Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

2022-08-10 Thread Billy Croan
On Thu, Aug 4, 2022, 15:53 Forrest Christian (List Account) < li...@packetflux.com> wrote: > Having at least a part of one foot in the global time and frequency > community I'd say that it seems that the consensus is building toward > eliminating leap seconds. > > There was a vote planned in 2012

Re: massive facebook outage presently

2021-10-04 Thread Billy Croan
I know what this is. They forgot to update the credit card on their godaddy account and the domain lapsed. I guess it will be facebook.info when they get it back online. The post mortem should be an interesting read. On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 11:46 AM Jason Kuehl wrote: > Looks like they

Re: Never push the Big Red Button

2021-09-15 Thread Billy Croan
Indeed. Few sounds in the data center haunt me quite as much as a sensation that the decibel level has just decreased significantly. On Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 4:14 PM Keith Stokes wrote: > The bigger thing to notice is the *lack* of noise as every server, switch > and storage system spins down. > >

"Tactical" /24 announcements

2021-08-09 Thread Billy Croan
How does the community feel about using /24 originations in BGP as a tactical advantage against potential bgp hijackers? All of our allocations are larger and those prefixes we announce for clients as well usually are. But we had a request recently to originate everything as distinct /24