RE: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-06 Thread Dan Golding
-Original Message- I imagine Netflix is mature enough to track this data as you suggest, and that's why they use AWS - downtime isn't a big deal for their business unless it gets really, really bad. There is another possibility that is probably much more widespread amongst AWS

RE: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-03 Thread Dan Golding
-Original Message- From: James Downs [mailto:e...@egon.cc] On Jul 2, 2012, at 7:19 PM, Rodrick Brown wrote: People are acting as if Netflix is part of some critical service they stream movies for Christ sake. Some acceptable level of loss is fine for 99.99% of Netflix's user

RE: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-02 Thread Dan Golding
-Original Message- From: Todd Underwood [mailto:toddun...@gmail.com] scott, This was not a cascading failure.  It was a simple power outage Actually, it was a very complex power outage. I'm going to assume that what happened this weekend was similar to the event that happened

RE: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-02 Thread Dan Golding
-Original Message- From: Leo Bicknell [mailto:bickn...@ufp.org] I want to emphasize _and test_. [snip] I used to work with a guy who had a simple test for these things, and if I was a VP at Amazon, Netflix, or any other large company I would do the same. About once a month

RE: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-02 Thread Dan Golding
-Original Message- From: Greg D. Moore [mailto:moor...@greenms.com] If folks have not read it, I would suggest reading Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow. Also, Human Error by James Reason.

RE: Need (to acquire or sell) IPv4? Come to SpaceMarket.

2012-05-30 Thread Dan Golding
There are five registered STLS facilitators - https://www.arin.net/resources/transfer_listing/facilitator_list.html SpaceMarket is not one of them. I am confounded about why anyone would select a broker who has not taken the basic step of registering with the RIR. Of course, the typos and

RE: Colocation in New York for a POP

2012-04-20 Thread Dan Golding
111 8th Avenue is probably your best choice for straight-up Internet peering and transit. However, this largely depends on your traffic. If you do a lot of long distance voice, for example, 60 Hudson can be a better choice. There is also a good amount of peering at 165 Halsey in NJ, right across

RE: spammers trying to lease IP space?

2012-03-21 Thread Dan Golding
I think this highlights a very important aspect of the paid IP address transfer process - whomever is buying had better perform some due diligence on the block. These sorts of rent-a-block-for-SPAM activities are extremely common. Most of the time, they aren't quite this blatant. - Dan

RE: common time-management mistake: rack stack

2012-02-22 Thread Dan Golding
-Original Message- From: Leo Bicknell [mailto:bickn...@ufp.org] At the risk of offending many folks on NANOG, our industry is more like a trade than a profession. In many cases we would do better to treat our people (in terms of how they are managed) like skilled trades,