Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread Sean Donelan
Due to the hot weather in many parts of the US, there have been various power outages. Some large outages have been caused by severe storms, but mostly the heat has just overloaded power distribution equipment. The good news so far is the Net has shown very few disruptions due to the heat and

Re: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 02:22:26AM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: Due to the hot weather in many parts of the US, there have been various power outages. Some large outages have been caused by severe storms, but mostly the heat has just overloaded power distribution equipment. The good news

Re: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: I'm surprised nobody said anything about the (apparently regional) utility outage in NoVA on Saturday. There have been several around the country. Secaucus, NJ, various cities near Los Angeles and the SF Bay Area, not to mention the power

managing mycompany.{all iso TLD + icann TLD) ?

2006-07-24 Thread Jim Mercer
the company i'm working for has a growing list of domains for the company and its trademarks. i'm finding that i need to deal with a variety of registries and resellers and whatnot in order to keep up. are there resellers out there that have agreements with _most_ TLD registries? i realize

Re: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: Come on Sean, this very few disruptions stuff is below your usual standards. The least you can do to help us pass the time in this damn heat is to recount a few good stories about routers you could scramble eggs on. :) there is a funny

update bogon routes

2006-07-24 Thread Miguel Mata
Hi guys and gals, please update your bogon lists to avoid 190.0.0.0/8 that has been asigned to LACNIC as you can see from: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space http://whois.arin.net/whois/?queryinput=190.5.0.0 We have had some problems of being beaten back. Our space, being

myspace

2006-07-24 Thread Paul Vixie
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5209496.stm

Re: update bogon routes

2006-07-24 Thread Marko Milivojevic
Are there any pingable addresses in that block that we can use to test reachability? Miguel Mata wrote: Hi guys and gals, please update your bogon lists to avoid 190.0.0.0/8 that has been asigned to LACNIC as you can see from: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space

Re: managing mycompany.{all iso TLD + icann TLD) ?

2006-07-24 Thread David Ulevitch
On Jul 24, 2006, at 6:18 AM, Jim Mercer wrote: the company i'm working for has a growing list of domains for the company and its trademarks. are there resellers out there that have agreements with _most_ TLD registries? i realize that i won't likely find a single reseller for all the

Re: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread Frank Coluccio
There are a few tens of thousand families at this time around the country who wouldn't see any humor in this. Local to me, the problems that began eight days ago in Queens NY persist to this day, and the best ETAs now being given by the City and Con Ed is at least two more days. But that's what

SBC Lost of connectivty to Canada?

2006-07-24 Thread Elijah Savage
On our SBC peering links we lost connectivty to our Canadian customers for about 20 minutes. I have escalated this up through SBC but was wondering if anyone on the list as any knowledge of what may have caused the outage. Our Canadian customers come in through different Canadian providers so

Re: SBC Lost of connectivty to Canada?

2006-07-24 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 01:04:47PM -0400, Elijah Savage wrote: On our SBC peering links we lost connectivty to our Canadian customers for about 20 minutes. I have escalated this up through SBC but was wondering if anyone on the list as any knowledge of what may have caused the outage.

Re: managing mycompany.{all iso TLD + icann TLD) ?

2006-07-24 Thread Doug Barton
David Ulevitch wrote: On Jul 24, 2006, at 6:18 AM, Jim Mercer wrote: the company i'm working for has a growing list of domains for the company and its trademarks. are there resellers out there that have agreements with _most_ TLD registries? i realize that i won't likely find a

RE: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread Christian Nielsen
20 - 30 years ago, Air Conditioning in a house was more of a luxury. For us, it was a Swamp Cooler. Most new houses today are built with AC and it is becoming standard practice to install them on older houses. So the load on the system will only get worse if things start to heat up. Back when

RE: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Christian Nielsen wrote: 20 - 30 years ago, Air Conditioning in a house was more of a luxury. For us, it was a Swamp Cooler. Most new houses today are built with AC and it is becoming standard practice to install them on older houses. So the load on the system will only

Re: update bogon routes

2006-07-24 Thread Miguel Mata
yes, you can try 190.5.128.254 On 24 Jul 2006 at 16:25, Marko Milivojevic wrote: Are there any pingable addresses in that block that we can use to test reachability? -- Miguel Mata Gerente de Operaciones Intercom El Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] voz: ++(503) 2278-5068 fax: ++(503)

Re: managing mycompany.{all iso TLD + icann TLD) ?

2006-07-24 Thread Doug Barton
Jay R. Ashworth wrote: Someone's possesion of a domain name contining a string you have a trademark on *in one specific line of business* *does not constitute an infringement of your trademark*. Unless they *use it* *in conjunction with a product or service name* *in the appropriate line

Re: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: Come on Sean, this very few disruptions stuff is below your usual standards. The least you can do to help us pass the time in this damn heat is to recount a few good stories about routers you

Re: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread Jim Popovitch
Robert E.Seastrom wrote: Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: Come on Sean, this very few disruptions stuff is below your usual standards. The least you can do to help us pass the time in this damn heat is to recount a few good

Re: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread Michael Loftis
--On July 24, 2006 2:22:26 AM -0400 Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While its expected for individual customers to go down during power outages, usually because the customer does not have local backup power, it is less common for major web sites and co-location centers to experience

Re: managing mycompany.{all iso TLD + icann TLD) ?

2006-07-24 Thread Jim Mercer
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 12:35:26PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: ... and registering the string in 435 TLD's just to make sure they can't is the worst kind of stupid. well, you know that, and i know that, but apparently senior management would never take our word for it. -- [ Jim Mercer

RE: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread William S. Duncanson
Indeed, my RoadRunner connection is the same way. All of my stuff stays up, but teh Interweb is broken. I'm guessing that they (DSL/CableCo's) find it too cost-prohibitive to roll out UPSes to the customer aggregation points. Suprisingly, my cable TV goes out as well when the power goes, so it

Re: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread Brandon Galbraith
While hardwired (fiber/coax/copper) aggregation points usually don't have backup power on them, most cellular towers have either batteries or generators for backup power, correct?-brandon On 7/24/06, William S. Duncanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed, my RoadRunner connection is the same way.All

Re: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread Daniel Senie
At 06:26 PM 7/24/2006, Brandon Galbraith wrote: While hardwired (fiber/coax/copper) aggregation points usually don't have backup power on them, most cellular towers have either batteries or generators for backup power, correct? We see good cable modem connectivity during power outages. Batteries

RE: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread Frank Bulk
Depending on the state you live in, the PUC generally requires 4 to 8 hours of dialtone if it's generated from the C.O. Dialtone generated from SLC may not be explicitly covered under the rules. Regards, Frank From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel

RE: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread Frank Bulk
Our small operation has outfitted our Calix shelves in the field with a minimum 8 hours of run time. If they would run low we would re-charge them with portable generators. We just consider it the cost of doing business. Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread Daniel Senie
At 09:59 PM 7/24/2006, Frank Bulk wrote: Depending on the state you live in, the PUC generally requires 4 to 8 hours of dialtone if it's generated from the C.O. Dialtone generated from SLC may not be explicitly covered under the rules. So when they moved about 1/2 of the town from CO to SLC,

RE: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread Frank Bulk
In the state of Iowa the PUC is called the Iowa Utility Board (IUB). According to the IUB, each CO must provide 2 hours of battery reserve (not 4, as I said), and if the C.O. serves over 4000 lines, a generator is

Re: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: Come on Sean, this very few disruptions stuff is below your usual standards. The least you can do to help us pass the time in this damn heat

Re: SBC Lost of connectivty to Canada?

2006-07-24 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 09:43:19PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:18:42 EDT, Richard A Steenbergen said: Actually they just leaked some routes this morning, and blew out max prefixes to most peers. Pretty typical as far as accidental leaks go, those folks with