Re: An appeal for more bandwidth to the Internet Archive

2020-05-12 Thread Tim Požár
Internet Archive primary office is located at 300 Funston in San Francisco. This was a Christian Science church so it has the roman columns you would expect for a church / library. You can see it on Google Street Views at: https://www.google.com/maps/place/300+Funston+Ave,+San+Francisco,+CA+

Re: An appeal for more bandwidth to the Internet Archive

2020-05-12 Thread Terrence Koeman
Aren't they in a former church or something? I vaguely remember their location to be significant for some reason or another. So location may weigh heavily. -- Regards,    Terrence Koeman, PhD/MTh/BPsy      Darkness Reigns (Holding) B.V. Please quote relevant replies. Spelling errors courtesy o

FCC Report on 2019 Nationwide Emergency Alert Test

2020-05-12 Thread Sean Donelan
FCC published its 2019 nationwide EAS test report. The issues haven't changed, and some improved. "With respect to the single largest complication reported from the 2019 nationwide EAS test results – namely, issues with monitoring source failures – FEMA notes that it is actively taking mea

Re: An appeal for more bandwidth to the Internet Archive

2020-05-12 Thread Tim Požár
Heh. I just did this recently as I started a low power FM station (KPEA-LP). I did a bulk download of about 10,000 cuts of IA's 78 collection from 1923 and earlier as those recordings are all in the public domain. Tim On 5/12/20 11:50 AM, Tom Hayward wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:32 AM

Re: An appeal for more bandwidth to the Internet Archive

2020-05-12 Thread David Hubbard
Could the operation be moved out of California to achieve dramatically reduced operating costs and perhaps solve some problems via cost savings vs increased donation? I have to imagine with the storage and processing requirements that the footprint and power usage in SFO is quite costly. I hav

Re: An appeal for more bandwidth to the Internet Archive

2020-05-12 Thread colin johnston
Is the increased usage due to more users or more existing users having higher bandwidth at home to request faster ? Would be interested if IPS configured firewall used to block out invalid traffic/spam traffic and if such traffic increased when back end network capacity increased ? What countrie

Re: An appeal for more bandwidth to the Internet Archive

2020-05-12 Thread Tim Požár
Jared... Thanks for sharing this. I was the first Director of Operations from '96 to '98, at was was then Internet Archive/Alex. I was the network architect back then got them their ASN and original address space. Folks may also know, I help start SFMIX with Matt Peterson. A bit more detai

Re: Alternative for Google Safe Browsing for Network Administrators?

2020-05-12 Thread Mike Hammett
I didn't even know that was a thing. I just went to sign up to see what it was like before it disappeared. They appear to be using a very old database. One of our ASNs that we've had for five years still has the old entity's contact information for the verification. Another (32-bit) ASN that

Alternative for Google Safe Browsing for Network Administrators?

2020-05-12 Thread David Hubbard
Just received notice that Google is eliminating the Safe Browsing for Network Administrators service…. in favor of a new paid alternative; imagine that. Are there recommended similar services out there that will send netblock owners alerts related to suspected compromised websites, malware distr

An appeal for more bandwidth to the Internet Archive

2020-05-12 Thread Jared Brown
Hello all! Last week the Internet Archive upgraded their bandwidth 30% from 47 Gbps to 62 Gbps. It was all gobbled up immediately. There's a lovely solid green graph showing how usage grows vertically as each interface comes online until it too is 100% saturated. Looking at the graph legend you