RE: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Deepak Jain wrote: 3) No one cares if the server farm is blast proof (it isn't), if the connectivity in/out of it gets blasted (submessage: silos were meant to deliver one thing, datacenters aren't in the same operational model once they need connectivity to the outside wor

RADB service outage

2008-12-01 Thread Shin Yamasaki
Hi, It seems Merit's RADB service is not working. Both Web and command-line accesses aren't available. On the Web, it only returns the following string: "Number of objects found: 1" On the command-line, nothing is returned. Not only us but also other folks here in Japan are affected. If someo

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Dragos Ruiu
On 28-Nov-08, at 7:35 PM, Gadi Evron wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: It seems that all these cases are more under the bottom than over the top. Every couple of years there is a story about some anti virus company, data center, or whatever running out of an old n

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Randy Bush
> Despite the huge amount of "content which transcends the language > barrier" [tip of the hat wbn], it is worth noting that there is > a non-trivial amount of language-/culture-specific traffic that > doesn't need or want to traverse globally (viz massive IXes & large > xTTH deplyoments in other

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Joe Provo
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:14:20PM +0100, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: [snip] > On 1 dec 2008, at 15.08, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: [snip] > >I don't think any IXP can become a significant player on the > >Internet today by only attracting participants from the country in > >question. The Interne

RE: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Deepak Jain
Apologies to the list. I didn't know whether to fork this into a couple of replies, or just run with it. I chose the latter. 1) This datacenter is only 12,000 sq ft. (submessage: who cares?) 2) The generators are underground. A leak in their exhaust system kills everyone -- worse, a leak in

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Jean-François Mezei
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The Internet can be mission critical. (Well, not really, but it's =20 > trying.) And for something mission critical, a single point, no =20 > matter how well reinforced, is not good enough. It may not be "mission critical" for any one particular client, but when you b

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday 01 December 2008 16:34:26 Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:03:39 -0500 > Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You mean something akin to Sealand's HavenCo? Yes, I know that's an > > old fort, and not a ship, but a similar concept at least. > HavenCo, which ran a da

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 16:34, Steven M. Bellovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HavenCo, which ran a datacenter on the "nation" of Sealand, is > no longer operating there: Which is the same story for most (if not all) of these hype-driven "bullet-proof" data centers. I recall a .com CEO espousing t

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Martin List-Petersen
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: HavenCo, which ran a datacenter on the "nation" of Sealand, is no longer operating there: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/25/havenco/ --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb If you do a bit more research on that one, it never got

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:03:39 -0500 Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 01 December 2008 13:27:30 Danny McPherson wrote: > > On a related noted, some have professed that adapting old > > ships into data centers would provide eco-friendly secure > > data center solutions. > > You mea

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday 01 December 2008 13:27:30 Danny McPherson wrote: > On a related noted, some have professed that adapting old > ships into data centers would provide eco-friendly secure > data center solutions. You mean something akin to Sealand's HavenCo? Yes, I know that's an old fort, and not a sh

RE: EIGRP question...

2008-12-01 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
My first thought for this was: route filtering. My second thought was: use different AS#s. Then I reread your question and thought of something far simpler. It seems to me if you are migrating from provider A to provider B then you should set everything up for B, then shut down the interface

Re: EIGRP question...

2008-12-01 Thread Jeff Ambern
How about setting the bandwidth of the link to provider B higher. Or increasing the delay of the link to provider A? Either of these should work for you. On 12/1/08 2:49 PM, "Mike Lyon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy, > > So I am working on an MPLS migration from provider "A" to provide

EIGRP question...

2008-12-01 Thread Mike Lyon
Howdy, So I am working on an MPLS migration from provider "A" to provider "B" of which both terminate into my core via customer prem routers. I have a single EIGRP process between my core and the two customer prem routers supplied to me by both providers, of which I don't have access to. My questi

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick, On 1 dec 2008, at 02.33, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Nov 28, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Jean-François Mezei wrote: The thing about a carrier hotel is that it cannot be a secret location

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1 dec 2008, at 15.08, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:58 AM, Måns Nilsson wrote: --On söndag, söndag 30 nov 2008 23.05.01 -0500 "Patrick W. Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Not if the ship is literally encased in concrete at the shore. Which solves all your other problems as well. But that's not a ship, it's a building. There are even examples of actual free-floating ships which have been stable for a decade or more. And many counter-examples. --lyndon

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Seth Mattinen
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Dec 1, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: On 1-Dec-08, at 10:27 AM, Danny McPherson wrote: On a related noted, some have professed that adapting old ships into data centers would provide eco-friendly secure data center solutions. Your data connection to sh

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 1, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: On 1-Dec-08, at 10:27 AM, Danny McPherson wrote: On a related noted, some have professed that adapting old ships into data centers would provide eco-friendly secure data center solutions. Your data connection to shore is going to be tenuous

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 1, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Jean-François Mezei wrote: Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: End of day, an IXP is not some magical thing. It is an ethernet switch allowing multiple networks to exchange traffic more easily than direct interconnection - and that is all it should be. It should not be mi

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 1-Dec-08, at 10:27 AM, Danny McPherson wrote: On a related noted, some have professed that adapting old ships into data centers would provide eco-friendly secure data center solutions. Your data connection to shore is going to be tenuous at best. One good blow strong enough to make you dr

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Jean-François Mezei
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > End of day, an IXP is not some magical thing. It is an ethernet > switch allowing multiple networks to exchange traffic more easily than > direct interconnection - and that is all it should be. It should not > be mission critical. Treating it as such raises the

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Måns Nilsson
--On måndag, måndag 1 dec 2008 11.53.58 -0500 "Patrick W. Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 1, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Måns Nilsson wrote: > >>> End of day, an IXP is not some magical thing. It is an ethernet >>> switch >>> allowing multiple networks to exchange traffic more easily than

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Danny McPherson
On Nov 28, 2008, at 6:34 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/11/14/the-worlds-most-super-designed-data-center-fit-for-a-james-bond-villain/ (No, I don't know if it's real or not.) I recall visiting something of this sort a couple years back.. On a related noted, some

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Jeremy Jackson
On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 23:05 -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > Now compare that to forcing every single participant to use unknown > fiber paths into an unknown facility. When are these fibers groomed, > and onto which unknown paths? Which fiber maintenance schedules might > impact me wit

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 1, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Måns Nilsson wrote: End of day, an IXP is not some magical thing. It is an ethernet switch allowing multiple networks to exchange traffic more easily than direct interconnection - and that is all it should be. It should not be mission critical. Treating it as

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Måns Nilsson
--On måndag, måndag 1 dec 2008 09.08.09 -0500 "Patrick W. Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think any IXP can become a significant player on the Internet > today by only attracting participants from the country in question. The > Internet is not bound by political borders. (Usually.

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Randy Bush
hint: your continued ad homina do not help your argument > By your logic, every IXP which has any participants is a good model and > cannot be improved. the criterion you set was success, not perfection. netnod is quite successful. is this discussion successful? i think not. good bye and good

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Randy Bush wrote: some go to sweden for the weather. some go for netnode. netnode does not go to them. and yes, netnod is bunkered up the ying yang. qed. By your logic, every IXP which has any participants is a good model and cannot be improved. An obvious lo

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Randy Bush
some go to sweden for the weather. some go for netnode. netnode does not go to them. and yes, netnod is bunkered up the ying yang. qed. randy

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:12 AM, Randy Bush wrote: I don't think any IXP can become a significant player on the Internet today by only attracting participants from the country in question. netnod is very successful. i guess they must operate from more than sweden, then, eh? NetNod is successful.

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Randy Bush
> I don't think any IXP can become a significant player on the Internet > today by only attracting participants from the country in question. netnod is very successful. i guess they must operate from more than sweden, then, eh? engineers judge by results, not word count. randy

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:58 AM, Måns Nilsson wrote: --On söndag, söndag 30 nov 2008 23.05.01 -0500 "Patrick W. Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In Sweden, the reason to not choose NetNod (and to go with the smaller exchangepoints) is price and only price. No swedish ISP I know of has stated tha

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Måns Nilsson
--On söndag, söndag 30 nov 2008 23.05.01 -0500 "Patrick W. Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 30, 2008, at 10:50 PM, Niels Bakker wrote: >>> I was going to say 'this probably hinders customers adoption at >>> NetNod', but I know for a fact the "probably" is superfluous. > I didn't sa