Re: 2 meetings / budgets [Re: mlc files formal complaint against me]

2007-10-10 Thread Jared Mauch
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 06:20:54AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anything that we can do to see a productive community meeting, a thoughtful election, and meetings with the SC, PC and MLC that lead to a better NANOG. Quite frankly, if you are one of the uninitiated, and that

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-10 Thread Martin Hannigan
On 10/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do we determine what people do want to read vs. what they don't? Do a survey. We're going to. -M

Re: The NANOG Irrelevance? [Was: Re: mlc files formal complaint against me ]

2007-10-10 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Stephen Wilcox wrote: On 9 Oct 2007, at 18:39, Joel Jaeggli wrote: Stephen Wilcox wrote: i'm not sure that sounds like improvement. why cant the charter just allow them to decide a presentation is worth having without going through all the hoops that Paul mentions if its appropriate?

Re: meeting format/content

2007-10-10 Thread Joe Abley
On 10-Oct-2007, at 1256, Sean Figgins wrote: Spam, on the other hand, always seemed to be a scarlet topic here. If someone mentions spam or mail servers, there are those here that start breathing fire and claiming that their email should not be subject to spam filters. I don't know that

Re: meeting format/content

2007-10-10 Thread Andy Davidson
On 10 Oct 2007, at 17:56, Sean Figgins wrote: Spam, on the other hand, always seemed to be a scarlet topic here. If someone mentions spam or mail servers, there are those here that start breathing fire and claiming that their email should not be subject to spam filters. I don't know

Re: meeting format/content

2007-10-10 Thread Stephen Wilcox
On 10 Oct 2007, at 17:56, Sean Figgins wrote: Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: We talk a lot about what is on-topic. I get why there is a question about botnets - they affect the network, but don't really relate to routing, so there are arguments on both sides. I'm a bit more confused about

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-10 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do we determine what people do want to read vs. what they don't? Do a survey. We're going to. - Online? There're a lot of us that can't make it to the

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-10 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/10/07, Scott Weeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do we determine what people do want to read vs. what they don't? Do a survey. We're going to.

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-10 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably not feasible to do a non web forms based survey, but the list users would be target. Lets be happy that one may get done at all. If you dont have web, Ill call you and you and do it over phone. - Perhaps instigate discussion on

Realvideo on old presentations

2007-10-10 Thread Robert Drake
I'm wondering if the new presentations could be encoded in xvid or ogg vorbis. Or have a CD available after the conference for purchase or download which has all the videos. I'm specifically looking for a less yucky format and possibly higher rez videos, and the possibility of encoding them in

Re: meeting format/content

2007-10-10 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007, Sean Figgins wrote: [adrian chadd] These topics however seem altrustic ; why would someone talk about what gives them an edge over their competitors? If nobody ever talked about the above topics, then we would not have an Internet today. Despite what CxOs may

Re: mlc files formal complaint against me

2007-10-10 Thread Martin Hannigan
On 10/10/07, Scott Weeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably not feasible to do a non web forms based survey, but the list users would be target. Lets be happy that one may get done at all. If you dont have web, Ill call you and you and do it over phone.

Re: meeting format/content

2007-10-10 Thread Sean Figgins
Adrian Chadd wrote: Today's networking area is very very different from where I'm sitting. Networking can be learnt reasonably successful from a book and consultants are called in when things aren't quite working right or its time for an upgrade. I have not met many consultants that I would

RE: wanted: offshore hosting

2007-10-10 Thread Jamie Bowden
Haven't you been paying attention? There's a whole thread dedicated to why Australia's horridly expensive. 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-

Re: wanted: offshore hosting

2007-10-10 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007, Jamie Bowden wrote: Haven't you been paying attention? There's a whole thread dedicated to why Australia's horridly expensive. Its only ~ $300 a megabit. If you only require bugger all traffic constant (like say, backup DNS for some small sites) then its not -that-

Re: How Not to Multihome

2007-10-10 Thread Stephen Satchell
Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Justin, if Provider A _has_ permission from Provider B to announce a prefix, do you believe Provider A should be allowed to announce the prefix? As long as all of the relevant parties know about it and are OK with it,

RE: wanted: offshore hosting

2007-10-10 Thread Jamie Bowden
-Original Message- From: Adrian Chadd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 7:07 AM To: Jamie Bowden Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: wanted: offshore hosting On Wed, Oct 10, 2007, Jamie Bowden wrote: Haven't you been paying attention? There's a whole thread

Cogent peering issues with Sprint

2007-10-10 Thread CARL . P . HIRSCH
Cogent is experiencing two problems right now. Their automated message reports that they have a backbone problem causing latency, but they also seem to be experiencing peering problems with Sprint. Output over Cogent: sarglund-cogenttraceroute www.duke-energy.com Translating

Re: Cogent peering issues with Sprint

2007-10-10 Thread Basil Kruglov
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:38:42AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cogent is experiencing two problems right now. Their automated message reports that they have a backbone problem causing latency, but they also seem to be experiencing peering problems with Sprint. 2

Re: Cogent peering issues with Sprint

2007-10-10 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Oct 10, 2007, at 10:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cogent is experiencing two problems right now. Their automated message reports that they have a backbone problem causing latency, but they also seem to be experiencing peering problems with Sprint. Are you sure that this is not

Re: Cogent peering issues with Sprint

2007-10-10 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Oct 10, 2007, at 10:51 AM, Basil Kruglov wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:38:42AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cogent is experiencing two problems right now. Their automated message reports that they have a backbone problem causing latency, but they also seem to be experiencing

Re: Cogent peering issues with Sprint

2007-10-10 Thread Basil Kruglov
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 11:00:13AM -0400, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Are you sure that this is not in Sprint, or even Duke Energy ? I can't ping to 192.234.122.137 from either home or work, and I don't see any signs of Cogent problems from Tyco Road / Tysons Corner. It would seem that this

Re: Cogent peering issues with Sprint

2007-10-10 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:38:42AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cogent is experiencing two problems right now. Their automated message reports that they have a backbone problem causing latency, but they also seem to be experiencing peering problems with Sprint. We're seeing very similar

Re: Cogent peering issues with Sprint

2007-10-10 Thread CARL . P . HIRSCH
Yes, it looks like this might have been resolved. Duke Energy, Teco Energy, Accenture, and the Washington Post are all now accessible via Cogent. -carl Basil Kruglov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/10/2007 10:17 AM Please respond to nanog@merit.edu To nanog@merit.edu cc

RE: Cogent peering issues with Sprint

2007-10-10 Thread Gregory Boehnlein
We shut off Cogent around 9:00 because of routing issues to Telia and other parts of the Net. From http://status.cogentco.com ** ** Cogent Network Status Report Last Updated Wed Oct 10 10:55:40 2007 **

Re: Cogent peering issues with Sprint

2007-10-10 Thread Dave Pooser
Cogent is experiencing two problems right now. Their automated message reports that they have a backbone problem causing latency, but they also seem to be experiencing peering problems with Sprint. There may be some internal problems on the Sprint network; I'm unable to hit

Re: Cogent peering issues with Sprint

2007-10-10 Thread Dave Pooser
Wow, pasted the wrong traceroute AND hit send instead of delete. It's another great day around here. More caffeine, stat Sprint EVDO network still seems flaky from here, but I'm waiting for one of my more technical users to get online for troubleshooting purposes. The duke-energy.com IP is

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-10 Thread Joe Greco
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Joe Greco wrote: It's arrogant to fix brokenness? Because I'm certainly there. In my experience, if you don't bother to address problems, they're very likely to remain, especially when money is involved on the opposite side. There's a big difference between fixing

Easy and hard multihoming (was: Re: Upstreams blocking /24s)

2007-10-10 Thread David Barak
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if one of the Tier I's decides not to accept my public /29 then the millions of singlehomed subscribers go with it. Yep. During normal operation, someone would be announcing the aggregate out of which your /29 is carved, and that provider should be

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-10 Thread Mark Smith
Hi Andrew, On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 08:36:12 -0500 (CDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Odlyzko) wrote: As a point of information, Australia is one of the few places where the government collects Internet traffic statistics (which are hopefully trustworthy). Pointer is at

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-10 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Joe Greco wrote: One of the biggest challenges for the Internet has got to be the steadily increasing storage market, combined with the continued development of small, portable processors for every application, meaning that there's been an explosion of computing devices.

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-10 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Oct 10, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Joe Greco wrote: One of the biggest challenges for the Internet has got to be the steadily increasing storage market, combined with the continued development of small, portable processors for every application,

OT: Visio or Autocad

2007-10-10 Thread Stephen Fulton
Greetings all, A good friend of mine swears that Autocad is superior for network design to Visio. I don't disagree, but only because I have never used Autocad for network design. So far Visio has generally met my needs when I'm working on a design, but I have found it lacking (or perhaps

Re: OT: Visio or Autocad

2007-10-10 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Stephen Fulton wrote: A good friend of mine swears that Autocad is superior for network design to Visio. I don't disagree, but only because I have never used Autocad for network design. So far Visio has generally met my needs when I'm working on a design, but I have

Re: OT: Visio or Autocad

2007-10-10 Thread William Herrin
On 10/10/07, Stephen Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone using Autocad for network design? What are your thoughts? Stephen, I still use Corel Draw 3 for my network diagrams, so its not unheard of to use something other than Visio. The main benefit to Visio comes when -someone else-

RE: OT: Visio or Autocad

2007-10-10 Thread Eric Lutvak
It is my uinderstanding that we should use what really works for the individual.. Just because certain individuals OVERUSE Visio for various reasons, I feel that the usage of the best tool to fit the situation is perfectly acceptable. In the end, the printout will still look the same right?? If

RE: OT: Visio or Autocad

2007-10-10 Thread Eric Lutvak
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Herrin Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 5:11 PM To: Stephen Fulton Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: OT: Visio or Autocad On 10/10/07, Stephen Fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone using

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-10 Thread Joe Greco
On Oct 10, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Joe Greco wrote: One of the biggest challenges for the Internet has got to be the steadily increasing storage market, combined with the continued development of small, portable processors for every