From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Osterried Subject: Re: Compiling FBB Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 10:31:07 +0100 Message-ID: <201111091031.08778.thomas@osterried.de> References: <4E93FBEC.7050907@free.fr> <20111108200524.GE30829@flying-gecko.net> <4EB9D5D6.50509@trinnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4EB9D5D6.50509@trinnet.net> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" To: David Ranch Cc: Patrick Ouellette , Thomas Osterried , "Bernard, f6bvp" , ralf@linux-mips.org, linux-hams , kd1zd@rtcubed.org Am Mittwoch, den 09. November 2011 um 02:22:30 Uhr, schrieb David Ranch in <4EB9D5D6.50509@trinnet.net>: > > Hello Patrick, > > Thanks for willing to take this back on! One thing to regarding the > node binary. The old "Linux Node" software evidently has several major > security vulnerabilities in it that were resolved in a fork called > Uronode. See the Unode release nodes below for more details. > > The HAM that wrote Uronode has seemingly dropped of the map as all his > domains no longer work, etc. A different HAM (KD1ZD) has reposted that > work as a new fork called Unode. I would argue that the original Linux > node software should be patched to be secure or better yet, be DROPPED > from the ax25 suite in favor of this new Unode software which is "more" > secure, has some additional features, etc. The software project Node is not part or ax25-apps/-tools. > https://github.com/kd1zd/Unode > > Just my $0.02 > > --David > KI6ZHD > > > Patrick Ouellette wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 02:04:00PM +0200, Thomas Osterried wrote: > >> On 2011-10-20 21:02:44 -0700, David Ranch > >> wrote in <4EA0EEE4.7050502@trinnet.net>: > >>> Hello Bernard, Ralf, Thomas, > >>> > >>> I've been meaning to ask this question for a while now: Do you know > >>> why the official version of the ax25 apps/libs/tools hasn't been > >>> updated in ages? > >> Unfortunately, there's no debian-developer who regulary builds new > >> packages from the CVS head of ax25-apps, -tools and libax25. > > > > I used maintain ax25 for Debian to a long time ago. Apparently I will be > > picking up support in Debian again since no one else seems to want to and the > > "team maintainer" concept has fallen apart. > > > > The first order of business I have to attend to is the apparent need to rename > > the node package and binary to ax25-node. > > > > www.linux-ax25.org is apparently down right now? > > > > (the Google repo mentioned is: http://code.google.com/p/linuxax25/ ) > > > > 73, > > > > Pat >