mercutio: you around? staticsafe: i am now mercutio: you think up_the_irons will announce IPs for a VPS without my own AS? staticsafe: nope staticsafe: do you have a /24 ? yes and is your provider just advertised it with their own ASN atm? indeed it's aRIN? yes looks to be $550 for an ASN and $100/year on arin's fee schedule page. the general issue with multiple providers doing that is it's harder to tell if people are spoofing or such. im looking to move from my current provider, i'll be asking them to drop the announcement as soon as I'm done moving some stuff you could always ask new asn's juumped to 32 bits too. there's no real ip to asn mapping but if too asn's advertise the same ip address it can look like one provider is spoofing the other provider actually i wouldn't worry too much, it used to be common. but it's not considered good practice wow the average programmer is 42.8 years err average age for how can you have your own IP space but no AS Number? someone else is announcing the IP space arin fees are so much smaller than apnic fees. mnathani_: that's actually pretty common for legacy space. can you multihome like that with no AS nope mnathani_: in theory yes. would require coordination among providers? nope inbound multihoming or outbound ? you can do both does it require anything special from the providers not really, this is how things like google getting spoofed happens there's quite a few instances of route hijacking that happen there's various levels of filtering... but overall it's a sorry state of affairs. that said; it's easy to hijack. but it's also reasonably easy to notice hijacking but there's a reasonably real concern that if it got possible to make false certs easily for instance, it'd be easy to spoof paypal if you can do damage in a short period of time, .. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/08/bgp_hijacking_cybercriminals_used_internet_architecture_to_mine_bitcoins.html something like that it's one of those issues that people have known about for years.. just like the other issue where you can spoof anyone's ip the spoofing people's ip addresses makes ddos's harder to track. and it seems to be less of an issue than it used to be. but i don't know if it is that providers have done more to stop it, or if there are just more easily hackable sites to ddos from. there must be well known solutions to system being down when a cron job is schedule to run it anyway lataer. arp stops you ddos'ing from random ips. I seem to recall something like "anacron" or something RandalSchwartz: chronie and anacron that stuff all got fixed years back when linux on desktop became common :) https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cron seems to be lots of information on there. thanks http://www.bgpmon.net/bgp-optimizer-causes-thousands-of-fake-routes/ hmm so enzu(budgetvm) leaked routes on any2ix recently. anyone else tracking the stock price of Amazon and Microsoft over the last few days? nope, si it going downor up? both going u p MSoft %10 Amazon closer to %15 wow i wonder why wow amazon web services made shit loads of money its a solid product offering it never impressed me :/ at the low end it pretty much sucks to my mind but they are pretty well known with some big customers. i really don't understand why people like netflix use aws Api to control the vms, regions for redundancy i suuppose it has that going for it but they have all of their servers everywhere youu'd think they could just go in house netflix's web site is pretty bad actually http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/netflix/ hmm they have a case study 10s of thousands of instances sounds really expensive :/ thousands of instances and hundreds of open connect appliances at the expense of service providers everywhere they didn't design it to be used like a cloud server "cloud" server in quotes (e.g. a VPS w/dedicated storage) i think that's the biggest thing lots of folks don't get (not saying you don't, but it's a common misconception about aws and azure both) m0unds++ Ooooh.... fcron. like regular crons on steroids I remember fcron (et al) from my Gentoo days... did anyone ever use the at command? it seems underused i uused to just use sleep && use atq on fbsd especially when doing updates to firewall or something critical to a server coponent incase i slam myself out remotely.. have a backup command ready to fire off after x time if i didnt jump in and stop it s/atq/at/ - although atq is a command related too just seemed cleaner using it in scripts instead of sleep and &(&&) yeah it's been around forever, i just don't see it uused much i still suspend, bg, fg, jobs a lot too yeah i do a bit ah crap, i broke my bloody aosp repo again - my isp must ♥ me, be downloading like the end of the world is nigh 13GB a pop to download it again maybe should get a good copy, tarball it, then if i break again just use the good repo running out of space though... and places to put drives can'y you just back it up oh right yeh do that :/ or just zfs snapshot it mercutio++ I was going to suggest the same thing (until I got caught up this far) I typically transfer between 500GB and 1TB a month, my ISP can suck it.