August 2004 - NANOG - lists.nanog.org

RE: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage....
by Michel Py 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

> Suresh Ramasubramanian > It's a break bulk ship - a large container vessel for shipping > extra large or awkwardly sized cargo like coal / fertilizer / > oil pipes etc Built in 1978 and has seen real hard use every > day it's been in service as far as I can see from googling > out the marine registry Length / tonnage? Large cargo ships are worth a million or two in "bulk" just for the raw steel, as long as it's not too rusted. The dismantling of these (they beach full-speed at high-tide on the highest tide of the month) is one of these areas where the boundary between work and slavery is not completely clear. Michel.

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Re: Ship seized for cutting Sri Lanka's internet link
by Fergie (Paul Ferguson) 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

More via: http://www.colombopage.com/archive/August23123745SL.html Aug 23, Colombo: The Internet connection to Sri Lanka crashed completely late Saturday night following major damage to the submarine cable that connects the island to the global network, Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) said. SLT said the damage was caused by a ship, and it may take more than 24 hours to repair the cable. "We have lost connectivity to global Internet due to failure in the international submarine cable system. All measures have been taken to normalise this as early as possible," SLT said. Sri Lanka Telecom's connectivity to the outside world is through the Mount Lavinia landing point of the undersea SEA-ME-WE-III (SMW-III, South East AsiaMiddle EastWestern Europe) fibre optic cable link managed by French and Singapore telecom." 8<----- snip ---------- - ferg -- Sean Donelan <sean(a)donelan.com> wrote: Sri Lanka's high court has ordered the seizure of an Indian cargo vessel which allegedly cut a submarine cable connecting the island's telecommunications subscribers with the rest of the world. The court ordered that the vessel, State of Nagaland, be held at the Colombo port where it berthed on Sunday after accidentally severing the cable known as the SEA-ME-WE-III with its anchor. -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(a)netzero.net or fergdawg(a)sbcglobal.net

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Recent changes to UltraDNS, problems?
by Robert Blayzor 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

Has anyone else noticed any strange problems lately when querying UltraDNS for name server records? I have a few scripts that seem to have broken in the past week. A simple PERL script that looks up NS records from the root servers, which worked fine last week, suddenly starts reporting that the query is returning an empty answer. If I change it to any other TLD servers/domains, it works fine. What is even more strange is that when I use dig, the lookups are just fine. (most of the time) Can anyone at UltraDNS (or anyone else for that matter) shed some light on what might have changed/broken? #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Net::DNS; #version 0.48 my @tld = ("tld1.ultradns.net", "tld2.ultradns.net"); my $res = Net::DNS::Resolver->new; $res->nameservers(@tld); my $query = $res->query("adaconline.org", "NS"); if($query) { print "It worked!\n"; } else { print "It failed!\n"; } exit; In the above case the query always returns undef and the errorstring returned is no error. My initial thought was a bug in Net::DNS, but I've also heard from others they've started noticing strange lookup problems when asking UltraDNS directly for answers. -- Robert Blayzor, BOFH INOC, LLC rblayzor(a)inoc.net PGP: http://www.inoc.net/~dev/ Key fingerprint = 1E02 DABE F989 BC03 3DF5 0E93 8D02 9D0B CB1A A7B0 Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.

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New IANA IPv6 allocation for ARIN (2001:4800::/23)
by Doug Barton 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, This is to inform you that the IANA has allocated the following one (1) IPv6 /23 block to ARIN: 2001:4800::/23 ARIN For a full list of IANA IPv6 allocations please see: <http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-tla-assignments> - -- Doug Barton General Manager, The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBKm8PwtDPyTesBYwRAnfHAKCBxmaON7MF9r+Ko43yshPM9ybNggCeLTDQ Ac2NQab3SdbNosQcnQ+Y4Vo= =MPa3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS?
by Sean Donelan 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

The A record for ad.doubleclick.net is missing from DNS. This is causing apparent web page slowdowns when viewing web sites containing ads linked to ad.doubleclick.net

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mail not delivered to ep.net -> no IP address assigned for exchanges
by Fredy Kuenzler 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

Anyone reading here from ep.net? It seems to me that the IP request form for internet exchanges http://www.ep.net/ipadd-req.html does not work and mails go down the drain somewhere (see below). I tried to get an IP addr for NYCX appx. three weeks ago, but no luck yet :-( Regards, Fredy Kuenzler Init Seven AG / AS13030 ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- hostmaster(a)www.ep.net (expanded from: <address-request(a)ep.net>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- hostmaster(a)www.ep.net... Deferred: Connection refused by weblet.ep.net. Message could not be delivered for 5 days Message will be deleted from queue

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RE: Oct. NANOG - hotel? At the two month marker now.
by Peering 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

Hmmm, have to disagree with your opinion Tampa too. Ever been to Ybor City (just a hop-skip from Tampa)? They shut down the main drag and let you stumble from bar to bar without fear of being hit by a car. Also lots of great restaurants there. I spent 6 mths there stationed at MacDill AFB and loved it. I would move there if I weren't married to someone who has two possible skin colors - fish belly white and lobster red. Diane Turley Network Engineer Xspedius Communications Co. 636-625-7178 -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog(a)merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Deepak Jain Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 11:55 AM Cc: nanog list Subject: Re: Oct. NANOG - hotel? At the two month marker now. > > Columbia, MD is a good rival, and I understand there are similarly > dismal places on Long Island. > So all Rouse developed communities I guess make that hit list. Tampa, Jacksonville, and hundreds of other places around the country count in that sort of "feel". I guess General Growth will be the name on them soon. DJ

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The strangest cable modem issue
by Drumm, Dan 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

I thought I'd ask NANOG this, since somebody may be from a large cable operator and may know. I am a Comcast customer and don't want to call this in through tech support, as I've tried that before without any success. I use my cable modem normally - to surf the web, to play a game or two, and to listen to stream casts. I have a buddy who often needs tech support, so I use RAdmin (http://www.famatech.com/radmin/) to login to his computer and go through stuff with him. I use large TCP packets, small UDP packets - ICMP, ESP - large and small. RAdmin can transfer files from desktop to desktop. Ethereal reveals this is a standard TCP based protocol used on the RAdmin port tcp/4899. If I want him to have a file, I push it that way. Last night - I decided to start IIS FTP server, and have him use his SmartFTP (www.smartftp.com <http://www.smartftp.com/> ) client to pull several larger files from me. I poked a hole in the Linksys router's port forwarding for FTP and off we went. He grabs the first file, and it's going along at roughly the correct uplink speed for Cable (20 KB/s or so) and all is fine. Then, my cable modem reboots. Stops dead. All the lights go off and start blinking, a full reload. It grabs the same IP address via DHCP and he restarts. Again, about 15 seconds into the download, it crashes the cable modem. We do this about 5 times to really make sure it's just FTP doing this. I have a DOCSIS 1.1 modem from RCA (http://www.rca.com/product/viewdetail/0,2588,PI700502-CI700094,00.html? ) I have a Linksys BEFSR81 (http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=155&grid=5) with the latest firmware FTP is the only protocol that does this. Using RAdmin file transfer, I push files to him over tcp/4899 and it doesn't happen. The cable modem is somewhat old, perhaps it needs to be flashed with a newer image, but I am not sure what could cause it. Ideas?

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RE: Oct. NANOG - hotel? At the two month marker now.
by Peering 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

Having spent the first 30 years of my life in the DC area (MD and VA suburbs), I have to disagree. Reston puts you within reasonable driving distance of hundreds of great restaurants (of all ethnicities), clubs, museums, monuments, memorials, and general excitement. Just don't try to get to any of it during rush hour, especially not Friday afternoon rush hour :) Willing to make restaurant recommendations off-list :) I'm drooling in rememberance of some of them...I miss African & Middle Eastern food living here in the St Louis boonies. Diane Turley Network Engineer Xspedius Communications Co. 636-625-7178 -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog(a)merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 10:14 AM To: wb8foz(a)nrk.com Cc: nanog list; brunner(a)nic-naa.net Subject: Re: Oct. NANOG - hotel? At the two month marker now. > ... Reston is Hell, but with better visuals. I'm not certain of the truth of this comparison, having only half the data at hand. However, it has to be just about the least interesting place on the whole Eastern seabord to travel to.

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Policy Writing (Possibly Off-Topic)
by Cullen, Michael 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

Hello all, In the wake of SOx compliance, I'm now in the position of having to generate or advance some security policy work in areas that I've never investigated before (O/S Build Standard, Application/System Development, 3rd Party System Development). While I understand that this list is more on the operational side of things, I was hoping that someone (or a few) have had some exposure to the policies I've listed above and my be able to point me in the correct (passing an audit) direction. Many thanks in advance, Michael Cullen Sr. Security Engineer Universal Music Group (818) 777-4049

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