Bufferbloat and the pandemic was: V6 still not supported

2022-03-23 Thread Michael Thomas
On 3/23/22 12:21 PM, james.cut...@consultant.com wrote: I suggest that it may be more important to deploy solutions to BufferBloat, to the benefit of both IPv4 and IPv6 since it will improve the user experience, than to try to extend IPv4 lifetime, an effort with diminishing returns. Given

Re: Bufferbloat and the pandemic was: V6 still not supported

2022-03-23 Thread Michael Thomas
On 3/23/22 1:08 PM, John Levine wrote: It appears that Michael Thomas said: anything that ISP can do if they don't supply the ÇPE? What percentage of providers do supply the CPE in the form of cable and dsl modems, etc, that they could solve the problem with a swap out? In the US at

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-24 Thread Michael Thomas
On 3/24/22 1:59 PM, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote: Home users aren’t the long tail here. Enterprise is the long tail here. Android phones are, indeed, part of the enterprise problem, but not the biggest part. If this were a purely technical problem, we’d have been done more than a decade ago.

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-24 Thread Michael Thomas
On 3/24/22 2:13 PM, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote: On Mar 24, 2022, at 02:04 , Vasilenko Eduard via NANOG wrote: Hi all, From 10k meters: IPv6 is different from IPv4 only by: - extension headers - SLAAC instead of DHCP Everything else is minor. There’s no such thing as SLAAC instead of DH

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-24 Thread Michael Thomas
On 3/24/22 3:13 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Mar 24, 2022, at 14:46 , Michael Thomas wrote: On 3/24/22 1:59 PM, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote: Home users aren’t the long tail here. Enterprise is the long tail here. Android phones are, indeed, part of the enterprise problem, but not the

Re: ISP data collection from home routers

2022-03-25 Thread Michael Thomas
On 3/24/22 12:53 PM, Tom Beecher wrote: You don't even have to use their equipment. My provider at home is Charter / Spectrum. I own my own cable modem  / router ,they have no equipment in my home. Their privacy policy is pretty standard. Essentially : - Anything they can see that I transmit

Re: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported

2022-04-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 3/31/22 9:26 PM, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote: On Mar 31, 2022, at 20:51, Masataka Ohta wrote: Owen DeLong wrote: It still suffers from a certain amount of opacity across administrative domains. So, if an IPv6 prefix is assigned to an apartment building and the building has no logging

Re: Gmail (thus Nanog) rejecting ipv6 email

2022-04-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 4/2/22 3:23 PM, Jeroen Massar via NANOG wrote: Hi Dan, Hope the rest of the world is treating you decently! There are a lot of bits and bobs that one has to get right for mail to flow, amongst which: - IP -> PTR lookup -> that hostname lookup, and match to IP again (https://en.wiki

Re: Gmail (thus Nanog) rejecting ipv6 email

2022-04-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 4/2/22 3:56 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote: On 3 Apr 2022, at 00:29, Michael Thomas wrote: On 4/2/22 3:23 PM, Jeroen Massar via NANOG wrote: Hi Dan, Hope the rest of the world is treating you decently! There are a lot of bits and bobs that one has to get right for mail to flow, amongst

Re: Gmail (thus Nanog) rejecting ipv6 email

2022-04-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 4/2/22 4:05 PM, John Curran wrote: On 2 Apr 2022, at 6:23 PM, Jeroen Massar via NANOG wrote: There are a lot of bits and bobs that one has to get right for mail to flow, amongst which: - IP -> PTR lookup -> that hostname lookup, and match to IP again   (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forwa

Re: Gmail (thus Nanog) rejecting ipv6 email

2022-04-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 4/2/22 6:16 PM, John Levine wrote: It appears that Michael Thomas said: There are a lot of bits and bobs that one has to get right for mail to flow, amongst which: - IP -> PTR lookup -> that hostname lookup, and match to IP again - SPF - DKIM - DMARC Yup. Gmail has m

Re: Gmail (thus Nanog) rejecting ipv6 email

2022-04-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 4/2/22 6:21 PM, John Levine wrote: It appears that Michael Thomas said: Google at least adds ARC headers in Gmail, and did the editing of RFC8617. ARC resolves into a previously unsolved problem: reputation. ... No, actually it doesn't, as has been repeatedly explained. ARC add

Re: Gmail (thus Nanog) rejecting ipv6 email

2022-04-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 4/2/22 8:01 PM, John Levine wrote: It appears that Michael Thomas said: ARC lets the recipient system look back and do what we might call retroactive filtering, using info about messages as they arrived at the previous forwarder. While it would be nice if lists did a better job of spam

Re: Gmail (thus Nanog) rejecting ipv6 email

2022-04-03 Thread Michael Thomas
On 4/3/22 12:12 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote: On a slightly related subject... This DKIM failure surprised me, but at least I verified that many NANOG subscribers have mailservers returning DMARC failure reports ;-) Oh wow, you should report that to Murray. Mike Bjørn Mork writes: Authenticati

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-04-04 Thread Michael Thomas
On 4/4/22 8:00 AM, Tom Beecher wrote: ( Of course, the better solution is really on the service end to have a better system to associate bad activity to specific users, or other methods that aren't reliant on reputation services , but that won't happen unless they start seeing revenue loss

Re: FCC to Consider New Rules to Combat International Scam Robocalls

2022-04-27 Thread Michael Thomas
On 4/27/22 2:41 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: I've noticed a few (small number) of robocalls have started spoofing international phone numbers instead of local phone numbers.  I don't know if this is because telephone gateways are doing a better job at blocking neighbor caller ID spoofing -- or som

Re: Texas ERCOT announces electric grid shortage unseasonably hot weather

2022-05-13 Thread Michael Thomas
I was about to throw shade on Texas until I remembered "oh, PG&E". Never mind. Mike On 5/13/22 4:09 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: This afternoon, six power generation facilities tripped offline resulting in the loss of approximately 2,900 MW of electricity. At this time, all generation resources

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-23 Thread Michael Thomas
On 5/23/22 11:49 AM, Aaron Wendel wrote: The Fiber Broadband Association estimates that the average US household will need more than a gig within 5 years.  Why not just jump it to a gig or more? Really? What is the average household doing to use up a gig worth of bandwidth? Mike On 5

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-23 Thread Michael Thomas
On 5/23/22 12:04 PM, Thomas Nadeau wrote: On May 23, 2022, at 3:00 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: On 5/23/22 11:49 AM, Aaron Wendel wrote: The Fiber Broadband Association estimates that the average US household will need more than a gig within 5 years. Why not just jump it to a gig or more

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-23 Thread Michael Thomas
en if they gave you a nominal rate of 1G it doesn't mean that they won't oversubcribe the headend and beyond. Mike On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 3:15 PM Michael Thomas wrote: On 5/23/22 12:04 PM, Thomas Nadeau wrote: > > >> On May 23, 2022, at 3:0

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-23 Thread Michael Thomas
On 5/23/22 3:26 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Is it? What’s the bandwidth of a good quality 4K stream? What about 4 of them + various additional interactive technologies, software downloads, media downloads, etc.? Looking at the graphs, my household (which isn’t average by any stretch of the ima

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-23 Thread Michael Thomas
On 5/23/22 3:43 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: I think a gig is not an unreasonable target… It’s 100Mbps plus adequate headroom for the likely oversubscription models and the occasional downloads that are modern day reality. Nobody is going to consistently use 1Gbps, but the difference in wire time

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/1/22 10:10 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: On 5/23/22 12:00 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: On 5/23/22 11:49 AM, Aaron Wendel wrote: The Fiber Broadband Association estimates that the average US household will need more than a gig within 5 years.  Why not just jump it to a gig or more? Really

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/1/22 1:55 PM, Livingood, Jason via NANOG wrote: Saying most people don't need more than 25 Mbps is like saying 640k is >> enough for anybody. The challenge is any definition of capacity (speed) requirements is only a point-in-time gauge of sufficiency given the mix of apps popular at t

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/6/22 6:06 AM, Dave Taht wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 5:47 AM Masataka Ohta wrote: Dave Taht wrote: Looking back 10 years, I was saying the same things, only then I felt it was 25Mbit circa mike belshe's paper. So real bandwidth requirements only doubling every decade might be a new eq

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/6/22 7:56 AM, Casey Russell via NANOG wrote: For a long time now... I have had the opinion that we have reached the age of "peak bandwidth", that nearly nobody's 4 person home needs more than 50Mbit with good queue management. Certainly increasing upload speeds dramat

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/6/22 10:40 AM, Casey Russell wrote: Is it?  I mean, as an industry, we already recognize that the average user downloads approx. 5 times more than they upload.  In fact, we use it to bash users who want a synchronous speed... tell them that's unreasonable. I get your point, that if you

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 2:26 PM Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Michael Thomas said: > I meant downloads as in gigantic games. If you give them more > bandwidth it just encourages the game makes to build bigger game > downloads. I don't buy that - users

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/6/22 12:00 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: is gatekeeping what users MIGHT do, and/or deciding based on corner cases helpful to this discussion? (this isn't meant as a note directly to dorn, just a convenient place to interject) Aside from planning based on a formula like Jason Livingood'

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/6/22 3:36 PM, Tony Wicks wrote: >This whole thread is about hypothetical futures, so it's not hard to imagine downloads filling to available capacity. >Mike So, a good example of how this capacity is used, In New Zealand we have a pretty broad fibre network covering most of the popula

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/6/22 4:08 PM, Tony Wicks wrote: * Do you have any stats on what the average usage was before and after the build out? I'd expect it to go up just because but was it dramatic? Well, Back in the FTTC days of ADSL/VDSL (very little cable) as an ISP I seem to remember the average h

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/6/22 4:27 PM, Jim Troutman wrote: Some usage data: On a rural FTTX XGS-PON network with primarily 1Gig symmetric customers, I see about 1.5mbit/customer average inbound across 7 days, peaks at about 10mbit/customer, with 1 minute polling.  Zero congestion in middle mile, transit or pee

Re: Upstream bandwidth usage

2022-06-09 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/9/22 1:26 PM, Mel Beckman wrote: With 430 GB versus 32 GV average down versus up usage today, according to your article, this is still not a case for symmetrical consumer bandwidth. Yes, the upstream usage increased slightly more than the downstream usage. But the ratio was still so big

Re: Upstream bandwidth usage

2022-06-09 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/9/22 4:31 PM, Mel Beckman wrote: Adam, 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 downst

Re: Upstream bandwidth usage

2022-06-11 Thread Michael Thomas
ntelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com *From: *"Michael Thomas" *To: *nanog@nanog.org *Sent: *Thursday, June 9, 2022 3:46:24 PM *Subject: *Re: Upstream bandwidth usage

What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-23 Thread Michael Thomas
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/23/tech/spacex-dish-fcc-spectrum-scn/index.html Mike

Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-24 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/24/22 9:09 AM, Chris Wright wrote: The term "5G" among technical circles started vague, became better defined over the course of several years, and is becoming vague again. This nuance was never well understood in the public eye, nor by mass publications like CNN. This is a battle for 1

Re: What say you, nanog re: Starlink vs 5G?

2022-06-24 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/24/22 12:38 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Jun 24, 2022, at 12:33 , Michael Thomas wrote: On 6/24/22 9:09 AM, Chris Wright wrote: The term "5G" among technical circles started vague, became better defined over the course of several years, and is becoming vague again. This

Does anybody know if part of this enforcement involves STIR/SHAKEN?

2022-07-22 Thread Michael Thomas
Basically the jist that it's fake auto warranty fraud calls. Or is this just requiring providers to do the forensics whichever way to enforce this? https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/21/tech/fcc-robocall-crackdown/index.html Mike

Re: Does anybody know if part of this enforcement involves STIR/SHAKEN?

2022-07-22 Thread Michael Thomas
On 7/22/22 4:00 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2022, Michael Thomas wrote: Basically the jist that it's fake auto warranty fraud calls. Or is this just requiring providers to do the forensics whichever way to enforce this? https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/21/tech/fcc-robocall-crac

Sigh, friends don't let politicians write tech laws

2022-07-29 Thread Michael Thomas
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4409/text?r=9&s=1 the body of the proposed law: "(a) Conduct prohibited.— (1) IN GENERAL.—It shall be unlawful for an operator of an email service to use a filtering algorithm to apply a label to an email sent to an email account from

Re: Sigh, friends don't let politicians write tech laws

2022-07-29 Thread Michael Thomas
On 7/29/22 2:57 PM, Anne Mitchell wrote: On Jul 29, 2022, at 3:37 PM, John Levine wrote: It appears that Michael Thomas said: -=-=-=-=-=- https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4409/text?r=9&s=1 the body of the proposed law: This bill was filed by a bunch of

Facebook down?

2022-08-11 Thread Michael Thomas
They haven't been serving up images for like an hour or so and now it's showing their fail whale. Not sure if it's a (internal) network problem or not. I'm in California fwiw. Mike

Re: Facebook down?

2022-08-11 Thread Michael Thomas
And of course the act of sending this mail caused the wave function to collapse and it seems to be up again, at least for me. Mike On 8/11/22 1:37 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: They haven't been serving up images for like an hour or so and now it's showing their fail whale. Not sure

Re: Facebook down?

2022-08-11 Thread Michael Thomas
On 8/11/22 2:12 PM, Mel Beckman wrote: According to Heisenberg, it’s up :) It's still having problems serving up images. Thankfully their ad images are not affected :/ Mike -mel via cell On Aug 11, 2022, at 1:44 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: And of course the act of sending this

Re: Facebook down?

2022-08-11 Thread Michael Thomas
I can see in the browser debug spew that it's getting 503's on fbcdn.net. Mike On 8/11/22 2:36 PM, Joe Loiacono wrote: Well, makes sense. According to Schrodinger it's both up and down. On 8/11/2022 5:16 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: On 8/11/22 2:12 PM, Mel Beckman wrote

Re: VZ FIOS and Intel TCP IPv6 Checksum Offload problems

2022-08-27 Thread Michael Thomas
On 8/27/22 12:00 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: Hopefully, my pain will help someone else. I've had sporadic Internet slowdowns and stuck networking since IPv6 was enabled on my FIOS ONT a few months ago. After too much troubleshooting, I found out some older Intel GbE ethernet cards have a IPv6

Re: VZ FIOS and Intel TCP IPv6 Checksum Offload problems

2022-08-27 Thread Michael Thomas
retransmissions. Yeah, sorry brain fart. I'd be surprised if that were a big issue on home networks, but who knows. Mike -mel via cell On Aug 27, 2022, at 3:08 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:  On 8/27/22 12:00 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: Hopefully, my pain will help someone else. I've ha

Re: FCC chairwoman: Fines alone aren't enough (Robocalls)

2022-10-03 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/3/22 1:34 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: 'Fines alone aren't enough:' FCC threatens to blacklist voice providers for flouting robocall rules https://www.cyberscoop.com/fcc-robocall-fine-database-removal/ [...] “This is a new era. If a provider doesn’t meet its obligations under the law, it n

Re: FCC chairwoman: Fines alone aren't enough (Robocalls)

2022-10-03 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/3/22 1:54 PM, Jawaid Bazyar wrote: Because it's illegal for common carriers to block traffic otherwise. Wait, what? It's illegal to police their own users? Mike On 10/3/22, 2:53 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Michael Thomas" wrote: On 10/3/22 1:34 PM

Re: FCC chairwoman: Fines alone aren't enough (Robocalls)

2022-10-03 Thread Michael Thomas
. Mike On 10/3/22 3:13 PM, Jawaid Bazyar wrote: We're talking about blocking other carriers. On 10/3/22, 3:05 PM, "Michael Thomas" wrote: On 10/3/22 1:54 PM, Jawaid Bazyar wrote: > Because it's illegal for common carriers to block traffic otherwise. Wa

Re: FCC chairwoman: Fines alone aren't enough (Robocalls)

2022-10-04 Thread Michael Thomas
tions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com *From: *"Shane Ronan" *To: *"Michael Thomas" *Cc: *nanog@nanog.org *Sent: *Monday, October 3, 2022 9:54:07 PM *Subject: *Re: FCC chairwom

Re: FCC chairwoman: Fines alone aren't enough (Robocalls)

2022-10-04 Thread Michael Thomas
. And yes the telephony network is a lot easier than email to police. Mike On 10/3/22, 5:05 PM, "Michael Thomas" wrote: The problem has always been solvable at the ingress provider. The problem was that there was zero to negative incentive to do that. You don'

Re: FCC chairwoman: Fines alone aren't enough (Robocalls)

2022-10-04 Thread Michael Thomas
space. Like for one, the FCC exists and regulates it. That is not true of email. Mike - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest-IX http://www.midwest-ix.com -------- *From: *"Mic

Re: FCC chairwoman: Fines alone aren't enough (Robocalls)

2022-10-04 Thread Michael Thomas
ike a very compelling concern. Mike On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 2:18 PM Michael Thomas wrote: On 10/4/22 6:07 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: I think the point the other Mike was trying to make was that if everyone policed their customers, this wouldn't be a problem. Since some don&#

Re: FCC chairwoman: Fines alone aren't enough (Robocalls)

2022-10-04 Thread Michael Thomas
-- *From: *"Shane Ronan" *To: *"Michael Thomas" *Cc: *"Mike Hammett" , nanog@nanog.org *Sent: *Tuesday, October 4, 2022 1:21:41 PM *Subject: *Re: FCC chairwoman: Fines alone aren't enough (Robocalls) Except the cost to do the data dips to determine the aut

Re: FCC chairwoman: Fines alone aren't enough (Robocalls)

2022-10-04 Thread Michael Thomas
e: On October 3, 2022 at 16:05 m...@mtcc.com (Michael Thomas) wrote: > The problem has always been solvable at the ingress provider. The > problem was that there was zero to negative incentive to do that. You > don't need an elaborate PKI to tell the ingress provider which pre

Re: FCC chairwoman: Fines alone aren't enough (Robocalls)

2022-10-04 Thread Michael Thomas
e routing is not being done with e.164 addresses like in the legacy PSTN. It's just bellheaded thinking that e.164 addresses mean anything these days.The only time they make any difference is if they need to off ramp to legacy signaling which is becoming rarer and rarer. Mike On Tu

Re: FCC chairwoman: Fines alone aren't enough (Robocalls)

2022-10-04 Thread Michael Thomas
ng about the calling provider not the called provider all along. Mike On Oct 4, 2022, at 2:40 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:  On 10/4/22 11:21 AM, Shane Ronan wrote: Except the cost to do the data dips to determine the authorization isn't "free". Since every http request in th

Re: FCC chairwoman: Fines alone aren't enough (Robocalls)

2022-10-04 Thread Michael Thomas
e I'm talking all SIP here, not with PSTN hops. Or is that what you're talking about? Mike On Oct 4, 2022, at 4:50 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:  On 10/4/22 1:40 PM, sro...@ronan-online.com wrote: Except the pstn DB isn’t distributed like DNS is. Yes, I had forgot about &quo

Re: FCC chairwoman: Fines alone aren't enough (Robocalls)

2022-10-04 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/4/22 3:08 PM, Shane Ronan wrote: I'm talking about PSTN hops, which like I previously said still accounts for a VERY significant amount of calls. But what percentage of the spam calls? I thought they were mainly coming from voip/SIP? Mike

Re: FCC chairwoman: Fines alone aren't enough (Robocalls)

2022-10-04 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/4/22 5:23 PM, Peter Beckman wrote: On Tue, 4 Oct 2022, Michael Thomas wrote: Exactly. And that doesn't require an elaborate PKI. Who is allowed to use what telephone numbers is an administrative issue for the ingress provider to police. It's the equivalent to gmail not allo

Re: FCC chairwoman: Fines alone aren't enough (Robocalls)

2022-10-07 Thread Michael Thomas
On 10/7/22 12:45 AM, Brian Turnbow via NANOG wrote: The federal law in 47 USC 227(e) says: (1)In general It shall be unlawful for any person within the United States, or any person outside the United States if the recipient is within the United States, in connection with any voice service

Fred Brooks has died

2022-11-18 Thread Michael Thomas
His Mythical Man Month is a must read for anybody even remotely adjacent to coding, and frankly it should be read out of that context too. RIP Fred and thank you, that was one of the most important books I've ever read. Mike

Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Michael Thomas
I read in the Economist that the gen of starlink satellites will have the ability to route messages between each satellite. Would conventional routing protocols be up to such a challenge? Or would it have to be custom made for that problem? And since a lot of companies and countries are getting

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-22 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/22/23 3:05 PM, Matthew Petach wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 2:45 PM Michael Thomas wrote: I read in the Economist that the gen of starlink satellites will have the ability to route messages between each satellite. Would conventional routing protocols be up to such a

Re: Starlink routing

2023-01-23 Thread Michael Thomas
On 1/23/23 3:14 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: The original and traditional high-cost way of how this is done for MEO/LEO is exemplified by an o3b terminal, which has two active motorized tracking antennas. The antenna presently in use for the satellite that is overhead follows it until it's descendi

Re: About emails impersonating Path Network

2023-02-06 Thread Michael Thomas
This seems like a perfect object lesson on why you should use DKIM and SPF and make sure the sending domain can set up a p=reject policy for DMARC. Mike On 2/6/23 10:25 AM, Konrad Zemek wrote: Hi Nanog, It looks like someone with an axe to grind against our company has decided to email ever

Re: About emails impersonating Path Network

2023-02-07 Thread Michael Thomas
On 2/7/23 6:09 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 12:41:43PM -0800, Michael Thomas wrote: This seems like a perfect object lesson on why you should use DKIM and SPF and make sure the sending domain can set up a p=reject policy for DMARC. But it's not. DKIM and SPF are m

Re: About emails impersonating Path Network

2023-02-07 Thread Michael Thomas
On 2/7/23 11:33 AM, Jay Hennigan wrote: On 2/7/23 11:18, Michael Thomas wrote: FWIW, lookalike domains can and do happen with http too. Nothing unique about that to email. Then the bad guys throw in the occasional Cyrillic, etc. character that looks like a Roman one and things get even

Re: Namecheap's outbound email flow compromised: valid rdns, spf, dkim and dmarc on phishes

2023-02-12 Thread Michael Thomas
On 2/12/23 3:40 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: https://www.namepros.com/threads/concerning-e-mail-from-namecheap.1294946/page-2#post-8839257 https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/184391/namecheap-hacked It looks like a third party service they gave their keys to has been compromised. I got several phi

Re: Namecheap's outbound email flow compromised: valid rdns, spf, dkim and dmarc on phishes

2023-02-12 Thread Michael Thomas
registrars are not supposed to make such a rookie mistake. On Sun, Feb 12, 2023, 3:46 PM Michael Thomas wrote: On 2/12/23 3:40 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: > https://www.namepros.com/threads/concerning-e-mail-from-namecheap.1294946/page-2#post-8839257 > >

Re: Namecheap's outbound email flow compromised: valid rdns, spf, dkim and dmarc on phishes

2023-02-12 Thread Michael Thomas
wrote: Namecheap has updated their status page item to include "We have stopped all the emails (that includes Auth codes delivery, Trusted Devices’ verification, and Password Reset emails, etc.)" Yikes. On Sun, Feb 12, 2023, 3:54 PM Michael Thomas wrote: I think that it might be appr

Do ISP's collect and analyze traffic of users?

2023-05-15 Thread Michael Thomas
And maybe try to monetize it? I'm pretty sure that they can be compelled to do that, but do they do it for their own reasons too? Or is this way too much overhead to be doing en mass? (I vaguely recall that netflow, for example, can make routers unhappy if there is too much "flow"). Obvious

Re: Do ISP's collect and analyze traffic of users?

2023-05-16 Thread Michael Thomas
On 5/15/23 9:46 PM, Matthew Petach wrote: On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 6:42 PM Dave Phelps wrote: I think it's safe to assume they are selling such data. https://www.techdirt.com/2021/08/25/isps-give-netflow-data-to-third-parties-who-sell-it-without-user-awareness-consent/ https:/

Re: Do ISP's collect and analyze traffic of users?

2023-05-16 Thread Michael Thomas
On 5/16/23 7:35 AM, Livingood, Jason via NANOG wrote: +1 to what Josh writes below. I would also differentiate between mobile networks (service provisioned to individual devices & often carrier s/w on the device) and wireline networks (home devices behind a router/gateway/NAT). I just don'

Re: Do ISP's collect and analyze traffic of users?

2023-05-16 Thread Michael Thomas
On 5/16/23 7:55 AM, Saku Ytti wrote: Of course there are other monetisation opportunities via other mechanism than data-in-the-wire, like DNS And with DoH, that doesn't sound like a very long term opportunity. Mike

Re: Do ISP's collect and analyze traffic of users?

2023-05-19 Thread Michael Thomas
On 5/19/23 6:09 AM, Justin Streiner wrote: Hank: No doubt there is a massive amount of information that can be gathered from in-box telemetry.  This thread appears to be more focused on providers gathering data from traffic in flight across their infrastructure. Yeah, my curiosity was whet

Are we back to the 2000's again?

2023-06-03 Thread Michael Thomas
Apparently the RIAA is back suing ISP's (Cox in this case) for users pirating music. It was pretty bogus back then, but with the uptake of TLS for almost everything and DoH to conceal DNS requests what exactly is an ISP supposed to do these days? Throw in a VPN and the pirates completely cut

Re: Are we back to the 2000's again?

2023-06-03 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/3/23 4:01 PM, William Herrin wrote: On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 2:51 PM Mel Beckman wrote: It’s like blaming water companies for people stealing boats :) It's been a while and the article is light on the facts of the case, but IIRC what happened was: RIAA made some DMCA complaints to Cox. Co

Re: Are we back to the 2000's again?

2023-06-03 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/3/23 4:24 PM, William Herrin wrote: On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 4:09 PM Michael Thomas wrote: How can the RIAA even know? I mean, are they putting up honey pots or something? IIRC, they went after folks sharing the files via bit torrent rather than folks who only downloaded them. Oh yeah

Re: FCC Chair Rosenworcel Proposes to Investigate Impact of Data Caps

2023-06-15 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/15/23 3:19 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: While a lot of ISPs gave up on data caps, the language is still lurking in many Terms Of Service. https://www.fcc.gov/document/chair-rosenworcel-proposes-investigate-impact-data-caps proposed Notice of Inquiry to learn more about how broadband p

Re: FCC Chair Rosenworcel Proposes to Investigate Impact of Data Caps

2023-06-16 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/15/23 10:41 PM, Crist Clark wrote: Comcast still has data caps. My service is 1.2 TB per month. If we get close, we get a warning email. If we were to go over (hasn’t happened yet), we get billed per additional 500 MB. However, I just looked at my account usage for the first time for a

Re: FCC Chair Rosenworcel Proposes to Investigate Impact of Data Caps

2023-06-16 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/16/23 1:09 PM, Mark Tinka wrote: On 6/16/23 21:19, Josh Luthman wrote: Mark, In my world I constantly see people with 0 fixed internet options.  Many of these locations do not even have mobile coverage.  Competition is fine in town, but for millions of people in the US (and I'm goin

Re: FCC Chair Rosenworcel Proposes to Investigate Impact of Data Caps

2023-06-16 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/16/23 1:22 PM, Mark Tinka wrote: On 6/16/23 22:16, Michael Thomas wrote: Won't Starlink and other LEO configurations be that backstop sooner rather than later? I don't know if they have caps as well, but even if they do they could compete with their caps. Maybe. I real

Re: FCC Chair Rosenworcel Proposes to Investigate Impact of Data Caps

2023-06-16 Thread Michael Thomas
are numbering them though. Are the they using the same scheme that the mobile providers are using with ipv6? hmm. Mike On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 4:22 PM Mark Tinka wrote: On 6/16/23 22:16, Michael Thomas wrote: > Won't Starlink and other LEO configurations be that backstop sooner

Re: FCC Chair Rosenworcel Proposes to Investigate Impact of Data Caps

2023-06-16 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/16/23 3:18 PM, Keith Stokes wrote: Cox also has a 1.2 TB cap. If I can believe my graphs, the metered Cox connection (video streaming primarily for wife) is about 90 GB the month of April and the unmetered ATT fiber WFH for me is about 370 GB. Total LAN is about 450 GB. Napkin math but

Re: FCC Chair Rosenworcel Proposes to Investigate Impact of Data Caps

2023-06-17 Thread Michael Thomas
in their cpe that makes them much more expensive than, say, satellite tv dishes? I can see marginally more because of the LEO aspect, but isn't that mainly just software? It wouldn't surprise me that the main cost is the truck roll. Mike On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 4:17 PM Michael T

Re: FCC Chair Rosenworcel Proposes to Investigate Impact of Data Caps

2023-06-17 Thread Michael Thomas
oo bird but say what you will he does have big ambitions. Ambition is good. But reality tends to win the day. As does math. On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 4:38 PM Michael Thomas wrote: On 6/17/23 1:25 PM, Tom Beecher wrote: Won't Starlink and other LEO configurations be t

Re: FCC Chair Rosenworcel Proposes to Investigate Impact of Data Caps

2023-06-17 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/17/23 4:14 PM, Tom Beecher wrote: Also: they plan to use Starship when it's available which has 10x more capacity. If it really is fully reusable as advertised, that is going to really drive down the launch cost. Starship is years away from being flight ready. The most recent

Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

2023-06-23 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/23/23 4:01 PM, Delong.com via NANOG wrote: The electric grid complaints are about the demand on the grid making the entire region less stable and proposed construction of new high-voltage tower corridors for data centers. Yeah, I can kind of understand those, but as long as the grid is p

Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

2023-06-26 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/24/23 5:28 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Jun 23, 2023, at 18:04, Michael Thomas wrote:  On 6/23/23 4:01 PM, Delong.com via NANOG wrote: The electric grid complaints are about the demand on the grid making the entire region less stable and proposed construction of new high-voltage tower

Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

2023-06-26 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/26/23 6:06 PM, Ron Yokubaitis wrote: Dalles: government subsidized Hydroelectric Power, that’s why. Well that maybe, but electric rates are hella cheap in Oregon regardless. Mike Sent from the iPad of Ron Yokubaitis On Jun 26, 2023, at 7:37 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:  On 6/24

Re: Copper wire thefts increase 139% in one California county

2023-07-01 Thread Michael Thomas
On 7/1/23 9:46 AM, Sean Donelan wrote: Copper wire thefts of all kinds appear to be increasing in 2023. Not just telecommunications copper cables, but also electric and transit cables. San Joaquin County reported a 139% increase in copper wire thefts over four months, and one theft in the

Re: Hawaiian ILEC infrastructure and fire

2023-08-17 Thread Michael Thomas
On 8/17/23 11:26 AM, scott via NANOG wrote: I don't want to overwhelm the list, but since there's interest here's something interesting I just now got from the electric company.  400 poles and 300 transformers.  Wow! Those of us from California and the west have watched this in abject ho

So what do you think about the scuttlebutt of Musk interfering in Ukraine?

2023-09-13 Thread Michael Thomas
Doesn't this bump up against common carrier protections? I sure don't want my utilities weaponizing their monopoly status to the whims of any random narcissist billionaire. Mike

Re: So what do you think about the scuttlebutt of Musk interfering in Ukraine?

2023-09-14 Thread Michael Thomas
On 9/14/23 9:26 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: *nods* likely plenty of similar examples by less polarizing people. Then lets hear them? It certainly seems like an  operational issue if this starts to become common. How is it dealt with if at all beyond diversity which is hard to come by with LEO sy

Re: So what do you think about the scuttlebutt of Musk interfering in Ukraine?

2023-09-14 Thread Michael Thomas
On 9/14/23 6:34 AM, Dave Taht wrote: This is one of those threads where I do think folk would benefit from hearing from the horses' mouths. In a recent bio of musk published this past week, the author claimed that starlink withdrew service over crimea based on the knowledge it was going to be

Re: what is acceptible jitter for voip and videoconferencing?

2023-09-21 Thread Michael Thomas
On 9/21/23 3:31 PM, William Herrin wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 6:28 AM Tom Beecher wrote: My understanding has always been that 30ms was set based on human perceptibility. 30ms was the average point at which the average person could start to detect artifacts in the audio. Hi Tom, Jitte

Re: what is acceptible jitter for voip and videoconferencing?

2023-09-22 Thread Michael Thomas
On 9/22/23 9:42 AM, Jay Hennigan wrote: On 9/21/23 17:04, Michael Thomas wrote: When I wrote my first implementation of telnet ages ago, i was both amused and annoyed about the go-ahead option. Obviously patterned after audio meat-space protocols, but I was never convinced it wasn'

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