Re: Comcast New England dropped for 5-15 min? Anyone

2015-02-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Andrey Khomyakov khomyakov.and...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, anyone had problems just now? My team and I at homes lost internet access for about 10 min. I also had many sites drop off. Still digging, but maybe trouble upstream? I'm in 50.133.128.0/17 at home. Yah,

Re: PPPoE vs. Bridged ADSL

2009-10-29 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Jack Bates jba...@brightok.net wrote: *dreams of a secure authenticate once world* It may be worth noting here that there are times were one wants barriers between automation to keep malfunction or malice from spreading too far without human involvement. Of

Re: dnscurve and DNS hardening, was Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-07 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:06 AM, Alexander Harrowell a.harrow...@gmail.com wrote: 1) Authenticate the nameserver to the client (and so on up the chain to the root) in order to defeat the Kaminsky attack, man in the middle, IP-layer interference. (Are you who you say you are?) DNSSEC fans will

Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-05 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jorge Amodio jmamo...@gmail.com wrote: At some time in the future and when a new paradigm for the user interface is conceived, we may not longer have the end user “typing” a URL, the DNS or something similar will still be in the background providing name to

Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-05 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Chris Adamscmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: ... we may not longer have the end user “typing” a URL, the DNS or something similar will still be in the background providing name to address mapping ...   In the the vast majority of cases I have seen, people don't type

Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-05 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Jorge Amodiojmamo...@gmail.com wrote: Talking about the subject with a friend during the past few days, most of the conversation ended being around the User Interface. A popular idiom is where the rubber meets the road. It comes from cars, of course. The

Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-05 Thread Ben Scott
? There is a difference between looking for a service and looking for a specific vendor of a service. Sure. There's a difference between looking for me and looking for all the other people named Ben Scott, too. Yet Facebook has resulted in people I haven't talked to in 15 years finding me. Facebook

Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-05 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:40 PM, James R. Cutlerjames.cut...@consultant.com wrote: (2) Saying type our name into $SERVICE, where $SERVICE is some popular website that most people trust (like Facebook or whatever), and has come up with a workable system for disambiguation. I can only hope that

Re: dnscurve and DNS hardening, was Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-05 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Naveen Nathannav...@calpop.com wrote: I might misunderstand how dnscurve works, but it appears that dnscurve is far easier to deploy and get running. My understanding: They really do different things. They also have different behaviors. DNSCurve aims to

Re: two interfaces one subnet

2009-05-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Chris Meidinger cmeidin...@sendmail.com wrote: For example, eth0 is 10.0.0.1/24 and eth1 is 10.0.0.2/24, nothing like bonding going on. The customers usually have the idea of running one interface for administration and another for production (which is a _good_

Re: Fiber cut in SF area

2009-04-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net wrote: That our crack (or on crack) govt contracting/emergency-preparedness staff didn't demand protected facilities for 911 is another mind boggling issue.  This costs $$$ and usually isn't a problem as there are other ways to

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Jeff S Wheeler j...@inconcepts.biz wrote: Sure, smart phones are becoming more popular. My ancient and crufty Nextel iDEN i530 phone, manufactured circa 2003, with a monochrome 4-line text display, and about as dumb as they get, gets assigned an IP address.

Re: Leap second tonight

2009-01-05 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Peter Beckman beck...@angryox.com wrote: * UTC can get out of whack with the rotation of the earth around the sun, because our rotation is not uniform, but is calculated rather than measured (well, sort of) As Crist Clark points out, leap seconds

Re: What to do when your ISP off-shores tech support

2008-12-25 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Matthew Black bl...@csulb.edu wrote: Going through COVAD's interactive DSL chooser, there are no options for RESIDENTIAL service. So choose business. In the world of mass-market ISPs, residential means end-user without clue who cares only about price, not

Re: Cox clamping VPN traffic?

2008-01-25 Thread Ben Scott
On Jan 25, 2008 7:49 PM, Jim Popovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see the *exact* same problem with Comcast at home. I get about 30 seconds of the 6.6Mbps provisioned rate then the drop kicks in and down to 43kbps it goes. I suspect this is just bursting/clamping, as you suspect, but you