Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-18 Thread Michael . Dillon
Restrict it to people you've met or spoken to enough to think you know them.. ^ That is the problem. Password access to a members-only looking glass can prevent temptation and grief. And nobody needs shell access per se because we are talking about people who have root on their own

Re: net-co-op (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-18 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:28:24 PST, Jay Hennigan said: Oh come on, what was .coop for if not this? :) People in the poultry business? :-) Actually, a somewhat reasonable conclusion for a non-native speaker of English, and a concern that *does* have to be addressed by many of the plethora of

Re: Long-term identifiers (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-17 Thread Dave Crocker
Sean, SD ... A long-term end-to-end SD identifier would let me immediately drop the specific infected computer's SD traffic regardless of its rotating IP addresses, even if your abuse What is to prevent rapid changes to the identifier, even more easily than rapidly changing IP addresses? In

[Fwd: Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?]

2004-03-17 Thread Janet Sullivan
Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: if the market for this is nanog and you're just looking for smtp/shell surely we can manage this between ourselves without charge (ask your nanog buddy for a shell as a favour).. I know I can and will do this Well, I do have motives beyond outbound smtp. I actually

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-17 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Janet Sullivan wrote: How would this vetting process work? I'm willing to give other nanog folks shell accounts on my machine in return for same, but I really don't want to hand out accounts to packet kiddies. Restrict it to people you've met or spoken to enough to

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-17 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
Hello Janet/List - First, allow me to introduce myself, my name is Jonathan M. Slivko and I work for InvisibleHand Networks, Inc. (http://www.invisiblehand.net). Currently, we offer colocation and bandwidth services in the New York/New Jersey market (Telehouse and Equinix to be precise). The

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-17 Thread Janet Sullivan
Mike Damm wrote: That being said, I've had the idea for a couple years now of getting enough geeky folks together to rent a rack on both coasts and populate it with a few different operating systems and bits of gear for just the reasons outlined in this thread. So if you decide to put something

net-co-op (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-17 Thread Janet Sullivan
Based on the response I've gotten off-list from people interested in sharing our resources know-how with each other, I've just registered net-co-op.org. In the next couple of days I'll set up a mailing list and a basic web page. Once the mailing list is set up, I'll post another message to

Re: net-co-op (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-17 Thread Daniel Medina
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:01:43PM -0700, Janet Sullivan wrote: Based on the response I've gotten off-list from people interested in sharing our resources know-how with each other, I've just registered net-co-op.org. ... Oh come on, what was .coop for if not this? :) -- Daniel Medina

Re: net-co-op (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-17 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Janet, Since your note earlier today there have been just under 200 fetches of the html. I've written to Byron Henderson and asked him to help me with the coop formation. He and I worked on the .coop sTLD proposal, and as I mention I discussed member-owned colo coop with Carolyn Hoover of the

Re: net-co-op (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-17 Thread Jay Hennigan
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Daniel Medina wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:01:43PM -0700, Janet Sullivan wrote: Based on the response I've gotten off-list from people interested in sharing our resources know-how with each other, I've just registered net-co-op.org. ... Oh come on, what was

Re: net-co-op (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-17 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
net-co-op.org. ... Oh come on, what was .coop for if not this? :) People in the poultry business? :-) chicken.coop was sought for by many, myself included. The Director, Co-op Business Development and Member Services, National Cooperative Business Association, and I are now playing

network or not? Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-16 Thread Scott Weeks
Weeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 1:32 PM : Subject: Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap : (personal) 1U colo?) : : : : : : On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote: : : : I expect, that good (tier-3, to say) network

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-16 Thread Michael . Dillon
Too bad I can't automate the web logins. Huh!? http://curl.haxx.se/ And then there are all those Windows macro recorder programs http://www.tucows.com/macros95_default.html --Michael Dillon

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-16 Thread John Kristoff
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 23:17:27 -0500 (EST) Andrew Dorsett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not referring to the time required to implement. I'm talking about the time it takes for the user. On the user end. Lets do some simple math. Lets say I turn on my laptop before I shower, I power it down

RE: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-16 Thread Curtis Maurand
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Andrew Dorsett wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Vivien M. wrote: Yes I am... I am referring to a system which an unmentionable university has in place. It requires the user to enter their username and password each time the link state changes before they are allowed

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-16 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Curtis Maurand wrote: Then anyone can walk up to the machine and get onto the network simply by turning on the machine. The system you're looking for involve biometrics or smartcards. Firewalls between student and administration areas would be a good idea as well. It must be dreadful to

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-16 Thread Scott McGrath
Painting with a broad brush the differentiation between student and administrative networks is based on location,role and ownership A public ethernet port in a library is a student network even though administrative computers may be connected from time to time. The librarian's machine is

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-16 Thread Eric Gauthier
In case I every get another job at a University, how do you separate student areas from administration areas? When we disable the network in a particular area, if a non-student calls then its a non-student area ;) Eric :)

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Petri Helenius
Ken Diliberto wrote: The smarter students put a NAT box on their port so they can run their desktop, laptop, XBox and have a place their friend can plug in. NAT is evil, not smart. If the addresses run out because of legitimate use, more addresses should be allocated. Pete

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Petri Helenius
Paul Vixie wrote: at scale, with things as they now are, i simply don't believe this. with a 1:1 ratio (daily customers to onduty clues), it is never going to be possible to contact every customer out of band (by phone, that is) when they need to be told how to de-virus their win/xp box.

Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Petri Helenius wrote: I see this as a two different processes. There are definetly some individuals who have no help whatsoever with their computers and need the abuse/helpdesk to walk them through the disinfecting process. Gartner estimates the total cost of ownership of

Long-term identifiers (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Andrew Dorsett wrote: In a dorm room situation or an apartment situation, you again know the physical port the DHCP request came in on. You then know which room that port is connected to and you therefore have a general idea of who the abuser is. So whats the big deal

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Rafi Sadowsky
## On 2004-03-14 11:58 - Simon Lockhart typed: SL SL If someone can point me to Virtual Solaris Machine, then I'd willingly offer SL that as a service (the colo I help run as a hobby is Sun only). AFAIK that will be in Solaris 10 - See N1 Grid Containers on

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Mon Mar 15, 2004 at 12:26:09PM +0200, Rafi Sadowsky wrote: AFAIK that will be in Solaris 10 - See N1 Grid Containers on http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/10/ You can get a non-supported preview for free (or pay 99$ for one year support) Well, it's Zones. I downloaded the latest

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
Sorry this thread is huge, I hope I'm not repeating comments.. if the market for this is nanog and you're just looking for smtp/shell surely we can manage this between ourselves without charge (ask your nanog buddy for a shell as a favour).. I know I can and will do this Steve On Sun, 14 Mar

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Michael . Dillon
$50/month at 40U rentable is $2000/rack/month if it's full. And then there's the newer high-density rackmount units like this one http://www.rlx.com/products/serverblades/dense.php This product puts up to 24 server blades in a 3U chassis which basically means you can put 8 times as many servers

RE: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Michael . Dillon
For most people it'd probably make much more sense to find a provider that offers some form of SMTP relay service. It'd probably be cheaper/month, and they wouldn't have the trouble and expense of providing/maintaining a colo server. Yep, if you aren't technically inclined that is better.

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Certianly the point central to your arguement is that with the right abuse-desk to customer ratio AND the right customer base, things could be kept clean for smtp/web/ftp/blah 'hosting'. I'll take the right customer base for $50 please Alex. This

Re: Long-term identifiers (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Petri Helenius
Sean Donelan wrote: If I send an abuse complaint to an organization's mailbox on a Friday night, will it be dealt with in the next 10 seconds? Or sometime next week? If the computer reboots every 60 seconds, and gets different IP addresses every time, a single infected computer can appear with

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Michael . Dillon
I expect every NANOG conference from now on will be filled with announcements asking people to please fix their computers because worms are killing the network. NANOG has less than 500 attendees, yet has about the same number as infected computers as any other ad-hoc network population. Maybe

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe NANOG needs to implement a system where you have to log in to a web page with your NANOG meeting passcode in order to get a usable IP address. Then, when an infected computer shows up we will know exactly whose it was. Might even be interesting for a

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
a suitably snarky don't hire these top network engineers to maintain your fleet of windows boxes message) could be displayed on the Is this an opt-in list? I'd like to opt-in. Now. Nu. Proto. A lifetime ago.

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Pete Templin
Robert E. Seastrom wrote: Seconded. This is dirt simple to do. If we believe in public humiliation, a list of infected machines and their owners (along with a suitably snarky don't hire these top network engineers to maintain your fleet of windows boxes message) could be displayed on the

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread John Kristoff
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 01:29:29 -0500 (EST) Andrew Dorsett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a topic I get very soap-boxish about. I have too many problems with providers who don't understand the college student market. I can There are certain environments where it would be nice for people to

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Ken Diliberto wrote: Something else I just remembered: Connecting so much equipment in our dorms creates a fire hazard. The are only two or three outlets (what I've been told) in a room shared by two or three students. Add to the computer equipment a TV, stereo, DVD player, alarm clocks,

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Pete Templin wrote: Employee to PHB: You hired me to provide core network engineering and lead the level 2 network ops staff. Tell me again why you want me to provide any server engineering, if you knew my strengths when you hired me? There's a reason I've gotten out of small ISP consulting

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. [3/15/2004 7:39 PM] : If you were willing to live in a place where an electrical overload caused a fire (as opposed to tripping a circuit-breaker or blowing a fuse), you have not correctly identified your worst problem, or the the University's. That's always there, but

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. [3/15/2004 7:39 PM] : If you were willing to live in a place where an electrical overload caused a fire (as opposed to tripping a circuit-breaker or blowing a fuse), you have not correctly identified your worst problem, or the the

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Pete Templin
Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Pete Templin wrote: There's a reason I've gotten out of small ISP consulting - I don't do Windows, and I'm getting overrun by Linux corrosion slowly. I route, I switch, I help with securing networks. And I do wear a lot of hats at my day job, but I remind them

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Pete Templin wrote: Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Pete Templin wrote: There's a reason I've gotten out of small ISP consulting - I don't do Windows, and I'm getting overrun by Linux corrosion slowly. I route, I switch, I help with securing networks. And I do wear a lot of hats at my day

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Dr. Jeffrey Race
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 04:57:03 -0500 (EST), Sean Donelan wrote: NANOG has less than 500 attendees, yet has about the same number as infected computers as any other ad-hoc network population. If true this is a very significant fact

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Janet Sullivan
Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: if the market for this is nanog and you're just looking for smtp/shell surely we can manage this between ourselves without charge (ask your nanog buddy for a shell as a favour).. I know I can and will do this Well, I do have motives beyond outbound smtp. I actually looked

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread John Kristoff
On 15 Mar 2004 08:01:15 -0500 Robert E. Seastrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe NANOG needs to implement a system where you have to log in to a web page with your NANOG meeting passcode in order to get a usable IP address. Then, when an infected computer shows [...] Seconded. This is

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Ben Crosby
John, There are the beginnings of some wireless devices that are capable of directing wireless clients to cease transmission with L2 link control messages. These are just beginning to emerge, and unfortunately I'm certain that with only a matter of time people will write drivers that ignore such

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Pete Templin
Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Pete Templin wrote: I didn't suggest saying I'm not gonna do it. I just suggested You hired me to deploy dynamic routing on your statically-routed network. What prompted you to think that I could configure site-wide anti-virus services such that no one ever

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Alexei Roudnev
, it is not a good answer. - Original Message - From: Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 7:16 AM Subject: Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?) Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Pete Templin wrote

.edueyeball LART RE: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Scott Weeks
: This is a topic I get very soap-boxish about. I have too : many problems with providers who don't understand the college : student market. I can think of one university who requires : students to login through a web portal before giving them a : routable address. This is such a waste

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Scott Weeks
. scott : : - Original Message - : From: Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 7:16 AM : Subject: Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap : (personal) 1U colo?) : : : : Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: : : Pete

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Randy Bush
No true in many cases. All I have to prove is it's not the network and then I hand it off to the windows/*nix/whatever sysadmins. To prove it's not the network, I don't need to know the end systems in any sort of detail. to pass the buck, one needs to know nothing. what makes a great noc

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Kelly Setzer
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:21:54PM -1000, Randy Bush wrote: No true in many cases. All I have to prove is it's not the network and then I hand it off to the windows/*nix/whatever sysadmins. To prove it's not the network, I don't need to know the end systems in any sort of detail.

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Scott Weeks
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Randy Bush wrote: : No true in many cases. All I have to prove is it's not the network and : then I hand it off to the windows/*nix/whatever sysadmins. To prove : it's not the network, I don't need to know the end systems in any sort of : detail. : : to pass the buck,

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread jlewis
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe NANOG needs to implement a system where you have to log in to a web page with your NANOG meeting passcode in order to get a usable IP address. Then, when an infected computer shows up we will know exactly whose it was. Might even be

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
I find it ironic that one of the presentations at the last nanog was about a system kind of like that: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0402/gauthier.html and that we had some luser on the nanog30 wireless network infected by SQL slammer. Well it wouldnt be nanog without a few infections, password

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Alexei Roudnev
: Scott Weeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 1:32 PM Subject: Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?) On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote: : I expect, that good (tier-3, to say) network engineer MUST know

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Is it bad, If they (your sysadmins) understand your backbone infrastructure and understand such things, as MTU MTU discovery, knows about ACL filters (without extra details) and existing limitations? They are not required to know about VPN mode or T3 card configuration, but they must understand

Re: .edueyeball LART RE: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:27:42 -1000, Scott Weeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Also, most .edueyeball networks have (and have always had) a VERY low budget for networking stuff. As a result, generally, there is little to no plant map documentation, so it isn't the case of looking up the physical

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote: Certianly the point central to your arguement is that with the right abuse-desk to customer ratio AND the right customer base, things could be kept clean for smtp/web/ftp/blah 'hosting'. I'll take the right customer

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Paul Vixie
Rick Adams and Mike O'Dell had an idea in 1987. How is this any different? actually rick had the idea by himself in 1987. mike came a bit later. Their idea, if I got it right, was 'ip everywhere'. in that most other companies still thought ISO/OSI was going to be the commercial protocol

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And then there's the newer high-density rackmount units like http://www.rlx.com/products/serverblades/dense.php. This product puts up to 24 server blades in a 3U chassis which basically means you can put 8 times as many servers in a rack. sadly, the blade vendors

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Andrew Dorsett
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, John Kristoff wrote: There are certain environments where it would be nice for people to have spent some time. Working at a university would be one good experience for many people, particularly in this field, to have had. I fully agree...This is the one environment

RE: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Vivien M.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Dorsett Sent: March 15, 2004 11:17 PM To: John Kristoff Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo? I'm not referring to the time required to implement. I'm

RE: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Andrew Dorsett
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Vivien M. wrote: You must be talking about a different Netreg system that the one everyone else has used. The one we're talking about involves you logging in when you connect with an unknown MAC - once you've used the system to match your MAC to your student

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Avleen Vig
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 12:10:01AM -0800, George William Herbert wrote: I do not know that there are several racks full of people like me, even in the SF Bay area, but I would be willing to bet that the answer is yes. What would be nice is someone who charges you for bandwidth, not for data

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Bohdan Tashchuk
$50/month at 40U rentable is $2000/rack/month if it's full. after paying for 60A of power and 50Mbits/sec of transit and whatever the rack rents for, the provider's gross margin will be between 25% and 50%, out of which they have to pay salaries. as a standalone business this makes no sense,

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Sun Mar 14, 2004 at 02:42:20AM -0800, Bohdan Tashchuk wrote: Is some hosting company already doing this? http://www.bytemark-hosting.co.uk/ Simon -- Simon Lockhart | Tel: +44 (0)1628 407720 (x(01)37720) | Si fractum Technology Manager | Fax: +44 (0)1628 407701 (x(01)37701) | non

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Petri Helenius
Simon Lockhart wrote: On Sun Mar 14, 2004 at 02:42:20AM -0800, Bohdan Tashchuk wrote: Is some hosting company already doing this? http://www.bytemark-hosting.co.uk/ Simon Any which would offer operating systems where the source is not full of four letter words and license being

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Sun Mar 14, 2004 at 01:48:44PM +0200, Petri Helenius wrote: Any which would offer operating systems where the source is not full of four letter words and license being questionable with some bowing to the legal action already? Or is it just fashionable to restrict an operation to Linux?

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 06:31, Simon Lockhart wrote: On Sun Mar 14, 2004 at 02:42:20AM -0800, Bohdan Tashchuk wrote: Is some hosting company already doing this? http://www.bytemark-hosting.co.uk/ Here to: http://www.interland.com/shared/, and for less than $50 per month. I have had

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Drew Linsalata
Why shouldn't an individual be able to operated a server on their DSL or cable modem connection? Because DSL and cable moden networks have evolved into lowest-cost, widest-reach service networks designed to allow anyone with $30 access to a relatively fat pipe. As a result those networks

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Todd Vierling
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Simon Lockhart wrote: : If someone can point me to Virtual Solaris Machine, then I'd willingly offer : that as a service (the colo I help run as a hobby is Sun only). : : The reason people are doing it on Linux is that it's available. (And, in the : case of LVM, free) mmm,

RE: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread netadm
http://www.serverpronto.com -Original Message- From: Todd Vierling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 8:56 AM To: Simon Lockhart Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo? On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Simon Lockhart wrote: : If someone can

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Jeff McAdams
Paul Vixie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Donelan) writes: If the block list operators think it is a dialup range, they pre-emptively block all the addresses in the range. that's because at $30/month there's no budget for a dialup provider to call their worm-infested customers one at a time

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Bob Snyder
netadm wrote: http://www.serverpronto.com Given the thread was started for people who want to get a server for mail clear of blocklists, why would I want to use a provider on a number of blocklists per http://www.openrbl.org/, including a SBL/ROKSO listing? Bob

RE: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread netadm
I don't think you find ANY significant provider that does not have network blocks listed in block lists. -Original Message- From: Bob Snyder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 11:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo

RE: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Vivien M.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Dorsett Sent: March 14, 2004 1:29 AM To: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes Subject: Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo? This is a topic I get very soap-boxish about. I have

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Paul Vixie
(Three replies here.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bohdan Tashchuk) writes: ... Question: Why can't a provider sell virtual PC colocation, instead of physical PC colocation? Some do. However, without a server that can be impounded and then sold on E-Bay, there's no reason to think that

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Jeff McAdams
Paul Vixie wrote: it would be marketing suicide to offer a different dsl-dhcp ip address to people willing to pay enough to budget for an abuse desk. You're wrong here. It can be done, and it can be done profitably. Looks like you didn't read what you quoted. I know it can be done profitably

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Will Hargrave
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 01:29:29AM -0500, Andrew Dorsett wrote: This is a topic I get very soap-boxish about. I have too many problems with providers who don't understand the college student market. I can think of one university who requires students to login through a web portal before

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Thus spake Steven M. Bellovin [EMAIL PROTECTED] filter, and the upstream repeaters are fed by a low-pass filter. If too many people are fielding home servers, it affects everyone. So DOCSIS has a technical limitation which may or may not apply.

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Paul Vixie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Donelan) writes: If the block list operators think it is a dialup range, they pre-emptively block all the addresses in the range. providers who refuse to enter the race to the bottom can get their dialup blocks delisted

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Petri Helenius
Christopher L. Morrow wrote: how are 'servers' (smtp/web/ftp/imap) different than the existing P2P apps? Wouldn't a cable provider, if the decision was based on upstream bandwidth sharing alone, care MORE about P2P than 'servers' ? But the decision is a business decision, because you can make

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Janet Sullivan
Paul Vixie wrote: every time i tell somebody that they shouldn't bother trying to send e-mail from their dsl or cablemodem ip address due to the unlikelihood of a well staffed and well trained and empowered abuse desk defending the reputation of that address space, i also say buy a 1U and put it

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Brian Bruns
On Sunday, March 14, 2004 4:58 PM [EST], Janet Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My cable modem provider filters port 25, so I can't run my own SMTP server. Their mail servers suck. Yes, I could pay for a business class cable modem connection and they'd unblock the port... but I'd likely

RE: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Vivien M.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Bruns Sent: March 14, 2004 5:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo? Hm, are there companies out there that offer outbound SMTP services (for people

RE: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Brian Bruns
On Sun, March 14, 2004 5:45 pm, Vivien M. said: Have you been looking at providers in the right industry? Such services are usually offered as addons by people who sell DNS services (especially dynamic DNS) and other such things designed to make it easier for people to run their own

RE: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Tim Wilde
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Brian Bruns wrote: I have actually. I see an awful lot of services for incoming SMTP filtering of spam/viruses, or just to hold the mail while you are offline, but haven't seen outgoing SMTP services - which is why I asked :-) As I posted earlier in this thread,

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread jlewis
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Bohdan Tashchuk wrote: Question: Why can't a provider sell virtual PC colocation, instead of physical PC colocation? Several do. We nearly bought a failing one that was doing alot of this with a commercial Linux virtualization product. So instead of 40 physical

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread jlewis
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: There are several blacklists that clearly want more from the ISP than an explanation that the offendors are being/were removed... one good example is 'spews'. What do you think spews wants? My experience with them has been that that's pretty

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: There are several blacklists that clearly want more from the ISP than an explanation that the offendors are being/were removed... one good example is 'spews'. What do you think spews wants?

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: What do you think spews wants? My experience with them has been that that's pretty much the only thing that will satisfy them. I have had That's funny since we've cleaned up several over the years, yet they are still listed... and in

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Stephen Sprunk wrote: So DOCSIS has a technical limitation which may or may not apply. This is reasonable justification for limiting upstream bandwidth, not for specifying that users can't run servers. If users can

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Vivien M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually, you're forgetting what I think is the biggest reason for doing this: before the user registers via the web-based DHCP thing, they are shown the AUP and have to say they agree to it. If you just leave straight IP connections available in rooms,

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Students have an existing legal relationship with the school; they can be required to accept the AUP in writing at some point during the enrollment process. They may have legal relationship with the school but internet service can be considered to

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Stephen Sprunk wrote: Thus spake Vivien M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually, you're forgetting what I think is the biggest reason for doing this: before the user registers via the web-based DHCP thing, they are shown the AUP and have to say they agree to it. If you just leave straight IP connections

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Sunday, March 14, 2004 19:14 -0600 Stephen Sprunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Students have an existing legal relationship with the school; they can be required to accept the AUP in writing at some point during the enrollment process. Experiment ... go to a college dorm that's wired, plug

RE: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Todd Vierling
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Tim Wilde wrote: : I have actually. I see an awful lot of services for incoming SMTP : filtering of spam/viruses, or just to hold the mail while you are offline, : but haven't seen outgoing SMTP services - which is why I asked :-) : : As I posted earlier in this thread,

RE: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Andrew Dorsett
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Vivien M. wrote: credibly argue But I never read this AUP. The web-based DHCP registration system prevents that. Ok, I'll give that one to you. :) Got me there hehehe Though now we are making the AUP a part of the freshman orientation session so there are no excuses.

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Andrew Dorsett [3/15/2004 8:26 AM] : That's protected by port security. Just limit them to one mac address per port. So only the last machine transmitting will get the reply. Works quite well, shut me down for a few days a few years ago when it was first turned on. Most common or garden

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread David A. Ulevitch
quote who=Michael Loftis Experiment ... go to a college dorm that's wired, plug your laptop or PC in, start using the net. Nine times out of ten you wont' be challenged and you'll be allowed to use the network. Has it been a while since you've been on a resnet? They're bad, but most all

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