Re: Finding information about metro private line service in downtown SF

2004-10-28 Thread Mike Lyon
Can you get roof rights at both locations? If so, can you stand on one roof and see the other? If yes, go wireless. You will have the capital cost upfront but no monthly fees to pay to your friendly telco of choice each month. There are plenty of companies that manafacture telco quality radios

Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?

2004-10-28 Thread Charlie Khanna - NextWeb
Hi I was interested in finding out what software applications other ISPs are using for network monitoring? For example: 1) Overall network health uptime reports 2) Backup router config automatically 3) Bandwidth reporting (or integration with an MRTG-type app) 4) SNMP trap support

Re: IPv6 support for com/net zones on October 19, 2004

2004-10-28 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 04:01:45PM -0400, Joe Abley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 42 lines which said: Since I mailed that, 3557 started receiving a covering /48 for A. a.gtld-servers.net works now for us. Verisign does not reply but may listen :-) b is still unreachable. We get a

Re: IPv6 support for com/net zones on October 19, 2004

2004-10-28 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephane Bortzmeyer) [Thu 28 Oct 2004, 09:48 CEST]: On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 04:01:45PM -0400, Joe Abley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 42 lines which said: Since I mailed that, 3557 started receiving a covering /48 for A. a.gtld-servers.net works now for us.

Re: IPv6 support for com/net zones on October 19, 2004

2004-10-28 Thread Carlos Friacas
From AS1930 (Portugal, Europe): [it works...] ;; Query time: 544 msec ;; SERVER: 2001:503:231d::2:30#53(2001:503:231d::2:30) ;; WHEN: Thu Oct 28 12:11:40 2004 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 504 ;; Query time: 547 msec ;; SERVER: 2001:503:a83e::2:30#53(2001:503:a83e::2:30) ;; WHEN: Thu Oct 28 12:43:23 2004

Re: IPv6 support for com/net zones on October 19, 2004

2004-10-28 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlos Friacas) [Thu 28 Oct 2004, 13:38 CEST]: From AS1930 (Portugal, Europe): [it works...] ;; Query time: 544 msec ;; SERVER: 2001:503:231d::2:30#53(2001:503:231d::2:30) ;; WHEN: Thu Oct 28 12:11:40 2004 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 504 ;; Query time: 547 msec ;; SERVER:

Re: IPv6 support for com/net zones on October 19, 2004

2004-10-28 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:45:28PM +0200, Niels Bakker wrote: Anyone else care to comment? The hop count is suspiciously lower for IPv6 than for IPv4, and has twice the latency (coming from Europe too). But again, this is traceroute `wisdom'. One problem with IPv6 traceroute is, that Cisco

RE: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?

2004-10-28 Thread Jason Frisvold
-Original Message- From: Charlie Khanna - NextWeb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations? Hi - I was interested in finding out what software applications other ISPs are using for network monitoring? For example: 1) Overall network

Abuse Ticketing Systems

2004-10-28 Thread James Baldwin
Are there any particularly useful ticketing systems for handling the sorts and volume of complaints an abuse desk sees? Currently my company has deployed Remedy internally and while it is particularly useful in managing work requests and our noc's incident response, it seems to be completely

Re: Abuse Ticketing Systems

2004-10-28 Thread Paul Khavkine
Try Request Tracker, it's very flexible and free. http://www.bestpractical.com On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, James Baldwin wrote: Are there any particularly useful ticketing systems for handling the sorts and volume of complaints an abuse desk sees? Currently my company has deployed Remedy

Re: [Insight?] OutPut Drops Cisco 7206VXR

2004-10-28 Thread Rodney Dunn
It's a vendor specific troublehsooting question so let's move it over to the cisco-nsp alias. http://puck.nether.net/cisco-nsp/ The drops can be as others have said for various reasons (QOS, bursty traffic, etc...). The bus error is most likely software although it could be hardware. Yours

Re: Abuse Ticketing Systems

2004-10-28 Thread John Kinsella
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:12:45AM -0400, James Baldwin wrote: experience with it. If someone has had a painless and successful experience using Remedy to handle abuse desk ticketing I'd love to hear a little about the overall engineering of the system to handle it. If anyone has had a

Re: IPv6 support for com/net zones on October 19, 2004

2004-10-28 Thread Carlos Friacas
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Niels Bakker wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlos Friacas) [Thu 28 Oct 2004, 13:38 CEST]: From AS1930 (Portugal, Europe): [it works...] ;; Query time: 544 msec ;; SERVER: 2001:503:231d::2:30#53(2001:503:231d::2:30) ;; WHEN: Thu Oct 28 12:11:40 2004 ;; MSG SIZE

Re: Abuse Ticketing Systems

2004-10-28 Thread Todd Mitchell - lists
On 28/10/2004 8:12 AM James Baldwin wrote: Are there any particularly useful ticketing systems for handling the sorts and volume of complaints an abuse desk sees? Aside from RT, you may also want to take a look at OTRS - http://otrs.org/. Todd

Re: Finding information about metro private line service in downtown SF

2004-10-28 Thread Jeff Rosowski
The Corning, FreeLink Optical Transport System looked pretty good as well if you have the money for it. Handles most weather, with the exception of fog. http://www.corningcablesystems.com/web/news/press97.nsf/ehtml|ehtml/bc1e7d41f445a29d85256c07004a4b67?opendocument On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Mike

RE: Finding information about metro private line service in downtown SF

2004-10-28 Thread Charlie Khanna - NextWeb
Wireless is a great option, if it's an option at all - I would just make sure to get a licensed link so you don't worry about getting knocked of the air by some rogue interferer. In fact, I've found a source for 39-gig radios (if the shot is less than 1.5 miles over the air) for about $3K.

Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread John Underhill
I have been looking around, but haven't found it yet.. Is there a text list of who owns what netblock worldwide? ISP/Location/Contact. I am not looking for anything searchable, but rather, a large, up to date list that I can import to a database.. Thanks John

Re: Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread Joe Abley
On 28 Oct 2004, at 13:00, John Underhill wrote: I have been looking around, but haven't found it yet.. Is there a text list of who owns what netblock worldwide? ISP/Location/Contact. I am not looking for anything searchable, but rather, a large, up to date list that I can import to a

Re: Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:12:39 EDT, Joe Abley said: Poke around the ftp sites of the four RIRs until you find address registration data. Don't expect to see a single dump format across RIRs. For bonus points, does anybody have a good estimate of what percentage of the registration data

Re: Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread Randy Bush
I have been looking around, but haven't found it yet.. Is there a text list of who owns what netblock worldwide? ISP/Location/Contact. I am not looking for anything searchable, but rather, a large, up to date list that I can import to a database.. in general, we try not to make life that

Re: Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread Tom Vest
On Oct 28, 2004, at 1:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:12:39 EDT, Joe Abley said: Poke around the ftp sites of the four RIRs until you find address registration data. Don't expect to see a single dump format across RIRs. For bonus points, does anybody have a good estimate of

Re: Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread Gary E. Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yo Randy! On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Randy Bush wrote: in general, we try not to make life that easy for spammers and scammers Too late. That horse ran out the barn when Verisgn sold their whois data. At this point keeping the data hard to get just

Re: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?

2004-10-28 Thread Andy Dills
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Charlie Khanna - NextWeb wrote: Hi - I was interested in finding out what software applications other ISPs are using for network monitoring? For example: 1) Overall network health - uptime reports http://www.nagios.org 2) Backup router config

Re: Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:17:14 EDT, Tom Vest said: operators. For those 3000+/- you can be reasonably confident that their whois data is correct; the other 15.5k actively routed ASNs (much less the routed netblocks, and less still the idled ASNs and netblocks) are anyone's guess...

Meeting Stats from Reston

2004-10-28 Thread Susan Harris
Greetings - here's some information about our joint NANOG/ARIN meeting in Reston: = NANOG 32/ARIN XIV October 17-22, 2004 Reston VA Hosts: AOL Time Warner Cable Total NANOG Attendees: 600 Total ARIN Attendees:

Re: Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread Alex Bligh
--On 28 October 2004 11:33 -0700 Gary E. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in general, we try not to make life that easy for spammers and scammers Too late. That horse ran out the barn when Verisgn sold their whois data. At this point keeping the data hard to get just makes it harder on abuse

Re: Finding information about metro private line service in downtown SF

2004-10-28 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Charlie Khanna - NextWeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wireless is a great option, if it's an option at all - I would just make sure to get a licensed link so you don't worry about getting knocked of the air by some rogue interferer. Licensed offers no such guarantee; all it offers is some

Re: Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread John Underhill
Perhaps I should have made my inquiry/intentions a little more specific. Just in the thinking out loud stage here, but.. I would like to put an interactive help system together. One where, the user would have the option to forward some types of complaints directly to the hosting provider/ISP

Re: Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread Gary E. Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yo John! On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, John Underhill wrote: ... but I am looking for a way to make it more reflexive, automated, and give the users a more direct course of action that releases our help desk from some of the burden.. And that is exactly

Re: Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread John Underhill
I realize that there may be no way to contact many of these people, but, it is a step towards identifying problem networks. If badhosting.com is responsible for a given percentage of the garbage that comes through our pipes, and I can leverage user input to identify this, then I can use this

Re: Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread Tom Vest
On Oct 28, 2004, at 2:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:17:14 EDT, Tom Vest said: operators. For those 3000+/- you can be reasonably confident that their whois data is correct; the other 15.5k actively routed ASNs (much less the routed netblocks, and less still the idled

Re: Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread william(at)elan.net
Please describe exactly what you want to do with the data. If its specific action based on some network name or per their ASN, I can probably deliver it (assuming this function has community value for more then just your needs). But providing entire list - is too open for abuse and also may

Final Stage: Early Registration Transfer Project (ERX)

2004-10-28 Thread Paul Rendek
Dear Colleagues, The four Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) are about to enter the final stage of the Early Registration Transfer (ERX) project. This project is a coordinated effort to move whois records for address space registered before the advent of the RIRs to the whois database of the RIR

Re: Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread John Underhill
Again guys.. just in the thinking out loud stage.. But it does surprise me that this information is not freely available, and accessible to all without hindrance, registration or obligations of any kind. There is the argument that this information could be used by the wrong people to do the

Re: Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread william(at)elan.net
Again so what is it you'are asking: 1. Function to list ip blocks for the same organization that often causes abuse reports for your customers? - see spews and spamhaus lists, for biggest abusers they do pretty good job of tracking any ip blocks assigned to them 2. Function to

Re: Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread Randy Bush
tom, i happen to have kept the internet manager's phonebook, the August 1990 bbn/nnsc publication of the whois data. you're welcome to ocr it and see how many of the contact data are still valid. on a spot check: for my own entry only the email address still is still correct, sob's phone and

Re: Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread Lucy E. Lynch
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Randy Bush wrote: i wish i could remember which beatles' (i think it was) song had the refrain we have all been here before. close, but California, harmony Deja Vu (David Crosby) If I had ever been here before I would probably know just what to do Don't you? If I had

Re: Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread Randy Bush
i wish i could remember which beatles' (i think it was) song had the refrain we have all been here before. close, but California, harmony well, at least we learn who has a better memory than i :-) the winners are, in order of appearance in my mailbox, Joe Abley, Charles Cala, and, of course,

Re: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?

2004-10-28 Thread Wes Hardaker
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:46:31 -0400 (EDT), Andy Dills [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 1) Overall network health - uptime reports 2) Backup router config automatically 3) Bandwidth reporting (or integration with an MRTG-type app) 4) SNMP trap support (BGP/OSPF session drops

Re: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?

2004-10-28 Thread Jonathan Nichols
3) Bandwidth reporting (or integration with an MRTG-type app) http://cricket.sourceforge.net/ You can also do this with Nagios now too.. with APAN. http://apan.sourceforge.net/ It's kind of cool. :D -Jonathan

Re: Finding information about metro private line service in downtown SF

2004-10-28 Thread Tom (UnitedLayer)
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Jeff Rosowski wrote: The Corning, FreeLink Optical Transport System looked pretty good as well if you have the money for it. Handles most weather, with the exception of fog. Using FSO in San Francisco is almost impossible :) There are way too many foggy days, I've