365 Main - an operators' nightmare?

I don't know if this is true, but it's more exciting reading than blaming it on a 'power outage'... http://valleywag.com/tech/breakdowns/a-drunk-employee-kills-all-of- the-websites-you-care-about-282021.php Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] 650-207-0372 cell 650-213

Re: [Fwd: Kremen VS Arin Antitrust Lawsuit - Anyone have feedback?]

I read the complaint. I don't like the fact that a lot of my friends are named in the suit, but I think there are somepoints worth discussing within the community:1) IP address blocks are not 'property'     "Domains are not  property. The assignee of a domain has no ownership interest"    Network

Re: Kremen VS Arin Antitrust Lawsuit - Anyone have feedback?

Mark,A more 'correct' analogy would be as follows:    Let's say you win a judgement against another party where the court essentially awards you all the assets of the     defendant. One of the assets is a paging company. So,  you hike down to the FCC and want the radio licenses for the business  

Is there a Comcast netops person lurking?

Joe McGuckinViaNet Communications[EMAIL PROTECTED]650-207-0372 cell650-213-1302 office650-969-2124 fax

Re: New Laptop Polices

Why not put critical or proprietary files on a flash key? I carry a 4G flash key on my keyring. Airport security has never given it a secondlook. If the laptop ends up in the hands of a sticky-fingered baggage handler (or the TSA), there's nothing there for them to find.And, to defeat the nosey

Re: APC Matrix 5000 question(s) (please, lets end this)

Can't you guys take this off-list? I'm seeing this thread gatewayed on *another* mailing list also.  Somehow, APC battery maintenance doesn't seem like a critical topic (unlike for example, internet pipe cleaning day) ^) Joe McGuckinViaNet Communications[EMAIL PROTECTED]650-207-0372

Did anyone else notice the CAIDA skitter poster in the background of George Bush's speech at the NSA?

http://tinyurl.com/doy6r -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-213-1302 Cell: 650-207-0372 Fax: 650-969-2124

Re: GoDaddy.com shuts down entire data center?

asking nicely will appear and take care of things once you turn them off. The rest is just some random blowhard web hosting customer who gets off on being an ass and blaming everyone but himself and his choice in hosting companies. Hardly an uncommon sight. :) -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet

Re: Two Tiered Internet

get priority handling. -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-213-1302 Cell: 650-207-0372 Fax: 650-969-2124

Re: Using BGP to force inbound and outbound routing through particular routes

) Please do not feed the trolls. :) -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-213-1302 Cell: 650-207-0372 Fax: 650-969-2124

L3 purchases Wiltel from Leucadia

www.forbes.com/business/manufacturing/feeds/ap/2005/10/31/ap2308682.html -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-213-1302 Cell: 650-207-0372 Fax: 650-969-2124

Re: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google

does a dotcom need an Internet evangelist? :-S -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-213-1302 Cell: 650-207-0372 Fax: 650-969-2124

Re: Fiber cut in SJ

ago: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/10/23/arson_suspected_in_manchester_cable/ it seemed a bit of a coincidence that both the active and protect paths of a major sdh route got hit in this attack and it took out a lot of long distance circuits Steve -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet

Re: fcc ruling on dsl providers' access to infrastructure

while still being guaranteed a profit, and they could provide the last mile service for all those ISPs out there who are the ones that can actually compete and innovate. Yes, it's called structural separation. -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303

Re: Fiber cut in SJ

'terrorist') don't know where the fiber runs around here. Mindlessly classifying everything as 'secret' is a tactic I'd expect of DHS, not NANOG. 'Need to know' does not appear anywhere in the constitution. -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications (address deleted due to security concerns)

Where is Looking Glass source code?

Nitrous doesn't seem to exist anymore. Can someone point me to a copy somewhere? Thanks, Joe -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-213-1302 Cell: 650-207-0372 Fax: 650-969-2124

Re: clued/interested LEO list

. -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-213-1302 Cell: 650-207-0372 Fax: 650-969-2124

Re: High volume WHOIS queries

I completely wrong in how I'm interpreting the AUP? Thanks, Dan -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-213-1302 Cell: 650-207-0372 Fax: 650-969-2124

MCI/Worldcom billing hell?

that MCI's pervasive, systemic billing problems are isolated, rare occurrences. -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-213-1302 Cell: 650-207-0372 Fax: 650-969-2124

Re: Heathrow scanner experiences?

or a more targeted scan to check deeper into my body for hidden drugs or explosives or whatever. I'd love to hear from anyone else who has gone through this scanner and what their experience was. Paul -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-213

Re: Website contact for www.cisco.com

to be strange since from what I could tell out of an entire /22 only one IP address was affected. As of around 0500 PDT this morning I was able to access Cisco's website again though. Content switching, when partially broken, can do fancy effects. Pete -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications

Re: IMP #1

. 2) it will be 35 years since IMP #1 was plugged in at Len Kleinrock's lab at UCLA. Happy Birthday! Peter -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-213-1302 Cell: 650-207-0372 Fax: 650-969-2124

Re: On the back of other security posts (well some over a year ag o now)....

://www.securityfocus.com/news/9411 My thanks to those who listened and helped me. My thanks to those who helped Spamhaus, and my thanks to anyone else who got involved with the whole deal. / Mat -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-213-1302 Cell

Re: Looking for recommendations for Datacenter off CA Faultline

pleasant folks to deal with. -Jonathan -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-213-1302 Cell: 650-207-0372 Fax: 650-969-2124

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

On 7/5/04 1:18 AM, Steve Gibbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The performance arguments are probably more controversial. The arguments are that shortening the path between two networks increases performance, and that removing an extra network in the middle increases reliability. The first

Re: Can a Customer take their IP's with them? (Court says yes!)

to $18,000) and usage of 60Mw. Isn't $20/amp/month still a standard charge in co-lo sites? If so, $18,000 buys 900amps. With 120V service, we get (120*900)/1.67 = 65kw. 65kw over 30 twenty-four hour days is about 47Mw. So, the customer is getting a deal. -mark -- Joe McGuckin

Re: best effort has economic problems

I don't see the correlation between settlements, profitability and level-of-service. -joe

Re: Load Balancing Multiple DS3s (outgoing) on a 7500

Patrick, I suspect that each FE goes to a different AS... On 3/12/04 7:27 PM, Patrick W.Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 12, 2004, at 10:39 PM, Drew Weaver wrote:     Does anyone know of an article, or documentation regarding load balancing the traffic on 3 or more

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

If the internet core is going to carry traffic that traditionally was delivered via switched tdm networks, I think we can expect significantly more regulation in the coming years. The FCC and state PUC's will want to see VOIP reliability and call completion statistics that are on par with

Former WorldCom C.E.O. John Sidgmore Dies at 52

(From the New York Times) WASHINGTON (AP) -- John Sidgmore, the WorldComexecutive who helped reveal the accounting troubles that led to the biggest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history, died Thursday at 52. He died of complications associated with acute pancreatitis, said B. Jay Cooper, a family

Re: NTP, possible solutions, and best implementation

It depends upon how low a probability failure you're willing to consider and how paranoid you are. For one thing, the U.S. National Command Authority could decide that GPS represents a threat to national security and disable or derate GPS temporarily or indefinitely over a limited or

Re: OT: Notebooks /w a serial port?

On 3/21/03 1:46 PM, Drew Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems like these are all but extinct, but does anyone know of a 'new' notebook that has a serial port built onto it? I've found some that have port replicators, but that can be a pain when you need to serial into a router or some

Re: OT: level3 contact

We were L3 customer a while back. We tried to get in contact with our account rep for a couple of weeks with no results. We found out that L3 had laid off most of their sales staff and had decided to focus on wholesale sales. Our 'new' account manager later told us that L3 didn't want to sell

OT: Need the name of a good Qwest account rep.

I need to order some Qwest circuits. Is there an ISP account group? Can someone recommend a good account manager to work with? Thanks, Joe

OC3 to DS3 mux ?

Can someone recommend a vendor for an OC3 to DS3 DACS or mux? I need a small one with capacity for a single OC3. Thanks, Joe

Re: DC power versus AC power

It only takes 30ma to put your heart into atrial fibrillation. In the usa, gfi's are set to trip at 5ma. Normally 48VDC wouldn't be considered a 'lethal' voltage (I've talked to telephone technicians who said they used to play a game in the CO by wiring a handle to 90V ring voltage and seeing

Re: future transit prices

How do you compute CGS on a network that is 25% utilized? Is it expenses/current utilization or expenses/maximum capacity? I think a lot of the low-ball pricing that is in the market is the result of networks selling off underutilized capacity at discounted pricing just to get some additional

Re: Colocation Enclosures

Southwest Data Products - distributed through Graybar AMCO DATACOM www.amcoengineering.com On 7/15/02 8:48 PM, Christopher J. Wolff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I'm trying to find alternative sources for a 2 or 3 section locked colocation cabinet cosmetically similar to the

Hotel in Seattle area w- internet access ?

I'm leaving for Seattle this evening. Can anyone recommend a hotel that has internet access in the rooms? Thanks, joe

Re: Error in assignments....?

On 6/12/02 6:10 PM, Mike Leber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Sabri Berisha wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: route: 209.81.0.0/19 origin:AS7091 The netblock you are referring to is not globally visible btw. Correct, ViaNet is