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Bernd Felsche bernie at innovative.iinet.net.au
Tue Dec 9 10:57:55 WST 2003


On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:53:44AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> >Large chunks of the internet seem to be inaccessible to me (not just
> >through http - I can't even resolve lists.debian.org or slashdot.org,
> >for instance) yet work fine through UWA's proxy server.  Bizarre.
> >FWIW I'm on Iinet ADSL.
> 
> Yup; I'm seeing the same thing, though I wrote it off as a few sites 
> being down. iiNet ADSL again . *woohoo*.
> 
> I had to stop using their mail servers ages ago because they were so 
> unreliable (in fact, they're being slow and generally poor again today, 
> a few major clients use them). It looks like I might have to find 
> someone else for my general connectivity soon.

Sad. Email servers suffered because of iiNet's reluctance to enforce
its own SFOA on users with identified, infected machines.

Yesterday, there was a general outage. Main connection to the
"backbone", apparently.

Users down in Rockingham are signing the praises of Chime (o.k.
sarcasm!) with dialup PPP negotiation (prior to authentication)
usually stalling; sometimes indefinitely, sometimes for minutes.
And then when you do connect, you can traceroute and see _private_
addresses (10.*) leaking out; should your firewall not be
blackholing them.

> Let's hope UtiliTel / Bright get moving. I've got empty fibre conduit 
> all down my street (@work), just waiting for the fibre runs. It's a 
> horrible tease.

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