There’s a lot of noise on the Internet. I’m not talking about certain news sites, either; I’m talking about stuff like port scans or attempts on weak services from all sorts of bad people on the Internet. A large chunk of that noise can be filtered by the edge routers, taking some of the...
Monthly Archives: January 2009
A Better (?) Way to Handle Logs
Happy new year, all. I’m finally over my hangover from the party and ready to blog. Everywhere I go, I always wind up in a debate about how to alert on log messages as they come in. I was at the grocery store yesterday, and the cashier told me that she had a list...
Video — History of the Internet
Here’s a short but nifty video I found on the history of the Internet. We all say “DARPA” or “ARPANET”, but I had no idea that the French developed the router first. History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo. Aaron ConawayI like to lean my head to the left, hit it with the...
Leap Second
Did anyone notice (or care about) the leap second? I did neither. Here’s some cool output from Kevin Oberman on the NANOG list, though. bash-2.05b# date Thu Jan 1 00:59:58 CET 2009 bash-2.05b# date Thu Jan 1 00:59:59 CET 2009 bash-2.05b# date Thu Jan 1 00:59:60 CET 2009 bash-2.05b# date Thu Jan 1 01:00:00...
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