Re: FCC fines for unauthorized carrier changes and consumer billing

2021-04-23 Thread Roy
There is a difference between fines and ordering restitution.  The FTC case was concerned with "monetary relief"  The FTC and the FCC are allowed to impose civil penalties. On 4/23/2021 10:29 AM, Matt Erculiani wrote: > It j

Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-01-27 Thread Roy
On 1/27/2020 8:29 AM, Daniel Seagraves wrote: On Jan 24, 2020, at 5:26 PM, Ben Cannon wrote: I started what became 6x7 with a 64k ISDN line. And 9600 baud modems… Hayes Smartmodem here, 1200 baud. Local BBS offered PPP service. When I got my first sysadmin job, $work had a T1 and it felt li

Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-01-27 Thread Roy
Don't forget B8ZS which did way with the need for SFon copper data T1s On 1/27/2020 10:43 AM, Lyle Giese wrote: 64k vs 56k was the result of changing T1 framing from SF to ESF.  SF utilized AMI(Alt Mark Inversion) required for copper T1 lines between Central Offices.  SF(Super Frame) robbe

Re: Massive Spectrum Outage

2020-07-29 Thread Roy
Northern CA is fine.  Cable and fiber both operating On 7/29/2020 7:36 PM, Kenneth McRae via NANOG wrote: Anyone outside of S. California affected?

Re: Never push the Big Red Button (New York City subway failure)

2021-09-15 Thread Roy
. Turns out a wire had come loose and the fuse in the EPO circuit had blown. Roy

Re: "Permanent" DST

2022-03-15 Thread Roy
Actually I think the proposed bill leaves AZ and HI on standard time.  The bill's primary focus is on stopping the changing of the clock twice a year. Arizona time is supposedly MST all year but it is not consistent.  The Indian nations adopt their own rule

Re: "Permanent" DST

2022-03-15 Thread Roy
On 3/15/2022 1:19 PM, Andy Ringsmuth wrote: On Mar 15, 2022, at 2:40 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: If Canada doesn't do the same thing at the same time, it'll be a real hassle, dealing with a change from -8 to -7 crossing the border between BC and WA, for instance. It has to be done consistently thr

Re: Typical last mile battery runtime (protecting against power cuts)

2023-02-04 Thread Roy
On 2/4/2023 2:10 PM, Mark Tinka wrote: On 2/4/23 23:58, Sabri Berisha wrote: I'd say I have something in between. I have a WEN GN875i: https://www.amazon.com/WEN-GN875i-Transfer-Switch-Ready-8750-Watt-Generator/dp/B08STWSWLH/ That's 7kw rated and 8.75kw peak. More than enough to support my

Re: Typical last mile battery runtime (protecting against power cuts)

2023-02-04 Thread Roy
On 2/4/2023 9:31 PM, Mark Tinka wrote: On 2/5/23 07:02, Roy wrote: My all electric house is in a rural area.  The generator that came with the place is a 20KW Onan,  The bad news is in can't handle the house.  I think it is the Aux Heat on the heat pump that is the problem.  I ha

Re: Any technical-network issues? (was Re: Special Counsel Office report web site)

2019-04-18 Thread Roy
On 4/18/2019 3:44 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: On Wed, 17 Apr 2019, Sean Donelan wrote: The Special Counsel's report is expected to be posted on its website sometime between 11 a.m. and noon on Thursday, April 18, 2019. Its been about 7 hours since the report was released on the SCO web site and t

Re: nested prefixes in Internet

2016-09-27 Thread Roy
Option 3? ISP A announces the /19 and the /24 while ISP B does just the /24 On 9/27/2016 4:20 AM, Martin T wrote: Hi, let's assume that there is an ISP "A" operating in Europe region who has /19 IPv4 allocation from RIPE. From this /19 they have leased /24 to ISP "B" who is multi-homed. This

Re: nested prefixes in Internet

2016-10-10 Thread Roy
would like to hear from Roy and Mel why do they prefer a third option where ISP A announces the /19 and the /24 while ISP B does just the /24. thanks, Martin On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 11:50 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: * Martin T.: Florian: Are the autonomous systems for the /19 and /24 conn

Re: nested prefixes in Internet

2016-10-10 Thread Roy
10/10/2016 9:16 AM, joel jaeggli wrote: On 10/10/16 9:04 AM, Roy wrote: The solution proposed allows ISP-B to use both paths at the same time, needs ISP-C to minimal changes, and has low impact on the global routing tables.. I have successfully used it in the past and my old company is still usi

Trump names new FCC chairman

2017-01-23 Thread Roy
Trump has picked Ajit Pai to serve as the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Pai is currently the senior Republican commissioner at the FCC and does not require Senate approval. http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/23/technology/trump-fcc-chairman/index.html

Re: Remote power cycle recommendations

2018-04-27 Thread Roy
We use Synaccess https://www.synaccess-net.com/switched/

Re: Question about ISP billing procedures

2019-02-27 Thread Roy
On 2/27/2019 8:31 PM, Daniel Rohan wrote: Can anyone shed light on how ISPs handle missing samples when calculating p95s for monthly billing cycles? Do they fill null samples with zeros or leave them as null?  I’m working o

Re: Temp at Level 3 data centers

2017-10-13 Thread Roy
The IBM 308x and 309x series mainframes were water cooled.  They did have Thermal Conduction Modules which had a helium-filled metal cap, which contains one piston per chip; the piston presses against the back of each chip to provide a heat conduction path from the chip to the cap.  The cap

Re: Temp at Level 3 data centers

2017-10-13 Thread Roy
On 2017-10-13 14:10, Roy wrote: The IBM 308x and 309x series mainframes were water cooled. The bank I worked for had just installed one. A big change were noise levels, the thing was really quiet. But servicing now required a plumber too. (there was a separate cabinet for the water pumps as

Re: 5.7/5.8 GHz 802.11n dual polarity MIMO through office building glass, 1.5 km distance

2010-12-29 Thread Roy
On 12/29/2010 5:47 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: On Dec 29, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Josh Smith wrote: While certainly not the best stuff made I've found the ubiquiti equipment to be very nice for the price and have a few of their AP's which have been in service 24x7 for a couple of years now. Same here.

Re: Routing Suggestions

2011-01-12 Thread Roy
On 1/12/2011 4:13 PM, Lars Carter wrote: Hi NANOG list, I have a simple, hypothetical question regarding preferred connectivity methods for you guys that I would like to get the hive mind opinion about. There are two companies, Company A and Company B, that are planning to continuously exchan

Re: Connectivity status for Egypt

2011-01-27 Thread Roy
On 1/27/2011 3:47 PM, Danny O'Brien wrote: Around 2236 UCT, we lost all Internet connectivity with our contacts in Egypt, and I'm hearing reports of (in declining order of confirmability): 1) Internet connectivity loss on major (broadband) ISPs 2) No SMS 4) Intermittent connectivity with smaller

Re: Connectivity status for Egypt

2011-01-27 Thread Roy
On 1/27/2011 9:36 PM, Craig Labovitz wrote: And to add to this thread, an graph of Egyptian Internet traffic across a large number of geographically / topologically diverse providers yesterday (Jan 27): http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5291/5395027368_7d97b74c0b_b.jpg Traffic drops to a handf

Re: help needed - state of california needs a benchmark

2011-01-29 Thread Roy
On 1/29/2011 10:00 AM, Mike wrote: Hello, My company is small clec / broadband provider serving rural communities in northern California, and we are the recipient of a small grant from the state thru our public utilities commission. We went out to 'middle of nowhere' and deployed adsl2+ i

Re: Need trusted NTP Sources

2014-02-07 Thread Roy
On 2/7/2014 3:35 AM, Saku Ytti wrote: On (2014-02-06 21:14 -0500), Jay Ashworth wrote: My usual practice is to set up two in house servers, each of which talks to: And then point everyone in house to both of them, assuming they accept multiple server names. Two is worst possible amount of NTP

IPV6 and Charter Cable

2014-06-13 Thread Roy
Does Charter Cable have IPV6 for businesses yet? If so can someone point me in the right direction. Their NOC seems to be clueless on their IPV6 plans

Re: IPV6 and Charter Cable

2014-06-14 Thread Roy
On 6/14/2014 2:27 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: On 6/13/14, 12:39, Roy wrote: Does Charter Cable have IPV6 for businesses yet? If so can someone point me in the right direction. Their NOC seems to be clueless on their IPV6 plans I have native IPv6 with BGP on Charter (AS20115) since January

Re: Correspondence to the FCC re: preemption of local government as a source of regulation

2014-07-24 Thread Roy
The question posed is whether or not a state can control where a local governmental agencies can provide service. In the document below, the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga (EPB) wants to expand its internet into a location that outside it's authorized area. On 7/24/2014 3:28 PM,

Re: Correspondence to the FCC re: preemption of local government as a source of regulation

2014-07-24 Thread Roy
I agree 100%. If a municipality wants to provide service to its citizens and contracts it out, nothing prevents that. On 7/24/2014 6:17 PM, William Herrin wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Roy wrote: The question posed is whether or not a state can control where a local

Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

2011-08-23 Thread Roy
On 8/23/2011 12:43 PM, PC wrote: Based on a sampling of thousands of cable modems, dsl, and cellular sites in the DC area: With a 10 second keepalive/30 second holdtime, I only saw, maybe, 2-3 sites disappear per thousand based on an endpoint in Ashburn, VA. I do see some delay cellular side, b

Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

2011-08-24 Thread Roy
On 8/24/2011 7:18 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Leigh Porter wrote: Indeed, we are not going to be building earthquake proof buildings in London for example. Of course there is no such thing as earthquake proof. The Earth is still a single point of failure :-) Essential faci

Re: Mailing list/group for datacenter facilities folks

2011-09-08 Thread Roy
On 9/8/2011 7:52 AM, Chris Boyd wrote: On Sep 7, 2011, at 8:03 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: Probably with all air removed from the environment, and a sound thermal medium such as oil pumped in in its place (make sure to use SSDs for all storage and no mechanical devices). There are ways to submerge s

Re: old media

2011-09-19 Thread Roy
On 9/19/2011 9:20 PM, Randy Bush wrote: Does anybody actually *have* a functional 7 track drive? if you really need one, i know what trail i would start to follow. there are folk keeping old stuff alive and pulling arcane things off old media (like the besm-6 system). randy I haven't heard

Re: Query : seeking a (low cost & secure) turnkey plug-and-play appliance to report network outages

2011-11-17 Thread Roy
I will second the WRT54GL with OpenWRT. I have a number of them deployed. I run an OpenVPN tunnel from the WRT54GL to a Linux server at our shop so I can remotely log into the box and carry out any tests or changes needed. On 11/17/2011 6:21 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, A.

Re: Query : seeking a (low cost & secure) turnkey plug-and-play

2011-11-19 Thread Roy
On 11/19/2011 4:04 PM, Joe Greco wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:58 AM, A. Chase Turner wrote: I am seeking a $100 turnkey micro hardware appliance to plug into a LAN hub... Why micro? Just get a pile of free for the carting-off old Pentium machines and run them headless with a BSD. Set th

Re: home network monitoring and shaping

2013-02-12 Thread Roy
On 2/12/2013 4:10 PM, James Harrison wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/02/2013 21:56, Michael Thomas wrote: It seems that there really ought to be a better way here to manage my home network. Like, for example, the ability to get stats from router and tell it to shape

Re: Fiber cut in SF Bay Area?

2013-04-16 Thread Roy
I heard of a fiber cut in Texas where the thieves thought it was copper :-) On 4/16/2013 10:26 AM, Zaid Ali Kahn wrote: Level3 is also impacted. This cut seems to be vandalism but only heard this from one source. Zaid Sent from my iPhone On Apr 16, 2013, at 12:51 PM, Ravi Pina wrote: Ou

Re: NANOG58 parking

2013-05-05 Thread Roy
On 5/5/2013 11:12 AM, Jeff Wheeler wrote: I noticed that some folks were unhappy with the parking fee in Orlando. The Roosevelt New Orleans, for NANOG 58, tells me that the only on-site parking is valet for $42/day. Anyone planning to drive or stay at a different hotel may want to consider that

Re: Canadian Hosting Providers - how do you handle copyright and trademark complaints

2013-06-05 Thread Roy
On 6/5/2013 4:40 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: On 6/5/13, Sameer Khosla wrote: My personal favorite is the number of notices that we receive as DMCA takedown notices, citing the specific laws. I'm not sure US copyright laws even apply to us here in Canada? What countries have no internet laws? N.

Re: Canadian Hosting Providers - how do you handle copyright and trademark complaints

2013-06-06 Thread Roy
On 6/6/2013 11:07 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Jun 5, 2013, at 22:30 , Roy wrote: On 6/5/2013 4:40 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: On 6/5/13, Sameer Khosla wrote: My personal favorite is the number of notices that we receive as DMCA takedown notices, citing the specific laws. I'm not su

Re: enterprise 802.11

2012-01-15 Thread Roy
On 1/15/2012 11:30 AM, Ken King wrote: I need to choose a wireless solution for a new office. up to 600 devices will connect. most devices are mac books and mobile phones. we can see hundreds of access points in close proximity to our new office space. what are the thoughts these days on the

Re: pbx recco

2012-05-15 Thread Roy
Trixbox is basically stagnated. The last update was in 2010 On 5/15/2012 11:29 AM, Wayne Wenthin wrote: Randy, Greets from 105/102! Now that I've said that I have had some luck with Trixbox. His fun will be getting the Cisco phones talking sip and liking it. Wayne On Tue, May 15, 2012 at

Re: FYI Netflix is down

2012-06-29 Thread Roy
On 6/29/2012 10:38 PM, jamie rishaw wrote: you know what's happening even more? ..Amazon not learning their lesson. they just had an outage quite similar.. they "performed a full audit" on electrical systems worldwide, according to the rfo/post mortem. looks like they need to perform a "full a

Re: FYI Netflix is down

2012-06-30 Thread Roy
On 6/30/2012 12:11 AM, Tyler Haske wrote: I am not a computer science guy but been around a long time. Data centers and clouds are like software. Once they reach a certain size, its impossible to keep the bugs out. You can test and test your heart out and something will slip by. You can say t

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

2012-06-30 Thread Roy
Talk about people not testing things, leap seconds have been around since 1961. There have been nine leap seconds in the last twenty years. Any system that can't handle a leap second is seriously flawed.

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

2012-07-04 Thread Roy
Rather than discussing the pros and cons of UTC and leap seconds, just create your own time system. You could call it OpenTime. OpenTime will use NTP servers where the Stratum 1 servers are synced to some time standard that doesn't care about leap seconds. That way the consumer can chose to

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

2012-07-04 Thread Roy
On 7/4/2012 10:06 PM, Peter Kristolaitis wrote: On 7/5/2012 12:47 AM, Roy wrote: Rather than discussing the pros and cons of UTC and leap seconds, just create your own time system. You could call it OpenTime. OpenTime will use NTP servers where the Stratum 1 servers are synced to some time

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

2012-07-05 Thread Roy
On 7/5/2012 5:54 PM, Peter Lothberg wrote: Rather than discussing the pros and cons of UTC and leap seconds, just create your own time system. You could call it OpenTime. OpenTime will use NTP servers where the Stratum 1 servers are synced to some time standard that doesn't care about leap seco

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

2012-07-05 Thread Roy
On 7/5/2012 10:42 AM, Steve Allen wrote: On Thu 2012-07-05T10:26:22 -0700, Roy hath writ: Lets see. There have been nine leap seconds in 20 years. So at the start of the next century the difference will probably be less than a minute There is no predicting how large the decadal variations in

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread Roy
On 7/6/2012 10:44 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:20:55 -0400, Andrew Fried said: The dns-ok.us site is getting crushed from all the sudden media interest. One wonders why it's so hard to get the media interested when it would be *helpful*. DNS Changer gets traction l

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread Roy
On 7/6/2012 11:06 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:52:56 -0700, Cameron Byrne said: So insteading of turning the servers off, would it not have been helpful to have the servers return a "captive portal" type of reponse Not all DNS lookups are for HTTP. If you turn the

Re: DNS Changer items

2012-07-06 Thread Roy
On 7/6/2012 1:15 PM, Andrew Fried wrote: Cameron, That idea had been brought up. Also discussed was short durations of random blackouts of dns resolution to impress upon the infected users that they needed to take action. Unfortunately, taking either of those actions would have exceeded the au

Re: US House to ITU: Hands off the Internet

2012-08-03 Thread Roy
On 8/3/2012 9:26 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:06:19 -0400, "Patrick W. Gilmore" said: The vote was unanimous: 414-0 Unanimous? I didn't think this congress could agree the earth is round unanimously. And in fact, they didn't - there's 435 Representatives. Actua

Re: Detection of Rogue Access Points

2012-10-14 Thread Roy
On 10/14/2012 1:59 PM, Jonathan Rogers wrote: Gentlemen, > > An issue has come up in my organization recently with rogue access > points. So far it has manifested itself two ways: > > 1. A WAP that was set up specifically to be transparent and provided > unprotected wireless access to our networ

Re: Detection of Rogue Access Points

2012-10-15 Thread Roy
Why not give them wireless Internet access only? That will keep all the smartphone users happy. On 10/15/2012 8:12 AM, Jonathan Rogers wrote: Well, quite frankly they have the tools they need. Our remote sites do not have any devices that require wireless. They don't have company-issued l

Sandy seen costing telco, cable hundreds of millions of dollars

2012-11-04 Thread Roy
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/01/storm-sandy-telecoms-idUSL1E8M1L9Z20121101

Re: The Verge article about Verizon's Sandy Cleanup Efforts in Manhattan

2012-11-26 Thread Roy
On 11/26/2012 8:04 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Miles Fidelman wrote: Christopher Morrow wrote: apologies, I forgot the emoticons after my last comment. i really did mean it in jest... I don't think VZ has harnessed weather-changing-powers. (yet

Re: wifi blocking [was Re: Marriott wifi blocking]

2014-10-07 Thread Roy
The SF Bay Area Rapid Transits System) turned off cellphones in 2011. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/BART-admits-halting-cell-service-to-stop-protests-2335114.php and the FCC emphasis that future actions "recognizes that any interruption of cell phone service poses serious risks to public

Re: wifi blocking [was Re: Marriott wifi blocking]

2014-10-07 Thread Roy
On 10/7/2014 7:34 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote: On 10/7/2014 20:59, Roy wrote: The SF Bay Area Rapid Transits System) turned off cellphones in 2011. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/BART-admits-halting-cell-service-to-stop-protests-2335114.php and the FCC emphasis that future actions

Re: wifi blocking [was Re: Marriott wifi blocking]

2014-10-08 Thread Roy
On 10/7/2014 10:35 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote: On 10/7/2014 23:44, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 23:10:15 -0500, Larry Sheldon said: The cell service is not a requirement placed upon them, I am pretty sure. However, once having chosen to provide it, and thus create an expec

Re: Tech Laptop with DB9

2014-11-10 Thread Roy
I had a cheap one. Worked great but never worked on Windows 7 This is the one I recommend. http://www.amazon.com/Manhattan-Serial-Converter-Connects-205146/dp/B0007OWNYA On 11/10/2014 12:53 PM, Darden, Patrick wrote: Get a cheap usb--serial converter. Check amazon for trend usb rs-232 db9

Re: Facebook outage?

2015-01-27 Thread Roy
According to one joker, the crash was caused by too many pictures of the Northeast blizzard :-)

Re: Updated Ookla Speedtest Server Requirements

2015-11-10 Thread Roy
On 11/10/2015 8:54 AM, Rich Brown wrote: On Nov 10, 2015, at 7:00 AM, Hank Nussbacher wrote: The value of Ookla dropped significantly so we just let our license lapse and did what everyone else was doing and pointed our speedtest to: http://uk2.testmy.net/SmarTest/combinedAuto and manage with th

IPV6 availability

2015-12-16 Thread Roy
Anyone know what the IPV6 availability is on Cable One or Charter networks? Last I heard from Charter was that they were in beta. Its been in that state for years. I can't find anything on Cable One

Re: IPV6 availability

2015-12-17 Thread Roy
Thanks for the info I have contacted my sales rep to she if she can get it turned on for my fiber connection. Roy On 12/17/2015 7:32 AM, Rampley Jr, Jim F wrote: Hi Roy, Charter has launched IPv6 for our commercial Fiber Internet customers. We are also in EFT with IPv6 for Cable Modem

Re: Oh dear, we've all been made redundant...

2016-03-20 Thread Roy
Here is an even better one. This one recycles the power when it loses contact with the internet. http://resetplug.com/ On 3/20/2016 10:22 AM, Mike wrote: This is great, I now have something I can show to my customers to confirm that all this power cycling and such really is an 'accepted

Re: Charter/Comcast Enginner-Contact

2015-03-01 Thread Roy
The Charter engineers are all working on their IPV6 migration and have been for at least three years now :-( .On 3/1/2015 6:25 PM, Lewis,Mitchell T. wrote: Any Charter or Comcast Network Folks out there? I would appreciate a contact off-list. I am in the charter new england territory to be

Historical records of POCs

2015-04-18 Thread Roy
Is there an archive of POCs for some of the early netblocks (1985 or so)? We are trying to figure out some corporate history.

Charter and IPV6?

2015-06-29 Thread Roy
Has Charter rolled out IPV6 yet? I have both fiber and cable connections to Charter but I stopped asking them months ago. Roy

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-17 Thread Roy
On 7/17/2013 1:59 PM, Alex Harrowell wrote: On 15/07/13 01:09, Tony Patti wrote: TWELVE years ago (press release March 20 2001), Comcast deployed Linux-based Sun Cobalt Qube appliances as CPE with their business-class Internet service, these provided firewall security, web caching, optional con

Re: How big is the Internet?

2013-08-14 Thread Roy
On 8/14/2013 11:29 AM, Scott Howard wrote: To paraphrase Douglas Adams... "The Internet is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space!" Scott

SORBS email

2013-10-21 Thread Roy
I sent an email to SORBS some time ago and I received this yesterday Reason: unable to deliver this message after 135 days Got to admit that SORBS email servers aren't timely but they are persistent.

Re: Possible DNS issues at Networksolutions aka WORLDNIC.COM?

2013-10-22 Thread Roy
On 10/22/2013 9:59 AM, Mark Keymer wrote: Hi, Anyone else seeing resolving issues on WORLDNIC.COM DNS servers? Sincerely, Yep. One of my clients domains seems to be gone.

Re: Possible DNS issues at Networksolutions aka WORLDNIC.COM?

2013-10-22 Thread Roy
On 10/22/2013 10:10 AM, Roy wrote: On 10/22/2013 9:59 AM, Mark Keymer wrote: Hi, Anyone else seeing resolving issues on WORLDNIC.COM DNS servers? Sincerely, Yep. One of my clients domains seems to be gone. I am getting very slow responses from their DNS servers. Maybe a DDOS against

Re: Advice requested

2007-05-29 Thread Roy
good news was that we detected the "attack" and blackholed the tester's IP address. :-) We passed with flying colors. Better check with your management to make sure that they haven't authorized something. Roy

Re: Operators: the IETF's Dark Gods

2007-05-31 Thread Roy
David W. Hankins wrote: > ... > > Obligatory operational content: Stock up on coal. If someone > asks if you're a God, say "Yes." > > You have put your finger on the problem. Someone crossed the ipv4 and ipv6 streams and the Operator was sent back to the interdimensional vastness from which

Re: DHCP Use (was Re: )

2010-04-25 Thread Roy
On 4/25/2010 5:11 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: On 4/25/10 4:33 PM, Tony Hoyle wrote: On 25/04/2010 22:06, Larry Sheldon wrote: The whole idea that DHCP should only be used for (and is absolute proof of the status of) despised-class customers is just nuts. I've never seen DHCP u

Re: Rugged wireless bridge

2010-05-11 Thread Roy
Lots of good stuff here http://www.wlanparts.com/ I have had good luck with the Ez-Bridge Lite On 5/11/2010 6:36 AM, Andrey Khomyakov wrote: Hi all, I need to provide IP connectivity to an outdoor parking lot for security devices like a camera, and emergency phone and a gate. Does anyone ha

Re: Off-Topic: use laptop only as USB power supply

2010-05-20 Thread Roy
Why carry a laptop? Here are some examples http://www.walmart.com/ip/Belkin-Mini-Notebook-Surge-Portector-with-Built-In-USB-Charger/10248165?sourceid=1503142050&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=10248165 http://www.cyberguys.com/product-details/?productid=39338 http://www.cyberguys.com/produc

Re: thoughts?

2010-05-27 Thread Roy
On 5/27/2010 8:46 AM, George Bonser wrote: -Original Message- From: Dorn Hetzel Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 4:11 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: thoughts? http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/27/internet.crunch.2012/index.html?hpt= T2 Somebody should do something!

Re: Monitoring Tool

2010-06-14 Thread Roy
On 6/14/2010 11:52 AM, Phil Regnauld wrote: Joshua William Klubi (joshua.klubi) writes: Hi I have been tasked to develop a good network for a Bank and i have also been tasked to get a good monitoring tool for the Bank's local network and Service providers network. i would like to ask the com

Re: Todd Underwood was a little late

2010-06-16 Thread Roy
On 6/16/2010 7:43 PM, Jon Lewis wrote: On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, Mark Andrews wrote: Why was this traffic hitting your DNS server in the first place? It should have been rejected by the ingress filters preventing spoofing of the local network. When I ran a smaller simpler network, I did have in

Re: Customer Interface Reporting / Portal

2010-06-17 Thread Roy
On 6/17/2010 10:50 AM, Serge Vautour wrote: Hello, What are people using to provide customer interface usage reports to customers? There seems to be lots of RRD based tools that can gather the data and store it for long term viewing. We use ZenOSS for internal purposes for example. How do we

Re: North Korea conflict with US and South Korea could spark cyber war

2010-07-24 Thread Roy
On 7/24/2010 2:10 PM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: ... It does indeed seem to be tool/net.kook day here on NANOG. I didn't check to see if there is supposed to be a full moon tonight. jms Close! Full Moon on 25 July 2010 at 9:37 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

Re: Monitoring Tools

2010-08-19 Thread Roy
On 8/19/2010 4:36 AM, jacob miller wrote: Phil, Am looking for availability reports,bandwidth usage,alerting service and ability to create different logins to users so they can access diff objects Thnks, Jacob --- On Thu, 8/19/10, Phil Regnauld wrote: From: Phil Regnauld Subject: Re: Mon

Re: Wireless bridge

2009-06-18 Thread Roy
Peter Boone wrote: Hi NANOG, I'm looking for some equipment recommendations for a wireless bridge between two locations approximately 500-800 meters apart. The current setup for this company has been extremely unstable and slow. I don't have a lot of experience in this area so I was hoping someo

Re: YES I'VE TRIED MANY VENUES looking for mail admin @ nist.gov

2009-07-10 Thread Roy
Martin Hannigan wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Jerry B. Altzman wrote: Hi, Yes, I've tried google, I've tried www.nist.gov, I've tried postmaster/hostmaster/ab...@nist.gov, I've even tried the phone. Could someone give me a pointer to a mail admin at nist.gov? I've been having is

Re: Subnet Size for BGP peers.

2009-07-30 Thread Roy
Doug McIntyre wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:22:27AM -0400, Barton F Bruce wrote: So what is wrong with a /31? We use /30s but if you are short on IP space, look at using /31 rather than /30 links. Cuts your space usage in half. /31's are only defined for point-to-point links. Et

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-26 Thread Roy
Joel Esler wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Jack Bates wrote: jim deleskie wrote: I agree we should all be telling the FCC that broadband is fiber to the home. If we spend all kinds of $$ to build a 1.5M/s connection to homes, it's outdated before we even finish. I disag

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-26 Thread Roy
I think it has become obvious that the correct definition of broadband depends on the users location. A house in the boonies is not going to get fiber, Perhaps the minimum acceptable bandwidth should vary by area. A definition of "area" could be some sort of user density measurement by censu

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-26 Thread Roy
equal. I though it was Orewell that made some more equal then others. :) -jim On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Roy wrote: I think it has become obvious that the correct definition of broadband depends on the users location. A house in the boonies is not going to get fiber, Perhaps t

Re: No route to verizon

2008-12-15 Thread Roy
Sharlon R. Carty wrote: > Hello, > > > > This is my first post. > > Can anyone provide some info or Verizon why there is no connectivity to > Verizon CA(Verizon Business UUNETCA8-A)? > Can not reach the following net range: 66.48.66.160 - 66.48.66.175 > > > > --sharlon > > > That network

Re: What to do when your ISP off-shores tech support

2008-12-24 Thread Roy
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > Randy Bush wrote: > >> On 08.12.24 12:43, Jay Hennigan wrote: >> >>> Matthew Black wrote: >>> I've had difficulties reaching anyone with a brain at my DSL provider Verizon California. >>> >>> Switch to a local ISP with local tech support. > >> bingo. > > Uh, ditto?

Re: Leap second tonight

2009-01-05 Thread Roy
Adrian Chadd wrote: > This begs the question - how the heck do timekeepers and politicians get > away with last minute time changes? > > Surely there's -some- pushback from technology related interest groups to > try and get more than four weeks warning? :) > > > > Adrian > > The first notice

Re: switch speed question

2009-02-24 Thread Roy
Eric Gearhart wrote: > > > Note that the traffic to a switch is bi-directional (full duplex) - so > a 24 port gigabit switch can max out its 32 Gig backplane, if all 24 > ports have a gig coming in and going out (24 X 2 is 48, more than the > 32 gig backplane). > > > I think your math

Re: Fiber cut in SF area

2009-04-09 Thread Roy
Service to South Santa Clara county is completely down: Internet, landline, and cellphones. Both Verizon and AT&T are affected. 911 is also down. My cellphones show one or no bars. Normally they are all four bars. The idea that all of that is lumped in one fiber bundle is mind boggling. On T

Re: Fiber cut in SF area

2009-04-11 Thread Roy
Mike Lyon wrote: > Anyone know how banks in the Bay Area did through this? I wonder how many > banks went dark and whether they had any backup plans/connectivity. Me > thinks its doubtful. > > ... Because of the loss of the alarm systems, many banks went to a method where only one or two people we

Re: Fiber cut in SF area

2009-04-11 Thread Roy
Sean Donelan wrote: > > Uh, not exactly. There was diversity in this case, but there was also > N+1 breaks. Outside of a few counties in the Bay Area, the rest of > the country's telecommunication system was unaffected. So in that > sense the system worked as designed. > About eight o

Cart and Horse

2009-04-13 Thread Roy
A friend mentioned at dinner yesterday that he spotted several AT&T trucks next to manholes in the area affected by the fiber cut. They were busy welding the manhole covers to their rims.

Re: Fiber cut in SF area

2009-04-14 Thread Roy
Gino Villarini wrote: > Here in my area most of business outfits that require maximum > availability of Internet or WAN conenctions have implemented dual > connections from dual providers, most with a fiber/copper main and a > fixed wireless backup. This trend goes from banks to Mcdonalds > > >

Re: Fiber cut in SF area

2009-04-14 Thread Roy
the WISPs in the Santa Cruz and Gilroy/Morgan Hill > areas were all also taken offline due to the fiber cut. (Roy, can you > verify, for south county?) Anyone in those areas who relied on a WISP > as a backup to their fiber/copper link found that their "redundant" > system

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