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Re: CA rolling blackout notification service
by Sean Donelan 17 Apr '01

17 Apr '01

On Mon, 16 April 2001, "J.D. Falk" wrote: > http://www.sfgate.com/newsletters/energy/ Depending on who you believe, this summer will have 34 days (state officials) to 50 days (industry officials) of power interruptions and rolling blackouts in California. http://biz.yahoo.com/st/010416/23649.html Because the transmission grid is shared, even if you have long-term power contracts with suppliers, your electric power may still be interrupted to maintain the grid's integrity. The North American Electric Reliability Council will release their summer 2001 reliability assessment in late May or June.

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CA rolling blackout notification service
by J.D. Falk 16 Apr '01

16 Apr '01

http://www.sfgate.com/newsletters/energy/ -- J.D. Falk "A well-balanced breakfast is an important start <jdfalk(a)cybernothing.org> to a good ressurection." -- Kristie Home

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Re: Getting a "portable" /19 or /20
by Richard A. Steenbergen 16 Apr '01

16 Apr '01

On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:29:25PM -0700, Majdi S. Abbas wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:22:45PM -0600, Aaron Dewell wrote: > > Well, I did say up to a 7200, and a 7200 won't exactly forward an > > OC-192 line rate. No interface cards either. > > Precisely my point...no interface cards. Yes, you can route > ethernet, and maybe even a T1 or two...you can't do serious T1 or DS3 > aggregation or anything larger than an OC-3 or so with that PC. There is absolutily no (technical) reason that you cannot successfully "route" gigabit ethernet at line rate using off the shelf and extremely cheap PC technology and a bit of clue. Note that this specifically does not cover a Linux "router", as denoted by the "a bit of clue" clause. Also note that Zebra is stable and useful only when it is doing nothing or next to nothing. Do not assume that because you have never seen something done [well], or because you lack the knowledge to do something [well], that it cannot be done [well]. This also applies to accepting vendor excuses for what can or cannot be done. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras(a)e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

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RE: Qwest (fwd)
by Andy Dills 16 Apr '01

16 Apr '01

Hey, just for kicks I thought I'd forward this along. A little history: I got contacted today by some droid from qwest saying "Who is your network provider?" That's it, 100% of the email. So I wrote back busting his chops a little bit, and his boss writes me trying to cover his ass, and I bust his bosses chops a little, and then I get the following forwarded reply. Anybody know some contacts at qwest who would like to see this? Andy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Xecunet, LLC www.xecu.net xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 17:07:41 -0400 From: "Gull, Jake R" <jake.gull(a)qwest.com> To: 'Andy Dills' <andy(a)xecu.net> Subject: RE: Qwest Wow, Pretty big words from a guy that is part owner of a "mom and pop" internet provider.. How many employees do you have this week? Ten? Eleven? The world is your oyster Andy go get em pal. It is pretty hilarious, when I contacted one of your employee's today and asked if Excunet was a publicly traded company, her reply, "what does that mean"? Where did you get that one Burger King? (I'll bet the rest of the Excunet gang is about as sharp as a marble) I was thinking of investing a $100. in your company, but I wouldn't want you sharp "data guru's" to mistake my action as a hostile takeover. Watch out Microsoft, Execunet is playing hardball. Hi from California, where the big dog's play. Just do me one favor Andy... STAY ON THE PORCH. Have a super day.

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MAPS Zone Changes
by Margie Arbon 16 Apr '01

16 Apr '01

The MAPS domain hosting agreement with Vixie Enterprises has expired and will not be renewed. Accordingly, domain names ending in the old MAPS.VIX.COM suffix will shortly become invalid. As of 30 April 2001, all users of the MAPS RBL<sm> or DUL<sm> must use MAPS' native servers to continue their service. Please change any configurations and/or any documentation you are responsible for to the following zones: Was: rbl.maps.vix.com Should be: blackholes.mail-abuse.org Was: dul.maps.vix.com Should be: dialups.mail-abuse.org There are no changes required for the RSS<sm> (relays.mail-abuse.org) or RBL+ (rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org) Please note that RBL+ queries are only permitted via subscription as are zone transfers of RBL and RBL+. The MAPS RSS <sm> and MAPS DUL<sm> will continue to be available for normal queries, but full zone transfers will be secured and available only by subscription in the near future. Please write to subscription-request(a)mail-abuse.org for the appropriate contracts if you are interested in subscribing to these services. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Margie Arbon Mail Abuse Prevention System, LLC margie(a)mail-abuse.org http://mail-abuse.org

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Internet demand and power shortages
by Sean Donelan 16 Apr '01

16 Apr '01

Regulated utilities seem to like to blame the Internet for the world's woes. First telephone companies scared the world with claims the Internet would disrupt 9-1-1 services, and now electric companies claim unprecendented demand from Internet companies is leading to power shortages and rolling blackouts. >From the April 15, 2001 Contra Costa Times: > The theory that the Internet sucked up the power grid and launched > an era of rolling blackouts is staunchly rebuked by academic experts, > who say much of today's demand follows population and economic growth > trends. Indeed, as early as 1988, the California Energy Commission > issued forecasts for peak electricity demand in 2000 that overshot reality. > > "When people say the high electricity demand is causing the California > power crisis and the Internet is causing the high electricity demand, > it's a multi-part false statement," said Jonathan Koomey, a staff > scientist and group leader at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. > > "It sounds plausible. People believe it when you tell them, but actually > it's one of these cases of urban legend becoming conventional wisdom." http://www.contracostatimes.com/partners/nf/wilson_20010415.htm Here is Dr. Koomey's information, and various publications. http://enduse.lbl.gov/bios/jonathan.html http://enduse.lbl.gov/projects/infotech.html Electricity Used by Office Equipment and Network Equipment in the U.S.: Detailed Report and Appendices http://enduse.lbl.gov/Info/45917b-abstract.html The conclusion is all the office and electronic equipment consumes about 74 TWh/year, or about 2% of the total US electric power consumption. If you add all telecommunications and electronics manufacturing it rises to 3% of the total US electric power consumption. The upper limit on the Internet's consumption contribution from a different memo is 36TWh/year.

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Re: Outage notifications
by Sean Donelan 14 Apr '01

14 Apr '01

On Fri, 13 April 2001, Paul Timmins wrote: > Beyond getting on every single ISP's customer notification lists, is > there a list that is dedicated to network outages? Or a website? > It would be really helpful in my day job :-) Your network provider should keep you informed about all network outages affecting their network, and keep you updated about any issues affected any of their peers or upstream networks. Some providers do a better job than others. If you provider doesn't do a good job, you should consider taking your business elsewhere. There is nothing posted on public mailing lists or reported on the wireservices your own provider couldn't tell you if they chose to. Different providers have very different cultures regarding informing customers. Everyone has problems, how they deal with the problems varies between providers. Historically, I've found these providers consistently have the best customer notification processes, year after year. This has nothing to do with how many problems a provider has. A provider may only have a single problem a year. 1. Genuity 2. AT&T 3. Ameritech (the NAP not the rest of AADS) Most providers fall in the middle ground. After a big problem, they get on the customer service train for a few months. But tend to fall back into their former habits. But like the Grammy's if you divide up the market enough ways, everyone can be number 1 in some catagory. Multi-homed tier-2 providers: Savvis Former baby bell providers: Pacific Bell Internet Web hosting/limited backbone providers: Abovenet Dialup access providers: Mindspring/Earthlink International exchange points in London: LINX

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Channelized STM-1
by Arnold Nipper 14 Apr '01

14 Apr '01

Two questions concerning channelized STM-1: 1. Do I have to order a special type of line on the "slow" end? Or will a ordinary E3 be sufficient? 2. What type of gear do you recommend for the "fast" end? Tnx, Arnold -- Arnold Nipper / nIPper consulting mailto:arnold@nipper.de Heilbronner Str. 34b Phone: +49 700 NIPPER DE D-76131 Karlsruhe Mobile: +49 172 2650958 Germany Fax: +49 180 505255469743

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RE: Qwest (fwd)
by Eric Germann 14 Apr '01

14 Apr '01

No. I was adding a datapoint to "... don't recall the last outage they've sustained on an edge router ..." At 12:16 AM 4/14/01 -0400, Martin, Christian wrote: >Most of my sesions have been live for over 150 days. I suppose I am lucky. >Are you suggesting bad linecard = sucky network? > >chris > >> >> purchase connectivity from them, even if their network didn't suck. >> > >> >What makes you think this? Perhaps you can share your >> experiences that >> >would substantiate this claim. I have rarely seen cross >> country RTTs exceed >> >70 msec (right now it's 58msec from nyc to sfo) and don't >> recall the last >> >outage they've sustained on an edge router, let alone core >> disruption. I >> >> wdc-edge-03.inet.qwest.net >> >> Last friday night for about 4 or 5 hours. Flapping T-1's. >> Traced to bad line card. I know. I hung off of it. >> >> >> >> ============================================================== >> ============ >> Eric Germann Inacom >> Info Systems >> egermann(a)inacomlima.com Lima, OH 45801 >> Ph: >> 419 331 9050 >> ICQ: 41927048 Fax: >> 603 825 5893 >> >> "It is so easy to miss pretty trivial solutions to problems deemed >> complicated. The goal of a scientist is to find an >> interesting problem, >> and live off it for a while. The goal of an engineer is to evade >> interesting problems :)" -- Vadim Antonov <avg(a)kotovnik.com> on NANOG >>

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The Cidr Report
by Tony Bates 14 Apr '01

14 Apr '01

This is an auto-generated mail on Fri Apr 13 23:00:02 PDT 2001 It is not checked before it leaves my workstation. However, hopefully you will find this report interesting and will take the time to look through this to see if you can improve the amount of aggregation you perform. The report is split into sections: 0) General Status List the route table history for the last week, list any possibly bogus routes seen and give some status on ASes. 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level This lists the "Top 30" players who if they decided to aggregate their announced classful prefixes at the origin AS level could make a significant difference in the reduction of the current size of the Internet routing table. This calculation does not take into account the inclusion of holes when forming an aggregate so it is possible even larger reduction should be possible. 2) Weekly Delta A summary of the last weeks changes in terms of withdrawn and added routes. Please note that this is only a snapshot but does give some indication of ASes participating in CIDR. Clearly, it is generally a good thing to see a large amont of withdrawls. 3) Interesting aggregates Interesting here means not an aggregate made as a set of classful routes. Thanks to xara.net for giving me access to their routing tables once a day. Please send any comments about this report directly to me. Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr-report.html for a daily update of this report. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CIDR REPORT for 13Apr01 0) General Status Table History ------------- Date Prefixes 060401 99382 070401 99975 080401 99951 090401 100057 100401 99187 110401 99440 120401 100138 130401 99823 Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr.plot.html for a plot of the table history. Possible Bogus Routes --------------------- *** Bogus 223.255.46.0 from AS6853 *** Bogus 223.255.70.0 from AS6853 AS Summary ---------- Number of ASes in routing system: 10451 Number of ASes announcing only one prefix: 6152 (3491 cidr, 2661 classful) Largest number of cidr routes: 1051 announced by AS705 Largest number of classful routes: 1589 announced by AS1221 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level --- 13Apr01 --- ASnum NetsNow NetsCIDR NetGain % Gain Description AS1221 1589 1191 398 25.0% Telstra Pty Ltd AS701 1471 1283 188 12.8% UUNET Technologies, Inc. AS15412 666 535 131 19.7% FLAG Telecom Global Internet AS AS6429 210 103 107 51.0% RdC Internet AS4151 245 142 103 42.0% USDA AS6595 165 63 102 61.8% DoD Education Activity Network As AS705 342 245 97 28.4% UUNET Technologies, Inc. AS4293 372 281 91 24.5% Cable & Wireless USA AS7018 697 609 88 12.6% AT&T AS8013 321 236 85 26.5% PSINet Ltd. Canada AS4755 218 136 82 37.6% Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. Autonom AS13999 97 16 81 83.5% Mega Cable S.A. de C.V. AS577 241 172 69 28.6% Bell Advanced Communications Inc. AS5106 98 35 63 64.3% Ameritech Advanced Data Services, AS3749 120 59 61 50.8% Tennessee Board of Regents AS3464 152 91 61 40.1% Alabama SuperComputer Network AS11252 92 34 58 63.0% ISU Computer Center Bldg. 5 AS16758 63 6 57 90.5% IKON Office Solutions AS6413 67 11 56 83.6% Southern Online Systems, Inc. AS226 149 93 56 37.6% Los Nettos AS1 606 550 56 9.2% BBN Planet AS724 201 146 55 27.4% DLA Systems Automation Center AS4323 232 178 54 23.3% Time Warner Communications, Inc. AS6471 99 46 53 53.5% ENTEL CHILE S.A. AS7568 83 31 52 62.7% C.S. Communications Co., Ltd. AS9498 72 22 50 69.4% BHARTI BT INTERNET LTD. AS9269 115 66 49 42.6% City Telecom (H.K.) Ltd. AS852 200 152 48 24.0% Telus Advanced Communications AS10692 62 14 48 77.4% DLS Computer Services, Inc. AS174 407 360 47 11.5% PSINet Inc. For the rest of the previous weeks gain information please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html 2) Weekly Delta Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report 3) Interesting aggregates Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report

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