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Postfix smf(5) manifest

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

I have installed OpenSolaris (specifically, Solaris Express Community Edition build 91) on my new home server which will consolidate three existing (rather old, noisy, and underpowered) machines.

I am installing Postfix as my mail server software. I created an smf(5) service manifest for postfix so that I can have smf start it. Contrary to the (IMHO misguided) common practice, I install manifests in /lib/svc/manifest/. So I installed the above file as /lib/svc/manifest/network/postfix.xml and used svccfg import to create the svc:/network/smtp:postfix service instance.

[Update: Normally I would have offered this file to the smf community and/or the Postfix author/maintainer, but before I posted this others had already beat me to it.]

The myfamily.com DNS Poisoning Problem Understood

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

Several people have observed a problem on their networks where various web sites, apparently at random, would be replaced by www.myfamily.com. The problem comes and goes without obvious cause, and affects different web sites at different times. I started encountering this problem a few days ago and tracked down the cause.

Something funny started happening with my web browser…

I clicked on a link to, say, www.imdb.com, and found myself looking at the home page for www.myfamily.com. My browser’s URL bar indicated http://www.imdb.com/ but the contents of the page were obviously not from that site. (more…)