March 2020 - NANOG - lists.nanog.org

RE: Backhoe season?
by Hal Murray 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

> I heard, and am seeing that construction type jobs don't seem to be affected > much with the virus shutdown. I mean I see guys building homes and working > on roads all around me... furthermore, we've heard of a couple fiber cuts > that have brought portions of our network down a couple times in the last > week or so. I suspect any reduction in backhoe activity will depend strongly on where you are looking. The San Francisco Bay area, including Silicon Valley is taking things seriously. >From the City of Menlo Park, Calif, March 20th: Due to the statewide stay-at-home order, effective Friday, March 20, no construction activity is allowed within the city of Menlo Park, except for essential infrastructure projects as determined by the City Manager/Emergency Services Director, until further notice. Active construction sites are instructed to secure their site and cease all further work immediately. Only activities necessary to address immediate health and safety concerns, as determined by the City Manager/Emergency Services Director, are allowed. This action is not taken lightly and is out of extreme concern for the health and safety of construction workers and city employees. Further guidance in light of this decision is expected to be released the week of March 23, 2020. Please visit the city website at menlopark.org/coronavirus for updates. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.

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ISC BIND 9 breakage?
by Drew Weaver 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Did anyone else on CentOS 6 just have some DNS resolvers totally fall over? I noticed that this command: dnssec-lookaside auto; was causing the issue. The issue occurred right at about 1PM EST. I see this note in the ISC key file.. # ISC DLV: See https://www.isc.org/solutions/dlv for details. # # NOTE: The ISC DLV zone is being phased out as of February 2017; # the key will remain in place but the zone will be otherwise empty. # Configuring "dnssec-lookaside auto;" to activate this key is # harmless, but is no longer useful and is not recommended. It's not harmless anymore.

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rack rails
by David Funderburk 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

1 - We now have some time on our hands to do some things in our storage area which includes identifying a # of rack rails found in a box. Does anyone have any tips or tricks for identifying what equipment rails might match? 2 - Do you know of any universal rail kits for 1U, 2U and 3U servers, routers, switches that work well? The brand names are nice but expensive. Thought I'd explore some cheaper options first. We use a lot of MikroTik, HP, Dell and some CISCO with a few other things here and there. TIA -- David Funderburk GlobalVision 864-569-0703 -- This message has been scanned by E.F.A. Project and is believed to be clean.

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Measuring packet loss and Latency Between eastern Europe and north america
by LTGJAMAICA 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

I have a customer in eastern Europe accessing a SAAS application hosted in one of Azure's north America datacenters. for the past few days every morning between 3am and 6am est performance slows to crawl. This is person is like 8am to 11am locally so they cant get much done. The local ISP is providing 100mbps up/down. So far speed test to Saas providers speed test page is slow 0.02mbps down 6 mbps up Speedtest.net to north American ISPs like Verizon in New York slow Speedtest to servers in Easter europe 100 up 100 down Traceroutes/MTR dont help because a lot of hops seem to drop icmp packets Need a tool or service that can detect packet loss/latency between provider in eastern europe and a north american service provider. Any help is appreciated

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Re: CISA: Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce
by colin johnston 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

UK gov notification of key worker status inc Telecommunication/Data Centre workers https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-maintaining… <https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-maintaining…> Col > > >> On 19 Mar 2020, at 21:36, Sean Donelan <sean(a)donelan.com <mailto:sean@donelan.com>> wrote: >> >> >> The U.S. Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency (part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security) has issued new Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce. >> >> The memorandum is advisory, not presecriptive. DHS is only one of several agencies assigned some National Essential Functions so it is not exhaustive list. It looks like someone found the three-ring emergency plan binders. Sad its needed, but appreciative of the experts which helped write those planning documents over the years. >> >> >> https://www.cisa.gov/publication/guidance-essential-critical-infrastructure <https://www.cisa.gov/publication/guidance-essential-critical-infrastructure> >> -workforce >> >> [...] >> The attached list identifies workers who conduct a range of operations and services that are essential to continued critical infrastructure viability, including staffing operations centers, maintaining and repairing critical infrastructure, operating call centers, working construction, and performing management functions, among others. The industries they support represent, but are not necessarily limited to, medical and healthcare, telecommunications, information technology systems, defense, food and agriculture, transportation and logistics, energy, water and wastewater, law enforcement, and public works. >> >> We recognize that State, local, tribal, and territorial governments are ultimately in charge of implementing and executing response activities in communities under their jurisdiction, while the Federal Government is in a supporting role. As State and local communities consider >> >> COVID-19-related restrictions, CISA is offering this list to assist prioritizing activities related to continuity of operations and incident response, including the appropriate movement of critical infrastructure workers within and between jurisdictions. >> >> Accordingly, this list is advisory in nature. It is not, nor should it be considered to be, a federal directive or standard in and of itself. >> [...] >

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Reminder - NANOG 79 Call For Presentations - Remote Participation
by Vincent Celindro 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

Hello NANOG community! A friendly reminder that our Call For Presentations is open, and the PC is accepting proposals for all future NANOG meetings. In response to COVID-19 <https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog-79/coronavirus-statement/>, the Program Committee is now exploring the option of remote participation at future NANOG meetings, in addition to in-person attendance. When submitting your proposal, you will be asked to designate your preferences (to present in-person, remotely, etc.). We hope that you will continue to submit presentations focused on current (or soon-to-be deployed) technologies and industry innovation. In addition, we believe the community would be interested in the following topics: Impact to Networks & Engineers as a result of COVID-19 - Work from home/VPN/sustained traffic/shifting of resources/application changes RPKI Deployments Professional Development - Are you an expert at White Boarding/Public Speaking/Negotiating... We look forward to reading your proposal! Submit Now <https://www.nanog.org/meetings/submit-presentation/> View Guidelines <https://www.nanog.org/participate/presentation-guidelines/> Key Dates Thanks, Vincent Celindro NANOG - Program Committee Chair

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CISA(DHS): Version 2.0 of Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce
by Sean Donelan 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (DHS) has released version 2.0 of its advisory memorandum on identification of essential critical infrastructure workers during COVID-19 response. A lot of wordsmithing, and extensive lobbying by certain industries. Its easy to pick out when you compare the versions. https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CISA_Guidance_on_the_…

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SAFNOG-6: Deferred - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
by Mark Tinka 29 Mar '20

29 Mar '20

Hello all. As you are aware, the world is facing the ongoing challenge of the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), which has had a material impact on a number of local, regional and global events and businesses across various industries. Unfortunately, the preparation for SAFNOG-6, initially scheduled for the September, 2020, has not been spared, as the pandemic has made logistical planning uncertain amongst our sponsors, supporters and venues. To this end, we have made the rather difficult, but responsible, decision to defer the SAFNOG-6 meeting to 20th - 22nd September, 2021, in order to ensure that safety and health comes first. SAFNOG would also like to take this opportunity to encourage its and other Network Operators Groups members to actively use and increase their participation on this and other mailing lists around the world, as the learning and engagement process never ends; and in fact, is probably more crucial in these times. The operational community can continue to exist successfully even throughout this period of social distancing. We look forward to seeing you all in the near future, and wish you continued good health and care. Mark Tinka On Behalf of the SAFNOG Management Committee

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Studies of Internet Paths "QoS"
by JP Vasseur (jvasseur) 28 Mar '20

28 Mar '20

Hi Team, As a brief intro, I am in charge of Analytics/ML/AI as a Cisco Fellow. We have been studying a number of paths characteristics through the Internet both single and multi-SP, Best-effort/Business Internet backbone/MPLS, … across all regions in the world and lately focussing on SaaS, going beyond the traditional delay/loss/jitter but computing various statistical moments, using stats/ML to detect trends/seasonality, path variances, etc … Such studies are used to enhance our best path selection algorithms in various contexts such as SD-WAN, … using reactive and predictive analytics. If you’re interested by such studies and/or you are working on such topics, happy to get connected. On another fronts, I’m happy to present our work in the area of ML/AI for Networking at some point. Cheers. JP.

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FCC Ensures Americans Can Access Zoom and WebEx During COVID-19 Crisis
by Sean Donelan 28 Mar '20

28 Mar '20

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-ensures-americans-can-access-zoom-and-webe… The Federal Communications Commission today issued a temporary waiver of its access arbitrage rules to Inteliquent, a telecommunications company that carries traffic for two of the nation’s largest conference calling providers, Zoom Video Communications and Cisco WebEx. Absent today’s waiver from the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau, the massive increase in conference calls made by American consumers using Zoom and WebEx to work and attend classes from home during the COVID-19 pandemic would likely result in Inteliquent being deemed an “access-stimulating” carrier under the FCC’s rules. This, in turn, would trigger financial responsibilities — namely significant cost increases — for Inteliquent that would impede its ability to serve these conference calling companies.

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