> Found on Staple's website:
> http://www.staples.com/NetReset-Automated-Power-Cycler-for-Modems-and-Routers/product_1985686
My coworker's immediate response was:
"Now we all need to get jobs as Automated Router Power Cycling technicians".
Mine was to check my calendar to see if I'd lost a week
-
then if you ever get calls from the POTS DID, you know that you have the
original problem, plus you know that the connection to the SIP gateway is down.
Nathan Eisenberg
tool. :)
Nathan Eisenberg
and families and homes. There is
nothing - repeat, nothing - more important than that. It is absolutely a
critical service.
Nathan Eisenberg
Would a security contact from Schlumberger Limited please contact me off-list?
Sorry for the noise.
Nathan Eisenberg
None of these jokes are class-e.
-Original Message-
From: STARNES, CURTIS [mailto:curtis.star...@granburyisd.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 7:44 PM
To: STARNES, CURTIS; 'lann...@lanning.cc'; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: Need (to acquire or sell) IPv4? Come to SpaceMarket.
I guess I
(time) is right.
Nathan Eisenberg
Sent from my HTC on the Now Network from Sprint!
- Reply message -
From: Hank Disuko gourmetci...@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, May 1, 2012 9:42 am
Subject: Network diagram app that shows realtime link utilizatin
To: NANOG nanog@nanog.org
Hi folks,
I wonder
Anyone else seeing this sort of noise lately?
10:35:00.958556 IP 72.20.23.24.53 66.171.180.48.53: 952+ [1au] ANY? ripe.net.
(38)
10:35:00.961055 IP 72.20.23.19.53 66.171.180.48.53: 952+ [1au] ANY? ripe.net.
(38)
10:35:01.262461 IP 72.20.23.19.53 66.171.180.48.53: 952+ [1au] ANY? ripe.net.
in the Big City should expect to enjoy the same
benefits as people who have made the decision to live in rural towns, and vice
versa. They'll never be the same, and unless I'm very much mistaken, that's
actually OK.
Nathan Eisenberg
Would a clueful mail admin at Charter.net please contact me off list?
What about something like this?
http://www.comsol.com.au/SL-PCC-01
cheers,
Dale
Neat. But, apparently comsol does not sell outside of the US.
With apologies to Randy, let the CCNAs fight with label makers.
No, your CTO shouldn't be racking and stacking routers all the time. The
fundamental concept of an organizational hierarchy dictates that. But a CTO
who has lost touch with the challenges inherent in racking and stacking a
the same.
Nathan Eisenberg
Cables
Outside of a vending machine, I've also seen a few facilities that have normal
vending machines (including instant coffee dispensers). This has, on more than
one occasion, kept me standing long enough to get the jorb done.
Nathan Eisenberg
I hate all the newer Brother labelmakers I've seen - pretty much for
this
very reason. I've never found a good method for quickly and reliably
removing the backings for them.
The one thing I absolutely cannot stand about all the low-end brothers is the
amount of waste they generate. When
IPv6 is operational.
How is this a misconception? It works fine for me...
Nathan
So, to pose the obvious question: Should there be [a law against
prefix hijacking]?
While I'm certain that's largely rooted in lawmakers who are not technically
savvy, I wonder if we-as-an-industry couldn't (or, shouldn't) be doing more to
move internal values and policies into defensible
AFAIK there's no law covering the use of what party X considers their
32 bit numbers (assigned by party A) by party Y.
So, to pose the obvious question: Should there be?
(I honestly don't know the answer is to this question, and am asking in earnest
for opinions on the subject)
Nathan
Now if RFC1149 supported jumbo frames, it might give tin-cans-and-string a
run for its money
It's a simple matter of weight ratios. A 5 oz bird cannot carry a 9000 mtu
coconut.
.
Nathan Eisenberg
Ubiquiti's Unifi products are decent, and have *MUCH* improved since their
original release (amazing what you can do with better code!). In the original
release, you had to have a management server running on the same L2 network as
the Aps - they've moved the management to a L3 model so you
Making APs as low power and local as possible is good advice
^ Ignoring this advice is one of the biggest mistakes people make. They think
Oh, I'll just drown out the noise, but the problem is almost never how well
the clients can see the AP - it's the AP seeing the clients. It's hard to
Racktables seems pretty decent, and it's open source. Seems to still be alive,
too!
http://racktables.org/demo.php
-Original Message-
From: Josh Baird [mailto:joshba...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 2:20 PM
To: Shahab Vahabzadeh
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: IP
I think the idea that food, shelter etc. are human rights is absurd.
Doesn't that imply that someone must provide those things for me?
What
if they don't want to? Does that mean they are forced to? Which would
be a violation of their human rights.
There are those who think that it's a
There are no such rights. Each positive right is somebody else's obligation.
Being forced to feed, clothe, and house somebody else is called slavery. So is
providing Internet access, TV, or whatever else. Doesn't matter if this
slavery
is part-time, the principle remains the same -- some
Say a
coder gets confused when /tmp fills up and being unaware of this thing
called a search engine and instead will virtually cry help my puter
b0rked, I stuck! and vice versa.
Hah! In my experience, this phenomenon is not unique to coders, sysadmins, or
any other specialization. People
.
Nathan Eisenberg
be argued that
hammers are weapons; therefore, we should call on Home Depot to stop carrying
these deadly instruments with all due alacrity - or at least have governments
step in and create licensing programs for hand tools.
Nathan Eisenberg
easier to move on. In any
case, do the research and testing, and make sure that at least your own
deployments have rational addressing policies (whatever you determine that
might be).
Nathan Eisenberg
://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6164
Nathan Eisenberg
Look at the number that are refusing to make generous prefix
allocations
to residential end users and limiting them to /56, /60, or even worse,
/64.
Owen,
What does Joe Sixpack do at home with a /48 that he cannot do with a /56 or a
/60?
Nathan
What does Joe Sixpack do at home with a /48 that he cannot do with a
/56 or a /60?
Flexibility. With dhcpv6 prefix delegation, you are going to want
devices
to be able to request (at least) /60s for further delegation (and
better yet
/56s to allow them to delegate /60s with further
-Original Message-
From: Nathan Eisenberg
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 2:07 PM
To: NANOG list
Subject: Security Contact from k12.fl.us
Please contact me off-list.
-Original Message-
From: Nathan Eisenberg
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 2:15 PM
To: NANOG
Please contact me off-list.
It was pointed out to me that 'k12.fl.us' is not an organization, but rather a
container. Clarification - I'm looking for a security contact from
broward.k12.fl.us
Nathan Eisenberg
-Original Message-
From: Nathan Eisenberg
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 2:07 PM
To: NANOG list
An important feature lacking for now as far as I know is content/web
filtering especially for corporates wishing to block inappropriate/time
wasting content like facebook. Addition of this would place it a par
with the best like Sonicwall and Fortinet.
At a previous employer, we utilized a
I meant config sync, not state sync.
I have multiple deployments of the config synchronization working just fine. :)
Subscribe from your personal account.
+1
And this is why the prudent home admin runs a firewall device he or she can
trust, and has a default deny rule in place even for outgoing connections.
- Matt
The prudent home admin has a default deny rule for outgoing HTTP to port 80? I
doubt it.
As an ISP, ARIN will not give you any space if you are new. You have
to already have an equivalent amount of space from another provider.
does arin *really* still have that amazing barrier to market entry?
Yes. If you want PI space, you have to start off with PA space, utilize it,
and
When I still worked in the ISP world, the startup I worked for started off
with
PA space, and then grew into PI space, and handed the PA space back to
their upstreams as it was vacated. I had no problems getting subsequent PI
blocks because our documentation was in order.
The documentation
Jared,
Thank you for your reply. The one issue I have is how can I label
traffic to match a given table (i.e. ping VRF or snmp VRF). I don't
see any way this can be done with normal BSD sockets, finding a way to
get my application to 'color' the traffic has been a little evasive.
The
and substantive input, why not contribute your intellect to the
problem and talk to him? Every organization has things they could be doing
better, but as in physics, it often requires some new outside force to make it
happen.
Nathan Eisenberg
.
Nathan Eisenberg
- and it isn't that the operators are doing
it wrong (and should therefore be punished).
Writing as a human, not as my employer,
Nathan Eisenberg
[1] - http://pe.usps.com/businessmail101/getstarted/bulkmail.htm
this is to have a
balanced life with a healthy dose of social interaction (read: women - later,
family). I've not yet met the person who won't burn out if they aren't
distracted by non-virtual concerns on a regular basis.
Nathan Eisenberg
I agree, the whole use of the terms 'need' and 'want' in this conversation are
ridiculous. It's the Internet. The entire thing isn't a 'need'. It's not
like life
support or something that will cause loss of life if it isn't there. The
only thing
to even discuss here is 'want'. Yes,
Could a human being from SORBs please contact me off-list? Your robot isn't
functional, and you are listing one of our ARIN allocations as dynamic, when it
is not.
(Yes, I know that 'no one uses' SORBs. Customers don't care.)
Nathan
Has been going on for a long while now. HE even made a cake for Cogent
(IIRC), to no avail.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/77519640@N00/4031195041/
We got the same call. I think they just trolled on through the IPv6Day
participants list. They indicated that we were likely to be 'specifically
targeted' as a result of 'putting ourselves out there'. I suspect it's merely
a misprogrammed sales drone spewing fear-infused garbage.
The caller
I wouldn't consider myself a network engineer, nor do I have any formal
training, but why don't ISPs peer with every other ISP? It would only save
EVERYONE money if they did this, no? Only issue I see is with possibly
hijacked / malicious AS owners, but that's not very common to do without
Could someone from the IT department for the City of Panama City Beach, Florida
please contact me off-list?
Best Regards,
Nathan Eisenberg
-Original Message-
From: Dan Dill [mailto:d...@harsch.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 3:03 PM
To: Nathan Eisenberg; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: Contact for City of Panama City Beach, FL?
http://www.pcbgov.com/city_directory.htm
Seems like it wouldn't be hard to track down
Yes, two in one day. Wholesalers don't wipe device configs, apparently.
Anyways, would a technical contact for va.gov please contact me off-list?
Best Regards,
Nathan Eisenberg
Is tracking down the original user and letting them know about the
config leak a standard practice, necessary or the right thing to do?
Municipal networks often provide some emergency services, and we all know what
the VA provides. Once you know whose gear it is, I guess you have to decide
Why is native IPv6 needed? I'd have thought a tunnel would be fine, too.
I believe the concern is that the higher latency of a tunnel would impact SEO
rankings.
I would be getting ipv6 connectivity, adding an unknown record such as
ipv6 or www6; but not www, and do as many comparative ipv4 vs
ipv6 tracerouts from as many route servers as possible. Then you will have the
data you need to actually make an informed decision rather than just guessing
Would someone from Google please contact me offlist? You're geolocating some
of $DAYJOB's IP space to the Netherlands, and I'm not sure how to fix it.
Sadly, very few of my $DAYJOB's customers in Seattle are fluent in Dutch.
(If there's an obvious form somewhere to fix this, and I missed it,
I doubt it will get better. Lots are into nickle and dime'ing for
everyone to get an extra buck. Look at wireless, they charge for x
Mega/giga bits per month from your hand help device (phone). Oh you
want to tether, that will be more? Say what? Bits are bits but somehow
tethered bits are
And I fully expect that to be done at some point or another. Country
takes the entire 32bit address space for itself. You want to serve
that
country? Fine, apply for an allocation out of their /0 and route to it
over v6.
What happens when countries are formed from secession? Does one
What everyone is actually *selling* commercially, except for cable
providers, is *not* VoIP; it's a subset of that: VoN; Voice Over
Internet;
where the IP transport *goes over the public internet*, and through
whatever exchange points may be necessary to get from you to the
provider.
This
Some provider woes:
FAX over VOIP is a PITA. I've not yet seen an ATA or softswitch that handled
it reliably.
E911 for mobile devices sucks. Regulations, and the E911 system, do not seem
to have the flexibility for handling this in a seamless way.
Call routing (on a more global scale)
Odd - do the phones just randomly egress from different IPs in the pool if you
don't? Is this perhaps a too-long registration interval issue? Short
registration timers seem to deal with keeping the state table appeased on most
firewalls. Any chance the NAT device has some god-forsaken ALG
Does anyone know who to ping at Microsoft about their teredo platform? Their
relay(s) doesn't/don't seem to have reachability to some bits of IPv6 space.
Nathan
The problem with this is that both ARES and RACES hams have gotten there
first (orange lights and strobes flashing) and are now engaged in small-arms
fire over who gets to set their repeater up. You're now hiding under your
vehicle. What is your next move?
Larger-arms fire?
according to the
vendors selling CGNAT solutions the impact to end users is (almost)
unnoticeable.
And according to a used car salesman, this here pickup truck was only gently
driven by a little old lady to the shop once a week. There's going to be a lot
of snake oil in the next couple
Most IPv4 space is unused anyway, but it's not being reclaimed much despite
that. (How many IP addresses does the US federal government need? Few
people would think ~ 10 /8s. Especially since many of them aren't even lit
up.)
What do you mean, lit up? You mean they're not in the routing
I have yet to see a broadband provider that configures a network so
that
individual nodes in the home network get global IPs.
On the residential properties that $EMPLOYER provides triple play to, the nodes
behind each CPE can maintain up to 5 leases. And there are a few homes that
actually
Right. That works great in an environment where the regulators require that
every telco pay Neustar to maintain the LNP databases, and send all the
updates promptly when a number is ported or disconnected.
The telcos pay Neustar $300 million a year to run the database. I'm sure
they'd be
Still, that is a considerable number of bits we'll have left when the dust
settles and the RIR allocation rate drastically slows.
Like it did for IPv4? ;)
-Nathan
Sure. Bet you ten bucks that no hotel in North America offers IPv6 this year
in the wifi they provide to customers. (Conference networks don't
count.)
John -
I happen to know with absolute certainty that the above statement is false.
But I'd be happy to take your money! :-)
Nathan
I've had trouble finding any technical reason not to use it.
What is important to you about having QA and Corporate use separate AS numbers?
Does using the same AS number result in a reduction of separation?
Nathan
Here's an updated list:
http://www.bgpmon.net/egypt-routes-jan31-2011.txt
Some decent opportunities for route aggregation in that list...
We've learned to pick our fights, and this isn't one of them.
--
Dan White
The most effective mechanism I've seen for explaining the problem is latency
and VOIP. Set up an artificially latency-ridden, high bandwidth connection,
then connect to a PBX using a softphone. One call is
Even if every RIR gets to 3 /12s in 50 years, that's still only 15/512ths of
the
initial /3 delegated to unicast space by IETF. There are 6+ more /3s remaining
in the IETF pool.
That's good news - we need to make sure we have a /3 for both the Moon and Mars
colonies. ;)
Nathan
You can get a CLEAR WiMAX fixed modem with static IP address for $50
(USD) monthly, or less if you opt for the low-bandwidth plan.
I wouldn't dare rely on something of that nature for a lifeline connection.
I'd spring for the extra $30/mo. It's expensive, but there ain't nothin' like
a
you do nullroutes, you also implement a change control policy
which screens commands for approval before making configuration changes upon
which your public declarations, and your reputation as a decent operator, rely.
Nathan Eisenberg
And yet blaster type worms are less common now, and I still get the
occasional reinfection reported where a computer shop installs XP pre-patch
with a public IP. A simple stateful firewall or NAT router would stop that and
allow them to finish patching the OS. There is always a new attack
There
appears to be zero interest in their business model to accommodate the
enterprise.
In my own personal experience, there appears to be zero interest in their
business model to accommodate the CUSTOMER.
They go on and on about how their frequency-space gives them a competitive
-Original Message-
From: Ryan Finnesey [mailto:ryan.finne...@harrierinvestments.com]
Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 11:36 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Hotel Internet?
Is anyone within the group providing Internet access to Hotels? It
seems most of this market is controlled by
I'd be interested to see what comments nanogers have on this piece. I'm not
well enough read to critically evaluate the guy's assertions.
I'm not familiar with a GPON system that provides gigabit to every subscriber
under 'high congestion'.I do know of FTTN systems that can provide a lot
All that said, the whole issue of 'local content' is going to continue to
rage on
for years to come. Getting the content closer to the end user is going to be
a
key to reducing costs for the long-tail providers to homes and businesses.
Should it be incumbent on the CDNs to pay for colo at
The cloud is a failure. Too easy to get it down.
I guess wikileaks returning to dedicated hosting proofs that.
No, it just proves that organizational decisions are made by human beings that
have values. Whether or not those values are 'right' isn't the point - the
point is that the
In a cloud hosting environment, you typically don't know where your
data and servers are, and thus you don't know what legal and political
pressures they may be subject to. If that means that in practice you
are subject to the combination of any pressure that can be applied to
any one of the
Factoid: we outnumber the pigs by 1000 to 1. Even if only 1% of us
were
to go out and shoot a pig, we would still outnumber them 10 to 1! We
*CAN* win -- wake up, people!
Dude.
As someone who was personally connected to this
(http://www.komonews.com/news/local/78088192.html), and this,
This came up in another thread yesterday or today, and I just got the
solicitation mailer for Clearwire's WiMAX service in Tampa Bay, which they
call 4G, though the ITU disagrees.
The AUP is here: http://www.clear.com/legal/aup
I cannot strongly enough discourage you from using their
1. They absolutly refuse to delagate rDNS authority for a /24 2. I was told
they do not do static routes when I asked if I could have my /24 circuit
converted to a /30 and have the remaining subnets routed to my end of /30.
Their suggested meathod is to put a router running proxy arp in
Would a mail-op from id.apple.com please contact me off-list?
If you think peering points are the middle portion of the internet that all
packets have to traverse, then this thread is beyond hope.
-- Niels.
Making sweeping generalizations at thin air is fun!
This statement could be easily true, just as it could be easily false.
Nathan
Been unexpectedly gone for the weekend, apologies for the delay. Wow,
can subjects get hijacked quickly here. I think it happened within one or two
emails. It was just for weekend fun anyway...
So... You tossed a cow into a pool (that you knew was) filled with piranhas,
waited a few days,
My guess is that the millions of residential users will be less and
less enthused with (pure) PA each time they change service providers...
That claim seems to be unsupported by current experience. Please elaborate.
Nathan
http://www.arlnow.com/2010/10/27/nsf-building-evacuated-in-ballston-
after-apparent-lightning-strike/
lightning strike - electrical fire
-Dave
At the science foundation. Nature has a sense of irony.
Stateless autoconfig works very well, It would be just perfect if the
network boundary was configurable (like say /64 if you really want it,
or
/80 - /96 for the rest of us)
Why do you feel it's a poor decision to assign /64's to individual LANs?
Best Regards,
Nathan Eisenberg
I am looking for some vendors that make PtP optical wireless (laser)
gear.
Any reason you want an optical wavelength link, rather than a 23, 38, 60 or
80Ghz Microwave link?
Best Regards,
Nathan Eisenberg
I'm assuming we aren't making jokes here, but 3com.com was created in
1986:
I'm confused. 3com.com would not appear to be entirely numerical. Or maybe
someone spiked my coffee this morning.
Best Regards,
Nathan Eisenberg
-Original Message-
From: Guerra, Ruben [mailto:ruben.gue...@arrisi.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 1:47 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: Facebook down!! Alert!
Passes Andrew the shotgun... Please kill all FB threads with it. :)
The only thing I noticed being down last
how many of you are using SPF records? Do you have an opinion on their
use/non use of?
We use SPF on most client domains. On inbound filtering, we add no score for a
lack of SPF record, and we reject mail if the SPF record hardfails. We've seen
it reduce domain-imposter spam. It's not
http://kestrel3.netflight.com/2010.10.04-NANOG50-morning-notes.txt
Whois traffic has been going through the roof; they
added more proxies in front to support it.
Apparently, there's IP management packages that do
whois queries. It would be good to find out who is
doing it, and talk to ARIN
If it passes SPF we remove a few points of the spam weight.
I would rethink this practice. Many spammers publish SPF valid records these
days precisely because of this.
Nathan
Citizen: Hello, police? There is a crate of M-16's and a truckload
of ammunition just sitting here on the corner
Police: That is less than the Army goes through in 3 months ...
*click*
You'd have better luck calling the ATF, they are the ones empowered to
enforce the tax on machine
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