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Once wardriving in a train (or is that 'wartraining' ? wartraindriving? I was just the passenger) I found one with a domain name in the SSID. I made a remark about it on my homepage, with a link to the overview of access points found and to the found webserver of that domain.

He linked back to my site a few days later, finding it funny. (I won't link directly to his webserver now, to avoid a slashdotting to a site most of you can't read since it's in Dutch)

But, of course, DNS on a host doesn't allow for all that stalking you can do should amihotornot start supporting this on a per URL basis ...

And don't forget: you can't put banner-ads in DNS entries ;) (although geourl is a nice site without any banners or popups).

This weekend I added DNS LOC entries for things like webcam.idefix.net. Going to the location make you end up in the view of the camera.

Maybe geocachers can use this.

But it's running multicast to unless you have a HIGH end switch or a long chain of multiple switches all receivers get the packet at nearly the same time as multicast would go out via port flooding to all ports simultaniously. If your particualry worried about it put all the playback units on the same hub this will insure they all receive the packet at nearly the same time (cable length etc varying this) as they are all the same hardware they should all proccess the packet and play it back with the same delay.

Interesting problem. With HIP radio we broadcasted (and later multicasted) mp3 frames over ethernet and found the very interesting problem that the clients were playing the audio ahead of the server. We used the timing in mpg123 on the server to time the sending out of the frames (nothing like a sound card buffer to keep those mp3 frames in check) but clients (even on comparable hardware) got ahead of the server in audio. I wonder whether this thing has the same problem, but since the data 'on the network' is in a different format I guess it will work out better.

And the web is a publication medium when looked at it this way.

And consider writing something in a mailing list a publication too. A lot of mailing lists have archives in the strangest places.. sometimes because someone sets up an archive for private use but forgets to block that archive from prying eyes (and I don't mean blocking by not linking to it or putting a robots.txt there, but blocking with a good .htaccess file).

The best sample was when I did a websearch for my own name and found that someone had a web-archive of all private mail, including stuff I exchanged with him. Found some interesting bits there.. the archive is now gone.

I got reactions about my homepage that I am very open. I still limit what I write there to stuff that I want friends / enemies / employers to see.

And employers will see stuff. Some manager with way too much time on her/his hands might stumble on some page where you declare that you don't like stupid managers bugging you during the day and start whining at your boss. (been there, done that)

why is Slashdot so interested in DownUnder? Most of these telco idiosynchrocies come from Telstra, not Optus.

Sometimes you want to read about the 'networking third world' after having read about another person who can only select from 2 cable isp's and 3 dsl isp's somewhere else in the world ;)

I saved a good story/rant about Australian Internet prices.

..there are laws passed to prevent people from "tweaking" search engine results so their page comes up with or even before one of the "big guys."

When I did research because a certain company was telling me idefix.net infringed on their copyrights I searched on similar cases and I found that in a few cases of 'misleading domain names' in the Netherlands as part of the verdict the 'cybersquatter' was also ordered to 'remove misleading results from search engines'. It did not tell exactly *how* the 'cybersquatter' was supposed to do that.

The article seems slashdotted now, I have mirrored the relevant part:

It may have been there, but isn't, now. Koos has copied it in time, though, here.

Stefan.
It takes a lot of brains to enjoy satire, humor and wit-

Since kerneltraffic (a very good site) got a bit slow I mirrored the page from kt for now (minus stylesheet) so it can also be viewed at http://idefix.net/~koos/kt20000925 _86 .html#13.

Yes, all internal links are broken :)