Re: Cellular enabled console server

2017-02-25 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > OpenGear all the way. Models for every need. +1 OpenGear all the time - just ensure you are patching/manageing them(!) alan

Re: PSN download speeds

2017-01-09 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, really not the right place for this... however, its pretty well documented elsewhere, eg https://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/5drvcc/an_update_on_psn_download_speeds/ alan

Re: PlayStationNetwork blocking of CGNAT public addresses

2016-09-16 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, as others have said, need to engage with one of their other units to get this sorted out - as a network provider, their customers are relying on YOU to access their service, PSN should care. technically, you could start looking at netflows to the PSN and see if anyone is engaged in DDoS

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-30 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, whilst we're posting YouTube clips. maybe they'd have been better off keeping a copy of the Internet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg ;-) alan

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-30 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NITBfc1EOBo#t=27s "This video contains content from B_Viacom, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds." I love YouTube and copyright regional laws :/ alan

Re: Why the internal network delays, Gmail?

2016-08-27 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > I was working within the limits of what I had available. Google offer several trouble shooting tools for their service too, you might want to look at their toolbox eg https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/messageheader/ (part of their 'why is my email slow to deliver?' process) alan

Re: Why the internal network delays, Gmail?

2016-08-27 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > administrator reaching out to peers for assistance with a particular > problem that is clearly network related is inappropriate for a network clearly network related? people have an interesting expectation of email - expecting instant delivery. you might check their level of

Re: Speedtest.net not accessible in Chrome due to deceptive ads

2016-07-20 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > Since this morning Speedtest.net is not accessible in Chrome > Reason: > https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagnostic/#url=c.speedtest.net someones complained about the URL based on them stupidly installing 'cleanmymac' or such? use the non flash junk HTML5 version

Re: Leap Second planned for 2016

2016-07-09 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > Leap second handling code is not well-tested and is an ultimate corner > case. There's been debate about abolishing leap seconds; with all the well, we've gone through a few of these now...so if it was all okay before its likely to be again... exception: any NEW code that you are running

Re: Bitcoin mining reward halved

2016-07-09 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > This is pretty O/T for this list, isn't it? not if he's using his routers ASICs to do it! ;-) (or maybe its related to the bitcoin network traffic volumes...but thats too logical...) alan

Re: NAT firewall for IPv6?

2016-07-05 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > Right. But how long is it going to take to secure the Palo Alto firewall? around 5 minutes? recover password, restart, log in, fix rules. https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Management-Articles/How-to-Reset-the-Administrator-Password/ta-p/57581 obviously the firewall is also blocking

Re: NAT firewall for IPv6?

2016-07-05 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > > The Palo-Alto's also don't support anything but NAT64, > > They don't support proper dual-stack?? Or NAT64 is the only NAT flavor of course they support native IPv6 ...or IPv4 with IPv6 in dual-stack. i believe the comment was related to the 6/4 xlat stuff - ie just NAT64 and not

Re: NAT firewall for IPv6?

2016-07-05 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, I would go through the password recovery options on the PaloAlto. as a next gen firewall you need to ensure you are getting all the latets rulesets and detection code through - check your subscription with them once you've sorted out access you can look at the policies and ensure that

Re: NANOG67 - Tipping point of community and sponsor bashing?

2016-06-20 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, well, you an say one thing - the talk got a lot of conversation going - most of it useful and positive and informational.isnt that the sign of a good talk? ;-) seriously, this thread has been very active/alive based on the initial trigger of his talk. as for the talk

Re: Firewall list recommendations (config conversion options)

2016-04-25 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > > Looking for options on converting a large amount of Fortinet rules to > > Checkpoint. Ultimately converting the entire configuration to Checkpoint > > would be nice. theres a post online asking the same question back in early 2010 with no responses... there are also a lost of tools

Re: Stop IPv6 Google traffic

2016-04-10 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > The problem is IPv6-enabled customers complaints see captcha, and Google > NOC refuses to help solve it saying like find out some of your customer > violating some of our policy. As you can imagine, this is not possible. your customers are getting addresses when looking up google

Re: DataCenter color-coding cabling schema

2016-03-14 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, I'm not sure I'm keen on a colour standard - especially given our recent difficulties sourcing cabling to our spec in certain colours...or lengths!however, what we do - and others do based on this thread - is have our own internal colour scheme for purposes/systems/customers. fibre

Re: Equipment Supporting 2.5gbps and 5gbps

2016-01-27 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > Fortunately the two groups came together in the IEEE, and there are no > competing standards. right! so why do both keep updating their own marketing and web pages each month? ;-) thanks for the info though - our future world isnt messed up for multigig > - Optional Energy Efficient

Re: Equipment Supporting 2.5gbps and 5gbps

2016-01-27 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > I've a couple 10 port Cisco switches that support 2.5 and 5gbps over cat5e, > just wondering if there are any other vendors out there with offerings that > support these newer ethernet speeds. Supporting cat5e for these multi-gig > speeds is a real boon in many circumstances given the

Re: Another Big day for IPv6 - 10% native penetration

2016-01-04 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > I'm wondering when we reach another significant milestone - 50% :-) half of us will celebrate, the other half will cry ;-) alan

Re: Nat

2015-12-21 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > > > persuading people to move to IPv6. Especially when everyone > > > already understands DHCP in the v4 world. > > enterprise) and once they stop thinking "I want to do everything > > in IPv6 in exactly the same way as I have always done in IPv4" exactly. as my thoughts often gather

Re: [CVE-2015-7755] Backdoor in Juniper/ScreenOS

2015-12-18 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > > Should we blame Juniper for letting a git repository open to > > "unauthorized code" or should we congratulate them for their frankness > > (few corporations would have admitted the problem)? 'un-authorized' - not authorized. this could be code/idea by some/one engineer for eg debugging

Re: Questions regarding equipment for a large LAN event

2015-12-07 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
hi okay...so lots of gig connections with 10g interconnects etc - have you actually done network analysis/flows of the events in the past to see what you actually require to run the event? what sort of stuff are they doing - multiplayer PvP stuff or are they shipping images/ISOs across to

Re: Ransom DDoS attack - need help!

2015-12-03 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > F5 Silverline, Arbor Networks, Incapsula, to name a few can do ddos > protection. Don't pay up, use ddos protection. you know how many ponder whether AV companies write some of the viruses ;-) alan

Re: Is there a DNS lookup, traceroute, ping and HTTP GET as a service?

2015-11-18 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
hi, ...and SamKnows? alan

Re: Is there a DNS lookup, traceroute, ping and HTTP GET as a service?

2015-11-18 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > About RIPE ATLAS, I already have one of their boxes and it never worked. > Simply doesn't appear as online. Their support just barely gave me some > tips but with no meaningful result. I need something reliable and I'm > willing to pay for this service. RIPE Atlas falls in the category of

Re: Advance notice - H-root address change on December 1, 2015

2015-11-16 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > Just a heads up, even the latest CentOS 7 package has the wrong IPv4 and v6 > address. whilst the new H-ROOT is alive now, the official switch-over date is 1st December 2015 and the old address will be available for 6 months after thatso if any BIND package comes out AFTER 1st

Re: DNSSEC and ISPs faking DNS responses

2015-11-13 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > BTW, the proposed law, being done by lawyers, will have the list of you say law but this idea of blocking all competitors to the states lotto sounds very unlawful and anti-competitive - yes, I can understand states or countries blocking ALL gambling , thats a simple 'we dont allow it

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-10-27 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > not even close to more discussing than from the original spam. Not even > close. data volume wise, the discussion of spam is easily beating the volume of spam (which some people had issue with) as the SPAM emails were very small with just a URL - the discusions about it is now spread

Re: IGP choice

2015-10-22 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > The differences between the two protocols are so small, that people > really grasp at straws when 'proving' that one is better over the > other. 'IS-IS doesn't work over IP, so its more secure'. 'IS-IS uses > TLVs so new features are quicker to implement'. While these may be > vaguely valid

Re: IPv6 and Android auto conf

2015-10-16 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > Sure, would be fun to try DHCPv6. Last time when I checked only OS X was > supporting it with limited sense. Windows.. alan

Re: Android and DHCPv6 again

2015-10-15 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > Android does not have a complete IPv6 implementation and should not be IPv6 > enabled. Please do your part and complain to Google that Android does not > support DHCPv6 for address assignment. no different to other devices historically it can get IPv6 connectivity via SLAAC and then

Re: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero

2015-09-24 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > IPv6 traffic roughly doubled in my view of the internet in the past ~2 weeks > as the 9.0 GM image hit and the public release of 9.0 came out. 0.001% of traffic to 0.002% ;-) joking aside as I'm a big IPv6 champion IPv6 is picking up a lot recentlyand whilst the bahviour

Re: IP's with jitter/packet loss and very far away

2015-09-18 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > my own experience is the misinterpretation of the above properties in > traceroute is pathological to the point of making it useless in the > hands of novices... correct. you should be looking at the output of other data transit systems such as iperf, bwctl etc - thats why such tools as

Re: SMS Gateway

2015-09-14 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > Today we use a product from MultiTech Systems call MultiModem iSMS to send > SMS text messages from our monitoring system to our on call staff. This is a > 2G product and we need to replace it soon. I know there are more generic > cellular modems that can do texting if you are willing

Re: SMS Gateway

2015-09-14 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, > For most of us, the issue is that we don’t want to do this over the Internet, > since that’s what we are monitoring :) exactly :-) alan

Re: A simple perl script to convert Cisco IOS configuration to HTML with internal links for easier comprehension

2015-08-06 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, very nice but I now have an urge to getting this integrated with RANCID and I just dont have the time, frustrating! ;-) alan

Re: GoDaddy : DDoS : : Contact

2015-08-03 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, What would be the point of spoofing the source IPs to be identical? You're just making the attack trivial to block. Plus you could never do any kind of TCP session attack, since you can't complete a handshake. I would have to call this sort of attack a LAAADDoS (Lame Attempt At A

Re: M$ no v6 or just me?

2015-07-14 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, however...this revelation is shocking...my users can access www.microsoft.com material via IPv6?? turn this filth off!! ;-) alan

Re: M$ no v6 or just me?

2015-07-14 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, And there isn't its your DNS ;-) host e10088.dspb.akamaiedge.net e10088.dspb.akamaiedge.net has address 104.70.251.201 e10088.dspb.akamaiedge.net has IPv6 address 2a02:26f0:cb:2a4::2768 e10088.dspb.akamaiedge.net has IPv6 address 2a02:26f0:cb:29a::2768 alan

Re: M$ no v6 or just me?

2015-07-14 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, No. My DNS (using the roots) gets it right. ;-) so if you choose google DNS you dont see the right stuff..in which case its your DNS and not microsoft or Akamai not doing IPv6 ;-)same true for OpenDNS? likely... alan

Re: Overlay broad patent on IPv6?

2015-07-13 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, It is a stupid idea if you ask me, ..and thus, based on most of the current technology patents out there, perfectly patentable. dont worry, the rest of the internet will probably need something like this in the future... and whats happened here is some coffee-room tech chat or water

Re: Hotels/Airports with IPv6

2015-07-13 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, I've done fairly extensive testing, and IPv6 support, while pretty solid on the carrier side, is still iffy on WiFi. Both iOS and Android have various reliability problems with IPv6 and WiFi, mostly related to acquiring a DNS address or maintaining a connection while roaming. Combine

Re: Overlay broad patent on IPv6?

2015-07-13 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, This is actually a good idea. Roll out an IPV6 only network and only pass out an IPV4 address if it's needed based on actual traffic. yes...shame someones applied for a patent on that! ;-) alan

Re: ARIN just subdivided their last /17, /18, /19, /20, /21 and /22. Down to only /23s and /24s now. : ipv6

2015-06-29 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, I knew several people who built their career path on the assumptions of IPX. Ouch. or DECnet ;-) alan

Re: How long will it take to completely get rid of IPv4 or will it happen at all?

2015-06-29 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, I just ran a tcpdump looking for NTP packets going to 128.173.14.71. In 90 minutes, I got hits from 330 unique IP addresses, including some that were chatty enough to indicate there were dozens of hosts behind a NAT. ah yes. the joy of the usual 2 scenarios 1) your IP got used in some

Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

2015-06-10 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, Ok, let's see how that goes, even among the few people on this thread. Question for everyone on this thread that has said that DHCPv6 NA is a requirement: suppose that Android supported stateful DHCPv6 addressing, requested a number of addresses, and did not use any of them if the

Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

2015-06-10 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, No, the premise is that from a user's point of view, DHCPv6-only networks what about DHCPv6 for IPv6 and DHCP for IPv4 - the client should still be able to pick up an IPv6 addressinstead of forcing the only option to be SLAAC ? alan

Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

2015-06-10 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, Asking for more addresses when the user tries to enable features such as tethering, waiting for the network to reply, and disabling the features if the network does not provide the necessary addresses does not seem like it would provide a good user experience. talking of the user

Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

2015-06-09 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, supporting DHCPv6 seems to be that mobile networks don't need it, but that totally ignores 802.11 which is equally important. ...and what about 802.3 for those Android boxes/systems on the wired? :-) I would hope we're past the religious arguments of SLAAC vs DHCPv6 but it seems like

Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

2015-06-09 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, Agreed - apparently the solution is to implement SLAAC + DNS advertisements *AND* DHCPv6. Because you need SLAAC + DNS advertisements for Android, and you need DHCPv6 for Windows. Windows has been dealing with SLAAC for ages...and OSX... DHCPv6 is relatively new in that arena...

Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

2015-06-09 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, and we wonder at the pitiful ipv6 deployment. if more network admins actually did network stuff then IPv6 deployment would be plentiful and we could even start the discussion about turning off IPv4 ;-) alan

Re: most accurate geo-IP source to build country-based access lists

2015-06-08 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, Have you thought about application layer tests - e.g. is the client's character set/language set to Swedish? Has the user identified himself/herself/henself as living in or being from Sweeden? ...just waiting for someone to suggest checking their web cookies to see what area they've got

Re: most accurate geo-IP source to build country-based access lists

2015-06-08 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
Hi, 2. There are no Russian soldiers in Crimea eh? we know there are as it got annexed last year. I think you meant There are no Russian soldiers in Ukraine ? alan