Welcome to Inflecto.org We are finally back up and running. Someone hacked the old server and crashed everything. I build a new server with all new software.
So far, so good, everything seems to be back online; with the exception of the user accounts (inflecto.org site and the Openfire XMPP IM Server). It was impossible to recover anything. All data was a total loss.
It will be necessary for everyone to recreate their accounts (inflecto.org site and the Openfire XMPP IM Server).
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The new inflecto.org website is powered by PcLinuxOs2010.
PcLinuxOs has been powering my routers and workstations sense 2008. It is the best Linux distro I have ever used.
I have setup a testing repository on inflecto.org. Containing rpms and srpms for testing on PcLinuxOS2010.
This repository contains server based apps; designed to allow PcLinuxOS to function as a virtual domain server.
Some of these rpms may already be in the main PcLinuxOS repositories. Others have yet to be submitted because they still need a little tweaking.
Other rpms will be added upon request.
- virtualmin-apache-mod_suexec-2.2.14-1pclos2010.i586.rpm – ( is already included in the main PcLinuxOS update repositories )
- webmin-1.520-1pclos2010.noarch.rpm – ( works but needs better customization before it is suitable to submit to the main PcLinuxOS repositories )
- wbm-virtual-server-3.80.gpl-1pclos2010.noarch.rpm – ( works but needs better customization before it is suitable to submit to the main PcLinuxOS repositories )
If you are interested in using PcLinuxOS in a virtual server environment, you can add this repository to Synaptic.
NOTE: This is only a testing repository use at your own risk.
Open Synaptic and add a new repository with the settings below.
uri: ftp://inflecto.org/apt/
Distribution: pclinuxos/2010
Section(s): i586 noarch
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This is a quote from the Ignite Realtime Blog. As you can see near the bottom of this post there is an issue with self signed SSL certificates in the current version of Openfire.
I’m hoping Openfire 3.7.x final will solve the issue with importing ca signed rsa certificates as well.
Sense the 3.7.0 beta was released Aug 26, 2010 we can expect the final to be out any time now.
Some important security related notes to this release:
- Openfire no longer ignores the system property to disallow password changes via XMPP. With previous releases, it was not possible to prevent users from changing their password via their XMPP connection. (CVE-2009-1596)
- Fixed a XSS attack on the admin console login form.
Protocol compliance improvements:
- Publish Subscribe (PubSub)
- BOSH (http-bind) xml namespace compliance fix.
Some highlights of this beta release:
- Improves how Openfire handles “idle” connections. Some of you may have the system property xmpp.client.idle set to -1 to work around previously broken behaviour. You may now let it default to 6 minutes or set it to your preference.
- Improved Openfire’s caching to be less prone to memory exhaustion by correctly calculating cache size usage.
- Fixed a bug where admin console login into a newly installed Openfire server would fail until restarted.
- Fixed a bug with shared rosters within a LDAP environment.
- Openfire now ships with the latest JRE (1.6.0u21).
- A memory leak with the Personal Eventing Protocol (PEP) was fixed.
- Openfire’s custom log interface has been replaced with SLF4J and a Log4J backend.
- Fix issues with self signed SSL certificates.
- A number of improvements and fixes were made to the Multi-User Chat (MUC) configuration pages on the admin console
- There were also some improvements made to the plugins.
- There are also French, Russian, and Lithuanian langauge translation fixes for Openfire and some of the plugins.
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I’m having problems getting openfire to except a CA signed rsa certificate. At the moment SSL is working with clients but only with the default self signed certificate. I will post an update as soon as I get this sorted out.
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Inflecto.org was created September 30,2005. At the time inflecto.org was a private instant messaging server exclusively used by family and friends. The reasoning behind this was to supply a spam free form of communication via instant messaging.
Back in 2005 all we really had for instant messaging was Yahoo’s IM, MSN, and who can for get good old ICQ. Also, there where several IRC servers and chat clients out but IRC hasn’t ever been very user friendly.
I started looking in 1997 for a private instant messaging solution that I could run on my home computer. It wasn’t until around 2003 that I stumbled on the Jabber project. Wow, I had finally found the perfect solution.
In the early days there where several variations of the Jabber server. Most where Linux based. They where all very hard to install and configure. So knowing little to nothing about Linux left me few options in Windows.
Having struggled with this for years, trying one version after another in Windows. I became extremely frustrated. If I could get a server up and running I couldn’t keep it running very long. Primary reasons for this were high expenses, reliability and stability issues with Windows.
A long time friend, who was using openSUSE Linux; knew of my frustration. He suggested openSUSE as a possible solution to my operating system woes.
To Be Continued……..
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