[145030] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Harrowell)
Mon Sep 26 04:19:13 2011
From: Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:18:10 +0100
In-Reply-To: <4E7FAD20.8070006@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Sunday 25 Sep 2011 23:37:20 Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 25/09/2011 12:39, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
> > I think a special mention should go to hardware vendors who adopt=20
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> > dreadful practice in network equipment. I recently encountered an=20
> > enterprise-grade WLAN router from vendor D that has the horrible=20
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> It is not libellous to associate a vendor's real name with calmly=20
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> matters of objective fact concerning their products.
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> I'd be interested to know the particular model that you're referring=20
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> here - like you, to put it on a list of kit that I will never buy.
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> Re: "enterprise-grade" - did you mean this as a compliment or an=20
insult?
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> Nick
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It's D-Link, if you hadn't guessed, and it's the DIR series.
Regarding "enterprise", these devices are not service provider kit but=20
they're not under-the-TV-set either, and our use-case is basically=20
typical of a branch-office set up. In which the DIR works really well,=20
if it didn't do demented things with DNS.
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The only thing worse than e-mail disclaimers...is people who send e-mail=20
to lists complaining about them
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