An open letter to all my Facebook friends

Que?

I knew I recognized that address range...

Google's new public DNS server is up and running and I'm pretty excited about it and their adherence to DNS standards. The network addresses, 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 were bothering me, though. Where had I seen these before? A quick whois shows the following:

Level 3 Communications, Inc. LVLT-ORG-8-8 (NET-8-0-0-0-1)
8.0.0.0 - 8.255.255.255
Google Incorporated LVLT-GOOGL-1-8-8-8 (NET-8-8-8-0-1)
8.8.8.0 - 8.8.8.255

Yup. Level 3. I've set up many a BGP neighbor with them in the past and that's where I saw the 8.0.0.0 range in the past. It's cool that Google snagged 8.8.8.0/24 from Level 3, well not "snagged", but you know what I mean.

Now, the big question that matters only to me: what about IPv6 connectivity for public Google DNS?

hum.....

So, I installed my Soekris Net-4801 m0n0wall and my RR speed tests have decreased dramatically:



Bandwidth is determined by the cable modem, not the firewall. So.. why would I have been getting close to 20 meg down before and now "just" 5-6? I had long suspected that something was wrong with my cable modem and that's why I was getting such astonishing download speeds and perhaps that's all been fixed.

More testing is needed.