Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-14 Thread Nikolay Shopik
On 13/10/11 19:56, Jared Mauch wrote: Rebuilding this trust can take some time. I do expect that with the iMessage stuff that was released yesterday (SMS/MMSoIP to email/phone#) many more companies will shift to using that instead as the value of BBM is decreased. I also wonder what the

RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-14 Thread Leigh Porter
-Original Message- From: Nikolay Shopik [mailto:sho...@inblock.ru] Sent: 14 October 2011 10:17 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide On 13/10/11 19:56, Jared Mauch wrote: Rebuilding this trust can take some time. I do expect

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-14 Thread Martin Millnert
Jared, On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net wrote: Rebuilding this trust can take some time.  I do expect that with the iMessage stuff that was released yesterday (SMS/MMSoIP to email/phone#) many more companies will shift to using that instead as the value of

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-14 Thread Carlos Alcantar
What I'm not digging about the entire iMessage I turned off my iMessage option and someone else here in the office was trying to send me a txt. From the looks of it the iPhone does not let you pick between wanting to send an iMessage or txt I could be wrong, but his phone was forcing iMessage and

RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-13 Thread Jamie Bowden
: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 6:06 PM To: Phil Regnauld Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide On 2011-10-12, at 18:02, Phil Regnauld wrote: Joe Abley (jabley) writes: On 2011-10-12, at 13:05, Leigh Porter wrote: Email on my iPhone

RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-13 Thread Matthew Huff
. -Original Message- From: Jamie Bowden [mailto:ja...@photon.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 7:36 AM To: Joe Abley Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide You are correct. The BES uses PSKs to talk to RIM's servers, which

RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-13 Thread Erik Soosalu
: Thursday, October 13, 2011 8:44 AM To: 'Jamie Bowden'; 'Joe Abley' Cc: 'nanog@nanog.org' Subject: RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide It's called Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync :) It works with Android, Apple and Microsoft devices. I believe both Lotus and Groupwise have

RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-13 Thread Blake T. Pfankuch
- From: Matthew Huff [mailto:mh...@ox.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 6:44 AM To: 'Jamie Bowden'; 'Joe Abley' Cc: 'nanog@nanog.org' Subject: RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide It's called Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync :) It works with Android, Apple and Microsoft

RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-13 Thread Pierce Lynch
...@pfankuch.me] Sent: 13 October 2011 14:08 To: Matthew Huff; 'Jamie Bowden'; 'Joe Abley' Cc: 'nanog@nanog.org' Subject: RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide Agreed. Had a customer during the timeframe of this week ditch 90 blackberries for iPhone/android devices. He

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-13 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Jamie Bowden ja...@photon.com Someday either Google or Apple will get off their rear ends and roll out an end to end encrypted service that plugs into corporate email/calendar/workgroup services and we can all gladly toss these horrid little devices in the

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-13 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Jamie Bowden ja...@photon.com Someday either Google or Apple will get off their rear ends and roll out an end to end encrypted service that plugs into corporate email/calendar/workgroup

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-13 Thread Jared Mauch
On Oct 13, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: It's possible that the 'encryption' comment from Jamie is really about encrypting the actual device... which I believe Android[0] will do, I don't know if idevices do though. I think the big problem is that rev1 of iDevice did not

RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-13 Thread Jamie Bowden
-Original Message- From: Christopher Morrow [mailto:morrowc.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 11:36 AM To: Jay Ashworth Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com

RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-13 Thread Blake T. Pfankuch
T. Pfankuch [mailto:bl...@pfankuch.me] Sent: 13 October 2011 14:08 To: Matthew Huff; 'Jamie Bowden'; 'Joe Abley' Cc: 'nanog@nanog.org' Subject: RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide Agreed. Had a customer during the timeframe of this week ditch 90 blackberries for iPhone

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
: -Original Message- From: Christopher Morrow [mailto:morrowc.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 11:36 AM To: Jay Ashworth Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-13 Thread TR Shaw
: Matthew Huff [mailto:mh...@ox.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 8:44 AM To: 'Jamie Bowden'; 'Joe Abley' Cc: 'nanog@nanog.org' Subject: RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide It's called Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync :) It works with Android, Apple and Microsoft

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-13 Thread Matthew Kaufman
On 10/13/11 3:30 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: In fact, Skype, just as a for instance, is worse on hotel wifi as launching the app on a laptop makes you a middle node for some conversations. Per the Skype IT administrator guide, a Skype node will not become a supernode unless it has a

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.)

2011-10-12 Thread andrew.wallace
...@outages.org Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 7:32 PM Subject: Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.) And continues: “RIM'S SERVICE OUTAGE CONTINUES INTO DAY 2” http://www.channelstv.com/global/news_details.php?nid=29652cat=Politics   Frank

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.)

2011-10-12 Thread -Hammer-
-spread-to-u.s-and-canada/ Andrew From: Frank Bulkfrnk...@iname.com To: outa...@outages.org Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 7:32 PM Subject: Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.) And continues: “RIM'S SERVICE

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.)

2011-10-12 Thread Andrew Mulholland
...@outages.org Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 7:32 PM Subject: Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.) And continues: “RIM'S SERVICE OUTAGE CONTINUES INTO DAY 2” http://www.channelstv.com/global/news_details.php?nid=29652cat=Politics Frank

RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.)

2011-10-12 Thread Paul Stewart
: Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.) Guys the outage has moved to U.S and Canada, I think we need to look at this perhaps being sabotage. http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20119163-266/blackberry-service-issues-spread-to-u.s-and-canada/ Andrew

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-12 Thread Ben Albee
Our blackberry service with Us Cellular in Missouri started having issues about 8am this morning.

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.)

2011-10-12 Thread Joel jaeggli
, October 10, 2011 2:52 PM To: frnk...@iname.com Cc: outa...@outages.org Subject: Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.) RIM shares down as BlackBerry outage continues http://www.marketwatch.com/story/rim-shares-down-as-blackberry-outage

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.)

2011-10-12 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:47:13 PDT, andrew.wallace said: Guys the outage has moved to U.S and Canada, I think we need to look at this perhaps being sabotage. It ain't sabotage till you rule out misconfigured router. Consider the actual real-world threat models and their likelyhoods: 1)

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.)

2011-10-12 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:52:02 CDT, -Hammer- said: What kills me is what they have told the public. The lost a core switch. I don't know if they actually mean network switch or not but I'm pretty sure any of us that work on an enterprise environment know how to factor N+1 just for these types

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.)

2011-10-12 Thread Charles Mills
+1 On Oct 12, 2011 11:51 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:52:02 CDT, -Hammer- said: What kills me is what they have told the public. The lost a core switch. I don't know if they actually mean network switch or not but I'm pretty sure any of us that work on an

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.)

2011-10-12 Thread Tayeb Meftah
Idiotberry Envoyé de mon iPhone Le 12 oct. 2011 à 17:55, Charles Mills w3y...@gmail.com a écrit : +1 On Oct 12, 2011 11:51 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:52:02 CDT, -Hammer- said: What kills me is what they have told the public. The lost a core switch. I don't

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.)

2011-10-12 Thread Chris Campbell
I think it raises serious questions about RIM's DR strategy if a DB corruption or switch failure or whatever can cause this much outage. 'Surely' RIM have an second site that is independent of the primary (within reason) that they could of flipped to when they realised the DB was borked. If not

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.)

2011-10-12 Thread -Hammer-
I have been witness to N+1 HUMAN failures but never a N+1 hardware failure or system/design failure that warranted questioning the need for N+2. Usually your N+1 failure is (as already referenced) pasting in a bad config that gets replicated or something like that. Not saying the hardware is

RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.)

2011-10-12 Thread Leigh Porter
-Original Message- From: -Hammer- [mailto:bhmc...@gmail.com] Sent: 12 October 2011 17:10 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.) I have been witness to N+1 HUMAN failures but never a N+1 hardware

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.)

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Gatti
: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.) I have been witness to N+1 HUMAN failures but never a N+1 hardware failure or system/design failure that warranted questioning the need for N+2. Usually your N+1 failure is (as already referenced) pasting

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-12 Thread D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr.
Haven't received an e-mail on my Blackberry since around 4AM, located in Atlanta. On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Ben Albee bal...@orscheln.com wrote: Our blackberry service with Us Cellular in Missouri started having issues about 8am this morning.

RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.)

2011-10-12 Thread Brandt, Ralph
Mechanicsburg PA 17055 -Original Message- From: -Hammer- [mailto:bhmc...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 10:52 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.) What kills me is what they have told the public

RE: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-12 Thread Leigh Porter
-Original Message- From: D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr. [mailto:fo...@lemcoe.com] Sent: 12 October 2011 18:01 Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide Haven't received an e-mail on my Blackberry since around 4AM, located in Atlanta

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-12 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
: -Original Message- From: D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr. [mailto:fo...@lemcoe.com] Sent: 12 October 2011 18:01 Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide Haven't received an e-mail on my Blackberry since around 4AM, located in Atlanta. Email

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.)

2011-10-12 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Valdis Kletnieks valdis.kletni...@vt.edu On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:47:13 PDT, andrew.wallace said: Guys the outage has moved to U.S and Canada, I think we need to look at this perhaps being sabotage. It ain't sabotage till you rule out misconfigured

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide, Egypt affected (not N.A.)

2011-10-12 Thread -Hammer-
... -- Michael Gatti cell.949.735.5612 ekim.it...@gmail.com (UTC-8) On Oct 12, 2011, at 9:12 AM, Leigh Porter wrote: -Original Message- From: -Hammer- [mailto:bhmc...@gmail.com] Sent: 12 October 2011 17:10 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-12 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-10-12, at 13:05, Leigh Porter wrote: Email on my iPhone is working fine.. ;-) The blackberry message service is centralised with a lot of processing intelligence in the core. Messaging services that use the core as a simple transport and shift the processing intelligence to the edge

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-12 Thread Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo
I've always believed that RIM's decision to implement email and other services in this way was a very poor choice that at some point would blow up in their faces. My evil half would say that is was a marketer's rather than an engineer's decision. It's one thing when you are basically the only

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-12 Thread Phil Regnauld
Joe Abley (jabley) writes: On 2011-10-12, at 13:05, Leigh Porter wrote: Email on my iPhone is working fine.. ;-) The blackberry message service is centralised with a lot of processing intelligence in the core. Messaging services that use the core as a simple transport and shift the

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-12 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-10-12, at 18:02, Phil Regnauld wrote: Joe Abley (jabley) writes: On 2011-10-12, at 13:05, Leigh Porter wrote: Email on my iPhone is working fine.. ;-) The blackberry message service is centralised with a lot of processing intelligence in the core. Messaging services that use

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-12 Thread Phil Regnauld
Joe Abley (jabley) writes: This is not the case for corporate customers with dedicated servers, AFAIU. I'm no expert, but my understanding is that at some/most/all traffic between handhelds and a BES, carried from the handheld device through a cellular network, still flows

Re: [outages] News item: Blackberry services down worldwide

2011-10-12 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Phil Regnauld regna...@nsrc.org wrote:        Correct - they need to transit at some point through the RIM servers.         http://www.interworks.com/blogs/wlyles/2010/01/14/why-rim-outage-affects-users-corporate-bes        That's just wrong on so many