Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers

2016-03-14 Thread mikea
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 04:49:38PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2016, Scott Weeks wrote: > > It's all phunny money. Real economics are not even considered. > > At all. > > And what makes your think the Data Center Optimization Initiative is any > different, when they are counting

Re: BCOP Wiki Logo Missing

2015-10-08 Thread mikea
On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 01:27:32PM +, Nicholas Warren wrote: > http://nabcop.org/index.php > > For me the logo is a flower and it says "Set $wgLogo to the URL path to your > own logo image." > Am I the only one? Same here. I suspect that the page has not been fully customized. -- Mike

Re: Ear protection

2015-09-24 Thread mikea
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 09:51:07AM -0500, Chris Boyd wrote: > > > On Sep 23, 2015, at 7:33 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > > > > Passive cooling typically translates to lower performance but also can > > be more expensive. > > $DAYJOB uses an immersion cooling system so it’s higher

Re: IP's with jitter/packet loss and very far away

2015-09-18 Thread mikea
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 11:42:49AM -0400, Dovid Bender wrote: > Hi, > > I am working on a presentation and looking to create samples of what a > trace should not look like? Anyone have IP's that I can trace from the US > or UK that will show > 1) jitter > 2) packet loss > 3) very far away

Re: WiFI on utility poles

2015-09-10 Thread mikea
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 02:06:14PM -0400, Josh Luthman wrote: > It's either Mike, Comcast or the NANOG list, so it's probably a safe bet. Bilingual English/French may indicate a Canadian mailserver. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin

DamnTest: ignore

2015-09-10 Thread mikea
This post includes the word Damn. damn -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin

Re: Data Center operations mail list?

2015-08-11 Thread mikea
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 07:59:41AM -0700, James Downs wrote: On Aug 11, 2015, at 06:01, Rafael Possamai raf...@gav.ufsc.br wrote: style as nanog and registered the nadcog.org domain. Nad Cog? North American Data Center Operations Group, perhaps? -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-03 Thread mikea
On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 01:52:17PM -0700, alvin nanog wrote: hi ethan On 08/03/15 at 10:58am, Ethan wrote: Getting bandwidth into the events is a pain. Huge venues are meant for large corporate events not lower budget cons and festivals. Venue pricing I believe is 750-1500$ per

Re: 20-30Gbps UDP 1720 traffic appearing to originate from CN in last 24 hours

2015-07-20 Thread mikea
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 09:50:44PM +0100, Colin Johnston wrote: blocking to mitigate risk is a better trade off gaining better percentage legit traffic against a indventant minor valid good network range. That may be your call, or your management's call, but that doesn't make it *my* call or

Re: Remember Internet-In-A-Box?

2015-07-15 Thread mikea
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 04:27:08PM +0300, John Kinsella wrote: On 7/15/15 1:28 PM, Baldur Norddahl wrote: You can't be a dummy and a service provider... oh? :) Counterexample: Cox. They refuse to even admit to me that they are even considering IPV6. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO

Re: Hotels/Airports with IPv6

2015-07-13 Thread mikea
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 05:34:03AM +, Mel Beckman wrote: Owen, I never said it was a greenfield deployment. Someone else tagged it with that term. My understanding of the term greenfield WRT wifi is that there are no interfering signals to contend with. I don't know of any U.S. airport

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread mikea
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 04:30:05PM -0400, A MEKKAOUI wrote: Your right. Actually, Bell knows that home does not need that much BW, Bell size their network for much less than that. However, from a marketing perspective, when Bell says to a client I am offering you 1G at $100 and competition are

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread mikea
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 01:06:26PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: On Jun 26, 2015, at 13:02 , Karl Auer ka...@biplane.com.au wrote: On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 13:39 -0500, Rafael Possamai wrote: How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single person it is overkill.

Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

2015-06-26 Thread mikea
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 04:01:38PM -0500, Mike Hammett wrote: Some of those are why would one EVER need more than X, while others are why would one NOW need more than X. Big difference. Simple fact that there is no residential application that needs more than even 50 megabit much less 10,000

Re: OPM Data Breach - Whitehouse Petition - Help Wanted

2015-06-18 Thread mikea
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 04:34:46PM +, Cryptographrix wrote: Have to agree with Shawn on this. If you watch her testimony in front of Congress, it is clear that she was completely flustered at the inability to hire competent people, and the lack of her superiors to prioritize the

Re: AWS Elastic IP architecture

2015-06-02 Thread mikea
On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 07:21:12PM +0300, Nikolay Shopik wrote: Tell me how do you plan find printer in /64 subnet, scan it? On 02.06.2015 18:08, Matthew Kaufman wrote: I can't run my laser printer without a firewall in front of it, and I can't even guess how secure the controller in

Re: lots of latency on qwest to google?

2011-09-20 Thread mikea
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:06:18PM -0500, Chris Brookes wrote: Anyone else seeing a lot of latency to google via qwest? .. 11 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms min-edge-12.inet.qwest.net [207.225.128.1] 1215 ms13 ms12 ms chx-edge-03.inet.qwest.net [67.14.38.5] 1312 ms21 ms

Re: How to begin making my own ISP?

2011-09-16 Thread mikea
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 02:10:29PM -0400, hass...@hushmail.com wrote: No one replied with any useful information. I guess no one wants competition on this list? Pretty poor tactic. On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:55:01 -0400 hass...@hushmail.com wrote: I want to begin making my own ISP, mainly for

Re: What do you do when your Home ISP is down?

2011-08-18 Thread mikea
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:21:57AM -0700, Mark Keymer wrote: I am wondering what some of you guys do when your home ISP is down. At least those of you that don't give yourself internet. I myself have a cable provider at home that I use. And I find it quite frustrating to call and report

Re: What do you do when your Home ISP is down?

2011-08-18 Thread mikea
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 02:09:03PM -0400, Eric Wieling wrote: Obligatory xkcd http://xkcd.com/806/ Damn, that's _fine_! -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin

Re: What do you do when your Home ISP is down?

2011-08-18 Thread mikea
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:17:07AM -0700, Jeff Johnstone wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Mark Keymer m...@viviotech.net wrote: I am wondering what some of you guys do when your home ISP is down. At least those of you that don't give yourself internet. snip I know we have a wide

Re: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-12 Thread mikea
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 05:49:03PM -0430, Greg Ihnen wrote: What standards? The RFID tag on the milk carton will, essentially, replace the bar code once RFID tags become cheap enough. It'll be like an uber-barcode with a bunch more information. For keeping track of how much, cheap

Re: network issue help

2011-08-11 Thread mikea
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:39:59AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 07:33:53PM -0400, Stefan Fouant wrote: Is there an acronym for RTFM when there are a volume of manuals that need to be read? FOAD, perhaps? Well, there's ADD: Attention Deficit Disorder. Then there's

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-23 Thread mikea
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 05:47:18PM -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: On 6/22/2011 14:33, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: 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

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread mikea
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 05:04:25PM -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote: Aw, Jeezus. No. Just, no. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/17/202245/ Yeah. Maybe ICANN needs its own special TLD: .idiots? -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mi...@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin

Re: (OT) Firearms Was: UN declares Internet access a human right

2011-06-06 Thread mikea
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 10:21:35AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: On Jun 6, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Daniel Seagraves wrote: On Jun 6, 2011, at 8:41 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: Nice try, but the human right you just made a case for is the right to rid yourself of criminals and despots.

Re: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's possible with today's technology.

2011-05-20 Thread mikea
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 09:34:59AM -1000, Paul Graydon wrote: On 05/20/2011 08:53 AM, Brett Frankenberger wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 06:46:45PM +, Eu-Ming Lee wrote: To do this, you only need 2 numbers: the nth digit of pi and the number of digits. Simply convert your message into a

Re: 365x24x7 (sleep patterns)

2011-04-15 Thread mikea
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:53:47AM -0500, Chad Dailey wrote: +1. I'd go to six months, having been the night shift bitch. Flipping shifts around damn near killed me. On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Mark Green ktm200...@hotmail.com wrote: Suggestion; once on the 'night shift' stay put

Re: Level 3 Agrees to Purchase Global Crossing

2011-04-11 Thread mikea
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 02:41:18PM +, Mike Walter wrote: I find it amusing that the article says - The deal will combine two unprofitable companies So I guess the thinking is that two negatives make a positive? They may lose on every subscriber, but now they'll make it up in

Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

2011-03-24 Thread mikea
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:34:13AM -0400, Steven Bellovin wrote: On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:27 58AM, Aaron Wendel wrote: That's a good question. Maybe they can't qualify under Arin rules. Another question will be: how is Arin going to handle it? Im pretty sure that the RSA says that

Re: Christchurch New Zealand

2011-02-24 Thread mikea
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:08:39AM -0800, JC Dill wrote: On 22/02/11 10:38 PM, Joe Hamelin wrote: The other CERT: Community Emergency Response Team. https://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/about.shtm +1 for CERT. I also think that taking a CERT class is a great way to re-evaluate your own

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread mikea
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:14:04AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: From: Jeff Wheeler Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 8:13 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6naysayer...) I suspect Google, Microsoft, and others have already

Re: Internet blocked in Algeria?

2011-02-12 Thread mikea
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 country is reporting that many Facebook accounts have been deleted

Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses

2011-01-27 Thread mikea
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:26:58PM -0800, Mark Keymer wrote: What I don't understand is I can only guess they must have a IT team. And Maybe even 1 or more people that view this list. Why don't they just talk to there own staff about the issues? Maybe one of the IT guess saw the issues talked

Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses

2011-01-27 Thread mikea
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 08:20:54PM -0500, Steven Bellovin wrote: On Jan 27, 2011, at 4:53 22PM, mikea wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:26:58PM -0800, Mark Keymer wrote: What I don't understand is I can only guess they must have a IT team. And Maybe even 1 or more people that view

Re: test-ipv6.com

2011-01-27 Thread mikea
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 06:59:15PM -0600, Jack Bates wrote: On 1/27/2011 6:25 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote: Anyone for peering cake? Yeah, Google, HE, Cogent, Sprint, Qwest, and Level3 all need peering cakes (as I'm pretty sure there is no participant in that list which is connected

Re: Satellite IP

2011-01-11 Thread mikea
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 04:33:30PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: Valdis Kletnieks valdis.kletni...@vt.edu Why the hostility, Valdis? As I said several times - it's not hard to be 98% or 99% sure you can make all your commitments. However, since

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-10 Thread mikea
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 02:52:56PM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: On Friday, January 07, 2011 09:25:59 am David Sparro wrote: I find that the security Layers advocates tend not to look at the differing value of each of those layers. Different layers very much have different values, and, yes,

Re: FAA - ASDI servers

2011-01-05 Thread mikea
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 06:36:25AM -0500, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: TR Shaw ts...@oitc.com writes: There is a federal directive that has been in place for a number of years that requires IPV6 support for all new IT contracts/systems and also a directive to all federal agencies to

Re: The tale of a single MAC

2011-01-02 Thread mikea
On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 09:33:46PM -0600, Graham Wooden wrote: Hi there, I encountered an interesting issue today and I found it so bizarre ? so I thought I would share it. I brought online a spare server to help offload some of the recent VMs that I have been deploying. Around the same

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread mikea
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 06:41:09PM -0800, Seth Mattinen wrote: Contrary to popular belief the average person tend to severely dislike all forms of road construction or having their yard repeatedly torn up. I know it's all happy fun times to say let's have 10 water/electrical providers and

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread mikea
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:13:21PM -0800, Matthew Petach wrote: You may find that simply fewer content providers decide it's worth it to play in that space, under those conditions, which results in fewer choices for the consumer, and something closer to a monopoly on the available content to

Re: Alleged backdoor in OpenBSD's IPSEC implementation.

2010-12-15 Thread mikea
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:51:24PM -0800, Michael J Wise wrote: On Dec 14, 2010, at 9:56 PM, Ken Chase wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:39:02PM -0800, Chaim Rieger said: Does anyone remember the last time a law enforcement agency had someone sign a 10 year NDA on a backdoor? Oh, times

Re: Alleged backdoor in OpenBSD's IPSEC implementation.

2010-12-15 Thread 'mikea'
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:00:56PM -0500, Stefan Fouant wrote: -Original Message- From: mikea [mailto:mi...@mikea.ath.cx] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:28 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Alleged backdoor in OpenBSD's IPSEC implementation. Someone is confusing

Re: LOIC tool used in the Anonymous attacks

2010-12-13 Thread mikea
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:59:07AM -0800, andrew.wallace wrote: I was reading about this- yeah really anonymous. http://praetorianprefect.com/archives/2010/12/anonymous-releases-very-unanonymous-press-release/ Also: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/11/anonymous-isnt-loic.html All we

Re: [Operational] Internet Police

2010-12-09 Thread mikea
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 06:26:30PM +, Dobbins, Roland wrote: On Dec 10, 2010, at 1:19 AM, Michael Smith wrote: front lines of this cyberwar? Warfare isn't the correct metaphor. Espionage/covert action is the correct metaphor. Low intensity conflict may be more correct. -- Mike

Re: The scale of streaming video on the Internet.

2010-12-03 Thread mikea
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 06:29:54PM -1000, Antonio Querubin wrote: On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Paul Ferguson wrote: Old skool. Twitter is much faster: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/government-disaster-advisors-twitter-ha cked-used-to-send-tsunami-warning/408447 But morse code is still

Re: Domain shut downs by Registrar?

2010-12-03 Thread mikea
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 10:49:47AM -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:45 AM, John R. Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: We do remember, don't we, that the domain that started this discussion were shut down by Verisign, the registry, not a registrar? interesting that in

Re: Want to move to all 208V for server racks

2010-12-02 Thread mikea
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 12:17:37PM -1000, Antonio Querubin wrote: On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Ricky Beam wrote: I think they are now a violation of the NEC. And they were delisted by UL years ago. They pose a hazard as they will not react fast enough to prevent a fatal shock. (and the only one's