Re: [DNG] Weird network issue - slow to resolve IPs

2018-10-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/14/18 12:45 AM, goli...@dyne.org wrote: On 2018-10-14 01:52, Rick Moen wrote: Anyhow, it can be vital to know _what_ server is answering (well or otherwise) your system's DNS questions by default.  Looking at /etc/resolv.conf should answer that question. I don't have anything in

Re: [DNG] Weird network issue - slow to resolve IPs [solved]

2018-10-17 Thread Alessandro Selli
  Hi, Steve! On 17/10/18 at 07:34, Steve Litt wrote: > Yes, yes, yes, yes, YES! > I just got thru updating my unbound doc at > http://troubleshooters.com/linux/unbound_nsd/unbound.htm , and added a > new glossary.   i noticed a couple of lines are missing in the reverse-zone definitions of the

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Joel Roth
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 04:58:33PM +0200, KatolaZ wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 09:30:50AM -0500, Daniel Taylor wrote: > > [cut] > > > > c) where and how would you draw the line indicating what's unacceptable > > > about > > > systemd - in other words, what exactly do you mean by "the Unix

Re: [DNG] Weird network issue - slow to resolve IPs [solved]

2018-10-17 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting goli...@dyne.org (goli...@dyne.org): > Can't say for sure. Wouldn't Comcast/Spectrum/RoadRunner(TWC) be > able to throttle traffic more effectively using their in-house DNS > service? Maybe unbound escapes their reach? I don't think this is likely for various reasons including the fact

Re: [DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?

2018-10-17 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Bruce Ferrell (bferr...@baywinds.org): > For Linux stuff I've become somewhat fond of X2go Yes, X2Go's really good -- delivering on the promise of FreenX (now unmaintained) to greatly improve on the performance delivery of VNC/RFP and RDP. -- Cheers, Mia

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 16:58:33 +0200 KatolaZ wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 09:30:50AM -0500, Daniel Taylor wrote: > > [cut] > > > > c) where and how would you draw the line indicating what's > > > unacceptable about systemd - in other words, what exactly do you > > > mean by "the Unix

Re: [DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?

2018-10-17 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting info at smallinnovations dot nl (i...@smallinnovations.nl): > The easiest way would be to make a connection with ssh  -X or -Y which > enables X-forwarding. You then can start a individual X program from the > commandline but also the complete WM. Perfectly showing how capable > linux is

Re: [DNG] dig vs nslookup: was Weird network issue - slow to resolve IPs

2018-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 17:32:50 +1100 wirelessd...@gmail.com wrote: > > On 17 Oct 2018, at 15:58, Steve Litt > > wrote: > > > > What's your opinion of nslookup as an alternative to dig? Not sure, > > but I think you need to install bind to get dig, and not everyone > > wants to install bind. >

Re: [DNG] who is working for who (was Avahi (was Weird network issue))

2018-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 22:37:57 -0700 Rick Moen wrote: > (I continually find myself making the point on Dng that the quest > for universal solutions may be noble in its aims but will never > really succeed very well.) The preceding is what I've been trying to say for years, but didn't have the

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread g4sra
> ..the systemd approach was (and still is?) convert (or "generate") > sysvinit scripts into systemd unit files. Still is. But that is only half the issue. As mentioned already, any attempt to run a sysv script is intercepted by SystemD. The corresponding unit file ('generated' or 'packaged')

Re: [DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?

2018-10-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 05:14:52PM +0200, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: > On 17-10-18 13:19, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I recently installed Devuan Jessie on a computer for presentations via > > large TV. And that machine is also directly wired in a small LAN to > >

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 05:51:11PM +0200, Antony Stone wrote: > On Wednesday 17 October 2018 at 17:37:14, Bruce Ferrell wrote: > > > "They" REALLY want to force the use of systemd. > > > > I REALLY don't want to use systemd. I've seen too many problems since > > it's introduction. > > > > Now

Re: [DNG] Weird network issue - slow to resolve IPs [solved]

2018-10-17 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:31:41 -0500, goli...@dyne.org wrote in message : > On 2018-10-15 22:22, mett wrote: > > On 2018年10月16日 11:16:30 JST, goli...@dyne.org wrote: > >>> On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 05:30:56PM -0500, goli...@dyne.org wrote > >>> > >> It is incredibly annoying to be connected to

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 15:14:46 +0200, Edward wrote in message : > Why doesn't Devuan edit sysvinit to use systemd's unit files instead > of scripts? That would bypass the entire problem. Those who want to > stick to scripts can always direct sysvinit to use scripts instead. ..the systemd approach

Re: [DNG] Weird network issue - slow to resolve IPs [solved]

2018-10-17 Thread golinux
On 2018-10-15 22:22, mett wrote: On 2018年10月16日 11:16:30 JST, goli...@dyne.org wrote: On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 05:30:56PM -0500, goli...@dyne.org wrote It is incredibly annoying to be connected to a rather fast pipe yet have to travel on what feels like 56k connection to get to where I can

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Bruce Ferrell
On 10/17/18 8:51 AM, Antony Stone wrote: On Wednesday 17 October 2018 at 17:37:14, Bruce Ferrell wrote: On 10/17/18 8:24 AM, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: On 17-10-18 15:14, Edward Bartolo wrote: Why doesn't Devuan edit sysvinit to use systemd's unit files instead of scripts? That

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Antony Stone
On Wednesday 17 October 2018 at 17:37:14, Bruce Ferrell wrote: > On 10/17/18 8:24 AM, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: > > On 17-10-18 15:14, Edward Bartolo wrote: > >> Why doesn't Devuan edit sysvinit to use systemd's unit files instead > >> of scripts? That would bypass the entire

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Bruce Ferrell
On 10/17/18 8:24 AM, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: On 17-10-18 15:14, Edward Bartolo wrote: Why doesn't Devuan edit sysvinit to use systemd's unit files instead of scripts? That would bypass the entire problem. Those who want to stick to scripts can always direct sysvinit to use

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread info at smallinnovations dot nl
On 17-10-18 15:14, Edward Bartolo wrote: > Why doesn't Devuan edit sysvinit to use systemd's unit files instead > of scripts? That would bypass the entire problem. Those who want to > stick to scripts can always direct sysvinit to use scripts instead. An > edit/patch would aim to make sysvinit

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Martin Steigerwald
KatolaZ - 17.10.18, 16:58: > process supervision and management system. Which is probably 90% of > the reason why systemd needed to fagocitate the whole low-level > user-space (please remember that the only way to reliably know that a > process is dead under unix is to be the parent of that

Re: [DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?

2018-10-17 Thread info at smallinnovations dot nl
On 17-10-18 13:19, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently installed Devuan Jessie on a computer for presentations via > large TV. And that machine is also directly wired in a small LAN to > another box that runs some old Ubuntu (probably 12.04 or so, it is > also just to tell the audience

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Daniel Taylor
On 10/17/18 9:58 AM, KatolaZ wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 09:30:50AM -0500, Daniel Taylor wrote: [cut] c) where and how would you draw the line indicating what's unacceptable about systemd - in other words, what exactly do you mean by "the Unix paradigm" in your comment above? Split out

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread KatolaZ
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 09:30:50AM -0500, Daniel Taylor wrote: [cut] > > c) where and how would you draw the line indicating what's unacceptable > > about > > systemd - in other words, what exactly do you mean by "the Unix paradigm" in > > your comment above? > Split out the PID 1 stuff to just

Re: [DNG] who is working for who (was Avahi (was Weird network issue))

2018-10-17 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:53:07PM -0700, Bruce Ferrell wrote: > For real fun, turn on Avahi along with all the pulse audio stuff. > > Watch your network get flooded with multi-cast audio. Flooded? I'm sorry, but does you network is built over 33,6kbs modems? Have you lost the perspective?

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Daniel Taylor
On 10/17/18 9:08 AM, Antony Stone wrote: On Wednesday 17 October 2018 at 15:54:11, Daniel Taylor wrote: I am becoming convinced that the proper course of attack is to reimplement all the systemd functions in the Unix paradigm. a) I seriously doubt that that is possible, without effectively

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Antony Stone
On Wednesday 17 October 2018 at 15:54:11, Daniel Taylor wrote: > I am becoming convinced that the proper course of attack is to reimplement > all the systemd functions in the Unix paradigm. a) I seriously doubt that that is possible, without effectively just re-writing systemd b) systemd's

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Daniel Taylor
On 10/17/18 8:14 AM, Edward Bartolo wrote: Why doesn't Devuan edit sysvinit to use systemd's unit files instead of scripts? That would bypass the entire problem. Those who want to stick to scripts can always direct sysvinit to use scripts instead. An edit/patch would aim to make sysvinit

Re: [DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?

2018-10-17 Thread terryc
On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 13:19:33 +0200 Miroslav Skoric wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently installed Devuan Jessie on a computer for presentations > via large TV. And that machine is also directly wired in a small LAN > to another box that runs some old Ubuntu (probably 12.04 or so, it is > also just

[DNG] [devuan-dev] Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-17 Thread Edward Bartolo
Why doesn't Devuan edit sysvinit to use systemd's unit files instead of scripts? That would bypass the entire problem. Those who want to stick to scripts can always direct sysvinit to use scripts instead. An edit/patch would aim to make sysvinit recognise unit files and run scripts when instructed

[DNG] Devuan + remote desktop of Ubuntu = how?

2018-10-17 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hi all, I recently installed Devuan Jessie on a computer for presentations via large TV. And that machine is also directly wired in a small LAN to another box that runs some old Ubuntu (probably 12.04 or so, it is also just to tell the audience what Linux is about). Machines can ping each

Re: [DNG] who is working for who (was Avahi (was Weird network issue))

2018-10-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:37:57PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > > > So it comes down to a) try to kill the chatty discovery protocols and > > perpetuate the "geeks vs users" divide > > Was there a particular part of 'not on _my_ network' that was unclear? Maybe we need discovery protocols

[DNG] automatic init script generation

2018-10-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 06:05:21PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > > I personally, got tired of inventing yet another init system - did that > over 20 years ago (actually, some things not so different from *early* > systemd - before they became totally nuts). > > The problem,

Re: [DNG] who is working for who (was Avahi (was Weird network issue))

2018-10-17 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 16.10.18 22:53, Bruce Ferrell wrote: > > For real fun, turn on Avahi along with all the pulse audio stuff. > > Watch your network get flooded with multi-cast audio. > > Scramble to shut it down as fast as you can. Errrm, devuan ascii is running both of those OOTB. On another current thread,

Re: [DNG] dig vs nslookup: was Weird network issue - slow to resolve IPs

2018-10-17 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting wirelessd...@gmail.com (wirelessd...@gmail.com): > Since looking at Unbound and NSD, I’ve been trying out drill as an > alternative developed by the same NLnet people. > > https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/ldns/about/ > > Install via the ldnsutils package. 'drill' is the very newest

Re: [DNG] dig vs nslookup: was Weird network issue - slow to resolve IPs

2018-10-17 Thread wirelessduck
> On 17 Oct 2018, at 15:58, Steve Litt wrote: > > What's your opinion of nslookup as an alternative to dig? Not sure, but > I think you need to install bind to get dig, and not everyone wants to > install bind. Since looking at Unbound and NSD, I’ve been trying out drill as an alternative

Re: [DNG] Weird network issue - slow to resolve IPs [solved]

2018-10-17 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > I just got thru updating my unbound doc at > http://troubleshooters.com/linux/unbound_nsd/unbound.htm , and added a > new glossary. This is very necessary because there are so many > contradictory terms for things over the Internet. I'm not saying