Re: T1 aggregation and data center gateways

it used that way on a number of occasions with cheap M13 muxes and DS3 interfaces. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC Tel: +1 678-954-0670 Direct : +1 678-954-0671 Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

a pedagogical perspective. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC Tel: +1 678-954-0670 Direct : +1 678-954-0671 Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/

Re: [NANOG] NREN Network Design

block from your RIR and route-peer with each of these ISPs in order to announce independent address space that travels with you wherever you buy connectivity, and/or (b) some sort of Layer 2 or 3 tunneling like VPN or MPLS, if I'm not understanding the problem correctly. -- Alex -- Alex Balashov

Re: What DNS Is Not

When I write applications that make DNS queries, I expect the request to turn NXDOMAIN if the host does not exist - HTTP as well as non-HTTP, but especially non-HTTP. Anything else is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. I don't understand how or why this could possibly be controversial. -- Alex

What DNS Is Not

Thought-provoking article by Paul Vixie: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1647302 -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671

Re: What DNS Is Not

Dave Temkin wrote: Alex Balashov wrote: Thought-provoking article by Paul Vixie: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1647302 I doubt Henry Ford would appreciate the Mustang. I don't think that is a very accurate analogy, and in any case, the argument is not that we should immediately

Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

highly distributed. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671

Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

from the fact that the payload is encrypted - that it makes a good fit. It's also open-source and free. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671

Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

Fred Baker wrote: On Oct 21, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Alex Balashov wrote: It is precisely because the traffic has no signature distinguishable from normal application traffic oh my goodness. You're behind on your reading... I didn't mean DPI. I meant in a way that can be inferred from

Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

...@creative.net.au wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009, Alex Balashov wrote: oh my goodness. You're behind on your reading... I didn't mean DPI. I meant in a way that can be inferred from the headers themselves, and aside from the port number. You don't think that statistical analysis of traffic patterns

Re: operations contact @ facebook?

the possibility that there are different jurisdictional rules or service terms in force from your own. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671

Re: operations contact @ facebook?

Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Oct 5, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Alex Balashov wrote: Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Oct 5, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Leland Vandervort wrote: Would anyone happen to have an operations contact at Facebook by anychance? Our systems are being overwhelmed by a facebook application

Re: TDM data analyzer

to colleagues that work with voice systems or to a voice operators group if you are a member of one. Well, what do you presume to be entailed in TDM? ISDN is not necessarily implied. You could analyse EM wink on D4 superframe. ;) Much simpler. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems

Re: SMS

whichever carrier? -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671

Re: cross connect reliability

to fail? Seriously; if you're talking about a passive connection (optical or electrical) like a patch panel, I'd expect it to keep going forever unless someone damages it. That's truly wishful thinking, as are the assumptions that insulate it from damaging factors. Nothing lasts forever. -- Alex

Re: CLEC Mailing List

substitute. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671

Re: Datacenter recommendations - China and Latin America

. the rest of the world? -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671

Re: Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation

circumstances. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671

Re: Issues with Gmail

Jim Wininger wrote: Anyone else seeing issues with gmail? More specifically? -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671