Re: Current diameter of the Internet?

2024-07-22 Thread Nathan Angelacos
On Mon, 2024-07-22 at 17:57 -0400, Josh Luthman wrote: > Right, that's why I asked where the 3 days come from. > > I found an India website and I'm located in Ohio.  That's pretty > close to the opposite side of the world.  I'm assuming it's a > terrestrial service.  My results are comparable to o

Re: Current diameter of the Internet?

2024-07-22 Thread Nathan Angelacos
On Mon, 2024-07-22 at 17:05 -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: > > OMG, Not trying to solve Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. > > Just trying to choose reasonable timeouts for my TCP packets > :-) To quote someone I respect I have a bridge loop here for you. :D

Re: Current diameter of the Internet?

2024-07-21 Thread Nathan Angelacos
On Sun, 2024-07-21 at 16:10 -0700, Michael Thomas wrote: > > > > > On 7/21/24 4:05 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: > > > > > Mel, > > > > > > > > Voyager is using radio waves, which travel faster than the speed of > > light (in a vacuum, too!).  But my point is more Earth to outside > > the s

Re: Current diameter of the Internet?

2024-07-20 Thread Nathan Angelacos
On Sat, 2024-07-20 at 00:58 -0500, Stas Bilder wrote: > Pity we can’t ping Voyagers. > > S. ROTFL,   you actually had me pull out Star Trek - The Movie... Wow... what a blast from 1979. So yeah ... According to our media outlets, RTT of the internet is ... um 3 days.

Re: jon postel

2022-10-16 Thread Nathan Angelacos
> > Early unix had a similar philosophical debate. Everything is a simple > file (including most devices), make commands which do one thing and > do it well so they can be connected together in new ways (an almost > prescient view on the ubiquity of multi-cpu/core systems), when in > doubt gener

Re: jon postel

2022-10-16 Thread Nathan Angelacos
On Sun, 2022-10-16 at 13:23 -0700, Randy Bush wrote: > it's been 24 years, and we still live in his shadow and stand on his > shoulders.  we try not to stand on his toes. > > randy I got on the "interwebs" just before Al Gore invented the internet (no political statement, just that is the way it

Re: FCC chairwoman: Fines alone aren't enough (Robocalls)

2022-10-04 Thread Nathan Angelacos
On Tue, 2022-10-04 at 08:05 -0600, Jawaid Bazyar wrote: > Phone spam pretty much always involves the knowledge and involvement > of the provider. There are no phone providers who don't know when one > of their customers are making millions of robocalls. > > International toll fraud also always inv

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-18 Thread Nathan Angelacos
On Fri, 2022-03-18 at 13:17 -0700, Michael Thomas wrote: > > > > We weren't part of the wars. What I saw was what eventually became ipv6 > and I remember talking to one of my coworkers about how hard he > thought it would be to implement. He concurred that he didn't think it > would be any big de

Re: CC: s to Non List Members (was Re: 202203080924.AYC Re: 202203071610.AYC Re: Making Use of 240/4 NetBlock)

2022-03-08 Thread Nathan Angelacos
On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 19:25 -0500, Tom Beecher wrote: > > > The only way IPv6 will ever be ubiquitous is if there comes a time > where there is some forcing event that requires it to be.  > > Unless that occurs, people will continue to spend time and energy > coming up with ways to squeeze the b

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-12 Thread Nathan Angelacos
On Sat, 2022-02-12 at 13:24 -0700, Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote: > On 2/11/22 12:35 PM, William Herrin wrote: > > The thing to understand is that IPSec has two modes: transport and > > tunnel. Transport is between exactly two IP addresses while tunnel > > expects a broader network to exist on at

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2022-02-11 Thread Nathan Angelacos
20 miles from Sacramento. Mother-in-law has an ATT  DSLAM *at the end of her driveway* on the other side of the street.  ATT swears she can get internet. Until she tries to sign up, and "oh no... wrong side of the street" She is at 700Kbps over a WISP ... *after* she trimmed the trees to get

Re: An update on the AfriNIC situation

2021-08-30 Thread Nathan Angelacos
On Mon, 2021-08-30 at 16:08 -0700, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote: > > > > I am here doing what I am doing because I have ethics and morals. > Because even though I often disagree with Lu, in this case, he > happens to be right and AFRINIC must not be allowed to act so > irresponsibly in this matte

Re: A crazy idea

2021-07-19 Thread Nathan Angelacos
On Mon, 2021-07-19 at 08:51 -0700, Randy Bush wrote: > > Well, for SLAAC you need a /64 > > this is not true > > randy That is cool! Can you point me to the correct RFC please?

Re: Russian government’s disconnection test

2019-11-01 Thread Nathan Angelacos
> > Got crickets, so now I have to respond to my own post on > what I just found out about it. Is that like talking to > yourself? :) Not when others are listening. Thanks for the update.

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2015-05-07 Thread Nathan Angelacos via NANOG
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Re: [[Infowarrior] - NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for Years]

2014-04-14 Thread Nathan Angelacos
On 04/14/2014 07:14 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: It's much, much worse than that. I can still read code plenty fine, but bugs can be extremely obscure, and triply so with convoluted security code where people are actively going after you to find problems in most inventive ways. Openssl, etc, probab

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-15 Thread Nathan Angelacos
On 12/15/10 14:13, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:51:05 EST, Mikel Waxler said: The reality is that most customers do not make uncapped connections. File servers cap bandwidth per user and certain services, like gaming or streaming media have a maximum rate. As long as th