Re: quietly....

2011-02-03 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Thu Feb 03, 2011 at 01:11:35PM +, Florian Weimer wrote: Has RIPE charged a LIR for their independent resources yet? I don't think so. Therefore, comparisons with ARIN are a bit premature. Yes - we got charged in our 2011 invoice. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation

Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

2011-02-27 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Mon Feb 28, 2011 at 07:22:08AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: This is often required for legislation compliance. DHCP does this well. Does it really matter what address a customer has as long as it comes from the /64, /56 or /48 assigned to them? You are assuming an access technology that

Re: Global caches

2013-02-04 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Mon Feb 04, 2013 at 02:03:54PM +, Kyle Camilleri wrote: Does anybody know of any other CDN providers that offer similar caches? Most CDN providers also provide free access to super node caches at major datacentres and peering points - depending on where you are located, which datacentres

Re: So how big was it *really*?

2013-03-28 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Thu Mar 28, 2013 at 09:29:04AM -0400, Harry Hoffman wrote: It's interesting, this just came up on gizmodo. As I said in another forum, take it for what it's worth: http://gizmodo.com/5992652/that-internet-war-apocalypse-is-a-lie And there's a (semi-)public response from one of Cloudfare's

Re: Verizon DSL moving to CGN

2013-04-08 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Mon Apr 08, 2013 at 01:41:34AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: Respectfully, I disagree. If the major content providers were to deploy IPv6 within the next 6 months (pretty achievable even now), then the need for CGN would at least be very much reduced, if not virtually eliminated. Surely the

Re: Outages in wales ?

2009-07-18 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Sat Jul 18, 2009 at 09:31:56PM +0200, Marc Manthey wrote: hey peoples sorry for my question but a buddy in wales have massive problems with internet connectivity can someone confirm ? I'm just on the welsh border, and I've not seen any issues reported - my home ADSL is up, our office

Re: Data Centers in England

2009-10-07 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed Oct 07, 2009 at 02:33:33PM -0700, Philip Lavine wrote: Anyone know a good DC on England that caters to financial industry clients? Telehouse London started as a Banking DR centre, so would probably meet your needs. Otherwise, there's Interxion, which claims to have all sorts of security

Re: Announcement: Critical Internet Infrastructure WG is now open to public participation

2009-11-18 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed Nov 18, 2009 at 07:08:31PM +0200, Gadi Evron wrote: ISOTF Critical Internet Infrastructure WG is now open to public participation. Sorry, who is ISOTF? I tried looking on the website, but the About ISOTF page is blank... http://www.isotf.org/?page_value=0 Simon

Re: Overall Netflix bandwidth usage numbers on a network?

2011-12-12 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Mon Dec 12, 2011 at 03:10:20PM -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: I believe Akamai, LLNW, L3 are the only companies that stream movies for Netflix. Peer with the CDNs to save your transit. That would be good if more than one of those CDNs peered openly. Simon

Re: Overall Netflix bandwidth usage numbers on a network?

2011-12-12 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Mon Dec 12, 2011 at 10:11:54PM +0100, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: Akamai will peer with you anywhere and i doubt LLNW will give you trouble. LLNW are restictive on peering. L3, well, they run a superb network and even more superb pricing, so why would they peer with anyone ;) And as I use

Re: US DOJ victim letter

2012-01-19 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Thu Jan 19, 2012 at 01:15:28PM -0800, Andrew D. Dibble wrote: So if one of the computers inside your network is talking to one of those IPs for DNS, you probably have malware. Show me an ISP which doesn't have end-user PCs infected with malware :) Simon

Re: Peering for beginners

2008-10-11 Thread Simon Lockhart
points, and work out which ones it's financially viable for you to reach. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation * ADSL * Domain Registration * Director|* Domain Web Hosting * Internet Consultancy * Bogons Ltd | * http://www.bogons.net/ * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Peering for beginners

2008-10-11 Thread Simon Lockhart
into Europe :-) PAIX and Equinix are the big facilities in the US, but they have sites across the country - with the biggest concentrations on the East and West coasts. If you need to get into South America, then NAP of the Americas is probably useful. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server

Re: BBC Contact

2008-10-31 Thread Simon Lockhart
can prod people. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation * ADSL * Domain Registration * Director|* Domain Web Hosting * Internet Consultancy * Bogons Ltd | * http://www.bogons.net/ * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Sprint / Cogent dispute over?

2008-11-02 Thread Simon Lockhart
to Cogent (saving $$$ and not having to face future depeerings). Just my $0.02. Unless they need to reach other networks single homed from Sprint... Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation * ADSL * Domain Registration * Director|* Domain Web Hosting * Internet Consultancy

Re: What to do when your ISP off-shores tech support

2008-12-25 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Thu Dec 25, 2008 at 04:54:37PM -0500, Martin Hannigan wrote: As long as the language skills are good [...] Because, generally, this is not the case. Oh, and when there's 3 fibre cuts between you and India, and your voice gets shrunk to a 9kbps VoIP channel, it's doubly bad. Simon

Re: Leap second tonight

2009-01-01 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed Dec 31, 2008 at 04:53:57PM -0800, Wil Schultz wrote: At which point my Solaris 10 v490's reboot in unison, lovely. Anyone else see anything interesting? I had a couple of Oracle servers (Solaris 10) reboot a couple of minutes just before the leap second. All my other Solaris 10 boxes

Re: Leap second tonight

2009-01-01 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Thu Jan 01, 2009 at 04:29:35AM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote: Have either of you determined if this was a OS reboot and not a bios reset? I've been trawling through all the logfiles I can find on the box, and I see normal entries up until 23:59:xx, and then the next entry is stuff restarting.

Re: Leap second tonight

2009-01-01 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Thu Jan 01, 2009 at 07:58:21AM -0800, Wil Schultz wrote: All of my Solaris 10 boxes stayed up with the exception of the Oracle 10g RAC boxes. My Oracle boxes that rebooted were running RAC (version 10G R2), too. Another Solaris 10 box running the same version of Oracle, but not RAC, did

Re: Estimate of satellite vs. Land-based traffic

2009-01-06 Thread Simon Lockhart
. I suspect in the USA, it's close to 100% land-based. In places in central Africa, it's probably close to 100% satellite based. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation * ADSL * Domain Registration * Director|* Domain Web Hosting * Internet Consultancy * Bogons Ltd

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-14 Thread Simon Lockhart
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Re: SBCglobal routing loop.

2008-07-19 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Sat Jul 19, 2008 at 08:44:31PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a place where frontline network operators hang out, where it is not frowned upon to ask operational questions about events in progress? There are many. I suspect some are more public than others (but I don't have a

Re: interger to I P address

2008-08-27 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed Aug 27, 2008 at 07:11:41AM -0400, kcc wrote: ls it possible t convert the interger to ip Yes. Simon

Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!

2010-01-05 Thread Simon Lockhart
, but not everyone would agree with it [1]. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Sun Server Colocation * ADSL * Domain Registration * Director|* Domain Web Hosting * Internet Consultancy * Bogons Ltd | * http://www.bogons.net/ * Email: i...@bogons.net * [1] That said, when I've had

Anyone got access to Cisco Call Manager = 7.1(3b)SU1 ?

2010-04-20 Thread Simon Lockhart
All (and apologies for the slight off-topic-ness), I need to get hold of a config file for a Cisco 9971 handset that has been generated by Cisco Call Manager (or, rather Cisco Unified Communications Manager) release 7.1(3b)SU1 or higher. Does anyone have access to such a system and would be

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-29 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Apr 29, 2011 at 01:48:51PM -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote: Will they not complain about having their equipment utilization go up with no recompense -- for something that is only of benefit to commercial customers of some other entity? Sorry, but are your eyeballs not already paying you for

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone? (was: Royal Wedding...)

2011-04-29 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Apr 29, 2011 at 03:03:47PM -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote: The real problem I see myself is that *the Mbone has to be pervasive* (or mostly so) for this to be a worthwhile investment for providers. What is missing is an adaptive client (be it flash, or HTML5) which will transparently use

Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

2011-04-29 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Apr 29, 2011 at 05:40:59PM -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote: Great. So, as I asked earlier (as yet unanswered): I have in my hand an NTSC video cable and an XLR with audio. How do I hook that to the mbone? :-) Simple. Go get yourself an encoder - VBrick, Envivio, Tandberg, etc, etc -

Re: Microsoft's participation in World IPv6 day

2011-06-03 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Sat Jun 04, 2011 at 12:04:42AM +0100, Tony McCrory wrote: I wonder if there is a disproportionately large amount of IPv6 usage in the Middle East where a number of countries have their weekend on Friday and Saturday, with Sunday being the first day of their working week? UAE and Israel as

Re: leasing/managed offices in London, UK with 10gbe carriers POPs?

2013-05-25 Thread Simon Lockhart
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Re: Peering issue - Possible Juniper to Cisco issue

2014-02-28 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Feb 28, 2014 at 08:58:02AM -0800, Philip Lavine wrote: I had no sync on and a prefix list so I was advertising only one route. Even though I hard reset the session on my end the Telco for some reason kept seeing me send the routes. I finally called them and had them reset their end and

Re: Cisco warranty

2014-04-04 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Apr 04, 2014 at 09:42:29AM +0200, Laurent CARON wrote: My device is indeed supposedly covered by a lifetime warranty. Since I'm still in the timeframe of less than 5 years after EOS...it should be good...should. The *Limited* Lifetime Warranty is only offered to the original purchaser

Re: Upgrade Path Options from 6500 SUP720-3BXL for Edge Routing

2014-07-29 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Tue Jul 29, 2014 at 02:21:32AM +, Corey Touchet wrote: Right now my thinking are MX480 or ASR9k platforms. Opinions on those are equally welcome as alternatives, but I?d love to hear from those with personal experiences today vs sales people trying to tell me it would route the world

Re: Low cost WDM gear

2015-02-07 Thread Simon Lockhart
That's why I engage the engineering resources on their end to make sure the chosen candidate will support the use case. I have now performed an A/B comparison and the FiberStore gear is inferior. Excessive loss on the mux and optics. Just for comparison sake, I should say that we've bought

Re: Any Verizon datacenter techs about?

2015-06-26 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Jun 26, 2015 at 09:26:53AM -0500, Doug McIntyre wrote: I guess VZ thought the colo was ultimately to stand alone without talking to anybody. And they are a communications company. And there-in lies the answer to your question. They're a communications company. They want to sell you

Re: Data Center operations mail list?

2015-08-11 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Tue Aug 11, 2015 at 01:35:28pm -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote: Absolutely feel free to use it; I haven't seen a single message on it in... well, it was 3 years ago I was in datacenters regularly, so I'm goin with 3 years. :-) There's a message there now... :) Rather than fragmenting further,

Fw: new message

2015-10-25 Thread Simon Lockhart
Hey! New message, please read <http://askdrrutherford.com/ground.php?q> Simon Lockhart

Re: 4 byte ASNs through OpenBGPd to old Cisco IOS

2015-09-23 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed Sep 23, 2015 at 03:37:31PM -0500, Mike Hammett wrote: > Do any of you have any useful input other than they need to upgrade their IOS > to something newer than 4.5 years old? I recently went through a very similar issue, and was convinced it was related to 32 bit ASNs. Are they seeing

Re: mpls switches

2016-04-13 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Tue Apr 12, 2016 at 07:29:54PM -0500, Colton Conor wrote: > Someone told me to check out extreme networks, cisco or Ciena for the more > cost effective mpls kit. Any advice on which of the three would have the > most cost effective 10G MPLS switch? I'm using Extreme switches for VPLS - the

Re: PlayStationNetwork blocking of CGNAT public addresses

2016-09-18 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Sun Sep 18, 2016 at 03:58:57PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Tom Beecher: > > Simon's getting screwed because he's not being given any information to try > > and solve the problem, and because his customers are likely blaming him > > because he's their ISP. > > We don't know that for sure.

Re: PlayStationNetwork blocking of CGNAT public addresses

2016-09-18 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Sun Sep 18, 2016 at 05:17:33PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Okay, then perhaps my guess of the ISP involved is wrong. It's not hard to find out who I work for :) > Out of curiosity, how common is end-to-end reporting of > source/destination port information (in addition to source IP >

Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey

2016-09-23 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Sep 23, 2016 at 10:58:44AM -0700, Grant Ridder wrote: > Didn't realize Akamai kicked out or disabled customers They didn't - Krebs has publicly stated that Akamai were providing services "Pro Bono" - and I guess the goodwill ran out :) Simon

Re: PlayStationNetwork blocking of CGNAT public addresses

2016-09-16 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Sep 16, 2016 at 08:32:12PM +0700, Roland Dobbins wrote: > Another aspect is ensuring that one has the ability to detect, classify, > traceback, and mitigate outbound badness southbound of the CGN. Unless PSN can tell us what traffic they consider bad, how can we detect and classify it? We

PlayStationNetwork blocking of CGNAT public addresses

2016-09-16 Thread Simon Lockhart
All, We operate an access network with several hundred thousand users. Increasingly we're putting the users behind CGNAT in order to continue to give them an IPv4 service (we're all dual-stack, so they all get public IPv6 too). Due to the demographic of our users, many of them are gamers. We're

Re: Forwarding issues related to MACs starting with a 4 or a 6 (Was: [c-nsp] Wierd MPLS/VPLS issue)

2016-12-02 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Dec 02, 2016 at 10:29:56AM -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote: > you'd think standard testing of traffic through the asic path somewhere > between 'let's design an asic!' and 'here's your board ms customer!' would > have found this sort of thing, no? or does testing only use 1 mac address >

Re: Forwarding issues related to MACs starting with a 4 or a 6 (Was: [c-nsp] Wierd MPLS/VPLS issue)

2016-12-02 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Dec 02, 2016 at 09:23:24PM +, Sukumar Subburayan (sukumars) wrote: > I just want to come back on behalf of Cisco on this. We just investigated > this issue and the issue is not an ASIC bug, but a flag set wrong by SW. We > will reach out to the original customer through TAC who posted

VXLAN for WAN Pseudowires?

2017-07-20 Thread Simon Lockhart
All, I'm currently going through a network design for an upgrade for one of the networks I run. Much of the wide-area traffic on the network is used purely to transport Ethernet tail circuits back from an edge PoP to a core PoP. Currently we're using Extreme X460 and X670 switches to achieve

Re: Transit Providers in Bracknell, UK

2017-07-03 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Mon Jul 03, 2017 at 08:36:45AM -0400, Gary T. Giesen via NANOG wrote: > Thanks all for the on- and off-list suggestions. I've joined the UKNOF list > and will seriously look at Vodafone (former C). You could also look at A - www.aaisp.net.uk - very clueful and based in Bracknell. Simon

Re: Cisco Nexus 93180YC Switch Feedback

2017-08-08 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Tue Jul 25, 2017 at 08:31:54PM -0700, Tim Stevenson wrote: > tstevens-92160yc-1# sh int cap | beg 1/49 | eg Eth|Speed > Ethernet1/49 > Speed: 4 > Ethernet1/50 > Speed: 1000,1,25000,4,5,10 > Ethernet1/51 > Speed: 4 >

Chinese websites loading slower recently?

2017-10-20 Thread Simon Lockhart
All, I know that access to Chinese websites from outside China is notorious for being slow or broken, but we seem to have had a major increase in support calls from our users over the last couple of weeks, complaining of slow or no access to major Chinese websites, such as www.baidu.com,

Re: 48vDC Output UPS

2017-12-31 Thread Simon Lockhart
Fingerprint: 79F2A12BAC77827581C734212AFA805732A1394E [ > https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get=0x2AFA805732A1394E | Public PGP > Key ] > > > > -- Simon Lockhart | * Server Co-location * ADSL * Domain Registration * Director| * Domain & Web Hosting * Connectivity * Consultancy * Bogons Ltd | * http://www.bogons.net/ * Email: i...@bogons.net *

Re: Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 public DNS broken w/ AT CPE

2018-04-02 Thread Simon Lockhart
look clever with the IP address. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | * Server Co-location * ADSL * Domain Registration * Director| * Domain & Web Hosting * Connectivity * Consultancy * Bogons Ltd | * http://www.bogons.net/ * Email: i...@bogons.net *

Re: Contact information requested - Sony/Playstation

2019-04-01 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Mon Apr 01, 2019 at 03:36:34pm -0400, John Alcock wrote: > More problems with my new IP Block. Any contacts on the list for > Sony/PlayStation Network. My new IP Block 138.43.128.0/18 can not access. snei-noc-ab...@am.sony.com are the right people, and generally responsive. Simon

Apple devices spoofing default gateway?

2019-03-14 Thread Simon Lockhart
All, We're seeing a bit of a weird one on our network at the moment, and wondering if anyone else has seen it. Since Friday we're seeing Apple devices (we believe it's both laptops and iPhones) responding to ARP requests for the default gateway IP with their own MAC address (i.e. ARP spoofing /

Re: Apple devices spoofing default gateway?

2019-03-14 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Thu Mar 14, 2019 at 12:53:01PM +, Mel Beckman wrote: > Can you post some packet captures? I have some packet captures, but as they're from a live network, I'd rather not post them publicly. > I was a network engineer on the WiFi network at SFO, for both passengers and > baggage

Re: Apple devices spoofing default gateway?

2019-03-14 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Thu Mar 14, 2019 at 04:19:04PM -0500, Jimmy Hess wrote: > Apple's Bonjour protocols include something called Apple Bonjour Sleep Proxy > for Wake on Demand --- When a device goes to sleep, the Proxy that runs on > various Apple devices is supposed to seize all the IP and MAC addresses that >

Re: alternative to voip gateways

2020-05-06 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed May 06, 2020 at 09:17:28AM +0200, Baldur Norddahl wrote: > If you are converting why would you go for copper instead of fiber? The > typical gpon olt switch can handle 1024 or 2048 users in one rack unit and > equipment is cheap and available. "since they already have all this copper laid

SPAM: Re: Cogent emails

2020-09-14 Thread Simon Lockhart
We gave in and just bought a small amount of transit from them. The sales emails stopped. Seems to be about the only effective method. Simon On Mon Sep 14, 2020 at 05:07:28PM +, David Guo via NANOG wrote: > Yes, every week > > Proof > > https://vip1.loli.net/2020/09/15/bq3lHGuvNRkW9YS.jpg

Re: MX204 Rails

2020-07-16 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Thu Jul 16, 2020 at 02:27:25PM -0500, Rafael Possamai wrote: > Doesn't the mx204 have rackmount brackets rather than rails? It has ears at the front, and "rails" at the rear. The MX204 would have come with the rear rails when bought new. See

Re: Famous operational issues

2021-02-16 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Tue Feb 16, 2021 at 09:33:20PM +0100, J?rg Kost wrote: > I don't want to classify and rate it, but would name 9/11. > > You can read about the impacts on the list archives and there is also a > presentation from NANOG '23 online. For an operational perspective, I was part of the team trying

Re: Any sign of supply chain returning to normal?

2022-05-20 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri May 20, 2022 at 10:15:14am +0200, Mark Tinka wrote: > We suddenly got told that they are now EoS/EoL some time back (I probably > should have done a better job tracking this, but I tend to rely on vendor > notifications for that based on my Cisco/Juniper experience). I've heard that some

Can I do this in EVPN? (Multihome to more different CEs)

2023-02-08 Thread Simon Lockhart
All, I have a bit of a networking design challenge, and I thing EVPN is the right answer, but despite spending the last week reading loads of resources about it, I can't quite get my head around one aspect. I'm trying to genericise the design a bit here, but what I've got is... I have multiple

Re: Can I do this in EVPN? (Multihome to more different CEs)

2023-02-09 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Thu Feb 09, 2023 at 11:54:28AM -0500, Shawn L wrote: > You should be able to setup a VPLS between 3 (or more) devices. Something > like this -- [snip] Thanks - I'm not committed to EVPN, so VPLS could work too. Would VPLS handle loop avoidance for me? (i.e. if I have two VPLS PE connections