an crafting
serious net policy.
This mailing list does not exist to discuss experiments in
alternative DNS, if you have not figured out how to surmount
the combined political and technical barriers required for
general purpose use of those alternative TLDs.
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arly fiber links having grown them up to
networks capable of today's traffic. And they'd
probably make a lot more topological and engineering
sense and run more smoothly, to bring it back to
an operational point here at the close ;-)
-george william herbert
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y available if they're
older than say 5 years? 3 years? Or are you
still making money off the archaic gathering dust
ones ... 8-) ]
1995 is not going back nearly far enough.
I'm talking about pre-CIX (remember that?).
Pre-NAPs. Pre-any-telcos-routing-IP.
Man, 1992-4 were busy years, though.
-george william herbert
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So... is mail not getting in/out from Nanog right now,
or is the fairly major fiber cut in San Jose not newsworthy
on the operational list anymore?
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geographically distinct
ring loops that turned out to be on that one cable
when the second cut took it down hard.
-george william herbert
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>How widespread *is* IPv6 adoption, anyhow?
It's easier convincing some people to have root canals
or elective brain surgery than to broach the subject of
their software gaining IPv6 compatibility.
It's really annoying. It shouldn't be this hard.
-george william herbert
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the net. Some for research
and some for hire for network monitoring.
I think what they do is much closer to
identifying true outages than your method.
-george william herbert
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Randy wrote:
>George William Herbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Looking at the routing tables you see failures. If a prefix
>> goes away completely and utterly, and is truly unreachable,
>> then anyone trying to see it is going to see an outage.
>
>not if a covering
spam thread response,
which is a relief.
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s will do
whatever we can to see that your registrar status is revoked.
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tional level of service, that instead of
being easy to deal with in moves, is designed to maximally
ensure safe handling of your important corporate identity.
I think this is a clear and wonderful business opportunity.
Just expect to pay more for it...
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I have a couple of companies I work with reporting 55 South Market
San Jose also lost AC power temporarily, but the generators are on
and stable at this time.
No word as to the cause from either of them.
-george william herbert
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Has someone reported the details to CERT yet?
Preferably someone who's got logs and such?
-george william herbert
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ndicated but not described.
I wasn't able to find a report on the web at the time, though.
I haven't gone back today and looked in more detail.
Phantom of the Backhoe?
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ith electrical capacity in terms of the interchange
grids having N+1 or N+M capacity, and having systems with enough
robustness and graceful failure modes, and having systems with
enough reserve generation capacity are all legitimate. A lot of
other people are looking at that now, too.
But you
out of will be difficult if not impossible.
IT IS VERY MUCH IN NETWORK OPERATORS
BEST INTEREST THAT THIS NOT HAPPEN.
Please take what measures are necessary to help
ensure that your customers are not intentionally
or neglegently DDOSing the BLs.
-george william herbert
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A 127.0.0.3
> *.*.*.* 1H IN A 127.0.0.4
>
>the result will be that only the top one will match:
I must hope and pray that nobody on NANOG would be foolish
enough to load narrative prose mailed to the list into their
BIND configurations ;-)
BGP, n
several new Windows security holes
were disclosed; and Jimmy Hoffa remains missing.
;-)
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ed (and, presumably, actual hostile
activity were there to be such).
-george william herbert
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ing from somewhere last week,
>though I don't recall where. Probably Wired or the WSJ. Verisign wants
>the revenue that all those typos are generating. It's just the next shot
>in the eyeball war.
This is sufficiently technically and business slimy that
I would null-route that IP, personally.
-george william herbert
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company to pull stunts of this nature
without appropriate warning and discussion.
-george william herbert
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g regarding Internet Domain Names.
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the
technical or policy levels.
So my opinion goes from being my two cents to a consensus;
and I will act in those external arenas based on what I see
as a sufficiently wide consensus...
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Finder for commercial gain, it might even qualify for
the higher penalties (1 yr first offense 2 yr each subsequent
offense). I wonder if 'offense' would map to 'domain' or
'individual email message' or what. Conceivably could be
very very bad news.
-george william herbert
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One soundbite which just came to me:
"What if the company which has the Yosemete restaraunt
consession put up a 300 foot rig and drilled for oil
behind the kitchen?"
-george william herbert
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there are several racks full of people
like me, even in the SF Bay area, but I would be willing
to bet that the answer is yes.
-george william herbert
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ho are someone at
1 Park ave, New York. I live in Oakland,
California.
Welcome to the new exciting world of Outlook.
This is why I use nmh as my mail user agent.
But it doesn't protect anyone else out there
from viruses impersonating me in this manner.
Or impersonating you, or anyone else...
-george william herbert
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They're not the first ISP to do that,
and won't be the last, but I don't do business
with (and often, blackhole) those that do.
-george william herbert
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Seth wrote:
>Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
>>
>> Just a heads up to anyone on list that PG&E has just sustained a large
>> outage in San Francisco that has caused a few hiccups (both network,
>> electrical, infrastructural, etc.) around the city.
>>
>> I've confirmed that both customers in 365 Main a
pment
setups and safety procedures.
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catch on fire in a datacenter. If I hadn't
been able to cut off the power locally, the EPO was the last
line of defense...
People I know have hit the EPO when sprinklers discharged in the
datacenter.
If you're lucky these won't happen to you. But that's not why
safety rules are put in place. Unluck happens.
-george william herbert
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-energize
a room in the clear presence of an electrical fire or major short.
Preventing the fire is better than putting it out.
Telco central offices are somewhat of an exception in many ways,
but just about anyone else should have a real live EPO.
-george william herbert
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here (Silli Valley) the firefighters I know are pretty aware
of the risks of electricity. They say that some of them have been
fried by UPSes.
And hazmat; we have the large containers of WMD-grade-toxic silicon fab
gases being shipped around.
-george william herbert
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ed on?
Santa Clara.
I was working right outside the evacuation radius.
Which exchange point was in the building? PB-NAP? CIX? I remember
we had a net-dark event associated, but not which one.
It was a bad day...
The lesson, as you point out, is that geographical redundancy
is sometimes necess
e same time.
Another one in the region, or evidence from any of the cuts that it
was not an accident, would start yellow lights flashing in my mind,
but we're not there yet.
-george william herbert
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l the recent cuts were littoral, near shore or shallow water.
Which is the historical pattern, by far. Cables do go bad and are
damaged in the dark depths of the abysmal plains, but by and large
damage is near shore, due to people or shallow water related natural
effects (waves, underwater land
to cleanly fix the cut... without warning anyone
who was running on their failover protected circuit that something
might be about to happen.
Major collaboration vendor outage root-caused to that one...
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