[Server-devel] resolv.conf

2008-08-26 Thread John Watlington
I've figured out more about why my first install of 0.4 went so badly. For some reason, the network interfaces weren't configured properly on first boot (even though the files were in the right places). In conjuction with having the cable to my wired net plugged into the LAN port, nothing was

Re: [Server-devel] resolv.conf

2008-08-26 Thread Henry Edward Hardy
Wad, If you are pointing to localhost in resolv.conf, will there be at least a caching DNS named server to catch it? --HH On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:08 AM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've figured out more about why my first install of 0.4 went so badly. For some reason, the

Re: [Server-devel] resolv.conf

2008-08-26 Thread John Watlington
On Aug 26, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: That sounds like network_config crashed on you. network_config is responsible for creating /etc/resolv.conf.in and then domain_config will do the rest. On xs-0.4, we call domain_config at install time (and it defaults to random.xs.l.o).

Re: [Server-devel] xs-config replacement strategy

2008-08-26 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:50 AM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The proposed change to the operation of the xs-config package seem sane, with a few comments: Thanks! The make-a-replacement strategy is the crucial one. I have hesitations about the xs-config.make file used: My

Re: [Server-devel] Network transparent XS services - limitations and alternatives

2008-08-26 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HTTPS has many problems. None of the basic XO protocols use HTTPS. Will we never care for end-user privacy? We do. We just don't use HTTPS. You should know better. - At the protocol layer you mask a whole

Re: [Server-devel] Network transparent XS services - limitations and alternatives

2008-08-26 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:48 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HTTPS has many problems. None of the basic XO protocols use HTTPS. Will we never care for end-user privacy? We do. We just don't use HTTPS.

Re: [Server-devel] Network transparent XS services - limitations and alternatives

2008-08-26 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Network principles is a nice statement of desired ideal network topology. Which we may implement one day - but I am delivering a network topology and the _main source of XO services_ on a very tight timeframe and with

Re: [Server-devel] Network transparent XS services - limitations and alternatives

2008-08-26 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Network_principles#Disconnected_operation is a principled means to substitute unavailable resources in the offline case. The solution you suggest has problems, and I mentioned them in my

Re: [Server-devel] Network transparent XS services - limitations and alternatives

2008-08-26 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 07:53:19PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Network_principles#Disconnected_operation is a principled means to substitute unavailable resources in the offline case.