Akron OH CO outage

2015-01-13 Thread David Coulson
Anyone else in North East Ohio seeing an outage of ATT's CO in Akron? Local news is reporting 911 is out across multiple counties, so can't be good. If anyone has any information, feel free to reach out off-list. David

Re: Charter ARP Leak

2014-12-29 Thread David Coulson
On 12/29/14, 12:51 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: Ok. But the interface to which the cablemodem is attached, in the general single-DHCP-IP case, is a /24, is it not? I'm on TWC. The IP address I get from them is on a /20. 104.230.32.0/20 dev eth7 proto kernel scope link src 104.230.32.x The

Re: TWC IPv6 access ...

2014-11-14 Thread David Coulson
Which market are you in? Working for me in Cleveland, OH. fw-1:/root # ping6 -I eth7 fe80::201:5cff:fe66:fe46 PING fe80::201:5cff:fe66:fe46(fe80::201:5cff:fe66:fe46) from fe80::21a:8cff:fe17:6c47 eth7: 56 data bytes 64 bytes from fe80::201:5cff:fe66:fe46: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=19.2 ms 64

Re: Time Warner outage?

2014-08-27 Thread David Coulson
I've have residential twc in Cleveland. My router has an ip in the 104.139.34/24 network that isn't being advertised via bgp anymore either. I can still trace route out from here half a dozen hops, so seems like an edge/peering issue somewhere. Sent from my iPad On Aug 27, 2014, at 6:17 AM,

Re: Time Warner outage?

2014-08-27 Thread David Coulson
Just came back up for me. Sent from my iPad On Aug 27, 2014, at 6:48 AM, Rick Coloccia coloc...@geneseo.edu wrote: BGPMON shows my routes falling off the net at around 5:49am. We now sit at their mercy -- Sent from my iPhone On Aug 27, 2014, at 6:46 AM, Adam Greene

Re: Apple iMessage

2012-11-18 Thread David Coulson
http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/systemstatus/ On 11/18/12 3:12 PM, Grant Ridder wrote: Hi, Is anyone having trouble with apples iMessage service? A friend and I are in Wisconsin and Illinois respectfully and messages via iMessage are taking up to several minutes to send. I am using a 4s

Re: job screening question

2012-07-10 Thread David Coulson
On 7/10/12 6:56 AM, Bret Clark wrote: Hence the reason he mentioned skilled person... Right. A skilled person knows not to commit to anything in a meeting, or to at least validate what they think before they open their mouth. Depends on the audience, of course. At least in my

Re: job screening question

2012-07-05 Thread David Coulson
That's a horrible question for a non-technical HR person to pose to a candidate - It's impossible for the candidate to ask clarifying questions to make sure they understand what you are looking for, plus you may have a strong candidate who gets it wrong (for whatever reason), but if they were

Re: job screening question

2012-07-05 Thread David Coulson
Bill- So, I'm curious, and others probably are too. What's the most popular 'wrong' answer? :) David On 7/5/12 1:35 PM, William Herrin wrote: On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:16 PM, David Coulson da...@davidcoulson.net wrote: That's a horrible question for a non-technical HR person to pose

Re: Level 3 Agrees to Purchase Global Crossing

2011-04-11 Thread David Coulson
On 4/11/11 10:41 AM, Mike Walter wrote: I find it amusing that the article says - The deal will combine two unprofitable companies So I guess the thinking is that two negatives make a positive? -Mike Since they will be saving a whole $40mm annually, profitability is pretty much

Re: Level 3 Agrees to Purchase Global Crossing

2011-04-11 Thread David Coulson
On 4/11/11 12:24 PM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: I seem to recall several dot-com-era CxOs spending very lavishly on themselves, or getting their employers to give them large 'loans' that were never paid back. Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, Bernie Ebbers, Gary Winnick, Joe Nacchio, etc... This is

Re: non operational question related to IP

2010-11-22 Thread David Coulson
Prefixing the octet with 0 makes it interpret it as octal, not decimal. Pretty typical on a UNIX system. On 11/22/2010 2:52 PM, Greg Whynott wrote: i was pinging a host from a windows machine and made a typo which seemed harmless. the end result was it interpreted my input differently than

Re: Low end, cool CPE.

2010-11-11 Thread David Coulson
On 11/11/10 8:41 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: Something a NANOGer might want at home would be a good baseline. I realize the exact product may differ depending on DSL/Cable/Cell/ISDN, that's ok, let's get some various good solutions going here. What is the state of the art, and who has it? I've been

Re: Layer 2 vs. Layer 3 to TOR

2009-11-12 Thread David Coulson
Seth Mattinen wrote: I'd always wondered how you make a subnet available across racks with L3 rack switching. It seems that you don't. You could route /32s within your L3 environment, or maybe even leverage something like VPLS - Not sure of any TOR-level switches that MPLS pseudowire a port

Re: Layer 2 vs. Layer 3 to TOR

2009-11-12 Thread David Coulson
Raj Singh wrote: We are actually looking at going Layer 3 all the way to the top of rack and make each rack its own /24. This provides us flexibility when doing maintenance (spanning-tree). Also, troubleshooting during outages is much easier by using common tools like ping and trace routes. I'm

Re: Layer 2 vs. Layer 3 to TOR

2009-11-12 Thread David Coulson
Jonathan Lassoff wrote: I was recently looking into this (top-of-rack VPLS PE box). Doesn't seem to be any obvious options, though the new Juniper MX80 sounds like it can do this. It's 2 RU, and looks like it can take a DPC card or comes in a fixed 48-port GigE variety. The MX-series are

Re: facebook DNS

2009-05-21 Thread David Coulson
No, when you do a whois for 'fakebook.com' it will pull any registered NS entries containing facebook.com anywhere in the whois db. Digging a.gtld-servers.net is the best way to find authoritative NS for facebook.com, not whois. Clay Haynes wrote: Looks like someone is messing with the

Re: Level 3 issues

2008-12-28 Thread David Coulson
http://www.internetpulse.net/ (if you can get to it). Does not look pretty for L3. I can't get to most web sites if I go via Level3 (Cleveland, OH). Ping/traceroute look good though. marco wrote: is anyone having issues with Level3?

Re: Gigabit Linux Routers

2008-12-19 Thread David Coulson
It doesn't - It's just an x86 PC. I have Vyatta running inside VMware ESX, not well, but it works ;-) Comparing Imagestream and Vyatta to Juniper is crazy. The first two are software based platforms (with perhaps some hardware off-load for checksums and whatnot), where as the Juniper pretty

Re: Gigabit Linux Routers

2008-12-18 Thread David Coulson
Ingo Flaschberger wrote: Multipath, yes, but flow-based, not per packet. There exists a patch for 2.4 kernel, but not for 2.6 Or tinker with iptables. And last I checked, even with multiple 'nexthop' entries, it still wasn't smart enough to drop a route if you lose an interface.

Re: Gigabit Linux Routers

2008-12-17 Thread David Coulson
The boxes (3650s) came with Broadcom BCM5708 on-board, but I push most of my traffic over these: 1c:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06) Subsystem: Intel Corporation PRO/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter Flags: bus master, fast

Re: Gigabit Linux Routers

2008-12-17 Thread David Coulson
I've been pretty happy running IBM x-series hardware using RHEL4. Usually it's PPS rather than throughput that will kill it, so if you're doing 250Mbit of DNS/I-mix/HTTP, you'll probably have very different results. There are some rx-ring tweaks for the NICs that are needed, but on the most

Re: Cable Colors

2008-06-16 Thread David Coulson
Jon Kibler wrote: Not based on any standard, but here is a schema I have used many times: snip Where I used to work - ISP. All of the above - Yellow. Where I work now - Enterprise. All of the above - Grey. David

Re: Cable Colors

2008-06-16 Thread David Coulson
Steve Bertrand wrote: LOL, simplicity via obscurity at its finest ;) Colour coding works great, and it's easy to follow. Then there is that issue that pops up where *that* cable over there will work! 90% of our movable cable patches (aka stuff that is not hard wired into a patch panel) are

Re: www.Amazon.com down?

2008-06-06 Thread David Coulson
They took someone's advice, because it 503s now :) David

Re: OT: www.Amazon.com down?

2008-06-06 Thread David Coulson
I expect this means that DNS has been compromised somewhere. I see that whois is wonky, but DNS looks right. cr1:~# dig amazon.com @j.gtld-servers.net | grep NS ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 amazon.com. 172800 IN NS

Re: Querstions about COGENT and their services...

2008-06-03 Thread David Coulson
There have been a few discussions over the last few months on Cogent - Seems the response is mixed, depending if you're on Cogent or old PSINet facilities. My experience has been that you get what you pay for - They're the cheapest, that's for sure. I've not heard anything about them in the

Re: Querstions about COGENT and their services...

2008-06-03 Thread David Coulson
Mike Tancsa wrote: They are also one of the biggest providers... Proportionally speaking, if they had the same percentage of failures as a provider 10% of their size, it would appear Cogent is worse as there would be more reports. Also, in my experience, I find Cogent pretty good about

Re: Renumbering, was: [NANOG] Multihoming for small frys?

2008-05-21 Thread David Coulson
Deepak Jain wrote: Can we all agree that while renumbering sucks, a /24 (or less) is a pretty low-pain thing to renumber (vs. say, renumbering a /20 or shorter prefix?) In an ideal world, you never have to renumber because your allocations were perfect from the get-go. Depends - If you're an

Re: Renumbering, was: [NANOG] Multihoming for small frys?

2008-05-21 Thread David Coulson
Jack Bates wrote: I had the same issue. Add to that recursive DNS servers and the support issues of everything that depends on them in and not in your direct control. Indeed. I recall Proxy ARP and a lot of NAT was involved :) At least you can keep track of the people who didn't update their

Re: [NANOG] auth*.ns.uu.net

2008-05-08 Thread David Coulson
jamie wrote: Anyone seeing the same? Yep. When you try to dig a domain on their NS, it refers back to the root-servers. Nice. cr1:~# dig cunamutual.com @198.6.1.202 ; DiG 9.3.4 cunamutual.com @198.6.1.202 ; (1 server found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode:

Re: [NANOG] Did Youtube not pay their domain bill?

2008-05-03 Thread David Coulson
Depends - It doesn't help if the DNS server is dead, but the front-end is still advertising the routes. It came back to life for me a few moments ago (via Cogent) and it looks like the routing did not change (there is a bunch of 10/8 stuff in the traceroute). Eric Spaeth wrote: If they were

Re: [Nanog] Cogent Router dropping packets

2008-04-21 Thread David Coulson
Joe Greco wrote: For those unfamiliar, Cogent has a system where you set up an EBGP peering with the Cogent router you're connected to, for the purposes of announcing your routes into Cogent. However, these are typically smaller, aggregation class routers, and do not handle full tables - so

Re: [Nanog] ATT VP: Internet to hit capacity by 2010

2008-04-21 Thread David Coulson
Steve Gibbard wrote: Maybe I just don't spend enough time around the leave the TV on all day demographic. Is that a realistic number? Is there something bigger than HDTV video that ATT expects people to start downloading? I would not be surprised if many households watch more than 10hrs

Re: [Nanog] ATT VP: Internet to hit capacity by 2010

2008-04-18 Thread David Coulson
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: I think that is based off the all American TV going to HDD that is supposed to happen in 2009. ( I think I read that currently only 40% of Americans have HDD TV's and the 60% were not going to buy one until it became too late. ) This is not accurate. In 2009 the US

Re: [Nanog] ATT VP: Internet to hit capacity by 2010

2008-04-18 Thread David Coulson
Dragos Ruiu wrote: Bet you a beer it won't happen. :) I will let you know next February when my rabbit ears stop working :) ___ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog