Re: Youtube Geolocation

2011-04-21 Thread Harry Strongburg
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 09:55:03PM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote: > how has mtu got anything to do with packet path? PMTUD?

Re: Youtube Geolocation

2011-04-21 Thread Harry Strongburg
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 04:36:50PM -0500, Dan White wrote: > We're experiencing very poor quality with You Tube, and it appears we're > subject to a bad entry within a geolocation database somewhere. > > When we attempt to view videos, the contact comes back to us from IPs like: > > 208.117.226.2

Re: Online games stealing your bandwidth

2010-09-25 Thread Harry Strongburg
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 09:56:15PM +, khatfi...@socllc.net wrote: > Speaking to your example with Blizzard: It was not my example, I do not play Blizzard games. > The Blizzard downloader does provide an option to disable P2P > transfers which then downloads direct via http from Blizzard. Th

Re: Online games stealing your bandwidth

2010-09-25 Thread Harry Strongburg
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 04:56:21PM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote: > Are these companies not making enough in monthly subscriptions to > afford Akamai or similar CDN services to distribute their software > updates? If you read the article, you will see that Akami is one of the perpetrators, via the "Akam

Re: Online games stealing your bandwidth

2010-09-25 Thread Harry Strongburg
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 04:16:46PM -0400, Rodrick Brown wrote: > I think most people are aware that the Blizzard "World of WarcCraft" patcher > distributes files through Bittorrent I personally love Bittorrent. It is wonderful for CDN - for both legal and not-so-legal files. I however despise the

Re: Facebook Issues/Outage in Southeast?

2010-09-23 Thread Harry Strongburg
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:43:44PM -0700, Justin Horstman wrote: > Via http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook.com > It's not just you! http://facebook.com looks down from here. That tool is very inefficient and often incorrect. It's up for me in the North-East. Should be back now, I hope.

Re: Reverse DNS for IPv6 client networks

2010-09-14 Thread Harry Strongburg
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 02:27:59PM +0200, Elmar K. Bins wrote: > Are you creating DNS entries somehow (reverse and, ultimately, forward), > are you using BIND "generate" statements, are you using wildcards...or > are you just ignoring this for the "dynamic boxes"? I haven't had my coffee yet this

Re: yahoo crawlers hammering us

2010-09-07 Thread Harry Strongburg
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 04:19:58PM -0400, Ken Chase wrote: > This makes it look like Yahoo is actually trafficking in pirated software, but > that's kinda too funny to expect to be true, unless some yahoo tech decided to > use that IP/server @yahoo for his nefarious activity, but there are better

Geolocation tools - IPv6 style

2010-08-16 Thread Harry Strongburg
Hello NANOG, first time writing to here. My inquiry for you is on the subject of IPv6 Geolocation tools; or better yet, the lack accuracy in them. My main problem comes from YouTube.com and other Google Geolocation required tools (Google Voice, being an example). I must set network.dns.disableI

Re: Chunghwa Telecom Tech Support Reg.

2010-08-12 Thread Harry Strongburg
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:09:02PM +0530, Natarajan Balasubramanian wrote: > Hi Yasir, > Thanks a lot for your immediate reply. I tried calling the number you > provided, that does not lead to "Chunghwa Telecom" in Taiwan. However, it > leads to some other organization and they are unable to unde