An anonymous source at Yahoo told me that they have pushed
a config update sometime today out to their servers to help with these
deferral issues.
Please don't ask me to play proxy on this one of any
other issues you may have, but take a look at your queues and
they should be
As another Procurve user (also 3500's)...I'd point out that Procurve has
a lifetime warranty on their gear.
...and the stuff seems to last forever too. We still have quite a few
4000M-series 80-port switches in production, as well as newer models.
They are bulletproof... just run and run
i am vexed at the moment by the filtration costs.
What is it that is clogging your filters? Dust? Pollen? Small animals??
We're in a similar situation to you, though even
better as we're blessed by even cooler ambients
and never see 100°F, or even close to it. So
we're using make-up air
Do you have any users who forward their email to their free
@yahoo.com addresses from your server?
That is likely the core of Justin's problem.
We've found the way to minimize issues with yahoo mail are:
1. Clean up (ideally eliminate) the .forwarders on your end.
This requires some
(I'm sure many readers of the list know *that* feeling - you found and fixed
the problem before the first complaint arrives, but you still get deluged by
more complaints for another week or so...)
Or another 6 months from AOL ;-]
No... for AOL add 6 MORE months + three days
if I've missed it.
--chuck goolsbee
**who seem to have all been drawn like moths to a flame into the
companies my company has acquired over the years... as if to punish
ME for some past transgression!
.
Regards,
--chuck goolsbee
answering at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
206-838-1630, ext 2001
This report used to be quite useful in that regard:
http://www.cymru.com/DNS/lame.html
Perhaps Rob needs a coffee injection to get that going again?
(BTW: Need/want some more of our famous Colo Blend Mr. Thomas?)
--chuck
Or say, lots of processing somewhere short term - like video
editing/rendering/whatever at the Olympic games.
Rendering maybe, but editing needs human space...
http://www.confidencebay.com
--chuck
If there is anyone with a clue at AS32445, or their adjacent networks
(which appear from here to be AS174 AS5769) could you please
contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or +1-206-838-1630, ext 2031. We've had
an ongoing DoS attack from your network for the past two days. It
would nice to stop it
If you don't have water-based fire suppression, have normally unoccupied
spaces, and are continuously manned, it's sometimes possible to pass on
having an EPO. YMMV by inspector.
That is indeed true, as we were able to have ours disconnected, and
were able to expand our facility without
6. Economists call this a collective action problem. Traditional
solutions include legislation, market leadership, and agreements among
small actors to achieve such leadership.
You left out: The killer-app.
Compelling content *only* available via the alternative technology.
The IPv-ONLY
You don't believe the killer app will be sorry, no more IP addresses?
Nope. Not at all.
--chuck
And what about all those diesel generators? How many of them are capable
of running on vegetable oil rather than diesel oil? I regularly walk
past a building in London that reeks because of the diesel fuel tanks in
the basement. You have to wonder about the safety of storing large
amounts of
Anybody from AOL on this list? Could you please send me an email
offlist? I need some help.
Have you pursued every avenue of contact listed at:
http://postmaster.info.aol.com/?
I've found them to be GENERALLY pretty responsive on those channels,
as have many others.
--chuck
I'm still getting feedback on netblocks we haven't been
associated with in several years and I've tried about
20 times to get them to stop it but cannot. If you call
they just tell you to email, if you email you get nowhere.
David
Some general, useful NANOG collected wisdom:
It is so easy
There's at least one datacenter in Seattle that when the customer cards
in, lights up the floor to their cabinet Been a while since I've been in
it, but I remember it USED to do that (fisher, internap I think?)
Perhaps the infamous unescorted customer EPO button-push incident of
2005
Sorry if this is OT but we are having a discussion with our HR
department. We are in the process of getting a 24 X 7 NOC in place and
HR has a problem with calling them NOC Specialist.
We're 24x7 and we get by just fine without an HR department.
It has worked fine for 13 years, and will
there was a power test of some kind, and a generator flaked or
something. I've requested more detailed info, but have yet to receive it.
From what I understand, it affected more than just one provider.
Here's the RFO I saw late last night:
During a planned generator test that was being
We just saw one of our gig-e circuits to the Westin bounce three
times and another just go flatline in the past hour. On hold for a
couple of NOCs at the moment trying to figure out wtf is going on.
Anyone have solid info?
--chuck
We just saw one of our gig-e circuits to the Westin bounce three
times and another just go flatline in the past hour.
Answering my own question I know, but the OnFiber/Qwest guys I spoke
to informed me that they heard the Westin had some sort of backup
power scheduled maintenance go wrong.
Indeed. I'm surprised the market hasn't produced facilities with
better thought through and executed security and access controls. Is
there not enough competition in each metro area for anything other
than lowest common denominator?
From what I've seen? No.
At the moment, the top priority
I've never been asked to allow someone else to
retain my passport or driver's license.
Exodus used to do this.
...and look where that got them!
They (Exodus) also had, at least here in Seattle at the 12301 Tukwila
facility, the grungiest palm scanner in the world. Thankfully I never
At 9:50 AM -0800 11/14/06, Warren Kumari wrote:
On Nov 13, 2006, at 9:20 AM, chuck goolsbee wrote:
** I assume it is myth, but I've never heard anyone from Google make any
statements that definitively debunks it. Debunking this pervasive among
webmasters and SEO Experts myth sure would
to no end when a sales guy comes to me with a
request from a customer for a /20 for a half-rack of web servers. The
justification ALWAYS comes down to this inane search engine
optimization pipe dream. =\
--chuck goolsbee ***
*** Waiting now for ~246 hours for Yahoo!Mail human beings to contact
At 12:29 PM -0800 11/4/06, Dave Mitchell wrote:
number of emails and being traffic shaped. To have your legitimate
mailservers added to a white list, please refer to the following info.
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html
I've filled in the form. And I'm pretty sure this
Greetings, NANOGers. I've got a mail cluster that's been spooling about
5 messages for the past week or so (with very little drain and
traffic passing), and my mail admin reports that attempted contacts to
the Yahoo Postmaster are not getting answered. Can someone over there
drop me a
At 2:26 PM +0100 10/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://travel.state.gov/travel/tips/regional/regional_1170.html
December 31, 2007 - Passport required for all land border crossings, as
well as air and sea travel.
FWIW I live near the WA/BC (US/CDN) border and cross it often (at
We've had a few customers report issues. We don't see anything too
bad from here, but Keynote scoreboard has been showing some ugly
between those two networks for the past hour or so. It has been about
a year since the last time hasn't it?
--chuck in seattle
If anyone else lost power at Internap's Fisher Plaza facility in
Seattle this afternoon and have any info related to exact duration
or cause please hit me back off-list.
Isn't this like the 2nd or 3rd event at Fisher of late?
Any answers Jonathan? Has Fisher owned up to the cause yet? I did
with them yet? If
so, you wouldn't be having anything blocked.
--chuck goolsbee
digital.forest
seattle, wa
. (ESPECIALLY Yahoo!)
--chuck goolsbee
digital.forest, seattle
I wonder just how much power it takes to cool 450,000 servers.
I've heard mumbles that the per kWh rates from
Bonneville in the locations along the Columbia
are in the sub-4¢ range.
Grant county is seeing a huge fiber building boom
as a result. It will be more wired up than King
county
At 7:03 PM -0400 6/14/06, Matt Buford wrote:
There is also strong demand among web hosting customers to scatter
sites across multiple /24's due to search engine optimization.
I hear this line of thinking often, but to me it sounds like
bulls^X^X^X^X^X... um, folklore. When our
At 2:35 PM -0400 6/15/06, Matt Buford wrote:
But how could this possibly be IP abuse or evil (except perhaps in
the eyes of the search engines)? What difference does it make to
ARIN if I give a customer 30 IPs from a single /24 or 30 IPs from 30
different /24s?
How is that customer using
Familiarity with Copper Mountain Copper Edge 150 DSLAM a bonus.
Will exchange cash or insert adult beverages of choice at a future
NANOG meeting for assistance.
Call or email if available:
p. 206-838-1630, option 1, ext 2001
e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
--chuck goolsbee, digital.forest
. Too often it falls under the latter
category it seems. Since we're in the hosting/colo business PHP web
forms seem to be the vast majority of issues lately.
I'd love to know what cluebats or magic bullets are available for
whacking this particular mole most effectively.
--chuck goolsbee
I think the main thing I learned from that is that there are a
surprising number of hosting companies and self-professed data
centre operators who really don't know much about the DNS.
Or even what the word datacenter means. Sounds to me like a rack of
servers or a cage was suspended, not
variation of PHP versions we see still in use on
various colo servers.
Another year, yet another variation of whack-a-mole.
--chuck goolsbee
Anyone know of something that will generate an org-chart like
network map dynamically?
Intermapper http://www.intermapper.com/
Don't know where it breaks in terms of scale, but it is an interesting tool.
--
--chuck goolsbee
geek wrangler, digital.forest inc, seattle, wa http
attempted unsuccessfully, for a problem
that has been repeating itself every few days for the past two months.
--chuck goolsbee
digital.forest inc, seattle, wa http://www.forest.net
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 206-838-1630 xt2001 - AIM:chuckgoolsbee
or
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL
It's too bad that about 1/3 of the reported mails are valid opt-in lists.
The other 1/3rd are actual spam, but legitimately forwarded as the
user requested from a personal or business domain to an AOL account.
Any server in the path gets tagged as a spam source.
And the remaining third seems
.
Apparently the outage was isolated to their Seattle/Fisher Plaza
Colocation facility.
--
--chuck goolsbee
geek wrangler, digital.forest inc, seattle, wa http://www.forest.net
past filters, or as red herring
targets or joe-jobs. A DDoS is a DDoS, no matter how benign one
might think it is, or how evil/deserving the target is perceived to
be.
The risk of collateral damage is way too high.
--
Chuck Goolsbee V.P. Technical Operations
, if there is anything we can do to help, let me know.
(I know I'd appreciate the same should we have a similar situation,
though here it is earthquakes and/or volcanic eruption.)
--
Chuck Goolsbee V.P. Technical Operations
If there is anyone here from cox.net, I'd appreciate being contacted offlist.
(Normal channels are frustratingly unresponsive at this time.)
Customers we share are having issues we need to resolve for them.
Thanks in advance,
--
Chuck Goolsbee V.P. Technical Operations
On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:24:49 PDT, Gregory Hicks said:
Isn't this called a dictionary attack?
Well... if you want to get technical, it's a subclass of dictionary attack -
the only question being how the dictionary is created.
The specific term you are looking for, I believe is Directory Harvest
here deliver a megabit or so bandwidth to that location?
802.11, DSL, whatever... BY MONDAY???
If so, please contact me ASAP, off-list.
BTW: This client came to us under very similar circumstances (as a
colo) and has been with us ever since. Great folks.
Regards,
--
Chuck Goolsbee
We have a large client who is moving into a new office space on
Broadway in lower Manhattan *this weekend* and they just learned
their DS1 (provided by Verizon, IP by UUnet) has been pushed back to
July 2nd.
The situation to my knowledge is resolved. Thanks for the swift assistance.
--chuck
I would agree with your analogy if Spamcop limited automatic reporting
to subset of the community. The problem is they do not.
In Spamcop's defence, it seems that their systems were never designed
to handle the wide variety of 'attack vectors that spam uses today.
Spamcop also operates on the
In other words: if one is stupid, one gets worm'ed or bot'ed.
However, up to 90% of the users *are* stupid:
http://www.silicon.com/software/security/0,39024655,39118228,00.htm
Any network security scheme that fails to either (a) lower the stupidity rate
or (b) deliver a system that will protect
At 4:19 PM -0500 5/4/04, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:
chuck goolsbee wrote:
However, up to 90% of the users *are* stupid:
I didn't say that, I only quoted (Valdis Kletnieks) it... to which I
replied that compensating for stupidity is a zero-sum game.
Seriosuly though, the Internet might
are good folks, and I hate to see their
reputation tainted by the actions of others.
Thanks,
--chuck goolsbee, digital.forest
of my
staff, which illustrates another slippery factor of this particular
slope...
--chuck goolsbee
--
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There's only so much stupidity you can compensate for;
there comes a point where you compensate for so much
stupidity that it starts
used to hide job
hunting from current employers? =)
--chuck goolsbee
--
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There's only so much stupidity you can compensate for;
there comes a point where you compensate for so much
stupidity that it starts to cause problems for the
people who
behavior of some recent mailers that
send forwards as obviously W32-readable-only attachments?
--chuck goolsbee
--
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There's only so much stupidity you can compensate for;
there comes a point where you compensate for so much
stupidity
Please contact me offlist. Normal contact methodologies have
failed, and a problem is now four days old.
Thank you.
--
Chuck Goolsbee V.P. Technical Operations
_
digital.forest Phone
Please contact me offlist. Normal contact methodologies have
failed, and a problem is now four days old.
Thanks for the swift replies from Earthlink/Mindspring staff (three!)
Problem still ongoing, but at least we are talking/working on it now.
Regards,
--
Chuck Goolsbee
Kletnieks, and somebody at NetSol.) and I've never seen what
an Outlook mail client looks like. =)
I have to agree with Mr. Donelan who said here:
(Microsoft) Outlook, the exploding Pinto on the information superhighway.
Regards,
--
Chuck Goolsbee V.P. Technical
, provided they can meet the requirements above.
Thanks in advance.
*The terminally curious can ask for the story, but the telling may
have to wait until my present situation is resolved.
Regards,
--
Chuck Goolsbee Geek Wrangler
Brilliant. Why did not you try telnet target.ip 80?
Just because random packets spewed by traceroute are dropped on the floor
does not mean that the site is dead.
As I stated to many in off-list mail last night, we were unable to
get to that IP on any port. It was not just traceroute. My
traces were dying in the same place as mine:
207.ATM6-0.GW11.NYC1.ALTER.NET (152.63.29.185))
Can anybody out there hit that IP (208.196.93.204) at the moment? Or
indeed much of anything in that /8?
--
--chuck goolsbee
geek wrangler, digital.forest inc, bothell, wa http://www.forest.net
,
--
--chuck goolsbee
geek wrangler, digital.forest inc, bothell, wa http://www.forest.net
doubt any of them read it, and I know no attempt
is made to verify or prevent this event from repeating ad infinitum.
--
Chuck Goolsbee V.P. Technical Operations
_
digital.forest Phone: +1
who are sending your salessharks toward
the rapidly expanding mass of chum in the water here... go ahead...
provided of course *you* can actually deliver me a DS3 in a week or
so if I sign papers between now and Friday!
Regards,
--
Chuck Goolsbee V.P. Technical
Also, if you want to monitor massive amounts of data (something
people say can't be done easily) you just demux it using a device
like those at www.toplayer.com, or
http://www.radware.com/content/products/fire.asp .
Both solutions are adequate for breaking up massive amounts
of data.
I could
chapter... when I was the pres of the Northwest one. We both had
a good laugh. Small world.
--
Chuck Goolsbee V.P. Technical Operations
_
digital.forest Phone: +1-877-720-0483, x2001
where
), and a few
phone calls by now.
--
Chuck Goolsbee V.P. Technical Operations
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digital.forest Phone: +1-877-720-0483, x2001
where Internet solutions grow Int'l: +1-425-483
guess it has been recently revealed as
felonious behavior. I'd be a fool to go down that path again.
I'm sorry to say but, I'll be officiating ice hockey games in hell
before doing business with UUnet again.
--
Chuck Goolsbee V.P. Technical Operations
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