Re: Out-of-Bailiwick DNS? (Was: HE.net problem)

2024-07-05 Thread Robert L Mathews
that risk. And every time I see a story like what happened to he.net yesterday, I re-convince myself that the slight performance hit is worth it, and presumably, so do companies like Amazon: $ dig +short amazon.com NS ns1.amzndns.co.uk. ns1.amzndns.com. ns1.amzndns.net. ns1.amzndns.org. ns2.amzndns.co.uk. ns2.amzndns.com. ns2.amzndns.net. ns2.amzndns.org. -- Robert L Mathews

Re: Scanning the Internet for Vulnerabilities

2022-06-20 Thread Robert L Mathews
t don't exist (but which each cause a PHP script to run), I'm not going to appreciate it. Same if you send tens of thousands of TCP SYNs a second so you can quickly scan all possible ports of hundreds of IP addresses. If I don't even notice it, though, I'm unlikely to be bothered to object to it. -- Robert L Mathews

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-10 Thread Robert L Mathews
widely-adopted form of network redundancy as an unexpected side-effect. "Neat!" -- Robert L Mathews

Re: DNS hijack?

2021-11-12 Thread Robert L Mathews
fter you renew the domain name, due to DNS caching.) -- Robert L Mathews

Re: 10 years from now... (was: internet futures)

2021-03-26 Thread Robert L Mathews
On 3/26/21 2:00 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > Telcos shouldn’t have to deploy NATs. Homes shouldn’t have to >deploy NATs. Businesses shouldn’t have to deploy NATs. But NATs are good: https://youtu.be/v26BAlfWBm8 (Since we're speaking of things from ~10 years ago...!) -- Robert L Mat

Re: FCC FUSF charges clarification

2020-10-14 Thread Robert L Mathews
;. This is simply a fee they charge to cover their own property taxes. The other extras were similar. These are not taxes they are required to charge you separately. They're just adding money to the bill to get you to contribute towards *their* taxes. I complained long and hard about it, but they didn't care. -- Robert L Mathews

Re: IP addresses on subnet edge (/24)

2020-09-14 Thread Robert L Mathews
l to track it down. The problem would disappear when we moved it to another IP address. Because of this, we stopped allocating customer websites on .0 and .255 IP addresses about 10 years ago, instead using them for internal / controlled access purposes where we could investigate any problems. (Whi

Re: any interesting/useful resources available to IPv6 only?

2019-05-07 Thread Robert L Mathews
_Eyeballs>. If the IPv4 and IPv6 paths from client to server are different (as they often are), clients can bypass bad IPv4 network paths to a server if IPv6 is also available. This avoids some "I can't connect to website X" support calls, decreasing costs. -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies

Re: IPv4 Hijacking For Idiots

2017-06-07 Thread Robert L Mathews
/PDF/U.pdf http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf And there are lots of other examples. It's hard to say how to fix all possible cases of what amounts to a human language problem. -- Robert L Mathews

Re: AOL postmaster rejections.

2015-11-19 Thread Robert L Mathews
hey happily accept the same messages. -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies, http://www.tigertech.net/

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Robert L Mathews
talking about IPv6 instead of IPv4. -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies, http://www.tigertech.net/

Re: What's up at AOL?

2014-01-02 Thread Robert L Mathews
of recent, not-too-helpful Twitter conversations like: https://twitter.com/TboneRyan/status/416577803752984578 We saw this problem on December 26, 27, and 28, and are now seeing it again for the last 3 hours. -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies, http://www.tigertech.net/

Re: ICANN related question...

2013-12-06 Thread Robert L Mathews
something in a few egregious cases before realizing that they explicitly do not see that as their role. I'd initially assumed their unhelpfulness was gross incompetence, but it turned out to be a sort of reverse Hanlon's razor. -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies, http://www.tigertech.net/

Re: whois.internic.net / whois.crsnic.net IPv6 timeouts

2013-07-10 Thread Robert L Mathews
n by VeriSign Global Registry Services. > there's a Debian bug #683187 which mentions similar issues from > nearly a year ago..). Right, but other people couldn't duplicate it. I suspect VeriSign uses rate-limiting; is it possible that your source IP address is just being rate-limited? -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies, http://www.tigertech.net/

Re: Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called "Search"..?

2013-04-14 Thread Robert L Mathews
-to-fix-new-gtld-revolving-door-at-icann -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies, http://www.tigertech.net/