Could an Equinix Senior Management person please reach out to me ASAP

[Dan Mahoney (Gushi)]

Sorry to invoke the NANOG pager this way, but:

This pertains to F-Root operations at my day job with isc.org, in both the 
US and Europe markets.


Feel free to use dmahoney at isc.org instead of this, my personal email.

Best (and stay safe),

-Dan Mahoney

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Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

[Sean Donelan]

On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, Mike Hammett wrote:

How many of these overloaded web sites that we hear about (voter
registration, unemployment registration, web sites announced in a big way,
causing surges in traffic, etc.) have a CDN offloading the low-hanging
fruit?


Florida uses a CDN, like essentially all states.

There is also lot of duct-tape, inadequate funding and human error across 
all states (and probably no different for governments world-wide). I see 
problems with overloaded state/local emergency alert sites all the time.


Periods of extreme stress is when many systems break. Its not 
necessarily due to malfeasance or malicious.  Expect there will be 
problems with election infrastructure through Election Day, and 
afterwards. I fully expect US state/local election administrators to

make it work this time too (eventually, maybe a few days or weeks).

Be on the look out for clever nefarious actors.

But the dumb mistake is the more likely explanation for most problems.

And in either case, Murphy's Law applies. Have a backup plan because 
things will go wrong.

Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

[Tom Beecher]

This is the same state that spend $60M-ish to revamp their entire
unemployment system 6 years ago, only to have it completely collapse this
year when 'rona landed.

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 4:19 PM Mike Hammett  wrote:

> I understand that there is underlying work that can't be sourced somewhere
> else, at least not trivially.
>
> How many of these overloaded web sites that we hear about (voter
> registration, unemployment registration, web sites announced in a big way,
> causing surges in traffic, etc.) have a CDN offloading the low-hanging
> fruit?
>
> I know that processing a voter registration is far more intensive than
> serving up static images, but surely a CDN taking the low hanging fruit
> would help to some degree. I'm assuming most of the people running these
> sites are clueless and haven't looked at this, but maybe they have.
>
>
>
> -
> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Midwest Internet Exchange 
> 
> 
> 
> The Brothers WISP 
> 
> 
> --
> *From: *"Sean Donelan" 
> *To: *nanog@nanog.org
> *Sent: *Tuesday, October 6, 2020 11:51:39 AM
> *Subject: *Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline
>
>
> Every election has problems. Most of the time, those problems aren't
> noticed. Elections rely on a lot of back-end infrastructure, besides the
> actual voting itself.
>
> It could be a DDOS attack, or simply duct-taped systems having trouble
> with the load.
>
> Voting early (mail, drop-off, in-person) means more time to fix glitches.
>
>
>
>
> https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-florida-elections-ron-desantis-dc8aaf2213b6c50451019a7c0c07c3f7
>
> The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned
> elections officials nationwide last week that cyberattacks could disrupt
> their systems during the run-up to the election. They particularly noted
> “distributed denial-of-service” attacks, which inundate a computer system
> with requests, potentially clogging up servers until the system becomes
> inaccessible to legitimate users.
>
>

Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

[Mike Hammett]

I understand that there is underlying work that can't be sourced somewhere 
else, at least not trivially. 


How many of these overloaded web sites that we hear about (voter registration, 
unemployment registration, web sites announced in a big way, causing surges in 
traffic, etc.) have a CDN offloading the low-hanging fruit? 


I know that processing a voter registration is far more intensive than serving 
up static images, but surely a CDN taking the low hanging fruit would help to 
some degree. I'm assuming most of the people running these sites are clueless 
and haven't looked at this, but maybe they have. 




- 
Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 

- Original Message -

From: "Sean Donelan"  
To: nanog@nanog.org 
Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 11:51:39 AM 
Subject: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline 


Every election has problems. Most of the time, those problems aren't 
noticed. Elections rely on a lot of back-end infrastructure, besides the 
actual voting itself. 

It could be a DDOS attack, or simply duct-taped systems having trouble 
with the load. 

Voting early (mail, drop-off, in-person) means more time to fix glitches. 



https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-florida-elections-ron-desantis-dc8aaf2213b6c50451019a7c0c07c3f7
 

The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned 
elections officials nationwide last week that cyberattacks could disrupt 
their systems during the run-up to the election. They particularly noted 
“distributed denial-of-service” attacks, which inundate a computer system 
with requests, potentially clogging up servers until the system becomes 
inaccessible to legitimate users. 

Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

[Sean Donelan]

Florida has had notoriously unreliable state I.T. infrastructure for 
years. Florida's unemployment websites were broken for months during the 
Spring 2020 COVID unemployment demand surge.  So its very likely crappy 
state I.T. infrastructure problems being stressed by high volume.



Florida voting age population (2016): 15,839,713
Florida registered voters (2016): 12,863,773
Florida registered voters (2019): 13,536,830

Florida Secretary of State Laurel Lee, who oversees the voting system, 
said the online registration system “was accessed by an unprecedented 1.1 
million requests per hour” during the last few hours of Monday.





On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, Justin Paine wrote:


no indication of a DoS attack.

__
Justin Paine
He/Him/His
Head of Trust & Safety
101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107

PGP: BBAA 6BCE 3305 7FD6 6452 7115 57B6 0114 DE0B 314D

Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

[Justin Paine via NANOG]

no indication of a DoS attack.



__
*Justin Paine*
He/Him/His
Head of Trust & Safety
101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107 

*PGP:* BBAA 6BCE 3305 7FD6 6452 7115 57B6 0114 DE0B 314D



On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 9:51 AM Sean Donelan  wrote:

>
> Every election has problems. Most of the time, those problems aren't
> noticed. Elections rely on a lot of back-end infrastructure, besides the
> actual voting itself.
>
> It could be a DDOS attack, or simply duct-taped systems having trouble
> with the load.
>
> Voting early (mail, drop-off, in-person) means more time to fix glitches.
>
>
>
>
> https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-florida-elections-ron-desantis-dc8aaf2213b6c50451019a7c0c07c3f7
>
> The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned
> elections officials nationwide last week that cyberattacks could disrupt
> their systems during the run-up to the election. They particularly noted
> “distributed denial-of-service” attacks, which inundate a computer system
> with requests, potentially clogging up servers until the system becomes
> inaccessible to legitimate users.
>

Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

[Sean Donelan]

Every election has problems. Most of the time, those problems aren't 
noticed. Elections rely on a lot of back-end infrastructure, besides the 
actual voting itself.


It could be a DDOS attack, or simply duct-taped systems having trouble 
with the load.


Voting early (mail, drop-off, in-person) means more time to fix glitches.



https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-florida-elections-ron-desantis-dc8aaf2213b6c50451019a7c0c07c3f7

The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned 
elections officials nationwide last week that cyberattacks could disrupt 
their systems during the run-up to the election. They particularly noted 
“distributed denial-of-service” attacks, which inundate a computer system 
with requests, potentially clogging up servers until the system becomes 
inaccessible to legitimate users.

Re: telia selling carrier ops to polhem infra

[Jared Mauch]

> On Oct 6, 2020, at 11:28 AM, James Breeden  wrote:
> 
> Still smells Swedish to me. Probably will end up with a different name, but 
> other than that I don't see much changing. Sounds more like a spinoff than 
> acquisition.


Yeah, I guess my questions are more long-term, usually in the 12 month window 
not much changes, but I’ve seen people expand to be global carriers then shrink 
back to their incumbent countries, (eg: 5511, 3320) over the years with a few 
holding their own, or having some minimal international presence..

What will happen here?  I’m curious as there are usually some economic drivers 
of these events.  I’m not sure I see what would be a driver unless the business 
is losing significant amount of SEK and this is effectively a restructuring.

- Jared

Re: telia selling carrier ops to polhem infra

[James Breeden]

Still smells Swedish to me. Probably will end up with a different name, but 
other than that I don't see much changing. Sounds more like a spinoff than 
acquisition.


James W. Breeden

Managing Partner



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Arenal Group: Arenal Consulting Group | Acilis Telecom | Pines Media | Atheral 
| BlueNinja

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From: NANOG  on behalf of 
aar...@gvtc.com 
Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 9:36 AM
To: Nanog@nanog.org 
Subject: telia selling carrier ops to polhem infra


I wonder how this will affect those who have Telia as an upstream Internet 
provider?  Will it be business as usual and just different company name?  Or 
maybe other changes to come?



Telia Company today (10-06-2020) announces that it has reached an agreement 
with Polhem Infra for the sale of its international carrier business, Telia 
Carrier...

https://www.teliacompany.com/en/news/press-releases/2020/10/telia-company-reaches-agreement-to-sell-its-carrier-operation-to-polhem-infra-and-proposes-to-reinstate-the-original-dividend-for-2019/







Aaron

aar...@gvtc.com

telia selling carrier ops to polhem infra

[aaron1]

I wonder how this will affect those who have Telia as an upstream Internet
provider?  Will it be business as usual and just different company name?  Or
maybe other changes to come?

 

Telia Company today (10-06-2020) announces that it has reached an agreement
with Polhem Infra for the sale of its international carrier business, Telia
Carrier...

https://www.teliacompany.com/en/news/press-releases/2020/10/telia-company-re
aches-agreement-to-sell-its-carrier-operation-to-polhem-infra-and-proposes-t
o-reinstate-the-original-dividend-for-2019/

 

 

 

Aaron

aar...@gvtc.com

 

NetDevOps Survey - 2020 Edition

[Allen Smith via NANOG]

Hi All,

A colleague just sent this to me and thought it might be of general 
interest here as the survey and results are public and seem topical.


https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQARN87cfV6ir0IQ_yP2oGRB5CltnCw6_fDKa7O2i6YovPig/viewform

There is further information on the page and at the project source: 
https://github.com/dgarros/netdevops-survey


Cheers,

-Allen

Re: Neustar Geo Location Data

[Siyuan Miao]

Is this prefix leased from an IP broker?

If not, I would suggest not to use Neustar's data.

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 9:38 PM John Von Essen  wrote:

> Anyone here have experience with Neustar’s Geo Location database feed?
>
> And by experience, I mean, how reliable it is to reality?
>
> I ask because I’m in the early stages of a project, and my initial take is
> the data is terrible.
>
> I’ve stumbled across several (like a few hundred, and thats just in the
> US) /22’s and /23’s that SWIP in Arin to small regional ISPs in the US, but
> in the Neustar geo data these /22s get broken out in many continuous /28’s
> and /27’s that appear to hop across the world.
>
> One case was a small rural WISP in St Louis, their /22 in Neustar’s data
> is spread across Brazil, Asia, Europe, I mean its all over the place. But
> in BGP, that /22 appears safe and sound coming from St Louis and also
> confirmed via traceroute.
>
> If it were just a few ranges, I’d say no big deal, but I’m seeing massive
> issues with the data - curious as to other people’s thoughts.
>
> Thanks
> John
>
>
>
>

Neustar Geo Location Data

[John Von Essen]

Anyone here have experience with Neustar’s Geo Location database feed?

And by experience, I mean, how reliable it is to reality?

I ask because I’m in the early stages of a project, and my initial take is the 
data is terrible.

I’ve stumbled across several (like a few hundred, and thats just in the US) 
/22’s and /23’s that SWIP in Arin to small regional ISPs in the US, but in the 
Neustar geo data these /22s get broken out in many continuous /28’s and /27’s 
that appear to hop across the world.

One case was a small rural WISP in St Louis, their /22 in Neustar’s data is 
spread across Brazil, Asia, Europe, I mean its all over the place. But in BGP, 
that /22 appears safe and sound coming from St Louis and also confirmed via 
traceroute.

If it were just a few ranges, I’d say no big deal, but I’m seeing massive 
issues with the data - curious as to other people’s thoughts.

Thanks
John





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