Icecast - Dec 2014 - Looking for company behind serverhostingcenter.com and directhostingcenter.com for causing problems on dir.xiph.org

On 12/29/2014 02:04 PM, Geoff Shang wrote:
> Have you tried doing a whois on the *IP address* and contacting the 
> hosting company (assuming it's not one of the above)?
The IP range I checked belonged to some big data center company. I don't
remember if I tried to reach them too, probably did.
I haven't heard back from any of those.

I've probably spent several days worth of work on tracking down various
problematic Icecast instances and don't feel like wasting more time on
sending emails to addresses like "public.whois.lookup.emaill.address@"
(actual local part on whois email!).

I sent this email to the list in the hope someone would actually know
the company.
I know how to use whois for networks and domains, but I'm not willing to
waste *more* time on that. The directory is a free service and it's my
time that goes into maintaining it and I'm not willing to pour more time
into finding some hoster who thinks playing hide and seek is cool. If
someone wants to pay me to play internet detective, contact me off list.

Cheers

Thomas

On Mon, 29 Dec 2014, "Thomas B. R?cker" wrote:
> I've probably spent several days worth of work on tracking down various
> problematic Icecast instances and don't feel like wasting more time on
> sending emails to addresses like
"public.whois.lookup.emaill.address@"
> (actual local part on whois email!).
Fair enough!  If I were you, having made a good-faith effort to reach a 
human being with no luck, I'd pull the plug on them.   Either they will 
squeal, in which case you'll have found the human you've been looking
for,
or they won't care.

Geoff.

Hello Thomas,

Le 29/12/2014 15:25, "Thomas B. R?cker" a ?crit
:
> The directory is a free service and it's my
> time that goes into maintaining it and I'm not willing to pour more
time
> into finding some hoster who thinks playing hide and seek is cool.
This is slightly off-topic, but do you plan on hosting the directory on
volunteer mirrors as well ? (maybe you already do that).
We might have some spare bandwidth somewhere, maybe not enough, though.

    Hoggins!

On 12/29/2014 02:39 PM, Hoggins! wrote:
> Hello Thomas,
>
> Le 29/12/2014 15:25, "Thomas B. R?cker" a ?crit :
>> The directory is a free service and it's my
>> time that goes into maintaining it and I'm not willing to pour more
time
>> into finding some hoster who thinks playing hide and seek is cool.
> This is slightly off-topic, but do you plan on hosting the directory on
> volunteer mirrors as well ? (maybe you already do that).
> We might have some spare bandwidth somewhere, maybe not enough, though.
The directory runs quite well on Xiph.org hardware at OSUOSL at the moment.
Despite being bombarded with 50-100 yp listings and metadata updates per
second. I haven't looked at the bandwidth in a while, but serving yp.xml
(mostly the incompetent VLC implementation refusing to use compression)
cause about 5-10MBit/s egress 24/7

Despite being well designed and having served us quite well, the code
base has started to smell though and we're quite far into a rewrite.
For the curious http://dir-test.xiph.org/ (may be up or down at random
times)
The web interface styling will come last, so don't be discouraged by the
bare looks.

If someone wants to give the directory some load, feel free to add it to
your Icecast config. We could use some base load:
http://dir-test.xiph.org/cgi-bin/yp-cgi

Cheers

Thomas