local ntp servers?

2009-10-26 Thread Dan Bar Dov
Are there any local ntp servers in Israel?
Do any of the ISPs in Israel provide ntp service?

Thanks,
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Re: local ntp servers?

2009-10-26 Thread Arie Skliarouk
2009/10/26 Dan Bar Dov bar...@gmail.com

 Are there any local ntp servers in Israel?


ntp.iix.net.il

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Re: local ntp servers?

2009-10-26 Thread shimi
2009/10/26 Dan Bar Dov bar...@gmail.com:
 Are there any local ntp servers in Israel?
 Do any of the ISPs in Israel provide ntp service?


There are ntp.012.net.il and ntp.netvision.net.il - I don't know if
they're accessible outside the ISP's IP network blocks, though.
There's an 'time.bezeqint.net' host as well, but it seems to point to
their NS and is not responsive [to NTP queries, at least] from at
least one Bezeqint IP I tried from.

There's also ntp.ilan.net.il ...

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Re: local ntp servers?

2009-10-26 Thread Shay Ohayon
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:26 AM, shimi linux...@shimi.net wrote:
 2009/10/26 Dan Bar Dov bar...@gmail.com:
 Are there any local ntp servers in Israel?
 Do any of the ISPs in Israel provide ntp service?


 There are ntp.012.net.il and ntp.netvision.net.il - I don't know if
 they're accessible outside the ISP's IP network blocks, though.
 There's an 'time.bezeqint.net' host as well, but it seems to point to
 their NS and is not responsive [to NTP queries, at least] from at
 least one Bezeqint IP I tried from.

 There's also ntp.ilan.net.il ...

 -- Shimi

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Re: local ntp servers?

2009-10-26 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On Oct 26, 2009, at 11:26 AM, shimi wrote:


2009/10/26 Dan Bar Dov bar...@gmail.com:

Are there any local ntp servers in Israel?
Do any of the ISPs in Israel provide ntp service?



There are ntp.012.net.il and ntp.netvision.net.il - I don't know if
they're accessible outside the ISP's IP network blocks, though.
There's an 'time.bezeqint.net' host as well, but it seems to point to
their NS and is not responsive [to NTP queries, at least] from at
least one Bezeqint IP I tried from.



ntp.012.net.il is only accessable from withinh their network.

ntp.netvision.net.il is currently down.

Geoff.


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ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread Justin
 I've been with Interal until now.  But they are merging with Bezeq Ben
Liumi.  I hate BBL, and more than that their quality sucks.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a Linux friendly ISP, that doesn't
block ports and can provide reasonable, low latency connections?


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Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Not enough info..

Low latency connection to where? BBL maybe sucks in service, but they have
the biggest pipe in IIX for example (10 Gb)  (I'm not trying to recommend
them, I'm not their customer)..

Some do not block ports, but do use QoS to shove the priority of P2P
(torrent, emule) way down...

Hetz

2009/10/26 Justin thelonecabb...@gmail.com

  I've been with Interal until now.  But they are merging with Bezeq Ben
 Liumi.  I hate BBL, and more than that their quality sucks.

 Does anyone have a recommendation for a Linux friendly ISP, that doesn't
 block ports and can provide reasonable, low latency connections?


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Re: local ntp servers?

2009-10-26 Thread Shlomo Dubrowin
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:14:06AM +0200, Dan Bar Dov wrote:
 Are there any local ntp servers in Israel?
 Do any of the ISPs in Israel provide ntp service?
 
 Thanks,
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Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread Justin
fine.

   - low latency in general
   - reasonably good VOIP performance
   - at least 2.5MB asymmetric
   - no QoS traffic shaping
   - absolutely no port blocking




On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote:

 Not enough info..

 Low latency connection to where? BBL maybe sucks in service, but they have
 the biggest pipe in IIX for example (10 Gb)  (I'm not trying to recommend
 them, I'm not their customer)..

 Some do not block ports, but do use QoS to shove the priority of P2P
 (torrent, emule) way down...

 Hetz

 2009/10/26 Justin thelonecabb...@gmail.com

  I've been with Interal until now.  But they are merging with Bezeq Ben
 Liumi.  I hate BBL, and more than that their quality sucks.

 Does anyone have a recommendation for a Linux friendly ISP, that doesn't
 block ports and can provide reasonable, low latency connections?


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Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I hardly believe you'll find **ANY** ISP here in Israel which doesn't do
traffic shaping due to 2 simple reasons:

1. Bandwidth From/To Israel costs a fortune (thanks goes to Med-1), add it
with ..
2. Israel is considered a big big big piracy heaven, which means whatever
bandwidth ISP throws to the users, they'll consume *ALL* of it, so they all
use traffic shaping tricks.

I think many ISP's do block some ports like 25 (SMTP) to prevent users from
running spam bots from the end-user machine's.

Hetz

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Justin thelonecabb...@gmail.com wrote:

 fine.

- low latency in general
- reasonably good VOIP performance
- at least 2.5MB asymmetric
- no QoS traffic shaping
- absolutely no port blocking




 On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo het...@gmail.com wrote:

 Not enough info..

 Low latency connection to where? BBL maybe sucks in service, but they have
 the biggest pipe in IIX for example (10 Gb)  (I'm not trying to recommend
 them, I'm not their customer)..

 Some do not block ports, but do use QoS to shove the priority of P2P
 (torrent, emule) way down...

 Hetz

 2009/10/26 Justin thelonecabb...@gmail.com

  I've been with Interal until now.  But they are merging with Bezeq Ben
 Liumi.  I hate BBL, and more than that their quality sucks.

 Does anyone have a recommendation for a Linux friendly ISP, that doesn't
 block ports and can provide reasonable, low latency connections?


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Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On Oct 26, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Justin wrote:

 I've been with Interal until now.  But they are merging with Bezeq  
Ben Liumi.  I hate BBL, and more than that their quality sucks.


Does anyone have a recommendation for a Linux friendly ISP, that  
doesn't block ports and can provide reasonable, low latency  
connections?



Netvision fits that. 012 does not.

BTW, with a router, all ISP's are Linux friendly.

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Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On Oct 26, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

I hardly believe you'll find **ANY** ISP here in Israel which  
doesn't do traffic shaping due to 2 simple reasons:


1. Bandwidth From/To Israel costs a fortune (thanks goes to Med-1),  
add it with ..
2. Israel is considered a big big big piracy heaven, which means  
whatever bandwidth ISP throws to the users, they'll consume *ALL* of  
it, so they all use traffic shaping tricks.


Actually I want traffic shaping. I want my VoIP to work. I want my  
email. I'd like YouTube to work too, but 012 has not quite caught on  
to that.
Everything else can wait, as long as it goes through such as  
BitTorrent, http downloads of big files, etc, something else 012 has  
not quite figured out.



I think many ISP's do block some ports like 25 (SMTP) to prevent  
users from running spam bots from the end-user machine's.




Last spring I had a problem with Netvision randomly blocking every  
email port (smtp, pop and secure versions of them) to servers outside  
their network except for gmail and a few other well known hosts.


I compenstated two ways. The first was to move all of my mailing list  
emails to gmail, lowering the traffic on my personal account.


As an aside, it allowed me to replace mutt with Apple's mail.app,  
which has rules to get rid of emails from people I don't want them  
from, preserving my sanity. :-)


The second was to connect to my personal email provider with ssh and  
then tunnel to his mail servers.


The third was to call and complain.

When they called me back and told me that they did not block any email  
ports, I left the ssh tunnel in place, and although it is over  
complicated and annoying, it has worked 99% of the time. The first few  
times I tried to go back to regular email it did not work, but that  
may have been fixed by now.


Note that I have two internet connections here netvision and 012. I'm  
currently using 012 for the ssh tunnel (it's one of the few things  
that works well with them), but occasionaly I've had to go back to  
netvision. I got the second connection to have redundancy, one is a  
cable modem with netvision and the other is an aDSL line with 012.


One of the problems with the ssh tunnel is that the system at the  
other end uses TCP wrappers and won't allow connections from systems  
with completely broken reverse DNS servers. Ocasionally both 012 and  
netvision has had them, but moving to the other ISP fixed it. I assume  
that rebooting the router to get a fresh IP in another netblock would  
have also done it.


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Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread Imri Zvik
On Monday 26 October 2009 14:01:52 geoffrey mendelson wrote:
 Actually I want traffic shaping. I want my VoIP to work. I want my  
 email. I'd like YouTube to work too, but 012 has not quite caught on  
 to that.

Could you please elaborate? I'm not aware of any issues with YouTube, and I 
would gladly make sure that such issues would be inspected in-depth.

 Everything else can wait, as long as it goes through such as  
 BitTorrent, http downloads of big files, etc, something else 012 has  
 not quite figured out.

Same here.




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Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On Oct 26, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Imri Zvik wrote:


On Monday 26 October 2009 14:01:52 geoffrey mendelson wrote:

Actually I want traffic shaping. I want my VoIP to work. I want my
email. I'd like YouTube to work too, but 012 has not quite caught on
to that.


Could you please elaborate? I'm not aware of any issues with  
YouTube, and I

would gladly make sure that such issues would be inspected in-depth.


Except for early morning, I can no longer watch YouTube videos. They  
run for a few seconds, stop for a while and continue, then they stop  
for a while and continue. If I switch to Netvision, they play smoothly.


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Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread Boaz Rymland
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:45:25 +0200, geoffrey mendelson
geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Oct 26, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Justin wrote:
 
  I've been with Interal until now.  But they are merging with Bezeq  
 Ben Liumi.  I hate BBL, and more than that their quality sucks.

 Does anyone have a recommendation for a Linux friendly ISP, that  
 doesn't block ports and can provide reasonable, low latency  
 connections?
 
 
 Netvision fits that. 012 does not.
 
 BTW, with a router, all ISP's are Linux friendly.

True regarding connection (and security is better with router, AFAIK), but
not so regarding port 25 outbound comm. Some ISPs block it, as mentioned
earlier in this thread. But, I think that a simple phone call to the ISP's
tech service should resolve that (it resolved it for me, in the past, and
as far as I can tell this is a standard procedure that is probably
available with all ISPs).

Boaz.

 
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Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread geoffrey mendelson


On Oct 26, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Boaz Rymland wrote:




True regarding connection (and security is better with router,  
AFAIK), but
not so regarding port 25 outbound comm. Some ISPs block it, as  
mentioned
earlier in this thread. But, I think that a simple phone call to the  
ISP's
tech service should resolve that (it resolved it for me, in the  
past, and

as far as I can tell this is a standard procedure that is probably
available with all ISPs).




Outbound port 25 is a problem with all ISPs. 587 may be a better  
choice, but it requires some work on your part.


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Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread Imri Zvik
On Monday 26 October 2009 14:24:11 geoffrey mendelson wrote:
 Except for early morning, I can no longer watch YouTube videos. They  
 run for a few seconds, stop for a while and continue, then they stop  
 for a while and continue. If I switch to Netvision, they play smoothly.

Wierd... 

Could you please provide a sniff (PCAP format) of the problem (off-list, of 
course)? It would be very helpful.



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Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef

Imri Zvik wrote:


On Monday 26 October 2009 14:24:11 geoffrey mendelson wrote:
  
Except for early morning, I can no longer watch YouTube videos. They  
run for a few seconds, stop for a while and continue, then they stop  
for a while and continue. If I switch to Netvision, they play smoothly.



Wierd... 

Could you please provide a sniff (PCAP format) of the problem (off-list, of 
course)? It would be very helpful.



  
Just an educated  guess, but I believe Netvision might have an Akamai 
node hosted there while 012 may  not. Since Youtube uses Akamai as a 
CDN, the connection via Netvision only foes through the local loop, 
while in other ISPs it does the long haul.


Again, just guessing, but easy to find out - go to an you tube video on 
Netvision and 012, get the URL and resolve it through the respective 
companies connections (so that GeoIP will give you the right Akamai 
node) and trace route to that node from each ISP.


The netvision trip should be very short to their data center while the 
012 is probably long haul aboard or goes through the IIX (less likely).


Again, just guessing.
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Re: ISP Suggestion

2009-10-26 Thread shimi
2009/10/26 Gilad Ben-Yossef gi...@codefidence.com:

 Just an educated  guess, but I believe Netvision might have an Akamai node
 hosted there while 012 may  not. Since Youtube uses Akamai as a CDN, the
 connection via Netvision only foes through the local loop, while in other
 ISPs it does the long haul.

 Again, just guessing, but easy to find out - go to an you tube video on
 Netvision and 012, get the URL and resolve it through the respective
 companies connections (so that GeoIP will give you the right Akamai node)
 and trace route to that node from each ISP.

 The netvision trip should be very short to their data center while the 012
 is probably long haul aboard or goes through the IIX (less likely).

 Again, just guessing.
 Gilad


Actually as an 012 customer (and some other ISPs as well...) - I can
+1 on the problem watching streams from YouTube via 012. And I'm
connected over a fiber as a business user. I noted that when it
happened - it didn't happen on every stream - rather than on certain
ones. I noticed the 012 IP ranges when it worked real good (so I guess
they have CDN servers) and unfamiliar IPs when it doesn't. Sometimes
it gets completely stuck, sometimes it's just real slow but letting it
buffer-up does the trick. It happened more on less-popular movies
(i.e. Israel originated with not many views. Maybe YouTube pass only
popular stuff to their CDN? I don't know...)

012 support was not-helpful when I approached them regarding the subject.

I can note, however, that lately I didn't encounter the phenomena at
all. On the other hand, lately my traceroutes look different (012
switched to a different backbone in Europe?), which might explain why
it got better...

It might also have been MTU/Window Scaling issues [I use Linux with
default paramters...] - which could explain the initial burst and then
the connection getting stuck...

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Re: OT: Going rate for LAMP jobs

2009-10-26 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham

Hi Geoff,

There is no going rate.

The rate that you get depends on how much money the client has to spend 
on the project, the client's own estimate of what the project should 
cost (which might be severely disconnected from fantasy, to say nothing of 
reality) the client's perception of the value of your work and your 
ability to communicate with the client. You need to be able to guess what 
the client thinks and then set the rate accordingly. If that rate turns 
out to be too low for you then you need to move on to the next client.


 - yba


On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Geoff Shang wrote:


Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:15:48 +0200 (IST)
From: Geoff Shang ge...@quitelikely.com
To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
Subject: OT: Going rate for LAMP jobs

Hi,

I've been offered work on a (presumably) one-off project, writing some PHP 
code to collect data from devices out in the field and store it in a MySQL 
database, to provide information/updates (as yet not fully specified) back to 
these devices, and web pages to allow users to track the information sent in 
by the devices.


Sounds reasonably straight-forward enough, though I've not yet asked for the 
specifics.


My question is, what is the going rate for work like this?  The person asking 
is in the US but obviously they're happy to go off-shore for this so it's not 
just the US I need to worry about.  I'm of course prepared to be flexible but 
I don't want to under-sell myself if I decide to take it, and there are other 
reasons why I may not.


Thanks,
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