Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)

2010-02-27 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 02/26/2010 03:10 PM, Paul Bosworth wrote: I think a lot of people often forget that ISPs are actually businesses trying to turn a profit. Bearing in mind that the facilities that exist in much of the rural united states are actually there because we collectively payed for them rather than

Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)

2010-02-27 Thread gordon b slater
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 19:20 -0500, Daniel Senie wrote: Hopefully someone will bother to cover the rural areas with cell service eventually. I'm finding a fair number (about 40%+) of the tech-savvy must-have-for-business-emails users here in very rural UK out of reach of RA-ADSL) are

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-27 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 27/02/2010 06:20, Kevin Oberman wrote: I'm sorry, but some people are spending too much time denying history. IPv6 has been largely ready for YEARS. Less than five years ago a lot of engineers were declaring IPv6 dead and telling people that double and triple NAT was the way of the future.

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-27 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 27/02/2010 04:04, Phil Regnauld wrote: I'm not saying that political incentives (carrot stick) or government regulations in the line of implement IPv6 before X/Y or else... have had any effect, except maybe in Japan: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Japanese government

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-27 Thread Jorge Amodio
Long time ago (10+ years, Randy, others, correct me if I'm wrong) Japan had the vision and strategy for embracing IPv6 to assume a leadership position in the data telecommunications market. I remember how often during our (VRIO) IPO due diligence and later when the company became part of NTT,

Re: Chile (fyi)

2010-02-27 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/27/2010 1:20 AM, chaim.rie...@gmail.com wrote: Gettingreports of loss of connectivity to parts of chile They had an 8.5 a short while ago. At that magnitude, I don't know how significant .3 is, but from the USGS: == PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE REPORT == ***This event

Re: Chile (fyi)

2010-02-27 Thread Jorge Amodio
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/chile.quake/index.html?hpt=T1 On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Larry Sheldon larryshel...@cox.net wrote: On 2/27/2010 1:20 AM, chaim.rie...@gmail.com wrote: Gettingreports of loss of connectivity to parts of chile They had an 8.5 a short while ago.

Re: Chile (fyi)

2010-02-27 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/27/2010 6:47 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote: On 2/27/2010 1:20 AM, chaim.rie...@gmail.com wrote: Gettingreports of loss of connectivity to parts of chile They had an 8.5 a short while ago. At that magnitude, I don't know how significant .3 is, but from the USGS: ==

Re: Chile (fyi)

2010-02-27 Thread Mustafa Golam -
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Jorge Amodio jmamo...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/chile.quake/index.html?hpt=T1 Update: Tsunami warning extended to countries as far as Australia and Japan, after #Chile http://twitter.com/search?q=%23Chile quake

Re: Chile (fyi)

2010-02-27 Thread Jorge Amodio
There are many streams from Chile on Ustream, TV de Chile http://www.ustream.tv/channel-popup/tv-de-chile They are reporting that at least a 15 story building is down, emergency services are trying to organize, chemistry lab of a local uni campus blew up due a fire started by the quake, more than

Re: Chile (fyi)

2010-02-27 Thread Matt Simmons
Just a reminder, if you see a receding ocean, run away. That means a tsunami is imminent. On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Jorge Amodio jmamo...@gmail.com wrote: There are many streams from Chile on Ustream, TV de Chile http://www.ustream.tv/channel-popup/tv-de-chile They are reporting that

Re: Chile (fyi)

2010-02-27 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Feb 27, 2010, at 7:49 AM, Jorge Amodio wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/chile.quake/index.html?hpt=T1 On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Larry Sheldon larryshel...@cox.net wrote: On 2/27/2010 1:20 AM, chaim.rie...@gmail.com wrote: Gettingreports of loss of connectivity

6to4 on Sprint Wireless Broadband

2010-02-27 Thread Izaac
A few months ago, is appears that Sprint started dropping 6to4 encapsulated packets. Egress is fine. Ingress silently drops. Anyone see anything similar? Or am I the only guy crazy enough to be doing this sort of thing in the first place? -- . ___ ___ . . ___ . \/ |\ |\ \ . _\_

RE: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2010-02-27 Thread Frank Bulk
Heard from a D-Link product manager that code that supports DHCPv6-PD will be available in the next month or two. I had asked about the DIR-615 and DIR-825, but he didn't mention which platform(s). This is good news. Frank -Original Message- From: Alexandru Petrescu

Tsunami

2010-02-27 Thread Larry Sheldon
Al Gore was fake, the Chilean Earthquakes are real. If you have interests near the Pacific Ocean, read up on the Tsunami warnings for the area of your interest. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9E4DMIG0show_article=1 -- Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough

Re: Chile (fyi)

2010-02-27 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Feb 27, 2010, at 8:54 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Feb 27, 2010, at 7:49 AM, Jorge Amodio wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/chile.quake/index.html?hpt=T1 On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Larry Sheldon larryshel...@cox.net wrote: On 2/27/2010 1:20 AM,

Re: Tsunami

2010-02-27 Thread Jason L
6:01am HST (11:01am EDT) Evac sirens sounded across the Hawaii Islands and the wave is expected at 11:05am HST (4:05pm EDT) this is updated as it was 11:19am before.

Re: Tsunami

2010-02-27 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Jason L wrote: 6:01am HST (11:01am EDT) Evac sirens sounded across the Hawaii Islands and the wave is expected at 11:05am HST (4:05pm EDT) this is updated as it was 11:19am before. Tsunami evacuation zone areas are being advised to evacuate. But of course the online

Re: Tsunami

2010-02-27 Thread Kauto Huopio
On 2/27/10 8:08 PM, Antonio Querubin wrote: Tsunami evacuation zone areas are being advised to evacuate. But of course the online maps are actually offline today for some reason. I'd guess HI civil defence would not mind some quick assistance by a CDN.. --Kauto

Freelance SysAdmin wanted in Washington DC area

2010-02-27 Thread Jon Morby | fido
Hi Not sure if anyone here is looking for some (extra?) work, or knows someone with an IT support business or just someone who is currently unemployed and looking to work on (initially) a part time basis? I'm looking for a freelance support/network engineer with experience of Redhat/CentOS,

Re: Tsunami

2010-02-27 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Kauto Huopio wrote: On 2/27/10 8:08 PM, Antonio Querubin wrote: Tsunami evacuation zone areas are being advised to evacuate. But of course the online maps are actually offline today for some reason. I'd guess HI civil defence would not mind some quick assistance by a

Re: Tsunami

2010-02-27 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/27/2010 12:52 PM, Antonio Querubin wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Kauto Huopio wrote: On 2/27/10 8:08 PM, Antonio Querubin wrote: Tsunami evacuation zone areas are being advised to evacuate. But of course the online maps are actually offline today for some reason. I'd guess HI civil

Re: Tsunami

2010-02-27 Thread Jason L
For anyone interested in live tv coverage http://www.weatherserver.net/earthquake/They are windows media feeds from Hawaii TV stations.

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-27 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 02/27/2010 03:49 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 27/02/2010 04:04, Phil Regnauld wrote: I'm not saying that political incentives (carrot stick) or government regulations in the line of implement IPv6 before X/Y or else... have had any effect, except maybe in Japan: Correct

Re: Tsunami

2010-02-27 Thread Jared Mauch
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/ Is a good place to read the warnings and data about measured tsunamai heights. Jared Mauch On Feb 27, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Larry Sheldon larryshel...@cox.net wrote: On 2/27/2010 12:52 PM, Antonio Querubin wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Kauto Huopio wrote: On

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2010-02-27 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Modula the lack of pd, I found the ipv6 support for the dir-825 (along with the other things it does well) to be rather decent. If people need gig-e simultaneous dual band abgn home routers for ~$130 you should check the thing out. On 02/27/2010 08:59 AM, Frank Bulk wrote: Heard from a D-Link

Re: Tsunami

2010-02-27 Thread Marshall Eubanks
The Tsunami is big enough to be dangerous but seems not to be too major : http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/messages/pacific/2010/pacific.2010.02.27.202736.txt LOTTIN PT NZ 37.6S 178.2E 1934Z 0.15M / 0.5FT 10MIN CABO SAN LUCAS MX 22.9N 109.9W 1833Z 0.36M / 1.2FT 12MIN ACAPULCO MX 16.8N 99.9W 1549Z

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2010-02-27 Thread John Jason Brzozowski
Related to the comment below the latest release of the Apple Airport Extremes and Time Capsules support IPv6 including prefix delegation and stateful DHCPv6 on the WAN interface. I am also working with Netgear and several others to ensure similar functionality is supported. John On 2/27/10

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2010-02-27 Thread Fearghas McKay
On 27 Feb 2010, at 20:58, John Jason Brzozowski wrote: Related to the comment below the latest release of the Apple Airport Extremes and Time Capsules support IPv6 including prefix delegation and stateful DHCPv6 on the WAN interface. Is that latest hardware releases or software releases?

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2010-02-27 Thread John Jason Brzozowski
I am testing with the latest hardware which I assume was released with a new firmware. On 2/27/10 4:02 PM, Fearghas McKay fm-li...@st-kilda.org wrote: On 27 Feb 2010, at 20:58, John Jason Brzozowski wrote: Related to the comment below the latest release of the Apple Airport Extremes and

Re: Tsunami

2010-02-27 Thread JC Dill
Marshall Eubanks wrote: The Tsunami is big enough to be dangerous but seems not to be too major : It depends on where you are located, not just how distant you are from Chili but also the angle. They are forecasting a cone-shaped zone of effect heading directly towards Hawaii. See:

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2010-02-27 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/27/10 13:17, John Jason Brzozowski wrote: I am testing with the latest hardware which I assume was released with a new firmware. That is not in any way a safe assumption. -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads

Re: Tsunami

2010-02-27 Thread Scott Weeks
- The Tsunami is big enough to be dangerous but seems not to be too major : -- It wasn't anything. Stood on the cliff above Pipeline (famous surf spot) and couldn't tell if the water washing up the beach was normal winter

Re: Tsunami

2010-02-27 Thread Jeff Shultz
On 2/27/2010 3:36 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: --- It wasn't anything. Stood on the cliff above Pipeline (famous surf spot) and couldn't tell if the water washing up the beach was normal winter surf or a tsunami. Other parts of the island may have seen more, though.

Re: Tsunami

2010-02-27 Thread Shon Elliott
The tsunami center has cancelled the warnings for Hawaii (so I just heard from fox news). I guess it's really nothing, now. Who knows with how many aftershocks might be generated from that 8.8 EQ. -S Jeff Shultz wrote: On 2/27/2010 3:36 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: ---

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-27 Thread Tony Finch
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Joel Jaeggli wrote: On 02/27/2010 03:49 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Japanese government did two things: - tax incentivise ipv6 compliance - make meaningful ipv6 compliance mandatory when dealing with Japanese government

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-27 Thread joel jaeggli
Tony Finch wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Joel Jaeggli wrote: On 02/27/2010 03:49 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Japanese government did two things: - tax incentivise ipv6 compliance - make meaningful ipv6 compliance mandatory when dealing with Japanese

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2010-02-27 Thread Owen DeLong
I can't say for the WAN interface, but, it doesn't give any controls for delegating stuff to the LAN interface(s) and doesn't provide visible indication of DHCP support on IPv6 in any configuration options. Additionally, I've found their IPv6 implementation to be rather broken in a number of

Re: Tsunami

2010-02-27 Thread Scott Weeks
--- jeffshu...@wvi.com wrote: Last time I checked, Pipeline was on the north side of the island, was it not? Activity coming from Chile would be on the east and southern sides. -- Wrap around. The tsunami sirens were going off, folks were getting to high