Re: shameful-cabling gallery of infamy - does anybody know where it went?

Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/03/really-bad-wiring-jobs_20.html My contribution: When I use to work at Caesars Palace here in Las Vegas, I was witness to some rather ugly cabling jobs.

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ashe Canvar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Thanks for all your replies. I came across http://www.hostip.info/use.html, which looks good, at least from a API/ ease of use prespective. I just tried that, says I'm 100 miles south of where I really am. That's quite a

Re: Problems connectivity GE on Foundry BigIron to Cisco 2950T

According to "Ethernet, The Definitive Guide", that feature is an optional part of the spec. One thing I've heard people encounter is that if they use a cross-over cable, which probably really implies a 100BASE-TX cross-over, then the ports only go to 100Mbps. A Gig-E rated straight through, in

Re: the future of the net

Oh, the irony - all I get is: Linux Journal Is Currently Unavailable Due to a Denial of Service (DoS) Attack Sorry for any inconvenience.

Re: Paging Google's Googlebot developers re. bugs

Googlebot keeps ignoring my robots.txt file, thereby hammering the server and facilitating spam. I think I found at least 2 bugs; see this thread in the robots.txt forum thread: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum93/782.htm I've used Google's direct contact form last Wednesday; still no ack

Re: 3 men die in weekend crashes

uh... the guy hit a telephone pole.. may have caused an outage. On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3 men die in weekend crashes While tragic, how is this even *remotely* on-topic for this lis

Re: "Cisco gate" and "Meet the Fed" at Defcon....

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 no, but I'd like to... since I'm upgrading and all (for security reasons and ipv6 is so much better for security, right? :) ) It has quality of service, too! Let's not forget that! I'd be happy with ssh. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gn

Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?

| So imagine a residential area all pulling digital video over wireless. | Sound familiar? Ironically close to TV! (yet so different) You mean like VoIP over dsl ? I'm looking to setup DSL over VoIP over DSL next.

Re: Blocking port udp/tcp 1433/1434

Is there still justification for denying transit for ms-sql slammer ports? Well MS-SQL Worm propagation attempts and MS-SQL version overflow attempts account for 62% of the activity on our Internet facing IDS.

Re: OSP/ISP Labeling Conventions

Does anyone have, or know of, example naming/labeling conventions for outside and inside plant cabling? I came across more than a few mentions of TIA-606, but couldn't find an actual copy of it (didn't look very hard, not a telephone person, so I'm going to assume it's one of those "pay for a big,

Re: Verizon Offering Naked DSL in Northeast...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You can already get this from Covad through providers like Speakeasy. I recently switched from SDSL on a dedicated pair to ADSL. I've has this with Covad, who in Las Vegas resells XO service, for years. Rock solid, and I get four static IP addresses.

RE: More on Vonage service disruptions...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A question to ponder - what would happen to your network , from both a technical and financial perspective if all of your customers circuit switched voice traffic suddenly became ip? Offer a "Quality of Service" product to enhance voice over IP service

Re: Emergency Internet Backbone Provider Maintenance Tonight

Has anyone heard about some carriers doing emergency maintenance tonight on Internet routers due to a code vulnerability? I'm trying to find out what vendor it involves and the details behind it. I understand it's still under NDA, but I'm sure someone out there knows more. I doubt it's related,

Re: no whois info ?

shell1% whois vestigial3had.com ... No match for "VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM". What gives ? How can their be no whois info anywhere ? Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within about 10 minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz) while whois data is still updated once o

RE: Bogon filtering (don't ban me)

Just thinking out loud, but is there any reason that this route-server methodology couldn't be applied to other 'undesirable' destinations, such as the world's top spammers, phishing web sites, etc? Maybe break them up into different communities, so subscribers can pick which ones they wan

Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

My AFS, Kerberos, and active FTP sessions think that you are being very, very optimistic about the usability of non-unique adresses and kludgy middleboxen who think they understand networking. Don't forget IPSec, and Cisco skinny IP telephone protocol, and of course more importantly, my half-life

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

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 Ly