Slashdot Mirror

Yes, yes, its tacky to correct your own post instead of just previewing in the first place, but the URI should have been http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/mirrors/www.to mmarsh.net/xmod/, without the space. However, the original (misspelt) URI will also work.

Download the tools from cr.yp.to for doing DNS queries (if you're running a *nix variant) and do a

dnstrace a www.slashdot.org a.root-servers.net | dnstracesort | less

The results are available on my website as a text file; take a look if you don't have the tools above.

dnstrace is a great program for seeing how DNS resolvers resolve names to IP addresses. To see a visual diagram try dnsbajaj. It gives a graph of how it got to a domain from a root server, and which nameservers are qualified to answer for those queries.

If you want to try the test yourself easily, I've put it up on my website as a form (no personal information gathered, although your responses end up being saved as part of the URI for a day or so in our log rotations):

http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/mirrors/aq.php

>IT is not lawfull to willfilly break a copyright
>Can he create his own mp3's? Absolutely!

Both Agreed.

>Can he share them to the world? No.

YES. If he makes the music himself (as in he is a musician, and at a university, one can expect some music courses) then he has complete distribution rights over it, unless he signs to a record company.

>The guy has high speed ethernet, yet he can not get above 5k a sec!

Incompetent administration is not an excuse to remove the basic rights of an individual. The answer to this is so simple, even me, an at-home armchair linux user can fix it. Here's some help for them, for free.

If the admins there were worth the money they were being paid this wouldn't be a problem. There's many, many, many solutions to this. Here's a list of them:

- Leaky bucket algorithm, similar to that used by DirecPC (annoying, but doesn't make Kazaa a showstopper).
- Hard download/upload limit (a showstopper for heavy Kazaa users, a non-problem for regular users).
- Pay-by-the-byte service. Offer enough transfer to allow a student to complete the course (lets say 2 GB). Anything after that is charged. (everyone is happy). If lots of people "abuse" the University service, enough money is paid into the "kitty" to increase the bandwidth, and everything is peachy.

>down the the packets from the dormitory is not the answer either but sadly is becomming popular.

One of my options suggests that, but the rest don't. And none of them are beyond the expertise of a regular administrator.

>That they should ban or restric piraters.

Agreed with the restriction part, but it should be either a monetary restriction, or a speed restriction. Anything else is controlling what the students can/can't do with the network directly, and could leave the University culpable for their offenses. [You'd be very surprised with how strange the law can get in these situations -- and remember, at a university you have law students].

>Gentoo would be unusable at anything under 20k a second.

I live in Canada, and like many Canadians, proper high-speed internet just isn't ever going to be where I live (well, maybe, but I doubt that gov't initiative is ever going through).

Yet I run 3 slackware machines, one redhat machine and two copies of Win XP (fully updated), and I've survived (although getting LookTV lately has helped ease the pain :).

You'd be surprised how much you can do even with a "slow" net connection.

Linux 2.4.x networking supports traffic control / quality of service.

Read up on the advanced networking: http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/linux/qos_tc/

I use this on my home network to keep bandwidth usage allocated correctly on my cable modem connection. It works great. I have 20ms latency while gnutella, kazaa, and FTP uploads are all running concurrently.

This prevents you from the task of blocking them out completely, while ensuring that high priority student/teacher use of the net remains fast.

I have saved the PDF of the report as PostScript with xpdf for printing or download here (100k).

http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/mirrors/ukgo vt oss.ps (300k) for people who don't have compressed file support.

http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/mirrors/ukgovt oss.html (170k) for HTML converted by Star Office from the MS Word document.

I have saved the PDF of the report as PostScript with xpdf for printing or download here (100k).

http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/mirrors/ukgo vt oss.ps (300k) for people who don't have compressed file support.

http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/mirrors/ukgovt oss.html (170k) for HTML converted by Star Office from the MS Word document.

Mirrored on my mirror page if your page gets too busy. I'm trying to mirror more sites about this. Please pass me any URLs to live video that I can put on our Real Media server.

I have a copy mirrored here (in Canada).

cf. FibreSpeed

I have a copy mirrored here (in Canada).

cf. FibreSpeed

And here if needed.

After seeing the lack of information available, I've created a new web page with Linux QoS & TC as the focus. I will only add information to it that I couldn't find elsewhere, and link to the information I do find elsewhere.

Within Ontario, Canada, ICS is helping the local Public Utilities companies to set up fibre optic networks to the door of businesses in most cities. The PUCs are laying fibre in the ground all over in those cities (Sudbury, Ottawa, Peterborough, Toronto, London, etc.) and they're able to get you high-speed Internet access where you are with very little effort.

That's what we're using at FibreSpeed for our new line of integrated web application services. Gotta love those strands in that metal pipe on the ceiling.