Re: Overlay maps of fiber routes through Louisiana
Gerry Boudreaux wrote: Hi, Does anyone have any links, maps, etc, that shows an overview of which fiber providers traverse Louisiana, touching Baton Rouge, which do not have eastbound paths dependant on New Orleans facilities? I am not looking for exact routes, yet. I know the general one that was generated for the state in 2002. This is classified information since 9/11 to prevent terrorist from devastating the communications infrastructure of the USA? Everybody's blind these days and without vital information for non-terrorist events. -- Andre
Update on Wireless Katrina Response
On Friday, the FCC held a conference call with wireless internet service providers and representatives of tech companies including Intel, Cisco, and Vonage -- the goal was to urgently coordinate private and public sector resources to get communication systems up again in areas devastated by Katrina. http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/05/update_on_wireless_k.html - ferg -- Fergie, a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
Re: Update on Wireless Katrina Response
-Original Message- From: Fergie (Paul Ferguson) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 5, 2005 08:35 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Update on Wireless Katrina Response On Friday, the FCC held a conference call with wireless internet service providers and representatives of tech companies including Intel, Cisco, and Vonage -- the goal was to urgently coordinate private and public sector resources to get communication systems up again in areas devastated by Katrina. http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/05/update_on_wireless_k.html - ferg The list at part-15.org has information on the Wisps setting up Wireless service ASAP. Also some VoIP services. -Cheers Dee
katrina damage
This isn't quite network related, though if you have facilities in New Orleans, it might be of use to assist in assessing damage in your area. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=New+Orleanst=e has satellite images from Katrina's damage path specifically in the New Orleans Area. -- Andrew D Kirch | Abusive Hosts Blocking List | www.ahbl.org Security Admin | Summit Open Source Development Group | www.sosdg.org Key At http://www.2mbit.com/~trelane/trelane.asc Key fingerprint = 4106 3338 1F17 1E6F 8FB2 8DFA 1331 7E25 C406 C8D2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Hurrican Katrina situation report
Electric power Peak outages in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi: 2.7 million meters Remaining outages as of September 5: 1 million meters Alabama: 2% customer meters without power Louisiana: 56% customer meters without power Mississippi: 30% customer meters without power New Orleans: restoration to emergency, governmental and special needs customers including portions of the west bank of Jefferson Parish, including West Jefferson Hospital, Entergy's Gretna Control Center, Jefferson Parish EOC, Gretna Police Department, Gretna Fire Station, Gretna Water Works and Jefferson Parish Sewer Plant. On the east bank of Jefferson Parish, power has been restored to East Jefferson General Hospital, Ochsner Clinic Foundation and the Louis Armstrong International Airport. Natural gas (Entergy): Extensive damage to gas distribution system in New Orleans. Will need to shut off natural gas service in many areas of New Orleans to make repairs. Cellular (Verizon, Cingular): Alabama: majority of service restored with a few areas of limited service Mississippi: Gulf coast outages and spotty service. Cell on Wheels (COWs) deployed to support relief operations in several areas. Biloxi service partially restored. Louisiana: Central New Orleans wide spread outages with limited service. Outside of New Orleans, have good service with only a few areas of limited coverage. Rooftop COWs being deployed to locations in New Oreleans. Roaming service: Evacuees with cell phones with numbers from the affected areas found their service did not work elsewhere in the country because the cell phone could not register on the network. Cellular carriers have worked to re-deploy new databases and re-route registration messages to provide service to evacuees. Note: Mobile VOIP services could have the same problem in the future. Wireline (Bellsouth): Lousiana: Approximately 54% of the access lines out of service. Mississippi: Approximately 39% of the access lines out of service. Alabama: Approximately 5% of the access lines out of service. Long Distance and Internet: Sprint Nextel has rerouted long-distance traffic around New Orleans enabling customers to make long-distance calls in the Tallahassee area and in the Florida Panhandle, including Ft. Walton Beach. Sprint Nextel teams continue to work to restore dedicated Internet access to corporate customers in northern Florida. Qwest fiber optic line along the gulf coast was damaged. Services for shelters and evacuees in other states Essentially every service provider is providing emergency and free services to shelters and evacuees as new shelters are being opened througout the country.
Re: Cisco crapaganda
[late followup] On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 07:32:20PM +0100, Dave Howe wrote: Rich Kulawiec wrote: More bluntly: the closed-source, faith-based approach to security doesn't cut it. The attacks we're confronting are being launched (in many cases) by people who *already have the source code*, and who thus enjoy an enormous advantage over the defenders. TBH though, usually the open source faith based approach to security doesn't cut it either. its easy to say its open source, therefore anyone can check the code but much harder to actually find someone who has taken the time to do it Ah, but I covered that, or at least I thought I did: D. Any piece of source code which hasn't been subjected to widespread peer review should be presumed untrustworthy-- because it not only hasn't been shown to be otherwise, the attempt hasn't even been made. (Note that the contrapositive isn't true -- peer review is only a necessary condition, not a sufficient one.) Which means: just because it's open source and therefore any can check it, doesn't mean that anyone has...or that they're competent...or that they were thorough...or that they found all the issues. Like I said, it's a necessary condition, not a sufficient one. But...even with all the tools that have been developed -- everything from formal proofs of correctness to array bounds checkers to stack overflow guards to you-name-it...it seems that in 2005 that the very best available/practical method we have for trying to produce secure code is lots and lots of independent and clueful eyeballs. I'm not saying that's a desirable situation, because it's not: it would be nice if we had something better. But we don't, at least not yet. Another way of putting it: no matter who you are, from one lone programmer to 10,000, the Internet is more thorough than you are. Now, one could counter-argue that keeping source code secret provides some measure of security. I'm not buying it: I don't think there's any such thing as secret source code. And even if there was: if someone with enough cash to fill a briefcase wants it: they WILL get it. I suppose what I'm saying is: let's drop the pretense that closed-source really and truly exists, let's get the critical code out in the open, and let's get started with the process of beating it into shape. Because we're already paying (and paying and paying) a huge price for continuing the charade. ---Rsk
level3.net in Chicago - high packet loss?!?
Anybody having any idea why such a high packet loss on lever3's network, in Chicago? Stef:~ scm$ mtr -r www.yahoo.com ... tbr1-p010802.cgcil.ip.att.net 0%16 16 15.12 24.21 49.26 ggr2-p310.cgcil.ip.att.net0%16 16 13.18 42.66 118.99 so-1-1-0.edge1.chicago1.level3.net0%16 16 14.48 35.84 126.48 so-2-1-0.bbr1.chicago1.level3.net63% 6 16 14.44 43.74 79.97 ^^^ as-1-0.bbr2.sanjose1.level3.net 0%16 16 61.95 80.64 176.01 ge-10-2.ipcolo3.sanjose1.level3.net 0%16 16 63.37 95.61 148.46 unknown.level3.net0%16 16 63.34 86.46 168.62 unknown-66-218-82-217.yahoo.com 0%16 16 62.09 88.91 127.58 p4.www.scd.yahoo.com 0%16 16 64.51 89.96 183.79 TIA, Stef Network Fortius, LLC
$400 to $600 million Bellsouth repairs
A map showing the geographic span of the disaster. It extends far beyond New Orleans, across Mississippi and Alabama. Some service in the worst areas may not be restored for months. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/06/business/06telecom.html
