On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 10:49:49AM +0000, Laura Smith wrote:
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> On Sunday, 20 December 2020 10:28, Peter J. Philipp <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > The story is, that I log time to lives (TTL) with a setsockopt() on my
> > logging
> > DNS server. Whenever mail.openbsd.org sends a mail it does not ask its cache
> > but does a dns query every time. This is a great beacon on the Internet (at
> > least for me) it tells something of the dedication openbsd has for
> > delivering
> > the mail from the mailing lists.
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> Erm ....
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> Doesn't mail.openbsd.org, alongside most other openbsd servers, originate
> from Theo's basement ?
No. Assumptions etc
-Otto
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> If so, it tells you nothing "beacon" about the state of the internet. There
> are many, many, many better projects out there that you can monitor if you
> wish to have a true "beacon" view of what's going on on the internet.
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> Nor does it tell you anything of openbsd's dedication to anything apart from
> its obstinance in insisting that Theo's basement is the best place to host
> servers and refuse to answer questions from the community in that respect
> (see discussions when Theo came begging for money for electricity or whatever
> it was a few years back).
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> Still, I'm sure Theo will be happy for you to blow his trumpet for him. ;-)
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