Router Behind a Uverse/Pace 5268ac Gateway Loses its Mind Every 10 Minutes
Late last year, I had my AT&T Uverse residential gateway replaced. For reasons that truly baffle me, AT&T has decided that they are going to run uns...
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Tethering a Ubiquity Network to a Mobile Hotspot
I saw it happen. <figcaption>The cable-chewing device</figcaption> The contractor in the neighbor’s back yard ...
Thursday Threads: Publisher/Librarian Rights, Cultural Commons, HTML5 Web Apps, Wifi Management
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads: by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner This week's list of threads starts with a pointer a statement by the In...
PPTP VPN for iOS with AT&T Uverse and DD-WRT
Wandering into public or semi-public wireless networks makes me nervous because I know how my network traffic can be easily watched, and because I'm a geek w...
IPv4 Address Space Disappearing, Here Comes IPv6
Last week in DLTJ Thursday Threads I posted an entry about running out of IP addresses. Since I posted that, I've run across a couple of other stories and w...
Thursday Threads: So-called “Internet Kill-switch”, IP address exhaustion, demographics of P2P piracy
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads: by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner This week of DLTJ Thursday Threads covers a wide range of topics. Firs...
Bandwidth of Large Airplanes
Back in the early days of this blog, I had a post on Buzzwords Galore and Bandwidth that May Rival Your Station Wagon. The topic was a "hybrid optical and p...
Split Routing with OpenVPN
My place of work has installed a VPN that moderates our access to the server network using the OpenVPN protocol. This is a good thing, but in its default co...
On the Internet, How Do You Know If You Are Talking to a Dog?
Published in The New Yorker July 5, 1993.Image from The Cartoon Bank The famous 1993 cartoon from The New Yorker has the caption “On the Internet, nobo...
Vint Cerf on the Origins of 32-bit IP Addressing
Via a weekly wrap-up post by Dion Almaer on the Google Code Blog comes mention of a Google Tech Talk video from their IPv6 Conference 2008. It is a panel d...
Note to Future Self: Use ssh -D to bypass annoying interception proxies
Dear future self, If you are reading this, you are remembering a time when you ran into a really nasty interception proxy ((Version of the "Proxy Server" Wik...
Getting Around Drupal’s Prohibition of @ Characters in User Ids
A while back we created an LDAP directory to consolidate account information for various back-room services, and when we created it we decided to use the ind...
IAB to Address Concerns About Internet Routing Scalability
An e-mail from Leslie Daigle, chair of the Internet Architecture Board, crossed my inbox tonight through the IETF-announce list (excerpted below) that brough...