Re: Quality Technologies?

2008-01-29 Thread John Kinsella
Aah...I knew the name was familiar - they bought the Santa Clara, NYC, and Georgia Globix facilities. Looks like they picked up the hosting/managed services groups in the deal. So that's a reference point, for whatever it's worth. As I've been out of Globix for 6 years now, I won't claim to kno

Re: Massive AT&T outage?

2008-01-19 Thread John Kinsella
Saw Significant Issues in San Francisco starting at 9:17 PM, things seemed to flap for about 40 mins, then stabalize, and I'm seeing issues pick up again in the last 10 minutes or so. Little Rock, AR also did see some issues...didn't seem as bad, but I don't have as much load going into there on

Re: OT: Vendors Using NANOG for a Sales Channel

2007-10-26 Thread John Kinsella
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 01:33:38PM -0700, Bill Nash wrote: > How often do people take the time to ask any given salescritter how they > came by contact info? I've done it, but if you've forced your way through my various filters and manage to get me on the phone and I ask you that, it's pretty m

Re: San Francisco Power Outage

2007-07-24 Thread John Kinsella
365 I believe has flywheels...from what I'm gathering it wasn't a full building outage. Static switch issues again, anyone? Either way, happy I moved out of there. It was overpriced for when it was working. I hear they had a scheduled power outage for maintenance this coming weekend. I'll giv

Re: Colocation facilities in britian

2007-05-16 Thread John Kinsella
y > Also I'd anyone can recommend some british colo companies would appreciate it > Sent from Wireless BlackBerry >From my Globix days a few years back, our LHR prices were about 1.5-2x US prices. That seemed to be in-line with our competitors at the time. John -- John Kins

Re: Warning about UltraDNS terms

2007-05-03 Thread John Kinsella
(quoting kind soul who pointed out my Stupid) > On Thu, 3 May 2007, John Kinsella wrote: > >After the silliness over at godaddy.com a few months back, > >http://nodaddy.com popped up. Lists a few alternative registrars that are a > >little more grounded when it comes to cu

Re: Warning about UltraDNS terms

2007-05-03 Thread John Kinsella
After the silliness over at godaddy.com a few months back, http://nodaddy.com popped up. Lists a few alternative registrars that are a little more grounded when it comes to customer service. John On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 05:02:51PM -0400, Peter Beckman wrote: > > Try DNSmadeEasy.com, cheesy nam

Re: PG&E on data centre cooling..

2007-03-31 Thread John Kinsella
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:53:58AM +, Paul Vixie wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Dorn Hetzel") writes: > > I preferred the darkness of PAIX back in the late 90's. We had a > > christmas tree in our cage and it looked great in the dark :) > that was brian reid's idea, and it was a great one, and

Re: West Coast Fiber Cut?

2006-09-29 Thread John Kinsella
Apparently there's a Qwest cut around Washington, no eta yet. John On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:29:28PM -0700, Rick Kunkel wrote: > > Anyone know much about this major west coast fiber between Los Angeles and > Washington that was supposed cut this morning? Our network is having > gnarly problem

snfc21 sniffer docs

2006-05-22 Thread John Kinsella
Wired posted what are suppossedly the docs Mark Klein wrote 'bout the NSA sniffing project. Interesting read... http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/att_klein_wired.pdf John

Re: Network graphics tools

2006-03-21 Thread John Kinsella
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 09:17:44PM -0500, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: > Much of the enterprise market seems wedded to Visio as their network > graphics tool, which locks them into Windows. Personally, I hate both > little pictures of equipment and Cisco hockey-puck icons; I much > prefer things

Re: Password Security and Distribution

2006-01-24 Thread John Kinsella
One of my guys found a package called Password Gorilla, which is basically a GUI which sits on top of Password Safe that came out of Counterpane in 2002 or so. Either allows you to organize passwords by group and machine, and the whole database is encrypted by blowfish: http://www.fpx.de/fp/Soft

Re: Cisco, haven't we learned anything? (technician reset)

2006-01-12 Thread John Kinsella
I've been pretty happy with Cisco ACS - fairly solid, good reporting, once set up it seems to Just Work. John On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:00:10AM -0800, Bill Nash wrote: > > > Just as an offshoot discussion, what's the state-of-the-art for AAA > services? We use an modified tacacs server for m

Re: Portable datacenter coolers?

2005-12-21 Thread John Kinsella
Movincool is the brand name I suspect you're looking for. Atlas Sales treated me well earlier this year when one of mine died... http://www.atlassales.com/ John On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:55:14AM -0800, Mike Lyon wrote: > Anyone know of any places in the silicon valley area that lease or rent >

Re: rate limiting bandwidth

2005-09-13 Thread John Kinsella
I'm pretty fond of the the Packeteer gear. The API is pretty decent, I can get a pretty good range of stats off the box in flexible formats (tab or comma delimited, or in an XML format). Config-wise, I believe I can change just about anything on the box, including running commands remotely, and

Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?

2005-09-13 Thread John Kinsella
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 10:08:59AM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "william(at)elan > .net" writes: > >;; ANSWER SECTION: > >fima.org. 3600IN MX 0 smtp.secureserver.net. > >fima.org. 3600IN MX 10 > >mailsto

Re: Holy Grail

2005-08-12 Thread John Kinsella
Saying that this is IPv6 only is misleading. The point of Mike's talk was to show that buffer overflows do more than DOS or reset a Cisco box, but they can actually be exploited like most things we learn about every Patch Tuesday. In the example he used in the talk, he showed off an exploit that

Re: Switch advice please - followup

2005-07-22 Thread John Kinsella
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 11:01:10AM +1200, Mark Foster wrote: > Nortel has a GUI Device Management system via SNMP which is pretty good. > They also have intuitive HTTP access for most things and the console gives > you a menu or a commandline option. Hell, why not use Cisco's web interface? ;) J

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-08 Thread John Kinsella
(attribution removed due to my freeform quoting to make a point) > ...from the ones DJB has complained about... And there we have the reason alot of us don't use DJB softwares. :)

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-22 Thread John Kinsella
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 11:50:12AM -0500, Richard Irving wrote: > I consider it proof positive, that our medical system > is in dire need of an overhaul. > > Apparently, mental illness isn't being detected, > and treated, as often as it should be. I always assumed it was working fine and we

Re: Need to get in contact with Namecheap web hosting

2005-01-26 Thread John Kinsella
Cheap, Fast, Efficient...So they're not even getting two of the three? Sorry, I couldn't resist... John On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:18:03PM -0600, Nine, Jason wrote: > > Does anyone have any ideas how to get in contact with namecheap? Short > of driving up there noone is really helpful with our

Re: using sniffer on high-bandwidth pipes

2004-12-03 Thread John Kinsella
Todd - first thought I have is to get a linux box with a gigE port and anything pentium III based or faster. Depending on the amount of analysis you want to do, just running tcpdump to a file and then playback after the fact. Etherman would make for a good UI to review capture in. Should be abl

Re: AOL Abuse/Email contact

2004-11-30 Thread John Kinsella
>From personal experience, your best bet is to call their support group, get a TT#, and then call back every day for an update. John On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 05:06:57PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If someone from AOL abuse and or email group could contact me off list > to discuss mail de

Re: Abuse Ticketing Systems

2004-10-28 Thread John Kinsella
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:12:45AM -0400, James Baldwin wrote: > experience with it. If someone has had a painless and successful > experience using Remedy to handle abuse desk ticketing I'd love to hear > a little about the overall engineering of the system to handle it. If anyone has had a pa

Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-23 Thread John Kinsella
Oh Jesus cry me a river... People, you're in tech. It will never stop changing. That means you should never stop learning. If you stop learning, yes somebody else is going to take your job because as an area of tech matures, tools to manage it become better, less sophisticated people can do th

Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools

2004-09-14 Thread John Kinsella
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 07:54:54PM -0700, Philippe Ombredanne wrote: > Well I hope that we will be coming with (nexb) will not be sucking, but > it is not production grade yet. > Will have to wait a few more months. Ah yes, I'm looking forward to seeing that. :) Need beta testers? > > I'm looki

Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools

2004-09-14 Thread John Kinsella
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 02:47:45PM -0500, Claydon, Tom wrote: > I'm looking for open-source alternatives for network management, such as > Nagios or Big Brother. We are currently using WhatsUp Gold, and would > like to move to something more flexible (and not running on a Windows > platform). Some

Re: OT: The bubble and the economy

2004-09-09 Thread John Kinsella
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 04:00:33PM -0700, Conrad Watson wrote: > With all the opinions on this list, I'm sure someone will give me a place to > start. Thank you. Google.

Re: Fwd: YOUR EMAIL WON THE LOTTERY - Here is another one

2004-08-19 Thread John Kinsella
Welcome to the Internet. Now, please stop sending these, people. On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 05:24:16PM -0700, Henry Linneweh wrote: > > > --- Mrs Brigit Willem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] via > > 66.218.79.74; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:28:12 -0700 > > X-YahooFi

Re: Barrages of Packet Errors

2004-07-01 Thread John Kinsella
It's an off topic posting. Try asking on SecurityFocus' Incidents list. John(mmm deja-vu) On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 08:25:33AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hopefully this is not an off-topic posting. I've scanned a variety of groups looking > to see if anyone else has encountered a si

Re: Interesting Occurrence

2004-06-21 Thread John Kinsella
Try Securityfocus' Incidents list. On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 12:44:50PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Okay... Here is a new one for me. Got a call from my dad saying he left > his PC on last night connected to his broadband. He went to log in this > morning and noticed a new ID in his user

Re: IT security people sleep well

2004-06-03 Thread John Kinsella
I like my Tungsten C, but I don't do security-stupid things with it. :) Another neat trick, for those who haven't seen - Intel has maps.yahoo.com setup so it'll show you where alot of the hotspots are - here's a map of downtown SF as an example: http://tinyurl.com/36s5y John On Thu, Jun 03, 20

fwd: CiSCO IOS 12.* source code stolen

2004-05-15 Thread John Kinsella
For those not on bugtraq...I can't hit securitylab.ru, so would be curious if anybody has more info or confirmation... John - Forwarded message from Alexander Antipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "Alexander Antipo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: CiSCO IOS 12.* source

Re: Ad blocking with squid

2004-04-19 Thread John Kinsella
Take a peek at sleezeball - it has a url list plus recognizes banner-ad sized images and blocks them out: http://www.rambris.com/fredrik/sleezeball/ John On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 04:33:49PM -0400, Paul Khavkine wrote: > > > > Hi Folks. > > > Anyone doing ad blocking with Squid cache engine

Re: Lawsuit on ICANN (was: Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder)

2004-02-26 Thread John Kinsella
Any way to speed that up? ;) John On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 03:57:12PM -0800, Scott Call wrote: > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Roman Volf wrote: > > When are they up for renewal exactly? > November 10, 2007, according to > http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/verisign/registry-agmt-com-25may01.htm

who tripped over the power cord at l3?

2004-01-27 Thread John Kinsella
Seems like Level3 in SFO(at least) just went poof for a minute or two...

Re: good cabling in real environments [Re: Request for submissions: messy cabling and other broken things]

2003-12-17 Thread John Kinsella
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 07:07:13PM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote: > How do you do good cabling in dynamic, real environments? :-) You hide the spiders nest with lots of panduit covers? ;) Honestly, I think it comes down to two things: Planning before implementation - you pre-wire your net gear to p

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

2003-12-16 Thread John Kinsella
Always liked the work my fellow coworkers at Globix used to do - I don't have any shots of SJC or NYC online (too bad - a few projects I went to alot of trouble on to show the rest how it should be done ;) ), but here's one of our demo panels from LHR: http://thrashyour.com/lhr1-wiringdemo.jpg A

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

2003-12-16 Thread John Kinsella
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:32:44AM -0800, Christopher McCrory wrote: > Maybe someone here has pictures of the meetme room at one wilshire from > the last several years. By far the messiest cabling I have ever seen in > any datacenter. (but it's getting better :) Another suggestion, although I'd

Re: Portable Cooling

2003-11-12 Thread John Kinsella
Yea, I got one in my little server room in the office. Building gave me the choice of getting one of those when I moved in, or throwing a full blown water chiller based system in the AC room, I took the cheaper path. Works OK, wish I had gotten one model bigger than what I have (the smallest).

Re: SoCal fires

2003-10-27 Thread John Kinsella
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 06:28:12PM -0500, Andy Grosser wrote: > Secondly, anyone have any outage-related news for network traffic in San > Diego, San Bernardino, Ventura, Orange, or LA counties? Besides SBC claiming that they can't provide support service to their DSL customers in Northern Califo

NSI privacy advocate

2003-10-06 Thread John Kinsella
I double checked...the press release isn't dated April 1...NSI talking about privacy while keeping a straight face? http://www.verisign.com/corporate/news/2003/pr_20030930.html

Re: InterNAP

2003-09-30 Thread John Kinsella
Their circuit to C&W out of SFO is down, seems fine to me otherwise, though... John On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:17:49AM -0700, Gabriel wrote: > > > Anybody seeing routing trouble getting to internap network? It looks like > internap is unreachable: > > ... > 14 InterNAPSeattle2.so-2-0-0.ar2

Re: virus or hacked?

2003-08-20 Thread John Kinsella
Most of us start at google. On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 01:45:46PM -0400, Claire Kelly wrote: > > How catty. We all start somewhere, or have you forgotten? > > Gruss + Cheers, > Cade Kelly > System/Network Administrator > ECONnergy Co. Inc > Spring Valley, NY > > -Original Message- > From

Re: East Coast outage?

2003-08-14 Thread John Kinsella
I bet it was just a really big EPO that yet another security guard hit. On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 05:03:27PM -0400, K. Scott Bethke wrote: > Looks like we lost the Niagara-Mohawk power grid , says it is not related to > Terrorism.

Re: [Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled]

2003-08-14 Thread John Kinsella
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:46:56AM -0400, Joshua Sahala wrote: > while i think many of us will welcome this, i am skeptical of what > the firewall will be 'enabled' to block, and how easy it will be > for the user to set-up rules (and hopefully there will be a sanity > check included so that 'perm

Re: When Security Guards Attack (was: clearblue part deux)

2003-08-14 Thread John Kinsella
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:09:19PM -0400, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote: > > ... tried to silence the door audible alarm > > Didn't it have battery backup? Inquiring minds want to know. The door? Guess not. Reminds me of a skit from Kentucky Fried Movie, tho. :) Serously, yea

Re: Server Redundancy

2003-08-14 Thread John Kinsella
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:50:33PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > I second this suggestion. I worked briefly at F5 Networks in 2001 and > was responsible for supporting Big-IP and 3DNS. Both are very nice > products, but NOT cheap. I've used them all fairly heavily, except the Foundry gear. Alteo

When Security Guards Attack (was: clearblue part deux)

2003-08-06 Thread John Kinsella
"On August 2 at 2:22 p.m. PDT, the on-duty guard mistakenly opened the protective cover and pressed the Emergency Power Off (EPO) button when he tried to silence the door audible alarm." I gotta remember that one. John On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 11:24:02PM -0700, John Kinsella wrot

Re: clearblue part deux

2003-08-02 Thread John Kinsella
Silly me. hadn't caught up on my mail yet. Bastards lost power again around 9:40PM PST. John On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 11:24:02PM -0700, John Kinsella wrote: > > So haven't seen anybody else mention it yet...Clearblue in SFO went > off-net for 3ish hours today, again as the

clearblue part deux

2003-08-02 Thread John Kinsella
So haven't seen anybody else mention it yet...Clearblue in SFO went off-net for 3ish hours today, again as the result of internal power issues as far as I can tell. Gennys didn't kick in. After gettin my stuff back up, went for a self-guided tour of the facility to find 3 guys gathered around on

Re: OT RE: Anybody know what LARP is?

2003-05-29 Thread John Kinsella
If that doesn't help, I would suggest taking a LART to the person who spoke of this LARP thing. ;) On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 05:45:43PM -0700, Christopher J. Wolff wrote: > > Karyn, > > I'm not sure about the LARP but I can guide you toward a LARCH. > > -Monty python humor, sorry. > > Regards,

Re: clear blue sf with out power

2003-01-20 Thread John Kinsella
>From what Internap has told me, power went out at Navisite (I'm getting tired of name changes) at 10:15 on 1/19 due to PG&E de-energizing the grid that feeds the DC due to a short. No ETA on when the grid will be back. John Scott Granados said: > > Anyone know what's up with Clearblue in SF, 6

Re: OC-768 availability?

2002-07-29 Thread John Kinsella
HP was working on a "buble" switching device, I think the project's dead. John On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 07:53:43PM -0700, Scott Granados wrote: > > Wasn't one of the major switch companies working on a system of bubbles. >I'm not sure if it was foundry or Juniper or who but > someone was

Re: HP Openview

2002-07-10 Thread John Kinsella
Might want to take a peek at OpenNMS...http://www.opennms.org I'm not sure it'll be everything you dream of, but hey it's a hell of a lot cheaper... John On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:34:26PM -0400, Eric Whitehill wrote: > > NANOG: > > I am curious if anyone has been working with HP Openview as

Re: 5.2 Earthquake in Northern California

2002-05-13 Thread John Kinsella
There's something on sfgate.com about phone service being out in SJ? I couldn't call out on cingular but could receive calls. John On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:25:19PM -0700, Sameer R. Manek wrote: > > We just had a 5.2 magnitude earthquake at 10pm, it was centered SW of > Gilroy, CA. Cingular'

Re: Economics of flooding

2002-04-02 Thread John Kinsella
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:51:54PM -0600, Basil Kruglov wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 10:06:58AM -0800, Livio Ricciulli wrote: > > Is anyone aware of a process for claiming a deduction in charges when > > fees are associated with a flooding attack? > Of the top of my head, not UUnet, C&W, Sp