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RE: Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo?
by Hannigan, Martin 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-nanog(a)merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of > Valdis.Kletnieks(a)vt.edu > Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 4:35 PM > To: Luke Youngblood > Cc: 'Dan Lockwood'; nanog(a)merit.edu > Subject: Re: Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo? > > > On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:15:41 EDT, Luke Youngblood said: > > > > SONET simply means you are on a Sonet ring: Two redundant > connections to > > the central office. If someone gets a little crazy with a > backhoe your line > > is guaranteed to stay up (ask about SLAs, and make sure > they will refund > > part of your monthly bill if you have an outage). That's > why it costs over > > twice as much. > > And remember to ask questions - make sure they've actually got the two > connections routed differently. Remember that if the backhoe > hits the conduit, > *all* the fiber pairs go - and if both runs were in the same > conduit, you're > still dead.... > > (Anybody here *NOT* seen cases where the 2 fibers leave the > building on opposite > sides, go down different streets - and rejoin 2 miles down > the way because > there's only one convenient bridge/tunnel/etc over the river, > or similar?) It's rare that the pairs *don't leave the building in a lateral to the loop. Once you're into the metro, you're usually okay, but yes, you need to check. Most buildings only have 1 zero manhole so it's not feasible to get a second diversified lateral and it doesnt make sense to lease a second lateral on the same pathway. -M<\\ >

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SONET
by David Barak 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

--- Valdis.Kletnieks(a)vt.edu wrote: > (Anybody here *NOT* seen cases where the 2 fibers > leave the building on opposite > sides, go down different streets - and rejoin 2 > miles down the way because > there's only one convenient bridge/tunnel/etc over > the river, or similar?) > confirming anecdote: Remember the Baltimore tunnel fire? The protect ring was in the conduit on one side, and the working was on the other... David Barak Need Geek Rock? Try The Franchise: http://www.listentothefranchise.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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RE: Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo?
by Hannigan, Martin 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-nanog(a)merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of > Luke Youngblood > Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 4:16 PM > To: 'Dan Lockwood'; nanog(a)merit.edu > Subject: RE: Anyone familiar with the SBC product lingo? > > > > SONET simply means you are on a Sonet ring: Two redundant > connections to > the central office. If someone gets a little crazy with a > backhoe your line > is guaranteed to stay up (ask about SLAs, and make sure they > will refund > part of your monthly bill if you have an outage). That's why > it costs over > twice as much. Ask for the DLR to assure this. SONET=redundancy is a misnomer. -M<

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RE: AUP for NANOG?
by Hannigan, Martin 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-nanog(a)merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of > Bill Nash > Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 2:56 PM > To: nanog(a)merit.edu > Subject: Re: AUP for NANOG? > > > > > On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Scott Grayban wrote: > > > [ SNIP ] > > Having been moderated myself in this past week, I'm glad to see that > people have one, gotten past any trepidation of posting, and > two, that the > new moderation crew is getting up to speed. The issue is finding the comfort zone for both sides of a contentious issue and we're making progress. We're never going to be able to stop people from posting off topic. What we will do is ask for cooperation and if we can't get that cooperation, we will look at each issue on a case by case basis and deal with it using the AUP for guidance. In addition to our active administrative role, it can't hurt to occasionally use the "D" key or write a procmail filter. I'd like to move the conversation over to nanog-reform(a)nanog.org since that seems like more suitable place to go back and forth on list operation and administrivia. Regards, -M<

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IANA IPv4 allocations and bogon update: 41/8
by Rob Thomas 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [ Apologies to those of you who receive this note in multiple forums. ] Hi, team. The numerous Team Cymru bogon projects have been updated as of 13 APR 2005 to reflect the following IANA allocation made on 12 APR 2005: 041/8 Apr 05 AfriNIC (whois.afrinic.net) IANA allocations change over time, so please check regularly to ensure you have the latest filters if you are not using the bogon BGP feed(s). We do announce updates to the bogon projects to sundry lists, such as the bogon-announce list. We can not stress this point strongly enough - these allocations change. If you do not adjust your filters, you will be unable to access perhaps large portions of the Internet. Worse yet, you may end up blocking access for people who transit through you. Please do not apply any filters or blocks to your network without carefully considering the ramifications of doing so. As a point of reference, the Team Cymru master Bogon Reference Page can be found here: <http://www.cymru.com/Bogons/> A quick summary of the documents and projects that have been updated include the following: HTTP The Bogon List - <http://www.cymru.com/Documents/bogon-list.html> The Text Bogon Lists - <http://www.cymru.com/Documents/bogon-bn-nonagg.txt> - <http://www.cymru.com/Documents/bogon-bn-agg.txt> Secure BIND Template - <http://www.cymru.com/Documents/secure-bind-template.html> Secure IOS Template (Cisco) - <http://www.cymru.com/Documents/secure-ios-template.html> Secure BGP Template (Cisco) - <http://www.cymru.com/Documents/secure-bgp-template.html> Secure JUNOS Template (Juniper) - <http://www.cymru.com/gillsr/documents/junos-template.htm> Secure JUNOS BGP Template (Juniper) - <http://www.cymru.com/gillsr/documents/junos-bgp-template.htm> Ingress Prefix Filter Templates, Loose and Strict (Cisco) - <ftp://ftp-eng.cisco.com/cons/isp/security/Ingress-Prefix-Filter- Templates/> Ingress Prefix Filter Template, Loose (Juniper) - <http://www.cymru.com/gillsr/documents/junos-isp-prefix-filter- loose.htm> Ingress Prefix Filter Template, Strict (Juniper) - <http://www.cymru.com/gillsr/documents/junos-isp-prefix-filter- strict.htm> BGP Bogon route-server for AUTOMATED updates of bogon filters - All bogon route-server peers have already received the appropriate BGP prefix updates. - <http://www.cymru.com/BGP/bogon-rs.html> RADb fltr-unallocated fltr-martian fltr-bogons - <http://www.cymru.com/Bogons/index.html#radb> RIPE NCC fltr-unallocated fltr-martian fltr-bogons - <http://www.cymru.com/Bogons/index.html#ripe> DNS Bogon (bogons.cymru.com) zone - <http://www.cymru.com/Bogons/index.html#dns> Monitoring Bogon prefix monitoring - <http://www.cymru.com/BGP/robbgp-bogon.html> Bogus ASN monitoring - <http://www.cymru.com/BGP/asnbogusrep.html> Please feel free to contact Team Cymru <team-cymru(a)cymru.com> with any comments, questions, or concerns. Thank you for your continued support. Rob. - -- Rob Thomas http://www.cymru.com ASSERT(coffee != empty); -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.2 iQCVAwUBQl578FkX3QAo5sgJAQEBUQQAhxlGUyzcvxzHVF2/PHZt27K04nSCxSWu k0G70eCN6QRib3h9HIlz3GCu24aBPJMcM+zH6SOGjydVHsDFJFFGuw42HcTWAttV 35nbzeN4jqBQQZGtel3he+lNPcd60uHloE3za/4F6P/flBrl2S3peoCo4TpxDnfe RoBcAod+aTQ= =74Xj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent
by Jonas Frey 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

OpenTransit just depeered Cogent. Currently OT sees Cogent behind Sprint/Verio: AS path: 5511 1239 2914 174 13129 I but packets are disapearing in a blackhole. Jonas

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New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)
by Doug Barton 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, This is to inform you that the IANA has allocated the following one (1) IPv4 /8 block to AfriNIC: 41/8 AfriNIC For a full list of IANA IPv4 allocations please see: <http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space> This is the first allocation to AfriNIC after their recent recognition as a Regional Internet Registry. The ICANN staff would like to offer its congratulations to AfriNIC for this significant achievement. - -- Doug Barton General Manager, The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCXIcvwtDPyTesBYwRAi3eAJ9/+Dr9XZcD4xEeEhGv8f51YjYaEACgib9Z HBliA/KP+Xsbe1Bp/poOJfM= =+Z/c -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Router choice for medium size hosting provider
by Bill Woodcock 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

> That's nowhere near real figures, even for optimal topologies and > big packets. That was exactly why I suggested that someone do some lab work on them. -Bill

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Comcast Contact
by Ross Hosman 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

Could someone from Comcast please email me off list. Ross Hosman rosshosman(a)spamarrest.com

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Today's tech news highlights
by Fergie (Paul Ferguson) 14 Apr '05

14 Apr '05

For your perusal: Fed Panel Approves Tyco's Sale of Undersea Cable To India's Tata Microsoft Worm Cleaner Goes Rootkit Hunting Standards and specs: Naturally occurring standards Senators pledge action on data brokers Anti-spyware group collapses Florida Wins First Injunction Against Spammers Yahoo offers free hosting to small businesses One-Third Of Large Enterprises Favor Managed VoIP New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers GM MasterCard warns of security theft Phishy behaviour or harmless spin? Telstra BigPond disconnecting Trojan-infected customers Sanswire to launch Stratellite "Airships" Articles & links available via: http://spaces.msn.com/members/fergdawg/ Cheers, - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(a)netzero.net or fergdawg(a)sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://spaces.msn.com/members/fergdawg/

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