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Another Unix related comic
by Brian Kelsay 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

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RE: Road Runner Nonsense
by Julie 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

To Hal and any others who haven't been able to replicate this: I've had RR service to my home ever since they came to KC and I couldn't replicate "it" either until I had Road Runner reset my modem (a Toshiba PCX2600 that I've had for just about four years now). I'd been having trouble with getting onto and navigating the Net. So I called RR to have them 'ping' my modem to see what the problem was (I've gone through about four modems during my time with RR). They reset it, told me I now have four IPs instead of one...for the exact same price; we'll see when I get my next bill... and that it works fine now, which it does. BUT, I _now_ get that advertising page when I run a test to see what I get with a random string. The only way I've found to be able to get to the page to set my "preferences" is through the Slashdot article someone gave here. I opted out of the thing and STILL get the advertising page I had 'supposedly' opted out of. What's up with THAT??? I've saved the changes that I've made but they don't 'take'. In addition, IMHO, I don't really have a 'physical' problem with this since I don't usually manually type in a URL and when I do I make double sure it's correct. However, I'm _quite_ disturbed at the Big Brother aspect of this "Nonsense"!!! Are there any other ISPs in the area that have the speed/quality of RR that don't employ such invasive practices. I've just about had my fill of RR and AT&T, both.Time Warner Cable TV is getting ridiculous in their programming, too, but I don't necessarily want to go the satellite route because I don't need to be out on the roof cleaning the thing in snowstorms just so I can get reception. ;) Julie @};-- >>>Hal Wrote: "Being a RR customer, I was curious to see this, but I cannot reproduce it. What am I doing wrong? [hald@iolo ~]$ lynx -mime_header http://www.asdfghjklqwertyuiop.com/ Looking up www.asdfghjklqwertyuiop.com Unable to locate remote host www.asdfghjklqwertyuiop.com. Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host. lynx: Can't access startfile http://www.asdfghjklqwertyuiop.com/ [hald@iolo ~]$ Thanks, -- Hal"<<< --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

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RoadRunner nonsense
by Arthur Pemberton 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

My fellow RoadRunner using geeks have no doubt noticed this themselves by now, but for everyone else, an article is up on Slashdot: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/26/1741253 ISPs are becoming more and more despicable -- I just wonder what tech guy sold his soul implementing this, surely going against standard networking behavior like this must cause one to lose their geek membership. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )

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Re: DNS alternatives (Was RoadRunner nonsense)
by Leo Mauler 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

--- Billy Crook <billycrook(a)gmail.com> wrote: > http://root-servers.org/ > > Ironically enough, if you don't have any DNS, you > won't be able to resolve that link to a server, > now will you. A quick nslookup fixes that for the future: http://root-servers.org/ is also http://192.71.80.110/ Once you get to root-servers.org, IP addresses are listed for all of the root servers. As the updates list indicates for root-servers.org, the IP addresses for some of the servers changes from time to time, but not all of the IP addresses change at any given point in time. > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Leo Mauler > <webgiant(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > --- Luke -Jr <luke(a)dashjr.org> wrote: > > > > > On Tuesday 26 February 2008, cragos(a)gmail.com > wrote: > > > > > > Anyone else got any easy to memorize DNS > > > > server IPs or something of the sort? > > > > > > Root servers work for me. > > > > I haven't set up DNS on a server in awhile, > > though back then RedHat Enterprise came with > > a list of root servers. > > > > Where does one find a list of root servers? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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DNS alternatives (Was RoadRunner nonsense)
by cragos＠gmail.com 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

TW's astandard DNS rollout is despicable and everything, but still: It might be argued that one should no more depend on their ISP for DNS than they would for email. Might I recommend 4.2.2 1 - 4.2.2.6 and/or OpenDNS? Anyone else got any easy to memorize DNS server IPs or something of the sort? -Sean Related link: http://ask.metafilter.com/22161/DNS-servers-with-easytoremember-IP-addresses

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Unix related Dilbert
by Brian Kelsay 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

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DNS gaming -Is it a real money maker or only fantasy dollars?
by Oren Beck 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

I suspect that a forensic audit of the profit/loss results from DNS gaming will show a net loss. The "profits" from all total redirects and similar credit per click are not "free money". There are overheads. There also are consequences of being scummy. All things taken as a whole I find it more likely that at fiscal year end an ISP will be ahead by *NOT* playing such games. Do please either confirm or deny my logic and explain your reasons -- Oren Beck 816.729.3645

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Intelligent Design Sorter
by Jim Herrmann 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/intelligentdesignsort.html#1 LOL

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amusing toy
by David Nicol 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/airport-securit.html

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Re: RoadRunner nonsense
by Kyle Sexton 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

James Sissel <jimsissel(a)yahoo.com> writes: > A lease is created when a property owner (the offeror) makes an offer to another party (the > offeree), and the offeree accepts the offer. The offer must authorize the offeree to possess and > use property owned by the offeror for a certain period of time without gaining ownership. So, > getting my IP address, assuming it is not static, means I get to possess and use the > "property". This does not mean the "landlord" can open/alter/block/steal my mail. You seem to > be confusing the IP address with the Internet traffic. > > But what if I have a static IP address? > > Another example, suppose I hire a trucking company to move some boxes from my house to yours. > Does that give the trucking company the right to open the boxes, take stuff out, put other stuff > in, or just not deliver the boxes because they are "just too busy"? > >From http://help.twcable.com/html/twc_misp_aup.html "The ISP Service may not be used in a manner that interferes with Operator's efficient operation of its facilities, the provision of services or the ability of others to utilize the ISP Service in a reasonable manner. Operator may use various tools and techniques in order to efficiently manage its networks and to ensure compliance with this Acceptable Use Policy (“Network Management Tools”). These may include detecting malicious traffic patterns and preventing the distribution of viruses or other malicious code, limiting the number of peer-to-peer sessions a user can conduct at the same time, limiting the aggregate bandwidth available for certain usage protocols such as peer-to-peer and newsgroups and such other Network Management Tools as Operator may from time to time determine appropriate." So in this case your landlord could check your mail to make sure that you aren't a terrorist. And the movers could open your boxes to ensure you weren't moving bombs[1]. Footnotes: [1] Hello Echelon! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON) -- Thanks, Kyle Sexton

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