Re: source for GIS-correlated fiber conduit data

2005-07-05 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Sam Crooks wrote: Can anyone point me in the direction of a source for fiber cable installations correlated to GIS data? You will probably have difficulty in getting this from your carriers of choice. Chances are, if they provide anything at all, it would be done under

Re: source for GIS-correlated fiber conduit data

2005-07-05 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Sam Crooks wrote: Can anyone point me in the direction of a source for fiber cable installations correlated to GIS data? You will probably have difficulty in getting this from

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-04 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, David Conrad wrote: If you can justify a /8, ARIN will allocate one to you (not that I speak for ARIN or anything, but that's how things work). Presumably Softbank BB justified the /8 APNIC allocated to them. I don't know about APNIC, but ARIN's rules are generally struc

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-04 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: I had said elsewhere this was unprecedented but was then pointed at 73.0.0.0/9, 73.128.0.0/10 which is Comcast assigned in April. I'm surprised none of these assignemtns have shown up on mailing lists.. I suspect this was done on the condition that

Re: After Hours Install of OC3

2005-08-12 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Greenhagen, Robin wrote: Does anyone else require HICAP loop installs to be after hours? What experiences have you had (good or bad) with getting the carriers to do their work during off-peak hours for a reasonable fee? We've done off-hours turnups before, at my previous

RE: Katrina could inundate New Orleans

2005-08-29 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Hannigan, Martin wrote: Some of this is on topic. Internet access is as important as the lights or water being on. Right, get out, but it'll be good to see reasonable updates on what's going on utilities wise down there when the weather shifts. I'm sure other infrastructu

Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World

2005-09-06 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Crist Clark wrote: AFAIK, it is still required, but my own experience has been that some do, some do only in preparation for their next IP space request (i.e. fall behind on swips, then to a big catch-up before approaching ARIN for more space), and some just don't. I hav

Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World

2005-09-06 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Steve Gibbard wrote: Sometimes, they've gone on to repeat the lack of documentation followed by a mad scramble a time or two, but the lesson generally gets learned eventually. Agreed. That sort of record-keeping seems to come over time as part of the evolution of an ISP

Re: 3 men die in weekend crashes

2005-09-07 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3 men die in weekend crashes While tragic, how is this even *remotely* on-topic for this list? jms

Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World

2005-09-07 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Edward Lewis wrote: Their rwhois seems to be terminally down. Can we reclaim 4/8 from them now? Who is "we?" IANA says it belongs to BBN (ARIN not mentioned): http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space 004/8 Dec 92 Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. 4/8 is most

Re: Address Space & ASN Allocation Process

2005-09-26 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Vicky Rode wrote: Just trying to get some clarity and direction regarding obtaining address space/ASN for my client. Is there a minimum address space (?) an entity would need to justify to go directly to RIR (ARIN in this case) as opposed to the upstream provider? Is /20 t

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-05 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Jeff Shultz wrote: Matthew Crocker wrote: While I realize that the "nuke survivable" thing is probably an old wives tale, it seems ridiculous that "the Internet" can't adjust by routing any packets that used to go directly from Cogent to Level 3 though some 3rd (and) 4t

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-05 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Todd Vierling wrote: On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Matthew Crocker wrote: This comes down to a little more than just "depeering" -- at least in the BGP sense. There's active route filtering going on as well if connectivity is dead; after all, I can bet the house that at least one of

Re: Requesting P.I. Space from ARIN - latest issues?

2005-10-11 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I meet the Multihoming requirement, which means I can get a block as small as a /22, which is about right for my needs. Are there still any concerns about networks (as Verio and Sprint have done in the past) filtering out longer prefixes, and if

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Todd Vierling wrote: That's the operators' view, but not the customer's. The customer wants redundancy. That's why SLAs exist. SLAs exist to provide a means of allowing a vendor to 'feel your pain' when you experience some type of a service outage. They generally do n

Re: Changing ASNs - Gotchas??

2005-10-28 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Flint Barber wrote: What are the real gotchas for changing ASNs that people have run into? There is a minor one in terms of route-registry timeliness, I can't update RADB until the change takes place and ISPs don't run their update scripts on my timetable. So I see

cable management systems

2005-04-01 Thread Justin M. Streiner
I've been tasked with evaluating cable management software systems for my employer. I work for a large university with 30-35,000 phones and roughly as many computers spread across 100+ buildings in 5 campuses, with substantial copper, coax, and fiber plants. That said, I'm much more interested

Re: Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo?

2005-04-14 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Anybody here *NOT* seen cases where the 2 fibers leave the building on opposite sides, go down different streets - and rejoin 2 miles down the way because there's only one convenient bridge/tunnel/etc over the river, or similar?) Sure, quite often in fa

Re: Qwest protests SBC-AT&T merger as harmful to competition

2005-04-19 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: One might wonder if Qwest is a little upset about being rebuffed by MCI in its efforts to merge the two companies. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11426726.htm Smells like sour grapes to me jms

Re: Qwest protests SBC-AT&T merger as harmful to competition

2005-04-19 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Alex Rubenstein wrote: That may be, but they are right. If Qwest would have won the bid, then it would be up to Verizon to cry foul - and rest assured they would. Funny how that works :-) Do you think anyone will benefit from Verizon+MCI? After this merger, the incumbent IL

Re: Reback SMS / DSL packet loss issue.

2005-05-18 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Stephen Fulton wrote: Occasionaly clients connected via ATM PVC's experience packet loss after reconnecting due to power loss. The line sync is fine, but packet loss of between 40 - 60% occurs. Only once I've used "clear sub " to disconnect the session does the packet loss

Re: Martin Hannigan

2006-01-25 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Joe Abley wrote: The NANOG list administrators can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] That is almost certainly a better place to send comments related to the AUP than the this list. (I would have kept this comment to private mail except that it seems possible that a public

Re: flow -> web

2006-02-03 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Randy Bush wrote: i have a few routers of various flavors spewing netflow data. currently i use flowtools, and get text reports via email. but they're s 20th century. what will accept flow data from the routers and give me a sexy web page or two showing the elephant app

Re: Welcome back, Ma Bell

2006-03-06 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Christian Kuhtz wrote: That being said, the 'new ATT' with all those assets will need to be integrated, and work efficiently. Turf battles will ensue. Tens of Integration, going on past experience, is highly unlikely. The last time I had any interaction with Worldcom r

Re: Strange network problem accessing Ebay and versiontracker websites

2006-05-03 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 3 May 2006, Shane Owens wrote: Can anyone give me any suggestions as to what routes to take to troubleshoot this? Logic tell me that is I have reach ability and one browser work but another doesn't it's a software problem with either the browser or the site, but being able to take the

multimode LC-LC fiber jumpers

2006-06-22 Thread Justin M. Streiner
If you know where I could lay my hands on a few (5 at most) 5 meter multimode duplex LC-LC jumpers in the Pittsburgh, PA area, please shoot me a note off-list. Thanks jms

Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today?

2006-06-23 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Jeff Shultz wrote: Thus explainith why CEOs should not be responsible for this. I wonder if their CIOs or other techies have ever tried to explain the concept of a "CERT" to them. Of course they have. Gives you minty fresh breath, right? jms

Re: "Virtual routers" from Cisco

2006-06-26 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, MARLON BORBA wrote: A friend of mine told me about a new "breed" of routers from Cisco which have two "virtual machines" over the same physical hardware -- sort of a VMWare or Xen host with guests. Does someone know about that, or had a practical experience with that ne

RE: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Christian Nielsen wrote: 20 - 30 years ago, Air Conditioning in a house was more of a luxury. For us, it was a Swamp Cooler. Most new houses today are built with AC and it is becoming standard practice to install them on older houses. So the load on the system will only get

RE: NNTP feed.

2006-09-05 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, John van Oppen wrote: we don't run one either... :) The last person I know who was running one, was in the proccess of killing it. I used to run one, but haven't, since about 2000 :) The provider i worked for at the time got out of the game and outsourced news because

RE: NNTP feed.

2006-09-05 Thread Justin M. Streiner
Sorry to reply to my own post, but after reading further into this thread, I saw that my estimation of "substantially higher than 350 GB/day" shows how long I've been out of the business of driving large news servers :) jms On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Justin M. Streiner wrote: On

Re: Router / Protocol Problem

2006-09-06 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Mike Walter wrote: I normally would not post to the group, but I am 100% stumped and have talked with peers with no luck. I have (2) Cisco 7204 Routers running BGP with 3 peers and HSRP. I am not doing anything special with BGP, pretty much a default config that has not ch

RE: Router / Protocol Problem

2006-09-06 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Mike Walter wrote: Thanks for everyone's great input. Here are answers to Justin's questions. #1 - 12.3.6a - 7204VXR (NPE400) 512MB - 200+ MB free #2 - 12.2.15T5 - cisco 7204VXR (NPE225) - 256MB (I have a NPE400 - 512MB I want to swap in) - 23MB Free (Issue?) Full Routes

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

2006-09-08 Thread Justin M. Streiner
The complaint was, at best, an entertaining read. IANAL. As was mentioned earlier, it looks like Kremen's whole case is built on a number of false assumptions: 1. Netblocks are the property of the organization once their assignment request is approved by ARIN or other RIR. Since this is f

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

2006-09-11 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Chris Jester wrote: IP addresses appear to be property - - read http://news.findlaw.com/ hdocs/docs/cyberlaw/kremencohen72503opn.pdf. Given that domain names are property, IP addresses should be property, especially in California where are constitution states "All things o

RE: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-12 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that this nicely illustrates a major problem with the current system. Here we have large blocks of IP space that, by their own rules, ARIN should take back. It all sounds nice on paper, but clearly there is a hole in the system wher

Re: San Francisco Power Outage

2007-07-24 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: (I remember two guys with VERY LONG screwdrivers poking a live transfer switch to get it to reset properly, and was told to step back 20 feet as thats how far they expected to get thrown if they did something wrong). (I also remember them resetting

Re: Cogent latency / congestion

2007-08-20 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Deepak Jain wrote: Sounds like a DHS/FBI investigation will be starting soon. Eesh.. if we start having to secure 500,000 route miles of fiber routes against sabotage, um... well, I guess I'll have to become a fiber installation contractor. :) That and carriers will ha

Re: Market for diversity (was: Re: Cogent latency / congestion)

2007-08-25 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Andy Davidson wrote: Is it not possible to require that each of your suppliers provide over a specified path ? I'm planning a build-out that will require a diverse path between two points, and one supplier has named two routes, and promised that they wont change for the

Re: "2M today, 10M with no change in technology"? An informal survey.

2007-08-27 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Chris L. Morrow wrote: And the 7600 is a router? :) I thought it was just a 6500 that sommeone got drunk and tipped over on it's side, like a cow... I still needle my Cisco rep about that from time to time. IMHO, the 6500/7600 split was one of the dumbest, most poorly

Re: shameful-cabling gallery of infamy - does anybody know where it went?

2007-09-06 Thread Justin M. Streiner
Note that telcos are not immune to shoddy cabling/installation work. The link below is from a dial/T1 POP at I place I worked in several years ago. In case the detail is hard to make out, the paper sign taped to the ladder says "DO NOT MOVE LADDER". The background is that Bell Atlantic mou

Re: shameful-cabling gallery of infamy - does anybody know where it went?

2007-09-10 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Warren Kumari wrote: One of the places where I worked had a bunch of networking gear and around 12x1U servers all squeezed into a shower stall There was a cardboard sign hanging from the faucet saying "WARNING!!! Do not turn on" Not too far from the dial POP I mentio

Re: Good Stuff [was] Re: shameful-cabling gallery of infamy - does anybody know where it went?

2007-09-11 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Scott Weeks wrote: It was brought to my attention that some of the folks here may not have ever seen good wiring, so I snapped a few photos of good wiring here and wrote a quickie web page for the photos. I couldn't get pictures of Ethernet wiring, but it's the same. Ex

Re: Good Stuff [was] Re: shameful-cabling gallery of infamy - does anybody know

2007-09-12 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, David Lesher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: If you find any pictures of NY.NET; Terry Kennedy made the above look sloppy. Many places ban cable ties due to the sharp ends; I believe the pictures in question are here: http://www.tmk.com/p

Re: Bee attack, fiber cut, 7-hour outage

2007-09-21 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Deepak Jain wrote: Is this a 7 hour outage a comment on rural Central Texas availability of fiber splicers or novel ways fiber gets cut? Anytime you talk about "rural" I'm impressed with 7 hours, however -- isn't SONET supposed to make this better? Sure, if: 1. the pro

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

2007-10-04 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Hex Star wrote: Why is it that the US has ISP's with either no quotas or obscenely high ones while countries like Australia have ISP's with ~12gb quotas? Is there some kind of added cost running a non US ISP? Depending upon the country you're in, that is a possibility. So

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

2007-10-08 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Andy Johnson wrote: In my experience, the support cost of DSL is significantly cheaper than dial-up in terms of helpdesk calls. DSL/Cable/FiOS is typically a plug and play, where as dialup can be quite a bit more troublesome, involving more tech time in the long run. I occ

Re: How Not to Multihome

2007-10-08 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a client that wants us to advertise an IP block assigned by another ISP. I know that the best practice is to have them request an AS number from ARIN and peer with us, etc. However, I cannot find any information that states as law. Does any

Re: How Not to Multihome

2007-10-08 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That brings up an interesing point. My biggest fear was that one of my other customers could possible be closer to me that the ISP that provides the primary link and it would cause them to favor the backup link because of AS path. I think they are

Re: How Not to Multihome

2007-10-08 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: It's not 'law' per se, but having the customer originate their own announcements is definitely the Right Way to go. That is not at all guaranteed. I never said it was. My experience, both in my previous life as the operator of a regional ISP a

Re: How Not to Multihome

2007-10-08 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please elaborate. My knowledge of IPv6 is admittedly lacking, but I always assumed that the routing tables would be much larger if the internet were to convert from IPv4 due to the sheer number of networks available. Not many networks are pushing

Re: Upstreams blocking /24s? (was Re: How Not to Multihome)

2007-10-08 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, David Conrad wrote: Others have indicated that such filters (assuming they exist) will not last in the face of paying customers presenting longer than /24 prefixes for routing. Specifically, that ISPs will relax their filters (allowing longer than /24) in order to get the

Re: Upstreams blocking /24s? (was Re: How Not to Multihome)

2007-10-08 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Jon Lewis wrote: adopted /24 as the cutoff point. If you make the cutoff point smaller, what is the new point... /26? /32? Anything longer than /24 is unlikely to propogate far on the internet. You can all check your filters to see. I just checked mine, and neither L

Re: How Not to Multihome

2007-10-08 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: If you went ahead and did this, the more specific route being announced by you on behalf of your customer would be more likely to attract traffic back to you. Prefix length is checked in the BGP route selection process before AS path length. Thi

Re: How Not to Multihome

2007-10-09 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Justin, if Provider A _has_ permission from Provider B to announce a prefix, do you believe Provider A should be allowed to announce the prefix? As long as all of the relevant parties know about it and are OK with it, that's fine. It's just not

Re: OT: Visio or Autocad

2007-10-10 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Stephen Fulton wrote: A good friend of mine swears that Autocad is superior for network design to Visio. I don't disagree, but only because I have never used Autocad for network design. So far Visio has generally met my needs when I'm working on a design, but I have fou

Re: Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years

2007-10-12 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Chris Owen wrote: You can't consider every wacko on the net when doing something like this. Anyone who considers a ping an attack probably isn't worth worrying about. I tend to agree, but back when I manned the abuse desk (among others) at my former employer, I would see

Re: Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years

2007-10-12 Thread Justin M. Streiner
emails, rather than just relying on the boilerplate reports many of the packages above commonly send out. I felt honored :) jms Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Chris Owen wrote: You can't consider every wacko on the net when doing something like this. Anyone who consid

Re: Returned mail: 17 Delivery failures on Tue, 06 Nov 2007

2007-11-07 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Trent Lloyd wrote: Yeh I get these as well. I know the list admins and people from Merit are looking into why this is happening, so we'll see what they come up with. At this point it's probably not necessary for other folks to post "me-too"s to the list. jms On 07/1

Re: General question on rfc1918

2007-11-13 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Drew Weaver wrote: Hi there, I just had a real quick question. I hope this is found to be on topic. Is it to be expected to see rfc1918 src'd packets coming from transit carriers? I would recommend grilling your carriers to find out why they're not dropping packets s

Re: IEEE 40GE & 100GE

2007-12-12 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: A practical question here: does anyone know offhand if 4km reach is adequate for interbuilding access (i.e., DC[124] to DC3) access at Equinix Ashburn, including worst-case interior wiring and cross connects? I'm thinking that's cutting it close.

Re: DreamHost Contact?

2007-12-31 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Leigh Porter wrote: Stasiniewicz, Adam wrote: I am 99.9% sure that after successfully hosting websites for Al-Qaeda for over 3 years (on US based servers, by US citizens, living in the US) they are not going to care much about some SSH port scan. Isn't this what you fol

Re: Blackholing traffic by ASN

2008-01-30 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Justin Shore wrote: I'm sure all of us have parts of the Internet that we block for one reason or another. I have existing methods for null routing traffic from annoying hosts and subnets on our border routers today (I'm still working on a network blackhole). However I'

Re: what the cause?

2008-02-19 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Frank wrote: all the AS numbers are the same Are you running this trace from a BGP speaking router on your network? I'm also going to guess you're not taking full BGP routes from your upstreams? What exactly do you think is broken? As for the dropped traceroute probe

Re: Customer-facing ACLs

2008-03-07 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Justin Shore wrote: Do you block any customer-facing egress traffic at all? What about ingress? SMTP, NetBIOS, MS-SQL, common proxy ports (3128, 6588)? What ICMP types do you allow or disallow? In my previous life, I worked at a mid-sized ISP. A common practice for br

Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-12 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote: A friend of mine who works for a company that owns another company that sells consumer CPE said "Well, this is a volume business. Why release a feature that isn't being demanded much yet, when we could do it later and sell you ANOTHER CPE to rep

Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, David Conrad wrote: There are already things like http://ipv6.google.com/, True, since yesterday. However, while I applaud their efforts, Google is still primarily a search engine. How much of the content Google serves up is accessible via IPv6? I might suggest reviewi

Re: mtu mis-match

2008-03-19 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, ann kok wrote: I have this problem about mtu mismatch Some DSL clients, some are working fine. (browsing...ping ...) Some DSL clients have this problem they can't browse the sites. they can ssh the host but couldn't run the command in the shell prompt ping packet are work

RE: rack power question

2008-03-24 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Frank Bulk - iNAME wrote: So perhaps the question isn't so much how many kW's I can pack into a 42U rack, but for the data center designer, what's the best price point if real estate is not a significant issue. Or to say it another way, what kW density per rack will give m

Re: Google contact?

2008-04-17 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Joel Jaeggli wrote: they have ~6% of the employees of the employees of say verizon and slightly less than the 123 years of cruft that the later has. Verizon is one company in name only. There are so many groups and business units, all with their own inbound numbers and

Re: Watch your replies (was Kremen....)

2006-09-13 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's insulting when you trim the message to a shorter statement that you are responding to. The other 18 lines may not have been important to this particular response but they were not content free. If your content was in any way, interesting, th

Re: [c-nsp] [Re: huge amount of weird traffic on poin-to-point ethernet link]

2006-11-09 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Adrian Chadd wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2006, Robert Boyle wrote: You should also create a bogons list for your BGP routes which you accept from your upstream. Block all RFC1918 space and unassigned public addresses too. Just keep on top of it when new allocations are put into

RE: [c-nsp] [Re: huge amount of weird traffic on poin-to-point ethernet link]

2006-11-09 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Donald Stahl wrote: Sorry I have to agree with Steve as well. I know I've left networks with Bogon lists in place and then gotten calls a year or more later asking why traffic can't isn't coming in from XYZ new client. Turns out the new admin never updated the bogon list.

Re: GBLX issues?

2006-12-13 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, J. Oquendo wrote: Anyone seeing issues for GBLX around NY? Do you have traceroutes or other useful data to illustrate said broken-ness? jms

Re: on a different "manners" topic, was Re: Phishing...

2007-01-03 Thread Justin M. Streiner
This little piece will be top-posted, but everthing else will be inline. I'm also going to trim the pieces that I won't be responding to *gasp*! Please don't shoot me - comments are inline ;-) On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Edward Lewis wrote: I'm not going to pick on the "it's" (grammatically correct,

RE: http://cisco.com 403 Forbidden

2007-01-03 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Scott Morris wrote: Works fine for me. And a 403 Forbidden is a web server error, not a resolution error if I remember right. Correct. Someone made a boo-boo on some component of www.cisco.com, i.e. changed a chunk of the web server configuration or broke the permission

Re: Routing Loop Strangeness

2007-01-04 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Nachman Yaakov Ziskind wrote: 25 11.11.11.2 44 msec 26 11.11.11.1 48 msec 27 11.11.11.2 48 msec 28 11.11.11.1 48 msec Yep. Way cool. Unfortunately it's not the first time that: 1) someone with enable screwed up a routing design or did something dumb like dueling static

Re: How big a network is routed these days?

2007-01-17 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, John Smith wrote: my organization is considering PI addresses as a way to multihost. Having read the archives regarding disadvantages and alternatives, my question is how big a network must one have to be reasonably sure the BGP routers will accept the route? A /24 is the

Re: Undersea fiber cut after Taiwan earthquake - PCCW / Singtel / KT e tc connectivity disrupted

2007-01-21 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Aaron Glenn wrote: Just the other night I was trolling marketing materials for various lit services from a number of providers and I ran across what I found to be an interesting PDF from the ol' SBC (can't find it at the moment). It was a government services product briefin

Re: single homed public-peer bandwidth ... pricing survey ?

2007-03-06 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Jason Arnaute wrote: Yes, that's what I am saying - one pipe only, and if it goes down, I go down. Ok, so it sounds like they're doing MPLS or some sort of policy routing to force your traffic out one of their transit providers. I've seen other providers do this. Is th

Re: NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT)

2007-03-14 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Todd Christell wrote: Sorry if this is OT but we are having a discussion with our HR department. We are in the process of getting a 24 X 7 NOC in place and HR has a problem with calling them NOC Specialist. What is the generally accepted title? Not sure why your HR dept

Re: NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT)

2007-03-14 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Simon Lyall wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Justin M. Streiner wrote: Not sure why your HR dept would even care :) So they can look them up on a pay scale list and decide what they should be paid. In pretty much every place I've worked, the pay scale was set b

RE: NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT)

2007-03-15 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: - Technical Support Representative - Network Administrator - Senior Network Administrator Or, you could just call them all "booger eaters" and be done with it. "Booger Eater (I/II/III/IV) just doesn't look good on a business card :) "N

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

2007-03-16 Thread Justin M. Streiner
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 area where multi-homing was not possible, then that organizati

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

2007-03-17 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Brandon Galbraith wrote: True :) I'd also think (read: hope) if an organization was located in an area where multi-homing was not possible, then that organization and its customers would not be doing things that are mission critical, i.e. business stops if there is no

AT&T (7018) BGP clue sought

2007-04-05 Thread Justin M. Streiner
I'm trying to track down someone at AT&T that can answer questions about their implementation of BGP communities - questions that are not answered in their BGP policy document. Conversations with first and second line support people have not been productive. Any help that someone in a netwo

RE: HSRP availability in datacenters?

2007-05-11 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Randal Kohutek wrote: I agree, 6500s or 4500s for distribution are where it's at ... Unfortunately they cost a lot. Which is why the suits are considering financing them by charging for the features they provide. One way I've seen providers address is this to have two dif

Re: RTT from NY to New Delhi?

2007-05-16 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Joe Maimon wrote: What should I expect? I am seeing ~350 from a vendor provided mpls cloud to a site in Sukhrali Chowk, Gurgaon, Haryana, India Where are you running your tests from? USA (east or west coast)? Europe? Elsewhere in Asia? jms

Re: RTT from NY to New Delhi?

2007-05-16 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Joe Maimon wrote: What should I expect? I am seeing ~350 from a vendor provided mpls cloud to a site in Sukhrali Chowk, Gurgaon, Haryana, India Disregard my previous post. I completely overlooked the subject that said "NY to New Delhi" *smacks forehead*. Rule 1: Don't

Re: recommendations for Cisco repair?

2007-05-18 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Carl Alexander wrote: I've searched the archives, and am somewhat surprised to find no discussion of this: Does anyone have a recommendation for cisco repair/refurbishing? (Background for any who care: We had a power supply die on a 7206VXR; a junior admin went to swap i

RE: Thoughts on best practice for naming router infrastructure in DNS

2007-06-29 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Neil J. McRae wrote: I remember in the past an excellent system using Sesame Street characters names. I've done things like this, but I confine it to my workstations. My network devices and production systems follow a pretty straightforward naming system. Workstation