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by topranks 9y ago
It was assigned by RIPE to "Vasilyev Ivan Ivanovich, 8 Pionerskaya st., office 10, Nekrasovka, Khabarovsk region Russia". ALFA TELECOM s.r.o., in the Czech Republic seem to have acted as sponsoring LIR for the allocation. RIPE rul
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by topranks 9y ago
The internet works by organisations "announcing" the IP ranges they're allocated to other networks (ISPs, other large companies etc.) Networks that receive an announcement will route traffic for those IP ranges to the networ
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by topranks 9y ago
They generally do for their direct end-customers who announces their own address space. The problem is when peering with other Tier 1's and large ISPs, with multiple downstream customers. How do they keep and update a list of the othe
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by topranks 9y ago
Yes. The particular networks announced, and particularly the fact that more specific routes were announced, suggests this is some nefarious incident. Not just an accident that someone announced routes they shouldn't have.
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by topranks 9y ago
It's unfair to say it's a "feature". It was an oversight back in 1989 based on nobody expecting we'd end up where we are today. Filtering is easy if your just doing it for downstream customers. But how do Tier 1&#x
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by topranks 9y ago
It's just Bitcoin with a bigger maximum block size setting. Don't see how that makes it a scam.
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by topranks 9y ago
Or copper. You'll never justify your choice of "wet string" as medium of choice when things go south.
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by topranks 9y ago
Huge numbers of people still believe in the idea of "electronic cash" (as set out in the original Bitcoin white paper.) Right now the core Bitcoin dev team have gone one way, so the "currency" side of the debate have lar
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by topranks 9y ago
They didn't do it via a network-level block though. The function was disabled on the end-device as AT&T had the ability to control the device to that level. So they'll argue it's different thing. Which in fairness it is.
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by topranks 9y ago
I'm not sure it could have worked out perfectly, but I'm sure, minus the Bolshevik influence on such committees pre-October, and their wholesale takeover of them afterwards, those same committees could have acted with a bit more s
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by topranks 9y ago
Damn your first line had me ready to go buy the man's books.... I yearn for historical writing with a good narrative, but you're 100% right, if you need to sacrifice the flow or the facts, sacrifice the flow.
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by topranks 9y ago
Typically retailers who accept Bitcoin do just that. PWC don't charge "cup of coffee" money for anything so I guess accepting bitcoin could work for them, despite the high transaction fees.
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by topranks 9y ago
Nothing but negative comments here. Longtime FF user but I gotta say the new version is great. MUCH faster than the old version or Chrome. Great work Mozilla. Feck the begruders!
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by topranks 9y ago
A few issues: - They don't factor the time the opto-electrical converstion takes at each hop. - They don't factor queueing and buffering in any devices - They assume the router was able to instantly generate the TTL exceeded messa
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by topranks 9y ago
Good overview below: https://youtu.be/_KFpXuHqHQg https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/Steenbergen.Everyt...
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by topranks 9y ago
DNSSEC is secure. The root is well protected. It's not trying to solve the problem of privacy, only authentication.
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by topranks 9y ago
Yeah but please don't.... or at least don't create documentation or guides with the abbreviations.
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by topranks 9y ago
You should still be impressed with the efficiency. Just cos you've got enough grunt to do it the dumb way doesn't mean the smarts that produced this are somehow unimpressive.
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by topranks 9y ago
What are Google's rules about names? Only difference I can see here is the fake one is called "AdBlock" and the real one "Adblock". Is changing the case of one letter enough to get an extension into the Chrome stor
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by topranks 9y ago
From where I'm standing the big problem is enterprises not moving. Most big ISPs run IPv6, and many provide IPv6 to their end customers. In the US Google see 35% of connections coming in to them over IPv6. But convincing the average s
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by topranks 9y ago
Latency, jitter, not wanting to go via country X where national security agency Y will see it...... Mostly your right though.
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by topranks 9y ago
You should look at I2P. I fundamentally believe you should run your encryption over the network, and not try to bake it in. RPKI and BGPSEC do need to happen but we're an eon away from it being a reality.
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by topranks 9y ago
The newer VDSL standards define an Ethernet PHY rather than ATM-based encapsulation (given everyone ran PPPoE over it anyway it's one less layer). But to the original point there is no reason you could not run DHCP over a T1 directly..
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by topranks 9y ago
I'm not sure that's the case. Certainly not in Europe anyway, although it is seeing wider adoption now (particularly 464XLAT based solutions).
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by topranks 9y ago
TCP congestion control can be very beneficial for streaming applications (when combined with adaptive rate codecs). With UDP you have to create your own feedback mechanism to find the optimal bitrate to stream to the far side at.
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by topranks 9y ago
More on the network side myself, and I thought I had v6 down, or at least the basics. What kind of resource allocation problems did you have on dual-stacked hosts? Windows/Linux/Other??
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by topranks 9y ago
DANE perhaps? http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/dane/
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by topranks 9y ago
Yeah, like the ToR "meek" obfuscation method does. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek
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by topranks 9y ago
Yep. Banning the use of strong encryption (introducing penalties for it,) is the logical conclusion of what Theresa May has said she wants to do.
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by topranks 9y ago
There will always be flaws in software systems, it's inevitable. You're basically saying Microsoft have perfected security to the point the can't overlook something or make a mistake with something????

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