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DNS Subdomains
by Gawie Marais (Home) 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

Helo, Might be a simple question.... But... I've got no idea what the answer could be... In the early days, one only had a .com address space (amongst the most popular ones). These days, there is .com(this) and .com(that) and any kind of .(whatever) you can think of. My question... How does one start a .(whatever) ?? Who is actually controlling these .(whatever) domains ? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gawie J Marais Mail: gawie(a)inx.co.za Technical Member Web: http://www.inx.co.za/ inX - Internet eXchange South Africa Tel: +27 11 956 6935 Fax: +27 11 956 6851 'I just bought an 8x mouse, and it's FAST! ' :)-

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DNS Subdomains
by Gawie Marais (Home) 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

Helo, Might be a simple question.... But... I've got no idea what the answer could be... In the early days, one only had a .com address space (amongst the most popular ones). These days, there is .com(this) and .com(that) and any kind of .(whatever) you can think of. My question... How does one start a .(whatever) ?? Who is actually controlling these .(whatever) domains ? -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gawie J Marais Mail: gawie(a)inx.co.za Technical Member Web: http://www.inx.co.za/ inX - Internet eXchange South Africa Tel: +27 11 956 6935 Fax: +27 11 956 6851 'I just bought an 8x mouse, and it's FAST! ' :)-

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Blocking specific sites within certain countries.
by Alif The Terrible 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

Good Morning, I am interested in how everyone who is affected by the recent Spanish Judicial order to block specific "terrorist affiliated" sites from access to Spanish nationals? Without re-starting the endless debate over how impossible this is in fact, since that is obvious - how is everyone "complying" with this order? -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin(a)mfn.org If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------

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compuserve proxy ips
by Jason Beltrame 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

Does anyone know where I can get a list of compuserve's proxy ip's? Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason Beltrame INetU, Inc.(tm)- http://www.INetU.net Electronic commerce - Web development - Web hosting jbeltram(a)INetU.net - Phone: (610) 266-7441

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Re: [South Florida Network Operators Group]
by Joshua Smith 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

"Dale Levesque" <dlevesque(a)floridabroadband.net> wrote: > --------------------------------------------- > Attachment: > MIME Type: multipart/alternative > --------------------------------------------- > Does anyone in here now of a South Florida Network Operators Group, or > something similar, and if not, would they be interested in starting one. > > > > Dale Levesque > > i'm in miami (work in pompano) - i would be interested - the only things remotely related to networking are a couple of security focused groups (south florida honeynet www.sfhn.net, ISSA, and Infraguard chapters) joshua "Walk with me through the Universe, And along the way see how all of us are Connected. Feast the eyes of your Soul, On the Love that abounds. In all places at once, seemingly endless, Like your own existence." - Stephen Hawking -

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Re: all the mails on Filtering
by Joe Provo 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:45:15AM -0800, Harsha Narayan wrote: [snip] > But it appears that there are many cases where customers prefer > to take a prefix from the ISP rather than an RIR even if it is a > /19 or a /20 - for example from the /11 of a big ISP, there are 50 > /19s and /20s which are multihoming assignments. > > I was told that this saves the cost of RIR membership for the > customer. When shaving pennies, be sure you don't slice off your thumb. And if you do, don't blame someone else. -- crimson(a)sidehack.gweep.net * jprovo(a)gnu.ai.mit.edu * jzp(a)rsuc.gweep.net RSUC / GweepNet / Spunk / FnB / Usenix / SAGE

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C&W east coast flap this afternoon?
by Jonathan Disher 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

Around 1340 EST today, all four of our C&W connections (1 each of BAR-1 and 2 to both Atlanta/ALD and WashDC/DCK) flapped (physical circuit down/up) simultaneously, followed by BGP flaps on all four about ten minutes later. Anyone else notice C&W getting weird? Or could this be related to the switchover to New Edge Networks (*grumble*)? -j

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South Florida Network Operators Group
by Dale Levesque 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

Does anyone in here now of a South Florida Network Operators Group, or something similar, and if not, would they be interested in starting one. Dale Levesque

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News - FCC Approves Comcast-AT&T Cable Merger
by Richard Forno 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

FYI......rf FCC Approves Comcast-AT&T Cable Merger By David Ho Associated Press Writer Wednesday, November 13, 2002; 3:55 PM The $29.2 billion merger of Comcast and AT&T Broadband was approved by federal regulators Wednesday, clearing the way for creation of the nation's largest cable television company. The Federal Communications Commission decision is contingent on AT&T and Comcast selling their combined 25 percent ownership of Time Warner Entertainment. The FCC voted 3-1 for the deal over the objections of consumer groups, which filed a motion last week asking the agency to delay its decision. The groups claim the new cable giant would limit customers' choices in television viewing and Internet access. But FCC Chairman Michael Powell said "the benefits of this transaction are considerable, the potential harms negligible." <snip> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49326-2002Nov13.html

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RE: disconnected autonomous systems
by Kris Foster 13 Nov '02

13 Nov '02

> Aren't some reasons for using disconnected as's regulatory > based ie the > bells etc? > As far as I've seen they do the right thing and use multiple ASNs. Kris > > On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 alex(a)yuriev.com wrote: > > > > > > > inherently wrong with using a single AS in multiple > locations, and > > > > advertising discrete blocks of address space in each > one. The best reason > > > > to do this is for a network that you eventually plan to > merge - it > > > > eliminates issues of having to make major BGP > configuration changes. > > > > > > Nothing inherently wrong with it if you're paying for > transit, but good > > > luck getting peering in multiple locations without > presenting consistent > > > views. > > > > No problem at all. Use a tunnel. > > > > Going back to the original question: > > > > (A) Is there a reason have disconnected ASs? Sure. Does it > make more sense > > than using multiple AS numbers? No. > > > > (B) Is there a reason to deaggregate? Absolutely. The > biggest being rather > > bad internal allocations practiced by networks. > > > > Alex > > > > -- > > > > > > > >

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