May 4th, 2020 - Happy Star Wars Day - Lockdown Week #8

Agenda

• Core Update 145
• The status of the Community Portal
• Users struggle with DNS - Why?
• New hardware appliance coming up?
  • How do we conduct reproducible benchmarks?

Attendees

• Arne
• Daniel
• Jonatan
• Michael
• Peter
• Stefan

Log

Core Update 145

• GUI menue is broken in unstable the currently broken
• OpenVPN accounting as an add-on or in the base system?
  • Base system is probably less hassle
• Many patches are still queued, too big for a single update
• e1000 driver causes trouble, Arne and Jonatan are having a look at it
• 32 bit is causing more and more pain and is likely to be dropped in a foreseeable future
  • Next kernel won't support 32 bit
  • 32 bit is completely insecure (CPU security vulnerabilities)

Users are experiencing DNS problems

• Unbound fails to resolve the root zone?
• Suricata does not seem to be involved?
• Arne and Jonatan are opening up tickets
• Unbound, Suricata et al. seem to contain bugs, we should attempt to fix them upstream

The status of the Community Portal

• Community message volume is lower than expected
• Technical knowledge of some users is an outspeaking disaster
• Some users lack most basic network/linux knowledge
• People apparently do not read documentation
• Make the wiki more visible

New hardware appliance