Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize • Hacker News Board

Re: Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

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Post by zhengyi13 » Thu, Apr 18, 2024, 8:20 PM UTC

rand846633 wrote: post #9

transpute wrote: post #4

dnsmasq can be used for wildcard domain aliases in OPNsense firewall, https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/4145#issuecomment-12...

Can you elaborate on this? Why this is awesome and what it achieves?

Two things occur to me:

1) blackholing every possible subdomain of business-i-dont-like.com, and 2) return a single IP address for any and all internal subdomains of a private domain - they all go to the same proxy then, and it's just one setting to set and forget.

(I may have completely misunderstood this feature though, and I would welcome correction)

Re: Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

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Post by lucb1e » Thu, Apr 18, 2024, 8:59 PM UTC

Does anyone know what NLnet's involvement is? It says it's a french initiative and, clicking through, all I can find it that they "partnered", but it doesn't say if they provide part of the money or how this collaboration works:

> The French public administration is rewarding maintainers of critical Free Software that it uses. Its Free Software unit (an OSPO) has partnered with NLnet to put four notable projects in the spotlight and award them the BlueHats 2024 prizes.

(For those not familiar with NLnet, they fund a lot of cool stuff. Picking a random one I like from the list of currently funded projects as an example: https://nlnet.nl/project/CryptPad-Blueprints/)

Re: Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

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Post by oever » Thu, Apr 18, 2024, 9:36 PM UTC

lucb1e wrote: post #12

Does anyone know what NLnet's involvement is? It says it's a french initiative and, clicking through, all I can find it that they "partnered", but it doesn't say if they provide part of the money or how this collaboration works: > The French public administration is rewarding maintainers of critical Free Software that it uses. Its Free Software unit (an OSPO) has partnered with NLnet to put four notable projects in t…

As you say, NLnet funds many projects. We (I work there) started off doing so decades ago from our own resources as the first ISP in the Netherlands. These days, most of the funds are provided by the EU, governments and donations. They ask NLnet to handle the applications and guide the selected projects in achieving the benefit for the users of the internet that were touted when the project applied for funding.

The BlueHats prize is different. It's a recognition for past achievements for FOSS projects that are not widely known by laymen, but are indispensable in the functioning of ICT in government.

DINUM is partnering with NLnet for their expertise and to have wider reach for getting nominations and publicity.

Re: Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

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Post by NLnet » Thu, Apr 18, 2024, 9:39 PM UTC

lucb1e wrote: post #12

Does anyone know what NLnet's involvement is? It says it's a french initiative and, clicking through, all I can find it that they "partnered", but it doesn't say if they provide part of the money or how this collaboration works: > The French public administration is rewarding maintainers of critical Free Software that it uses. Its Free Software unit (an OSPO) has partnered with NLnet to put four notable projects in t…

We helped organizing the prize. BlueHats are civil servants who promote free and open source in public institutions. French BlueHats wanted to place FOSS maintainers in the spotlight because, as is well known, too few resources go that way. So they partnered with us to organize the prize together.

Re: Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

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Post by lucb1e » Thu, Apr 18, 2024, 9:42 PM UTC

oever wrote: post #13

lucb1e wrote: post #12

Does anyone know what NLnet's involvement is? It says it's a french initiative and, clicking through, all I can find it that they "partnered", but it doesn't say if they provide part of the money or how this collaboration works: > The French public administration is rewarding maintainers of critical Free Software that it uses. Its Free Software unit (an OSPO) has partnered with NLnet to put four notable projects in t…

As you say, NLnet funds many projects. We (I work there) started off doing so decades ago from our own resources as the first ISP in the Netherlands. These days, most of the funds are provided by the EU, governments and donations. They ask NLnet to handle the applications and guide the selected projects in achieving the benefit for the users of the internet that were touted when the project applied for funding. The B…

> for their expertise and to have wider reach for getting nominations and publicity.

Got it, thanks for the answer! And hats off to you and your colleagues :)

> These days, most of the funds are provided by the EU, governments and donations

Donations sounds to me like either individuals or one-offs, but isn't it the case that various organizations send their profit to you per their bylaws? I'm thinking of places like SIDN and RadicallyOpenSecurity. Do you mean those by donations?

Re: Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

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Post by lucb1e » Thu, Apr 18, 2024, 9:45 PM UTC

NLnet wrote: post #14

lucb1e wrote: post #12

Does anyone know what NLnet's involvement is? It says it's a french initiative and, clicking through, all I can find it that they "partnered", but it doesn't say if they provide part of the money or how this collaboration works: > The French public administration is rewarding maintainers of critical Free Software that it uses. Its Free Software unit (an OSPO) has partnered with NLnet to put four notable projects in t…

We helped organizing the prize. BlueHats are civil servants who promote free and open source in public institutions. French BlueHats wanted to place FOSS maintainers in the spotlight because, as is well known, too few resources go that way. So they partnered with us to organize the prize together.

Thanks for creating an account just to answer my question! Appreciated. And welcome to the dark side, although I hear HN does not have too many cookies :-)

Re: Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

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Post by andrewstuart » Thu, Apr 18, 2024, 9:51 PM UTC

The prize is such a small amount of money its almost an insult.

Governments employee tens of thousands of people on $60K to $300K per year and for critical open source projects? A $10K prize. Ugh.

Re: Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

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Post by wolletd » Thu, Apr 18, 2024, 11:04 PM UTC

ploxiln wrote: post #6

Dnsmasq is one of those humble low-resources low-dependencies low-churn low-level tools that ends up in a bunch of places - so many home/SMB routers, "internet sharing" features of linux-based OSes (like android but also linux desktops using NetworkManager) and personal projects or test-setups for working on networking equipment ... and it's easy to kinda forget about it. Kudos, and I'm sure it deserves far more dona…

I even know of vending machines that have routers with OpenWRT and dnsmasq in them. Mainly because I put those there.

Re: Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

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Post by transpute » Thu, Apr 18, 2024, 11:14 PM UTC

rand846633 wrote: post #9

transpute wrote: post #4

dnsmasq can be used for wildcard domain aliases in OPNsense firewall, https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/4145#issuecomment-12...

Can you elaborate on this? Why this is awesome and what it achieves?

Authorizing access to CDNs that have many edge server domains.

Re: Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

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Post by fostware » Thu, Apr 18, 2024, 11:58 PM UTC

trallnag wrote: post #8

Have been using dnsmasq for years now in Microsoft's WSL to deal with split DNS.

Was a sanity saver for WSL1 with split WFH DNS with company Windows VPN client. DNS has been a lot better with WSL2, but the config has remained in place.