Re: Information about the national test of the Emergency Alert System

[mike . lyon]

Went through this AM. Here in the SF BA, alerts went out on the airwaves around 
11:20am today.

-Mike

> On Sep 27, 2017, at 21:01, Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG  
> wrote:
> 
> I didn't see a blip on my TV, or hear anything on the local radio
> stations.  I didn't even get an alert on my cell phone.  Did I miss
> it, or did it get cancelled?
> 
> -A
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 9:03 AM, Sean Donelan  wrote:
>>> And your upstream(s) to work. And their upstream(s) to work. etc. If 90%
>>> of the stations in the EAS web are down you may end up with nothing working.
>> 
>> 
>> 6% of TV stations are operating in Puerto Rico
>> 15% of radio stations are operating in Puerto Rico
>> 
>> Nationally, there are about 28,000 cable systems, radio and television
>> stations.
>> 
>> This test will not use the FEMA primary entry point system, so its only a
>> partial test of the national EAS.
>> 
>> Today's national test of the Emergency Alert System will be the same as the
>> 2016 national test.  It is a partial test of the EAS, using the FEMA IPAWS
>> system over the internet (i.e. Akamai and Cloudfront are used as CDNs) to
>> the distribute the emergency test message. Cable, radio and TV stations need
>> a working Internet connection as well as radio receivers and transmitters
>> for IPAWS and EAS.
>> 
>> Although the national test was scheduled back in July, its still a good test
>> opportunity to see how the internet and EAS works in Puerto Rico and the
>> U.S. VI with so much damage to the infrastructure. The one minute national
>> test should not intefere with disaster recovery efforts in PR or USVI.
>> 
>> For more information:
>> 
>> https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2017/09/19/mandatory-nationwide-test-emergency-alert-system-be-conducted-september-27
>> 
>> https://www.fcc.gov/document/nationwide-emergency-alert-system-test-planned-september-27
>> 

Re: Information about the national test of the Emergency Alert System

[Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG]

I didn't see a blip on my TV, or hear anything on the local radio
stations.  I didn't even get an alert on my cell phone.  Did I miss
it, or did it get cancelled?

-A



On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 9:03 AM, Sean Donelan  wrote:
>> And your upstream(s) to work. And their upstream(s) to work. etc. If 90%
>> of the stations in the EAS web are down you may end up with nothing working.
>
>
> 6% of TV stations are operating in Puerto Rico
> 15% of radio stations are operating in Puerto Rico
>
> Nationally, there are about 28,000 cable systems, radio and television
> stations.
>
> This test will not use the FEMA primary entry point system, so its only a
> partial test of the national EAS.
>
> Today's national test of the Emergency Alert System will be the same as the
> 2016 national test.  It is a partial test of the EAS, using the FEMA IPAWS
> system over the internet (i.e. Akamai and Cloudfront are used as CDNs) to
> the distribute the emergency test message. Cable, radio and TV stations need
> a working Internet connection as well as radio receivers and transmitters
> for IPAWS and EAS.
>
> Although the national test was scheduled back in July, its still a good test
> opportunity to see how the internet and EAS works in Puerto Rico and the
> U.S. VI with so much damage to the infrastructure. The one minute national
> test should not intefere with disaster recovery efforts in PR or USVI.
>
> For more information:
>
> https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2017/09/19/mandatory-nationwide-test-emergency-alert-system-be-conducted-september-27
>
> https://www.fcc.gov/document/nationwide-emergency-alert-system-test-planned-september-27
>

Re: Google DNS64 misconfigured?

[Hugo Slabbert]

On Wed 2017-Sep-27 00:00:56 -0500, Joel Whitehouse  
wrote:

I had an ipv6-only lab environment cease being able to browse much of 
the internet on Monday.  Tracked the issue down to google's public 
DNS64 service; the following queries should return DNS64 responses 
from the 64:9bff::/96 prefix, however, I'm getting 0 DNS64 answers 
from dig on both their servers for the last 60 hours:


dig @2001:4860:4860::64 ipv4only.arpa 
dig @2001:4860:4860::6464 ipv4only.arpa 

DNS works fine, just not DNS64.  A forum topic [0] suggests this 
behavior might be intermittent but no official response from google 
there.  Is google's public DNS64 down for anyone else?


I do not regularly use their public DNS64, but those queries also return no 
ANSWER for me from a couple of test points when I just checked now.  One is 
on Teksavvy (AS20375) crossing through Peer1 (AS13768), the other crosses 
directly through peering with Google at the SIX.


--
Hugo Slabbert   | email, xmpp/jabber: h...@slabnet.com
pgp key: B178313E   | also on Signal


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Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

[Javier J]

> Telecommunications:

  Pictures posted on twitter of joint restoration meeting between..


What twitter feed was this?

I didn't catch it.

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Sean Donelan  wrote:

>
> After a week without power, all the stationary batteries throughout the
> telecommunications network are likely completely drained.  This makes
> restoration even more difficult, like a dead car battery needing a jump
> start.
>
> I am focusing on U.S. territories, but there is also disaster response
> from Hurricanes Irma and Maria on Antigua and Barbuda, Cuba, Dominica,
> Montserrat, Saint Martin, and St. Kitts and Nevis.
>
> Fatalities, including deaths attributed to post-hurricane recovery:
>Hurricane Iram: 72 - Florida; 40
>  -
> Caribbean
>Hurricane Maria: 16 - Puerto Rico; 2
>  -
> U.S. Virigin Islands; 15 - Dominica, 3 - Haiti; 2 - Guadeloupe
>
> Department of Defense:
>Supporting FEMA, the Department of Defense has deployed USNORTHCOM
> Brigadier General Rich Kim to Puerto Rico to manage the Title 10 (military)
> response efforts in Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands. USSOUTHCOM
> continues to support relief activities elsewhere in the Caribbean.
>
>
> Airports and sea ports:
>Puerto Rico: 3 sea ports open; 5 sea ports open with restrictions,
> daylight hours only. 9 airports are open. Only San Juan Airport open to
> commercial air traffic, approximately 15-20 commercial flights.  All other
> flights reserved for priority military and relief activities.
>
>U.S Virgin Islands: 4 sea ports open with restrictions, daylight hours
> only.  U.S. VI airports closed except military and relief flights.
>
>
> Electricity:
>Puerto Rico: 1.57 million customers out of service. An estimate of 4%
> has been restored. Restoring power to airports, hospitals, sea ports and
> water treatment plants are still critical priorities.  80% of transmission
> lines damaged, power generation plants appear intact.
>
>U.S. Virgin Islands: 55,000 customers out of service, most of the
> islands. St. Thomas has five feeders partially energised. St. Croix has
> three feeders partially energized. Restoring power to airports, hospitals,
> sea ports and water treatment plants are still critical priorities.
>
>
> Telecommunications:
>
>   Pictures posted on twitter of joint restoration meeting between
> telecommunications providers, FEMA and Puerto Rico Telecommunications
> Regulatory Board. From the logos & colors on shirts: Claro, T-Mobile,
> Sprint, and many other company logos I couldn't make out (estimate 20
> people in the room).
>
>   Reports of generators and fuel stolen from cell sites and remote
> telecommunications locations. This is not unusual during disasters.  The
> Puerto Rico Telecommunications Industry Alliance, which appears to be a
> lobbying group of communication companies in Puerto Rico, has sent a letter
> about the need for FEMA to coordinate logistics and prioritize access to
> fuel and security. PRTIA (or APT in Spanish) has existed for a few years,
> but I can't judge if its letter represents telecommunication companies in
> Puerto Rico.
>
>   Puerto Rico:
>  2,432 of 2,671 cell sites (91%) out of service.
>  No update/change to cable and wireline systems, about 55% of central
> offices with voice, data and long-distance.  The rest with only local
> voice, no inter-office connections.  No clear description about status of
> local loops or subscribers with service.
>
>  Pictures of Liberty Cable PR repair crews posted on twitter. I still
> haven't found a public statement about LibertyPR's status.
>
>  Approximately 450-500 out of 1200 Internet networks and 35-38 out of
> 48 ASNs are present in the global Internet routing table, with occasional
> up/down changes due to restoration activity.
>
>   U.S. Virigin Islands:
>  70 of 106 cell sites (66%) out of service.
>  No update/change to cable and wireline systems.
>
>  U.S. Virgin Islands Internet routes have nearly returned to normal,
> with occasional up/down blips due to restoration activity.
>
>
> I'm not ignoring the status competitive and smaller USVI and PR
> communication providers, its just difficult to find official statements
> from them.  If you have status about them, let me know.
>

New TRANSLANT cable - US/VA to ES

[Jay R. Ashworth]

Microsoft, Facebook, Telxius.

160TB, presumably each way, but no technical detail in this piece:

https://interestingengineering.com/microsoft-and-facebook-just-laid-a-6600-km-cable-across-the-atlantic-ocean

Cheers,
-- jra
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Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

[Sean Donelan]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2017, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote:

After a week without power, all the stationary batteries throughout the
telecommunications network are likely completely drained.


from the point of view of cell sites, wouldn't battery autonomy be
measured in hours rather than days?  I could see some site having
autonomy in days due to permanent generator, and when fuel runs out so
does the cell site.


Yes, long-term power is generators.  But there is always a catch.

What happens during disaster recovery is the batteries are damaged by 
being drained repeatedly, dirty power from generators, and enviromental 
conditions. After too many deep-discharge cycles during the disaster, the 
batteries won't hold a charge any more.  The battery failure rate, 
requiring replacement, goes through the roof after about a week in a 
disaster.  Even those 10-year telco batteries don't last 10-years during 
disaster conditions.


Since a lot of telecommunications gear actually runs off -48 volt battery 
string, and the generators recharge the batteries; when the batteries 
completely fail even with a generator, no more telecom.  You have to 
replace the battery string or run the telecom gear on raw generator power 
(which then damages the telecom gear even more).


Sometimes even the battery starter on the generator fail to start after 
too many refueling stops.  Most backup generators are only rated for 
"stand-by" service, not continuous operation for weeks. Generators need 
more maintenance, and fail more often.


Disaster logistics is a string of dominos. If they start being knocked 
over, it just gets worse.  Stuff that works great during normal 
conditions doesn't anymore. Simple fixes are all complicated now.

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

[Jean-Francois Mezei]

On 2017-09-27 17:44, Sean Donelan wrote:

> After a week without power, all the stationary batteries throughout the 
> telecommunications network are likely completely drained.

from the point of view of cell sites, wouldn't battery autonomy be
measured in hours rather than days?  I could see some site having
autonomy in days due to permanent generator, and when fuel runs out so
does the cell site.

> I'm not ignoring the status competitive and smaller USVI and PR 
> communication providers, its just difficult to find official statements 
> from them.  If you have status about them, let me know.

One aspect often forgotten is that people have homes (or what is left of
them) families and the need to find food/water which can involve
standing in line for hours in a day and they may not be able to show up
for work. larger companies can usually find enough employees not so
hindered, but smaller outfits may not be able to remain functional due
to not enough staff able to work.

Smaller outfits may not have the ability to get petrol for their trucks
to go out oand fix things. (whereas the big guys have the credentials to
get petrol form authorities/army.

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

[Sean Donelan]

After a week without power, all the stationary batteries throughout the 
telecommunications network are likely completely drained.  This makes 
restoration even more difficult, like a dead car battery needing a jump 
start.


I am focusing on U.S. territories, but there is also disaster response 
from Hurricanes Irma and Maria on Antigua and Barbuda, Cuba, Dominica, 
Montserrat, Saint Martin, and St. Kitts and Nevis.


Fatalities, including deaths attributed to post-hurricane recovery:
   Hurricane Iram: 72 - Florida; 40 - Caribbean
   Hurricane Maria: 16 - Puerto Rico; 2 - U.S. Virigin Islands; 15 - 
Dominica, 3 - Haiti; 2 - Guadeloupe


Department of Defense:
   Supporting FEMA, the Department of Defense has deployed USNORTHCOM 
Brigadier General Rich Kim to Puerto Rico to manage the Title 10 
(military) response efforts in Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands. 
USSOUTHCOM continues to support relief activities elsewhere in 
the Caribbean.



Airports and sea ports:
   Puerto Rico: 3 sea ports open; 5 sea ports open with restrictions, 
daylight hours only. 9 airports are open. Only San Juan Airport open to 
commercial air traffic, approximately 15-20 commercial flights.  All 
other flights reserved for priority military and relief activities.


   U.S Virgin Islands: 4 sea ports open with restrictions, daylight hours 
only.  U.S. VI airports closed except military and relief flights.



Electricity:
   Puerto Rico: 1.57 million customers out of service. An estimate of 4% 
has been restored. Restoring power to airports, hospitals, sea ports and 
water treatment plants are still critical priorities.  80% of transmission 
lines damaged, power generation plants appear intact.


   U.S. Virgin Islands: 55,000 customers out of service, most of the 
islands. St. Thomas has five feeders partially energised. St. Croix has 
three feeders partially energized. Restoring power to airports, hospitals, 
sea ports and water treatment plants are still critical priorities.



Telecommunications:

  Pictures posted on twitter of joint restoration meeting between 
telecommunications providers, FEMA and Puerto Rico Telecommunications 
Regulatory Board. From the logos & colors on shirts: Claro, T-Mobile, 
Sprint, and many other company logos I couldn't make out (estimate 20 
people in the room).


  Reports of generators and fuel stolen from cell sites and remote 
telecommunications locations. This is not unusual during disasters.  The 
Puerto Rico Telecommunications Industry Alliance, which appears to be a 
lobbying group of communication companies in Puerto Rico, has sent a 
letter about the need for FEMA to coordinate logistics and prioritize 
access to fuel and security. PRTIA (or APT in Spanish) has existed for a 
few years, but I can't judge if its letter represents telecommunication 
companies in Puerto Rico.


  Puerto Rico:
 2,432 of 2,671 cell sites (91%) out of service.
 No update/change to cable and wireline systems, about 55% of central 
offices with voice, data and long-distance.  The rest with only local 
voice, no inter-office connections.  No clear description about status of 
local loops or subscribers with service.


 Pictures of Liberty Cable PR repair crews posted on twitter. I still 
haven't found a public statement about LibertyPR's status.


 Approximately 450-500 out of 1200 Internet networks and 35-38 out of 
48 ASNs are present in the global Internet routing table, with occasional 
up/down changes due to restoration activity.


  U.S. Virigin Islands:
 70 of 106 cell sites (66%) out of service.
 No update/change to cable and wireline systems.

 U.S. Virgin Islands Internet routes have nearly returned to normal, 
with occasional up/down blips due to restoration activity.



I'm not ignoring the status competitive and smaller USVI and PR 
communication providers, its just difficult to find official statements 
from them.  If you have status about them, let me know.

Re: Google DNS64 misconfigured?

[Brock Tice]

On 09/26/2017 11:00 PM, Joel Whitehouse wrote:
> A forum topic [0] suggests this behavior might be intermittent but no
> official response from google there.

I have seen intermittent issues with IPv6 queries to google's
nameservers as well. Some sites simply would not load, which is what
caused me to notice it.

--Brock

Google DNS64 misconfigured?

[Joel Whitehouse]

I had an ipv6-only lab environment cease being able to browse much of 
the internet on Monday.  Tracked the issue down to google's public DNS64 
service; the following queries should return DNS64 responses from the 
64:9bff::/96 prefix, however, I'm getting 0 DNS64 answers from dig on 
both their servers for the last 60 hours:


dig @2001:4860:4860::64 ipv4only.arpa 
dig @2001:4860:4860::6464 ipv4only.arpa 

DNS works fine, just not DNS64.  A forum topic [0] suggests this 
behavior might be intermittent but no official response from google 
there.  Is google's public DNS64 down for anyone else?



[0] 
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/public-dns-discuss/dD_lSPfqXHA/discussion

--
Joel Whitehouse

Information about the national test of the Emergency Alert System

[Sean Donelan]

And your upstream(s) to work. And their upstream(s) to work. etc. If 90% 
of the stations in the EAS web are down you may end up with nothing 
working.


6% of TV stations are operating in Puerto Rico
15% of radio stations are operating in Puerto Rico

Nationally, there are about 28,000 cable systems, radio and television 
stations.


This test will not use the FEMA primary entry point system, so its only a 
partial test of the national EAS.


Today's national test of the Emergency Alert System will be the same as 
the 2016 national test.  It is a partial test of the EAS, using the FEMA 
IPAWS system over the internet (i.e. Akamai and Cloudfront are used as 
CDNs) to the distribute the emergency test message. Cable, radio and TV 
stations need a working Internet connection as well as radio receivers and 
transmitters for IPAWS and EAS.


Although the national test was scheduled back in July, its still a good 
test opportunity to see how the internet and EAS works in Puerto Rico and 
the U.S. VI with so much damage to the infrastructure. The one minute 
national test should not intefere with disaster recovery efforts in PR or 
USVI.


For more information:

https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2017/09/19/mandatory-nationwide-test-emergency-alert-system-be-conducted-september-27

https://www.fcc.gov/document/nationwide-emergency-alert-system-test-planned-september-27

Re: DHCPv6-PD -> Lack of route injection in RFC

[valdis . kletnieks]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:02:51 -0400, Lee Howard said:

> Right. How many residential market gateways support any routing protocol
> at all?

Depends on how flabby a definition you use.  Does "ask for a default route" 
count? :)


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Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2017, Sean Donelan wrote:

Things are better and worse in Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands. 
Help is needed, but anyone wanting to help in the field, be certain you 
understand what you would be doing, and whether you are actually helping 
or hindering on the ground efforts.


https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/9/26/16365994/hurricane-maria-2017-puerto-rico-san-juan-humanitarian-disaster-electricty-fuel-flights-facts

This seems to indicate that it will be 4-6 months until things get back to 
normal, if there indeed is a huge effort to do so.


"But as first responders on the ground in Puerto Rico told Fernández 
Campbell, this isn’t enough. Trump should also ask Congress to pass a 
relief package for Puerto Rico to give FEMA and the island more money to 
rebuild. He could deploy more military resources to help with search and 
rescue operations."


I hope this happens.

--
Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se

Re: DHCPv6-PD -> Lack of route injection in RFC

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, Blake Dunlap wrote:

Isn't this the topic area that the home networking working group was 
supposed to resolve?


HOMENET was never looking into running a routing protocol between the ISP 
and the HGW. It was all about running a routing protocol WITHIN the home, 
not between the home and the ISP.


All the work I saw took for granted there was for instance a DHCPv6-PD 
lease handed to the home gateway router.


--
Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se

Re: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

[Keith Stokes]

And your upstream(s) to work. And their upstream(s) to work. etc. If 90% of the 
stations in the EAS web are down you may end up with nothing working.


On Sep 27, 2017, at 9:21 AM, Edwin Pers 
> wrote:

The telecommunications damage in PR and USVI will be a good test how well the 
EAS works during extreme telecommunications damage.

>From my brief time as a radio station tech, all you need for EAS to function 
>properly is power to the receiver/decoder and for the station's transmitter to 
>be alive



---

Keith Stokes

RE: Hurricane Maria: Summary of communication status - and lack of

[Edwin Pers]

> The telecommunications damage in PR and USVI will be a good test how well the 
> EAS works during extreme telecommunications damage.

From my brief time as a radio station tech, all you need for EAS to function 
properly is power to the receiver/decoder and for the station's transmitter to 
be alive