Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 08:46:49 EDT, Leo Bicknell [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Everyone running their cable wherever they want with no controls, and abandoning it all in place makes a huge mess, and is one way to think about it. While clearing out the space that eventually ended up being repurposed

RE: [WAY OT]: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering po int speed publicly available?]

2004-07-08 Thread Williams, Jeff
Not really a WTF on my part, but... Many years ago I was hand tracing a cable in a data center due to the usual lack of docs and ensuing spaghetti factory. Said cable went under the three foot raised floor, so I dove in. I'd been going for a while and was getting concerned that I'd

RE: [WAY OT]: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering po int speed publicly available?]

2004-07-08 Thread rwcrowe
I use to work for a growing .com before it went down. One project was to move the company from 5 or 6 suites in an executive campus to a newly built building about 10 miles down the road. Our IT team oversaw the construction of the datacenter from soup to nuts. We went through the whole drill

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-08 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Valdis.Kletni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which almost begs the question - what's the oddest WTF?? anybody's willing to admit finding under a raised floor, or up in a ceiling or cable chase or similar location? (Feel free to change names to protect the guilty if need

[OT] Layer 2 Trace

2004-07-08 Thread Vicky
Hi there, Just wondering if there's anyone who can recommend a layer 2 trace utility similar to l2trace on a cisco switch but one that runs on a linux box? Any help will be appreciated. regards, /vicky

RE: [WAY OT]: concern over public peering points...

2004-07-08 Thread Edward Lewis
-Original Message- Which almost begs the question - what's the oddest WTF?? anybody's willing to admit finding under a raised floor, or up in a ceiling or cable chase or similar location? (Feel free to change names to protect the guilty if need be:) In a job long ago, at a gov't

Source of dictionary MTA attacks

2004-07-08 Thread Jon R. Kibler
Greetings, In the past 10 hours, we have had over 5,000 dictionary MTA attacks originate from IPs in the 67.234.73.0/24 netblock, which appear to be uu.net (MCI) dial access IPs in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. We have notified MCI and blocked this netblock at the border. Something interesting

Re: Source of dictionary MTA attacks

2004-07-08 Thread Jon R. Kibler
Jon R. Kibler wrote: For those of you that have been asking, and for those of you about to ask... YES these email come from the spoofed return address of [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Jon Kibler -- Jon R. Kibler Chief Technical Officer A.S.E.T., Inc. Charleston, SC USA (843) 849-8214

RE: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-08 Thread Ian Dickinson
Which almost begs the question - what's the oddest WTF?? anybody's willing to admit finding under a raised floor, or up in a ceiling or cable chase or similar location? (Feel free to change names to protect the guilty if need be:) Water -- about 8 of it... Air -- about 8 feet of it... In a

RE: [WAY OT]: concern over public peering points...

2004-07-08 Thread Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS
Steve wrote: water - 8 of it Scary stuff - was that at Murray Hill? My department at Holmdel inherited a computer lab with various Vaxen, and more obvious problem under the raised floor was too much cable to get all the tiles to stay down. The less obvious problems had to do with unbalanced

Re: [WAY OT]: concern over public peering points...

2004-07-08 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS writes: Steve wrote: water - 8 of it Scary stuff - was that at Murray Hill? Yes, in Building 5. There was also a long length of thick coax down the hill to the main complex -- it wasn't easy to get nice, standard fiber in 1982

RE: 802.17 RPR and L2 Ethernet interoperablity (Ethernet over RPR)

2004-07-08 Thread Vinay Bannai
Hi, This is probably a fairly simply question, I'm probably just not quite groking the layers involved here. If I had the following setup: Endstation A -- Switch A === RPR Ring === Switch B -- Endstation B could there be a VLAN setup such that Endstations A and B are both in it, and can

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-08 Thread Patrick Muldoon
On Wednesday 07 July 2004 02:43 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which almost begs the question - what's the oddest WTF?? anybody's willing to admit finding under a raised floor, or up in a ceiling or cable chase or similar location? (Feel free to change names to protect the guilty if need

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-08 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: Water -- about 8 of it... We had a two-level area below the raised floor in the computer room. The deeper area was flooded; fortunately, there was only solid snakes in the water, which had swum (swam?) in through the entrance facility for the

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-08 Thread Tom (UnitedLayer)
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Patrick Muldoon wrote: At my last job while working at an earthstation in Texas where I had some equipment, I looked up from the raised floor and found myself staring at a scorpion. Being that I am from the Northeast where we don't seem to have those things, it pretty

WTF ---

2004-07-08 Thread bmanning
stuff under the floor: wildlife: common in TX, fireants/bees/arachnids in the vaults cruft: the nite-shift dirty laundry (clothes other stuff) and my personal fave: worked in a shop w/ MGs and a flywheel/genset -in the machine room-. One of the power leads was not properly mounted

RE: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-08 Thread John Ferriby
On Wednesday 07 July 2004 02:43 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which almost begs the question - what's the oddest WTF?? anybody's willing to admit finding under a raised floor, or up in a ceiling or cable chase or similar location? (Feel free to change names to protect the guilty if need

RE: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-08 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, John Ferriby wrote: The ops staff moved all the grated tiles to a central area and used to play adult-sized air hockey complete with a rubber puck and sticks... but only late at night. 'login;' ran a story about 4-5 years ago about some machine room in the UK (I think),

it appears a beaver picked it up and chewed it in half

2004-07-08 Thread Scot Bryhan
Scot, Here's what we received from the Assocaited Press. -- Kendall P. Stanley Managing editor Petoskey News-Review (231) 439-9349 (231) 881-4349 (cell) By JOHN FLESHER Associated Press Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. _ Northeastern Michigan had a problem to chew on:

Re: it appears a beaver picked it up and chewed it in half

2004-07-08 Thread Robert Bonomi
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 8 23:42:27 2004 From: Scot Bryhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: it appears a beaver picked it up and chewed it in half Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 00:38:50 -0400 Scot, Here's what we received from the Assocaited Press. --