Re: Consolidation of Email Platforms Bad for Email?

2020-09-08 Thread Barry Shein via NANOG
with spam could bring you to your knees? I do -- in over 20 years. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die| b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*

Re: improved NANOG filtering

2015-10-26 Thread Barry Shein
done just on trust with a small group. Another list to announce between them ("got it!") would be useful also. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR,

Re: How to wish you hadn't forced ipv6 adoption (was "How to force rapid ipv6 adoption")

2015-10-04 Thread Barry Shein
ike congestion and route flapping could take up entire career paths. I think we need to stop replaying history like what if there weren't a Russian winter and just press forward. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors

Re: Data Center operations mail list?

2015-08-20 Thread Barry Shein
arding, > rejecting, etc. Thus this is not someplace that you want to try to send > mail from if you really care about having it delivered. > > I recommend moving it elsewhere. And I'm perfectly willing to assist with > that (either selecting another location or facilita

Re: RES: Exploits start against flaw that could hamstring huge swaths of

2015-08-04 Thread Barry Shein
Wow this thread went off-track in nanoseconds. So which bind versions are ok? -b

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

2015-07-16 Thread Barry Shein
dded a 4th (for CGN). > #5 Localhost (127/8) > #6 Multicast (224/4) > #7 "Class E" (240/4) > #8 0/8 > #9 255/8 (technically, part of class e, but it's called out specifically > in various RFCs) -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.co

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

2015-07-15 Thread Barry Shein
On July 15, 2015 at 09:20 o...@delong.com (Owen DeLong) wrote: > > There are two ways to waste addresses. One is to allocate them to users who > don

Re: ARIN just subdivided their last /17, /18, /19, /20, /21 and /22. Down to only /23s and /24s now. : ipv6

2015-07-02 Thread Barry Shein
UUCP. Someone had to mention it. So I did. And BITNET I guess. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die| Public Access Inte

Roof space, co-lo...

2015-06-04 Thread Barry Shein
d to me: b...@theworld.com (some of you were Bcc'd on this) -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: gmail security is a joke

2015-05-29 Thread Barry Shein
I can't write my autobiography because it'd contain the answers to too many security questions! -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Sof

Re: gmail security is a joke

2015-05-27 Thread Barry Shein
ches him, And makes me poor indeed. --Othello Act 3, Scene 3 -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die| Public Access Intern

Re: gmail security is a joke

2015-05-27 Thread Barry Shein
I am truly relieved that this was just a misunderstanding! -b On May 27, 2015 at 16:05 b...@herrin.us (William Herrin) wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Barry Shein wrote: > > On May 27, 2015 at 10:28 b...@herrin.us (William Herrin) wrote: > > > On Tue, May 2

Re: gmail security is a joke

2015-05-27 Thread Barry Shein
#x27; dixie (I never a-whistle dixie! :-), I'd consider that a serious potential weakness adding more concern to choice of algorithms. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD

Re: gmail security is a joke

2015-05-27 Thread Barry Shein
up login protocol which required the server to encrypt initial interaction with the customer's password so you absolutely had to have their cleartext password if they were ever to log in again. What was it, PAP or CHAP or something like that. Ugh, we resisted that. -- -Barry Shein Th

Re: gmail security is a joke

2015-05-27 Thread Barry Shein
artext password then their security practices are inadequate, period. Unless I misunderstand what you're saying (I sort of hope I do) this is Security 101. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 80

Re: Rasberry pi - high density

2015-05-12 Thread Barry Shein
t your work cut out for you analyzing these things! -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: Rasberry pi - high density

2015-05-09 Thread Barry Shein
(assuming heat and connection routing aren't problems), at 500GB/each that's 20TB in a standard 3.5" case. It's getting weird out there. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800

Re: vendor spam OTD

2015-04-28 Thread Barry Shein
em right now that's ok I'll be back in a year and two. I believe hearts and minds will change towards my way of thinking about this, it's just a matter of pain threshold. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com

Re: Multi-gigabit edge devices as CPE [TOPIC DRIFT!]

2015-04-09 Thread Barry Shein
t (if I build it myself who do I get to blame?), etc. -b > Den 09/04/2015 19.34 skrev "Barry Shein" : > > > > > On April 9, 2015 at 09:11 raphael.timo...@gmail.com (Tim Raphael) wrote: > > > VyOS is a community fork of Vyatta and is still being developed

Re: Cisco/Level3 takedown

2015-04-09 Thread Barry Shein
Warrior Nun Areala wears a black hat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrior_Nun_Areala -b On April 9, 2015 at 18:29 m...@beckman.org (Mel Beckman) wrote: > Wrong. Batman, for example, wears a black hat. > > -mel via cell > > On Apr 9, 2015, at 11:17 AM, "Randy Bush" wrote: > > >

Re: Multi-gigabit edge devices as CPE [TOPIC DRIFT!]

2015-04-09 Thread Barry Shein
cular need for fancy WAN interfaces, ethernet presentations are fine. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-03 Thread Barry Shein
ging emails at their admins hasn't been as effective as one might like. That's not entirely surprising. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canad

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-03 Thread Barry Shein
wrong, something beyond "c'mon it's obvious!"? -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Barry Shein
its on a large scale. > > ssl bad cert signing in china is just a example of this culture > > shutting the door if it is shown unfriendly traffic makes sense to me > > colin > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On 2 Apr 2015, at 20:50, Barry Shein w

Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)

2015-04-02 Thread Barry Shein
times has LEO who will listen. > > china is neither. > > -Dan -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-10 Thread Barry Shein
Not a problem, the discussion was getting a bit out of hand so misunderstandings are unsuprising. Thank you for adding your expertise and experiences. -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-03 Thread Barry Shein
From: Scott Helms > >/em shrug > >I can't help it if you don't like real world data. >On Mar 3, 2015 2:25 PM, "Barry Shein" wrote: > >> >> Ok, then I no longer have any confidence that I understand what you >> were asserting. Generally

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-03 Thread Barry Shein
Ok, then I no longer have any confidence that I understand what you were asserting. From: Scott Helms >Odd how the graphing for the top 1000 Usenet servers showed exactly the >pattern I predicted. >On Mar 2, 2015 3:46 PM, "Barry Shein" wrote: > >> >>

Re: Symmetry, DSL, and all that

2015-03-03 Thread Barry Shein
y. You can choose between asymmetric service from the CATV company OR asymmetric service from your telco. Aha, you apparently want asymmetric service! Well I suppose that's settled! -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purvey

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Barry Shein
bly satisfied. Predicting the past is much easier than predicting the future, no doubt about it. -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Di

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Barry Shein
On March 1, 2015 at 16:13 n...@foobar.org (Nick Hilliard) wrote: > On 01/03/2015 03:41, Barry Shein wrote: > > On February 28, 2015 at 23:20 n...@foobar.org (Nick Hilliard) wrote: > > > there were several reasons for asymmetric services, one of which was > > > co

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-03-02 Thread Barry Shein
e of spelling and grammar error flames. I don't know how anyone who claims to have run Usenet servers couldn't know all this, is it just trolling? -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-TH

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Barry Shein
> Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > - Original Message - > > From: "Clayton Zekelman" > To: "Barry Shein" > Cc: "NANOG" > Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 5:14:18 PM &

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Barry Shein
On February 28, 2015 at 23:20 n...@foobar.org (Nick Hilliard) wrote: > On 28/02/2015 22:38, Barry Shein wrote: > > Asymmetric service was introduced to discourage home users from > > deploying "commercial" services. > > there were several reasons for asymme

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Barry Shein
x27;t exist? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Feb 28, 2015, at 5:38 PM, Barry Shein wrote: > > > > > > Can we stop the disingenuity? > > > > Asymmetric service was introduced to discourage home users from > > deploying "commerc

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Barry Shein
> http://www.ics-il.com > > - Original Message - > > From: "Barry Shein" > To: "NANOG" > Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 4:38:34 PM > Subject: Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality > > > Can we stop the dising

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-02-28 Thread Barry Shein
y few people did. Of course no one did it, it took minutes to download even a rather small image and there was little market for image-oriented software (other than porn.) -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Tr

RE: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-02-28 Thread Barry Shein
he old college try, you can do some interesting things with a coupla billion in cash and a mandate. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Barry Shein
nforced by technology rather than studying your usage patterns or whatever they used to do, scan for business ads using "residential" numbers, beyond bandwidth usage analysis. And the CATV companies are trying to reinvent CATV pricing for internet, turn Netflix (e.g.) into an analogue o

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Barry Shein
to bill, the whole stack (email, etc.) as then perceived. There is a strong tendency to rationalize the current state of the technology. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Barry Shein
yes, that is *ALL* you can eat, goodbye! Prescriptive trying to pass as descriptive. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Barry Shein
27;s a "lawful" web site? > >> > >> Now *there* is a $64,000 question. Even more interesting is, "Who gets > > to decide day to day the answer to that question?" :) > > > > -- > > ---- > > Bruce H. McIntosh

Re: REMINDER: Leap Second

2015-01-26 Thread Barry Shein
han it was kind of cool in like 1978 to be typing at a computer in London even if it was just saying "do something or go away!" I guess you had to be there. -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Tr

Re: AS6713 (aka IAM / MOROCCO TELECOMS) peering contact

2014-12-27 Thread Barry Shein
May I share some clue? The OP is probably not a native speaker of English. You don't play PC language games with people who you aren't *certain* are native speakers of English. Why? Because if you do I will show up at your door! I dunno, just don't do it, it's rude and stupid, imagine if you w

Re: Got a call at 4am - RAID Gurus Please Read

2014-12-12 Thread Barry Shein
That might be close enough. I need to set up a test system and play around with zfs and btrfs. Thanks. On December 11, 2014 at 21:29 mysi...@gmail.com (Jimmy Hess) wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Barry Shein wrote: > [snip] > > From my reading the closest you can get t

Re: Got a call at 4am - RAID Gurus Please Read

2014-12-11 Thread Barry Shein
or certain malicious or grossly irresponsible behavior. >From my reading the closest you can get to disk space quotas in ZFS is by limiting on a per directory (dataset, mount) basis which is similar but different. On December 11, 2014 at 16:57 r...@seastrom.com (Rob Seastrom) wrote: > >

Re: Got a call at 4am - RAID Gurus Please Read

2014-12-11 Thread Barry Shein
ding zfs vs btrfs articles and...inconclusive. My problem with both is I need quotas, both file and "inode", and both are weaker than ext4 on that, zfs is very weak on this, you can only sort of simulate them. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com

Re: Tech Laptop with DB9 [REALLY Equinox SST]

2014-11-11 Thread Barry Shein
ld, 2.6 kernel. And of course the one system I was using it on just died, everything else here has too-new Linux, typically openSuSE 13.1. I'd hate to have to rebuild a 5+ year old linux just to run this one card. SO BEFORE I dig in and try to port the driver I was wondering if anyone

Re: Shipping bulk hardware via freight

2014-11-07 Thread Barry Shein
I remember when we got our SGI Challenge XL delivered. It was around 1200lbs and the trucker refused to do an inside delivery even though we'd specified that, we were on the second floor (up one flight of stairs tho a few more to get to the stairs.) Their excuse was that we didn't have a proper wa

Re: [curiosity] Internet's first router, 1969

2014-11-05 Thread Barry Shein
thing they will like. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: A translation (was Re: An update from the ICANN ISPCP meeting...)

2014-10-27 Thread Barry Shein
On October 27, 2014 at 15:34 d...@virtualized.org (David Conrad) wrote: > Barry, > > On Oct 27, 2014, at 10:28 AM, Barry Shein wrote: > > Oh no! The Four Horsement of the Infocalypse! > > Being dismissive of concerns related to illegal activities that make use of &

Re: A translation (was Re: An update from the ICANN ISPCP meeting...)

2014-10-27 Thread Barry Shein
On October 27, 2014 at 10:12 goe...@anime.net (goe...@anime.net) wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Barry Shein wrote: > > > I disagree. Perhaps my age is showing, but I believe the whole point of > > > the registration database is to provide contact information to allow >

Re: A translation (was Re: An update from the ICANN ISPCP meeting...)

2014-10-27 Thread Barry Shein
On October 24, 2014 at 19:34 d...@virtualized.org (David Conrad) wrote: > Barry, > > On Oct 24, 2014, at 12:13 PM, Barry Shein wrote: > > I believe this never-ending quest for more reliable domain > > registration data is being driven by intellectual property lawyers t

Re: A translation (was Re: An update from the ICANN ISPCP meeting...)

2014-10-26 Thread Barry Shein
ut indemnification (or similar), or jurisdicational authority, on an as-needed basis. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die|

Re: A translation (was Re: An update from the ICANN ISPCP meeting...)

2014-10-24 Thread Barry Shein
the 'fun' that would > occur if different organizations were allowed to sell names out of the two > different TLDs, ".com" and ".COM"). Or, if you want something outside of the > DNS, what ICANN should do about the RPKI "global trust anchor", i.e., > whether the RPKI tree should be a singly-rooted tree originating at IANA as > indicated by the IAB or a forest of 5 (or 6) trees originating at each of > the RIRs (plus IANA) as the RIRs would appear to prefer at this time. > > If you've read this far, you might worry about your own sanity... :). > > Regards, > -drc > (ICANN CTO, but speaking only for myself) > -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch [OT]

2014-10-23 Thread Barry Shein
hard cases where you could have a "run this script" attribute. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die| Public A

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-23 Thread Barry Shein
rom a known table), sysexits.h, %m in syslog which is just strerror(), etc. But syslog et al needs to go way beyond the daemon, time, and priority and free format text so log analyzers (including grep) have half a chance. Just my 2c. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworl

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-23 Thread Barry Shein
ose parts too expensive to compete on. But they did ok financially anyhow so who's to criticize? VMS even had PIP! And sometimes you needed it. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-23 Thread Barry Shein
On October 22, 2014 at 15:31 jfb...@gmail.com (Ricky Beam) wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 14:31:02 -0400, Barry Shein wrote: > > Perhaps you don't remember the days when an fsck was > > basically mandatory and could take 15-20 minutes on a large disk. > > Journa

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-22 Thread Barry Shein
ineers probably take the bus where they can continue their design discussions. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die| Public Acces

RE: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-22 Thread Barry Shein
t at some point it becomes, as Ken Thompson so eloquently put it on another topic entirely, like kicking a dead whale down the beach. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-22 Thread Barry Shein
aemon configs, anti-spam configs, etc etc etc (usually in /etc!) down to what they will each take for a comment or separator or stanza syntax. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-22 Thread Barry Shein
sysvinit but it will take time for it to mature, administrative tools to become available (even if just better logging/tracing), and for us to get used to it and acquire the folk knowledge we need. Until then frustration will arise from time to time. -- -Barry Shein The World

Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-22 Thread Barry Shein
rse.) > I don't see that happening as long as the US gov has a say in the matter. > I think .su will be decommissioned long before .gov or .mil are. We agree. Never attribute to megalomania that which can be adequately explained by inertia. -- -Barry Shein The World

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-22 Thread Barry Shein
On October 21, 2014 at 13:44 brun...@nic-naa.net (Eric Brunner-Williams) wrote: > > systemd is insanity. > > see also smit. SMIT! Rhymes with -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-22 Thread Barry Shein
On October 21, 2014 at 16:43 morrowc.li...@gmail.com (Christopher Morrow) wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 03:11:55PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote: > >> But > >> for example some of my servers boot in seconds

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-22 Thread Barry Shein
sulli...@dyn.com (Andrew Sullivan) wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 03:11:55PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote: > > But > > for example some of my servers boot in seconds. > > One is reminded of a mail, included in the Preface to _The UNIX-HATERS > Handbook_, available at >

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-21 Thread Barry Shein
some code/configuration to fix that (never ask for a password in this script OK? And no --no-ask-password isn't fixing this so stop repeating that answer!) -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | V

Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-20 Thread Barry Shein
Not that anyone is looking for a solution but I suppose one possible solution would be to use the two-letter cctld then gov like parliament.uk.gov or parliament.ca.gov etc. No doubt there would be some collisions but probably not too serious. -- -Barry Shein The World

Re: update

2014-09-29 Thread Barry Shein
phone system (monopoly, pre-mobile days) installing a carefully tested patch with a hot failover running (oh well, the best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley.) Sure, that was just Manhattan, and of course everyone on the other side of those connections. -- -Barry Shein

Re: internet governance, rir policy, and the decline of civilization

2014-09-20 Thread Barry Shein
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -b

Re: Scotland ccTLD?

2014-09-16 Thread Barry Shein
I guess if Scotland devolves they should invade Seychelles. Problem solved. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die| Public Access I

Re: The Next Big Thing: Named-Data Networking

2014-09-08 Thread Barry Shein
Well, it's a good thing we have you around to keep us honest. On September 8, 2014 at 07:37 mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) wrote: > Barry Shein wrote: > > > Understand these were speaking notes and it was safe to assume the > > audience basical

Re: Fwd: Interesting problems with using IPv6

2014-09-08 Thread Barry Shein
hat there isn't enough data yet. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: The Next Big Thing: Named-Data Networking

2014-09-07 Thread Barry Shein
model. One could use the FQDNs themselves as hierarchical addresses at least as an external representation. It was intended to be a provocative proposal. On September 7, 2014 at 11:11 mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) wrote: > Barry Shein wrote: > > > The idea is v

Re: The Next Big Thing: Named-Data Networking

2014-09-05 Thread Barry Shein
MSN infrastructure, Morgan-Stanley (no more than 100msecs downtime PER YEAR!), Google, Vonage, etc. Worst complaint: We're so accustomed to thinking in terms of DNS that there must be SOMETHING wrong with your idea!! A few thought it was great and made reference to other discussions over

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-19 Thread Barry Shein
On July 18, 2014 at 14:49 j...@baylink.com (Jay Ashworth) wrote: > Original Message - > > From: "Barry Shein" > > > I just read, I could dig it up, that about 1/3 of all broadband users > > have one and only one provider, about 1/3 have 2, and ab

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-17 Thread Barry Shein
I meant that comment as more of a snark that if someone wants to argue let's let the market take care of it then first we should reign in the govt-issued monopolies and small-N oligopolies. I just read, I could dig it up, that about 1/3 of all broadband users have one and only one provider, abou

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-16 Thread Barry Shein
On July 15, 2014 at 13:08 na...@brettglass.com (Brett Glass) wrote: > At 12:19 PM 7/15/2014, Barry Shein wrote: > > >There exists a low and high (practical) bandwidth range within which > >it simply doesn't make any difference to a given business model. > > V

Re: Net Neutrality...

2014-07-15 Thread Barry Shein
to paraphrase John Gilmore's famous observation on censorship. P.S. I suppose an up-and-coming bandwidth business model which vastly exceeds video streaming is adequate (i.e., frequent and complete) "cloud" backup. With cheap consumer disks in the multi-TB range, well, do the math.

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-14 Thread Barry Shein
extrapolations tend to be foiled by discrete events. For example, Apr 1, 2017: Comcast/TW buys Netflix... On Jul 13, 2014 3:59 PM, "Barry Shein" wrote: > > Just an observation: > > I've been on the internet since dirt was rocks. > > It seems to me that one theme w

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-14 Thread Barry Shein
On July 14, 2014 at 08:17 d...@dcrocker.net (Dave Crocker) wrote: > On 7/12/2014 3:19 PM, Barry Shein wrote: > > On July 12, 2014 at 12:08 ra...@psg.com (Randy Bush) wrote: > > > or are you equating shell access with isp? that would be novel. unix > > > shell

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Barry Shein
ng with their toaster-ovens. My comment has always been the same: There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who try to figure out how bake more bread, and those who herd people into bread lines. I've always tried to be the sort of person who tries to figure out how to bake

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Barry Shein
lves and a sheep voting on dinner. But the imagery of range wars is apt. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-12 Thread Barry Shein
e rare case that I need a separate site for diagnosing > issues with our cluster. > > Cheers, > > Miles > > > -- > In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. > In practice, there is. Yogi Berra -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-12 Thread Barry Shein
). That was several months later, Rieger et al were well aware of The World, and Panix for that matter which came after World but before Netcom. They were springing up, yes, but first is first, vague handwaves of "around that same time" is irrelevant. -- -Barry Shein The

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-12 Thread Barry Shein
outer, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World.std.com On July 12, 2014 at 12:18 ra...@psg.com (Randy Bush) wrote: > >> And, for the record, it's pretty widely acknowledge that "The World" > >> (Barry Shein) was the world's first commercial ISP - offering shell

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-12 Thread Barry Shein
On July 12, 2014 at 12:08 ra...@psg.com (Randy Bush) wrote: > > And, for the record, it's pretty widely acknowledge that "The World" > > (Barry Shein) was the world's first commercial ISP - offering shell > > access in 1989, and at some point started of

Re: Next steps in extortion case - ideas?

2014-06-29 Thread Barry Shein
some were easy to characterize as neo-nazis, some well known to law enforcement and the media, etc. There were times I'd look up and down my (fairly long) driveway carefully when coming home, in a manner of speaking. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworl

Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion

2014-06-19 Thread Barry Shein
g and operational issue, or only incidentally. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion

2014-06-19 Thread Barry Shein
But I thought ICANN was supposed to be the new and future nexus for all things internet governance? On June 19, 2014 at 13:57 morrowc.li...@gmail.com (Christopher Morrow) wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Barry Shein wrote: > > > > Really. You're really complete

Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion

2014-06-19 Thread Barry Shein
re really completely discounting ICANN in having any leadership or participative role in the IPv4/IPv6 transition? Interesting. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US

Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion

2014-06-18 Thread Barry Shein
7;s an exposure and public awareness problem, even with those who are chartered with being interested. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software

Re: NTIA cedes root zone control

2014-06-06 Thread Barry Shein
And the seventh seal is broken... -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die| Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*

Re: Large DDoS, small extortion

2014-05-24 Thread Barry Shein
On May 23, 2014 at 15:19 asulli...@dyn.com (Andrew Sullivan) wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 02:09:18PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote: > > I just don't know and would suggest reliance on case studies and > > experienced professionals. > > Well, yes, but I also obser

Re: Large DDoS, small extortion

2014-05-23 Thread Barry Shein
ng the money in extortion schemes is a common tactic. Obviously the likelihood of success has to be evaluated. But a lot of criminals are dumb or perhaps put better naive. DDos'ing is one thing, successfully laundering money is a different skill set. I just don't know and would suggest reli

Re: Large DDoS, small extortion

2014-05-23 Thread Barry Shein
, Roland Dobbins wrote: > > > > On May 23, 2014, at 3:38 AM, Barry Shein wrote: > > > >> Some real life experience and results, case studies. > > > > Some of us have quite a bit

Re: Large DDoS, small extortion

2014-05-22 Thread Barry Shein
gible, kind of like "kiss my boots!" Maybe he's insane which voids all of the above. Maybe it's some sort of penetration exercise by terrorists, a govt, etc. Maybe all I've said and $1.75 plus tax... -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3)

2014-05-12 Thread Barry Shein
> > end user, with little competition. > > that is the core problem: lack of competition. Net neutrality is a kludge > to deal with a specific type of failure in the market. HOWEVER, I do agree with this comment. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP Network Neutrality

2014-05-12 Thread Barry Shein
Obviously one has every right to advocate for corporate welfare but let's call it what it is. -- -Barry Shein The World | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD| Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software T

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