pdns security update (was Re: NBN satelite setup)

2016-09-16 Thread Craig Sanders via luv-main
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 07:10:43AM +1000, zlin...@virginbroadband.com.au wrote: > I am using pdnsd FYI, I saw this DSA come in a few days ago: https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3664 Debian Security Advisory DSA-3664-1 pdns -- security update Date Reported: 10 Sep 2016 Affected Packages:

Re: pdns security update (was Re: NBN satelite setup)

2016-09-16 Thread Rick Moen via luv-main
Quoting Craig Sanders (c...@taz.net.au): > On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 07:10:43AM +1000, zlin...@virginbroadband.com.au > wrote: > > I am using pdnsd > > FYI, I saw this DSA come in a few days ago: > > https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3664 > > Debian Security Advisory > DSA-3664-1 pdns --

Re: TCP rate/congestion control

2016-09-16 Thread Julien Goodwin via luv-main
On 16/09/16 11:02, Toby Corkindale via luv-main wrote: > I noticed that Windows 10 now uses CTCP as the default TCP > congestion/rate control algorithm, but Linux still defaults to the old > Cubic algorithm. > > CTCP doesn't appear to be available on Ubuntu LTS at the moment, but > there's a whole

Re: pdns security update (was Re: NBN satelite setup)

2016-09-16 Thread Craig Sanders via luv-main
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 01:12:07AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > _But_ that is completely unrelated to pdnsd. ah, my mistake. i assumed he was talking about powerdns. > http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Network_Other/dns-servers.html good page that, i've read it before but not for some time. IMO a useful

Re: OT: trains & demand tariffs [Was: outage]

2016-09-16 Thread Anthony via luv-main
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Russell Coker via luv-main < luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote: > Interesting. I've been wondering how difficult it would be to use some IP > enabled switches to control home energy use. If you had a meter on the > main > power that reports the power use to a Linux sys

Warzone 2100 on Debian

2016-09-16 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
Debian has an older version of the game Warzone 2100, which among other things means that it misses the ability to use some data files developed for newer versions, the ability to have multiplayer games with Windows users (who download the latest version) and whatever features there are in the n

Re: pdns security update (was Re: NBN satelite setup)

2016-09-16 Thread Rick Moen via luv-main
Quoting Craig Sanders (c...@taz.net.au): > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 01:12:07AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > > > _But_ that is completely unrelated to pdnsd. > > ah, my mistake. i assumed he was talking about powerdns. No worries. ;-> > > http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Network_Other/dns-servers.html >

Re: pdns security update (was Re: NBN satelite setup)

2016-09-16 Thread Rick Moen via luv-main
Oh, meant to add: > > - powerdns is serious overkill for my needs (home server with only a > >few domains). > > Yeah. $WORK did a massive conversion of hundreds of domains from BIND9 > to PowerDNS Authoritative Server, and there were various problems along > the way. I'm not convinced it w