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on their equivalent "serverHold".
And it is there that perhaps I overreacted one step; I had thought from the
data I heard that that *was* a registry-side hold (and hence it didn't matter
that it was NetSol). Or perhaps that NetSol was still the registry for .net --
that's out
>> *Sent:* Thursday, July 4, 2024 11:55 AM
>> *To:* nanog@nanog.org
>> *Subject:* HE.net problem
>>
>> Caution: This is an external email and may be malicious. Please take care
>> when clicking links or opening attachments.
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>> We have a report on outag
e expected to merge with potential arrival expected by early
> May 11 on the UTC day.”
>
> (Low but distinct possibility of effects to radio and transmission systems)
>
> FYI,
> /John
>
> John Curran
> President and CEO
> American Registry for Internet Numbers
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I would note his age here, as obits usually do, but it seems unusually difficult
to learn.
Happy landings, Mr Lynch.
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er-ranking (and less well spoken) "time experts" (I'm lookin'
at you, NPR...)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/science/leap-day-easter.html
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> From: "William Herrin"
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 2:19 PM Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>> > From: "Justin Streiner"
>> > 4. Getting people to unlearn the "NAT=Security" mindset that we were forced
>> >
ontrol of what internal
nodes are accessible from the outside in the hands of the people inside.
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ce in the IP header to a
> quic native protocol, and start retiring the old ones.
Well, I've been able to avoid thinking about it for some time, but ISTR my
reaction to QUIC as violating a number of organized religions' blasphemy
rules...
> /me hides
Indeed.
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I know we had a thread on this last month, but I can't remember what it
was titled.
ElReg has done a civilian-level backgrounder on the 240/4 issue, for anyone
who wants to read and scoff at it. :-)
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/09/240_4_ipv4_block_activism/
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> It mostly just renumbers/reorganizes the NEC. Old time electricians will
> grumble because almost every code number changes.
The NEC is included *by copy* in some state statutes, is it not? If so, I
wonder how that will affect those.
[ * rather than 'by reference' ]
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ample, of packets going from Miami to Ft Lauderdale via One Wilshire,
is a classic example.
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nformation shared that even remotely points to that simply
> spreads FUD for no reason.
I didn't see any of them in the thread, which was the only thing I was paying
attention to, so those are fact not in evidence to *me*.
I didn't see an exclamation point in his comment, which seemed re
g an
AAR on an event like this should be thinking about, and looking for in their
evaluation of the data they see.
He didn't *accuse* anyone, which would be out of bounds.
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he facility by my mailer -- is much smaller than
the number when I wanted it to continue. The only mailer I remember being able
to do it in, really, is mutt, where you could get all the headers into vi, and
delete In-Reply-To:.
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on a list of which clients get it right and which wrong, and
which might have gotten religion over the years on the topic. 5322 isn't my
primary RFC. :-)
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't say. The FCC broadband maps
> are a lot of hand-waving by service providers.
Well, that's not going to end well.
Sadly, the circumstance in which we'll find out will be if SHTF, and after
that failure, it won't matter much.
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gt;
>https://psg.com/emily.html
I would bet many dollars green American that the venn diagram of "people who
need that advice these days" and "people who can tell that it is sarcasm/
satire" is two disjoint circles...
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o only provide them upon quotes?
>>
>
> There is no small profit :)
>
> Also some will fear sabotage if the pathway is publicly available.
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reasonable default, why don’t any of the public resolvers (e.g.
> 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, 9.9.9.9, etc.) do so?
It's a reasonable default behavior *for default resolver servers for consumer
eyeball networks*.
I knew that was what John meant, and I can't see any reason why you wouldn&#x
se I *demand* that we stop having fires and tornados and
>> similar. It's super-disruptive to have to go and hide in my basement *every
>> single time* there is a tornado, or pull over every time a fire engine comes
>> barreling down the road…. and those sirens!...
ctionality, while
still precluding WEA/CMAS alerts.
I think I've got that right, don't I, Sean?
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t;> On Sep 13, 2023, at 6:27 PM, Bryan Fields wrote:
>>
>> I think this qualifies as potentially operational.
>>
>> Afrinic placed in receivership, board elections to be held in six months:
>> https://archive.ph/jOFE4
>> --
>> Bryan Fields
>
related: READ: non-commercial in
>> nature.
>>
>> I'm currently a vultr customer, but they're refusing to unblock port 25
>> on my account. I've tried explaining my use case but no matter who I
>> talk to over there they just keep pointing me to their spam
spot areas and
> get internet access.
Well, it sounds like the historical Bell System attitude has transitioned
forwards to ... newer transport. Good.
Best of luck to you all, out there.
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ink it is. All I have to do is ensure that
> your receiver receives my signal loud enough that it thinks the real
> satellites are noise, and my signal is the real one.
>
> This isn't that hard to accomplish, especially since there are youtube
> videos showing you ho
0 birds, right? Is there not some voting and such inside
such a receiver? Just letting it see one 'bird' with spoofed time doesn't
seem like it ought to work, to me; what don't I know?
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nation-state actor
might affect their systems by combat attack... ended a couple decades ago.
And if your bean-counters tell you it's not cost-effective to make it that
tight, maybe it's time to change jobs?
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redictable" as Mark put it.
>
> Nothing a routing daemon does should involve the kernel BPF. The next
> sysadmin won't be expecting it.
That's such an important thought that it has a name.
The Principle of Least Astonishment.
"When doing things, try to pick the way
rs,
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> On 11/8/2022 9:39 AM, Brian Turnbow via NANOG wrote:
>>> This may not exist yet, but what about a uRPF-like feature that uses RPKI,
>>> IRR,
>>> etc. instead of current BGP feed?
>>
>> There is rfc8704 that extends urpf
>> But I do not
his to all my competitors
So good to know things haven't changed whilst I was in hiding...
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>>
>> It appears that Forrest Christian (List Account)
>> said:
>> >Personally I'd like to see the UTC timescale be fixed to the TAI timescale
>> >with a fixe
est Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/>
>>> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix>
>>> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange>
>>> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix>
>>> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswis
network in most markets and actively offer active-E service on it
> for the right price (it can even occasionally be competitive). I
> imagine they'd sell dark for the right price as well, though you may not
> like that "right" price.
Yeah, FU pricin
to happen at 23:59:59 on that day will never occur.
> Hopefully the impact is minimal, but it won't be none.
Occurs to me that "the last second of today" is approximately a million times
more likely as a scheduling target than "the next to last second"; they should
dr
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andle "DST always on"? They would still
have to flap, twice a year, right?
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ork later.
This also, as I understood it, why high-school is always the first grade
level which starts, and ends, the school day (often 7a-2p or so).
No, I don't have a citation handy; news pieces I read on it some years ago.
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ing with a change from -8 to -7 crossing the
>>> eric> border between BC and WA, for instance. It has to be done
>>> eric> consistently throughout North America.
>>>
>>> You must not have ever dealt with Indiana, where it was DST or not by
>>>
cancelling DST has the effect of moving the US fifteen
> degrees to the east. Also, your subject line reads “permanent DST”, but from
> your language the bill will be permanent standard time.
>
> I haven’t read the bill, but I’m hoping you can explain your position more
> clearly.
&g
ional time worldwide, and even
if you do log in UTC, it will still make your life difficult.
I'm poleaxed; I can't even decide which grounds to scream about this on...
Hopefully, the House or the White House will be more coherent in their
decision on this engineering construct.
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> future. For anyone unfamiliar with their existing distributed DPI
> architecture, google "Russia SORM".
Some tech press coverage on this:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/russia-creates-its-own-tls-certificate-authority-to-bypass-sanctions/
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I'm told their national carrier is trying to bring in a ground station as
well, though not whom it will connect to.
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played all that well either.
As for the name, though, my understanding was that it's not *presently*
Bougainville; it's still PNG. That was the name the prospective government
had chosen to use.
Clearly I have learned my lesson this week about researching. :-}
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at all*.
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- Original Message -
> From: "Jaap Akkerhuis"
> It is no makred as reserved but assigned.
So this sentence in the wikipedia article:
"The domain remains reserved for potential future use. "
speaks from the viewpoint of NORID, not of the MA. Got it.
Cheers,
hey've got a plan there...
Though given .TV's benefits to Tuvalu, and the number of Scandahoovian
businesses that are BVs...
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are esthetic,
and academic (in either send of the word).
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logies, I'd missed that one.
Yeah, as crappy as it will be for them to not have that 3166 code, you're
probably
right that it won't happen.
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political subdivision... but they're not selling those domains now,
so that doesn't seem compelling.
Anyone here got a buddy on the secretariat? :-)
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s such a
> wonderful
> idea, it is widely deployed and in use in a number of environments.
>
> If we’re still using IPv4 widely enough that GUA space matters, we will have
> far bigger problems than the lack of available GUA for it.
>
> Owen
>
>
>> On Nov 17, 2
x27;t think expanding 1918 was the goal of these
proponents
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> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 6:31 PM Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>>
>> This seems like a really bad idea to me; am I really the only one who
>> noticed?
>>
>> https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-scho
instein, whom I stole it from ]
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This is an *engineering definition*, it matters that you name the right
object, and I am one of the people who will, in fact, die on this hill.
The associated press can bite me.
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;> as the HP server rack, was loaded with DC power supplies. Those things just
>> had
>> to go.
>>
>> There is an avenue of pleasure in not having to spend inordinate amounts of
>> time
>> adding major electrical planning to deploying/decommis
an EPO switch to only disconnect commercial power
> and leave local redundant power live? What sort of facilities would have
> this?
No... I just hadn't had my coffee yet that morning and I crossed the streams.
That should be the response to the *ATS cutover*, not the Molly switch.
If
x27;re on Emergency Power.
Yes, real honest-to-ghod *rotating mechanical beacons*, none of this flashing
LED
crap.
Clearly, it's important that the use of Emergency Power be annoyingly
noticeable.
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aid:
>
>> do you have news about the issue on RADb ?
>
> Note that it is discussed on the outages mailing list. No specific
> news, just that it is down.
And Jeremy Chadwick pronounces it back up now. :-)
Thanks for the plug, Stephane. :-)
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- Original Message -
> From: "Matthew Walster"
> On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 at 17:51, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>
>> Sam 'Half As Interesting' Denby actually did a surprisingly good job
>> explaining
>> this for the average only-vaguely-technical vie
long-form stuff on Wendover Productions is excellent ]
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have a column for that, nor any actual mention of such resolvers...
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bit more mature than KVM. :-)
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ot political causes*, and I am adding that hitching your star to that wagon
may shorten your career as much as it's shortening the careers of the people
who were in Washington.
And now, with prejudice, I'm requesting that this thread get moderated, before
anyone *else* volunteers to jump
ry 13, 2021 11:52:47 PM
> Subject: Re: End-user Alert Delivery (was Re: NDAA passed: Internet and
> Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study)
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 7:58 PM Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>> Last time I looked, consumer residential smoke detectors were still runni
tta be fun.
ESR is on the "yes, that is what 230 says" side, and John Levine -- with what
looked to me like good arguments and references -- is on the "no, that's
entirely not what 230 says side.
Gentlemen: go to your corners and come out fighting! Well, ok, disagreein
urrent shape of the Internet Death Penalty.
Just in case anyone missed that.
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ptional model, not a general takeover
of the field, I suspect, or the "well we just won't bother anymore" factor
takes over.
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- Original Message -
> From: "Valdis Klētnieks"
> On Thu, 07 Jan 2021 23:35:06 +, "Jay R. Ashworth" said:
>> > From: "Brandon Svec"
>> > It is not really different than most other tourist attractions. Some are
>> > am
o this for a living, mostly...
> and some think it is ridiculous.
Those would be people who *do* this for a living, mostly.
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m another carrier than my own.
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specific sectors of specific towers*,
so they can warn exactly the people necessary in real-time... if it's
implemented
correctly along the entire path. I'm not actually certain which carriers if any
have actually deployed the enchilada.
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use robotic callers I
> have a wonderful digital war-dialer that can tie up a whole central switch --
> one way or the other the assholes will be forced to cease their disgusting
> behaviour!
Die in the tornado; I got no time for people like you anymore.
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ce.
> The only reason I bring up DoH is because now there are tcp connection
> when the day before there were none. I haven't noticed any difference
> since firefox turned it, so they obviously figured out the scaling.
Firefox is using one TCP connection to pipeline all the D'oH que
e you'd probably run into other scaling issues before you hit memory
> limitations needed to juggle legitimate TCP connection state.
Well, yeah, but I don't know that it's *just* RAM; I suspect it might be
data structure as well...
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> From: "Michael Thomas"
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> On 1/2/21 10:31 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>> Yup; it's messy, and in many many different ways. Won't be a snapshot
>> rollout. Not a bad idea, though, if implemented correc
is that home routers may filter the broadcast
> packets from ISPs, but the routers may be upgraded or
> some device to snoop the alert packets may be placed between
> ISPs and the routers.
Yup; it's messy, and in many many different ways. Won't be a snapshot
rollout. Not a
ving the phone/game console/smart home control center/
> whatever would be running an alert endpoint app that would talk to the ISP/
> cellphone tower and register for alerts and then DTRT to notify the relevant
> carbon-based life forms.
Yeah, I designed most of this a
- Original Message -
> From: "Mark Tinka"
> The MUA many (if not all) of us are using to read this has been obtained
> for free, and with ongoing support, no less. I'd like to see someone
> dish out cash for a commercial alternative.
Zimbra?
K9?
...
Mutt
hey *tried* to get permission to do this in NYC after Sandy, and someone
(NYPUC?) told them to pound sand; if the customer had copper, you *had* to
give it back to them; you could not force them to voice-over-FiOS.
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alized that they can make money selling Gigabit
> services, because the ones who really know how to harness it are few &
> far between.
By which you mean that they can safely afford to bandwidth-surf again because
the average usage is so much lower than the peak?
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The tradeoff is you get to use all the other ones.
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If, like me, you think it's a solution in search of a problem -- excuse me,
a *problem* in search of a problem -- here's your chance:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/fearing-drama-mozilla-opens-public-consultation-before-worldwide-firefox-doh-rollout/
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100, "The Naming Of Hosts"... which is now immortalized
on my Florida license plate, after I lost LINUX, which I had for 30 years...
And for reasons I was never clear on, he actually *reserved* the number,
releasing several >2100 RFCs in the days before 1 April that year
t to answer
> correctly considering that the asking person usually doesn't know what
> BGP is and what it's used for, save for understanding it's function,
> design and possible misuses.
Well, given how little the BCP38 website below has moved that football,
pay TV service.
>> >
>> > I bought the wife a new iPhone 11 Pro earlier this month. This got us
>> > 1-year's worth of free AppleTV+. Not a lot of content so far, but I hear
>> > the same about Disney+. Granted 2 of the 3 shows on TV+ are not bad. But
>> >
dnet.com/article/dns-over-https-google-hits-back-at-misinformation-and-confusion-over-its-plans/
TL;DR: they (Chrome) won't enable DoH unless it's being run from an internet
which they know supports it; there are apparently a list of 8-12 ISPs/etc
which are announcing such support.
Cheer
n an
> implementation specification for an edge router. It can be references
> to a whole bunch of RFCs and "packaged" as a BCP. The discussions you
> describe are better in the individual papers.
Is that a good time for me to point to the URL in my sig?
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- Original Message -
> From: "Niels Bakker"
> * j...@baylink.com (Jay R. Ashworth) [Wed 02 Oct 2019, 23:21 CEST]:
>>- Original Message -
>>> From: "Niels Bakker"
>>
>>> * j...@baylink.com (Jay R. Ashworth) [Wed 02 Oct 2019,
sing it for; it's that they've implemented
it so poorly.
I live down here in the trenches, John, where "it doesn't work" is the calibre
of problem reports I get. When my tools say that "yes, it does", *I'm* the one
who takes it in the nads because M
- Original Message -
> From: "Niels Bakker"
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Sent: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 1:42:08 PM
> Subject: Re: This DNS over HTTP thing
> * j...@baylink.com (Jay R. Ashworth) [Wed 02 Oct 2019, 19:30 CEST]:
>>> From: "Livingood,
. IMO any such criticisms should more correctly
> be directed at the laws themselves or the governments that put them in place.
HTTP/451
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ral, regardless of how partisans on either side want
to paint them; even lockpicks -- or haven't you had to call a locksmith to get
you back into your car/house without breaking a window.
Tools. Are. Neutral.
Any solution to a problem that involves outlawing or breaking tools will.
Not. S
real
> slow on Firefox.
But wait! I was told we didn't *need* regs or laws to enforce Net Neutrality...
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's damn business* where I go that
isn't Google".
I concur.
I see no reasonable justification for this from a network engineering
standpoint, and I'll be stomping on it wherever necessary.
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security?
Didn't we already *fix* DNS SECurity?
No, I tend to buy the "Alphabet looking over your shoulder" argument
a lot more than 'security', here, so far.
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ir
britches", and it's gotten about as tiresome as I -- for the seats under
my responsibility -- propose to let it get.
If there isn't a knob I can turn off, they're gone; no appeal.
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or?
Is it in fact not a monstrosity, and I'm just not smart enough? :-)
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