Global Crossing right now
Is anyone seeing peering problem with GBLX? We've seen peering problems on GBLX across NA. It's being felt by many of their peering partners and, in turn, being felt by many of our customers. We're sending a generic report to the effected customers and will try to get more info on the problem. The perf. losses started at approx 16:00 GMT and are ongoing. Peter --- "There is no way to peace, peace is the way." -- A.J. Muste --- Peter H. Salus Chief Knowledge Officer, Matrix NetSystems Ste. 3005001 Plaza on the LakeAustin, TX 78746 +1 512 697-0613 ---
Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...
>It would have been nice if the reporter bothered to mention that "Internet >speed records" are measured in terabit meters per second. An article >about "Internet speed records" that doesn't include the actual record, or even >a definition of the term "Internet speed record", is hardly deserving of placement on the front of cnn.com. Slow news day? I'm sorry to inform you guys that cnn.com just picked this up from the BBC, yesterday. And the Beeb got the spin wrong, too. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2822333.stm Peter --- Peter H. Salus Chief Knowledge Officer, Matrix NetSystems Ste. 3005001 Plaza on the LakeAustin, TX 78746 +1 512 697-0613 ---
Re: spamcop.net?
Bravo, Lou! Anyway, one of the *virtues* of the Net has always been its anarchic and chaotic nature. Trying to set things into neat, regimented lines will get us back to the OSI way of doing things. I revile spammers, hate spam, and throw out tons of it; but I'd hate regimentation and central authority yet more. Peter --- Peter H. Salus Chief Knowledge Officer, Matrix NetSystems Ste. 3005001 Plaza on the LakeAustin, TX 78746 +1 512 697-0613 ---
Re: The good old days (was Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives)
Sean, Plus ca change, plus c'est le meme chose. Of course the past is with us: look at Bob Metcalfe's RFC 602 (1973). Have we fixed anything over the nearly 30 years? How recently have you seen a password on a Post-It? How many folks have their spouse's/significant other's/ offspring's name as a password? How many uninstalled fixes can dance on a port? Peter
Re: Homeland Security Alert System
David, what does "from" mean in your "rules"? with .cc at the end? But there are very many places with addresses in TLDs and ccTLDs other than the geographical location. passing through an AS known to be in a given location? Peter
Re: The minutes seem like hours (was Re: Symantec detected Slammer worm "hours" before)
It's quite interesting, Mike and Sean, to note that on Symantec's "Expanded Security Response List" //securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Advisories.html there is nothing (that's right, nothing) at all between January 21 and January 27, 2003. As I said the other day, this is an instance of an over-zealous marketeer going way out on a limb. Think of Coyote out-tricking himself. This has been supplied by the Acme Novelty Co. Peter
Re: Symantec detected Slammer worm "hours" before
I attribute this to over-zealous marketing. As I mentioned at the NANOG BoF, there is, indeed, a decrease in latency about 6 hours prior to the actual mass attack. Mike Lloyd (RouteScience) saw this, too. There's also a decrease about 16 hours out. Sean suggested that they might be attributed to cable cuts, but I don't have the data to attempt correlation. If Semantec's ouija board brought them news "hours" earlier, they are behaving reprehensibly not to have alerted the community. Peter
Re: Mono Culture - was Re: Bell Labs or Microsoft security?
Though it was written nearly two years ago, John Quarterman's "Monoculture Considered Harmful" remains the very best exposition of this issue. //www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_2/quarterman/ Peter
Root servers
vixie wrote: >I did DNS queries of all of the root servers several times throughout the >event. Other than G, I was eventually able to get responses from all of >them. I'd like to report that I did at least one DNS query on Sunday morning from three different machines around the country. My results were identical to Paul's. Only g didn't respond. Peter --- Peter H. Salus Chief Knowledge Officer, Matrix NetSystems Ste. 3005001 Plaza on the LakeAustin, TX 78746 +1 512 697-0613 ---
Verio yesterday
Verio appears to have had a number of problems yesterday: We noticed a tremendous packet loss spike and a loss in "reachability" to various sites. Verio states that it had issues [!] with www1501 and that "customers in Boca Raton" may have experienced delays. Anyone know what happened? Peter
Re: C&W east coast flap this afternoon?
C&W is divesting itself of a lot of "real estate" these days. It struck a deal with Primus concerning its voice customers (last week), now its DSL customers to New Edge. Moreover, the BBC reports today that C&W is cutting 3500 jobs worldwide and "also announced heavy losses." C&W announced that it was cutting 23 of its 42 "data centres around the world." (The losses this past year exceed $6.5 Billion.) Peter --- Peter H. Salus Chief Knowledge Officer, Matrix NetSystems Ste. 3005001 Plaza on the LakeAustin, TX 78746 +1 512 697-0613 ---
Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks
Am I the only one to find this ludicrous? Expecting ICANN to competently hand these things is analogous to asking the Captain of the "Titanic" about how to handle icebergs. Peter
Re: DNS issues various
This is the perfect council to totally immobilize the Internet into a Bell-head pattern. The problem is that we no longer have any big ISPs that aren't telco-driven. PSI and UUNET and the descendants of BBN are all but extinct. Peter
Testing root server down code
Sean, I was thinking. If the "servers" went down on 28 June 1985, how many were there? Host table #485 (October 1985) lists 1961 hosts. Peter
Re: root servers DDoS
That's root-servers.org, Sean. Peter
Re: IPv4 country of origin
Andre, I fail to see where a pointer to the French version of Dodge's UCL-based cybergeography pages responds to Ralph's queries. Peter
RE: IPv4 country of origin
Ralph, You and alex exchanged: >On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > > Is there a more accurate method to determine the country of origin for an >> > > IP than the methods I've described above? >> >> Yes, at least three companies have databases of pretty much all /24s and >> above mapped up to a zip code. > >So far I've been referred to 3 commercial services, and all (including >NetGeo/Ixia) fail on the example I gave (194.196.100.86). > >- -Ralph As near as we can tell, 194.196.100.86 is near Eisenhuettenstadt, Brandenburg, Deustschland. Is this good enough? Peter --- Peter H. Salus Chief Knowledge Officer, Matrix NetSystems Ste. 3005001 Plaza on the LakeAustin, TX 78746 +1 512 697-0613 ---
Re: effects of NYC power outage
Craig, We saw real hits on both Genuity and on NYC Teleglobe on Saturday. Both in latency and in packet loss. Our 9/11 graphs are visible at //order.mids.org/~peter/index.html where I put them following the event and on the NANOG 23 (Oct. 2001) site. Peter --- Peter H. Salus Chief Knowledge Officer, Matrix NetSystems Ste. 501W 1106 Clayton Lane Austin, TX 78723 +1 512 451-7602 ---
Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads
Absolutely dead on, Sandy. And Padlipsky is still available. See my review in the most recen issue of The Internet Protocol Journal (June 2002). M. A. Padlipsky, The Elements of Networking Style. ISBN 0595088791 (orig. 1985; iUniverse, 2000) Peter --- Peter H. Salus Chief Knowledge Officer, Matrix NetSystems Ste. 501W 1106 Clayton Lane Austin, TX 78723 +1 512 451-7602 ---
Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads
I'd love to write The Internet for Bell-Heads. Tell you what, Sean. You find an interested publisher and I'll write it. Peter --- Peter H. Salus Chief Knowledge Officer, Matrix NetSystems Ste. 501W 1106 Clayton Lane Austin, TX 78723 +1 512 451-7602 ---
KR assignments
If you go to //ftp.arin.net/pub/stats, you can pick up all three RIRs. Then grep for KR in APNIC. Voila! Peter
