Re: So... my colo was just bought.

2012-01-10 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On 1/10/2012 10:58 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: By Knology. Should I be scared? My experiences with Knology have been fairly thin, but uniformly negative, for at least the last 5 years. But I know that the plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'. That said, I'm accepting all anecdotes. :-)

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-27 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On 2/27/2011 12:05 AM, Randy Bush wrote: With copies out to developers we now have confirmation that Apple still hasn't included DHCPv6 in the next release of OS X. what is it about ipv6 which attracts religious nuts? randy OSX beta (fanbois + journalists who get paid by word) + IPv6

Re: Request Spamhaus contact

2011-01-17 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On 1/17/2011 7:11 PM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: William, You're quite right, we don't. We presume that our customers are honorable until proven otherwise. We're a legitimate U.S. based corporation and we make ourselves available to the pertinent RBL's and authorities as appropriate. We take

Re: co-location and access to your server

2011-01-12 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On 1/12/2011 3:24 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: What is considered normal with regards to access to your co-located server(s)? Especially when you're just co-locating one or a few servers. Depends on how much you are paying really. If you decide to go with this provider, get dual power

Re: Cheap home CPE troubles

2010-12-27 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On 12/27/2010 10:10 AM, Mike wrote: Is there anyone who has a script or process or policy concerning unreliable customer equipments and how to effectively deal with unsophisticated home users? I mean, users with business oriented gear If power glitches are the problem, doing a bulk buy of

Re: potential new and different architectural approach to solve the Comcast - L3 dispute

2010-12-17 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On 12/18/2010 12:38 AM, Steve Schultze wrote: http://blog.comcast.com/2010/12/comcasts-responds-to-level-3s-fcc-filing.html I very much doubt whether my comment on the blog will survive their moderation process, so here it is: === I am a Comcast residential HSI customer, and have many clients

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On 12/16/2010 10:54 AM, Mikel Waxler wrote: But in that scheme, Comcast looses in the long run, when the FCC gets around to them, but Netflix looses customers immediately. I pay Netflix 10$ a month and they wont let me use their service cause I am on Comcast? I am taking my money to Hulu!

Re: BGP Attribute 92 ?

2010-12-16 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On 12/16/2010 5:57 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: Someone seems to have leaked this out, with the following data within the bgp update: Unknown BGP attribute 92 (flags: 234) Hexdump start--- DD 78 FF 71 Hexdump end This appeared to bite my Level3-connected bandwidth as well. Time period

Re: BGP Attribute 92 ?

2010-12-16 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On 12/16/2010 10:41 PM, Randy Bush wrote: Unknown BGP attribute 92 (flags: 234) Hexdump start--- DD 78 FF 71 Hexdump end This appeared to bite my Level3-connected bandwidth as well. sigh. is this an attack by a black hat, or by an rir and researchers who do not know how to say

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Thanks for this, I think, as a residential customer of Comcast, the FCC and FTC will both be receiving a letter from me. Clearly Comcast is not making an effort to deliver their advertised service, and instead are actually degrading my service. Cordially Patrick

Re: Wake on LAN in the enterprise

2010-12-13 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On 12/13/2010 11:08 AM, Berry Mobley wrote: Hello... I'm trying to get a handle on implementation of wake-on-lan in an enterprise environment. Cisco gear, lots of subnets. I've made it work with directed broadcasts, but I'd really rather not have 40 or 50 'ip helper-address

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-21 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On 10/21/2010 11:08 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote: On 2010-10-21 16:59, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: Are IPv6 connected machines unable to access IPv4 addresses? Unless you put a application/protocol translation in the middle IPv6 can't talk to IPv4. yahoo(IVI,Ecdysis NAT64) for two possibilities

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-20 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On 10/18/2010 7:44 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote: APNIC just got another IPv4 /8 thus only 5 left: http://www.nro.net/media/remaining-ipv4-address-below-5.html (And the spammers will take the rest...) So, if your company is not doing IPv6 yet, you really are really getting late now. Actually

Re: A New TransAtlantic Cable System

2010-10-04 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
. Cordially Patrick Giagnocavo patr...@zill.net

Re: US hunters shoot down Google fibre

2010-09-21 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On 9/21/2010 6:04 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/232831,us-hunters-shoot-down-google-fibre.aspx 1. Deer tend to hang out in little clearings while eating. Little clearings like the right of way clearing 25 or 50 feet on each side of an electricity pylon. 2. Deer are

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-14 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Randy Bush wrote: John - you do not get it... vadim, i assure you curran gets it. he has been around as long as you and i. the problem is that he has become a fiduciary of an organization which sees its survival and growth as its principal goal, free business class travel for wannabe

Re: U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

2010-07-07 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
andrew.wallace wrote: Article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704545004575352983850463108.html Why does it cost $100 million to install and configure OpenBSD on a bunch of old systems? --Patrick

Contract negotiations advice?

2010-06-29 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
one contract resulted in 3 different end of term dates, months apart, I can't quite figure out. Can anyone point me to a mailing list or discussion forum containing advice on dealing with such issues? And the wider issue of negotiating good rates with telecoms? Cordially Patrick Giagnocavo patr

Re: Emulating ADSL bandwidth shaping

2010-05-03 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Srikanth Sundaresan wrote: I'm trying to model ADSL access link bandwidth shaping. With a link of 18Mbps, I'm using a token bucket filter (tc + netem) to model 10Mbps, 8Mbps and 2Mbps access plans. I have a couple of questions: - do ISPs typically use token bucket filters with large bursts

Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-19 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Owen DeLong wrote: I had an interesting discussion with someone from Registration Services at ARIN today. The big requests for IP space (the 11 organizations that hold 75% of all ARIN issued space) do not come from the server side... They come from the eye-ball ISPs. The only /8

Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-19 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Nick Hilliard wrote: On 19/04/2010 16:14, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: The eyeball ISPs will find it trivial to NAT should they ever need to do so [...] Patrick, Having made this bold claim, have you ever actually tried to run a natted eyeball network? The last two natted eyeball networks

Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-19 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Mark Andrews wrote: In message 201004200022.o3k0m2ba007...@aurora.sol.net, Joe Greco writes: That'd be easy if you were just starting up an ISP. What do you do with your existing customer base? If their current service includes a dynamic public IPv4 address, you can't gracefully take it away,

Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-19 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Mark Andrews wrote: In message 4bcd14ef.8090...@zill.net, Patrick Giagnocavo writes: Mark Andrews wrote: In message 201004200022.o3k0m2ba007...@aurora.sol.net, Joe Greco writes: I haven't seen any such documents or regulations. People purchaced the service on the understanding that they would

Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-18 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
joel jaeggli wrote: On 4/18/2010 6:28 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: Reality is that as soon as SSL web servers and SSL-capable web browsers have support for name-based virtual hosts, the number of IPv4 addresses required will drop. Right now, you need 1 IP address for 1 SSL site; SNI spec

Re: FCC dealt major blow in net neutrality ruling favoring Comcast

2010-04-10 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Larry Sheldon wrote: On 4/10/2010 06:36, Roderick Beck wrote: I would characterize the US as a first rate military and economic power, but a third rate place to live. What are the net emigration rates by country? What are the net medical tourism rates by country? What are the net

Re: BGP hijack from 23724 - 4134 China?

2010-04-09 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Benjamin Billon wrote: So basically, the idea is to disconnect China's Internet even more than what it inflicts to itself? And that is wrong why exactly? ;-) Nah, I'm not answering that =D Nice try, though. How fun. What was the FCC/Comcast case about again? It's only port 25, at least

Re: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space

2010-04-07 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Joe Greco wrote: It's not the initial assignment fee that's really an impediment, it's moving from a model where the address space is free (or nearly so) to a model where you're paying a significant annual fee for the space. We'd be doing IPv6 here if not for the annual fee. As it

Re: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?

2010-03-31 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Michael Dillon wrote: ISPs who don't have IPv6 will soon be unable to provide access to all Internet sites, as content providers begin to bring IPv6 sites onstream. And ISPs without IPv6 will not be able to continue growing their networks, even for something as trivial as an existing

Re: 100% want IPv6 - Was: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?

2010-03-31 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Dan White wrote: On 31/03/10 22:14 -0300, jim deleskie wrote: I'm a real life user, I know the difference and I could careless about v6. most anything I want I is on v4 and will still be there long after ( when ever it is) we run out of v4 addresses. If I'm on a From a content

Re: 100% want IPv6 - Was: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?

2010-03-31 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Dan White wrote: Are you willing to gamble your business on your expectations? Business models will develop that will take advantage of global addressing to end devices. The Next Big (Nth) Thing will. Do you feel that you have a perfect Crystal Ball, or do you want to start hedging your bets

Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)

2010-03-05 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Michael Sokolov wrote: Another possible way to solve the middle mile issue would again be to use the copper plant that's already in the ground. Unlike fiber, the copper plant is *ubiquitous*: I don't know of any place in the 1st or 2nd worlds that doesn't have copper pairs going to it. Also

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-22 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Gadi Evron wrote: The email portability bill has just been approved by the Knesset's committee for legislation, sending it on its way for the full legislation process of the Israeli parliament. While many users own a free email account, many in Israel still make use of their ISP's email

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-11-28 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Craig Holland wrote: Just me, or is showing the floorplan not the typical behavior of a super-secure anything? You mean, security through obscurity? --Patrick

Re: routing around Sprint's depeering damage

2008-11-02 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Marc Farnum Rendino wrote: Folks - At some point, a society decides that X is important enough to the society as a whole, that something official is in the overall interest. Roads, immigration, whatever. That it's necessary to require that some things be done (or not be done). Peering

contracts and survivability of telecom sector

2008-10-06 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
solely focused on operational issues that might affect e.g. connectivity. Cordially Patrick Giagnocavo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Renesys Blog Article [Was: Re: the Intercage mess]

2008-09-27 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Henry Linneweh wrote: If a consensus can be reached here, we have seen a rise in this, that does raise concerns of a RIAA/MPAA type of mindset, which is detrimental vigilante Definition vigi·lante (vij′ə lan′tē, -län′-) It is not vigilantism, it is the common law, rooted in ancient

Level3 must have changed a lot on East Coast...any info?

2008-09-19 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Does anyone have more info as to what Level3 changed last night during their maintenace window? Also I am going through either WashDC or Atlanta it seems, on most traceroutes. Here is a weird traceroute from this morning (note the first 4 traces): traceroute cwlabs.com (used as an example)

Re: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior

2008-08-27 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
John Lee wrote: Adrian, The traceroute utility that I used gave me a list of hops that the packet I was interested in transited and a time when it transited the hop. When the TTL was reached it would terminate the listing. But if I can control your traffic I could change everything,

Level3 tries cell-phone style billing scam on customers

2008-07-31 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Today I looked at my most recent bill from Level3. They are now assessing a 2.5% surcharge, which is listed as Taxes on the bandwidth bill I have. In the state of PA, telecoms services are explicitly not taxable. When you call Level3 billing, they admit in their recorded message it is not

Re: https

2008-07-31 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Matthew Petach wrote: I'm sure when Gmail gets close to the same number of users as Yahoo, they will discover how challenging and painful it is to support that many simultaneous short-lived SSL connections. It's much easier to support CPU intensive tasks like full-time SSL when you have a small

Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?

2008-05-07 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
their crap. Patrick Giagnocavo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog

Re: cooling door

2008-03-29 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
for in even a 35-person, simple LAN setup (the smallest and simplest config anyone on this list could possibly have), has had to have me lay hands on it at odd, unplanned times to keep working. Cordially Patrick Giagnocavo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

rack power question

2008-03-22 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
? Cordially Patrick Giagnocavo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DreamHost Contact?

2008-01-02 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
from their servers, and there would be no FOS issue. Cordially Patrick Giagnocavo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads

2007-10-19 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On Oct 19, 2007, at 7:16 PM, Sean Figgins wrote: You ever wonder why some places have cable modem but not DSL? That's usually because the telcos can't get the bandwidth there. That is a laughable statement. In many places there is no real ability to tag the voice traffic with a higher

Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads

2007-10-19 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On Oct 19, 2007, at 3:42 PM, John C. A. Bambenek wrote: Since when did private companies no longer have the right to regulate their own property? I must have missed the Amendment... If you want to make a property argument, how do you explain them denying me my right to enjoy my rental

Insight on L3/ Broadwing

2007-10-12 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
I am a smug Telcove weenie (customer) who has been watching the integration of Telcove into the L3 Borg with satisfaction, as network connectivity has gotten better and even their billing system seems to be slowly improving over time. Meanwhile have come to expect that almost any Level3

Laws governing FTTx ?

2007-10-07 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
barriers). Cordially Patrick Giagnocavo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: too many variables

2007-08-09 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
threads. Cordially Patrick Giagnocavo [EMAIL PROTECTED]