Re: Famous operational issues

2021-02-16 Thread Justin Streiner
Would this also extend to intentional actions that may have had unintended consequences, such as provider A intentionally de-peering provider B, or the monopoly telco for $country cutting itself off from the rest of the global Internet for various reasons (technical, political, or otherwise)? That

Re: Famous operational issues

2021-02-23 Thread Justin Streiner
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 5:38 PM Warren Kumari wrote: > > 2: A somewhat similar thing would happen with the Ascend TNT Max, which > had side-to-side airflow. These were dial termination boxes, and so people > would install racks and racks of them. The first one would draw in cool air > on the left

Re: Famous operational issues

2021-02-23 Thread Justin Streiner
Beyond the widespread outages, I have so many personal war stories that it's hard to pick a favorite. My first job out of college in the mid-late 90s was at an ISP in Pittsburgh that I joined pretty early in its existence, and everyone did a bit of everything. I was hired to do sysadmin stuff, net

Re: Famous operational issues

2021-02-23 Thread Justin Streiner
An interesting sub-thread to this could be: Have you ever unintentionally crashed a device by running a perfectly innocuous command? 1. Crashed a 6500/Sup2 by typing "show ip dhcp binding". 2. "clear interface XXX" on a Nexus 7K triggered a cascading/undocument Sev1 bug that caused two linecards t

Re: Microsoft problems...

2021-03-15 Thread Justin Streiner
Can you be a bit more specific regarding what you're seeing or not seeing? Are you reaching MS through IP transit/peer connections, or are you having issues reaching MS cloud services over ExpressRoute circuits? Thank you jms On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 4:04 PM wrote: > Anyone else noticing major

Re: FreeBSD's ping Integrates IPv6

2021-07-04 Thread Justin Streiner
I think he meant that the underlying OS on lots of network gear is either some variant of Linux or BSD. Thank you jms On Sun, Jul 4, 2021, 11:40 Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 7/4/21 17:15, Bjørn Mork wrote: > > > I seriously doubt that. You're just not aware of it. > > I think I'd know if I've ru

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-04 Thread Justin Streiner
On Sat, Sep 4, 2021, 22:49 John Levine wrote: > I have asked my ISP about IPv6 and their answer is that that they're not > opposed to > it but since I am the only person who has asked for it, it's quite low on > the list > of things to do. > Sounds like a consulting opportunity :) Thank you jms

Re: Scheduled outage -- Nationwide no driver license updates this weekend

2023-03-01 Thread Justin Streiner
Sounds like either the National Driver Register or NHTSA is single-homed to Verizon, or the state DMVs each have a WAN circuit of some sort through Verizon to where the National Driver Register system physically lives. If it's the latter, it sounds like a job that could be handled much more effect

Windstream/Kinetic OSP assistance/clie sought

2023-04-22 Thread Justin Streiner
Some of my family recently moved to an area of North Carolina where high-speed residential Internet connectivity options seem to be very limited. Outside of the options below, the only thing they're able to get is satellite Internet service, and the performance has been very poor They moved into a

Re: Windstream/Kinetic OSP assistance/clie sought

2023-04-22 Thread Justin Streiner
ps://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows > > > > *From: *Justin Streiner > *Sent: *Saturday, April 22, 2023 10:46 PM > *To: *NANOG > *Subject: *Windstream/Kinetic OSP assistance/clie sought > > > > Some of my family recently moved to an area of

Re: Aptum refuses to SWIP

2023-05-09 Thread Justin Streiner
When I worked for a local/regional ISP in the late 90s/early 00s, we initially SWIP'd assignments for business customers and did generic assignments for things like dial-up address pools or NAT front-end ranges for residential customers, but provided more detailed information for business customers

Re: Do ISP's collect and analyze traffic of users?

2023-05-19 Thread Justin Streiner
There are already so many different ways that organizations can find out all sorts of information about individual users, as others have noted (social media interactions, mobile location/GPS data, call/text history, interactions with specific sites, etc), that there probably isn't much incentive fo

Re: Do ISP's collect and analyze traffic of users?

2023-05-19 Thread Justin Streiner
On 19/05/2023 15:27, Justin Streiner wrote: > > It amazes me how people can focus on Netflow metadata and ignore things > like Microsoft telemetry data from every Windows box, or ignore the > massive amount of html cookies that are traded by companies or how > almost every corporat

Re: Your input sought on PeeringDB's Network Type field

2023-06-14 Thread Justin Streiner
Leo: The survey might also want to include response options along the lines of: "Don't know / N/A". Thank you jms On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 12:18 PM Leo Vegoda wrote: > Hi, > > PeeringDB's Product Committee wants your input on whether the Network > Type field is useful. Should it go? Should it

Re: Outside plant - prewire customer demarc preference

2023-12-08 Thread Justin Streiner
We just built a new house in 2021. The builder ran 2" schedule 40 from the side of the house out to the distribution point in front of my neighbor's house. I didn't specify 2" - that's what the builder ran. A portion of that run must have existed before construction because no one had to tear up

Re: IPv6 uptake (was: The Reg does 240/4)

2024-02-15 Thread Justin Streiner
The Internet edge and core portion of deploying IPv6 - dual-stack or otherwise - is fairly easy. I led efforts to do this at a large .edu starting in 2010/11. The biggest hurdles are/were/might still be: 1. Coming up with a good address plan that will do what you want and scale as needed. It shou

Re: IPv6 uptake (was: The Reg does 240/4)

2024-02-17 Thread Justin Streiner
We went pretty deep into the weeds on NAT in this thread - far deeper than I expected ;) Getting back to the recently revised topic of this thread - IPv6 uptake - what have peoples' experiences been related to crafting sane v6 firewall rulesets in recent products from the major firewall players (P

Re: S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge

2021-10-28 Thread Justin Streiner
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 3:41 PM Matthew Walster wrote: The user initiates the connection to the CDN. The user is paying for a level of access to the internet via the BT network, with varying tiers of speed at particular costs. They are advertised as "Unlimited broadband: With no data caps or downl

Re: WKBI #586, Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public

2021-11-18 Thread Justin Streiner
The proposals I've seen all seem to deliver minimal benefit for the massive lift (technical, administrative, political, etc) involved to keep IPv4 alive a little longer. Makes about as much sense as trying to destabilize US currency by counterfeiting pennies. Thank you jms On Thu, Nov 18, 2021

Re: home router battery backup

2022-01-12 Thread Justin Streiner
I'm one of the atypical users, when compared to the population at large, but probably in line for this audience. Critical gear is on a transfer switch and both inputs to that come from UPSs that are on separate circuits. Less critical gear is fed from one UPS or the other to balance the load and a

Re: are underwater routers a thing?

2022-03-17 Thread Justin Streiner
High voltage DC from landing stations to the underwater amps and submarine branching units. jms On Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 22:46 Karl Auer wrote: > On Thu, 2022-03-17 at 21:26 -0500, Jerry Cloe wrote: > > First thing that comes to mind is power, how would you power them? > > Hydroelectricity (or wav

Re: Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

2022-03-27 Thread Justin Streiner
Abe: To your first point about denying that anyone is being stopped from working on IPv4, I'm referring to users being able to communicate via IPv4. I have seen no evidence of that. I'm not familiar with the process of submitting ideas to IETF, so I'll leave that for others who are more knowledg

Re: Congrats to AS701

2022-06-13 Thread Justin Streiner
I might call Verizon and ask about v6 availability as I periodically do. I'll check if I see anything different on my gear later today. I have a GPON business service with static IPv4 at one location and an older BPON business service with static IPv4 in another location. Thank you jms On Mon, J

Reporting Comcast outside plant issues?

2022-06-26 Thread Justin Streiner
Does anyone here have a contact at Comcast for reporting outside plant issues that are not (at the moment) service-affecting? I am not a Comcast customer, and they make it nearly impossible for non-customers to reach them unless you're signing up for service. There is a long coax span (2-300 feett

Re: Reporting Comcast outside plant issues?

2022-06-27 Thread Justin Streiner
Thank you to everyone who responded off-list. I was able to get a repair ticket opened with Comcast and they will be dispatching a crew to take a look. Thank you jms On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 10:27 PM Justin Streiner wrote: > Does anyone here have a contact at Comcast for reporting outs

Re: Why are ad networks so slow with IPv6?

2022-07-11 Thread Justin Streiner
Is your experience the same if you run a browser-based ad blocker or something external like Pi-hole? I have Fios, but Verizon hasn't rolled v6 out here that I can see. My v6 traffic runs over a tunnel to Hurricane Electric, and I haven't noticed any unusually slow load times for the ads that mak

Re: RIPE our of IPv4

2019-11-30 Thread Justin Streiner
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 11:46 AM Ca By wrote: > > That said, google see nearly 40% of their traffic on ipv6 in the usa , > growth trend looks strong > > https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html > > And > > Comcast (71%), Charter (52%), VZ (85%), ATT (60 and 78%) , and T-Mobile > (95%

Re: RIPE our of IPv4

2019-12-01 Thread Justin Streiner
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 7:58 PM Brandon Martin wrote: > Does Verizon still own/manage ANY of their Fios territories? I thought it > was all sold off to Frontier at this point. It certainly all is, along > with all their legacy LEC territories not having FTTx and having some form > of DSL, aroun

Re: IPv4 Mismanagement

2020-10-02 Thread Justin Streiner
I suspect many providers don't have good business processes for reclaiming IP space that was assigned to customers who have either disconnected or voluntarily returned the space. The provider I started out with in the mid/late 90s bootstrapped itself with IP space from MCI (now, CenturyLink... I t

Re: IPv4 Mismanagement

2020-10-05 Thread Justin Streiner
It is a thankless task, but something that becomes increasingly important as $provider starts to run low on IPv4 space to assign to customers. Thank you jms On Mon, Oct 5, 2020, 20:19 Tom Hill wrote: > On 04/10/2020 02:17, Wayne Bouchard wrote: > > Groups that have such things I can only presum

Re: IPv6 Thought Experiment

2019-10-02 Thread Justin Streiner
I suspect that even if there was an entity with the reach to impose such a tax, people will resort to deploying CGN more, to hide their IPv4 usage to the extent possible. That's time, money, and effort taken away from moving to IPv6. You might also find that many taxed organizations will simply i

Re: Fast backbone to NA from Asia

2024-05-21 Thread Justin Streiner
What do you mean by "really fast transit"? Are you referring to round-trip latency? If so, what sort of latency target are you looking to hit? Where in North America are you trying to reach, using which providers? If the networks in North America and Asia are multihomed, that provides some level o