Re: ICANN GDPR lawsuit

2018-06-04 Thread Johnny Eriksson
Hank Nussbacher wrote: > The entire whois debacle will only get resolved when some hackers attack > www.eugdpr.org, ec.europa.eu and some other key .eu sites.  When the > response they get will be "sorry, we can't determine who is attacking > you since that contravenes GDPR", will the EU light bu

RE: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-18 Thread Johnny Eriksson
"Tony Hain" wrote: > Actually nat does something for security, it decimates it. Any 'real' > security system (physical, technology, ...) includes some form of audit > trail. NAT explicitly breaks any form of audit trail, unless you are the one > operating the header mangling device. Given that th

Re: US patent 5473599

2014-05-06 Thread Johnny Eriksson
Jared Mauch wrote: > > Your point being? > > That the "BSD" community sometimes doesn't play well with others, > and certainly won't fess up when they make a mistake and cause > collateral damage. The "BSD" community is larger than OpenBSD, and larger than Theo's ego, much to said persons disapp

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-12 Thread Johnny Eriksson
dcroc...@bbiw.net wrote: > While the image of a desiccated user, still typing away, is appealing -- > but possibly not all that remarkable, given recent reports of Internet > addiction -- what's especially tasty is the idea of having an Internet > connection that works without electricity... Abou

Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications"....

2012-11-27 Thread Johnny Eriksson
Owen DeLong wrote: > Take a carrier like Comcast that has ~20,000,000 subscribers. That's > 660,000,000,000 or 660 Terabytes per day of log files. Now, imagine > trying to keep that data set for 7 years worth of data. That's a > 660*365*7 = 1,686,300 Terabyte (or 1.7 Exabyte) storage array. On m

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-01 Thread Johnny Eriksson
Owen DeLong wrote: > Nope The power going into each fiber out of the splitter is 1/16th > that of what went into the splitter. ... which is 12 dB loss. > Yes, your total in-line loss is still 10km, but you are forgetting > about the fact that you lost 15/16th of the power effectively going > to

Re: IPv4 address length technical design

2012-10-04 Thread Johnny Eriksson
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > And the -10s and -20s were the major reason RFCs refer to octets > rather than bytes, as they had a rather slippery notion of "byte" > (anywhere from 6 to 9 bits, often multiple sizes used *in the > same program*). Not quite correct. Anywhere from 1 to 36 bits, a

Re: ARIN just subdivided their last /17, /18, /19, /20, /21 and /22. Down to only /23s and /24s now. : ipv6

2015-06-29 Thread Johnny Eriksson
Javier Henderson wrote: > > Or XNS. On the other hand, people did have a nice career with > SNA...but they weren't trying to push packets over the > > LAT .daytime Monday 29-Jun-2015 20:10:46 .pjob Job 3 at ODEN User BYGG [10,335] TTY4 .where tty4 LAT PC78(LATD for FreeBSD) TTY4

Re: leap second outage

2015-07-01 Thread Johnny Eriksson
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > This is similar to the jiffycounter wrapping, since this doesn't happen > that often, it's not commonly tested for. Good way is to start the jiffy > counter so it wraps after 10 minutes of uptime. That way you'll run into > any bugs quickly. Either we should abolish

Re: What to expect after a cooling failure

2013-07-09 Thread Johnny Eriksson
Jake Khuon wrote: > While others have already talked about what to look out for in terms of > systems and drives, I haven't seen anyone mention things like your UPS > batteries. Were they also heat-soaked? At one place I worked at, we > lost a whole bank of batteries in the UPS room when it o

Re: sort by agony

2010-08-27 Thread Johnny Eriksson
Marshall Eubanks wrote: > A _really_ intelligent airline scheduling system would (IMHO) be > able to offer you options like > > "there is a direct flight Pittsburgh -> Kansas City, and from there it > is a 2 hour drive to Columbia, so that will save you 5 hours travel time" That's not an airlin

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-02 Thread Johnny Eriksson
> Marshall wrote: > >This is of course off-off-topic, but I would suspect the room > >temperature ultrasonic > >misters, not dry ice or wood smoke. > > > >Regards > >Marshall > > Concur. > > As anyone who works with air conditioning knows, ultrasonic are > the low maintenance option for your hu

RE: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Johnny Eriksson
"Paul Stewart" wrote: > What reason could you possibly have to use non RFC 1918 space on a > closed network? It's very bad practice - unfortunately I do see it done > sometimes Really really LARGE scalability testing that needs more addresses than RFC1918 gives you. In a closed lab. Yes,

RE: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Johnny Eriksson
Michael Hallgren : > > Really really LARGE scalability testing that needs more addresses than > > RFC1918 gives you. > > Use IPv6. For an IPv4 scalability test? Interesting idea... Apart from the basic incompability here, my opinion of IPv6 is that it just gives you 2^96 more addresses to repe

Re: interger to I P address

2008-08-27 Thread Johnny Eriksson
> Robert D. Scott wrote: > > The harder way: > > > > Decimal: 1089055123 > > Hex (dashes inserted at octals): 40-E9-A9-93 > > Decimal (of each octet): 64-233-169-147 > > IP Address: 64.233.169.147 > > The Python way > > >>> import socket, struct > >>> socket.inet_ntoa(struct.pack('>l', 1089055

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-23 Thread Johnny Eriksson
Robert Bonomi wrote: > Quick! Somebody propose a snail-mail portability bill. When a renter > changes to a different landlord, his snail-mail address will be optionally > his to take along, "just like" what is proposed for ISP clients. No, a complete street address portability system. Assumi

Re: 0day Windows Network Interception Configuration Vulnerability

2011-04-04 Thread Johnny Eriksson
Nick Hilliard wrote: > The fix right now is for Microsoft to disable IPv4 by default. Yes, please. That would put a serious dent in most botnets... > Nick --Johnny