Re: Replacing BIND with unbound

2012-08-21 Thread Doug Barton
On 8/21/2012 10:11 AM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org writes: Dag-Erling, do you have a timeline for getting started on the ldns/unbound import? I imported the code into the vendor tree, but did not proceed any further

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound

2012-08-21 Thread Doug Barton
On 8/21/2012 11:08 AM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Doug Barton wrote: Neither importing ldns nor removing BIND is going to have any effect on the stub resolver library in libc. Yes it does as if we are not carefull, we'll neither have a _proper_ validating caching resolver

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound

2012-08-20 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/06/2012 13:23, Vitaly Magerya wrote: Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: On 07/07/2012 16:33, Garrett Wollman wrote: The utilities (specifically host(1) and dig(1)) are the only user-visible interfaces I care about. [...] ldns (a dependency of unbound) comes with drill, which is a dig

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound

2012-08-20 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/20/2012 01:55, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: We will continue to reject this until there are more firm plans, proper documentation on the security support side, which I cannot remember Simon got an answer for. I gave a clear answer. If there are any pieces missing it's up to Simon to follow up

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound

2012-08-20 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/20/2012 02:16, Mark Blackman wrote: On 20 Aug 2012, at 10:12, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: On 08/20/2012 01:55, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: We will continue to reject this until there are more firm plans, proper documentation on the security support side, which I cannot remember

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound

2012-08-20 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/20/2012 02:19, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Doug Barton wrote: On 08/20/2012 01:55, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: We will continue to reject this until there are more firm plans, proper documentation on the security support side, which I cannot remember Simon got an answer

Re: How to diagnose system freezes?

2012-08-06 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/31/2012 17:02, Yuri wrote: One of my 9.1-BETA1 systems periodically freezes. If sound was playing, it would usually cycle with a very short period. And system stops being sensitive to keyboard/mouse. Also ping of this system doesn't get a response. Just for fun, have you tried switching

Re: dtraceall.ko with old nfsclient

2012-08-06 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/31/2012 09:48, Fabian Keil wrote: I think guessing that INET and INET6 are available is a lot more reasonable than doing the same for the external NFS modules. FYI, there has been considerable work done to ensure that INET6 works without

Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-05 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/02/2012 12:18, David Chisnall wrote: Thank you for your thoughtful reply, You too ... I let some time go by to see what others had to say. I think it's disappointing that more people aren't concerned about this issue. On 2 Aug 2012, at 19:33, Doug Barton wrote: However, my point

Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/02/2012 09:20, Scott Long wrote: On Aug 2, 2012, at 12:23 AM, Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote: Doug makes some good points. No, he doesn't. Yes I do! (So there) He and Arnould being argumentative and accusatory where none of that is warranted. I used to run the

Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/02/2012 05:54, David Chisnall wrote: On 2 Aug 2012, at 05:30, Doug Barton wrote: I used to ask the PTB to provide *some* form of remote participation for even a fraction of the events at the dev summit. I don't bother asking anymore because year after year my requests were met

Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/02/2012 09:44, Garrett Cooper wrote: The Watson/Losh connection worked really well in BSDCan 2010 :). I wasn't going to mention that, since I didn't want to tell tales out of school. But the fact that remote participation actually was provided for the right people, even though I was told

Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/02/2012 10:13, David Chisnall wrote: On 2 Aug 2012, at 17:46, Doug Barton wrote: Well that's a start. :) And where was this availability announced? If I missed it, that's on me. But providing remote access that you don't tell people about isn't really any better than not providing

Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-02 Thread Doug Barton
BTW, for those who'd like to get a flavor of what the IETF model looks like, the Vancouver meeting is in process now: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/84/agenda.html Feel free to join in as a lurker. -- I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something.

Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/02/2012 10:34, Doug Barton wrote: BTW, for those who'd like to get a flavor of what the IETF model looks like, the Vancouver meeting is in process now: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/84/agenda.html Feel free to join in as a lurker. Sorry, this agenda makes it easier to see

Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/02/2012 10:37, David Chisnall wrote: Thank you for volunteering to organise this. It's good to see people with both the motivation and experience required to do something well actively contributing to the project. Cheap copout. And quite sad, especially coming from a newly elected

Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/02/2012 10:40, Warner Losh wrote: One thing to remember about the IETF. There's many vendors that devote significant resources to the IETF. While I was at Cisco, for example, I know that we provided audio and video bridges to IEFT meetings to facilitate remote attendance at the

Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/02/2012 05:39, John Baldwin wrote: I find this a bit ironic from you given that I've met you in person at USENIX ATC which is an order of magnitude more expensive than BSDCan (and in fact, one of the reasons the US-based BSDCon died and was effectively supplanted by BSDCan was that

Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/02/2012 11:12, David Chisnall wrote: FreeBSD is a volunteer project. Yeah, I get that. I've been around quite a bit longer than you have, in case you didn't notice. :) I understand what you're saying, it's going to take work to change this mindset, and to provide these resources. If you

Re: On cooperative work [Was: Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..]

2012-08-01 Thread Doug Barton
On 8/1/2012 8:36 PM, Warner Losh wrote: I think this proves the point everybody has been saying: you are being needlessly contrary and confrontational. Actually if you take a step back and look at what Arnaud is saying objectively, he's right. If anyone can attend the meeting by simply getting

Is there a reason that xhci isn't mentioned in NOTES in 8-stable?

2012-07-19 Thread Doug Barton
The xhci code in 8-stable works, but it's not mentioned in the NOTES files in sys/conf, sys/i386/conf, or sys/amd64/conf. The module is hooked up in sys/modules/usb/Makefile, and that's how I've been using it so far. Is it not possible to compile this code into the kernel? Doug -- Change

Re: Is there a reason that xhci isn't mentioned in NOTES in 8-stable?

2012-07-19 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/19/2012 02:17, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Thursday 19 July 2012 11:14:42 Doug Barton wrote: The xhci code in 8-stable works, but it's not mentioned in the NOTES files in sys/conf, sys/i386/conf, or sys/amd64/conf. The module is hooked up in sys/modules/usb/Makefile, and that's how

Re: Is there a reason that xhci isn't mentioned in NOTES in 8-stable?

2012-07-19 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/19/2012 03:29, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Thursday 19 July 2012 11:38:11 Doug Barton wrote: On 07/19/2012 02:17, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Thursday 19 July 2012 11:14:42 Doug Barton wrote: The xhci code in 8-stable works, but it's not mentioned in the NOTES files in sys/conf, sys

Re: Resistance to documentation? (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-17 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/17/2012 01:56 PM, Dave Hayes wrote: I've been using FreeBSD since the 90s. My perception (over many years of observation) is that the FreeBSD people most able to document what exists and how to use it seem to also have the greatest resistance to writing any documentation. Writing code

Re: Resistance to documentation? (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-17 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/17/2012 03:38 PM, Dave Hayes wrote: On 07/17/12 15:14, Doug Barton wrote: Some sources of this are: I rarely read the handbook So now that we've discussed *our* shortcomings, let's discuss yours. :) Read the handbook. Seriously. I should have written that better. I *do* read

Re: FreeBSD 8.3

2012-07-15 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/15/2012 02:39, Mike Meyer wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:29:59 -0700 Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: For the OP, make sure you have the latest BIOS. I had a similar problem with vt-x and it was solved by a later BIOS upgrade. And *that* solved the problem. The performance

Re: FreeBSD 8.3

2012-07-14 Thread Doug Barton
For the OP, make sure you have the latest BIOS. I had a similar problem with vt-x and it was solved by a later BIOS upgrade. hth, Doug -- Change is hard. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-10 Thread Doug Barton
that. I think you misunderstood my flippant comment below. On 2012-Jul-09 13:52:15 -0700, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: On 07/09/2012 13:47, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2012-Jul-09 14:15:13 +0200, in freebsd-security, Andrej (Andy) Brodnik and...@brodnik.org wrote: Excuse my ignorance

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound

2012-07-10 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/09/2012 14:47, Mark Blackman wrote: I never use '-t' with dig. drill *told* me I should use '-t' then completely failed to acknowledge I had done so. Have you reported this bug? -- Change is hard. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound

2012-07-10 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/09/2012 19:56, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2012-Jul-10 00:40:07 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no wrote: They are sufficiently similar that writing a wrapper that supports a significant subset of dig's command-line option and uses drill

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-10 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/09/2012 16:45, George Mitchell wrote: On 07/09/12 17:01, Doug Barton wrote: On 07/09/2012 06:45, Mark Blackman wrote: Indeed, 'dig' and 'host' must be present and working as expected in a minimally installed system. So if you don't like the versions that get imported, install bind

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-10 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/10/2012 00:28, Mike Meyer wrote: I suspect that dnsmasq is a lot better tool for that job than BIND I think better is in the eye of the beholder, particularly whether or not the O is either small or well-staffed enough to pre-enter hostnames into the zone files. That said, dnsmasq is a

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound

2012-07-10 Thread Doug Barton
On 7/10/2012 4:27 AM, Mark Blackman wrote: On 10 Jul 2012, at 08:12, Doug Barton wrote: On 07/09/2012 14:47, Mark Blackman wrote: I never use '-t' with dig. drill *told* me I should use '-t' then completely failed to acknowledge I had done so. Have you reported this bug? Nope, you? I'm

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-09 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/08/2012 23:16, Avleen Vig wrote: On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: On 07/08/2012 22:43, Avleen Vig wrote: It would be silly not to keep bind-tools in base. Sounds easy, but not so much in practice. Keeping any of the code doesn't solve the problem

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-09 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/09/2012 00:34, Avleen Vig wrote: On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: On 07/08/2012 23:16, Avleen Vig wrote: On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: On 07/08/2012 22:43, Avleen Vig wrote: It would be silly not to keep bind

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-09 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/09/2012 13:47, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2012-Jul-09 14:15:13 +0200, in freebsd-security, Andrej (Andy) Brodnik and...@brodnik.org wrote: Excuse my ignorance - but is there a how-to paper on transition from bind to unbound for SOHO? You

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-09 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/09/2012 06:33, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Monday 09 July 2012 09:34:34 Avleen Vig wrote: The issue is also one of barrier-to-entry. By removing `dig` and `host`, I think we're making things unnecessarily more difficult for people who don't *know* FreeBSD. `dig` and `host` a universally

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-09 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/09/2012 06:45, Mark Blackman wrote: Indeed, 'dig' and 'host' must be present and working as expected in a minimally installed system. So if you don't like the versions that get imported, install bind-tools from ports. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-08 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/07/2012 19:44, Warner Losh wrote: On Jul 7, 2012, at 5:33 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 16:17:53 -0700, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org said: BIND in the base today comes with a full-featured local resolver configuration, which I'm confident that Dag-Erling can do

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-08 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/08/2012 01:03, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On 8. Jul 2012, at 02:44 , Warner Losh wrote: On Jul 7, 2012, at 5:33 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 16:17:53 -0700, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org said: BIND in the base today comes with a full-featured local resolver

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-08 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/08/2012 01:07, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On 7. Jul 2012, at 23:45 , Doug Barton wrote: On 07/07/2012 16:34, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On 7. Jul 2012, at 23:17 , Doug Barton wrote: Other than authoritative DNS, what features does unbound lack that you want? DNS64 as a start. Personally

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-08 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/07/2012 17:35, Adam Vande More wrote: I am unclear on how this solves the main problem I think was stated about syncing up with release branches. I've already explained this at length in the past. ISC has changed both their release schedule and their policy regarding not allowing new

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-08 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/07/2012 17:47, Darren Pilgrim wrote: On 2012-07-07 16:45, Doug Barton wrote: Also re DNSSEC integration in the base, I've stated before that I believe very strongly that any kind of hard-coding of trust anchors as part of the base resolver setup is a bad idea, and should not be done. We

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-08 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/08/2012 10:10, Jason Hellenthal wrote: From first impression it seems that drill(1) has a syntax that leaves something to be desired like the eased use of host or dig. So once again, if you need the exact capabilities of ISC host and dig,

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-08 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/08/2012 10:43, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 02:31:17 -0700, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org said: Neither of which has any relevance to the actual root zone ZSK, which could require an emergency roll tomorrow. Surely that's why there's a separate KSK. The ZSK can

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-08 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/08/2012 13:25, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: On 2012.07.08. 1:17, Doug Barton wrote: Other than authoritative DNS, what features does unbound lack that you want? [Picking up a random mail from the thread.] Other than the functionality, when we replace something, it is also important to do

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-08 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/08/2012 07:41, Dan Lukes wrote: The ideal, long-term solution is to re-think what The Base is, and give users more flexibility at install time. Flexibility is double-edged sword. Feel free to replace one resolver with another resolver (but don't do it so often, please). Applications

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-08 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/08/2012 22:43, Avleen Vig wrote: It would be silly not to keep bind-tools in base. Sounds easy, but not so much in practice. Keeping any of the code doesn't solve the problem of the release cycles not syncing up. And for the vast majority of users needs the tools we will import will be

Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-07 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/07/2012 14:16, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On 3. Jul 2012, at 12:39 , Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org writes: The correct solution to this problem is to remove BIND from the base altogether, but I have no energy for all the whinging that would happen if I tried

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-07 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/07/2012 16:33, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 16:17:53 -0700, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org said: BIND in the base today comes with a full-featured local resolver configuration, which I'm confident that Dag-Erling can do for unbound (and which I would be glad to assist

Re: Replacing BIND with unbound (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-07 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/07/2012 16:34, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On 7. Jul 2012, at 23:17 , Doug Barton wrote: On 07/07/2012 14:16, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On 3. Jul 2012, at 12:39 , Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org writes: The correct solution to this problem is to remove BIND from

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-05 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/05/2012 01:28, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2012-Jul-05 09:22:25 +0200, Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za wrote: As for the idea that Linux refugees need extra help to migrate, that's the sort of thinking that led to things like: alias dir=ls Whilst we're on the subject, can we please

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-04 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/04/2012 10:01, Freddie Cash wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Simon L. B. Nielsen si...@freebsd.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:39 PM, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: On 07/03/2012 05:39, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org writes: The correct solution

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-04 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/04/2012 11:51, Jason Hellenthal wrote: What would be really nice here is a command wrapper hooked into the shell so that when you type a command and it does not exist it presents you with a question for suggestions to install somewhat like Fedora has done. I would also like to see this

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-04 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/04/2012 14:55, Brett Glass wrote: At 06:39 AM 7/3/2012, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: I'm willing to import and maintain unbound (BSD-licensed validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver) if you remove BIND. I've been using djb, and -- despite its quirks -- I'm very happy with

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-04 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/04/2012 15:01, Mike Meyer wrote: On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:19:38 -0700 Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: On 07/04/2012 11:51, Jason Hellenthal wrote: What would be really nice here is a command wrapper hooked into the shell so that when you type a command and it does not exist

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-04 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/04/2012 15:55, Jason Hellenthal wrote: Seeing as sudo plays a big part of this No ... not only is sudo not a necessary component, it shouldn't be involved at all. The feature works on debian/ubuntu for regular userspace commands. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your

install-prompt for missing features (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-04 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/04/2012 15:57, Yuri wrote: On 07/04/2012 15:08, Doug Barton wrote: First, I agree that being able to turn it off should be possible. But I can't help being curious ... why would you *not* want a feature that tells you what to install if you type a command that doesn't exist

Re: install-prompt for missing features (Was: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-04 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/04/2012 16:41, Jason Hellenthal wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 03:59:29PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: On 07/04/2012 15:55, Jason Hellenthal wrote: Seeing as sudo plays a big part of this No ... not only is sudo not a necessary component, it shouldn't be involved at all. The feature

Re: Better error messages for command not found (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?)

2012-07-04 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/04/2012 17:30, Tim Kientzle wrote: On Jul 4, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 03:59:29PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: On 07/04/2012 15:55, Jason Hellenthal wrote: Seeing as sudo plays a big part of this No ... not only is sudo not a necessary component

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-04 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/04/2012 21:08, Brett Glass wrote: At 04:03 PM 7/4/2012, Doug Barton wrote: Other than that, if whoever actually pushes all the rocks uphill to make the installer more modular in this regard decides to include djbdns, more power to them. :) I'm not suggesting that everyone

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/02/2012 19:08, Robert Simmons wrote: Are there plans to pull the following into head before the code freeze for 9.1? BIND 9.9.1p1 We never change the version of BIND in a release branch. The 9.8 version that's there is up to date. The correct solution to this problem is to remove

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/03/2012 05:39, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org writes: The correct solution to this problem is to remove BIND from the base altogether, but I have no energy for all the whinging that would happen if I tried (again) to do that. I don't think

Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?

2012-07-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/03/2012 06:36, Mark Felder wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:39:34 -0500, Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no wrote: I don't think there will be as much whinging as you expect. Times have changed. Agreed; if we need DNS in base (really, why?) then unbound+nsd are prime candidates, but

Re: Browsing over IPv6

2012-07-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/02/2012 04:12, George Mitchell wrote: I've been using IPv6 for quite a few years without problems and I've had no difficulty browsing Many more sites are actually putting, or have put, IPv6 into production since the latest world IPv6 day last month. Some growing pains are inevitable.

Re: PORTS_MODULES in src.conf: make: don't know how to make instclean. Stop

2012-07-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/02/2012 09:25, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, David Wolfskill wrote: Huh??!? At least as far back as 06 Jan (based on the mtime of /etc/src.conf), I had set up src.conf to read: PORTS_MODULES=x11/nvidia-driver Don't do that. PORTS_MODULES is documented to belong in

Re: PORTS_MODULES in src.conf: make: don't know how to make instclean. Stop

2012-07-02 Thread Doug Barton
The problem is fixed now. This time I tested build and install with the same code. :( Sorry for the breakage, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: PORTS_MODULES in src.conf: make: don't know how to make instclean. Stop

2012-07-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 07/02/2012 13:41, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Doug Barton wrote: On 07/02/2012 09:25, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, David Wolfskill wrote: Huh??!? At least as far back as 06 Jan (based on the mtime of /etc/src.conf), I had set up src.conf to read

Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)

2012-06-21 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/21/2012 05:28 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: 32.0s - rc scripts (mounting root through VTY login prompt) I think that there is some confusion about what I wrote originally, so let me clarify. From the time that /etc/rc starts through the time that the prompt appears almost all of the time is

Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)

2012-06-20 Thread Doug Barton
I was working on a reply along similar lines, but instead I'll say that i agree 100% with what Mark said, and thanks to him for saving me a lot of time. :) Richard, with all that said if you still are interested in specs for a test program, I'm still willing to help with that. Just let me know.

Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)

2012-06-19 Thread Doug Barton
On 6/18/2012 9:39 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: The latter item is the only place where making changes to rc.d is going to help, and only then by parellelizing, and even then you are not really going to gain much since most things at boot time are serial. grep sleep /etc/rc.d/*

Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)

2012-06-19 Thread Doug Barton
On 6/18/2012 4:05 PM, Richard Yao wrote: Doug, we already have OpenRC implemented. You can install Gentoo FreeBSD in a jail, install regular FreeBSD in another jail and do your own performance comparisons. Bt! Thanks for playing. :) You're the one proposing the change, YOU get to do

Re: Replacing rc(8) (Was: FreeBSD Boot Times)

2012-06-18 Thread Doug Barton
It's unfortunate that this thread evolved into a discussion about replacing rc.d, since that's almost certainly not relevant to the original topic of improving the overall boot time. If you analyze the boot process thoroughly you should see that out of the total time taken to boot, nearly 0 is

Re: mergemaster bug?

2012-06-15 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/15/2012 11:37, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: *** The following files exist in /etc/rc.d but not in /var/tmp/temproot/etc/rc.d/: sshd man src.conf, and search for SSH. You have one of those options defined in your environment. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your

Re: boot menu option to disable graphics mode

2012-06-13 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/13/2012 06:50 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 09/06/2012 19:17 Doug Barton said the following: If this were a problem we didn't already have a solution for, I'd be much more interested in what you're proposing. I wonder if you were in the same mindset when you worked on service(8

Re: boot menu option to disable graphics mode

2012-06-09 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/07/2012 11:10, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 07/06/2012 17:29 Doug Barton said the following: On 06/07/2012 02:57 AM, Gleb Kurtsou wrote: What do you think about adding generic support for overriding *_enable options in rc.conf? I'd like to be able to disable services at boot prompt, e.g

Re: boot menu option to disable graphics mode

2012-06-07 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/07/2012 02:57 AM, Gleb Kurtsou wrote: What do you think about adding generic support for overriding *_enable options in rc.conf? I'd like to be able to disable services at boot prompt, e.g. # set rc.slim_enable=no -- overrides slim_enable=yes in rc.conf Similarly rc.pf_enable=no

Re: boot menu option to disable graphics mode

2012-06-07 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/07/2012 08:12 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: I've run into _multiple_ scenarios where this isn't possible because the terminal settings are screwed up in single user mode, and had to resort to `sed -i '' `. If that happens, a) report it! SUM is a very important part of FreeBSD, and it needs

Re: Ways to promote FreeBSD?

2012-05-05 Thread Doug Barton
As someone pointed out when this thread started, it's off-topic for hackers. Please take it to advocacy. -- It's always a long day; 86400 doesn't fit into a short. Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :)

Re: Forgotten debuging flags in 9.0 RELEASE

2012-04-25 Thread Doug Barton
On 4/25/2012 7:55 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: Well, those can be left in place, if they are part of STDOUT, as I leave only STDERR to reach my eyes. And I see exactly those 2 'ln -s ...' lines because they are outputed to STDERR. Right, I have the same issue with mergemaster ever since I

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-03 Thread Doug Barton
On 4/2/2012 3:59 PM, Joe Greco wrote: On 4/2/2012 11:43 AM, Joe Greco wrote: As a user, you can't win. If you don't report a problem, you get criticized. If you report a problem but can't figure out how to reproduce it, you get criticized. If you can reproduce it but you don't submit a

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/30/2012 07:41, Joe Greco wrote: On 3/29/2012 7:01 AM, Joe Greco wrote: On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically it's not likely that you'll get a helpful result without

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-04-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 4/2/2012 11:43 AM, Joe Greco wrote: As a user, you can't win. If you don't report a problem, you get criticized. If you report a problem but can't figure out how to reproduce it, you get criticized. If you can reproduce it but you don't submit a workaround, you get criticized. If you

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Doug Barton
On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically it's not likely that you'll get a helpful result without testing a newer version. 8.2 came out over a year ago, many many things have

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-03-29 Thread Doug Barton
On 3/29/2012 7:01 AM, Joe Greco wrote: On 3/28/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Felder wrote: FreeBSD 8-STABLE, 8.3, and 9.0 are untested As much as I'm sensitive to your production requirements, realistically it's not likely that you'll get a helpful result without testing a newer version. 8.2 came out

Re: Strong host model in IPv6?

2012-03-09 Thread Doug Barton
On 3/9/2012 7:02 AM, Alex Yong wrote: I've been playing around with IPv6 networking on FreeBSD release 8.2 and found that there seems to be no strong incoming host model as specified in RFC 1122. First, you're infinitely more likely to get a useful response if you send your message to

Re: [PREVIEW] bsdconfig(8)

2012-03-05 Thread Doug Barton
On 3/5/2012 8:24 PM, Devin Teske wrote: On Mar 5, 2012, at 6:20 PM, Andrzej Tobola wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 04:44:53PM -0800, Devin Teske wrote: INSTRUCTIONS: 1. cd /usr/src cd /usr/src/usr.sbin ? Sorry… /usr/src/usr.bin You don't need to be root to run it, so it's

Re: BUG: 9.0 stage 2 boot (/boot/boot)

2012-03-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/02/2012 08:52, John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday, March 01, 2012 5:23:11 pm Doug Barton wrote: On 3/1/2012 1:14 PM, John Baldwin wrote: My firefox on my BSD desktop was caching the image. Holding down Shift when clicking reload usually handles this. Only if you already know that FF

Re: BUG: 9.0 stage 2 boot (/boot/boot)

2012-03-01 Thread Doug Barton
On 3/1/2012 1:14 PM, John Baldwin wrote: My firefox on my BSD desktop was caching the image. Holding down Shift when clicking reload usually handles this. hth, Doug -- It's always a long day; 86400 doesn't fit into a short. Breadth of IT experience, and depth of

Re: PostgreSQL benchmarks (now with Linux numbers)

2012-02-23 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/23/2012 05:22, John Baldwin wrote: On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 9:59:02 pm Doug Barton wrote: On 02/22/2012 01:42, Ivan Voras wrote: The Dragonfly team has recently liberated their VM from the giant lock and there are some interesting benchmarks comparing it to FreeBSD 9

Re: PostgreSQL benchmarks (now with Linux numbers)

2012-02-22 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/22/2012 01:42, Ivan Voras wrote: The Dragonfly team has recently liberated their VM from the giant lock and there are some interesting benchmarks comparing it to FreeBSD 9 and a derivative of RedHat Enterprise Linux:

Re: 8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change?

2012-02-21 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/21/2012 02:49, Tom Evans wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: On 02/20/2012 06:44, Tom Evans wrote: Whatever happened to POLA? This change surprised me, wasn't mentioned in /usr/src/UPDATING, You're supposed to compare your existing kernel config

Re: 8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change?

2012-02-20 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/20/2012 08:54, Alex Goncharov wrote: ,--- You/Tom (Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:44:09 +) * | On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: | Because loading modules through loader.conf is | veeryy slooww I added an rc.d script called

Re: 8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change?

2012-02-20 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/20/2012 06:44, Tom Evans wrote: wrt to sound drivers no longer being built as modules, I wonder why this change has been made. I don't recall a mass of people complaining that they couldn't load drivers, Then you haven't been paying attention. :) Whatever happened to POLA? This

Re: 8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change?

2012-02-20 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/20/2012 07:23, Patrick Powell wrote: Oooh! Ahhh! Just what I was looking for. l will extract this from 9 and put it on my system. Glad you like it. :) One thing though, you're actually better off updating to the latest -stable of whatever branch you're using, some work has gone into

Re: 8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change?

2012-02-19 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/19/2012 08:13, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Given the context of the thread, this: loading modules through loader.conf is veeryy slooww ... seemed to be an objection to modularizing the kernel. The only way you could come to that conclusion is if you

Re: 8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change?

2012-02-18 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/18/2012 10:43, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: loading modules through loader.conf is veeryy slooww ... Is it noticeably slower to load (say) a 6MB kernel + 2MB of modules than to load an 8MB kernel? I don't know

Re: 8 to 9: Kernel modularization -- did it change?

2012-02-17 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/17/2012 15:11, matt wrote: We have a modular kernel. It makes best-practices-sense to keep the kernel true to what's required to boot and initialize the hardware required to come up multiuser. I am actually against having sound in there at all. I think the question is not, What should

Re: Giant lock gone? (was: Re: ...focus, longevity, and lifecycle)

2012-01-19 Thread Doug Barton
On 01/18/2012 16:58, Dieter BSD wrote: The original goal for 5.0 was to completely remove the Giant lock (and do other cool SMP-related stuff). Eventually it was realized that this was too big a goal to fully accomplish in 5.0 (albeit too late in the process) and the goal was changed to do the

Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and lifecycle

2012-01-19 Thread Doug Barton
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, John Kozubik wrote: Hi Doug, On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Doug Barton wrote: On 01/18/2012 11:46, John Kozubik wrote: - mark 9 as the _only_ production release While I understand your motivation, I am not sure this is a workable goal when combined with the goal that others

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