Re: 3rd party network monitoring

2008-03-05 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Darrell Hyde Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 7:02 AM Subject: 3rd party network monitoring [snip] Can anybody recommend a vendor for this type of service? I suppose I could always just get a bunch of VPS accounts here and there and run smokeping, but I'd

Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

2008-02-01 Thread Michael Painter
RE: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption - Original Message - From: Rod Beck Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 12:42 PM Subject: RE: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption Well, when you have all these cables running through narrow straits or converging to the same stretch of

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Joe Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] As long as you fairly disclose to your end-users what limitations and restrictions exist on your network, I don't see the problem. You've set out a qualification that generally doesn't exist. For example, this

Another question on rfc1918

2007-11-23 Thread Michael Painter
The text below is from a 'security' list in reply to me questioning his statement, Thus it is possible to route private address ranges. I'd be interested in hearing comments from this group if it's on-topic. Thanks, --Michael Michael, Lets take an

Re: San Francisco Power Outage

2007-07-25 Thread Michael Painter
From: Justin M. Streiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 5:58 PM Subject: Re: San Francisco Power Outage Nothing quite like the sound of a whole machine room spinning down at the same time. It gives you that lovely oh shit feeling in the pit of your stomach. Yep. I plugged

Re: History of the EPO (Emergency Power Off)

2007-07-25 Thread Michael Painter
From: Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: History of the EPO (Emergency Power Off) The interesting thing about the EPO and data centers is it wasn't orginally for life-safety, but came out of a recommendation by IBM to the NFPA for property protection. Fwiw, the EPO on IBM's mainframes

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-12 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Gian Constantine Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 5:24 AM Subject: Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously? Yes, the NCTC. I have spoken with two of the vendors you mentioned. Neither have pass-through licensing rights. I still have

Re: today's Wash Post Business section

2006-12-23 Thread Michael Painter
The first thing I do when I upgrade someone to IE7 is turn on the Menu Bar... and I've noticed that almost every other computer I've touched with IE7 has it turned back on... Thomas I stumbled on to the 'Alt' key toggling the Menu Bar (in case that helps). --Michael

Re: BCP38 thread 93,871,738,435 (was Re: register.com down sev0?)

2006-10-26 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: william(at)elan.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: nanog@merit.edu Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:17 AM Subject: Re: BCP38 thread 93,871,738,435 (was Re: register.com down sev0?) On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Don wrote: Has anyone put

Re: [routing-wg]BGP Update Report

2006-09-09 Thread Michael Painter
From their webpage: Service Advisory On Aug. 17, 2006, the Boeing Company announced that a detailed business and market analysis of Connexion by Boeing is complete, and the company has decided to exit the high-speed broadband communications connectivity markets. Boeing will work with its

Re: is this like a peering war somehow?

2006-01-20 Thread Michael Painter
From: Doug Marschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: is this like a peering war somehow? If something like the slingbox catches on www.slingmedia.com From the sling community forum: Hello before yall get to excited about verizon it looks like they are cancelling users who use too

Time for a real Internet highway (?)

2005-10-14 Thread Michael Painter
I'd be very interested in what folks here think of this: http://news.com.com/Time+for+a+real+Internet+highway/2010-1028_3-5894664.html?tag=carsl Thanks, --Michael

Re: Time for a real Internet highway (?)

2005-10-14 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Matt Ghali [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Painter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: NANGO nanog@merit.edu Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 1:29 PM Subject: Re: Time for a real Internet highway (?) On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Michael Painter wrote: I'd be very interested

Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger

2005-08-23 Thread Michael Painter
US is trailing other industrial countries in broadband penetration I'm not sure that's the case, AFAIK the US holds its own. Graph at the bottom of the article. http://www.mbc-thebridge.com/viewbridge.cfm?instance_id=304

Re: KVM over IP suggestions?

2005-08-22 Thread Michael Painter
From: Drew Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any suggestions would be helpful. -Just- got this in an E-mail, fwiw. http://www.nwc.com/showitem.jhtml?docid=1616f3

Re: fcc ruling on dsl providers' access to infrastructure

2005-08-08 Thread Michael Painter
From: Joe McGuckin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: fcc ruling on dsl providers' access to infrastructure On 8/7/05 7:20 PM, Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe what we need is a certain class of company who will be responsible for running and maintaining the public data

Re: You're all over thinking this

2005-07-22 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Crist Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: You're all over thinking this Sam Crooks wrote: Didn't the US Navy buy Iridium? Nope. http://www.iridium.com/corp/iri_corp-story.asp?storyid=2 In December 2000, a group of private investors led by Dan

Re: DNS .US outage

2005-07-08 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 7:19 PM Subject: RE: DNS .US outage i believe even windoze has dig at the command line, though i don't know in what directory it lies. randy In case other Win users aren't aware:

Re: ATM

2005-06-30 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: James Laszko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 7:34 AM Subject: RE: ATM Most MPLS networks use a combination of point to point, frame and ATM facilities as the infrastructure. The phone companies use ATM just about everywhere to deliver

Re: ISP's Contact List

2005-06-13 Thread Michael Painter
http://www.geobytes.com/FAQ.htm#Technology http://www.geobytes.com/FAQ.htm#DifferentFromWhoIs - Original Message - From: Sanfilippo, Ted [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: nanog@merit.edu Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 4:18 AM Subject: RE: ISP's Contact

Re: Looking for information about LD regulation

2005-05-27 Thread Michael Painter
You might want to try asking on the isp-clec list. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Dan Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nanog@merit.edu Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 12:43 PM Subject: Looking for information about LD regulation Apologies if this is too off topic.

Re: Bernie Ebbers Guilty

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Painter
The Evening Bridge - March 15, 2005 TOP STORY: Today marked a big day in the government's moves to expel company executives who have allegedly conducted financial fraud. The first under the spotlight are former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers and former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio, along with 10 other

Re: vonage routing issues

2005-03-04 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: John Neiberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 10:30 AM Subject: Re: vonage routing issues Jon Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/4/05 1:17:11 PM Anyone else having reachability issues with Vonage?

Re: Measure overall network availability

2005-01-07 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Joe Shen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, is there any recommended method to measure overall network availability? For those who might want to use it for whatever...(buck a week): http://www.dslreports.com/schedule

Fw: [pignet]

2004-12-02 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pacific Internet Users Group Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 2:47 PM Subject: [pignet] The Politics are starting I found this in the Washington Post - Interesting? By Shaun Waterman UNITED PRESS

Re: Campus size Wireless LAN

2004-07-21 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Eric Brown Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 8:01 AM Subject: Campus size Wireless LAN Anyone have experience with Proxim's tsunami quickbridge for wireless connectivity between buildings at line of site distances under 1 mile? It's cheaper than Cisco and

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-11 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Michel Py [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 5:24 PM Subject: RE: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious Indeed. Lately, I have not been able to clean a very annoying piece of crud named

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-25 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Dr. Jeffrey Race [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Smith, Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 6:22 PM Subject: RE: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:39:26 -0600, Smith, Donald wrote: I am

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-12 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jonathan Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 3:32 PM Subject: Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked) http://lawandhelp.com/q298-2.htm while i

Re: [Fwd: [IP] New flaw takes Wi-Fi off the air]

2004-05-14 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Bill Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can think of one application - the next time I'm presenting at a conference where everyone has their heads buried in their laptops, I know what I'll be running on my machine at the podium ;) Bill. Wayback before laptops, an

Re: Microsoft XP SP2 (was Re: Lazy network operators - NOT)

2004-04-19 Thread Michael Painter
First time user of the net in '87 when CompuServe announced it to its denizens. Thank [deity] for Micro$oft or we'd have to get a real job. - Original Message - From: Henry Yen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 8:14 PM Subject: Re: Microsoft XP SP2

Re: Warning - new trend of attempts to infect ISP users (possibly virus)

2004-03-03 Thread Michael Painter
If it ain't one thing, it's... http://www.vnunet.com/News/1153081

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

2004-02-27 Thread Michael Painter
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/special_report/Stratton_Sclavos.html

Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack

2004-01-31 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 3:10 PM Subject: Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack Anybody got recommendations on warm places that have good bandwidth to the beach? :) http://pacific.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2002/05/27/daily35.html

Kinda' funny...

2004-01-30 Thread Michael Painter
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34919.html

Re: Kinda' funny...

2004-01-30 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Aaron Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Michael Painter' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 11:13 PM Subject: RE: Kinda' funny... Sorry, I don't see the funny in 1200 people losing their homes. Is there something else to the story that I am

Re: cooling systems

2003-11-06 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Chris Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 8:43 AM Subject: Re: cooling systems Peter Galbavy wrote: You foreigners are scary. As a UK resident, born in Oz many many years ago, I consider -10C to be very very cold. You know it's

Re: Need FSO link in Santa Clara Sunnyvale

2003-11-04 Thread Michael Painter
Brennan I don't know anything about them, but these folks seem to be doing some interesting things: http://www.loeacom.com/About/ http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/10/17/HNloea_1.html --Michael - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers?

2003-10-09 Thread Michael Painter
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,60613,00.html When students first register on the network, they are required to read about peer-to-peer networks and certify that they will not share copyright files. Icarus then scans their computer, detects any worms, viruses or programs that act as

Re: East Coast outage?

2003-08-16 Thread Michael Painter
http://www.hydro.mb.ca/our_facilities/ts_nelson.shtml - Original Message - From: Chris Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10:48 PM Subject: Re: East Coast outage? Once upon a time, Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Maybe a

Re: The impending DDoS storm

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Painter
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,7652257~root=security,1~mode=flat;start=0 - Original Message - From: Josh Fleishman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 5:24 AM Subject: RE: The impending DDoS storm Has anyone determined a method for

Re: RPC errors

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Painter
Forwarded from isp-tech: Those of you having the issues of restarts, do the following: Go to Control Panel, then Administrative Tools, then Services. Under Services find the Remote Procedure Call option, and right click then go to Properties. Under Properties, go to the Recovery Tab, and

Re: internet.com

2003-04-01 Thread Michael Painter
From: Rodney Joffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMHO nothing touches lft (V 2.1 now out) http://www.mainnerve.com/lft/index.html Thanks to everyone for the suggestions...I'll try them all.s

internet.com

2003-03-31 Thread Michael Painter
Anyone else having trouble with reaching internet.com via genuity? Pinging 63.236.73.147 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 4.25.112.2: TTL expired in transit. Reply from 4.25.112.2: TTL expired in transit. Reply from 4.25.112.2: TTL expired in transit. Reply from 4.25.112.2: TTL expired in

Re: internet.com

2003-03-31 Thread Michael Painter
78 ms94 ms78 ms p0-0.lsanca2-br1.bbnplanet.net [4.25.112.2] - Original Message - From: Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Painter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 5:38 PM Subject: Re: internet.com Don't know about Genuity, but from ATT no expires but an unusual

Re: internet.com

2003-03-31 Thread Michael Painter
From: E.B. Dreger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Most day-to-day apps don't really care about ping. Attempts to connect to 80/TCP are successful. Ping and traceroute give me !X communication prohibited by filter. ICMP echo and response are NOT critical Internet traffic. The inability to send/receive

Re: Syn Flood

2003-03-25 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Christopher Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 5:55 PM Subject: Syn Flood I have a problem on a home PC of all things. Every once in a while it bursts into life and syn floods an IP address on port 80. The IP addresses

Re: Homeland Security Alert System

2003-02-22 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 1:47 PM Subject: Re: Homeland Security Alert System I'm certain the government folks working to protect us 24x7 are doing everything they can, but the fact of the matter

Re: DC power versus AC power

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Kuhtz, Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Wayne Bogan [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 9:37 AM Subject: RE: DC power versus AC power But, as Stephen already eluded to... Compared with an AC plant design, to me, one of the

Re: DC power versus AC power

2002-12-29 Thread Michael Painter
: Sunday, December 29, 2002 4:43 PM Subject: Re: DC power versus AC power Unnamed Administration sources reported that Michael Painter said: But, as Stephen already eluded to... Compared with an AC plant design, to me, one of the biggest drawbacks of a DC plant is safety (I

Re: Guam - Typhoon 180 MPH winds

2002-12-09 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 11:40 PM Subject: Guam - Typhoon 180 MPH winds Guam was struck by Typhoon Pongona with sustanted winds of 150 mph, and gusts of 184 mph. Electricity is out on the entire

Re: DirecPC Protocols

2002-11-14 Thread Michael Painter
If you don't get an answer here, you might want to try the isp-satellites list. http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-satellites/ Also, there are a -few- knowledgable folks on alt.satellite.direcpc. Good luck...I'd be interested in hearing the description myself. --Michael - Original

Re: DirecPC Protocols

2002-11-14 Thread Michael Painter
Scott, Just an f.y.i., Charlie Ergan (DishNetwork) said he couldn't see how the business plan could succeed and pulled out of StarBand. They are currently in Chap. 11. http://65.186.192.177/liarband/ch11.html --Michael - Original Message - From: Scott Granados [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: OT: If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits

2002-07-22 Thread Michael Painter
I met del at a mini Computer Expo at Wailea, Maui in '96. He was dealing Blackjack in his booth for prizes (I won an external 14.4 modem) and giving away beta test dialup accounts. I thought that 'shaka.com' was cool, so after 6 months of free beta, I signed up and have been with them since.

Re: Asian exchange points

2002-05-11 Thread Michael Painter
Richard, If you don't have any luck elsewhere, a good source of info., especially for South Asia, could be: Stuart Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] He usually monitors the list [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Michael - Original Message - From: Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dave

Re: ratios

2002-05-10 Thread Michael Painter
All of that changed when CW depeered from PSI. I lost a lot of money due to Mr. Jansen's fascism. Understand now? I apologize in advance, I'm a total newbie...so what did you have to do? --Michael - Original Message - From: Dean S Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]