Actually, there is significanly more capacity... the ISO format isn't terribly efficient (it is however relatively reliable and has good error correction). You can throw about 800 megs on a CD. I've dumped tar archives straight to CD in the past without difficulty, and was able to put a lot more on. Plus you can use the 'restore' program and pretend its a tape drive:).
Not something to use for really important backups or any data you care about - you want the error correction.
From VeriSign global registry services... I have access to them - you just need to sign a contract with them. It's not hard.
Google caches IP info a good deal longer than is specified by TTL and such, and a lot of other fancy bandwidth reducing (but frustrating) tricks). Its known by people who pay a lot of attention to google, based on observations. Many people have good reason to pay attention to google - they make their living from the traffic they get from google.
Actually I'm relatively sure Google simply downloads the zone file every once in a while, so it wouldn't affect them. Thats why it takes Google longer to get a site's new IP than the rest of the world.
Took a look at their setup, and from what I can see, they have partnered with Overture to get their search results. Overture is a pay per click search engine, meaning advertisers bid to get to the top of the search results - anywhere from $0.10 to $50. Most arrangements involve Overture getting half of the the bid, and VeriSign getting the other half.
What this means is that they are making money (probably hundreds of thousands if not millions daily) from most of the searches you make.
Topics which attract high bids (up to $50 per click, it is shocking) include online casinos, dedicated servers, refinancing, and a few others.
I implore you all:
If you want this to stop, please do not click on any of the search results from this 'search engine'. Doing so will contribute to the profit VeriSign will make from this. If you really really want to click on one of the listings plase go to www.overture.com and get it directly from them.
Other things we can do include:
1) Putting them on the spam RBLs for spamming the entire internet. This will have the effect of blackholing them from some parts of the internet that drop packets based on those RBLs right at the router level.
2) Encourage your vendors to modify their DNS server packages to change results for that IP to NXDOMAIN.
3) Encourage your admins to run such modified DNS servers.
I can get 300GB of bandwidth at a datacenter for $100/mo.
Actually, this is true. For a mere $99/month, I can think of at *least* 3 different companies that offer between 300 and 500 GB/month of traffic. I'm pretty sure there are others as well. And yes, they are quite profitable - these places are the walmart of colocation, they buy thousands of megabits of a time. They manage to do a good job too.
Cost of certificates? Fortunately, the verisign monopoly is dead:).
Free email certificates are available. Yes, the page says they are for outlook, but that is more of a reference to the fact that the ability to use them is built into outlook already.
Hmm.... I find it kind of sad that a big company won't pony up the $49 a cheap ssl certificate costs these days.. (eg: http://www.omegasphere.net/ssl/ , where I sell SSL certificates).
In fact if it is only for intranet usage you can get one for $39. You don't have to woorry about distributing a CA certificate because the root CA cert will already be on the boxes.
As long as his name isn't on "REGISTRAR-LOCK" status (which as of a recent change is easily viewed in whois at the top), netsol needn't do anything. I don't think they usually do registrar-lock.
After the transfer request is submitted to the registry, netsol has 6 days and 4 hours to reject or approve it. If they don't do either in that time, it will go through.
Many registrars (Gandi is one of them in fact) simply let transfers timeout and go through as a matter of policy as the way that they handle transfers away from them.
I used Gandi before I became involved in the business myself. I can't say I had any issues with them, though nothing ever happened which required their intervention. When I first used thm they had the best price for low quantities (at least for the registrars that didn't have scummy agreements - eg: we own your domain).
Hurricane Electric, at he.net will give you IPv6 colocation if you like (not sure what kind of use you have for the connection). They also provide 4to6 tunnels.
Fortunately, there is a little competition in the domain name business these days (unlike the old network solutions setup)...
For instance, with the domain name registration site I run, http://www.omegasphere.net/domain/ ($10.95/year), you could send a support request in and we would most happily send you a PDF that you could sign & fax in (or scan and email) to have your domain name transferred to us (which would give you access to it again). We also throw in DNS, email forwarding, URL forwarding, dynamic DNS, and a few other things:). Usual response time after faxing it in: a couple of days. In a hurry? Mark "RUSH" on it - no, there isn't a charge.
It never ceases to amaze me: even today Network Solutions continues to treat its customers poorly. They continue to make it difficult to transfer away from them. I simply can't understand how they can afford to do that to their reputation; they certainly don't compete on price.
You might find it more cost effective to get a domain name from or transfer your domain name to a registrar that includes dynamic DNS service & url forwarding framing.
<plug> I run a domain registration site, OmegaSphere, and for $10.95/yr, I include those features as standard (as well as email forwarding and a few other things). </plug>
As far as I understand, to have a complete IPv6 implementation, it is required that it be possible to choose to use IPSEC. Eventually crypto will become transparent to people... How then will they continue to monitor? It would be *highly* CPU intensive to do umpti-gazillion man-in-the-middle attacks, and those are easy to stop with a chain of trust anyway...
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Actually, there is significanly more capacity... the ISO format isn't terribly efficient (it is however relatively reliable and has good error correction). You can throw about 800 megs on a CD. I've dumped tar archives straight to CD in the past without difficulty, and was able to put a lot more on. Plus you can use the 'restore' program and pretend its a tape drive :).
Not something to use for really important backups or any data you care about - you want the error correction.
Still, it can be useful for some applications.
From VeriSign global registry services... I have access to them - you just need to sign a contract with them. It's not hard.
Google caches IP info a good deal longer than is specified by TTL and such, and a lot of other fancy bandwidth reducing (but frustrating) tricks). Its known by people who pay a lot of attention to google, based on observations. Many people have good reason to pay attention to google - they make their living from the traffic they get from google.
I'm just saying they download the .com/.net/etc zone files... the ones that take up an entire CD whilst gzipped still :).
Yes, you can -- just not by default, due to the privacy implications. Take a look in the options -- you can re-enable it.
Actually I'm relatively sure Google simply downloads the zone file every once in a while, so it wouldn't affect them. Thats why it takes Google longer to get a site's new IP than the rest of the world.
Hi All,
Took a look at their setup, and from what I can see, they have partnered with Overture to get their search results. Overture is a pay per click search engine, meaning advertisers bid to get to the top of the search results - anywhere from $0.10 to $50. Most arrangements involve Overture getting half of the the bid, and VeriSign getting the other half.
What this means is that they are making money (probably hundreds of thousands if not millions daily) from most of the searches you make.
Topics which attract high bids (up to $50 per click, it is shocking) include online casinos, dedicated servers, refinancing, and a few others.
I implore you all:
If you want this to stop, please do not click on any of the search results from this 'search engine'. Doing so will contribute to the profit VeriSign will make from this. If you really really want to click on one of the listings plase go to www.overture.com and get it directly from them.
Other things we can do include:
1) Putting them on the spam RBLs for spamming the entire internet. This will have the effect of blackholing them from some parts of the internet that drop packets based on those RBLs right at the router level.
2) Encourage your vendors to modify their DNS server packages to change results for that IP to NXDOMAIN.
3) Encourage your admins to run such modified DNS servers.
Oh, and don't take my word for it being the real thing... check the MD5s for yourself!
http://www.omegasphere.net/oss/linux-2.4.21.tar.bz 2
:).
I'll take it down if it gets to be a problem, but I don't think it will. It should be nice and fast
but in the US this according to RIAA is 'Absolutely Piracy.'
Actually, I believe the quote is "absolutely piratical". Which is even funnier.
Isn't such a network going to have rather large latency problems?
And a few megabits may sound like a lot, but wait until you have a few thousand users even.
Perhaps step 2 is become an insurance company?
I can get 300GB of bandwidth at a datacenter for $100/mo.
/month of traffic. I'm pretty sure there are others as well. And yes, they are quite profitable - these places are the walmart of colocation, they buy thousands of megabits of a time. They manage to do a good job too.
Actually, this is true. For a mere $99/month, I can think of at *least* 3 different companies that offer between 300 and 500 GB
Cost of certificates? Fortunately, the verisign monopoly is dead :).
Free email certificates are available. Yes, the page says they are for outlook, but that is more of a reference to the fact that the ability to use them is built into outlook already.
Hmm.... I find it kind of sad that a big company won't pony up the $49 a cheap ssl certificate costs these days.. (eg: http://www.omegasphere.net/ssl/ , where I sell SSL certificates).
In fact if it is only for intranet usage you can get one for $39. You don't have to woorry about distributing a CA certificate because the root CA cert will already be on the boxes.
huh? Packet sizes are increasing?
:)
And here I thought PPPoE and the like were causing packet sizes to down....
As a person who runs an inexpensive domain registration site, I object to that statement :).
We include URL & email forwarding. We don't have any ads involved though...
Don't use registrars with policies you don't like might be a more accurate statement.
As long as his name isn't on "REGISTRAR-LOCK" status (which as of a recent change is easily viewed in whois at the top), netsol needn't do anything. I don't think they usually do registrar-lock.
After the transfer request is submitted to the registry, netsol has 6 days and 4 hours to reject or approve it. If they don't do either in that time, it will go through.
Many registrars (Gandi is one of them in fact) simply let transfers timeout and go through as a matter of policy as the way that they handle transfers away from them.
I used Gandi before I became involved in the business myself. I can't say I had any issues with them, though nothing ever happened which required their intervention. When I first used thm they had the best price for low quantities (at least for the registrars that didn't have scummy agreements - eg: we own your domain).
Hope this helps...
and if you add credit card processing costs you remain in the red :)
Though many types of math are important in programming, the most commonly used is probably boolean logic. if then else.... :)
Hurricane Electric, at he.net will give you IPv6 colocation if you like (not sure what kind of use you have for the connection). They also provide 4to6 tunnels.
Ouch!
:). Usual response time after faxing it in: a couple of days. In a hurry? Mark "RUSH" on it - no, there isn't a charge.
Fortunately, there is a little competition in the domain name business these days (unlike the old network solutions setup)...
For instance, with the domain name registration site I run, http://www.omegasphere.net/domain/ ($10.95/year), you could send a support request in and we would most happily send you a PDF that you could sign & fax in (or scan and email) to have your domain name transferred to us (which would give you access to it again). We also throw in DNS, email forwarding, URL forwarding, dynamic DNS, and a few other things
It never ceases to amaze me: even today Network Solutions continues to treat its customers poorly. They continue to make it difficult to transfer away from them. I simply can't understand how they can afford to do that to their reputation; they certainly don't compete on price.
You might find it more cost effective to get a domain name from or transfer your domain name to a registrar that includes dynamic DNS service & url forwarding framing.
<plug>
I run a domain registration site, OmegaSphere, and for $10.95/yr, I include those features as standard (as well as email forwarding and a few other things).
</plug>
We had the server aspect (khttpd), but it was ripped out in 2.5 since other things were found to be faster ;).
As far as I understand, to have a complete IPv6 implementation, it is required that it be possible to choose to use IPSEC. Eventually crypto will become transparent to people... How then will they continue to monitor? It would be *highly* CPU intensive to do umpti-gazillion man-in-the-middle attacks, and those are easy to stop with a chain of trust anyway...
"Whooooooo! I Love this company! Yeah! Give it up for me!"
.mpg is so funny.
Or something like that anyway.
That