Re: Any sign of supply chain returning to normal?

There's some queue-jumping happening for other reasons - medical/hospital a significant portion of that - but even there I'm hearing 6+ months for some switch hardware and Cisco APs are pretty uniformly "if you didn't order before March, you won't see them for over a year". On Fri, Apr 22, 2022

Re: massive facebook outage presently

Also impacting Instagram and, apparently, WhatsApp. On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 12:05 PM Eric Kuhnke wrote: > > https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/ > > Normally not worth mentioning random $service having an outage here, but this > will undoubtedly generate a large volume of customer service

Re: Something that should put a smile on everybody's face today

Respectfully Mel, the patent with Blackbird may well have been that - my reading of the past case agrees with yours for the most part - but the current case is Sable Networks suing Cloudflare over a patent involving routers. Given the patent involved and the choice of Cloudflare as a target, this

Re: Myanmar internet - something to think about if you're having a bad day

First you say "not at all" and then you say "stop complying". If your employees stop complying with the orders coming from the angry men with guns held to said employees' heads, someone's going to get shot - and it's going to be the telecom employees. That's significantly more than a financial

Re: Broken Mini-SAS cable removal?

One of the best DACs I've ever had - and I wish I could find them or the manufacturer again - was one with a relatively thick metal T push bar that you had to push in towards the switch to release the latch. Almost impossible to break, and nearly as impossible to accidentally get unplugged. On

Re: Famous operational issues

Normally I reference this as an example of terrible government bureaucracy, but in this case it's also how said bureaucracy can delay operational changes. I was a contractor for one of the many branches of the DoD in charge of the network at a moderate-sized site. I'd been there about 4 months,

Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report

There's more to it than this too. I was down there (I have sites I'm responsible for in Panama City Beach) in February and I was talking to a bunch of folks in the area as a result. This storm was fairly unusual for the area for a number of reasons. One, it normally doesn't hit the panhandle at

Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too

I think he's referring to all the Unicast IPv6 outside of 2000::/3 getting designated as "reserved", and therefore no gear will ever successfully route it... just like happened with the Class E space. You'd think we would know better than to let that happen, but there's a lot of things you'd

Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers

projects without basic demand / needs analysis or > statistics more often than not. > > > George William Herbert > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Mar 14, 2016, at 10:01 AM, George Metz <george.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Lee <

Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Lee wrote: > > Yes, *sigh*, another what kind of people _do_ we have running the govt > story. Altho, looking on the bright side, it could have been much > worse than a final summing up of "With the current closing having been > reported to

Re: Another Big day for IPv6 - 10% native penetration

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > the more interesting question to me is: what can we, ops and ietf, do > to make it operationally and financially easier for providers and > enterprises to go to ipv6 instead of ipv4 nat? carrot not stick. > > randy > The

Re: Re: SEC webpages inaccessible due to Firefox blocking servers with weak DH ciphers

Federal government lands on you like a sack of bricks if you don't provide this information through their (in)secure website. No exceptions. Sometimes you can't fire the vendor because they're not a vendor, they're a freaking regulatory agency with the power to crush you like a bug, and a 5 year

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: On 7/15/15 8:20 AM, George Metz wrote: Snip! Also, as Owen pointed out, the original concept for IPv6 networking was a 64 bit address space all along. The extra (or some would say, wasted) 64 bits were tacked

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

: On 7/14/15 6:23 AM, George Metz wrote: It's always easier to be prudent from the get-go than it is to rein in the insanity at a later date. Just because we can't imagine a world where IPv6 depletion is possible doesn't mean it can't exist, and exist far sooner than one might expect. I've

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

That's all well and good Owen, and the math is compelling, but 30 years ago if you'd told anyone that we'd go through all four billion IPv4 addresses in anyone's lifetime, they'd have looked at you like you were stark raving mad. That's what's really got most of the people who want (dare I say