RE: NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT)

2007-03-15 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hello Todd: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Christell Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 6:47 PM To: NANOG Subject: NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT) Greetings, Sorry if this is OT but we are having a discussion with our HR

RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-15 Thread Frank Bulk
In regards to gold-plating, it makes a difference if it's average-schedule or cost-company. If it's the latter, then yes, all actual costs are including in building the rate base. Frank -Original Message- From: Frank Bulk Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 6:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT)

2007-03-15 Thread Smith, Steve B
NOC Knuklehead? Hummm? Nocklehead! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Pinsky Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:51 AM To: K. Graham Cc: Justin M. Streiner; NANOG Subject: Re: NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

RE: NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT)

2007-03-15 Thread Gadi Evron
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: - Technical Support Representative - Network Administrator - Senior Network Administrator Or, you could just call them all booger eaters and be done with it. Booger Eater

RE: NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT)

2007-03-15 Thread Donald Stahl
Anyway, I have a friend who used managed to get Not A Janitor on his business card. Rear Admiral was my favorite business card title if only because that was also the caller ID on my phone (I managed the PBX at the time). I've seen Systems/Unix/DNS Ninja. At my current job I make breakfast

Re: NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT)

2007-03-15 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 19:47 -0600, Todd Christell wrote: Greetings, Sorry if this is OT but we are having a discussion with our HR department. We are in the process of getting a 24 X 7 NOC in place and HR has a problem with calling them NOC Specialist. What is the generally accepted

RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-15 Thread Jamie Bowden
Verizon. Jamie Bowden -- It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold Hunter S Tolkien Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur Iain Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Frank Bulk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:45 AM To: Jamie

Re: NOC Personel Question (Possibly^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HTruly OT)

2007-03-15 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:31:59AM -0500, Dave Pooser wrote: ... Our marketing guy was the IS Manager before I cam on board, and still helps cover for me when I'm on vacation or otherwise out of town. So in addition to his real business cards he has some that have Backup Information

Re: NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT)

2007-03-15 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 09:49:36AM -0400, Donald Stahl wrote: ... Has anyone thought to clearly define these titles somewhere so that everyone can standardize on them? There are SAGE System Administrator levels, well defined and accepted by most of those who have heard of them. Would they

Re: NOC Personel Question (Possibly^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HTruly OT)

2007-03-15 Thread Dave Pooser
Making you the I.T.C.H., of course. Nah, we decided I'm the Primary Information Management Professional. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

Re: NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT)

2007-03-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 09:49:36AM -0400, Donald Stahl wrote: We call our level 1 NOC people Operators. We reserve Network Analyst for the level 2 people who also do some small amount of scripting and other more advanced troubleshooting. Network Analyst makes me think of Stock Analysts,

Re: NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT)

2007-03-15 Thread Donald Stahl
1) Expected to have above-average UNIX skills, above-average exposure to DNS (understanding SOAs, must have familiarity with dig, etc.), familiarity with HTTP (manual fetches/form queries, etc.), SSH and ... and do not hire people who tote themselves as superior or too proud to work in a

Re: NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT)

2007-03-15 Thread Randy Bush
i don't know about most nocs. but the few to which i have been close have had three or four levels of folk, from competent techs to darned good ip engineers. i know folk in the verio, ntt, iij, ... nocs that i would rather have backing me up than some of my fellow prima donna global internet

Re: SaidCom disconnected by Level 3 (former Telcove property)

2007-03-15 Thread virendra rode //
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Bulk wrote: http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/articlePrint.cfm?id=1310151 Is this a normal thing for Level 3 to do, cut off small, responsive providers? Frank - Just curious, should small responsive providers

Re: NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT)

2007-03-15 Thread Stephen Satchell
Gadi Evron wrote: Anyway, I have a friend who used managed to get Not A Janitor on his business card. My all-time favorite business card was one from Autodesk from the chief financial officer, who appeared to be a real Niven fan: Speaker to Bankers

Re: SaidCom disconnected by Level 3 (former Telcove property)

2007-03-15 Thread virendra rode //
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 virendra rode // wrote: Frank Bulk wrote: http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/articlePrint.cfm?id=1310151 Is this a normal thing for Level 3 to do, cut off small, responsive providers? Frank Just curious, should small

Re: NOC Personnel Question (Possibly OT)

2007-03-15 Thread Keegan . Holley
Network Analyst is common. Martin Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/15/2007 01:26 PM To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT) Sorry if this is OT but we are having a discussion with our HR department. We are in the process of

RE: SaidCom disconnected by Level 3 (former Telcove property)

2007-03-15 Thread Berkman, Scott
All companies in all industries have a policy of stopping to provide their services if a customer stops paying or violates the contract, I really don't see this as a big/little provider argument. Yes, the small provider should be multi-homed, otherwise a fiber cut or outage can have this same

Re: NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT)

2007-03-15 Thread William Yardley
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 09:49:36AM -0400, Donald Stahl wrote: Anyway, I have a friend who used managed to get Not A Janitor on his business card. Rear Admiral was my favorite business card title if only because that was also the caller ID on my phone (I managed the PBX at the time). My

Re: The Chicken or the Egg.

2007-03-15 Thread Edward B. DREGER
la Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:03:17 -0400 la From: list account la In my limited experience ARIN seems to not want to work with the la small operator. Half a dozen years back, I'd have agreed and then some. For the past few years, I'd beg to differ. Judging by the rest of your message, I

Possibly OT, definately humor. rDNS is to policy set by federal law.

2007-03-15 Thread Matthew Sullivan
Could be considered off-topic because it is humor. I guess a lot of US network operators are going to have to change their DNS entries because apparently the rDNS policies are now set by federal law. http://www.au.sorbs.net/~matthew/funny/rDNS-set-by-federal-law.txt Regards, Mat

Re: SaidCom disconnected by Level 3 (former Telcove property)

2007-03-15 Thread Jerry Pasker
Not knowing anything about the case other than what I read in the article, my hang up is that a transit provider can make a phone call and destroy a customer's business with 30 minutes notice. On a DS3 that has actual real lead time to replace, that's a business killer. The argument of

Re: SaidCom disconnected by Level 3 (former Telcove property)

2007-03-15 Thread Jon Lewis
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Frank Bulk wrote: http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/articlePrint.cfm?id=1310151 Is this a normal thing for Level 3 to do, cut off small, responsive providers? Even from that one-sided account, I have serious problems with: Siwert said the Colorado-based Level 3 cited

Re: Possibly OT, definately humor. rDNS is to policy set by federal law.

2007-03-15 Thread S. Ryan
Typical SORBS behavior. While this guy can demand all he wants, doesn't mean he will get what he wants or that he's right or wrong. Personally, we gave up using SORBS because of it's very high false-positive ratio and we got tired of hearing customers who were upset because they didn't get

Re: SaidCom disconnected by Level 3 (former Telcove property)

2007-03-15 Thread Gerry Boudreaux
On Mar 15, 2007, at 8:25 PM, Jon Lewis wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Frank Bulk wrote: http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/articlePrint.cfm?id=1310151 Is this a normal thing for Level 3 to do, cut off small, responsive providers? Even from that one-sided account, I have serious problems with:

Re: Possibly OT, definately humor. rDNS is to policy set by federal law.

2007-03-15 Thread S. Ryan
Nothing is wrong with what he posted. The guy is a moron. However, I was taking my 15 min of fame to jab at SORBS policy of listing people on their respective lists. It's dysfunctional and broken, but that again is just my opinion. Oh and, of course publicly humiliating the guy is

Re: Possibly OT, definately humor. rDNS is to policy set by federal law.

2007-03-15 Thread Nachman Yaakov Ziskind
Steve Sobol wrote (on Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:31:44PM -0400): On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, S. Ryan wrote: Personally, we gave up using SORBS because of it's very high false-positive ratio YMMV; at $DAYJOB we don't seem to have the same problem. I gave up using SORBS (and I'm not Mat's

Re: Possibly OT, definately humor. rDNS is to policy set by federal law.

2007-03-15 Thread Steve Sobol
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, S. Ryan wrote: Oh and, of course publicly humiliating the guy is certainly not that cool. However, while it's not really above me to do the same, he could have removed the email address so spammers aren't adding to that guys list of problems. Fair enough. --

Re: Possibly OT, definately humor. rDNS is to policy set by federal law.

2007-03-15 Thread Randy Bush
Nothing is wrong with what he posted. The guy is a moron. However, I was taking my 15 min of fame to jab at SORBS policy of listing people on their respective lists. when 42 other folk have similarly whined, i am not sure the word 'fame' is appropriate randy