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please take me out of tha list, thx
by Fritz, Michael 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Michael Fritz KPMG IT-Services, Koling. 15, A-1090 Vienna +43(1) 31332/249 This information is intended solely for the use of the addressee. Use by others is prohibited. Disclosure, copying and distribution of this information to third parties is not permitted.

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NorthStar Released
by Hitesh Patel 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well, the freeipdb.org guys beat me to it but I am happy to announce the release of the NorthStar IP Address Tracking System v1.0 at: http://www.brownkid.net/NorthStar/ NorthStar is a system to track IP allocations and assign them to specific Devices, Owners, and Locations. NorthStar can nest allocations as deep as you like and also has a user permissions system to control additions, modifications, and deletions of data. NorthStar is still under development and already has many additional features waiting to be released after testing, however v1.0 is fully functional and has been in use in a production environment for over 3 months now. For more information please visit http://www.brownkid.net/NorthStar/ or email me at the address in my signature. Please note that this software is written by me and does not represent the views of my employer in any way. - -- Hitesh Patel hitesh(a)presys.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE78d9dCws8KqPtd2URAtVOAJ9gHdVnKELd1pJl6IECnZsqomaJ9QCcCqSP ZVbUAxSjuYQFx92iWqayrh4= =20Xx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: a question about the economics of peering
by Hitesh Patel 02 Dec '01

02 Dec '01

This is what exactly I said. Please see my comments. Regards Hitesh Patel -----Original Message----- From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:bortzmeyer@gitoyen.net] Sent: 01 December 2001 13:18 To: Alex Rubenstein Cc: nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: Re: a question about the economics of peering On Friday 30 November 2001, at 11 h 52, Alex Rubenstein <alex(a)nac.net> wrote: > While speaking with them today, thier engineer and I got into a little bit > of a disagreement as to why people peer with each other at public exchange > points. There is also an important reason to be connected at several exchange points: reliability. If you just have one transit provider, you're more vulnerable than with one transit provider plus a variety of peerings, which will still carry at least part of the traffic if the main provider fails.

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Re: @Home: The chicken is run over
by George William Herbert 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

I can confirm Sean's report from the user's side... An aquaintence who used Excite@Home as one of their home connections in the San Francisco Bay Area with AT&T cable service reports they just got an automated call from AT&T which stated that it's down, it's because they're switching over to AT&T service on his connection, they expect it to be down for a day or two, and he'll recieve credits on his billing for the outage time (2 days for every day out). Apparently no word on DNS, Email addresses, etc. I guess the @Home creditors did in fact succeed in bargaining the shot-off big toe down to an amputated leg. -george william herbert gherbert(a)retro.com

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@Home: The chicken is run over
by Sean Donelan 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

The danger with playing chicken is sometimes both sides crash. The official corporate spokesperson was slow in getting her information. During the morning, @Home's spokesperson blamed the problems on breakdowns at regional cable companies, and that @Home had done nothing to interrupt service. Later @Home confirmed Excite@Home had terminated service to AT&T. @Home's spokesperson said negotiations are continuing with all cable companies, other than AT&T. Customers of Cox, Comcast, etc have reported problems with DHCP and DNS services.

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Alternatives to Nomadix USG?
by Murphy, Brennan 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

Are any other vendors producing a product similar to Nomadix's Universal Subscriber Gateway platform? This is a provisioning tool for broadband to mulit-tenant dwellings. Just wondering if there are others out there worth looking at. Thanks, BM

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Cable & Wireless Maintencance
by James A. Farrar 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

Cable & Wireless has performed network maintenance this morning to enable us to expand on our use of communities. Our updated policy can be found at http://cw-rr.cw.net/communities.htm. We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused during our implementation of this new policy. /jim

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@Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight
by Sean Donelan 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

Judge Thomas Carlson ordered Excite@Home to shutdown as of Midnight Eastern time, tonight Friday November 30 2001. Bondholders are free to negotiate a better offer before the shutdown, if they can, to maintain the service.

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Looking for a ping plotting tool for *nix
by dani-post＠roisman.com 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

Hey folks. I'm searching for a tool that will continuously (once per second or .5 second) ping every hop on a specified path (or ping a list of hosts) and somehow plot/graph/track packet loss and latency/jitter. Looking for something that can run as a service on Unix, and can do some easy reporting in a tabular or graph form. Thanks for the input. - Dani

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Followup British Telecom outage reason
by Sean Donelan 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

BT is telling ISPs the reason for the multi-hour outage was a software bug in the interface cards used in BT's core network. BT installed a new version of the software. When that didn't fix the problem, they fell back to a previous version of the software. BT didn't identify the vendor, but BT is identified as a "Cisco Powered Network(tm)." Non-BT folks believe the problem was with GSR interface cards. I can't independently confirm it.

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