Re: U.S. Court PACER system overloaded by public interest

2022-08-27 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
Anyone that regularly uses PACER should absolutely be using https://www.courtlistener.com/. On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 1:07 PM Sean Donelan wrote: > > > Having some experience with documents of extreme public interest, and web > sites getting overloaded (Starr Report on President Clinton, 1998)...

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-27 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > I will stipulate this use case. > > I will counter with "you wouldn't be running a "real" distro in that > case anyway; you'd be running something super trimmed down, and possibly > custom built, or based on something like CoreOS, that only

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch [OT]

2014-10-25 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Jim Mercer wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:41:39AM -0400, Barry Shein wrote: >> All those init.d scripts do about 95% the same thing, all hacked >> together in shell. Most of them are probably just slightly edited >> versions of some few paleo-scripts. > > in

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:28 AM, George Herbert wrote: > > Ok. As a highly on- list-topic example of why distrust is called for... > > Without referring to the systemd source code*, does anyone know what systemd > uses to select between networking subsystems (i.e. NetworkManager, the new > sta

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Barry Shein wrote: >> And you whisk all that away with "it's not really clear to me that >> 'reboots in seconds' is a think to be optimized" > > False dilemma. > [ snip ] > 10 seconds from power on to user i

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:18 PM, wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 20:45:01 -0500, Jeffrey Ollie said: > >> As I've already said a couple of times, systemd does not force a >> particular NTP implementation on you. It comes with one (timedated), >> and has a utility to ma

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Hey... how about not using selective editing to change the thread of > discussion (see below) > > If you're going to simply keep repeating "I like systemd, everything is > copacetic" - maybe you should take your fanboy attitude elsewhere, a

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Re. NTP: Timekeeping is rather essential in lots of applications - like, for > example, transit operations, where I currently spend my work life. An > accurate, accessible central clock tends to be a rather important system > component.

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Israel G. Lugo wrote: > > For example, I'm very interested in NTP and accurate timekeeping -- > mostly as a personal hobby, but it's been useful at work as well. I for > one would definitely not consider NTP one of those "details" that just > "come with the bootup

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:48 PM, wrote: > Bah, boot speed; > > On my server, boot is slow down by hardware initialization. > The soft side is quite low. > > But the point is not "makes things faster from 15 to 14 sec is useless". > The point is : it's good, but at what price ? I agree that "boot

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:30:57AM -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: >> The people that like systemd (like myself) have wisely learned that >> the people that hate systemd, hate it mostly because it's different >> from

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > 1. Experimentation and learning curve take time. That's a real cost that's > being imposed. What makes systemd different from any other technology in that respect? > It's not clear that the benefits outweigh the costs of the status quo.

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 3:48 PM, wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 19:35:51 -, David Ford said: > >> into a common bus. not everything in systemd is a requirement to run it. >> just because a unit is offered for dhcp or ntp, doesn't mean you are >> required to use it. > > Actually, systemd 216 wil

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Randy Bush wrote: >> the vast majority of negative tongue wagging regarding systemd is ill >> informed. > > can we skip the ad homina and leave that for the systemd dev fora? I don't think that it's an ad homina attack, as it's pretty clear that many of the people

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 3:22 PM, John Schiel wrote: > > On 10/22/2014 01:30 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >> >> On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:13:29 -0600, John Schiel said: >> >>> i was beginning to wonder how secure systemd is also. >> >> One of the 3 CIA pillars of security is "availability". And

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:30 PM, wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:13:29 -0600, John Schiel said: > >> i was beginning to wonder how secure systemd is also. > > One of the 3 CIA pillars of security is "availability". And if > it's oh-dark-30, figuring out what symlink is supposed to be where > for

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:13 PM, John Schiel wrote: > On 10/22/2014 10:43 AM, C. Jon Larsen wrote: >> >> Incorrect assumption. systemd is a massive security hole waiting to happen >> and it does not follow the unix philosophy of done 1 thing and do it >> well/correct. > > i was beginning to wonder

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:35 PM, George Herbert wrote: > > > > >> On Oct 22, 2014, at 9:30 AM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote: >> >> The people that like systemd (like myself) have wisely learned that >> the people that hate systemd, hate it mostly because it's dif

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:43 AM, C. Jon Larsen wrote: > >> Hardly. The discussion so far has been weighted very heavily on the >> side of Dana Carvey's "Grumpy Old Man"-style whining. "That's the way >> it was and we liked it!". >> >> The people that like systemd (like myself) have wisely learne

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Seems to me, this has been a very rational discussion, Hardly. The discussion so far has been weighted very heavily on the side of Dana Carvey's "Grumpy Old Man"-style whining. "That's the way it was and we liked it!". The people that

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch

2014-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Israel G. Lugo wrote: > > Not intending to start a flame war here. Bull. If you've been around the FOSS community even for a short while, you'd know that systemd has become a religious topic akin to Emacs vs. Vi "discussions" etc. I realize that many of the peop

Network diagnostics for the end user

2013-06-20 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
Are there any tools out there that we could give to our end users to help diagnose network problems? We get a lot of "the Internet is slow" support calls and it would be helpful if we had something that would run on the end user's computer and help characterize the problem. We have central monitori

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

2012-12-01 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > > It amazes me how people feel free to opine on things... Actually, what really bugs/amazes me about that thread is that the person whom this thread was originally about IS NOT EVEN FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. CALEA, DMCA, yadda,

Re: economic value of low AS numbers

2011-11-17 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: > > Jeffrey Ollie writes: > >> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >>> >>> The real question is whether it was issued after HHGTTG. >> >> HHGTTG first appeared on the BBC

Re: economic value of low AS numbers

2011-11-17 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > The real question is whether it was issued after HHGTTG. HHGTTG first appeared on the BBC in 1978. Thinking Machines Corporation was formed in 1982. As far as I can tell the first BGP RFC is 1105 and was published in 1989. -- Jeff Ollie

Re: Root Zone DNSSEC Deployment Technical Status Update

2010-07-16 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > On 7/16/10 11:07 AM, Tony Finch wrote: >> >> On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Chris Adams wrote: >>> >>> A simple XSLT will transform it into any needed format. >> >> XSLT can't turn root-anchors.xml into the DNSKEY RR that BIND requires. > > anchors2keys

watchmy.net?

2010-04-15 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
Can anyone log into watchmy.net and manage their account? Our network has changed so I need to get in and change my settings so that I stop getting bogus alerts. Unfortunately there seem to be some PHP coding errors so I can't log into the site. I've mailed b...@watchmy.net (once on 1/14 and onc

Re: news from Google

2009-12-04 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Jorge Amodio wrote: > > I'm more concerned about information that by law is being made public > and available > on-line (like property records in the US) out of my control, or not very easy > to > "opt-out". Property records have always been public information in

Re: IPv6 could change things - Was: DMCA takedowns of networks

2009-10-27 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Michael Dillon wrote: > > But, when IPv6 is a bit more common, there is no need for  virtual > hosters to share > a single IP address between several sites. They may as well use a > unique IPv6 address > for every single site, even if they are all on the same serve

Re: Fiber cut in SF area

2009-04-09 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Michael Holstein wrote: > > First one is in this proximity :  37°15'20.79"N 121°48'9.38"W Street view shows a few manholes in the vicinity. > Second one is in this proximity :  37°29'44.00"N 122°14'44.31"W Didn't see anything obvious here. -- Jeff Ollie

Re: options for full routing table in 1 year?

2009-04-09 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: > I was chatting with someone the other day and we were trying to build a > complete list of all units which can handle full routing tables 1 year from > now, assuming current 4k/month growth (nevermind de-aggregation) What about Cisco's ASR series?

Re: ISC DLV

2009-04-04 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Marcelo Gardini do Amaral wrote: > > are you having problems to validate DNSEC using ISC DLV? Yes, I had to disable DNSSEC validation a few hours ago to get DNS resolution operating again. -- Jeff Ollie

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Trey Darley wrote: > > Some colleagues and I are running into a bit of a problem. We've been > using RFC 1918 Class A space but due to the way subnets have been > allocated we are pondering the use of public IP space. As the network in > question is strictly closed

Re: https (was: Re: Exploit for DNS Cache Poisoning - RELEASED)

2008-07-24 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Steven M. Bellovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The round trip issue affects latency, which in turn affects perceived > responsiveness. This is quite definitely the reason why gmail doesn't > always use https (though it, unlike some other web sites, doesn't > ref

Re: Software router state of the art

2008-07-23 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Adrian Chadd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Various FreeBSD related guys are working on parallelising the forwarding > layer enough to use the multiple tx/rx queues in some chipsets such as the > Intel gig/10ge stuff. > > Linux apparently is/has headed down this pa

Re: Multiple DNS implementations vulnerable to cache poisoning

2008-07-08 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Lynda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Audio of Dan's press interview: > > https://media.blackhat.com/webinars/...conference.mp3 Actual URL: https://media.blackhat.com/webinars/blackhat-kaminsky-dns-press-conference.mp3 Jeff

Re: [NANOG] Broken Link

2008-05-12 Thread Jeffrey Ollie
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Owen DeLong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apparently Thomas doesn't let you just publish a link to bills... > > The link I published doesn't work. That's because the automatic link detection in most readers doesn't consider the trailing ":" as part of the link. B