Re: US Gvt ipv6 change, associated agencies

2008-03-18 Thread Jerry Dixon
://www.cio.gov/ http://www.cio.gov/documents/IPv6_FAQs.pdf http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/a-1-fea.html http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SMA/ispab/documents/minutes/2007-03/IPv6-NIST-ITL_ISPAB0307.pdf Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mar 18, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Darden, Patrick S. wrote: I'm looking

RE: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread Jerry Pasker
the tubes. :-) -Jerry

Re: FCC rules for backup power

2007-11-14 Thread Jerry Dixon
concerns. There office is real responsive to Cyber Communication issues. They're the ones that setup the Congressional Cyber Commission. http://homeland.house.gov/about/subcommittees.asp?subcommittee=12 -Jerry -Original Message- From: Jared Mauch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: Sun Project Blackbox / Portable Data Center

2007-10-13 Thread Jerry Dixon
or the provider and brought to disaster sites on-demand. It would be interesting to talk to someone that has used one during a major event to get their take on them including spin up time to bring them online. Jerry _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lorell

Re: Sun Project Blackbox / Portable Data Center

2007-10-13 Thread Jerry Dixon
it was built out. Just to add a disclaimer, these are my opinions and not an official stance by the government. Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Oct 13, 2007, at 11:05 PM, Alan Clegg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry Dixon wrote: We've looked at these from a DHS perspective and they are a great concept

Re: Level3 or Broadwing or other issues in Dallas ?

2007-09-19 Thread Jerry B. Altzman
159.258 ms 25 * * * 26 * * * 27 * * * 28 * * * 29 * * * and all the usual NOC numbers are either busy or fast-busy (!) It's probably not a total melt-down, as our voice PRIs there are all still OK. //jbaltz -- jerry b. altzman[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jbaltz.com thank you

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

2007-07-25 Thread Jerry Pasker
that the EPO actually has a real valid use that has been ACTUALLY PROVEN IN PRACTICE rather than just in someone's mind. -Jerry Is so anti EPO, he has no remote EPO buttons, and even has the irrational fear about the jumper on the EPO terminal strip inside his UPSes coming undone.

Re: ATT - Broadwing (Level3) Congestion

2007-05-16 Thread Jerry Pasker
Is anyone else seeing significant congestion between ATT and Broadwing in Dallas/Fort Worth? -brandon I have no idea if the following is related: (and frankly, I don't care, for anyone that wants to flame me on it) ;-) I was seeing it between Qwest and Level 3 since about November(!!!),

Re: Open WiFi Access Point BCP's???

2007-04-27 Thread Jerry Dixon
You can visit the US-CERT website at http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/ for overview and recommendations on wireless. Jerry - Original Message - From: Brandon Galbraith To: MARLON BORBA Cc: Deepak Jain ; nanog@merit.edu Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 7:21 PM Subject: Re

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-23 Thread Jerry Dixon
of government. My .02 Jerry - Original Message - From: J. Oquendo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bill Woodcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nanog@merit.edu Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 5:04 PM Subject: Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic) Bill Woodcock wrote

Re: America takes over DNS

2007-04-02 Thread Jerry Dixon
work in this space. If Doug is lurking out there he can provide much more info or insight into this. Jerry - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nanog@merit.edu Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 4:23 AM Subject: RE: America takes over DNS The US Department of Homeland

Re: SaidCom disconnected by Level 3 (former Telcove property)

2007-03-15 Thread Jerry Pasker
Not knowing anything about the case other than what I read in the article, my hang up is that a transit provider can make a phone call and destroy a customer's business with 30 minutes notice. On a DS3 that has actual real lead time to replace, that's a business killer. The argument of

Re: WWPVD (was what the heck do I do know)

2007-02-01 Thread Jerry Pasker
If no one's been sued before because they've wild carded a defunct RBL, what's the big deal? When someone tries their best, goes out to an intelligent group to get their opinions, and spends a HUGE amount of effort, and incurs measurable monetary damage (bandwidth, time, etc) and when the

Re: Security of National Infrastructure

2006-12-29 Thread Jerry Pasker
, and assume (correctly so) that the rest is good. Same concept applies to why we have police that chase criminals, rather than just throwing everyone in prison by default and making them prove that they're worth of being free. -Jerry

Re: DNS DDoS [was: register.com down sev0?]

2006-10-26 Thread jerry
. We've gotten a lot of great feedback from many of you and its greatly appreciated. You know who you are :) Especially some of the feedback related to the hardware OS issues. -Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From

Re: 200K prefixes - Weekly Routing Table Report

2006-10-13 Thread Jerry Pasker
On Oct 13, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Routing Analysis Role Account wrote: Routing Table Report 04:00 +10GMT Sat 14 Oct, 2006 Analysis Summary BGP routing table entries examined:   200339 Prefixes after maximum aggregation:  

Re: 200K prefixes - Weekly Routing Table Report

2006-10-13 Thread Jerry Pasker
Sorry, I got several questions emailed to me, so I'll save my own bandwidth at the expense of everyone else's, and hopefully answer some people that didn't take the time/effort to ask... The Dirty-Thirty is what I called the list of Aggregation Summery in the cidr report (cidr-report.org)

Re: Best practices inquiry: filtering 128/1

2006-07-10 Thread Jerry Pasker
of it happening aren't zero, but probably pretty small. Enough so that it sure beats editing the BOGON list manually! -Jerry

Re: Who wants to be in charge of the Internet today?

2006-06-23 Thread Jerry Pasker
One two three NOT IT! Sorry, when I saw the subject, I couldn't resist.

Re: af.mil contact

2006-06-22 Thread Jerry Dixon
We're notifying them via JTF-GNO (DOD-CERT). As it relates to .mil's you can get to their site here: http://www.jtfgno.mil/ On government or .gov's you can reach us at www.us-cert.gov Jerry -Original Message- From: Geo. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 08:42 AM

RE: insane over-regulation - what not to do

2006-06-21 Thread Jerry Pasker
Could you be more specific? Are you talking about Part VIII DOMAIN NAME REGISTAR or something else? rsw. I like Part XIII, Subsecton 115. Thing. myself. -Jerry

Re: I never realized so many trains derailed until my Internet kept going out

2006-01-29 Thread Jerry Pasker
Maybe they had a parallel backup route 2mm diverse from the main one. Do you think their fiber maps showed the same thing? :-)

Stupidity: A Real Cyberthreat.

2006-01-19 Thread Jerry Pasker
be No] Marketing will make up for lost customers, and trying to convince people to forget that it ever happened, and rate increases and/or insurance will make up for any lost revenue. -Jerry

Re: The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat?

2006-01-19 Thread Jerry Pasker
While it is always fun to call the government stupid, or anyone else for that matter, there is a little more to the story. - For one you do not need a backhoe to cut fiber - Two, fiber carries a lot more than Internet traffic - cell phone, 911, financial tranactions, etc. etc. - Three, while

WMF Microsoft Patch is out

2006-01-05 Thread Jerry Dixon
FYI all, the Microsoft Official patch is out for WMF and available via Windows Update.Cheers,Jerry

Re: CAT5 surge/lightning strike protection recommendations?

2005-09-14 Thread Jerry Eyers
As everyone else has said, fiber is best, but if that is not an option... We have had good luck using these: http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/hgln_cat6.php Trancievers will work as well, but that is a more expensive option. Nothing is going to protect you from a direct strike. Jerry

New Orleans Comm Needs

2005-09-03 Thread Jerry Dixon
at shelters. See the request below from ARRL. There is an HF net setup and efforts under way by NCS down there. -Jerry http://www.arrl.org Attention All Amateurs... Amateur Radio emergency communication volunteers needed! (Sep 2, 2005) -- The ARRL now is seeking experienced Amateur Radio

Re: FW: Need some help: IDEAS, Inc.

2005-09-03 Thread Jerry Dixon
the information gets into the right hands. I will say that I know many others on the list have been doing a great job of identifying sites as well as reporting. SANS ISC keep up the good work! The information goes into Federal Law Enforcement who also works with Local LE. Jerry Original

Re: Phone networks struggle in Hurricane Katrina's wake

2005-08-30 Thread Jerry Pasker
adaptation, and in most cases, lower QoS. -Jerry

Re: NETGEAR in the core...

2005-08-02 Thread Jerry B. Altzman
. //jbaltz -- jerry b. altzman[EMAIL PROTECTED] KE3ML thank you for contributing to the heat death of the universe.

Re: More long AS-sets announced

2005-06-21 Thread Jerry Pasker
playground... can't we just all get along? If someone's going to load 50 kids on a merry-go-round, and get 50 more kids to push it I'll just stand over by the monkey bars and try to avoid the flying vomit. :-) -Jerry

Re: Outage queries and notices (was Re: GBLX congestion in Dallas area)

2005-06-08 Thread Jerry Pasker
: nanog-outage may become more operationally relevant than this list. :-) -Jerry

Re: Battery Maint in LEC equipment

2005-06-07 Thread Jerry Pasker
Even though it is fed with N+1 UPS power, Qwest put N+1 rectifiers batteries for their fiber cabinet they installed for me a few years ago. At the time, batteries were required no matter what, and they say they will replace them every 5 years. A little-town independent telco however,

Re: FTC, Partners Launch Campaign Against Spam Zombies

2005-05-24 Thread Jerry Dixon
relay some of the operational realities back to those folks but again, awareness and mitigation is the objective. Suggestions or perspectives welcome :) Cheers, Jerry (quickly putting on the flame retardant suit) On May 24, 2005, at 6:27 PM, Joe Hamelin wrote: The FTC said it would

RE: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?

2005-05-12 Thread Jerry Pasker
. BigCableCo, and BigTelco can fight over customers all they want, I'll be happy with the table scraps. And since single miracle product that can be everything for everyone, and perfectly meets everyone's needs doesn't exist, and won't ever exist, there will be plenty of scraps to be had. -Jerry

Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?

2005-05-11 Thread Jerry Pasker
. That should be the tag line of every small business. -Jerry

Re: The not long discussion thread....

2005-04-27 Thread Jerry Pasker
experiences, but figured it was for the good of the group, and therefore, worth it. And I still think that. -Jerry

Re: Problems with NS*.worldnic.com

2005-04-26 Thread Jerry Pasker
something; No discussion about me blocking port 53, ok? I got tired of gobs of log files of script kiddies trying to download my domains 5 years ago... I actually READ my logs besides, I had to keep the linux boxes safe from the tyranny of bind 8 until they got upgraded. :-) -Jerry

The not long discussion thread....

2005-04-26 Thread Jerry Pasker
I posted to NANOG: Jerry Pasker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fine. (after a few tries) I'm using BIND 9.2.4 without the eye pee vee six stuff compiled in. Because I don't want to start something; No discussion about me blocking port 53, ok? I got tired of gobs of log files of script kiddies

Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

2005-04-26 Thread Jerry Pasker
solutions to these problems...uh-oh this is probably their first move in getting a law. step 1) cause a public outcry... so it's starting already. I think we've all seen this act before. Some days, the world really annoys me. :-( -Jerry

Re: grrr

2005-04-17 Thread Jerry Pasker
This is the same company that runs Path MTU discovery on their web servers, and then blocks ICMP at their border. -Jerry

Re: Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo?

2005-04-14 Thread Jerry Pasker
(Anybody here *NOT* seen cases where the 2 fibers leave the building on opposite sides, go down different streets - and rejoin 2 miles down the way because there's only one convenient bridge/tunnel/etc over the river, or similar?) Even if that's not the case, and it's still perfectly separated

Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

2005-04-14 Thread Jerry Pasker
everyone doesn't start doing this. -Jerry

Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

2005-04-14 Thread Jerry Pasker
On Apr 15, 2005, at 1:13 AM, Jerry Pasker wrote: Jeff Cole wrote: Run bind locally on your laptop. There's a Win32 version available if you're not running some sort of Unix or Linux on there. It's what I do as my ISP's DNS is wonky at times, as is $ork's as they choose to use Active Directory

Re: sorbs.net

2005-03-15 Thread Jerry Pasker
servers are actually using the blacklist, so it's impossible to gage the seriousness of the blacklist entry. It's blacklist terrorism. And yes, I'm still kicking around the idea of a bgp route feed style aggregation blacklist. I wonder if that makes me an ip routing terrorist? :-) -Jerry

Re: sorbs.net

2005-03-15 Thread Jerry Pasker
customers pay them them really stupid money. So, who's stupid? This is not only relevant to network operation, but life, as a whole. It's not my opinion, it's the truth. (is it not a fun world we live in?) -Jerry

Re: Heads up: Long AS-sets announced in the next few days

2005-03-03 Thread Jerry Pasker
to know the difference well does anyone really care what those people think anyway? ;-) -Jerry

Re: The Cidr Report

2005-02-12 Thread Jerry Pasker
. I'd love to hear it discussed. I'm going to repeat what I typed earlier: Nothing is going to happen unless enough people (ASNs) take a simultaneous, and UNITED stand, and make it painful for those that don't care about the routes they leak to the net. -Jerry

RE: Vendor Vulnerability Release Problem

2005-02-01 Thread Jerry Dixon
glad folks we're not shy about sharing their thoughts with my team ;) Cheers, Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hannigan, Martin Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 1:18 AM To: 'nanog

Re: Weekly Routing Table Report

2005-01-07 Thread Jerry Pasker
growth, would sponsor the creation of the t shirts snicker...) -Jerry

Smallest Transit MTU

2004-12-29 Thread Jerry Pasker
Operational comment, question: I've learned that having an MTU smaller than 1500 bytes is a bad thing. When encountering networks with MTUs smaller than 1500 bytes, path MTU discovery breaks when sites like a computer science college my friend is going to .edu, a certain 'us' online bank.com,

Re: Smallest Transit MTU

2004-12-29 Thread Jerry Pasker
, and the implementation of all of it to arrive back at the way life was pre-pMTUd+bad firewall. /rant. -Jerry

Re: Dampening considered harmful?

2004-12-28 Thread Jerry Pasker
routing around the flapping link from A to T. Stability good. Packet loss and latency, bad. Stability = damp. -Jerry

Re: Dampening considered harmful? (Was: Re: verizon.net and other email grief)

2004-12-21 Thread Jerry Pasker
, it happens to everyone eventually) it doesn't get me damped by the rest of the internet, and my connections to different transit providers can do their job of carrying the traffic. Dampening, in it's current state, really is a good idea. -Jerry

Re: Dampening considered harmful? (Was: Re: verizon.net and other email grief)

2004-12-20 Thread Jerry Pasker
saying of know your network really applies here. In my book, the threat of dampening to anyone not playing nice is the true value of route dampening. Automatic enforcement of etiquette. -Jerry .

Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing

2004-12-19 Thread Jerry Pasker
smart people. There will always be viruses, there will always be stupid people. What does this have to do with network operations? Are we, as network operators, supposed to protect people (stupid or not) from themselves? -Jerry

Re: Dampening considered harmful? (Was: Re: verizon.net and other email grief)

2004-12-16 Thread Jerry Pasker
if that means that though no fault of my own, one of my transit lines flaps, and gets me somewhat damped for an hour. -Jerry

Re: Bogon filtering (don't ban me either)

2004-12-03 Thread Jerry Pasker
any time soon. -Jerry

RE: Make love, not spam....

2004-11-29 Thread Jerry Pasker
effort to get users to visit every spammer web site they get, and click reload a few times also qualify as an attack? Remember: I'm assuming a properly written client. -Jerry

Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]

2004-11-20 Thread Jerry Pasker
with a memory rate high enough, or CPU to memory bandwidth wide enough to handle it. And when that time comes: I promise that any Cisco sales person will have at least more than a handful of routers to sell you that'll handle the load just fine. I'm Jerry Pasker, and I approved this message.

Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

2004-11-09 Thread Jerry Eyers
from MOST of the corporate network infrastructure maintainers out there. You must remember to take us into account when talking about global addressing policies. In the end, we pay most the bills. :-) Jerry

Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

2004-11-09 Thread Jerry Eyers
a scenario that is far to common in the corporate world. Jerry ---Original Message--- From: Theo de Whaat Date: 11/09/04 15:28:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested Get a firewall.You shouldn't rely on NAT to provide this functionality.How lon

Re: Ship seized for cutting Sri Lanka's internet link

2004-08-24 Thread Jerry Pasker
Do you have any idea of the *cost* of such a 'second cable' ? Or how _long_ it takes to install? Or how many 'hungry for business' undersea fiber installers would line up to bid such a project? ;-) (/me assumes there are some undersea fiber installers left.) -Jerry --

Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories

2004-08-15 Thread Jerry Pasker
/mentalsoup/basic.htm first. -Jerry --

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

2004-06-25 Thread Jerry Eyers
that does not directly effect the income. Reporting your problems to someone who doesn't effect the income isn't going to result in the fixing of any problems. One only has to look at the telephone history to see that. Jerry

Level(3)-ATT problems

2004-06-21 Thread Jerry B. Altzman
Hi all, We're situated firmly on ATT, and clients of ours who are behind Level(3) are having connectivity issues reaching us. Are there any known problems? ATT has reported some to me, I am just curious if it is just the T/L3 link or if it is a bigger L3 problem. Thanks! //jbaltz -- jerry b

Re: Lazy network operators - NOT

2004-04-18 Thread Jerry Eyers
soon. Jerry

Fw: Re: ICANN - Formal Complaint re Verisign

2003-09-18 Thread Jerry Eyers
An interesting thought... Jerry Jerry, One question - if I previously typed in an URL that was incorrect and would get the usual response from my OWN system, there would be not a real lot of data sent/received to pay for that mistake. Now that Verisign is doing their current thing

Just had an interesting side effect of the V hijack...

2003-09-18 Thread Jerry Eyers
register has got some tweaking to do on their web scripts to ignore wildcard responses... But, shows another side effect of V's unilateral action. Jerry

ICANN - Formal Complaint re Verisign

2003-09-17 Thread Jerry Eyers
millions of dollars in free advertising eye-time over any of the competition Jerry

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

2003-08-14 Thread Jerry Eyers
Ahhh... You don't put battery backup on a kill-all switch The idea behind it is to kill-all!! (*doh*) If you ever need to press it, you do so just before the guys-with-foam run in to douse your burning UPS... Jerry ---Original Message--- From: Eric Brunner-Williams

Just a quick thought...

2003-08-01 Thread Jerry Eyers
obvious IPv6 won, but I am curious as to why... Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Postini's network.

2003-07-16 Thread Jerry B. Altzman
Darren Bolding wrote: There appears to have been some difficulty inside ATT's network the last few minutes. It appears to have been resolved. I don't have a master-ticket number or such yet. Try 201975 --D //jbaltz -- jerry b. altzman[EMAIL PROTECTED]+1 646 230 8750 Thank you

Re: Non-GPS derived timing sources (was Re: NTp sources that workin a datacenter)

2003-06-28 Thread Jerry Scharf
accurate that anything else and it's available everywhere you can see a reasonable amount of the sky with no service charge. Other than that I can't see why people would do it. jerry

Re: Metoo Was: Pesky spammers are using my mailbox

2003-06-03 Thread Jerry Eyers
Add a "metoo" here. Unless we all have visited some other site in common... Jerry ---Original Message--- From: Daniel Karrenberg Date: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 04:22:04 PM To: Dominic J. Eidson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Metoo Was: Pesky spammers are using my mailbox