Re: clickbank.net and bundleway.com

2008-04-13 Thread Alexander Harrowell
This GoogleAd appeared while reading this thread: $400k ClickBank Website - www.AffiliateSiteX.com - Get your very own ClickBank website And let me show you how to push it Thanks, Google! (Link obviously redacted for security reasons.) Leads to www.affiliatesitex.com, which appears to be an alias

Re: rack power question

2008-03-25 Thread Alexander Harrowell
e hands > > In principal, though, I like it. > >Chris > > On 25 Mar 2008, at 06.08, Alexander Harrowell wrote: > > A valve in the connector; has to be pushed in by the other connector > > to let the water flow. Water pressure pushes it shut other

Re: rack power question

2008-03-25 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Question: what worries you more, fire or leaks? On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Ben Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While it has the potential to catch fire - it does however work fine in my > car engine. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: rack power question

2008-03-25 Thread Alexander Harrowell
rous cabling > situations it'd have to be made pretty idiot proof. > > Nice double sealed idiot proof piping with self-sealing ends.. > > -- > Leigh > > > -- > Leigh > > Alexander Harrowell wrote: > > I still think the industry needs to standardise wa

Re: rack power question

2008-03-25 Thread Alexander Harrowell
I still think the industry needs to standardise water cooling to popularise it; if there were two water ports on all the pizzaboxes next to the RJ45s, and a standard set of flexible pipes, how many people would start using it? There's probably a medical, automotive or aerospace standard out there.

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-25 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Interesting that (according to Renesys) BT reconnected about 500 networks in Pakistan after the big fibre cut. I wonder if there's any data around that would tell us who filters and who doesn't? On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Jim Mercer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > having built an ISP or tw

Re: ITU: Submarine Cable Cuts Acts of Sabatoge?

2008-02-19 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Paul Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sound of heads exploding: > > > http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2008/02/18/undersea-cables-may-h > ave-been-cut-by-saboteurs/

Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

2008-02-04 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Two days from Alexandria to the Gulf? Pull the other one. And you can't go through the Suez Canal submerged. On Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Frank Coluccio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This will be my only post on this subject after biting my tongue for > several days:) > > Some members will a

Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

2008-01-31 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Hank Nussbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think more interesting is the landing stations where numerous cables > intersect. They may be diverse in the water, but they cluster around each > other when they hit the landing stations. Exactly; which have hist

Re: abandon cable & the price of copper

2007-09-13 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Perhaps this paper from this month's Review of Network Economics ( http://www.rnejournal.com/articles/bernstein_et_al_RNE_sep_2007.pdf) on the irreversibility of telecoms investments isn't as clear as we thought. On 9/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > this might be a reve

Re: Using Mobile Phone email addys for monitoring

2007-09-06 Thread Alexander Harrowell
GSM/GPRS modems are cheap; so are SMS messages. The answer should be clear... On 9/6/07, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only > thing I spec for SMS notifications is a GSM modem physically connected to > the monitoring box. There's still points of failure, but they're a lot > f

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-21 Thread Alexander Harrowell
This is what I eventually upshot.. http://www.telco2.net/blog/2007/08/variable_speed_limits_for_the.html On 8/19/07, Mikael Abrahamsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Perry Lorier wrote: > > > Many networking stacks have a "TCP_INFO" ioctl that can be used to query > for >

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-17 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 8/17/07, Adrian Chadd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I'm pushing an agenda in the open source world to add > > > some concept of locality, with the purpose of moving traffic off ISP > > > networks when I can. I think the user will be just

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 8/16/07, Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yeah, that's why I was limiting the need (requirement) to only 1-few > > ASN hops upstream. I view this as similar to some backbones offering > > a special blackhole everything BGP community that usually is not > > transitive. This is the Oh

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Alexander Harrowell
An "Internet variable speed limit" is a nice idea, but there are some serious trust issues; applications have to trust the network implicitly not to issue gratuitous slow down messages, and certainly not to use them for evil purposes (not that I want to start a network neutrality flamewar...but wha

What's up at NTL/VirginMedia?

2007-08-07 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Seems to be a large-scale outage going on at Virgin Media ex-NTL, AS5089 in the UK. Lost service about 1600GMT yesterday to a wide range of locations throughout the country. Recorded phone message now saying several post code areas in SW London suburbs still dark, but status page shows lots'o'ticke

Re: Routing public traffic across county boundaries in Europe

2007-07-27 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 7/27/07, Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I would expect is that you still have to obey lawful intercept > legislation, so you need to interconnect with the government "black > box" rooms, and these are at the major IXs in the country. (And I've > repeatedly heard that in

Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's?

2007-07-27 Thread Alexander Harrowell
>I fail to see why one couldn't have TWO buttons of the same type This is done on quite a few lumps of industrial machinery. >While one of the priest-theologians meant >well, we learned what happened when holy water is sprinkled into the high >voltage supply of a gas chromatograph That's a litera

Re: China Internet problems

2007-07-18 Thread Alexander Harrowell
"The Internet treats censorship as damage and...Delivery Status Notification (Failure) Can't find host mx201.sina.com" It remains true that censorship is a single point of failure. On 7/18/07, Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Reuters is reporting that some traffic between China and ot

Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking)

2007-06-09 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 6/10/07, William Allen Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sean Donelan wrote: > UK ISP associations have developed a centralized blocking solution with > IWF providing the decision making of what to filter. 90% of the UK > broadband users accept the same "voluntary" decisions about what to

Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) for people who cant be bothered to read the article..

2007-06-08 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Well, it seems to be a standard operating procedure that anyone in a high profile case gets accused of possessing "child porn" via anonymous leaks from the police to the national press. (See the Forest Gate incident - not only did they tear the guy's house apart looking for nonexistent "chemical

Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) for people who cant be bothered to read the article..

2007-06-08 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 6/8/07, Leigh Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I actually removed the code in Squid that logs so it's impossible to log without significant development work ;-) -- Leigh Porter Internet governance by benevolent conspiracy:-)

Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK) for people who cant be bothered to read the article..

2007-06-08 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 6/7/07, Leigh Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since only port 80 is passed through the filter then of course there are all manor of things you could do to circumvent the filter and this will of course always be the case as people will use whatever they can to get what they want. After all,

Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK)

2007-06-07 Thread Alexander Harrowell
I strongly recommend you read Richard Clayton's paper on how (among other things) one could hack the Cleanfeed system to *find* the really bad stuff. He and his colleagues at the Cambridge Computer Lab also have a fine blog - http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org

Re: Slate Podcast on Estonian DOS atatck

2007-05-24 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 5/23/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just now got from a 6 hours beer fest with ISP/CERT/military/etc. guys who have been working on these attacks on Estonian infrastructure for the past 3 weeks here in Tallinn.. so if I make less sense than usual, please forgive me. Beer

Very high latency from Monaco377>CW>NTLWorld

2007-04-23 Thread Alexander Harrowell
traceroute to 86.0.6.36 (86.0.6.36), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 192.168.32.1 (192.168.32.1) 2.607 ms 1.162 ms 1.068 ms 2 netsgo-195-78-19-65.monaco377.com (195.78.19.65) 745.752 ms 608.475ms 639.013 ms 3 * netsgo-195-78-19-81.monaco377.com (195.78.19.81) 701.242 ms 579.526ms 4 195.7

Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8

2007-04-14 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 4/14/07, Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Another interesting case: 025/8 Jan 95 UK Ministry of Defense (Updated - Jan 06) # whois -h whois.arin.net 25.0.0.0 | more OrgName:DINSA, Ministry of Defence OrgID: DMD-16 Address:DINSA, HQ DCSA Address:

Re: airfrance.com

2007-04-03 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 4/3/07, Geo. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So far everyone who responded has managed to get the site to come up. When I go to www.airfrance.com from anywhere in my network 216.144.0.0/18 I simply get a timeout using anything including telnet to port 80, see below 15 297ms 299ms 299ms pos9-0

Re: airfrance.com

2007-04-03 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 4/3/07, Geo. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've poked around most of yesterday and this morning and initially I thought it was a dns problem but it appears to me that www.airfrance.com is blocking a whole lot of the IP space in the US from accessing their website. Using proxy servers I find tha

PG&E on data centre cooling..

2007-03-29 Thread Alexander Harrowell
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9014674&source=rss_news50

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-14 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Broadband-over-powerlines, like its cousin ethernet-over-domestic wiring, is one of those things that gets discovered every three years, hyped, oohed and aahed over, then disappears. Reason: it's a solution looking for a problem, for the reasons given above. Why not, rather than try to kludge dat

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-14 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 3/14/07, Mike Hammett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Current wireless technologies have no problem with the rural aspect, just the hills and foliage. Get on a tall enough tower in a remote enough area, you can have quite a range on your wireless coverage. I'm not sure of the cost of a cell tow

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-14 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 3/13/07, Daniel Senie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do longer-range wireless technologies like WiMAX >potentially impact the equation? If cell phone companies have not covered an area, what makes you think WiMAX is a magic solution? How well does WiMAX work to cover hilly, forested, ru

Re: Cable/DSL and the future of high-speed internet

2007-03-13 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Data point: a "considerable" number of mobile ops worldwide are pulling fibre to their Node-Bs or at least their RNCs. (No, wireline types - not Republican National Committees, Radio Network Controllers - you have one for every 10-15 Node-Bs, for a very rough idea) Sources say the triggering eve

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 3/13/07, Todd Vierling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Critical mass is approaching. There's only so long that North American consumers can be held back from bandwidth-hogging applications and downloads while parts of the world have long since upgraded to 10Mbit/s bidirectional (and beyond) cons

Re: Paul Vixie: Suspected Arms Dealer

2007-03-07 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 3/7/07, J. Oquendo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . Alright truth be told. Paul is using telekinetic coding that gets inserted to DNS lookups via Bind in which he then secretly inserts the KFC secret recipe into p2p apps in Siberia. There... Happy now? That's roughly what I assumed.

Paul Vixie: Suspected Arms Dealer

2007-03-07 Thread Alexander Harrowell
One of my blog-related interests is the career of Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. I recently checked out the namebase.org social network diagram for him...and was a little surprised to see where our very own Paul Vixie comes in it. http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?BOUT_VICTOR_ Is there som

Re: FCC on wifi at hotel

2007-03-01 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 3/1/07, Brandon Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/28/07, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a small number of wifi users with a card in a laptop to get to cellular > broadband, itd be pretty easy.. Or directional wifi uplink to a building nearby, preferably G vs B (for 54Mbps).

Re: wifi for 600, alex

2007-02-19 Thread Alexander Harrowell
It shouldn't be that difficult, because one device that does manage its power output shouldn't affect anyone else who doesn't.

Re: wifi for 600, alex

2007-02-16 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 2/16/07, JAKO Andras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please don't forget that 802.11 uses the CSMA/CA protocol. All nodes, including the AP and _all_ the clients should hear each others' transmissions so that they can decide when to transmit (when the medium is idle). Yes. But so long as they c

Re: wifi for 600, alex

2007-02-16 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Another mobile-land feature 802.11 could do with - dynamic TX power management. All the cellular systems have the ability to dial down the transmitter power the nearer to the BTS/Node B you get. This is not just good for batteries, but also good for radio, as s/n has diminishing returns to transm

Re: Request for topic death on Cold War history (was "RE: Every incident is an opportunity")

2007-02-12 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Causality? WW2=>nukes, cold war=>arpanet=>internet, surely? On 2/12/07, micky coughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmm, let's see. Nukes => cold war => arpanet => internet Yup, looks ok. On 2/12/07, Olsen, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Of course, but the point was the goal of that ta

Fwd: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11

2007-02-12 Thread Alexander Harrowell
-- Forwarded message -- From: Alexander Harrowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Feb 12, 2007 4:13 PM Subject: Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11 To: Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Paul, that's very interesting. A query: "AMT Site: A mul

Re: motivating security, was Re: Every incident...

2007-02-12 Thread Alexander Harrowell
d Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't mean to say that the car owners or computer users are free from blame. But holding a sentiment of just blaming users is not helpful. OTOH, if there was something the operators could clearly do to stop this, someone would have suggested it by now. (T

Re: motivating security, was Re: Every incident...

2007-02-12 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 2/12/07, Edward Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Security is never something I should want, it is always something I have to have. No-one wants "security", they want not-trouble. Similar to the point that no-one wants energy, they want warm rooms and cold beers. Perhaps we need a concept o

Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers)

2007-02-12 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 2/12/07, Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As a very smart person said a couple of weeks ago when this same argument was made: are you willing to do tech-support for my mother is she uses linux? Gadi. Name anyone techie who doesn't have to do tech support for their mother on

Any NANOGers going to 3GSM World Congress?

2007-02-11 Thread Alexander Harrowell
For the mobile maniacs among us..if you're coming to Barcelona, and flying Iberia, BA or Lufthansa via Heathrow, beware that your aircraft will come in at Terminal A but your checked baggage will be sent to Terminal B. Do NOT pass through the doors to the baggage reclaim in Terminal A because you

Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers)

2007-02-11 Thread Alexander Harrowell
3. Even if your computer is secure, miscreants depend on your trust. Be suspicious of messages, files, software; even if it appears to come from a person or company you trust. Anti-spam, anti-spyware, anit-virus, anti-phishing tools can help. But don't assume because you are using them,

Re: Hackers hit key Internet traffic computers

2007-02-07 Thread Alexander Harrowell
It was clear from the highly reliable index I call the "Nanogdex" that nothing was seriously amiss. Ndex value of 0, i.e. no traffic on-list, means either "all systems go!" or "outage so serious that Mitre is unreachable. Stockpile ammunition" Ndex value of 5, i.e. +/=100 mails/day, means "seri

Re: who was the last legit spammer?

2007-01-29 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Define "legit" spammer. Do you mean one who was just advertising a real product, albeit in an objectionable fashion, as opposed to those who are trying to spread malware or commit fraud?

Re: Colocation in the US.

2007-01-25 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 1/25/07, Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How long before we rediscover the smokestack? After all, a colo is an > industrial facility. A cellar beneath, a tall stack on top, and let physics > do the rest. odd that you should say that. when building out in a warehouse with 28 foot c

Re: Colocation in the US.

2007-01-25 Thread Alexander Harrowell
How long before we rediscover the smokestack? After all, a colo is an industrial facility. A cellar beneath, a tall stack on top, and let physics do the rest. Anyway, "RJ45 for Water" is a cracking idea. I wouldn't be surprised if there aren't already standardised pipe connectors in use elsewher

Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine

2007-01-25 Thread Alexander Harrowell
looks like a string of half hitchen to me. of course, if you need something huskier you could do a timber hitch, then a half, repeat as necessary. wasn't anyone else here a boy scout?

Re: Google wants to be your Internet

2007-01-23 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Why don't utilities strike deals with celluar providers to push data back to HQ over the cellular network at low utilization times (how many people use GPRS in the dead of night?). -brandon Enron did this with SkyTel paging in California. Or rather they wanted to do it, couldn't hack it, so

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-21 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Gibbard: It seems like if there's an issue here it's that different parties have different self-interests, and those whose interests aren't being served aren't passing on the costs to the decision makers. The users' performance interests are served by getting the fastest downloads possible. T

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-21 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Sprunk: > It's a nice idea to collect popularity data at the ISP level, because > the decision on what to load into the local torrent servers could be > automated. Note that collecting popularity data could be done at the edges without forcing all tracker requests through a transparent proxy.

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-21 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Said Sprunk: Caching per se doesn't apply to P2P networks, since they already do that as part of their normal operation. The key is getting users to contact peers who are topologically closer, limiting the bits * distance product. It's ridiculous that I often get better transfer rates with pe

Re: Google wants to be your Internet

2007-01-20 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Marshall wrote: Those sorts of percentages are common in Pareto distributions (AKA Zipf's law AKA "the 80-20 rule"). With the Zipf's exponent typical of web usage and video watching, I would predict something closer to 10% of the users consuming 50% of the usage, but this estimate is not that un

Re: Google wants to be your Internet

2007-01-20 Thread Alexander Harrowell
The Internet: the world's only industry that complains that people want its product. On 1/20/07, David Ulevitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rodrick Brown wrote: > > On 1/20/07, Mark Boolootian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> Cringley has a theory and it involves Google, video, and oversubs

Re: what happens when you put a typo in a DNSBL server?

2007-01-16 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Let's all hope they don't think of the possibilities *too* quickly. On 1/16/07, Wes Hardaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A number of ISPs use njabl.org as a DNS BL server. However, starting jan 2 a new domain exists "njalb.org" which is serving A records for anything queried against it's DNS

Re: Comment spammers chewing blogger bandwidth like crazy

2007-01-16 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Frisvold: How does this make his assumption incorrect? Spam is spam and DNSBLs will likely be very effective when it comes to stopping comment spam. There are, of course, some severe problems with using a DNSBL as a blocklist for comments... But there's a major problem here... A DNSBL is a

Re: Comment spammers chewing blogger bandwidth like crazy

2007-01-14 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Gadi, if your HTTP spam DNSBL gets working, we would certainly be interested in feeding our spam filter from it. It is my experience so far that comments spam is not very "botnetty" but more "boxy" - the proportion of the total we get from any single IP address is relatively high. Actually, to pu

Re: Comment spammers chewing blogger bandwidth like crazy

2007-01-13 Thread Alexander Harrowell
I was asked to join late in 2005. On 1/13/07, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you operate fistfulofeuros? That's a good blog/community. I operate wampum and koufax, and draftgore2008, and we do see persistant commerical ad inserts, and the occasional even

Re: Comment spammers chewing blogger bandwidth like crazy

2007-01-13 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Yes. Fistfulofeuros.net has seen dramatically higher levels of comments spam since last autumn. Not as much as below, but we were offline due to supposed overuse (I say supposed because our host claimed a script we don't have was responsible) over Christmas. On 1/13/07, Thomas Leavitt <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-10 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 1/10/07, Simon Leinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alexander Harrowell writes: > For example: France Telecom's consumer ISP in France (Wanadoo) is > pushing out lots and lots of WLAN boxes to its subs, which it brands > Liveboxes. As well as the router, they also carry thei

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-10 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 1/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Then why can't they plug in Power, TV & phone line? That's > > where IPTV STBs are going... OK, I can see that you could use such a set-top box to sell broadband to households which would not otherwise buy Internet services. But tha

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-10 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 1/10/07, Simon Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed Jan 10, 2007 at 09:43:11AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And it is difficult to plug Internet TV into your existing TV setup. Can your average person plug a cable / satellite / terrestrial (in the UK, the only mainstream option h

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-08 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Joe Abley said: >>(For example, you might imagine an RSS feed with BitTorrent enclosures, which requires no human presence to trigger the downloads.) I think that is essentially the Democracy client I mentioned. Great thread so far, btw.

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-07 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Yes, on reflection that should also have been filed under "unexamined assumptions." On 1/7/07, Patrick W. Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jan 7, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Alexander Harrowell wrote: > 1) Just unicasting it over the radio access network is going to use > a

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-07 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Michael Dillon said: The word "multicast" in the above quote, does not refer to the set of protocols called "IP multicast". Content delivery networks (CDNs) like Akamai are also, inherently, a form of multicasting. So are P2P networks like BitTorrent and EMule. That's precisely what I mean. Mar

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-07 Thread Alexander Harrowell
In the mobile world, there is a lot of telco-led activity around providing streaming video ("TV"), which always seems to boil down to the following points: 1) Just unicasting it over the radio access network is going to use a lot of capacity, and latency will make streaming good quality tough. 2

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-06 Thread Alexander Harrowell
There's also Democracy - http://www.getdemocracy.org Open source TV-over-IP suite including edit tools, server, and client. For these purposes, more interesting is that the transport layer is BitTorrent, so yup, if you're receiving you're also sending. On 1/6/07, Trent Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-04 Thread Alexander Harrowell
(All right then, scroll down for content :-)) On 1/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those of us who read nanog from a mobile device, it's incredibly > annoying to have no content in the first few bytes - a lot of mobile > e-mail clients (all MS Windows Mobile 5 devices

Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-04 Thread Alexander Harrowell
For those of us who read nanog from a mobile device, it's incredibly annoying to have no content in the first few bytes - a lot of mobile e-mail clients (all MS Windows Mobile 5 devices and every Blackberry I've seen) pull the first 0.5KB of each message, i.e. the header, subject line and the fir

Re: Security of National Infrastructure

2006-12-30 Thread Alexander Harrowell
And then I can refuse to read anything that comes from the US. After all, the pharma spam is clearly targeted on US residents. But what about all the Alice.it/Telecom Italia spam? Killfile the whole country, clearly. And the Chinese porno spam? And the Russian hackers? I remember there used to be

Re: Home media servers, AUPs, and upstream bandwidth utilization.

2006-12-26 Thread Alexander Harrowell
"Mobile access to Orb or Slingbox does not include using your mobile as a modem." Not sure what that means. They certainly support mobile>usb>pc or datacard use, so it's not that. Do they mean no Slingbox viewing on a pc attached to a mobile? Why? On 12/26/06, Roland Dobbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Home media servers, AUPs, and upstream bandwidth utilization.

2006-12-25 Thread Alexander Harrowell
UK UMTS operator 3 (a Hutchison division) is advertising its so-called X-Series service, which provides "unlimited" data service (plus various lumps of steam telephony) for £25 rising to £40 a month. Skype is being bundled with the devices involved, and here's the kicker - 3 is offering Slingboxen

Re: today's Wash Post Business section

2006-12-21 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Yes, Mac OSX has a whois client in Network Utility, but it's crap. On 12/21/06, Robert Bonomi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Dec 20 21:49:49 2006 > Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:48:06 -0500 > Subject: Re: today's Wash Post Business section > > > At 19:31 -0800 12/20/06, T

Re: Best Email Time

2006-12-09 Thread Alexander Harrowell
This account sees something over 10x more spam than genuine traffic, almost all of which is autofiltered. On 12/9/06, Rich Kulawiec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 07:50:57AM -0500, David Hester wrote: > CNN recently reported that 90% of all email on the internet is spam. >

Re: U.S./Europe connectivity

2006-12-06 Thread Alexander Harrowell
"You cannae break the laws of physics, Captain!" Seriously, LINX is the obvious first step. On 12/6/06, David Temkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have you ever had to use Radianz' service? :-) (disclaimer: it's far, far better nowadays) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to stop UltraDNS sales people calling

2006-11-30 Thread Alexander Harrowell
"Oh, I don't work here - I'm a burglar" On 11/29/06, Jay Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alexander Harrowell wrote: > > "Can I speak to so-and-so?" > > "I'm sorry I can't help. I am a counter-terrorism officer monitoring >

Re: How to stop UltraDNS sales people calling

2006-11-29 Thread Alexander Harrowell
"Can I speak to so-and-so?" "I'm sorry I can't help. I am a counter-terrorism officer monitoring this line for reasons of national security." On 11/29/06, William Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:48:55PM -0800, Joseph Jackson wrote: > I had ultradns calling also

Re: Verizon PSTN continued

2006-11-10 Thread Alexander Harrowell
"Centralised switching guarantees QOS!" Keep saying it and it might be true! On 11/9/06, Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Chris L. Morrow wrote: >> Working with 2 other carriers on a similar issue, response I rec'd was >> congestion due to automated political dialers

Re: FYI: Explosions Reported At eBay PayPal Building In SJ, All Cool Now

2006-11-01 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Police seeking buyer of Tower Bridge, enriched uranium and hawt teenage Russian bride. On 11/1/06, Fergie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No one injured, no operations interrupted on this, Oidhche Shamhna. http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_305004735.html Cheers, - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul

rbnnetwork.org

2006-10-31 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Is hosting a phishing site and bouncing abuse reports.. -- Forwarded message -- From: Alexander Harrowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Oct 31, 2006 2:38 PM Subject: Phisher To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We're receiving large volumes of comments spam advertising a site hos

Re: Boeing's Connexion announcement

2006-10-15 Thread Alexander Harrowell
I wrote a 800 word article on a 15" Powerbook in Singapore Airlines economy class last year, and filed it via Connexion..and that was quite neck-yanking enough.On 10/15/06, Todd Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: patrick, all,On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 04:56:34AM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:> >

Re: Broadband ISPs taxed for "generating light energy"

2006-10-10 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Reasonable? I think you mean "justifiable". On 10/10/06, Bill Woodcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds reasonable to me. Since the sale of energy is > usually measured in kilowatt-hours, how many kwh of > energy is transmitted across the average optical fibre > before it re

Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

2006-10-05 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Are you sure it's genuine? Those WWD domains (especially secureserver.net) account for a large fraction of the spam and phishing attempts I receive. On 10/5/06, Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4-Oct-2006, at 19:04, Steve Sobol wrote: > ICANN *does* have a requirement for accurate inf

Re: Outages mailing list

2006-09-29 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Presumably, if you find you can't reach the outages list because their listserv has had an outage, you just come up on NANOG like before? On 9/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:32:35 +0200, Niels Bakker said: > Gadi's tactics in a nutshell: > > 1) develo

Re: Zimbabwe satellite Internet link restored

2006-09-28 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Any chance of a moderator de-subscribing "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" from nanog? Every time anyone posts it kicks back a DSN, either failed or mail-loop On 9/28/06, Joe Provo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:24:30AM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote: [snip] > Or it could be a sign tha

Re: Zimbabwe satellite Internet link restored

2006-09-28 Thread Alexander Harrowell
And sufficiently heavily demanded by the regime that having their own satellite access is insufficient.

Re: Zimbabwe satellite Internet link restored

2006-09-28 Thread Alexander Harrowell
I'm a little surprised they came back up. I can certainly see the benefit for the regime to have - unavoidably, no money! - no Internet for the public (whilst they no doubt have private bgan/thuraya/whatever). On 9/28/06, Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank authori

Re: NANOG Thread

2006-09-25 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Well, if anyone wants to add more to it, there are quite a few prominent 'noggers still to cast.

Re: Topicality perceptions

2006-09-25 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Concur. Nanog has been an on-going education in essentially all aspects of internetworking, routing, data centres, security, spam/malware/abuse. Long may it stay that way. I'd argue that the fuzziness is probably a reflection of the ever-broadening role of IT/telco/netops people and ideas in curr

Re: NANOG Thread

2006-09-24 Thread Alexander Harrowell
This inspired me: http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2006/04/07/4991

NANOG Thread

2006-09-24 Thread Alexander Harrowell
After recent events, may I propose the ultimate NANOG thread..NANOG User: MessageRichard A Steenbergen: Can we keep this off-topic crap off NANOG?Gadi Evron: That message is deeply relevant to us all. I can't understand what your porblme is.Sean Donelan: Fascinating, User. I suppose ISSUE would be

Re: is this like a peering war somehow?

2006-01-20 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Mike, can I make: Preferential treatment can degrade service, but it cannot > improve service. my motto?

Re: is this like a peering war somehow?

2006-01-20 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Whatever. No-one's actually trying to do "some packets are more equal than others" here in Europe, except for the mobile people with IMS and such. BT just transferred its access network into a new division with a specific remit to provide open access to all ISPs and alt- tels who want it. It's in

Re: is this like a peering war somehow?

2006-01-19 Thread Alexander Harrowell
I refer to a previous post: Best effort is best effort, right? Ergo setting special QOS for special people=worse QOS for notspecial people. And who knew these content providers were getting free bandwidth? Me, I thought they had to pay for their leased lines :-) I'd say more, but I'll trigger swe

Re: [MailServer Notification]To sender: eManager settings were matche d and action was taken.

2006-01-19 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Wank, did I use a fucking naughty shitting word? On 1/19/06, System Attendant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > eManager Notification * > > The following message was blocked because it contains sensitive content. > > Source mailbox: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Destination mail

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