Re: [Dng] nameservers

2015-04-03 Thread Gulbrandsen
I have always thought that Google DNS is an attack against the ISPs that want to use their resolvers to act as gatekeepers, divert their customers to a different site, inject ads etc. Google needs your ability to access the real net for its profit. Arnt

Re: [Dng] X and GPUs

2015-04-03 Thread Ron
On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 20:46:13 -0600 Gordon Haverland ghave...@materialisations.com wrote: Originally, the reason people bought graphics cards (or better graphics cards) was to improve graphics performance. Which to a dinosaur like me means X11 and X servers. With due respect, your Worship, the

Re: [Dng] What do you guys think about Suggest and Recommends dependency?

2015-04-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Franco Lanza next...@nexlab.it wrote: Personally on debian i was using from date APT:Install-Recommends 0; APT:Install-Suggests 0; +1 ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [Dng] Another reason of why I am considering Devuan

2015-04-03 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 03/04/2015 11:10, marc...@welz.org.za a écrit : Could it be we have some sort of Stockholm Syndrome where people whose data is captured at google start emphasising with the captor ? Or maybe we dimly remember that somewhere they use Linux and claimed that they weren't doing evil,

Re: [Dng] Another reason of why I am considering Devuan

2015-04-03 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 3. April 2015, 10:35:45 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: That said, the fallback DNS is only used if no other DNS is configured. Which IMHO is quite unusually. I think not even then, cause I think systemd-resolved is not used, unless activated and configured to be used in nsswitch.conf

Re: [Dng] Another reason of why I am considering Devuan

2015-04-03 Thread Jim Jackson
Where i come from ISP's dynamic IP lease times are *very* long, you need to reboot the home router to get a new IP and even then you may get the same IP. It's not that dynamic, at all. Add that with data your browser provides, your *.google.com in|direct usage, etc... it's easy to

Re: [Dng] What do you guys think about Suggest and Recommends dependency?

2015-04-03 Thread Go Linux
On Fri, 4/3/15, Anto arya...@chello.at wrote: Subject: Re: [Dng] What do you guys think about Suggest and Recommends dependency? To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Friday, April 3, 2015, 11:28 AM On 03/04/15 01:53, hellekin wrote: Oh, did I just announce the Devuan forum? You did! And I just

Re: [Dng] What do you guys think about Suggest and Recommends dependency?

2015-04-03 Thread Anto
On 03/04/15 00:36, Franco Lanza wrote: Personally on debian i was using from date APT:Install-Recommends 0; APT:Install-Suggests 0; in all my install apt.conf. I don't like apt downloading and installing things that are not required but just recommended or suggested, expecially in server or

Re: [Dng] Another reason of why I am considering Devuan

2015-04-03 Thread Nate Bargmann
In my case I prefer OpenWRT which uses dnsmasq to handle the task of LAN IP assignments and name resolution. - Nate -- The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true. Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us

Re: [Dng] Another reason of why I am considering Devuan

2015-04-03 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
On Fri 03 April 2015 22:55:58 marc wrote: I believe some distributions already use things like dnsmasq to do simpler caching Maemo (N900) using dnsmasq http://maemo.org/packages/view/dnsmasq/ and even my more ancient wrt54g 2nd level router with Firmware: DD-WRT v24- sp2 (07/22/09) mini offers

Re: [Dng] Another reason of why I am considering Devuan

2015-04-03 Thread marc
If I recall correctly, so far *every* Linux I've used uses an external DNS by default instead of installing its own recursor. I figure there must be a reason, but I don't know what it is. So a cache becomes more efficient if several machines use it - especially given the

Re: [Dng] Another reason of why I am considering Devuan

2015-04-03 Thread Wim
Hi Marc, P2P dns springs to mind. But it seems to have no recent development... https://github.com/Mononofu/P2P-DNS http://sourceforge.net/projects/p2pdns/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtdnsp2p/ http://qtdnsp2p.sourceforge.net/ You could also have a look at MaidSafe, for P2P cloud storage

[Dng] Call for factoids on the Debian fork

2015-04-03 Thread hellekin
Hello dears, one of the current tasks of the Devuan Editors is to gather facts about the Debian fork in order to write a compelling story to be told on debianfork.org. This domain will hopefully be the place to deflect and defuse any troll about the Debian fork and systemd, in order to focus

Re: [Dng] Another reason of why I am considering Devuan

2015-04-03 Thread T.J. Duchene
-Original Message- From: Martin Steigerwald [mailto:mar...@lichtvoll.de] Sent: Friday, April 3, 2015 3:36 AM To: dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: Re: [Dng] Another reason of why I am considering Devuan Please do not Cc me personally on your reply. [T.J. ] Apologies. Reply to all

Re: [Dng] Another reason of why I am considering Devuan

2015-04-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 02:52:46PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: -Original Message- From: Adam Borowski [mailto:kilob...@angband.pl] Then why not set up a recursor by default? Benefits include: * avoiding this privacy issue * caching * secure DNSSEC (no last mile issues)

Re: [Dng] Another reason of why I am considering Devuan

2015-04-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 09:40:09PM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 8:52 PM, T.J. Duchene t.j.duch...@gmail.com wrote: DNS calls are nonspecific data, associated only with your carrier's dynamic IP address, not a specific user. Where i come from ISP's dynamic IP lease