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"ddos" via DMCA requests is an actual thing. There are actual methods that a few ddos-as-a-service providers provide (aka booters or stressers) that will fling tons of DMCA/abuse r…

I wonder how many folks learned of tcl/tk cause of eggdrop.

I remember in the 90s a classmate in my junior high lived across the street from the house that Ted grew up in (evergreen park, il). When all this was going down he mentioned how b…

At the time I recall a lot of drama around Fincher taking it on ("mtv music video director takes on alien project"). Also there is the case of how did the egg get on the sulaco, wh…

I didn't see it mentioned here but if you watch the documentary on Alejandro Jodorowsky attempting to make Dune - the collection of folks he brought together (for a project that di…

For botnets, yes. For L7 request floods - they spin up a few dozen machines and use open & private proxies to funnel http requests thru. Sometimes those proxies are misconfigured s…

Security updates is the important part. Particularly when dealing with vulnerable equipment which can be compromised and botnet malware dropped on it. A 0 day in a popular DVR/NVR …

Is it going to be Beetlejuice goes Hawaiian like originally planned? (That was the actual pitch for several years)

India is well known for blocking CDNs IPs for a variety of reasons (don't like the content, or because you can VPN on top of them). I've seen some CDNs who don't use anycast and re…

Folks sometimes start as consumers of ddos services and at some point realize they can run their own service and make money, buy API access into other booters to begin (reselling b…

I recall looking at the various charts and from what I recall the "discolored water" notation was sourced from a chart several decades before and was offset by a few miles (incorre…

Don't forget the VPN providers who turn their customers machines as egress nodes without making it obvious they're doing so.

My recollection is that they're still selective in the US. Maybe that's changed.

Ok you're being sent to pops in northern Virginia, that's a big problem. Lemme reply back with some other commands to figure out which DNS resolver public IPs you are coming from..…

I agree in that the Canadian ISP market has had a rough ride for a long time. Until the mid 2000s when Cogent and other folks (GTT) rolled into Canada, TELUS, Bell and other compan…

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What are you using for DNS?

Are you near Utah? The fact you are being routed to a cloudfront pop in IAD is kinda broken. What are you using for your DNS resolver?

Because they believe you are customers. This is no different than me approaching Verizon or at&t and demanding they peer with me.

This has nothing to do with torix. This has to do with bell and telus sees you as customers, not peers.

Yes a few ISPs actually do this (not just for Netflix, but for other sites in general).

Cpdlc is primarily used for oceanic clearances and follow ups (going off track due to weather, speed changes etc.).

Pilot but trained for ATC in my 20s. I assure you the mental picture you need to keep in your head as a controller is far more taxing than single pilot operation when you are prima…

I believe during the shutdown there was a period they weren't receiving compensation for hours worked. Keep in mind that due to understaffing - folks were already working additiona…