Re: [Operational] Internet Police

On 12/10/2010 07:45 AM, George Bonser wrote: From: William McCall Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 8:45 AM To: Lamar Owen Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: [Operational] Internet Police To the folks out there that presently work for an SP, if someone called you (or the relevant department) and g

Re: [Operational] Internet Police

On 12/10/2010 07:59 AM, George Bonser wrote: Not to mention the risk of lost business for customers that just can't be bothered to fix broken machines. Paul That supposes that another ISP would accept their bot-infected machine. It would require some cooperation among the providers. And shoul

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

On 12/15/2010 05:09 AM, ML wrote: According to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast "Comcast has 15.930 million high-speed internet customers" If a 10G port for transit is paid by comcast $30/Mbit/s monthly that's 0.19 cent/internet customer/month for a new 10G port to properly desaturate thi

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

On 12/16/2010 09:38 AM, Daniel Seagraves wrote: On Dec 16, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Backdoor Parrot wrote: Earlier this morning a Comcast peering manager had the following things to say about the recent NANOG thread, in a public IRC channel with many witnesses: (snip) With all due respect, logs or

Re: Skype info

On 12/22/2010 10:24 AM, Tim Connolly wrote: Any word as to the root cause of the skype outage(s)? Tim Connolly Director of IT Details are on their blog: http://bit.ly/edtjxB Essentially the supernodes clients connected to started dying, so they're setting up temporary mega-supernodes whils

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution

On 01/18/2011 07:42 AM, Sergey Voropaev wrote: Does any one know software sollutions (free is preferable) like as cisco GSS and F5 BIG-IP? The main point is that DNS-server (or dns server plugin) must be able to monitor server availability (for example by TCP connect) and from DNS-reply depends o

Re: IPv6 filtering

I may be dense, networking isn't my primary field (sysadmin).. but isn't ICMP there for a good reason? I.e. congestion control? I've always argued vehemently with PCI-DSS and similar auditors that I will not filter /all/ ICMP traffic on the border. Paul On 1/25/2011 7:20 PM, Franck Martin w

Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses

I consider it to be very much part of the general attitude of news organisations towards the online content. It seems in general that very little editorial oversight takes place with online content, compared to what might appear in print. Often seems rather much like the content comes direct

Re: Connectivity status for Egypt

I'd suspect it's got a lot more to do with the open rioting on the streets, government shooting people, the numbers involved in protests, what happened in Tunisia next door etc. etc. Loss of Internet connectivity is relatively minor in comparison. Any investor with even half a brain is going to

Re: quietly....

On 02/01/2011 10:08 AM, david raistrick wrote: On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: What's the point of switching to IPv6 if it repeats all the IPv4 mistakes only with bigger addresses? If you like NAT IPv4 is the place to be, it'll only get more and more. It's argument like this

Re: quietly....

On 02/01/2011 10:32 AM, Majdi S. Abbas wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 10:27:45AM -1000, Paul Graydon wrote: insignificant changes between v4 and v6. There is nothing on line that isn't accessible over IPv4 so there has been no critical app outside the infrastructure to spur such change

Re: quietly....

On 02/01/2011 11:38 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Feb 1, 2011, at 12:36 PM, david raistrick wrote: On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Dave Israel wrote: responsibility. If they want to use DHCPv6, or NAT, or Packet over Avian Carrier to achieve that, let them. If using them causes them problems, then they s

Re: quietly....

On 02/01/2011 04:11 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Feb 1, 2011, at 3:54 PM, Lee Howard wrote: "People won't be able to access our site" sure helps but being unable to put a date on it still reduces incentive (especially when Management get involved, and especially if there is a financial outlay invo

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

On 06/17/2011 11:33 AM, David Conrad wrote: On Jun 17, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/17/202245/ You just learned about this now? In fact I did. I certainly haven't seen it mentioned on NANOG in the last 6 months or so; where should I have seen it?

Re: IPv6 words

On 06/23/2011 12:10 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: I am sure it has come up a number of times, but with IPv6 you can make up fancy addresses that are (almost) complete words or phrases. Making it almost as easy to remember as the resolved name. It'd be nice in a weird geek sort of way (but totally

Re: Wacky Weekend: NERC to relax power grid frequency strictures

On 6/25/2011 12:32 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: On 6/25/2011 15:12, Leo Bicknell wrote: I have never seen a generator that syncs to the utility for live, no break transfer. I'm sure such a thing exists, but that sounds crazy dangerous to me. Generators sync to each other, not the utility. Most o

Spam?

New location means we now get spam on Nanog? Could we go back to the old place?

Re: Spam?

OMG can't you people run proper spam filtering on your own mail servers that filter out the nanog messages that are spam?! I think I've had two messages in the last month, while others of you are talking about dozens? Do you need to buy some hosting for your email accounts? My filtering wor

Re: NetFlix Down

On 7/17/2011 12:36 PM, Scott, Robert D. wrote: > There appears to be a login issue at Netflix. Calls to their 1-866-579-7113 > number only yields a recording that they are experiencing a higher than > normal call volume, try again later. Widespread? Likewise from Hawaii. Guess this'll be anot

Re: SORBS contact

On 07/29/2011 12:24 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 29/07/2011 22:55, Michelle Sullivan wrote: Friendly or non friendly response is usually gaugable in advance by the tone of the initial email. Which is usually gaugeable in advance by the tone of the customer complaints that precipitated contact wi

Re: [BULK] Re: SORBS contact

On 7/30/2011 2:33 PM, Michelle Sullivan wrote: Ken Chase wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 02:57:12PM +0200, Michelle Sullivan said: >Ok I'll accept that reference..I must admit I didn't know that RFC/STD >existed so I learnt something today. ;-) That's pretty rich. You enforce people to a

Re: US internet providers hijacking users' search queries

On 08/05/2011 02:53 PM, Brielle wrote: Until they start MitM the ssl traffic, fake certs and all. Didn't a certain repressive regime already do this tactic with facebook or some other major site? Syria did: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/05/syrian-man-middle-against-facebook

Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

On 08/12/2011 01:28 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote: Hey all, I'm curious what other NANOGers have in their home compute centers? On the extreme end of course we have mr morris :) with his uber lab: http://smorris.uber-geek.net/lab.htm Call me lazy, skinflint or otherwise, but I don't have much eq

Re: IPv6 Real World Maturity (was re: How long is your rack?)

On 8/14/2011 2:43 PM, Tim Wilde wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/14/2011 8:36 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote: Can someone explain the operational relevance of the never ending v6 threads that are the EXACT SAME ARGUMENTS over and over and over again? :) Yes, they prove that

Re: What do you do when your Home ISP is down?

On 8/19/2011 7:56 AM, Jason LeBlanc wrote: This is why I love my mom and pop DSL provider, I can call and get someone who speaks packets and listens and understands. I may not have the speed some cable providers offer (if you actually get it..) but it is reliable and I can get resolution quick

Re: New Natural Disaster! 8/27/2011 Hurricane Irene

Sure, but it's not appropriately filtered to avoid contaminants, spikes and dips in the flow. Paul On 8/27/2011 6:16 AM, Kenton A. Hoover wrote: The hurricane provides its own redundant water. Text and URLs mangled by theiPhone Kenton A. Hoover +1.415.830.5843 ken...@nemersonhoover.org On A

Re: New Natural Disaster! 8/27/2011 Hurricane Irene

On 8/28/2011 6:01 AM, andrew.wallace wrote: It looks like the DHS, FEMA got this emergency wrong... by the time it got to NYC it was the equivalent of a normal day in Scotland.I live in Scotland... Andrew I'm sure the rest of the East Coast will be particularly appreciative of that sentiment

Re: Steve Jobs has died

On 10/6/2011 4:02 PM, Wayne E Bouchard wrote: On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 08:15:02PM -0400, Alex Rubenstein wrote: Not entirely on-list-topic, but still relevant. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20116336-37/apple-co-founder-chairman-steve-jobs-dies/?tag=cnetRiver In some circles, he's being com

Re: Telus mail server admin

On 10/6/2011 8:02 PM, John Levine wrote: DISCLAIMER:... Wow. I was thinking about answering the question, but now I don't dare. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly PS:

Re: Telus mail server admin

On 10/7/2011 5:30 AM, Joel jaeggli wrote: On 10/7/11 08:26 , Paul Graydon wrote: On 10/6/2011 8:02 PM, John Levine wrote: DISCLAIMER:... Wow. I was thinking about answering the question, but now I don't dare. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The In

Re: Did Internap lose all clue?

On 10/20/2011 10:48 AM, bas wrote: Recently I was contacted by an Internap sales person. The third line of the email read: "As you know well, BGP makes all routing decisions simply based on HOP COUNT" I blinked my eyes a couple of times.. Yes it really said hop count. Then I replied to the guy

Re: Colocation providers and ACL requests

On 10/25/2011 08:43 AM, Christopher Pilkington wrote: Is it common in the industry for a colocation provider, when requested to put an egress ACL facing us such as: deny udp any a.b.c.d/24 eq 80 …to refuse and tell us we must subscribe to their managed DDOS product? -cjp For colo? No, f

Re: Comcast IPv6 Update

On 11/09/2011 06:32 AM, Brzozowski, John wrote: Update from http://www.comcast6.net IPv6 Pilot Market Deployment Begins Wednesday, November 9, 2011 Comcast has started our first pilot market deployment of IPv6 in limited areas of California and Colorado. This first phase supports directly conne

Re: Welcome to the "Marketing" mailing list

On 11/17/2011 10:47 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: My, but there are a lot of people, in my best friend's favorite phrase, "spring loaded to the pissed-off position". I didn't think NANOGers were quite so prone to recreational indignation... Cheers, -- jra NANOG where no day is complete without a bit

Re: IP addresses are now assets

On 12/1/2011 7:20 PM, John Curran wrote: Wayne - Your subject line (IP addresses are now assets) could mislead folks, so I'd advise waiting to review the actual sale order once approved by the court before making summary conclusions. ARIN holds that IP address space is not property but is manag

Re: Internet Edge and Defense in Depth

On 12/06/2011 11:16 AM, Holmes,David A wrote: Some firewall vendors are proposing to collapse all Internet edge functions into a single device (border router, firewall, IPS, caching engine, proxy, etc.). A general Internet edge design principle has been the "defense in depth" concept. Is anyone

Re: Linux Centralized Administration

On 01/12/2012 03:51 PM, chaim.rie...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/12/2012 4:43 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Paul Stewart wrote: Today, we manually do YUM updates to all the CentOS servers . just an example but a good one. I have heard there are some open source solutions

Re: Linux Centralized Administration

On 01/12/2012 03:51 PM, chaim.rie...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/12/2012 4:43 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Paul Stewart wrote: Today, we manually do YUM updates to all the CentOS servers . just an example but a good one. I have heard there are some open source solutions

Re: Megaupload.com seized

On 01/19/2012 12:41 PM, Ryan Gelobter wrote: The megaupload.com domain was seized today, has anyone noticed significant drops in network traffic as a result? http://www.scribd.com/doc/78786408/Mega-Indictment http://techland.time.com/2012/01/19/feds-shut-down-megaupload-com-file-sharing-website/

Re: Megaupload.com seized

On 01/20/2012 09:11 AM, Ricky Beam wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:34:33 -0500, Michael Painter wrote: I quickly read through the indictment, but the gov't claims that when given a takedown notice, MU would only remove the *link* and not the file itself. That's actually a standard practice. I

Re: Hi speed trading - hi speed monitoring

On 2/16/2012 3:03 AM, Hank Nussbacher wrote: Nanosecond Trading Could Make Markets Go Haywire http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/02/high-speed-trading/ "Below the 950-millisecond level, where computerized trading occurs so quickly that human traders can't even react, no fewer than 18,520 c

Re: Common operational misconceptions

On 2/16/2012 8:30 PM, Carsten Bormann wrote: On Feb 16, 2012, at 18:08, Jack Bates wrote: It at first started with trying to explain that vlan based switching is not Layer-3. :( Ah, one of the greatest misconceptions still around in 2012: -- OSI Layer numbers mean something. or -- Somewhere

Re: Common operational misconceptions

On 02/17/2012 04:29 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 08:50:11PM -1000, Paul Graydon wrote: At the same time, it's shocking how many network people I come across with no real grasp of even what OSI means by each layer, even if it's only in the

Re: Hi speed trading - hi speed monitoring

On 02/17/2012 08:36 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:01:36 EST, Rodrick Brown said: Trades today in the equity markets must be within the national best bid, best offer price range or companies can be fined by the SEC which is why latency an jitter can be problematic in f

Re: Common operational misconceptions

learn to drive in drivers education. You learned how to drive by driving. Higher education gives you the foundation on which to learn. -Original Message- From: Paul Graydon [mailto:p...@paulgraydon.co.uk] Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 12:33 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Common operatio

Re: Common operational misconceptions

On 2/17/2012 10:55 PM, Michael Painter wrote: Paul Graydon wrote: Give me someone who can already think and analyse over someone who 'knows' it all, any day. You can be qualified to the hilt but absolutely useless in the real world (I've watched CCNP and higher struggling to

Re: Reliable Cloud host ?

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:19:27AM -0800, George Herbert wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:28 AM, William Herrin wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Randy Carpenter > > wrote: > >>> On Feb 26, 2012, at 4:56 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote: > >>> > 1. Full redundancy with instant failover to o

Re: Evil Bit and Spread Spectrum IP Addressing - NANOG Source Address Shaping

... Great, that's another filter to add to my mailserver. Paul On 3/4/2012 6:22 AM, Guru NANOG wrote: Common Misconception: One additional bit of IPv4 Addressing will solve world hunger The Evil Bit (or spare unused bit) can be used to store (restore) one bit The Left-Most bit of the 32-bit

Re: Whitelist of update servers

On 03/12/2012 10:05 AM, Maverick wrote: Is there a whitelist that applications have to talk to in order to update themselves? Which applications? What updates?

Re: Whitelist of update servers

On 03/12/2012 10:53 AM, William Herrin wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Peter Kristolaitis wrote: On 12-03-12 04:34 PM, Maverick wrote: Like list of sites that operating systems or applications installed on your machines go to update themselves. One way could be to go on each vendors si

Re: Programmers with network engineering skills

On 03/12/2012 09:46 AM, Tei wrote: On 12 March 2012 09:59, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote: Hey! On 3/8/12 8:24 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Monday, March 05, 2012 09:36:41 PM Jimmy Hess wrote: ... (16) The default gateway's IP address is always 192.168.0.1 (17) The user portion of E-mai

Re: how to report spam to Yahoo!

The Yahoo form hasn't worked for a while. When you do get to somewhere for reporting spam, a few hours or days later you'll get a response telling you to submit a report on the exact same form you used. If you do you end up with the same response. Repeat ad infinitum. Same goes for their gr

Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc

On 03/23/2012 02:18 PM, Michael Painter wrote: Randy Bush wrote: what a silly question. lining the telcos' pockets. american so called 'broadband' is a joke and a scam. randy Really. This is from the Governor's "Hawaii Broadband Initiative" speedtest website: "The indication of above av

Re: SORBS?!

They're still functional, still used by companies but I wouldn't make any observation on them running 'well'. A friend's office IP range got blocked and unblocked recently by them so they do seem to remove entries. Beyond that on NANOG you're pretty much into "light blue touch paper and retir

Re: Operation Ghost Click

On 04/26/2012 11:44 AM, Andrew Latham wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: Excuse the horrible subject :-) Anyone have anything insightful to say about it? Is it just lots of fuss about nothing or is it an actual substantial problem? http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2

Re: Current IPv6 state of US Mobile Phone Carriers

On 05/22/2012 01:21 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote: On May 22, 2012 4:00 PM, "Paul Porter" wrote: Hi NANOG, I'm looking for some information on the four largest US mobile phone carriers and the current state of their IPv6 infrastructure. Specifically, we are trying to figure out: 1. How much of the

Re: Current IPv6 state of US Mobile Phone Carriers

On 05/22/2012 01:40 PM, Paul Graydon wrote: On 05/22/2012 01:21 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote: On May 22, 2012 4:00 PM, "Paul Porter" wrote: Hi NANOG, I'm looking for some information on the four largest US mobile phone carriers and the current state of their IPv6 infrastructure

Re: Configuration Systems

On 06/07/2012 11:49 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:51:51 -0700, Owen DeLong said: This is a hard problem to solve. Not the least of the difficulties is the fact that if you ask 50 engineers to define "Cloud", you will get at least 100 definitions many of which are in

Re: Configuration Systems

On 06/07/2012 12:59 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:12:09 -1000, Paul Graydon said: what cloud is you've also got to go into the realms of private clouds (using, for example, openstack), on your own infrastructure in your own datacenter. Same definition. The

Re: Dear Linkedin,

On 06/08/2012 09:48 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: Linkedin has a blog post that ends with this sage advice: * Make sure you update your password on LinkedIn (and any site that you visit on the Web) at least once every few months. I have accounts at probably 100's of sites. Am I to understand tha

Re: Dear Linkedin,

On 06/08/2012 10:02 AM, Scott Weeks wrote: --- lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote: From: Lyndon Nerenberg On 2012-06-08, at 12:48 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: I'm sorry, my brain doesn't hold that many passwords. Unless you're a savant, neither does yours. So what you're telling me and the rest of the world

Re: Dear Linkedin,

On 06/08/2012 10:22 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: On 06/08/2012 12:56 PM, Paul Graydon wrote: Use a password safe. Simple. Most of them even include secure password generators. That way you only have one password to remember stored in a location you have control over (and is encrypted), and

nanog@nanog.org

In my case I rely on Password Safe (http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/), Password Gorilla (https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki/) and Dropbox. PasswordSafe has android and windows clients. The windows client will work under wine on linux if you really want, but it's a bit of a pain. Passwor

nanog@nanog.org

On 06/08/2012 11:07 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 05:00:14PM -0400, Tyler Haske wrote: KeePass, KeyPassDroid and Dropbox. Yes, of course, I'll just upload all my passwords to a place totally under the control of someone (well, actually, _two_ other ones) else, and then pray

Re: Patch Management - Windows & RHEL/CentOS based on Date

On 06/13/2012 01:47 PM, Wade Peacock wrote: Hi All, Does anyone know of a patch management system that will allow us to control the roll out of patches, specifically for Windows but Linux would be nice too, that can use a date to limit whether a patch is rolled out. Ie. Patch to date set to

Re: Whois data compromised?

On 06/26/2012 11:53 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: In message , Eric Rosenberry writes: Not sure where this data got injected into the system (or who knows, perhaps it's a DNS injection attack or something), but this certainly is not right. :-( It's perfectly NORMAL. Just the owners of SWINGINGCOMM

Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

On 6/30/2012 3:16 PM, Paul WALL wrote: Comments? Drive Slow Paul Not very well if you have a modern box (RHES/CentOS 6) and Java apps running on them. RHES/CentOS 5 merrily ignored it. Worse, just bouncing the Java stack didn't fix it, it required the box to be rebooted. A sizeable numbe

Re: FYI Netflix is down

On 07/02/2012 08:53 AM, Tony McCrory wrote: On 2 July 2012 19:20, Cameron Byrne wrote: Make your chaos animal go after sites and regions instead of individual VMs. CB From a previous post mortem http://techblog.netflix.com/2011_04_01_archive.html " Create More Failures Currently, Netflix

Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

On 7/3/2012 1:53 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: UTC (and the system clock) should not move backwards, but, rather they repeat second 59. UTC goes 58->59->00 most of the time, but during a leap second, it should go 58->59->59->00). It's not so much going backwards as dropping a chime. If they do that, t

Re: External sanity checks

On 02/03/2011 08:04 AM, Philip Lavine wrote: To all, Does any one know a Vendor (NOT Keynote) that can do sanity checks against your web/smtp/ftp farms with pings, traceroutes, latency checks as well as application checks (GET, POST, ESMTP, etc) Thank you, Philip Slight hijack, I'm interest

Re: quietly....

On 02/02/2011 06:31 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: "david raistrick" On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Dave Israel wrote: responsibility. If they want to use DHCPv6, or NAT, or Packet over Avian Carrier to achieve that, let them. If using them causes them problems, then they shou

Re: My upstream ISP does not support IPv6

On 02/03/2011 05:04 PM, Franck Martin wrote: The biggest complaint that I hear from ISPs, is that their upstream ISP does not support IPv6 or will not provide them with a native IPv6 circuit. Is that bull? I thought the whole backbone is IPv6 now, and it is only the residential ISPs that are

Re: IPv6 is on the marketers radar

On 02/11/2011 10:46 AM, J.D. Falk wrote: On Feb 11, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Franck Martin wrote: http://www.marketingvox.com/under-the-microscope-what-the-end-of-ipv4-means-for-marketers-048657/ I can hear people, say oh no Interesting to see that marketers do not like CGNAT. Hmm, I recognize

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

On 02/18/2011 09:13 AM, Max Pierson wrote: Hi List, Anyone out there using something other than rrdtool for creating graphs?? I have a project that will need a trend taken, and unfortunately rrdtool doesn't fit the bill. All of the scripting, data collection, database archival, etc will be custo

Re: Graph Utils (Open-Source)

Mostly I've heard bad things about matplotlib under Python. Lots of good features, but buggy and a bit of a memory hog. How did you find it? On 02/18/2011 10:34 AM, Peter A. Friend wrote: I've used gnuplot for several projects and found it very flexible. Gnuplot is also handy because it's eas

Re: Sunday Funnies: Using a smart phone as a diagnostic tool

On 2/27/2011 4:00 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: Do you have a smartphone? Blackberry? iPhone? Android? Android, a Nexus One. Do you use it as a technical tool in your work, either for accessing devices or testing connectivity -- or something else? If so, what kind of phone, and what (if you don't

Re: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!

On 03/01/2011 07:39 AM, George Bonser wrote: Fairly major global network provider likes to call themselves a "Tier 1". Asking about native IPv6 in one of their colo facilities in the UK. They say their US facilities won't be v6 capable until Q4 2011. The UK rep acted like it was the first he'd

Re: gmail issues ?

On 3/15/2011 2:07 PM, Michael Loftis wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: Anyone seeing gmail issues ? I checked at http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en I've been having massively delayed incoming mail since about Sunday (2011/03/13) some email taking days to come in,

Re: CSI New York fake IPv6

On 3/20/2011 11:44 AM, Skeeve Stevens wrote: All, I just thought this is amusing that in CSI: New York – Season 7, Episode 17, they do a 'Remote Desktop' hack and they enter in the following details… http://www.eintellego.net/public/CSINY.s07e17-fakev6.jpg Promoting IPv6 = Win! Dodgy Address

Re: SORBS contact?

On 03/22/2011 09:07 AM, Chris Conn wrote: Hello, Thank you to all that answered, all helpful info. Surprisingly minutes after my Nanog post, a couple of my tickets saw action and the /24 was finally removed a short while later. Thanks again, Chris Woah... *collapses on the floor in shock*

Re: SORBS contact?

f negative karma for them to get past. - Original Message - From: "Steve Atkins" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, 23 March, 2011 9:56:20 AM Subject: Re: SORBS contact? On Mar 22, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Mike wrote: On 03/22/2011 12:14 PM, Paul Graydon wrote: On 03/22/2011

Re: OT: Question/Netflix issues?

On 03/23/2011 09:41 AM, sillywiz...@rs4668.com wrote: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)" wrote: Guess that move to Amazon EC2 wasn't such a good idea. First reddit, now netflix. http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/four-reasons-we-choose-amazons-cloud-as.html FWIW, at $DAYJOB we haven't been a

The growth of municipal broadband networks

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/133-us-cities-now-run-their-own-broadband-networks.ars Ars Technica has a short article up about the growth of municipal networks, but principally a nice little 'hey check out this website' (http://www.muninetworks.org/communitymap) The whole sc

Re: Paul Baran, RIP.

On 03/28/2011 03:14 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: "Roland Dobbins" Oh hell; now we'll *never* lay the ghost of "packet switching was invented to create a nuclear-war-survivable netw

Re: Syngenta space

On 04/13/2011 09:48 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Randy Bush wrote: sorry for the noise, but my contact at Syngenta says they have 147.0.0.0/8 168.0.0.0/8 and 172.0.0.0/8, and pigs fly indeed, an impressive claim, how much for it all? *checks pockets* $5 an

Re: 365x24x7

On 4/15/2011 3:14 AM, harbor235 wrote: If I were going to provide a 365x24x7 NOC, how many teams of personnel do I need to fully cover operations? I assume minimally you need 3 teams to cover the required 24 hr coverage, but there is off time and schedule rotation? thoughts, experience? Mike F

Re: Amazon diagnosis

On 5/1/2011 9:29 AM, Jeff Wheeler wrote: On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Andrew Kirch wrote: Sure they can, but as a thought exercise fully 2n redundancy is difficult on a small scale for anything web facing. I've seen a very simple implementation for a website requiring 5 9's that consumed ov

Re: Amazon diagnosis

On 05/02/2011 09:27 AM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: Jeff Wheeler wrote: IT managers would do well to understand that a few smart programmers, who understand how all their tools (web servers, databases, filesystems, load-balancers, etc.) actually work, can often do more to I fully agree. But much t

Re: Experience with Open Source load balancers?

On 05/17/2011 08:23 AM, Tom Hill wrote: I've worked with open source and commercial solutions, and while the open source systems were almost always far more flexible, and cheaper up front, they certainly required more work to get going.. Once setup and running though both types of solutions had

Re: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's possible?with today's technology.

On 05/20/2011 08:53 AM, Brett Frankenberger wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 06:46:45PM +, Eu-Ming Lee wrote: To do this, you only need 2 numbers: the nth digit of pi and the number of digits. Simply convert your message into a single extremely long integer. Somewhere, in the digits of pi, yo

Re: Rogers Canada using 7.0.0.0/8 for internal address space

On 5/24/2011 4:17 AM, Byron L. Hicks wrote: On 5/24/2011 9:13 AM, Leigh Porter wrote: So you said NO, and what did they do about it ? It forced them to put in their own ISDN router, and they put static routes on the point of sale terminals that pointed the "borrowed" IP space to the ISDN route

Re: Microsoft's participation in World IPv6 day

On 06/02/2011 12:45 PM, david raistrick wrote: On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Bill Woodcock wrote: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2533454/ Uh... snicker. snicker. lol. rofl. "we'll fix our ipv6 support by, well, not using it!" It's not Microsoft's IPv6 support they're fixing, which works fine fro

Re: IPv6 day fun is beginning!

I've done the same at home, HE tunnel for IPv6. I've got a Linksys WRT54GL running DD-WRT so getting it set up was relatively straight forward though I really need to fix the automatic startup script that's misbehaving. Work was another matter, one big headache, to the point where I'm wonderin

Re: IPv6 day fun is beginning!

y Net Access Corporation http://www.nac.net/ On 6/9/2011 12:19 AM, Paul Graydon wrote: I've done the same at home, HE tunnel for IPv6. I've got a Linksys WRT54GL running DD-WRT so getting it set up was relatively straight forward though I really need to fix the automatic startup s

Re: World IPv6 Only Day.

Dumb question.. what does the switch (L2) have to do with IPv6 (L3), or is it one of those 'somewhere in between the two' things? Paul On 6/8/2011 1:08 PM, fredrik danerklint wrote: Well, that's another problem. To make a long story short, the network (not mine and I don't have any kind of co