RE: The Cidr Report

2014-05-09 Thread Andrew D Kirch
If the whole thing breaks, I'm taking a vacation. Andrew -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Owen DeLong Sent: Friday, May 9, 2014 8:52 PM To: Patrick W. Gilmore Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: The Cidr Report ROFLMAO — Party in Bellevue is

Re: Phase 4.

2014-04-27 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Wow, I wish I could incoherent this typely! Andrew Sent from my iPad On Apr 24, 2014, at 1:54 AM, Bryan Socha br...@digitalocean.com wrote: Whats the big deal If your just arin, dont panic. Akamai and digitalocean has been the only people aquire fair priced v4 putside

Re: Anternet

2014-04-05 Thread Andrew D Kirch
So, if there's more than 4 billion ants... what are they going to do? Andrew On 4/5/2014 1:44 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote: Offered for your amusement--no followup. http://kottke.org/14/04/the-anternet

Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?

2014-03-12 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Hi, I found that finding them on IRC, or wherever it is that they congregate, and simply talking to them until they incriminate themselves tends to work best. I also found that firewalls, IDS, security audits, antivirus, antimalware etc work almost not at all. The reason for this is pretty

ATT uverse ipv6 engineer

2014-03-04 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Would an ATT engineer who deals with uverse IPv6 please contact me off list? I'm getting horrible throughput on your 6RD. Thanks! Andrew

Re: ATT UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO

2014-01-09 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Zach, I've had no issues here since launching ipv6 other than that the performance isn't amazing. Andrew On 1/8/2014 7:29 PM, Zach Hanna wrote: OK. So who other than Andrew was able to get this working (and keep it working) ? I'm about to place an order for slow-verse for my residence...

Re: The Making of a Router

2013-12-26 Thread Andrew D Kirch
If you're trying to do this cheaply, I'd recommend an appropriate sized Mikrotik router, and perhaps something running digium's transcoding hardware/Asterisk, or some Adtran hardware. Don't put all this in one box. Andrew On 12/26/2013 11:33 AM, Nick Cameo wrote: Hello Everyone, We are

Re: The Making of a Router

2013-12-26 Thread Andrew D Kirch
On 12/26/2013 12:05 PM, Alessandro Ratti wrote: (maybe with 10G nics). If he can afford a 10G link... he should be buying real gear... I mean, look, I've got plenty of infrastructure horror stories, but lets not cobble together our own 10gbit solutions, please? At least get one of the

Re: turning on comcast v6

2013-12-11 Thread Andrew D Kirch
On 12/11/2013 10:11 AM, Eric Oosting wrote: It brings a tear to my eye that it takes: 0) A long standing and well informed internet technologist; 1) specific, and potentially high end, CPE for the res; 2) specific and custom firmware, unsupported by CPE manufacturer ... or anyone; 3) hand

Re: Is there a method or tool(s) to prove network outages?

2013-12-01 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Sina, I'd recommend using Zenoss to monitor the remote end of the link at least with /Status/Ping. You'll get alerts when Zenoss can't ping across the link, and may be able to set up SNMP traps on your router for the link itself going down. DISCLOSURE: I work for Zenoss, however I used

Re: ZyXEL Gear

2013-11-27 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Eric, I'll note as a followup to the Ipv6 thread, I'm a _HUGE_ mikrotik fan. One of the CCR models has 4 SFP's. Andrew On 11/26/2013 10:47 PM, Eric C. Miller wrote: I'm looking at some non-Cisco price options to deliver more than 4 SFP slots into a structure and was wondering if anyone

Re: ATT UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO

2013-11-23 Thread Andrew D Kirch
November 2013 22:22, Andrew D Kirch trel...@trelane.net wrote: Status Available Global IPv6 Address 2602:306:cddd:::1/64 Link-local IPv6 Address fe80::923e:abff::7e40 Router Advertisement Prefix 2602:306:cddd:::/64 IPV6 Delegated LAN Prefix 2602:306:cddd::: 2602

ATT UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO

2013-11-22 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Special thanks to Alexander from ATT's Tier-2 dept, though my suspicion is that that is not where he works, as he seems exceptionally clueful. Additional thanks to Owen DeLong who finally got me off my ass to actually do this, I'll see you in the sky! Ok, is this core routing? not really, but

Re: Happy Birthday, ARPANET!

2013-10-29 Thread Andrew D Kirch
On 10/29/2013 10:51 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: The Paley Center for Media reminds us that on this day in 1969 at 2230 PST, the first link was turned up between UCLAs Sigma 7 and SRIs 940. A photo of the laboratory logbook is included in the Wikipedia article: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

Re: The block message is 521 DNSRBL: Blocked for abuse

2013-09-18 Thread Andrew D Kirch
On 9/18/2013 6:55 PM, Tammy Firefly wrote: I used to run the AHBL and ARIN used to contact us when they recycled IP space. We always removed when contacted by ARIN. Andrew ARIN hasnt contacted us for this since i've been involved with the ahbl for ~5 years. just a FYI. Well, it'd seem we

Re: The block message is 521 DNSRBL: Blocked for abuse

2013-09-18 Thread Andrew D Kirch
On 9/18/2013 7:15 PM, Tammy Firefly wrote: On 9/18/13 5:07 PM, Andrew D Kirch wrote: On 9/18/2013 6:55 PM, Tammy Firefly wrote: I used to run the AHBL and ARIN used to contact us when they recycled IP space. We always removed when contacted by ARIN. Andrew ARIN hasnt contacted us

Re: The block message is 521 DNSRBL: Blocked for abuse

2013-09-18 Thread Andrew D Kirch
On 9/18/2013 9:02 PM, John Levine wrote: This is pathetic. ARIN is supposed to be working as a steward of this IP space. When you have policies that make it more difficult to use the IP space this isn't even remotely close to stewardship. It's pathetic, Unfortunately, a surprising number of

Re: SixXS Contact

2013-06-27 Thread Andrew D Kirch
On 6/27/2013 3:43 PM, Måns Nilsson wrote: Subject: Re: SixXS Contact Date: Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:47:51AM -0400 Quoting Anthony Williams (alby.willi...@verizon.com): Can I piggy back on that inquiry and request a reset of my ISK points after committing a faux pas with respect to going

Re: PDU recommendations

2013-06-23 Thread Andrew D Kirch
On 6/23/2013 11:37 AM, shawn wilson wrote: We currently use Triplite stuff but they've got an issue where after a few minutes, they stop accepting new tcp connections. We're adding a new 30A circuit and I'm thinking of going with APC (ran them in the past and never had any issues). However, I

Re: Rep: ncnet

2013-06-10 Thread Andrew D Kirch
On 6/10/2013 11:00 AM, Larry Stites wrote: Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. As an Objectivist, I resemble this. I still hate having to agree with a spammer though :( Andrew

Re: guys != gender neutral

2012-09-27 Thread Andrew D Kirch
I really wish people would get over themselves and get to work. Work is a place where things get done, not where people piss and moan about every single perceived slight they can come up with. Andrew On 9/27/2012 2:10 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:

Re: guys dolls (a film motif)

2012-09-27 Thread Andrew D Kirch
for is: Troglodyte 1: A person considered to be reclusive, reactionary, out of date, or brutish. /bill (top posting like a civilized human...) On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 01:28:04PM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 02:57:36PM -0400, Andrew D Kirch wrote: I really wish people would

Re: guys dolls (a film motif)

2012-09-27 Thread Andrew D Kirch
that are so pressing in your mind. Can we kill this thread (oh dear, i'm advocating violence again...) and get back to Network Operations? Please? /bill On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 04:47:16PM -0400, Andrew D Kirch wrote: This isn't a real issue. HUNGER is a real issue. WAR is a real issue. 12

Re: FYI Netflix is down

2012-06-30 Thread Andrew D Kirch
On 6/30/2012 3:11 AM, Tyler Haske wrote: How to run a datacenter 101. Have more then one location, preferably far apart. It being Amazon I would expect more. :/ Based on? Clouds are nothing more than outsourced responsibility. My business has stopped while my IT department explains to me

Re: strat-1 gps

2012-06-26 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Randy, Ublox LEA-7T's are either out, or will be out shortly in the Evaluation Kit product. Stick your antenna on that, and it provides a very solid 1PPS to NTPd. Should be less than $300 shipped. Andrew

Re: isc - a good business

2012-05-30 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Paul, I just wanted to point out that you're a horrible person for employing people at a sustainable level, for giving away the product of your company for free, and for having the temerity to assist the FBI, on break-even basis ensuring that users of the internet continue to have access to

Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US

2012-03-30 Thread Andrew D Kirch
On 3/30/2012 4:41 PM, Henry Yen wrote: uunet/vzb will terminate its United States Newsreader and Newsfeed services on March 31, 2012, with no plans to offer a replacement, and any content/data remaining after that date will be unrecoverably deleted. does anyone on NANOG have any thoughtful

Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine

2012-02-17 Thread Andrew D Kirch
On 2/17/2012 1:35 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: Please post your top 3 favorite components/parts you'd like to see in a vending machine at your colo; please be as specific as possible; don't let vendor specificity scare you off. Cheers, -- jra console cables (cisco juniper adtran) 1' extension cords

Re: LX sfp minimum range

2012-01-25 Thread Andrew D Kirch
I can confirm using LX SFP's for under 100' runs with no problems. Except for the one site that ordered Multi-Mode fiber... Andrew On 1/26/2012 12:27 AM, Aftab Siddiqui wrote: Theoretically speaking Yes there should be an issue while using the LX SFP for short range because it may damage

Re: LAw Enforcement Contact

2012-01-23 Thread Andrew D Kirch
From memory Ameen Pishdadi is the owner of GIGENET, run by Paul Ashley (Aka XEROX), and comprised of the IP space and assets of FOONET. One would think that he has much contact with law enforcement. Or does my memory fail me? Andrew On 1/22/2012 8:16 PM, A. Pishdadi wrote: Hello, We

Re: Misreporting abuse, it's not actually helpful: r...@fireslayer.maxihost.com.br

2012-01-08 Thread Andrew D Kirch
On 1/8/2012 8:48 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: And maybe ask the author of whatever goober with firewall script that is to rm -rf and securely delete his code? [old term from the nanae days, abbreviated to GWF] On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Randy Bushra...@psg.com wrote: probably does

Re: Trouble accessing www.nanog.org

2012-01-04 Thread Andrew D Kirch
works for me

Re: Happy xmas folks

2011-12-20 Thread Andrew D Kirch
On 12/20/2011 10:08 PM, andrew.wallace wrote: I just want to say happy xmas to everyone at NANOG. I'm about to sign off for the holidays. Andrew enjoy your chistmas, and you don't have to come back after the holidays, we'll be fine without you. Andrew

Re: De-bogon not possible via arin policy.

2011-12-14 Thread Andrew D Kirch
On 12/14/2011 4:20 PM, Rubens Kuhl wrote: You should easily qualify for a /32 or larger IPv6 block. And it's curious that errors that are likely to be there for decades are just now trying to be fixed as IPv4 pool is depleted, isn't it ? His users can also switch to DECNET and reach about as

Re: Wacky Weekend: NERC to relax power grid frequency strictures

2011-06-25 Thread Andrew D Kirch
On 6/25/2011 7:43 PM, Paul Graydon wrote: Take a guess what the datacenter our equipment is currently hosted in uses. Yet another reason to be glad of a datacenter move that's coming up. Why can't we just all use DC and be happy?

Re: (OT) UN declares Internet access a human right

2011-06-05 Thread Andrew D Kirch
On 6/5/2011 8:11 PM, Bryan Fields wrote: On 6/5/2011 19:39, Gadi Evron wrote: The title is misleading, as this is more about denying access. But this is still quite interesting. I don't think this has *any* operational implications, but every operator to see this was immediately worried. I

Re: (OT) UN declares Internet access a human right

2011-06-05 Thread Andrew D Kirch
On 6/5/2011 8:44 PM, John Peach wrote: On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:11:21 -0400 Bryan Fieldsbr...@bryanfields.net wrote: On 6/5/2011 19:39, Gadi Evron wrote: The title is misleading, as this is more about denying access. But this is still quite interesting. I don't think this has *any* operational

Re: (OT) UN declares Internet access a human right

2011-06-05 Thread Andrew D Kirch
On 6/5/2011 10:11 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:48:56 EDT, Bryan Fields said: On 6/5/2011 20:44, John Peach wrote: On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:11:21 -0400 Bryan Fieldsbr...@bryanfields.net wrote: This is the same organization that says there is no basic human right to

Re: Syngenta space

2011-04-13 Thread Andrew D Kirch
On 4/13/11 4:50 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: On 13 Apr 2011, at 21:45, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: and pigs fly Well, sometimes they do. There underlying problem here is flying sheep: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkw2DdoskPY Note the accurate summarization of the entire issue. Yes that's it.

Re: ls my modem or DSL company issue? 1300 not good but 1200 is fine

2010-06-22 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Perhaps dslreports would be a more useful forum for this question? On 06/22/2010 01:51 PM, Deric Kwok wrote: Hi It is very nice that Ina replied me about mtu help Now I am using ping to check but not sure it is my modem or DSL company issue? C:\Documents and Settings\derekping yahoo.com -f

Re: Advice regarding Cisco/Juniper/HP

2010-06-17 Thread Andrew D Kirch
On 06/17/2010 09:52 AM, James Smith wrote: So my questions to the NANOG community are: Would you recommend HP over Cisco or Juniper? Not for core networking. How is HP's functionality and performance compared to Cisco or Juniper? HP's Procurve switches have been around forever, they're about

Re: Software router

2010-06-01 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Really not core network related as it never touches a wire, let alone the core, but try www.xorp.org. Andrew On 06/01/2010 04:50 PM, Andrey Khomyakov wrote: Good times! We are starting to play around with VMware SRM and they virtual subnets that supposedly have to be able migrate from site

Re: Hung Telnet Sessions on Sco Unix

2010-05-27 Thread Andrew D Kirch
I'm not sure why anyone is running SCO Unix. Call their technical support, enjoy the crickets. Andrew On 05/27/2010 03:01 PM, Brian Feeny wrote: I don't think this is the appropriate list for asking a question about a problem with telnet to a sco box. I don't understand why you think

Posting from freebie E-mail Accounts

2010-03-30 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Is there anyone here who is legitimate using a freebie webmail account? I am proposing that the NANOG administration drop everything originating from commonly used webmail providers, and add further RHS filters as additional providers are identified as problems. Andrew

Re: Posting from freebie E-mail Accounts

2010-03-30 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Andrew D Kirch wrote: Is there anyone here who is legitimate using a freebie webmail account? I am proposing that the NANOG administration drop everything originating from commonly used webmail providers, and add further RHS filters as additional providers are identified as problems. Andrew

Re: NSP-SEC

2010-03-22 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Guillaume FORTAINE wrote: This is a very pertinent question. My reply would be : How much money would you evaluate a security incident on your Cisco device ? Because, the fundamental questions are : a) How much value does your network bring to your business ? b) How much money are you

Re: NSP-SEC

2010-03-21 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Guillaume FORTAINE wrote: On 03/20/2010 09:12 PM, Gadi Evron wrote: 2. Show you are responsive and responsible in handling issues in your own back yard.

Re: Network Naming Conventions

2010-03-15 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Nice, I've used mountains (Denali, Everest, Olympus, etc) in the past to name systems. Used profanity for awhile to name machines, there's really quite a bit of it, and every language has it's own set, giving a large pool to choose from. Sadly, when outages occurred, it was somewhat difficult to

Re: Triple play in Tier 1 carriers

2009-08-02 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Right now we're using Asterisk, Bluetop/Blonder Tongue, and cable modems with a sip interface to provide triple play in large apartment complexes 300+ units). not really core infrastructure but the phones have to ring. Andrew jings...@teekoo.com wrote: Hi, My friend is constructing an ISP

Re: Fwd: Dan Kaminsky

2009-07-29 Thread Andrew D Kirch
, and Kevin Mitnick, whom no one gives a damn about, were targeted... FTFY Andrew D Kirch

Re: ATT. Layer 6-8 needed.

2009-07-27 Thread Andrew D Kirch
where all of my traffic is peering anyway. This discussion is about ATT, not you. William While I agree, I certainly believe that due to the nature of some of the content on 4chan, ATT can make a strong Good Samaritan claim under 47USC230. There's always TOR. Andrew D Kirch

Re: Opensource or Low Cost NMS for Server Hardware / Application Monitoring

2009-07-21 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Argus http://argus.tcp4me.com Andrew Matthew Huff wrote: I'm putting together a list of NMS systems for system (hardware, cpu util%, memory util%) and application monitoring rather than network management for our environment. We are looking for low cost / opensource solutions that have

Re: tor

2009-06-24 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Richard A Steenbergen wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:43:15PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote: sadly, naively turning up tor to help folk who wish to be anonymous in hard times gets one a lot of assertive email from self-important people who wear formal clothes. folk who learn this the hard

Re: ftc shuts down a colo and ip provider

2009-06-04 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Randy Bush wrote: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/06/ftc_sues_shuts_down_n_calif_we.html while allegedly a black hat, this is the first case i know of in which the usg has shut down an isp. nose of camel? first they came for ... randy Foonet.

Re: another brick in the wall[ed garden]

2009-05-14 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Well said, if you can't build it, don't trust it. Andrew (top posted as per previous convention) Skywing wrote: You are brave indeed to trust your packets over the air without a VPN or tunnel of some sort. While it sounds like Sprint is doing something, for lack of a better word, lame,

Re: DDoS Attack in Progress.

2008-10-11 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Steve Church wrote: Beavis aka John Lopez: I, for one, am glad you're interested in stopping the abuse at its source. Thank you. Steve Linford: why not ACL the source at your router or at whatever device is being (packeted). Mr. Lopez is contributing to the welfare of the net as

Re: rackmount managed PDUs

2008-09-25 Thread Andrew D Kirch
http://www.webpowerswitch.com/ I've used these quite a bit. Depending on the model you can get per port or per zone power management, and it sends alerts if it's not in the state it's supposed to be, and some of them can auto kickover things like routers if they suddenly cant route (might be

Re: Atrivo/Intercage

2008-09-24 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Tom Sparks (Applied Operations) wrote: Basically is what it boils down to for me - its easy to blame an NSP/ISP/Hoster for what their clients do, it takes real dedication to find out whats *actually* going on. We did, and now we're solving the problem. Andrew

Re: the Intercage mess

2008-09-24 Thread Andrew D Kirch
*Hobbit* wrote: Where's the BACKBONE to go after the real high-volume sources, rather than continuing to kick sand in the face of some podunk little guy who can no longer defend himself? _H* He never could defend himself, but he still hosts these companies (though months and years later

Re: Atrivo/Intercage: NO Upstream depeer

2008-09-21 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Considering the years of abuse, DNSBL listings, ROKSO listings, further abuse, and silence at the abuse switch, I _CERTAINLY_ would not send Atrivo abuse reports, I would send them to the upstreams instead. Considering the almost 40 page white paper produced last month on the abuse from

Re: Atrivo/Intercage: NO Upstream depeer

2008-09-21 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Gadi Evron wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Russell Mitchell wrote: Hello all, Andrew: It is truly enlightening, to say the least, that you want to talk about all of the SBL Listings, all of the DNSBL Listings, and all of the abuse on our network has never had action taken. Don't kick someone

Re: Atrivo/Intercage: NO Upstream depeer

2008-09-21 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Russell Mitchell wrote: Andrew: If you have seen how Spamhaus handles our resolved SBL Listings, you would know. Those 6 listings have been resolved for a week now. John Reid and his goons only provide swift LISTINGS, _NOT_ delistings. Possibly why they're so widely used. In the past 12

Re: only WV FIBER now peering with Atrivo / Intercage

2008-09-07 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Brandon Butterworth wrote: Anton's post that GX is still providing them transit is a bit curious, since I was under the impression GX had severed all ties with Atrivo. But the table does not lie, a path of 174 3549 27595 is clearly transit. GX, care to comment? After poking for a bit,

Re: Software router state of the art

2008-07-28 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Justin Sharp wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but knowing how bad Linux is at being a router and that their products are Linux-based, I'm afraid to give one a try. J products are based on a competing non-Linux platform that has a better reputation for routing. Enough with the bipartisan

Re: Software router state of the art

2008-07-26 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Zed Usser wrote: Hi all! There's been some discussion on the list regarding software routers lately and this piqued my interest. Does anybody have any recent performance and capability statistics (eg. forwarding rates with full BGP tables and N ethernet interfaces) or any pointer to what the

Re: SBCglobal routing loop.

2008-07-19 Thread Andrew D Kirch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone from sbcglobal out there? i'm seeing a routing loop. Please contact me off list thanks. What did your upstream transit supplier advise before you escalated this to the global audience at NANOG? This is the second time in 24hrs you

Comcast routing issue

2008-07-10 Thread Andrew D Kirch
Would a Comcast routing engineer contact me off list regarding a routing issue in Chicago? Andrew

Re: OT: www.Amazon.com down?

2008-06-06 Thread Andrew D Kirch
n3td3v wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Pedram M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems to have made some headlines. http://news.google.com/news?ned=ushl=enned=usq=amazon+downbtnG=Search+News Maybe because its a major global website like Yahoo.com. Microsoft.com and CNN.com? All the