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Guidelines for Information Technology Infrastructures
by Rishi Singh 08 Mar '99

08 Mar '99

There was some talk a few days/weeks ago about a mailing list related to data centers. While this URL is not geared towards datacenters and more focused on the general planning for technological infrastructre(s) in an educational (school) environment, nonetheless, I believe it serves as an excellent *primer* for those seeking general information on construction and planning of facilities. There seems to be quite a need for that information on this list judging from the responses concerning the datacenter forum. The guidelines were provided by the subcontracted architectural and engineering firm of Einhorn, Yanee & Prescott for the Board of Education NY State. The nice thing about the document is all the standards used to generate each particular section are located on each page. This alone will give people a good background on which agencies to obtain certain types of information from. It is available in both HTML and PDF. http://www.nysed.gov/facilities/fachome.html The guidelines cover: o Environmental/Life Safety o Planning for Electrical Power o Lighting o Space Planning and Pathways o Wireless Systems o Distance Learning Capabilities o Appendix A - Asbestos Regulations o Structured Cable Plants o Libraries o Security o Appendix B - Resource Addresses ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <o> The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and <o> expect different results. <o> Rishi M. Singh - Sysadmin & Network "Cleaner" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Re: Secondary DNS for Paraguay's TLD?
by Simon Leinen 07 Mar '99

07 Mar '99

ns.ripe.net [193.0.0.193] and merapi.switch.ch [130.59.211.10] act as authoritative (secondary) name servers for PY and its direct generic subdomains {com,edu,gov,org,net,org}.py. I'm not sure whether these have been requested to be added to the delegation yet. Anyway, these things seem to take a long time at InterNIC right now - we have delegation changes pending ourselves for the CH and LI ccTLDs for about three weeks. >>>>> "md" == Michael Dillon <michael(a)memra.com> writes: > It appears that a network problem of some sort has knocked Paraguay's top > level domain off the air. Not surprising when you look at the output for: > whois py-dom > and see this: > NS.CNC.UNA.PY 200.10.228.132 > SCE.CNC.UNA.PY 200.10.228.133 > If anyone on this list is prepared to make a serious offer of secondary > DNS for this country, then please email the admin contact > gbellas(a)UCA.EDU.PY and the technical contact hmereles(a)CNC.UNA.PY. > Of course, neither address will work until they get back on the air... -- Simon Leinen simon(a)babar.switch.ch SWITCH http://www.switch.ch/misc/leinen/ Who is General Failure & why's he reading my disk?

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FIBER CUT: Florida
by Sean Donelan 06 Mar '99

06 Mar '99

There is a fiber cut in Florida. Relatively small. The carrier said it is affecting 9 DS3's, there is not a ETR at this time. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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Re: Internic
by danderson＠lycos.com 06 Mar '99

06 Mar '99

I remember the good old days when new registers took about a week and transfers took almost a month! :) devin Dalvenjah FoxFire <dalvenjah(a)DAL.NET> on 03/05/99 09:44:36 PM To: Moe Allen <moe(a)vidnet.net> cc: nanog(a)merit.edu (bcc: Devin Anderson/Lycos) Subject: Re: Internic On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 07:54:48PM -0600, Moe Allen put this into my mailbox: > I am not so sure they even want your money. I have been waiting 2 days for a > response on a domain I am trying to register for a customer. That's nothing. They've been sitting on my request to change a nameserver IP address for a *month*. The old IP and route are long gone, and now my clients are having trouble resolving their domains because of it. I've sent e-mail to action(a)internic.net twice and markk(a)internic.net once. Squat. The ticket still shows 'Open', too. Next week, I plan to phone them up daily until they do something about my request. Too bad it's not a 1-800 number. -Sven -- Dalvenjah FoxFire (aka Sven Nielsen) When news breaks...we fix it. Founder, the DALnet IRC Network e-mail: dalvenjah(a)dal.net WWW: http://www.dal.net/~dalvenjah/ whois: SN90 Try DALnet! http://www.dal.net/

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Re: Internic
by Chris Mauritz 06 Mar '99

06 Mar '99

<vent> None of this would bother me that much if we weren't *forced* to do business with these clowns. They've got us over a barrel and there is absolutely no oversight over their quality (ha!) of service. You can bet that folks are going to bolt in droves as soon as there is an alternaive, but they'll waddle to the bank....fat and happy with their registration fees that they've been sitting on (obviously not using the money to improve services) for years. </vent> C -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Stratton <nathan(a)robotics.net> To: Dalvenjah FoxFire <dalvenjah(a)DAL.NET> Cc: Moe Allen <moe(a)vidnet.net>; nanog(a)merit.edu <nanog(a)merit.edu> Date: Saturday, March 06, 1999 1:34 AM Subject: Re: Internic >On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Dalvenjah FoxFire wrote: > >> That's nothing. They've been sitting on my request to change a nameserver >> IP address for a *month*. The old IP and route are long gone, and >> now my clients are having trouble resolving their domains because of it. >> I've sent e-mail to action(a)internic.net twice and markk(a)internic.net >> once. Squat. The ticket still shows 'Open', too. > >I also have been trying to change nameserver IP address for a little over >a month. When I call them up, they keep giving me this we are very busy >story. Then they ask me to wait a week and send them email if it is not >done. > >-- >Check out the new CLEC mailing list at http://www.robotics.net/clec >><> >Nathan Stratton Telecom & ISP Consulting >http://www.robotics.net nathan(a)robotics.net > >> -Sven >> >> -- >> Dalvenjah FoxFire (aka Sven Nielsen) When news breaks...we fix it. >> Founder, the DALnet IRC Network >> >> e-mail: dalvenjah(a)dal.net WWW: http://www.dal.net/~dalvenjah/ >> whois: SN90 Try DALnet! http://www.dal.net/ > > >

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Datacenter discussion forum?
by Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy 06 Mar '99

06 Mar '99

Does anyone here know of a datacenter discussion forum? Issues such as power, racks, cabinets, wiring, air conditioning, generators, fire protection, security, access policy, etc, etc? Would the nanog list be appropriate for this? Thanks! Grisha Trubetskoy

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Re: CyberNotes: Network Infrastructure Protection Publication
by Sean Donelan 06 Mar '99

06 Mar '99

>major holiday, for 15 years, I can assure you that on April 19, 1775, >there was a Battle of Lexington, and a Battle of Concord, but there >was no Battle of Cambridge unless Paul Revere and William Dawes were Geez, I can't get away with anything. You are correct, and so was the FBI, they listed the Battles at Lexington and Concord. My mistake listing the home of MIT and Harvard as a battleground. But the actual reason for this followup post. If you are having trouble navigating through NIPC's web site. - Click on the "Enter" graphic on the front page. - Click on the "publications" graphic in the upper center frame. Look for the vertical list of words beginning with "Welcome." Publications is near the bottom of the list - The lower frame will change to NIPC Publications. Scroll the lower frame to find the list of publications. Get your PDF decoder ready. The site's graphics aren't the easiest in the world to navigate. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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Fw: Internic
by Moe Allen 06 Mar '99

06 Mar '99

I filled the request out and got it back in my e-mail. Hit the "Reply to button" and haven't heard a thing since. Morris Allen VidcomNet, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Charles Knipe <charlesk(a)interport.net> To: nanog(a)merit.edu <nanog(a)merit.edu> Date: Friday, March 05, 1999 8:21 PM Subject: Re: Internic >On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Moe Allen wrote: > >> I am not so sure they even want your money. I have been waiting 2 days for a >> response on a domain I am trying to register for a customer. > >How far did you get? When I tried to register some domains earlier this >week via the web interface I never got the filled-out template mailed to >me. It worked yestarday, though. Should have just filled the template >out myself. > >-Charles > >

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CyberNotes: Network Infrastructure Protection Publication
by Sean Donelan 06 Mar '99

06 Mar '99

After making fun of the FBI for mostly keeping us up to date on important dates in history, did you know April 19 is the anniversary of battle of Cambridge between American Minutemen the British in 1775? Is there any date between 1775-1783 that some battle didn't take place somewhere? I thought I would compliment the FBI on their new publication. CyberNotes is a bi-weekly publication of the National Infrastructure Protection Center reporting on (I won't use the word hacker) exploit scripts, viruses, and other cyber vulnerabilities. For those network security folks who keep close track of these things, there may not be much new information. The FBI isn't going to tell you anything you couldn't find yourself on the public Internet. But for the rest of us, it is a nice summary of what's new. Knowing the difficulty the FBI has had in releasing any information over the last few years, this is truely a heroic effort by somebody at the NIPC. Good Start. http://www.nipc.gov/ under publications. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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Re: Internic doesn't care about valid contact information
by howland＠Priss.com 05 Mar '99

05 Mar '99

I know what you mean, Greg. A friend of mine tried to regester a domain. He filled out the forms, mailed them in, kept the reply. What he didn't notice that even though the domain name was correct in the body of the message, the SUBJECT line of the reply from Network Solutions had the domain name misspelled. They'd dropped a letter. The registration seemed to go through just fine, but after the burp two days ago the domain now shows up with the misspelling! Not only won't Network Solutions fix the problem, they will gladly accept his registering the *correct* domain, but will not refund the payment he made back when the first domain was correctly spelled. Of course, he's got to pay AGAIN if he wants to register the correctly spelled domain, again. So told by an aledged "manager", who said the next in the chain of command would be a VP, and Bobby-Ray was in a meeting and couldn't be disturbed. Curt-

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