RE: cable modem firmware upgrade
That has been my experience as well (only from the RF side) and I would believe this was a design choice. The ISP usually wants to keep control over the firmware versions of the CM for various technical/support reasons versus having consumers mess with the firmware. Its a design choice but not one that always works out well. Customers that bring their own modems that aren't on a "certified" list, end up with a device that the provider may not have ever seen. Then, if you run into an issue with the modem that can be fixed with a firmware issue (some vendors have issues that they cannot fix - rhymes with netgear) then the MSO has to work with the maker of that modem, even though they may have never had any interactions with them, get the certificate and firmware for that modem and upgrade customer owned devices - possibly turning them into bricks. I'd rather allow customers to turn their own modems into bricks. sam
Re: looking for good AU dedicated server providers..
I've used shared hosting from Rimuhosting (www.rimuhosting.com) for years. They have dedicated servers in Brisbane. Looks like they are colo'ed with Oz Servers. sam
Re: DNS and nxdomain hijacking
Are any of you doing it? At one time we did. The money just wasn't worth the hassle. I kept a close eye on our reports and the dollar amounts just kept falling. And IIRC, Google would not team with you to do it, you had to redirect to Yahoo or Bing. sam
Re: iOS 7 update traffic
We are seeing Akamai traffic up about 100-300% since noon CDT. Seeing similar increased from our participants - colleges and universities mainly. Ours is not so much Akamai as Limelight. Spiked to about 7 times normal. sam
Re: need help about free bandwidth graph program
Do you know any opensource program bandwidthgraph by ipaddess? What are you trying to accomplish? sam
Re: Verizon DSL moving to CGN
MAP is all about stateless (NAT64 of Encapsulation) and IPv6 enabled access. MAP makes much more sense in any SP network having its internet customers do IPv4 address sharing and embrace IPv6. What may make 'much more sense' in one network, doesn't necessarily make as much since in another network. As I understand it, MAP requires at least a software change on existing CPE, if not wholesale CPE change. Some providers may prefer to implement CGN instead if the capital outlay is less (and providing new CPE to customers through walkins or truck rolls can be problematic). Our plan for my company at this time is to deploy native IPv4+IPv6 to all customers. While we are doing that, continue discussions and testing with CGN providers so that when we are unable to obtain anymore IPv4 addresses, we can then deploy CGN. Our hope is that we never get to the point of having to go CGN but we have to be ready in case that day comes and have our implementation and opt-out (if available) processes ready. What devices does Cisco support MAP on? Specifically, does the DPC3827 support it? sam
Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections
On Fri, 28 May 2010, Steven Bellovin wrote: The only people who can never strikes are public employees. I know we've left the realm of NANOG, but come again? Oakland teacher strike of 2010. various teacher strikes in the Chicago area over the years air traffic controllers in 1981 postal workers in 1978 1968 Memphis garbagemen 1974 Baltimore police strike 1969 Cicero, Illinois police strike 1919 Boston police strike 1980 Chicago firefighters strike sam
RE: Arrogant RBL list maintainers
Creating a standard on what to put in WHOIS/DNS for dynamic/static/infrastructure would make a lot of sense, seems nobody is doing it though. As previously noted in this thread, msulli...@sorbs did a fairly good job of documenting this in an RFC draft. I'd say its still the primary goto to point people at for how to do things the "right way". http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-msullivan-dnsop-generic-naming-schemes-00 sam
