[meteorite-list] MPOD 500-error Update

From: Bob Falls <bcmeteorites_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 18:10:04 -0700
Message-ID: <004b01ceebd6$92d51590$b87f40b0$_at_gmail.com>

Hi Paul and Anne,

Interesting that Anne would have the issue on Comcast; I am on Comcast and never had a problem. Anne is only 60 miles from me and is running an ipv6 address and I am on still on ipv4 both on the Comcast network.
You just never know with these providers!

>From what I read this will become a larger issue as the mix of ipv4 and ipv6 increases.

Also, very nice Henbury Paul and the Sikhote slice is also really nice Anne :-)

Best Regards,
Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Anne Black
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 4:52 PM
To: valparint at aol.com; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] MPOD 500-error Update

Excellent Explanation Paul!!
And it actually makes sense. Yes, the problem started right after I switched to Comcast (cable provider here).

You should go help Google, their explanation explained nothing at all.
And don't fire the idiot-programmer. Yet.

Thanks.


Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
IMPACTIKA at aol.com


-----Original Message-----
From: valparint <valparint at aol.com>
To: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wed, Nov 27, 2013 2:23 pm
Subject: [meteorite-list] MPOD 500-error Update


Hello List.

One of the causes of "500" errors when accessing the MPOD was IPv6 addresses.
What's that, you ask?

An IP address uniquely defines an Internet node, which is any piece of Data Communication Equipment (server, router, hub, etc.) or any piece of Data

Terminal Equipment (computer, printer, web cam, etc.) The original design of the Internet Protocol (IP) called for a 32-bit IP address, which allows for a bit over 4 billion addresses. That seemed like a lot back then but that is not the case now. So, the world is moving toward IPv6 addresses, which is a 128-bit quantity. That allows for 3.4 10^38 addresses, or 340 trillion trillion trillion using the 1 trillion = 1,000,000,000,000 definition. That should be sufficient for a while.

For certain technical reasons, not forseen by the idiot-programmer, the MPOD failed when it encountered an IPv6 address. That has been fixed.

Anne, when you switched to ComCast you suddenly started coming through with an
IPv6 address.

Either URL - www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpod.asp or
www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp
- ought to work now. However,

   YOU MAY NEED TO DO A REFRESH ON THE PAGE

One last thing. I apologize to Andreas Koppelt in particular and the list in general for using the term "bummer" in my previous post. Using slang on an international list is a poor practice that I try to avoid but I failed in this instance. "Bummer" is 1960s hippie slang for something bad. For example,

"Bummer, man! We're out of dope." It is not hard to see how the word could be interpreted as "one who is a bum", or some other unpleasant thing.

Cheers

Paul Swartz
IMCA 5204
MPOD Idiot-Programmer

p.s. Please, if anyone has problems connecting to the MPOD, let me know.
More
information is very helpful in finding software bugs.


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