Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 13th, 2009
The truck has been in the shop all week and I’ve realized it’s a great way to save money and diet. All of a sudden, shopping and cheeseburgers are not convienient. Lots of bike riding in the meantime. This morning I feasted at Taco Shack and loaded my backpack full of groceries from Randalls. This […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 3rd, 2009
I learned two things this week. The first being the reason why my 2611 broke at home after a day. I had an ACL on my egress interface that blocked DHCP traffic so my router could never renew its lease. The other was how to get back to my apartment from 360 on a bicycle. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 18th, 2009
For lovers of storing IP addresses as integers in MySQL tables, there’s a snag when doing this for IPv6 addresses. A 128-bit number is too big to stuff into a BIGINT type. All Fs integer equivalent is 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,455. An unsigned BIGINT tops out at 18,446,744,073,709,551,615. These are your options: Store it as a VARCHAR(39) in […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 16th, 2009
So here’s a traceroute to the anycast 6to4 address from my parents’ place. It winds up in Frankfurt, Germany! Their upstream, MBO is multihomed to Level3 and Sprint. I assume they’re defaulting to Level3, since the path to the Sprint 6to4 is 120 ms. traceroute to 192.88.99.1 (192.88.99.1), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13th, 2009
A big thing that I see a lot in the content and service provider world, when some outage or negative event happens the line is always “we apologize for the inconvenience.” This is another saying that irritates me to no end. I say this because over the past 36 hours tifa’s host, The Planet, had […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8th, 2009
A few observations with IPv6 fiddling all day long: IPv6 peering is going to be crazy important. Only a couple of our transit providers, Tiscali and Verizon (f/k/a UUnet) will give us native/dual-stack transit. To help ensure independent connectivity we’ll have to turn up v6 peering at our various peering points. With IPv4 the driving […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8th, 2009
I don’t know where March and April went, but they’re long gone. Since we finally put in for a IPv6 allocation at work, I decided it was high time to finally get it working at home. It’s still a bit of voodoo but I finally have a few things working. My home network is on […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 9th, 2009
It’s been a busy past couple of weeks! Victoria visited me for a week, then the same day she left my sister and her friend arrived for another five days. Lots of running around and heavy eating. I’m glad to have had visitors, it’s a welcome change. Weather has finally settled down and it’s sunny […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 22nd, 2009
It’s been a peaceful, warm weekend. Yesterday was breakfast, brunch, then naptime. Today I finished a project I started three weeks ago, cleaning the truck. Finished waxing it and taking clay to the baked on road crap. Ripped out the scanner and CB since I don’t ever use them and re-mounted the 857. A little […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 16th, 2009
This weekend I was reading about petrochemical feedstocks. Ethane (C2H6) is produced from natural gas. Ethane is used to produce ethylene. Ethylene is also used in plant biology, specifically to ripen things. So the next time you put bananas in a brown paper bag with other fruit to help it ripen, it’s the ethylene being […]
