the ISP. Got a new contract, new ISP, 50Mbps speed for less than 10 Eur/month but only one problem .. no fixed IP address and from time to time I need to ssh on my home box.

So, the only solution was to create an account on dyndns.com and configure a dyndns client on my home gateway. After configuring the subdomain on dyndns.com I’ve chosen ipcheck as a dyndns client:

cd /usr/ports/dns/ipcheck

make install clean

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Testing FreeBSD 8-CURRENT

After reading What’s cooking for FreeBSD 8? I’ve decided to install it (better say upgrade a 7-STABLE version to 8-CURRENT) in order to make a few tests on a test box. Now I have FreeBSD 8 on a PIII machine to play with :)

FreeBSD phantom.localdomain 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Jun 20 12:45:09 EEST 2009     root@phantom.localdomain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PROTOS  i386

Now I need to upgrade the old jails (in which a web server, a name server, an email server are running) in order to play with Jails V2′s new exciting features.

I plan on installing it on a Quad Core box later next week.

I’ll get back soon (I hope) with a review.

WordPress 2.8

Finally I found some time to upgrade WordPress to 2.8. Everything went smooth (as always). I’ve also upgraded all the out-of-date plugins and removed some of them which weren’t that useful.

Traffic graphs with mrtg in FreeBSD

A few days ago I was asked by a fiend to provide him a solution which would provide traffic graphs for two Ethernet interfaces on a router. Here’s how I did it:

cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/mrtg
make install clean

After installing mrtg I have edited /usr/local/etc/mrtg to look like this
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Transparent proxy : squid + havp + clamav

A few months ago I posted a tutorial explaining how to make a transparent proxy using squid and pf. In the mean time (because of the need of minimising virus infections) I’ve made a few changes and added havp + clamav in the current configuration. The whole process was quite simple :

cd /usr/ports/www/havp
make install clean

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WordPress update and facelift

After a (long) break, I finally found the time to update my wordpress and also change the default theme I was using before (not that there was anything wrong with it but I had a chat with an old fiend regarding web design and decided that it’s time for something as simple as possible).

I hope one of these days (depending on my free time, which I don’t have lately) I will post some new stuff.