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DNS Routing Problem on Wednesday, March 25, 2015.

On Wednesday, March 25, 2015, several DNS servers were having trouble resolving domain names. I first noticed this when visiting Daring Fireball. I was not able to load the site on my iPhone, which is on T-Mobile network. By 4:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, I was still unable to access Daring Fireball on my iPhone. I took the screenshot and tweeted:

If I had to guess, it might be DNS issue with T-Mobile. 

DaringFireball T-Mobile DNS

Two hours later I noticed that I still couldn’t access Daring Fireball. This time I was using the office network; connected through AT&T DSL. We could only get AT&T in this particular area. Then I tweeted to John Gruber:

It seems  is still down. 

Within 3 minutes, Gruber replied:

 No, my site is up. There are internet-wide routing problems, alas: 

Daring Fireball is still down

When I arrived at a colleague’s residence, I was able to to load Daring Fireball site through Verizon FiOS.

Later on, Ben Drago replied:

 It looks like Google’s DNS servers are not resolving . Working OK w/ 

Ben Drago Google DNS has a problem

I tested a few DNS servers and some of them were having the same issues with Google DNS.

At the time of this post, the issue persists on some DNS servers.

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FCC Voted for Net Neutrality

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From EFF.org:

Today the FCC voted three to two to reclassify broadband Internet access as a common carrier service under Title II of the Communications Act, and forbear from the parts of the Act that aren’t necessary for net neutrality rules. This reclassification gives the FCC the authority to enact (and enforce) narrow, clear rules which will help keep the Internet the open platform it is today.

Three out of five FCC Commissioners voted for “Net Neutrality”. Historic moment, but there are still a long way to go.

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More Data Please

It is only the second day of 2015 and I am running out of “data” on my T-Mobile plan. Luckily I’m only a few days away from the new cycle of my plan. I was burning through 1GB of data in one hour, tethering my MacBook to my iPhone.

3GB of Data is used T-Mobile

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I can’t believe this exists: Washboard

I wanted to call this segment as the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot File.

A company will mail you a roll of quarters or two for a fee.

  • $10 worth of quarters costs $14.99 per month
  • $20 worth of quarters costs $26.99 per month

Oh, f*c* it, I’m gonna say this: WHAT THE F*C*!

When I still live in an apartment, I saved up quarters. It was not that hard. As a matter of fact out of habit I am still saving up quarters and other coins.

Faith in humanity, fading slowly…….

Washboard WTF 10 dollars

Washboard WTF 20 dollars

Comments at Hacker News.

Chris Ziegler (@zpower):

a startup sells $10 in quarters for $14.99. I am peering into the void of my own soul and questioning why we are here washboard.co

John Gruber’s take on Washboard:

If today being National Martini Day hasn’t driven you to pour a stiff drink yet, this will. Jiminy.

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Netflix Signs Peering Deal with Verizon

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Gigaom:

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings may really hate the peering deal he signed with Comcast, but that didn’t stop him from entering a similar partnership with another ISP: Verizon and Netflix have also agreed on a paid peering relationship.

News of that pact was first broken Monday afternoon on by BTIG Research’s Walter Piecyk, who tweeted Monday afternoon that Verizon CEO Lowell C. McAdam had confirmed the commercial relationship between the two companies.

As a customer of both Netflix and Verizon I should welcome this. As a technologist, I am not so sure if this is a good thing in the long run for consumers in general.

Netflix House of Cards Unwatchable on Verizon FiOS

There are more dominoes to fall following Netflix deal with Comcast and Verizon. It would affect more companies other than Netflix and ultimately consumers.

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US Government to Cease Control over ICANN in September 2015

From iCANN Announcement:

14 March 2014
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today launched a process to transition the role of the United States Government relating to the Internet’s unique identifiers system.

ICANN’s announcement comes on the heels of an historic announcement today by the U.S. Government stating that it is ready to transfer its stewardship of the important Internet technical functions to the global Internet community. The U.S. Government’s current responsibilities to be transitioned include the procedural role of administering changes to the Domain Name System’s (DNS) to the authoritative root zone file – the database containing the lists of names and addresses of all top-level domains – as well as serving as the historic steward of the unique identifiers registries for Domain names, IP addresses, and protocol parameters.

In doing so, the U.S. recognized ICANN’s maturation in becoming an effective multistakeholder organization and requested that ICANN convene the global community to develop the transition process from of the U.S. stewardship to a global community consensus-driven mechanism.

ICANN contract with the US Government is due to expire in September 2015.

One request to whoever be in control of iCANN: Please keep the the Liberty of the Internet.

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