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Fwd: [lacnog] Call for Presentations – LACNOG 2017
by Carlos M. Martinez 15 Jun '17

15 Jun '17

FYI, apologies for duplicates. Forwarded message: > From: Tomas Lynch <tomas.lynch(a)gmail.com> > To: lacnog(a)lacnog.org <lacnog(a)lacnog.org> > Subject: [lacnog] Call for Presentations – LACNOG 2017 > Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 08:55:17 -0400 > > LACNOG, the Latin American and Caribbean Network Operators Group, will > be > holding its annual conference – LACNOG 2017 – in the city of > Montevideo, > Uruguay, on 18-22 September 2017. This event will be co-located with > the > LACNIC 28 meeting. > > The 2017 LACNOG Program Committee invites the Internet community to > submit > their presentations for the event. > > > > Possible formats are as follows: > > - > > Lightning talk: short, 10-minute presentation with an additional 5 > minutes for questions. > - > > Presentation: 20-minute presentation with an additional 10 minutes > for > questions. > - > > Tutorial: 45-minute presentation with an additional 15 minutes for > questions. > > In the spirit of LACNOG, the topics to be covered by the presentations > should be geared towards regional Internet development. The topics of > interest to LACNOG 2017 include, but are not limited to: > > - > > Network operation and professional experiences, success stories > - > > IP network architecture, sizing, configuration and administration > - > > Routing and switching protocols, including unicast, multicast, > anycast, > and others > - > > End-user applications (e.g. E-mail, HTTP, DNS, etc.) > - > > Value-added services such as VPNs, distributed systems, cloud > computing, > etc. > - > > Peering, regional traffic exchange, IXPs > - > > Transition to IPv6 and IPv6 Deployment > - > > Network security and data management, attack mitigation > - > > Network monitoring, performance, measurements and telemetry > - > > Network automation, evolution and convergence > - > > Infrastructure and physical transport including optical and > wireless > networks > - > > Internet governance issues, legislation and regulations > - > > Research and education > > > > All submissions must meet the following requirements: > > - > > Proposals must be submitted in English, Portuguese or Spanish. > - > > Accepted formats: Microsoft Powerpoint (PPT, PPTX), Apache > OpenOffice > Presentation (ODP), LibreOffice Impress (ODP), or Portable Document > Format > (PDF). > - > > The number of slides must be appropriate for the time assigned for > the > presentation. As a rule of thumb, estimate 1-2 minutes per slide. > - > > We recommend following the Guidelines for Submitting a Presentation > <http://www.lacnog.org/guiapresentaciones/>. > > > > Presentations must be submitted according to the following schedule: > > - > > Reception of drafts and abstracts: 12 June to 17 July > - > > Evaluation by the Program Committee: 17 to 31 July > - > > Submission of the final presentation: 31 July to 28 August > - > > Event date: 18-22 September > > > > Anyone wishing to participate must submit a short biography, picture > and > abstract to > http://www.lacnog.org/en/call-for-presentations-lacnog-2017/ > > > > Presenters at the LACNOG 2017 conference will receive a certificate > attesting their participation. > > > > Program Committee > _______________________________________________ > LACNOG mailing list > LACNOG(a)lacnic.net > https://mail.lacnic.net/mailman/listinfo/lacnog > Cancelar suscripcion: https://mail.lacnic.net/mailman/options/lacnog

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Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees
by Anne P. Mitchell Esq. 15 Jun '17

15 Jun '17

> You make a good point. But I wonder how often spammers are so obvious, and I wonder if his "leveraging" falls amiss of CAN-SPAM's specific prohibition: > > > (I) harvesting electronic mail addresses of the users of a website, proprietary service, or other online public forum operated by another person, without the authorization of such person; and > Unfortunately, the actual language of that provision requires that the website from which it was scraped must also include a notice stating that the website will not "give, sell, or otherwise transfer addresses maintained by such website". Here is the actual language: "(i) the electronic mail address of the recipient was obtained using an automated means from an Internet website or proprietary online service operated by another person, and such website or online service included, at the time the address was obtained, a notice stating that the operator of such website or online service will not give, sell, or otherwise transfer addresses maintained by such website or online service to any other party for the purposes of initiating, or enabling others to initiate, electronic mail messages;" It would be interesting* if people had language printed right on their business cards along the lines of: "The presence of my email address on this card does not constitute permission for you to email me absent a prior agreement, or to put my email address on a mailing list." *And by interesting, I mean legally interesting. ;-) Anne* *Dictated due to broken wrist, please forgive top-posting and any weird grammar or typos Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law Legislative Consultant CEO/President, Institute for Social Internet Public Policy Member, Cal. Bar Cyberspace Law Committee Member, Colorado Cyber Committee Member, Elevations Credit Union Member Council Member, Board of Directors, Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop Member, Board of Directors, Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal anti-spam law) Ret. Professor of Law, Lincoln Law School of San Jose Ret. Chair, Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop

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Re: Templating/automating configuration
by Brian Knight 15 Jun '17

15 Jun '17

Because we had different sources of truth which were written in-house, we wound up rolling our own template engine in Python. It took about 3 weeks to write the engine and adapt existing templates. Given a circuit ID, it generates the full config for copy and paste into a terminal session. It also hooks into a configuration parser tool, written in-house, that tracks configured interfaces, so it is easy to see whether the template would overwrite an existing interface. I used the Jinja2 template engine, along with pyodbc/unixODBC/FreeTDS for access to a Microsoft SQL backend. The keys for us are: * extracting information from a source of truth * validating the information for correctness * making sure you don't overwrite existing config * outputting the right templates for the circuit features It made more sense to write a tool than it did to try to adapt something for our environment. If I had a free hand and unlimited budget, I would find a single app that functions as a source of truth for all circuits and products, which includes a templating engine that hooks in easily. -Brian ---- On Tue, 06 Jun 2017 08:22:59 -0500 Graham Johnston <johnstong(a)westmancom.com> wrote ---- Short of complete SDN, for those of you that have some degree of configuration templating and/or automation tools what is it that you run? I'm envisioning some sort of tool that let's me define template snippets of configuration and aids in their deployment to devices. I'm okay doing the heaving lifting in defining everything, I'm just looking for the tool that stitches it together and hopefully makes things a little less error prone for those who aren't as adept. Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communications Group 204.717.2829 johnstong@westmancom.com<mailto:johnstong@westmancom.com>

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Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees
by Scott Weeks 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

:: What do you suggest? Shoot them at Dawn? :-) Not all of them. Just shoot the first one and the rest will pay attention! ;-) :: We don't have a runaway spamming problem on the list. A lot of it has to do with naming-n-shaming, which he did. Instead of a firing squad, it's a financial punishment squad. That's the only place it hurts them and if made public it's even more effective. :: And your proposed solution is? Let the naming-n-shaming continue, rather than supporting the slimy spammer's position! There's not a naming-n-shaming problem here, either. :: Prohibit NANOG members from buying their products? No, we will do that ourselves. scott ps. I feel like I'm in a different universe when NANOG folks are supporting the spammer's side on the list!

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More Critical Microsoft Patches including XP/2003
by Keith Medcalf 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Microsoft has released "critical patches" for "recently disclosed vulnerabilities which may be used for imminent attacks". Main page is here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/4025685.aspx and that has links to the appropriate articles and places where you can actually download the patches. --- Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson

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Troubleshooting most encountered BGP issues
by i mawsog 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

Trying to make a check list for troubleshooting common BGP issues . The list is as follows. Configuration issues : 1. Incorrect MD52. Incorrect peer ASN, IP Runtime issues : 1. Path flap 2. Path hijack Would like to grow this list with appropriate pointers and details. Or, if anyone is aware of such such a list's existence , would be glad to added to that .

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Survey on Internet agreement ecosystem
by Pedro de Botelho Marcos 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

Dear NANOG community, We are conducting a survey about Internet agreements, with a focus on dynamism, economics, and service level agreements aspects. Can you please help us by answering a set of objective questions reflecting your views (<10min)? Feel free to drop any comment on how to improve the survey in the future. Survey URL: http://bit.ly/2rfoQ3E Thank you very much, Cheers, -- Pedro de Botelho Marcos PhD Student Computer Networks Research Group Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS

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AT&T DNS Contact
by Councilman, John 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

Is there anyone on-list who can help me (off list) with AT&T DNS? I’m looking for some information about caching DNS servers. Thanks. John Councilman Enterprise Architect / Media [ttps://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/images/custom/akamai-logo.png] Cell: +1.770.625.6393 Desk: +1.404.442.6362 Extension: 66362 Akamai Technologies 3715 Northside Parkway , N.W. Building 200, Suite 300 Atlanta, GA 30327 Connect with Us: [ttps://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/images/custom/community.jpg]<https://community.akamai.com/> [ttps://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/images/custom/rss.png] <http://blogs.akamai.com/> [ttps://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/images/custom/twitter.png] <https://twitter.com/akamai> [ttps://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/images/custom/fb.png] <http://www.facebook.com/AkamaiTechnologies> [ttps://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/images/custom/in.png] <http://www.linkedin.com/company/akamai-technologies> [ttps://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/images/custom/youtube.png] <http://www.youtube.com/user/akamaitechnologies?feature=results_main>

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Templating/automating configuration
by Graham Johnston 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

Short of complete SDN, for those of you that have some degree of configuration templating and/or automation tools what is it that you run? I'm envisioning some sort of tool that let's me define template snippets of configuration and aids in their deployment to devices. I'm okay doing the heaving lifting in defining everything, I'm just looking for the tool that stitches it together and hopefully makes things a little less error prone for those who aren't as adept. Graham Johnston Network Planner Westman Communications Group 204.717.2829 johnstong(a)westmancom.com<mailto:johnstong@westmancom.com>

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Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables
by Sean Donelan 11 Jun '17

11 Jun '17

There must be a perfectly logical explanation.... Yes, people in the industry know where the choke points are. But the choke points aren't always the most obvious places. Its kinda a weird for diplomats to show up there. On the other hand, I've been a fiber optic tourist. I've visited many critical choke points in the USA and other countries, and even took selfies :-) http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/01/russia-spies-espionage-trump-239003 In the throes of the 2016 campaign, the FBI found itself with an escalating problem: Russian diplomats, whose travel was supposed to be tracked by the State Department, were going missing. The diplomats, widely assumed to be intelligence operatives, would eventually turn up in odd places, often in middle-of-nowhere USA. One was found on a beach, nowhere near where he was supposed to be. In one particularly bizarre case, relayed by a U.S. intelligence official, another turned up wandering around in the middle of the desert. Interestingly, both seemed to be lingering where underground fiber-optic cables tend to run. According to another U.S. intelligence official, “They find these guys driving around in circles in Kansas. It’s a pretty aggressive effort.” It’s a trend that has led intelligence officials to conclude that the Kremlin is waging a quiet effort to map the United States’ telecommunications infrastructure, perhaps preparing for an opportunity to disrupt it.

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