Brad Chapman of NBC Universal solicits advice to get Twitter depeered from the Internet

Is de-peering anything like what happened to this site a few months ago? Not the XenForo/Cloudflare thing, but the part that led to Null having to… I forget the term, but basically having to move himself closer to personal ISP status?
 
Is de-peering anything like what happened to this site a few months ago? Not the XenForo/Cloudflare thing, but the part that led to Null having to… I forget the term, but basically having to move himself closer to personal ISP status?
If you mean the Path shit, no, that was a completely different issue and I believe Null has been his own ISP for quite some time now.
 
Wonder if this is the same Bradley Chapman who posted as eaglebtc on Something Awful (back in the good old days) and was responsible for the Strong Digital Defence incident? Tl;dr - he made a post in the tech forum asking about some snapshots he'd found in a subdirectory on his PC, other posters tried to tell him it was probably malware but he kept insisting it couldn't possibly be as he was very careful online (even though his screenshots were showing things like Razor 1911 warez torrents) and another poster found he was running a service securing PCs and much pisstaking ensued.
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I think Null mentioned at some point that some Japanese ISP or backbone provider or whatever refuses to peer with him and so KF is difficult or impossible to access via clearnet in Japan.
I think the issue is NTT has blacklisted the 1776 Hosting ASN so he can't use them for peering or transit and a lot of DDoS mitigation providers and upstreams rely on NTT given that they're a tier 1.

If NTT is your only upstream I think it'll just route via somebody else to get to KF, which degrades performance a little and costs NTT money (lol) but doesn't affect your ability to access the site. iirc the main issue for Josh was that when NTT blacklisted him, he was relying on them for transit and was basically cutoff from the net until he could make alternative arrangements.
 
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Wonder if this is the same Bradley Chapman who posted as eaglebtc on Something Awful (back in the good old days) and was responsible for the Strong Digital Defence incident? Tl;dr - he made a post in the tech forum asking about some snapshots he'd found in a subdirectory on his PC, other posters tried to tell him it was probably malware but he kept insisting it couldn't possibly be as he was very careful online (even though his screenshots were showing things like Razor 1911 warez torrents) and another poster found he was running a service securing PCs and much pisstaking ensued.
SAclopedia entry
Original SA thread
eaglebtc Chapman's archived website
It seems you still need to create an SA account to bother seeing any of their content.
 
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I have thoughts that fall into 'don't correct an enemy when they are making a mistake' territory, so I will just say screw this dickhead.
 
Old thread, I know. The other day there was a post on Outages talking about the Starlink outage. This spawned some discussion on the Outages-Discussion list. And Brad went back onto his bullshit. I did a search for his name, and lo and behold, this thread popped up.
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I guess the saving grace is he kept it to -discussion and not the main list?
 
"Saving Grace" is not a phrase I would associate with Brad Chapman unless juxtaposed with the words "fell down an elevator shaft to his death".

Also, someone should remind him that list is for real sysadmins, not helldesk flunkies and mac-jizzmoppers.
 
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