Older blog entries for Physicman (starting at number 29)

Fun
Last week I wanted to play some old DOS games, so I installed dosemu but it didn't want to start the .exe files... I didn't look too much why it didn't work, for I found DOSBox which started my game directly. Unfortunately, it uses ALSA for the sound and ALSA doesn't work well on my computer... Oh well... I did spend quite some hours playing those old games anyway :)

code
I saw that the sender_host_address variable was accessible in the local_scan, so I thought that it would be better to use it by default rather than to use 127.0.0.1, although I'm not sure the DCC servers have a count for IP addresses as well...

I also made the main log entry a bit more verbose by adding the sender_host_name, the sender_host_address and the sender_address to make it easier to trace rejected mails.

Packages
I've built a Debian package for the dccproc tar.Z (thus containing only dccproc and dccifd, which is the only part I need for the moment). I also started to build packages for the office; but none are in production yet...

 

... enough for tonight ;)

Oh, I just saw that it was Damien's birthday. Happy Birthday Damien (and you're not old at 27 yet, believe me ;)

I've implemented to IP socket for the dccifd local_scan for exim. As I expected, it wasn't that difficult.

Now, the next step will probably a bit more difficult. I'd like to integrate the dcc check inside one of the ACLs, I'll try to plug it in the exiscan-acl scheme.

Well, we'll see...

I added a new option to my local_scan function yesterday evening. Just a noheader option that will use dccifd without adding the X-DCC header.

The next step is to add support for using dccifd over a tcp socket rather than to rely only on the unix socket.

I should definitively start to document it a bit more...

Yeah. I finally seem to have got a package of dccproc that seems to be ok (builds fine and even works ;).

Of course it needs some more testing :)

Didn't do much these last days. Just installed my new workstation at work and the daily maintenance stuff... BTW, I'm using kernel 2.6 on that one :)

Just saw Les Invasions Barbares. Excellent movie. Very funny and yet very moving. A great movie about friendship, life and death.

Oh yes, I nearly forgot to mention that after some hassles, the new Fosdem website is live on the new server.

I've hacked a local_scan function for Exim lately. The purpose was to be able to use the Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse system through the dccifd daemon rather than to call a dccproc process for each mail.

The code isn't certainly perfect, but it seems to be working rather well and I must say I'm pretty impressed by the efficiency of DCC.

On another subject, my IPv6 tunnels seem to be very popular. I already have more than 25 without doing any kind of advertisement. Time to start doing some serious scripting about it. I need something a bit more automated than what can be found on http://www.physicman.net/tools/

In the mean time, I'll continue to build some Debian packages.

The SDSL is working fine, but I'm still wondering how I'm gonna build the network here.

I've put some mirrors on my packages page: http://packages.physicman.net

I'll try to build some packages this week.

Got my new SDSL line. Time to play with a Cisco again.

I created a repository for Debian packages on my server; but don't have much to put there for the moment :)