Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit

Are you saying that if something costs more in Singapore or Australia than the US, then the companies selling that product here in the US for less must be selling below cost? Things are not the same everywhere. Politics, infrastructure, labor, taxes, and a myriad of other factors make it not

Re: Phishing (Was Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories)

The mail originated from 68.77.56.130 (an ameritech.net DSL connection, right now not pingable) and loads some images from www.citibank.com. It links to http://61.128.198.51/Confirm/ - an IP address hosted by Chinanet (transit to there supplied by Savvis from my point of view). It's a 1 line rule

Re: CWDM or DWDM passive add/drop muxes

You may be interested in: http://www.cubeoptics.com/ Passive CWDM devices available with SC or LC connector cable pigtails on them... I believe you can get models to split orr or add just a single wavelength to a 4 or 8 wavelength mux. Greg Schwimer wrote: Does anyone have any experience with G

Re: SprintPCS spam policies

I just wanted to give everyone a heads-up on the antispam policies of SprintPCS, so that you will know what to expect if you start getting blocked by their mx.messaging.sprintpcs.com mail servers. As a non-sprint-related side note, I know of somebody whose AT&T Wireless phone service was rendered

Canadian RBOC (Aliant) SONET ring sabotage

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=UTF-8&newsclusterurl=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040610/PHONES10/TPNational/Canada shorter URL: http://ln.ooz.net/27115 Several days ago somebody cut both sides of a SONET ring in Newfoundland. From the article: Th

Aggregating 16,000 gigE ports in one campus?

http://science.slashdot.org/science/04/06/02/0038223.shtml?tid=126 Reading the posts by slashdot readers (and CWU alumni) it seems as if they are upgrading to gigabit using the existing 62/125 and singlemode installed in the late 1980s. Some people say it's rate-limited to 10Mbps... But if it

Re: IT security people sleep well

I liked this quote, About 43% of respondents said they're using the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol to protect data, secure remote access, and perform network management. But while the current SSH2 is considered to be significantly more secure, nearly 45% said they are continuing to mostly u

nanog@merit.edu

Major providers such as Sprint and UUNet have had null route communities available for quite some time... Unless I am mistaken? John Obi wrote: Hello folks, Here is a great move from one of the biggest NSPs, I'm sure we will see L3, Sprint, UUNet and others will do the same soon to gain more cu

Re: OT: Looking for Ethernt/Optical Device

Be warned that you can't use non-Cisco CWDM SFPs or GBICs in a cisco switch or router... There is a PROM code in the cisco-sold units that is identified by IOS. Plug in a non-cisco SFP/GBIC and it will shut down the port. (This was discussed about 9 months ago on nanog-l, it should be in the

ICGCOMM (Intelcom Group) contact?

Could somebody from ICG please contact me off-list?

Re: best effort has economic problems

Tier 1 operators do not do "best effort" really, at least not in their cores (and they have the SLAs to back it up). They buy hugely expensive top notch gear (Cisco 12000 (and now CRS:s) and Junipers) to get the big packet buffers, the fast reroutes and the full routing table lookups for each pack

Re: Cisco HFR

] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michel Py Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:23 AM To: Eric Kuhnke; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Cisco HFR Eric Kuhnke Here it is, complete with OC-768 interface: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5763/index.html It's a BFR allright. I wonder how much O

Cisco HFR

Here it is, complete with OC-768 interface: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5763/index.html

Re: WAN transfer rates

It's worth mentioning that this proj.sunet.se/LSR2 test was done using the previous generation of Intel 10Gb PCI-X NICs, the new ones were announced last week: http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/pro10GbE_SR_server_adapter.htm It uses the same controller ASIC, but is half the len

Telus Vancouver/Burnaby contact?

Could somebody from Telus (preferably the Vancouver/Burnaby office) please contact me off-list? This is in regards to CRTC decisions 1995-15, 1996-1484, 2000-13 and most importantly 2003-54.

Re: Counter DoS

Get involved with your local high schools. Sponsor user groups at the high school. Offer to teach some mini courses. The teenage crowd needs our help learning best practices and ethics. The hacking problem is multi-faceted, of course, and this is just one facet of a partial solution, but still

Juniper "pepsi"

I have heard rumors of a new low-end 1U Juniper router, aimed directly at replacing the 2600/3600 series. Supposedly its code name is "Pepsi"... Does anyone have more info on this? :-)

Re: How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged Network Threat)

E911 and FBI surveillance are just the tip of the iceberg... Joe Does anyone have documented instances in which misconfigured or failed residential VOIP services have resulted in deaths, or major injury? I can see how it would be easy for the typical end-user to choose the wrong regional 911

Equinix 350 E. Cermak - Contact Please

Will an employee of the Equinix corporation please contact me off-list? This is regarding equipment delivery issues at 350 E. Cermak.

Re: One-element vs two-element design

This is why commercial airliners have multiple engines even though the system is less reliable overall than a well designed single engine craft the failure of a single component does not entail the catastrophic failure of the entire system. (there are exceptions to this but the overall concept do

interesting article on Saudi Arabia's http filtering

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/01/12/2147220 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Eyas S. Al-Hejery, PhD, may be the only computer geek in Saudi Arabia to have had the eyes of the world focus on his work. That's because he's head of the country's Internet Service Unit, which runs the country's

One Wilshire building / Downtown LA power failure?

I am hearing reports of a power failure in downtown los angeles, particularly the One Wilshire building. One uncorroborated report says that the entire building just switched to generator power several minutes ago. Does anyone in 818 have more information?

African porn dialers, civil war and networks

Forwarded from the Risks digest (www.risks.org) Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 19:37:31 + From: "Patrick O'Beirne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: GuineTel seeks ways of clamping down on scam fraud By Brian King, Balancing Act's News Update 188 (21 Dec 20

Re: Request for submissions: messy cabling and other broken things

The messy cabling gallery has become a victim of its own success Load on the server (P4/2.0, 512MB) was up to 65, making things nearly unusable. I took it down for fear that the URL would get spread to Slashdot or similar places. It'll be back up in a few days, hopefully. David Lesher wro

25,000 ton amphibious spam relay

http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200312/msg00070.html = At 09:59 AM 12/16/2003, Rich Kulawiec wrote: [ Doesn't it just make you feel all safe and cozy when the people responsible for our defense are allowing military hardware to be hija

Request for submissions: messy cabling and other broken things

Sometimes illustrating the way a job should *not* be done is a powerful educational tool. I have collected a gallery of messy and ridiculous cabling jobs: http://gallery.colofinder.net/shameful-cabling my favorite (not horrible, but funny): http://gallery.colofinder.net/shameful-cabling/cable

Opentransit (France Telecom) in Seattle

Does anyone know what floor of the Westin building Opentransit's POP is on?

Re: 24-port Gigabit + two 10Gb uplinks

Certainly we'll never see them at that level from "Company C". I don't think they have ever sold anything of substance for $1500. Heck, they still list the 2511 at around $3700 if you want 16/16 memory in it. Never say "never"... Here's a brand new WS-C2950 for $1108. Why would the new 24*Gb

24-port Gigabit + two 10Gb uplinks

It looks like 24*1Gb + 2*10Gb switches will be showing up soon: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreading&doc_id=43109 http://www.sandburst.com/Releases/AcctonPartners.pdf Sandburst and Accton are offering a white-box/OEM 24 port switch with two 10Gb uplinks... "The resulting s

Obtaining maps of underground utilities from city governments

I am interested in hearing peoples' experiences in obtaining maps of pre-existing underground utilities from city governments (as it relates to deployment of MAN fiber). Thus far the process I am going through can be compared to pulling teeth. Any advice would be greatly appreciated... :-(

Re: cooling systems

f parked vehicles will become stiff and freeze into position, making the vehicle impossible to move without destroying the tires. To the best of my knowledge the ARSC does have conventional AC units, as Fairbanks reaches +24C and higher in mid summer. -Eric Kuhnke At 11:49 AM 11/5/2003 -0600,

Copper 10 gigabit @ 15 metres

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=42956&site=lightreading http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/10GBCX4/ Regarding the first URL, I am curious how many networks will be interested in using a 15 metre 10GbE solution. Even for intra-MMR xconns, it seems like the cable length limit w

Re: Abovenet

http://west-boot.mfnx.net/traffic/backbone/index.html Interesting traffic hiccup today on the Seattle OC-48s There was an announcement to that effect earlier this evening, although it gave no indication of what the issue actually is/was.

Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest

The Qwest CO in downtown Bellingham WA has a large microwave drum aimed at Orcas Island in the San Juans. The Qwest tower on Orcas has line of site, and what appears to be microwave DS3 rigs aimed at both Anacortes and Friday Harbor. Friday Harbor has a spur of the fiber line (SOUTH of the cu

Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest

As a resident of this area, I can say that the place where this regen hut is located is *very* rural. Burlington Northern/Santa Fe railroad tracks pass through a lot of sparsely populated farm land on the route between Mt. Vernon and Bellingham, WA. Even if the hut is locked with a high qualit

Fed. Govt and IEEE ban contributions to/from Cuba, Libya, Iran, Syria

The only effect this will have is to further alienate many skilled engineers and promising students, who are already at a great disadvantage due to language barriers. http://listserv.utk.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0310&L=jesse&D=1&O=D&P=4946 http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/wonews/oct03/1003ofac.

RE: ISPs' willingness to take action

This is definitely a business opportunity for any ISPs that wish to take advantage of it... Hire clueful abuse desk people, set up a good IDS, run spamassassin on your mail servers, and offer free antivirus software to the broadband connected bare win32 PCs. I am sure midsize ISP marketing de

Re: ISPs' willingness to take action

One significant contributing factor to the lack of care or clue by mid and large size ISPs is the level 1 helldesk. I do not intend to insult anybody who is doing level 1 support, but you are not going to find people with serious network engineering expertise for $12/hour (or when outsourcing

Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings

I believe this has resulted in a few lawsuits from companies such as Gator, which take offense to their "adware" being removed by the ISP... Of course, 99% of the time it's installed via a "click-wrap" EULA for some 3rd party software such as Kazaa. It would be just as easy to uninstall it via

Re: NOAA warning for rf communications

Does everyone have their generators ready? :-) http://www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/13Mar89.html On 13 March 1989, the voltage of Quebec's power grid began to fluctuate alarmingly. Seconds later, the lights went out across the entire province. Some 6 million people were without electricity

Rx and Tx on a single SMF strand for MANs?

Would anyone like to contribute their favorite solution for doing both Rx and Tx over a single fiber, in MAN environments? http://www.imcnetworks.com/products/minimc.asp I've found that unit, but I'm hoping to find some alternatives... Is there anything that will do 1000Mb over a single fib

Re: China Telecom filtering nameservers

Gut instinct says that One Wilshire is their primary US PoP/peering/transit point: http://www.onewilshire.com/our_building/connectivity.htm >> China telecom has some US POPs, so they do have people in the US even. > >If I'm not mistaken, I think I even saw an office the other day on Herndon >Par

Re: Operational content, snr and nanog mailing list...

Showing our displeasure to Verisign (and potentially getting media coverage which explains why nanog-l posters are mad at verisign) is indeed operational... Unless you enjoy monopolistic corporations breaking significant features of the Internet without prior notice? At 03:30 PM 10/16/2003 -0

Juniper M7i, M10i and the US DREN's IPV6 project

Here are some interesting tidbits found recently... The US DoD will be using a Juniper "M7i" for their ipv6 testbed: https://spot.hpcmo.hpc.mil/hpc/docs/Htdocs/DOC-MIL/DREN/CONFERENCE/2003/2003_ron_broersma_ipv6_pilot.ppt Mention of the M7i and M10i in this document: http://216.239.41.104/search

Re: abuse from a user of this list

Quoting from 2mbit.com: Our group was formed after the split of Valley Of The Mage Consulting two years ago. We chose to continue our Open Source/Free Software development services under a new name and bring together all of the sites owned by Brian Bruns and Josh Rollyson under one umbrella.

RE: Block all servers?

The TOS/AUP for most residential broadband connections already allows the ISP to shut off service or do anything they want to the customer without prior notice. It has been this way for at least 3 or 4 years, since the advent of @Home. Take a look at the TOS/AUP for Comcast, Shaw Cable, MSN D

RE: Transit and Paid Peering Exchanges

ery last moment (signing contract). They hide their transit sources behind anonymous "Company A, Company D" and so forth. Getting the actual name of a source from the band-x sales rep was like pulling teeth. -Eric Kuhnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 01:54 PM 10/8/2003 +0100, you wrote:

Re: South America NOG ?

Whoever is running the mailing list server linked from enred.org ( http://mailman.reacciun.ve/mailman/listinfo/enredo ) should update their Apache very soon... http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/5JP0G204KG.html The requested URL /pipermail/directorio-enred/ was not found on this server. Apache

Utah to deploy public owned fiber to 17 cities

From the CANET-NEWS list, this seems relevant to network operations... >For more information on this item please visit the CANARIE CA*net 4 Optical >Internet program web site at http://www.canarie.ca/canet4/library/list.html >--- > >[From www.convergedige

Shaw Cable/Big Pipe contact needed

Could somebody from Shaw Cable/Bigpipe please contact me off-list? I've encountered a rather odd issue that the phone CSRs don't know how what to do about...

Re: Any way to P-T-P Distribute the RBL lists?

Distribute the RBL list via Freenet ( http://freenet.sourceforge.net/ ) It's slow, but nearly impossible to suppress... At 10:30 PM 9/24/2003 -0400, you wrote: >I know you all have probably already thought of this, but can anyone > think of a feasible way to run a RBL list that doe

Re: Cross-country shipping of large network/computer gear?

http://colofinder.net/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album18 Although this is a small item, I believe it wins the contest for "Most thoroughly damaged shipment". :-) > My experience is a 40% damage rate when shipping Cisco 7507 > and 7513 routers via FedEx Heavy. Here are some pictur

Sea sponge builds a better glass fiber

http://www.msnbc.com/news/954985.asp?0dm=C12MT Associated Press Scientists say they have identified an ocean sponge living in the darkness of the deep sea that grows thin glass fibers capable of transmitting light at least as well as industrial fiber optic cables used for telecommunication. Th

Re: 151 Front St Toronto (Torix)

TORIX is off the net traces to peer1 routers/hosts at 151 front die before reaching toronto the rumor mill has it that 151 front's generator system failed utterly... on another note, here's a fascinating graph from NYIIX at 25 Broadway (downtown NYC, running fine on generator power) http://www.n

Re: RPC errors - DDoS on the 16th?

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10986 Has anyone else seen this claim? Somebody at F-Secure thinks the worm will begin a DDoS against windowsupdate.microsoft.com on the 16th. At 03:08 PM 8/12/2003 -0700, you wrote: >This should help some for people who are worried >

a new labor intensive layer 1 solution (humor?)

Backhoes, natch... All you need is a camo uniform, M-16, and spool for rapid network deployment: http://www.army-technology.com/contractors/navigation/brugg/brugg5.html Repairing cables places your life at risk: http://colofinder.net/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album17&id=izd_011a

Re: Backbone Infrastructure and Secrecy

ve when showing off to potential clients (or in novels such as Cryptonomicon), but also very useless in the real world. :-) At 12:31 PM 7/10/2003 +0100, you wrote: >I'm not subscribed to the list, so I'm not sure if this will make it. >But, anyway: it has come to my attention that

Re: Missle Silos (was: Backbone Infrastructure and Secrecy)

,000 foot altitude on top of a mountain? I believe access is by snowmobile from late November to mid March. :) http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/MtBaldi http://www.altaphon.com/Enumclaw/ At 09:01 PM 7/9/2003 -0600, you wrote: >> On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Eric Kuhnke wrote: >> &

Re: Backbone Infrastructure and Secrecy

I recall reading, last year, about a "Cyber Bunker" outside London UK which is being offered as colo to major banks. The banks were raving praise about it. This facility is an ex-RAF centralized radar control site, buried dozens of feet underground w/ thick concrete and designed to withstand

Re: Backbone Infrastructure and Secrecy

Barn door, horse is already gone. I'm willing to stipulate that Sean may be a GIS wizard, and has compiled a very accurate listing of north american fiber routes. However, this is nothing new... US Transatlantic cable landings (mirrored from John Young's cryptome.org): http://colofinder.net/ga

New danger to cabling - Can your datacenter prevent this?

http://colofinder.net/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=cable-eater A bit of humor on a boring monday afternoon. Next week, we're turning this rabbit loose under the floor at 25 Broadway! muahahahahaha. just kidding.

Re: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator

Cooling systems/maint -- please recall the NYC telehouse {was it 60 Hudson?} where post 9/11 the generator went down on overheat because the radiator was clogged... That was 25 Broadway (Telehouse USA). The air intake filter for their generator clogged from all the WTC dust in the air. Pretty

Large tanks of pressurized hydrogen

Greetings list, I recently ran across this company: http://www.hydrogenics.com/hyups.htm They're marketing a hydrogen fuel cell generator to the telecom market. I know they have a few competitors (Ballard Power Systems?), with more companies in the R&D phase of product development. Would you