No, not the infamous programming language! But LISP as Location/Identifier Separation Protocol. (I know I am repeating the joke everyone does but I couldn’t help). But what is it about? It is actually at first difficult to conceive, as we are all so used that IP addresses identify both a person (or a company) and [...]
OpenID rants
After I tried to set this blog as my own OpenID provider using the OpenID WordPress plugin, I got a weired error message: “This is an OpenID Server, Nothing to See Here… Move Along” I could not find what as wrong, as all prerequisites were fulfilled, until I find this nice post. The patch there [...]
Netios 0.76
Netios 0.76 is out! Complete changelog : 2010-07-13 (0.76) Jean-Christophe Baptiste <jc@phocean.net> * fix prompt for enable issue * fix issue with log directory * add timeout option * remove fail check for password mode (source of confusion and not so useful on second thought) Check there for more details and a download link.
Books review
I just finished reading two electronic books I bought from O’reilly. Here is a short review on them. Hacking: the next generation The purpose of this book is to give to the readers an overview of the most common attacks nowadays. It covers all fields : social engineering, web attacks, networking, etc. It was easy [...]
Netios 0.75
Netios 0.75 is out. Complete changelog : 2010-04-24 (0.75) Jean-Christophe Baptiste <jc@phocean.net> * always force to specify the user to update and remove useless options concerning tacacs and newuser mode Check there for more details and a download link.
Netios 0.74
Netios 0.74 is out. Complete changelog : 2010-04-08 (0.74) Jean-Christophe Baptiste <jc@phocean.net> * improve logging and error handling * clean up some crapy code Check there for more details and a download link.
Downtimes: a hardware problem
You may have noticed that the site had a lot of downtimes recently. I was having a daily kernel panic and weired file system corruptions, which I first tought were coming from the successive crashes and reboots. However, while it happened again and again and I could not find any good reason for that, I [...]




