Re: Reliable GeoIP database

2025-02-03 Thread Alex Buie
This is factual. I spend a significant amount of effort ensuring geoip is accurate for our customers and the proliferation of vendors makes this very annoying and time consuming when we are onboarding a new block. RFC9632 at least makes this easier - I definitely recommend doing so if you are not.

Big bump in SE USA?

2025-01-30 Thread Alex Buie
Hi NANOG, We saw a pretty big bump today in our SE USA footprint (POP is in Lithia Springs/Atlanta Metro) - for about 40 minutes significantly reduced traffic flows from all three of our primary upstreams. You can see it in the "valley" in the below Cacti graphs. We saw broad swaths of the sout

Re: Issue routing to ATT AS7018

2025-01-23 Thread Alex Buie
ping fix these sorts of issues. Cogent says they’re ready to turn up more settlement-free ports but AT&T is not interested in settlement-free. Their solution is for us as a business to spend thousands of dollars on paid transit from them (AT&T) if we want better reach to 7018. They’re kinda

Re: BFD vs network brownouts

2025-01-09 Thread Alex Buie
> > it's there to detect *reachability* failure faster than protocols > themselves would do so Exactly this - we have some type 2 fiber transit circuits which are presumably connected to some sort of re-encoder or something, as we have had a few scenarios where the router at the far-remote end di

Per-U colocation?

2025-01-02 Thread Alex Buie
My company has cabinets at datacenters around the US, but they are relatively stubby datacenters in terms of interconnectedness. I have been thinking about what adding some backbone PoPs in more interconnected buildings would look like. However space in these (one Wiltshire, 56 Marietta) tends to

Re: etiquette for replying to daily digests

2024-11-08 Thread Alex Buie
Appreciate all the input everyone! It's helpful Suresh - great pointer - it looks like they do. I didn't even notice it as an option. I think this will be the fastest/easiest method for me in webmail-land. Thanks for pointing that out! *Alex Buie*Senior Cloud Operations Engineer 4

etiquette for replying to daily digests

2024-11-08 Thread Alex Buie
s what workflow/process any of you use to do so, and what the best/netizen-polite way is to end up with a reply that's appropriately threaded. Do I just need to mirror the subject line? *Alex Buie*Senior Cloud Operations Engineer 450 Century Pkwy # 100 Allen, TX 75013 <https://maps.google.

arista full tables recommendation

2024-10-14 Thread Alex Buie
Hi all, We're an arista shop (primarily 7050qx-32s, 7050tx, and 7060cx right now) and wanted to get some input on recommendations for "real routers" that can better handle full internet tables. As it is right now we do some creative import filtering to import and inject a handful of routes we care

West Coast Peering / Packet Loss issues between AS7018 (AT&T) and AS6461

2024-06-05 Thread Alex Buie
d or seen this? We're working through our channels with the carrier but the latency profile is such that it seems likely it may be affecting others as well and I wanted to ask the group. Any incidents that anyone is aware of which may be related? Thanks, *Alex Buie*Senior Cloud Operations Engi

Arista “IP-SLA” / Active Probing

2023-12-20 Thread Alex Buie
monitoring for protecting against this sort of failure. Thanks in advance for any insight and time. *Alex Buie*Senior Cloud Operations Engineer 450 Century Pkwy # 100 Allen, TX 75013 <https://maps.google.com/?q=450+Century+Pkwy+STE+100+%7C+Allen,+TX+%7C+75013&entry=gmail&source=g> D

Re: Ticketmaster contact

2023-01-15 Thread Alex Buie
Thank you for the tips so far. It was mentioned to me off-list this might be more helpful with our AS and relevant ranges, so including them here in case that's helpful. Sorry for not including them originally! AS: 396163 69.194.4.0/23 104.225.212.0/23 *Alex Buie*Senior Cloud Opera

Ticketmaster contact

2023-01-13 Thread Alex Buie
ave any tips, or recognize what WAF/engine they're using from the page layout with UUID at the bottom to help me identify who else I might try contacting to see about getting recategorized, I would really appreciate hearing from you. Thanks a bunch! Alex Buie Senior Cloud Operations Engineer 450 Century Pkwy # 100 Allen, TX 75013 D: 469-884-0225 | www.cytracom.com

Re: Wifi Calling Firewall Holes to Punch

2020-07-17 Thread Alex Buie via NANOG
aid “open up 4500 and 500” and our > ISO guys don’t like that. > > > > Thanks if someone can help. > > > > John C. Lyden > > Manager of Network Infrastructure, Infrastructure Services > > Division of Information Resources & Technology, Rowan University > > >

Re: HPE SAS Solid State Drives - Critical Firmware Upgrade Required

2019-11-26 Thread Alex Buie via NANOG
> > > > > https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-a00092491en_us > > > > -- *Alex Buie* Technical Support Expert, Level 3 - Networking Datto, Inc. 475-288-4550 (o) 585-653-8779 (c) www.datto.com <http://www.datto.com/support-sig/> Join the c

Re: Cellular backup connections

2019-06-24 Thread Alex Buie
We deploy routers with Verizon LTE failover - for full functionality, make sure your MTU is 1428 or less, per their specifications. Here's an example doc from Spirent that talks about it. https://support.spirent.com/SC_KnowledgeView?Id=FAQ14556 Alex On Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 7:51 AM Dovid Bender

Re: Verizon Wireless 4G Voice/Data

2016-06-14 Thread Alex Buie
Issue is supposedly resolved. Please test :) On Jun 14, 2016 7:33 PM, "Kraig Beahn" wrote: > Thanks Alex and Allen, > > All of the devices tested on our side have Florida NPA/NXX's, including > data only devices, which is more than likely the reason we are seeing > issues elsewhere across the cou

Re: Verizon Wireless 4G Voice/Data

2016-06-14 Thread Alex Buie
Large scale outage in FL, primarily affecting customers who have Advanced Calling (VoLTE) turned on and calling CDMA/PSTN destinations. However it appears there are many areas whose data connectivity is also affected. Will pass along any updates I can. Over 2k calls in the Tech Support queue righ

Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

2016-06-03 Thread Alex Buie
Agreed. I find it silly that as a US citizen on my US-bank-paid-for Netflix account with US physical address information suddenly cannot watch things when travelling I legally could if I were standing in another place. On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Cryptographrix wrote: > I have a VPN connecti

Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

2016-06-03 Thread Alex Buie
This is not a zero sum solution. Fallback to IP geolocation if more precise location detection is not available, but if it is, use that. You could even have a "location score" composite index composed of all the different locale and historical session data you've accumulated. (cf things like cloudf

Re: Binge On! - get your umbrellas out, stuff's hitting the fan.

2016-01-10 Thread Alex Buie
Ugh, I had to deal with this almost daily at $large_metered_us_carrier. We have WiFi hotspots and USB modems and inevitably the customers who usually use <2GB and have plans based on that usage got slapped with huge Windows 10 overages. Explaining that no, your "geebee" meter isn't broken, Microsof

Re: SMS gateways

2016-01-07 Thread Alex Buie
Based on a cursory pass of the FB website I can't find any of their products that have a CDMA modem - so they're definitely incorrect in that sense. Voice, text, 2G and 3G data are all CDMA on Verizon, unless you're doing something with SMS over IMS which is only supported with LTE capable hardware

OT: VPS with Routed IP space

2015-02-24 Thread Alex Buie
Anybody know of or have recommendations for providers of small VPS-line boxen (or alternative solutions) to serve as GRE endpoints? (for a small amount of IP addresses, /29 or /28 at most) I am finding a lot of places that will give you extra IPs on the box itself (oftentimes out of the provider's

Re: Cisco CCNA Training

2014-11-04 Thread Alex Buie
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote: > For learning--work beside an Old Hand that knows it and has a good record. Speaking of that, I've been wondering for a while if there are ever network engineer "apprenticeships," so to speak, or if you guys knew of any people or companies wh

Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles

2013-09-09 Thread Alex Buie
Whoops, my bad. Misparsed that acronym. On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 6:31 AM, wrote: > On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 19:04:14 -0700, Alex Buie said: > > > Recent TOR thing with freedomhosting (?) come to mind... > > That one appears to have been the FBI, which is DOJ not DHS. If you have

Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles

2013-09-08 Thread Alex Buie
Recent TOR thing with freedomhosting (?) come to mind... On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 6:08 PM, wrote: > On Sat, 07 Sep 2013 17:34:36 -0600, "Keith Medcalf" said: > > > Sometimes, it is a deliberate feature which is deliberately used to > attack > > the visitors of a web site. Prime example is the DH

Re: CableWiFi SSID in Washington DC?

2013-08-25 Thread Alex Buie
I haven't tried it in DC, but I can confirm that my parents' XFINITY and grandparents' OO logins both work on the CableWiFi SSIDs in San Francisco, and friends in DC with XFINITY say theirs work there. I assume it will also for you. (cf http://www.techspot.com/news/48684-five-us-cable-providers-jo

Re: gTLDs opened up

2013-07-11 Thread Alex Buie
Michael Brown wrote: > On 13-07-11 04:08 PM, Alex Buie wrote: > > Am I missing something, or is that purporting to be an IPv4 address > beginning with 478? > > Heh… it seems as though they mistyped '*78.47.115.194*' there. > > > 7 - How to distinguish betwee

Re: gTLDs opened up

2013-07-11 Thread Alex Buie
Am I missing something, or is that purporting to be an IPv4 address beginning with 478? http://www.open-root.eu/about-open-root/how-to-install-an-open-root-website-69/ On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Scott Howard wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > > > AfriNIC put

Re: Need help in flushing DNS

2013-06-19 Thread Alex Buie
Anyone have news/explanation about what's happening/happened? On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote: > Sure enough: > > > > ; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> @localhost yelp.com A > ; (1 server found) > ;; global options: +cmd > ;; Got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NO