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.

True story.

I met a girl this weekend who has a Ph.D. in Statistics**. What are the chances of that? I suppose I should have asked.

** And for those following along with my life drama at home, no, it was not "that" kind of meet. She's married.

Confused

I wanted to learn more about Asterisk and VoIP in general so I installed Azktoria on a Soekris Net-4801. I'm so confused. I'm trying to set up a SIP client on my laptop to connect to the PBX but I'm not having much luck yet. I'll keep tinkering. This is going to be fun. Oh, and co-worker and friend Heath gave me and older Cisco IP phone but I've got to apply the SIP image to get that working.

Next I'd like to get a proper network up and running with my registered domain name that I'm not doing much with.

Brilliant!

As far as resignation letters go this is one for the ages.

Goodbye Philadelphia!

You are a great city, rich in history and a fantastic place to spend a week of work or vacation. But, alas, it's time to leave and ahead of me is a long drive. Takeoff in t minus 1:45.