Archive for the year 2009:
IPv6 Tooling talk
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At 3pm I’ll deliver this lightning talk to the LINX IPv6 Specialist Techical Workshop 2009 on IPv6 Tooling.
It covers :
Provisioning tools/notes
SNMP
NetFlow notes
Scripting notes
The internet is still broken, guys…
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I complained on December 10th 2008 that The Internet was broken for 4-byte ASN speakers. Rob Shakir, Jonathan Oddy, and I have been researching in detail the mechanism by which a faulty announcement by an end-site network in the Ukraine was able to break BGP (the protocol that glues different networks on the internet together, [...]
Preventing Mailman annoyances
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Inspired by TheHodge’s “After you install Wordpress” article, I made a note of the things I did to configure a Mailman mailing list, after creating it. Much of this is to make the look-and-feel replicate how I used to run Majordomo lists.
Firstly, I like the Bounce handling and web-interface to Mailman, so this is why [...]
My 2008 in review.
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I thought it might be nice to do a review of my 2008.
January I started the year talking at UKNOF, about peering in Europe. It was great to demonstrate how the open culture to interconnect, inexpensive mechanisms, and low barriers to entry, improved the internet for all users in Europe, and demonstrate also that at [...]
Asterisk 1.4.22 Agent call acknowledgement bug
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The behaviour of Asterisk has been altered since 1.4.21, possibly in error, with regard to answering calls from call queues.
There is a feature that requires agents to press # when they are ready to speak to a caller. Since we forward calls to agents via their mobiles, rather than auto-answer calls in a desk environment, [...]
Internet TV is ace
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Lots of people have been telling me that IP delivered video will be big. For a long time, I have disagreed because innovations like the PVR (and therefore simple timeshifting) and the coming of age of multiplexing (and therefore multi channel tv) have expanded choice and allowed me to fit good TV that I like [...]
Openness and telecoms
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This is a response to Lee Dryburgh’s article on Skype. We had a debate on Twitter, but I have not yet mastered the art of debate in 140 characters!
Lee’s premise is that “Certainly Skype is not a walled garden. All things being relative, it’s certainly not overly closed either.” Lee claims that the accusations of [...]
