Re: Using twitter as an outage notification

2009-07-04 Thread Chris Hills
On 04/07/09 17:07, Roland Perry wrote: That's the kind of marketing-led response I was hoping to hear. But the UK National Rail system now uses Tweets to tell customers about disruptions on the trains, and several major UK government departments and news organisations use it for announcements

Re: questionable email filtering policies?

2009-07-24 Thread Chris Hills
On 23/07/09 22:22, goe...@anime.net wrote: Seems rather unwise to filter your abuse mailbox. - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - ab...@btopenworld.com (reason: 554 Message not allowed - UP Email not accepted for policy reasons. Please visit

Re: Telstra issues

2009-09-03 Thread Chris Hills
On 03/09/09 07:47, Mark Newton wrote: We run one which isn't connected to Telstra :-) There are media reports this morning of major outages in Telstra's domestic network. http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,26021106-15306,00.html Thank goodness PPC-1 is nearing completion, eh?

Re: Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation

2009-09-09 Thread Chris Hills
On 08/09/09 21:34, Joe Greco wrote: Show me ONE major MTA which allows you to configure an expiration for an ACL entry. This is fairly trivial to do with Exim by storing your acl entries in a database or directory with a field/attribute for expiry, and an appropriate router configuration. No

Re: ISP customer assignments

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Hills
On 13/10/09 15:33, Justin Shore wrote: He didn't really give much of a reason for the /127s yet. I think it's coming up in a later session. I think it basically boiled down to whether or not the customer would actually use anything bigger. I'll write back when we get into that discussion.

Re: dealing with bogon spam ?

2009-10-28 Thread Chris Hills
On 28/10/09 00:57, Leslie wrote: How have you dealt with this issue? Does anyone publish a more granular listing of unallocated space? Does arin have this information somewhere other than just probing any given ip via whois? You can at least get a list of all the allocated blocks. Presumably

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-01 Thread Chris Hills
On 01/12/09 20:06, Byron Hicks wrote: These were the numbers presented at an Internet2 meeting about the 4k testing happening between UCSD and UW. I'm not sure what compression algorithm they were using for the test. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/09/super_hi_vision.html The

Re: news from Google

2009-12-05 Thread Chris Hills
On 04/12/09 19:25, Christopher Morrow wrote: one note: OpenDNS is not the only 'competitor' here just one of the better obviously known ones. ie: 4.2.2.2 L(3) 198.6.1.1/2/3/4/5/122/142/146/195 ex-UU Neustar (can't recall ips, sorry) I maintain a list here [1], many of which are

Re: news from Google

2009-12-08 Thread Chris Hills
On 08/12/09 23:19, Tony Finch wrote: On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Chris Hills wrote: I maintain a list here [1], many of which are reachable with IPv6. [1] http://www.chaz6.com/files/resolv.conf Not all of those are open resolvers, so I wonder what the cirteria for listing are. I'm especially

Re: Looking for verification that Google and Akamai have the geo-ip for 96.31.0.0/20 set correctly

2009-01-03 Thread Chris Hills
On 03/01/09 07:31, Martin Hannigan wrote: Overall, geo location has turned out to be a somewhat valuable tool in terms of language, fraud, and localization. I think that it's important to continue to urge improvements in this technology, not divestment. Is it really that difficult to check the

Re: ISP Unbundling circuits

2009-01-30 Thread Chris Hills
Wayne E. Bouchard wrote: I've never been happy with 'deinstall' fees of any sort. To me, this is just a cost of doing business. The time necessary to remove such is just accepted. It is assumed that the terms of the contract are long enough that such costs become insignificant and should not be

Re: [outages] fibre cut near 200 Paul, San Francisco

2009-04-10 Thread Chris Hills
On 10/04/09 03:32, John Martinez wrote: BT Americas? Oh dear, and just after BT suffered a big cut in London. Who needs vandals when there's contractors about? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/08/bt_hole_hits_vodafone/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/23919...@n00/3426407496/

Re: How common are wide open SIP gateways?

2010-02-05 Thread Chris Hills
On 05/02/2010 17:33, Drew Weaver wrote: Has anyone done any research or have any anecdotal numbers related to how common it is to have a SIP gateway sitting out on the Internet with no ACL or authentication? Recently we have noticed a couple of instances where we get abuse complaints

Re: 32 and directallocate

2011-07-23 Thread Chris Hills
On 19/07/2011 03:43, Brielle Bruns wrote: On 7/18/11 7:02 PM, Deric Kwok wrote: Hi I have the following questions. hope you can help 1/ In ipv6 /32. ls it same as ipv4 /32 No. It depends how you define it. If you mean the number of bits in the network mask, then yes it is the same. If it

Re: On topic of domains

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Hills
On 11/07/2013 15:27, Jon Mitchell wrote: After .nyc thread, thought this IAB announcement may be of interest. http://www.iab.org/documents/correspondence-reports-documents/2013-2/iab-statement-dotless-domains-considered-harmful/ -Jon Whilst I am not a fan of dotless domains, as long as

Re: maximum ipv4 bgp prefix length of /24 ?

2023-10-03 Thread Chris Hills
On 02/10/2023 14:19, t...@pelican.org wrote: If the FIB is full, can we start making controlled and/or smart decisions about what to install, rather than either of the simple overflow conditions? There is a project [1] that make use of sflow to install the top n prefixes by traffic,

Re: Upstream bandwidth usage

2022-06-11 Thread Chris Hills
On 10/06/2022 00:31, Mel Beckman wrote: Your point on asymmetrical technologies is excellent. But you may not be aware that residential optical fiber is also asymmetrical. For example, GPON, the latest ITU specified PON standard, and the most widely deployed, calls for a 2.4 Gbps downstream