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

On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Stephen Satchell wrote: On 10/22/2014 08:20 PM, Simon Lyall wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: And maybe, you should check out some of the upstream bug reports re. systemd interactions with NTP. If you think the current situation is all good then maybe you

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

. They only run time syncing when the network is bounced so if you have a stable network then your machine will never sync: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/1178933 Note that the importance of this has been set to wishlist. -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

.) When I see a machine with a long uptime I ask myself: 1. When was the last kernel update? 2. Do we know it would come back cleanly when it is rebooted? 3. What would happen to the site if that machine went offline? -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.simonlyall.com/ To stay

Re: List of CDNs?

This guy has been maintaining a list for a few years: http://www.cdnlist.com although he doesn't seem to have done an update in about 12 months :( How about: http://www.cdnplanet.com/cdns/ Seriouslyy, these are 2 of the first 3 ghits for CDN list -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web

Network Engineering Stack Exchange site in Area51 (fwd)

, (of 800+ proposals,) on the hottest proposal list. -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ To stay awake all night adds a day to your life - Stilgar | eMT.

Re: $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms

by researchers [..] . By modulating the pulses of protons the group was able to send a message in binary that, when translated, read “neutrino”. -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ To stay awake all night adds a day to your life - Stilgar | eMT.

Re: Cheap home CPE troubles

out a firmware fix for that bug and the ISP pushed it to customers after that and made sure the newer equipment didn't have it. -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ To stay awake all night adds a day to your life - Stilgar | eMT.

Re: [Nanog-futures] New Membership-WG Draft

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Re: How to have open more than 65k concurrent connections?

put you on the right track: http://blog.urbanairship.com/blog/2010/08/24/c500k-in-action-at-urban-airship/ http://blog.urbanairship.com/blog/2010/09/29/linux-kernel-tuning-for-c500k/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1740823 -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ To stay

RE: Routers in Data Centers

://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/08/01/EnergyProportionalDatacenterNetworks.aspx -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ To stay awake all night adds a day to your life - Stilgar | eMT.

Re: What DNS Is Not

stupid BGP tricks attempted with communitees and prefixes. I heard some anti-spam people use DNS to distribute big databases of information. I bet Vixie would have nasty things to say to the guy who first thought that up. -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ To stay

ADMIN: DMCA takedowns of networks

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ADMIN: Political and legal threads

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ADMIN: RE: MTAs used

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Re: [Nanog-futures] Updates to the MLC warning process

than starting a bunch of random ones in the hope that a few will be on-charter. Threads tend to get moderated when they look like producing additional off-topic messages. Simon. MCL member but no speaking on behalf of. -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ To stay

Re: MX problems

42.601 ms 43.902 ms 15 198.108.22.186 (198.108.22.186) 48.455 ms 51.436 ms 44.070 ms 16 * * * 17 * * * 18 * * * 19 * * * 20 * * * 21 * * * 22 * * * 23 * * * 24 * * * 25 * * * 26 * * * 27 * * * 28 * * * 29 * * * 30 * * * Any ideas? Cheers, -Dr Polar -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy

ADMIN: UCEProtect threads moderated.

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[Nanog-futures] IPv6 and Home user allocations

Does anyone want to do a FAQ covering the issues as to why home users should get a /64 vs /56 vs /48 etc? Pop me an email. -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ To stay awake all night adds a day to your life - Stilgar | eMT

Re: [Nanog-futures] IPv6 and Home user allocations

On Mon, 4 May 2009, Scott Weeks wrote: This isn't the right list, so I don't want to clutter. Definately not the right list. Anyway I've had 1.5 people put their name down so far so if others are interested please email me. I'd like to get a first draft out pretty quickly. -- Simon Lyall

Re: [Nanog-futures] Draft Policy re individual sites

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Re: [Nanog-futures] Fwd: ADMIN: Reminder on off-topic threads

than writing your php scripts correctly? But other people on the MLC might have differing opinion about exactly what they didn't like about the threads. -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ To stay awake all night adds a day to your life - Stilgar | eMT

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ADMIN: was Re: DPI or Flow Management

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Re: v6 DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)]

: Manage time, think ‘abundance’ and softly does it http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/272429/sysadmin_mantra_manage_time_think_abundance_softly_does_it -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ To stay awake all night adds a day to your life - Stilgar | eMT.

ADMIN: off-topic emails

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Re: Admin: Offtopic Political Threads

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Re: v6 subnet size for DSL leased line customers

and say they are doing so as a security upgrade :_). So how would this work for large companies? In theory multinationals like Morgan Stanley, Wall-Mart or HSBC should only get at most a /48 from each RIR. How should they handle region offices, Especially mutihomed ones? -- Simon Lyall

Re: [Nanog-futures] Nanog-futures list headers?

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Re: [Nanog-futures] Get those presenations in for NANOG42 please

is happening. Please post a summary of the updated Committee/Administrator membership once this is over. -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ To stay awake all night adds a day to your life - Stilgar | eMT. ___ Nanog-futures

Re: how to write an incident report

is a slightly unusual company in it's level of openness (although getting less so) but I would guess that most people on this list would be fired if they posted something like Simon's text without running it by legal. -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ To stay awake all