Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.
On 2/15/23 08:41, Michael Stone wrote:
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 07:57:09AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
And this disclosed that I had not properly added coyote.coyote.den to
the /etc/hosts file on that machine. That mistake, fixed, now makes
the local net pingable. The rest of it, whats powered up, was/is all
pingable. It just wasn't tried. This machine is generally the master,
and when I couldn't ping it, I assumed none of the local stuff worked.
Checking that on some of my other machines disclosed that something
besides me is mucking with the /etc/hosts on some, but not all, of the
other machines. And its something I'll have to fix from the machines
own keyboard because my /sshnet/localname network doesn't allow root
logins. The /etc/hosts file on go704 has been stripped to just itself!
Fixed and chattr +i added to it now.
So you've finally figured out that what you told us is wrong, but you're
doubling down on baroque workarounds that will make it even harder to
figure out what's actually happening. And presumably, you'll be loudly
announcing to other users that the only solution is to do ridiculous
things like chattr +i random files, confusing future users who find this
stuff via google and don't realize that you only got halfway to figuring
out what was going on before announcing what the "proper" fix was.
That's the frustrating part: you can do whatever you want with your own
system and it doesn't really matter to anyone else, but we're going to
keep reading wrong information proclaimed loudly and often--which does
potentially affect others.
And I'm pretty sure I put it in there correctly when I installed
armbian on it.
Occam suggests otherwise.
True. But I'd also suggest that if you do not want to support /etc/hosts
files name resolution methods, choose another msg to reply to. Your
attitude that everybody with a two machine home network should run a
bind instance just to lookup the other machine is a huge waste of
resources to do a job that a home network occupying all non-routable
addresses is best served by a hosts file, is tiresome at best. Your
insistance that a dns is the one true way, adding the complexity of bind
to every machine on the planet makes little sense in this camp. There
are ways to do local name resolution that do not involve running even a
lookalike to bind.
But you probably will not admit that on a public list.
Take care & stay well, Michael.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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