Most people that know me well will know that I really don’t like the way Vodacom runs their firewalls for their 3G consumers. In fact, they’ve managed to make it onto my blog no less than 3 times now – and not once for anything they’ve done right. And now Cell C have decided to join the crowd of braindead arseholes who can’t run firewalls. I present to you the man-in-the-middle TCP connection reset. As it stands right now I can’t ssh. I can’t connect to my jabber server. I can’t even browse. At least, not using my Cell C internet connection.
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Archive for the ‘Networking’ Category
Cell C following in the footsteps of Vodacom?
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
Capped, Uncapped and Unmetered
Sunday, July 4th, 2010Recently we’ve seen an explosion of uncapped accounts entering the market. We’ve also seen that they are typically horribly slow in comparison to capped accounts – and if one goes and reads most of the acceptable use policies it becomes clear that they are in fact not uncapped, but rather, severely shaped capped accounts.
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The Great Wall of Vodacom – FAIL
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010Right, so Kevin (one of my staff) had the savvy to take a few tcpdump traces on both the client and the server side of a failed PPtP VPN connection over the weekend. The result? It seems the great firewall of Vodacom has yet again taken another victem. (more…)
FQDN – ala Fully Qualified Domain Name
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Right, so I conceptually know what this is, but how is it determined? What’s the impact?
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