Re: Comcast Bussiness Class and GRE Tunnels

2011-07-27 Thread David E. Smith
> WT*F*? I've never understood the appeal of Microtik, and now I understand > it even less. > > The software is... quirky, at times, but some of their hardware, especially on the very low-end, is hard to beat. For instance, they make a SOHO router with five Gigabit Ethernet ports for $70, which h

Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue

2011-09-27 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 17:08, Jimmy Hess wrote: > That is, HTTPs should become assumed. As much as that would be wonderful from a security standpoint, IMO it's not realistic to expect every mom-and-pop posting a personal Web site to pay extra for a static/dedicated IP address from their hosting

Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers

2011-10-25 Thread David E. Smith
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:57, Dennis Burgess wrote: > > [dmb] This is the exact question, why, do you NEED a SMTP Relay on ANY > network. Your domain has a mail server out on the net that if you > authenticate to, I am sure will relay your mail, and the reverse DNS and SPF > records would match

Re: IPv4 Exhaustion...

2010-07-23 Thread David E. Smith
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:11, Positively Optimistic < positivelyoptimis...@gmail.com> wrote: > How do ISPs handle RIAA notices when NATTING customers.. ? We have > several customers that don't require public address space that could be > moved to private.. We're reluctant to make the move du

Re: iPhone updates and required bandwidth

2010-08-18 Thread David E. Smith
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 13:54, JoeSox wrote: > Am I the only one that gets ticked off at the Apple iPhone update > procedure and the amount of bandwidth it needs? > Is there any secret I am missing to cut down on the required bandwidth > needed for it (caching the update somewhere etc)? I don't

Re: The actual value, from a security standpoint, of using a proxy domain registrar?

2009-07-15 Thread David E. Smith
Mike Lyon wrote: I am curious what others in the industry think on this topic. When one registers a domain they can put in their real information or they can use a proxy, like Go-Daddy's Domains By Proxy. If you're using it for your business, the value is pretty slim. You probably want your b

Re: PPPoE vs. Bridged ADSL

2009-10-28 Thread David E. Smith
> > Opinions on this? I'd be interested in hearing the latest real world > experience for both and the direction most folks are going in. > > I can't speak to which would be better on copper specifically, but in general I'd favor DHCP over PPPoE. Either way, most of the back-end stuff will be simil

Re: Inauguration streaming traffic

2009-01-20 Thread David E. Smith
Jay Hennigan wrote: We're a regional ISP, about 80% SMB 20% residential. We're seeing almost double our normal downstream traffic right now. Anyone else? Ditto. I'm suddenly glad we paid for that "burstable" option :) David Smith MVN.net

Re: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread David E. Smith
Ryan Harden wrote: While you could probably build a linux router that is just as fast as a real hardware router, you're always going to run into the moving pieces part of the equation. In almost all scenarios, moving parts are more prone to failure than non-moving parts. It's quite possible t

Re: Software router state of the art

2008-07-29 Thread David E. Smith
Andrew D Kirch wrote: Anyone have experience with RouterOS (http://www.mikrotik.com/)? Created mostly to run on these guys I think (http://www.routerboard.com/comparison.html) which generally don't get above 200k pps on the higher models.. But will RouterOS run on bigger boxen? Yes I do, and I

Re: Spamcop Blocks Facebook?

2010-03-05 Thread David E. Smith
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 02:28, Graeme Fowler wrote: > Fresh operational content: one of the reasons services like Spamcop > occasionally list services like Facebook is that they don't honour 5xx > responses to RCPT TO:. I'd offer some statistics but I'm concerned that > the legal brigade will jump