Re: Self-censorship 101 (was: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/)

2018-06-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Jun 2018 at 09:38:21 (+0300), Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:25:34PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > But do I want to set up a DNS proxy > > > > on each host, with any wheezy, jessie and stretch differences to sort > > > > out? > > > > > > Why would you? You s

Re: Self-censorship 101 (was: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/)

2018-06-27 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:25:34PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > But do I want to set up a DNS proxy > > > on each host, with any wheezy, jessie and stretch differences to sort > > > out? > > > > Why would you? You set up a single DNS (or HTTP proxy) and point all > > your devices

Re: Self-censorship 101 (was: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/)

2018-06-27 Thread David Wright
On Wed 27 Jun 2018 at 10:17:11 (+0300), Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 05:51:27PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > 2) Why bother with /etc/hosts at all, if one can use DNS or HTTP proxy > > > for the same purpose with much simplier configuration (hint - you cannot > > > block

Re: Self-censorship 101 (was: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/)

2018-06-27 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 05:51:27PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > 2) Why bother with /etc/hosts at all, if one can use DNS or HTTP proxy > > for the same purpose with much simplier configuration (hint - you cannot > > block all sites in a domain via /etc/hosts unless you list all of th

Re: Self-censorship 101 (was: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/)

2018-06-26 Thread David Wright
On Tue 26 Jun 2018 at 23:03:34 (+0300), Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 02:14:36PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > Not to go off-topic, but you wrote: > > "Difficult for me to judge. I do have over 13000 hostnames in /etc/hosts > > which I hope has an accelerating effect on

Re: Self-censorship 101 (was: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/)

2018-06-26 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 02:14:36PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Not to go off-topic, but you wrote: > "Difficult for me to judge. I do have over 13000 hostnames in /etc/hosts > which I hope has an accelerating effect on loading pages (though I" > > So you aggressively flaunt conv

Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-06-26 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Not to go off-topic, but you wrote: "Difficult for me to judge. I do have over 13000 hostnames in /etc/hosts which I hope has an accelerating effect on loading pages (though I" So you aggressively flaunt conventional wisdom with this practice. What is your secret? I have often thought of doing the

Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/ (PS)

2018-06-26 Thread John Crawley
On 2018-06-26 16:30, John Crawley wrote: On 2018-06-24 09:49, Fred wrote: On 06/23/2018 05:23 PM, John Crawley wrote: On 2018-06-24 03:18, Richard Owlett wrote: For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to https://manpages.debian.org/ . Usually these days (last couple of mon

Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-06-26 Thread John Crawley
On 2018-06-24 09:49, Fred wrote: On 06/23/2018 05:23 PM, John Crawley wrote: On 2018-06-24 03:18, Richard Owlett wrote: For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to https://manpages.debian.org/ . Usually these days (last couple of months?) when I click a link in Firefox poin

Additional info [Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/]

2018-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/23/2018 01:18 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to https://manpages.debian.org/ . Usually it went away after a couple of retries. Earlier today had to do multiple retries over ~15-20 minutes. If it's relevant, my ISP is T-mobile. I haven'

Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-06-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 09:23:13AM +0900, John Crawley wrote: > On 2018-06-24 03:18, Richard Owlett wrote: > >For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to > >https://manpages.debian.org/ . FWIW, less than two seconds for me. I've Javas

Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-06-23 Thread David Wright
On Sun 24 Jun 2018 at 09:23:13 (+0900), John Crawley wrote: > On 2018-06-24 03:18, Richard Owlett wrote: > >For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to > >https://manpages.debian.org/ . > > Usually these days (last couple of months?) when I click a link in > Firefox pointing to an

Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-06-23 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 6/23/18, John Crawley wrote: > On 2018-06-24 03:18, Richard Owlett wrote: >> For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to >> https://manpages.debian.org/ . > > Usually these days (last couple of months?) when I click a link in > Firefox pointing to an online Debian manpage it ta

Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-06-23 Thread Fred
On 06/23/2018 05:23 PM, John Crawley wrote: On 2018-06-24 03:18, Richard Owlett wrote: For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to https://manpages.debian.org/ . Usually these days (last couple of months?) when I click a link in Firefox pointing to an online Debian manpage i

Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-06-23 Thread John Crawley
On 2018-06-24 03:18, Richard Owlett wrote: For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to https://manpages.debian.org/ . Usually these days (last couple of months?) when I click a link in Firefox pointing to an online Debian manpage it takes a very long time to load, and someti

Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-06-23 Thread Richard Owlett
For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to https://manpages.debian.org/ . Usually it went away after a couple of retries. Earlier today had to do multiple retries over ~15-20 minutes. If it's relevant, my ISP is T-mobile. I haven't noticed any problems with other sites.