We run into it all the time when using the Comcast-provided "business
class" equipment and a non-Comcast SIP provider.
When we had a fiber hand-off from Comcast (about 3 years ago) and used a
non-Comcast SIP provider we had no issues.
-A
On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 3:46 PM Brandon Ambrose
wrote:
>
Two things that seem to help whenever I'm dealing with bizarre Comcast
issueshave her call in and:
* Ask for "Security Edge" to be disabled if it's enabled (last time we did
this Comcast told us they couldn't permanently disable it unless we paid a
lot more per month for service and it would au
On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 11:01 AM heasley wrote:
> Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 02:17:12PM -0700, Randy Bush:
> Many of those things could be automated via a customer portal.
>
Oh totally. Want to update your reverse DNS record? Just put in a credit
card number and *bam* $250 charge to your card. ;)
I'm guessing someone in the community has experience dealing with this.
About 3 years ago my street got typo'd in some sort of national database of
addresses. Two characters were transposed. i.e. "Mian St" vs "Main St".
It's causing no end of issues with ordering online, pretty much every
shipp
I ran into this a few days ago.
Both the random agent I talked to and our sales rep said they can't disable
the security edge service without increasing the cost of service for all of
our accounts.
Apparently it costs more to not molest DNS traffic leaving your network.
They can temporarily disa
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 1:12 PM Joe Greco wrote:
> So if you want the $100 test to eliminate PoE electrical effects, get
> a pair of media converters and run fiber between them. Put the CPE on
> the far end. Optimize as appropriate if you have SFP-capable switches.
Sure--that would shoot down
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 12:20 PM Brie wrote:
> Unifi/EdgeSwitch?
>
Yeah. Unfortunately. USW-24-250.
> Yeah, you know when 24v passive POE is turned on because it kills the
> port on the other end that aren't designed to handle it. Your router
> would likely have a dead eth port on it.
>
I'
On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 3:09 PM Joe Greco wrote:
> We COULD all work in UTC and un-learn the weird system of hour offsets
> and timezones. This would be convenient for people at a distance, since
> it would be simply a matter of stating availability hours, rather than
> giving someone hours AND
Cascade Networks out of Longview Washington does (or used to do) fiber
installs.
They got bought out by Wave a few years ago, but I think their fiber
division is still active.
https://cni.net/
-A
On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 4:50 PM Ross Tajvar wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for a fiber contractor
On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 10:29 AM james.cut...@consultant.com <
james.cut...@consultant.com> wrote:
> As in any other company, the Marketing Department has to find some
> activity to prove their worth.
>
I don't think you realize just how much effort you have to put into finding
a vaguely pronounc
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 10:21 AM Eric Kuhnke wrote:
> If you're a small pacific island nation state with a limited budget, and a
> working submarine cable, maintaining a SCPC geostationary satellite service
> that might be $20,000 a month (on 36-60 month term) in transponder kHz may
> seem like a
On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 11:43 AM Jeff Shultz wrote:
> BTW, Calix ONTs default to "Disable on battery = on" for the GigE ports -
> it's checkbox in the config to turn that off so they stay up when the power
> is out. Which we do uncheck. Particularly since we've going increasingly
> VOIP and our e
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 7:41 AM Jay wrote:
> We consume around 150 watts on DC and generally around 600 watts on AC
> (unless a freezer or air conditioner cycles on). When the power goes out,
> sometimes we don't immediately notice it! I think I am living inside a
> giant UPS, and more inde
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:18 AM Andy Ringsmuth wrote:
> Given that most people barely even know what their home router is, I
> suspect the percentage would be somewhere south of 1 percent. Outside of my
> home, I honestly cannot recall EVER seeing someone’s home using a battery
> backup for thei
My normal test for this is to register a new domain name and leave my whois
info public.
Over the span of 1-2 weeks I will usually get 50-100 calls from people with
a certain accent asking for a mispronunciation of my name and if I need a
website developed. Then I forward them over to my spam re
It looks like it might take a while according to a news reporter's tweet:
"Was just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees
unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of
outage because their badges weren’t working to access doors."
https://twitter.co
On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 9:36 PM Mark Tinka wrote:
> Supporting the routing and forwarding of IP addresses is just about the
> most basic thing any ISP should do.
>
> If that is low on their to-do list, what else could they possibly be doing?
>
Counting all the profit they make from a captive audi
de if you have the
switch open? If the lines are de-energized, why wear gloves? If you're
doing all that, why carry an AED?
-A
On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 10:19 AM Warren Kumari wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 12:47 PM Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG <
> nanog@nanog.org> wrote
end, and
> this technique was discontinued in the 1970s due to the many deaths that
> resulted.
>
> -mel
>
> On Aug 30, 2021, at 9:02 AM, Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG
> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 7:35 AM Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE <
> l...@6by7.
On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 7:35 AM Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE <
l...@6by7.net> wrote:
> Yes, this is a real and dangerous problem. Today. Even with grounding
> I’m afraid. Source: I’ve been working in an engineering capacity for 27
> years and I have the license you’d need to build a nu
On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 10:43 AM Tom Beecher wrote:
> Incompetent insurance companies combined with incompetent IT staff and
>> under-funded IT departments are the nexus of the problem.
>>
>
> Nah, it's even simpler. It's just dollars all around. Always is.
>
Agreed.
> From this company's poin
On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 5:28 AM Jim wrote:
> Big problem that with organizations' existing Disaster Recovery DR methods
> --
> the time and cost to recovery from any event including downtime will
> be some amount.. likely a high one,
> and criminals' ransom demands will presumably be set as high
On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 11:39 AM Matt Erculiani
wrote:
> I think the best way to think about what 10 years from now will look like
> is to compare 10 years ago to the present:
> https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-April/thread.html
>
Multi-homing your DSL connection?
I can't wait to m
All these stories remind me of two of my own from back in the late 90s.
I worked for a regional ISP doing some network stuff (under the real
engineer), and some software development.
Like a lot of ISPs in the 90s, this one started out in a rental house.
Over the months and years rooms were slowly
It might not be an easy fix in the moment, but in the long run, buy a
generator and install a propane tank.
When power prices spike to insane levels like this, just flip your transfer
switch over and run off propane.
When utility power becomes cheaper, switch back to the grid.
Maybe some sort of R
On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 10:20 AM Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
wrote:
> And either way, what is the policy about forwarding list email to someone
> who is not on the list?
>
If you are posting to NANOG under the impression that your email will only
be seen by network engineers and that it will never be
Maybe read Holmes' dissent where he uses the phrase "fire in a crowded
theater" or at least listen to the cliff notes:
https://www.popehat.com/2018/06/28/make-no-law-episode-seven-fire-in-a-crowded-theater/
.
-A
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 2:59 PM Jay Hennigan wrote:
> On 1/10/21 13:50, Rod Beck wr
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 7:11 PM Billy Crook wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 4:13 PM Matt Hoppes <
> mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote:
>
>> Just give users the ability to select what categories/severities they
>> want to see, so I don't get disrupted every time there's a scary rain storm
>>
> high speed, safe, secure global fiber connectivity
More importantly, can someone tell me what 'safe global fiber connectivity'
is? As opposed to 'unsafe global fiber connectivity'?
Do these guys have the market cornered on not string fiber optic cable at
throat-level across roads or something?
Sorry--accidental premature send.
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 12:54 PM Brielle wrote:
> Updates are from same link as above, and there's new builds based on
> their new OS that integrates a bunch of separate controllers if you
> don't mind beta...
>
With most companies I wouldn't mind.
But with Uni
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 12:54 PM Brielle wrote:
> On 10/29/2020 1:42 PM, Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG wrote:
> > I have an old CloudKey that mysteriously doesn't seem to be getting
> > updates anymore.
>
>
> https://community.ui.com/releases/UniFi-Cloud-Key-Firmware-1
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 12:22 PM Peter Beckman wrote:
> I'll take all of your Unifi gear, PM me for an address. :-)
>
I'd send it your way in a heartbeat, but you wouldn't get much use out of
it.
I have an old CloudKey that mysteriously doesn't seem to be getting updates
anymore.
I have an old C
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 5:43 AM Jared Mauch wrote:
> I have all UBNT at home for wireless and periodically have some
> random
> issues which I can't explain, but for the most part have things tuned to
> ensure
> there's little to no interference.
>
All UBNT at home? Ouch.
They're on my
Yes. I get spammed about once a week from Jaime Herrera Beutler. Never
looked at the headers though.
It's entirely possible someone is either pranking me by signing me up to
political lists or they harvested my well-known address from somewhere.
I'll check the headers next time.
-A
On Mon, Sep
I would trust it more than not getting an alert.
Especially if it started with something along the lines of "There is a
tornado warning for Springfield and North Haberbrook" and I had enough
brain cells to know what city I was in.
-A
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 1:14 PM ITechGeek wrote:
> At least c
Sure. But being good engineers, we love to exercise our brains by thinking
about possibilities and probabilities.
For example, we don't form disaster response plans by saying "well, we
could think about what *could* happen for days, but we'll just wait for
something to occur".
-A
On Wed, Sep 2,
On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 11:28 PM Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Well, many of us are paying for redundant power supplies or redundant
> REs, even if that doesn't make any difference when the chassis is on
> fire. I guess most people know that, and still buy those redundant
> components.
>
I buy it so I ca
Someone reached out who could shove a new service order into the queue for
the tech and we'll deal with the old broken connection on Monday when the
Comcast premier group opens back up.
Thanks and sorry for the noise.
-A
On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 3:55 PM Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote:
> I need to get i
I need to get in touch with someone at Comcast urgently.
We just acquired an office. Their service is hosed up and their IPs are
routing out of Washington State to Ashburn VA before dying. A tech is
on-site and says there's something wrong with the account and that it might
be because it's a "na
Anyone seeing Cloudflare DNS outages or site issues?
Affecting a bunch of sites in Washington and Oregon.
-A
CloudFlare updated their status page and confirmed the issue:
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
-A
On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 2:33 PM Aaron C. de Bruyn
wrote:
> More digging shows high latency to CloudFlare DNS servers from Comcast in
> Washington and Oregon as well as a few other providers (Char
More digging shows high latency to CloudFlare DNS servers from Comcast in
Washington and Oregon as well as a few other providers (Charter,
ToledoTel), etc...
Sites that do resolve using other DNS servers but are hosted on CloudFlare
aren't loading.
Sites that use CloudFlare for their DNS aren't re
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 6:44 AM Mel Beckman wrote:
> Your or my pet bug may never get fixed, based on market demand.
>
Gonna have to disagree with you there.
I'm not sure if it was a cashflow issue or what, but they launched the
Unifi Dream Machine Pro after a very short testing period.
A client
Why isn't there a well-known anycast ping address similar to
CloudFlare/Google/Level 3 DNS, or sorta like the NTP project?
Get someone to carve out some well-known IP and allow every ISP on the
planet to add that IP to a router or BSD box somewhere on their network?
Allow product manufacturers to t
On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 6:42 AM wrote:
>
> Ultimately, market demand showed that it was necessary and we had done the
> right thing
> developing the next speed.
>
In other words, this will be up to the marketing teams.
$MAJOR_CELL_CARRIER will start advertising that they are the only all-5G
all
Bad wording on my part. I wasn't trying to imply their statement was
true--just a bit of humor.
-A
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 6:09 PM Owen DeLong wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 22, 2019, at 17:47 , Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG
> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 8:52 AM Blake Huds
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 8:52 AM Blake Hudson wrote:
> This is absolutely an issue with Xbox Live/Sony PSN or RBLs used by mail
> servers for reputation purposes. For better or worse these systems equate
> one IPv4 address == one user (and possibly one IPv6 /64 == one user). My
> opinion is that t
On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 9:13 AM Livingood, Jason
wrote:
> The challenge of course is that in the absence of a silver bullet
> solution, that people working to combat all forms of child exploitation are
> simultaneously trying several things, ranging from going to the source as
> you suggest and ar
"For the children!"
"Stop resisting!"
"I was in fear for my life!"
The age-old cries of the oppressor.
The problem is that children are being kidnapped, trafficked, and abused.
DNS blocking doesn't solve that. It's not a technical problem.
Go to the source--the kidnappers, traffickers, and abuse
On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 9:05 AM Brandon Jackson via NANOG
wrote:
> I'm not saying they are doing anything nefarious or packet capping the
> local network or anything of that nature that is a little on the tin foil
> hat side for me personally, but you should always consider that any
> information
You're not alone.
I talked with my local provider about 4 years ago and they said "We will
probably start looking into IPv6 next year".
I talked with them last month and they said "Yeah, everyone seems to be
offering it. I guess I'll have to start reading how to implement it".
I'm sure 2045 will
For the past ~36 hours I have been seeing 15% packet loss between
CenturyLink and Telia.
I regularly access equipment in a Wave Broadband datacenter in Longview, WA
from my office connected via ToldeoTel and the traffic transits
Qwest/CenturyLink over to Telia before hitting Wave.
I have a handfu
On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 2:36 PM Matt Hoppes <
mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote:
> No. Please no. We need less regulation. Not more.
>
> VoIP started out the same way. Very simple to start offering voip. Worked
> well. Then the government got involved. Now it’s a mess of requirements,
> warn
Well that explains the DNS weirdness I was seeing this morning. I had
just made a significant network change and initially thought I screwed
something up. After 10 minutes of halfhearted troubleshooting and
poking around my configs I began to suspect DNS issues. Before I
could do more digging, i
On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 9:19 PM Sean Donelan wrote:
> A company already made a combination smoke alarm/weather radio.
> Halo Smart Labs went out of business earlier this year.
> https://www.smartthings.com/products/halo-smart-labs-halo-smoke-and-carbon-monoxide-alarm-plus-weather-alerts
*click*
*b
On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 10:54 AM Sean Donelan wrote:
> There is no business case for Amazon, Apple or Google to include emergency
> alerts as part of their smart speakers.
I have a $50 weather alert radio.
Does it have have batteries? Are they charged? Are they almost dead?
When did I last hear
Hopefully Google and Amazon product engineers are listening: EAS/NWS
alert messages could come over your various devices to help the
consumer...
The NEST Protect smoke alarms would particularly be useful for NWS
Alerts (i.e. they're loud and could broadcast "TORNADO! SEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY!")
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 9:14 AM Sean Donelan wrote:
> Probably not a surprise, the product managers at Amazon and Google didn't
> see a benefit. Instead of emergency alerts, instead the product
> improvement roadmap priority is on package tracking and delivery alerts :-)
>
I'm not aware of a pu
There a Comcast outage affecting a few of my locations in SW Washington
state. We initially had an estimate of 3:26 PM for service restoration.
That got bumped to 7 PM. Now the phone system isn't giving an ETR and the
phone system says there are excessive hold times.
I'm guessing it's a fiber cu
My extremely un-scientific reply:
I make a lot of connections from Washington State to Virginia every day.
Around 5 PM PDT yesterday, I got booted and had trouble re-connecting for
about 10 minutes. I figured it was just me, but then a handful of sites
wouldn't load for me while others had no tr
You must be doing something wrong. ;)
After registering a new domain name, I get ~10 poorly worded emails trying
to convince me a I need professional web development services. I also get
~15 phone calls over a few weeks from very thick accents and call-center
noise in the background telling me th
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 2:27 PM Naslund, Steve wrote:
> They did not in fact have the "right" to publish those pamphlets.
Now we're way off-topic, but our constitution acknowledges that is a
pre-existing right. The constitution didn't grant it to you. (Rights are
inherent, privileges are gran
> "Wrong on several counts. You can publicly access the records of who
owns every radio station, television station, and newspaper in the US and a
lot of other countries. "
You can't access their *sources* without a warrant.
You seem to be conflating private individuals with corporations.
> "No
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 12:53 PM Keith Medcalf wrote:
> This last statement is entirely untrue. WHOIS provides information as to
> the PUBLISHER (such as one would find on the masthead of a newspaper).
> This is, ought to be, and should remain, public information.
>
Oh, so I'm a newspaper now?
> "I don't see why there should not be a way to know who is publishing data
on the Internet. In almost all other forms of communication, there is some
accountability for the origination of information."
...in every other form of communication, the phrase "get a warrant" comes
to mind.
Except on t
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 5:20 PM wrote:
> So you think restricting WHOIS access will protect dissidents from
> abusive governments?
>
Every government has subpoena power. Some of them even have the power to
beat people with a rubber hose in the back room until they get the
information they want.
You still have the same end result. Bad data. I could use a mail
forwarding service or fake the record entirely. My VoIP provider probably
won't cough up who owns the phone number without a warrant. Probably the
same for HelloFax. And the only name verification that goes on at my
domain regist
If you register a corp out of Nevada, the only person who gets to know the
names of the owners is the company lawyer unless someone shows up with a
warrant. It costs around $1,200 if I remember correctly.
So I can spin up a legit looking company and put that info into whois and
you essentially en
I received replied from several friendly Comcast staff members and it
looks like there will be a resolution shortly.
Thanks, and sorry for the list noise.
-A
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote:
> I'm hoping a Comcast engineer can clear something up for me:
>
> If I recall
I'm hoping a Comcast engineer can clear something up for me:
If I recall correctly siteprotect.com is used by Comcast Business hosting.
We have a mutual customer who has their domain NS pointed at
ADNS.CS.SITEPROTECT.COM and BDNS.CS.SITEPROTECT.COM and those servers
resolve their domain properly,
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:
> A smart speaker suddenly announcing "There is a tornado warning in this
> area, would you like to hear more?" will probably freak-out those same
> non-technical people.
Simple programming problem.
Speaker: "There is a tornado warning in this
Someone do a kickstarter already. I'll contribute. ;)
-A
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Oct 2017, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 18:50:51 -0700, Joe Hamelin said:
>>>
>>> I would think that Amazon knows where my Echo is since it's the
I messaged the Nest guys a few weeks ago about that very issue. I
think it would be somewhat simple for them to put an RF module in
their Protect devices (smoke alarms) and a speaker to alert about the
issue. Since they are wifi-enabled, they could probably also arrange
a clearer audio feed over
I didn't see a blip on my TV, or hear anything on the local radio
stations. I didn't even get an alert on my cell phone. Did I miss
it, or did it get cancelled?
-A
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 9:03 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:
>> And your upstream(s) to work. And their upstream(s) to work. etc. If 90%
We have multiple redundant backup paths in case of a cut. The backup
paths run about 1 mm away from the primary path in the same cable in
the same conduit. ;)
On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Nate Metheny wrote:
> :s/fiber/conduit
>
> On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Rod Beck
> wrote:
>
>> Ever
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 2:48 PM, J. Oquendo wrote:
> On Mon, 15 May 2017, b...@theworld.com wrote:
>> You count the number of destructive opens in the kernel and if it
>> exceeds a threshold (for example) you stop it and pop up a warning.
That's basically what I did. I got tired of users consta
Easy solution if you don't know how to configure e-mail: Google Apps
for Business. $5/user/month.
Cheaper solution than Exchange: $5/mo Digital Ocean server running
something like Dovecot and Haraka to handle e-mail.
If you don't want to leave Microsoft, I believe Outlook premium will
do what y
If they are using 'git pull', or 'git push' for example, they may be
accessing the data via HTTPS or SSH.
Can your user do a 'git remote -v' and see if they are connecting via
HTTPS or SSH to assist you with troubleshooting?
Then see if it's something specific to one or the other and if it's
spec
You might try the mailop mailing list. A few MS staff lurk there and
might be able to shed some light.
-A
On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 1:48 PM, wrote:
>
> For years, YEARS, Microsoft's OUTLOOK.COM has flooded us with this
> sort of dictionary spamming on a daily basis.
>
> Is there anyone at MS who
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Rob McEwen wrote:
> On 12/16/2016 3:30 PM, Ken Chase wrote:
> A 39-inch rise in the ocean levels over the next century is based on
> fear-mongering and junk science designed to scare politicians into
> increasing grant $$ from the federal government. It is not base
On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette
wrote:
> There are plenty of reasons for thinking people to be terrified today.
> I don't know why you've chosen to focus on such a small one. Here's a
> bigger one:
>
> http://bit.ly/2fTdmiG
Ok--so on a somewhat NANOG-related note...please tel
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 11:23 PM, Richard Holbo wrote:
> That said... getting end users to actually fix the broken routers etc. etc.
> is NOT easy.Very often we'll notify customers, they will _take their
> stuff to the local computer repair guy_ ... or office depo and they
> will run whate
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 12:41 PM, wrote:
>
> Assuming these manufacturers who are culpable carry product liability
> insurance go to their insurance companies and explain the situation.
Cheaper solution: Start a company, build crappy firmware, carry
product liability insurance, release the produ
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