Re: BGP (in)security makes the AP wire

2010-05-12 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Randy Bush wrote: except we have a history of it happening You mean the whole innertubes went down because some dewd haxx0red it? I believe that was the claim being made in so many words (maybe he was just trying to land that DARPA job). It's one thing for parts of the innertubes to go

HUMOUR: http://xkcd.com/742/

2010-05-19 Thread Jeroen van Aart
http://xkcd.com/742/ is a bit funny, especially if you read the alt text of the image. Especially in the light of ongoing discussions about IPv6 :-) -- http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/

Re: [OT]Bounce Back

2010-05-20 Thread Jeroen van Aart
James Bensley wrote: Got the below message back from Hotmail when emailing a friend I email every week. I have never experienced this particular error before, is this just an indication of high traffic between Google Mail and Hotmail? Yes, high traffic of an abusive nature, i.e. google's email

Reputable VPS provider with Dutch static IPs

2010-05-28 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Does anyone know a reputable virtual private server provider in the Netherlands, which provides static IPs that are located in the Netherlands according to those pesky geoIP checkers. It also should provide Debian stable (Lenny right now) and not cost more than ~$30 a month. Of course the

Re: Reputable VPS provider with Dutch static IPs

2010-06-24 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Jeroen van Aart wrote: Does anyone know a reputable virtual private server provider in the Netherlands It also should provide Debian stable (Lenny right now) and not cost more than ~$30 a month. Of course the company should not have problems Someone pointed me to http://www.xlshosting.nl

Re: Advice regarding Cisco/Juniper/HP

2010-06-30 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Jeff Young wrote: you'll need twice as much of Brand X and therefore, the deal isn't quite so appealing. (By the way HP, Cisco and Juniper are pretty much interchangeable in this discussion). If they are interchangeable then why bother getting into a war at all? It's very tiresome. :-| --

Re: The Economist, cyber war issue

2010-07-01 Thread Jeroen van Aart
andrew.wallace wrote: Article: http://www.economist.com/node/16481504?story_id=16481504 I know it's shortsighted, but any article with the word cyber in it, used in such a way as being about cyber this-or-that, already lost its credibility by virtue of using the word. It must be a of rather

Re: While we worry about Vyatta and Bras.....

2010-07-19 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Larry Sheldon wrote: ..in other news (that seems to have attracted little attention)... http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/07/73000-blogs-shu.html 73000 Internet sites where shutdown by somebody, for something. BurstNet, the Web-hosting company, informed Blogetery's operator that

Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster

2010-08-10 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Kevin Oberman wrote: That said, the actual, published document has some huge issues. It pays excellent lip service to net neutrality, but it has simply HUGE loopholes with lots of weasel words that could be used to get away with most anything. for example, it expressly excludes and wireless

Re: Two /8s allocated to APNIC from IANA (49/8 and 101/8)]

2010-08-13 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Mikel Jimenez Fernandez wrote: Good news for IPV6 fans! Forwarding on behalf of APNIC. 2010 and will be making allocations from these ranges in the near future: 49/8 101/8 More netblocks to block against spam I say. :-| Someone on another list posted this, you may wish to update your

Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic?

2010-09-17 Thread Jeroen van Aart
George Bonser wrote: I believe a network should be able to sell priotitization at the edge, but not in the core. I have no problem with Y!, for example, paying a network to be prioritized ahead of bit torrent on the segment to the end Considering yahoo (as any other big freemailer) is

Re: Facebook Issues/Outage in Southeast?

2010-09-23 Thread Jeroen van Aart
(apologies for cross posting) Ernie Rubi wrote: Anyone else having trouble? We're colo'ed at the NOTA in Miami and directly peer with them - even though our session hasn't gone down we still can't reach them. It will be interesting to see if global spam traffic goes down as well? Since

Re: What must one do to avoid Gmail's retarded non-spam filtering?

2010-09-29 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Erik L wrote: Received-SPF: pass ... Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass ... So the problem is unlikely to be a SPF issue, as mentioned in my first e-mail. http://david.woodhou.se/why-not-spf.html The lack of SPF records should never be the reason to block an email. It's about

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-20 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Jeroen Massar wrote: (And the spammers will take the rest...) I am afraid so too. (PS: There seems to be a trend for people calling themselvesIPv6 Pioneers as they recently did something with IPv6, if you didn't play in the 6bone/early-RIR allocs you are not a pioneer as you are 10 years

IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-20 Thread Jeroen van Aart
IPv6 newbie According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Special_addresses an fc00::/7 address includes a 40-bit pseudo random number: fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses (ULA's) are intended for local communication. They are routable only within a set of cooperating sites

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-10-20 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Deepak Jain wrote: According to the RFC: 3.2.1. Locally Assigned Global IDs Locally assigned Global IDs MUST be generated with a pseudo-random algorithm consistent with [RANDOM]. Section 3.2.2 describes a Global ID in this case means the 40 bit pseudo random thing. The point here

IPv6 rDNS

2010-10-29 Thread Jeroen van Aart
I battled for a few hours getting IPv6 rDNS to work. The following tool proved to be quite helpful: http://www.fpsn.net/?pg=toolstool=ipv6-inaddr Just in case anyone else would run into similar problems. It's not as straightforward as IPv4 rDNS. Greetings, Jeroen --

Re: IPv6 rDNS

2010-11-01 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Gary E. Miller wrote: See also sipcalc. Thanks, I wasn't aware of the various commandline tools available yet. Except the dig option to convert IPv6 rDNS. But the tool I mentioned also creates a whole zone file for you based on what you entered, which I then used to correct the zone file I

Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

2010-11-01 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Karl Auer wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 18:48 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: Uh, no... You're misreading it. Yes - I read the ISP bit, not the end user bit. It cost me $625 (or possibly less) one-time when I first got it. That was with the waivers in force. It will soon cost a one-time US

Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching

2010-11-04 Thread Jeroen van Aart
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Gary Baribault g...@baribault.net wrote: OK, I haven't taken it back out of the box, but anyone still have 8 bit ISA Arcnet with thin coax? Sorry no, but I have a Commodore 64 1200/75 baud modem, real collectors item... --

Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching

2010-11-04 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Curtis Maurand wrote: Much of Maine is not covered by broadband and companies are still using dialup routers. Much of the US (70%) is not covered by broadband and the only internet connection is dialup. That is kinda bad, but to put it into perspective, you have free, or at least one flat

Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching

2010-11-04 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Nov 4, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: Sorry no, but I have a Commodore 64 1200/75 baud modem, real collectors item... If it doesn't have an acoustic coupler, it's not a real collector's item. :) Damn you got me there, almost put it up on ebay hoping

IPv6 6to4 and dns

2010-11-18 Thread Jeroen van Aart
What would be the best way to configure your dns once you've set up IPv6 6to4? Separate the IPv4 and IPV6 domains or let them be the same? That is, use something like example.com for your existing IPv4 address and something like 6.example.com for IPv6 (and www.6.example.com etc.)? Or is it

Re: IPv6 6to4 and dns

2010-11-19 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Mark Andrews wrote: Firstly I would use a tunnel broker instead of 6to4. Easier to debug failures. Thanks all for the helpful response. Using the same names for IPv6 and IPv4 doesn't appear to be much of a problem, especially considering this is a trial which concerns office/home ISP

Re: ARIN space not accepted

2010-12-06 Thread Jeroen van Aart
From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:00:15 -0500 224/3 Oh. And don't forget to do *bidirectional* filtering of these addresses. ;) Ahh, not quite. Blocking 224/3 bi-directionally might cause a few issues if you accept multicast traffic from

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Backdoor Santa wrote: Ever wonder what Comcast's connections to the Internet look like? In the tradition of WikiLeaks, someone stumbled upon these graphs of their TATA links. For reference, TATA is the only other IP transit provider to Comcast after Level (3). Comcast is a customer of TATA

Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks

2010-12-17 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Jay Ashworth wrote: individual subscriber pushed the complexity up, in much the same way that flat rate telecom services are popular equally because customers prefer them, and because the *cost of keeping track* becomes delta. Can someone then please explain me why the hell in many other

Cruzio peering

2011-01-10 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Cruzio in Santa Cruz recently opened a new coloc facility using a newly installed fiber connection (I believe they share this with UCSC, I am not sure who owns it in practice). Which in theory should be good news for the Monterey Bay Area which has been without fiber connectivity before. I

Re: Cruzio peering

2011-01-12 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Matthew Kaufman wrote: Have you considered simply asking them? Sadly the person I contacted with regards to some colocation business wasn't able to answer the simplest of question (i.e. from which netblock do they assign IPs). Or at least the question was met with silence (he may still be

co-location and access to your server

2011-01-12 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Cruzio in Santa Cruz recently opened a little co-location facility. That makes two of such facilities in Santa Cruz (the other being got.net), which could be a good thing for competition. Their 1U offer comes with limited access to your server, only from 10AM to 6 PM. I find that not

Re: co-location and access to your server

2011-01-12 Thread Jeroen van Aart
todd glassey wrote: On 1/12/2011 12:28 PM, Matt Kelly wrote: When you are talking single or partial rack colo it is generally done policy. The ISP's limited access policy has to do with their overhead models and that's all there is to that. Sorry to bring daylight into this but it is what

Re: co-location and access to your server

2011-01-12 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Kevin Stange wrote: I guess what you're saying holds true if the facility doesn't already offer /anyone/ this access regardless of how much equipment and space they have. They offer 24/7 access to 1/3 racks or more. The price is not that low, $100/month for 1*1U and 1 IP. I'd say that's not

Re: co-location and access to your server

2011-01-12 Thread Jeroen van Aart
George Bonser wrote: Awesome. It's good to know that there are still operations like that around. That is probably found more often in local providers and not so often in the big operations. The more community oriented providers would be much more accepting of such a situation than a large

Re: co-location and access to your server

2011-01-13 Thread Jeroen van Aart
JC Dill wrote: Scruz is ~30-45 minutes from the heart of the internet on the west coast (Silicon Valley). If your $dayjob isn't in scruz, then it's most likely IN Silicon Valley. So locate your 1U server in Silicon Valley, where Yes it's in the Valley and I do consider locating it there.

Re: Request Spamhaus contact

2011-01-17 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: of the ddos-protected hosting solutions companies do. viagra-shopping .com potenzmittel-at .com medicin-24 .com apothekeohnerezept .at # whois 208.64.122.234 [Querying whois.arin.net] [Redirected to rwhois.blacklotus.net:4321] [Querying rwhois.blacklotus.net]

Re: {Spam?} Re: Request Spamhaus contact

2011-01-17 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Nick Hilliard wrote: Summarising other people positions: a functional abuse desk, a less defensive attitude when people point out serious abuse going on in your network, and the slightest inclination to investigate really serious crap on your network when it's brought to your attention in the

Re: Last of ipv4 /8's allocated

2011-02-01 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Randy Carpenter wrote: Touché! That could theoretically happen. I think Apple should buy HPQDEC just so they can announce 16/7 :-) Nah, one should buy the other just so they can hand over a /7 to APNIC. -- http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/

Re: Last of ipv4 /8's allocated

2011-02-01 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Benson Schliesser wrote: On Feb 1, 2011, at 8:10 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: Nah, one should buy the other just so they can hand over a /7 to APNIC. How would they justify that to their shareholders? Free advertising, increased goodwill? ;-) -- http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers

Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-10 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Jens Link wrote: I never thought it was that bad. In some 3G/wireless networks in Germany the providers use NAT and transparent HTTP-proxy. But this is only wireless. I'm not aware of any DSL or Cable provider NATing their customers. I guess in the early days of DSL and Cable internet this

Cruzio peering

2011-02-10 Thread Jeroen van Aart
A Cruzio employee kindly provided me with the following information regarding their peering and connectivity. I pasted it below (with permission) because I thought it might be of use to others: Cruzio maintains a backbone of wireless points of presence (POP) on various mountain tops

Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-10 Thread Jeroen van Aart
On 02/09/2011 03:47 PM, George Bonser wrote: I have yet to see a broadband provider that configures a network so that individual nodes in the home network get global IPs. The big providers probably categorise a static IP in their enterprise/business offerings. But both my provider here

Re: Contact for APEWS.org?

2011-02-23 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Steve Linford wrote: APEWS is one of the many fringe hobby DNSBLs run from kids bedrooms. I don't deny APEWS is pretty much useless, though I disagree with the (perceived) condescending sentiment about hobby projects. Many successful enterprises sprung from hobby projects. Greetings,

humour: nanobots and ipv6

2011-02-25 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Apologies if someone posted it already, but I thought this was quite funny :-) http://xkcd.com/865/ -- http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html

Re: A pragmatic issue with running out of v4 :)

2011-02-25 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Phil Regnauld wrote: http://xkcd.com/865/ Ack, and how did I miss that? ;-) -- http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html

dhcp6 solicit

2011-03-09 Thread Jeroen van Aart
I was doing some packet scanning on one of my IPv6 enabled servers and I found traffic such as the following frequently (IPs slightly edited): 02:23:02.410360 IP6 fe80::ff78.546 ff02::2.547: dhcp6 solicit Not having done too much ipv6 packet scanning yet I am curious to know if this is a

Re: [apops] so big earthquake in JP

2011-03-10 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Randy Bush wrote: manichi daily still says 7.7. but english language news is not very current. maz-san reports at least one fiber break randy, cleaning up a lot of spilled coffee It started a few days earlier, I was keeping an eye on it:

Re: [apops] so big earthquake in JP

2011-03-10 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Jeroen van Aart wrote: It started a few days earlier, I was keeping an eye on it: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usb0001r57.php For a complete list so far: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/145_40_eqs.php Did you feel it? http

Re: so big earthquake in JP

2011-03-11 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Michael Painter wrote: Christopher LILJENSTOLPE wrote: Pacific tsunami warning centre has confirmed a deep ocean tsunami. Three dart bouys have detected 2 ft wave fronts. Warnings up for entire pacific basin except for Alaska/canada/us west coast. Chris Tsunami sirens just went off on

Re: SP's and v4 block assignments

2011-03-18 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Owen DeLong wrote: I'll point out that Comcast charges $5/month for a static IP on their business circuits. I get charged $6 for a static IP for a home internet connection (not a business account). Although in the Netherlands xs4all will give you one for free, so it depends. I am

Re: New tsunami advisory warning - Japan

2011-03-28 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Michael Thomas wrote: Gavin Pearce wrote: *yawn*. A foot and a half isn't going to be all *that* bad Sorry to continue off topic: Try to imagine ... a temporary very high tide, rather than a cresting wave. In addition to the height, it's the wave-length you have to take into account.

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

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

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: 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

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: 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

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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: [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: [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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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()

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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

2012-04-18 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

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