There are many pieces of expensive carrier network and telecom gear where the management system is web based with a lot of flash. Some of the vendors released terrible HTML5 versions in the last few months, but many things will never get updated.
In the real world there are still things like windows NT 4 servers running as management consoles for extremely expensive gear. Usually not on the Internet.
Now you have a local resolver that gets your DNS queries answered ultimately via an encrypted public server, giving you a "privacy mixer" effect because the queries cannot easily be tied back to you. First query per rDNS ecord is slower, but cached afterwards & and faster because it is local to your network
It is some work to setup, but it isn't rocket science by any means.
entirely possible to setup DNS inside a network in such a way that the NSA cannot easily spy on your DNS traffic. The steps to do secure your DNS traffic are:
1) Create a an internal recursive server locally
2) block all DNS traffic on your firewall (UDP/TCP port 53 and 853)
3) block known common DoH servers (quad1, quad8, quad9, etc.)
4) "capture" those well known DNS IPs & route them to your internal server
5) block other known public DoH server IPs on firewall
6) if "next gen" firewall that does DoH detection & blocking, enable
7) Setup cloud virtual machine outside of the USA with a DoT resolver
8) Make internal recursive server forward all DNS queries only to your external cloud resolver via DoT or a VPN
9) Make external encrypted recursive cloud server forward all queries to a public encrypted DNS server in a GDPR regulated country
10 force all your endpoints to ONLY use internal recursive server (DHCP, GPOs, static configs)
Definitely way too young. I honestly thought he was in his 80s by now.
Boardwatch magazine and Jack had a large and direct impact on my life.
As a reader, it was basically the industry “bible” and everyone I knew and worked with in the ISP industry in the 90s read the magazine, including all the vendors. I read it cover to cover, and I learned a lot from those pages. Avi Freedman’s BGP articles were invaluable Scrolls of Wisdom for me.
One late night at the office, I read an editorial from Jack about the shortcomings of data over coaxial cable technologies and dashed off a late night direct personal email to Jack with my feedback. Unbeknownst to me, that personal email (which had he replied to) ended up published as a letter to the editor in Boardwatch a few months later, with the name of the company I worked for attached to it.
Page 13 & 14 here:
https://ia801904.us.archive.or...
Oops.
The publication of my email to Jack ended up causing quite a scene at work, especially with the board of directors, which had cable company investors on it. I was part of the management tea, and they were livid with me. I ended up being forced into resigning and got done by mid-January of 1998, during the worst winter ice storm of the century.
A few months later I attended ISPCON 98 in Baltimore, and got to met Jack in person. What a character! He listened to my tale of woe, and I think he was initially concerned I was going to sue him or something (it never crossed my mind). After some discussion, he offered me a column in the magazine to cover the nascent Internet over cable TV industry. I was floored, but ultimately declined due to my imposter syndrome issues at the time.
RIP, Jack. I will raise a glass in your memory tonight.
As usual, this outage was entirely caused by humans and unforeseen combinations of conditions to make things go off the rails.
The router in Atlanta was no “bad”. google DNS was not also affected.
They even have a blog post laying out exactly when went wrong. They have already addressed some of the underlaying network design assumptions and issues that indirectly led to this outage.
This is an extreme example, but fairly normal from what I have seen. They were doing "malicious compliance" with the verification of every last customer detail in the port request and their customer records. I have seen a telco reject a port request multiple times over just minor variations of the street address that the post office would not have had any trouble with.
You should have saved yourself a bunch of time and filed the PUC and FCC complaints after the first 3 or 5 phone calls.
A nickel? Maybe just a penny... DDoS and "cyber attack" are always used as the convenient excuse. DDoSes do happen all the time, all day long -- but they are usually not big enough to cause much of a problem except for their target. Any volumetric DDoS under the single digit gigabits per second is not a problem for the Internet as a whole. If you or your website server is the target, it will knock you offline, and maybe also your neighborhood for a bit, until your ISP blackholes the destination IP. You will be down, but the rest of the ISP's customers will be ok.
There is no data to support your assertions. Do you have any?
It is not a DDoS attack. T-Mobile's problems are self-inflicted from work to merge their network with Sprint.
CloudFlare has a lot of visibility about these sort of things, and they say there is no major DDoS. No Internet Exchanges are showing any increased traffic levels verses recent levels.
Indeed! For several years in high school and after I spent far too much time in =avatar on NovaNET and the original CERL system, too. I also did educational things, and did learn some TUTOR programming.
PLATO had such an amazing set of tools and features, especially for the limitations of the era. It worked well on a 2400bps dialup, and 512x512 pixel resolution addressable display, later in color.
Usenet and the Internet were a disappointments in comparison to the sort of community found on those systems.
I like that plan. I wish you well. Remember always that you are now a steward of a couple of big pieces of internet history and lore.
Argonne has been a center for battery research and testing going back to 1976 . They have teams of materials scientists, chemists and physicists who have been working on various aspects of improving battery systems for many years, with a lot of published researched and patents. They also has one of the top 5 supercomputers in the world on-site, an entire center devoted to nanotechnology research, the biggest x-ray source around (for materials property research), and all sorts of other resources that make this more than "just another place" to do this work.
This grant is all about combining and focusing the efforts of all sorts of other public institutions and private manufacturers, with leadership from what is truly a "critical mass" of smart folks who work at the Argonne campus.
It is not likely to be any one "magic bullet" but lots of little improvements in each aspect of battery technology, gaining a percent or two here, a few more percent there, that when combined together will result in impressive gains. You know, like... science.
The cable companies are not entirely to blame for the high prices and lack of viewing options.
The real reason CATV bills are too high is because of the content companies, studios, and the local TV stations. All of their contracts compel the cable operator to pick up not just one or two channels, but entire "packages" of channels, sometimes 10 or more, in order to get the channel you really want to carry. Often times, the cable operate MUST provide a channel to every single subscriber, or the studio won't let them have it at all. The contracts also have provisions about where the channels can be placed in the channel lineup. You also have channels that only a small number of customers are interested in (like certain premium sports channels or packages), but the CATV operator is contractually forced into providing to ALL customers, and into paying a hefty fee (above $3/month per customer) for a single channel.
I have seen small market TV stations asking for over a $1/month per subscriber for the privilege of the CATV operator carrying the exact same programming they broadcast over the air for free.
Lastly, the content providers usually want to lock the CATV companies into multiple year contacts, with price escalations. They are also putting language into the contracts specifically to forbid any sort of IP network based content distribution to the end customer.
You have to be better at not taking "no" for an answer.
They can do it. They just have to be persuaded. Or you can get a physical address for your construction site from your town/county/etc.
So, does Charter have coax on the road? Is the only thing holding you back the cost of getting the coax down the driveway?
Here's a solution that is cheap and wrong, but it works.
You know how construction sites have a small pole (usually a 6x6 10 foot beam the ground) with a plywood backboard for electrical and phones?
You can get a coax CATV drop done to a "work site" demarc. They may say no initially, but you can do it.
You could create your own "construction site" temporary service pole near the road, within easy distance of an existing utility pole. Then get cable Internet service delivered to your "construction site", along with an electrical meter and small electrical panel (get the electrical first). It is easiest if you own the land near the pole, but you can get an easement in writing if needed from a neighbor, or just have the neighbor order it if you know them well.
Get a NEMA rated outdoor enclosure box to put the cable modem into, and power, and big enough to also hold some sort of old SDSL or VDSL modem (as part of a back-to-back pair). The VSDL modem will just be a straight ethernet bridge (plug the cable modem ethernet into the modem's ethernet, cross-over if needed). Run outdoor rated, gel filled Cat. 5 ethernet cable from your "construction site" along the driveway or in the woods. You can get 1000' boxes of this for about $130. More than 1000 feet? fine, get more boxes and splice the cable together (either yourself with tape or buy a real weather proof telephone splice kit for about $25 at Home Depot). Bring the Cat. 5 into the house, and hook up the other VDSL modem in the back-to-back pair, and then connect to your firewall or PC. The VDSL gear should train up at at least 5Mbit of service, maybe more (depends on distance). May not be as fast as the cable modem, but better than nothing.
You don't have the bury the Cat 5 or anything. You can just lay it on the ground, in places where it is not going to get driven over, at the edge of the woods and the driveway. The outdoor gel filled cable is UV resistant and can handle being totally under water without issue. This cable will last you at least 5 years, maybe 15 -- as long as your splices are good.
It might cost $500 in total for the materials (NEMA box, cable), the construction demarc pole, and a couple of used VDSL or SDSL modems (check ebay). Plus the cost of the electrical install, and the monthly electrical bill (likely minimum billing) and the CATV cost. But you will have broadband, and the total cost will probably be around $100/month.
Another variation on this is to get the service installed at a neighbor's house the abuts your property, and just run the cable there.
"Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards." -- Soren F. Petersen
