Re: FCC FUSF charges clarification

2020-10-14 Thread William Herrin
customers in USA liable to pay those > taxes to the carrier ? Anywhere you have a physical presence you owe taxes. The correct question is: which ones? Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Asus wifi AP re-writing DNS packets

2020-10-28 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 1:57 PM Anurag Bhatia wrote: > No such feature when running in AP mode. AP mode gives options of wireless > settings (SSID etc) and IP for management of the device. I don't know about this case but I've occasionally noticed devices where you have to put the device into th

Re: att or sonic "residential" fiber service at a "nontraditional" residence.

2020-11-01 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 5:22 PM Mark Seiden wrote: > if i don’t want an SLA, does anything keep a non-profit organization from > ordering (from att or sonic) residential service at what normally would be > considered a business location? Hi Mark, Generally speaking, the residential and business

Re: Technology risk without safeguards

2020-11-04 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 8:49 AM Suresh Kalkunte wrote: > I believe the below described method of causing intentional (1) damage to > equipment in data centers and (2) physical injury to a person at the > workplace is on-topic for the NANOG community, if not, I look forward to your > feedback. As

Re: Technology risk without safeguards

2020-11-04 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 11:37 AM Suresh Kalkunte wrote: > Your comments gives me an overall impression that data center equipment are > on average adequately protected, that is good. Also, public discussion on the > risk of intentional EMI is a big positive. I watched a T.V. program a few years

Re: Technology risk without safeguards

2020-11-05 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 5:59 AM Tom Beecher wrote: > Let's say roughly half of the science says the hypothesis is false, and half > says it is true. It is absolutely fair in this case to state "We don't know > enough." Hi Tom, Strictly speaking, if a hypothesis is disproven by even one repeatab

Re: Technology risk without safeguards

2020-11-06 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 12:00 PM Rich Kulawiec wrote: > p.s.2: The large quantities of power conduits, cables, shelving, racks, > HVAC ductwork, etc. that are typical of datacenters constitute a haphazard > but modestly effective EM shield, as measured on an ad hoc basis by anyone > who tries to re

Re: AFRINIC IP Block Thefts -- The Saga Continues

2020-11-16 Thread William Herrin
gt; the same coin, I was gladly interested in the past to share all the > information (including AfriNIC legal proceedings) with a person respected by > the Nanog community (and I'm still interested to do so today), such as > William Herrin, or to anyone else respected by the Nano

Re: A letter from the CEO

2020-11-22 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 10:37 PM Carsten Bormann wrote: > On 2020-11-20, at 23:18, 6x7 Networks - Lady Benjamin, CEO > wrote: > > 8tbps (8 terrabits per second). > I don’t expect the majority of nanog people to know the intended data rate > would properly be notated as 8 Tbit/s, but a space aft

Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data

2020-12-10 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 12:14 AM Rich Kulawiec wrote: > > Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key > > data > > The National Weather Service is proposing to place limits on accessing its > > life-saving weather data in a bid to fix Internet outages. > > By Jason Sa

Re: [EXTERNAL]Need someone with clue @ Network Solutions.

2020-12-15 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 9:41 AM Matthew Crocker wrote: > It appears I should have been looking for clue in my own network. Amazon > hosts crocker.com and they have the glue records. Apparently left over from > when the domain was with Network Solutions. I have tickets open with Amazon > to

Re: nike.com->nike.com/ca

2021-01-06 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 1:42 PM Kain, Becki (.) wrote: > At home, using 8.8.8.8, if I goto www.nike.com, I get rerouted to > nike.com/ca. I cleared the dns cache (I’m running Catalina macos) and > rebooted just because. Anyone else seen a weirdism on this? thanks Welcome to Why You Shouldn't M

Re: nike.com->nike.com/ca

2021-01-06 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 1:48 PM William Herrin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 1:42 PM Kain, Becki (.) wrote: > > At home, using 8.8.8.8, if I goto www.nike.com, I get rerouted to > > nike.com/ca. I cleared the dns cache (I’m running Catalina macos) and > > rebooted just

Re: nike.com->nike.com/ca

2021-01-06 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 2:00 PM Christopher Morrow wrote: > quite possible' :) (you don't normally, but I think the HTTP thing is > the 'gotcha') Yeah, it got me. I realized it shortly after sending the email. > (also, typical geo ip problems :( bummer!) Yeah, likely still qualifies as Using Ge

Re: nike.com->nike.com/ca

2021-01-06 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 2:32 PM Kain, Becki (.) wrote: > Yet I could goto the site, via Ford's network (h, shopping at home) and > I'm in the same city as Ford. Hi Becki, A couple basic things you could try: plug your public IP address into Whois and see what comes back. Plug it into the Max

Parler

2021-01-10 Thread William Herrin
Anybody looking for a new customer opportunity? It seems Parler is in search of a new service provider. Vendors need only provide all the proprietary AWS APIs that Parler depends upon to function. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler-suspension/ Regards, Bill HErrin

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 5:43 AM Mike Bolitho wrote: > Can we please not go down this rabbit hole on here? List admins? Hi Mike, While there's certainly an opportunity to get political, there are some obviously apolitical issues worth discussing here as well. First, this would appear to be an il

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 9:55 AM Töma Gavrichenkov wrote: > I'd say it starts to be "inconvenient approaching impossible" only at > the point where you begin to use Cloudformation — or when you don't > have automated deployment at all. While the provisioning tools are > provider agnostic, a move f

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 7:05 AM wrote: > Another interesting angle here is that it as ruled President couldn’t > block people, because his Tweets were government communication. > So has Twitter now blocked government communication? Howdy, The President is a government official. Government offici

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 6:58 PM Matthew Petach wrote: > Private businesses can engage in prior restraint all they want. Hi Matt, You've conflated a couple ideas here. Public accommodation laws were passed in the wake of Jim Crow to the effect that any business which provides services to the publ

Re: more bad lawyering about Parler

2021-01-10 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 8:13 PM John Levine wrote: > > In article > you > write: > >With private organizations it gets much more complicated. No > >organization is compelled to publish anything. But then section 230 of > >the DMCA comes in and says: if you exercise editorial control over > >wha

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 8:32 PM wrote: > > On Jan 10, 2021, at 1:45 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: > >> On 1/10/21 10:21 AM, William Herrin wrote: > >> Are you sure about that? Consider your database. Suppose you want to > >> run your primary database in AWS wi

Re: more bad lawyering about Parler

2021-01-11 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 2:19 AM Danny O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 8:54 PM William Herrin wrote: >> there have been some real post-CDA head scratchers where >> a court decided that an online service exercised sufficient control of >> the content to ha

Re: more bad lawyering about Parler

2021-01-11 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 2:51 AM Joe Greco wrote: > Are there examples that do not conflate other areas of the law? Hi Joe, I expect so. Maynard v. Snapchat, for example, in which the court found that snapchat had no section 230 immunity in a lawsuit related to its speed overlay feature for user-

Re: Parler

2021-01-11 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 8:46 PM Matthew Petach wrote: > ...unless the higher calling of "religious freedom" is at stake, > in which case, sure, it's OK to exclude entire classes of people, > if serving them would go against your religious beliefs. > precedent set by > Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Color

Re: DMVPN via Internet or Private APN

2021-01-12 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 8:55 AM Sean Kelly wrote: > The real debate arrives when it's time to choose a carrier to host the > router. I choose to go with a major cell carrier using a "private" > APN. It allows me to connect my cell routers to a private layer 2 > network and my private IP addresses

Re: End-user Alert Delivery (was Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study)

2021-01-13 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 7:58 PM Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > Last time I looked, consumer residential smoke detectors were still running > off 9V alkaline batteries, which are expected to run the device for 6 months > of 1/99 duty cycle (or less, probably *way* less). Ordinary ionization-based smoke

Re: Parler

2021-01-13 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 9:02 PM Valdis Klētnieks wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:41:55 -0500, Matt Corallo said: > > parler.com. 300 IN NS ns4.epik.com. > > parler.com. 300 IN NS ns3.epik.com. > > ... > > ns3.epik.com. 108450 IN A

Re: Parler

2021-01-13 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 9:22 PM Matt Corallo wrote: > Sure, I just found it marginally comical that amazon, after making a big > stink about kicking them off, is still providing them service, even if it’s > one-hop indirect. That said, someone else suggested that Epik is denying that > they wil

Re: Parler

2021-01-14 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 8:47 AM Matt Erculiani wrote: > Is there a remote possibility here that Verisign might say "yeah, we're gonna > glue this domain down to 0.0.0.0 and not allow registration"? Absent a court order? No, not a chance. Verisign is not parler's registrar. They'd be inviting twe

Re: Re Parler

2021-01-14 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 10:13 AM wrote: > (b) Termination for Cause. > (i) material breach remains uncured for a period of 30 days from receipt of > notice It's fairly clear from Amazon's communications that this is their basis for terminating Parler. They began notifying Parler in September tha

Re: Parler

2021-01-17 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 3:41 PM Matt Corallo wrote: > $ dig parler.com ns > parler.com. 300 IN NS ns4.epik.com. > parler.com. 300 IN NS ns3.epik.com. Looks like Parler managed to bring up a placeholder web site via a Belize (LACNIC) registered I

Re: Issues with NANOG mailing list operations and subscriptions

2021-01-17 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 1:37 PM Sean Donelan wrote: > Some people think its funny to ghost subscribe email addresses, and > the NANOG mailing list auomation doesn't catch them in the verification > process. Hi Sean, How is that possible? This is exactly what a correctly implemented confirmed opt

Re: Hosting recommendations ... ?

2021-01-19 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 7:45 AM Bryan Holloway wrote: > Looking for a reputable (i.e., no hosting of spammers or other > ne'er-do-wells) hosting provider with possibly a global footprint. If > not, US is #1 desire; EU #2. > > * Desire to host 2-3 hypervisors, probably running something akin to >

Re: Hosting recommendations ... ?

2021-01-19 Thread William Herrin
pretty much any decent sized data center in any state would work for the > US. > > Josh Luthman > 24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 11:14 AM William Herrin wrote: >>

Re: Hosting recommendations ... ?

2021-01-19 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 8:31 AM Bryan Holloway wrote: > I would like to stop personally dealing with bare-metal. That's what I'm > doing now. Hi Bryan, Cloud = you get virtual servers with virtual storage, generally adjustable to meet your needs. You manage the operating systems and storage with

Re: Hosting recommendations ... ?

2021-01-19 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 9:18 AM Bryan Holloway wrote: > Perhaps I'm missing something, but in your #1 example "Cloud", what > prevents me from running a Proxmox ISO (which is more or less Debian) > vs. a "standard" Debian install on the provider's virtual server? Hi Bryan, I haven't used Proxmox

Re: USENET peers?!

2021-01-20 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 12:40 PM wrote: > 2. Usenet is dead and besides a full feed is 20+TB/day because it's > dead, but 20TB/day... Hi Barry, How much is it per day if you skip the groups distributing finger-quote "linux isos"? Regards, Bill Herrin

Re: gofundme Medical Expenses - Ed Hew

2021-01-25 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 8:40 AM Jim Mercer wrote: > unsure if this is allowed or not, but, here goes. Hi Jim, This is a lie. If you weren't sure, you'd have asked if it was ok to do the thing without actually doing the thing. That you went ahead and did it says you were pretty sure it was agains

Re: gofundme Medical Expenses - Ed Hew

2021-01-25 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:08 AM Jim Mercer wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 09:23:11AM -0800, William Herrin wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 8:40 AM Jim Mercer wrote: > > > unsure if this is allowed or not, but, here goes. > > > > This is a lie. > > t

Re: Half Fibre Pair

2021-01-26 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 12:52 PM Rod Beck wrote: > Can someone explain to me what is a half fibre pair? I took it > literally to mean a single fibre strand but someone insisted it > was a large quantity of spectrum. Please illuminate. Maybe it's like half a pair of glasses, the perfect accessory

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-10 Thread William Herrin
o run a VM in that VPC. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-11 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 6:13 AM Izaac wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 10:38:00AM -0800, William Herrin wrote: > > None whatsoever. You just have to be really big. > > Hi Beel, That was unnecessary. Sorry I used an S instead of a Z. > Thanks for backing me up with an example

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-11 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 5:52 PM Izaac wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 09:53:56AM -0800, William Herrin wrote: > > In other words, it proves the exact opposite of your assertion. > > Golly. Do you want to tell the 1M+ AWS customers that the services they > paid ~$280B for la

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-14 Thread William Herrin
eventually found and fixed. Prioritizing IPv6 over IPv4 for newly initiated connections is one of the trifecta of critical design errors that have been killing IPv6 for two decades. One of the two that if key folks weren't being so bull-headed about it, it would be trivial to fix. Regards, Bill Herrin -

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-15 Thread William Herrin
ded to each application individually. Getaddrinfo() is core standard. Fix the problem in the place that fixes it in every place or else it's never really fixed. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-15 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 7:49 AM Valdis Klētnieks wrote: > On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 22:25:56 -0800, William Herrin said: > > This particular problem could be quickly resolved if the OSes still > > getting updates were updated to default name resolution to prioritize > > the IPv4 ad

Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

2021-02-16 Thread William Herrin
power plants need water to stay online. Yet those water facilities froze in the cold temperatures" https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/16/business/texas-power-energy-nightmare/index.html Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us <https://bill.herrin.us/> https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: dumb question: are any of the RIR's out of IPv4 addresses?

2021-02-16 Thread William Herrin
st a specified transfer at the RIR which transfers those addresses to you. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: dumb question: are any of the RIR's out of IPv4 addresses?

2021-02-16 Thread William Herrin
for essentially any price? > > Mike > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > >> On Feb 16, 2021, at 3:07 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: > >> > >>  > >> Basically are there places that you can't get allocations? If so, > >> what is happening? > >> > >> Mike > >> -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: AWS contact?

2021-02-20 Thread William Herrin
otched anycast TCP where packet #2 arrived at a different server than packet #1. -Bill -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: DPDK and energy efficiency

2021-02-23 Thread William Herrin
intended to run in very-high data rate environments where no gains are likely to be realized by avoiding a busy-wait loop. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: DPDK and energy efficiency

2021-02-23 Thread William Herrin
ruction which doesn't actually pause anything but saves a little power by de-pipelining and, if hyperthreading is enabled, releasing the core to run the alternate thread. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: SFI/SBI/Transit - Dumping

2021-03-15 Thread William Herrin
rols Internet of the 1990s offers an interesting case study in driving competition out with extended below-cost pricing. But this was dialup and DSL service, not backbone peering. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: SFI/SBI/Transit - Dumping

2021-03-16 Thread William Herrin
rience that while cross-subsidy exists in the Internet transit industry, it's not one of the critical sources of anticompetitive behavior. The two primary sources are things like the subtle collusion involved in closed peering policies and product tying where many valuable services like a wavelength on a last-mile PONS line cannot be purchased independently of the Internet service lighting that line. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: ASE - 100 Gig Wave

2021-03-18 Thread William Herrin
bids for X" is certainly not. The "three year term" statement pushed you solidly into the latter. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us <https://bill.herrin.us/> https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

2021-03-22 Thread William Herrin
dor on the main list. Rather than guessing at how to split up topics, why not confine the effort to the one need that seems to clearly exist: a place for network engineers to solicit vendors of the goods and services that network engineers buy? Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us

Re: OT: Re: Facebook and other walled gardens

2021-03-22 Thread William Herrin
mation without the customer's explicit permission is a zero-tolerance first-time firing offense at Facebook? I didn't! Seems they got religion after Cambridge Analytica. They even have strong technical controls to stop it. They process the heck out of your data but they do not, do not look. -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Best practice for ptp/loopback numbering for "small" enterprise multihome setup

2021-03-26 Thread William Herrin
etc. If you're really clever you can convince the stations that 10.0.0.1 is the default gateway but convince the router that 10.0.0.1 is upstream so that the router doesn't even need a dedicated IP address facing the LAN. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Best practice for ptp/loopback numbering for "small" enterprise multihome setup

2021-03-26 Thread William Herrin
or from" address overriding source address selection for ICMP error messages so that you could just put RFC1918 on the router to router links instead of wasting global IP addresses on them. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Best practice for ptp/loopback numbering for "small" enterprise multihome setup

2021-03-26 Thread William Herrin
ture and use those two addresses as unicast, but you've a better chance of winning the lottery or being hit by lightning than finding those two addresses in use. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Trident3 vs Jericho2

2021-04-09 Thread William Herrin
receiver gets them. So if you make a buffer that's 500 milliseconds long and then let a TCP connection fill it up, apps which work poorly in high latency environments (like games and ssh) will suffer. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Malicious SS7 activity and why SMS should never by used for 2FA

2021-04-18 Thread William Herrin
erewithal to have captured the shared secret used to generate your TOTP code? Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Malicious SS7 activity and why SMS should never by used for 2FA

2021-04-18 Thread William Herrin
authenticator like SMS is meant to -enhance- the security of a memorized secret authenticator, not replace it. If properly used, it does exactly that. If misused, it of course weakens your security. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Malicious SS7 activity and why SMS should never by used for 2FA

2021-04-18 Thread William Herrin
wrong thing. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Malicious SS7 activity and why SMS should never by used for 2FA

2021-04-18 Thread William Herrin
but because it was used incorrectly in a process that needed strong authentication. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Malicious SS7 activity and why SMS should never by used for 2FA

2021-04-19 Thread William Herrin
for free - that would help. Hint: carrying around a separate hardware fob for each important Internet-based service is a non-starter. Users might do it for their one or two most important services but yours isn't one of them. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Submitting Fake Geolocation for blocks to Data Brokers and RIRs

2021-04-21 Thread William Herrin
lly need to explain how bad an idea that is? If the service is a VPN relay for addresses which are actually being used in Estonia then what's the problem? You're just a transit for those IPs. Report the location where the endpoints are, not the transits. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Submitting Fake Geolocation for blocks to Data Brokers and RIRs

2021-04-23 Thread William Herrin
ch allow cases to be brought in the resident's country when the behavior is unlawful in both countries and at least part of the actual activity happened in the other country. Fraud abetting some other unlawful behavior is broadly unlawful itself. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-04-24 Thread William Herrin
came into DoD's possession when this was all still a military project funded by what's now DARPA. Personally, I think we may have an all time record for the largest honeypot ever constructed. I'd love to be a fly on that wall. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: DOD prefixes and AS8003 / GRSCORP

2021-04-25 Thread William Herrin
its identity dissociated from the Internet activity. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Something that should put a smile on everybody's face today

2021-04-28 Thread William Herrin
; me. Item 8: A major North American Operator goes after some industry boogeymen who tried to extort them with a router (Networking) patent. Seems pretty on topic to me. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Something that should put a smile on everybody's face today

2021-04-28 Thread William Herrin
g to govern technologies many if not most of us use. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: DDoS attack with blackmail

2021-05-20 Thread William Herrin
instead of to you. They have big enough connections to sink whatever packets the attacker sends their way. They filter this data and then allow just the legitimate packets to make their way over a VPN back to you. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: BGP38 egress filter on Ubuntu Server

2021-06-01 Thread William Herrin
BCP 38 is very simple: 1. If your IP address is 1.2.3.4 then drop any Internet-bound packets which purport to be -from- any address which is not 1.2.3.4. 2. If your IP address is 1.2.3.4 then drop any packets FROM the Internet which purport to be -from- 1.2.3.4. That's it! Regards, Bill

Re: Muni broadband sucks (was: New minimum speed for US broadband connections)

2021-06-02 Thread William Herrin
do so, it could work out as well as having municipalities pay for roads and letting people buy their own cars and trucks to use on them. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Muni broadband sucks (was: New minimum speed for US broadband connections)

2021-06-02 Thread William Herrin
es, again and again, well, what’s that definition of > insanity? Yes it is, which is why I'm also against subsidizing large carriers to build out monopoly networks. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: BCP38 on public-facing Ubuntu servers

2021-06-03 Thread William Herrin
you end up with these mysteriously unexplained packet discards matching no conceivable rule in iptables... This failure has too often been the bane of my existence when using Linux for advanced networking. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

IPv6 and multicast listener discovery

2021-06-04 Thread William Herrin
packets to be repeated. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Google uploading your plain text passwords

2021-06-11 Thread William Herrin
e. In plain text!! And it could prove it by displaying the plain text passwords for me on my laptop. And I can't turn the upload off! To the google folks on here: Are you INSANE!? Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Google uploading your plain text passwords

2021-06-11 Thread William Herrin
rowser pretty useless), but it won't keep them only on the local device. If allowed to remember passwords, it uploads them to Google. No knob to turn sync off. -Bill -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Google uploading your plain text passwords

2021-06-11 Thread William Herrin
Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Google uploading your plain text passwords

2021-06-11 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 9:38 AM Jan Schaumann via NANOG wrote: > William Herrin wrote: > > It turns out that every password I allowed Chrome on Android to > > remember, it uploaded to Google. In plain text!! > > Chrome does not store your passwords in plain text. > It e

Re: Google uploading your plain text passwords

2021-06-11 Thread William Herrin
is semantics. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Google uploading your plain text passwords

2021-06-11 Thread William Herrin
yself. My problem was suddenly finding Google in possession of passwords I never intentionally allowed it to have. This sneak around behind my back stuff means I wasn't in control of my passwords. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Google uploading your plain text passwords

2021-06-11 Thread William Herrin
i César , This would be fine had I intended this behavior. That it magically happened because I told my phone it could sync my gmail is very very disturbing. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Google uploading your plain text passwords

2021-06-12 Thread William Herrin
rage user than trying to reuse a > single password or write them down. If I had authorized it, it would indeed be just like any other password managing web site. I did not knowingly authorize it. They snuck it on me. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Google uploading your plain text passwords

2021-06-12 Thread William Herrin
just like that. > You did authorize, you just didn't read the fine print. I always read the fine print. I'm that guy. I don't always go searching the menus for bad defaults but I always read everything they bother to tell me I'm agreeing to. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Google uploading your plain text passwords

2021-06-12 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 10:36 AM Max Harmony via NANOG wrote: > On 12 Jun 2021, at 10.29, William Herrin wrote: >> They snuck it on me. > > By hiding it right on the "browser features" page? By silenting defaulting it to enabled, damn right. Regards, Bill Herr

Re: Google uploading your plain text passwords

2021-06-12 Thread William Herrin
have a local copy of any Google passwords or keys. The only place they could have come from was Google's server. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: FCC Proposes Ban on Devices Deemed a Threat to National Security

2021-06-18 Thread William Herrin
I think changing it's footing to adequately operate in that space would likely impair its core mission. Let security agencies decide when an import should be banned and let them ban it independent of the FCC's activity. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: FCC Proposes Ban on Devices Deemed a Threat to National Security

2021-06-18 Thread William Herrin
ontaminated electronics is just the latest twist in a long shadow war where the FCC's amateur interference would not be helpful. I'm also thinking this would make a great plot for a science fiction / spy novel. Any writers out there? Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: IPv6 and multicast listener discovery

2021-06-20 Thread William Herrin
th macsec using multiple SCIs at each station so there's a magnification effect of encrypted multicast packets that the switch can't snoop even if it wanted to -- all the intermediate equipment sees is an opaque ethernet frame with the broadcast flag set. Regards, Bill Herri

Re: Layer 2 based anycast - Kind like GLBP - Research

2021-07-01 Thread William Herrin
7;s about creating something equivalent to VLANs across a distributed virtual server infrastructure. Basically like what Amazon does under the hood for its virtual private cloud. Since you're trying to get the machines to appear on the same subnet, not separate them to different subnets, I d

Re: Do you care about "gray" failures? Can we (network academics) help? A 10-min survey

2021-07-08 Thread William Herrin
the stateless middle with asymmetric routing, is not usable. The middle can only look at its immediate link stats which, when there's a bug, are misleading. What would you change to dig us out of this hole? Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: Anycast but for egress

2021-07-28 Thread William Herrin
ries for the purpose you describe. Silly question but: for a web crawler, why do you care whether it has the limited geographically distribution that a cloud service provides? It's a parallel batch task. It doesn't exactly matter whether you have minimum latency. Regards, Bi

Re: "Tactical" /24 announcements

2021-08-09 Thread William Herrin
use it means getting folks to -undo- the restrictions they manually enforce on your specific address space is nearly impossible. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: "Tactical" /24 announcements

2021-08-09 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 9:24 AM Masataka Ohta wrote: > William Herrin wrote: > > I did some math on this years ago and it worked out to about 8.5 > > million IPv4 routes. > > It should be 14M. Doubtful. Like I said, I did the math. The question I asked at the time was: If: I

Re: "Tactical" /24 announcements

2021-08-09 Thread William Herrin
ntial /24 > advertisements. Howdy, It's not that simple. For example, 224/4 is not a 'reserved' space but it can't appear in the unicast BGP table either. That alone is a million routes unaccounted for in your math. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

Re: "Tactical" /24 announcements

2021-08-12 Thread William Herrin
h ease and equipment with only a little more power could handle one much larger. It's the FIB which drives the limits. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/

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