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Little survey: What do people use to backup configurations ?
by Ulf Zimmermann 08 Mar '01

08 Mar '01

A while back when I was at SGI, I wrote my own scripts, using expect and tftp to backup configurations of Cisco routers. Configs then were put into rcs. Now before I am resurecting those scripts again for my current job, what are people using to backup equipment, things such as Cisco routers (26xx, 36xx, 72xx, 75xx, MSFC, RSM) and Cisco Catalyst switches (2924XL, 3548XL, 4000, 5000, 6500) ? What I am trying to archive is at least a daily backup, with again some version control to be able what changed between days. -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073

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home.nl NOC contact number.
by Scott Walker 02 Mar '01

02 Mar '01

Does anyone happen to have a contact number for home.nl's noc? I need to speak with someone there ASAP about a incident that just occured. -- Scott Walker scott(a)unspeakable.org Cell 954.444.3408 http://www.unspeakable.org Network/Security Administrator "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim ." E. W. Dijkstra

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Next NANOG
by Pete Kruckenberg 02 Mar '01

02 Mar '01

Was the date/place of the next NANOG announced in Atlanta? Pete.

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Covad SUCKS!
by Roeland Meyer 01 Mar '01

01 Mar '01

This is a blind message. I don't even know if it's getting out of my mail hub. Theoretically, it should. You won't be able to reply. I can route out, but nothing can get back in. Some of you may remember a poster of this huge eagle stooping on a mouse. The mouse was calmly standing, facing the eagle, flipping it the bird. The title was "Defiance". Covad is the eagle, MHSC is the mouse, and this message is the bird. MHSC has been down since 7Feb01 and Covad is the culprit. MHSC pays its bills, but Covad had a problem with my upstream. On Wednesday, 7Feb01, Covad cut off all links and feeds to my upstream. I've been down ever since. Everyone knows how quickly telcos turn up services, that's why co-lo centers have customers. Covad cut off MHSC access, without warning, without, compansation, and their SafetyNet program is the worst joke. I have a /24 and the new ISPs, that Covad is forcing me to use, can't assign a new /24. Shit, one of them can't even assign one static address. The one that this is going out thru tis trying to convince me that I can run 62 computers, using 130 IP addrs, on a /27 <heh>. We talked earlier about how non-portable addresses suck. Here is the reason why. I either use one of their SafetyNet providers or suffer up to 45 days of outage. Two weeks of warning and I would have been able to avoid the outage. (BTW, my ISDN backup feed is dead as well). I've tried contacting Covad, thier executive staff, etc. No joy there, Covad doesn't care. 100% of MHSC business is directly dependent on our Internet feed. 100% of February revenue is gone. I had two product roll-outs that were scheduled for the following week. Both are now dead issues. MHSC does CA for some of it's customers, renumbering invalidates all those CAs. Every lead we were working is now gone, probably forever, and so are many existing customers. I'm looking at probable business failure. MHSC could sue, but may not survive long enough to collect, even if we win. If MHSC survives this then "Damn, I good!" I urge everyone, do not; 1) Recommend Covad as a DSL provider 2) Become a Covad partner. 3) Remain on Covad service, find someone else (Rythyms sound good) Further, if you have any Covad stock ... sell it. The simple reason is that Covad has shown themselves unworthy of trust. They will cut off service arbitrarily, without direct cause, without compansation or recourse, and without warning. This is NOT the sort of behavior desired from an outfit in charge of your key infrastructure. We are not large, MHSC cannot afford an $80K+ revenue hit, and that's not counting the suits for failure to meet SLA. At this point, I'm not worried about any Covad law suits. What are they going to do ... put MHSC out of business? They've already taken care of that. I hope that this comes to the attention of Covad and I hope that they don't like it! MHSC will also be filing complaints with the CA-PUC and everywhere else that we can. But, a four-year process will not help MHSC stay in business. MHSC is already preparing a Marketing Communication plan to get this story out. MHSC tried dealing with this peacfully and got ignored, by Covad. Covad needs to be shunned by the rest of the Internet community, as a bad net-citizen. MHSC wasn't the ony business effected. There were 800 other busnesses involved in the cut off, that we know of. If any of you know anyone else that has been effected by this outage, please let me know. -- ROELAND M.J. MEYER Managing Director Morgan Hill Software Company, Inc. TEL: +001 925 373 3954 FAX: +001 925 373 9781 http://www.mhsc.com mailto: rmeyer(a)mhsc.com

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RE: Seattle Earthquake
by Matthew Schlegel 01 Mar '01

01 Mar '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bellevue/Redmond area went for a ride, but no damage from my perspective. No land line interruption and T1 service stayed solid into the Westin. My sprint PCS service was getting fast busy dialing out to a land line, but wireless web browsing still worked fine. I had fully working cell service back by 12:30PM. As of 1:50PM, all service seems to be normal. Our service providers phones are currently non-op however, but no outages noticed so far. Reports I've seen so far are saying that this was not the big quake predicted for this area, so I'm wondering what effects this quake will have on the one building. Matthew Schlegel Network Engineer Crossgain Corporation - -----Original Message----- From: Charles Sprickman [mailto:spork@inch.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 1:13 PM To: Wilson, David Cc: nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: RE: Seattle Earthquake Hey all, We have some ATT cell phones for paging, and the number we dial for TAP is 1-800-841-8837. Currently we get a recording that "due to an earthquake in the area you are calling we cannot complete the call"... Anyone have alternate TAP numbers for ATT wireless? This one has been problematic pre-earthquake as well... Thanks, Charles | Charles Sprickman | Internet Channel | INCH System Administration Team | (212)243-5200 | spork(a)inch.com | access(a)inch.com On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Wilson, David wrote: > > > When it hits 8.0 SELL!! > > -----Original Message----- > Subject: Re: Seattle Earthquake > > > The US Geological Survey has revised the magnitude to 7.0. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBOp1z7CtAKYXwpQg1EQKbTQCgzbcqGijNA8KvMSH0LPxP3nTms1EAoLxO SjR9bO+x6BR9yS6rKH7KHbYR =zImT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: Seattle Earthquake
by Wilson, David 01 Mar '01

01 Mar '01

When it hits 8.0 SELL!! -----Original Message----- Subject: Re: Seattle Earthquake The US Geological Survey has revised the magnitude to 7.0.

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RE: Seattle Earthquake
by Matthew Schlegel 28 Feb '01

28 Feb '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Latest word on Sea-Tac's website is that they are now operational in limited capacity. There is no runway damage reported. They are currently operating with 20 mile separation instead of the normal 3-5 mile separation. Boeing field, which is about 5-10 miles north of SEATAC, has a cracked runway and is expected to be offline for a couple of days. - -----Original Message----- From: Jake Khuon [mailto:khuon@GBLX.Net] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 2:42 PM To: Wayne Bouchard Cc: Matthew Schlegel; nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: Re: Seattle Earthquake ### On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:15:54 -0700, Wayne Bouchard <web(a)typo.org> ### casually decided to expound upon Matthew Schlegel ### <matthewsc(a)crossgain.com> the following thoughts about "Re: Seattle ### Earthquake": WB> SEATAC is still closed Control tower damage and cracks in the runway. - -- /*====================[ Jake Khuon <khuon(a)GBLX.Net> ]======================+ | Senior Manager and Chief Architect, Net-Eng/NSM /~_ |_ () |3 /-\ |_ | | VOX: +1 (206) 910-8328 Fax: +1 (425) 415-1443 \_| C R O S S I N G | +=============[ 900 4th. Ave., Floor 12, Seattle, WA 98164 ]=============*/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBOp2CSStAKYXwpQg1EQJHJQCeNGxYfyPSyRRPmtLphmdz3yxxL0cAnjtl F9UIjbdtca7N6rGxi+VC0YoW =GeDz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: Seattle Earthquake
by Mathew Butler 28 Feb '01

28 Feb '01

I90, probably -- it goes over Lake Washington. -Mat Butler -----Original Message----- From: Steven J. Sobol [mailto:sjsobol@NorthShoreTechnologies.net] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 2:50 PM To: Wayne Bouchard Cc: Matthew Schlegel; nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: Re: Seattle Earthquake On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Wayne Bouchard wrote: > Major routes, such as I95 over Mercer Island are open and operating I5, you mean? I95 is on the other coast. -- Steven J. Sobol/CTO/JustThe.net LLC | sjsobol(a)NorthShoreTechnologies.net SAY IT LOUD: I'M GEEK AND I'M PROUD! | 888.480.4NET (4638) 216.619.2NET (2638) http://NorthShoreTechnologies.net | http://ClevelandProductions.com http://JustThe.net | Powered by Linux, pizza, Coke, Cuervo, and cheap beer.

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Re: Seattle Earthquake
by Sean Donelan 28 Feb '01

28 Feb '01

On Wed, 28 February 2001, Kevin Day wrote: > According to ABC News, there was just a 6.2 magnitude earthquake, with the > epicenter about 35 miles away from Seattle. It appears that Sprint is having > some connectivity issues in the Seattle area, several Seattle routers in > sprint's network are unreachable at the moment. The Tsunami Warning Center reports the quake occured at 10:44 PST, with an estimated magintude of 6.2. Some web sites are down, such as www.seattletimes.com, but it appears to be a localized issue. Seattle Public Library, King County Library, Amazon.COM and Microsoft.COM all appear to be functioning. I couldn't find any traceroutes through Sprint's network in the northwest, but I don't know of any sites with only Sprint connectivity, so I don't know about Sprint. ATT, Cable & Wireless, and PSI appear normal. I could reach parts of Qwest/USWEST, but I don't know their physical network topography, so I couldn't tell if I was reaching Seattle or somewhere else.

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Re: Next NANOG
by ren 28 Feb '01

28 Feb '01

Heya Pete, Nope, no announcement. It would be nice to have one in Miami so that both NAPs (BellSouth & NAP of the Americas) can be explored. Cheers, -Ren At 10:34 AM 2/26/01 -0700, you wrote: >Was the date/place of the next NANOG announced in Atlanta? > >Pete. > >

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