Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-08 Thread Lee
On 7/8/19, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 08 July 2019 14:48:59 Lee wrote: > >> On 7/8/19, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> > On Lu, 08 iul 19, 13:37:26, Lee wrote: >> >> On 7/7/19, andreimpope...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> > The dangers are not at all obvious to me, possibly because I >> >> > haven't

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 08 July 2019 14:48:59 Lee wrote: > On 7/8/19, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 08 iul 19, 13:37:26, Lee wrote: > >> On 7/7/19, andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > >> > The dangers are not at all obvious to me, possibly because I > >> > haven't used it much (if at all). > >> > >> Read

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-08 Thread Brian
On Mon 08 Jul 2019 at 13:37:26 -0400, Lee wrote: > On 7/7/19, andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Sb, 06 iul 19, 15:36:37, Lee wrote: > >> > >> "an accident waiting to happen" was from me and I also gave the rfc > >> for mdns, so that's hardly "nothing of substance to support that > >> view."

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-08 Thread Lee
On 7/8/19, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 08 iul 19, 13:37:26, Lee wrote: >> On 7/7/19, andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> > The dangers are not at all obvious to me, possibly because I haven't >> > used it much (if at all). >> >> Read the first three paragraph of the "Security

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-08 Thread Brian
On Sat 06 Jul 2019 at 18:14:04 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > So I now have a working network. Free of the bogus inventions of dhcpd5 > and avahi. That _was_ the point of all this hoopla in the first place. > > Now, I have learned what works to _my_ satisfaction. > > Have you? Or did you quit

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 08 iul 19, 13:37:26, Lee wrote: > On 7/7/19, andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > > > The dangers are not at all obvious to me, possibly because I haven't > > used it much (if at all). > > Read the first three paragraph of the "Security Considerations" section >

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-08 Thread Lee
On 7/7/19, Curt wrote: > On 2019-07-06, Lee wrote: >> >> "an accident waiting to happen" was from me and I also gave the rfc >> for mdns, so that's hardly "nothing of substance to support that > > I see. So the totality of the mdns rfc (*somewhat* more succinct than a > 19th century Russian

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-08 Thread Lee
On 7/7/19, andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sb, 06 iul 19, 15:36:37, Lee wrote: >> >> "an accident waiting to happen" was from me and I also gave the rfc >> for mdns, so that's hardly "nothing of substance to support that >> view." If you're having trouble finding the rfc, it's here >>

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-08 Thread David Wright
On Mon 08 Jul 2019 at 08:36:38 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 08:46:19AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 20:10:42 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > But that begs another question Greg. If it hasn't anything to do with > > > avahi-daemon, whyinhell

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-08 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 08 July 2019 08:36:38 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 08:46:19AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 20:10:42 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > But that begs another question Greg. If it hasn't anything to do > > > with avahi-daemon, whyinhell did

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 08:46:19AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 20:10:42 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > But that begs another question Greg. If it hasn't anything to do with > > avahi-daemon, whyinhell did purging avahi-daemon take the libnsswitch > > package with it? >

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 July 2019 12:28:21 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 07 iul 19, 07:17:33, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 07 July 2019 02:58:46 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > > > BTW, it's still not clear to me whether this is about a clean > > > buster install or some image based on buster. > > >

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-07 Thread Reco
restarting networking, and > > the problem was fixed, everything then worked correctly, > > Did you ever find out why dhcpcd5 was even starting? I solved this mystery. Took an upgrade to buster, and somewhat botched network configuration in the result. But it was worth it. First, unlike ISC d

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 07 iul 19, 07:17:33, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 07 July 2019 02:58:46 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > BTW, it's still not clear to me whether this is about a clean buster > > install or some image based on buster. > > > Its the raspian image based on buster-rc2 AIUI. As

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-07 Thread David Wright
On Sun 07 Jul 2019 at 00:57:58 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 07 July 2019 00:11:43 David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 06 Jul 2019 at 18:14:04 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday 06 July 2019 15:35:10 Brian wrote: > > > > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 21:35:25 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-07-07 13:17:33) > On Sunday 07 July 2019 02:58:46 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Sb, 06 iul 19, 18:14:04, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > If you read the full thread, you will find where I found and fixed > > > that problem, by killing dhcpd5 with htop, and

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 July 2019 03:05:41 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sb, 06 iul 19, 20:30:02, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Its part of the buster-rc2 installed image, > > Is this an image you downloaded from somewhere (where?) or of your own > creation (what method? Debian Installer, debootstrap,

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 July 2019 02:58:46 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sb, 06 iul 19, 18:14:04, Gene Heskett wrote: > > If you read the full thread, you will find where I found and fixed > > that problem, by killing dhcpd5 with htop, and restarting > > networking, and the problem was fixed,

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-07 Thread Curt
On 2019-07-06, Lee wrote: > > "an accident waiting to happen" was from me and I also gave the rfc > for mdns, so that's hardly "nothing of substance to support that I see. So the totality of the mdns rfc (*somewhat* more succinct than a 19th century Russian novelistic endeavor) is the

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-07 Thread andreimpopescu
On Sb, 06 iul 19, 20:30:02, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Its part of the buster-rc2 installed image, Is this an image you downloaded from somewhere (where?) or of your own creation (what method? Debian Installer, debootstrap, etc.) Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-07 Thread andreimpopescu
On Sb, 06 iul 19, 18:14:04, Gene Heskett wrote: > > If you read the full thread, you will find where I found and fixed that > problem, by killing dhcpd5 with htop, and restarting networking, and > the problem was fixed, everything then worked correctly, Did you ever find out why dhcpcd5 was

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-07 Thread andreimpopescu
On Sb, 06 iul 19, 15:36:37, Lee wrote: > > "an accident waiting to happen" was from me and I also gave the rfc > for mdns, so that's hardly "nothing of substance to support that > view." If you're having trouble finding the rfc, it's here > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6762 Care to

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 July 2019 00:11:43 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 06 Jul 2019 at 18:14:04 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 06 July 2019 15:35:10 Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 21:35:25 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Friday 05 July 2019 15:23:38 Brian wrote: > > > > > I was

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-06 Thread David Wright
On Sat 06 Jul 2019 at 21:38:10 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 06 July 2019 20:30:02 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 06 July 2019 12:02:51 David Wright wrote: > > > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 21:19:29 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Friday 05 July 2019 12:08:45 David Wright

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-06 Thread David Wright
On Sat 06 Jul 2019 at 18:14:04 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 06 July 2019 15:35:10 Brian wrote: > > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 21:35:25 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Friday 05 July 2019 15:23:38 Brian wrote: > > > > I was rather hoping someone would clarify why not having > > > >

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 06 July 2019 20:30:02 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 06 July 2019 12:02:51 David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 21:19:29 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Friday 05 July 2019 12:08:45 David Wright wrote: > > > > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 06:06:30 (-0400), Gene Heskett

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 06 July 2019 12:02:51 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 21:19:29 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 05 July 2019 12:08:45 David Wright wrote: > > > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 06:06:30 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Thursday 04 July 2019 16:48:56

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 06 July 2019 15:35:10 Brian wrote: > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 21:35:25 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 05 July 2019 15:23:38 Brian wrote: > > > I was rather hoping someone would clarify why not having > > > avahi-daemon in the first place was a good thing in general. Your > > >

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-06 Thread Lee
On 7/6/19, Curt wrote: > On 2019-07-05, wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 09:27:29PM +0100, Brian wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> Some users are always fearful of new technology. They find all sorts of >>> ways to rubbish it, usually without any strong technical grounds but by >>> an appeal to

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-06 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 21:35:25 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 05 July 2019 15:23:38 Brian wrote: > > > I was rather hoping someone would clarify why not having avahi-daemon > > in the first place was a good thing in general. Your problem doesn't > > particularly interest me because it is

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-06 Thread David Wright
On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 21:19:29 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 05 July 2019 12:08:45 David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 06:06:30 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Thursday 04 July 2019 16:48:56 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Jo, 04 iul 19, 11:40:30, Gene Heskett

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-06 Thread David Wright
On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 20:10:42 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 05 July 2019 08:41:47 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 06:35:53AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > yup, and if the repos were open... They are not as I've previously > > > posted. I can report that apt --purge

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-06 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 08:13:03AM -, Curt wrote: > On 2019-07-05, wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 09:27:29PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> Some users are always fearful of new technology. They find all sorts of > >> ways to rubbish it, usually without any strong

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-07-05, wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 09:27:29PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > [...] > >> Some users are always fearful of new technology. They find all sorts of >> ways to rubbish it, usually without any strong technical grounds but by >> an appeal to tradition and emotion. > > Some other

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread andreimpopescu
On Vi, 05 iul 19, 06:35:53, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 04 July 2019 23:54:21 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > Just the fact that you are running Raspbian instead of pure Debian is > > already an important clue and possibly a major hindrance in helping > > you (we don't know what

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread andreimpopescu
On Vi, 05 iul 19, 21:19:29, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 05 July 2019 12:08:45 David Wright wrote: > > > As I've said, though, I'll go no further in looking at the problems > > you have because I think that many of them are of your own making. > > Thats also true, simply because I'm the last

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread andreimpopescu
On Vi, 05 iul 19, 15:17:16, Reco wrote: > > Debian may or may not get there - for instance, I heard some good news > about Raspberry Pi support in buster (not to be confused with Raspbian). Care to submit an entry for the Release Notes, similar to the one for Allwinner A64 based boards? Kind

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 15:23:38 Brian wrote: > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 04:33:42 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 04 July 2019 16:42:11 Brian wrote: > > > If nobody objects I would like to reword that statement. Many, > > > many users will have avahi-daemon on their systems; a few won't. >

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 13:00:42 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-07-05 17:45:54) > > > On Friday 05 July 2019 07:34:42 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-07-05 12:54:05) > > > > > > > Its not quite that simple on the arm's. You do the install there > > >

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 12:08:45 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 06:06:30 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 04 July 2019 16:48:56 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Jo, 04 iul 19, 11:40:30, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > 1. content of /etc/network/interfaces and all

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 09:17:47 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 04:02:36PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 08:41:47AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Gene, /etc/nsswitch.conf is NOT part of any Debian package. > > > > Actually, nsswitch.conf is created by postinst

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 08:59:41 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 04:33:42AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Here is your Clarification: I used apt to purge avahi-daemon which > > took nsswitch with it, > > Let's test this assertion. > > > wooledg:~$ ls -l /etc/nss* > -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 08:41:47 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 06:35:53AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > yup, and if the repos were open... They are not as I've previously > > posted. I can report that apt --purge does not, I still see > > an /etc/nsswitch.conf, even though ts

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 09:27:29PM +0100, Brian wrote: [...] > Some users are always fearful of new technology. They find all sorts of > ways to rubbish it, usually without any strong technical grounds but by > an appeal to tradition and emotion. Some other people always try to skirt a sound

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 16:17:11 -0400, Lee wrote: > On 7/5/19, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 04:33:42 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >> On Thursday 04 July 2019 16:42:11 Brian wrote: > >> > >> > If nobody objects I would like to reword that statement. Many, many > >> > users will have

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Lee
On 7/5/19, Brian wrote: > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 04:33:42 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Thursday 04 July 2019 16:42:11 Brian wrote: >> >> > If nobody objects I would like to reword that statement. Many, many >> > users will have avahi-daemon on their systems; a few won't. The idea >> > that

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 04:33:42 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 04 July 2019 16:42:11 Brian wrote: > > > If nobody objects I would like to reword that statement. Many, many > > users will have avahi-daemon on their systems; a few won't. The idea > > that > > > > > Not installing this

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 08:17:16 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 06:54:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > The idea > > > > that > > > > > > > > > Not installing this software in the first place works even > > > > > better. > > > > > > > > requires clarification. > > >

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Lee
On 7/5/19, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 05 July 2019 05:13:48 Brian wrote: > >> On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 09:56:39 +0300, Reco wrote: >> >> > Third, whatever good avahi does is limited to a single L2 network >> > segment by the very definition of how it works. This particular >> > problem shows it

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 11:11:11 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 05 July 2019 05:13:48 Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 09:56:39 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > > Second, contrary to the popular thinking here, the world does not > > > start and does not end with GNOME and x86 along with

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-07-05 17:45:54) > On Friday 05 July 2019 07:34:42 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-07-05 12:54:05) > > > > > Its not quite that simple on the arm's. You do the install there > > > by dd'ing the complete filesystem image to the boot media,

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread David Wright
On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 06:06:30 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 04 July 2019 16:48:56 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Jo, 04 iul 19, 11:40:30, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > 1. content of /etc/network/interfaces and all files under > > > > /etc/network/interfaces.d/ > > > > > >

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 07:34:55 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 06:54:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > Its not quite that simple on the arm's. You do the install there by > > dd'ing the complete filesystem image to the boot media, usually a > > u-sd, > > so far,

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 07:34:42 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-07-05 12:54:05) > > > Its not quite that simple on the arm's. You do the install there by > > dd'ing the complete filesystem image to the boot media, usually a > > u-sd, so you get that crap regardless and must

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 07:29:52 Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2019-07-05 at 06:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 05 July 2019 02:56:39 Reco wrote: > > [...] > > > > Easy. You don't understand what the software does (Gene's here), > > > or you don't need its functions (I'm here) - you just do

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 05:13:48 Brian wrote: > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 09:56:39 +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 09:42:11PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Thu 04 Jul 2019 at 22:05:09 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 08:56:45PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > > > > >

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 05:13:36 Curt wrote: > On 2019-07-05, Gene Heskett wrote: > > pi@picnc:/ $ sudo apt update > > Get:1 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease > > [15.0 kB] Get:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster > > InRelease [25.1 kB] Reading package lists...

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 04:02:36PM +0300, Reco wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 08:41:47AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Gene, /etc/nsswitch.conf is NOT part of any Debian package. > > Actually, nsswitch.conf is created by postinst script of libc-bin > package, to technically nsswitch.conf is a

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 08:41:47AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 06:35:53AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > yup, and if the repos were open... They are not as I've previously > > posted. I can report that apt --purge does not, I still see > > an

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 04:33:42AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Here is your Clarification: I used apt to purge avahi-daemon which > took nsswitch with it, Let's test this assertion. wooledg:~$ ls -l /etc/nss* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 545 Apr 1 08:58 /etc/nsswitch.conf wooledg:~$ sudo cp

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 06:35:53AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > yup, and if the repos were open... They are not as I've previously > posted. I can report that apt --purge does not, I still see > an /etc/nsswitch.conf, even though ts been purged. ... what. Gene, /etc/nsswitch.conf is NOT part

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 06:54:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > The idea > > > that > > > > > > > Not installing this software in the first place works even > > > > better. > > > > > > requires clarification. > > > > Easy. You don't understand what the software does (Gene's

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 06:54:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > Its not quite that simple on the arm's. You do the install there by > dd'ing the complete filesystem image to the boot media, usually a u-sd, so far, so good... > so you get that crap regardless and must physically remove

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-07-05 12:54:05) > Its not quite that simple on the arm's. You do the install there by > dd'ing the complete filesystem image to the boot media, usually a > u-sd, so you get that crap regardless and must physically remove it > before a staticly defined, hosts file

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2019-07-05 at 06:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 05 July 2019 02:56:39 Reco wrote: [...] > > Easy. You don't understand what the software does (Gene's here), or > > you don't need its functions (I'm here) - you just do not install it. > > You don't fight with it, you don't try to

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-07-05 12:35:53) > On Thursday 04 July 2019 23:54:21 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > > Just the fact that you are running Raspbian instead of pure Debian > > is already an important clue and possibly a major hindrance in > > helping you (we don't know what other

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 July 2019 02:56:39 Reco wrote: > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 09:42:11PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 04 Jul 2019 at 22:05:09 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 08:56:45PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 20:01 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > > On

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 July 2019 23:54:21 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > On Jo, 04 iul 19, 04:42:40, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 04 July 2019 03:16:31 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > > > 3. Information on anything (and I do mean anything) else you might > > >

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 July 2019 16:48:56 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > On Jo, 04 iul 19, 11:40:30, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > 1. content of /etc/network/interfaces and all files under > > > /etc/network/interfaces.d/ > > > > pi@picnc:~ $ cat /etc/network/interfaces.d/* > > Is below the literal output

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Curt
On 2019-07-05, Gene Heskett wrote: > > pi@picnc:/ $ sudo apt update > Get:1 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease [15.0 kB] > Get:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease [25.1 kB] > Reading package lists... Done > E: Release file for >

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 09:56:39 +0300, Reco wrote: > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 09:42:11PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 04 Jul 2019 at 22:05:09 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 08:56:45PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 20:01 +0100, Brian wrote: > >

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 July 2019 16:44:14 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 09:42:11PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 04 Jul 2019 at 22:05:09 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > As always, all generalizations suck. Some do avahi, others don't > > > (full disclosure: I am in

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 July 2019 16:42:11 Brian wrote: > On Thu 04 Jul 2019 at 22:05:09 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 08:56:45PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > > > On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 20:01 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > On Thu 04 Jul 2019 at 19:18:13 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > > > > >

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-05 Thread Reco
On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 09:42:11PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 04 Jul 2019 at 22:05:09 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 08:56:45PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > > > On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 20:01 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > On Thu 04 Jul 2019 at 19:18:13 +0300, Reco wrote: > > >

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread andreimpopescu
On Jo, 04 iul 19, 04:42:40, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 04 July 2019 03:16:31 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > 3. Information on anything (and I do mean anything) else you might > > have done to your network configuration after installing buster, > >

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 July 2019 16:05:09 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 08:56:45PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > > On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 20:01 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Thu 04 Jul 2019 at 19:18:13 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > I'd also consider exterminating avahi with

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread andreimpopescu
On Jo, 04 iul 19, 11:40:30, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > 1. content of /etc/network/interfaces and all files under > > /etc/network/interfaces.d/ > pi@picnc:~ $ cat /etc/network/interfaces.d/* Is below the literal output of the cat above? Please post also /etc/network/interfaces. > auto eth0 >

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 09:42:11PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 04 Jul 2019 at 22:05:09 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > As always, all generalizations suck. Some do avahi, others don't (full > > disclosure: I am in the "don't" camp, as many may have guessed :-) > > If nobody objects I

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread Brian
On Thu 04 Jul 2019 at 22:05:09 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 08:56:45PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > > On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 20:01 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Thu 04 Jul 2019 at 19:18:13 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > I'd also consider exterminating avahi

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 08:56:45PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 20:01 +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 04 Jul 2019 at 19:18:13 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > I'd also consider exterminating avahi with extreme prejudice, i.e. > > > 'apt > > > purge avahi-daemon'. Really

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 20:01 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 04 Jul 2019 at 19:18:13 +0300, Reco wrote: > > [...] > > > I'd also consider exterminating avahi with extreme prejudice, i.e. > > 'apt > > purge avahi-daemon'. Really simplifies things. Not installing this > > software in the first place

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread Brian
On Thu 04 Jul 2019 at 19:18:13 +0300, Reco wrote: [...] > I'd also consider exterminating avahi with extreme prejudice, i.e. 'apt > purge avahi-daemon'. Really simplifies things. Not installing this > software in the first place works even better. Gene Heskett can follow this advice if he

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread Lee
On 7/4/19, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 04 July 2019 03:16:31 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > >> On Mi, 03 iul 19, 21:03:19, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > On Wednesday 03 July 2019 16:12:31 Reco wrote: >> > >> > And Gene moved. Question unanswered yet. >> > >> > > Hi. >> > > >> > > On Wed, Jul

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 July 2019 12:18:13 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 11:40:30AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 04 July 2019 03:16:31 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Mi, 03 iul 19, 21:03:19, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 03 July 2019 16:12:31 Reco

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-04 15:40, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 04 July 2019 06:15:56 mick crane wrote: On 2019-07-04 09:42, Gene Heskett wrote: > Sorry, I don't see it that way, I see a concentrated effort to make > me use dhcpd, instead of static, every machine in the system knows > the address of

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 11:40:30AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 04 July 2019 03:16:31 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Mi, 03 iul 19, 21:03:19, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Wednesday 03 July 2019 16:12:31 Reco wrote: > > > > > > And Gene moved. Question unanswered

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread Gene Heskett
mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether b8:27:eb:86:12:78 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > ip r # short for 'ip route' pi@picnc:~ $ ip r default dev eth0 scope link src 169.254.163.253 metric 202 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link src 169.254.163.253 met

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 July 2019 06:15:56 mick crane wrote: > On 2019-07-04 09:42, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Sorry, I don't see it that way, I see a concentrated effort to make > > me use dhcpd, instead of static, every machine in the system knows > > the address of ALL the other machines on my local

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread mick crane
On 2019-07-04 09:42, Gene Heskett wrote: Sorry, I don't see it that way, I see a concentrated effort to make me use dhcpd, instead of static, every machine in the system knows the address of ALL the other machines on my local 192.168.xx.nn/24 network. Using dhcp means I'd have to setup a 2nd

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 04 July 2019 05:25:05 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2019-07-04 04:42 (UTC-0400): > > every release newer than wheezy has made it progressively > > more difficult to make a staticly defined network work. > > Given the myriad of successes in your 8+ decades, I'm baffled

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2019-07-04 04:42 (UTC-0400): > every release newer than wheezy has made it progressively > more difficult to make a staticly defined network work. Given the myriad of successes in your 8+ decades, I'm baffled that you are continually flummoxed by fixed IP networking.

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread Gene Heskett
es and all files under > /etc/network/interfaces.d/ > > (I seem to recall you are using ifupdown) > > 2. Full output of: > apt list --installed 'network-manager*' # might be empty > apt list --installed 'avahi*' # might be empty > systemctl status systemd-networkd > i

Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration

2019-07-04 Thread andreimpopescu
systemd-networkd ip a # short for 'ip address' ip r # short for 'ip route' 3. Information on anything (and I do mean anything) else you might have done to your network configuration after installing buster, including but not limited to: * installing stuff, especially if from source * removing stuf

Re: debian 9 network configuration

2018-08-14 Thread john doe
On 8/14/2018 10:39 AM, Remigio wrote: Il giorno martedì 14 agosto 2018 10:20:04 UTC+2, john doe ha scritto: On 8/14/2018 9:05 AM, Remigio wrote: Hi there, recently I installed Debian 9 Stretch and I noticed that the network configuration management method was substantially changed. Infact

Re: debian 9 network configuration

2018-08-14 Thread Remigio
Il giorno martedì 14 agosto 2018 14:50:04 UTC+2, Greg Wooledge ha scritto: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 12:05:34AM -0700, Remigio wrote: ... Many thanks Greg for your clear exposition, I think that's what I was looking for. Regards

Re: debian 9 network configuration

2018-08-14 Thread Joe
On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 12:31:22 +0100 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 01:35:56AM -0700, Remigio wrote: > > desktop or what other software did you install - XFCE, or Gnome > >> or KDE? Then folks might be able to help ... > >> > >> Also, how would you -like- to configure your

Re: debian 9 network configuration

2018-08-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 12:05:34AM -0700, Remigio wrote: > recently I installed Debian 9 Stretch [...] > Could you help me please to understand where are network configuration files > and how to manage them? If, during the installation, you choose to install a Desktop Environment, the

Re: debian 9 network configuration

2018-08-14 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 01:35:56AM -0700, Remigio wrote: desktop or what other software did you install - XFCE, or Gnome or KDE? Then folks might be able to help ... Also, how would you -like- to configure your networking? Hi Zenaan, :-) the desktop environment is Xfce and I'd love to

Re: debian 9 network configuration

2018-08-14 Thread Remigio
... > What desktop or what other software did you install - XFCE, or Gnome > or KDE? Then folks might be able to help ... > > Also, how would you -like- to configure your networking? Hi Zenaan, :-) the desktop environment is Xfce and I'd love to manage networking via shell. Thanks and regards

Re: debian 9 network configuration

2018-08-14 Thread Brian
On Tue 14 Aug 2018 at 01:14:45 -0700, Remigio wrote: > ..- > > What desktop or what other software did you install - XFCE, or Gnome > > or KDE? Then folks might be able to help ... > > > > Also, how would you -like- to configure your networking? > > Hi Zenaan, :-) > the desktop is Xfce and

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