Peter’s Blog about lots of things

Keep in mind, when scheduling a christmas party, you need to see when others have theirs and how many per day someone can make.  Geography, time of the day, food, who else will be there, etc… all factor in.  For us it will be December 13th from 4-7.  This offers a pre-dinner snackie and no one will be there too late.  This is key cause we have kids.  Stragglers will be feed delivered pizza or life cereal.  This is the plan.  I thought about using an ipv6 mailserver to send out the invites, but realized that with no gateway to the ipv4 world, no one will get the invite…

Well folks, you probably either were affected by, or potentially noticed that there was a several day sever of the interconnections between Sprint & Cogent.  For those who didn’t know, this as usually has little or nothing to do with IPV6 but rather IPV4, the network that matters.

Sprint probably said that Cogent didn’t have enough traffic, or the ratios were skewed or some other criteria was amiss and alas (notice i got an “amiss” and an “alas” in a single sentence) Cogent didn’t qualify for settlement free peering with Sprint.  My experience is, of course that Cogent probably sends 4x what it received from Sprint and that was way beyond the traffic ratios, even if they were leniant (not sure how that word is spelled) Cogent still didn’t qualify and should cough up some dough for the difference or for an interconnect all together.

Now the problem seems solved, so we go on to a complete internet worldwide…

So, a friend asked me about webhosting… He is a layman and needs just a site and domain, some email, etc… I sent him to yahoo’s web hosting solutions, i think it will work well, for something yummy try my friend peggy’s website for fudge she makes and sells out all the time:

www.savagelygood.com

which is hosted on yahoo’s platform.  Seems easy enough, stay tuned as we’ll see how he manages.  I don’t expect a tennis coach to succesfully navigate without a bit of friend handholding, but lets see.  At least he isn’t asking about IPV6, so we got that going for him.

There are two classes of service on Delta Airlines:  Coach and Business Class.  This is a clean solution to flying. The difference between first and biz is not much, not that i have ever flown first.  IPV6 has nothing to do with flying that i can see, and therefore, didn’t help me one iota on this decision.  Basically i get 1 biz class flight a year and i took it to the middle east.

Once there in the middle east, ipv6 didn’t come up once that i remember.  Not at the airport, not in the taxi, not at the hotel (a nice marriott hotel i might add), not in the shopping mall, not at the gold souk, not at the restaurants that all tasted like moby dick’s house of kabob/ lebanese taverna, not once did ipv6 help me in these things…

Questions?

Well folks, just got back from Dubai.  Ipv6 didn’t help me in securing any indian, thai or other cuisines.  There seems to be an overabundance of middle eastern food in the middle east.  Essentially, there was a lot of tabouli, hummus, pita bread, grilled kabobs, rice, etc…

I had high hopes for ipv6 helping me navigate through the restaurant choices, whether it was at a large shopping mall, or whether it was just a local place, but neither prevailed.  There was also a tendance to put a large salad on your table without having any of the vegetables cut.  Once again, i looked towards IPV6, it failed in adequately explaining how to cut a tomato with a butter knife or the arrangement that should take place on your plate.  Squeezing fresh lemon juice on nearly anything makes it better, so keep that in mind the next time you are cooking or eating.

- the editor