The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively. Pound is a very small program, easily audited for security problems. It can run as setuid/setgid and/or in a chroot jail. Pound does not access the hard-disk at all (except for reading the certificate file on start, if required) and should thus pose no security threat to any machine.
| OS | Architecture | Version |
|---|---|---|
| NetBSD 10.0 | powerpc | pound-2.8nb2.tgz |
| NetBSD 9.0 | aarch64 | pound-2.8nb3.tgz |
| NetBSD 9.0 | aarch64 | pound-2.8nb3.tgz |
| NetBSD 9.0 | alpha | pound-2.8nb3.tgz |
| NetBSD 9.0 | alpha | pound-2.8nb3.tgz |
| NetBSD 9.0 | earmv6hf | pound-2.8nb3.tgz |
| NetBSD 9.0 | earmv6hf | pound-2.8nb3.tgz |
| NetBSD 9.0 | earmv6hf | pound-2.8nb3.tgz |
| NetBSD 9.0 | earmv7hf | pound-2.8nb3.tgz |
| NetBSD 9.0 | earmv7hf | pound-2.8nb3.tgz |
| NetBSD 9.0 | earmv7hf | pound-2.8nb3.tgz |
| NetBSD 9.0 | i386 | pound-2.8nb3.tgz |
| NetBSD 9.0 | i386 | pound-2.8nb3.tgz |
| NetBSD 9.0 | powerpc | pound-2.8nb3.tgz |
| NetBSD 9.0 | powerpc | pound-2.8nb2.tgz |
| NetBSD 9.0 | powerpc | pound-2.8nb3.tgz |
| NetBSD 9.0 | x86_64 | pound-2.8nb3.tgz |
| NetBSD 9.0 | x86_64 | pound-2.8nb3.tgz |
| NetBSD 9.3 | x86_64 | pound-2.8nb3.tgz |
Binary packages can be installed with the high-level tool pkgin (which can be installed with pkg_add) or pkg_add(1) (installed by default). The NetBSD packages collection is also designed to permit easy installation from source.
The pkg_admin audit command locates any installed package which has been mentioned in security advisories as having vulnerabilities.
Please note the vulnerabilities database might not be fully accurate, and not every bug is exploitable with every configuration.
Problem reports, updates or suggestions for this package should be reported with send-pr.