Re: NOAA warning for rf communications

2003-10-24 Thread Keptin Komrade Dr. BobWrench III esq.
Well, this is more than you really wanted to know, but ELV Exremely Lowdc - 3khz VLF Very Low Freq 3khz - 30khz LF Low Frequency 30khz - 300Khz MF Medium 300Khz - 3Mhz HF High3mhz-30mhz VHF

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Keptin Komrade Dr. BobWrench III esq.
You have to give Verisign some props for having the balls to present at NANOG...and those props should be in the form of not chasing them from the room with angry threats and pitchforks. Mark and the rest of the folks from Verisign, formerly NSI, formerly Internic, etc, etc have long been CONTRI

Re: .ORG problems this evening

2003-09-18 Thread Keptin Komrade Dr. BobWrench III esq.
E.B. Dreger wrote: TV> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:01:18 -0400 (EDT) TV> From: Todd Vierling TV> BGP doesn't know when a DNS server dies. Therein lies the TV> findamental problem of using anycast as an application TV> redundancy scheme. But it can and should. Again, seeing if the process is runnin

Re: .ORG problems this evening

2003-09-18 Thread Keptin Komrade Dr. BobWrench III esq.
Todd Vierling wrote: BGP doesn't know when a DNS server dies. Therein lies the findamental problem of using anycast as an application redundancy scheme. You ever think that maybe, just maybe, Ultra wrote some code to do this? Yes, it might have concievably failed in a way that seems to have left

Verisign brain damage and DNSSec.....Was:Re: What *are* they smoking?

2003-09-16 Thread Keptin Komrade Dr. BobWrench III esq.
Has anyone thought through the DNSsec implications of this? (spool up the black helicopters) Greg Maxwell wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Haesu wrote: I must ask the subject again. What in the name of < censored > *are* they smoking? Who exclusively gave them the right to own the 'net and

Re: Measured Internet good v. "bad" traffic

2003-08-28 Thread Keptin Komrade Dr. BobWrench III esq.
I can have some sympathy for the customer in this case...But... Do you consider the definition of 'bad traffic to include spam? To me, this is really simple. (as usual, IANAL, BUT...) It is 'theft of services' on the part of: a) the person(s) who wrote and released the virus, and b) contri

Re: OT: Notebooks /w a serial port?

2003-03-21 Thread Keptin Komrade Dr. BobWrench III esq.
I've even had luck with them on on applications that are simply looking to toggle the sense lines to control outside devices. Bob Dave Israel wrote: There are relatively cheap USB-to-serial devices. That's worked pretty well for me. On 3/21/2003 at 16:46:51 -0500, Drew Weaver said: