Networking

Which rooms do they seem to be coming from, from DPII?

Looks like it might just have been topic drift.

Oh, ok.

*complaint*

IPv4 addresses are 32 bits. THIRTY TWO F***ING BITS.

When someone submits a network support ticket referring to "the .82 server" the guys in my NOC have NO FUCKING CLUE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.

323 #@ BITS !!!!!1111

Just wait until IPv6 is finally turned up. You'll get requests like, "the :01fe server." :P

When someone submits a network support ticket referring to "the .82
server" the guys in my NOC have NO FUCKING CLUE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING
ABOUT.

Soooooooo... are you saying you can't fix it? lol

As it so happens, I just turned up IPv6 on Uncensored tonight. You're Soaking In It (tm).


And I don't think Mr. "the .82 server" is going to be the kind of person who ever bothers to know what his IPv6 address is. He's going to let it auto-register with a name service and refer to it by name every time. And since IPv6 eliminates the need for NAT, it's going to work more often than not.

So ... what's a good domain registrar to use these days? I have two domains expiring in November; one is with NetSol, which is too expensive, and the other is with GoDaddy, who are scumbags, so I'd like to find a new registrar for both of them.

Looking for a registrar that is inexpensive, reliable, and anti-
SOPA. Any suggestions?

I've been using Dotster, http://www.dotster.com/ for one of my domains and haven't had any issues with them. I can't find any information about their stance on SOPA, though:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_with_official_stances_on_th e_Stop_Online_Piracy_Act

Dotster it is, then. I'm even going to transfer now, because they will honor the rest of the existing registration period plus add another year free for transferring. Can't argue with that.

I suspect that all the other registrars didn't really have a strong opinion on SOPA one way or the other; they just wanted to take the opportunity to dogpile on GoDaddy. And I'm sure GoDaddy didn't "change their mind" so much as they said "oh shit, we've gotta backpedal on this before we lose any more customers"

I think we're getting burned by our use of a cloud server for distributing a/v content. I suspect that we don't have a dedicated pipe of networking, and someone else is consuming the pipe we're trying to use, because we're not quite getting the throughput we'd been getting.

Sanctified defication!

Those idiots had 65 different connections to the client, all watching the video at the same time!

We never tested for that many connections. Stupid network executives.

Sorry, 65 different client connections to the server, streaming audio/video.

I admit my ignorance to most of this, but is there not some sort of multicast thing that can be done?

Multicast is tricky to set up. It would be nice for something like this, but getting it to work over large geographic regions like this is rather tricky.

Besides, our processes normally expect some two-way network traffic, which you can't really do with multicast.

No, we're going to implement a few changes on our end to address this. I'm going to add some code to limit the number of users with the same username who may connect as a viewer at one time. This will significantly address the problem.

The children have opened it up to the entire freaking company.

Want a fun experience? Drop a sniffer on a network that has no administration.....
Oy.

NEYBIOS: Hello! This is WINDOZE1!
NETBIOS: Hello! This is WINDOZE2!
NETBIOS: WINDOWS1: Hello WINDOWS2!
NETBIOS: WINDOWS2: Hello WINDOWS1!
NETBIOS: WINDOWS1: Glad to meet you WINDOWS2!
NETBIOS: WINDOWS2: Glad to meet you, too WINDOWS1!
NETBIOS: WINDOWS1: Windows Genuine Advantage Check: Requesting CD key.
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