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It's official.

It's the Comcast. From slashdot,

Analysis of the PCAP packet dumps reveals several injected fake RSTs, which are very similar to the ones seen coming from the Great Firewall of China.

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Why Comcast hates me? Or is it Goolge? Or level3?

For weeks now, my Comcast High Speed Internet is having intermittent problem connecting to Google.com. When I typed google.com in address bar, I get

The connection was reset
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.

• The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
• If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection.
• If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

First I thought it was Comcast DNS. When I tried opendns.com's DNS, Google works fine. But if the Comcast DNS was down, I should have got "Server not found" error, not "The connection was reset". Also I shouldn't able to ping google.com.

For hours of searching on the web for an answer, I got

• groups.google.com - Connection Reset on Upload Attempt
• groups.google.com - I can't access Google search
• groups.google.com - Why is google search constantly going down suddenly?
• dslreports.com - Problems loading google (DNS issues possibly?)
• digg - Google.com Giving a 301 (Permanently moved) from DEN Comcast connection
• digg - Comcast now blocking Google?
• And many more ...

So the answers I got: Comcast DNS is down, Comcast is actively blocking Google, Comcast's Sandvine is sending forged TCP reset packet, Level3 is down, Google registration is messed up, Google internal routing table is messed up.

I just hope that the Comcast is not blocking me for my heavy Internet uses (about 1-2GB per day).

Google Image Labeler

Link via boingboing

Also check out this video. This Google TechTalks goes over how to use humans to do things that computer currently cannot do.

Hard drive failure report by Google

Google's paper on hard dirve failure. A lots of charts.

Our analysis identifies server parameters from the drive's self monitoring facility (SMART) that correlate highly with failures. Despite this high correlation, we conclude that models based on SMART parameters alone are unlikely to be useful for predicting individual drive failures. Surprisingly, we found that temperature and activity levels were much less correlated with drive failures than previously reported.

Link to pdf. Via slashdot.org

Google Search Result

Never seen this before.

"This site may harm your computer