Global Crossing right now

2003-04-01 Thread Peter Salus
Is anyone seeing peering problem with GBLX? We've seen peering problems on GBLX across NA. It's being felt by many of their peering partners and, in turn, being felt by many of our customers. We're sending a generic report to the effected customers and will try to get more info on the

Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...

2003-03-07 Thread Peter Salus
It would have been nice if the reporter bothered to mention that Internet speed records are measured in terabit meters per second. An article about Internet speed records that doesn't include the actual record, or even a definition of the term Internet speed record, is hardly deserving of

Re: spamcop.net?

2003-03-04 Thread Peter Salus
Bravo, Lou! Anyway, one of the *virtues* of the Net has always been its anarchic and chaotic nature. Trying to set things into neat, regimented lines will get us back to the OSI way of doing things. I revile spammers, hate spam, and throw out tons of it; but I'd hate regimentation and

Re: The good old days (was Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives)

2003-02-24 Thread Peter Salus
Sean, Plus ca change, plus c'est le meme chose. Of course the past is with us: look at Bob Metcalfe's RFC 602 (1973). Have we fixed anything over the nearly 30 years? How recently have you seen a password on a Post-It? How many folks have their spouse's/significant other's/ offspring's

Re: Homeland Security Alert System

2003-02-21 Thread Peter Salus
David, what does from mean in your rules? with .cc at the end? But there are very many places with addresses in TLDs and ccTLDs other than the geographical location. passing through an AS known to be in a given location? Peter

Re: The minutes seem like hours (was Re: Symantec detected Slammer worm hours before)

2003-02-15 Thread Peter Salus
It's quite interesting, Mike and Sean, to note that on Symantec's Expanded Security Response List //securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Advisories.html there is nothing (that's right, nothing) at all between January 21 and January 27, 2003. As I said the other day, this is an

Re: Symantec detected Slammer worm hours before

2003-02-13 Thread Peter Salus
I attribute this to over-zealous marketing. As I mentioned at the NANOG BoF, there is, indeed, a decrease in latency about 6 hours prior to the actual mass attack. Mike Lloyd (RouteScience) saw this, too. There's also a decrease about 16 hours out. Sean suggested that they might be

Re: Mono Culture - was Re: Bell Labs or Microsoft security?

2003-01-29 Thread Peter Salus
Though it was written nearly two years ago, John Quarterman's Monoculture Considered Harmful remains the very best exposition of this issue. //www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_2/quarterman/ Peter

Verio yesterday

2003-01-09 Thread Peter Salus
Verio appears to have had a number of problems yesterday: We noticed a tremendous packet loss spike and a loss in reachability to various sites. Verio states that it had issues [!] with www1501 and that customers in Boca Raton may have experienced delays. Anyone know what happened? Peter

Re: CW east coast flap this afternoon?

2002-11-13 Thread Peter Salus
CW is divesting itself of a lot of real estate these days. It struck a deal with Primus concerning its voice customers (last week), now its DSL customers to New Edge. Moreover, the BBC reports today that CW is cutting 3500 jobs worldwide and also announced heavy losses. CW announced that

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Salus
Am I the only one to find this ludicrous? Expecting ICANN to competently hand these things is analogous to asking the Captain of the Titanic about how to handle icebergs. Peter

Re: root servers DDoS

2002-10-21 Thread Peter Salus
That's root-servers.org, Sean. Peter

RE: IPv4 country of origin

2002-10-03 Thread Peter Salus
Ralph, You and alex exchanged: On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a more accurate method to determine the country of origin for an IP than the methods I've described above? Yes, at least three companies have databases of pretty much all /24s and above mapped up

Re: IPv4 country of origin

2002-10-03 Thread Peter Salus
Andre, I fail to see where a pointer to the French version of Dodge's UCL-based cybergeography pages responds to Ralph's queries. Peter

Re: effects of NYC power outage

2002-07-22 Thread Peter Salus
Craig, We saw real hits on both Genuity and on NYC Teleglobe on Saturday. Both in latency and in packet loss. Our 9/11 graphs are visible at //order.mids.org/~peter/index.html where I put them following the event and on the NANOG 23 (Oct. 2001) site. Peter

Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads

2002-07-12 Thread Peter Salus
Absolutely dead on, Sandy. And Padlipsky is still available. See my review in the most recen issue of The Internet Protocol Journal (June 2002). M. A. Padlipsky, The Elements of Networking Style. ISBN 0595088791 (orig. 1985; iUniverse, 2000) Peter

KR assignments

2002-04-26 Thread Peter Salus
If you go to //ftp.arin.net/pub/stats, you can pick up all three RIRs. Then grep for KR in APNIC. Voila! Peter