Re: Geo-location - IP Location Websites

The support for most geoip websites answers my requests within a few days at most. It's easiest if you self publish a geofeed as described at http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-google-self-published-geofeeds-02 and keep it up to date. At that point you can just point them to that feed and they'll hap

Re: provider email maintenance standard

I ended up writing a flask app that parses provider maintenance emails and posts slack notifications at the start and end of the window. You can also extend it to take actions like drain/undrain traffic during windows. Right now the five supported providers are NTT, PacketFabric, EUNetworks, GTT, a

provider email maintenance standard

Hello nanog, I've heard second-hand there is an existing standard for provider maintenance emails that should be followed in the form of a calendar attachment, but I can't seem to find any information on it. Can anyone help me with the following: 1. Does this standard exist? If so, is there somew

Re: Templating/automating configuration

Salt is great for generating configs based on jinja templates, and you can use napalm in conjunction with salt to push the configs to the device on a set schedule (typically this is done hourly). If manual changes are made to the router, salt would override them on the next run, so it's a great way

Re: Smokeping targets

Something I found that is helpful once you've gathered a list of targets is the following command for generating config to paste: traceroute -w 3 [IPaddress] | grep -v "*" | grep -v "traceroute" | sed -e 's/(//g' -e 's/)//g' | awk '{ gsub(/\./,"_",$2); print " "$2"\nmenu = "$3"\ntitle = "$2" -

Level 3 contact

Would an engineer from Level 3 please contact me off list? Thank you.