Re: 10 Do's + Don'ts for Visiting Québec + Register Now for N85!

2022-05-08 Thread Stephen Fulton
I will add that card cloning is common enough in Canada that one should take precautions, particularly if just using the magnetic strip instead of tapping or chip/code. Don't hand your card to anyone to allow them to swipe either, no matter how nicely they offer. If you are not from Canada

Re: netflow in the core used for surveillance

2021-08-25 Thread Stephen Fulton
Randy, It is quite possible that some are simply the victim of their own ignorance. I know of an ISP where one of their last-mile hardware vendors was pushing hard to get junior technical staff and senior non-technical staff to agree to share netflow data. When senior technical staff found

Re: Amazon Contact?

2021-08-25 Thread Stephen Fulton
I'll try and beat Mike to this: http://thebrotherswisp.com/index.php/geo-and-vpn/ The above has contact info for a number of orgs to resolve geolocation & VPN problems, including Amazon. Work in progress. -- Stephen On 2021-08-25 15:55, Chris Cappuccio wrote: Looking to see if I can get

Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks

2020-03-15 Thread Stephen Fulton
In $dayjob I constantly see the lack of understanding of the difference between what the Internet is and what a path engineered private circuit is (eg. pseudowire, wave, whatever). The latest fight is over SD-WAN and those who think it will replace MPLS entirely and they won't need those

Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks

2020-03-12 Thread Stephen Fulton
Mike, For those nets with a higher peak in the evenings, the graphs will flatten out. If you're struggling any given weekday evening, you'll be in trouble from the start. Major events and software releases are what will use up available buffers. IMO the Disney+ surprise was a good thing.

Re: google cloud console is slow

2020-02-07 Thread Stephen Fulton
Hi Izzy, Perhaps this is a better discussion for the outages discussion list? You should probably also provide more technical details (obfuscated src/dst etc). Stephen On 2020-02-07 10:38, Izzy Goldstein - TeleGo wrote: from the US East Cost on Verizon FiOS google cloud console is

Re: Mx204 alternative

2019-08-10 Thread Stephen Fulton
On 2019-08-10 02:29, Saku Ytti wrote: > On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 at 00:22, Brandon Martin wrote: > >> Yes, yes they will. I've seen some distributor pricing and, while not >> officially under NDA, I will not mention it directly. Suffice to say >> you should demand at least 40-50% off list from

Re: AS16509 (Amazon) peering contact

2019-06-27 Thread Stephen Fulton
Hi Kody, Please don't share a person's e-mail account on a mailing list.  Role accounts are one thing, but not this.  If you want to, send it privately.  Cheers, Stephen On 2019-06-27 17:47, Kody Vicknair wrote: > I've always worked with Tim Bates. They were exceptionally quick with >

Re: AS3266: BitCanal hijack factory, courtesy of Cogent, GTT, and Level3

2018-06-26 Thread Stephen Fulton
Job, Unless of course they are not actually on an IXP listed. Bitcanal is not a member of TorIX and as far as I recall, never has been. The IP they list in PeeringDB was never assigned to them at any point and in fact was used by an AS112 instance which was run by TorIX directly on the

Re: 100G - Whitebox

2017-12-04 Thread Stephen Fulton
Mike, Whether it becomes a practical problem depends on the use case and by that I mean buffers can cut both ways. If buffers are too small, traffic can be dropped and even worse, other traffic could be affected depending on factors like ASIC design an HOLB. Too large, latency or order

Re: Question about Customer Population by ASN for Canada

2017-10-02 Thread Stephen Fulton
Hi Jack, As OVH is a data centre, I find that extraordinary if eyeballs were the cost. VPN's may be popular but that seems excessive. Probably bots of some sort, scraping the internet. -- Stephen On 2017-10-02 3:57 PM, Jacques Latour wrote: Hi all! I'm working on our IPv6 and DNSSEC

Re: Best way to San Jose Fairmont from SFO?

2017-09-28 Thread Stephen Fulton
Thanks Bob! -- Stephen On 2017-09-28 4:47 PM, Bob Evans wrote: Depending on commute times with traffic - you will most likely travel 101 south. Uber works well from SFO. You catch an Uber ride on the arrival level. Rental carGoogle Maps knows several pathways. But it will most likely take

Best way to San Jose Fairmont from SFO?

2017-09-28 Thread Stephen Fulton
Hi all, I'm flying in for the conference, landing in San Francisco. What's the best way to get from SFO to the conference hotel? Thanks, -- Stephen

Re: US/Canada International border concerns for routing

2017-08-08 Thread Stephen Fulton
TR, MTS Allstream is no longer a combined entity. MTS was purchased by Bell Canada and Allstream was purchased by Zayo. -- Stephen On 2017-08-08 8:19 PM, TR Shaw wrote: Bill, What does Bell buying MTS do? Does it change your statement or will the MTS portion of Bell still peer locally?

Re: Google Cloud and IX - Traffic behavior

2017-06-16 Thread Stephen Fulton
Alain, When you refer to "normal peering" do you mean Internet transit? Or are these PNI's with Google? Do the GCLD instance you reach through "normal peering" have higher latency than through TorIX? -- Stephen On 2017-06-16 6:58 PM, Alain Hebert wrote: Hi, Anyone aware of

Re: Fwd: hotel

2016-05-02 Thread Stephen Fulton
I tried booking earlier today, had the same issue and called in. I was told they were now full, and only non-block rooms were available (@ > $500/night). -- Stephen On 2016-05-02 10:26 PM, Randy Bush wrote: excuse puking on list but the path to nanog admin action seems dead Date: Sun, 01

Re: RADb Outage?

2016-01-22 Thread Stephen Fulton
Same here, whois.radb.net still appears down as of this message. -- Stephen On 2016-01-22 5:27 PM, Brian Rak wrote: whois.radb.net seems to have been down since sometime last night, has anyone else seen problems with this? It seems the web interface still works, but that's not very useful

Re: Synful Knock questions...

2015-09-16 Thread Stephen Fulton
Follow-up to my own post, Fireeye has code on github: https://github.com/fireeye/synfulknock On 2015-09-16 10:27 AM, Stephen Fulton wrote: Interesting, anyone have more details on how to construct the scan using something like nmap? -- Stephen On 2015-09-16 9:20 AM, Royce Williams wrote: HD

Re: Synful Knock questions...

2015-09-16 Thread Stephen Fulton
Interesting, anyone have more details on how to construct the scan using something like nmap? -- Stephen On 2015-09-16 9:20 AM, Royce Williams wrote: HD Moore just posted the results of a full-Internet ZMap scan. I didn't realize that it was remotely detectable. 79 hosts total in 19

Re: Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router (SR)

2015-05-06 Thread Stephen Fulton
What's the price point of an SR-A4? Comparable to the MX104 or ASR9001? -- Stephen On 2015-05-06 7:13 PM, Craig wrote: If you know Juniper and Cisco, the learning curve isn't so bad to pick up the ALU CLI, after working with it for a brief time, you catch on quickly. Their products are quite

Re: Google served from non-google IPs?

2015-03-12 Thread Stephen Fulton
Local Google caches at QIX? -- Stephen On 2015-03-12 3:58 PM, Jason Lixfeld wrote: So today, I saw this: BlackBox:~ jlixfeld$ host google.ca 8.8.8.8 Using domain server: Name: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53 Aliases: google.ca has address 206.126.112.166 google.ca has address 206.126.112.177

Re: DDOS solution recommendation

2015-01-11 Thread Stephen Fulton
peeringdb.com is usually quite accurate. -- Stephen On 2015-01-11 4:11 PM, Pavel Odintsov wrote: Hello! But abuse@ contacts is very-very-very hard way to contacting with ASN administrator in case of attack. Big amount of requests to #Nanog about please contact ASN noc with me offlist

Re: Buying IP Bandwidth Across a Peering Exchange

2014-11-30 Thread Stephen Fulton
Hi Clayton, Putting on my TorIX hat, I'll address what you've brought up: 1. We implemented port security because MAC ACL's were not effectively blocking certain types of bad traffic, which was a problem with the hardware in place at the time. As you are certainly aware, getting vendors to

Prefix hijack by AS4761 (was Re: BGPMON Alert Questions)

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Fulton
I'm seeing the same hijack of prefixes by multiple networks under my watch, at 18:40 UTC and 19:06 UTC. -- Stephen On 2014-04-02 2:51 PM, Joseph Jenkins wrote: So I setup BGPMON for my prefixes and got an alert about someone in Thailand announcing my prefix. Everything looks fine to me and

Re: level3_bx4-montrealak.net consistently dropping 50% of the packets

2014-02-20 Thread Stephen Fulton
There are reports of problems in Montreal with several other providers over the last several days. These seem to coincide with the Olympics live broadcasts, particularly during the hockey broadcasts. -- Stephen On 2014-02-20 10:08 AM, Nick Cameo wrote: Hello Everyone, According to mtr

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Stephen Fulton
+1 If you do not/cannot have an Akamai cache, connect to an IX that does, and make sure you've got the capacity. My own rule of thumb is have 2x the capacity of your average *peak* traffic on an IX. When big events happen, whether it is news, sporting or a major software update, that extra

Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-19 Thread Stephen Fulton
Microsoft Windows 8.1 is due out in October.. don't be so sure :) -- Stephen On 19/09/2013 3:11 PM, Warren Bailey wrote: Patch Tuesday is not 1gb per patch. On 9/19/13 11:51 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:11:11 -, Warren Bailey said:

Re: common method to count traffic volume on IX

2013-09-18 Thread Stephen Fulton
Ding ding ding! And that's why honest IXPs graph both, to show that they have no packet loss on their inter-switch links. It depends on what is being measured. At TorIX we'll see deviations between in/out on our aggregate graph. As we combine all peer ports to form the aggregate graph,

E-Bay / Paypal engineer eyeballs required.

2008-12-29 Thread Stephen Fulton
space via multiple carriers. -- Stephen Fulton