Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...

2015-06-08 Thread Jeroen van Aart
On 06/08/2015 06:22 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: --- valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Mon, 08 Jun 2015 17:10:25 -0700, Jeroen van Aart said: You sort of nailed it though. I think ready knowledge about the internals of utilities such as traceroute or ping is nice to have, however if you don't know

Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...

2015-06-08 Thread Jeroen van Aart
On 06/05/2015 06:38 PM, Mike Hale wrote: We need a pool on what percentage of readers just googled traceroute. You sort of nailed it though. I think ready knowledge about the internals of utilities such as traceroute or ping is nice to have, however if you don't know it it is not something

Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

2014-12-10 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Why am I not surprised? Whose fault would it be if your comcast installed public wifi would be abused to download illegal material or launch a botnet, to name some random fun one could have on your behalf. :-/ (apologies if this was posted already, couldn't find an email about it on the

Re: bored with bash, read this one

2014-09-25 Thread Jeroen van Aart
On 09/24/2014 07:53 PM, Randy Bush wrote: Get Your Hands Off My Laptop: Physical Side-Channel Key-Extraction Attacks On PCs http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/626 http://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/handsoff/ gets your gpg private key damned quickly Only 4 pages into reading the pdf, but it's an excellent

Re: Urgent

2014-08-18 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Scott Weeks wrote: -Original Message- Contact for God, please reach out to me offlist. Regards, -AS666 NOC -- ASN 666 is the US army. I was curious a long time ago and looked it up... ;-) scott OP is a troll, best to ignore and block:

Re: Urgent

2014-08-18 Thread Jeroen van Aart
On 08/18/2014 12:57 PM, Michael Hallgren wrote: Le 18/08/2014 20:38, Jeroen van Aart a écrit : OP is a troll, Sure? :-) I drew that conclusion considering normally the emails coming from that address have a different origin (thus coming from a different person), i.e. coming from psg.com

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Jeroen van Aart
On 09/19/2013 12:06 PM, Ryan Harden wrote: As a side note, how are some of you not aware of this? This has happened with every single Apple OS update since the iPhone was released in 2007. The difference is there are now a couple more million devices out there than there were in 2007. And in

Re: Data Center Installations

2013-05-08 Thread Jeroen van Aart
On 05/01/2013 10:05 PM, shawn wilson wrote: I'm more impressed with MicroCenter than Frys (at least the Frys south if SF). Too bad the Micro Center in Santa Clara along hwy 101 closed shop a year or so ago. According to them the owner of the building raised the lease price too much. The

Re: What Should an Engineer Address when 'Selling' IPv6 to Executives?

2013-03-06 Thread Jeroen van Aart
On 03/05/2013 05:41 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: I think it's also important to cover the following topics somewhere in the process: 1. This will affect the entire organization, not just the IT department and will definitely impact all of apps, sysadmin, devops, operations, and

Re: 10 Mbit/s problem in your network

2013-02-26 Thread Jeroen van Aart
On 02/09/2013 07:55 PM, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: When you are staying at a 3* hotel, should you have no expectations that you'll be getting at least a 3Mbps pipe and at least an under 100ms average latency, and won't be getting a balancer that would be breaking up your ssh sessions?

Re: Fwd: Mark Crispin - MRC - Inventor of IMAP and a friend for decades, has died at 56

2013-01-18 Thread Jeroen van Aart
On 01/08/2013 08:36 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: - Forwarded message from Lauren Weinsteinlau...@vortex.com - Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 10:35:59 -0800 From: Lauren Weinsteinlau...@vortex.com To: nnsq...@nnsquad.org Subject: [ NNSquad ] Mark Crispin - MRC - Inventor of IMAP and a friend for

LA locally owned ISP

2013-01-08 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Not exactly a nanog subject but I would like to know if there is a (ideally) locally owned ISP in LA that's knowledgeable, for DSL service. Something like cruzio in Santa Cruz. Trying to avoid the big ones such as ATT and comcast. Thanks, Jeroen -- Earthquake Magnitude: 4.0 Date: Tuesday,

Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed?

2012-12-20 Thread Jeroen van Aart
On 12/20/2012 10:41 AM, Wayne E Bouchard wrote: How many people here have gotten good enough that they can cut a cable and pop connectors on each end in under 3 minutes? How many have gotten good enough that the failure rate for *hand made* cables is sub 1:1000? Show me another connector type

Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed?

2012-12-20 Thread Jeroen van Aart
On 12/20/2012 01:13 PM, George Herbert wrote: For some users, even more positive than RJ45 is warranted. I at times work in and have a number of friends working in various aerospace and rocketry areas, and RJ45's have been widely known to come loose under acceleration. I found that a spliced

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-12-17 Thread Jeroen van Aart
On 11/30/2012 02:02 PM, Naslund, Steve wrote: OK, there must be a lot more paranoid people out there than I thought for awhile? I am sure he will let you out to go to the bank, get your stuff, and leave town. I think you have seen way to many movies. So if the cops show up at his door

Re: juniper vpn

2012-11-28 Thread Jeroen van Aart
On 11/27/2012 07:14 PM, Cody Rose wrote: I have had great success with the Shrew Soft vpn client and if you are using Fedora it is only a 'yum install ike' away and works without root and properly utilizes the tap interface while installing the proper routes needed to get traffic going.

Re: juniper vpn

2012-11-28 Thread Jeroen van Aart
On 11/27/2012 07:27 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Do you want one for IPSEC or for the SSL VPN Appliance that Juniper is pushing nowadays? I just checked, the script i am looking at calls the ncscv tool which I believe is made by juniper? It needs amongst other things an ssl certificate. So I

Re: juniper vpn

2012-11-28 Thread Jeroen van Aart
On 11/28/2012 02:03 PM, Edward Dore wrote: openssl x509 -inform DER -infile -outform PEM -outfile Thanks, that did the trick. -- Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6 Date: Thursday, November 29, 2012 02:23:59 UTC Location: Jan Mayen Island region Latitude: 71.0240; Longitude: -6.5291 Depth: 13.50 km

juniper vpn

2012-11-27 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Hello, Does anyone know a practical and somewhat user friendly way of connecting to juniper vpn using linux? I have happily used http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/ a allow linux users to connect cisco vpn boxes where a crappy cisco vpn client would be needed otherwise, and it works

Re: NJ impact

2012-11-05 Thread Jeroen van Aart
On 10/31/2012 12:24 PM, Alex Rubenstein wrote: I had to summarize this recently for a news article I was interviewed for, so I figured I forward: Of our three datacenters, this is what we saw: Parsippany 1 (OCT) - The worst we saw here was several sub-second power hits. UPS's held without

Re: IPv4 address length technical design

2012-10-29 Thread Jeroen van Aart
On 10/03/2012 09:52 AM, Seth Mos wrote: Op 3-10-2012 18:33, Kevin Broderick schreef: I'll add that in the mid-90's, in a University Of Washington lecture hall, Vint Cerf expressed some regret over going with 32 bits. Chuckle worthy and at the time, and a fond memory - K Pick a number between

91.201.64.0/22 hijacked?

2012-08-31 Thread Jeroen van Aart
(..) they always have criminal links and protection from corrupts officials (often co-owners) and security/law enforcement services From: Jeroen van Aart there is nothing but crap coming from 91.201.64.0/24. Amongst other things attempts to spam (through) wordpress sites. inetnum

Re: 172.0.0.0/12 has been Allocated

2012-08-23 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Owen DeLong wrote: ATT should just be glad there was a /12 for them to get. That isn't going to be true for much longer. If you are counting on an IPv4 free pool to run your business next year, you are making a bad bet. The 16777214 IP addresses (give or take) in their 12/8 assignment

Re: 172.0.0.0/12 has been Allocated

2012-08-23 Thread Jeroen van Aart
joel jaeggli wrote: On 8/23/12 2:11 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: it's probably used internally and renumbering to 10/8 would be too big a hurdle to take. ;-) show route 12.0.0.0/8 ... That was mostly tongue in cheek. I was remembering the reasons people on here brought up why /8 legacy

Re: HE Fremont IPv6 tunnel

2012-07-23 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Jeroen van Aart wrote: I am curious, since I have pretty much confirmed the problem is on my side, why would a move of an IPv6 tunnel from one server to another A helpful person pointed me in the right direction. Multiple times I checked the /etc/network/interfaces file and didn't spot

HE Fremont IPv6 tunnel

2012-07-22 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Recently I migrated the server that's running an HE IPv6 tunnel to one of the Fremont endpoints and now the tunnel is going down for a few minutes every couple of hours or so. I haven't been able yet to find a reason for this. I made sure the old server is not running any IPv6 related things

Re: HE Fremont IPv6 tunnel

2012-07-22 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Rob Mosher wrote: Perhaps you should try contacting HE support. I hear they're responsive. I understand however I was pretty sure it wasn't the tunnel that was the problem. So I didn't feel emailing HE was appropriate. I am curious, since I have pretty much confirmed the problem is on my

Re: Cisco Update

2012-07-11 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Joe Greco wrote: No, really, how bad an idea can it be to have a central database and a system that's allowed to remotely log in, configure, and update thousands of Internet-connected CPE? I mean, talk about making an attractive target. No argument against the lack of wisdom regarding this

Re: job screening question

2012-07-09 Thread Jeroen van Aart
William Herrin wrote: This is, incidentally, is a detail I'd love for one of the candidates to offer in response to that question. Bonus points if you discuss MSS clamping and RFC 4821. The less precise answer, path MTU discovery breaks, is just fine. I would say that the ability to quickly

Re: EBAY and AMAZON

2012-06-14 Thread Jeroen van Aart
JC Dill wrote: I'm really surprised to see this Windows is more popular, that's why it's exploited more often misinformation being spewed on a technical list like NANOG. I thought people here had more clue. I don't think a individual opinion is representative for the whole 1+ (?) member

Re: Configuration Systems

2012-06-11 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Rob McEwen wrote: Personally, I prefer paying a little extra for my own dedicated and/or co-located servers... where I'm in total control of ALL aspects of hardware/software. You are resisting the lure back to the mainframe paradime [sic], let go of your resistance and let yourself be gently

Re: Cogent for ISP bandwidth

2012-05-16 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Ameen Pishdadi wrote: A Kia and Ferrari can both get me from point a to point b, but the Ferrari is capable of getting me there way quicker, and yes I'm going to pay a premium for it but if I'm going from NYC to San Fran I'd definitely feel safer in the Ferrari reliability wise and get there a

Re: POTS Ending (Re: Operation Ghost Click)

2012-05-07 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Brandt, Ralph wrote: I am not sure who uses DSL here. I have two people I know who use it, both are dissatisfied and if they had an alternative it woud not be. It is slow, unreliable compared to cable. That's a rather bold statement which I find hard to believe. Do you have any data to

Re: Network diagram app that shows realtime link utilizatin

2012-05-05 Thread Jeroen van Aart
David Miller wrote: I think you are referring to this thread - http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/nanog/users/149903 Utilisation doesn't become 100%, instead measured utilisation will either be 100% or 0% at each interval. Thanks, and yes that was what I was trying to say. :-) --

Re: Network diagram app that shows realtime link utilizatin

2012-05-04 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Anurag Bhatia wrote: I have been using Zenoss quite a bit. It does not shows exact real time stat of interface but close to real time + it has ton more options for I remember someone here saying that real time monitoring gives you useless results, because if you make the time of measurement

Re: Operation Ghost Click

2012-05-02 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Livingood, Jason wrote: you may just have nuked their 911 capability. Depending on your internet connection to be able to dial 911 is a bit foolhardy, to put it nicely. It pays off to have a phone that's only powered through the phone line itself, for emergencies (and your everyday home

Re: Operation Ghost Click

2012-05-02 Thread Jeroen van Aart
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: Actually, I said that, not Jason. Jason just used mail software that *can't get quoting right* to reply to my message, so your quote of his message got the attribution wrong. Sorry, I don't keep track of who is unable to quote properly. But I do always try to

Re: Operation Ghost Click

2012-05-02 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Christopher Morrow wrote: wow, 1990 much? are you actually just trolling today perhaps? No, what is wrong with using a land line, a rotary phone and enjoying a reliable service? Plus a superior audio quality as opposed to the compressed to hell quality of mobile phones. Not withstanding

Re: Operation Ghost Click

2012-05-02 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Sean Harlow wrote: Then you'll be happy to know that most VoIP phones default to and good VoIP providers gladly support G.711, the exact same codec used in all digital trunks in the POTS network. Also, an on-the-ball VoIP carrier will be pushing G.722 HD Voice devices which offer about

Re: VoIP vs POTS (was Re: Operation Ghost Click)

2012-05-02 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Jared Mauch wrote: Regarding landline service, this can fail for many of the common reasons it does are the same reasons that IP service may fail. The failure modes can depend on a variety of circumstances from the physical layer (e.g.: audible static on the line) that cause your ear to

Re: VoIP/Mobile Codecs (was Re: Operation Ghost Click)

2012-05-02 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Sean Harlow wrote: Originally, you said VoIP and cellular used bad codecs. Yeah, I overlooked that important detail, sorry. The cellular world works with less bandwidth and more loss than the VoIP world usually deals with, so while us VoIP guys sometimes use their codecs (GSM for example)

Re: Operation Ghost Click

2012-04-27 Thread Jeroen van Aart
O'Reirdan, Michael wrote: Please look at www.dcwg.org Thanks all for the information. It looks like the practical upshot is that computers that have been infected and not yet fixed may loose the ability to resolve names into IP addresses starting sometime after July 9, which is when the

Operation Ghost Click

2012-04-26 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Excuse the horrible subject :-) Anyone have anything insightful to say about it? Is it just lots of fuss about nothing or is it an actual substantial problem? http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/november/malware_110911 Update on March 12, 2012: To assist victims affected by the DNSChanger

Re: Most energy efficient (home) setup

2012-04-18 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Laurent GUERBY wrote: Do you have reference to recent papers with experimental data about non ECC memory errors? It should be fairly easy to do Maybe this provides some information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_memory#Problem_background Work published between 2007 and 2009 showed widely

Re: Most energy efficient (home) setup

2012-04-17 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Jimmy Hess wrote: Consider that the probability 16GB of SDRAM experiences at least one single bit error at sea level, in a given 6 hour period exceeds 66% = 1 - (1 - 1.3e-12 * 6)^(16 * 2^30 * 8).In any given 24 hour period, the probability of at least one single bit error exceeds 98%.

Re: Most energy efficient (home) setup

2012-04-13 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Leo Bicknell wrote: But what's really missing is storage management. RAID5 (and similar) require all drives to be online all the time. I'd love an intelligent file system that could spin down drives when not in use, and even for many workloads spin up only a portion of the drives. It's easy

Re: Most energy efficient (home) setup

2012-04-13 Thread Jeroen van Aart
PC wrote: It exists. Google for unRAID It uses something like Raid4 for Parity data, but stores entire files on single spindles. It's designed for home media server type environments. This way, when you watch a video, only the There may be a performance penalty using raid4, because it uses

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Brielle Bruns wrote: Unfortunately, the apathy of providers, backbones, and network operators in general have created an environment that the almighty buck rules everything. I totally agree with pretty much everything in this email. I also agree that blocking whole /24 or bigger when spam

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-04 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Landon Stewart wrote: I think we should all just NULL ROUTE all of their IP space on our borders to get their attention. Yeah you're free to do that, as well as complain about it and SORBS in turn is free to put whatever the hell they feel like on their block lists and not remove it at all,

Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US

2012-04-02 Thread Jeroen van Aart
C. A. Fillekes wrote: I do not think that the closing of a service that's undergone multiple acquisitions by actual competitors is at all surprising. Did the closing of Alta Vista a couple years ago after its acquisition by Yahoo! spell the death of internet search? No. Well, it's a bit hard

Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US

2012-03-30 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Michael Sinatra wrote: active class newsgroups. As you can see from examples such as CS 61a ( https://groups.google.com/group/ucb.class.cs61a/about?pli=1), Can someone help out mrshare? https://groups.google.com/group/ucb.class.cs61a/browse_frm/month/2010-08 The above link and this one are a

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

2012-03-23 Thread Jeroen van Aart
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: The massive drop in latency is expected to supercharge algorithmic stock market trading, where a difference of a few milliseconds can gain (or lose) millions of dollars. But it should be illegal to run a stock market that volatile. This can't end well. The

Re: Regex validation, was Re: Programmers with network engineering skills

2012-03-19 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Joel Maslak wrote: is not. But there is value in not passing utter garbage to another program (it has a tendency to clog mail queues, if for no other reason) - just make sure you do it right. I fail to see why you wouldn't be able to throttle any abuse of your webform so it wouldn't clog a

dell switch config export

2012-03-16 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Does anyone know if these crappy dell powerconnect switches (in my case a 3448p) have a convenient or at least working way of exporting/backing up the configuration to a different place? The only thing I can find is using a tftp server but it's not working... Thanks, Jeroen -- Earthquake

Re: Programmers with network engineering skills

2012-03-16 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Steve Bertrand wrote: imo, this discussion of outbound SMTP has been sounding akin to me saying I should let my upstream ensure that all of my BGP announcements are good, instead of filtering my own outbound. know whether the address is to RFC or not. Less bugs and changes, I feel it is

Re: dell switch config export

2012-03-16 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Bill Weiss wrote: I'm using RANCID against a few 54xx PowerConnect switches, and it's working well enough. I'm pretty sure my dlogin and drancid came from http://web.rickyninja.net:81/rancid/drancid and http://web.rickyninja.net:81/rancid/dlogin . A number of people suggested that, thanks.

Re: dell switch config export

2012-03-16 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Ryan Malayter wrote: not designed or coded by a native English speaker. You have to use the upload link to export config, and put in the address of your TFTP server, since you are uploading from the switch to the tftp server. Yes I tried that. However the switch complains with an error about

Re: dell switch config export

2012-03-16 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Jeroen van Aart wrote: Ryan Malayter wrote: not designed or coded by a native English speaker. You have to use the upload link to export config, and put in the address of your TFTP server, since you are uploading from the switch to the tftp server. Yes I tried that. However the switch

Re: Programmers with network engineering skills

2012-03-13 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Joe Greco wrote: The ideal world contains a mix of techniques. Yes and copying parts of relevant code of an MTA could be one. You cannot just blindly leave it to the MTA to decide what's valid. Along that path lies madness. How do you pass the address to the MTA? Don't do it as a system()

Re: Programmers with network engineering skills

2012-03-12 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Owen DeLong wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Valid_email_addresses You may have noticed my particular test wouldn't accept foo!bar!ucbvax!user format addresses, either. It works well enough for my purposes. I did not claim it was perfect. Why not leave it to the MTA to

Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine

2012-03-06 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote: 7 - compressed air can to clean dust dust?!?!? sounds like time to find a whole new colo and move everything out of there haha. i've -never- encountered one with dust in it. that stuff usually gets sucked out before it gets the idea to land on anything should it

Re: Reliable Cloud host ?

2012-03-01 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Randy Carpenter wrote: Does anyone have any recommendation for a reliable cloud host? Basic requirements: 1. Full redundancy with instant failover to other hypervisor hosts upon hardware failure (I thought this was a given!) Assuming a simple set up as you suggest. If what you want to do

Re: Programmers with network engineering skills

2012-02-28 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Mike Hale wrote: If you're located in a major city, I'm sure you can find a community college that has a networking certificate program you can send your developer to, along with an in-house training program. Oh come on!!!1 Investing in your employee by sending them out to courses, for crying

Re: Programmers with network engineering skills

2012-02-28 Thread Jeroen van Aart
John Mitchell wrote: rant I would wholeheartedly agree with this, but I believe its worse than teaching process is one of learning to program like a monkey, monkey see monkey do. People are no longer taught to think for themselves, but instead taught to program in a specific language (PHP,

Re: Programmers with network engineering skills

2012-02-28 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Jamie Bowden wrote: Hey now...the time from zero to TS/SCI has gone from over half a decade to a mere quarter decade. You can totally pay these guys to sit around doing drudge work while their skills atrophy in the interim. Of course, if you need a poly on top, add some more time and stir

Most energy efficient (home) setup

2012-02-22 Thread Jeroen van Aart
After reading a number of threads where people list their huge and wasteful, but undoubtedly fun (and sometimes necessary?), home setups complete with dedicated rooms and aircos I felt inclined to ask who has attempted to make a really energy efficient setup? This may be an interesting read,

Re: Most energy efficient (home) setup

2012-02-22 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Leigh Porter wrote: You dudes need to get with the times and put all this stuff in the cloud. Ok so I joke a little.. The cloud seems to be a more modern implementation of the mainframe paradigm (and now I feel soiled having used 2 such words in one sentence). It has its uses, though it's

Re: Most energy efficient (home) setup

2012-02-22 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Marcel Plug wrote: I've run a SheevaPlug at home for a few years now. I don't do anything fancy with it, but it does what I need it to do. Mostly that I wonder how reliable the storage is in these things. Is it comparable to modern SSDs? Oh and I also have native IPv6 on my DSL. I like

Re: Most energy efficient (home) setup

2012-02-22 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Marcel Plug wrote: No issues so far. As I said though, I don't push it too hard. I don't have any specs or stats off hand, so I can't get any more detailed. What's the speed like? I'm pretty happy with them, I just wish my DLink would stop requiring reboots... I assume you connected it

Re: Common operational misconceptions

2012-02-18 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Michael Sinatra wrote: The words Internet and Web can be used interchangeably I prefer the term intergophers myself. -- Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9 Date: Friday, February 17, 2012 14:28:20 UTC Location: Komandorskiye Ostrova, Russia region Latitude: 54.5969; Longitude: 168.8863 Depth: 34.70 km

Re: Megaupload.com seized

2012-01-31 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Steven Bellovin wrote: Note this from the NY Times article: The Megaupload case is unusual, said Orin S. Kerr, a law professor at George Washington University, in that federal prosecutors obtained the private e-mails of Megaupload�s operators in an effort to show they were operating in

Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice.

2012-01-04 Thread Jeroen van Aart
randal k wrote: This is a huge point. We've had a LOT of trouble finding good network engineers who have all of the previously mentioned soft attributes - anything, can't setup a syslog server, doesn't understand AD much less LDAP, etc. Imagine, an employee who can help themselves 90% of the

Re: what if...?

2011-12-22 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Marshall Eubanks wrote: Does your Mom call you up every time she gets a dialog box complaining about an invalid certificate ? If she has been conditioned just to click OK when that happens, then she probably can't. Everyone I have observed clicks ok or confirm exception (if I remember the

Re: Steve Jobs has died

2011-12-19 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Lamar Owen wrote: On Tuesday, October 11, 2011 04:00:44 PM Douglas Otis wrote: products are able to provide good returns. In this view, the analogy holds when price alone is not considered. And, like Edison, Mr. Jobs fiercely championed his own technologies over all others; just one

Re: [fyo...@insecure.org: C|Net Download.Com is now bundling Nmap with malware!]

2011-12-08 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Fyodor wrote: switched their Nmap downloads back to our real installer. At least for now. But that isn't enough--they are still infecting the installers for thousands of other packages! I am sorry about these problems, it is unacceptable. Sourceforge, at least a year or 2 ago, did

Re: [fyo...@insecure.org: C|Net Download.Com is now bundling Nmap with malware!]

2011-12-07 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Fyodor wrote: switched their Nmap downloads back to our real installer. At least for now. But that isn't enough--they are still infecting the installers for thousands of other packages! I am sorry about these problems, it is unacceptable. Sourceforge, at least a year or 2 ago, did

Re: [fyo...@insecure.org: C|Net Download.Com is now bundling Nmap with malware!]

2011-12-07 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Fyodor wrote: switched their Nmap downloads back to our real installer. At least for now. But that isn't enough--they are still infecting the installers for thousands of other packages! I am sorry about these problems, it is unacceptable. Sourceforge, at least a year or 2 ago, did

Re: Arguing against using public IP space

2011-11-14 Thread Jeroen van Aart
William Herrin wrote: If your machine is addressed with a globally routable IP, a trivial failure of your security apparatus leaves your machine addressable from any other host in the entire world which wishes to send it Isn't that the case with IPv6? That the IP is addressable from any host

Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers

2011-10-25 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Owen DeLong wrote: It's both unacceptable in my opinion and common. There are even those misguided souls that will tell you it is best practice, though general agreement, even among them seems to be that only 25/tcp should be blocked and that 465 and 587 should not be blocked. From my

Re: RIP dmr

2011-10-20 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Lynda wrote: Dennis was one of the good ones. A kind and generous person, who changed all our worlds. Indeed. I consider the KR C book as the pinnacle of how a book like that should be written. Every page, every sentence contains a multitude of information and there is no redundancy. The C

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-23 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Joe Greco wrote: toddlers around and drive to and from work. An SUV in almost all cases is added luxury. My SUV carries seven passengers and allows me to haul gear including conduit, lumber, ladders, etc. It's actively dangerous to do some of these things in a sedan. Hence I said in almost

IPv6 words

2011-06-23 Thread Jeroen van Aart
I am sure it has come up a number of times, but with IPv6 you can make up fancy addresses that are (almost) complete words or phrases. Making it almost as easy to remember as the resolved name. It'd be nice in a weird geek sort of way (but totally impractical) to be able to request IPv6

Re: IPv6 words

2011-06-23 Thread Jeroen van Aart
William Herrin wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Jeroen van Aart jer...@mompl.net wrote: able to request IPv6 blocks that have some sort of fancy name of your choice. 4-character or shorter hex words, for your reference: aced ace5 ac1d :-D Thanks. I wonder about 2001:db8

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-22 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Joe Greco wrote: that things are changing. The number of TV's in a household are going up. Some can now stream directly to the TV. I have numerous devices How can it go up even more? I thought every bedroom and living room has one by now, in the average family house. In my experience

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-22 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Steven Bellovin wrote: When I was in grad school, the director of the computer center (remember those) felt that there was no need for 1200 bps modems -- 300 bps was fine, since no one could read the scrolling output any faster than that anyway. Right now, I'm running an rsync job to back up my

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-22 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Owen DeLong wrote: If you don't believe that consumer content acquisition is shifting away from traditional methods towards internet-oriented mechanisms rapidly, you haven't been paying attention to the bandwidth growth at Netflix as just one example. Hulu, Youtube, and even the various

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Paul Graydon wrote: I've seen the stuff about adding a few extra TLDs, like XXX. I haven't seen any references until now of them considering doing it on a commercial basis. I don't mind new TLDs, but company ones are crazy and going to lead to a confusing and messy internet. I don't know

Re: AAAA on various websites, but they all forgot to enable them on their nameservers....

2011-06-15 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Octavio Alvarez wrote: In fact. Although a website of mine worked flawlessly in a dual-stack but it did NOT in an IPv6-only environment. Unfortunately, the problem has to be fixed in the DNS provider, which though supporting records was enough to support IPv6. Why not run your own

Re: AAAA on various websites, but they all forgot to enable them on their nameservers....

2011-06-15 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Seth Mattinen wrote: listen-on-v6 { any; }; Yeah that's what I did. But I keep reading about how these big name companies messed it up in some subtle or not so subtle way and I keep thinking I must have missed something. Because surely those big companies can't find it that difficult, can

Re: AAAA on various websites, but they all forgot to enable them on their nameservers....

2011-06-15 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Leo Bicknell wrote: but it all doesn't matter because the network team hadn't actually made IPv6 work yet as there was no business case. Ahhh, ok, well at least I know I did it right the first time. No, I'm not cynical. :) It probably reflects daily practice for many big organisations,

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-11 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Ricardo Ferreira wrote: Funny, how in the title refers to the Internet globally when the article is specific about the USA. I live in europe and we have at home 100Mbps . Mid sized city of 500k people. Some ISPs even spread WiFi across town so that subscribers can have internet access outside

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-11 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Randy Bush wrote: some of us try to get work done from home. and anyone who has worked and/or lived in a first world country thinks american 'broadband' speeds are a joke, even for a home network. I understand, but I was referring to the average home internet connection. But even for work

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-11 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Don Gould wrote: 100/40 isn't about 6 channels of TV and even less about torrents. It's about BIR not CIR. It's about dropping my HD video recorder, with 2 hours of random video recorded at todays 'family birthday party', on its 'hot shoe' and it All these new gadgets will drive the need

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-11 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Eugen Leitl wrote: It definitely reduces need for moving human bodies in metal boxes back and forth, and reduces road wear and carbon dioxide emissions. I think a world of telecommuting employees is a utopia that will not be reached in my lifetime. Most companies have proven to be unwilling

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-10 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Jay Ashworth wrote: Even Cracked realizes this: http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-internet-access-in-america-disaster That can't be good. ignorant? up to 10 percent of the country can't even get basic broadband I think I saw much larger numbers a few years ago when I read some hype

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-10 Thread Jeroen van Aart
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: So the *actual* numbers are much worse than the FCC numbers. Be that as it may, when I moved to the States I had to give up DSL back in the Netherlands. But since I got flat rate dialup in return in the USA it wasn't such a big deal, for me the internet worked

Re: Protocol-41 is not the only tunneling protocol (Re: Microsoft's participation in World IPv6 day)

2011-06-06 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Owen DeLong wrote: FIrst I've heard of such a thing. The original organizers of W6D have zero motivation to try such a thing and I can't imagine why they would even consider it for more than a picosecond. It'd be a great way to get a point across. ;-) --

Re: Yahoo and IPv6

2011-05-18 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Steve Clark wrote: This is all very confusing to me. How are meaningful names going to assigned automatically? Right now I see something like ool-6038bdcc.static.optonline.net for one of our servers, how does this mean anything to anyone else? Does http://وزارة-الأتصالات.مصر/ mean more to

Re: Yahoo and IPv6

2011-05-18 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Paul Vixie wrote: time in Nicaragua he said that he has a lot of days like this and he'd like more work to be possible when only local connectivity was available. Compelling stuff. Pity there's no global market for localized services or we'd already have it. Nevertheless this must and will

Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any Other Company

2011-05-18 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Joe Abley wrote: Or perhaps even some kind of new technology that is independent of the Internet! Imagine such futuristic ideas as solar-powered spacecraft in orbit around the planet bouncing content back across massive areas so that everybody can pick them up at once. Crazy stuff. You

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