Re: Email sever and DNS

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 Thanks On 2024-08-03 11:27, George at Clug wrote: I pruned my inbox a bit too much. Thanks to who ever it was who recommended it !     I h

Re: Email sever and DNS

On 3/8/24 13:01, George at Clug wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations on detailed books on Bind9 for authoritative servers which would also include DNSSEC? I'm not sure about books but there are many tutorials. The first issue though is that bind directory layout varies between dist

Re: nsswitch what should come first

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 from my machines. mDNS is not the > > > > source of truth on my networ

Re: nsswitch what should come first

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 the source of truth in > > my networks ... > > Do you have any netwo

Re: Email sever and DNS

On Saturday, 03-08-2024 at 13:27 George at Clug wrote: > I pruned my inbox a bit too much. > > > Thanks to who ever it was who recommended it !     I have placed an > order: > https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/ryoms-preorder/ > > > When it is released, I will see how useful it is.

Email sever and DNS

I pruned my inbox a bit too much. Thanks to who ever it was who recommended it !     I have placed an order: https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/product/ryoms-preorder/ When it is released, I will see how useful it is. It has been a long time since I purchased a book on a topic, as all to fr

Re: switch users and still use display

On 02/08/2024 20:30, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 7:21 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 11:35:58 +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: Which I am inclined to believe, although I'm reluctant to try 'su -p' for fear of creating a mess in my normal user setup: ~ % su -p

Re: nsswitch what should come first

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 from my machines. mDNS is not the > > > source of truth on my networks. Rather, DNS is the source of truth in > > > my networks

Re: clean docker library dir

See: https://docs.docker.com/reference/cli/docker/system/prune/ You may also want to do `docker system prune --all` to also remove all **stopped** containers. Please also do `docker ps -a` to show all running *AND* stopped containers to make sure you know what you are deleting. Good luck, — Ez

clean docker library dir

Hello My VPS has docker installed, which consumes a lot of disk. /var/lib/docker# du -sh . 71.0G . I tried 'docker system prune' which seems not to delete the libraries it intalled. Do you know how to clean the objects in '/var/lib/docker'? Thanks.

Re: nsswitch what should come first

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 the source of truth in > > my networks ... > > Do you have any network printers? That work without

Re: Planned path - was [Re: Installing current i386 Debian on OLD syst W/O CD/DVD drive]

On 8/2/24 09:11, DdB wrote: If all you have is swap space or outdated crap, then back it up and do whatever you like. GPT is no must, if the disk is below 2TB in size and UEFI no option. If you have >4 partitions, then except for booting and recalcitrant OS installers, GPT is easier to deal wi

Re: nsswitch what should come first

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 the source of truth in > my networks ... Do you have any network printers? That work without having mDNS enabled? Orig

Re: nsswitch what should come first

Hi, On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 02:37:08PM +1000, George at Clug wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 7:41 PM George at Clug wrote: > > home.arpa > > see https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8375.html > > A fairly straight forward statement in this RFC, just not sure if > I could get used to using .arpa

Re: nsswitch what should come first

Hi, On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 01:06:38PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 8/2/24 12:09, Andy Smith wrote: > > Gene';s reply to you misses your point so if/when it does happen > > that .den is delegated I'm sure he will miss the point again anyway. > > > Thanks for the no-confidence vote Andy. You d

Re: nsswitch what should come first

On 02/08/2024 17:09, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:39:46AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:29:40 -0400, gene heskett wrote: ISP's dns. I suppose eventually they'll issue .den and I be forced to pick some other 3 letter name for my local domain. https

Re: Planned path - was [Re: Installing current i386 Debian on OLD syst W/O CD/DVD drive]

Am 02.08.2024 um 19:34 schrieb Łukasz Kalamłacki: > If you need to boot initrd without iso you an try this: Oops, i should read more carefully ... idk, why complicate matters. the boot files for i386 are located here: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/main/installer-i386/20230607+de

Re: nsswitch what should come first

On Fri 02 Aug 2024 at 14:37:08 (+1000), George at Clug wrote: > > > What is best practice for a local LAN prefix? (I have never found > > > conclusive instruction). > > > > home.arpa > > see https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8375.html > > A fairly straight forward statement in this RFC, just n

Re: Planned path - was [Re: Installing current i386 Debian on OLD syst W/O CD/DVD drive]

Am 02.08.2024 um 19:34 schrieb Łukasz Kalamłacki: > If you need to boot initrd without iso you an try this: Oops, i should read more carefully ... idk, why complicate matters. the boot files for i386 are located here: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/main/installer-i386/20230607+de

Re: Planned path - was [Re: Installing current i386 Debian on OLD syst W/O CD/DVD drive]

If you need to boot initrd without iso you an try this: https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/linux On

Re: how to use debootstrap tar as repo inside the chroot

On Fri, 2 Aug 2024, Tim Woodall wrote: # Reading through this now I'm not absolutely sure that those hoops I # jump throught to sign the repo are needed... Just confirmed the gpg stuff is not needed # Not sure why I have that proxy bit in here either. I think I'm # installing from a file re

Re: Planned path - was [Re: Installing current i386 Debian on OLD syst W/O CD/DVD drive]

Am 02.08.2024 um 18:48 schrieb Anssi Saari: > Richard Owlett writes: > >> I was hoping I could somehow tell grub to run an installer's ISO image. >> I think the posted links will lead me adequately. > > I have actually tried that. The ISO image needs a little special support > so that after the

Re: nsswitch what should come first

On 8/2/24 12:09, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:39:46AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:29:40 -0400, gene heskett wrote: ISP's dns. I suppose eventually they'll issue .den and I be forced to pick some other 3 letter name for my local domain. https://w

Re: how to use debootstrap tar as repo inside the chroot

On Fri, 2 Aug 2024, daggs wrote: Greetings, I'm working on an automated Debian installation without network access. I've discovered the --make-tarball and --unpack-tarball switches which I use to create the tarball and use it as repo. the initial deployment is this: debootstrap --arch amd64 --

Re: Planned path - was [Re: Installing current i386 Debian on OLD syst W/O CD/DVD drive]

Richard Owlett writes: > I was hoping I could somehow tell grub to run an installer's ISO image. > I think the posted links will lead me adequately. I have actually tried that. The ISO image needs a little special support so that after the kernel has booted and initrd loaded, it needs to be able

Re: nsswitch what should come first

Hi, On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:39:46AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:29:40 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > ISP's dns. I suppose eventually they'll issue > > .den and I be forced to pick some other 3 letter name for my local domain. > > https://www.hostzealot.com/domains/

how to use debootstrap tar as repo inside the chroot

Greetings, I'm working on an automated Debian installation without network access. I've discovered the --make-tarball and --unpack-tarball switches which I use to create the tarball and use it as repo. the initial deployment is this: debootstrap --arch amd64 --unpack-tarball /tmp/debs.tar.gz sta

Re: nsswitch what should come first

On 8/2/24 10:40, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:29:40 -0400, gene heskett wrote: ISP's dns. I suppose eventually they'll issue .den and I be forced to pick some other 3 letter name for my local domain. https://www.hostzealot.com/domains/den . I already have a paid for, legall

Re: switch users and still use display

Hi, Le 02/08/2024, Jeffrey Walton a écrit: > emacs is notorious for that. In fact, if you install a new system, and > `sudo emacs `, then emacs will create its own config > directory (.emacs/) in your home directory owned by root. I quickly FTR, the Emacs user configuration directory is ~/.emac

Re: OPERATOR ERROR ---- Re: Planned path - was [Re: Installing current i386 Debian on OLD syst W/O CD/DVD drive]

Hi, Could you give as more information about these systems on which you wish to install Bookworm? Newer distribution of Linux has a lot bigger resources consumption that old one. I would like to get: RAM size, CPU type, HDD size. Bookworm requirements are available here: https://wiki.de

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:45:21AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 10:37 AM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:16:51AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 9:13 AM Brian wrote: > > > > > > > > We just ran the latest updates for

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

On 02/08/2024 11:35, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: That new upstream version (9.20.0) is in sid/trixie. Buster has this: You're right, I've been once more confused by the lack of any logical sequence between Debian release codenames. -- We are the people our parents warned us about. Eduardo M K

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 10:37 AM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:16:51AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 9:13 AM Brian wrote: > > > > > > We just ran the latest updates for Debian Buster on one of our DNS > > > servers running bind9 and one of the

Re: nsswitch what should come first

On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:29:40 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > ISP's dns. I suppose eventually they'll issue > .den and I be forced to pick some other 3 letter name for my local domain. https://www.hostzealot.com/domains/den

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:16:51AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 9:13 AM Brian wrote: > > > > We just ran the latest updates for Debian Buster on one of our DNS servers > > running bind9 and one of the slave domains is failing with this message: > > > > Aug 2 07:05:20 na

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:55:55AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 02/08/2024 10:44, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:15:38AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > Maybe related to https://kb.isc.org/docs/rrset-limits-in-zones ? > > > > > > See also > > > https:/

Re: nsswitch what should come first

On 8/1/24 22:07, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 9:45 PM George at Clug wrote: On Friday, 02-08-2024 at 00:48 David Wright wrote: On Thu 01 Aug 2024 at 10:32:27 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] I have no comment on mdns4_minimal because I don't really know what that is. AIU

Re: OPERATOR ERROR ---- Re: Planned path

Am 02.08.2024 um 13:20 schrieb Richard Owlett: > They report "GNU GRUB version 2.02~beta3-5" Hey, that is good news! Apart from reading up on grub2 , you can also interrupt the boot menu and select a stanza, then press e to read it and event

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 9:13 AM Brian wrote: > > We just ran the latest updates for Debian Buster on one of our DNS servers > running bind9 and one of the slave domains is failing with this message: > > Aug 2 07:05:20 named[76759]: transfer of '/IN' from > #53: Transfer status: too many records

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

On 02/08/2024 10:44, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:15:38AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Maybe related to https://kb.isc.org/docs/rrset-limits-in-zones ? See also https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00145.html (even if it does not directly apply

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:15:38AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 02/08/2024 10:10, Brian wrote: > > We just ran the latest updates for Debian Buster on one of our DNS > > servers running bind9 and one of the slave domains is failing with this > > message: > > > > Aug  2 07:05:20 named[7

Re: switch users and still use display

On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 7:21 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 11:35:58 +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: > > Which I am inclined to believe, although I'm reluctant to try 'su -p' > > for fear of creating a mess in my normal user setup: > > > > ~ % su -p > > Password: > > zsh com

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

On Friday, August 2, 2024 at 09:16:10 AM EDT, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 02/08/2024 10:10, Brian wrote: > We just ran the latest updates for Debian Buster on one of our DNS > servers running bind9 and one of the slave domains is failing with this > message: > > Aug  2 07:05:20

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

On 02/08/2024 10:10, Brian wrote: We just ran the latest updates for Debian Buster on one of our DNS servers running bind9 and one of the slave domains is failing with this message: Aug  2 07:05:20 named[76759]: transfer of '/IN' from #53: Transfer status: too many records There are about

Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

We just ran the latest updates for Debian Buster on one of our DNS servers running bind9 and one of the slave domains is failing with this message: Aug  2 07:05:20 named[76759]: transfer of '/IN' from #53: Transfer status: too many records There are about 1,400 records in that domain which has n

Re: Planned path - was [Re: Installing current i386 Debian on OLD syst W/O CD/DVD drive]

Am 02.08.2024 um 14:34 schrieb Richard Owlett: > During initial installation of Debian Squeeze (or later) would I have > been explicitly asked to choose between MBR and GPT? I can't say, at that time, i was a stranger to debian. But ... i saw the installer deciding on its own, if not explicitly put

Re: nvidia vs nouveau driver and initrd.* size

On 01/08/24 at 17:46, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2024-08-01 10:23:53 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Vincent Lefevre composed on 2024-08-01 15:26 (UTC+0200): -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 69879473 2024-07-19 02:11:58 initrd.img-6.7.12-amd64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 112644015 2024-08-01 13:01:40 initrd.img-6.9

Re: nsswitch what should come first

George at Clug wrote: > Do you know if there is a good place to post Bind9 DNS server configuration > questions to? There's a bind-users list: https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users Do search the archive before posting questions; there's a high likelihood that the answer is already

Re: Planned path - was [Re: Installing current i386 Debian on OLD syst W/O CD/DVD drive]

On 08/01/2024 02:33 PM, DdB wrote: Am 01.08.2024 um 21:11 schrieb Richard Owlett: I've never had occasion to use Grub's command line. Good time to learn. The existing install is so old it has Grub 1.??? rather than 2.??? . Should that make any practical difference to manual install? Not sure ab

Re: switch users and still use display

Hi, Le 02/08/2024, Greg Wooledge a écrit: > I don't use zsh, so I don't quite understand what "compinit" means. It is a Zsh function that initializes completion for the current session. From zshall(1): Use of compinit (...) To initialize the system, the function compinit (...) should b

Re: switch users and still use display

On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 11:35:58 +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: > Which I am inclined to believe, although I'm reluctant to try 'su -p' > for fear of creating a mess in my normal user setup: > > ~ % su -p > Password: > zsh compinit: insecure directories and files, run compaudit for list. > I

OPERATOR ERROR ---- Re: Planned path - was [Re: Installing current i386 Debian on OLD syst W/O CD/DVD drive]

On 08/01/2024 02:11 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 08/01/2024 01:56 PM, DdB wrote: Am 01.08.2024 um 17:33 schrieb Richard Owlett: [SNIP] I've never had occasion to use Grub's command line. Good time to learn. The existing install is so old it has Grub 1.??? rather than 2.??? . Should that make a

Re: switch users and still use display

fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > i log in to x session as user1 on host1 > from within a xterm i want to change to user2 on host1 and run x programs > the current way i do this is ssh user2@host1 > does using ssh on the same host use encryption > is there another way to do this > i feel like this h

Re: switch users and still use display

Hi, Le 27/07/2024, David Wright a écrit: > > I never found an official documentation about "su -p", just found it > > myself, > > but I read, "su -" shall do the same. It does not. > When you write something like this, can you accompany it with a > reference? The essential package util-linux'