Changing DNS host records

2020-12-11 Thread Matthew Crocker
Hello It has been over a decade since I’ve done this and need some help refreshing my memory. I have many customers that have registered their domains against my authoritative servers (DNS-AUTH3.CROCKER.COM).I need to move that machine to a different network/IP address.I’ve made the u

Need someone with clue @ Network Solutions.

2020-12-15 Thread Matthew Crocker
I need to get Network Solutions to remove glue records for hosts in my domain. My domain isn’t registered with Network Solutions and they refuse to speak with me as I’m not a customer. I’ve had my customer attempt to update their domain through Network Solutions but the only thing they can ch

Re: [EXTERNAL]Need someone with clue @ Network Solutions.

2020-12-15 Thread Matthew Crocker
. -Matt From: NANOG on behalf of Matthew Crocker Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 11:43 AM To: "nanog@nanog.org" Subject: [EXTERNAL]Need someone with clue @ Network Solutions. CAUTION: This email originated from outside of Crocker. Do not click links or open attachments unless you rec

Re: [EXTERNAL]Re: Don't need someone with clue @ Network Solutions.

2020-12-18 Thread Matthew Crocker
At this point I've basically given up and I'm moving the 66.59.48.x IPs to a new datacenter over the weekend. I'll move the DNS servers on the old IPs to the new datacenter and call it a day. We are trying to get all of the customers to re-register anyway, then I'll shut all of this down. T

Re: [EXTERNAL]Re: Don't need someone with clue @ Network Solutions.

2020-12-18 Thread Matthew Crocker
delegated to those servers? If not, that's a pretty big gap in their registrar offering. Doug http://registrar.amazon.com/ On 12/18/20 11:03 AM, Matthew Crocker wrote: > > At this point I've basically given up and I'm moving the 66.59.48.x IPs t

Anyone from Draftkings.com on here?

2020-12-29 Thread Matthew Crocker
Hoping someone from Draftkings.com is on this list. If so, please message me directly so I can get a subnet block cleared up. Thanks -Matt

Re: Infomart Dallas is on generator

2021-02-15 Thread Matthew Crocker
They are most likely part of a demand load shedding program and are being paid to run off generator. From: NANOG on behalf of Eric Kuhnke Date: Monday, February 15, 2021 at 5:10 PM To: "nanog@nanog.org list" Subject: Infomart Dallas is on generator I have now heard from two reliable source

OOB management options @ 60 Hudson & 1 Summer

2021-04-15 Thread Matthew Crocker
I have routers in both 60 Hudson St & 1 Summer St and I’m looking for some low cost bandwidth options for out of band management. Currently I have Opengear boxes at each site with cell modems but they don’t work too well. I either need to replace them with new cell based devices or find a wir

Re: OOB management options @ 60 Hudson & 1 Summer

2021-04-16 Thread Matthew Crocker
Geez, I’ve been at 1 Summer for 6+ years, never new they offered this. I’ll have to check it out Thanks -Matt From: Saku Ytti Date: Friday, April 16, 2021 at 1:34 AM To: Matthew Crocker Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: OOB management options @ 60 Hudson & 1 Summer CAUTION: This email origin

Free-ish Linux Netflow collector/analyser options

2022-05-16 Thread Matthew Crocker
I’m looking for a free-ish Linux open sources Netflow collector/analyser. I have 5 Juniper MX routers that will send IPFIX flows to for an ISP network. I’m hoping it is something I can run in AWS/EC2 as I don’t want to worry about storage again in my lifetime. Does anyone have any recommen

Re: Upstream bandwidth usage

2022-06-09 Thread Matthew Crocker
GPON is TDM (Time Division Multiplexing). The downstream is essentially OC-48 (2.4Gbps). The OLT sets the clock and each ONT has a specific timeslot for uploading. Some vendors can adjust the timeslot reservations to ‘guarantee’ specific upload speeds to specific ONTs From: NANOG on behal

Santander bank contact

2023-04-11 Thread Matthew Crocker
If anyone on this list is affiliated with Santander bank please reach me off-list. You are blocking one of my subnets and my customers cannot access your bank website. Thanks -Matt

UltraDNS contact

2023-04-26 Thread Matthew Crocker
Can anyone from UltraDNS contact me off list please? I have some security issues I’d like to discuss with you. Thanks -Matt

Dormant space on blacklists, how can I resolve this?

2023-04-27 Thread Matthew Crocker
Hello, I run Crocker Communications (AS7849) and have ARIN allocations of 161.77.0.0/16 & 66.59.48.0/20. The 66.58.48.0/20 space was used for our datacenter which shutdown a couple years ago. The space has mostly been dormant for the past couple years. I’m now starting to assign 66.59.[5

Re: Protecting 1Gb Ethernet From Lightning Strikes

2019-08-13 Thread Matthew Crocker
Could you use a transceiver for the 1000Base-T? copper <-> fiber <-> copper that will create an ‘air gap’ on the data circuit. You still run the risk of a lightning strike entering through the transceiver power. You could filter that through a -48VDC power supply, rectifier/inverter pair.

Re: sfps from fs dot com

2019-09-20 Thread Matthew Crocker
I have had some fail and SFP+ & QSFP28s that my Juniper MC480s refuse to recognize even though I ordered 'branded Juniper' optics. 99% of my stuff is from FlexOptix (https://www.flexoptix.net/). They are a bit more expensive but I've had 100% reliability and they have worked in all systems I'

Lightower (ASN:46887) RTBH community info

2016-09-22 Thread Matthew Crocker
Hello, Does anyone know the RTBH community for Lightower? I’ve tried 46887:666 but that doesn’t work. I have a /32 I need to blackhole, Lightower is the last ISP and it doesn’t appear they support RTBH ☹ Thanks -Matt -- Matthew Crocker President – Crocker Communications matt

Questions on IPv6 deployment

2017-01-16 Thread Matthew Crocker
, ect. I’m trying not to light a religious war but what is the current best practice for IPv6 deployment in a service provider network? PS. I’ll be at NANOG69 in DC next month, 1st NANOG for me after 22 years. ☺ -Matt -- Matthew Crocker Crocker Communications, Inc. President

BGP Communities

2018-07-05 Thread Matthew Crocker
Hello, I’m just getting started setting up communities for my network. Is there any standard convention for community numbering (*:666 for RTBH for example)? I’ve looked at some examples from other carriers and it looks like everyone does their own thing. -Matt -- Matthew Crocker Crocker

Re: Proving Gig Speed

2018-07-16 Thread Matthew Crocker
I'm on a Mac and launch 40 speedtests at the same time and monitor interface bandwidth #!/bin/bash for i in `./speedtest-cli --list | cut -f1 -d')' | head -n 40`; do ./speedtest-cli --server $i & done I've been able to saturate 10G links with this method -Mat

Re: A few GPON questions...

2018-12-11 Thread Matthew Crocker
This, Rip it out Sorry this isn’t what you want to hear.3rd party optics *may* work but when they don’t Zhone support will not help you. I recommend Zhone to my competitors. From: NANOG on behalf of Ben Cannon Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 11:33 AM To: Nick Bogle Cc: "nanog@nan

Re: Extending network over a dry pair

2018-12-13 Thread Matthew Crocker
You can’t push a T1 through a load-coil which are normally placed every mile on copper. Typically the telco would cut the load-coil out of the 2 T1 pairs and install a repeater to push the T1 the next mile. That is with a traditional T1 circuit. Most T1s these days are 2 wire HDSL which ha

Re: Service Provider NetFlow Collectors

2018-12-31 Thread Matthew Crocker
+1 Kentik as well, DDoS, RTBH, Netflow. Cloud based so I don't have to worry about it. On 12/31/18, 11:37 AM, "NANOG on behalf of Bryan Holloway" wrote: +1 Kentik ... We've been using their DDoS/RTBH mitigation with good success. On 12/31/18 3:52 AM, Eric Lindsjö

Looking for colocation in NY or NJ

2018-02-07 Thread Matthew Crocker
ross the river into NJ? Thanks -Matt -- Matthew Crocker Crocker Communications, Inc. President

Re: Fiber Bypass Switch

2014-01-27 Thread Matthew Crocker
Something like this? http://www.alcon-tech.com/pdfs/Optical-Protection-Switch-FSXpert.pdf -- Matthew S. Crocker President Crocker Communications, Inc. PO BOX 710 Greenfield, MA 01302-0710 E: matt...@crocker.com P: (413) 746-2760 F: (413) 746-3704 W: http://www.crocker.com On Jan 27, 2014,

Re: carrier comparison

2014-02-06 Thread Matthew Crocker
IMHO Cogent bandwidth is fine so long as it isn’t your only bandwidth. Good, Cheap, Fast, Pick any two. -- Matthew S. Crocker President Crocker Communications, Inc. PO BOX 710 Greenfield, MA 01302-0710 E: matt...@crocker.com P: (413) 746-2760 F: (413) 746-3704 W: http://www.crocker.com

Re: ISP inbound failover without BGP

2014-03-03 Thread Matthew Crocker
Depends on the application, SIP, VPN, SMTP, etc just setup both IPs and let the end-user application figure it out (SIP-UA register to both IPs for example) HTTP/HTTPS setup a proxy server in a colo that is multi-homed to frontend the requests. Then it can load balance traffic over both IPs

CALEA options for a small ISP/ITSP

2012-11-26 Thread Matthew Crocker
I have a CALEA appliance from BearHill that I 'rent'. It has been in my network for years. I'm looking for other alternative solutions for CALEA compliance with a small ISP. It looks like OpenCalea is a dead project. What is everyone else using? My current solution is $1k/month and I ra

Saying goodnight to my GSR

2014-09-20 Thread Matthew Crocker
Has been running for a while, time to shut ‘er down. She (is a router a she?) used to handle all of my BGP GigE links but over the years has been demoted to OSPF and T1 aggregation. If anyone needs a boat anchor let me know. gsr8-1#show version Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software

Help, need Verizon fiber outage phone number

2014-11-23 Thread Matthew Crocker
Does anyone have a phone number for Verizon-NE (Massachusetts)? I have a fiber outage between two Verizon COs and their stupid VTAG system is worthless. I can’t get a trouble ticket entered to save my life. All of the numbers I have either go nowhere or get stuck in music on hold hell the

Re: automatic / intelligent fiber optic patch panel (iow SDN @ layer 0)

2014-12-09 Thread Matthew Crocker
Are you looking for a robot to install your fiber jumpers between patch panels? Something like: http://telescent.com/tswitch.php -- Matthew S. Crocker President Crocker Communications, Inc. PO BOX 710 Greenfield, MA 01302-0710 E: matt...@crocker.com P: (413) 746-2760 F: (413) 746-3704 W: http:/

Re: Programmable SFP+ Transcievers

2016-01-22 Thread Matthew Crocker
https://www.flexoptix.net/en/ will give you a programmer on your first order if you post something about it on social media.They also send some candy with every order :) I’ve had very good luck with Flexoptics for SFP, SFP+ & XFP, Juniper, Cisco, HP all work perfectly. — Mat

Re: optical gear cooling requirements

2015-03-04 Thread Matthew Crocker
> > On Mar 4, 2015, at 4:54 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: > > On 04/03/2015 21:33, Jay Hennigan wrote: >> We used Livingston Portmaster 3 back in the day. Front to back >> ventilation, ran cool as a cucumber, plug it in and it just worked. >> Awesome gear until Lucent bought the company to kill the p

Cogent & Level 3 routing issue?

2013-12-07 Thread Matthew Crocker
Anyone seeing issues between Cogent & Level3 in NYC? I have Sprint & Cogent for bandwidth. Everything has been humming along for a couple years just fine. Yesterday around 8:00AM my BGP session with Cogent flapped. Now, when my Cogent BGP is up I get 100% packet loss in level3 land. When

Re: Cogent & Level 3 routing issue?

2013-12-07 Thread Matthew Crocker
0 Bent) but I think they haul it to 1 Summer St A bunch of sites fail but www.cnn.com is one that comes to mind. > Best Regards, > > -- > > Jason Canady > Unlimited Net, LLC > Responsive, Reliable, Secure > > www.unlimitednet.us > ja...@unlimitednet.us >

Re: Cogent & Level 3 routing issue?

2013-12-10 Thread Matthew Crocker
. grumble. -Matt -- Matthew S. Crocker President Crocker Communications, Inc. PO BOX 710 Greenfield, MA 01302-0710 E: matt...@crocker.com P: (413) 746-2760 F: (413) 746-3704 W: http://www.crocker.com On Dec 7, 2013, at 7:58 PM, Matthew Crocker wrote: > > On Dec 7, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Jason

Re: Power/temperature monitoring

2008-05-30 Thread Matthew Crocker
We used an Uptime Device and it didn't work out too well. We switched to an AKCP SensorProbe8-60 http://www.akcp.com/company/sensorProbe8X60.htm which has worked out better. We need a lot of dry contacts to monitor our alarm relays (Cisco ONS15454, Taqua T7000, Liebert HVACs, Generator,

Re: Managed, cheap, DC power switches

2008-07-17 Thread Matthew Crocker
I purchased my GSR8 from NHR, 2 DC power supplies and it arrived missing one of the plastic protective covers, hardly mission critical but it arrived fedex, the next day and I didn't need to call them on it. VERY happy with NHR On Jul 17, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Tim Sanderson wrote: I was