Re: did AS174 and AS4134 de-peer?

2012-03-07 Thread Jim Cowie
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:23 AM, John van Oppen jvanop...@spectrumnet.uswrote: All - I was noticing that it appears from our Seattle-based full route feed from cogent that they may have de-peered AS4134 (or vise-versa)... anyone know anything about this?We noticed this recently in a

Re: did AS174 and AS4134 de-peer?

2012-03-07 Thread Jim Cowie
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.netwrote: On Mar 7, 2012, at 18:29 , Nick Hilliard wrote: On 7 Mar 2012, at 23:19, Darius Jahandarie djahanda...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 17:55, Greg Chalmers gchalm...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't this

Re: BBC reports Kenya fiber break

2012-03-01 Thread Jim Cowie
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Georgios Theodoridis gt...@iti.gr wrote: Has it been known the exact time of the incident? I have found an article reporting that the cut occurred in the mid-day of Saturday 25th but nothing more precise. We would like to use such information for a BGP anomaly

Re: Libya

2011-02-18 Thread Jim Cowie
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:41 PM, William Warren hescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote: On 2/19/2011 1:23 AM, Randy Bush wrote: gossip that libya is off net.  any actual data? randy renesys shows libya is offline.. And they're back, 6h52m later.

Re: Internet blocked in Algeria?

2011-02-12 Thread Jim Cowie
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 6:05 PM, mikea mi...@mikea.ath.cx wrote: On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 05:01:12PM -0500, Joly MacFie wrote: Any confirmation of internet blocking? http://bikyamasr.com/wordpress/?p=26849 As massive street demonstrations are met with widespread violence in Algeria, the

Re: Connectivity status for Egypt

2011-02-02 Thread Jim Cowie
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Teo Ruiz teor...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 21:30, Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv wrote: On Jan 31, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: As an update, BGP for Noor.net has been withdrawn. Even the Egyptian stock exchange -

Re: good night v4

2011-02-01 Thread Jim Cowie
I believe I still have a daguerreotype of the steam-powered brass-and-ivory countdown clock that used to live in the Smithsonian. You remember: the one that counted down the days until United States Real Estate Exhaustion Day in 1898. The day when all the free land grants ended, and nobody would

Re: Science vs. bullshit

2009-10-19 Thread Jim Cowie
Randy's right that it can be somewhat difficult to agree on a single methodology for generating accurate assessments of how many transit providers a particular network uses at a particular moment in time. There are at least two knobs to turn: how long you integrate updates (we like to use at least

Re: Invalid prefix announcement from AS9035 for 129.77.0.0/16

2009-10-09 Thread Jim Cowie
Lots of people were affected, but none significantly. They originated 86,747 networks very briefly (less than a minute at 7:23 UTC), and I don't think anyone outside Telecom Italia's customer cone even saw them. So the impact was really, really limited. The correct origins were being

Re: Telecom Collapse?

2008-12-04 Thread Jim Cowie
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That the old ILECs are having problems due to the fact that few if any of them know how to run a decent business is not exactly news. IMO, it might be best if some of them were finaly placed in the position of