RE: OT: Bringing Cisco equipment to US

2009-07-03 Thread Timothy Arnold
The courier will likely charge you less than a customs broker will for a single item - the brokers are mainly used for large transactions. While you're legally entitled to bring this equipment in carry-on luggage, proving and authenticating your right can be a costly and timely exercise.

Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle

2009-07-03 Thread Darren Bolding
Fisher Plaza, a self-styled carrier hotel in Seattle, and home to multiple datacenter and colocation providers, has had a major issue in one of its buildings late last night, early this morning. The best information I am aware of is that there was a failure in the main/generator transfer switch

Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle

2009-07-03 Thread Joe Richards
Multiple folks on Twitter who are in the area are reporting a 5-6 hour ETA. -Joe -- Joe Richards j...@disconformity.net -- ipv4: http://www.disconformity.net [ 72.29.169.48/28 ] ipv6: http://ipv6.disconformity.net [ 2001:48c0:1001:1::/64 ] blog: http://www.mainlined.org

BGP Update Report

2009-07-03 Thread cidr-report
BGP Update Report Interval: 25-Jun-09 -to- 02-Jul-09 (8 days) Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS131072 TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS Rank ASNUpds % Upds/PfxAS-Name 1 - AS919886810 4.5% 299.3 -- KAZTELECOM-AS Kazakhtelecom Corporate Sales Administration

The Cidr Report

2009-07-03 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Jul 3 21:13:55 2009 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of AS2.0 router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org for a current version of this report. Recent Table History Date

Re: ARIN and DNSSEC

2009-07-03 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:21:36 +0900 Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Mark Kostersma...@arin.net wrote: ARIN is now signing the /8 zones that it is authoritative for (eg 192.in-addr.arpa, etc). Thanks! indeed! Wonderful! --Steve

Re: Wireless bridge

2009-07-03 Thread Matthew Kaufman
Matthew Walster wrote: I'd heartily recommend giving infra-red FSO a go, no Fresnel zone... A nitpick, but there's nothing special about infra-red that makes it not electromagnetic just like microwave. So there's still a Fresnel zone, only smaller in diameter. Also for this kind of link,

Re: Wireless bridge

2009-07-03 Thread Jorge Amodio
Also for this kind of link, 60 GHz gear is often cheaper and easier to deal with, so what I would recommend. I'd also take a look at 60GHz, check http://www.bridgewave.com/, I believe they have some sort of promotion going on for 60/80GHz gear. My .02

Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle

2009-07-03 Thread Seth Mattinen
Darren Bolding wrote: Interestingly, this building is also the production studios for several Seattle TV and radio stations. There is no ETA for resolution. Apparently it took authorize.net with it, too: http://twitter.com/authorizenet ~Seth

CN=Jesus Leung/OU=AHM/OU=AM/O=HONDA is out of the office.

2009-07-03 Thread jesus_leung
I will be out of the office starting 07/03/2009 and will not return until 07/09/2009.

Re: Wireless bridge

2009-07-03 Thread Joel Jaeggli
You've got to recall that the genesis of this is dicsussion was the replacement of a pair for open-wrtized linksys wrt-54g routers, which have 30mW 2.4ghz radios being used for an 800meter link... There are a vast continuum (both in terms of performance and cost) of solutions between that and a

RE: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle

2009-07-03 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
This begs the question of what basic parameters should be for a carrier hotel or co-lo. Given that we're getting designated Critical Infrastructure, we'd getter start coming up with some, or we'll have them defined for us. The old NEBS standards were too much of a straightjacket, but the current

Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle

2009-07-03 Thread Seth Mattinen
Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: This begs the question of what basic parameters should be for a carrier hotel or co-lo. Given that we're getting designated Critical Infrastructure, we'd getter start coming up with some, or we'll have them defined for us. The old NEBS standards were too much of a

Weekly Routing Table Report

2009-07-03 Thread Routing Analysis Role Account
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RE: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle

2009-07-03 Thread Erik Soosalu
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009415571_apwafisherpla zafire1stldwritethru.html -Original Message- From: David Hubbard [mailto:dhubb...@dino.hostasaurus.com] Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 1:05 PM To: NANOG list Subject: RE: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle

Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle

2009-07-03 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Tomas L. Byrnest...@byrneit.net wrote: This begs the question of what basic parameters should be for a carrier hotel or co-lo. [...] The old NEBS standards were too much of a straightjacket. Tomas, There is a useful standard: ANSI/TIA-942. It offers

RE: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle

2009-07-03 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
-Original Message- From: Tomas L. Byrnes [mailto:t...@byrneit.net] Sent: Fri 7/3/2009 10:20 AM To: David Hubbard; NANOG list Subject: RE: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle This begs the question of what basic parameters should be for a carrier hotel or co-lo. Given that

Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle

2009-07-03 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, William Herrin wrote: There is a useful standard: ANSI/TIA-942. It offers specifications for four tiers of data centers ranging from tier 1 (a basic data center with no redundancy) to tier 4 (fully fault tolerant). Are you better off with a single tier 4 data center,

Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle

2009-07-03 Thread Stephen Stuart
Earth is a single point of failure, where is your backup site? This reminds me of the 1996 thread about how MAE-East still had no generator. Same topic, roughly, some of the same people (hi, Sean). Sure, the line about the Earth SPOF is catchy, but in terms of more likely scenarios: how many

Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle

2009-07-03 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
Wasn't Authorize.net affected by this? We received a support ticket about why Authorize.net is down today (I don't know either, I don't ask too many questions). Jeff On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Tomas L. Byrnest...@byrneit.net wrote: Earth is a single point of failure, where is your backup

Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle

2009-07-03 Thread Ben Carleton
Yes it was. On Jul 3, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: Wasn't Authorize.net affected by this? We received a support ticket about why Authorize.net is down today (I don't know either, I don't ask too many questions). Jeff On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Tomas L. Byrnest...@byrneit.net

Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle

2009-07-03 Thread Darren Bolding
Power to some of the affected sections of the building has been restored via existing onsite generators. The central power risers cannot be connected to current generators in a timely manner due to excessive damage to the electrical switching equipment (and those generators may still be in

Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle

2009-07-03 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jul 3, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Ben Carleton wrote: Yes it was. On Jul 3, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: Wasn't Authorize.net affected by this? We received a support ticket about why Authorize.net is down today (I don't know either, I don't ask too many questions). Authorize.net was

Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle

2009-07-03 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
That's a great idea, use some lame Web 2.0 trend to communicate with actual real life customers. /sarcasm Jeff On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Marshall Eubankst...@americafree.tv wrote: On Jul 3, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Ben Carleton wrote: Yes it was. On Jul 3, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Jeffrey Lyon

Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle

2009-07-03 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 03:22:14PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: Are you better off with a single tier 4 data center, multiple tier 1 data centers, or something in between? It depends entirely on your dependency on connectivity. One extreme is something like a Central

RE: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle

2009-07-03 Thread Michael J McCafferty
On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 13:21 -0700, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: Earth is a single point of failure, where is your backup site? [TLB:] Given that all my customers are on Earth, I don't need one if my customers also are down. Bad Day !

BGP Update Report

2009-07-03 Thread cidr-report
BGP Update Report Interval: 25-Jun-09 -to- 02-Jul-09 (7 days) Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS131072 TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS Rank ASNUpds % Upds/PfxAS-Name 1 - AS919886810 4.5% 299.3 -- KAZTELECOM-AS Kazakhtelecom Corporate Sales Administration

Re: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle

2009-07-03 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jul 3, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: That's a great idea, use some lame Web 2.0 trend to communicate with actual real life customers. /sarcasm I would assume they figured it was better than just remaining silent. Regards Marshall Jeff On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Marshall