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Re: dns question.
by Peter Ross 31 Jul '14

31 Jul '14

From: "Daniel Jitnah" <djitnah(a)greenwareit.com.au> >> Hi Daniel, >> >> did you figure out your problem? > > I cheated. The domain registrar in question provides its own dns > hosting server. I used it. But I did not want at first because it has > limitations like no mx record - but for now thats not an issue. > > In the past I did setup my own server, but have found it easier to use > xname.org. They are free but can be slow to propagate and update. Okay, I will have a look at this too. Thanks. > You seem to be using an internal IP (192.168...) > Is your router allowing DNS port through and redirecting to > 192.168.50.223? The not-working nslookup was using my internal company DNS server which is forwarding to a provider. That's not an issue. I get the same "not found" on any other DNS server. What I wanted to illustrate: The nameserver itself (ns.gonglenuts.id.au on 115.186.196.107) is up and running - but it does not get propagated. You can query it yourself: $ nslookup > server 115.186.196.107 Default server: 115.186.196.107 Address: 115.186.196.107#53 > ns.gonglenuts.id.au Server: 115.186.196.107 Address: 115.186.196.107#53 Name: ns.gonglenuts.id.au Address: 115.186.196.107 > How long has it been on for? could be it is still propagating. It can > take over 24 hrs sometimes. I set it up weeks ago. > Check: > > Did you create an A record for gonglenuts.id.au? Yes (see request above, and also in my zone file below). > This is my zonefile for greenwareIT on xname.org: > > $TTL 600 ; Default TTL > greenwareit.com.au. IN SOA ns0.xname.org. danyj028.gmail.com. ( > 2014073101 ; serial > 600 ; Refresh period > 600 ; Retry interval > 604800 ; Expire time > 10800 ; Negative caching TTL > ) > > $ORIGIN greenwareit.com.au. > IN NS ns2.xname.org. > IN NS ns1.xname.org. > IN NS ns0.xname.org. > IN MX 10 mx.greenwareit.com.au. > git999 IN A 60.241.200.146 > shop IN A 60.241.200.146 > greenwareit.com.au. IN A 111.67.23.208 > www IN A 111.67.23.208 > git09 IN A 111.67.23.208 > mx IN A 60.241.200.146 > www2 IN A 103.25.56.140 It is similar to mine, I think (of cause my is shorter) >> $TTL 3h >> @ IN SOA ns.gonglenuts.id.au. root.ns ( 2014073001 1d 12h 1w 3h ) >> ; Serial, Refresh, Retry, Expire, Neg. cache TTL >> >> @ IN NS ns.gongelnuts.id.au. >> >> ns IN A 115.186.196.107 Regards Peter

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LXC containers and autodev
by Toby Corkindale 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

Hi, With the current Ubuntu LTS as both host and guest for LXC I'm missing /dev/net/tun inside the LXCs. I found some people on the internet mumbling about creating /var/lib/lxc/$NAME/autodev as a shell script that does the appropriate mknod, but this doesn't seem to do anything for me. For the time being I've "fixed" it with a bodged openvpn init script inside the LXCs (that just adds the mknod call) but I wondered if anyone here knew what the proper way to fix this on LXCs is? Please note, this is a separate issue to needing to add the permission to the LXC config. I'm already doing that, and the dev node wouldn't work at all if I hadn't. (But works fine once I do) Cheers, Toby -- Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart; the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world

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Linux training
by Peter Drake 29 Jul '14

29 Jul '14

There is a whole lot of Linux training starting to happen in the main stream arena For example the Linux Foundation MOOC https://www.edx.org/course/linuxfoundationx/linuxfoundationx-lfs101x-introd… LPI has partnered with NDG and Cisco’s NetSpace Learning Management System and via Cisco Netacademy to provide Linux Fundementals. The Netacademy is the largest "classroom" in the world with 10,000 academies in 165 countries, all of whom have access. http://www.netacad.am/linux_fundamentals.html The Red Hat Academy has been offering training through schools and tertiary institutes for many year. Victoria University, Melbourne are a Red Hat Academy who can provide the RHCSA and RHCE vendor exams as part of their course. Cheers

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Interesting groupon
by Russell Coker 27 Jul '14

27 Jul '14

I'm not recommending that anyone buys this, but I think it's an indication of the increasing popularity of Linux. $99 for an Online Linux and UNIX Certification Bundle (Don't Pay $2,339) http://bit.ly/1l41bXE -- Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 with K-9 Mail.

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Re: SATA SSD + RAID
by hannah commodore 24 Jul '14

24 Jul '14

On 24 Jul 2014, at 18:32, James Harper <james(a)ejbdigital.com.au> wrote: > What brand/model are the SSD's? We just had two Samsung SSD's fail pretty much simultaneously (within the replacement window, so it took the machine down). Presumably it was wearout, although all post-mortem testing we did shows no problems with them and the limited SMART capability they possessed said everything was fine. They are Plextor M5 Pro drives. The controller doesn't even seem to pass SMART through, other than to query on it's own and give either "OK" or not

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Cheap Flash SATA drives
by Russell Coker 24 Jul '14

24 Jul '14

http://www.kogan.com/au/buy/kogan-256gb-6gbs-solid-state-drive/ Kogan is selling a 256G SATA flash storage device with Intel flash (IE flash that shouldn't lose your data) for $139. Flash storage will make your system a lot faster. Boot time will be improved a lot, particularly if you use systemd and have a multi-core CPU (in which case CPU won't be a bottleneck and most of the boot time will be disk IO). The time taken to login to a GUI environment will be a lot faster too, last time I timed it a flash device halved the time from entering a password in KDM to having KDE ready to use. Flash storage also makes your system a lot quieter, you might not realise the noise from a constantly spinning hard drive until it goes away. If you have $139 to spend on an upgrade to a desktop system then this is probably the best option. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Distro or software to allow restricted set of programs
by Sean Crosby 24 Jul '14

24 Jul '14

I'm looking at setting up a machine as a video conferencing PC. I want to deploy it to end users as an indestructable PC, where if they start it up, it presents them with a menu that allows them to run exactly 3 programs (web browser, another video conferencing program, and pavucontrol to set sound settings). I was thinking of using XFCE or another lightweight window manager to do this, but was wondering if anyone knows of a kiosk PC style distro where you can lock everything down, and possibly allow immutable config, so the end user can change settings while the PC is on, but as soon as you restart, it goes back to a precoded set of configs. Sean

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UK government adopts ODF/HTML/PDF
by Lev Lafayette 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

Not 100% related to Linux but pretty close... The open standards selected for sharing and viewing government documents have been announced by the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude. The standards set out the document file formats that are expected to be used across all government bodies. Government will begin using open formats that will ensure that citizens and people working in government can use the applications that best meet their needs when they are viewing or working on documents together. ... The selected standards, which are compatible with commonly used document applications, are: * PDF/A or HTML for viewing government documents * Open Document Format (ODF) for sharing or collaborating on government documents More at: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-u… Arguments for decision here: http://standards.data.gov.uk/proposal/sharing-collaborating-government-docu… -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech Mngmnt) (Chifley) mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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Linux on HP Pavilion Touchsmart 11 -e102sa
by stripes theotoky 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

Hello folks, have been happily using a Sammy N150NPlus with Ubuntu for the past 3 years but it is getting a bit old and tired. I like the small size for travelling and am not happy with tablets. Have been looking at the HP Pavilion touchsmart 11-e102sa with an AMD A6, 4GB memory and 500GB HDD. Has anybody been using this with any distro? Any pros or cons? Any issues with installing Linux? Either as a standalone or as dual-boot? cheers

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Linux install on new(ish) Toshiba Laptop
by Lev Lafayette 21 Jul '14

21 Jul '14

Hi LUVers, Recently purchased a Toshiba Satellite C50PSCJEA-01N011 Celeron-N2820 4G 500GB 15.6" Windows8.1 Notebook PSCJEA-01N011 Sad reality is because a certain piece of medical equipment requires 'doze (no it doesn't work with Wine etc) said machine had to be bought with said OS. Obviously don't want to do much in the MS-Windows world and have sought to navigate my way around the madness that is MS-Windows 8; have resized the disk, turned off secure boot (necessary for installation apparently), began installation with a nice Debian Mint 201403 disk, grub comes up and... I get a black screen. The DVD drive happily whirls around obviously wanting to entertain the possibility of another Linux install, but alas with no screen display not much else can be done. I have attempted a standard GRUB modification used on other Toshiba systems (https://coderwall.com/p/ydbldg) but to no avail. Any ideas? -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech Mngmnt) (Chifley) mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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