Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

2012-10-03 Thread Michael Butash
At the end of the day, all news agencies are trying to make a buck, which means they're selling interest in products or view, which lead back to product via some level of marketing. They tell you what you want to hear, usually varying for the pitch, but the idea is to hook you long enough to

Job Night @ Stammtisch

2012-10-03 Thread der.hans
moin moin, We're trying something new and will have our first themed Stammtisch event. http://www.LuftHans.com/node/5689 The Free Software Stammtisch is hosting a job night at this coming east valley event on Tuesday, 2012Oct16. The goal is to bring in engineers and managers from groups that

Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

2012-10-03 Thread Lyle Tuttle
Have you looked at: http://www.livestation.com/ At 11:36 PM 10/2/2012, Michael Butash wrote: At the end of the day, all news agencies are trying to make a buck, which means they're selling interest in products or view, which lead back to product via some level of marketing. They tell you what

dns at home

2012-10-03 Thread Derek Trotter
I'm thinking of running dns at home on my linux box(kubuntu 8). I don't want a caching server. Would this be difficult to set up? Would this consume a lot of bandwidth? Thanks -- One mistake up here and it's half a day out with the undertaker! - Fred Dibnah

Re: dns at home

2012-10-03 Thread Lisa Kachold
Hi Derek, On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Derek Trotter expat.arizo...@gmail.comwrote: I'm thinking of running dns at home on my linux box(kubuntu 8). I don't want a caching server. Would this be difficult to set up? Would this consume a lot of bandwidth? There are some security risks

Re: dns at home

2012-10-03 Thread James Mcphee
No, this is somewhat arcane, but depending on what functions you want, can be quite simple. DNS works by reference, so you don't load the world's DNS onto your server. That server will still need valid external DNS servers. I prefer BIND, myself. I have friends that enjoy PowerDNS. What exact

Re: dns at home

2012-10-03 Thread JD Austin
Nope and nope :) This is old but covers it pretty well : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=236093 On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Derek Trotter expat.arizo...@gmail.comwrote: I'm thinking of running dns at home on my linux box(kubuntu 8). I don't want a caching server. Would this

Re: dns at home

2012-10-03 Thread Derek Trotter
Since I signed up with my ISP I've had trouble with dns. Sometimes urls take a long time to resolve. Other times I get errors saying the url couldn't be found. Sometimes a page won't load properly because parts of it come from other urls and those don't resolve. Calls to tech support are a

Re: dns at home

2012-10-03 Thread James Mcphee
I occassionally have similiar issues. I do 2 things. I have a local DNS server that forwards to OpenDNS. This allows me to fiddle with things as I want, and keeps me off the ISP's horrible DNS services. On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Derek Trotter expat.arizo...@gmail.comwrote: Since I

Re: dns at home

2012-10-03 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
I would save myself the grief of running a DNS and set my resolv.conf to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 See: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter07/network.html ET Derek Trotter writes: Since I signed up with my ISP I've had trouble with dns. Sometimes urls take a long time to

Re: dns at home

2012-10-03 Thread JD Austin
An easier solution would be to switch to a public DNS like Open DNS: 208.67.220.220 208.67.222.222 Google: 4.4.4.4 8.8.8.8 I NEVER use my ISPs DNS servers :) JD On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Derek Trotter expat.arizo...@gmail.comwrote: Since I signed up with my ISP I've had trouble with

Re: dns at home

2012-10-03 Thread JD Austin
Heh! Like minds think alike :) On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:39 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: I would save myself the grief of running a DNS and set my resolv.conf to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 See:

Re: dns at home

2012-10-03 Thread Michael Butash
Caching bind server install is I think as easy as apt-get install bind9 still on ubuntu (behind a firewall mind you). I run a pair of bind servers, but mostly because I run some internal domains at home to keep track of various server instances and devices. My good old dns servers still run