Re: Any computer, anywhere?

2013-12-08 Thread David Hiers
So what? Just another day in the cyber battlespace, friends. David On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 6:50 AM, Phil Bedard bedard.p...@gmail.com wrote: Have you ever heard of Java and Flash? There is a reason why browsers explicitly disable Java, heck OSX removed it from the OS completely. Flash

state.va.us contact on list?

2011-11-16 Thread David Hiers
We are aparently being attacked from a server in state.va.us. If there is a contact for state.va.us on the list, please contact me off list. Thanks, David

Re: state.va.us contact on list?

2011-11-16 Thread David Hiers
Thanks to all for their off-list replies! NANOGers rock We're in contact with the right people now. Thanks again, David On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:42 AM, David Hiers hie...@gmail.com wrote: We are aparently being attacked from a server in state.va.us.  If there is a contact

Re: The i-root china reroute finally makes fox news. And congress.

2010-11-29 Thread David Hiers
This little border skirmish is a good reminder that we build and operate one of the key battlegrounds on which all current and future wars are, and will be, fought. David On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian ops.li...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: NANOG newbie

2010-02-08 Thread David Hiers
VOIP, huh? Check out: www.voiceops.org David On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:39 AM, James Jones ja...@freedomnet.co.nz wrote: Sorry I meant MBI project not BMI. On 2/8/10 11:31 AM, James Jones wrote: Greetings,    Hi, I have just recently returned to the United States from New Zealand.

Re: Mitigating human error in the SP

2010-02-03 Thread David Hiers
You can completely implement Vijay's most impressive stuff and simply move the problem to a different level of abstraction. No matter what you do, it still comes down to some geek banging on some plastic thingy. I'm as likely to screw up an Extensible Entity-Attribute-Relationship as I am an

Re: Mitigating human error in the SP

2010-02-02 Thread David Hiers
If your manager pretends that they can manage humans without a few well-worn human factor books on their shelf, quit. David On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Michael Dillon wavetos...@googlemail.com wrote: The actual error happened when someone was troubleshooting a turn-up, where in

Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!

2010-01-06 Thread David Hiers
Poking the dragon a bit, aren't you? Fun. If you really look at it, there is no quantitative difference between statefull and non-statefull. A non-stateful firewall can prevent a TCP session from entering the SYN_RECEIVED state by blocking the SYN packet, so it strongly impacts session state

Re: ip-precedence for management traffic

2009-12-30 Thread David Hiers
Totally out of the box, but here goes: why don't we run the entire Internet management plane out of band This has been one of my favorite conversation-stoppers for years. The PSTN fought tooth and nail against the need for OOB control, but 2600hz was a problem that they could not solve, so

Re: why it happens short packet. Which network device is problem?

2009-12-29 Thread David Hiers
Send along a capture when you get the chance. David On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Deric Kwok deric.kwok2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I got the following message. UDP: bad checksum. From 67.204.26.203:1054 to 66.49.0.97:55290 ulen 43 UDP: short packet: From 67.55.92.141:23801 30368/46 to

Re: Revisiting the Aviation Safety vs. Networking discussion

2009-12-28 Thread David Hiers
In general, it seems that a field has to be aware that it can kill (or has killed) an embarrassing number of people before its members accept the need for controls such as processes and checklists. Here's a couple if incidents in which gruesome, public loss of life was necessary to for thought to

Re: Revisiting the Aviation Safety vs. Networking discussion

2009-12-23 Thread David Hiers
1. I grew up at the local airport watching my CFII pop train an endless stream of pilots. 2. The checklist for my last production gear swap had over 400 steps and 4 time/task gates (each with a rollback plan). As I did each sequence of steps, I called it out, and someone read their copy of the

Re: Resilience - How many BGP providers

2009-11-11 Thread David Hiers
It is wise to stack the deck in your favor, but you'll never really know how much real redundancy you've purchased: http://www.atis.org/ndai/ATIS_NDAI_Final_Report_2006.pdf David On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:41 PM, a...@baklawasecrets.com wrote: I suppose I could take the whole resilience

Route to 208.71.177.15, 208.71.179.10

2009-10-02 Thread David Hiers
Is anyone having trouble routing to 208.71.177.15 or 208.71.179.10? Can't get there from 65.59.112.0/24 in Chicago. David

Re: Route to 208.71.177.15, 208.71.179.10

2009-10-02 Thread David Hiers
site including to India. Tatsuya Tatsuya Kawasaki 703.469.1311 (24x7) -Original Message- From: David Hiers [mailto:hie...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 3:51 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Route to 208.71.177.15, 208.71.179.10 Is anyone having trouble routing

Re: BGP or MPLS issue ATT in New York?

2009-10-02 Thread David Hiers
We're getting weird approachability issues on some of out networks, losing IP path without BGP changes. On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Christopher J. Pilkington christopher.j.pilking...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone notice anything bizarre with ATT in New York?  We had our cage at 811 10th Avenue

Re: BGP or MPLS issue ATT in New York?

2009-10-02 Thread David Hiers
We're back up now. On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Wallace Keith kwall...@pcconnection.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Christopher J. Pilkington [mailto:christopher.j.pilking...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 4:01 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: BGP or MPLS issue

Re: OT: CLEC Mailing List

2009-09-14 Thread David Hiers
If a topic has anything to do with operating a voice network, VoiceOps is a good place for it. www.voiceops.org VoiceOps covers voice over IP, TDM, TSOT, whatever... David On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Richey myli...@battleop.com wrote: I am looking for a CLEC related mailing list. I

Re: Ready to get your federal computer license?

2009-08-31 Thread David Hiers
I guess the precedence for blocking is the way cops can close airspace, roads, and any piece of property when needed. If you accept the notion that we've built private and public roads and buildings on the information superhighway, the notion of emergency roadblocks, crime-scene tape, traffic

Re: Ready to get your federal computer license?

2009-08-31 Thread David Hiers
Highly unlikely that 3 years is sufficient time to devise a certification, No big deal; they could just adopt the CISSP/GIAC cert without modification as an interim step. Existing certs are already being used in some court cases:

navog?

2009-05-28 Thread david hiers
Hi, Is anyone aware of a voip-focused group similar to nanog? Us voip pukes have to deal with the issues of allocation, routing, and management of phone numbers as well as networks, and I have not found a voice operators' group similar to this network operators' group. Thanks, David