Tag Archives: networking

I’m IPv6 ready – are you?

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Michael Fleming

Firstly for those wondering about Courier-IMAP / authlib / maildrop+authlib packages for Leonidas:  I’ve built them successfully – only a minor adjustment needed after all that -  and it’s available in the usual place. Enjoy, and let me know if … Continue reading →

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Sort-of-Emergency Post

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Michael Fleming

I’ll keep this short as it’s a little late and I should turn in. I’ve had a bit of a hosting hiccup – my now ex-host unceremoniously cut me off and disconnected my server on Valentine’s Day, citing an ESA … Continue reading →

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Offline, again.

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Michael Fleming

Sorry to readers / visitors again for another extended outage. This one is again not my doing but this time there’s been a happier ending. I elected on Friday to churn my ADSL service to Internode (a fairly large ISP … Continue reading →

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Offline for too long

Posted on July 14, 2007 by Michael Fleming

Apologies for the outage even though it’s not really my fault. I gave Webcentral (who supply my ADSL service) the necessary 30 days notice for account closure on Monday only to find the service cut off on Wednesday afternoon because … Continue reading →

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Charley Says “Don’t Generate Backscatter”

Posted on May 9, 2007 by Michael Fleming

Seems I’ve been on the end of a fair amount of backscatter because some clueless nimrod of a spammer used enlartenment.com as the SMTP sender domain of one of their mailouts. I found the attempt mildly amusing. It basically provided … Continue reading →

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A word on DNS blacklists.

Posted on April 11, 2007 by Michael Fleming

There seems to be some disagreement regarding use of DNS blacklists (“DNSBLs”) among some members of the Internet community (pro-DNSBL here and slightly con here for example) This is fine, they’re both valuable notices and opinions. What bothers me a … Continue reading →

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…so he tries to get too frickin’ clever..

Posted on January 3, 2007 by Michael Fleming

…and almost loses. As noted in my last entry, I picked up a gigabit switch in the post Christmas sales along with a suitable network card. Today, being a generally wet/overcast day (meaning “watch cricket on the TV and hack … Continue reading →

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Another Christmas survived.

Posted on December 27, 2006 by Michael Fleming

It wasn’t half bad, actually – got to catch up with Paul and his missus among other relatives I don’t see too frequently. As usual, the food is plentiful and good. Sleeping on the couch (as per tradition for me) … Continue reading →

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IPv6 Day…

Posted on June 6, 2006 by web

[mfleming@defender mfleming]$ traceroute6 ipv6.he.nettraceroute to ipv6.he.net (3ffe:81d0:ffff::3), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 qbert.enlartenment.com (2001:470:1f01:2800:250:8dff:fe54:9197) 4.244 ms 0.083 ms 0.086 ms 2 tunnel-local.enlartenment.com (2001:470:1f01:ffff::1518) 204.009 ms 214.444 ms 220.150 ms 3 tunnel-remote.enlartenment.com (2001:470:1f01:ffff::1518)(H!) 3225.042 ms * * Whoops! Hurry … Continue reading →

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