Over the past couple of weeks I've noticed that sites I can get to
both easily and quickly from work are completely unreachable from
home. From Comcast's perspective, these sites seem to not even exist.
Is this intentional censoring on Comcast's part, or just incompetance
at maintaining a DNS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark) writes:
Bill Ricker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
XML is for people who don't understand Scheme. (not my quote,
that just seems like such good flamewar fodder that I had to pass it
along)
There's nothing new under the sun. Each generation thinks they
XML is for people who don't understand Scheme. (not my quote,
that just seems like such good flamewar fodder that I had to pass it
along)
There's nothing new under the sun. Each generation thinks they
invented sex and fast square root algorithms.
I've said for years, if LISP stands for Lots
Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Run your own local DNS server with caching. You do have a server at
home right? Or run a caching server on localhost. Linux and MacOSX
can do it.
Good point, don't know why I never thought of that. For that matter,
I can also use the ones here at work
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Really. That's interesting. I'm on Comcast (Dover, NH) and I
haven't noticed any problems of that sort. Any pattern to the sites,
that you can discern?
Nope. The two I can remember of hand are:
www.evangelicaloutpost.com[1]
www.shamusyoung.com[2]
On 11/14/06, Bill Ricker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... and usesancient ENDIF syntax, as if syntax-aware editors couldn't
handle closing-brace-match.
I'm of two minds when it comes to this sort of thing. (Normally,
I'm lucky to have one mind.)
On the one hand, yes.
On the other hand,
Bill Ricker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
XML is for people who don't understand Scheme. (not my quote,
that just seems like such good flamewar fodder that I had to pass it
along)
There's nothing new under the sun. Each generation thinks they
invented sex and fast square root algorithms.
The nice thing about MythTV is that you can record one program while
watching another. Unfortunately, I haven't figure out how to do that
in real-space, yet.
I plan to attend Shawn O'Shea's presentation on VMWare at MerriLUG
And on that note, can anyone recommend a decent set of DNS servers to
point at instead of using Comcast's?
Run your own local DNS server with caching. You do have a server at
home right? Or run a caching server on localhost. Linux and MacOSX
can do it.
Point it at the root servers if you
Paul Lussier wrote:
Is there anyway we could foster this into a real discussion on XML,
what it is, what it's used for, why it's
good/bad/evil/sucks-rocks/better-than-sliced-bread ?
About the only thing I know about XML is that it appears to be a
markup language for Pirate Treasure Maps (you
Paul Lussier writes:
Is there anyway we could foster this into a real discussion on XML,
what it is, what it's used for, why it's
good/bad/evil/sucks-rocks/better-than-sliced-bread ?
Well, everybody has their own view on the world. You need to
understand where I stand before you understand
On 11/14/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Over the past couple of weeks I've noticed that sites I can get to
both easily and quickly from work are completely unreachable from
home. From Comcast's perspective, these sites seem to not even exist.
Really. That's interesting. I'm on
On Nov 14, 2006, at 9:40 AM, Paul Lussier wrote:
Is there anyway we could foster this into a real discussion on XML,
what it is, what it's used for, why it's
good/bad/evil/sucks-rocks/better-than-sliced-bread ?
We can if we start it.
A pocket summary sure to offend many and distort history a
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Michael ODonnell wrote:
I have no love for ComcCast - I'd drop them yesterday
if I had any better (or even comparable) choices -
That being said, does anyone have experiences with other residential high
speed providers that are in the same price range as Comcast?
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 09:29 -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:
And on that note, can anyone recommend a decent set of DNS servers to
point at instead of using Comcast's?
plug
The company I work for (DynDNS) offers a pretty high quality recursive
DNS service for $29.95/year.
Here's a link to our
I have no love for ComcCast - I'd drop them yesterday
if I had any better (or even comparable) choices -
but I can't say that their DNS sucks any worse than
anybody else's. They do fsck it up occasionally but
(here in Chelmsford) it's working OK at the moment.
On 11/14/06, Kevin D. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Paul Lussier writes:
Is there anyway we could foster this into a real discussion on XML,
what it is, what it's used for, why it's
good/bad/evil/sucks-rocks/better-than-sliced-bread ?
Well, everybody has their own view on the world. You
On Tuesday, Nov 14th 2006 at 09:57 -0500, quoth Cole Tuininga:
=On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 09:29 -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:
= And on that note, can anyone recommend a decent set of DNS servers to
= point at instead of using Comcast's?
=
=plug
=
=The company I work for (DynDNS) offers a pretty high
On 11/14/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nope. The two I can remember of hand are:
www.evangelicaloutpost.com[1]
www.shamusyoung.com[2]
FWIW: I just ssh'ed into my home system and checked those two names
against the two Comcast DNS servers present in my /etc/resolv.conf,
and
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Michael ODonnell wrote:
I have no love for ComcCast - I'd drop them yesterday
if I had any better (or even comparable) choices -
I use Earthlink for my cable service...
It's from Comcast, and my bill actually comes from Comcast, but I get
an Earthlink IP, Earthlink
Brace yourself. I don't know the current status, but in the past, I know Comcast has intercepted all DNS queries, regardless or destination, and redirected them to their own. Thomas
On 11/14/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Over the past couple of weeks I've noticed that sites I can get
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 11:25 -0500, kenta wrote:
That being said, does anyone have experiences with other residential high
speed providers that are in the same price range as Comcast?
I've used Worldpath (http://www.worldpath.com) for home DSL for several
years now and couldn't be happier. The
On 11/14/06, Bill Ricker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another old quote -- every non-trivial application has a non-trivial
subset of a Lisp interpretter (and/or Fortran library) embedded, but
implemented badly.
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc,
On Tuesday, Nov 14th 2006 at 09:06 -0800, quoth Thomas Charron:
= Brace yourself. I don't know the current status, but in the past, I know
=Comcast has intercepted all DNS queries, regardless or destination, and
=redirected them to their own.
If they do that how can you tell?
On 11/14/06, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brace yourself. I don't know the current status, but in the past, I know
Comcast has intercepted all DNS queries, regardless or destination, and
redirected them to their own.
FWIW, in my service area (Dover, NH), they do not appear to be
On November 14, 2006, Steven W. Orr sent me the following:
On Tuesday, Nov 14th 2006 at 09:06 -0800, quoth Thomas Charron:
= Brace yourself. I don't know the current status, but in the past, I know
=Comcast has intercepted all DNS queries, regardless or destination, and
=redirected them to
On 11/14/06, kenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That being said, does anyone have experiences with other residential high
speed providers that are in the same price range as Comcast?
At that price range, your options are always going to be fairly limited.
The best results I've gotten, looking
If I have a serious problem with the wireless
feed at work, I can drive to the ISP's office in the next town, and
beat the owner over the head with his radio.
Just don't call first..
When I worked at the MediaOne NOC (under my horrible manager there)
some guy called saying he was going to
Travis Roy wrote:
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Michael ODonnell wrote:
I have no love for ComcCast - I'd drop them yesterday
if I had any better (or even comparable) choices -
I use Earthlink for my cable service...
It's from Comcast, and my bill actually comes from Comcast, but I get an
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Travis Roy wrote:
When I worked at the MediaOne NOC (under my horrible manager there) some guy
called saying he was going to kill and/or beat one of the callcenter people
(they worked upstairs).
Now I remember why I paid you less than everyone else. GOOD TIMES.
(-1
On 11/14/06, Mark Polhamus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://blogs.earthlink.net/2006/09/more_info_on_dead_domain_handl.php
Earthlink says: ...this isn't something that you'll be able to get
customer support help with...
My response would then be: This isn't something you'll get my
subscriber
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Ben Scott wrote:
Both result in 'not found' errors from home:
$ host www.evangelicaloutpost.com
Host www.evangelicaloutpost.com not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
Hmmm, SERVFAIL is more than just a simple not found, it means
something is actively broken. I have seen nameservers
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Those reverse to:
24.34.240.9 chlm2-pdns-tmp.chelmsfdrdc2.ma.boston.comcast.net.
24.34.241.9 chlm2-2dns-tmp.chelmsfdrdc2.ma.boston.comcast.net.
68.87.64.196 ns.inflow.pa.bo.comcast.net.
Note the -tmp in those first two names. Meanwhile, I have
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 11:25, kenta uttered thusly:
I'd love to try Verzion's FiOS but they're not offering it in my part of
Nashua. :( If anyone here has it, how is it? I'm also not sure how any
local DSL providers are stacking up these days. Feedback is appreciated.
-Kenta
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:30:12 -0500
Suppose this is version 1 of the protocol.
Now suppose in version 2 of the protocol we want to add some more
properties:
foo
colorblue/color
height1.3m/height
fav-dessertpie/fav-dessert
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:21:40 -0500
From: Chip Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On November 14, 2006, Steven W. Orr sent me the following:
On Tuesday, Nov 14th 2006 at 09:06 -0800, quoth Thomas Charron:
= Brace yourself. I don't know the current status, but in the past, I know
=Comcast has
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:22:05 -0500
From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One problem I did encounter in the past was that Adelphia was
dropping UDP packets with a *source* port of 53. Any other source
port was fine. Today's Internet is a weird place. :)
/me is really looking forward to
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:26:32 -0500
From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The best results I've gotten, looking at the whole picture (price,
performance, reliability, customer service, etc.) are with local ISPs
doing fixed wireless. The major advantage is that by eliminating a
Really?! I
On 11/14/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The best results I've gotten, looking at the whole picture (price,
performance, reliability, customer service, etc.) are with local ISPs
doing fixed wireless. The major advantage is that by eliminating a
Really?! I don't know this to
aluminumsulfate writes:
That's great, but when v3 of the protocol comes out, and the message
is encoded
[snip]
your v1 and v2 nodes are going to be incompatible with your v3 nodes.
Like I said, I was speaking very generally.
On the other hand, if the communication protocol was formed
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:23:01 -0500
On the other hand, if the communication protocol was formed solely of
grammatical Lojban text, this problem would never happen:
I'm betting that Lojban poetry is even worse than Paul Neil Milne
Johnstone's of
On 11/14/06, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits...
And the mome raths outgrabe!
-- B
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Paul Lussier wrote:
...
How about the GNHLUG server? Can we make that a DNS server as a
membership benefit?
Well, from a policy standpoint, I have no objections, but I wonder
about some technical aspects. I'm not sure about the performance of
that system. More importantly, unless you
On 11/14/06, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
XML can be superior to plain text .conf files because it can
introduce structure, character-set specifications and can be
associated with a schema that can define and validate the document.
All of that can be applied to just about anything else,
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:00:30 -0500
From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/14/06, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits...
And the mome raths outgrabe!
You joke! But, on OSCAR, someone once said youre so grabe to me.
To
What XML gives you is a standard way to define the structure,
schema, and so on, in a way that is unambiguous and machine-friendly.
Hm. unambiguous and machine-friendly. Lojban, which is formally
defined by a yacc grammar, meets both these criteria.
As others have said, the major
And the mome raths outgrabe!
You joke! But, on OSCAR, someone once said youre so grabe to me.
To this day, I wonder what s/he meant... *scratches head*
My sincere apologies if I damage any illusions you may have
been cherishing about the intensely profound significance
of that comment, but
POINTLESS
On 11/14/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What XML gives you is a standard way to define the structure,
schema, and so on, in a way that is unambiguous and machine-friendly.
Hm. unambiguous and machine-friendly. Lojban, which is formally
defined by a yacc grammar,
On 11/14/06, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Paul Lussier wrote:
...
How about the GNHLUG server? Can we make that a DNS server as a
membership benefit?
Well, from a policy standpoint, I have no objections, but I wonder
about some technical aspects. I'm not sure about the
What XML gives you is a standard way to define the structure,
schema, and so on, in a way that is unambiguous and machine-friendly.
Right. And if you do NOT create a X-Schema or DTD, and are using a
non-validating parser, and then have to write code to explore the DOM
generated from whatever
From: Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:12:32 -0500
And the mome raths outgrabe!
You joke! But, on OSCAR, someone once said youre so grabe to me.
To this day, I wonder what s/he meant... *scratches head*
My sincere apologies if I damage any illusions you
Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?
Maybe there's a Conservation Law of Suckitude. I haven't noticed
Verizon DNS sucking lately.
Maybe Verizon Mass recruited Comcast NH's one good DNS tech to fix
their breakage ?-)
--
Bill
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