Re: [gentoo-user] resolving names of local hosts locally

On Wednesday 02 December 2015 20:37:34 lee wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way to configure bind so that the names of local hosts, > i. e. the ones bind is authoritative for, can be resolved without a > connection to the internet? > > I don't like it at all that when the internet connection goes

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Amazon EC2

Hello Guys I have a Gentoo running at Amazon EC2 m1.large instance. I've created an instance snapshot and tried to start new instance with same type in same location. New instance failed to start. In my original instance i've changed CFLAGS with option '-march=native' CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Peter. > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:53:23PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > Some time ago I was looking for a console font whose zero had no > > diagonal bar, because nowadays I find that makes it resemble an > > eight too

Re: [gentoo-user] Beast / BSE

On 12/03/2015 09:53 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > Beast BSE is a soft syntesizer for (beside others) Linux. > > The application ( https://testbit.eu/wiki/Beast_Home ) needs > to be compiled from source and is not part of the portage. > > Since I had bad experience with portage

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving names of local hosts locally

Peter Humphrey writes: > On Wednesday 02 December 2015 20:37:34 lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> is there a way to configure bind so that the names of local hosts, >> i. e. the ones bind is authoritative for, can be resolved without a >> connection to the internet? >> >> I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving names of local hosts locally

On 2015-12-03 17:20, lee wrote: Alan McKinnon writes: Secondly, nothing else on your network can know your auth server is authoritative without first being informed so by the delegating server. The name server itself knows this from its configuration, and it's the

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving names of local hosts locally

Alan McKinnon writes: > On 02/12/2015 21:37, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> is there a way to configure bind so that the names of local hosts, >> i. e. the ones bind is authoritative for, can be resolved without a >> connection to the internet? >> >> I don't like it at all

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving names of local hosts locally

On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 11:20:57PM +0100, lee wrote > Then how do you solve the problem of being unable to even resolve the > names of hosts on the LAN when the connection goes down? Do the machines on the LAN have static IP addresses? If so, try hosts files on the LAN machines (No, my

[gentoo-user] Beast / BSE

Hi, Beast BSE is a soft syntesizer for (beside others) Linux. The application ( https://testbit.eu/wiki/Beast_Home ) needs to be compiled from source and is not part of the portage. Since I had bad experience with portage overlays (they (read:I) screwed up my system lately ... typical level 8

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

Hello, Peter. On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:53:23PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > Some time ago I was looking for a console font whose zero had no diagonal > bar, because nowadays I find that makes it resemble an eight too closely. It's horrible, isn't it? > At the time I said I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Some precautions when updating from firefox-38 to firefox-42

On Thursday 03 Dec 2015 18:01:22 walt wrote: > My trouble started with my update from firefox-39 to firefox-40 back > in August 2015. At first the update seemed absolutely benign and I > noticed nothing bad happening. > > Slowly but surely firefox has been driving me crazy by doing little >

[gentoo-user] Some precautions when updating from firefox-38 to firefox-42

My trouble started with my update from firefox-39 to firefox-40 back in August 2015. At first the update seemed absolutely benign and I noticed nothing bad happening. Slowly but surely firefox has been driving me crazy by doing little things that are merely annoying. Today firefox did