VyOS Platform Blog

VyOS builds now use the deb.debian.net load balanced mirror

If there are any good things about that packages server migration and restructuring is that it promoted a revamp of the associated part of the build scripts. Since the start the ...

VyOS builds and HTTPS: build works again, HTTP still needs testing

01/11/18 16:16 By: Daniil Baturin

We have restored VyOS builds. Nightly build should work as expected today, and you can build it by hand as well if you want. This is not exactly the end of the story for us since ...

Follow-up: VyOS builds and HTTPS

01/11/18 7:58 By: Daniil Baturin

We've made HTTP on the dev.packages.vyos.net host optional, and restored the real directory index (provided by the Apache HTTP's mod_autoindex) instead of using the ...

VyOS builds and HTTPS

01/10/18 4:09 By: Daniil Baturin

For a while some people kept asking why we do not enable HTTPS on the servers with ISOs and repositories. Now we have enabled it, but it turned out it's not all that simple: ...

No new features in Perl and shell and no old style templates since May 2018

01/10/18 2:09 By: Daniil Baturin

Now that the Python library for accessing the running config and the generator of old style templates from new style XML command definitions are known to be functional, it's time ...

Migration and restructuring of the (dev).packages.vyos.net hosts

01/08/18 4:32 By: Daniil Baturin

The original host where the packages.vyos.net and dev.packages.vyos.net web servers used to live has kept having serious I/O performance issues ever since a RAID failure event, ...

Why IPsec behind 1:1 NAT is so problematic and what you can do about it

01/06/18 0:14 By: Daniil Baturin

Not so long ago the only scenario when the issues with IPsec and NAT could arise was a remote access setup, while routers invariably had real public addresses and router to ...

The meltdown and spectre vulnerabilities

01/04/18 23:39 By: Daniil Baturin

Everyone is talking about the meltdown and the spectre vulnerabilities now. If you are late to the party, read https://meltdownattack.com/ Of course we are aware of it and took ...

VyOS mission statement

01/01/18 13:28 By: Daniil Baturin

Past year the VyOS project has turned four. Perhaps it's time to update the mission statement I've made back in 2013. This one doesn't exactly contradict it, but needs to include ...

Possible re-appearance of the AWS public key loading bug and what to do if you see it

11/29/17 5:15 By: Daniil Baturin

There were some reports of re-appearence of the infamous bug with SSH public key loading in Amazon EC2. None of those were confirmed so far and one of them was traced to a user ...

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