Re: RES: RES: Software For Telcos

2011-01-04 Thread Cat Okita
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Takashi Tome wrote: That was true some 30 years ago... That's still true today. There's an insane amount of in-house stuff still kicking around, for various reasons, some reasonable, some not so much. Actually, I think the problem is quite different. Big telco's network is

Re: Cage nuts/rack hw near SAVVIS DC3 (Sterling VA)

2010-12-01 Thread Cat Okita
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Leo Bicknell wrote: Every meeting I have with a colo provider I suggest this exact idea. Patch cables (cat5, single mode, multi-mode), fiber couplers, maybe even SFP's, velcro ties, a 10-in-1 screwdriver, etc. I'd say skip the colo provider, and look for vending machine comp

Re: (cisco, or any) acl *reducers* out there?

2010-08-19 Thread Cat Okita
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Christopher Morrow wrote: this paper, while full of math and graphs and sh*t, doesn't make my acl management simpler, clearer or more complete... I keep trying to push my acls through the paper, no joy yet. there's code or something somewhere that implements the algorithms a

Re: (cisco, or any) acl *reducers* out there?

2010-08-19 Thread Cat Okita
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, George Michaelson wrote: I have been looking at acl management s/w in the freecode space and I can find lots of tools which manage/distribute and test ACLs in routers. I'm wondering if anyone has written a parser which can construct rule-trees and get rid of the cruft, unu

Re: Yahoo DNS broken?

2008-12-03 Thread Cat Okita
Looks like some of akamai's nameservers have misplaced themselves and yahoo. cheers! On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Nathan Ward wrote: There is no A records, correct. There is a CNAME though: www.wa1.b.yahoo.com.45 IN CNAME www-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com. www-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com. 45IN

Re: maybe a dumb idea on how to fix the dns problems i don't know....

2008-08-10 Thread Cat Okita
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008, Chris Paul wrote: And we'll change to IPv6 tomorrow! Total apples and oranges. We all have to patch anyhow. This is just code and firewall rules. IPv6 is way more complicated, friend. No - IPv6 is just code (and not even firewall rules). cheers! ==

Re: [ppml] too many variables

2007-08-13 Thread Cat Okita
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Leo Bicknell wrote: It seems to me an off the shelf PC with a Core 2 Duo processor, 4 gig of memory, and a gigabit ethernet port would be 1-2 orders of magnitude faster than what's currently in the routers. Optimize for a multithreaded CPU, add a second and it would converg

Re: Yahoo outage summary

2007-07-08 Thread Cat Okita
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Lixia Zhang wrote: I agree here. So the mostly needed thing is some verification system. I keep on coming back to "any proposal that requires universal adoption and deployment is fatally flawed". As far as "needing a verification system", is there something deeply problema