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2015-10-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?

2014-03-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 04:16:13PM +, Warren Bailey wrote: > I heard cheese works really well for catching crackers. That's racist.

Someone’s Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet

2013-12-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/bgp-hijacking-belarus-iceland/ Someone’s Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet BY KIM ZETTER12.05.136:30 AM Hijacked traffic went all the way to Iceland, where it may have been copied before being released to its intended desti

Super Computer 13: GPUs would make terrific network monitors

2013-11-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/112113-sc13-gpus-would-make-terrific-276246.html Super Computer 13: GPUs would make terrific network monitors An off-the-shelf Nvidia GPU is able to easily capture all the traffic of a 10Gbps network, Fermilab research finds By Joab Jackson, IDG News Servic

Re: [liberationtech] Brazil Looks to Break from U.S.-Centric Internet

2013-09-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [cryptography] New NSA Slides and Details Released last night via Fantastico (BR)

2013-09-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [Cryptography] Opening Discussion: Speculation on "BULLRUN"

2013-09-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [Cryptography] Opening Discussion: Speculation on "BULLRUN"

2013-09-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
ice state than guaranteeing some semblance of confidential and privacy for Internet users. ___ The cryptography mailing list cryptogra...@metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Le

Re: The US government has betrayed the Internet. We need to take it back

2013-09-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 01:04:48PM -0700, Michael Thomas wrote: > I'd say we already have those things too in the form of PGP/SMIME. > Who knows what the NSA can break, but it's just not right to say that > we need new protocols. The means has been there for many years to > secure email (fsvo 'sec

Re: The US government has betrayed the Internet. We need to take it back

2013-09-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 12:03:56PM -0700, Michael Thomas wrote: > On 09/06/2013 11:19 AM, Nicolai wrote: > >That's true -- it is far easier to subvert email than most other > >services, and in the case of email we probably need a wholly new > >protocol. > > > > Uh, a first step might be to just tu

The US government has betrayed the Internet. We need to take it back

2013-09-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/05/government-betrayed-internet-nsa-spying The US government has betrayed the Internet. We need to take it back The NSA has undermined a fundamental social contract. We engineers built the Internet – and now we have to fix it Bruce Schneier The

Re: [liberationtech] NSA Laughs at PCs, Prefers Hacking Routers and Switches

2013-09-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
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NSA Laughs at PCs, Prefers Hacking Routers and Switches

2013-09-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/nsa-router-hacking/ NSA Laughs at PCs, Prefers Hacking Routers and Switches BY KIM ZETTER09.04.136:30 AM Photo: Santiago Cabezas/Flickr The NSA runs a massive, full-time hacking operation targeting foreign systems, the latest leaks from Edward Snowden s

Re: How big is the Internet?

2013-08-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:30:24PM -0400, Scott Howard wrote: > How about this - the size of the Internet is just short of 3 billion. > > That's the number of people that have access to it. To me, that's a far > more telling number than anything around IP address or Exabytes of data. Sure enough

Re: [cryptography] Google's QUIC

2013-07-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Server Sky - Internet and computation in orbit

2013-06-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
(This may be Wacky Friday, but this one is not tongue in cheek -- the name Keith Lofstrom should ring a bell). http://server-sky.com/ Server Sky - internet and computation in orbit It is easier to move terabits than kilograms or megawatts. Space solar power will solve the energy crisis. Sooner

Re: huawei

2013-06-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 08:34:49PM -0400, Scott Helms wrote: > Is it possible? Yes, but it's not feasible because the data rate would be > too low. That's what I'm trying to get across. There are lots things that > can be done but many of those are not useful. > > I could encode communications

Re: huawei

2013-06-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 07:51:22PM -0400, Scott Helms wrote: > Really? In a completely controlled network then yes, but not in a > production system. There is far too much random noise and actual latency > for that to be feasible. The coding used for the stegano side channel can be made quite rob

Re: huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:34:28AM -0600, Phil Fagan wrote: > Yeah, I can't imagine there is any real magic there...mystical protocol not > seen over transport. Compromised NICs can leak info through side channels (timing) but it's too low bandwidth. For end user devices with backdoors (remote vul

Re: Prism continued

2013-06-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 06:35:35PM -0700, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: > In the PRISM context, I highly doubt their using Splunk for any kind > of analysis beyond systems and network management. It's not good at > indexing non-texty-things. > What if you need to search for events that were geographical

Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:10:57AM +0300, Kauto Huopio wrote: > I would add opportunistic STARTTLS to all SMTP processing devices. What we actually need is working opportunistic encryption in IPv6, something like http://www.inrialpes.fr/planete/people/chneuman/OE.html

Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 12:25:35AM -0500, jamie rishaw wrote: > > Just wait until we find out dark and lit private fiber is getting vampired. > Approaches like http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70619 obviously don't scale to small time operators. But if you can vaccuum up clo

Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 08:07:57PM -0400, Alex Rubenstein wrote: > > > Has fingers directly in servers of top Internet content companies, > > > dates to 2007. Happily, none of the companies listed are transport > > > networks: > > > > I've always just assumed that if it's in electronic form, some

40 GBit @ 240 GHz across 1 km LoS

2013-05-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
Fraunhofer: http://www.iaf.fraunhofer.de/de/news-medien/pressemitteilungen/presse-2013-05-16.html Google Translate: New world record in data transmission by radio Press Release 16/05/2013 With a Langstreckendemonstrator between two skyscrapers in Karlsruhe, a distance of over a kilometer coul

Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM

2013-04-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 06:10:30PM -0400, Andrew Latham wrote: > > tl;dr: ARIN predicted to run out of IP space to allocate in August this > > year. > > > > Are you ready? > > I have sadly witnessed a growing number of businesses with /24s moving > to colocation/aws networks and not giving up th

Closing the gap to improve the capacity of existing fiber optic networks

2013-04-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.gizmag.com/cudos-fiber-optic-network-capacity/26969/ Closing the gap to improve the capacity of existing fiber optic networks By Darren Quick April 7, 2013 Researchers claim to have increased the data capacity of optical networks to the point that all of the world’s internet traffic

glass fiber @ 0.997 c

2013-03-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23309-information-superhighway-approaches-light-speed.html Information superhighway approaches light speed 18:00 24 March 2013 by Jacob Aron Nothing moves faster than light in a vacuum, but large volumes of data can now travel at 99.7 per cent of this ultima

Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work

2013-03-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 06:31:03PM -0500, Jimmy Hess wrote: > On 3/18/13, Jay Ashworth wrote: > [snip] > > In the next 3 years, it will become possible to build an autonomously > > navigating aircraft that can a) cross the Atlantic and b) carry a > > nuclear weapon. > > Not only is it already pos

Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work

2013-03-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 08:39:20PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > Having said that, we probably *will* see a number of incidents where the > biohazard cleanup crews have to clean up a local mess... The DIYbio community is perfectly harmless so far. The feds are already breathing down the

Fast fibre: A community shows the way

2013-02-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21442348 Fast fibre: A community shows the way COMMENTS (198) Lancashire leads way on fast fibre connection How fast is your home broadband? Seventy to 80 Mbps if you're one of the few with the very fastest fibre broadband services? Perhaps 10Mbps if you've

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 04:43:56PM -0800, Leo Bicknell wrote: > The only place PON made any sense to me was extreme rural areas. > If you could go 20km to a splitter and then hit 32 homes ~1km away > (52km fiber pair length total), that was a win. If the homes are > 2km from the CO, 32 pair (64km

Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed?

2012-12-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 01:13:15PM -0800, George Herbert wrote: > I don't know that the discussion is a NANOG-centric one from here on > in, but it's good to have raised the idea. Something optical, like a >10 GBit/s SR version of TOSLINK would be nice.

Re: Gmail and SSL

2012-12-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:36:08AM -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote: > > Seconded. I was a hold-out for a long time on personal stuff - I trust me, > > I'm not paying someone else to trust me - but StartSSL makes a lot of the > > pain go away with minimal effort. > > > > because paying for rand

/. ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection

2012-12-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/12/05/0115214/itu-approves-deep-packet-inspection ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 04, @08:19PM from the inspect-my-encryption-all-you'd-like dept. dsinc sends this quote from Techdirt about the International Telecommu

[liberationtech] Internet back in Syria

2012-12-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[tor-relays] Bandwidth and server leads [was: Tor raid]

2012-11-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [tor-talk] William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
stria and is a well respected member of the community, a lot of us have already sent in donations. His blog is https://rdns.im/ and I'm guessing the statement will be posted on there, I'll send everyone a link once it's finished being written. On 29 November 2012 19:22

Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
ease keep this in mind. > > This money will only be used for legal expenses related to this case. > > > > If you have any questions or want to donate by another way > > (MoneyBookers, Webmoney, Bitcoin, Liberty Reserve, Neteller) feel free > > to send me a mail (will...@william.si) or a PM,

Integrity of Internet Is Crux of Global Conference

2012-11-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/technology/dark-warnings-about-future-of-internet-access.html?pagewanted=print November 27, 2012 Integrity of Internet Is Crux of Global Conference By ERIC PFANNER PARIS — A commercial and ideological clash is set for next week, when representatives of more th

Spanner: synchronizing the largest global database with GPSDO stratum 1 in every datacenter

2012-11-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
(GPSDO for local data center as stratum 1) http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/11/google-spanner-time/all/ Exclusive: Inside Google Spanner, the Largest Single Database on Earth By Cade Metz 11.26.12 6:30 AM Each morning, when Andrew Fikes sat down at his desk inside Google headquarters i

Re: [serval-project-dev] Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header

2012-11-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
ations. On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > - Forwarded message from George Herbert - > > From: George Herbert > Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:51:57 -0800 > To: William Herrin > Cc: Eugen Leitl , nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Adding GPS location to IP

Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header

2012-11-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 05:46:33PM -0500, Harald Koch wrote: > This also naively assumes that wireless network topology correlates with > geographic location. Any radio engineer (or cell phone user) can explain > why that doesn't work. Serval has about 200 m line of sight range. In general LoS vis

Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header

2012-11-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:56:52PM -0200, Carlos M. Martinez wrote: > Just for redundancy's sake: No, L3 is **not** the place for this kind of > information. L3 is supposed to be simple, easy to implement, fast to I agree. You need to put it into L2, and the core usage would be for wireless meshes

Re: Big day for IPv6 - 1% native penetration

2012-11-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 06:25:47AM -0800, Damian Menscher wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: > > > Again, where're the compelling IPv6-only content/apps/services? > > > > To answer your rhetorical question, http://www.kame.net/ has a dancing > kame. To my knowledge

Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header

2012-11-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 02:19:48PM -0800, John Adams wrote: > Your proposal doesn't even give people a way to encrypt their location > data; By moving geodata to a portion of the protocol which is not covered It's not possible to hide location. Anonymity and efficient transport don't mix. This wi

Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header

2012-11-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:08:15PM -0500, William Herrin wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Ammar Salih wrote: > > 2- Layer 7 will not be detected by layer 3 devices (routers) .. so > > location-based service on layer-3 will not be possible. > > Geographic-based layer 3 routing has been th

NASA DTN Protocol: Interplanetary Internet, How It Works, What LEGOS Have to To With It

2012-11-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://anewdomain.net/2012/11/10/nasa-dtn-protocol-bp-protocol-vint-cerf-interplanetary-internet-how-it-works-what-legos-have-to-to-with-it/# NASA DTN Protocol: Interplanetary Internet, How It Works, What LEGOS Have to To With It Author: Gina Smith NASA is calling it the interplanetary Internet

Re: [HacDC:Byzantium] Re: OT: Hurricane retweet-2-smtp.

2012-11-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
ed on a case by case basis. Ben the Pyrate On Nov 11, 2012 7:47 AM, "Eugen Leitl" wrote: > - Forwarded message from chris - > > From: chris > Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 07:07:27 -0500 > To: jamie rishaw > Cc: NANOG list > Subject: Re: OT: Hurricane retweet-2

UK Scientists Claim to Develop 2000 Times Faster Broadband via Fibre Optic

2012-11-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2012/11/uk-scientists-claim-to-develop-2000-times-faster-broadband-via-fibre-optic.html UK Scientists Claim to Develop 2000 Times Faster Broadband via Fibre Optic Posted Tuesday, November 6th, 2012 (11:08 am) by Mark Jackson (Score 746) A team of scientists

One big cluster: How CloudFlare launched 10 data centers in 30 days

2012-10-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/one-big-cluster-how-cloudflare-launched-10-data-centers-in-30-days/ One big cluster: How CloudFlare launched 10 data centers in 30 days With high-performance computing, "pixie-booting" servers a half-world away. by Sean Gallagher - Oct 19 20

Re: [tt] IPv4 address length technical design

2012-10-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 05:10:00PM +0900, Masataka Ohta wrote: > > Above describes your setting for the next protocol. There is not > > a lot of leeway in design space, I'm afraid. > > Just keep using IPv4. > > Masataka Ohta > PS > > See ftp://chach

Re: IPv4 address length technical design

2012-10-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 06:59:20PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > Where's Noel Chiappa when you need him? > > > (2) The new protocol will use variable-length address for the Host > > portion, such as used in the addresses of CLNP, > > This also was considered during the IPv6 design

US government gets an "F" for IPv6 Internet make-over

2012-10-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[liberationtech] The Hidden Internet of Iran: Private Address Allocations on a National Network

2012-10-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
Sounds just like CGN. - Forwarded message from Collin Anderson - From: Collin Anderson Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 15:06:34 -0400 To: liberationt...@lists.stanford.edu Subject: [liberationtech] The Hidden Internet of Iran: Private Address Allocations on a National Network Reply-To: l

/. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-09-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://slashdot.org/topic/datacenter/terabit-ethernet-is-dead-for-now/ Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now by Mark Hachman | September 26, 2012 A straw poll of the IEEE's high-speed Ethernet group finds that 400-Gbits/s is almost unanimously preferred. Sorry, everybody: terabit Ethernet looks li

is CERNET part of the Internet?

2012-09-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
I'm trying to figure out whether CERNET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERNET is part of the official Internet, or is behind the Great Firewall where access to invididual networks on the public Internet must be explicitly granted. Anyone in the know?

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:57:34AM -0500, Jason Baugher wrote: > Considering the rather extensive discussion on this list of using > quantum entanglement as a possible future communications medium that > would nearly eliminate latency, I don't see how my comment is moot or a > waste. You ne

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 03:32:47PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 18/09/2012 15:07, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > Department of Work and Pensions UK in Possession of 16.9 Million Unused IPv4 > > Addresses > > "unused"? sez who? Oh, it said it on the internet so it mus

The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://paritynews.com/network/item/325-department-of-work-and-pensions-uk-in-possession-of-169-million-unused-ipv4-addresses Department of Work and Pensions UK in Possession of 16.9 Million Unused IPv4 Addresses Written by Ravi Mandalia Department of Work and Pensions UK in Possession of 16.9

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:27:04AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > What technology are you planning to deploy that will consume more than 2 > addresses per square cm? Easy. Think volume (as in: orbit), and think um^3 for a functional computers ;)

RIPE NCC now allocating IPv4 address space from the last /8 netblock

2012-09-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/europe-officially-runs-out-of-ipv4-addresses/ Europe officially runs out of IPv4 addresses RIPE NCC now allocating IPv4 address space from the last /8 netblock by Iljitsch van Beijnum - Sep 14, 2012 3:20 pm UTC Earlier today, the RIPE NCC

Re: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 05:15:51PM -1000, Michael Painter wrote: > Eugen Leitl wrote: >> http://www.wired.com/business/2012/08/ff_wallstreet_trading/all/ >> >> Some interesting, network-relevant content there (but for the >> neutrino and drone rubbish). > > '

raging bulls

2012-08-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.wired.com/business/2012/08/ff_wallstreet_trading/all/ Some interesting, network-relevant content there (but for the neutrino and drone rubbish).

Re: IPv6 End User Fee

2012-08-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 04:00:18PM -, John Levine wrote: > >Do you see problems with this scheme? There's considerable > >interest and momentum in end user owned routing infrastructure, > >including wireless ad hoc meshes across urban areas. > > I've seen remarkably little overlap between the

Re: IPv6 End User Fee

2012-08-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 06:53:48PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > This ignores the many many studies of the idea of geo-based > addressing which have proven its unfeasibility as well as the I disagree that the studies have looked at the problem space from the right angle. > fact that not everyone

Re: IPv6 End User Fee

2012-08-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 10:31:02AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > > IPv6 missed a great chance of doing away with all the > > central waterfall trickle-down space distribution. > > > > There was no need to fix what wasn't broken. Let's say I want to plunk down a zero-administration node somewhere

Re: IPv6 End User Fee

2012-08-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 10:59:09AM -0500, Jimmy Hess wrote: > On 8/4/12, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 08:31:06PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > > onboard (as most smartphones and tablets do). > > 24 + 24 + 16 bits are just enough to represent > > a decen

Re: IPv6 End User Fee

2012-08-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 08:31:06PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > You MIGHT have paid some other organization for the privilege of transferring > part or all of their registration rights to you. > > But in no case did you pay for the addresses themselves unless you are silly > enough to think that

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-08-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 11:52:53AM -1000, William Herrin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Frank Bulk wrote: > > A good portable generator is more than $500, and if it's a wide-spread > > outage there's not enough portable generators to go around, and if there > > were, not enough people t

Re: The Cidr Report

2012-07-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 03:48:47AM +1000, Skeeve Stevens wrote: > I think the effort to moderate this particular list would be far to much > effort. Most mailing lists allow moderation of new list members by default. Typically, the moderation is removed after the first non-spam post. This causes n

[liberationtech] new opennet citizen lab report: routing gone wild

2012-07-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

2012-07-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:26:22AM -0700, Roy wrote: > Remember OpenTime is only for people who want their system clocks to > ignore leap seconds. I don't include myself among the possible users of > OpenTime. Obviously you need a machine time, which is monotonous, high-resolution (you don't

Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

2012-07-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 06:10:45PM -0400, William Herrin wrote: > IMO, leap seconds are a really bad idea. Let the vanishingly few > people who care about a precision match against the solar day keep > track of the deviation from clock time and let everybody else have a > *simple* clock year after

Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

2012-07-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 09:49:40PM +0200, Peter Lothberg wrote: > I leave the computer kernels out of this for a second..:-) > > We have a timescale that runs at constant speed forward it's named > "TAI", it is based on the definition on the atomic second. Notice that in inertial frame dragging

Re: [liberationtech] Syria blackout?

2012-05-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
o some more > digging. Tor, and some specific types of VPNs still seem to be working > fine. > > -Andrew > > On 5/31/2012 2:26 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: >> - Forwarded message from Rafael Cresci >> - > >> From: Rafael Cresci Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 >>

Re: [liberationtech] Syria blackout?

2012-05-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 And it looks like I maybe wrong. It seems that torrents, and videos stopped working sometime yesterday. I am going to do some more digging. Tor, and some specific types of VPNs still seem to be working fine. - -Andrew On 5/31/2012 2:26 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote

Re: [liberationtech] Syria blackout?

2012-05-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Andrew Lewis - From: Andrew Lewis Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:29:05 -0400 To: Eugen Leitl , liberationt...@lists.stanford.edu Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Syria blackout? User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428

OpenFlow @ GOOG

2012-04-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/going-with-the-flow-google/all/1 Going With The Flow: Google’s Secret Switch To The Next Wave Of Networking By Steven Levy April 17, 2012 | 11:45 am | Categories: Data Centers, Networking In early 1999, an associate computer science professor a

Re: Most energy efficient (home) setup

2012-04-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:22:20AM -0700, Henk Hesselink wrote: > Have you looked at the HP ProLiant MicroServer? Notice it takes up to 8 GByte ECC memory and supports zfs via napp-it/Illumos. A hacked BIOS was required to use the 5th internal SATA port in AHCI mode, maybe that's no longer necessa

airFiber

2012-03-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
Claim: 1.4 GBit/s over up to 13 km, 24 GHZ, @3 kUSD/link price point. http://www.ubnt.com/airfiber

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

2012-03-23 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/122989-1-5-billion-the-cost-of-cutting-london-toyko-latency-by-60ms $1.5 billion: The cost of cutting London-Tokyo latency by 60ms By Sebastian Anthony on March 20, 2012 at 1:04 pm Arctic Link submarine cable Starting this summer, a convoy of ice breakers

Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary

2012-03-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:25:46AM -0400, William Herrin wrote: > Geographic routing strategies have been all but proven to irredeemably > violate the recursive commercial payment relationships which create > the Internet's topology. In other words, they always end up stealing > bandwidth on links

Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary

2012-03-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 09:57:10PM +0900, Masataka Ohta wrote: > >> That's one reason why we should stay away from IPv6. > > > > What prevents you from using > > http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v1/n6/full/ncomms1063.html > > with IPv6? > > Though I didn't paid $32 to read the full paper, it

Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary

2012-03-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 01:18:04PM +0900, Masataka Ohta wrote: > As long as we keep using IPv4, we are mostly stopping at /24 and > must stop at /32. > > But, see the subject. It's well above moore. > > For high speed (fixed time) routed look up with 1M entries, SRAM is > cheap at /24 and is fin

[NSG-d] Historian is trolling for memories about the early days of SF and ARPANet. Anybody?

2012-03-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
rsHome.org/mailman/options/NSG-d Hosted by CyberTeams.com and Mars Foundation(tm), http://MarsHome.org - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 1

Re: Common operational misconceptions

2012-02-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:33:12AM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Ridwan Sami" > > > There is no legitimate reason for a user to use BitTorrent (someone > > will probably disagree with this). > > Yeah, no. > > You've clearly never tried to download a Linux

photonic buffer bloat

2012-01-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
In future photonic networks (which will do relativistic cut-through directly in a photonic crossbar without converting photons to electrons and back) the fiber is not just a transport channel but also a photonic buffer (e.g. at 10 GBit/s Ethernet a short reach fiber already buffers a standard

Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice.

2011-12-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 12:25:41PM +, Thorsten Dahm wrote: > Yes, I know, they can call you, or send an Email, but nothing beats the > good old "Let's go for a coffee, I'd like to ask you a question". Some people just put up a dedicated netbook with a permanent video/audio link (can be a pr

Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice.

2011-12-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 10:47:22AM -0800, Scott Weeks wrote: > In our industry, especially with all the tools we have today, it would seem > that telecommuting would be more accepted, but it's not and I don't > understand > why. People are social primates, alphas like access to nonverbal cues

Internet mauled by bears

2011-09-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://news.techeye.net/internet/internet-attacked-by-bears#.TnZXk5rhOv8.reddit Internet attacked by bears Is there a picnic basket in this node? 16 Sep 2011 09:44 | by Nick Farrell in Rome | Filed in Internet Internet attacked by bears - Techies in Idaho have been scratching their heads tryi

is First Media Service Limited a bulletproof hosting network?

2011-08-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
# Filtered -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Re: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
stuff, such as BGP4, will break > irrevocably long before this. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Re: high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 05:17:55PM -0700, George Herbert wrote: > Micron has some large-cap SLC drives in the chain for > September/October/ish timeframes. > > Ramdisk with rsync or rdiffbackup to spinning storage will do just fine. Or hybrid zfs pools. -- Eugen* Leitl http

Re: [pfSense Support] Strange TCP connection behavior 2.0 RC2 (+3)

2011-06-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
performance increase... Regards Will On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > - Forwarded message from Rhys Rhaven - > > From: Rhys Rhaven > Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:30:06 -0500 > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Strange TCP connec

[pfSense Support] Strange TCP connection behavior 2.0 RC2 (+3)

2011-06-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
freebsd net mailinglist, but im hoping you lot can help me! Cheers in advance Will - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:34:10AM -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote: > Though it's nice to have why would one *need* 100 Mbps at home? I Residential broadband is asymmetric, so it's typically more like 6/100 MBit/s, though VDSL and FTTH are also making (slow) progress. Even with that slow upstream

reporting Swiss Money Report?

2011-05-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
these people? Thanks! Regards, Eugen Leitl

Backbone operators see IPv6 connectivity demand up, but little traffic

2011-05-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://searchtelecom.techtarget.com/news/2240035722/Backbone-operators-see-IPv6-connectivity-demand-up-but-little-traffic Backbone operators see IPv6 connectivity demand up, but little traffic Internet backbone and wholesale carriers are anecdotally reporting a rapid rise in demand from their se

Syngenta space

2011-04-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
Hi, sorry for the noise, but my contact at Syngenta says they have 147.0.0.0/8 168.0.0.0/8 and 172.0.0.0/8, which is obviously bogus. They do have a 168.246.0.0/16 however. Any tool to look the other two up quickly, without having to iterate through the entire second octet? Thanks! -- Eugen

Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2011/3/23/4778509.html Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million by Milton Mueller on Wed 23 Mar 2011 10:30 PM EDT | Permanent Link | ShareThis Wake up call for our friends in the Regional Internet Registries. Nortel, t

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