Rob Evans

As someone who did sysadmin for particle physicists in the 1990s, it was a bit of a surprise to me too.

@DanJPerry @timmarshall @RestIsPolitics Well enough thanks, hope you are too, I'm sure our paths will cross again at some point!

@internetplumber @timmarshall @RestIsPolitics It’s addictive, good choice! Btw haven’t seen you in many years, hope you’re doing/keeping well.

Thank you to @timmarshall for this great recommendation. Bought this week and my evenings have disappeared! Fantastic account, and I will now have to subscribe to @RestIsPolitics

@mike_hooz @lileeny @tstrickx @tomm3h @flangey Maybe a sesqui-trireme.

Even after vote earlier in year not even to increase fees in line with inflation. end/

Board/CFO suggested membership voted "no" to redistribution and surplus or deficit went into or came out of reserves. Somehow membership still voted "yes" to mess about with small adjustments to next year's fees. 2/

Each year @ripencc membership vote on redistributing surplus. Due to vote of fees earlier in year, surplus expected to be small, or slight deficit this year (between EUR +7 and -7 per member). 1/

Thread on <mailing list> discussing the pitfalls of a weekly posting of list stats (e.g. number of messages posted by each participant) has now exceeded the number of those messages sent to the list in a year...

@TeamARIN Not entirely sure the Internet has ever been "simply a massive commercial activity."

#NANOG89 kicks off in just 10 days! Be sure to tune in for the opening keynote by ARIN President & CEO John Curran, reviewing the ongoing evolution of the Internet from simply a massive commercial activity into something more integral to society. Details: arin.net/events/NANOG89/

@wright_s @ripencc Fair enough. I did mean to write “(conservative?)”, but either way it’s a lot of address space and more than pocket money.

@internetplumber @ripencc I’m going to put it across the board at they’ve paid <$30/IP based on market and value , plus rates for brokers in pressure situations to get deals done 🤷‍♂️

According the @ripencc alloclist, yesterday's IPv4 transfers into uk.microsoft were: 5 x /16 1 x /15 1 x /14 1 x /13 1 x /12 At a (conservative) estimate of US$45 per IP address, that's US$103M of transfers.

@mneylon @ripencc You’d hope so, but some of the pricing publicly available suggests larger blocks attract a higher per-IP price. However you’re right, there’s probably a sweet spot of around a /16.

@internetplumber @ripencc I’d hope they paid less on larger transactions

Hmm, should I pay for @TravelodgeUK hotel wifi (5Mbps down, 1Mbps up), or use tethered 5G (77Mbps down, 49Mbps up)?

Fingers crossed. theguardian.com/world/2023/sep…

...and @Benjojo12's write-up of discovering (and reporting, with varying degrees of frustration) the flaw. blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-path-…

Page hits on Juniper's website for bgp-error-tolerance over time.

@portfast Oh I remember that well. This one, right? supportportal.juniper.net/s/article/BGP-…

OP: "Anyone having issues with NTP across AS6453?" NANOG: "Why don't you use GPS or have your own atomic clock for your stratum 0?"

@peterrhague @molmutius * _your_ IT service

@peterrhague @molmutius OK, the usual approach would be for you to talk to our IT service and they could raise a ticket with the Janet Service Desk, but if you drop me an email (firstname.surname@jisc.ac.uk), I'll see if we can get the right people involved.

Currently tackling the problem of shifting 30 terabytes of science data from our university to another research institute. Had to resort to physically transporting hard drives. Someone should invent some kind of inter-university network to facilitate data transfer.

@peterrhague @molmutius First thing we'll need to understand is the end-to-end path, but one of the reasons we set up the network performance group was to try and find out who was still shipping boxes of disks around and to see if we could solve that.