Re: strange scam? email claiming to be from the fbi

2021-11-16 Thread Michael Wayne
On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 11:02:49AM -0500, Glenn McGurrin via NANOG wrote: > I had a bit of an odd one this morning, I received two emails through > contacts listed in whois subject: "Urgent: Threat actor in systems" from > "e...@ic.fbi.gov". I was all set to ignore them as an odd bit of spam P

Re: Rack rails on network equipment

2021-09-24 Thread Wayne Bouchard
lly > limiting myself by excluding vendors who don't ship with toolless rails > (which is all of them now except Dell)? > > Thanks for your time in advance! > --Andrey --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-28 Thread Wayne Bouchard
best sticking with the current figures until what is widely available as a top end service begins to reflect different figures and I don't see that that has happened yet. -Wayne On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 08:29:08PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: > > What should be the new minimum speed for &q

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Wayne Bouchard
havior. However the definition of "abusive" has now been extended so greatly and with constantly changing rules that it's making the statement, effectively, "if we don't like what you say, or if we don't like you or your business, sucks to be you." Editorializing w

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Wayne Bouchard
t; > > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/09/amazon-parler-suspension/ > > > > Regards, > > Bill HErrin --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: Are the days of the showpiece NOC office display gone forever?

2020-12-22 Thread Wayne Bouchard
customer service (or excessive emphasis on procedures) is a really nice way of taking a five minute problem and turning it into an hour long ordeal. (pet peeve) -Wayne --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: IPv4 Mismanagement

2020-10-03 Thread Wayne Bouchard
d > >> to us. > >> > >> This is really confusing and concerning. I know it's not the > >> end-all-be-all, but I wonder how much IPv4 exhaustion is being caused by > >> this type of IPv4 mis-management, where IPs are still shown as > >> "allocated" to a customer who hasn't used them in years. > >> > >> I've seen this behavior from Frontier and CenturyLink to name just a few. > >> > >> Any thoughts on this? > >> > > > > --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

2020-07-24 Thread Wayne Bouchard
re are plenty of network engineers out there who, in going about their job--and especially when trying out new features, figuratively mashed their figures with that hammer. Curiosity, yes, but also self-discipline. -Wayne --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: 60 ms cross-continent

2020-06-20 Thread Wayne Bouchard
And thus far, no one has mentioned switching speed and other electronic overhead such as the transceivers (that's the big one, IIRC.) I also don't recall if anyone mentioned that the 30ms is as the photon flies, not fiber distance. -Wayne On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 05:32:30PM +, M

Re: Huawei on Mount Everest

2020-05-01 Thread Wayne Bouchard
is, I would think it would be a good > thing for climbers to be able to check in and say whether they are OK. > > I agree it's mostly a publicity stunt, though. --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: Are underground utility markers essential workers?

2020-04-21 Thread Wayne Bouchard
you're always going to get it wrong. On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 02:57:15PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: > > Utility markers don't get the recognition they deserve. If they aren't > essential workers, they should be and get hazard pay. > > They help protect every

Re: Tell me about AS19111

2020-02-05 Thread Wayne Bouchard
s (they just don't feel warm and fuzzy to me), his meaning was pretty clear. So to be pedantic, just tack "WRT other engineers" on the end of that and the statement holds. -Wayne --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: Iran cuts 95% of Internet traffic

2019-11-18 Thread Wayne Bouchard
ental) is exchanged between providers and even how bandwidth is sold. It feels to me like it won't be too much longer before such things start to become somewhat less a matter of business and more a matter of treaty. -Wayne On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 10:09:36AM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: >

Re: Disney+ Streaming

2019-11-12 Thread Wayne Bouchard
audience size, all this really does is shuffle the ratings around a bit. As to the "$10-20/mo for eight different services", I tend to think that people are gonna rebel at some point and seek out some sort of a centralized service and we'll kinda be back to where we started, with eac

Re: Weekly Routing Table Report

2019-08-30 Thread Wayne Bouchard
wn"? :) > > scott > bgp since ~50k Hah! "The internet woulda been perfect, if not for those meddling kids!" --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: Weekly Routing Table Report

2019-08-30 Thread Wayne Bouchard
out 32,000 prefixes and we were panicked about that. "CIDRize or die", I think Sean Doran said. I remember well the memory and cam struggles to keep up with growth. Its phenomenal, yes, but also, "WTF, PEOPLE??? CAN'T ANYONE AGGREGATE ANYMORE???" :) -Wayne --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: Power cut if temps are too high

2019-05-28 Thread Wayne Bouchard
store environmentals rather than taking the hard outage since that alone does lots of damage to equipment that has been in place for a good while. You also probably ought to make sure that the present state of said system and its pieces are visible so you can make sure you're going to restart correctly.

Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe.

2018-10-16 Thread Wayne Bouchard
dealing with complex > matters, no matter how much thought went into it. People are > fallible, and the standards they write are inevitably flawed in > some way, so a realistic implementor has to allow some slack or be > continually engaged in finger-pointing when somethin

Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe.

2018-10-15 Thread Wayne Bouchard
ools.ietf.org/html/rfc2468 > > Oct 16, 1998. --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: (perhaps off topic, but) Microwave Towers

2018-07-15 Thread Wayne Bouchard
ely packed with directional horns) but a lot of their communication for rail signaling was hardwire as far as I was aware. -Wayne On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 12:20:34PM -0500, frnk...@iname.com wrote: > Is it possibly AT&T's old network? > https://99percentinvisible.org/article/vint

Re: is odd number of links in lag group ok

2018-05-16 Thread Wayne Bouchard
gt; > > > I'm asking since I heard in the past something negative about odd numbers of > lag members. .but I also have heard that it's not a big deal. Let me know > please > > > > -Aaron > > > > --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: 60 Hudson Woes

2018-02-18 Thread Wayne Bouchard
That can take a bit to do if they're a new contractor. Once on file, a renewal is usually an easy thing but getting the initial paperwork done can take time. After that, they can come and go as they please, so long as access tickets are duly arranged. -Wayne On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 04:07:

Re: 60 Hudson Woes

2018-02-18 Thread Wayne Bouchard
> for our employees but for anyone else that wants access we need to > > request > > > it 48 hours in advance to get approval. So if we plan on having an > > > unexpected outage and we need to have a have a vendor come on site (e.g. > > a > > > Dell tech) we will need to let them know in advance. > > > > > > What are peoples experiences with 111 8th and 165 Halsey? We really like > > > the connectivity options at 60 Hudson but at some point the hassle > > becomes > > > not worth it. > > > > > > > --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: Broadcast television in an IP world

2017-11-18 Thread Wayne Bouchard
system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or > > error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, > > arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Luke Guillory therefore does > > not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this > > message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. . > > > > --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: Broadcast television in an IP world

2017-11-17 Thread Wayne Bouchard
doesn't rely on OTA. Hell, even STL links these days are often packet based. (It's often a lot simpler and cheaper than trying to operate a microwave feed.) So if you've already done the encoding, the OTA setup is simply one branch among several possible paths. -Wayne --- Wayne Bouc

Re: Puerto Rico: Lack of electricity threatens telephone and internet services

2017-10-19 Thread Wayne Bouchard
contains confidential information and is intended only > for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not > disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender > immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and > delete this

Re: 4 or smaller digit ASNs

2017-10-12 Thread Wayne Bouchard
> > I'm curious what your client's rationale is for wanting a low ASN. Dare I say it? Nerds often get overly excited at things that are generally pretty small... ;) --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: replacing compromised biometric authenticators

2017-10-11 Thread Wayne Bouchard
ers can be convenient for not having to carry anything around but when all is said and done, they are really not all that much better than just a keycard. -Wayne On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 04:10:51PM -0500, Matt Harris wrote: > I would definitely not say that it is current best practice

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

2017-10-09 Thread Wayne Bouchard
icipalities have all 3 services. It is possible that some customers > of Claro served by these OCs do not have internet. This is possible as > there could be cables and posts broken and / or VRADs without AEE > service." > > https://www.metro.pr/pr/noticias/2017/10/06/senal-claro-esta-ya-accesible-34-municipios.html --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

2017-10-01 Thread Wayne Bouchard
power and > didn't realise how life changes when you have no power, queue up for > wood provided by city etc. (and that is nothing compared to what people > on Puerto Rico are dealing with). --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

2017-09-25 Thread Wayne Bouchard
thing can start coming back together. First and foremost, this means making the place habitable again so you actually have customers to serve. So any time spent doing something like what is related above is extremely worth while and can only serve to facilitate future work for everyone on the isl

Re: Hurricane Harvey - Network Status (FCC)

2017-08-28 Thread Wayne Bouchard
's at) > > seems to be back on the air, but with all production from WFAA out of > > Dallas. > > > KHOU had a tweet with video showing the water flooding into their > offices/studios and staff having to leave. > > https://twitter.com/sallykhou11/status/9018055

Admiral Hosting in London

2017-07-27 Thread Michael Wayne
We were contacted by Admiral Hosting in London to rent some our unused IP space. While they insist that they're not spammers, we can not find out much about them. Has anyone had any dealings with this company? Legit? Scam? We are not interested in contributing to the Scam/Spam problem and figured

Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why?

2016-11-09 Thread Wayne Bouchard
eat big, gigantic level 0, though they did also experiment with other configurations. -Wayne On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 07:59:12AM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 9/Nov/16 19:12, Michael Bullut wrote: > > > Greetings Team, > > > > ???While I haven't worked with

Re: Dyn DDoS this AM?

2016-10-24 Thread Wayne Bouchard
ploying) a number of these systems for use against other States and businesses and/or financial mechanisms. So rather than help the community solve the problem (for their own good, no less!), it is in their interests to perpetuate it. -Wayne On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 05:37:08PM -0400, Alain He

Re: MPLS in the campus Network?

2016-10-24 Thread Wayne Bouchard
> What we're not seeing anymore is l3vpn requirements, particularly on the > back of on-premise IT infrastructure moving into the cloud. We see this > driving a lot of regular IP growth. > > Mark. --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: 18 years ago today - rfc 2468

2016-10-19 Thread Wayne Bouchard
19 AM, Rodney Joffe wrote: > > > > To be clear - Oct 16. Which has just tolled in the APAC region. For most of > > you it will be tomorrow. But no matter. You get the point. > > > >> On Oct 15, 2016, at 9:08 AM, Rodney Joffe wrote: > >> > >> How time flies > --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: ISP License in the USA?

2016-05-31 Thread Wayne Bouchard
t; and/or residential). > > > > I am aware that there are some CALEA requirements of ISPs that seem to kick > in once a CALEA request is made, but is that different from a license. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Lorell Hathcock > > > > > > > > > > > > --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: ISP License in the USA?

2016-05-31 Thread Wayne Bouchard
is a network. The rest is mostly all about trying to get customers from one section or another of business or of the general public. -Wayne On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 11:54:38AM -0700, Eric Flanery (eric) wrote: > There is no such thing as an 'ISP license' in the US. I have a hard time >

Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences

2016-04-11 Thread Wayne Bouchard
l favor setting the generic location as a certain set of roundish holes in the ground up in the northern plains. Let the government raid itself for once. --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: Colocation Server Lifts

2016-04-04 Thread Wayne Bouchard
except to perhaps be questioned whether you know how to use it before letting you wheel it away. One would hope it would be more or less self-explanatory and just a question of reading the labels by the controls. -Wayne On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 07:23:41AM -0500, Jason Lee wrote: > Hi NA

Re: Oh dear, we've all been made redundant...

2016-03-23 Thread Wayne Bouchard
-rich equipment as he walked in > the area. > > Then, after some coffee and a cigarette, he would go through the > trouble-ticket collection, retest the item, mark the ticket "NTF" and > proceed to the next item. I love that! Just goes to show the vast range of techni

Re: remote serial console (IP to Serial)

2016-03-12 Thread Michael Wayne
On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 06:40:54AM -0600, Andrew Latham wrote: > +1 on the Lantronix Spider as it is an awesome tool but Lantronix make > devices for very small rollouts also, > http://www.lantronix.com/products/eds1100-eds2100/#tab-features might be I mentioned this to the OP but did not see it m

Re: John McAfee: Massive DDoS attack on the internet was from smartphone botnet on popular app

2015-12-14 Thread Wayne Wenthin
Keep in mind that he is running for President also.

Fw: new message

2015-10-26 Thread Wayne E . Bouchard
Hey! New message, please read <http://documation.greatapes.com/likely.php?x> Wayne E. Bouchard

Re: Ear protection

2015-09-23 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
p://www.shop3m.com/3m-corded-earplugs-hearing-conservation- > > 1110.html > > > > These work reasonably well in practice, with a rated nominal > > noise reduction rate of 29dB. Some people find them > > uncomfortable, but they work well for me. > > > > There are other ear plugs with rated NRR of up to 32-33dB. > > Anyone have any opinions on what brands work well for them? > > > > Nick > > > > --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: Ear protection

2015-09-23 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
ustrate the makeup at various points. May even be worth a paper if I can get some equipment and colo vendors to cooperate and feed me data. -Wayne On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 12:13:08PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > On 09/23/2015 10:09 AM, Keith Stokes wrote: > >Since I???m in our colo facil

Re: Zayo/AboveNet

2015-08-10 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
t; > > > Anyone know why Zayo still hasn't renamed the BGP AS network names for > > all > > > the AboveNet ASNs? > > > > They don???t want to disrupt their Alternet peering sessions. > > > > -Bill > > > > > > > > > > --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: OT - Small DNS "appliances" for remote offices.

2015-02-18 Thread Michael R. Wayne
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 06:28:16AM -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > Am looking for options to deploy DNS caching resolvers at remote > locations where there may only be minimal infrastructure I suspect that this could be done using an ERLite but have not actually tried it.

Re: How our young colleagues are being educated....

2015-01-06 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
nd operations has contend with day by day. (Too often people conflate "engineering" with "architecture" and while they are very much related, they are not one and the same.) -Wayne --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: Linux router traffic monitoring, how? netflow?

2014-11-13 Thread Wayne Lee
Hello I've used ntop in the past with great success. ntop.org Regards Wayne On 14 November 2014 02:35, Murat Kaipov wrote: > Hello Eliezer. > Netflow will be the best solution to find the host that's generate load. > First you need decide what netflow analyzer you&#

Re: Cogent admits to QoSing down streaming

2014-11-06 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
monopoly rents on the content providers their paying customers are trying > >to access? I know I would. > > > >Instead, we'll be talking about how things are not really bad, Cogent just > >made it look bad on purpose. The subtlety of "it _IS_ bad, Cogent just > >

Re: Marriott wifi blocking

2014-10-03 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
er and represent a risk to the network, or because they don't want someone setting up a system that would interfere with their wireless gear and take down other clients who are on premesis... Would not such an active device be quite appropriate there? -Wayne --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could enshrine pay-for-play. - The Washington Post

2014-04-24 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
s are implemented and how things are interpreted before we know what this is going to do to competitveness. -Wayne On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 04:42:42PM -0500, Jack Bates wrote: > On 4/24/2014 9:59 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > >I think you and I disagree on the definition of "anti-comp

Re: competition (was: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica)

2014-03-21 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
uickly that lowest cost is not necessarily lowest cost because of the problem of compensating for shoddy work. Government doesn't have to learn this lesson, especially when palms are getting greased and spoils are being distributed. -Wayne --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
t easier for them to sit there and be stagnant dinosaurs while the rest of the world moves on. It's the same thing the record companies are doing on with a different flavor. -Wayne --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: L6-20P -> L6-30R

2014-03-18 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
oing stuff like that and don't advocate it if for no other reason that it makes good sense not to put yourself into a potentially problematic situation. -Wayne --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: L6-20P -> L6-30R

2014-03-18 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
replacing the plug on the PDU, not by "making it work". I have had to do this at times but it is not strictly allowed by codes and not at all recommended. -Wayne On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 03:46:26PM -0700, Mike Hale wrote: > They're different. You can't force them. > >

Re: US to relinquish control of Internet

2014-03-15 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
ally if they are relying on going through ICANN to do it. What's the worst they can do at this point? Make .bobtodd and .bubbagump TLDs? This is different from some of the crap we've got now in what way?? -Wayne --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: new DNS forwarder vulnerability

2014-03-14 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
x27;t > had any cycles for this but with all the CPE issues out there it would be > interesting to have > a matrix of which CPEs utilize which reference implementation. That may > start giving some clues. > > Has someone / is someone doing this? > > - merike > --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: ddos attack blog

2014-02-14 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
s are just part of the "public" and should never consider that their usage of the internet is any more or less valid to the average third party than the next guy. -Wayne --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: Why are we fixated on Multimode fiber for high bandwidth communication?

2013-12-31 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
buying two or three optics a year, a $150 price difference is no big deal. For those who buy two or three hundred optics every other month, this really makes a difference and those are the ones driving the MM development. -Wayne On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 02:08:36PM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote: > &

Re: What routers do folks use these days?

2013-12-10 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
Brocade MLXe with the XMR cards is a good choice, yes, but -1 for "What do you mean that this feature isn't fully implemented yet?? It's been in common use among other vendors for better than 10 years!" They're a lot better than they were but still a bit lagging. -Wayne

Re: If you're on LinkedIn, and you use a smart phone...

2013-10-26 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
ough it, in the process self-disclose everything necessary for someone to basically become us? The hackers/corporate scrapers don't even really *HAVE* to try to thieve information anymore. We give it to them all without them even asking! -Wayne On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 02:16:05AM -0400, Ja

Re: abha ahuja

2013-10-21 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
rt. > > randy --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: Cogent 100M DIA in Denver

2013-10-14 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
n wrote: > > They're lit in the bulding and have a much faster installation interval. > > How reliable are they? > > Tri Tran > > It's worth pointing out that many IPv6 networks are unavailable from > Cogent; so, effectively, in 2013, you still can't get IPv6 > co

Re: Internet Surveillance and Boomerang Routing: A Call for Canadian Network Sovereignty

2013-09-07 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
e is being accessed freely by (at the very least) England and Australia (I think that's who I read) I believe with reciprical agreements and I'd be shocked if Canada isn't in there too. What are the ramifications of that? Do we even know? Points to ponder... -Wayne On Sat, Sep 07, 2013

Re: How big is the Internet?

2013-08-14 Thread Wayne Wenthin
d some vendors like Cisco have released > forecasts and estimates. There are occasional pieces of information > stated by companies in their investor documents (SEC 10-K, etc). > > > -- Wayne Wenthin Technology Services Cascade Technology Alliance (CTA North - Multnomah ESD) Office: 503.257.1562 Cell: 360.818.4283

Re: net neutrality and peering wars continue

2013-06-19 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
go. To have government get into this will certainly not help the problem, it will just make it a hundred times worse. Remember the old saying that the eight most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government. I'm here to help." and boy will they try to "help". You'll be lucky if you as a company can keep still your doors open after they get done "helping" you. Anyhow, just my two bits. -Wayne --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: If you thought you had wire management issues in your facilities...

2013-06-19 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
*shrug* Enh.. Looks pretty much like any colo site I've ever been in that's been maintained by nothing but remote hands for the previous 4 years... (equinix, are you paying attention?) -Wayne On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 01:04:17PM -0400, Tom Morris wrote: > Radio Free Asia, Washingto

Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-10 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
#x27;re the government. Trust us!" --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-08 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
lly active by seeing who is placing/receiving calls from a given group. This whole system is just ripe for abuse. The statement the president made on this issue, as I heard it, really boils down to 5 words: "We're the government. Trust us." *shudder* -Wayne On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 a

Re: using ARIN IP space outside of ARIN region

2013-03-18 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
If you're using separate ASNs, they want the regions treated as separate organizations with regards to routing. (IE, they want you to effectively run them as separate business units.) I do not know how much of that is an issue today but it could be a real PITA in days past. Still, a single ASN

Re: De-funding the ITU

2013-01-14 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
n the spectrum. (That was also the genesis of the FCC. Too bad it didn't confine itself to that.) I'm sure there have been other useful things to come about but the have been abd continue to be considerably overshadowed by the detrimental effects of excessive meddling. -Wayne On Mon, Jan 14

Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed?

2012-12-24 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 07:53:26AM -0500, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 18:07:16 -0700, Wayne E Bouchard said: > > > They serve quite well until I get to a switch that some douchebag > > mounted rear facing on the front posts of the rack with servers above

Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed?

2012-12-22 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
ursing for a while as I scratch my head trying to figure out how the hell to even get to the tab in the first place... -Wayne --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed?

2012-12-21 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
st unnecessary headaches. (BTW, you forgot to mention them slipping loose and just pulling away from the connector or the tab slipping out from under the rubber and making the cable all the more difficult to remove.) -Wayne --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed?

2012-12-20 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
deal with itself. -Wayne On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:28:52AM -0800, Michael Loftis wrote: > It's not all about density. You *Must* have positive retention and > alignment. None of the USB nor firewire standards provide for positive > retention. eSATA does sort of in some variant

Re: Announcing APNIC IP's in ARIN region

2012-09-25 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
geographic maping mechanisms and so on) and that may introduce potential legal problems in the future, depending on the nation you're in and how paranoid they become. So in short, do what you need to do. Just be aware of sub-optimal. -Wayne On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:30:59AM +0200, Jeroen Massar

Re: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags

2012-08-20 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
;> > >> The customer sent us some pictures today of the pole outside their office. > >> The repair appears to be wrapping some plastic bags around something up > >> on the pole. Here is link to the pictures the customer sent us, in case > >> anyone i

Re: EBAY and AMAZON

2012-06-12 Thread Michael R. Wayne
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:44:44AM +, Jamie Bowden wrote: > > While MS may be a favorite whipping boy, let's not pretend that if the > dominant OS were Apple or some flavor of *nix, things would be any better. There is an inherent advantage for anything based upon *BSD. It was developed i

Re: CVV numbers

2012-06-09 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
er. Having these mechanisms is better than not having them but there will never be a perfect system. -Wayne --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: BGP ORF in practice

2012-06-01 Thread Wayne Tucker
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Rob Shakir wrote: > It has some potential to be difficult to manage where implementations > begin to experience complexities in building UPDATE message replication > groups (where peers have a dynamic advertisement (egress) policy due to ORF, > then this may mean

BGP ORF in practice

2012-05-31 Thread Wayne Tucker
What's the general consensus (hah! ;) regarding the use of RFC5291 BGP outbound route filtering? It's worked well for me in the lab, but I have yet to use it in a live environment (and I don't know that most service providers would know what I was talking about if I asked for it). Does it work gr

Re: pbx recco

2012-05-15 Thread Wayne Wenthin
Randy, Greets from 105/102! Now that I've said that I have had some luck with Trixbox. His fun will be getting the Cisco phones talking sip and liking it. Wayne On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Randy Bush wrote: > have a friend who is a penguinista and wants to run a simple

Re: Common operational misconceptions

2012-02-16 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
: > traceroute shows _a_ path. Your packets might have taken a different > path. (& the return traffic yet another) --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: LX sfp minimum range

2012-01-26 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
arted to become scarce at various times, I've done a number of back-to-back connections using SM fiber and have had zero issues. I wouldn't even worry about it. Remember, many carriers won't even touch MM and they aren't chronically reporting issues or going to lengths to work around them. -Wayne --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

RE: Inaccessible network from Verizon, accessible elsewhere.

2011-12-12 Thread Wayne
Yes www.speedtest.net & www.gotomypc are also inaccessible or very slow along with many other sites. Experiencing these problems in Nassau and Westchester County on consumer fios. -Original Message- From: Brandon Kim [mailto:brandon@brandontek.com] Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 11

IP addresses are now assets

2011-12-01 Thread Michael R. Wayne
>From >http://www.detnews.com/article/20111201/BIZ/112010483/1361/Borders-selling-Internet-addresses-for-$786-000 Borders selling Internet addresses for $786,000 Bill Rochelle/ Bloomberg News Borders Group Inc., the liquidated Ann Arbor-based bookseller, will generate $786,000 by se

Re: Steve Jobs has died

2011-10-06 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
n. Apply your own opinion there whether you feel that's accurate or not. I'll just state this: Both men were pasionate about what they did. They each changed the world and left it better than they found it. -Wayne --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-04 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 12:56:25PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Wayne E. Bouchard: > > > the users will screw themselves by flooding their uplinks in which > > case they will know what they've done to themselves and will largely > > accept the problems for the dur

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

2011-09-03 Thread Wayne E Bouchard
bility of it causing disruptions anywhere but at the immediate source or within the near vicinity of the desination is low, as I see it. IMO, the only ones who really need be concerned are Apple's bandwidth prodivers because traffic will be concentrating within their networks and especially in

Re: London UK smart hands recommendations?

2011-07-15 Thread Wayne Lee
> On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 16:30 +0100, Mark Blackman wrote: >> In the unlikely event no one else suggests them, I'll point you at >> NetSumo, http://www.netsumo.com/ > > +1, lots of clue available at Netsumo. +2 for Netsumo Wayne

Re: Hotmail?

2011-06-09 Thread Wayne Lee
to weeks. Runs on practically any > major OS you prefer... > > -Vinny +1 for Surgemail Have been running it for years and it's rock solid. Wayne

Re: 365x24x7

2011-04-17 Thread Wayne Lee
> Rotating shifts between daytime and nighttime is a horrible thing to > do to your workers, both for their health and their attention span. One of the places I worked had the following pattern. It was horrible 2 days/shifts of 6am till 6pm 2 days/shifts of 6pm till 6am 4 days off Wayne

Re: Level 3 Agrees to Purchase Global Crossing

2011-04-11 Thread Wayne E. Bouchard
owards center mass. That's just the way things go. The only saving grace may be that it opens the door for one of the little guys to get a bit bigger and start drawing cash away from the behemoths out there. -Wayne --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: Interesting google redirects.

2011-03-03 Thread Wayne Lee
>> also some EU customers are getting redirected to .au  domain Mine got redirected to google.be for a while.

Re: Connectivity status for Egypt

2011-01-28 Thread Wayne E. Bouchard
rst E1 actually has much behind them and whether those people have much connectivity that doesn't require shrapnel removal. --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: 5.7/5.8 GHz 802.11n dual polarity MIMO through office building glass, 1.5 km distance

2010-12-28 Thread Wayne E. Bouchard
stern > > Canadian city. Telus' upstream speed offering do not exceed 1 Mbps. > > > > Equipment. These have been used successfully for MCS13/MCS14 50 Mbps+ > > bridges at 11 km distance between towers. > > > > http://ubnt.com/nanobridge > > > > http://www.ubnt.com/downloads/nb5_datasheet.pdf > > > --- Wayne Bouchard w...@typo.org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/

Re: Abuse@ contacts

2010-12-07 Thread Wayne Lee
n error...) > I haven't kept count, but I'd say I get an answer at least 50% of the time. My support team and I always answer ours. The only mail auto deleted is when the person contacting us actually tried to send us a copy of the virus they received. Damn they got all pissed when the mail was auto dropped. Wayne

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