Re: [gentoo-user] Perl 5.26 Unmasking Warning [affects all users]

As advised in the previous email[1], Perl 5.26.1 is scheduled to be unmasked and available to ~arch come October 7th. All the major blockers of known serious defects are fixed[2], but there's still quite a number of lower-severity issues that are still yet to be addressed[3] Stabilization of

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Block multiple IP addresses; iptables or route...reject?

I have to disagree with the last post.  You should most certainly block some inbound traffic.  you should block ports you aren't using.  If some ip addr. or particular provider have a  customer trying to break your' machine you want to block the whole isp unless you are serving pages etc.  you

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Block multiple IP addresses; iptables or route...reject?

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > I have some doubts about massive "hosts" files for adblocking. I > downloaded one that listed 13,148 sites. I fed them through a script > that called "host" for each entry, and saved the output to a text file. > The

[gentoo-user] Re: Block multiple IP addresses; iptables or route...reject?

On 2017-10-04 17:21, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I'd suggest you use a packet filter, but not on Linux and certainly not > iptables. That thing is a god-awful mess looking like it was built by > unsupervised schoolkids masquerading as internes. The best tool for this > is the pf packet filter, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Block multiple IP addresses; iptables or route...reject?

​> The best tool for this is the pf packet filter, but it runs on FreeBSD. ​It's too bad this still isn't around..​ ​ https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_FreeBSD On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 04/10/2017 07:28, Walter Dnes wrote: > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Block multiple IP addresses; iptables or route...reject?

On 04/10/2017 07:28, Walter Dnes wrote: > I have some doubts about massive "hosts" files for adblocking. I > downloaded one that listed 13,148 sites. I fed them through a script > that called "host" for each entry, and saved the output to a text file. > The result was 1,059 addresses. Note

Re: [gentoo-user] Linode discontinuing Xen, migrating to KVM

On Tuesday, October 3, 2017 1:38:46 PM CEST Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/2/2017, 11:52:21 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > > As long as your kernel has the appropriate drivers (i.e. you didn't > > include only the virtualized Xen drivers and left most of the default > > options intact) it should

Re: [gentoo-user] Linode discontinuing Xen, migrating to KVM

On Monday, October 2, 2017 11:17:46 PM CEST Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/2/2017, 4:03:37 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > > On 10/2/2017, 2:39:51 PM, Stroller wrote: > >>> On 2 Oct 2017, at 18:30, Tanstaafl wrote: > >>> >

[gentoo-user] Re: ....Gentoo update killed Gentoo update?

Wolfram Schlich wrote: > So, you (also) are effectively the maintainer There was some dispute. It seems that now my requests are ignored: https://bugs.gentoo.org/628512

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ....Gentoo update killed Gentoo update?

* Martin Vaeth [2017-10-04 10:09]: > Wolfram Schlich wrote: > > > > Use this for a quick fix until it's sorted out upstream: > > It is not an upstream issue. You can use the ebuild from the > mv overlay which does not patch the upstream build system.

[gentoo-user] Re: ....Gentoo update killed Gentoo update?

Wolfram Schlich wrote: > > Use this for a quick fix until it's sorted out upstream: It is not an upstream issue. You can use the ebuild from the mv overlay which does not patch the upstream build system.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Block multiple IP addresses; iptables or route...reject?

Hello, On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 12:28 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > I have some doubts about massive "hosts" files for adblocking. I > downloaded one that listed 13,148 sites. I fed them through a script > that called "host" for each entry, and saved the output to a text