As everyone else has said, fiber is best, but if that is not an option...
We have had good luck using these:
http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/hgln_cat6.php
Trancievers will work as well, but that is a more expensive option.
Nothing is going to protect you from a direct strike.
Jerry
Ok, let me throw some cold reality water on this discussion...
Having built the IP network for the second largest supermarket
in the US, worked on the networks for the largest supermarket
in the UK, the largest 'chemist' in the UK, built the largest
website in the world (2.4 million cc
"Get a firewall" isnot a valid response when you have lusers
to drop the latest netgear whatever onto their PCand dial
to some provider somewhere. Your firewall is useless to
protect that segment.In many cases NAT is the ONLY
protection you end up with in this scenario, a scenario that
is
Do you really think that if we publish all the insecurities of the
Internet infrastructure that anyone is gonna stop using it, or
business, government, and private citizens are going to quit depending
on it?
That is a totally foolish statement in today's world. The incentive for
fixing the
Spamming is pervasive mainly due to the inattention or failure to enforce
acceptable use policies by the service provider.
I must point out that this statement is just flat wrong.
Spamming exists because spamming works. Why do spammers send
out millions of emails? Because thousands of
An interesting thought...
Jerry
Jerry,
One question - if I previously typed in an URL that was incorrect and would get the usual response from my OWN system, there would be not a real lot of data sent/received to pay for that mistake. Now that Verisign is doing their current thing, there
Went to register.com to register a new DNS server for someone, and when it
normally asks for the IP address (new server, new domain), it didn't because
when it did a query, it got a response for that name. Now, it is reporting
the new DNS server as resolving to Verisign's IP address.
I think
One thing I haven't seen mentioned in all this is the incredible business
monopolizing effect this move will have on the TLD's in question. It
dramatically shifts the domain playing field in Verisign's favor by pointing
millions of potential customers to their site(s) specifically, giving them
Ahhh...
You don't put battery backup on a kill-all switch
The idea behind it is to kill-all!! (*doh*) If you ever need to press it,
you do so just before the guys-with-foam run in to douse your burning UPS...
Jerry
---Original Message---
From: Eric Brunner-Williams in
I haven't had time to look, but just for my clarification, why was IPv8 not
pursued further. I remember there was a discussion on IPv6 vs IPv8 and the
argument to go directly to IPv8 instead, but I had to drop out from
following the discussions since.
Anyone remember the outcome? It seems
Add a "metoo" here. Unless we all have visited some other site in common...
Jerry
---Original Message---
From: Daniel Karrenberg
Date: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 04:22:04 PM
To: Dominic J. Eidson
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Metoo Was: Pesky spammers are using my mailbox
On 03.06
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