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

2007-09-12 Thread Ross Vandegrift
t others must've already figured out the trickier stuff that I've thought about. For example - some of the posted pictures show the use of fiber ducts lifted above cable ladders. Why opt for such a two-level design instead of bundling fibers in flex-conduit and running the conduits a

Re: Level3 or Broadwing or other issues in Dallas ?

2007-09-19 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:25:53PM -0500, W. Kevin Hunt wrote: > I'm in Louisiana and just lost my OC12 to Bwing/L3. Circuit didn't die, > actually received a BGP message to terminate the session. > > Anyone else seeing anything or got an update? ALL the numbers I have to L3 > are busy... Seei

Re: Cogent peering issues with Sprint

2007-10-10 Thread Ross Vandegrift
s.cogentco.com (154.54.5.34) 6.941 ms 7.175 ms 7.215 ms 11 t7-4.mpd01.dca02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.7.157) 7.486 ms 7.714 ms 7.800 ms 12 v3490.mpd01.iad03.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.7.98) 6.273 ms 6.270 ms 6.540 ms 13 res1.dns.cogentco.com (66.28.0.45) 6.737 ms 7.023 ms 7.033 m

Re: "ARPANet Co-Founder Predicts An Internet Crisis" (slashdot)

2007-10-26 Thread Ross Vandegrift
ot;flow table" that in the forwarding plane. What happens when the flow table overflows? How does the router decide when to age-out a flow? I have yet to see a flow-centric filtering device save the network when it's flow/session table is what's under attack. -- Ross Vandegrif

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-22 Thread Ross Vandegrift
g on the public internet is going to care a lick either. -- Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken th

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-23 Thread Ross Vandegrift
from RFC3513, though it'd be trivial to change. But I'm guessing other vendors enforce this as well. -- Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematici

Level3 transit issues in NE?

2008-02-11 Thread Ross Vandegrift
vel3 since 5am. Has anyone heard any info regarding this? -- Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken th

Re: ISP's who where affected by the misconfiguration: start using IRR and checking your BGP updates (Was: YouTube IP Hijacking)

2008-02-25 Thread Ross Vandegrift
vide us a single example of one of these routes - but we were told it was strictly the number of prefixes that mattered. I know that I provide newly assigned prefixes to our providers, which includes PCCW. If those make it into a prefix-list at PCCW though, I don't really know for sure. -- Ro

AboveNet Global Routing issue

2008-02-28 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hi Everyone, Just received a light-up of calls about general connectivity, a call to AboveNet got us the answer that they are having "global routing issues". Has anyone received any more details? -- Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The good Christian should beware of math

Re: AboveNet Global Routing issue

2008-02-29 Thread Ross Vandegrift
a temporary solution in place and they are working out the details of a permanent fix. Last I heard, they were planning on moving forward with the scheduled global backbone work that was set for this weekend. -- Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The good Christian should beware of mathem

Re: Routing Loop

2008-03-15 Thread Ross Vandegrift
has been screwing pooch on and off this month. Ross -- Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and

Re: Kenyan Route Hijack

2008-03-17 Thread Ross Vandegrift
4.227.66.0/24 is registered to "Ann Taylor Stores Corp", is part of ARIN assigned 204.227.64/19. However, none of the rest of that /19 is there. Puzzling... -- Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make em

Re: NXDOMAIN data needed for survey

2008-03-21 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:45:30AM -0700, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: > BTW: If someone legitimate needs NXDOMAIN data, I do have a bunch. If anyone else is interesting in a concerted effort to provide falsified data, I'm interested in helping and hosting. -- Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL P

Re: IPv6 tunnel for ISP sought

2008-03-23 Thread Ross Vandegrift
ight to some people that understand what you're asking about. Searching in whois maybe points to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and if that doesn't pan out, someone on ipv6-ops might have a better idea. -- Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, a