Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers

2016-03-14 Thread mikea
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 04:49:38PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2016, Scott Weeks wrote: > > It's all phunny money. Real economics are not even considered. > > At all. > > And what makes your think the Data Center Optimization Initiative is any > different, when they are counting

Re: BCOP Wiki Logo Missing

2015-10-08 Thread mikea
On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 01:27:32PM +, Nicholas Warren wrote: > http://nabcop.org/index.php > > For me the logo is a flower and it says "Set $wgLogo to the URL path to your > own logo image." > Am I the only one? Same here. I suspect that the page has not been fully customized. -- Mike Andr

Re: Ear protection

2015-09-24 Thread mikea
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 09:51:07AM -0500, Chris Boyd wrote: > > > On Sep 23, 2015, at 7:33 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > > > > Passive cooling typically translates to lower performance but also can > > be more expensive. > > $DAYJOB uses an immersion cooling system so it’s higher performance and much

Re: IP's with jitter/packet loss and very far away

2015-09-18 Thread mikea
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 11:42:49AM -0400, Dovid Bender wrote: > Hi, > > I am working on a presentation and looking to create samples of what a > trace should not look like? Anyone have IP's that I can trace from the US > or UK that will show > 1) jitter > 2) packet loss > 3) very far away (perhaps

DamnTest: ignore

2015-09-10 Thread mikea
This post includes the word Damn. damn -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin

Re: WiFI on utility poles

2015-09-10 Thread mikea
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 02:06:14PM -0400, Josh Luthman wrote: > It's either Mike, Comcast or the NANOG list, so it's probably a safe bet. Bilingual English/French may indicate a Canadian mailserver. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin

Re: Data Center operations mail list?

2015-08-11 Thread mikea
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 07:59:41AM -0700, James Downs wrote: > > > On Aug 11, 2015, at 06:01, Rafael Possamai wrote: > > > style as nanog and registered the nadcog.org domain. > > Nad Cog? North American Data Center Operations Group, perhaps? -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-03 Thread mikea
On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 01:52:17PM -0700, alvin nanog wrote: > > hi ethan > > On 08/03/15 at 10:58am, Ethan wrote: > > > > Getting bandwidth into the events is a pain. Huge venues are meant for large > > corporate events not lower budget cons and festivals. Venue pricing I > > believe is 750-150

Re: 20-30Gbps UDP 1720 traffic appearing to originate from CN in last 24 hours

2015-07-20 Thread mikea
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 09:50:44PM +0100, Colin Johnston wrote: > blocking to mitigate risk is a better trade off gaining better percentage > legit traffic against a indventant minor valid good network range. That may be your call, or your management's call, but that doesn't make it *my* call or

Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"?

2015-07-15 Thread mikea
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 04:27:08PM +0300, John Kinsella wrote: > On 7/15/15 1:28 PM, Baldur Norddahl wrote: > >You can't be a "dummy" and a service provider... > > oh? :) Counterexample: Cox. They refuse to even admit to me that they are even considering IPV6. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mike

Re: Hotels/Airports with IPv6

2015-07-13 Thread mikea
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 05:34:03AM +, Mel Beckman wrote: > Owen, > > I never said it was a greenfield deployment. Someone else tagged it with > that term. > > My understanding of the term "greenfield" WRT wifi is that there are no > interfering signals to contend with. I don't know of any U.S.

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread mikea
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 04:01:38PM -0500, Mike Hammett wrote: > Some of those are why would one EVER need more than X, while others are why > would one NOW need more than X. Big difference. Simple fact that there is > no residential application that needs more than even 50 megabit much less > 10,00

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread mikea
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 04:30:05PM -0400, A MEKKAOUI wrote: > Your right. Actually, Bell knows that home does not need that much > BW, Bell size their network for much less than that. However, from a > marketing perspective, when Bell says to a client I am offering you > 1G at $100 and competition

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread mikea
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 01:06:26PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > > > On Jun 26, 2015, at 13:02 , Karl Auer wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 13:39 -0500, Rafael Possamai wrote: > >> How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single person > >> it is overkill. > > > > This se

Re: OPM Data Breach - Whitehouse Petition - Help Wanted

2015-06-18 Thread mikea
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 04:34:46PM +, Cryptographrix wrote: > Have to agree with Shawn on this. > If you watch her testimony in front of Congress, it is clear that she was > completely flustered at the inability to hire competent people, and the > lack of her superiors to prioritize the moderni

Re: AWS Elastic IP architecture

2015-06-02 Thread mikea
On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 07:21:12PM +0300, Nikolay Shopik wrote: > Tell me how do you plan find printer in /64 subnet, scan it? > > On 02.06.2015 18:08, Matthew Kaufman wrote: > > > > I can't run my laser printer without a firewall in front of it, and I > > can't even guess how secure the controll

Re: lots of latency on qwest to google?

2011-09-20 Thread mikea
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:06:18PM -0500, Chris Brookes wrote: > Anyone else seeing a lot of latency to google via qwest? > > .. > > 11 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms min-edge-12.inet.qwest.net [207.225.128.1] > 1215 ms13 ms12 ms chx-edge-03.inet.qwest.net [67.14.38.5] > 1312 ms

Re: How to begin making my own ISP?

2011-09-16 Thread mikea
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 02:10:29PM -0400, hass...@hushmail.com wrote: > No one replied with any useful information. I guess no one wants > competition on this list? Pretty poor tactic. > > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:55:01 -0400 hass...@hushmail.com wrote: > >I want to begin making my own ISP, mainly

Re: What do you do when your Home ISP is down?

2011-08-18 Thread mikea
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:17:07AM -0700, Jeff Johnstone wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Mark Keymer wrote: > > > I am wondering what some of you guys do when your home ISP is down. At > > least those of you that don't give yourself internet. > > > > I know we have a wide range of peo

Re: What do you do when your Home ISP is down?

2011-08-18 Thread mikea
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 02:09:03PM -0400, Eric Wieling wrote: > Obligatory xkcd http://xkcd.com/806/ Damn, that's _fine_! -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin

Re: What do you do when your Home ISP is down?

2011-08-18 Thread mikea
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:21:57AM -0700, Mark Keymer wrote: > I am wondering what some of you guys do when your home ISP is down. At > least those of you that don't give yourself internet. > > I myself have a cable provider at home that I use. And I find it quite > frustrating to call and report

Re: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-12 Thread mikea
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 05:49:03PM -0430, Greg Ihnen wrote: > > What standards? The RFID tag on the milk carton will, essentially, replace > > the bar code once RFID tags become cheap enough. It'll be like an > > uber-barcode with a bunch more information. > > > > For keeping track of how much

Re: network issue help

2011-08-11 Thread mikea
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:39:59AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 07:33:53PM -0400, Stefan Fouant wrote: > > Is there an acronym for RTFM when there are a volume of manuals that need > > to be read? > > FOAD, perhaps? Well, there's ADD: Attention Deficit Disorder. Then t

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-23 Thread mikea
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 05:47:18PM -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: > On 6/22/2011 14:33, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > >> I agree, the whole use of the terms 'need' and 'want' in this conversation > >> are > >> ridiculous. It's the Internet. The entire thing isn't a 'need'. It's > >> not like life > >

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread mikea
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 05:04:25PM -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Aw, Jeezus. > > No. Just, no. > > http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/17/202245/ Yeah. Maybe ICANN needs its own special TLD: .idiots? -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin

Re: (OT) Firearms Was: UN declares Internet access a "human right"

2011-06-06 Thread mikea
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 10:21:35AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Jun 6, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Daniel Seagraves wrote: > > > > > On Jun 6, 2011, at 8:41 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > > > >> Nice try, but the human right you just made a case for is "the right to rid > >> yourself of crimina

Re: Rogers Canada using 7.0.0.0/8 for internal address space

2011-05-25 Thread mikea
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 02:43:24PM -0400, Christopher Pilkington wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Michael Dillon > wrote: > > So we should CONDONE such borrowing and recommend a couple of /8s to > > use in North America. Perhaps one could be DOD for those operators > > that do not carry a

Re: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's possible with today's technology.

2011-05-20 Thread mikea
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 09:34:59AM -1000, Paul Graydon wrote: > On 05/20/2011 08:53 AM, Brett Frankenberger wrote: > >On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 06:46:45PM +, Eu-Ming Lee wrote: > >>To do this, you only need 2 numbers: the nth digit of pi and the number of > >>digits. > >> > >>Simply convert your

Re: 365x24x7 (sleep patterns)

2011-04-15 Thread mikea
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:53:47AM -0500, Chad Dailey wrote: > +1. I'd go to six months, having been the night shift bitch. Flipping > shifts around damn near killed me. > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Mark Green wrote: > > Suggestion; once on the 'night shift' stay put for at least three

Re: Level 3 Agrees to Purchase Global Crossing

2011-04-11 Thread mikea
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 02:41:18PM +, Mike Walter wrote: > I find it amusing that the article says - "The deal will combine two > unprofitable companies...". > > So I guess the thinking is that two negatives make a positive? They may lose on every subscriber, but now they'll make it up i

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread mikea
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:34:13AM -0400, Steven Bellovin wrote: > > On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:27 58AM, Aaron Wendel wrote: > > > That's a good question. Maybe they can't qualify under Arin rules. > > Another question will be: how is Arin going to handle it? > > > > Im pretty sure that the RSA s

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread mikea
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:34:13AM -0400, Steven Bellovin wrote: > > On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:27 58AM, Aaron Wendel wrote: > > > That's a good question. Maybe they can't qualify under Arin rules. > > Another question will be: how is Arin going to handle it? > > > > Im pretty sure that the RSA s

Re: Who owns (or is allocated) 208.64.200.0/22?

2011-03-08 Thread mikea
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 10:14:54AM -0600, mikea wrote: > I rise to expose my ignorance. > > 208.0.0.0/8 is an ARIN block, and ARIN has allocation data for the > blocks immediately adjoining 208.64.200.0/22, but no allocation data for > 208.64.200.0/22 itself, either in WHOIS or

Who owns (or is allocated) 208.64.200.0/22?

2011-03-08 Thread mikea
I rise to expose my ignorance. 208.0.0.0/8 is an ARIN block, and ARIN has allocation data for the blocks immediately adjoining 208.64.200.0/22, but no allocation data for 208.64.200.0/22 itself, either in WHOIS or in the website. Nor does 208.64.200.0/22 appear to be "special" in any way. Is t

Re: Christchurch New Zealand

2011-02-24 Thread mikea
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:08:39AM -0800, JC Dill wrote: > On 22/02/11 10:38 PM, Joe Hamelin wrote: > >The other CERT: Community Emergency Response Team. > > >https://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/about.shtm > > +1 for CERT. I also think that taking a CERT class is a great way to > re-evaluate yo

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread mikea
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:14:04AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > > From: Jeff Wheeler > > Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 8:13 AM > > To: nanog@nanog.org > > Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an > > IPv6naysayer...) > > > > > > I suspect Google, Microsoft, and others ha

Re: Internet blocked in Algeria?

2011-02-12 Thread mikea
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 05:01:12PM -0500, Joly MacFie wrote: > Any confirmation of internet blocking? > > http://bikyamasr.com/wordpress/?p=26849 > > As massive street demonstrations are met with widespread violence in > Algeria, the country is reporting that many Facebook accounts have been > de

Re: test-ipv6.com

2011-01-27 Thread mikea
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 06:59:15PM -0600, Jack Bates wrote: > On 1/27/2011 6:25 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote: > > > >Anyone for peering cake? > > > > Yeah, Google, HE, Cogent, Sprint, Qwest, and Level3 all need peering > cakes (as I'm pretty sure there is no participant in that list which is >

Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses

2011-01-27 Thread mikea
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 08:20:54PM -0500, Steven Bellovin wrote: > > On Jan 27, 2011, at 4:53 22PM, mikea wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:26:58PM -0800, Mark Keymer wrote: > >> What I don't understand is I can only guess they must have a IT team. > >>

Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses

2011-01-27 Thread mikea
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:26:58PM -0800, Mark Keymer wrote: > What I don't understand is I can only guess they must have a IT team. > And Maybe even 1 or more people that view this list. Why don't they just > talk to there own staff about the issues? Maybe one of the IT guess saw > the issues talk

Re: Satellite IP

2011-01-11 Thread mikea
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 04:33:30PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Valdis Kletnieks" > > > > Why the hostility, Valdis? > > > > As I said several times - it's not hard to be 98% or 99% sure you can make > > all your commitments. However, since predicting the

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-10 Thread mikea
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 02:52:56PM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, January 07, 2011 09:25:59 am David Sparro wrote: > > I find that the security "Layers" advocates tend not to look at the > > differing value of each of those layers. > > Different layers very much have different values, and,

Re: FAA - ASDI servers

2011-01-05 Thread mikea
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 06:36:25AM -0500, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: > > TR Shaw writes: > > > There is a federal directive that has been in place for a number of > > years that requires IPV6 support for all new IT contracts/systems > > and also a directive to all federal agencies to support IPV6

Re: The tale of a single MAC

2011-01-02 Thread mikea
On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 09:33:46PM -0600, Graham Wooden wrote: > Hi there, > > I encountered an interesting issue today and I found it so bizarre ? so I > thought I would share it. > > I brought online a spare server to help offload some of the recent VMs that > I have been deploying. Around the

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread mikea
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 06:41:09PM -0800, Seth Mattinen wrote: > Contrary to popular belief the average person tend to severely dislike > all forms of road construction or having their yard repeatedly torn up. > > I know it's all happy fun times to say "let's have 10 water/electrical > providers

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread mikea
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:13:21PM -0800, Matthew Petach wrote: > You may find that simply fewer content providers decide it's worth it to play > in that space, under those conditions, which results in fewer choices for the > consumer, and something closer to a monopoly on the available content >

Re: Alleged backdoor in OpenBSD's IPSEC implementation.

2010-12-15 Thread 'mikea'
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:00:56PM -0500, Stefan Fouant wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: mikea [mailto:mi...@mikea.ath.cx] > > Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:28 AM > > To: nanog@nanog.org > > Subject: Re: Alleged backdoor in

Re: Alleged backdoor in OpenBSD's IPSEC implementation.

2010-12-15 Thread mikea
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:51:24PM -0800, Michael J Wise wrote: > On Dec 14, 2010, at 9:56 PM, Ken Chase wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:39:02PM -0800, Chaim Rieger said: > >> Does anyone remember the last time a law enforcement agency had > >> someone sign a 10 year NDA on a backdoor? > >>

Re: LOIC tool used in the "Anonymous" attacks

2010-12-13 Thread mikea
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:59:07AM -0800, andrew.wallace wrote: > I was reading about this- yeah really "anonymous". > > http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/12/anonymous-releases-very-unanonymous-press-release/ > > Also: > > http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/11/anonymous-isnt-loic.html A

Re: [Operational] Internet Police

2010-12-09 Thread mikea
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 06:26:30PM +, Dobbins, Roland wrote: > On Dec 10, 2010, at 1:19 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > > "front lines of this "cyberwar"? > Warfare isn't the correct metaphor. > Espionage/covert action is the correct metaphor. "Low intensity conflict" may be more correct. --

Re: Domain shut downs by Registrar?

2010-12-03 Thread mikea
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 10:49:47AM -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:45 AM, John R. Levine wrote: > >>> We do remember, don't we, that the domain that started this discussion > >>> were shut down by Verisign, the registry, not a registrar? > >> interesting that in THI

Re: The scale of streaming video on the Internet.

2010-12-03 Thread mikea
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 06:29:54PM -1000, Antonio Querubin wrote: > On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Paul Ferguson wrote: > > >Old skool. > > > >Twitter is much faster: > > > >http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/government-disaster-advisors-twitter-ha > >cked-used-to-send-tsunami-warning/408447 > > But morse

Re: Want to move to all 208V for server racks

2010-12-02 Thread mikea
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 12:17:37PM -1000, Antonio Querubin wrote: > On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Ricky Beam wrote: > > >I think they are now a violation of the NEC. And they were delisted by UL > >years ago. They pose a hazard as they will not react fast enough to > >prevent a fatal shock. (and the onl