different use of a backhoe

2003-03-24 Thread Peter Galbavy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2879833.stm Peter

Re: (possible Flame bait) Backbone Building vs Transit purchasing

2003-03-24 Thread Joe Provo
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 04:58:44PM -0500, Deepak Jain wrote: [snip] > *IS* there a common sense number or an equation (better) anyone has > worked out to figure whether building a backbone (national/international) > to peering points (i.e. extending an existing, operational service > network) t

Re: (possible Flame bait) Backbone Building vs Transit purchasing

2003-03-24 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Joe Provo wrote: > Peering within [your own service area] should be considered a > no-brainer. Building outside your footprint is always an > interesting question; even if you have at least one major peering > point within your footprint, you may need to

Re: different use of a backhoe

2003-03-24 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Peter Galbavy wrote: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2879833.stm Do british cops have fiber in their cars??

RE: different use of a backhoe

2003-03-24 Thread Warren Kumari
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher L. Morrow wrote: >> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2879833.stm > >Do british cops have fiber in their cars?? Quite possibly! There are a few (competing) in-car fiber solutions, MOST (Media Oriented Systems Transfer) seems to be

Al Jazeera DOSed or just lots of traffic

2003-03-24 Thread Sean Donelan
Al Jazeera's web site (www.aljazeera.net) has been intermittently unavailable today. Al Jazeera's spokesperson indicated it might be hackers, but it could have just been lots of people trying to reach the web site to see the pictures US television networks wouldn't broadcast, overloading their se

clued-in AOL postmaster?

2003-03-24 Thread Will Yardley
[ Reply-To set to me ] Sorry to be That Guy, but I've tried the usual methods of contact, including the phone # for people who are blocked *by* AOL, without much success. I've sent logs to the various addresses at http://postmaster.info.aol.com/ and to the contacts for AS1668 with no response. B

Re: Al Jazeera DOSed or just lots of traffic

2003-03-24 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
- Original Message - From: "Sean Donelan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 2:31 AM Subject: Al Jazeera DOSed or just lots of traffic : : Al Jazeera's web site (www.aljazeera.net) has been intermittently : unavailable today. Al Jazeera's spokesper

Re: Al Jazeera DOSed or just lots of traffic

2003-03-24 Thread james
: It was DDoSed even the nameservers routes were null due to the DDoS huge : size. : : Thanks, : : -Abdullah I noticed today that a traceroute to this host from my network exited at 4 or 5 hops on west coast at a major providers network. james

Re: Al Jazeera DOSed or just lots of traffic

2003-03-24 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, james wrote: > : It was DDoSed even the nameservers routes were null due to the DDoS huge > : size. > > I noticed today that a traceroute to this host from my network exited > at 4 or 5 hops on west coast at a major providers network. Its common for popular web sites to locat

Re: Al Jazeera DOSed or just lots of traffic

2003-03-24 Thread james
: On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, james wrote: : > : It was DDoSed even the nameservers routes were null due to the DDoS huge : > : size. : > : > I noticed today that a traceroute to this host from my network exited : > at 4 or 5 hops on west coast at a major providers network. : : Its common for popular we

Re: Al Jazeera DOSed or just lots of traffic

2003-03-24 Thread Jeff Kell
james wrote: Sorry I was not clear. I ment someone was null routing this host way before I got close to the destination. Now that's interesting... the Cyber Defense Initiative at work? Jeff