Re: Does DNS need TCP?

2020-09-20 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Nicolai wrote : > On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 12:43:41AM -0400, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > > > For number of years I had in my /var/unbound/etc/unbound.conf line > > > > do-tcp: no > > > To make things worse I was blocking port TCP port 53. > > Just curious, why did you do that? When I start

Re: Does DNS need TCP?

2020-09-20 Thread Nicolai
On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 12:43:41AM -0400, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > For number of years I had in my /var/unbound/etc/unbound.conf line > > do-tcp: no > To make things worse I was blocking port TCP port 53. Just curious, why did you do that? On my authoritative servers roughly 1 in 1000

What do I do when ifconfig hangs?

2020-09-20 Thread flint pyrite
I have 6.7 installed with latest patches. It has been running for about a week without a reboot and then suddenly I was not able to ping the internet. I tried executing sh /etc/netstart run0 It hung. I then tried to kill the ifconfig process (kill -9 pid) and then the system hung. It was

Re: Primepower 250 vs Sunfire v215

2020-09-20 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 08:00:45PM +0300, Kihaguru Gathura wrote: > > The Primepower is bigger and needs more power but if you find a box with > > good CPUs and memory it should run faster than a V215 > > How did the performance of the PrimePower 250 SCSI drives compare to Sun > Fire V215 SAS

Re: Primepower 250 vs Sunfire v215

2020-09-20 Thread Kihaguru Gathura
> The Primepower is bigger and needs more power but if you find a box with > good CPUs and memory it should run faster than a V215 How did the performance of the PrimePower 250 SCSI drives compare to Sun Fire V215 SAS drives? Thanks and regards, Kihaguru

Re: home printer

2020-09-20 Thread Ian Darwin
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 03:07:19PM -0700, Sean Kamath wrote: > > > > On Sep 17, 2020, at 09:48, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > That answer [HP] used to be spot on until about the year 2000. > > I concur. I used to work at a printer company that competed directly with > them. Was that Imagen, by

Re: Primepower 250 vs Sunfire v215

2020-09-20 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 09:02:55AM +0300, Kihaguru Gathura wrote: > Hi, > > For those who have experience with older Sparc machines, Which hardware > offers better reliability/stability? > > Fujitsu Primepower 250 or Sun fire V215. > Depends mostly on how well they were handled. Also if they

Re: /etc/netstart fails on first attempt, works on second

2020-09-20 Thread Unicorn
On Sat, 2020-09-19 at 17:36 +0200, Unicorn wrote: > On Sat, 2020-09-19 at 14:18 +0100, Tom Smyth wrote: > > Hi Unicorn, > > > > what do you have in in your em0 config > > /etc/hostname.em0 > > Hi, the contents are just this, to reduce the possibility of errors > on > my part for now: > > dhcp >

Re: Is altroot a sysupgrade foe?

2020-09-20 Thread Florian Obser
On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 01:19:17AM -0400, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > > Hi Misc, > > For number of years I had a very simple scheme to backup my OpenBSD > infrastructure servers running critical network services for our small > university lab. Namely, I would put a low profile usb flash drive and

Re: Does DNS need TCP?

2020-09-20 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 12:43:41AM -0400, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > > > Hi Misc, > > I have been a double as a system admin for our small university research > group for a number of years now but every now and then I get reminded of > my own ignorance. One of those moments happened a month

Primepower 250 vs Sunfire v215

2020-09-20 Thread Kihaguru Gathura
Hi, For those who have experience with older Sparc machines, Which hardware offers better reliability/stability? Fujitsu Primepower 250 or Sun fire V215. Kind regards Kihaguru.