August 2000 - NANOG - lists.nanog.org

RE: California electric power on the ragged edge
by Karyn Ulriksen 04 Aug '00

04 Aug '00

It appears that SCE has been seriously degrading voltage in an attempt to keep most of us in SoCal happy, but some of the datacenters have already leaned into generator power due to low voltage (10% down). It ain't pretty. There was some brown outs occuring in the San Fernando Valley that I noticed weren't highly publicized. We've powered down the unnecessaries in our datacenter to minimize impact and have defined plans to further power down secondary power supplies *when* (as in not *if*) the rolls hit so that we can extend what our Lieberts can deliver. LA and the Coachella valley are just starting to hit the triple digits on the thermometer, so by the end of August and throughout September when we regularly his 105 - 120 F, the rolling blackouts are highly likely to be a reality. Refer to http://www.caiso.com/awe/systemstatus.html or simply http://www.caiso.com. Note that on http://www.caiso.com/thegrid/ they state: "Power plants meeting up to 45,000 megawatts of peak demand are connected to the Grid. " Yesterday we hit 44776 per (http://www.caiso.com/marketops/OASIS/moload/ISO_Load_20000802.pdf) although the system status page reported an even higher number. > -----Original Message----- > From: Sean Donelan [mailto:sean@donelan.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 5:09 PM > To: nanog(a)merit.edu > Subject: California electric power on the ragged edge > > > > As you may remember in may the NERC, the National Electrical > Reliablility Council issued a press release announcing that > generation and transmission resources are expected to be > adequate in most areas this summer. > > Today's New York Times has a story about the close call > in California yesterday. Available electrical capacity > dropped near 3% reserve in the afternoon, leading to concern > CAISO would need to declare a "stage three emergency" and > begin controlled rolling blackouts across california. > > http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/080300ca-power.html > > In June, PG&E used rolling blackouts around the San Francisco > Bay area. > > >

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upgrade predicament
by Chris Hanes 03 Aug '00

03 Aug '00

I inherited a 7507 running an old 11.1 release that does not support FEIP2; I need to upgrade the IOS to support a FEIP2 blade but in order to do this I need the ethernet access that I don't have. So I'm in a catch 22 here. Any thoughts on what I should do? I'm not the Cisco expert and I can't seem to find a way to upgrade the IOS over a serial connection from my pc. I'm thinking I may have to setup a T1 connection into the Cisco just to have TFTP access. I hope there is a better way. Thanks for the help...

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recent internet packet size samples
by Joe Abley 03 Aug '00

03 Aug '00

I'm interested in seeing the distribution of packet sizes across a 1500-byte-constrained measurement point, with "real internet traffic" going past (for some reasonable interpretation of that phrase). Specifically, I'm looking for the number of IP datagrams of size M for all M encountered throughout a long, contiguous packet stream (say a few hours' worth around the residential surfing busy hour). I can do measurements myself, but I'd prefer not to reinvent the wheel. Could anybody point me at some recent data? Thanks, Joe

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InterNIC changes
by Verd, Brad 03 Aug '00

03 Aug '00

Informational Message: Amendment 19 to Cooperative Agreement Between NSI and U.S. Government C. During the period lasting until nine months after the date of this amendment, the Department of Commerce will cooperate with NSI to assure the continued availability of the internic.net SLD name for purposes of email transmissions from registration templates to NSI. Prior to the end of such nine month period, NSI shall modify all of its registration templates and otherwise migrate from the use of the term "InterNIC," or Internet addresses that reflect the term "InterNIC," in connection with its provision of any product or service. Thereafter, the internic.net SLD name shall not be used for the provision of Registrar Services. Effective August 8, 2000 By directive of The Department of Commerce, Network Solutions is retiring most of "internic.net". The following servers will be the only "InterNIC" machines visible after the 8th. www.internic.net whois.internic.net rs.internic.net ftp.rs.internic.net -------------------------------------- Brad Verd gTLD Operations Manager Network Solutions Registry Email - bverd(a)netsol.com ---------------------------------------

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Qwest and US WEST (non) routing problems
by Bessant, Chuck 02 Aug '00

02 Aug '00

I have been working a ticket with Qwest regarding our upstream through them in Portland. I was informed by a Qwest engineer that, as a result of their merger with US West, they are under an FCC mandate not to traffic data directly through AS3908. This AS serves the NW and the Denver area according to this engineer. THE CAVEAT as related by the engineer is as follows: our advertisements should, technically, be propagated out to the Internet...however, all traffic would first hit Qwest's network, then go through the Cable & Wireless network, then back through Qwest to us...in other words, even if our routes *were* being propagated properly, we would probably have to do some kind of prepending or other preferencing to get traffic flowing in Qwest's direction and even then it would certainly not be an optimal path through the network. Has anyone experienced this problem with AS3908 & Qwest? Thanks. Chuck

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RE: NYC cut?
by Martin, Christian 02 Aug '00

02 Aug '00

We have a bunch of DS3s and OC-3c's out of 60 hudson. All are OK. ./chris -----Original Message----- From: Adam Rothschild [mailto:asr@latency.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 10:57 PM To: nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: NYC cut? Hi, I'm hearing word of a potentially large copper (fibre too?) cut in New York City, somewhere in the vicinity of 60 Hudson Street and Bell Atlantic/Verizon's central office at 50 Varick Street. Anyone have any additional information regarding this? Thanks, -adam

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Re: TLD operations change
by Simon Leinen 02 Aug '00

02 Aug '00

>>>>> "kk" == Kurt Kayser <kurt(a)noris.de> writes: >> Effective zone serial number 2000080101, g.root-servers.net >> (192.112.36.4) will no longer be authoritatively answering for com, >> net, org. In its place g.gtld-servers.net (198.41.3.101) will be >> added as an authoritative server for com, net, org. > Does this also mean, that there should be a new 'root-zone' that > lists the new gtld-servers explicitly, instead the 'old' > x.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ? No, as there is no change in the set of root name servers. The set of gTLD (.com/.net/.org) nameservers has changed (g.root-servers.net => g.gtld-servers.net) but the gTLD servers don't have to be preconfigured using a "hints" file---they are found using regular DNS queries to the root servers. -- Simon.

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TLD operations change
by Verd, Brad 02 Aug '00

02 Aug '00

Informational message: Effective zone serial number 2000080101, g.root-servers.net (192.112.36.4) will no longer be authoritatively answering for com, net, org. In its place g.gtld-servers.net (198.41.3.101) will be added as an authoritative server for com, net, org. The new set of servers authoritative for these TLDs will be: A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 198.41.0.4 G.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 198.41.3.101 E.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 207.200.81.69 F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 198.17.208.67 F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 192.5.5.241 J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 198.41.0.21 K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 195.8.99.11 A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 198.41.3.38 M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 210.176.152.18 C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 205.188.185.18 I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 192.36.144.133 B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. 203.181.106.5 G.root-servers.net will continue to answer for the gov, mil, arpa, in-addr.arpa and root zones. -------------------------------------- Brad Verd gTLD Operations Manager Network Solutions Registry Email - bverd(a)netsol.com ---------------------------------------

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NYC cut?
by Adam Rothschild 02 Aug '00

02 Aug '00

Hi, I'm hearing word of a potentially large copper (fibre too?) cut in New York City, somewhere in the vicinity of 60 Hudson Street and Bell Atlantic/Verizon's central office at 50 Varick Street. Anyone have any additional information regarding this? Thanks, -adam

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Re: Re[2]: TLD operations change
by Sean Donelan 02 Aug '00

02 Aug '00

On Tue, 01 August 2000, Joe McGuckin wrote: > I'm simply opposed to NSI embedding themselves further into the > infrastructure of the internet, making it that much harder to pry > them loose once their contracts run out... The end date on NSI's contracts/cooperative agreements have passed, several times :-) The nifty thing about having NSI as the business owner of all the GTLD servers now is if NSI ever goes bankrupt we loose *all* the GTLD servers in one swoop to the bankruptcy trustee. At least with the "volunteer" servers spread throughout different organizations, if NASA went bankrupt, we wouldn't also lose all the other servers at the same time. If I compare NSI's balance sheets to some of the "volunteers" I've got to wonder which ones are really the more stable organizations.

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