openvpn client DNS security

2018-04-05 Thread Roger Price
Hi, I had a problem setting up DNS on an openvpn client. I'll describe it here before submitting a bug report - I would appreciate comment on the security aspects. In the stretch openvpn server (2.4.0-6+deb9u2) the configuration file server.conf contains the declarations: push "dhcp-option

Re: utf

2018-04-05 Thread Nicolas George
Richard Hector (2018-04-05): > >> What if the question is "Find all the English words that have an E > >> in the 5th position and a U in the 7th"? > > Yes, what? Who would ever ask such a question? What is the point of such > > a question? > Solving a crossword puzzle? This is a good example, than

Re: Invalid UTF-8 byte? (was: Re: utf)

2018-04-05 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, April 04, 2018 02:45:49 PM Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 04 Apr 2018, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I've considered maildir--it meets some of my requirements (that is, to > > make something close to an askSam workalike), but one drawback is that > > it is essentially one email (i.e.,

Re: utf

2018-04-05 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, April 05, 2018 02:26:01 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 11:33:13PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > > [...] > > > other formats). I wouldn't store my mail in mbox anyway. For local > > system/user mails as a simple default storage perhaps yes - it might be > > OK, but fo

Re: utf

2018-04-05 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 08:42:39AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, April 05, 2018 02:26:01 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Increase that by 2-3 orders of magnitude [...] > I'm laughing (at myself)--I just checked my mail directo

Re: utf

2018-04-05 Thread Nicolas George
to...@tuxteam.de (2018-04-05): > But then when I see people proposing XML as structured data > representation, I suddenly grow very sad... Isn't it? Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: utf

2018-04-05 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 02:56:47PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de (2018-04-05): > > But then when I see people proposing XML as structured data > > representation, I suddenly grow very sad... > > Isn't it? For the last 6 years I've s

Re: utf

2018-04-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Actually people saying mbox is a bad database are in principle right > (I never liked maildir either: dumping metadata into file names seemed > to me a bit disgusting too, but I disgress). But there's something > special about mail databases which eases that a bit: records (i.e. > mails) are *mo

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-04-05 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:30:24 - (UTC) Dan Purgert wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:13:30 - (UTC) > > Dan Purgert wrote: > > > >> Joe wrote: > >> > [...] > >> > I'd have thought that hardwired hubs are long gone, that all devices > >> > with multiple Ethernet ports are swi

Re: utf

2018-04-05 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, April 05, 2018 08:42:39 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm laughing (at myself)--I just checked my mail directory, I have at least > 4 mbox files (and then I stopped looking) greater than 175 MB. One of > them, my inbox, is 2.8 GB--no problems. > > I do need to compact my inbox, and

Re: utf

2018-04-05 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 02:56:47PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: >> to...@tuxteam.de (2018-04-05): >> > But then when I see people proposing XML as structured data >> > representation, I suddenly grow very sad... >> >> Isn't it? > > For the last 6 years I've seen it done

Re: utf

2018-04-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
> But (mis-)using it as a data serialization language must be one > of the worst (and ugliest) misunderstandings IT has had the last > 20 years. UUIC that's partly why it's finally losing popularity and being replaced with json for that use. I'm not familiar enough with json to know if it's reall

Re: utf

2018-04-05 Thread deloptes
Stefan Monnier wrote: > UUIC that's partly why it's finally losing popularity and being replaced > with json for that use.  I'm not familiar enough with json to know if > it's really a good replacement, but it does look like an improvement. that is simply not true. JSON might be more simple, and

Recipient address rejected

2018-04-05 Thread deloptes
Hi I think it was already discussed here, but I may have missed the point. What does it mean >From yahoo I get: This is the mail system at host localhost.localdomain. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For fu

Re: apt{-cache,-get,itude} show wrong version of package after update

2018-04-05 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 09:31:11AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 07:47:05AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > [...] > > > I'm not sure if you really did what it sounds like you did here, but if > > you did... you can't mix and match commands to apt-get and aptitude. > >

Re: Recipient address rejected

2018-04-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 05 Apr 2018, deloptes wrote: > I think it was already discussed here, but I may have missed the point. [...] > The mail system > > : host bendel.debian.org[82.195.75.100] said: > 550 > 5.7.1 : Recipient address rejected: Mail > appeared to be SPAM or forged. Ask y

Re: openvpn client DNS security

2018-04-05 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 11:48:51AM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > Hi, I had a problem setting up DNS on an openvpn client. I'll describe it > here before submitting a bug report - I would appreciate comment on the > security aspects. > > > Looking more closely at script /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-

Re: apt{-cache,-get,itude} show wrong version of package after update

2018-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Fri 06 Apr 2018 at 07:36:09 (+0900), Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 09:31:11AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 07:47:05AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > I'm not sure if you really did what it sounds like you did here, but if > >

Re: utf

2018-04-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> UUIC that's partly why it's finally losing popularity and being replaced >> with json for that use.  I'm not familiar enough with json to know if >> it's really a good replacement, but it does look like an improvement. > that is simply not true. Did you read the text to which I was responding?

Re: utf

2018-04-05 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 06/04/18 09:33, deloptes wrote: Stefan Monnier wrote: UUIC that's partly why it's finally losing popularity and being replaced with json for that use.  I'm not familiar enough with json to know if it's really a good replacement, but it does look like an improvement. that is simply not true.

Re: utf

2018-04-05 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 09:14:51PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> UUIC that's partly why it's finally losing popularity and being replaced > >> with json for that use.  I'm not familiar enough with json to know if > >> it's really a good replacement