Re: [uknof] A dual stack London2012?

2012-01-12 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012/01/12 20:03, Tom Bird wrote: > On 12/01/2012 16:52, Simon Lockhart wrote: > > >This was discussed at a recent LINX meeting, after a presentation from BT on > >their network for Olympics 2012, and the answer is no, it will not be IPv6 > >enabled - it was considered too much risk for no tech

Re: [uknof] A dual stack London2012?

2012-01-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012/01/13 23:49, Paul M wrote: > I have an interesting idea. A lot of these consumer grade CPEs haven't > sufficient ROM/RAM to do dual stack. So, throw out the IPv4 stack > altogether. Get rid of the nat, port mapping, all the crappy broken > SIP ALGs etc, everything required to make room. >

Re: [uknof] IP Block required

2012-05-29 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012/05/29 11:19, Martin Diver wrote: > Unfortunately not. I’m already at my max allocation from the datacenter > and if I’m honest, I want to be in a position where I can split and > control the IP’s myself > depending on our future locations/needs. So you want PI space unless you will be suba

Re: [uknof] crazy route !

2012-09-05 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012/09/05 19:58, Thomas Mangin wrote: > Hello, > > I just found a crazy route on the net today .. > > route ipv4 unicast 178.216.216.0/21 next-hop 193.5.69.5 origin igp as-path [ > 196621 8758 3356 20485 21127 28884 41771 2737504257 2737504258 41771 ] > community [ 3356:2 3356:22 3356:100

Re: [uknof] Need advice on L2TP/WBMC or other wholesalers

2013-01-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013/01/16 16:36, Ronan Mullally wrote: > [1] Bastardised as only mobile operators can do - there was a PPP proxy > sitting somewhere in the middle which didn't do things like IPv6. The PPP session you make when you connect a computer to a 3G modem/phone is with the modem/phone itself, it isn't

Re: [uknof] DNS DDoS

2013-01-31 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013/01/31 15:29, Jon Morby wrote: > If unicast RPF were a default part of the configuration of end user CPE > we'd see a dramatic reduction in this sort of crap killing the > networks. (but yes they'd probably find some even more ingenious way to > generate crap) In a lot of cases the end user

Re: [uknof] 2013 Submarine Cable Map

2013-02-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013/02/04 15:52, Ben Ward wrote: > Anyone want the KML files? > > Useful for a Co-ordinated Trawler Attack™ The kingfisher cable awareness charts are probably better for that

Re: [uknof] First one of these I've received...

2013-04-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013/04/17 12:14, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > On 17/04/2013 12:07, Ricky Blaikie wrote: > >>what's considered to be the smallest v4 block which would be globally > >>routable given BGP prefix filtering? > > > > > >/24 isn't it? > > We announce a /24 of PI space on behalf of one of our clients an

Re: [uknof] DDoS mitigation appliances

2013-04-29 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013/04/29 12:18, Simon Green wrote: > How, technically speaking, do the “DDoS cleaning” providers work who > handle your traffic for you? some services announce your prefixes from their multiple sites, filter out the junk, and feed the rest to you over a tunnel or separate physical link. othe

Re: [uknof] BT/Yahoo Mail Cry for Help!

2013-12-02 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013/12/02 15:27, Marcus Taylor wrote: > We hit a similar problem with Critical Path [cpcloud.co.uk] - it was > found that their DNS lookup would be in uppercase and a bug in a Cisco > ASA firewall in the path was dropping the request. > > Not sure if this is a similar issue. Looks like it. $

Re: [uknof] ADSL issues with Zyxel routers

2014-01-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014/01/13 11:15, Chris Bagnall wrote: > Greetings list, > > Has anyone been seeing problems with Zyxel ADSL routers on BT Wholesale over > the last 2-3 days? > > I've seen about 30 connections in very different parts of the country, and > with different ISPs, offline this morning. Common elem

Re: [uknof] Openbgpd for BGP peering with LINX and media converter requirement

2014-03-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014/03/25 21:50, Randhir Prakash wrote: > Hi, > > > > This is my first post as a community member ! > > > > I wish to use a Openbgpd using OpenBSD box to connect and peer with > LINX members. > > I would like to know > > A) Has anyone in the UKNOF community heard of any other network

Re: [uknof] Openbgpd for BGP peering with LINX and media converter requirement

2014-03-27 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014/03/26 23:12, Randhir Prakash wrote: > My openbsd box is virtualized on xenserver. I dont know which fiber nic > is more compatible with xenserver. While I could possibly understand that for something like a route server, that's an additional layer that I would not want in my forwarding pa

Re: [uknof] Very weird server process, hacked? /tmp/w00t /tmp/lllll /tmp/toplel

2014-04-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014/04/21 11:00, Gavin Henry wrote: > > On 21 Apr 2014 10:30, "Paul Mansfield" > wrote: > > > > I'd still use the security setting if possible even if you think it's > unnecessary... to avoid fat finger breakage. > > Yep,  makes sense.  > This isn't exactly the highest quality code in the

Re: [uknof] OFCOM requirements on timeliness to get a MAC from ADSL or FTTC provider?

2014-07-01 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014/07/01 11:44, Paul Mansfield wrote: > On 6 June 2014 14:53, Paul Mansfield wrote: > > A friend wants to change provider from M247/webtap to Fido, and has been > > quoted it'll take five days to be given the code! > > does anyone happen to know who M247 use for ADR ? They should tell you i

Re: [uknof] DNS poll - what do you use?

2014-12-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014/12/03 11:27, David Reader wrote: > nsd does require a hard kick to add/remove zones nsd4 doesn't

Re: [uknof] DNS poll - what do you use?

2014-12-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014/12/04 10:27, Daniel Foster wrote: > Luckily someone else has gone to the lengths of packaging djbdns up for > RH distributions. See http://pjp.dgplug.org/ndjbdns/ A packaged copy of ndjbdns, which is a modified distribution (though doesn't support DNSsec or even IPv6 as far as I can tell),

Re: [uknof] C20-C21 cables

2015-01-28 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015/01/28 12:02, Peter Bristow wrote: > Hi, > > Last time I needed these for the new style ASR9k PSU I used > > http://www.leadsdirect.co.uk/ > > At the time they were the only supplier I could find in the UK, > everyone else was doing C19-C20 rather than C20-C21. http://www.leadsdirect.co.

Re: [uknof] DNS Issue - Expenential-e / newham.gov.uk

2015-02-02 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015/02/02 16:27, Richard Carde wrote: > Can anyone from Exponential-e confirm if they had DNS issues today? > > Google DNS and OpenDNS are caching dodgy records for the newham.gov.uk > domain. > > Verisign Labs DNS Debugger indicates Exponential-e servers have > poisoned A records somewhere /

Re: [uknof] DNS Issue - Expenential-e / newham.gov.uk

2015-02-02 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015/02/02 16:46, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2015/02/02 16:27, Richard Carde wrote: > > Can anyone from Exponential-e confirm if they had DNS issues today? > > > > Google DNS and OpenDNS are caching dodgy records for the newham.gov.uk > > domain. > > > &g

Re: [uknof] Layer 2 from Ireland to london

2015-04-12 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015/04/12 15:34, Rod Beck wrote: > Hi Mark, > > It is more cumbersome to buy lots of unprotected circuits as opposed > to fewer protected cirucits. Buying is more complicated. Contracting is > more complicated. Managing is more complicated. And more expertise is > needed to buy at the cable sy

Re: [uknof] £ per IP

2015-04-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015/04/14 02:09, Tom Hill wrote: > On 2015-04-13 13:52, Simon Green wrote: > >We're just about to go out to try and acquire some more address space. > > > >I'm wondering if anyone on the list knows what the going rate is and > >what I should expect when I start looking around? > > You probably

Re: [uknof] Openreach withdrawal of FTTC CPEs

2015-09-10 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015/09/10 13:59, Neil J. McRae wrote: > > > On 10 Sep 2015, at 13:07, Gord Slater wrote: > > > > But like Brandon says, that's another issue - it's the end-end+demark > > principle. I see this as BT Group washing their hands of things as a > > business tactic to raise profits on SFI visits a

Re: [uknof] uknof list archive?

2015-10-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015/10/08 09:18, Brian Candler wrote: > At http://lists.uknof.org.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uknof/ it says > " To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the uknof > Archives." > > However that link points to > http://lists.uknof.org.uk/pipermail/uknof/ > which gives a 404. >

Re: [uknof] Fwd: internet connection record

2016-01-20 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2016/01/20 11:35, Hal Ponton wrote: > I believe what the government is looking for is the "first slash" > record. So a visit to www.bbc.co.uk/news would have to be recorded as > www.bbc.co.uk/ > > I maybe mistaken but thats my view from the evidence sessions. "What is an Internet Connection Re

Re: [uknof] Disable calls on phone line bearing xDSL?

2016-05-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2016/05/26 08:36, a.l.m.bu...@lboro.ac.uk wrote: > Hi, > > > Is there anyone out there who can provide xDSL (fttc preferably) with a > > > non-working phone line? > > > > We get a WLR POTS with no call plan (so emergency only) when > > customers want one to go with our ADSL/FTTC > > one thing

Re: [uknof] IPv6 adoption approaching 16% in UK

2016-11-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2016/11/08 15:38, Personal wrote: > Not that hard to migrate BGP or static for an SMB. Migrating a setup that's using a standard NAT+dynamic IP on v4 to a setup using dynamic addressing on v6 is harder though. I think this is where quite a few SMBs will become unstuck. It's going to take some a

Re: [uknof] More 100G CFP2 fun - this time a snapped ejection handle

2016-11-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2016/11/17 21:21, Gord Slater wrote: > forgive the curt reply - rather remote here right now and squirting a > Thuraya bird with crocodile clips on a 'Mog Talking of birds, interesting FCC application in this week: http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/ib/forms/reports/swr031b.hts?q_set

Re: [uknof] Investigatory Powers Act

2016-12-01 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2016/11/30 16:48, Pete Stevens wrote: > However, viewing dangerous right wing material leading to overthrow of > the government in a referendum (e.g. the Telegraph homepage) generated > 215 ICRs when I just measured it with most web requests generating 50-100 > ICRs per pageview. Map tiles are

Re: [uknof] Single Mode SFP with fibre patch lead anyone at or around postcode SG12FP

2017-03-20 Thread Stuart Henderson
> Original message > From: Jack Kay > > Maplins appear to sell patch leads but no optics.. helpful. On 2017/03/20 09:13, Peter Knapp wrote: > You cant really expect them to sell sfps though given branded > manufacturers are all device coded (including Advas) Maybe flexoptix co

Re: [uknof] Virgin Media fibre expansion

2017-06-01 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2017/06/01 13:56, Alex Harrowell wrote: > IIRC one of the US cablecos had a wireless broadband product called OMG > FAST! And verizon were dismissive in advertisements about their "half-fast" competitors with low upstream speeds :)

Re: [uknof] pockethernet

2017-07-27 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2017/07/27 16:10, Paul Mansfield wrote: > in case anyone's been thinking of buying one and isn't on their > mailing list, there's a 10% discount on for one day "sysadmin day". Are they any good?

Re: [uknof] FTTP from BT Cabinets

2017-08-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2017/08/18 15:22, Alistair Fleming wrote: > Thanks for the info. > > It sounds like the big price variations are to do with the location of > the nearest GPON OLT. I wonder if theres a mechanism to get a cabinet > “upgraded” (i.e. pay BTOR to put in a GPON OLT) and then FTTP could be > made ava

Re: [uknof] GeoCaching of new netblock - customers can't reach UK catchup TV or Netflix :(.

2018-06-12 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018/06/12 13:45, Stephen Wilcox wrote: > Looks Bulgarian to me, and I'm not even a robotic geocache.. > > inetnum:        185.161.4.0 - 185.161.7.255 > netname:        BG-UEDELTA-20160726 The RIPE db entry looks alright to me, specifically: > country:        GB ^^ this is

Re: [uknof] GeoCaching of new netblock - customers can't reach UK catchup TV or Netflix :(.

2018-06-12 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018/06/12 14:45, Stephen Wilcox wrote: > > > On 12 June 2018 at 14:39, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2018/06/12 13:45, Stephen Wilcox wrote: > > Looks Bulgarian to me, and I'm not even a robotic geocache.. > > > > inetnum:        185.1

Re: [uknof] virus in attachment from john.bou...@mobileinternet.com

2018-07-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018/07/04 12:40, Paul Mansfield wrote: > I'm wondering how the unique email address I use for UKNOF got leaked. > > I received a reply to an email from john.bou...@mobileinternet.com, > with the body being this: > > Hi, > > Please see attached, let me know if you have questions! > > Thanks > >

[uknof] fs reliability

2018-08-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
I've been trying out FS transceivers. Nothing fancy, just 10Gb LR SFP+ for data centre interconnects etc. Out of 8 deployed there have been 2 where the link has failed, then the reported Tx power from DOM has shown as -40.0 dBm - one shortly after deploying, one after ~2 months. Worse still it's in

Re: [uknof] London broadband issue?

2018-09-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018/09/26 10:50, Simon Jones wrote: > Hello folks, > > > > We’re getting a large influx of calls from our broadband customers all over > London – anyone > notice if something major has broken? Seems that way. A&A: [Minor] Broadband: BT Lines dropped in London area (Open) Zen: #5226 Routi

Re: [uknof] Power Delivery Definitions

2018-10-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018/10/17 11:02, Robert Williams wrote: > > We are, by comparison to them, a small operator in terms of size/scale > - they are in the billions globally, so we honestly just presumed that > something which is sold using those words (after requesting diversity > as we did) would definitely not

Re: [uknof] Office fitout - ISP + Ubiquiti wifi/security cams

2018-12-06 Thread Stuart Henderson
75 :) On 2018/12/06 16:24, Catalin Dominte wrote: > 37 minutes left before the winner is announced 😊. > > > > > > > > Catalin Dominte > > > > From: Paul Mansfield > Date: Thursday, 6 December 2018 at 16:15 > To: Catalin Dominte , "uknof@lists.uknof.org.uk" > > Subject: Re: [uknof]

Re: [uknof] Office fitout - ISP + Ubiquiti wifi/security cams

2018-12-18 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018/12/18 07:37, Andrew Langhorn wrote: > I have Ubiquiti devices in my flat - can’t fault them. Work a charm. > > They can do DPI etc but remember the more stuff your edge firewall has to do, > the more that CPU > is whirring away and the slower packet delivery might become. > > I’d questio

Re: [uknof] BT/EE and Vodafone - why the split?

2019-02-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2019/02/08 01:05, Tom Hill wrote: > On 07/02/2019 22:26, Gavin Henry wrote: > > Does anyone have an insight as to why EE kicked Vodafone off their > > network last Friday at 5pm? > > > "kicked [them] off their network" in what context of network? https://aastatus.net/27798 - this will relate

Re: [uknof] defensive domain registration - yes or no?

2019-04-27 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2019/04/27 08:27, Greg Choules wrote: > Hello all. > This is a straw poll, to see what people think, and why, on whether it is > important to register > multiple domains - say, to protect your brand. Or whether it's chasing the > rabbit down the > hole. If multiple domains are registered and

Re: [uknof] Santander and IPv4 mapped address

2019-06-07 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2019/06/07 17:22, Aled Morris wrote: > I have customers with IPv6 dual stack and they are having intermittent > problems (SSL failure) > connecting to Santander's retail banking portal. > > Is there anyone from Santander (or with a contact in Santander) on this list? > > I'm wondering if the

Re: [uknof] Three hosed. Make it right please!

2019-10-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2019/10/17 06:05, Paul Mansfield wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, 05:12 Neil J. McRae, wrote: > > Network has been down for well over 5 hours  > > > Who provides the backhaul for Three from cell sites? Do they have a preferred > supplier for > connection to any regional PoPs? http:/

Re: [uknof] Public IPv4 Addresses Required

2020-04-27 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020/04/27 16:43, Paul Mansfield wrote: > > I'm happy to sell the use of 100.64.44.0/23 at £10/ipv4 address. Just let me > know whom to > invoice. Only some transit providers will accept the announcements for those though ;)

Re: [uknof] London Dark Fibre

2020-05-06 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020/05/06 11:19, glen watts wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm looking for some 10G dark fibre connectivity between THN and LD8 at a > decent price, could a > kind soul point me in the direction of a good supplier or could a good > supplier reach out to me > please? > > Much appreciated, > > Glen I

Re: [uknof] Public IPv4 Addresses Required

2020-05-06 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020/05/06 17:31, Paul Bone wrote: > > It is what unique address are for, But it should be done with IPv6 unique > addresses. For a new installation, yes.

Re: [uknof] Issues accessing RIPE services on BT

2020-08-24 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020/08/22 15:54, Matt McClatchey wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been unable to access RIPE NCC services from multiple BT broadband > connections from AS2856 > in Belfast today. This includes ripe.net, whois.ripe.net, atlas.ripe.net, > stat.ripe.net, which > all appear to be up from other networks

Re: [uknof] Internet Issues 23/3/2021

2021-03-24 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2021/03/24 12:38, Simon Woodhead wrote: > LINX had some issues on LON1 which caused some sessions to drop for short > periods. Many > providers elected to drop sessions which would have caused re-routing and > knock on consequences > depending on other choices (e.g. adequacy of transit provisi