Re: Initial network impacts post-US attack 3/19/03
I've noticed a small upswing in traffic over the last hour or two, and not to the usual midnight browsing frenzy locations. CNN, Yahoo, MSN, etc., all seem to be responding as usual (CNN had more latency at noon. Go figure.) As for sites in Iraq... I feel for the poor tech who pulled cable rat duty this week on whatever colo/CO facilities they have. or had. :-( - Original Message - From: Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:03 PM Subject: Initial network impacts post-US attack 3/19/03 Some major new web sites such as CNN.COM, MSNBC.COM, etc have dropped most advertisements from their main web pages. CNN.COM has switched to its breaking news format with a truncated main page. I have not had any difficulty reaching any major US news web site. Matrix and Keynote public graphs show normal latency, drops, etc. BGP, ASN data sources show normal number of prefixes, announcements, withdrawals. ATT and CableWireless public network statistic pages show almost all major links within normal levels. However, tonight I am not able to reach the few Iraq servers I know about. The servers were reachable on Monday, but I wasn't keeping constant track of those servers. So I don't know when I could no longer reach them. This may just be normal network flakiness, the Iraqi networks aren't very reliable on a normal day.
Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...
... in an unrelated story, the RIAA's Jack Valenti was seen wandering down Sunset blvd, foaming at the mouth while shopping at a used-backhoe lot - Original Message - From: Eric Germann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 1:57 PM Subject: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ... http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/07/speed.record/index.html Comments folks? == Eric GermannCCTec [EMAIL PROTECTED] Van Wert OH 45801 http://www.cctec.comPh: 419 968 2640 Fax: 603 825 5893 The fact that there are actually ways of knowing and characterizing the extent of ones ignorance, while still remaining ignorant, may ultimately be more interesting and useful to people than Yarkovsky -- Jon Giorgini of NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Re: Homeland Security Alert System
People who bought HIP BOOTS also shopped for: * Duct Tape * Jack Daniels * Def Leppard CD's * Clean Underwear on-topic: I use a plug-in for my NMS that looks for abnormalities in the load times of various popular sites. (it's helped me spot routing problems more than once). Looking back at historical data, all the news-related ones show a clear change immediately after events like the Columbia disaster. I was not using the same system on 9/11 so I don't know how quickly one would have spotted an abnormality. - Original Message - From: Martin Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Richard Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 8:27 PM Subject: Re: Homeland Security Alert System On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:08:58PM -0500, Richard Irving wrote: Yes. But, until elections 2004, the FUD field is hardcoded to High. However, if there are changes to the -=actual=- dhs.gov status, it sends out an automatic Amazon.Com order for Hip Boots for all members of the list. Would you like to subscribe to the notification list ? [ snip ] Is anyone running an automated Terror Alert system that's real time with the DHS? Ok, that was interesting. :) The diving thing is my fun stuff. I'm actually working in Security. :) I was writing a little tool that scanned their page for the alert image name change, but that's subject to them making changes to their site and the images are multi layer graphics, etc. etc. I'm going to call them and see if they can offer a place to poll something simple that we can trip changes off in the NOC. If anyone does have some insight to anything they are doing, or a good contact number for the DHS webite, please ping me in email and I'll follow up if I find something or get them to do something. -M
