Re: Internet facing Firewalls mDNS UPnP SMB

On 8/4/24 06:48, jeremy ardley wrote: On 4/08/2024 12:26 pm, George at Clug wrote: If I go to the local coffee shop and connect my laptop to their WiFi, which incoming and now outgoing ports should I have blocked to ensure that no nefarious people are able to communicate with my laptop The r

Re: can this iso be put on a micro-sd

On 8/4/24 01:17, David Wright wrote: On Sat 03 Aug 2024 at 20:04:08 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: On 8/3/24 19:39, gene heskett wrote: [ISO]    debian-12.6.0-arm64-DVD-1.iso Wrote it to /dev/sdl, won't mount on sdl or sdl1. gparted says sdl2 is the dos partition?? With amd64-netinst ISOs, al

Re: can this iso be put on a micro-sd

On Sat 03 Aug 2024 at 20:04:08 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 8/3/24 19:39, gene heskett wrote: > > [ISO]    debian-12.6.0-arm64-DVD-1.iso > > > Wrote it to /dev/sdl, won't mount on sdl or sdl1. gparted says sdl2 is > the dos partition?? With amd64-netinst ISOs, all three of /dev/sdX{,1,2} sho

Re: can this iso be put on a micro-sd

On Sun, Aug 04, 2024 at 11:10:50AM +1000, George at Clug wrote: [...] > I do not know what the aim of the above dd statement is, as I have yet to > learn how to make use of dd. > > If the aim is to make a bootable USB then I like to use: > # cp debian-12.6.0-arm64-DVD-1.iso /dev/sdl They both

Re: can this iso be put on a micro-sd

On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 08:04:08PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 8/3/24 19:39, gene heskett wrote: > > [ISO]    debian-12.6.0-arm64-DVD-1.iso > > > Wrote it to /dev/sdl, won't mount on sdl or sdl1. gparted says sdl2 is the > dos partition?? > > Now writing it to /dev/sdl1. card adapter traffic

Re: can this iso be put on a micro-sd

On 8/3/24 21:11, George at Clug wrote: On Sunday, 04-08-2024 at 10:04 gene heskett wrote: On 8/3/24 19:39, gene heskett wrote: [ISO]    debian-12.6.0-arm64-DVD-1.iso Wrote it to /dev/sdl, won't mount on sdl or sdl1. gparted says sdl2 is the dos partition?? Now writing it to /dev/sdl1. card

Re: Internet facing Firewalls mDNS UPnP SMB

On 4/08/2024 12:26 pm, George at Clug wrote: If I go to the local coffee shop and connect my laptop to their WiFi, which incoming and now outgoing ports should I have blocked to ensure that no nefarious people are able to communicate with my laptop The rules for public networks are very si

Internet facing Firewalls mDNS UPnP SMB

​Hi, Thanks to all who have been explaining mDNS nssswitch, etc. I had not realised how 'chatty' our computers have become. If I go to the local coffee shop and connect my laptop to their WiFi, which incoming and now outgoing ports should I have blocked to ensure that no nefarious people are

Re: can this iso be put on a micro-sd

On 8/3/24 22:38, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 8/3/24 20:04, gene heskett wrote: On 8/3/24 19:39, gene heskett wrote: [ISO]    debian-12.6.0-arm64-DVD-1.iso Wrote it to /dev/sdl, won't mount on sdl or sdl1. gparted says sdl2 is the dos partition?? If it's meant to be written to a thumb drive to re

Re: can this iso be put on a micro-sd

On 8/3/24 20:04, gene heskett wrote: On 8/3/24 19:39, gene heskett wrote: [ISO]    debian-12.6.0-arm64-DVD-1.iso Wrote it to /dev/sdl, won't mount on sdl or sdl1. gparted says sdl2 is the dos partition?? If it's meant to be written to a thumb drive to result in a bootable drive, you need to

Avoid APT::Default-Release (was: Re: nvidia vs nouveau driver and initrd.* size)

On 04/08/2024 06:24, Van Snyder wrote: Then, to avoid sucking anything more from unstable, I added /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/my-default containing APT::Default-Release "stable"; It prevents installing security updates

Re: ot: how to access hdmi

On Sat, 3 Aug 2024, Dan Ritter wrote: > fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: >> i have a asrock q1900 pro3 >> 'https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Q1900M Pro3/' >> i have debian 11 running with no problems >> the board has vga and hdmi >> i am only able to get a display via vga >> any suggestions on how to

Re: ot: how to access hdmi

fxkl47BF@ composed on 2024-08-04 00:28 (UTC): > i have a asrock q1900 pro3 > 'https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Q1900M Pro3/' > i have debian 11 running with no problems > the board has vga and hdmi > i am only able to get a display via vga > any suggestions on how to enable the hdmi > i see nothing

Re: ot: how to access hdmi

fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > i have a asrock q1900 pro3 > 'https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Q1900M Pro3/' > i have debian 11 running with no problems > the board has vga and hdmi > i am only able to get a display via vga > any suggestions on how to enable the hdmi > i see nothing related in the

Re: nsswitch what should come first

Lee wrote: > uh oh .. > "It would be as well to check whether any functioning print queues > have been automatically installed by cups-browsed prior to a manual > setup. This can be done with > lpstat -a" > > $ lpstat -a > Canon_MG3600_series accepting requests since Sat Aug 3 00:00:28 2024 > H

Re: can this iso be put on a micro-sd

On Sunday, 04-08-2024 at 10:04 gene heskett wrote: > On 8/3/24 19:39, gene heskett wrote: > > [ISO]    debian-12.6.0-arm64-DVD-1.iso > > > Wrote it to /dev/sdl, won't mount on sdl or sdl1. gparted says sdl2 is > the dos partition?? > > Now writing it to /dev/sdl1. card adapter traffic led bli

ot: how to access hdmi

i have a asrock q1900 pro3 'https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Q1900M Pro3/' i have debian 11 running with no problems the board has vga and hdmi i am only able to get a display via vga any suggestions on how to enable the hdmi i see nothing related in the bios

Re: can this iso be put on a micro-sd

On 8/3/24 19:39, gene heskett wrote: [ISO]    debian-12.6.0-arm64-DVD-1.iso Wrote it to /dev/sdl, won't mount on sdl or sdl1. gparted says sdl2 is the dos partition?? Now writing it to /dev/sdl1. card adapter traffic led blinks for either write. but...: gene@coyote:~/Downloads/armbian$ sud

can this iso be put on a micro-sd

[ISO] debian-12.6.0-arm64-DVD-1.iso If so I'll see how this boots from a micro-sd. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we

linux-image 6.9.7+bpo-amd6 installed without problem from backports this morning

I've seen that some recent kernel has had trouble so I thought I'd report some good news -- All the best Keith Bainbridge keithr...@gmail.com keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468 UTC + 10:00

Re: Email sever and DNS

> https://zytrax.com/books/dns/ > is what I referenced when configuring bind on debian about 4 years ago. > That's a nice reading. > The isc docs were ... not so helpful? Their technical information is > great. ..if you can understand it. They don't do a whole lot of > explaining :( ISC's o

Re: nvidia vs nouveau driver and initrd.* size

On Sat, 2024-08-03 at 23:49 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2024-08-01 12:12:31 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Thu, 2024-08-01 at 15:26 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > Should I switch to the proprietary nvidia driver on these > > > machines? > > > > Without NVidia's graphics accelerator, u

Re: dot internal and mDNS

On 8/3/24 18:09, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 04:10:33PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 8/3/24 09:00, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, [Very interesting Stuff snipped about ICANN and domain suffixes] If you use .local for other things it can interfere with mDNS but picking almost a

Re: systemd may silently break your system!

On 2024-08-01 23:17:42 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > The reference also says: > > Only pure stable release with security updates provides the best > stability. But stable does not mean bugless. Unfortunately stable sometimes has major bugs, and the only thing to do is to wait for the nex

Re: dot internal and mDNS

On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 04:10:33PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 8/3/24 09:00, Andy Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > [Very interesting Stuff snipped about ICANN and domain suffixes] > > > > If you use .local for other things it can interfere with mDNS but > > picking almost anything else has very few

Re: nvidia vs nouveau driver and initrd.* size

On 2024-08-02 14:55:31 +0200, Franco Martelli wrote: > Sorry but have you read that bug report (#1076561)? Some users has posted > solutions to make smaller the initrd file: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1076561#10 > and > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1

Re: dot internal and mDNS

On 3 Aug 2024 22:22 +0100, from mick.cr...@gmail.com (mick.crane): > I was going to change everything yet again to home.arpa but now it might be > .internal? To use .home.arpa is absolutely fine if you don't need (or want) globally unique names. It has been properly assigned specifically for "non-

Re: nvidia vs nouveau driver and initrd.* size

On 2024-08-01 12:12:31 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > On Thu, 2024-08-01 at 15:26 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Should I switch to the proprietary nvidia driver on these machines? > > Without NVidia's graphics accelerator, using software rendering with > nouveau is painfully slow. Sometimes even t

Re: dot internal and mDNS

Hi, On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 10:22:43PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > Initially the advice was .home. Then I think BT started using that on mobile > network. > Then they said use .local. then they said use .home. I don't recall anything about .home being recommended, but yeah Microsoft did suggest .l

Re: nsswitch what should come first

On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 9:33 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > > Lee wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 7:29 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > I do. If you assign an IP and a DNS name to the IP, all the > > > network printers I am aware of will work just fine. (They don't > > > care about the DNS name, either, but it'

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

On 03/08/2024 21:08, Lee wrote: On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 6:51 AM George at Clug wrote: Hi, What is the purpose of mDNS ? "zero-configuration networking" seems to be the search term eg -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_(software) It seems to be for multicast? no, it _uses_ multicast.

Re: nsswitch what should come first

On 8/3/24 22:58, Lee wrote: On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 2:55 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 5:13 PM Lee wrote: On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 10:40 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: I personally remove mDNS and Bonjour from my machines. mDNS is not the source of truth on my networks. Rather, DNS

Re: dot internal and mDNS

On 2024-08-03 19:57, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 3 Aug 2024 12:59 +, from a...@strugglers.net (Andy Smith): I believe ICCAN are moving to possibly replacing .local, .home, .lan, .corp, .mail, .localdomain, (and possibly others) with .internal ? home.arpa was defined by IANA in 2018. If they

Re: nsswitch what should come first

On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 2:55 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 5:13 PM Lee wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 10:40 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > > > I personally remove mDNS and Bonjour from my machines. mDNS is not the > > > source of truth on my networks. Rather, DNS is th

Re: nsswitch what should come first

On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 1:41 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 10:35 PM Lee wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 7:29 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > > > Lee wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 10:40 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I personally remove mDNS and Bonjour

Re: dot internal and mDNS

On 8/3/24 09:00, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 06:40:32PM +1000, George at Clug wrote: I believe ICCAN are moving to possibly replacing .local, .home, .lan, .corp, .mail, .localdomain, (and possibly others) with .internal ? home.arpa was defined by IANA in 2018. If they go ahe

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 6:51 AM George at Clug wrote: > > Hi, > > What is the purpose of mDNS ? "zero-configuration networking" seems to be the search term eg - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_(software) > It seems to be for multicast? no, it _uses_ multicast. when did "utilize" replace

Re: Email sever and DNS

On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 12:46 AM George at Clug wrote: > > Does anyone have any recommendations on detailed books on Bind9 for > authoritative servers which would also include DNSSEC? https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/dns-and-bind/0596100574/ Years ago, well.. actually, decades ago, reading thi

Re: dot internal and mDNS

On 3 Aug 2024 12:59 +, from a...@strugglers.net (Andy Smith): >> I believe ICCAN are moving to possibly replacing .local, .home, .lan, >> .corp, .mail, .localdomain, (and possibly others) with .internal ? > > home.arpa was defined by IANA in 2018. If they go ahead with > .internal then I can o

Re: nsswitch what should come first

On 8/2/24 14:18, Darac Marjal wrote: Back before IANA's recent explosion in TLDs - when all you really had was .com, .org, .net and a bunch of country-specific TLDs and .gov and .mil? - there was a healthy business in alternative DNS roots (altroots). -- The best answer when anybody asks

Re: nsswitch what should come first

Lee wrote: > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 7:29 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > I do. If you assign an IP and a DNS name to the IP, all the > > network printers I am aware of will work just fine. (They don't > > care about the DNS name, either, but it's more convenient if you > > don't want to remember the IP.)

Re: dot internal and mDNS

Hi, On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 06:40:32PM +1000, George at Clug wrote: > I believe ICCAN are moving to possibly replacing .local, .home, .lan, > .corp, .mail, .localdomain, (and possibly others) with .internal ? home.arpa was defined by IANA in 2018. If they go ahead with .internal then I can only i

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

On 3/8/24 18:35, George at Clug wrote: Thanks for your comments, Tomas and Jeremy. George On Saturday, 03-08-2024 at 19:43 jeremy ardley wrote: On 3/8/24 17:26, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: It is not/for/ multicast IP, it/uses/ multicast for name resolution. In a nutshell [1], it sends a

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

Thanks for your comments, Tomas and Jeremy. George On Saturday, 03-08-2024 at 19:43 jeremy ardley wrote: > > > On 3/8/24 17:26, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > It is not/for/ multicast IP, it/uses/ multicast for name resolution. > > In a nutshell [1], it sends a "DNS" request to the local netw

Re: dot internal and mDNS

On 3/8/24 16:40, George at Clug wrote: I believe ICCAN are moving to possibly replacing .local, .home, .lan, .corp, .mail, .localdomain, (and possibly others) with .internal ? I read the ICANN documents you referenced but did not see the proposal was to replace those domains? It is more off

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

On 3/8/24 17:26, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: It is not/for/ multicast IP, it/uses/ multicast for name resolution. In a nutshell [1], it sends a "DNS" request to the local network asking "who is called Fritz here?", and Fritz answers with its IP. So sys-non- admins don't have to set up a name ser

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 06:56:42PM +1000, George at Clug wrote: > Hi, > > > What is the purpose of mDNS ?  > > >  It seems to be for multicast?   It is not /for/ multicast IP, it /uses/ multicast for name resolution. In a nutshell [1], it sends a "DNS" request to the local network asking "who

What is the purpose of mDNS

Hi, What is the purpose of mDNS ?   It seems to be for multicast?   Does that mean its usage would be to say send video to a group of workstations all at the same time?  Like a corporate wide message from the CEO?   What other use?   It does not seem to be a unicast DNS system. That is a

Re: Email sever and DNS

On Saturday, 03-08-2024 at 16:35 Walt E wrote: > BIND is a system as old as internet. > You could read the book ‘DNS and BIND’ by oreily. > > https://www.ubuy.com.gh/product/14R0U15K-dns-and-bind-5th-edition Yes, thanks, that is a great book, I was trying to think of its name since the topics

dot internal and mDNS

I believe ICCAN are moving to possibly replacing .local, .home, .lan, .corp, .mail, .localdomain, (and possibly others) with .internal ? How could this affect mDNS and the use of .local? https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/proceeding/proposed-top-level-domain-string-for-private-use-24-01-20

Re: nsswitch what should come first

On Saturday, 03-08-2024 at 15:40 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 10:35 PM Lee wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 7:29 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > > > Lee wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 10:40 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I personally remove mDNS and Bonj