Re: Wired access to SMS?

2012-10-09 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
s are what is keeping Google from releasing the product to a broader audience, e.g. more countries than the US. On Oct 9, 2012 3:25 PM, "TJ" wrote: > On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:47 PM, William Herrin wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM, steve pirk [egrep] >> wrote

Re: Wired access to SMS?

2012-10-09 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
Have you looked at Google Voice much? I have mine set up to SMS all my devices, including email delivery, and can enable/disable devices as needed. The big benefit, is that I have an inbox full of all my old inbound and outbound text messages. It might be that I am missing a key element, but it lo

Re: Fyi...

2012-08-01 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Robert Mathews (OSIA) wrote: > > It it is of interest... > > > https://www.change.org/petitions/from-educause-higher-ed-wireless-networking-admin-group I was not aware of this limitation. Android and other Chrome devices do not have issues like these. Wow. --ste

Re: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-11 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
it is best if the global load balancing hardware/software is located somewhere else besides the data centers being monitored. -- steve pirk

Re: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-08 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
fail. Speaking of services like RightScale, Google announced Compute Engine at Google I/O this year. BuildFax was an early Adopter, and they gave it great reviews... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCjSJ778tGU It looks like Google has entered into the VPS market. 'bout time... ;-] http://cloud.google.com/products/compute-engine.html --steve pirk

Re: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-01 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Not entirely. Datacenters do go down, our best efforts to the contrary > notwithstanding. Amazon doesn't guarantee you redundancy on EC2, only > the tools to provide it yourself. 25% Amazon; 75% service provider > clients; > that's my appr

Re: Verisign deep-hacked. For months.

2012-02-05 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
ect Token: Verisign Class 3 Public Primary Certificate Authority" as it's root. Seems to me part of the problem was traced back to browsers not checking revoked certs via the browser CRLs. Didn't some in the chain have revoked certs still installed? -- steve pirk yensid "fathe

Google+ now available for Google Apps domains

2011-10-27 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
updates.blogspot.com/2011/10/google-now-available-for-google-apps.html Now, do I toss the last 1.5 years of posts and use my apps domain, or stay as my gmail user account. Decisions, decisions... Methjinks history is the better part of valor, so I will stay using my gmail account. It would be cool i

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-26 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
On Oct 24, 2011 7:55 AM, "Robert Bonomi" wrote: > > > > You can even download it all and erase yourself if > > you want out. > > Don't count on it. You may 'disappear' from public view, but that does > not necessarily mean the data is truely 'gone'. Specific example -- i

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-23 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
Googler saw Lauren's post and the debate has already started. -steve On Oct 23, 2011 4:04 PM, "Jay Ashworth" wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Jeroen Massar" > > > On 2011-10-23 19:43 , steve pirk [egrep] wrote: > > > Just about

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-23 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
. It could be that I am off base. On Oct 23, 2011 4:04 PM, "Jay Ashworth" wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Jeroen Massar" > > > On 2011-10-23 19:43 , steve pirk [egrep] wrote: > > > Just about everything on Google pages is https these d

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-23 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
Just about everything on Google pages is https these days, even search if you enable it. If anybody on this thread uses gmail com a you really ought to take a look at google plus. Compare the way user privacy is the primary objective, versus the share everything by default of facebook. I cannot t

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-12 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > __ > > -- steve pirk yensid "father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune kexp.org member august '09 - Google+ pirk.com

Re: Were A record domain names ever limited to 23 characters?

2011-10-11 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
hey were, for example, never the registrar for US or many other > > CCTLDs. > > > > Therefore, it was not internet wide, though I will admit that it did > > cover most of the widely known gTLDs. > > > > Owen > > > > On Oct 7, 2011, at 4:45 PM, steve pirk

Re: Y'all know Google is offering public DNS services now?

2011-10-10 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
asy to add 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4 (or any nameserver) to the .ini file > from within the program . > http://www.grc.com/dns/**benchmark.htm<http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm> > --Michael > > > -- steve pirk yensid "father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune kexp.org member august '09 - Google+ pirk.com

Y'all know Google is offering public DNS services now?

2011-10-10 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
s the original post - Yes, this one is public... oops! https://plus.google.com/111937447827665620879/posts/27S6QB8j1Ry Nice easy numbers to remember too. 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 -- steve pirk yensid "father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune kexp.org member august '09

Re: Were A record domain names ever limited to 23 characters?

2011-10-07 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
5 octets (including the separators). The zero > length full name is defined as representing the root of the DNS tree, > and is typically written and displayed as ".". Those restrictions > aside, any binary string whatever can be used as the label of any > resource record. > " > > -- > -JH > -- steve pirk refiamerica.org "father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune kexp.org member august '09

Re: Were A record domain names ever limited to 23 characters?

2011-10-07 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
PM steve pirk [egrep] wrote: > > I seem to recollect back the 1999 or 2000 times that I was unable to > > register a domain name that was 24 characters long. Shortly after that, I > > heard that the character limit had been increased to like 128 characters, > > and we wer

Re: Were A record domain names ever limited to 23 characters?

2011-09-30 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
aming... ;-] --steve On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 15:00, wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 02:54:38PM -0700, steve pirk [egrep] wrote: > > I seem to recollect back the 1999 or 2000 times that I was unable to > > register a domain name that was 24 characters long. Shortly after that, I &g

Were A record domain names ever limited to 23 characters?

2011-09-30 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
memory of a bad dream? ;-] -- Steve Pirk Yensid

Re: Google DNS just disappeared

2011-07-18 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
gt; Regards, > > Cody Rose > NOC & Sys Admin > Website: www.killsudo.info > email: c...@killsudo.info > > -- steve pirk refiamerica.org "father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune kexp.org member august '09 _ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org https://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog

Re: Post positive reviews

2010-12-22 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
xperience and ability to post hundreds of positive reviews > that > are all unique content and posted on unique IP addresses. > > > wwwpostgoodreviews.com > -- steve pirk refiamerica.org "father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune kexp.org member august '09

Re: dark fiber

2010-02-11 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
astructure you automatically qualify as a phone company? I have no idea, I just see lots of little pieces coming together right now... --steve -- steve pirk refiamerica.org "father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune kexp.org member august '09

Re: Comcast IPv6 Trials

2010-01-28 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
rs from Comcast talking about mobile G4 access in my area apparently. I have Comcast Business class w/5 IPs. Linux and WinXP, own servers/dns and PTR on one IP so far. I also signed up. -- steve steve pirk refiamerica.org "father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune kexp.org member august '09

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification

2009-07-05 Thread Steve Pirk
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Roland Perry wrote: There's the temptation by some of companies to leverage the latest technology to appear "cool" and "in tune" with customers, but by far and large, when something goes down customers either do no nothing, wait, or call in. I think the best use of everyone's

Re: Tor abuse FAQs

2009-06-25 Thread Steve Pirk
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Hurricane Electric. Probably a tunnel from their tunnelbroker free v6 service. $ whois 2001:470:f15d:fe1d:33f:ad43:1:fa4 Doh! See, I said my skills were lacking. How lacking I had not realized. Dh, use whois. What a dummy. Consider me

Re: Tor abuse FAQs

2009-06-25 Thread Steve Pirk
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: A friend sent me these links: https://www.torproject.org/faq.html.en#ExitPolicies https://www.torproject.org/faq-abuse.html.en https://www.torproject.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html.en https://www.torproject.org/torusers.html.en

RE: tor

2009-06-24 Thread Steve Pirk
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Rod Beck wrote: This has nothing to do with telecommunications or any kind of carrier or business relationship. This is intentionally leaving your computer open so that anyone on the Internet can come along and appear to be coming from your IP, where they will promptly set of

ipv6 only DNS?

2009-06-20 Thread Steve Pirk
Anyone have any experience with dns and ipv6? I did a lookup on a host and it came back with only an ipv6 record. Also shows up in ident as a valid name. I was curious how an ipv6 only device would be able to hit my server. Details and more info off list, tonight if possible. -- steve

Re: Verio taking twitter down during Iran Election Riots?

2009-06-16 Thread Steve Pirk
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Tehran is currently UTC/GMT +4:30 hours. The current downtime is for 2:00 PM Pacific, or 1:30 AM in Tehran. That seems to be unfortunately still "prime time" for the nightly demonstrations, one of which is going on now. If the idea is to avoid such

[inquiry] Internet/cell in Teheran down?

2009-06-13 Thread Steve Pirk
Npr (All things considered) is reporting that cell phones and Internet access in at least Teheran if not all of Iran is down. Reporters are unable to connect out. Anyone hear of anything? -steve

Re: Michael Mooney releases another worm: Law Enforcement / Intelligence Agency's do nothing

2009-04-17 Thread Steve Pirk
I get it now... Chaim Rieger = netdev Nice trick. -- Steve On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Chaim Rieger wrote: And I want cnet to not report this crap. They glamorise it. --Original Message-- From: andrew.wallace To: nanog@nanog.org To: n3td3v Subject: Re: Michael Mooney releases another worm: L

Re: Can anyone shed some light as to what is happening with Register.com?

2009-04-01 Thread Steve Pirk
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Steve Pirk wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:10:24 -0500 Erich Kolb wrote: Looks like they are having some serious issues. It doesn't appear that any of their domains are resolving. Hosted or otherwise. Hmm -- UltraDN

Re: Can anyone shed some light as to what is happening with Register.com?

2009-04-01 Thread Steve Pirk
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:10:24 -0500 Erich Kolb wrote: Looks like they are having some serious issues. It doesn't appear that any of their domains are resolving. Hosted or otherwise. Hmm -- UltraDNS was attacked; I wonder if there's a connection.

Re: Craptastic Service! (was: Re: comcast price check)

2009-02-20 Thread Steve Pirk
Ouch! We have some unsatisfied customers... :-) I have had business class for 1.5 years now, and granted, there have been issues and I usually ask for tier 2 within a few minutes, but I am fairly satisfied. Speed just jumped to say 6-10Mbs down, 2+ up a couple of weeks ago and it works well fo

Re: Tightened DNS security question re: DNS amplification attacks.

2009-01-27 Thread Steve Pirk
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, j...@miscreant.org wrote: Quoting John Martinez : Are we still seeing DNS DDoS attack? Yep. I'm seeing ~2 queries/sec targetting 64.57.246.146. Also seeing requests from 76.9.16.171 every 1 minute 2 seconds. I run a small personal nameserver and even I am seeing requ

HUMOR: NANOG stop the economic downturn :-)

2008-12-24 Thread Steve Pirk
Heard this on NPR's All Things Considered today... Get busy people! :-) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98694231 Poet on Call by Andrei Codrescu The Machines Haven't Taken Over All Things Considered, December 24, 2008 With one pull of a switch, the ocean of junk that spil

Re: Rackmount Vendors

2008-09-25 Thread Steve Pirk
Not to plug people I know, but Chatsworth Products Inc. I know they are the best in the area and supply lots of fairly large cusomers (my real job included). http://www.chatsworth.com/datacenter -- Steve Equal bytes for women. On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Israel Lopez wrote: Hey there, Anyone know o

Re: comcast

2008-06-12 Thread Steve Pirk
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Randy Bush wrote: Does anybody heard if comcast is having problems today? lucy was having problems in eugene orygun. she diagnosed and then gave up and went to dinner. randy I have a comcast business line in Western WA and have seen no hiccups so far today. Main IP is

RE: Oregon/Washington Comcast outage

2008-05-27 Thread Steve Pirk
I have a Comcast business line, and have bbeen up all day. Here is my trace to the same IP (from Bremerton WA): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ traceroute 208.74.128.9 traceroute to 208.74.128.9 (208.74.128.9), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 73.96.188.1 (73.96.188.1) 8.051 ms 11.888 ms 6.731 ms 2