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Comment Re:Why is this not trivial to fix? (Score 1) 73

by otacon on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @09:51AM (#58827690) Attached to: How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Today

Standard practice is to have a prefix list filter on all of an ISP's BGP peers. For example...company A peers to AT&T...Company A has a /23 assigned to them via ARIN. AT&T has a filter only accepting that /23...if company A advertises some other network block they don't own, its simply rejected. The process of creating these filters differs from ISP to ISP. Some do it manually....you give your ISP a list of the networks you will be advertising, along with an LOA (letter of authorization), they can check ARIN or the RADB (Routing Assets Database) to verify these networks do belong to you. Some ISP's dynamically pull from the RADB and generate a prefix list from this. You are assigned a new /24 or whatever the case, you enter the asset in RADB and start advertising this new network...your ISP pulled from the database and updated your prefix list. This is, IMO, the easiest, most efficient, and the least likely to cause an error like the one in this story.

Submission + - Shigeru Miyamoto Nominated in Time Magazine

Submitted by Splitt3r on Monday April 30, 2007 @09:32AM

Splitt3r writes: Making it as one of the 200 candidates of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People of the Year" is everyone's favorite Nintendo game designer, Shigeru Miyamoto. Time Magazine has our little Shiggy listed as a 54 year-old, "Game Designer for Nintendo game systems" who has never graced the cover or anywhere in the Time 100 issues. His achievements, according to Time include: PRO: Most successful game designer, creator of Super Mario, Donkey Kong and The Legend of Zelda, whose new platform, the Wii, is currently the top-selling game console. CON: His perfectionist tendencies often result in games being significantly delayed and, despite the Wii's gameplay innovation, its graphics are far behind the competition. Very detailed as you can see. Although the description isn't very long, if you check out his profile up on their site, you can vote for just how influential you think he is, and who knows, maybe with enough votes, he can be crowned Prom Queen. -kotaku http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/shigeru-miyamoto/shig eru-miyamoto-nominated-in-time-magazine-254429.php

Submission + - Linux vs. Windows System Calls Graphed

Submitted by

cgrayson

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @08:25AM

cgrayson writes: "On Richard Stiennon's blog on ZDNet, a post titled Why Windows is less secure than Linux shows an interesting graphical comparison between system calls on Linux and Windows.

In its long evolution, Windows has grown so complicated that it is harder to secure. Well these images make the point very well. Both images are a complete map of the system calls that occur when a web server serves up a single page of html with a single picture.
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Submission + - Research: power consumption modern PC's

Submitted by

janp

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @07:19AM

janp writes: "The power consumption of modern PC's has skyrocketed the past few years. Hardware.Info has done some extensive research on the power usage of various configurations. It turns out the a high-end gaming rig can easily use more than 400 W, and that putting a system in stand-by isn't as saving as you might think. The article has some interesting tips to save on power costs."

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