I’ll take Rorschach at this point I’m not gonna lie. Something, anything has to give, and the road we’re on rn is much worse.

Edit: lol the only replies to this are from people I had to block previously due to trolling/ignorance etc. Figures.

You’d think with how often android is updated ridding us of this technical debt is very easy. Disable multicast DNS, add a hidden setting tucked away in a menu somewhere to re-enable it. Ez pz.

No it must not lol what? The RFC says “may”.

And more importantly the devices don’t, it’s very noticeable via wireshark. The only multicast traffic comes from Android, every other OS does not bother, ironically not even Mac OS, whom is responsible for the whole Avahi/Bonjour nonsense to start with.

That would make the names much longer but would protect me against some asshat buying .lan as a new gTLD.

Another user pointed out that .home.arpa seems to be reserved, thus hopefully protected from TLD hijack which is what I’m worried about as well. I’d make it .homelab. I wonder if one can restrict recursion on certain domains?

If one server is marked as authoritative, but to recurse for other things, will it recurse for it’s authoritative domain, or give NXDOMAIN?

I do own a domain name via cloudflare so I might just utilize that, but I don’t like it.

It’s assigned in my local DNS server, cheers.

My devices should not be going around making assumptions about what is and isn’t assigned by someone else somewhere when the only thing that should concern them is what the DNS server tells them is the case.

Also NAT does literally nothing other than being a massive PITA, so… yeah, I don’t think there’s much I can agree with in your rant.

Only true if you don’t know what you’re doing. The only reason any network is safe at all is NAT and Firewalls that come with it.

I don’t have to worry about devices on a local network in as far as firewalls go, I can expose anything I want, in fact I delete iptables at first sight on any new distro install or VM, so long as none of it is port forwarded and everything is behind NAT it’s all okay. My network is my castle. Thanks technology! Thanks smart people for figuring this out!

Once you wrap your head around the fact your computer has IPs assigned statically or by DHCP per interface per network, not like a MAC address per device as IPv6 wants it to be which is the wrong way to think, you won’t have any more trouble with NAT.

Like, oh no, fully functional point to point connectivity across the internet, how terrible

Yes when you start out you may think so, but as you get into it you realise that actually complexity exists because it serves a purpose. IPv6 has to bolt on privacy extensions and then also still include NAT and actual tons of space for loopback because it’s fundamentally incompatible with how the internet works otherwise.

And yes, practically it’s a security nightmare to have any IP of any computer accessible from the internet. If you go around configuring firewalls forever you might get it right but oh boy one mistake and you’re done for. Instead, consider NAT, the solution to all problems. I’m writing this behind quadruple NAT rn and it’s honestly fairly easy to manage, I’ve been too lazy to change it, not that I’d advise anything more than 1 necessarily.

Edit: .home.arpa is actually designated as local TLD, and is what I use for a crappy old tablet that doesn’t support mDNS

Yikes! That’s a lot to type to hammer in a nail that sticks out (Android). Thanks but no thanks. I’ll find some way to cripple mDNS on the non-compliant device instead.

So are you saying you run some sort of mDNS server(not sure what the word would be there)/provider? Why? How?

So why does Google enforce mDNS when it leads to this confusion?

Everywhere else, Windows, Linux, iOS, etc etc. as far as I can tell mDNS doesn’t happen with .local as the default, nevermind only option.

Only the android devices throw a fit because of Google enforcing bizarre legacy technology of use to no one.

Maybe there’s a way to hint to the problematic android devices that it’s a no-no by restricting all multicast traffic of any kind on network level? Is that even possible?

How you measuring this? Looks very neat.

A custom bash script will do the job then. You might not want to use docker though as that adds a lot of complexity when it comes to communicating back to/from the host.

Doesn’t really keep to your requirements but check out cockpit. It monitors CPU/memory/disk/network of the host it’s on, it can monitor KVM virtual machines, it’s not docker afaik but simple to set up, uses your Linux login, has a terminal you can use straight in the web UI to get whatever info you’re missing, it uses pmcp and pmlogger for all the info so the number of processes and ports is fairly low.

Dunno about configs, and I’m not sure if/how it can set up alerting though. I tried looking with a basic Google search but only this numbnuts “Neo” guy popped up on his circlejerk forum https://community.unix.com/t/how-to-configure-notification-in-cockpit/377055

You’ve got the coolest instance name I’ve seen btw! Not sure if it’s depression lofi band or a real thing but awesome either way

It’s actually easy to tell whether you’ll have a reaction by going to the store or humane society and asking to hold them for 5 to 10 minutes.

Well I’ve been around cats all my life, pretty much since very early childhood and I’ve never had any reaction really. I’ve not been allergic to anything in my life period.

A few months before I adopted the cat, I was at my gf’s friend’s house and she had a cat there that I held and played with and petted.

Just before I adopted the cat I did end up adopting I went to see and converse with the folks I was adopting from and I def was around the cat for over half an hour.

While I had the cat she’d lick me all the time, never any issues. The effects would start maybe a day or two after we got her. It didn’t even fully stop until at least a day later.

So in my case I guess not. Thanks for the advice though. I was thinking of looking into adopting a Siamese cat at some point. Ofc I’d try to do a lot more due diligence allergy wise, but I really don’t know what I could’ve even done realistically. I don’t think I could stand having to give a pet back because of any health issues on my behalf again. Thanks

I likely think there was something she would emit, some sort of fur particulate or something else because she loved sitting on my lap and just being right in my face and I was fine. Only literally being in the house with her would mess me up, and after like half an hour outside I’d be okay again.

This lack of direct correlation made me think I was just sick for the longest time until I connected the dots that time outside made me feel immediately better.

She was an odd cat. Fur was unreal silky, extremely impressive even for a cat, and also quite long, and the previous owner said how they’ve never really had to trim it or do anything to her coat at all because she maintained it herself really well. I’ve a gut feeling it’s connected to that.

Had a cat that I was somehow allergic(?) to. Just constant itchy red eyes. Eventually coughing and wheezing. Never been allergic to a damn thing in my life, including other cats. Never understood it. Shed go all around my face and I would be fine, then suddenly she’d just be about the place and my eyes would get so bloody I swear blood was actually leaking out of them. Had to return her. Loved her to bits in those few weeks. 😭

Well then you need to phrase yourself a lot better because that is not how you came off, clearly.

I don’t think anyone welters in it when they re-listen to angsty music of their youth. For me it’s just a matter of nostalgia and reminiscing.

Yeah I was also an elite™️ 14-year old, all the normal girls were into LMFAO and LOL and their Flo-Ridas and BBM (what is that? Big boob messenger? Stupid thots. I was so much smarter than them. Humph! Looks are for the shallow!) and I was into far more intellectual things, like karaokeing to ‘Somewhat Damaged’, crying at least once to every single song on Still and speeding up the virgin power walk when the guitars come in on ‘Beside You In Time’.

But then I turned 16, and I was into cloud rap, and a tad later, doom metal. I came to realize that people had varied, changing tastes that didn’t necessarily give you the right to assume so much about them if they liked something I did not, it’s not as if one cannot be objective about media at all, but moreso that using tastes to attack a person, or to assume personal traits about them, especially a group of people, seldom yields to accurate outcomes.

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It is a lesson I had to learn again when my CompSci colleagues at university didn’t cruise through classes like I did, it wasn’t because they weren’t ‘real’ ‘geeks’ like I was, and it wasn’t because they didn’t use Linux, and once more, and again and again with many different things, undoing the brainwashing of a consumption society to see the wonderful complexity of people.

I make music now, and I’ve learned to see the wonderous complexity in it too, even in stuff that’s ‘not my cup of tea’.

I can critique it, but I no longer assume so much about people, and perhaps I am taking all this far too seriously, and that’s fine, but if that applies to you, I hope you can grow up too.

^ Millennial who got bullied when they were 13 for liking Linkin Park and made it their whole personality and their life’s mission to make sure no one thinks they like it again. 🙄🥱

Unironically grow up. Those people were dicks. They’re well produced songs that are noteworthy for how well they portray teenage angst (a valid part of the human experience like any other) and connect with teenagers worldwide.

Honestly with how the world is today if I saw this in a headline I wouldn’t even flinch smh

That’s awesome. Glad we’re finally automating the most important things in life - internet arguments.

So basically you’re using Unix sockets on your LAN level between nginx and internal machines for finer grained access control and because you’re running out of ports. That’s really cool! I’ll have to read into this myself.

Compatible with Unix sockets?