Re: Akamai DNS Issue?

2004-06-15 Thread variable
Hi, We've been seeing this too, but it looks to have been fixed from here (AS12703) as of about 2 minutes ago. Regards, Rich On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Deepak Jain wrote: We're seeing it too. Has AKAM lost any key talent that kept them straight until a few weeks ago? Isn't this the second

Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs?

2004-01-26 Thread variable
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Jeff Kell wrote: We're running 30 SVIs on a 3550-12 (only 10 active at the moment, we're in a transition). It is an aggregation switch that feeds back via L3. According to the documentation on the Cisco site: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/473/145.html The 3550-12

Wirespeed 24-port L3 switches

2004-01-08 Thread variable
Hi all, We're looking at L3 switches which have decent L3 packet forwarding performance (wirespeed if possible), a reasonable amount of L4 ACLs/ACEs (an average of at least 80 per port) and comes in a 24-port 10/100 port package with a couple of GBIC slots for uplinking to the core network.

Re: ethernet-based temperature sensors

2003-09-04 Thread variable
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, matthew zeier wrote: I know this has been mentioned before, but other than NetBotz (too pricey), what are people use as ethernet-based, SNMP-probable temp sensors? http://www.jacarta.co.uk Rich

GLBX ICMP rate limiting (was RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?)

2003-08-28 Thread variable
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a similarly sized connection to MFN/AboveNet, which I won't recommend at this time due to some very questionable null routing they're doing (propogating routes to destinations, then bitbucketing traffic sent to them) which is causing

Windows update down again?

2003-08-17 Thread variable
Hi all, I was just updating a couple of Windows machines and had been using Windows Update without any problems until about 5 mins ago (22:10 GMT) when I've started getting this: Thank you for your interest in Windows Update Windows Update is the online extension of Windows that helps you

Re: Windows update down again?

2003-08-17 Thread variable
It's just come back now. Must have been a temporary holding page while they did some maintenance. On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I was just updating a couple of Windows machines and had been using Windows Update without any problems until about 5 mins ago (22:10

RE: How much longer..

2003-08-14 Thread variable
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, St. Clair, James wrote: Cars did not become more popular because owners had to learn how to swap more parts. The good ole computers as cars metaphor. In the UK: 1) In order to drive a car, you have to have a license. 2) In order to have the car on the road, you have

RE: How much longer..

2003-08-14 Thread variable
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, St. Clair, James wrote: I've lived in the UK, and never had a license to maintain or update the engine. See point number 2: 2) In order to have the car on the road, you have to have it taxed and have a qualified mechanic certify it for basic road worthiness. The

Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions

2003-07-30 Thread variable
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote: I recall one of our users was involved in a DoS once a few years back when the giant pings could crash MS boxes. The fact that his perceived anonymity was removed was enough to keep him from repeating his attacks That's the heart of the problem.

Re: source filtering (Re: rfc1918 ignorant)

2003-07-24 Thread variable
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Jared Mauch wrote: I think you'll see more and more networks slowly over time move closer to bcp38. Is there anywhere that this is recorded? It would be interesting to see what the actual state of play on implementation of BCP38 was. I believe that ATT is the

re: rfc1918 ignorant

2003-07-23 Thread variable
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Dave Temkin wrote: Is this really an issue? So long as they're not advertising the space I see no issue with routing traffic through a 10. network as transit. If you have no reason to reach their router directly (and after Cisco's last exploit, I'd think no one would

Re: BTinternet problems?

2003-06-20 Thread variable
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Mike wrote: I have sent mail to every address @BT that looks like it might possess clue, to no avail. This is a general plea for help- if anyone has an idea of how I might resolve this, I would be very grateful... Point the customer at www.traceroute.org? HTH, Rich

Re: Risk of Internet collapse grows

2002-11-27 Thread variable
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, David Diaz wrote: I think this is old news. There was a cover story back in 1996 time frame on Mae_east. We have to ask how likely is this with many of the top backbones doing private peering over local loops, how much damage would occur if an exchange point where

Re: Odd DDoS, anyone else seen this?

2002-11-25 Thread variable
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: We saw many hundred thousand packets per second entering our network from various international peers, each packet was tcp destined to a single real end user IP address and sourced from a /16 network address eg 61.254.0.0, where the src was

Re: Odd DDoS, anyone else seen this?

2002-11-25 Thread variable
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Chris Roberts wrote: Yer, some dial providers that I've seen do it to make use of these addresses, as x.x.x.0/32 is a perfectly valid host address. I've seen this too. Dialup boxes that use dynamic pools prefer them to start on a subnet boundry so that they can announce

no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread variable
Hi, I've been following the discussion on DDoS attacks over the last few weeks and our network has also recently been the target of a sustained DDoS attack. I'm not alone in believing that source address filters are the simplest way to prevent the types of DDoS traffic that we have all been