Tools for teaching users online safety

2010-10-25 Thread Alex Thurlow
, or is there anyone out there interested in helping to build a unified list of instructions, videos, etc. for all this? -- Alex Thurlow Blastro Networks http://www.blastro.com http://www.roxwel.com http://www.yallwire.com

Re: Looking for W7 whois freeware

2012-05-10 Thread Alex Thurlow
On 5/10/2012 1:49 AM, Hank Nussbacher wrote: I am looking for a Window 7 GUI utility that does raw whois - not the standard domain lookup, but rather allows me to specify and change the whois server I am talking to and allows me to customize the whois search string for IPs or ASNs or anything e

Re: 10-GigE for servers

2009-05-01 Thread Alex Thurlow
ution that Cisco and others are pushing. I’m interested in knowing if any of you have attempted to implement 10-GigE at the host level to improve network throughput between individual servers and what your experience was in doing so. Thanks in advance, Jason -- Alex Thurlow Blastro Networks ht

Re: Make that NTT America (was Re: Verio taking twitter down during Iran Election Riots?

2009-06-15 Thread Alex Thurlow
On 6/15/2009 4:45 PM, Erik Fichtner wrote: Erik Fichtner wrote: http://status.twitter.com/post/124145031/maintenance-window-tonight-9-45p-pacific I am reading it wrong, partially. It's NTT America, not Verio. Missed a layer. Anyway... I know they're not actually making any

Re: Verio taking twitter down during Iran Election Riots?

2009-06-16 Thread Alex Thurlow
s seeing the use Twitter is getting from a political perspective. Alex Thurlow Blastro Networks http://www.blastro.com http://www.roxwel.com http://www.yallwire.com On 6/16/2009 10:03 AM, Chris Woodfield wrote: What's interesting is that the !NANOG part of the universe presumes the main

Re: Level 3 - "legacy" Wiltel/Looking Glass bandwidth

2009-07-02 Thread Alex Thurlow
n on legacy Wiltel stuff under Level 3. Alex Thurlow Blastro Networks http://www.blastro.com http://www.roxwel.com http://www.yallwire.com On 7/2/2009 10:01 AM, David Hubbard wrote: From: nanog@nanog.org We're not very happy with Level3 anymore either, terrible support, no RFO is

Re: Gigabit Linux Routers

2008-12-17 Thread Alex Thurlow
iptables rules, and I've hit 1.2 Gbps with no problems. At this point, I just don't have anything behind the router to push more than that. -- Alex Thurlow Blastro Networks http://www.blastro.com http://www.roxwel.com http://www.yallwire.com Chris wrote: > You've given me lo

Re: Gigabit Linux Routers

2008-12-17 Thread Alex Thurlow
ounds like he's getting Ethernet from his provider though, so this probably isn't an issue. -- Alex Thurlow Blastro Networks http://www.blastro.com http://www.roxwel.com http://www.yallwire.com

Re: Level3 funkiness

2009-04-15 Thread Alex Thurlow
ms !H Alex Thurlow Blastro Networks http://www.blastro.com http://www.roxwel.com http://www.yallwire.com On 4/15/2009 2:49 PM, Dixon, Justin wrote: -Original Message- From: J. Oquendo [mailto:s...@infiltrated.net] Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 15:36 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject

Re: [Nanog] ATT VP: Internet to hit capacity by 2010

2008-04-21 Thread Alex Thurlow
27;ll find that they're mostly 1-1.5 Mbps. TV will stay much higher quality than that, but if people are watching from their PCs, I think you'll see much more compression going on, given that the hardware processing it has a lot more horsepower. -- Alex Thurlow Technical Director Blastro Networks ___ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog

Re: OS, Hardware, Network - Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting

2008-06-26 Thread Alex Thurlow
e, but you can also buy support or install service from them. -- Alex Thurlow Technical Director Blastro Networks

Redundant BGP for lower cost

2010-03-04 Thread Alex Thurlow
Let me preface this by saying that I'm not a full time network admin, but we're a small company and I'm the only one handling this. Our budget is also not huge, but we're at the point where extended downtime would cost us enough money that we can spend some money to fix the problem. Here's m

Re: Redundant BGP for lower cost

2010-03-05 Thread Alex Thurlow
for 1s-ish, or however long you set your OSPF keepalives. While you're at it, add extra fans and run the edge systems off solid state disks or CF cards. Or, buy $real hardware. -Jack Carrozzo On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Alex Thurlow <mailto:a...@blastro.com>> wrote:

Intermittent Google issues in Austin area

2010-03-17 Thread Alex Thurlow
Anyone else having intermittent issues connecting to google servers from the Austin area? I first noticed google.com/jsapi loading slowly to slow down my website from loading, and I've since seen other sites loading from their ajaxapis and even www.google.com's search results taking upwards of