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by gerdesj 1y ago
And yet they work - there is quite a lot of them! It's in no-one's interest to destroy DNS root. Are you sure they all use anycast? I probably ought to check.
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Crikey. Now I get the business model: I hire someone for say £5K/mo. They then spend $200/mo or is it a $1000/wk on Claude or whatevs. Profit!
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by gerdesj 1y ago
The devil is in the details. I recently gave the "Veeam Intelligence" a spin. Veeam is a backup system spanning quite a lot of IT systems with a lot of options - it is quite complicated but it is also a bounded domain - the app do
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I personally find that calling out something works best by being respectful. I specifically avoid starting off with: "I find it funny that ...". You seem to have an axe to grind and that is fine. Someone might have wronged you i
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by gerdesj 1y ago
It is expressly forbidden to place test calls in the UK to 999. I could pretend to be a confused pensioner calling a taxi but that is not right and I can;t write that up. The generally accepted method is to subscribe to your TSP's eme
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by gerdesj 1y ago
DNS is just a look up service. You can filter it or not but in the end it is just a "source of truth". What are you trying to do on your wifi?
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by gerdesj 1y ago
If you think you can pontificate on DNS then I think you should be running your own service. Note how root "." just works and has done for decades - that's proper engineering and actually way more complicated than running 1.1
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by gerdesj 1y ago
What is bloody annoying is that you can't even test 999. When you set up a PBX it would be nice to know that it would work via the obvious way of actually calling it. Surely it would be possible to create a test version which gets ter
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by gerdesj 1y ago
This is all very well but how does Linus Thorvalds use git? Given he invented the bloody thing, it might be nice to see how the Boss uses it! git was created to scratch an itch (actually a bit of a roiling boil, that needed a serious amoun
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Thank you for correcting me. On HN I tend to go for "common knowledge" and wait for someone who knows what they are on about to rock up. You didn't disappoint! You mention Trivium and Quadrivium, so three and four subjects&
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Beautiful aircraft there, very shiny. We didn't have time to polish ours like that what with the enemy shooting at them all the time. Oh and most of them were made of wood and wishes! The Hurricane was a bit of a crossover from WWI t
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by gerdesj 1y ago
We can't really decide what is going on right now, let alone get all whizzed up about how funky European history was doing in 1660. Why should a bunch of Londoners decide: "to start a club devoted to “improving Natural Knowledge.&
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I'm not sure using a web of satellite borne clocks to do location to say three inches or 10cm accuracy is a great idea, especially when the "device" is moving at say 70mph. Not only that, you will need some amazingly exact m
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Similar(ish) although I only really got as far as BASIC on a 80286 running DOS 3.something! I did manage to get something in C to compile and work with hard coded co-ordinates but it took me ages and didn't float my boat but it was rat
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"A carpenter knows their tools." Quite, and they also know when to use them effectively. I have no idea what "Autonomous System path" is but it looks like someone searching terms. An Autonomous System is a BGP thing. Yo
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"Which home routers ..." Drayteks have a lot of options built in, including a funky DNS implementation. I've personally largely dumped them for rather more complicated jobbies but they are still very capable.
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"Any entry level NOC Technician would know at this point" I'm just a consultant who's been mucking about with networks for 30+ years. I'm sure your highly paid technicians will teach granddad a thing or two. I note
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Well that is rather obvious. I doubt PHP has RTOS type guarantees built in. Funny you should mention stabilizer control (I don't think that is an aeronautic term). I recently visited the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight hanger at RA
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by gerdesj 1y ago
In which case: $ ping 127.0.0.1 Provided you have a working IP stack, your ping service requirement is met admirably 8) I run a lot of pfSense boxes and they (and OPNSense) have a pinger daemon to test connectivity which is really us
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by gerdesj 1y ago
ping and mtr only test one thing. I have saws, drills, routers (lol), planes, screwdrivers, hammers and more in my workshop. To be fair a drill driver and a hammer get a lot of jobs done! However, I will get the impact driver out or a fr
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by gerdesj 1y ago
As a punishment: Compile and install ISC BIND from source and configure it 8) Many home routers can resolve starting from root or if you must then: 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 will get you started. You might consider 9.9.9.9 and there are q
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by gerdesj 1y ago
... or a change of policy, funky firewall or whatever. It does seem to be responding to ping again and since my edit above, the first packet is being responded to so I suspect a NOC is having a fun old time somewhere. You do need to test th
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by gerdesj 1y ago
DNS shouldn't be tested with ICMP. Try dig or nslookup instead. ICMP echo request/reply may help to decide reachability and nothing more. This is a reasonable test of the DNS service on 1.1.1.1: $ dig @1.1.1.1 www.cloudflare
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by gerdesj 1y ago
F1 is a weird one. Technology can make a massive difference. I remember the 1970s when a car with a skirt destroyed the opposition by sticking to the ground and the six wheeled beasties and the other wacky stuff. Sponsored by fags (obviou
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by gerdesj 1y ago
An online translation tool managed: "out of order" for "en panne". Your translation is far better because it gives the actual, raw and intended (by a local), meaning and not re-translated that meaning into a trite phras
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I'm (UK) old enough to remember the old school type of corner shop that a "dep" represents. It isn't a Spar (Dutch import) and it isn't a 7/11. A dep sounds like the subject of "Open all hours". Nur
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by gerdesj 1y ago
I own spoke shaves, multiple jack planes, and the rest. My garage is quite literally a torture chamber of devices that a medieval sociopath would dribble over. I'm perhaps not quite so distracted by a well rounded fillet in a cast iro
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by gerdesj 1y ago
Quite right until you discover a router ...
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by gerdesj 1y ago
A British magician called Paul Daniels managed to slice some fingers on a table saw. He had been making his own tricks gear for decades. Safety thinking can slip - you only have to cock up once when you are pushing an amorphous mass into a
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by gerdesj 1y ago
"Teaching kids that power tools don't need to be scary as long as they're used safely is a worthwhile output on its own IMO." True but real safety first thinking is not something that a purchasing decision will fix. I ha

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