RE: Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days)

David Ulevitch wrote: > What else are operators doing to get the pages out when things go wonky? Get a pager! :) SMS is just not as reliable. > David Randy

RE: YouTube IP Hijacking

Arnd wrote: > You _need_ a license to drive a car, fly a plane etc. but until now you > dont need to show that youre skilled enough to run a border router. Good > idea? I dont think so. My point was that even with a license, accidents still occur. > I believe that people who run ASNs should hav

RE: YouTube IP Hijacking

>>This isn't the answer. If it were, there would be no car accidents, pilot >>error caused plane crashes, etc. > Probably the reason you dont need to have a pilot license... Sorry, what? > Dont get me wrong: I not the "Policy this/that" type but i think its a > good idea to ensure that ppl who

RE: BGP prefix filtering, how exactly? [Re: YouTube IP Hijacking]

Valdis wrote: > He explicitly said "single-homed". Of course, multi-homed requires > different handling, because you may hear their other home announce them > (although again, you probably shouldn't listen to *THAT* announcement > either if *your* link to them is up). And I posit that if you do

RE: BGP prefix filtering, how exactly? [Re: YouTube IP Hijacking]

> Our own or our singlehomed customers' address space -- we would reject > such an advertisement. The same inbound consistency check applies to > peers and upstreams/transits. > > If it's someone else's or a more specific or the same prefix as our > multihomed customers -- we accept it. The

RE: YouTube IP Hijacking

Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: > Perhaps certain ASes that are considered "high priority", like Google, > YouTube, Yahoo, MS (at least their update servers), can be trusted to > propagate routes that are not aggregated/filtered, so as to give them > control over their reachability and immunity to longer-

RE: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

RodBeck said: >Telecommunication facilities have rarely been targets of terrorism. There is only one known case - the Tamil Tigers destroyed a central office in Sri Lanka some years back. My guess is that terrorists want to kill people, not destroy optical muxes, >Class 5 switches, and the like.

RE: router install in Troy, Michigan

Craigslist is > that way. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dorn Hetzel Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 4:49 PM To: nanog list Subject: router install in Troy, Michigan apologies if this is non-operational content. I have a customer si

RE: i think the cogent depeering thing is a myth of some kind

> at there is a plain text document > with > the following HTTP headers: > > Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:56:34 GMT > Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Unix) PHP/5.2.3 > Last-Modified: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:15:53 GMT > ETag: "92c1e1-a85-43b36ea5bcc40" >

RE: Cogent issues in SF area?

Maybe they depeered themselves. They seem to be on a roll! > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Mike Lyon > Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 2:39 PM > To: NANOG > Subject: Cogent issues in SF area? > > > Anyone else seeing it? > > BGP

RE: Why do we use facilities with EPO's?

> FWIW, do you imagine that's terribly large for urban firefighters in > the big scheme of things, not just computer rooms? > > My memory could be wrong but I remember the John Hancock building, 60 > stories, pulls about 1.5MW...I remember Boston Edison mentioning this > in discussing a design I

RE: Why do we use facilities with EPO's?

(snip) > Put another way: Between a 120KVA UPS and a gang of experienced > firefighters with charged hoses I'd put my money on the firefighters > every time. > > -- > -Barry Shein You realize the UPS systems we're speaking of are much larger? Usually 480 volt, many kVA. Randy

RE: Routing public traffic across county boundaries in Europe

Andy, I've always wondered this as well. Similar scenario, although not necessarily egress in a foreign country, but transiting through. For a brief period, we had an OC48 that carried packets on our network between Chicago and Seattle that traversed a router of ours in Vancouver, BC Canada. A

RE: Cogent Peering

Keith, I believe he meant he would like to purchase transit from Cogent. -Randy > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > keith > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 2:53 PM > To: Kevin Billings > Cc: nanog@merit.edu > Subject: Re: Cogent Peering >

RE: Omaha, NE Carrier Hotels???

Robert, Seems like Co-Sentry has a somewhat large facility in Omaha (http://www.cosentry.com). First National has one as well. http://www.fntsinc.com/pdf/Omaha-stat-sheet-06.pdf Also, although not carrier neutral, I've been to the AT&T building in Omaha and they do provide co-location services

RE: Interland dead?

> Subject: Interland dead? > > Anyone know what's going on? Wasn't some portion of their assets acquired by Peer 1? -Randy

RE: Cable Tying with Waxed Twine

Hey Marty :) > and digg it: > > http://www.digg.com/mods/The_lost_art_of_cable-lacing... Corrected URL: http://www.digg.com/mods/The_lost_art_of_cable-lacing...?cshow=194773 > -M< Randy

RE: Anything going on in Atlanta, GA?

Bill, > Switch and Data was reporting power issues at 56 Marietta > earlier. Don't know if it was isolated to their suite, or > more widespread. > > bill No issues on 2nd, 3rd or 4th floor. Not sure about the 6th (where S&D is located.) There are also separate generators in the building for

RE: Undersea fiber cut after Taiwan earthquake - PCCW / Singtel / KT e tc connectivity disrupted

> I've wondered how many boats/subs exist for these repairs > and if attempting to do them all in parallel is going to be a big > problem. With 6 systems having outages, it will be interesting to see > when various paths/systems come back online and if there is a gating > factor in underse

RE: Collocation Access

> AT&T's colocation facility in mid town retains your ID. So do a lot of > others I've been to. And that happens whether or not they give you a cage > key. Maybe this is a recent "feature". From what I've seen, AT&T's security policy differs from site to site, employee to employee, no matter wha

RE: Power issue at Telx NYC?

Drew, There is definitely a power outage at telx/60 Hudson. According to telx, this was a scheduled maintenance gone bad. I have someone onsite and he is reporting that power should be restored shortly. Note, those with redundant feeds within the facility should only see a partial outage. Reg

RE: Collocation Access

>Then you broke the law, assuming you had a Florida license and you >presented to the Miami facility. Actually, I handed them an Austrian license. Maybe I violated some EU directive! >DS Randy

RE: Collocation Access

> From what I've seen, there's a complete lack of awareness of the >risks associated with retention of identification or information. I >even had a long argument with the local US Post Office, who wanted to >record numbers from two forms of ID in order for me to retain my PO >Box. Their claim

RE: Bandwidth accounting recommendation?

maybe the folks at Solarwinds can provide you with a solution here. >Any suggestions? >Thanks, >Andrew Regards, Randy Epstein Email: repstein(at)chello.at

RE: ICG Experience

Aaron Glenn wrote: >if by "assimilated rather quickly" you mean "answers the phone with >'Level3' instead of 'Wiltel' " then yes, they are. Otherwise it's the >same network with the same equipment and generally the same people >pre-acquisition I would think that Elijah was looking slightly longe

RE: ICG Experience

Elijah Savage wrote:   >Hopefully this will be my last time querying the group for provider experience. My previous experience with them was a while back when they filed for bankruptcy and cut back on support, but a coworker just informed me they have since been purchased by Level3. I

RE: AT&T routing

Andrew: > Would a routing engineer from AS7132 (SBC/AT&T) please contact me off > list to resolve a routing issue I've discovered on your network? > Andrew D Kirch | Abusive Hosts Blocking List | www.ahbl.org > Security Admin | Summit Open Source Development Group | www.sosdg.org

RE: Global Crossing Contact / BGP and SONET interaction question

Forrest: >Recently my BGP session has started flapping on the GX circuit... It >looks something like this: > >Jul 21 21:33:32.703 UTC: %BGP-5-ADJCHANGE: neighbor 67.17.168.73 Up > >There are no other log entries during the periods when this occur. >Unfortunately this causes enough prefix flap