Re: Amazon now controls 3.0.0.0/8

2018-11-08 Thread John Orthoefer
I wish we could have used 4.4.4.4. Although at the time I suspect we would have used 4.4.4.[123]. Johno > On Nov 8, 2018, at 18:58, Matt Erculiani wrote: > > So it looks like GE will be solvent for a few more years and 3.3.3.3 DNS is > incoming. > > -Matt > >> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 17:54

Re: SMS Gateway

2015-09-14 Thread John Orthoefer
Take a look at https://learn.adafruit.com/network-interface-failover-using-fona If you want to see what Alan is talking about. I’ve not used the Adafruit card, yet. But it’s on my hacking list of to-do. johno > On Sep 14, 2015, at 11:08 AM, a.l.m.bu...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: > > Hi, > >>

Re: United Airlines is Down (!) due to network connectivity problems

2015-07-08 Thread John Orthoefer
And now trading has been halted at the NYSE. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/08/421153353/trading-halted-on-new-york-stock-exchange Again undisclosed technical issue On Jul 8, 2015, at 12:36 PM, Paul Ferguson fergdawgs...@mykolab.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: Anycast provider for SMTP?

2015-06-15 Thread John Orthoefer
On Jun 15, 2015, at 8:00 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: dns is udp 15 years ago when we set up 4.2.2.1, there was a fair amount of TCP based DNS. We tried for a bit to support it via the anycast address, but ultimately we decided the support issues weren’t worth it. The few

Re: Anycast provider for SMTP?

2015-06-15 Thread John Orthoefer
Well we, Genuity, use to use Cisco Distributed Director to do this. Basically it was a DNS server that ran on a Cisco Router, and could use a lot of different metrics to give an answer, which included routing based metrics. Johno On Jun 15, 2015, at 1:50 PM, Joe Hamelin j...@nethead.com

Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-20 Thread John Orthoefer
On Oct 20, 2014, at 12:50 PM, Fred Baker (fred) f...@cisco.com wrote: […] and the older .arpa names quickly fell into disuse. People don’t use in-addr.arpa anymore? ;) johno

Re: Y'all know Google is offering public DNS services now?

2011-10-10 Thread John Orthoefer
I see those guys at BBNPlanet is trying to compete with them using 4.2.2.1, .2, and .3. johno On Oct 10, 2011, at 5:44 PM, Tom Hill wrote: On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 14:12 -0700, steve pirk [egrep] wrote: I saw this in a post from Travis Wise of Google yesterday. Pretty cool for those

Re: 123.45.67.89

2011-02-18 Thread John Orthoefer
Are you sure that Google has 4.4.4.4 and is running DNS on it? Google's website says 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. I know 4.2.2.1, 4.2.2.2, and 4.2.2.3 belong to Level3/Genuity/BBNPlanet and dig times-out on 4.4.4.4 for me. I would wonder more about 12.34.56.78 which belongs to ATT. Doing

Re: Cisco Sanitization

2011-01-12 Thread John Orthoefer
Really the only way to to clean devices with flash is to destroy the flash. At a very least you'll need to reflash them with the current OS. Here is a copy of the DOD Guidelines for every thing... http://it.ouhsc.edu/policies/documents/infosecurity/DoD_5220.pdf The flash answer is to use

Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story?

2010-02-14 Thread John Orthoefer
Since I'm watching B5 again on DVD I was there at the dawning of the age of 4.2.2.1 :) We did it, and we I mean Brett McCoy and my self. But most of the credit/blame goes to Brett... I helped him, but at the time I was mostly working on getting out Mail relays working right. This

Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story?

2010-02-14 Thread John Orthoefer
At the time I was involved it did have an SLA, and was considered critical infrastructure for Genuitity customers. Once we started to deploy 4.2.2.1, we gave customers time to swap over, but we started turning off our existing DNS servers. One reason we did it was that we kept having to