Notices by Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net), page 2
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Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 10:15:27 JST 
Bill Woodcock
@bert_hubert
Cogent is in the midst of three different peering disputes, with Tata, NTT, and HE, so their connectivity is pretty limited at the moment. Most people cannot reach https://http://c.root-servers.org for instance.
There's been a lot of conversation in different channels about whether this is sufficient to call their competency to run a root into question. -
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Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 21:46:55 JST
Bill Woodcock
One of my favorite proposed Lego sets just made it past the 10,000-supporter threshold and into review:
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/fb3bab45-07d2-4496-921a-d090e9fe7957 -
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Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2024 05:01:16 JST
Bill Woodcock
AirBnB bookings in the US for April 8: -
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Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 01:00:30 JST
Bill Woodcock
@tk @feld
Yes, exactly. Email (SMTP) is up at OSI level 5, while this is IP routing, down at layer 3, but it's exactly analogous behavior. -
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Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 00:15:46 JST
Bill Woodcock
Google takes a big step backwards in their connectivity to the rest of the Internet: -
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Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 16:37:46 JST
Bill Woodcock
For anybody who hasn't seen it yet, Key Bridge collapsed, in Maryland / DC. Fortunately it was the wee hours of the morning, but still more than a dozen vehicles in the water, and people, to be recovered. Looking closely at the vehicles on the center span, it seems like they were stopped, with flashing lights, so perhaps the bridge was already blocked and they were emergency responders?
https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1772514015790477667 -
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Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 16:38:11 JST
Bill Woodcock
@GossiTheDog
But... I thought that in space, nobody could hear your screams? -
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Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 21:22:03 JST
Bill Woodcock
@Free_Press
Careful repeating this, it contains a lot of misinformation; perhaps disinformation. The only source for the attribution to the Houthis is a single anonymous Twitter account. It's actually three cables not four (Seacom and TGN are the same cable on that segment) and the interarrival time of these outages is not out-of-the-ordinary.
Also, there's no observed effect yet, in the sense that all traffic observed thus far is being successfully re-routed, so there's no "harm" in the sense of public impact.
To my view, the most important issue is that cable repair ships are, while well-insured, also slow and expensive to build, so it may be that the reason we've stacked up three outages at once is because nobody feels like risking the future revenue of a cable ship that ventures into an area with live anti-ship missile fire.
Also worthy of note that we've been in exactly this situation before, in 2008 and 2011. -
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Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 08:21:02 JST
Bill Woodcock
@GossiTheDog
Explain? -
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Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 08:02:10 JST
Bill Woodcock
@GossiTheDog
If it was white-labeled from another provider? -
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Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 07:58:50 JST
Bill Woodcock
@GossiTheDog
The Optus outage was indeed iBGP, and it affected the underlying data routing across their network. That was visible in their Internet service. Have you seen any reports of AT&T fixed broadband having been affected? If it had anything to do with peering, that would also have been down. The fact that AT&T was urging affected customers to switch to "wi-fi calling" and that that was mostly working, would seem to indicate that there were not problems on the data network. That some "wi-fi calls" were not going through can be attributed, like the people complaining to T-Mobile and Verizon, to people trying to reach AT&T mobile customers.
Again, I don't yet have a theory that I believe holds water, I'm just trying to rule out things that appear to be contradicted by the facts as reported thus far. -
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Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 07:48:23 JST
Bill Woodcock
@GossiTheDog
The CNN article also only cites one anonymous source for that, and doesn't say that the source actually has any inside knowledge.
Again, if you can posit a causal link between anything to do with peering, and the observed failures, I'm all ears.
Until then, canonically, it was the DNS.
No, just kidding. For once, I don't think there's any plausible link with the DNS either. -
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Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 07:41:34 JST
Bill Woodcock
@GossiTheDog
That doesn't explain reorders on PRI trunks, nor does it explain AT&T mobile-to-mobile calling being down. -
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Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 07:20:01 JST
Bill Woodcock
@GossiTheDog
Uh... What evidence do you have that it had to do with peering? -
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Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 14:03:55 JST
Bill Woodcock
Very nice performance (and build) analysis of the newest generation of Starlink dish.
If you haven't looked closely at network performance analysis before, this guy is using very sound methodology, without doing anything ridiculous or gold-plated.
https://olegkutkov.me/2024/02/12/starlink-terminal-revision-4-overview-and-tests/ -
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Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 04:21:37 JST
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Google and Microsoft take another shot in their attempt to kill off open-standards-based-email:
https://support.google.com/a/answer/14114704 -
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Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 04:21:36 JST
Bill Woodcock
@legalquilts
Google and Microsoft have been trying, for the last fifteen years or so, to turn email from an open-standards based commons, to a walled garden in which it's impossible to send or receive email unless you're a customer of one or the other of them. They've been making it more and more difficult for anyone who's not a customer of either Google or Microsoft to send mail to, or receive mail from, anyone who's not. That mostly consists of silently discarding emails which should cross out of the walled garden, and then vaguely blaming everyone else. Also a lot of hand-waving about spam and security. This particular change is about prohibiting their own customers from using non-Google apps to access Google mail. -
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Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 00:19:16 JST
Bill Woodcock
@Polychrome @SexyCyborg
You can't be banned from using social media, just banned from using centralized for-profit walled gardens. Long live the fediverse! Or Usenet, for that matter. -
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Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 15:51:56 JST
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@SexyCyborg has issued a new edition of Bunnie Huang's _Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen_. Looking forward to putting it on my bookshelf along side the first edition.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/machinery-enchantress/the-new-essential-guide-to-electronics-in-shenzhen -
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Bill Woodcock (woody@pleroma.pch.net)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 23:35:58 JST
Bill Woodcock
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