Re: AS6762 Looking Glass Down

2024-06-26 Thread Ben Cartwright-Cox via NANOG
Unsure what you are looking for (if it's just a general table view of Sparkle, or you are looking for a specific router etc) but there are *some* TI/Sparkle BGP tables (both v4 and v6) on the bgp.tools "super" looking glass https://bgp.tools/super-lg but I never managed to find/talk to someone at

Re: Packet loss and latency between Akamai and NTT in Miami

2024-05-17 Thread Ben Cartwright-Cox via NANOG
On the measurement that you provided the packet loss doesn't carry through to the final hop, so surely it's more likely what you're looking at here is control plane rate limiting rather than true packet loss? See slide 33 onwards on

Cogent-TATA peering dispute?

2024-05-17 Thread Ben Cartwright-Cox via NANOG
It would appear that ( as of yesterday ) some but not all BGP routes between Cogent and TATA are gone. >From my own observations it seems like all TATA Routes in APAC and India are now not visible from cogent connections/customers. There's also a report of a cogent support ticket response from

Re: 2600:: No longer pings

2024-04-10 Thread Ben Cartwright-Cox via NANOG
Wonderful news, this has now been fixed :) Thank you to Cogent for fixing this On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 at 11:00, Ben Cartwright-Cox wrote: > > It appears that 2600:: no longer responds to ICMP. > > $ mtr -rwc 1 2600:: > Start: 2024-04-06T10:53:41+0100 >

2600:: No longer pings

2024-04-06 Thread Ben Cartwright-Cox via NANOG
It appears that 2600:: no longer responds to ICMP. $ mtr -rwc 1 2600:: Start: 2024-04-06T10:53:41+0100 HOST: metropolis Loss% 1.|-- lcy02.flat.b621.net 0.0% [...] 6.|-- ldn-b4-link.ip.twelve99.net 0.0% 7.|--

Re: BGP Monitoring

2024-02-27 Thread Ben Cox via NANOG
Aha! That makes sense! I was struggling to find any kind of public data on who runs it, so I assumed whoever was presenting it probably runs / owned it On Tue, Feb 27, 2024, 08:20 Fearghas Mckay wrote: > > > On 27 Feb 2024, at 01:28, Ben Cox via NANOG wrote: > > I believe Packe

Re: BGP Monitoring

2024-02-26 Thread Ben Cox via NANOG
I believe PacketVis is Massimo Candela , based on https://ripe85.ripe.net/archives/video/987/ On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 at 18:24, Denis Fondras via NANOG wrote: > > Le Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 07:12:57PM +0100, Job Snijders via NANOG a écrit : > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 05:41:12PM +, Ray Orsini via

Re: BGP Monitoring

2024-02-26 Thread Ben Cox via NANOG
[Full Disclosure, the bgp.tools guy will of course tell you to use bgp.tools] Unsure what the etiquette for self promotion is on this mailing list, but I would happily recommend bgp.tools (the service I run). It supports the development of the BGP toolkit at the same time. For myself (since I

Re: Any clue as to when bgp.he.net will be back?

2024-01-23 Thread Ben Cox via NANOG
I spoke with someone at Mimecast and we concluded the the customer of mimecast has setup that rule (likely the whole of *.tools), since they could not find anything on there end that didnt like bgp.tools On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 10:54 PM Christopher Hawker wrote: > > It'd be interesting to know

Re: Any clue as to when bgp.he.net will be back?

2024-01-16 Thread Ben Cox via NANOG
Fixed, cheers for pointing that logical error out :) $ git show commit 689bca929c5d3a27e6aa4f12195bf3b81b3be719 (HEAD -> master) Author: Ben Cartwright-Cox Date: Tue Jan 16 23:17:08 2024 + clarify pricing for a nanog person https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2024-Janu

Re: {Disarmed} RE: IPv4 address block

2024-01-08 Thread Ben Cox via NANOG
Ah, apologies on my part Tony, it did look at lot like a signature block and thus a amusing sock puppet SNAFU On Mon, Jan 8, 2024, 20:54 Tony Wicks wrote: > No, Eddies is NOT me, I included his details to be helpful to the OP…. > > > > > > *From:* Ben Cox > *Sent:* Tu

Re: IPv4 address block

2024-01-08 Thread Ben Cox via NANOG
Hey Tony/Eddie I think your choice of email signature may have given away the game a little bit here Regards Ben Cartwright-Cox On Mon, Jan 8, 2024, 20:00 Tony Wicks wrote: > I have used Eddie at iptrading several times over the yearsfor IP block > purchases and never had this sort of

Re: BGP hijack?

2023-10-23 Thread Ben Cox via NANOG
Hey everybody, I run bgp.tools, (And had a extremely busy alerting engine for a few minutes) >From what bgp.tools can see it seems like they had a private asn in the path like so ``` 2027 422027 6696 6939 42615 212232 ``` This can be valid for a number of reasons, ( they might have been

Re: Cogent Abuse - Bogus Propagation of ASN 36471

2023-07-20 Thread Ben Cox via NANOG
Can you confirm what you mean by compromised here? The prefixes currently (as far as I can see from bgp.tools) originated are: Prefix Description 209.255.244.0/24 Windstream Communications LLC 209.255.245.0/24 CONSOLIDATED TECHNOLOGIES INC 325 HUDSON 209.255.246.0/24 Windstream

Re: Google Speed Test

2022-12-28 Thread Ben Cox via NANOG
Search "speed test" and Google search had one built in On Wed, 28 Dec 2022, 16:43 Mike Hammett, wrote: > Does AS15169 have a speed test? It would be nice to gauge the capacity to > a particular network that's something laypeople could do. I could host > something in GCP myself, but cloud is

Re: What's going on with AS147028?

2022-07-13 Thread Ben Cox via NANOG
I run bgp.tools (with it's own route collectors, that people should totally feed :) https://bgp.tools/kb/setup-sessions ) but I feel like I can add some insight here to what I think is happening with AS147028. I've had multiple issues with networks feeding me that also are on LL-IX

Re: MAP-T (was: Re: V6 still not supported)

2022-03-31 Thread Ben Plimpton
/TNSR - https://docs.netgate.com/tnsr/en/latest/map/index.html Thx, Ben > On Mar 25, 2022, at 3:44 PM, Rajiv Asati (rajiva) via NANOG > wrote: > > FWIW, MAP has been deployed by few operators (in at least 3 continents that I > am aware of). > > Charter communications

Re: Useful ping targets for end-users?

2022-01-12 Thread Ben Arblaster
> Does anyone curate a list of “useful” ICMP responders that are at least > kinda-sorta reliable/expected to continue responding? RIPE Atlas anchors are useful for this kind of thing https://atlas.ripe.net/anchors/list/ -- Ben Arblaster

Re: Theorical question about cyclic dependency in IRR filtering

2021-11-30 Thread Ben Maddison via NANOG
bject covering the source DB address space is missed during a connectivity outage, and that missed change causes the outage to become persistent. However, I think that is fairly contrived. I have certainly never seen it in practise. Cheers, Ben signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: What are best practices for RPKI ROV in transit networks....

2021-10-29 Thread Ben Maddison via NANOG
on of local exceptions. My understanding from colleagues at other operators is that their experience has been similar. As always, your experience may be different, so it is wise to be prepared. Cheers, Ben signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ROA mirror to IRR?

2021-10-27 Thread Ben Maddison via NANOG
or several years now, and it seems to be a good middle ground. Cheers, Ben signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: IRR for IX peers

2021-10-04 Thread Ben Maddison via NANOG
Hi Randy, On 10/04, Randy Bush wrote: > hi ben, > > a SIX peer's customer could be the feed to RIS > Sure, but how do you describe the policy between your peer and their customer in your aut-num?! That's not a thing. Cheers, Ben signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: IRR for IX peers

2021-10-04 Thread Ben Maddison via NANOG
many reasons you don't see us on route-servers. > what are others in this space doing? > Mostly, asking people fill-in peeringdb records, and ignoring import/export attributes entirely. However we use roughly the above scheme, just in case someone is reading. Cheers, Ben signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: "Tactical" /24 announcements

2021-08-19 Thread Ben Maddison via NANOG
Hi David, On 08/19, David Bass wrote: > Ben, > > Yes, sorry. > > Pulling/pushing the config data to a server, and then managing it there in > addition to on the box. Like, if I want to run some reports to see how > many PL are defined on each box, it’s easier to

Re: "Tactical" /24 announcements

2021-08-19 Thread Ben Maddison via NANOG
In JUNOS that's the ephemeral DBs, in EOS they call it "URL based import" for as-path and prefix lists. If ArcOS doesn't already have something similar, I'd get it on the list. Cheers, Ben signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: "Tactical" /24 announcements

2021-08-19 Thread Ben Maddison via NANOG
e what you mean by "exporting and managing this data outside". Would you elaborate? Cheers, Ben signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: PeerinDB refuses to register certain networks [was: Setting sensible max-prefix limits]

2021-08-19 Thread Ben Maddison via NANOG
ve peers from finding contacts to ask and sending emails, etc. I'd argue this is in scope for PDB. But perhaps there was additional context to the original decision that I'm missing? Cheers, Ben signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: "Tactical" /24 announcements

2021-08-17 Thread Ben Maddison via NANOG
com/wolcomm/eos-prefix-list-agent. Pull-requests welcomed ;-) I'm in the middle of writing the equivalent tool for junos at the moment. Assuming that it works, we'll open source that too. HTH, Ben signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Zayo Contact

2021-07-16 Thread Ben Cox via NANOG
Just in case - how are you checking they are announced? Is there a chance they are stuck routes as documented (self blog post) here ( https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-stuck-routes-tcp-zero-window ) ? On Fri, 16 Jul 2021, 01:20 Dave Browning, wrote: > Anyone on the list from Zayo NOC who can

Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

2021-02-22 Thread Ben Cannon
You guys build how you want. At 6x7 we are building to prepare for possible climactic shifts. The origin need not be anthropogenic, but that doesn’t look good. “Doing nothing” isn’t really an option, and “doing what republicans want because they say so and they’re my dad” isn’t a good

Re: Famous operational issues

2021-02-21 Thread Ben Cannon
I’m embarrassed to say, I’ve done this. Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ Sent from my iPhone via RFC1149. > On Feb 19, 2021, at 12:55

Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

2021-02-17 Thread Ben Cannon
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/energy/2021/02/16/electricity-retailer-griddys-unusual-plea-to-texas-customers-leave-now-before-you-get-a-big-bill/ The power market in Texas has utterly failed. Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net "The only

Re: Half Fibre Pair

2021-01-26 Thread Ben Cannon
I’d internet that to be a really weird way to describe a single strand as well, but I could see a confused person asserting it’s 44 out of 88 wavelengths? I’ve never heard that. Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end

Re: Uganda Communications Commission shutdown order

2021-01-18 Thread Ben Cannon
How much longer before this is declared a crime against humanity? I give it 10 yrs Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ Sent from my

Re: DoNotPay Spam?

2021-01-13 Thread Ben Cannon
FYI geek team I received it too. Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ Sent from my iPhone via RFC1149. > On Jan 13, 2021, at 4:28 PM, Sabri

Re: Parler

2021-01-11 Thread Ben Cannon
We’re straying pretty far into OT here but they do run a network - Trump banning TikTok because they hurt his feelings would be Stalinist. Twitter banning Trump for TOD violations is the Free Market speaking. It’s pretty fundamental to civics, participation society, and sanity in general, to

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Ben Cannon
Yeah that still hits my “fuck directly off” button. Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ Sent from my iPhone via RFC1149. > On Jan 10,

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Ben Cannon
I’m not sure either Joe. I am a staunch proponent of free expression, but I remember a time when you could just. Totally trust an e-mail header. Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications

Re: Show NOCs: OIG report: Should you charge extra for NOC tours?

2021-01-07 Thread Ben Cannon
I’m lucky enough to give hundreds of people their literal first look at “the internet” - and I can tell you, in many cases, it blows their minds. Honestly watching people’s eyes light up when they see all this, or hold a bare glass optical fiber in their hand, has got to be one of the very

Re: Are the days of the showpiece NOC office display gone forever?

2020-12-30 Thread Ben Cannon
It’d be real interesting to open-source this somehow, produce a useable open or quasi open (maybe curated somehow) reputation score for email. Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-29 Thread Ben Cannon
> Again, it seems nice to be able to do this but most companies don't have idle > resources sitting around to give away things for free. We have zero extra > time to work for free. We’re a tiny company and I already have a department dedicated to giving - really we do have some often highly

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-28 Thread Ben Cannon
We are doing a similar project in Marin county - regardless of ability to pay. If I can make it pencil, not only why not, but shouldn’t we all? Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications

10g residential CPE

2020-12-24 Thread Ben Cannon
Anyone else doing it? Do you like your gear? Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ Sent from my iPhone via RFC1149.

Re: Are the days of the showpiece NOC office display gone forever?

2020-12-17 Thread Ben Cannon
I’ve learned that the secret is automation + intelligent trained and empowered staff. Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ Sent from my

Re: The Real AI Threat?

2020-12-09 Thread Ben Cannon
To follow - Siri couldn’t figure out how to add an entry to my calendar today. I am yet to be afraid. Although the google bot that placed a call to book a haircut was impressive. Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end

Re: 100G over 100 km of dark fiber

2020-10-30 Thread Ben Cannon
You could break this into 10x 10g coherent lanes, but you’re going to end up back close to coherent 100g prices. You’re at the threshold distance where you’re past all the short range tech and are seriously pushing it - whereas the 100g coherent tech is just taking off. How important is this

Re: Centurylink having a bad morning?

2020-08-31 Thread Ben Cannon
We’re bailing out a customer in exactly this same boat as we speak. There are so many. Ms. Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ > On Aug 31,

RE: Centurylink having a bad morning?

2020-08-30 Thread Ben Russell
One of my legacy L3 peers is only advertising 498174 prefixes. Very strange. Ben Russell  -Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of Drew Weaver Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2020 7:45 AM To: 'Mel Beckman' Cc: 'nanog@nanog.org' Subject: RE: Centurylink having a bad morning? Can't

Re: Telecom billing in 2020

2020-08-18 Thread Ben Cannon
I’ll just write something in FORTRAN real quick…. :) -Ben Ms. Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ > On

Telecom billing in 2020

2020-08-17 Thread Ben Cannon
If you had to clean-sheet a CLEC today, what would you base it on? (Must do telco compliant billing, CRM is a bonus) and why? Ms. Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.”

GTT contact for ipv6 issue

2020-08-10 Thread Ben Cannon
We have a service affecting issue and conventional channels are stymied.. Could a compassionate network engineer reach out off-list re #5339907 please? Thanks! -Ben Ms. Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> "The

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

2020-07-21 Thread Ben Cannon
I come from the “we’ve had SDN for years, it’s called L2VPN” but I guess the rest of the world hasn’t been a carrier for 26yrs either. -Ben Ms. Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> "The only fully end-to-end e

Re: Quality of the internet

2020-06-18 Thread Ben Cannon
For safety! Reminds me of bonding channels in an ISDN line. We had to keep them all apart. For their own protection. -Ben > On Jun 18, 2020, at 6:18 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: > >  > >> On 18/Jun/20 14:49, Bill Woodcock wrote: >> >> What time was that? >

... you kicked out the patch cable (or, major global internet outages)

2020-06-15 Thread Ben Cannon
https://downdetector.com/ ...you kicked out a patch cable. (Nods to BOFH) In all seriousness, looks major... Long-haul cut? Did we lose a pie or COs? -Ben

Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-26 Thread Ben
Agree 1000% with the sentiments expressed by Mike. Unfortunately despite much research I’ve been unable to find a suitable replacement vendor. All the other vendors seem to want to ram cloud-management down your throat which I absolutely do not want. My network, my control, not under the

Re: An appeal for more bandwidth to the Internet Archive

2020-05-13 Thread Ben Cannon
They are, and I’ve got dark fiber in there. We’ve reached out... -Ben Ms. Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ

Re: An appeal for more bandwidth to the Internet Archive

2020-05-13 Thread Ben Cannon
We can absolutely help and will gladly donate. I’ll reach out to Joah, anyone else want to coordinate? -Ben Ms. Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommuni

Fiber across SF Bay

2020-05-02 Thread Ben Cannon
Does anyone have recommendations for dark fiber or a full 432 across the SF bay bridge? -Ben

Re: Are underground utility markers essential workers?

2020-04-21 Thread Ben Cannon
In the scope and performance of their duties includes any work involving essential telecommunications expansion or restoration - then yes. And agreed. They save lives. Period. Call before you dig. Please. -Ben Ms. Benjamin PD Cannon, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO b...@6by7

Re: 24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ

2020-04-17 Thread Ben Cannon
Rich. I am truly sorry.  also this was great thank you. -Ben > On Apr 17, 2020, at 6:09 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > > (since it's Friday and we're all stressed) > > I can't believe that out of everything I wrote that we're going to discuss > the semantics of this, but the

Re: 24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ

2020-04-16 Thread Ben Cannon
Honestly, sometimes I include the "Three-Hundred Sixty-Five and a Quarter” on conference calls. Side note: What you describe is in-fact part of how languages change and evolve. (over time, sufficiently common incorrect use becomes. well. correct.) -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x

24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ

2020-04-15 Thread Ben Cannon
swear I’ve been hearing it as a term of art in the industry for 20 years.Google has 1.42m results for 24x7x365 - but 72mil for 24x7. Should I change my website or what? Thanks for indulging me :) -Ben. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6

Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ

2020-04-15 Thread Ben Cannon
company that does real things. -Ben > On Apr 13, 2020, at 10:46 AM, Kushal R. wrote: > >  > All abuse reports that we receive are dealt within 48 business hours. As far > as that tweet is concerned, it’s pending for 16 days because they have been > blocked from sending

Re: Command and Control Centres | COVID-19

2020-04-06 Thread Ben Cannon
- even before this. So it’s really only the very sensitive ops that are even noticing. -Ben > On Apr 6, 2020, at 7:51 AM, Scott E. MacKenzie wrote: > > All, > > This question has arisen and I was wondering if I could request some > feedback from the community. We operate

Re: New Jersey dark fiber

2020-03-31 Thread Ben Cannon
Love it, great resource Mehmet! -Ben > On Mar 31, 2020, at 8:29 AM, Mehmet Akcin wrote: > >  > hi Ben, > > https://live.infrapedia.com - free & open source platform has more than 3 > other alternatives in this area, please take a look. > > new b

New Jersey dark fiber

2020-03-31 Thread Ben Cannon
Zayo and Crown both no-bid it, and crown has the old lighttower network. Are there any other dependable players for dark in south central NJ? -Ben

Re: NTT/AS2914 enabled RPKI OV 'invalid = reject' EBGP policies

2020-03-31 Thread Ben Maddison via NANOG
s with Cisco regarding the shocking brokenness in classic and XE. Aside from some well meaning sounding email, crickets. I very much hope, for the sake of the interwebs at large, that you have more luck than me. We're are falling back to plan B, aka truck-roll. Cheers, Ben

Re: rack rails

2020-03-30 Thread Ben Cannon
Many carriers bring their own seismic-rated 2-post solutions (think ILECs and some of the bigger CLECs) and continue to specify that to this day. However all new datacenters we build from the ground up, as much as possible, are individual locking 4-post cabs for every application. -Ben. -Ben Canno

Re: CISA critical infrastructure letters

2020-03-25 Thread Ben Cannon
during this emergency: https://www.caloes.ca.gov/cal-oes-divisions/administrative-services/disaster-service-worker-volunteer-program -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> > On Mar 25, 2020, at 11:36 AM, Tim Požár wrote: > > The

California full facilities CLEC

2020-03-23 Thread Ben Cannon
Need a small yet large COVID traffic load related favor from a California Full-Facilities CLEC/CLC, pls contact me off list if you can help. Connecting at-risk citizens. -Ben

Re: DHS letters for fuel and facility access

2020-03-18 Thread Ben Cannon
even. -Ben > On Mar 18, 2020, at 9:58 AM, Paul Nash wrote: > > You just have to make sure that you test the right thing. > > In a former life I was an electrical engineer. My first job was with a > consulting engineering firm; out biggest customer was the biggest supermarket

Re: DHS letters for fuel and facility access

2020-03-16 Thread Ben Cannon
It’s true, we’re all here, and we’re standing by. Also if anyone on NANOG needs something we can do, please reach out to me via email and I will make it happen. You’re not alone during times of crisis. -Ben. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6

Re: DHS letters for fuel and facility access

2020-03-16 Thread Ben Cannon
We (Verizon not me) lost a central office during 9/11 because it ran out of fuel - the tankers were staged but we’re not allowed to enter Manhattan. This clears that pathway for us now, and it’s fairly standard protocol since. -Ben > On Mar 16, 2020, at 1:20 PM, Sean Donelan wr

Re: China’s Slow Transnational Network

2020-03-16 Thread Ben Cannon
oops. missed a spot. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> > On Mar 2, 2020, at 2:36 PM, David Burns wrote: > > Did you compare CERNET with commodity networks? (My anecdotal observations > from a couple years ago

Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks

2020-03-13 Thread Ben Cannon
Oh they do, we just don’t like having to explain to our customers anything other than “we’ve fixed it before you called.” I hate downtime. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> > On Mar 12, 2020, at 12:04 PM, Fletcher Kit

Re: AT is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

2020-03-13 Thread Ben Cannon
Effing. This. -Ben > On Mar 12, 2020, at 11:16 PM, Mark Tinka wrote: > >  > >> On 13/Mar/20 02:02, Clayton Zekelman wrote: >> >> >> >> No they didn't do the right thing. The right thing would have been >> to eliminate

Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks

2020-03-12 Thread Ben Cannon
We’ve already had 1 building delay us access pushing us into an SLA breach due to COVID-19 fuckups. I mean “procedures". -Ben. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> > On Mar 12, 2020, at 10:22 AM, g...@1337.io wro

Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-03-10 Thread Ben Cannon
Akamai and it’s customers do not have all content at all locations, nor is their routing always consistent, however you may be able to reach out to them to level this. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> > On Mar 10, 2020, at 3

Re: China’s Slow Transnational Network

2020-03-02 Thread Ben Cannon
It’s the Government doing mandatory content filtering at the border. Their hardware is either deliberately or accidentally poor-performing. I believe providing limited and throttled external connectivity may be deliberate; think of how that curtails for one thing; streaming video? -Ben

Re: ATT Microcell in Austin, TX

2020-02-18 Thread Ben Cannon
solvable, but we are a ways out still. -Ben > On Feb 18, 2020, at 8:45 AM, sro...@ronan-online.com wrote: > > The feasibility of back hauling power from a central location is almost > zero. Conduit can be direct buried and then fiber shot through it, this would > be almost imp

Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-02-17 Thread Ben Cannon
First non-POTS was an Ascend Pipeline 50. I may even still have it somewhere. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> > On Feb 17, 2020, at 12:07 PM, Brian wrote: > >> On Feb 17, 2020, at 10:38 AM, Gene LeDuc wrote: >

Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-01-28 Thread Ben Cannon
DOWN below 400ns… A friend, being kind of sassy, said recently “Hey Ben, so like when you got the 10g, did you just like, download all of Netflix?” And I had to pause and give a semi serious reply, where I said “Actually no… Because we’ve got a Netflix Openconnect in SF2 that has like 80g

Re: Backup over 4G/LTE

2020-01-28 Thread Ben Cannon
New player in this space is Ubiquiti: https://unifi-lte.ui.com - more suited for branch office applications IMO, but the setup couldn’t be easier.Expect this space to grow dramatically. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> &

Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that (now old guy stuff)

2020-01-28 Thread Ben Cannon
The Civil Engineering version of this is SWER electrical distribution. Single-Wire, Earth-Return. And it’s as crazy in implementation as it sounds now. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> > On Jan 25, 2020, at 8:24 AM, A

Re: Reaching out to Sony NOC, resolving DDoS Issues - Need POC

2020-01-27 Thread Ben Cannon
Transit carriers could work the flows backwards. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> > On Jan 27, 2020, at 4:39 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: > > If someone is being spoofed, they aren't receiving the spoofed packets. How

Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-01-25 Thread Ben Cannon
I mean I blame it on the inadequate capacity of Windstream to handle modern TCP traffic loads - but hey. You know. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> > On Jan 25, 2020, at 11:35 AM, Darin Steffl wrote: > > Shouldn'

Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-01-24 Thread Ben Cannon
I started what became 6x7 with a 64k ISDN line. And 9600 baud modems… in ’93 or so. (I was a child, in Jr High…) -Ben. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> > On Jan 24, 2020, at 3:21 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: > &g

Re: Dual Homed BGP

2020-01-24 Thread Ben Cannon
Honestly, this. Your only real choice is what of 2 pipes to chuck it out of. Full tables vs partial and a default don’t make the process much more intelligent for 1 site dual homed, and as mentioned routing policy will have more influence. -Ben > On Jan 24, 2020, at 8:47 AM, Mel Beck

Re: 5G roadblock: labor

2020-01-20 Thread Ben Cannon
is is just another thing to inspect > for and forcibly disable. > You realize that eventually your neighbors houses will all be wired and they’ll be able to get yours by differentiating the signals. I’m not even half kidding. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net>

Re: breakout

2020-01-08 Thread Ben Cannon
This is another good way to go, make sure you have a single mode handoff from the IX (you should, but double check this, orange fiber and yellow fiber are very different physically in size and generally not compatible. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <m

Re: breakout

2020-01-08 Thread Ben Cannon
) This cable won’t work for you without an intermediate switch (bad) because they both end in male SFP plug interface. However, if you just need to use 10g of the 40g port, you can do it much cheaper and easier with just this part: https://www.fs.com/products/72582.html -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks

Re: 5G roadblock: labor

2020-01-02 Thread Ben Cannon
ion issues. However the laws of physics will make even 2.4 and especially 5Ghz behave more like light than “radio” we are familiar with from lower frequency transmission. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> > On Jan 2, 2020, at

Re: 5G roadblock: labor

2020-01-02 Thread Ben Cannon
, but we will more than double the cell site count (400k to 1.2m) in the next 5 years and it will be small cells/DAS mostly. Those aren’t towers in the conventional sense. -Ben. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> > On Jan 2,

Re: 5G roadblock: labor

2019-12-30 Thread Ben Cannon
5g protocol will of course eventually replace LTE simply because it makes better use of the real asset, spectrum. 5G is just a protocol it changes dramatically depending on spectrum. -Ben > On Dec 30, 2019, at 12:54 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: > >  > I mean it's inevitable that 5G

Re: power to the internet

2019-12-28 Thread Ben Cannon
-48VDC is extremely reliable, we have also never had a power incursion on our DC plant. Any of them. I’m not sure I’d consider it cheap, but it’s not horrifying expensive and it *works* when you deploy enough of it in a 2 or 3N fashion. -Ben > On Dec 28, 2019, at 9:04 AM, Baldur Nordd

Re: power to the internet

2019-12-26 Thread Ben Cannon
You sound smart, but did you research any of this or just post? -Ben. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> > On Dec 26, 2019, at 2:31 AM, Joe Maimon wrote: > > Unless telecom infrastructure has been diligently changing

Re: power to the internet

2019-12-26 Thread Ben Cannon
or two) of battery on your telecom equipment. All of it. Everywhere. Comcast is the worst about this, they never replace and often don’t even place batteries in their RTs at all - and they are going to get fined over it mark my words. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@

Re: BGP/dDos gift from NIST

2019-12-25 Thread Ben Cannon
I’m not getting my AS number tattooed on my wrist for a “little” i in Internet. Lol. -Ben > On Dec 25, 2019, at 10:34 AM, Royce Williams wrote: > >  >> On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 1:15 AM william manning >> wrote: > >> https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPu

Re: Energy Efficiency - Data Centers

2019-12-18 Thread Ben Cannon
datacenters. -Ben. -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net <mailto:b...@6by7.net> > On Dec 18, 2019, at 11:06 AM, Rod Beck > wrote: > > I was reasoning from the analogy that an incandescent bulb is less efficient > than a LED bulb because more it g

Re: End to End testing

2019-12-12 Thread Ben Bartsch
+1 for Accedian If you're looking for more of a homemade solution, I've used the perfSONAR software suite on some cheap-ish servers running CentOS for 10gig testing. It's highly configurable. I had it set up to do scheduled tests so we could see how the network behaved over time. The results

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