From: Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
To: Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros@upnet.gr>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
ding@gnus.org, Magnus Henoch <magnus.henoch@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: dns.el: forget DNS servers in new network
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 23:17:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2eh3lrwfi.fsf@danjou.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bnypi3fh.fsf@kepler.lan> (Leonidas Tsampros's message of "Sun, 02 Feb 2014 23:56:50 +0200")
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On Sun, Feb 02 2014, Leonidas Tsampros wrote:
> Having a device change a network, for example from work to home or more
> imporantly from work to a public hotspot (e.g. airport, starbucks,
> cofeehouses, libraries etc), can lead to "information leaking".
>
> For example, I do not want my Gnus to try connect to my job's mail server
> when at the home network.
>
> I was thinking that a regural DNS /etc/resolv.conf polling of the
> "search" parameter would be nice. So if we see "search corporation.com"
> you know I'm at WORK (so kill connection X and don't try and reconnect
> to server Y) but if it is set to "search home.lan" hey i'm at home now
> kill connections BLABLA and don't try to connect on server KOKO.
>
> I know that I'm talking about a different problem here, but IP changes
> usually comes from changing networks and I want my mail reader to be
> "location aware" since ip readdressing is not an everyday task.
>
> I hope I'm making sense :).
Yes, but as you point out this is totaly unrelated, and you can already
script that easily in elisp. I did that few years ago already.
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Julien Danjou
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-02 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-10 21:02 Magnus Henoch
2013-11-03 11:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-01-30 22:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-02 21:56 ` Leonidas Tsampros
2014-02-02 22:17 ` Julien Danjou [this message]
2014-01-31 23:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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