Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-04 Thread Ian Mason
On 3 May 2009, at 05:20, James Hess wrote: A /62 takes care of that unusual case, no real need for a /56 for the average residential user; that's just excessive. There are about 11 million /56s per person on the planet, we're not about to run out. As there's nothing to conserve why follo

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-02 Thread Ian Mason
On 1 Dec 2008, at 19:19, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: An alternative would be to run a microwave link to shore, but I'm not sure I would want to bet the farm on the mechanics necessary to keep the dish aligned. Actually this is pretty straightforward. Systems exist for getting rock steady

Re: Network topology

2008-10-15 Thread Ian Mason
On 15 Oct 2008, at 17:52, Colin Alston wrote: On 2008/10/15 06:29 PM Bill Woodcock wrote: InterMapper. http://dartware.com/network_monitoring_products/ intermapper/index.html -Bill Whoa, quite a serious looking piece of software. Will check it out. Was

Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

2008-08-23 Thread Ian Mason
On 21 Aug 2008, at 09:09, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 20 aug 2008, at 21:33, Crist Clark wrote: No, that's my point. On a true point-to-point link, there is only one other address on the link. That's what point-to-point means. For example, on the IPv4 ends gif(4) tunnel in my previous m

Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

2008-06-27 Thread Ian Mason
On 27 Jun 2008, at 02:13, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Ken Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Oooh -- dibs on that one. And .some, so you can register awe.some, trouble.some, and fear.some. And .ous, which would allow humm.ous, seri.ous, fabul.ous, etc.. Somebody on /. mentioned .dot,

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-29 Thread Ian Mason
On 27 May 2008, at 16:33, Robert Bonomi wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon May 26 21:16:58 2008 Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 07:46:26 +0530 From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Colin Alston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: amazonaws.com? Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, May 27, 2008

Re: Hurricane season starts June 1: Carriers harden networks

2008-05-29 Thread Ian Mason
On 27 May 2008, at 22:18, Sean Donelan wrote: The official spokespeople don't mention it, but there is also a tendency for local officials to divert fuel delivery trucks for their use instead of maintaining communication facilities. Some years ago we managed to get the UK government e

Re: Broadband routers and botnets - being proactive

2007-05-15 Thread Ian Mason
On 16 May 2007, at 00:53, Joel Jaeggli wrote: [snip] The thing is it would be really nice to have some functional separation between the business of this list which is operating a network, and the security focused lists, and the botnet/phishing/spam lists, addressing policy lists, the i