Re: csu /dsu

2002-03-21 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
"c johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what are the primary functions of a csu / dsu? http://www.tscnet.com/faq/internet/internetfaq006.html ---rob

Re: /31 mask address

2002-05-03 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Simon Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri May 03, 2002 at 10:30:05PM +0200, Andre Chapuis wrote: > > What IOS are you using /31s with ? > > Typically 12.0(x)S on GSR and VXR (where x is 10ish upwards) Not all 12.1(x)y does this properly, even if it was compiled over a year after that

Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?

2002-05-04 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Scott Granados <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No I think your message illustrates things pretty well. I guess the > fundimental differenc here is not only does it cost usually very little > to receive these messages it costs even less infact dramatically to send > spam. It seems there is no

Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?

2002-05-04 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It does not cost "very little" to recieve spam. > > It costs the end-user very little to recieve spam. I'll echo Paul's comments about the cost of my time. In my case, a half hour a day seems about right (compared to Paul's hour a day). I suspect you may have

Re: RADB & RRs

2002-05-16 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Ralph Doncaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been registering my routes in ARIN's RR, only to find that nobody > uses it. ;-( > Do any of the RRs mirrored by the RADB offer free maintainer-IDs? www.altdb.net / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] the usual drill.

Re: PASSIVE [D]WDM... Like, Cisco 15216.

2002-07-25 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Mikael Abrahamsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There should be quite a few manufacturers making units like these, I know > the MRV people does it as well (or some company within MRV). here's another: http://www.opticalaccess.com/products-ld.shtml Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with the co

Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?

2002-08-10 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Mikael Abrahamsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10 Aug 2002, Paul Vixie wrote: > > > why on god's earth would subsecond anything matter in a > > nonmilitary situation? > > It does when you start doing streaming anything, say TV or telephony. I I submit that it doesn't matter for voice or

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-07 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You are approaching the problem at the wrong end by asking "what's in > it for me to adopt IPv6 now". The real question is "is IPv6 > inevitable in the long run". Death is inevitable "in the long run", but "end it all today" is probably not the

Re: London incidents

2005-07-11 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There were lower levels of priority that you could also use, > but "flash" was the top one that I heard about. The four buttons on the "1633" row of an AUTOVON telephone are labeled P, I, F, and FO for Priority, Immediate, Flash, and Flash-Overri

Re: London incidents

2005-07-11 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
"Steven M. Bellovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Robert E.Seastrom" writes: >>Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> There were lower levels of priority that you could also use, >>> but "flash" was the top one that I heard about. >> >>The four butt

Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed

2005-07-18 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Already, some 21 TLDs are whitelisted, including .cn, .tw, a number >> of European ccTLDs, .museum, and .info. Any other registrars who >> want to be supported can simply E-mail Gerv at the Mozilla >> Foundation, or his Opera counterpart, and gi

NETGEAR in the core...

2005-07-30 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
OK, not really "in the core", but the subject made you look at least. :) I'm interested in people's experiences with consumer-grade routers functioning in non-NAT mode; that is to say, running PPPoE to the ISP and routing a /29 or a /28. A sane filtering language and stateful firewall that can

Re: Your router/switch may be less secure than you think

2005-08-03 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > We should all be looking to the security auditing work done by > the OpenBSD team for an example of how systems can be > cleaned up, fixed, and locked down if there is a will to do so. Beer, unsupported assertions, and lack of rigorous audit methodology can be blend

Re: Cisco crapaganda

2005-08-10 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> If not, once again, I'd ask you to cite sources rather >> than make broad sweeping statements about what is already available. >> Appealing to some anonymous authority in order to claim the sky is >> falling is hardly endearing. > > I think that people who special

Re: DSL Network Design Question

2005-08-14 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am going to be cutting over about 75,000 DSL lines from > one core network to another. Does anyone have > recommendations on subnet and DHCP scope size? If I make > them /23s I have to do about 145 subents. If I make them > /22s I only have

Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays

2005-08-21 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
David Hagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would there be any data out there on what fraction from this 60ms to > 80ms RTT is raw propagation delay and what fraction is typical packet > queuing delay at intermediate switches? Does queuing delay play much > of a role at all these days? Or is it al

Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays

2005-08-22 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
"Howard, W. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do carrier ISPs classify their voice traffic as Really > Important, and everybody else's data as Best Effort? This > isn't just selfishness, since We All Know voice is less > tolerant of latency and jitter than TCP. We do? Try to keep a single-

Re: level3.net in Chicago - high packet loss?!?

2005-09-06 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Network Fortius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anybody having any idea why such a high packet loss on lever3's > network, in Chicago? End-user misinterpreting output from MTR. This network does not appear to have any packet loss end-to-end. ---Rob > St

Re: While Bush fiddles, New Orleans dies

2005-09-07 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
"Stephen J. Wilcox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > wheres the ops in this? > > dont get me wrong, i'm sympathetic with new orleans and also > definitely not a bush supporter but this is verging on incitement > and i dont see the point of the post to here My guess: someone who doesn't like Paul

Re: 12/8 problems?

2005-09-09 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
"Israel, David B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, my practical solution to this one is max-prefixing your peers. > It means you have to watch your peers slow growth, but frankly, you > should be watching that anyway. Max-prefix is part of the battle. A corollary "max-aggregate" where

Re: CAT5 surge/lightning strike protection recommendations?

2005-09-14 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Todd Vierling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Seriously, though, that's exactly what you're describing, and about what I'd > suggest in a no-other-option scenario -- but if it's possible to pull fiber > through the conduits, it would probably be far less expensive long term, or > even medium term

Re: mail service with no mx (was - Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?)

2005-09-14 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Joseph S D Yao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dave, > > I think the mail gateways back when the various networks were being put > together into an internet had as their functional purpose unifying > disparate networks. On the contrary, a firewall has as its purpose > partitioning a network that

Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry

2005-09-17 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
"Marshall Eubanks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am I the only one who feels that an NDA, even an NDA with a vendor, is an > agreement that should be honored ? > > I know they are silly in many case, but still... We certainly wish for our vendors to honor *their* NDAs with us, don't we? RIRs

Re: PRIX - Puerto RIco Internet Exchange

2005-09-27 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Mikael Abrahamsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Randy Bush wrote: > >>> Would it be improper to suggest that you pick a different acronym? :-) >> >> yes it would be. >> >> everything in language A has a strange connotation in some other >> language B. e.g., my name is gre

Re: Weird DNS issues for domains

2005-09-29 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Matthew Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Everything looks like it is configured properly on my servers but the > customer is reporting that certain parents (VerizonDSL, Comcast, > DirectWAY) can connect to certain website and not others. At this > point I think the problem is with the DNS

Re: Weird DNS issues for domains

2005-09-29 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Matthew Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah, yeah, that is overrated. If my site goes dark and my DNS goes > down it doesn't really matter as the bandwidth and the web server > will also be down. Having a live DNS server in another part of the > country won't help if the access routers

Re: [Misc][Rant] Internet router (straying slightly OT)

2005-09-30 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Sabri Berisha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To get > an understanding of routing-protocols, begin with RIP[3] and perhaps > run your own RIP-lab necromancy will be severely punished. ---rob

Re: (de)peering

2005-10-06 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Pekka Savola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> er... the first depeering flaps have -already- occured in IPv6 >> space. there are several (mostly EU-based) ISPs that refuse to >> peer w/ folks using 3ffe:: space and/or filter that prefix

Re: Regulatory intervention

2005-10-07 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Daniel Golding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10/7/05 11:02 AM, "Ross Hosman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Google Goes to Washington >> >> One of the issues Google will tackle has become news >> this week: Level 3 and Cogent Communications are >> involved in a spat that has made Web si

Re: Level 3's side of the story

2005-10-08 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Kevin Loch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Richard A Steenbergen wrote: >> Certainly these are high-margin but low-bandwidth customers, maybe >> with enough complaints Cogent will be willing to stick them on a >> smaller seperate ASN which is willing to buy transit. > > Does anyone have reachabili

Re: Operational impact of depeering

2005-10-10 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
"Hannigan, Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > On Oct 6, 2005, at 10:34 AM, Peter R. wrote: >> > >> > On 10/1/05, Cogent's network (AS174 -- a very old network) >> > originated the equivalent of 1x /8 + 1x /9 -- that's 1.67% of the >> > "ends" that constitute the global end-to-end netw

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different

2005-10-18 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
>> Moore will likely have to continue to produce the solution. > > What happens if he can't? Silicon technology *is* topping out. What > happens to v6 if every single household and business on the planet > decides to multihome? I often wonder what would happen if IETF and NANOG were to collect

Re: Routers RAM and BGP table bloat

2005-10-21 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Nils Ketelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Butler wrote: > >> if anyone had a view on what would happen if I managed to source an >> SDRAM of 512MB / 1GB of the same specification as the 256MB Cisco >> compatible memory that you use in an 7200 NPE225. Cisco say the maximum >> ram for that

Re: classful routes redux

2005-11-03 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Please pardon the crossposting between ppml and nanog... Geoff Huston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why /48 rather than /47 or /49? - alignment to nibble boundaries to > make DNS delegation easier. It has recently come to my attention that we are in error when we expect "n[iy]bble" to have the

Re: the iab simplifies internet architecture!

2005-11-11 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but it will be a classic. if you can get and edit it, send > it to boing boing or /. Pearls before swine. In my rss aggregator, boingboing and /. are labeled "a Directory for Dilettantes" and "News for Goobers" respectively.

Re: Cisco 7200 + NPE-G1 / 7301

2005-11-18 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
"Ben Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone got any comments about how good or otherwise the Cisco 7200 + > NPE-G1 or 7301, both with 1GB of RAM, is as a eBGP router + L2TP > terminator for DSL subs, in terms of scalability for bandwidth through > put & the number of VPDN sessions it can t

Re: What do we mean when we say "competition?"

2005-11-26 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Henry Yen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In (at least) the Long Island, NY market, Verizon FTTH/FIOS installers > physically cut and decommission the copper upon fiber install. > Bye-bye DSL competition. Since they won't bring back the copper > even you don't like the FIOS service, it's permanen

Re: Awful quiet?

2005-12-21 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Peter Dambier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Used to have its IPv6 enabled. Gave me problems with connectivity. > I dont have IPv6 to the outside so I had to disable the stack. > Runs a lot smoother now. > It tooks me week to get the IPv6 stack running in the first place. You've had quite the ru

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-13 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Interesting how many companies are "parked" at a lawyers office, > i.e. the official address of the company is that of it's legal > firm. One wonders why an abuse organization would not use this same > tactic and register a legal firm as the administrative contact. H

Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing

2004-12-19 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 19-dec-04, at 5:45, Sean Donelan wrote: > >> Some manufactures, such as Apple AirPort Extreme, also make dialup >> gateways with dialup modem PPP and firewall capabilities. > > Actually the Airport Extreme doesn't do firewalling. It does PNA

Re: Spam Abuse Script from The World (roky@shell.TheWorld.com)

2004-12-26 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Mike Damm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 13:45:36 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 1. Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] in your access.db > > Suggestions on modifying upstream/peers 'access.db' welcome. > > Spewing false and libelous abuse complaints is an i

Re: Smallest Transit MTU

2004-12-29 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Dan Hollis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Why is this a problem? ECN has to be deployed on routers, and it >> currently isn't. > > Because tcp connection endpoints have to implement ECN in order to manage > the flow. A naive reader might think from Dan's posting that the Internet didn't work

Re: Smallest Transit MTU

2004-12-30 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
John Kristoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think you may be fearful that the use of reserved bits introduces > a new security risk, because of something a system may do in response > to the use of those new fields. That is a very legitimate concern > and a very real potential risk. I guess

Re: Smallest Transit MTU

2004-12-31 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
John Kristoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:51:01 -0500 > "Robert E.Seastrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You must not remember how SunOS 4 responded when handed icmp echo >> requests with the record-route option set (passed the packet on for >> the next guy to enjoy a

Re: minimum requirements for a full bgp feed

2005-01-04 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
"Erik Amundson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my experience it depends on the model of router.  I had a 3640 > (granted, it's old) with 128MB that was just fine until a couple of > months ago, now it's not enough.  For one BGP table you will have to > have at least 256MB in a 36xx router.  Ou

Re: Measure overall network availability

2005-01-07 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Jim Popovitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've often wondered, as I work intimately with NMS software, just how > much cross network traffic is "are you there?" related. Would it have a > positive impact on overall net performance if everyone just turned off > all internetwork status polling?

Re: netblazer Was: baiting

2005-01-18 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In this period of time, the White Knights built the InterOp shownets and > we had comparative access to quite a lot of vendor product, and know that > the red buttons on Wellfleets were correctly positioned on the front, for >

Re: NANOG via RSS

2005-01-19 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
"Mike Callahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > By any chance is this list available via xml/rss? There are several email to rss gateway software packages out there; it would be trivial to roll your own. YMMV, but after reading a couple of other mailing lists that were gatewayed to rss, my sense

Re: books every network operator should read?

2005-04-12 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
"Eric Pylko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One of my favorites is "The Elements of Networking Style" by M.A. Padlipsky. > The description starts off as "The World's Only Known Constructively Snotty > Computer Science Book..." > > My copy (acquired sometime in the early 90's) was recommended by s

Re: 'Call Before You Dig' Article

2005-05-15 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> This issue went national in March 2005 with the addition of a new >> N11 number for "One Call" >> notification. >> http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-257293A1.pdf >> >> The new abbreviated number will be 811 and it looks like carriers >> are

Re: http://xn--1lq90ic7fzpc.cn/

2005-05-19 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
It took no less than four re-reads before it sank in that this message is not, in fact, spam. ---rob "Peter & Karin Dambier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it one third of the total internet population > for whom it makes sense to see "--" in hostnames

Re: Juniper Routers with X switches

2005-06-05 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
"Todd Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How many people are using Juniper routers on their networks Lots. > and what is your experiences with them? Usually good. > Also, what equipment do you use for switching? Schneider. http://www.squared.com/ -

Re: Email peering (Was: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender IDAuthentication......?]

2005-06-16 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The thousands of bilateral BGP peering contracts are most > definitely comparable to the email peering that I am > proposing. Dude, it's 2005. You can put down the X.400 crack pipe now. ---Rob

Re: Telephone pedestals

2005-06-18 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
"james edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am looking for a seller of outdoor Telephone pedestals. I plan to install > a DSLAM, post splitters > and associated cross connect gear in this enclosure. Can anyone suggest a > dealer for this sort of gear ? http://www.sprintnorthsupply.com/ http

Re: OSPF -vs- ISIS

2005-06-21 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
"Wayne E. Bouchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> One vendor in particular sees ISIS as "an ISP protocol" and OSPF as "an >> enterprise protocol". Their implementation of the latter has often gotten >> many enterprise-oriented features (e.g. dial-on-demand link support) that >> the other didn'

Re: md5 for bgp tcp sessions

2005-06-23 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Eric Gauthier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Honestly, I completely agree with you that MD5'ing our OSPF > adjacencies isn't a great idea (I've so far stalled its roll-out). > I strongly argued against it internally. There were, however, those > in both the networking and security groups that we

Re: NTIA will control the root name servers?

2005-07-03 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Peter Dambier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > European ISPs and Asian ISPs do change to the Public-Root because their > customers need to send emails to each other. Curiously enough their is > no SPAM on Public-Root email addresses. I thought the spammers were > located in Asia and Europe only? C

Re: Secure Cabinets

2002-08-19 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Andrew Dorsett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey everyone, I know this is slightly off topic but I'm hoping that someone > from Verisign or the like will respond. I am looking for a VERY secure > computer cabinet to replace an open rack I have now. I'm looking for almost > vault like quali

Re: Standalone Stratum 1 NTP Server

2002-08-28 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hmm... $2400 is still in the "pricey" range to be throwing out > > bunches of these across a network in wide distribution. > > and why would one want to do so? run one strat 1, two at most No. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=3C32924F.994

Re: Telco cages?

2002-10-04 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Alex Rubenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am looking for a manufacturer of telco cages used in datacenter > applications; any pointers would be appreciated. The technical term is "woven-wire partitions" or "welded wire partitions", depending on who's doing the talking.. WireCrafters:

Re: lists of DNS servers by region.

2002-12-12 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Tatsuya Kawasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stephen, > thnx .. I think query source refer to DNS server right? > not necessary actally host that requesting qurey? Correct. > Suppose if a ISP does not have fully messed DNS server then result may not > be optimum? Also correct. A problem w

Re: DC power versus AC power

2002-12-30 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
"Barton F Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Typical 120/208V small branch circuit breakers in small buildings and homes > have an interrupting capacity rated at 10,000 amps, and should not be > deployed where that can be exceeded. It will be on the label. It's worth noting that the interrupt

Re: DC power versus AC power

2002-12-30 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
"Stephen Sprunk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thus spake joe mcguckin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > It only takes 30ma to put your heart into atrial fibrillation. In the > > usa, gfi's are set to trip at 5ma. > > Did you mean 5A, or am I misunderstanding GFIs? it's 5ma. http://www.national.com/ds

Re: TELEHOUSE America & Internet Software Consortium Develop DNS F-root Server in New York & Los Angeles

2003-02-11 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Charles Sprickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Paul Vixie wrote: > > > > > Deal Enables ISC to Mirror DNS Root Server in Additional U.S. Locations > > Let's hope Telehouse put them on the "good" generator. "N+1" is no fun if > the "+1" can't be routed to the 5th floor wh

Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...

2003-03-07 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
More detailed technical information on the periodic I2 Land Speed Record contest can be found at http://lsr.internet2.edu/ The answer to "what's good about this" is left as an exercise to the reader. ---Rob "Stephen J. Wilcox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Re: ntp config tech note

2004-05-20 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
"Kevin Oberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK. Am I in a alternate universe? I have run ntpdate for years on a > variety of systems, almost all of the BSD family. (I count the VMS > implementation in TGV software as BSD.) I have never seen '-g' and have > always had '-b' as the boot option. I

Re: ntp config tech note

2004-05-20 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
"Hannigan, Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's NTPv4 isn't it? > > I also prefer to use three peers vs. two. Always an odd number, > greater than 1. Assumptions can't be made about the mathematics > behind time, but in a reference model, odd numbers are better. Actually, three is no

fiber cut 19 May/PM -> 20 May/AM in Ashburn, VA (lawnmower?!)

2004-05-20 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Since none of the usual suspects have noted it, I'll give a cursory nod to an ILEC (Verizon) fiber cut that happened mid-afternoon yesterday in Ashburn, VA. About a thousand POTS customers were down (including several OOB dialups of which I am aware in the Equinix facility in Ashburn), as well a

Re: fiber cut 19 May/PM -> 20 May/AM in Ashburn, VA (lawnmower?!)

2004-05-21 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Dan Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Forgive me, but > > Isn't Sonet usually deployed in a ring? Why the heck would a fiber > this important not be? sonet, obviously, does not *have* to be in a ring, but it often is. unfortunately, a fair percentage of the time, the additional protecti

Re: Cisco HFR

2004-05-27 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Macs and Lisas did this as well. ---Rob "Alexei Roudnev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I saw such technique in 1986 (approx) year on hardware level - russia > computer Elbrus did it. > > > > : Re: Cisco HFR > > > > > > On Wed, May 26, 2004, Iljitsc

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
"Dr. Jeffrey Race" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Poof! MCI spam problem goes away in 30 days. http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html I think the discussion is over. ---Rob

Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net

2004-07-24 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm not talking about intended beneficiaries. I agree with your statement > > when applied to intended beneficiaries. I'm talking about the character > > of the preponderance of actual beneficiaries, whether measured by number > > of domain registrati

Re: 2511 line break

2004-07-26 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > on a 2511, which i am using as a serial console server for a bunch > of boxes, how do i send a on one of the lines? telnet break is translated to long-space serial break: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [6] % telnet scrapheap 2003 Trying 10.1.1.25 Connected to 10.1.

Re: 2511 line break

2004-07-26 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [6] % telnet scrapheap 2003 > > Trying 10.1.1.25 > > Connected to 10.1.1.25. > > Escape character is '^]'. > > i am seriously shocked by the number of folk in this forum who not > only seem to use telnet over the internet, but seem wil

Re: Quick question.

2004-08-01 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
"Michel Py" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The dead processor still has to be replaced, but this is scheduled > maintenance, not outage. A little extra ammo when you have to hunt five > or six nines. MTTR on a single box is irrelevant when you are off playing Ponce de Leon, hunting the Fountain

Re: OT - 3 Free Gmail invites

2004-08-20 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Nico Schottelius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > P.S.: If you are interested in the background of this story, read > http://nico.schotteli.us/papers/net/orkut-diary for more information. My $0.02 social commentary on orkut (and similar social networking sites) is at http://www.fedster.com/ *.ork

Re: Oct. NANOG - hotel? At the two month marker now.

2004-08-23 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
"Stephen J. Wilcox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > was hoping for something within about a block of the hyatt, > preferably populated by fellow nanogers.. i'll see what folks are > doing Reston "Town Center" is not a real "downtown"; it's an artificial open-air shopping mall. The Hyatt is the o

Re: Oct. NANOG - hotel? At the two month marker now.

2004-08-23 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ... Reston is Hell, but with better visuals. > > I'm not certain of the truth of this comparison, having only half the data > at hand. However, it has to be just about the least interesting place on > the whole Eastern seab

Re: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior)

2004-08-29 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Mikael Abrahamsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there anyone who can justify this pricing with anything else than > "because we can?" To expand on what I said to you privately, let's follow the money: Assume $200,000/board as the marginal cost of manufacturing one. Assume a minimum of 65

Re: RIPE "Golden Networks" Document ID - 229/210/178

2004-09-04 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Bill Woodcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What about the ccTLD prefixes? There are a lot more of them. And the > gTLDs? And exchange points? And Microsoft Update servers? Where do you > stop? If you simply don't dampen (hooray for adequate CPUs), then you are not only honoring the "golde

Re: Tornados in Ashburn (Equinix affected)

2004-09-18 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
John Starta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29911-2004Sep17.html Printer-friendly version for your signin-bypassing pleasure: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A29911-2004Sep17?language=printer I was a little closer to the Ashburn one than I

Re: Tornados in Ashburn (Equinix affected)

2004-09-19 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 1) Good that they [seemed] to have maintained partial power. > > It would be interesting to find out what happened to the two UPSes that > apparently failed. Was it something that exceeded the design, i.e. a > lightning strike greater than X joules?

Re: FW: The worst abuse e-mail ever, sverige.net

2004-09-22 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Lars-Johan Liman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I cannot agree to the "block port 25" line of action. > > I am a Unix sysadmin, with 15 years of experience as sendmail and DNS > expert. I have a DSL line at home, with static IP, and generic rDNS > provided by my ISP. Behind it I have a serious Un

Re: FW: The worst abuse e-mail ever, sverige.net

2004-09-22 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Alexander Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 22 September 2004 10:40:30 -0400, Robert E.Seastrom wrote: > [..] >> Buy an appropriate connectivity product for your home connectivity and >> the problems go away. Put your servers in a colo (a la >> http://www.vix.com/personalcolo/ ) and th

Re: FW: The worst abuse e-mail ever, sverige.net

2004-09-22 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > lars-johan's posting was a wonderfully eloquent plea for the > survival of the internet, as opposed to the walled-garden telco > model. In a vacuum, we all agree with him. He should be sending his plea to Redmond, from whence comes the vulnerable soft

Re: Blackhole Routes

2004-10-03 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Ian Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My point is that no-export or no-advertise doesn't play well with > multiple ASNs under common admin control. If this is your situation, perhaps already you have propagation suppression communities that cause the Right Thing to happen at the outer edg

Re: Finding information about metro private line service in downtown SF

2004-10-28 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
"Charlie Khanna - NextWeb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wireless is a great option, if it's an option at all - I would just make > sure to get a licensed link so you don't worry about getting knocked of the > air by some rogue interferer. Licensed offers no such guarantee; all it offers is so

Re: size of the routing table is a big deal, especially in IPv6

2004-11-29 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Tony Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My preferred solution at this point is for the UN to take over > management of the entire Internet and for them to issue a policy of > one prefix per country. This will have all sorts of nasty downsides > for national providers and folks that care about opt

Re: My yearly post about environmental monitoring devices

2004-12-02 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > When you add Ethernet as a requirement then you are asking for an > I/O interface that is more complex and more expensive than the basic > temp/hum recorder on the PIC. Or not. http://www.lantronix.com/device-networking/embedded-device-servers/xport.html (no, it do

Re: a new labor intensive layer 1 solution (humor?)

2003-07-28 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
"Christopher L. Morrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe thats an FN-FAL rifle, not a M-16... I wonder if telcom's could > employ these folks to watch over their fiber lines to keep the backhoes > away? It's a SIG SG550, not an FAL or an M16. ---R

Re: Sobigf + BGP

2003-08-23 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
"J. Oquendo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Apologies beforehand if this post seems a bit odd, > but I did not see anything similar to a networking > 'vuln'dev', and besides I wouldn't think that any > one here would do something malicious with any idea > that actually worked for the worse. This

Re: Cross-country shipping of large network/computer gear?

2003-08-27 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
"N. Richard Solis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FedEx will be your best bet. Trust me. FedEx Heavy = "pay a surcharge for heavy boxes, get it moved by a 120 pound delivery person with a handtruck rather than a pallet jack or other appropriate freight handling equipment... and dropped off the

Re: Cross-country shipping of large network/computer gear?

2003-08-28 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Andy Walden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's it Rob, let it all out. ;) I can certainly empathize, as I have > have my bad experiences with Fedex as well. We also use Emery on a > regular basis for the big things also. The bottom line is, like vendors, > all shippers can suck at times...it r

Re: Cross-country shipping of large network/computer gear?

2003-08-28 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
er. > > If anybody has counter-to-counter on their disaster recovery plans you > may want to get setup as a "known shipper". I went through the process > with United's Cargo division http://www.unitedcargo.com. I used them > as a backup to America West A

Re: Cross-country shipping of large network/computer gear?

2003-08-28 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
"N. Richard Solis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, counter-to-counter service isn't always handled as luggage. In a > few cases the package is hand-carried over to the cargo terminal where > it's put on the next flight out. Then it's held for you at the > destination, NOT put out on the

Re: NTP, possible solutions, and best implementation

2003-10-03 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
"Nathan J. Mehl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is a Stratum 0 source so once placed behind a Unix/Cisco/Juniper > > box you have a stratum 1 source. This will cost you 30,000 -> > > 100,000 US per unit. The beam tube will require replacement > > approx every 5 years f

Re: domainmonger.com with wildcard NS?

2003-10-14 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
just me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In theory this doesnt break anything, since the nameservers in > question aren't providing recursive service to anyone. Any questions > they see are the result of a followed delegation. So I don't see why > this would cause problems anywhere. I'd sure hate

Re: domainmonger.com with wildcard NS?

2003-10-14 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
just me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 14 Oct 2003, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: > > just me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In theory this doesnt break anything, since the nameservers in > > question aren't providing recursive service to any

Re: Harassment (was Re: ELAN.NET ...)

2003-11-04 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe at least one antispam service - spamcop.net - had its domain > pulled by joker.com, ostensibly for "invalid whois data". This seems > to be fixed now. http://www.julianhaight.com/jokerstupidity.shtml

Re: cooling systems

2003-11-05 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
google search for "air to air heat exchanger" - there are many companies that make products that do exactly what you want. ---rob Mike Tancsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Faced with the prospect once again of significantly higher energy > prices coming

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