ahh you don't need to be an isp to get .net in nz
i hate the idea of being an organisation or a company
i figure network is more generic :)
plett, you'd think wouldn't you :P
LCN will give me one, just not cheaply
although, a .net is just as viable - and more expensive
.me.uk are fun for networking mind
grody: Every .net.uk application is manually reviewed by nominet. You really do have to be an ISP to get one.
hmm
must have changed in the last couple of years
And it is only for the ISP's infrastructure, you can't host anything customer on a .net.uk domain
Nope, it's always been that way
That's why the AAISP wiki which customers can edit is on an aa.org.uk subdomain, not .net.uk
so all i have to do is get a /32 of IPv6 & provide services like HE.net
:)
ahh, LCN will let me have a .net
not even showing up .net.uk
now i want that.. sofakingfast.net
In RIPE Land, your /32 would have to be PA so you can sub-allocated it to customers, which means you need to be an LIR
And being an LIR means a EUR1300/year invoice from RIPE
yea sod that :D
£10 for two years on a .net - odd that LCN isn't even offering .net.uk
Since the only people who can get .net.uk are ISPs, they normally know who to ask to get one and don't need it listed on web pages
:)
Any registrar who can register a .co.uk can request a .net.uk via exactly the same mechanism
reminds me actually.. i need to shuffle some domains on my AA
and somehow get rDNS working off my DNS
w/o exposing myself
plett: that sounds annoying
so if you're in RIPE land can you just get ARIN space?
the whole regionality of address space seems a bit iffy to me
i suppose it's moot now in a way,  as ip addresses have run out :/
mercutio: Nope. ARIN won't allocate space to an entity in the RIPE region for use in that region
google et al use ARIN space around the world
Google aren't a company in the RIPE region, using IPs solely within that region
For multinationals, you can pretty much get IPs from whoever you feel like dealing with
so for international companies they can choose where they get space?
curious question .. would ARP & AA be able to allow me to source my ARP range out of AA and vice-versa?
IPv6*
No
It just doesn't work that way :)
maybe just get a /32 and peer with yas instead
Without being an LIR you'd have to justify getting anything larger than a /48
nah too much effort - it's easy enough relocating IPs with tunnels these days
at cost of latency
who was talking about the fonts being insecure thing?
was that before or after this recent code execution font vulnerability on windows?
oh i think it was mike-burns
It was mike-burns
mercutio: I don't recall exactly when his comment was made, however I've known fonts to be a vulnerability surface for quite a while
yeh there's a new vulnerability out today
What a timely comment in that case :-)
FWIW, I've ultimately decided the security benefit of allowing only email address auth was worth the UX tradeoff in not allowing usernames for auth
how much c would I have to learn to contribute something meaningful towards the linux kernel?
heaps
linux is pretty mature, and there's quite a lot of learned knowledge/experience you should have before wanting to do stuff with it probably.