Re: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread Brandon Galbraith
net, unless you're paying for something other thanADSL or Cable, will be just as affected by local power outages.-- Brandon Galbraith Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: brandong00Voice: 630.400.6992"A true pirate starts drinking before the sun hits the yard-arm. Ya. --thelost"

Re: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-25 Thread Brandon Galbraith
My assumption is that it means "it isn't going to keep things cold, but it will keep the air flowing to prevent a 'server sauna'".-brandonOn 7/25/06, Sam Stickland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Original Message-> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of> Sean Donelan

Re: Amazon?

2006-08-21 Thread Brandon Galbraith
Intermittent application/load balancer issues perhaps?-brandonOn 8/21/06, Steven M. Bellovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:21:40 -0400, "Jon R. Kibler" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:> Hi,>> Anyone know what is up with Amazon? They appear to be down.>> Doesn't appear to be a network

Re: comast email issues, who else has them?

2006-09-01 Thread Brandon Galbraith
m, postfix: http://enemieslist.com/rambling, amusements, edifications and suchlike: http://interrupt-driven.com/-- Brandon Galbraith Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: brandong00Voice: 630.400.6992"A true pirate starts drinking before the sun hits the yard-arm. Ya. --thelost"

Re: [Fwd: Kremen VS Arin Antitrust Lawsuit - Anyone have feedback?]

2006-09-08 Thread Brandon Galbraith
Two questions regarding thisfor the list (slightly OT):1) Has any sort of IP address ownership precedence been set in a US court?2) Isn't ARIN considered a non-profit resource management/allocation organization? To my knowledge, there is no "marketplace" for IPs. Thanks!-brandonOn 9/8/06, Chris Jes

Re: [Fwd: Kremen VS Arin Antitrust Lawsuit - Anyone have feedback?]

2006-09-08 Thread Brandon Galbraith
Hopefully ARIN can recover their legal fees, so cash from members can be spent on IP space management.-brandonOn 9/8/06, Matt Ghali < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Gordon Cook wrote:> This is Gary  Kremen owner of SEX dot com. >> cohen stole sex.com from kremen and kremen sued and go

Re: [routing-wg]BGP Update Report

2006-09-09 Thread Brandon Galbraith
Was it merely not enough customers? or were there other issues? inquiring minds is all =)-brandonOn 9/9/06, Michael Painter < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:From their webpage:Service AdvisoryOn Aug. 17, 2006, the Boeing Company announced that a detailed business and market analysis of Connexion by Boein

Global Crossing issues?

2006-09-11 Thread Brandon Galbraith
Is anyone seeing any problems when their traffic is hitting Global Crossing in the Midwest? I have equipment at several different carrier-neutral POPs, and any traffic going through gblx.net is having horrible latency or getting dropped entirely. Thanks,-brandon-- Brandon GalbraithEmail: [EMAIL PRO

Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox

2007-07-24 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 7/24/07, Chris L. Morrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Mattias Ahnberg wrote: > But it certainly would not hurt if there was a good way to report > drones to ISPs and actually get some attention to the problem. A > bunch of small streams quickly build up to a larger rive

Re: San Francisco Power Outage

2007-07-24 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 7/24/07, Seth Mattinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a question: does anyone seriously accept "oh, power trouble" as a reason your servers went offline? Where's the generators? UPS? Testing said combination of UPS and generators? What if it was important? I honestly find it hard to belie

Cogent issues in Chicago?

2007-07-26 Thread Brandon Galbraith
Anyone experiencing issues with their Cogent connectivity right now? -brandon

Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's?

2007-07-25 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 7/25/07, Leo Bicknell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The more "urban" an area the more likely it is to have strict fire codes. If they can be avoided, why do we put up with them? Do we really want our colo in downtown San Francisco bad enough to take the risk of having a single point of f

Re: Question on Loosely Synchronized Router Clocks

2007-09-20 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 9/20/07, James R. Cutler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kerberos does not assume clock synchronization. > Kerberos requires reasonable clock synchronization. > And, as near as I can tell, clock synchronization is not part of the > Kerberos protocol. > > Kick me if I err in this. > > Cut

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-12 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 10/12/07, Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > > > > If it's multicast TV I don't see the problem, it doesn't increase your > > backbone traffic linearly with the number of people doing it. > > However if you have UK-style ADSL ppp backhaul

Re: 240/4

2007-10-18 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 10/18/07, Alain Durand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/18/07 12:53 PM, "Jon Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I could see bits of 240/4 perhaps being of use to large cable companies > > for whom there just isn't enough 1918 space to address all their CPE > > gear...and/or they really

Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?

2007-10-21 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 10/21/07, Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Simon Lyall wrote: > > So stop whinging about how bitorrent broke your happy Internet, Stop > > putting in traffic shaping boxes that break TCP and then complaining > > that p2p programmes don't follow the specs and adj

Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?

2007-10-23 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 10/23/07, Joe Provo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:18:01PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > > > On 22-okt-2007, at 18:12, Sean Donelan wrote: > > > > The problem here is that they seem to be using a sledge hammer: > > BitTorrent is essentially left dead in the

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 1/15/08, Adrian Chadd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ffs, stop with the crappy analogies. > > The internet is like a badly designed commodity network. Built > increasingly > cheaper to deal with market pressures and unable to shift quickly to > shifting > technologies. > > Just like the telcos

Re: request for help w/ ATT and terminology

2008-01-17 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 1/17/08, Joe Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wow, as far as I can tell, you've pretty much condemned most firewall > software and devices then, because I'm really not aware of any serious > ones that will successfully implement rules such as "allow from > 123.45.67.0/24" via DNS. Besides

Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial

2008-01-18 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On Jan 18, 2008 2:53 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IOW: Usage-based billing makes sense commercially, whether you are a > propeller-head or a bell-head. > > And since Internet providers tend to be for-profit businesses, doing > what "makes sense commercially" is kinda requi

Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

2008-02-04 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 2/4/08, Kee Hinckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If you know that someone wants to cut your cables. What defense do > you have? Is there any practical way to monitor and protect an > oceanic cable? Are there ways to build them that would make them less > discoverable? Some way to provid

Re: Zimbabwe satellite service shutdown for non-payment

2006-09-19 Thread Brandon Galbraith
Does any fiber run into Zimbabwe? Or is everything via satellite? There has to be a remaining uplink (albeit low-capacity) if nameservers within the country are still accessible.-brandon On 9/19/06, Peter Dambier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gadi Evron wrote:> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Sean Donelan wrote:

Re: Google Outage Yesterday

2006-09-27 Thread Brandon Galbraith
Reports were saying it was a DNS issue, as putting the IP address in to get to Gmail as well as other Google services would work without incident.-brandonOn 9/27/06, Elijah Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/2006/09/27/#001985 I have not seen this show up on the

Re: Extreme Slowness

2006-10-26 Thread Brandon Galbraith
Can you be more specific?-brandonOn 10/26/06, Elijah Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Looks like level3 is having issues. Anyone know what is going on? -- Elijah Savage               |  AOL IM:layer3rules  Senior Network Enginee

Re: Collocation Access

2006-12-28 Thread Brandon Galbraith
ir payment clears. Security by poverty? Very true. If you have an application that requires a high level of security, in a perfect world you'd have the budget to put it in your own facility where you control physical access, not outsourced security from a colo vendor. -- Brandon Ga

Re: Google wants to be your Internet

2007-01-23 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 1/22/07, Daniel Golding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One interesting point - they plan to use Broadband over Power Line (BPL) technology to do this. Meter monitoring is the killer app for BPL, which can then also be used for home broadband, Meter reading is one of the top costs and trickiest p

Re: Google wants to be your Internet

2007-01-23 Thread Brandon Galbraith
Why is IP required, and even if you used IP for transport why must the meter identification be based on an IP address? If meters only report information, they don't need a unique transport address and could put the meter identifier in the application data. Even if the intent is to include addit

Re: Colocation in the US.

2007-01-24 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 1/24/07, Mike Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think if someone finds a workable non-conductive cooling fluid that would probably be the best thing. I fear the first time someone is working near their power outlets and water starts squirting, flooding and electricuting everyone and everythin

Re: Colocation in the US.

2007-01-24 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 1/24/07, Deepak Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Speaking as the operator of at least one datacenter that was originally built to water cool mainframes... Water is not hard to deal with, but it has its own discipline, especially when you are dealing with lots of it (flow rates, algicide, etc

Re: Google wants to be your Internet

2007-01-29 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 1/29/07, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Joseph S D Yao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-30 01:59]: > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 01:48:04PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > > IPv6 makes NAT obsolete because IPv6 firewalls can provide all > > the useful features of IPv4 NAT with

Huricane Electric having problems in Chicago?

2007-02-27 Thread Brandon Galbraith
Anyone having problems with Hurricane Electric in Chicago? I'm seeing all my packets through them dropped at gsr12012.chi.he.net [ 206.223.138.5]. Just wanted to see if I'm the only one. We're utilizing Hurricane Electric via the Equinix Direct service. -brandon

Re: FCC on wifi at hotel

2007-02-28 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 2/28/07, Steve Meuse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/28/07, Jared Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-06-157A1.pdf > > I do suggest reading this. They can not legally bar you from > using the devices. They can charge you o

Re: FCC on wifi at hotel

2007-02-28 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 2/28/07, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brandon Galbraith wrote: > On 2/28/07, *Steve Meuse* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > > > On 2/28/07, *Jared Mauch* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: SaidCom disconnected by Level 3 (former Telcove property)

2007-03-14 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 3/14/07, david raistrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I heard from a few folks working for TelCove that they were under order to do whatever it took to disconnect customers under certian levels in my local area (not philly). Related? Dunno. Level3 recently stiffed us on a colo contract thoug

Re: SaidCom disconnected by Level 3 (former Telcove property)

2007-03-16 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 3/16/07, Justin M. Streiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Joe Abley wrote: >> Almost ALL? > > Surely all those except those who are competing with you for the same > customers should multi-home. :-) True :) I'd also think (read: hope) if an organization was located in an

Re: Cingular Data Network Problems

2007-04-26 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 4/27/07, andrew matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I live in Los Angeles, and I'm experiencing very odd connect problems. I have both a Cingular Laptop connect card, and a Cingular 8525. Mostly i'm on edge, sometimes 3g/hsdpa. From anywhere in the world i can ping 66.102.136.161 except on

Re: Open WiFi Access Point BCP's???

2007-04-27 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 4/27/07, MARLON BORBA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you want to follow just one rule, it's this:- Instruct your users to never (I mean NEVER) use applications which run over unencrypted protocols. Security first. Abraços, Indeed. If you know ahead of time unencrypted 802.11(whatever) i

Re: ISP CALEA compliance

2007-05-10 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 5/10/07, Chris L. Morrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jon, there is no way this fellow is serious, nor is there anyway this fellow's advice should be taken without some serious legal discussions with in-house counsel... the penalties for non-compliance for CALEA are very steep (100k/day while a

ATT <-> Broadwing (Level3) Congestion

2007-05-16 Thread Brandon Galbraith
Is anyone else seeing significant congestion between ATT and Broadwing in Dallas/Fort Worth? -brandon

Re: ATT <-> Broadwing (Level3) Congestion

2007-05-16 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 5/16/07, Brandon Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is anyone else seeing significant congestion between ATT and Broadwing in Dallas/Fort Worth? -brandon Thanks to all who responded privately as well as publicly. It looks like the problem has been resolved at the peering/transit

Level3/Broadwing Contact

2007-06-10 Thread Brandon Galbraith
Can a BGP-knowledgeable Broadwing/Level3 contact please contact me off-list? I've been told that no one on call is currently returning calls to the NOC. Thanks, -brandon

Re: Diesel storage (was:RE: 24x7 Support Strategies)

2007-06-14 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 6/14/07, chuck goolsbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The issue with straight vegetable oil is that it must be pre-heated to >55°C to efficiently run in a Diesel engine without risk of injector or injector pump clogging. This is not exactly efficient for fail-over power generation as you would

Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox

2007-07-22 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 7/22/07, Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Andrew Matthews wrote: > isn't there a law against hijacking dns? What can i do to persue this? DNS is just another application protocol that runs over IP. You don't have to use those DNS servers to resolve names. Agr