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The $1 Fiber Optic Network

The cost of raw Internet bandwidth has plummeted over the last decade, and when you’re Google, it is even cheaper. When Google announced their fiber project, they initially claimed their network would be open to other providers. When Kansas City launched, they quietly retracted that. Even though Google is promising a number of upgrades to iProvo, having a government sanctioned monopoly for $1 is a sweet deal that would have never been offered to a local provider like XMission.

Read the full post at: http://transmission.xmission.com/2013/04/18/the-1-fiber-optic-network

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Fun Stuff

Did you know… only part of “192” and “172” are private?

Only a portion of the “172” and the “192” address ranges are designated for private use. The remaining addresses are “public,” and routable on the global Internet.

From: https://www.arin.net/knowledge/address_filters.html

In August 2012, ARIN began allocating “172” address space to internet service, wireless and content providers. There have been reports from the community that many network operators are denying access to devices having IP addresses from within the entire  172 /8 range. As a result, any device with a 172.x.x.x IP address may have difficulty reaching some sites on the global Internet. The only way to solve this problem is for those operators to reconfigure their router or firewall access control and filter only address space from the 172.16.0.0 /12 range.

 

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Changes

Network Core MTU Increase

We’re making changes in our network core by changing the MTU to 9216 (from 9000). We don’t anticipate any impact, but as always, contact us if anything seems odd. 9216 is the lowest common denominator MTU across our various routers.

Colocation customers taking advantage of jumbo frame support should continue to use an MTU of 9000 for Ethernet interfaces connected to our infrastructure.

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Changes

DNSBL Shutdown: NJABL

Effective immediately, Rollernet will discontinue use of the dnsbl.njabl.org DNSBL zone due to its shutdown. We’re also removing it from all custom settings.

Source: http://www.njabl.org/

March 1, 2013: NJABL is in the process of being shut down. The DNSBL zones have been emptied. After “the Internet” has had some time to remove NJABL from server configs, the NS’s will be pointed off into unallocated space to hopefully make the shutdown obvious to those who were slower to notice.

 

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Mail: New Signature Databases

We’ve added the “blurl” and “phishtank” databases to our ClamAV third party databases. For more information see sanesecurity.com (we also donate an rsync mirror to the project).