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Monitoring Tools
by jacob miller 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Am looking for an opensource network monitoring tool with ability to create different views for different users. Regards,Jacob

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tool to wrangle config file changes
by Rogelio 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Long story short, a really crappy vendor is being shoved down our NOC's throat. They have a horrid CLI (if you can call it that). People don't understand it (it's non-intuitive) and are screwing up things all the time. In the hopes of coping with the madness, some of us are looking to put together some sort of open source configuration management tool, such as RANCID. Any luck with this on non-standard equipment, particularly ones that DO NOT allow you to output something nice and "scriptable" (e.g. Cisco's "show running-config") (If not RANCID, any other suggestions?)

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Carpathia Hosting (AS29748) Contact
by Ernie Rubi 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hi all, Anyone from AS29748 with peering auth, can you contact me off list? Thanks, Ernesto M. Rubi Sr. Network Engineer AMPATH/CIARA Florida International Univ, Miami Reply-to: ernesto(a)cs.fiu.edu

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NYCX (New York City Exchange) contact wanted
by Fredy Kuenzler 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Anyone in charge of the exchange plattform in New York formerly known as NYCX (New York City Exchange), managed by NAC.net? Please contact me offlist. (Yes we are still plugged and there is some traffic flowing ...) Many thanks, Fredy

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Numbering nameservers and resolvers
by Mike 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hi Folks, I am needing to renumber some core infrastructure - namely, my nameservers and my resolvers - and I was wondering if the collective wisdom still says heck yes keep this stuff all on seperate subnets away from eachother? Anyone got advice either way? Should I try to give sequential numbers to my resolvers for the benefit of consultants ... like .11, .22 and .33 for my server ips? Mike-

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iPhone updates and required bandwidth
by JoeSox 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Am I the only one that gets ticked off at the Apple iPhone update procedure and the amount of bandwidth it needs? Is there any secret I am missing to cut down on the required bandwidth needed for it (caching the update somewhere etc)? I don't own an iPhone (DroidX user here) and am unfamiliar with the update, all I know is it uses tons of BW. -- Thanks, Joe

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Re: Numbering nameservers and resolvers
by Nick Olsen 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

So lets say that you have multiple DNS resolvers in the same ip space that you advertise from multiple locations. All would be fine for the most part. But if you had a location equidistant network wise from two POP's wouldn't it load balance and possibly break some TCP sessions? How would someone get around this? This is also what OpenDNS does from what I understand. Nick Olsen Network Operations (321) 205-1100 x106 ---------------------------------------- From: "Doug Barton" <dougb(a)dougbarton.us> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 2:12 PM To: "Sven Olaf Kamphuis" <sven(a)cb3rob.net> Subject: Re: Numbering nameservers and resolvers On 08/17/2010 05:11, Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote: > tcp/zonetransfer not working reliably is no longer a problem TCP is a MUST for DNS. It's used as a fallback in the normal resolution process if an answer can't fit in a UDP packet for whatever reason. This is true even for common things like large A record lists, but is only becoming more frequent in the age of DNSSEC, AAAA, etc. It is unfortunately even more necessary than we had hoped it would be due to many local network operators not "getting the memo" regarding EDNS. hth, Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso

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CFP: COMSNETS 2011
by Ramana Kompella 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

*** APOLOGIES IF YOUR RECEIVED MULTIPLE COPIES OF THE CFP *** COMSNETS 2011 The THIRD International Conference on COMunication Systems and NETworks January 4-8, 2011, Bangalore, India http://www.comsnets.org (In Co-operation with ACM SIGMOBILE) (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE COMSOC) The Third International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) will be held in Bangalore, India, from 4 January 2011 to 8 January 2011. COMSNETS is a premier international conference dedicated to addressing advances in Networking and Communications Systems, and Telecommunications services. The goal of the conference is to create a world-class gathering of researchers from academia and industry, practitioners, business leaders, intellectual property experts, and venture capitalists, providing a forum for discussing cutting edge research, and directions for new innovative business and technology. The conference will include a highly selective technical program consisting of parallel tracks of submitted papers, a small set of invited papers on important and timely topics from well-known leaders in the field, and poster sessions of work in progress. Focused workshops and panel discussions will be held on emerging topics to allow for a lively exchange of ideas. International business and government leaders will be invited to share their perspectives, thus complementing the technical program. Papers describing original research work and practical experiences/experimental results are solicited on topics including, but not limited to: Topics of Interest ------------------ Internet Architecture and Protocols Network-based Applications Video Distribution (IPTV, Mobile Video, Video on Demand) Network Operations and Management Broadband and Cellular Networks (3G/4G, WiMAX/LTE) Mesh, Sensor and PAN Networks Communication Software (Cognitive Radios, DSA, SDR) Wireless Operating Systems and Mobile Platforms Peer-to-peer Networking Cognitive Radio and White Space Networking Optical Networks Network Security & Cyber Security Technologies Cloud and Utility computing Storage Area Networks Next Generation Web Architectures Vehicular Networking Energy-Efficient Networking Network Science and Emergent Behavior in Socio-Technical Networks Social Networking Analysis, Middleware and Applications Networking Technologies for Smart Energy Grids Disruption/Delay Tolerant Networking Conference Highlights --------------------- Conference Inaugural Speaker: Prof. Pravin Varaiya, U. C. Berkeley, USA Banquet speaker: Dr. Rajeev Rastogi, Yahoo Research, India Keynote Speakers: Prof. Don Towsley, U. Mass Amherst, USA Dr. Pravin Bhagwat, AirTight Networks, India Dr. Jean Bolot, Sprint, USA Workshops WISARD (4, 5 Jan) NetHealth (4 Jan) IAMCOM (5 Jan) Mobile India 2011 (7 Jan) Technical Paper and Poster Sessions Ph.D Forum Panel Discussions Demos & Exhibits Important Deadlines ------------------- Paper submission: September 13, 2010 at 11:59 pm EDT (Sept 14, 9:29 am IST) Notification of Acceptance: November 8, 2010 Camera-Ready Submission: December 8, 2010 Detailed conference information and paper submission guidelines will soon be available on the conference web site. Please see http://www.comsnets.org for detailed information from time to time. The conference email address is: comsnets2011(a)gmail.com General Co-Chairs ----------------- David B. Johnson, Rice University, USA Anurag Kumar, IISc Bangalore, India Technical Program Co-Chairs --------------------------- Jon Crowcroft, U. of Cambridge, UK D. Manjunath, IIT Bombay, India Archan Misra, Telcordia Tech., USA Steering Committee Co-Chairs ---------------------------- Uday Desai, IIT Hyderabad, India Giridhar Mandyam, Qualcomm, USA Sanjoy Paul, Infosys, India Rajeev Shorey, NIIT University, India G. Venkatesh, SASKEN, India Panel Co-Chairs --------------- Aditya Akella, U. of Wisconsin, USA Venkat Padmanabhan, MSR, India Ph.D Forum Chair ---------------- Bhaskaran Raman, IIT Bombay, India Publications Chair ------------------ Varsha Apte, IIT Bombay, India Demos and Exhibits Co-Chairs ---------------------------- Aaditeshwar Seth, IIT Delhi, India Ajay Bakre, Netapps, India Sponsorship Chair ----------------- Sudipta Maitra, Delhi, india Workshop Chairs --------------- Sharad Jaiswal, Alcatel-Lucent, India Ravindran Kaliappa, CUNY, USA Neelesh Mehta, IISc Bangalore, India Mobile India 2011 Co-Chairs --------------------------- Gulzar Azad, Google, India Gene Landy, Ruperto-Israel & Weiner, USA Rajaraghavan Setlur, SASKEN, India Sridhar Varadharajan, SASKEN, India Publicity Co-Chair ------------------ Augustin Chaintreau, TTL, France Kameswari Chebrolu, IIT Bombay, India Song Chong, KAIST, Korea Ramana Kompella, Purdue Univ, USA Nishanth Sastry, U. of Cambridge, UK Web Co-Chairs ------------- Santhana Krishnan, IIT Bombay, India Vinay Veerappa, SASKEN, India International Advisory Committee -------------------------------- K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T, USA Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research, USA Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National U., Korea Sajal Das, U. Texas at Arlington, USA B. N. Jain, IIT Delhi, India Anurag Kumar, IISc, Bangalore, India L. M. Patnaik, IISc, Bangalore, India Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay, India Parmesh Ramanathan, U. Wisconsin, USA Krishan Sabnani, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Kang Shin, U. Michigan, USA Nitin Vaidya, U. Illinois, USA University Partners: -------------------- IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IISc Bangalore, IIT Hyderabad, NIIT University, IIIT Bangalore Patrons: -------- Mobile Monday Bangalore, Sasken, IBM Research, Alcatel Lucent

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Brief NANOG Mailing Lists Outage - 8/18/2010
by Michael K. Smith - Adhost 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Hello All: This Wednesday morning at 7:00 a.m. EDT, Merit staff will replace the power supply on the NANOG server that operates the mailing lists. (The original power supply failed some time ago and was swapped for a part owned by a different project. In the operation on Wednesday, a new power supply will be installed.) This will result in a list outage that should last not more than 15 minutes if all goes well. Regards, Mike NANOG Communications Committee Chair

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Recycling old cabling?
by Justin M. Streiner 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Just out of curiosity, is anyone here recycling old cabling and plant infrastructure for their raw materials, or engaging a recycler to handle those materials? Where I work, there is almost always a renovation project going on. This provides opportunities to rip out Cat3/Cat5/long-abandoned thicknet/thinnet/FDDI-grade fiber/etc, which we normally do. Most of the time that old cabling ends up in the dumpster, but I'm wondering if anyone is recycling it, either by their choice, or as the result of company policy or relevant laws in your area? Cat3/Cat5 can be broken down to raw materials with some effort, but I haven't seen many recyclers with an economically viable process for doing it. Coax is a bit tougher, but not impossible (same questions about economic viability still apply). Fiber can be tough, expecially if you're dealing with something like 20+ year old gel-buffered cable where the has long-since dried out. I'd be interested to hear other peoples' experiences along these lines. jms

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