Stretch at Packetlife has a lively little write-up on the Australian government’s attempt to implement a nation-wide web filtering service. From Packetlife.net: Setting aside the myriad of technical barriers to implementing such a system, the most obvious question is, “who decides what gets blocked?” When a corporation implements a web filter, it does so...
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Is That a Bandwidth Graph or a Polygraph?
I thought I’d throw an easy one out before taking off for the holiday. Merry Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Saturnia, etc., to all. A few years ago, I was looking through some Cacti graphs of gigabit trunks between 6500s and noticed an abrupt change in traffic. The graphs were nice and smooth at around 135Mpbs...
I’ve Been Forged!
I don’t know if I’m mad or honored, but I received about 400 forged email bounces last night (isn’t SMTP wonderful?). I realize that some people have gotten spam from my domain, but I had nothing to do with it. I’m going to check out the bounces when I get a chance and see...
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