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[#] Sun Apr 05 2020 14:57:31 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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I'm not sure how to feel about that. In this case it's good, but imagine if Google started doing that to 8.8.8.8 (and they would definitely do it to 8.8.8.8 and not some alternate address). Google's editorial control over the Internet would be even more enhanced.

[#] Mon Apr 06 2020 10:05:23 EDT from Ragnar Danneskjold

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2020-04-05 14:57 from IGnatius T Foobar
I'm not sure how to feel about that. In this case it's good, but
imagine if Google started doing that to 8.8.8.8 (and they would
definitely do it to 8.8.8.8 and not some alternate address). Google's

editorial control over the Internet would be even more enhanced.



You can use it or not. They've got one for parental control and one for parental control + malware.


Maybe there's an interesting service to be had - a comparative DNS system....
Or maybe it's time for caching DNS to die.

[#] Tue Apr 07 2020 09:25:00 EDT from darknetuser

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Public DNS with parental controls or anti-malware controls are not exactly new. OpenDNS has been offering that for years already.

[#] Tue Apr 07 2020 09:36:29 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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OpenDNS charges for that service, though. And they provide all sorts of lovely "logs" to the administrator so that you can doxx your users when they stray off the ranch.

[#] Tue Apr 07 2020 09:38:56 EDT from darknetuser

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2020-04-07 09:36 from IGnatius T Foobar
OpenDNS charges for that service, though. And they provide all sorts

of lovely "logs" to the administrator so that you can doxx your users

when they stray off the ranch.



I know they have paid plans, but they also had a free tier with parental controls at least. Or they used to have it.

[#] Mon Jul 27 2020 09:06:58 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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Well I'm back to running my own caching DNS server on my main computer. No third-party anything, straight to the root servers, and I can decide which domains to block.

[#] Mon Aug 31 2020 06:48:23 EDT from Freakdog

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In other news, CenturyLink borked their BGP, yesterday morning, and broke a significant part of the internet, worldwide, for about 6 hours.

[#] Wed Sep 16 2020 14:10:43 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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That's ok, they changed their name from CenturyLink to "Lumen".

Now "Lumen" can say they've never had any worldwide outages.

[#] Sun Nov 15 2020 08:02:50 EST from ParanoidDelusions

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So, for now, I didn't want to disrupt the connection to my BBS while I create a bunch of new records to point directly to the BBS, remove the forwarding records, and disable the DDNS - and I realized that the easy way to start using the new static IP address was to simply replace the DHCP address in my DDNS service with the static one. Not exactly elegant, and probably the kind of thing that would make an actual networking professional want to claw his eyes out, but it should work. 

And it does, for me. 

But I haven't had a single caller to the BBS since I made the change. 

Doing some network investigation using some web based tools, a reverse lookup on the IP address I was assigned shows that it resolves as a mail server. I looked up the whois registry on that domain, and it is a yogurt and yoga company (I dunno... I guess they go together)... and that domain seems to be managed or hosted by the ISP I've purchased the block of IP addresses from as the authoritative DNS for their domain. 

So I suspect a former client that sold yoga and yogurt didn't survive the New York lockdowns - and their records still point the IP address they've assigned me to that client's mail server. 

Can someone check and see if they can resolve to secure.wallofhate.com on https, wallofhate.com on HTTP and telnet.wallofhate.com on Telnet, and let me know here? 


You don't have to log in, just getting to the login prompt is enough. 

I'd appreciate it. 



[#] Sun Nov 15 2020 08:12:13 EST from ParanoidDelusions

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If it isn't reachable, the damage is probably already done, and I might as well pull everything out and set it up right while I wait for the ISP to fix the MX record in their DNS. 



[#] Sun Nov 15 2020 18:24:30 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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secure doesn't resolve. telnet does. And I see you got the very next /29 adjacent to mine :)

They'll set the reverse DNS to whatever you want. Just open a support ticket.

[#] Sun Nov 15 2020 23:06:16 EST from ParanoidDelusions

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Sun Nov 15 2020 18:24:30 EST from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored
secure doesn't resolve. telnet does. And I see you got the very next /29 adjacent to mine :)

They'll set the reverse DNS to whatever you want. Just open a support ticket.

Being that I don't have it set to send Internet mail, reverse DNS shouldn't matter, right? 

Something is hosed on my subnet. There is a a mailserver set up at Ace's DNS as .98... 

I tried popping up to .102 and that killed everything... there is another address in my range that is registered in DNS as someone else... but I tried everything... 

Now I'm back to the .98 address - and nothing is resolving. I guess I'll wait 30 minutes and see if it starts working again. 

And interesting aside... from my own internal machines, I can get it to resolve going out through my ISP and back in through ACE. 
But my phone responds that the site doesn't respond. 

But, I pointed the DYDNS forwarder to the .98 address, and that works from the phone... 

So... something screwy is afoot. 

My BBS can't really afford extended downtime. It is already on life support. :) 

 



[#] Mon Nov 16 2020 06:03:15 EST from ParanoidDelusions

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Sun Nov 15 2020 23:06:16 EST from ParanoidDelusions @ Uncensored

 

Sun Nov 15 2020 18:24:30 EST from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored
secure doesn't resolve. telnet does. And I see you got the very next /29 adjacent to mine :)

They'll set the reverse DNS to whatever you want. Just open a support ticket.

Being that I don't have it set to send Internet mail, reverse DNS shouldn't matter, right? 

Something is hosed on my subnet. There is a a mailserver set up at Ace's DNS as .98... 

I tried popping up to .102 and that killed everything... there is another address in my range that is registered in DNS as someone else... but I tried everything... 

Now I'm back to the .98 address - and nothing is resolving. I guess I'll wait 30 minutes and see if it starts working again. 

And interesting aside... from my own internal machines, I can get it to resolve going out through my ISP and back in through ACE. 
But my phone responds that the site doesn't respond. 

But, I pointed the DYDNS forwarder to the .98 address, and that works from the phone... 

So... something screwy is afoot. 

My BBS can't really afford extended downtime. It is already on life support. :) 

 



Well, I submitted a ticket, then went to bed. Then I woke up and I remembered that when my "networking guy," helped me set everything up, I noticed the gateway was wrong, and he fixed it and told me "remember this command, you may need it if it doesn't stick." So I came down, browsed history, found the command and issued it. Then I checked, and connectivity was back. Not sure if it was back before I issued the command. But the issue with a tracert of my ip address claiming it is mail.iymf.net still persists, so I'm thinking Ace hasn't fixed that yet - and it was just being impatient about waiting for DNS caches to flush and authoritative DNS to push. 

Either way, I seem to be fully back. I can even get there from my phone. Hopefully the handful of "callers," I had have not given up. It was probably a bandaid that needed to be ripped off, in either case. 

 

 

 



[#] Mon Nov 23 2020 21:39:23 EST from ParanoidDelusions

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My site is suddenly running dog slow over the public ACE network. Telnet is working, but the webcit interface is very unresponsive. 

I thought it might be the Pi heating up, and so rebooted it, but the issue persisted. 

Then I connected directly - and that works fine. 

I am getting buffering and quality adjustments watching video over my regular ISP gateway too - which is unusual.

I've noticed it happen a couple of times today here at Uncensored, too. 

Wonder if it is an Internet wide thing, something going on with my local ISP, or something going on with ACE specifically. 

 



[#] Sat Dec 26 2020 14:35:26 EST from Nurb432

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it wasn't just you. 

Mon Nov 23 2020 21:39:23 EST from ParanoidDelusions

My site is suddenly running dog slow over the public ACE network. Telnet is working, but the webcit interface is very unresponsive. 

I thought it might be the Pi heating up, and so rebooted it, but the issue persisted. 

Then I connected directly - and that works fine. 

I am getting buffering and quality adjustments watching video over my regular ISP gateway too - which is unusual.

I've noticed it happen a couple of times today here at Uncensored, too. 

Wonder if it is an Internet wide thing, something going on with my local ISP, or something going on with ACE specifically. 

 



 



[#] Sun Dec 27 2020 18:55:17 EST from ParanoidDelusions

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It was partly me - but things have gotten sorted and seem to be running fairly stable. I'm loath to Eff with anything at this point. 

 

Sat Dec 26 2020 14:35:26 EST from Nurb432

it wasn't just you. 

Mon Nov 23 2020 21:39:23 EST from ParanoidDelusions

My site is suddenly running dog slow over the public ACE network. Telnet is working, but the webcit interface is very unresponsive. 

I thought it might be the Pi heating up, and so rebooted it, but the issue persisted. 

Then I connected directly - and that works fine. 

I am getting buffering and quality adjustments watching video over my regular ISP gateway too - which is unusual.

I've noticed it happen a couple of times today here at Uncensored, too. 

Wonder if it is an Internet wide thing, something going on with my local ISP, or something going on with ACE specifically. 

 



 



 



[#] Fri Feb 05 2021 18:07:36 EST from Nurb432

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I know its an older topic, but picked up one of these things this week.  It actually lets you bridge more than on machine on its Ethernet onto your WiFi network. Same subnet.  A bit fussy to setup, but after i got it right, works like a charm. Lot easier than fussing with other solutions i have tried. 

Have it hooked to a switch in my computer room with 3 machines on it, all getting the same subnet that the WiFi is on.  But since its a switch i get higher rate in the room between machines than i did with everything on WiFi. ( since it never has to traverse the WiFi to the other side of the house now ). 

Servers are still on the other switch, attached directly to the incoming fiber.  

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KHV4SCX/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1



[#] Sat Feb 06 2021 18:36:44 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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So it's basically an access point in reverse?  I can think of a few applications for that.  Most of them involve mooching someone else's Internet and then fanning out to a proper LAN.  But you're using it in your own home.  I wish I could come over there and help you run cable.



[#] Sun Feb 07 2021 09:33:25 EST from Nurb432

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Yes in effect. Sure other ways to do it, but first one i found that is a true bridge, without a lot of messing around.

 

Running wire in my house... Short version:

 

I have truss roof instead of rafters. so there is about a 1.5x1.5 tunnel down the middle of the house.   Doable with a lot of effort.  However...   Picture a long rectangle of a house.  One end is the garage and entry point   2/3 down the house ( lets say east ) is the room it needs to go, and where the router is. The rooms are on north and south. Hallway down middle.  sounds simple so far, get some sheet wood and use it to crawl back there, using some string, and some poles to get it across then back down.

Problem is 1/2 way back is the air intake and it teaks up ALL the crawl way at that point.  No way around it short of removing it. So no easy way past it. Next to it is the chimney.. so a big blob of duct work in the way. I could i cut out a 2nd attic door at the 2/3 waypoint ( not really fond of doing it , but i have considered it, nothing else more storage area to use.  )

I had the roof off perhaps 12 years ago, and didnt even think of it at the time.  Perfect chance. But at the time i had coax coming in the front of the house. so it all terminated in the 'south' computer room and i never really thought about it. Now that i went fiber, it terminates in the 'north' room.

Oh, and the 'north' room is isolated from the house. no door inside or anything. ( house was oil when it was built back in the 50s, i think it was code to keep it 'outside'. ) I plan on tearing out the wall and opening it up to the adjacent utility room, but have not got around to it.  And it wouldn't solve the problem of attic access anyway, just make our utility room bigger and not have to go outside to get to the water heater. That burnt me once, it had fallen over, about bunt the house down.. I woudl check every week, but during that week it fell apart. Flooded the house.    Succy way to wake up in the morning.  Few years later thermostat suck 'on' heated up and the pressure valve blew.. and another freaking leak.   Now have water sensors out there, and going tank-less this spring.  

 

I have considered running some shielded cat5 outside and around the side of the house, same path/hole that the old coax is in, or even over the stupid roof .. paint it grey and no one will even notice. Just look like coax for tv. 

 

 

 

Sat Feb 06 2021 18:36:44 EST from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: WiFi Bridge

So it's basically an access point in reverse?  I can think of a few applications for that.  Most of them involve mooching someone else's Internet and then fanning out to a proper LAN.  But you're using it in your own home.  I wish I could come over there and help you run cable.



 



[#] Sun Feb 07 2021 09:36:15 EST from ParanoidDelusions

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I have one of these - I love it. I have it in my gaming room and I use it to get my Amigas and my C128 and other old devices with Ethernet onto my WiFI. It has 4 Cat5 ports and bridges them to a WiFi signal. It is old, doesn't support 2ghz/5ghz or modern encryption, and I have never found anything like it made since. I go through some hoops to get it to bridge to my actual network. Basically, I have a Wifi router in the middle that this bridges to, that then hooks into the wired network in my office. 

It isn't very elegant, but it works. 

https://www.newegg.com/buffalo-wli-tx4-g54hp-ethernet-port/p/N82E16833162168

 

 

Fri Feb 05 2021 18:07:36 EST from Nurb432 Subject: WiFi Bridge

I know its an older topic, but picked up one of these things this week.  It actually lets you bridge more than on machine on its Ethernet onto your WiFi network. Same subnet.  A bit fussy to setup, but after i got it right, works like a charm. Lot easier than fussing with other solutions i have tried. 

Have it hooked to a switch in my computer room with 3 machines on it, all getting the same subnet that the WiFi is on.  But since its a switch i get higher rate in the room between machines than i did with everything on WiFi. ( since it never has to traverse the WiFi to the other side of the house now ). 

Servers are still on the other switch, attached directly to the incoming fiber.  

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KHV4SCX/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1



 



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