Can I make an old f*** comment on all this?
We didn't design this network to be highly secure.
It's general enough that security can be layered on at various places.
But when you get down to it it was mostly designed to get information
flowing easy, fast, and freely. Not to lock it down or
The video is pretty good particularly where it's most pessimistic.
My prediction:
It might take a little more than ten years but I'll predict positive
ID or you're not getting anywhere useful.
And a lot of people here will loathe that.
But you/we had your chance and spent most of your
And some of the lessons of group creation on USENET was:
1. You don't create a sub-topic to try to generate discussion. So for
example you don't create talk.baseball.redsox because no one ever
posts about the redsox in talk.baseball. It doesn't work. Not really
relevant here tho it might become
From: George Herbert
...Interesting overview of fire damage.
I remember many years ago spec'ing a machine room at BU and coming to
loggerheads with the VP of building and grounds.
He (well, their rules) wanted low-temp sprinkler triggers, I wanted
the high-temp ones (I forget but I think
Anyone remember when DEC delivered a new VMS version (V5 I think)
whose backups didn't work, couldn't be restored?
BU did, the hard way, when the engineering dept's faculty and student
disk failed.
DEC actually paid thousands of dollars for typist services to come and
re-enter whatever was on
At Boston Univ we discovered the hard way that a security guard's
walkie-talkie could cause a $5,000 (or $10K for the big machine room)
Halon dump.
Took a couple of times before we figured out the connection tho once
someone made it to the hold button before it actually dumped.
Speaking of
One day I got called into the office supplies area because there was a
smell of something burning. Uh-oh.
To make a long story short there was a stainless steel bowl which was
focusing the sun from a window such that it was igniting a cardboard
box.
Talk about SMH and random bad luck which
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, John Kristoff wrote:
>
> > Friends,
> >
> > I'd like to start a thread about the most famous and widespread Internet
> > operational issues, outages or implementation incompatibilities you
> > have seen.
> >
When Boston University joined the internet proper ca
In my humble but correct opinion one of the things which sabotages
these efforts is an aversion to any solution which doesn't feel like
it would work quickly and decisively (ask Bezos to offer a discount to
anyone using IPv6 to order on Amazon???)
I remember back in ~2003 on the Anti-Spam
I notice I often get DDoS'd when I post here, to NANOG, usually w/in
2-3 hours, so owing to this note it'll probably happen again tonight!
The typical attack is some mixture of DNS whacking from dozens or
hundreds of hosts, plus usually UDP packets being flung at basically
round-robin ports
Let me say a few words about David Tilbrook.
Unlike the author of that very nice linked article below I knew David
quite well. I co-chaired a couple of Usenix conferences with him and
even flew to Toronto for his daughter's bat mitzvah (umm, because he
invited me), etc.
He was very smart, he'd
On January 21, 2021 at 12:39 nanog@nanog.org (Jean St-Laurent via NANOG) wrote:
>
> I feel this is a good example that a pen is mightier than a sword.
In all honesty have we really given the sword a chance in these cases?
--
-Barry Shein
Software Tool & Die| b...@theworld.com
On January 20, 2021 at 16:06 nanog@nanog.org (Grant Taylor via NANOG) wrote:
> On 1/20/21 3:50 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote:
> > Around 300MB/day.
>
> Interesting.
>
> I see 50-70 MB / day for text only newsgroups.
>
> Perhaps I want to step up to more than text only on some of my
On January 20, 2021 at 13:41 b...@herrin.us (William Herrin) wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 12:40 PM wrote:
> > 2. Usenet is dead and besides a full feed is 20+TB/day because it's
> > dead, but 20TB/day...
>
> Hi Barry,
>
> How much is it per day if you skip the groups distributing
Through a coincidence of hardware failures "out there", which should
come back soon, and admittedly some inattentiveness as peers went
away, The World finds itself looking for some Usenet peers.
Not a full feed, we can talk.
1. OT? Feel free to point me to a better place which anyone is likely
On January 14, 2021 at 04:56 j...@baylink.com (Jay R. Ashworth) wrote:
> Well, it probably gets way worse: if it's a "permanent" battery, it will be
> harder to find, and harder to replace...
No, you don't replace the permanent batteries in these 10 year smoke
detectors, you toss the whole
(Topic at hand was just building an emergency alert system into smoke
detectors rather than try to come up with some complex
internet-oriented design.)
On January 14, 2021 at 03:56 j...@baylink.com (Jay R. Ashworth) wrote:
> Last time I looked, consumer residential smoke detectors were still
Sorry for intruding one more time but in my experience, which is
absolutely vast, amateurs argue written law, professionals (i.e.,
lawyers) generally argue precedent; how courts have interpreted the
law in cases applicable to the issue at hand.
If no useful precedent exists professionals tend
Sometimes it's worth turning the issue around and looking at it right
up the...um, whatever.
A friend who is rather right-wing (tho mostly sane) said angrily that
AWS terminating Parler was "Stalinist" (apparently his metaphor for
totalitarian.)
I said no, the government _forcing_ AWS to carry
On January 10, 2021 at 08:42 sro...@ronan-online.com (sro...@ronan-online.com)
wrote:
> While Amazon is absolutely within their rights to suspend anyone they want
> for violation of their TOS, it does create an interesting problem. Amazon is
> now in the content moderation business, which
On January 4, 2021 at 21:19 valdis.kletni...@vt.edu (Valdis Klētnieks) wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jan 2021 15:33:10 -0500, b...@theworld.com said:
> > Why wouldn't we just build this into 10-year battery smoke alarms, a
> > simple radio receiver?
>
> First, that means your smoke alarm batteries
Why wouldn't we just build this into 10-year battery smoke alarms, a
simple radio receiver?
Why does anyone think this must be a feature of the internet when, as
people here have described, that entails all sorts of complexities.
You just want something that goes BEEP-BEEP-BEEP KISS YOUR ASS
Let's just go back to air-raid sirens.
I'm old enough to remember when they were tested every day at noon,
which also told you it was noon (lunch!)
We'd say heaven help us if The Enemy attacked at noon.
--
-Barry Shein
Software Tool & Die| b...@theworld.com |
Another way to phrase the question (which was the subject of much
dispute 30 years ago) is:
Which would you rather have (I'll use modern speeds):
1gb flat rate
10gb metered
Where metered 10gb could cost less than 1gb when you don't use it, or
about the same at ~1gb, but more if you use >1gb?
I'm not so sure. If someone got the banks, credit card (fintech), big
online shopping, etc (tho not a lot of etc needed) on board, the "head
count" for that wouldn't be very large, and others would join
(particularly retail) just to not be left out...
One can build a quite different network on
Somedays I wonder if it's some vast, well-funded, Spectre-like
organization whose backers just want to see trust in the internet
undermined in the public's eyes on behalf of their own non-internet or
anti-internet (think: phone companies who'd love to charge you per
email and web page access for
Slow Friday...
One pressing problem of "AI", and might be a useful analogy, is that
we're (everyone w/ the money) deploying it, for some value of "it",
into weapons systems.
The problem is that decisions made by for example an attack drone
might have to be made in milliseconds incorporating
"Don't anthropomorphize computers, it just pisses them off." -- some wag
--
-Barry Shein
Software Tool & Die| b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com
Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD
The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information
Instagram is enabling an harassment attack.
They are sending out "change in terms of use" statements, you've
probably received it.
Apparently they will send them to unconfirmed accounts, en masse.
So for example you own example.com and all email for *@example.com
goes to you.
And there are
Addrex.net
I know some of the principles personally and would vouch for them.
On June 11, 2020 at 14:27 edwin.malle...@gmail.com (edwin.malle...@gmail.com)
wrote:
> Hi Nanog,
>
>
>
> I have need of a reputable IPv4 broker or service ? personal experience with
> said broker would
Looks cool, I'll check it out, thanks!
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WanderLust
On May 14, 2020 at 14:57 ra...@psg.com (Randy Bush) wrote:
> > I tend to read email with EMACS/VM.
>
> fwiw, i moved from VM to Wanderlust a dozen years ago; if i remember
> aright, for better imap
I tend to read email with EMACS/VM. It has a 'k' command which kills
(marks deleted) every message with the same subject as the current
message being viewed.
On May 14, 2020 at 20:36 bj...@mork.no (Bjørn Mork) wrote:
> At the risk of starting an off topic discussion here, but am I the only
>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeqVGP-GPM
--
-Barry Shein
Software Tool & Die| b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com
Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD
The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*
On April 29, 2020 at 07:35 na...@ics-il.net (Mike Hammett) wrote:
> "What is it, exactly, that you expect a provider to do with your report of a
> few failed SSH login attempts to stop the activity?... disconnect the
> customer."
>
> Yes.
What I've done in the past is tell the customer we
The obvious way to id them is to buy whatever it is they are selling.
So that reduces the problem to being able to cancel the transaction
once id'd, and probably using fraudulent credentials.
It might take a little more strategy than what I just described, there
are other potential pitfalls.
I remember an anecdote during 9/11 about a fuel truck being stopped, I
think the line was Houston St, someone found an empty fuel truck on
the other side and convinced the natl guard or whoever it was to let
them transfer the diesel from one truck to the other across the line
and get the fuel
On March 14, 2020 at 14:49 r...@gsp.org (Rich Kulawiec) wrote:
>
> 2. Find all the phone chargers, laptop chargers, USB sticks, cables,
> everything. If you're not already obsessive about keeping things
> charged, get that way.
You're really expecting power interruptions due to the virus
On March 8, 2020 at 16:32 l...@satchell.net (Stephen Satchell) wrote:
> On 3/8/20 4:00 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote:
> > As I've said before what would likely work is if every time one of us
> > (in the US anyhow) got a junk call we immediately called our
> > congressional and/or senate
I do the same, don't say anything when I pick up an unknown caller id
until they say something, they disconnect about half or more of the
time tho not always.
As I've said before what would likely work is if every time one of us
(in the US anyhow) got a junk call we immediately called our
Point taken.
On March 8, 2020 at 15:06 dam...@google.com (Damian Menscher) wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 2:18 PM wrote:
>
>
> It's really not analogous to most of the mass attacks on the net
> because the entire telco system is built to know who is using it in
> great
It's really not analogous to most of the mass attacks on the net
because the entire telco system is built to know who is using it in
great detail.
Have you ever made a billable call and *not* been billed for it?
If you're getting the same "Hi, this is from card holder
services" calls like
On March 7, 2020 at 14:54 s...@donelan.com (Sean Donelan) wrote:
>
> Has encryption ever solved scams/fraud/spam?
>
> Extended Validation SSL Certificates - Just pay a Certificate Authority
> more money
>
> DKIM signed email - Just pay a mail provider more money to blast email
>
>
On March 7, 2020 at 02:03 morrowc.li...@gmail.com (Christopher Morrow) wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 11:05 PM Brian J. Murrell
> wrote:
>
> > So, if my telco can bill the callers for those premium calls, they
> > surely know who they are, or at least know where they are sending the
>
On March 6, 2020 at 17:34 s...@donelan.com (Sean Donelan) wrote:
>
> https://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-pai-proposes-mandating-stirshaken-combat-robocalls
>
> Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai today proposed a major
> step forward to further the FCC’s efforts to
Ok it's Sunday...
The first time I got on the internet was around 1977.
A friend dropped by the lab I worked in at Harvard and wondered if I
had an MIT ITS account and I said no wasn't even sure what it was
other than a time sharing system at MIT.
So we had a modem and dumb terminal and
Once again I predict the past! It's amazing!
Thanks John.
On February 7, 2020 at 14:48 jcur...@arin.net (John Curran) wrote:
> Barry -
>
>
> FYI – In addition to a regular financial audit, ARIN periodically has a
> third-party operational audit conducted of the registry,
It could measure the extent of the problem and would be within what I
suggested.
For example if there were only one AS being abused that would make it
a different priority than 1,000 or 10,000 (some seem to be implying a
number like that) being abused.
Do we have that number?
And tracking the
Given events including the IPv4 runout etc perhaps it's long overdue
that the RIRs should hire a professional big-name (we used to call
them Big 5) accounting firm to audit or at least review IP address,
ASN, etc. allocation.
I am not talking about money, I am talking about resource allocation.
On January 27, 2020 at 09:26 james.v...@gmail.com (james jones) wrote:
> Does AOL count? If my first real internet connection was dial up 3600 baud
> through compuserv. When I finally upgraded to 56K I thought it was light
> speed.
I remember going from 300b to 1200b and thinking wow, this
On January 27, 2020 at 22:57 ma...@isc.org (Mark Andrews) wrote:
> The hardware support was 2B+D but you could definitely just use a single B.
> 56k vs 64k depended on where you where is the world and which style of ISDN
> the telco offered.
FWIW bulk dial-up lines were often brought in
On January 26, 2020 at 15:59 ka...@biplane.com.au (Karl Auer) wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-01-25 at 22:29 -0600, Aaron Gould wrote:
> > From: Ben Cannon [mailto:b...@6by7.net]
> > I started what became 6x7 with a 64k ISDN line. And 9600 baud
> > modems…
>
> Pah! Luxury!
>
> When *I*
On January 24, 2020 at 16:59 list-nan...@dragon.net (Paul Ebersman) wrote:
> bzs> When we, The World, first began allowing the general public onto
> bzs> the internet in October 1989 we actually had a (mildly shared*) T1
> bzs> (1.544mbps) UUNET link. So not so bad for
On January 24, 2020 at 08:55 aar...@gvtc.com (Aaron Gould) wrote:
> Thanks Jared, When I reminisce with my boss he reminds me that this
> telco/ISP here initially started with a 56kbps internet uplink , lol
Point of History:
When we, The World, first began allowing the general public onto
On January 23, 2020 at 19:52 p...@nashnetworks.ca (Paul Nash) wrote:
> > While it makes me feel old, it’s also something that I marvel about
> > periodically.
>
> A bit of perspective on bandwidth and feeling old. The first non-academic
> connection from Africa (Usenet and Email,
On December 20, 2019 at 08:00 na...@ics-il.net (Mike Hammett) wrote:
> I can't imagine many telcos are making a lot of money from voice anymore.
They may not be making a huge amount anymore which may be why they're
now allowing (i.e., not fighting/lobbying) these folks to be thrown
under the
If you want to end robocalls then every time you get one call your
local congress person's or senator's main phone number and say "I just
got another robocall (perhaps characterizing it like 'for auto
warranties' or 'for IRS fraud')".
Everyone. Every time.
--
-Barry Shein
Software
They should be fining the telcos, they're making a lot of money on
these calls.
And if you believe otherwise (e.g., that it's like email spam) you've
been duped by telco PR.
Unlike spam when was the last time a telco failed to bill you for a
billable phone call? Never.
They know exactly who
25 years or so from now when the internet is basically a big CATV-like
service someone will write a book about how "SPAM Ate The Internet".
And a few other things, among them:
Phase II: Ham Eats The Internet.
Now that every marcom, billing, etc dept and their pet dog has figured
out they can
This is that reasoning that because this particular shiny bauble is
laying right here on the table then that's the whole picture.
More likely if some of them decided to sell that IPv4 block they'd
catch up on the rent or cut deductibles on the health care plan or or
get rid of some of that
I knew Brian Kantor from the old Usenix days, we've sat around the bar
together at conferences etc. many times.
There was even an outstanding minor technical issue from a few weeks
ago I wanted to get back to him about...oh well.
Sorry to hear this, he was one of those rare people who actually
If the commitment really was to spread IPv6 far and wide IPv6 blocks
would be handed out for free, one per qualified customer (e.g., if you
have an IPv4 allocation you get one IPv6 block free), or perhaps some
trivial administrative fee like $10 per year.
But the RIRs can't live on that.
We
currently
> experiencing student protests is ... yeah...
Interesting theory.
>
> I take it you know nothing about Internetworking?
Perhaps you should look at https://www.TheWorld.com/~bzs
>
> Or, again, Zerohedge?
Nope, knew nothing off-hand about them but wikipedia seems
Thanks everyone for the replies. My conclusion is that no one here
knows whether HKIX handles 99% of internet traffic for HK or not.
It's a number.
--
-Barry Shein
Software Tool & Die| b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com
Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1
Is this plausible?
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/heres-real-reason-why-hong-kong-authorities-are-desperate-regain-control-university
or
http://tinyurl.com/slwchx8
--
-Barry Shein
Software Tool & Die| b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com
This can be a "curse" of highly available servers which stay up for a
year or more, some of mine will.
A mail delivery process locks messages in the queue for delivery and
then the process hangs.
Subsequent delivery attempts will honor the lock so they never go out,
nor are they even timed
There's a fairly famous animal behavior experiment where rats are
allowed to multiply in a room-sized cage without control, food and
water and basic sanitation are provided.
When the cage becomes extremely crowded rats are observed gnawing on
each other's tails.
--
-Barry Shein
On October 9, 2019 at 17:12 b...@herrin.us (William Herrin) wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 4:30 PM John R. Levine wrote:
> > > Can I summarize the current round of objections to my admittedly
> > > off-beat proposal (use basically URLs rather than IP addresses in IP
> > > packet src/dest)
OK OK OK.
Can I summarize the current round of objections to my admittedly
off-beat proposal (use basically URLs rather than IP addresses in IP
packet src/dest) as:
We can't do that! It would require changing something!
I've no doubt many here are comfortable with the current architecture.
On October 8, 2019 at 23:51 o...@delong.com (Owen DeLong) wrote:
(responding to my P.S.)
> P.S. My prediction?
>
> The world's major telcos et al, having had enough of various problems,
> from address exhaustion to non-stop security disasters, and the
> chaotic responses,
On October 8, 2019 at 19:12 nwar...@barryelectric.com (Nicholas Warren) wrote:
> Sweet deals, would you kindly share your vendor?
>
>
> It's not 1990 any more, a TB of RAM now costs a few thousand dollars
> and is dropping rapidly (similar for fancy router RAM), we have
> processor chips
On October 8, 2019 at 12:04 b...@herrin.us (William Herrin) wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 12:01 PM wrote:
>
> My main point is, as I said, Bits is Bits, whether they're human
> readable (for some value of "human") like URLs or long hex strings
> which perhaps are less human
On October 7, 2019 at 23:13 o...@delong.com (Owen DeLong) wrote:
>
>
> > On Oct 7, 2019, at 20:16 , b...@theworld.com wrote:
> >
> >
> > Well if you all really want your heads to explode I was invited to
> > give a talk a few years ago in Singapore at the local HackerSpace.
> >
> >
On October 8, 2019 at 03:00 michel...@tsisemi.com (Michel Py) wrote:
> > Owen DeLong wrote :
> > Well… I don’t run into this very often any more, but I guess if you have a
> > poorly run DNS environment, it might be more of an issue.
>
> About half of my devices, including all the VOIP
Well if you all really want your heads to explode I was invited to
give a talk a few years ago in Singapore at the local HackerSpace.
It called for something creative and different, not really an IETF
sort of crowd.
So I proposed we dump numeric addresses entirely and use basically
URLs in IP
I think we're basically on the same page. But what I described
wouldn't use port numbers to fake extended addressing, just a flag and
some extra IP header for the extended addr bits.
On October 6, 2019 at 21:12 li...@packetflux.com (Forrest Christian (List
Account)) wrote:
> I've been
I didn't quite say nothing would need to be changed, only that the
changes would be by and large very minimal, some new cases in the
existing IPv4 stacks, rather than an entirely new stack. Particularly
for hosts, if this bit (flag, whatever) is set be sure to copy the
entire IP packet into your
On October 6, 2019 at 16:35 jhellent...@dataix.net (J. Hellenthal) wrote:
> And in which part of the header is this to be added ?
I assume you mean the additional address. The IHL provides for up to
60 bytes of IP header length. 20 bytes is needed for the usual IPv4
header so an additional 40
On October 6, 2019 at 15:18 mpal...@hezmatt.org (Matt Palmer) wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 04:36:50PM -0400, b...@theworld.com wrote:
> >
> > On October 4, 2019 at 15:26 o...@delong.com (Owen DeLong) wrote:
> > >
> > > OK… Let’s talk about how?
> > >
> > > How would you have
On October 4, 2019 at 15:26 o...@delong.com (Owen DeLong) wrote:
>
> OK… Let’s talk about how?
>
> How would you have made it possible for a host that only understands 32-bit
> addresses to exchange traffic with a host that only has a 128-bit address?
A bit in the header or similar
Whether people make actual monetary profit off child porn is a red
herring.
Literally billions make postings to social media such as FB, Twitter,
(not child porn I mean in general) and very, very few get paid.
There are many reasons people might do this -- make child porn
available --
Everyone's (who's anyone) is looking for free curation of the net!
Maybe one more law or regulation will do it. Look at how well it
stomped out spam!
Put more grimly:
For over 100 years Europe, and others, have imagined the path to
paradise is paved with new and improved censorship.
Results
On August 30, 2019 at 15:09 patr...@ianai.net (Patrick W. Gilmore) wrote:
>
> Stop and think about that for a second. You had a part in literally changing
> the world.
Some of us had a part in literally creating TheWorld(.com) :-)
--
-Barry Shein
Software Tool & Die|
Are "surge protectors" really of much use against lightning? I suspect
not, other than minor inductions tho perhaps some are specially
designed for lightning. I wouldn't assume, I'd want to see the word
"lightning" in the specs.
I once had a lightning strike (at Harvard Chemistry), probably
On August 7, 2019 at 18:43 cov...@ccs.covici.com (John Covici) wrote:
> Well, I don't want any net nannies sensoring the news I get, any ideas
> the nanny does not like I will never see (?)
Then you wouldn't buy it. Netnanny exists now, do you use it? No?
Would you use it? No. Then nothing
Netnanny is mostly sold for parents to put on their children's access.
You're not thinking this through.
Promote third-party curation, those who never want to see content they
find disturbing can PURCHASE* that service rather than bugging their
congressperson to demand that ISPs provide this
I propose that the RIGHT THING TO DO would be to seek out, promote (to
both customers and the public), and support various curation services
like netnanny.
Promoting the idea that third-party curation is a service one can
obtain into the public discussion can only be good.
--
-Barry
And now this has happened, in a nutshell France's lower house says
remove content which is "obviously hateful" (words used in the
article) in 24 hours or face up to a 1.25M euro fine.
Granted perhaps it won't become law.
But legislators are clearly becoming consumed with this whole internet
On August 5, 2019 at 19:02 valdis.kletni...@vt.edu (Valdis Klētnieks) wrote:
>
> Hint: The DMCA has the text about data stored on ISP servers because many
> ISPs
> aren't mere conduits. And this thread got started regarding a CDN, which is
> very much
> all about storing data on
One tiny bit of sermonizing not aimed at anyone in particular:
Interested amateurs tend to study the wording of laws.
Lawyers tend to study case law, actual cases and their outcomes.
In part that's because, besides the hazards of interpretation, laws
often conflict, supercede each other,
My first suggestion would be to include an indemnification clause in
your contracts which includes liability for content, if you don't
already have it (probably most do.)
And a clause which indicates you (need lawyering for this) will seek
expenses including but not limited to legal,
On July 26, 2019 at 21:19 do...@dougbarton.us (Doug Barton) wrote:
> All of this, plus what Fred Baker said upthread.
>
> When I was running the IANA in the early 2000's we discussed this issue with
> many different experts, hardware company reps, etc. Not only was there a
> software issue
I wonder how much do-not-reply@ and similar is spammed?
On June 15, 2019 at 01:47 m...@beckman.org (Mel Beckman) wrote:
> Postmaster@ is so widely spammed as to be useless. Standards, and even laws,
> can be overcome by reality. Witness the DoNotCall list.
>
> -mel beckman
>
> > On
WARNING: I AM ABOUT TO PONTIFICATE!
Many of the lists etc I'm on get spamt and that's followed by a stream
of "we're getting spamt!" (either directly or scraped) agonizing, over
and over.
I've been involved in the spam problems since before some of you were
bornt (ok I'll stop with the stupid
On May 28, 2019 at 19:56 o...@delong.com (Owen DeLong) wrote:
> It’s unlikely to apply to much of anything in a datacenter other than disks.
Ok, disks, a mere bagatelle of a concern.
Then again obviously disks have gotten much, much better about thermal
change since people in, e.g., temperate
Something to keep in mind is that some equipment, disks in particular,
should only be cooled at a certain rate once they're hot, often
annoyingly slow by the specs like 2-3 degrees C per hour but there are
probably circuits sensitive to this also which could be anywhere.
It came up because it
Why has OUTLOOK.COM allowed daily dictionary spammers to operate from
their net, FOR YEARS?
It can't be that hard to detect and block.
2019-05-13T17:00:18.194103-04:00 pcls6 sendmail[14128]: NOUSER: proctor5
relay=mail-eopbgr740053.outbound.protection.outlook.com [40.107.74.53]
That's it! Put your stuff on IPv6-only and vastly improve your
security footprint!
--
-Barry Shein
Software Tool & Die| b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com
Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD
The World: Since 1989 | A Public
I'm old. I was online @MIT-AI the night the pentagon (probably DISA?)
started broadcasting messages that basically the ARPAnet was going
down for "emergency testing" blah blah.
I thought it was a prank so just kept working.
Another message or two and it all went dead, CONNECTION LOST
Couldn't
I have proposed many times to just move domain WHOIS data into a new
RRTYPE and let whoever owns the domain put in that whatever they want,
including (and perhaps most usefully for many) just a URL for further
detail.
Obviously registries/registrars/ICANN can require and maintain more
specific
On February 26, 2019 at 20:45 jo...@iecc.com (John Levine) wrote:
> In article <3fd86d54-7fe4-4e1d-8c8d-a4d79f030...@pch.net> you write:
> >That’s the main reason for having a brand TLD at this point, from my point
> >of view. It’s the reason I’d get one in a heartbeat, if I could afford
1 - 100 of 228 matches
Mail list logo
