Thanks. Very interesting. I’m not sure I see such a stark contrast pre/post 9-11. However, the idea that the US public’s approach to the post-9-11 conflict would have an influence makes sense and isn’t something I’d ever have considered on my own.
Me too, but I’d put Usenet in there before Slashdot.
The South. Just below Indiana, the middle finger of the South. And I say this as a Hoosier for much of my life.
Nice job. Packet loss will definitely cause these issues. Now, you just need to find the source of the packet loss.
In your situation, I’d first try to figure out if it is ISP/Internet before looking inside either network. I wouldn’t expect it to be internal at these speeds. Though, did you get CPU/RAM readings on the network equipment during these tests? Maxing out either can result in packet loss.
I’d start with two pairs of packet captures when the issue happened: endpoint to endpoint and edge router to edge router. Figure out if the packet loss is only happening in one direction or not. That is, are all the UK packets reaching DE but not all the DE making it back? You should clearly be able to narrow into a TCP conversation with dropped packets. Dropped packets aren’t ones that a system never sent, they’re ones that a system never received. Find some of those and start figuring out where the drop happened.
Just curious if you’ve had the chance to dig into this and can report anything back?
Yeah, runaway global warming might not happen. Plant monocultures would begin to disappear. New invasive species wouldn’t happen, though existing ones might have a better time for a bit. Major thoroughfares wouldn’t create barriers to migration. Dams might take centuries to collapse, but I think humans going extinct might have one of the biggest impacts.
Upvotes and downvotes.
Right now, I can browse by New on my subscribed communities and see every post since the last time I did that.
I can view or re-view posts and read every response. If the responses are legion, I can play with hot/top and get the meat of the discussion.
Did you notice that last sentence? On the few posts where there are too many responses to view all, I’ll try to get at those that are relevant.
If the Lemmy community grows large enough, I’ll need to do the same for posts. I will no longer be able to regularly view by new and have time to see everything.
So, I’ll need to rely on some sorting method to make certain I see relevant stuff.
Someone with millions of bots that never post have millions of upvotes and downvotes to influence the score used by the sorting algorithm that I’ll use to decide what to read.
But aren’t thumbnails local?
Part of what prompted my question is that I doubt I have the correct worldview because I believe I’m influenced.
Kids these days with their containers and their pipelines and their devops. Back in my day…
Don’t get me started about the internal devs at work. You’ve already got me triggered.
And, I can just imagine the posts they’re making about how the internal IT slows them down and causes issues with the development cycle.
Yep. I’ve hosted my own mail server since the early oughts. One additional hurdle I’d add to you list is rDNS. If you can’t get that set up, you’ll have a hard time reaching many mail servers. Besides port blocking, that’s one of the many reason it’s a non-starter on consumer ISP.
I actually started on a static ISDN line when rDNS wasn’t an issue for running a mail server. Moved to business class dsl, and Ameritech actually delegated rDNS to me for my /29. When I moved to Comcast business, they wouldn’t delegate the rDNS for the IPv4. They did create rDNS entries for me, and they did delegate the rDNS for the IPv6 block. Though the way they deal with the /56 IPv6 block means only the first /64 is useable for rDNS.
But, everything you list has been things I’ve needed to deal with over the years.
Thanks. Based on some of the other answers, particularly in https://sh.itjust.works/comment/12511, I know understand better.
I appreciate everyone helping to explain some pretty basic questions in such detail.
The person isn’t talking about automating being difficult for a hosted website. They’re talking about a third party system that doesn’t give you an easy way to automate, just a web gui for uploading a cert. For example, our WAP interface or our on-premise ERP don’t offer a way to automate. Sure, we could probably create code to automate it and run the risk it breaks after a vendor update. It’s easier to pay for a 12 month cert and do it manually.