RE: Target stores down

2019-06-15 Thread frnkblk
According to the news, sales associates can complete transactions using their (very small) handheld units. Frank -Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of Jared Mauch Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2019 4:27 PM To: Andy Ringsmuth Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: Target stores down I know what I was

RE: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report

2019-05-13 Thread frnkblk
This webinar may be of some interest to those in this group: https://www.fcc.gov/small-rural-communications-provider-network-resiliency-webinar Here’s some additional color commentary on the FCC’s concerns: https://urgentcomm.com/2019/05/10/backhaul-problems-disjointed-recovery-efforts-key-ca

Service provider story about tracking down TCP RSTs

2018-09-01 Thread frnkblk
I want to share a little bit of our journey in tracking down the TCP RSTs that impacted some of our customers for almost ten weeks. Almost immediately after we turned up two new Arista border routers in late July we started receiving a trickle of complaints from customers regarding their inabil

RE: (perhaps off topic, but) Microwave Towers

2018-07-14 Thread frnkblk
Is it possibly AT&T's old network? https://99percentinvisible.org/article/vintage-skynet-atts-abandoned-long-lines-microwave-tower-network/ http://long-lines.net/places-routes/ This network runs through our service territory, too. The horns are distinctive. Frank -Original Message- F

RE: 48vDC Output UPS

2017-12-31 Thread frnkblk
I've been looking for many years for something similar, one that has integrated batteries and is remote manageable (or ties into our equipment's telemetry) and reasonably priced, but haven't yet found one, yet. Many of the NIDs/ONTs that we install at our customer sites are DC powered, but none

RE: Optical transceiver question

2016-09-11 Thread frnkblk
In discussions with the reseller he admitted that they market the distance based on average TX power and average link loss, so it is possible to purchase optics that may not be able to attain certain necessary link budgets and therefore distances. There are 1270/1310 nm BiDi optics with a worst-ca

RE: ARIN Route Registry Issue

2016-08-13 Thread frnkblk
They are moving offices. https://www.arin.net/announcements/2016/20160804.html Frank -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Erik Sundberg Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2016 1:43 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: ARIN Route Registry Issue I am having some

RE: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences

2016-04-16 Thread frnkblk
Note that for E911 purposes we are required to use the MSAG (http://netorange.com/nena-reference/index.php?title=Master_Street_Address_Guide_(MSAG)) to verify street addresses. From what my co-workers at my $DAYJOB tell me, there are many new addresses that are not resolvable. Despite those

RE: IPV6 planning

2016-03-06 Thread frnkblk
Just to amplify what Hugo wrote, there is DNS support with SLAAC (see RFC 6106), but router and client support mixed. In the end, I would recommend support DHCPv6 and SLAAC, and if your router support RFC 6106, stuff the DNS information in there, too. Frank -Original Message- From: NAN

RE: Softlayer / Blocking Cuba IP's ?

2016-02-19 Thread frnkblk
Official statement here: https://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/faq/softlayer-network-wide-ip-blocking Frank -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+frnkblk=iname@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Faisal Imtiaz Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 5:21 PM To: Carlos A. Carnero Delgado

RE: Automated alarm notification

2016-02-13 Thread frnkblk
Thanks, but I don’t see that datadog can ingests SNMP traps – can you point me in the right direction? Frank From: John Adams [mailto:j...@retina.net] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 5:24 PM To: Frank Bulk Cc: nanog@nanog.org list Subject: Re: Automated alarm notification datadog

RE: Cable Operator List

2016-02-02 Thread frnkblk
If you need density along the Arris line, skip the C4 and go straight to the E6000. Frank -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Corbe Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2016 8:18 AM To: Colton Conor Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: Cable Operator List Hey

RE: small automatic transfer switches

2016-01-29 Thread frnkblk
There's also WTI, which we use: http://www.wti.com/c-41-automatic-transfer-switch.aspx Frank -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Anderson Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 2:30 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: small automatic transfer switches

RE: SMS gateways

2016-01-11 Thread frnkblk
I plan to continue living in a rural area with a GSM provider that will support 2G. =) Frank -Original Message- From: John Levine [mailto:jo...@iecc.com] Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2016 5:24 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Cc: frnk...@iname.com Subject: Re: SMS gateways In article <006501d14b3

RE: Updated Ookla Speedtest Server Requirements

2015-11-10 Thread frnkblk
Note that Ookla's speedtest server runs fine over IPv6 -- we have ours dual-stacked and also with a specific FQDN. Frank -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Pete Mundy Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 11:27 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Updat

RE: Two IPv6 websites down

2015-11-02 Thread frnkblk
Without disclosing too much, I learned from a person within BT's broader organization that the removal of for www.bt.com was intentional for troubleshooting purposes. Frank -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of frnk...@iname.com Sent: Saturday,

Two IPv6 websites down

2015-10-31 Thread frnkblk
My regular BT and CTL link contacts have not responded, but perhaps there's another engineer on the list that can investigate. www.bt.com hasn't had an since Friday, October 30 at 4:36 am (U.S. Central). OpenDNS carried it for a while longer yesterday, but when I checked this morning it was

RE: Dial Up Solutions

2015-10-17 Thread frnkblk
Don't forget about this bug: Uptime bug is referenced in UTStarcom documentation as AnswerID 3497; = If you are experiencing poor performance and / or operational slowdown on your network of the HiPer ARC card and the card uptime is over 400 days, please update the codebase to the foll

RE: Dial Up Solutions

2015-10-17 Thread frnkblk
We're still using USR Robotics/3com TotalControls and were able to get some spare parts from our statewide telecom partner when they shut down their stuff. Most common problem we see now are fan failures, but we just cannabilize existing the fans out of a fan tray. The volume of calls are so l

RE: Broken IPV6 for Enterprise websites

2015-10-17 Thread frnkblk
FYI, enterprise.ca started responding to HTTPv6 requests this morning at 12:17 am (U.S. Central). Not ICMPv6, though. It was also up October 11 from 4:09 to 4:16 am, and then again from 4:26 to 4:46 am. Since I've started tracking it, this is the longest the site has been accessible over IPv6.

RE: DDoS auto-mitigation best practices (for eyeball networks)

2015-09-21 Thread frnkblk
99% of the attacks we see are gaming related -- somehow the other players know the IP and then attack our customer for an advantage in the game, or retribution. Most DHCP servers (correctly) give the same IP address if the CPE is rebooted. Ours are one of those. =) Frank -Original Message--

RE: SMS Gateway

2015-09-20 Thread frnkblk
With earlier releases I did see our unit "lock up", in the sense they wouldn't send messages. A reboot resolved those issues. The last two or three releases from Multitech for iSMS have been solid, none of those issues anymore. Frank -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@

RE: Windows 10 Release

2015-07-29 Thread frnkblk
Some concern expressed here: http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2015/07/windows-10-launch-huge-traffic.html Frank -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Nick Olsen Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 3:45 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Windows 10 Release Anyon

RE: DDOS Simulation

2015-07-29 Thread frnkblk
If the customer has headroom on a 10G link, what's the harm with running a 1G volumetric DDoS across the Internet? Or if it's application layer, anytime against prescribed lab devices? Frank -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Brett Watson Sent:

RE: DOCSIS CMTS Systems

2015-07-29 Thread frnkblk
Colton, While we have never tried it ourselves, an option we've looked at in similar situations are these: http://www.ready-links.com/ipc1840c.html http://www.bectechnologies.net/main/EoCoax2310.shtml (up to 31 endpoints) Frank -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.

RE: www.att.net back up over IPv6

2015-07-03 Thread frnkblk
That was short-lived -- it's now down again as of 2 am (U.S. Central). No . Frank -Original Message- From: Frank Bulk (frnk...@iname.com) [mailto:frnk...@iname.com] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 7:43 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: www.att.net back up over IPv6 After being down sin

www.att.net back up over IPv6

2015-07-02 Thread frnkblk
After being down since early May 2014, www.att.net is now back up over IPv6 since 7:29 pm U.S. Central. Sites that we track that were up but remain down over IPv6 are www.charter.com, www.dnssec.comcast.net, and www.globalcrossing.com. Frank

RE: leap second outage

2015-07-01 Thread frnkblk
And just 12.5% of them required TLC. =) -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of frnk...@iname.com Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2015 7:05 AM To: 'Stefan' Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: leap second outage Yes, happened at 7 pm Central (0:oo UTC). From

RE: leap second outage

2015-07-01 Thread frnkblk
Yes, happened at 7 pm Central (0:oo UTC). From: Stefan [mailto:netfort...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2015 10:30 PM To: frnk...@iname.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: leap second outage This was supposed to have happened @midnight UTC, right? Meaning that we are past that event

leap second outage

2015-06-30 Thread frnkblk
We experienced our first leap second outage -- our SHE (super head end) is using (old) Motorola encoders and we lost those video channels. They restarted all those encoders to restore service. Frank

RE: ARIN just subdivided their last /17, /18, /19, /20, /21 and /22. Down to only /23s and /24s now. : ipv6

2015-06-27 Thread frnkblk
What's the ratio of mobile (cellular) endpoints to non-mobile devices? And we know that mobile continues to grow faster than fixed endpoints -- at what point will the scales naturally tip to IPv6? -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Mikael Abrahams

RE: Galaxy S6 is IPv6 on all US National Mobile carriers

2015-04-16 Thread frnkblk
My second educated guess is that those initial (BPON) ONTs only supported FastE client interface(s), and that Verizon's new (GPON) ONTs support GigE client interfaces. Frank -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Huff Sent: Tuesday, April 14,

RE: Galaxy S6 is IPv6 on all US National Mobile carriers

2015-04-16 Thread frnkblk
It's my educated guess that much of Verizon's initially FTTH deployment used BPON, and that access gear didn't (and probably will never) support IPv6. So to get IPv6 they need to move the customer to a GPON-enabled access shelf, which apparently requires a new ONT because their initial ONTs were BP