Yahoo Postmaster

2013-06-21 Thread Andy B.
If there is a YAHOO! Postmaster contact available, can you please contact me off list? I need to investigate a customer's "TS03" listing of a very large netblock (/16) and I'm afraid regular Yahoo! forms are leading me nowhere but frustration and no results. Thanks.

Re: Helix Solutions

2013-07-05 Thread Andy B.
Stay away from them. They contacted us as well and my impression was that they are up to no good. They will burn your IPs in no time. Email contact was rather anonymous. The person I dealt with refused to phone or skype to discuss further. At that point I said goodbye. On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:06

BGP convergence problem

2010-06-08 Thread Andy B.
Hi, This morning there was an ethernet loop problem on DECIX, causing many BGP sessions to flap throughout the entire platform. While this can happen, I am myself facing with BGP convergence problems on our DECIX router (SUP720-3BXL with IOS SXI3). De DECIX loop has been solved two hours ago, but

Re: BGP convergence problem

2010-06-08 Thread Andy B.
I finally decided to shut down all peerings and brought them back one by one. Everything is stable again, but I don't like the way I had to deal with it since it will most likely happen again when DECIX or an other IX we're at is having issues. I've seen a few BGP convergence discussions on NANOG

Upstream BGP community support

2009-10-31 Thread Andy B.
Hi, Quick question: Would you buy transit from someone who does not support BGP communities? Here is the story: My company is pushing several GBit/s through various upstream providers. We have reached the point where we rely on BGP communitiy support, especially communities that can be sent to t

Re: Upstream BGP community support

2009-10-31 Thread Andy B.
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > Yes and no. There are a handful of old stodgy networks who are of the > belief that this kind of information is "proprietary", and therefore > should not be sent to customers or other networks on the Internet. My > opinion is that th

Re: Upstream BGP community support

2009-10-31 Thread Andy B.
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Tim Jackson wrote: > Being the architect/head-nerd-in-charge of a fairly new network. > > Not reading ras's HOWTOs and others is suicide There's no > excuse... It really makes running your network easier.. If my customer > needs to prepend X to Y transit/pee

Re: Upstream BGP community support

2009-11-02 Thread Andy B.
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > But seriously now, the reason we have these squishy things taking up > space between our ears in the first place is so we can come up with new > ideas and better ways to solve our problems. Obviously you can take it > too far, I'm su

Re: Cogent & HE

2011-06-10 Thread Andy B.
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Jimmy Hess wrote: > HE doesn't need to buy IPv6 transit, because they are in effect transit-free > (except to Cogent). It's not just a Cogent issue. They also chose not to buy from Level3 or buy those routes through a Level3 peer: >From HE's route-server: route-