Re: Issues with Gmail

2009-09-01 Thread Alex Balashov
Jim Wininger wrote: Anyone else seeing issues with gmail? More specifically? -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671

Re: Datacenter recommendations - China and Latin America

2009-09-08 Thread Alex Balashov
RC vs. the rest of the world? -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671

Re: Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation

2009-09-08 Thread Alex Balashov
rth solving under present circumstances. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671

Re: CLEC Mailing List

2009-09-13 Thread Alex Balashov
verlapping substitute. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671

Re: cross connect reliability

2009-09-17 Thread Alex Balashov
fail? Seriously; if you're talking about a passive connection (optical or electrical) like a patch panel, I'd expect it to keep going forever unless someone damages it. That's truly wishful thinking, as are the assumptions that insulate it from damaging factors. Nothing lasts for

Re: TDM data analyzer

2009-09-22 Thread Alex Balashov
email to colleagues that work with voice systems or to a voice operators group if you are a member of one. Well, what do you presume to be entailed in "TDM?" ISDN is not necessarily implied. You could analyse E&M wink on D4 superframe. ;) Much simpler. -- Alex Balashov -

Re: SMS

2009-09-22 Thread Alex Balashov
whichever carrier? -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671

Re: operations contact @ facebook?

2009-10-05 Thread Alex Balashov
possibility that there are different jurisdictional rules or service terms in force from your own. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671

Re: operations contact @ facebook?

2009-10-05 Thread Alex Balashov
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Oct 5, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Alex Balashov wrote: Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Oct 5, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Leland Vandervort wrote: Would anyone happen to have an operations contact at Facebook by anychance? Our systems are being overwhelmed by a facebook application

Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

2009-10-21 Thread Alex Balashov
from the fact that the payload is encrypted - that it makes a good fit. It's also open-source and free. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671

Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

2009-10-21 Thread Alex Balashov
Fred Baker wrote: On Oct 21, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Alex Balashov wrote: It is precisely because the traffic has no signature distinguishable from normal application traffic oh my goodness. You're behind on your reading... I didn't mean DPI. I meant in a way that can be inferre

Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

2009-10-21 Thread Alex Balashov
, Oct 21, 2009, Alex Balashov wrote: oh my goodness. You're behind on your reading... I didn't mean DPI. I meant in a way that can be inferred from the headers themselves, and aside from the port number. You don't think that statistical analysis of traffic patterns of y

Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

2009-10-22 Thread Alex Balashov
ystem were highly distributed. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671

What DNS Is Not

2009-11-08 Thread Alex Balashov
Thought-provoking article by Paul Vixie: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1647302 -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671

Re: What DNS Is Not

2009-11-08 Thread Alex Balashov
Dave Temkin wrote: Alex Balashov wrote: Thought-provoking article by Paul Vixie: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1647302 I doubt Henry Ford would appreciate the Mustang. I don't think that is a very accurate analogy, and in any case, the argument is not that we should immedi

Re: What DNS Is Not

2009-11-09 Thread Alex Balashov
When I write applications that make DNS queries, I expect the request to turn NXDOMAIN if the host does not exist - HTTP as well as non-HTTP, but especially non-HTTP. Anything else is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. I don't understand how or why this could possibly be controversial. --

Re: [NANOG] NREN Network Design

2010-02-01 Thread Alex Balashov
nt IP block from your RIR and route-peer with each of these ISPs in order to announce independent address space that travels with you wherever you buy connectivity, and/or (b) some sort of Layer 2 or 3 tunneling like VPN or MPLS, if I'm not understanding the problem correctly. -- Alex -- Ale

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Alex Balashov
ed take-away, from a pedagogical perspective. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC Tel: +1 678-954-0670 Direct : +1 678-954-0671 Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/

Re: T1 aggregation and data center gateways

2010-03-09 Thread Alex Balashov
#x27;ve seen it used that way on a number of occasions with cheap M13 muxes and DS3 interfaces. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC Tel: +1 678-954-0670 Direct : +1 678-954-0671 Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/