Re: Access to the IPv4 net for IPv6-only systems

2007-10-04 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 3-okt-2007, at 14:14, John Curran wrote: I'd rather have IPv4 with massive NAT and IPv6 without NAT than both IPv4 and IPv6 with moderate levels of NAT. That's great, guys, if IPv4 with massive levels of NAT actually resembles today's Internet and is actually a viable choice. It

Re: Access to the IPv4 net for IPv6-only systems, was: Re: WG Action: Conclusion of IP Version 6 (ipv6)

2007-10-04 Thread Eliot Lear
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: That isn't actually true. I could move to IPv6 and deploy a NAT-PT box to give my customers access to the v4 Internet regardless of whatever the rest of the community thinks. And then you'll see your active FTP sessions, SIP calls, RTSP sessions, etc fail.

Re: Access to the IPv4 net for IPv6-only systems, was: Re: WG Action: Conclusion of IP Version 6 (ipv6)

2007-10-04 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 4-okt-2007, at 13:36, Eliot Lear wrote: That isn't actually true. I could move to IPv6 and deploy a NAT-PT box to give my customers access to the v4 Internet regardless of whatever the rest of the community thinks. And then you'll see your active FTP sessions, SIP calls, RTSP sessions,

RE: Yahoo! Mail/Sys Admin

2007-10-04 Thread Justin Wilson
We've been having trouble sending to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Getting the infamous 421 Message from (x.x.x.x) temporarily deferred - 4.16.50. Please refer to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html. When I follow the referred link I get to

Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-04 Thread Hex Star
Why is it that the US has ISP's with either no quotas or obscenely high ones while countries like Australia have ISP's with ~12gb quotas? Is there some kind of added cost running a non US ISP?

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-04 Thread Leigh Porter
Yeah, try buying bandwidth in Australia! The have a lot more water to cover ( and so potentially more cost and more profit to be made by monopolies) than well connected areas such as the US. Also there may be more tax costs, staff costs, equipment costs with import duty etc which obviously means

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-04 Thread David E. Smith
Hex Star wrote: Why is it that the US has ISP's with either no quotas or obscenely high ones while countries like Australia have ISP's with ~12gb quotas? Is there some kind of added cost running a non US ISP? There are more than a few US ISPs that have bandwidth quotas, mostly in the

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-04 Thread Mark Newton
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 03:50:11PM +0100, Leigh Porter wrote: Also there may be more tax costs, staff costs, equipment costs with import duty etc which obviously means buying more equipment to support more throughput costs more money. The biggest issues are the transmission costs to get

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-04 Thread Taran Rampersad
Caribbean has the same problem, though... .smaller countries, less ability to negotiate bandwidth usage/cost... bananas for bandwidth program. Leigh Porter wrote: Yeah, try buying bandwidth in Australia! The have a lot more water to cover ( and so potentially more cost and more profit to be

Re: Access to the IPv4 net for IPv6-only systems, was: Re: WG Action: Conclusion of IP Version 6 (ipv6)

2007-10-04 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2-okt-2007, at 15:56, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Second, the ALGs will have to be (re)written anyways to deal with IPv6 stateful firewalls, whether or not NAT-PT happens. That's one solution. I like the hole punching better because it's more

RE: Yahoo! Mail/Sys Admin

2007-10-04 Thread Frank Bulk
You're right, they've shuffled things around. Try this form: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/postmaster/defer.html Regards, Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Wilson Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 8:55 AM

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-04 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Hex Star wrote: Why is it that the US has ISP's with either no quotas or obscenely high ones while countries like Australia have ISP's with ~12gb quotas? Is there some kind of added cost running a non US ISP? Depending upon the country you're in, that is a possibility.

[OT] Happy Birthday, Sputnik! (Thanks for the Internet)

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Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-04 Thread Tom Vest
On Oct 4, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Hex Star wrote: Why is it that the US has ISP's with either no quotas or obscenely high ones while countries like Australia have ISP's with ~12gb quotas? Is there some kind of added cost running a non US ISP?

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-04 Thread Joe Greco
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Hex Star wrote: Why is it that the US has ISP's with either no quotas or obscenely high ones while countries like Australia have ISP's with ~12gb quotas? Is there some kind of added cost running a non US ISP? Depending upon the country you're in, that is a

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-04 Thread Joe Abley
On 4-Oct-2007, at 1416, Joe Greco wrote: It'd be interesting to know what the average utilization of an unlimited US broadband customer was, compared to the average utilization of an unlimited AU broadband customer. It would be interesting, then, to look at where the quotas lie on the

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-04 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:50:11 +0100 Leigh Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, try buying bandwidth in Australia! The have a lot more water to cover ( and so potentially more cost and more profit to be made by monopolies) than well connected areas such as the US. I don't necessarily

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-04 Thread Joe Greco
On 4-Oct-2007, at 1416, Joe Greco wrote: It'd be interesting to know what the average utilization of an unlimited US broadband customer was, compared to the average utilization of an unlimited AU broadband customer. It would be interesting, then, to look at where the quotas lie

Re: Access to the IPv4 net for IPv6-only systems, was: Re: WG Action:

2007-10-04 Thread Mark Andrews
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: That isn't actually true. I could move to IPv6 and deploy a NAT-PT box to give my customers access to the v4 Internet regardless of whatever the rest of the community thinks. And then you'll see your active FTP sessions,

Re: [OT] Happy Birthday, Sputnik! (Thanks for the Internet)

2007-10-04 Thread Hex Star
Happy bday!

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-04 Thread Bill Stewart
On 10/4/07, Hex Star [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it that the US has ISP's with either no quotas or obscenely high ones while countries like Australia have ISP's with ~12gb quotas? Is there some kind of added cost running a non US ISP? One early US cable modem company started propagating

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-04 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007, Joe Abley wrote: It seems like the pertinent question here is: what is stopping DSL (or cable) providers in Australia and New Zealand from selling N x meg DSL service at low enough prices to avoid the need for a data cap? Is it the cost of crossing an ocean which