Re: Google wants to be your Internet

2007-01-22 Thread Nicholas Suan
On Jan 22, 2007, at 12:15 PM, Jim Shankland wrote: "Travis H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: IIRC, someone representing the electrical companies approached someone representing network providers, possibly the IETF, to ask about the feasibility of using IP to monitor the electrical meters thro

Re: rDNS naming conventions (was: Re: SORBS Contact)

2006-08-10 Thread Nicholas Suan
On 8/10/06, Steven Champeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: on Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 08:55:37PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > There's at least one vietnamese ISP that has / had till recently set > "localhost" as rDNS for all their IPs. IIRC, that was fpt.vn; they replaced 'localhost' with t

Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power

2006-06-16 Thread Nicholas Suan
Alex Rubenstein wrote: Huh? A Watt has no time constant. A watt is an amount of energy consumed at a moment (ie, a 60 watt light bulb), not an amount of energy over time (like a watt-hour; for instance, a 60 watt light bulb uses 60 watt-hours of power every hour, or 1.44 kwatt-hrs per day).

Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism

2006-04-08 Thread Nicholas Suan
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 10:51:27AM -0500, Church, Chuck wrote: > Since the intended (and announced) use of this server is just for DIX > networks, blocking NTP from any other networks should be trivial. That > IP address will still be hit by D-Link devices looking for a suitable > server, but wi

Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism

2006-04-07 Thread Nicholas Suan
+<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 06:49:18PM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > > Its just NTP, I can't imagine that it is *really* enoug

Re: DNS deluge for x.p.ctrc.cc

2006-02-25 Thread Nicholas Suan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Limit recursion to trusted netblocks and customers. Do not permit your name servers to provide recursion for the world. If you do, you will contribute to one of these attacks. I don't really think that preventing every Tom, Dick, and Harry from usi

Re: 74/8 75/8 76/8

2006-02-01 Thread Nicholas Suan
Martin Hannigan wrote: On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Martin Hannigan wrote: 74.63.0.0/20 75.127.0.0/20 76.191.0.0/20 ...should be withdrawn now. Why? [EMAIL PROTECTED]> ping 74.63.1.2 PING 74.63.1.2 (74.63.1.2): 56 data byes --- 74.63.1.2 ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 0 packets rec

Re: Deploying 6to4 outbound routes at the border (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Nicholas Suan
Daniel Roesen wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:45:33PM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote: Maybe to start -- but again, what kind of 6to4 traffic level are we expecting yet? Peak or average? Think twice before answering. :-) I'm told there are 6to4 relays seeing in excess of 100mbps. Not b

Re: Bad IPv6 connectivity or why not to announce more specifics (Was: IPv6 news)

2005-10-13 Thread Nicholas Suan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somehow, I don't think anything that Abilene does is going to fix Jordi's routing. From where *you* are, do *you* have a path to 2001:0440:1880:1000::0020 that *doesn't go through Japan? If so, what does your path look like? At least some parts of the US seem to.

Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd)

2005-05-03 Thread Nicholas Suan
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: i also remain convinced that using anycast to do distributed load balancing for applications like WWW, ... is silly, and will more often do harm or do nothing than do good. (and i've told akamai and speedera this many times.) The fact your digs returned different

Re: [dnsop] DNS Anycast revisited (fwd)

2005-05-03 Thread Nicholas Suan
Dean Anderson wrote: On Tue, 3 May 2005, Paul G wrote: i'm terribly sorry, but i'm unable to extract any meaning at all from these statements. when i parse them, they make no sense at all (not in terms of being wrong, just not understandable). could you rephrase them? coherency and consistency are

Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

2005-04-30 Thread Nicholas Suan
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: On 4/30/05, Steven Champeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ANantes-106-1-5-107.w193-251.abo.wanadoo.fr You'll see 'abo' for 'cable', perhaps? as well as 'cable'. But for most abo = short for "abonnement", that is, "subscription" / "subscriber" Just means its a pool of IP

Re: 30 Gmail Invites

2004-09-12 Thread Nicholas Suan
> I'm with Paul on the "makes sense" to run your own personal mail server > - for me, and others who _can_ run their own mail server. For those > who can't, public mail servers are all "scary". Gmail is no more scary > than hotmail, yahoo, msn, verizon, earthlink, or any of a billion other > m