Other folks who use the Route Science/Avaya CNA products?

As the install base for these products is most likely too small to have a mailing list, I was wondering if there was any interest in forming a user-group (or possibly a small mailing list) the newer (ANS 4) software appears to have its fair share of quirks and some have

What is being 'ON NET' good for these days?

Howdy, over the past 4-6 months or so I have been attempting to find various means of interconnecting our main POP in a very small market (From a telecom options standpoint) in Ohio with one of the IX points in the US or at least a facility in another state/city which offers more

Anyone (else)still have a Extreme Black Diamond deployed?

This is slightly technical (not really, but slightly)... I am looking for folks willing to help me determine whether or not newer versions of the firmware have slightly closer to functional SNMP support please contact me off-list if you are interested. I've tried asking extreme

Asymmetrical routing opinions/debate

Pardon me if I am using the wrong term, I am using the term Asymmetrical routing to describe a scenario in which a request packet enters a network via one path and the response packet exits the network via a different path. For example an ICMP ping request enters a network via ISP A

Looking for a contact @ XO

Howdy, I apologize for using the list as a 'paging mechanism' but I have exhausted all possible avenues towards reaching a solution to a simple issue with XO including their help desk, their abuse desk, any old contacts I may have had, their local sales office, their old NNTP contact

Using RIR info to determine geographic location...

Is this becoming a more common or less common practice as we slide ourselves into the last week of 2007? The reason I am wondering is we have noticed some 'issues' recently where correct info in the RIR causes very inefficient and sometimes annoying interaction with some of the world's

AOL Postmaster issues

I have a question which has been unanswerable by normal channels, I will post it here hopefully someone else has run into it and I will not waste too much of anyone's time with it. Our abuse department has been receiving e-mails daily with our feedback loop with AOL about e-mails which were

General question on rfc1918

Hi there, I just had a real quick question. I hope this is found to be on topic. Is it to be expected to see rfc1918 src'd packets coming from transit carriers? We have filters in place on our edge (obviously) but should we be seeing traffic from 192.168.0.0 and 10.0.0.0 et cetera

RE: General question on rfc1918

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Drew Weaver wrote: Hi there, I just had a real quick question. I hope this is found to be on topic. Is it to be expected to see rfc1918 src'd packets coming from transit carriers? I would recommend grilling your carriers to find out why they're not dropping packets

RE: Level3 in cleveland/ohio?

Just FYI for all interested parties.. 18 hours later and the circuit is still down... :D -Drew -Original Message- From: Don Lundquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 9:07 AM To: Drew Weaver; nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: Level3 in cleveland/ohio? Level3 also

Level3 in cleveland/ohio?

Anyone else having major difficulty with service with ICG/Level3 circuits in Ohio/Cleveland? We've had a circuit down for 10 hours and just two hours ago they notified us that they're having a major outage in our region and have not provided __any__ further information. TIA, -Drew

Sorry if this is off-topic :-)

I don't believe it is, it may be, sorry if it is ;-) Does anyone have any real world experience with IDS gear from TopLayer? If so could you contact me off-list with your comments/suggestions? We're looking at some IDS / DDOS mitigation gear. Any suggestions from folks who have already

Anyone from AOL/ATDN on list (network operational issue)

Please shoot me a message. Thanks, -Drew

Anyone from global crossing on list?

Had an incident last night and need some clarification support has been less than.. supportive. Thanks, -Drew

Anyone from live.com or hotmail around here?

I've been having a very hard time getting a simple question answered from your postmaster tech support, please hit me off-list. Thanks, -Drew

US transit providers with slightly better than average International connectivity?

Howdy, I know with the trans-atlantic and trans-pacific connectivity being what it is these days that getting reliable (i.e. low latency 200, low packet loss 5% total round-trip) to countries such as AE and others is kind of a shot in the dark. However, I wanted to ping the

Anyone from Senderbase, or ironport around?

Please tag me off-list, also if anyone knows of any way to reach anyone there please let me know. Thanks, -Drew

large organization nameservers sending icmp packets to dns servers.

Is it a fairly normal practice for large companies such as Yahoo! And Mozilla to send icmp/ping packets to DNS servers? If so, why? And a related question would be from a service provider standpoint is there any reason to deny ICMP/PING packets to name servers within your organization?

Questions about populating RIR with customer information.

Up until recently, we were only providing the RIR database with information about our larger allocations /24 or larger. We have noticed however that many anti-spam organizations such as Spamhaus, and Fiveten will use the lack of information regarding an IP allocation as a blank check

Anyone else using Global Crossing for transit having an unusually high amount of problems today?

Could be that it is localized to the Cleveland area, but is anyone else noticing issues with glbx? -Drew No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.9.0/853 - Release Date: 6/18/2007 3:02 PM

Software or PHP/PERL scripts for simple network management?

Does anyone have a recommendation of any software products either commercial or freeware which will import the ip routing table from one of my routers/switches and display it in a sorted manner? We just need an easier distributed method than logging into our Black Diamond and typing sh

Avaya CNA 336 questions from other users.

I have a hard time finding people who know what an Avaya converged network analyzer is in my social circle, so I turn to you folks to see if anyone has any experience with them. We have had one deployed at our edge for awhile and I wanted to compare notes on performance with other

Anyone around from Sprint's e-mail administration?

Please contact me off-list. Thanks, Drew

RBL for bots?

Has anyone created an RBL, much like (possibly) the BOGON list which includes the IP addresses of hosts which seem to be infected and are attempting to brute-force SSH/HTTP, etc? It would be fairly easy to setup a dozen or more honeypots and examine the logs in order to create an initial

Southwestern Bell / SBC abuse/network contacts on list?

Anyone, anyone?? thanks, -Drew

Best networks with international presence..

I am looking for opinions of what US carriers have the best connectivity with the international players such as teleglobe, etc. Mainly, we are trying to determine if there is any way for us to get less latency from teleglobe's customers to our network (we currently see something like 1100 ms

Anyone know of a meaningful way to reach teleglobe?

thanks, -Drew

Anyone from SBC with networking clue available?

thanks, -Drew

Need an AOL postmaster contact with clue if possible.

please e-mail me.. Thanks, -Drew

Anyone from state of illinois or ATT on list?

One of the state of illinois' servers is attempting to breach security in our network and their arin abuse contact doesnt exist. Thanks! -Drew

Bandwidth accounting recommendation?

Hi, I have been scouring the net searching for a good bandwidth accounting solution that would be appropriate for a hosting provider/carrier. We are more interested in the total amount of bandwidth the user has utilized in a 7/30/90/365 (whatever) day period of time than a Mbps 'graph'

NNTP feed.

Does anyone know if cogent offers NNTP feeds to their DIA customers? Before we take the plunge we need to know and the sales fellas werent able to tell me this. -Drew

Ikano?

Anyone else notice ikano.com is completely down? Or is it just me? -Drew

anyone with network/bgp clue @ cogent onlist?

Please hit me offlist. I've already attempted all regular means of communication. Thanks, Andrew

Kind of an odd contact request. NNTP @ Time Warner Telecom

I need an NNTP contact at Time Warner Telecom :-) This is sort of an odd request, normally I would've just looked it up but this sort of thing isn't exactly published. If anyone here is a representative of TWT and can get a message to a person in that area I'd appreciate it if

Sales contact at MCI/UUNET?

I realize this is most likely off topic and is likely to get me flamed but I am in desperate need of the contact information for someone in sales or management at MCI/UUNET. We have been paying a reseller for a UUNET circuit for about 6 months and I guess he hasn't been paying MCI/UUNET

Last message i'll post for awhile I promise :-) (Need a Time Warner Cable NOC person)

Are there any TWC NOC people on list? Thanks, Drew

Odd policy question.

Maybe not such an odd question; Anywhoo, we have quite a few people who register our IP addresses as nameservers, and then never delete the records. I don't suppose there is any way that we can delete these old records, we have appealed to multiple registrars such as godaddy, enom, and

RE: Odd policy question.

in named.conf zone 2.96.192.in-addr.arpa{ type master; file primary/bogus.ia; }; in the zone file * PTR some.schmuck.lame.delegated.to.RAIN.PSG.COM. or zone someschmuck.com { type master; file primary/bogus.fwd; }; and @ MX0

Anyone with clue @ Godaddy.com please hit me off-list.

Thanks. -Drew

Comments or suggestions required Internap FCP 500 vs. OER

We're looking at possibly purchasing a Internap FCP500, everything I hear about these boxes is good. We are simultaneously trying to decide if Cisco's Optimized Edge Routing solution (built into the IOS) should be a consideration as an alternative? We're basically just trying to find a

RE: cogent+ Level(3) are ok now

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik Haagsman Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 2:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: John Payne; Patrick W.Gilmore; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: cogent+ Level(3) are ok now On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 18:48

SNMP Accounting Software

We need some fairly complex SNMP accounting software (data center) style stuff that can monitor cisco equipment for bandwidth utilization and generate reports based on 95th percentile and also perhaps even their actual bandwidth usage (how many gigs of transfer they use per month, day,

Hope this isnt a redundant question : Cisco IOS Netflow analysis mechanisms?

We're looking for a method of actively monitoring certain metrics on our network via software or a somewhat inexpensive hardware solution (those metrics being which AS numbers are the highest destinations for our network) and information like that which will help us with capacity

Off topic (new Win2k dos?)

    I have two machines within my network with similar configurations.. Windows 2000 Server SP4 with latest updates from Microsoft Updates. They are both behind dedicated (which means each server has its own Firewall) Watchguard Firebox III. Only 3389 (terminal services) web ftp, and

KVM over IP suggestions?

Howdy, Im looking for a way to give our remote users access to their servers, perhaps a KVM-IP solution. What we need is support for multiple users (more than 2), with access control that limits what users can connect to what ports on the KVM switch, and would allow you BIOS level access

Problems at Microsoft?

Hi there, weve had a few complaints about connectivity issues to Microsoft, is anyone else seeing a problem? Usually I get between 2-3MBps when I download from them, at the moment I get 8k/sec downloading

Is there a alternative way of doing kvm-over-IP

Buying the hardware boxes sounds pretty attractive, but I wondered if any industrious open sourcers have come up with anything that any NANOG-ers have come across that would do something similar to what the Dell 2161DS box would do. I realize we would need a server with some cards in it

Not exactly a policy issue, more of a technical issue.

I'm having a problem with a catalyst 6500 series switch, wherein certain users connected to said switch report that high numbered UDP ports 27015, etc are unreachable even though there are no access-lists anywhere in my network preventing these ports from being available. I recently took

Considering switch from Black Diamond 6808 to Catalyst 6500

Does anyone have any real world experience with performance gain from going from one to the other? We have noticed a lot of issues with the Black Diamond's performance. The support staff tells us we should QoS everything down to the last packet, but we don't really feel that we should

Best practice ACLs for a internet facing border router?

I'm just curious if anyone has ever published a list of what is an agreed upon best practice list of ACLs for an internet facing border router. I'm talking about things like bogons, private Ip addresses, et cetera. If anyone is aware of anything like this I'd like to see it. Thanks,

Using snort to detect if your users are doing interesting things?

Howdy, I am not sure if this is the proper place, if not Ive noticed you guys know what to do so Ill put the fire retardant suit on now. Recently due to growth we have seen an influx of different and interesting types of characters ending up on our network. They like to do all sorts of

Is anyone from XO monitoring?

Please contact offlist asap. Thanks, -Drew

Anyone from Xeex?

Hit me offlist if youre monitoring. Thanks, -Drew

Real usage opinions of arbor networks DDOS and traffic shaping product?

Offlist please, Thanks, -Drew

IDS/DDOS prevention hardware that doesnt cost $80,000+?

Im wondering if there is such an animal out there? All of the ones I have seen are made for the multi-gigabit service provider there arent any for the smaller mid-rangers out there. Can anyone suggest anything that we can put in place? The attacks were seeing are just a huge influx of PPS

GLBX security department contact

Contact me offlist please.

Two questions [controlling broadcast storms netflow software]; seeking offlist responses

Hi. Weve been using the same topology for our Fast Ethernet network for awhile, it has grown quite a bit lately and weve wanted to change it around. Weve been running into some problems with broadcasts traversing vlan boundaries and weve become a tad stumped by this.. Here is an example

RE: SMTP AUTH

Are you going to sue him like you threatened to sue us in 2001 for blacklisting you? :D -Drew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Anderson Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 12:01 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: SMTP AUTH Using SORBS?

Anyone from btnaccess.com on the list please ping me?

Offlist please. -Drew

Is anyone actually using OER to do traffic shaping/balancing?

Hit me offlist if you have experience with this actually working for you. -Drew

RE: AOL scomp

Postini is my friend :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of chuck goolsbee Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 1:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AOL scomp It's too bad that about 1/3 of the reported mails are valid opt-in lists.

Load balancing outgoing connections automatically.

Howdy. Were looking at upgrading our border router(s) from 7500s to (something) yet undetermined. What we would like to do is perhaps find a platform that is smart enough to not route more outgoing traffic across a circuit than it can handle. We have 4 outgoing links to the net at the

RE: Cisco moves even more to china.

I just find the whole idea of Cisco amusing, they still sell new 7500 series routers for 6 figures with the right configurations, and they've been around for 10 years, in what other industry can you take a product that is a decade old, hasn't advanced in technology, and still sell them

Precise per GB traffic calculations.

Does anyone know of a solution that offers precise methods of tracking bandwidth utilizations at the per Megabyte or Gigabyte level and not at the rate of transfer level? Some people are asking me if we can bill them in this manner, and I'm questioning whether the stats that the switch

XO Mail engineers?

It has come to my attention that XO has "done away" with some of concentric's email systems and have replaced them with new "XO SMTP servers" these new XO SMTP servers aren't allowing people who don't have their mail hosted at XO to relay mail through them even though they are XO DSL

Quick circuit question.

We have 1 DS-3, that if we get close to 45Mbps IN/OUT the other direction will be completely unusable. We have another DS3, that we have seen doing 45Mbps IN, and 15Mbps Out at the same time. This is going to sound dumb, but is duplex a consideration with lines of these types? I thought

RE: Akamai DNS Issue?

Similar issues with Yahoo on and off since about 8:30am (EST). -Drew -Original Message- From: Leo Bicknell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Akamai DNS Issue? From here neither www.google.com, nor www.apple.com work. Both

Anyone from Roadrunner's mail team

This is not in regards to your spam policies, it looks like a few of your MX servers are down and its playing a slight havoc on this end.. please contact me. -Drew

sorry.

Is anyone else having problems connecting to any of these on port 25?: herndon.mgw.rr.com. 131 IN A 65.32.1.38 herndon.mgw.rr.com. 131 IN A 65.32.1.42 herndon.mgw.rr.com. 131 IN A 65.32.1.49 herndon.mgw.rr.com. 131 IN

RE: Open Source BGP Route Optimization?

Not sure I'd trust something that was truly open source to handle something so important. But I guess I trust nagios for my service availability so shame on me ;-) -Drew -Original Message- From: Noel Montales [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 3:37 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: Microsoft XP SP2 (was Re: Lazy network operators - NOT)

-- Jeff said -- Patches either need to be of a size that a dialup user doesn't have to be dialed in for 24 hours to download and install them. Or .iso's should be available for ISP's to download, turn into CD's and distribute as appropriate. Wouldn't that be nice for a dialup user - getting

need a network/ip guru from uunet

Please contact me offllist asap! -Drew

any xo engineers around?

-Drew

RE: any xo engineers around?

: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 11:15 PM To: Drew Weaver Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: any xo engineers around? Drew Weaver writes on 3/19/2004 10:05 AM: -Drew The first one you posted was UUNET I think ... May I suggest getting yourself

Replacement for a Extreme Black Diamond 6808

Can anyone suggest a good replacement for an Extreme Black Diamond 6808 switch, we use it for aggregation, however their support is abhorrant and every time we have an issue they require us to unconfigure the switch, reset it to defaults and manually reconfigure it, no matter what the

Load Balancing Multiple DS3s (outgoing) on a 7500

Does anyone know of an article, or documentation regarding load balancing the traffic on 3 or more FastEthernet interfaces on the outgoing direction? Right now we're running BGP internally, and the routes that are being chosen based upon the final BGP decision step or what I like to call

RE: Counter DoS

-Original Message- From: Gregory Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 3:55 PM To: Rachael Treu Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Counter DoS Yes, lets allow the kiddies who already get away with as little work as they can in order to produce the most

Looking for someone who is very experienced with IPForwarding in Extreme switches

I figured I wouldn't bore the rest of you with this slight oddity I've come across in ExtremeWare that I am having an issue getting resolved, but if anyone knows a decent deal about how these switches really work, and doesn't mind giving me a hand, could you tag me off list? Thanks,

Sales Droid from SBC?

Any sales droids from SBC lurking? I'm having some problems with our usual reseller, thinking about going direct this time. Thanks, -Drew

RE: GSR, 7600, Juniper M?, oh my!

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Michel Py wrote: not trying to defend the 7500 platform, it's obsolete all right. However, free is music to my ears. What about longer term maintenance issues? Is the 7500 not scheduled for EOL from Cisco 'soon' ? So, purchasing 7500 bits that might be dropped by 'normal'

RE: High volumes of UDP traffic

We've seen similar instances of these types of things usually precipitated by a customer angering someone on IRC that they shouldn't have. Its just a targeted DDoS either by someone who has owned a large number of boxen on your network, or by someone who doesn't like people who owned a

Opinion on riverhead's DDOS mitigation system?

Has anyone seen this gear in action? Or does anyone have any better solutions? -Drew

Xo or TWT contacts?

Anyone around I've tried all normal channels without avail, need network techs for either. -Drew

DS3 questions.

We have a scenario where we have a DS3 at a Customer location that they want to use for both Data/PRI(voice) They need 8 Voice PRIs and they want to use the remainder of the DS3 for data. If we channelize this DS3, my question is, is it possible to use the unused portion of the DS3 as a

News peering/feeding?

I know back in the good old days this used to be fairly common, but does anyone still trade news feeds/peering? We just upgraded our NNTP system and have noticed that the incoming feeds we're receiving are a tad incomplete. So we would like to add a few more feeds. Thanks, -Drew

Postini?

Hi, is anyone else having a very difficult time reaching Postini? Thanks, -Drew

Last mile through roadrunner for YOUR customers?

Has anyone ever had any luck getting an agreement with Road Runner to use them as last mile for your customers? I've noticed a handful of companies that are currently doing this with them, but when you contact Road Runner they act like they don't know what you're talking about (probably

Anyone from optonline.net around?

Hit me off list please. -Drew

Any way to P-T-P Distribute the RBL lists?

I know you all have probably already thought of this, but can anyone think of a feasible way to run a RBL list that does not have a single point of failure? Or any attackable entry? Disregard this if im totally out of line, but it would seem to me that this would be possible.

TnT ethernet card fix?

Anyone ever come up with a solution for the performance/reliability issues with the TNT without having to buy a new Ethernet card? Thanks, -Drew

AOL people on list?

Contact me off-list please. -Drew

RE: Fun new policy at AOL

Then why not just pay a Virtual Mail hosting company to host a mail server for you via Imail or one of the other virtual email service packages out there. It is very inexpensive most of the time. That way you have the flexibility of having your own mail server, plus (most of the time) the server

Opinion on null0'ing entire 218.0.0.0?

Is anyone getting hundreds of thousands of spasm a day from 218.0.0.0 like I am? Has anyone actually considered null routing the whole block? Is there actually any 'users' in APNIC space? Or is it all spam from korea? -Drew

Worldnet-ATT on list?

If any worldnet-att people are on list please contact me. Thanks, -Drew

Don't beat me, but i've noticed a huge influx of these .pif virii today.

Don't kill me for posting this, it may be slightly off topic but I have noticed a very odd spike in traffic with these virii that have .pifs attached to them. The subject is random. The body always says: "See attached file for details" and they're always a pif file. Anyone

Natural Gas Generator manufacturer opinions? (might be off topic?)

Hi, we're looking to purchase our 3rd natural gas generator and need some opinions about the different manufacturers, off-list is fine if you like. Thanks, -Drew

RE: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled

John Neiberger wrote: Hmm...I didn't even know XP had a built-in firewall. Any bets on how long it is before other companies with software firewall products bring suit against Microsoft for bundling a firewall in the OS? -- No clue, but I can tell you how long it will last before

RE: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled

ipchains and similar firewalls are indeed far superior. I manage real firewalls as part of my responsibilities. However the new microsoft policy will help protect the network from Joe and Jane average who buy a PC from the closest big box store and hook it up to their cable modem so they can

Packeteer stuff?

Specifically talking about the PacketSeeker 6500 Is it worth the money? Or are there better ways to get centralized views of network metrics? -Drew

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