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Presentations and Articles by Hal Pomeranz

You've managed to stumble across my largely unartistic homepage, put here to help folks find some of the more useful information that I make available from this site. For the impatient, here's a quick index of the important information you can find here.

My name is Hal Pomeranz, and I make my living as an independent consultant through Deer Run Associates, the firm that I run with my wife, Laura LeHew. The primary focus of our consulting practice is computer and information security, though I also do a reasonable amount of consulting and training related to DNS, Sendmail, and a wide variety of other topics related to Unix systems, networking, and Open Source software. We're based out of Eugene, Oregon but I travel fairly frequently for different jobs.

There are also a number of other "hats" I wear from time to time:

In previous episodes of my life, I've been the Technical Editor for Sys Admin Magazine, coordinated the Solaris Security Benchmark for the Center for Internet Security, and served on the Board of Directors for USENIX, BayLISA, and BBLISA. I am also a recipient of the SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award. If you'd like updates on whatever I'm working on currently, you can follow me on Twitter.

Linux and General Unix

So I'm the "Unix guy", which means a lot of my thinking and writing is devoted to Unix and Linux systems:

Solaris

I spent the first fifteen years of my professional career working with Sun Microsystems gear, SunOS, and Solaris. So I have quite a few useful Solaris-related documents to share:

DNS and Sendmail

I've been working with Sendmail as long as I've been working with Unix (literally-- the reason they gave me root access on my first Unix system was to figure out Sendmail and get email working). I also do a lot of work with DNS and BIND. So I've got a lot of content in these areas to share:

Other Random Stuff

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