Re: AWS Web Application Firewall blocks ISP ranges?

2024-03-21 Thread Aaron Wendel
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Re: Why are paper LOAs still used?

2024-02-26 Thread Aaron Wendel
I don't have any examples of anyone still using paper LOAs except for Cogent. Aaron On 2/26/2024 12:57 PM, Seth Mattinen via NANOG wrote: Why do companies still insist on, or deploy new systems that rely on paper LOA for IP and ASN resources? How can this be considered more trustworthy than

Re: 165 Halsey recurring power issues

2023-10-23 Thread Aaron Wendel
I toured The Planet years ago in Dallas and was told by the sales rep that A+B power was two circuits from the same PDU. :) I consider A+B power to be two distinct feeds, separate utility entrances, separate generators, separate UPS', PDU's, etc.  Past that I consider things like firewall

Re: transit and peering costs projections

2023-10-16 Thread Aaron Wendel
The issue in Houston is Dallas. I reached out to 30-40 networks and 90% of them all said they just back haul to Dallas and have no interest in peering in Houston. It’s a real hard town to get any traction in. If you’re local and have some insight, I’d be super happy to talk to you. Aaron

Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

2023-10-04 Thread Aaron Wendel
I think this is what he was referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_alert Apparently we don't "all remember". On 10/4/2023 1:39 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: On Wed, 4 Oct 2023, Sabri Berisha wrote: Makes me wonder what I have to do to opt out of this. We all

Re: Your input sought on PeeringDB's Network Type field

2023-06-14 Thread Aaron Wendel
Your input will influence our decision. Thanks, Leo Vegoda for PeeringDB's Product Committee -- ======== Aaron Wendel Chief Technical Officer Wholesale Internet, Inc. (AS 32097) (816)550-9030 http://www.wholesaleinternet.com

Re: Spamhaus flags any IP announced by our ASN as a criminal network

2023-03-20 Thread Aaron Wendel
n’t take any liability and guarantee of the text of the email message and virus. -- ======== Aaron Wendel Chief Technical Officer Wholesale Internet, Inc. (AS 32097) (816)550-9030 http://www.wholesaleinternet.com

Re: [External] Normal ARIN registration service fees for LRSA entrants after 31 Dec 2023

2022-09-16 Thread Aaron Wendel
I'm not trying to troll, this is a serious question: Is there a formal agreement that says that all legacy resources will receive free registry services forever and ever or is it just an informal "That's how it was done"? Aaron

Re: 2 Byte ASNs??

2022-08-05 Thread Aaron Wendel
We've never had an issue requesting a 2-byte ASN from ARIN.  Our last request was, maybe, a month ago. Aaron On 8/5/2022 10:16 AM, Justin Wilson (Lists) wrote: Whats the availability of two byte asns look like? Anyone able to obtain one recently? I have a network that is all Mikrotik and the

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-24 Thread Aaron Wendel
On 5/24/2022 10:48 AM, Mitchell Tanenbaum via NANOG wrote: I have two fixed wireless Internet connections here.  One is 25/5, the other is 35/5.  There is no cable, no fiber, no cellular, not even DSL from the phone company.  That is reality in metro Denver, CO (actually, the foothills,

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-24 Thread Aaron Wendel
On 5/24/2022 9:57 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: If the government is going to fund anything at all anymore, it needs to be fiber all the way to the home which is built and managed in a way that any provider can use it.   This probably means a single strand from each home to

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-23 Thread Aaron Wendel
The Fiber Broadband Association estimates that the average US household will need more than a gig within 5 years.  Why not just jump it to a gig or more? On 5/23/2022 1:40 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-higher-speed-goals-small-rural-broadband-providers-0

Re: Cogent ...

2022-03-31 Thread Aaron Wendel
?!? Laura -- ======== Aaron Wendel Chief Technical Officer Wholesale Internet, Inc. (AS 32097) (816)550-9030 http://www.wholesaleinternet.com

Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia?

2022-03-04 Thread Aaron Wendel
disconnecting based on suspicions of what might happen in the future, however. Matt -- ======== Aaron Wendel Chief Technical Officer Wholesale Internet, Inc. (AS 32097) (816)550-9030 http://www.wholesaleinternet.com

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2022-02-16 Thread Aaron Wendel
full bike shed treatment no matter what we do. There are plenty of urban and suburban areas in America that are far worse off from a broadband perspective than “rural America”. Owen -- ===

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-09 Thread Aaron Wendel
-- Jay Hennigan - j...@west.net Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV -- ======== Aaron Wendel Chief Technical Officer Wholesale Internet, Inc. (AS 32097) (816)550-9030 http://www.wholesaleinternet.com

Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms

2021-09-22 Thread Aaron Wendel
not forward or speak of it (or its contents) to anyone else. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding. -- Aaron Wendel Chief Technical Officer Wholesale Internet, Inc. (AS 32097) (816)550-9030 http

Re: An update on the AfriNIC situation

2021-08-27 Thread Aaron Wendel
I suppose people who wanted to take a side could also block traffic to and from Cloud Innovations IP blocks. On 8/27/2021 10:36 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote: As many of you are aware, AfriNIC is under legal attack by Heng Lu / “Cloud Innovation.” John Curran just posted an excellent summary of

Re: netflow in the core used for surveillance

2021-08-25 Thread Aaron Wendel
You don't know that I don't know that. On 8/25/2021 4:32 PM, Paul Ebersman wrote: randy> https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg84yy/data-brokers-netflow-data-team-cymru randy> at, comcast, ... zayo, please tell us you do not do this. aaron> You know they do. No, you don't know that. The

Re: netflow in the core used for surveillance

2021-08-25 Thread Aaron Wendel
You know they do. On 8/25/2021 4:13 PM, Randy Bush wrote: https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg84yy/data-brokers-netflow-data-team-cymru used to get dissidents, activists, and journos killed at, comcast, ... zayo, please tell us you do not do this. randy

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-29 Thread Aaron Wendel
12/29/20 8:42 AM, Aaron Wendel wrote: Oh, we still get calls about speed issues. It's always wonderful when someone puts their own 10 year old Linksys WRT54G and double NATs behind our CPE then sends in a speed test wondering why they're only getting 10Mbits on their Gbit line.  We get those AL

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-29 Thread Aaron Wendel
of interest, what switch gear are you using? You must have a pretty good cost per port. Jonathon. On 29/12/2020 9:38 AM, Aaron Wendel wrote: We prioritize calls based on severity.  If both Google and Grandma call and say they have a cut then we have people to service both at the same time

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-29 Thread Aaron Wendel
g cut. It wouldn't seem like they'd be getting calls about "speed" issues, which are most annoying ones :-). Mark. -- ==== Aaron Wendel Chief Technical Officer Wholesale Internet, Inc. (AS 32097) (816)550-9030 http://www.wholesaleinternet.com

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-28 Thread Aaron Wendel
s home and thought he could just as well share it. This might be on a bigger scale but it is the same. Regards, Baldur On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 8:27 PM Aaron Wendel mailto:aa...@wholesaleinternet.net>> wrote: Darin, Our business support and residential support is the same de

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-28 Thread Aaron Wendel
. But there are plenty of people that made a network for their neighbors and provided that for free. Maybe a person had a commercial fiber to his home and thought he could just as well share it. This might be on a bigger scale but it is the same. Regards, Baldur On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 8:27 PM Aaron Wendel

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-28 Thread Aaron Wendel
compared to business customers compared on a 1:1 ratio. I honestly can't fathom providing free residential service because we make enough money on the business side of things. You should be charging something, at least $20-30 per month. On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:15 AM Aaron Wendel mailto:aa...

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-28 Thread Aaron Wendel
$49.95, you'd guess they'd value the 1Gbps service at, say US$27/month, give or take. So that US$300 provides a bit of coverage, perhaps 1 year, in which time they'd have likely upgraded the customer. Mark. -- Aaron Wendel Chief

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-28 Thread Aaron Wendel
ne the network side, it's just the same port, different (cheap) optic. A cheap port in use for free is better than an unused port, if the switch and fibre are already installed, and at less than 60% take-up. It's creative, I like it! Mark. -- =======

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-28 Thread Aaron Wendel
No.  Google still operates their plant in the KC area. Aaron On 12/27/2020 4:06 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: On 12/26/20 20:30, Aaron Wendel wrote: https://www.kcfiber.com/residential <https://www.kcfiber.com/residential> Curious, any chance you took over Google's fibre project :-)?

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-28 Thread Aaron Wendel
"The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ On Dec 26, 2020, at 10:30 AM, Aaron Wendel mailto:aa...@wholesaleinternet.net>> wrote: We run MikroTik RB4011s for residential speeds between 1G and 10G or just sup

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-28 Thread Aaron Wendel
when you should be a minimum of $65 per month to be competitive. On Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 12:31 PM Aaron Wendel mailto:aa...@wholesaleinternet.net>> wrote: We run MikroTik RB4011s for residential speeds between 1G and 10G or just supply a media converter.  For residential 40G

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-26 Thread Aaron Wendel
We run MikroTik RB4011s for residential speeds between 1G and 10G or just supply a media converter. For residential 40G and 100G we just drop in Arista or Extreme switches. SMBs are normally just a media converter or direct fiber handoff. https://mikrotik.com/product/rb4011igs_5hacq2hnd_in

Re: Clever use of a decommissioned Datacenter

2020-07-23 Thread Aaron Wendel
other than colo? Norman Jester 619-319-7055 -- Aaron Wendel Chief Technical Officer Wholesale Internet, Inc. (AS 32097) (816)550-9030 http://www.wholesaleinternet.com

Re: fs.com dwdm equipment

2019-02-18 Thread Aaron Wendel
We use it. A lot of it. No problems. Never a need for warranty support. Aaron Sent from my iPad > On Feb 17, 2019, at 12:42 PM, Samir Rana wrote: > > Hello All, > > Does anybody have experience with fs.com dwdm equipment in their production > environment? Are you they working without any

Re: Internet Surveillance and Boomerang Routing: A Call for Canadian Network Sovereignty

2013-09-07 Thread Aaron Wendel
Not just a Canadian issue but one we should look at in the US as well. Deploying more IXs and routing our traffic direct instead of through the big guys can secure our own communications from our own government until we change who we have in office. Aaron On 9/7/2013 4:08 PM, Paul Ferguson

Re: Office 365..? how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

2013-07-14 Thread Aaron Wendel
On 7/14/2013 3:37 PM, Richard Golodner wrote: On Sun, 2013-07-14 at 09:36 -1000, Randy Bush wrote: in fact, they were all likely in the same rotten boat. Why I love open source. Look at my mail, track my web site visits. None of this should come as any surprise, especially to the

Re: Noction?

2013-04-10 Thread Aaron Wendel
It's like the Internap FCP. I think it's been on the market about a year. They're a nice group of guys and the product does what they say it does. Aaron On 4/10/2013 4:30 PM, Ray Wong wrote: gotten a few cold calls from Noction. All I see is some PR about BGP happiness and good feelings

Re: 365x24x7

2011-04-18 Thread Aaron Wendel
My guys work 12 hour shifts. 2 days on, 2 days off, 3 days on, 2 days off, 2 on 3 off. The three days on is always friday-sunday so every other weekend they either have a 3 day weekend or 3 days of work. In a pay period, with 30 minute lunch per shift it comes to 80.5 hours. I keep my guys

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread Aaron Wendel
That's a good question. Maybe they can't qualify under Arin rules. Another question will be: how is Arin going to handle it? Im pretty sure that the RSA says that in the event of bankruptcy ips revert to the Arin pool. I understand that these were legacy addresses but... Aaron Sent

RE: Interesting google redirects.

2011-03-03 Thread Aaron Wendel
My IPs have been redirecting to google bk for several days. I thought it was just me. Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless -Original message- From: Skywing skyw...@valhallalegends.com To: Wil Schultz wschu...@bsdboy.com, nanog nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thu, Mar 3, 2011 15:53:36 GMT+00:00

RE: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread Aaron Wendel
How can someone steal something from you that you don’t own? From: John Levine [mailto:jo...@iecc.com] Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 5:06 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers Your right to use a particular set of addresses on a

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Aaron Wendel
To what end? And who's calling the shots there these days? Comcast has been nothing but shady for the last couple years. Spoofing resets, The L3 issue, etc. What's the speculation on the end game? From: Richard A Steenbergen [mailto:r...@e-gerbil.net] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Re: Cacti Bandwidth Monitoring

2010-11-29 Thread Aaron Wendel
Do you have it set for 64 bit counters? Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless -Original message- From: Peter Rudasingwa peter.rudasin...@altechstream.rw To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Mon, Nov 29, 2010 14:24:22 GMT+00:00 Subject: Cacti Bandwidth Monitoring Hi, I have a cacti server running

RE: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions

2010-11-29 Thread Aaron Wendel
A customer pays them for access to the Internet. If that access demands more infrastructure then Comcast needs to build out the infrastructure and pass on the costs to the customers demanding it. I think it sets a very bad precedent that Level3 agreed to their terms. How long would it have

RE: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions

2010-11-29 Thread Aaron Wendel
Wendel Cc: 'Patrick W. Gilmore'; 'NANOG list' Subject: RE: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions On 11/29/2010 4:49 PM, Aaron Wendel wrote: A customer pays them for access to the Internet. If that access demands more infrastructure then Comcast needs to build

Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions

2010-11-29 Thread Aaron Wendel
: Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions On 11/29/2010 6:45 PM, Aaron Wendel wrote: I think what this really boils down to is an effect of shoddy marketing. Access providers want to offer unlimited everything and don't want to have to go back

RE: experience with equinix exchange

2010-11-28 Thread Aaron Wendel
According to pch they don't run most of them. I would say they run very few compared to how many there actually are. Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless -Original message- From: Ryan Finnesey ryan.finne...@harrierinvestments.com To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Sun, Nov 28, 2010 21:45:28

RE: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-13 Thread Aaron Wendel
On Aug 13, 2010, at 10:36 AM, John Levine wrote: http://www.circleid.com/posts/psst_interested_in_some_lightly_used_ip_addres ses/ Discuss. :-) I don't entirely understand the process. Here's the flow chart as far as I've figured it out: 1. A sells a /20 of IPv4 space to B for, say,

RE: Inquiries to Acquire IPs

2010-07-02 Thread Aaron Wendel
I sent an inquiry in to ARIN yesterday for a certain ASN that was available and was told that management won't allow them to issue requested numbers. :( Aaron -Original Message- From: Dan White [mailto:dwh...@olp.net] Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 4:36 PM To: Michael Loftis Cc:

RE: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-08 Thread Aaron Wendel
Actually I was thinking of my neighbor's noisy dog and what a predator strike to his house would do. :) -Original Message- From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu [mailto:valdis.kletni...@vt.edu] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 8:32 PM To: Jorge Amodio Cc: na...@merit.edu Subject: Re: Nato warns of

RE: Peering Exchange Configurations

2010-04-08 Thread Aaron Wendel
I operate the exchange point in the Kansas City area so I'll answer your questions based on how we do it. 1) Is a private AS typically used for the exchange side of the session? No. Each participant uses their own ASN. 2) Are RFC1918 IPs typically used for the p2p links into the exchange? No.

RE: Peering Exchange Configurations

2010-04-08 Thread Aaron Wendel
-Original Message- On Apr 8, 2010, at 2:08 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: 3a) If no: Do participants typically preference exchange-learned routes over other sources? Yes. As far as I know all our members set routes learned through the exchange fabric higher than anything else.

RE: BGP hijack from 23724 - 4134 China?

2010-04-08 Thread Aaron Wendel
Please. -Original Message- From: Will Clayton [mailto:w.d.clay...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 8:43 PM To: Beavis Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: BGP hijack from 23724 - 4134 China? Do share! On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Beavis pfu...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible

RE: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space

2010-04-07 Thread Aaron Wendel
There was talk a little while ago about a fee waiver for legacy holders who had signed an RSA but I think it's still in the suggestion phase. To get v6 space now you would need to sign an RSA for the v6 space and pay the v6 fee's. There is a partial fee waiver in effect for ISP v6 allocations.

RE: Alaska IXP?

2010-03-04 Thread Aaron Wendel
We have very similar issues in Kansas City. A couple years ago we set up a local exchange point but it's had issues gaining traction due to a lack of understanding more than anything else. In these smaller markets people have a hard time understanding how connecting to a competitor benefits

RE: Cogent Outage?

2010-01-14 Thread Aaron Wendel
Sitting on hold with them now. We lost them completely in Kansas City for about 5 minutes. We're back but connectivity through them is spotty. Can't even resolve google.com. Same with other DCs in the area. -Original Message- From: Joe Johnson [mailto:j...@riversidecg.com] Sent:

RE: New SPAM DOS

2010-01-08 Thread Aaron Wendel
Yep. I've been receiving them from several of my domains for a couple weeks. I've been sending the normal complaints to the provider of the IP space in the header but other than that I have no good ideas about combating it. Aaron -Original Message- From: Owen DeLong

ATT Admin

2009-11-09 Thread Aaron Wendel
Ok, guess we'll see if this really works or not. Would an ATT mail admin contact me offlist? I have an issue I need to start moving up the chain since I'm getting nowhere fast with normal channels. Thanks, Aaron

RE: American Fiber Systems

2009-09-23 Thread Aaron Wendel
I have experiences with AFS going back 5 years. None of them good. Where would you like me to start? Aaron -Original Message- From: Marian Stasney [mailto:mar...@stasney.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 4:40 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: American Fiber Systems If any HTTP

RE: Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation

2009-09-15 Thread Aaron Wendel
The mailing sent daily contains both. -Original Message- From: Justin Shore [mailto:jus...@justinshore.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11:18 AM To: Martin Hannigan Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation Martin Hannigan wrote: Well, I haven't even

AOL Postmaster

2009-06-01 Thread Aaron Wendel
Is anyone from AOL lurking on the list that could contact me of-list? I'm having some issues with mail being rejected because AOL believes our IPs are dynamic. Aaron

RE: AOL Postmaster

2009-06-01 Thread Aaron Wendel
://postmaster.aol.com/? Mike -Original Message- From: Aaron Wendel [mailto:aa...@wholesaleinternet.com] Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 12:48 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: AOL Postmaster Is anyone from AOL lurking on the list that could contact me of-list? I'm having some issues with mail being

RE: Why choose 120 volts?

2009-05-26 Thread Aaron Wendel
Our power is handed to us at 480v. We then deliver it to the customer at whatever they need. The nice thing about 120v is that everything uses it. No odd cords (as mentioned before) or expensive PDUs. I've had a lot of people suggest that running our servers at 240v would save us money

RE: UCEProtect Level 3

2009-05-07 Thread Aaron Wendel
Yes. Is that a problem? -Original Message- From: Raleigh Apple [mailto:rap...@rapidlink.com] Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 1:34 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: UCEProtect Level 3 Is anyone else out there aware that the UCEProtect Level 3 email blacklist blocks entire AS? r

RE: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

2009-04-20 Thread Aaron Wendel
I think this needlessly involves people who probably don't have a clue in an area we may not really want them involved in. I can hear the conversation now: Officer: Why do I have to sign this thing? Tech: Well your graciousness. We are coming to the end of the available address space and the

RE: Cogent Haiku v2.0

2009-01-12 Thread Aaron Wendel
NANOG has admins They waste a lot of time now Maybe paid to much -Original Message- From: Murphy, Jay, DOH [mailto:jay.mur...@state.nm.us] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 11:57 AM To: Mike Bartz; neal rauhauser Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Cogent Haiku v2.0 Level 3 has gear.