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Ask HN: Is OpenBSD's relayd production quality?
We picked OpenBSD as the OS for our external firewalls, due to it's reputation for security and networking features (pf+relayd).
Yesterday we had an outage which was tracked down to the relayd daemon, which had apparently crashed.
I would be very surprised if for instance sshd would crash, which has never happened to me.
Is the relayd code of about the same quality when it comes to stability and security as OpenSSH?
We are using OpenBSD 5.3/amd64, and will upgrade to 5.4, which I read will fix some crashes with relayd. Just curious if I should expect more crashes, or if the bugs in the relayd shipped with 5.3 was exceptional or not.
- runjake 13y ago> due to it's reputation for security and networking > features Let me fix that statement for you: "due to it's largely self-perpetuated reputation". That reputation falls apart when you start installing software upon the minimal default install and someone breaks in and there's no decent RBAC/MAC/TE/etc in the OS to further stop them. But to answer your question, I've had a lot of stability issues with the FreeBSD port of relayd.
- JoelJacobson 13y agoAny alternatives to relayd?