Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

A comment on the WSJ storycontains a link to a great map. http://www.submarinecablemap.com/ -- --- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC -

Re: dns and software, was Re: Reliable Cloud host ?

> In message > , > William Herrin writes: > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > DNS TTL works. =A0Applications that don't honour it arn't a indication th= > > at > > > it doesn't work. > > > > Mark, > > > > If three people died and the building burned down then the spr

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 09:33:04PM -0430, Greg Ihnen wrote: > > On Feb 28, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Mike Andrews wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:20:10AM -0800, virendra rode wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA256 > >> > >> On 02/27/2012 08:11 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrot

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

On Feb 29, 2012, at 3:31 AM, Joly MacFie wrote: > A comment on the WSJ > storycontains > a link to a great map. > > http://www.submarinecablemap.com/ There's about 1/2 a dozen or so known private and government rese

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

Joly MacFie wrote: > A comment on the WSJ > storycontains > a link to a great map. > > http://www.submarinecablemap.com/ I always liked this one, too: http://is.gd/DXcddb (Yes, flash. Still.) -Jan pgp4IKk8HiXGd.p

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:37:40 EST, Rodrick Brown said: > There's about 1/2 a dozen or so known private and government research > facilities on Antarctica and I'm surprised to see no fiber end points on that > continent? This can't be true. Cost-benefit. A dozen sites, each with only 100-200 people

Re: dns and software, was Re: Reliable Cloud host ?

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Joe Greco wrote: >> In message >> , >>  William Herrin writes: >> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: >> > > DNS TTL works. =A0Applications that don't honour it arn't a indication >> > > th= >> > at >> > > it doesn't work. >> > >> > Mark, >> >

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Rodrick Brown wrote: There's about 1/2 a dozen or so known private and government research facilities on Antarctica and I'm surprised to see no fiber end points on that continent? This can't be true. Constantly shifting ice shelves and glaciers make a terrestrial cable l

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: > On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Rodrick Brown wrote: > >> There's about 1/2 a dozen or so known private and government research >> facilities on Antarctica and I'm surprised to see no fiber end points on >> that continent? This can't be true. > >

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

> Constantly shifting ice shelves and glaciers make a terrestrial cable > landing very difficult to implement on Antarctica.  Satellite connectivity > is likely the only feasible option.  There are very few places in > Antarctica that are reliably ice-free enough of the time to make a viable > terr

Re: dns and software, was Re: Reliable Cloud host ?

On Feb 29, 2012, at 6:18 AM, William Herrin wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Joe Greco wrote: >>> In message >>> , >>> William Herrin writes: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > DNS TTL works. =A0Applications that don't honour it arn't a indication th= >>>

Re: dns and software, was Re: Reliable Cloud host ?

On 02/29/12 10:01, Owen DeLong wrote: Further, DNS performance issues in the past have led developers of such applications to "take matters into their own hands" to try and improve the performance/behavior of their application in spite of DNS. This is one of the things that led to many of the TTL

Re: Reliable Cloud host ?

related to the topic: http://slashdot.org/story/12/02/29/153226/microsofts-azure-cloud-suffers-major-downtime -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje.

Re: Programmers with network engineering skills

>> Is clearance the problem, or the ability to obtain clearance due to >> something in their background?  If your work requires it, you should have >> some recourse for applicants to obtain the required clearance, no? > > My understanding is that while primary and subcontractor companies can > put

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You'll need to use a metroipaccess image on the me3400 if you want more than 2 NNI interfaces. We don't do any triple play or ETTH services so I can't speak on that but as a layer 2 customer prem device for Carrier Ethernet services it works well and it's hard to beat the price. Would have been gre

Re: dns and software, was Re: Reliable Cloud host ?

On 2/29/2012 1:38 PM, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote: > On 02/29/12 10:01, Owen DeLong wrote: >> Further, DNS performance issues in the past have led developers of >> such applications to "take matters into their own hands" to try and >> improve the performance/behavior of their application in spite o

Re: dns and software, was Re: Reliable Cloud host ?

> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > >> In message > >> , > >> ?William Herrin writes: > >> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > >> > > DNS TTL works. =A0Applications that don't honour it arn't a indication > >> > > th= > >> > at > >> > > it doesn't work. >

Re: dns and software, was Re: Reliable Cloud host ?

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > In the specific case of TTL, the problem is made much worse due to the > way most client code has hidden this data from developers, so that many > developers don't even have any idea that such a thing exists. > > I'm not sure how to see that a de

Re: Reliable Cloud host ?

HP has built an Openstack based cloud. I got a beta account and things are surprisingly stable. hpcloud dot com On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Tei wrote: > related to the topic: > > http://slashdot.org/story/12/02/29/153226/microsofts-azure-cloud-suffers-major-downtime > > -- > -- > ℱin del ℳ

Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine

Hi Jon, On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: > > Speaking of that sort of thing, I'd really LOVE if there were a device about > the size of a netbook that could be hooked up to otherwise headless machines > in colos that would give you keyboard, video & mouse.  i.e. a folding > netbo

RE: WW: Colo Vending Machine

> What about something like this? > > http://www.comsol.com.au/SL-PCC-01 > > cheers, > Dale > Neat. But, apparently comsol does not sell outside of the US.

RE: WW: Colo Vending Machine

> Neat. But, apparently comsol does not sell outside of the US. > > I obviously need more coffee - I meant they do not sell *into* the US. Apologies for the double-mail.

Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine

G'day Nathan, On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > > Neat.  But, apparently comsol does not sell outside of the US. I didn't read the entire thread properly before posting my last message (w/ link to Comsol site). Someone else had already posted links to the same device on

Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine

On Thu, 1 Mar 2012, Dale Shaw wrote: Hi Jon, On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: Speaking of that sort of thing, I'd really LOVE if there were a device about the size of a netbook that could be hooked up to otherwise headless machines in colos that would give you keyboard, vi

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

On Feb 29, 2012, at 8:17 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Justin M. Streiner > wrote: >> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Rodrick Brown wrote: >> >>> There's about 1/2 a dozen or so known private and government research >>> facilities on Antarctica and I'm surprised to see no

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 >> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Justin M. Streiner >> wrote: >>> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Rodrick Brown wrote: >>> There's about 1/2 a dozen or so known private and government research facilities on Antarctica and I'm surprised to see no

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

we had an instance of "B" root there for a season. connectivity was a problem and we pulled the node in 2001. /bill On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:45:16PM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > >> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Justin M. Streiner

Re: dns and software, was Re: Reliable Cloud host ?

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Matt Addison wrote: > gai/gni do not return TTL values on any platforms I'm aware of, the > only way to get TTL currently is to use a non standard resolver (e.g. > lwres). The issue is application developers not calling gai every time GAI/GNI do not return TTL va

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

On Mar 1, 2012, at 10:12 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: > > we had an instance of "B" root there for a season. connectivity was a > problem and > we pulled the node in 2001. > > /bill You should install it on sattelite dima > > > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:45:16PM -0800, Bill W

Switch designed for mirroring tap ports

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Re: Reliable Cloud host ?

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