John Kristoff

UIC PhD candidate | Dataplane.org | Netscout. Internet infrastructure (#BGP, #DNS) and #infosec. Bit mechanic. Also: #Blues / tfr / #fedi22

2025-07-07

@dangoodin One way, that admittedly doesn't scale very well, is not accessible to all, and is imperfect, is when we know, interact, and ultimately trust people in positions of important responsibility that share credible insight behind closed doors.

This is essentially the distinction others have recently been making between industry and community.

2025-07-07

Monday jam: Josh Smith | When I Get Mine | song.link/us/i/972233496 #blues

2025-07-07

@paul_ipv6 @IPngNetworks Testament to something that works well enough. I think it is still running in a network I was a netop at going back nearly 25 years. But I thought everyone was now using github.com/ytti/oxidized

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2025-07-06

If you're curious as to how a Go based replacement to Rancid could look like, take a look at:

git.ipng.ch/ipng/router-backup

2025-07-05

Color me cynical, but I wonder if Google, like Cloudflare and Fastly, will soon be announcing its own AI crawling traffic monetization scheme for all you content creators. Everyone gonna want their cut?

2025-07-04

@tim There was a time when I would, but now the copper is probably worth a few bucks in scrap to someone.

2025-07-02

The reading of IETF RFC 2119 going around reminded me that I had recorded myself reading the classic e2e paper and Clark's later design philosophy paper for my students. I certainly am not a trained voice actor, but I seem to recall at least a couple of students appreciating that format.

I'm pretty sure I did this around the mid 2000s when iPods were at their peak popularity, but the Wayback Machine doesn't have a record of them until much later.

If I ever teach again I might have to dig them up.

web.archive.org/web/2016041912

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2025-07-01

Are you an #AFRINIC resource member? Did you try to vote at last week's election? I'm trying to figure out why the election was anulled ... if you want to chat, I can be reached in confidence here theregister.com/Author/Email/S

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2025-07-01

I scanned a handful of old commercial UNIX newsletters from 1983:
drive.google.com/drive/folders

"commUNIXations" Number 12 is particularly interesting - an issue dedicated to the commercial databases available on UNIX at the time.

2025-07-01

@resingm I don't think we're interested in formally enlisting help to build up candidate reads. We already monitor a lot of sources. I think this will just be more work with little added value.

If people regularly identify or write interesting reads, we'd rather just keep on eye on their blogs, newsletters, social media feeds, or wherever.

We'd rather act more like custom curators than a sort of crowd-sourced hacker news outlet.

2025-06-30

@Addlorbuzzoff Video was removed by request of the author due to a misstatement of timeline

2025-06-30

We (@dataplane) are preparing to again publish Weekend Reads and The Internet Last Week series of posts.

We may be making some changes to our Mastodon account and blog, but otherwise it should largely resemble what we were doing before.

I know many appreciated seeing them and we missed doing them. They take us a fair bit of time and effort to compile, which can be hard for us to justify that led us to the pause.

On a personal note, I'll restart my Monday jam link at the same time - that one is easy. Stay tuned.

2025-06-29

@Addlorbuzzoff Hmm... trying to find out why

2025-06-20

@epilanthanomai Not really recommendations, but there is a lot of good, varied tech posts, on new tech, history, links to other interesting reads, and original writing at @osnews

2025-06-19

@mattblaze I was trying to remember where I saw this, I remember thinking it odd to be in my timeline. It was posted into a sub-reddit I was following.

It looks like it was removed from the source, but the Mastodon bot I was following still has it. Past tense, was following.

Unfortunately the bot has over 1.3k followers so it probably got seen by many around here.

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IODA @ Georgia TechIODA
2025-06-18

Iran is experiencing a near Internet blackout today, starting at ~5:00 PM local time. We see significant drops across networks. Some networks, including MCCI and Rightel appear to be responsive.

Follow connectivity in Iran in near realtime:
ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/c

2025-06-18

@ricci For history, maybe something from The Teaching Company or the Modern Scholar? You could do a lot worse than Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 for example.

2025-06-17

@badsamurai I'm told the page I linked to is old and the page a remnant from an acquisition.

I thought they had v6 availability in most places these days. When was the last time you checked? In some cases it might also require an update to the CPE that they haven't provided to you yet?

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