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Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

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Re: Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

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Post by devman0 »

WirelessGigabit wrote: post #10

Dnsmasq is amazing. I spend quite the amount of time learning its config when hacking DD-WRTs. One thing that always bothered me is how hard it is to set Dnsmasq to do SLAAC but no RDNS. You see, if you set enable-ra [0], it defaults to using link-local address of the machine as the rDNS server. You can set another one by setting dhcp-option=option6:dns-server,[2001:4860:4860::8844] If you don't enable DHCPv6 that en…

I've seen IPv6 deployments where internal names use ULA addresses for tracking/monitoring purposes, but outbound traffic SLAAC is used by hosts since having multiple IPv6 address per an interface is somewhat normal.

Re: Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

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Post by justin_oaks »

andrewstuart wrote: post #17

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.

I wish there were a proper way to thank open source authors and contributors. I'm thinking of a single place where users could write their thanks and the open source folks could read it.

There's the saying "Be the change you want to see in the world" implying that I should do it. Perhaps I should. I might have to wait for my kids to grow up a bit first.

Re: Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

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Post by dredmorbius »

zhengyi13 wrote: post #11
rand846633 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Absolutely the former, which I've used on my own DNSBLs.

The second should also work, though I've not used it (or considered it prior to reading your comment).

Re: Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

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Post by SCUSKU »

justin_oaks wrote: post #23
andrewstuart wrote: post #17

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.

I wish there were a proper way to thank open source authors and contributors. I'm thinking of a single place where users could write their thanks and the open source folks could read it. There's the saying "Be the change you want to see in the world" implying that I should do it. Perhaps I should. I might have to wait for my kids to grow up a bit first.

Better yet, just start smart and send a nice note to a maintainer you admire and sponsor a project for $5/mo!

Re: Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

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Post by bzg »

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…

Hi, I'm in charge of code.gouv.fr and I initiated this BlueHats prize.

The money comes from the French government (4x10K€ for the four prizes).

We wanted to do this with NLnet to benefit from their experience and to rely on another entity to transfer the funds.

We received a lot of interesting submissions and asking public administrations who deserves the award is already a very nice exercise. We will write more about the process and the lessons learned after this first (experimental) iteration.

Re: Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

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Post by setcarsonfire »

andrewstuart wrote: post #17

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.

If you want to get a lot of public money in France, the best approach is to set your entire neighborhood ablaze, which guarantees the money will come pouring in the following months.

Re: Dnsmasq wins the first BlueHats Prize

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Post by freedomben »

nolist_policy wrote: post #5
hkwerf wrote: post #2

dnsmasq is such a nice tool. I use it daily, for work with embedded devices. Its simple configuration also allows me to quickly provide "default" network configurations, simply by copy-pasting the command and parameters to invoke it, to my customers so they can verify devices without integration into their network.

+1 dnsmasq is awesome, for me the best thing is the integration with nftables so I can reliably police and filter traffic by dns domain names.

Thanks for mentioning that, I had no idea! This is something I've been looking for my home network for a while. Are there any resources or reading that you particularly recommend? I'll kagi search of course, but good network related stuff is notoriously difficult to find.
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