Re: Current diameter of the Internet?

Hmm, made me curious,... What is the bisection bandwidth of the Internet today? -- //Shrikumar ---Original Message--- > From: Sean Donelan > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 11:46:00 -0400 (EDT) > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Current diameter of the Internet? > > > According to Cloudflare

Re: Current diameter of the Internet?

Sean, Your just trying to choose reasonable timeouts for your TCP packets? Well, why didn't you say so? (Or perhaps I missed it). Fortunately, Einstein's General Theory of Relativity was solved long ago, so that's take care of. 🙂 If you're trying to choose reasonable timeouts, a wrong question

Re: Current diameter of the Internet?

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?

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 others in this thread, 200-280 ms on the higher end. If you start

Re: Current diameter of the Internet?

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?

OMG, Not trying to solve Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Just trying to choose reasonable timeouts for my TCP packets :-) Middleware boxes suck -- its IETF week. On Mon, 22 Jul 2024, Mel Beckman wrote: *A. Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, authorized translatio

Re: pgp keyservers

>> very intentionally wearing my end luser hat, i did not find a simple >> hkps://entry to put in my `~/.gnupg/gpg.conf`. probably my fault. > > That’s a fair point and we’d be open to ideas on how to improve that > aspect to make it more accessible to end users, especially the less > technicall

Re: pgp keyservers

> On Jul 22, 2024, at 09:48, Randy Bush wrote: > > i did a mild descent through the links on that web page. > > very intentionally wearing my end luser hat, i did not find a simple > hkps://entry to put in my `~/.gnupg/gpg.conf`. probably my fault. > > randy That’s a fair point and we’d be op

Re: pgp keyservers

> While the sks-keyservers.net domain and many of the old hostnames that > powered it are dead & gone, the actual SKS keyserver network does in > fact live on, complete with new & improved DOS mitigations and active > development of the underlying server software powering it, Hockeypuck. > More inf

Re: Current diameter of the Internet?

According to Cloudflare Latency under average utilization by continent North America 41 ms South America 46 ms Europe 34 ms Africa 108 ms Asia 84 ms Oceania 35 ms Not clear what is included in Cloudflare "continents." Oceania is listed with the 2nd hi

Re: pgp keyservers

While the sks-keyservers.net domain and many of the old hostnames that powered it are dead & gone, the actual SKS keyserver network does in fact live on, complete with new & improved DOS mitigations and active development of the underlying server software powering it, Hockeypuck. More informatio

Re: pgp keyservers

> On Jul 22, 2024, at 10:00, John Kristoff wrote: > > * https://keys.openpgp.org/ keys.openpgp.org is the only key server I’ve ever used, but I’m wondering if it’s one of the “hipster” key servers referred to earlier.

Re: pgp keyservers

On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 16:25:17 -0700 Randy Bush wrote: > are there any old keyservers still working? or only the new hipster > ones? i tried three and no love The current version of the PGP/GnuPG doc hosted by FIRST.org lists the following additional servers you might try, and appear to be funct

Re: Current diameter of the Internet?

For a more academic treatment: “The crucial problem of how to synchronize clocks and measure the one-way speed of light was originally discussed by Poincaré and Einstein. After being neglected for many decades, the Poincaré-Einstein problem of synchronization revived in 1977 with the work of Ma