The Linux FreeS/WAN project has several email lists for user support, bug reports
and software development discussions.
We had a single list on clinet.fi for several years (Thanks, folks!), then one
list on freeswan.org, but now we've split into several lists:
- users
-
- The general list for discussing use of the software
- The place for seeking help with problems (but please check the FAQ first).
- Anyone can post.
- bugs
-
- For bug reports.
- If you are not certain what is going on -- could be a bug, a configuration
error, a network problem, ... -- please post to the users list instead.
- Anyone can post.
- design
-
- Design discussions, for people working on FreeS/WAN development or others with an interest
in design and security issues.
- It would be a good idea to read the existing design papers (see this list) before
posting.
- Anyone can post.
- announce
-
- A low-traffic list.
- Announcements about FreeS/WAN and related software.
- All posts here are also sent to the users list. You need not subscribe to both.
- Only the FreeS/WAN team can post.
- If you have something you feel should go on this list, send it to announce-admin@lists.freeswan.org.
Unless it is obvious, please include a short note explaining why we should post it.
- briefs
-
- A low-traffic list.
- Weekly summaries of activity on the users list.
- All posts here are also sent to the users list. You need not subscribe to both.
- Only the FreeS/WAN team can post.
To subscribe to any of these, you can:
- just follow the links above
- use our web interface
- send mail to listname-request@lists.freeswan.org
with a one-line message body "subscribe"
Archives of these lists are available via the
web interface.
US citizens or residents are asked not to post code to the
lists, not even one-line bug fixes. The project cannot accept code
which might entangle it in US export restrictions.
Non-subscribers can post to some of these lists. This is necessary; someone working on
a gateway install who encounters a problem may not have access to a subscribed account.
Some spam turns up on these lists from time to
time. For discussion of why we do not attempt to filter it, see the
FAQ. Please do not clutter the lists with complaints
about this.
Searchable archives of the old single list have existed for some time. At
time of writing, it is not yet clear how they will change for the new
multi-list structure.
Note that these use different search engines. Try both.
Archives of the new lists are available via the
web interface.
PAML is the standard reference for
Publicly Accessible
Mailing Lists. When we last checked, it
had over 7500 lists on an amazing variety of topics. It also has FAQ
information and a search engine.
There is an index of
Linux
mailing lists available.
A list of
computer security mailing lists, with descriptions.
Most links in this section point to subscription addresses for the
various lists. Send the one-line message "subscribe list_name" to
subscribe to any of them.
- linux-admin@vger.kernel.org,
for Linux system administrators
- ipchains@rustcorp.com,
about the IPchains firewall tool
- netfilter@samba.anu.edu.au,
about Netfilter, which replaces IPchains in kernels 2.3.15 and
later
- securedistros@humbolt.geo.uu.nl,
for discussion of issues common to all the half dozen projects working
on secure Linux distributions. Each project also has its own mailing
list.
- Bastille
Linux scripts to harden Redhat, e.g. by changing permissions and
modifying inialisation scripts
- Immunix take a different
approach, using a modified compiler to build kernel and utilities
with better resistance to various types of overflow and exploit
- security-audit@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk,
for people working on security audits of various Linux programs
- the NSA have contractors working on a Security Enhanced Linux,
primaily adding stronger access control mechanisms. You can download the current version
(which interestingly is under GPL and not export resrtricted) or subscribe to the mailing
list from the project web page.
Each IETF working group has an associated mailing
list where much of the work takes place.
- sci.crypt
- sci.crypt.research
- comp.dcom.vpn
- talk.politics.crypto