September 2001 - Test - lists.nanog.org

Forwarding - Reference - Assistance
by Richard Beach 14 Sep '01

14 Sep '01

The Following is a response I received from Tom Thomas regarding Assistance listing. He is having trouble posting to NANOG and asked me to send it along...... .......clipped............ -----Original Message----- From: Tom Thomas [mailto:tthomas@torrentnet.com] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 9:11 AM To: rbeach(a)nycap.rr.com; nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: Assistance Listing I have been reading Nanog and all the various opinions, I have my own here but its irrelevant to the list suffice to say the US will respond and that is a fact. Having spent most of my adult life in the military for the first time I wish I was still in but I cannot help in that manner anymore so I see lots of people expressing the need to help and I want to as well. So the point of this posting is if you can send me information on what you can offer in terms of support, when you can do this, how to get in touch with you I will compile this information onto a web site that we can all use to get help as needed. This I can and will do. I will be placing a page off the www.cpaw.org site for this purpose thanks for letting me intrude and thanks for letting me contribute. Tom Thomas .......clipped........ THANKS TOM! Richard A. Beach Troy, NY "What seems to be coming at you........ Is coming from you" Jack Flanders

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Re: Internet assessment - September 13 2001
by Sean Donelan 14 Sep '01

14 Sep '01

On Fri, 14 September 2001, Leo Bicknell wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 01:10:55AM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote: > > The Internet routed around much of the failure, but there seem to be > > only a few individual networks which are unreachable. The generator > > I know that MFN/AboveNet is quite willing to provide temporary > peering/transit services in the US and Europe for networks affected > by this action. I suspect most other providers are offering similar > help. I would hope that the Internet community could get these > networks back online in fairly short order to help keep communications > flowing. For those networks completely offline, can those with > phone contacts pass this message along to them via voice lines? I don't have a breakout of individual networks, so I can't give you contact information for the networks offline. I've just been following total networks, ASNs, etc. In particular Geoff's great graphs http://www.telstra.net/ops/bgp/bgp-active.html It appears a few hundred route announcements disappeared from the total of 104,400 routes. In other words, less that 1% of the routes. Telstra may be located on the other side of the globe, but I'll take data where I can find it. I can't tell how many are single-homed networks and servers located in directly impacted area of New York, and how much is due to a combination of failures in the area affecting both the primary, backup or alternate facilities.

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RE: Yes it's off topic but who cares right now.
by Roeland Meyer 14 Sep '01

14 Sep '01

|> From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy@psg.com] |> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 5:06 AM |> |> so, if we did not learn enough following the french into |> indochina, we can |> learn more by following the russians into afghanastan? this |> does not seem like a sucess path to me. |> |> the successful part of our culture is about tolerance and |> learning to live |> with folk different than we (for many values of 'we' and |> 'different'). |> |> resist the cycle of violence and hate. Randy, this ain't Vietnam and the Viet Cong never tried to massacre US civilians, in the US. Nor, were they ever bent on destroying our civilization. They were executing a military operation. That is all. Any of these guys would be another Pol Pot. This is a whole different ball-game. We haven't seen it's like in almost 200 years. This isn't realy war, it's Crusade/Jihad. The messiest kind of conflict known to man-kind. Ignoring it only make you dead, or converted.

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filtering non-operational content
by Matt Cramer 14 Sep '01

14 Sep '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I just can't keep up with alt.politics.nuke.the.terrorists and alt.politics.make.love.not.war which have somehow bled over into NANOG. I'm dumping the "Subject: RE: Yes it's off topic but who cares right now." thread, and ask that people posting actual operational content please not use one of those types of non-operational subject lines. Thanks, Matt - -- Matthew S. Cramer <mscramer(a)armstrong.com> Office: 717-396-5032 Lead Security Analyst Fax: 717-396-5590 Armstrong Information Technology Services Pager: 717-305-3915 Armstrong World Industries, Inc. Cell: 717-917-7099 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: ascii iQEVAwUBO6IAIAdAU78fakRxAQG2ogf/X3DNlKbotDJb226CnhTtSPZJf/U1ty7F UMn8+DCLIA5xtZGBSqSV25lO6t46Ht5sQTQhK3G+pkcDLb7pSne0GVJ8UCI0bHBd x/fD9qaHoQUUMMba/PXKfgQ4UwgLaHIxvSl5Chz9Trfgt9IMGIpLNXAlTl1suvdY K1svFZSCyGQF7IjTgXN2dR4J5ZAffBOqSr6TlOhjSwqF4JrqQxdO586hWPbHnacJ ne1nsNhJmjBxx26cRhnYB5827G6Ej8/gsTrcZzW9ypgfLz0mhm5sQVdlTAXZtBud Oe9LP6dq6bWjXvyg9DYZcjD3vM5POWE37bvYqiZlnztPNVD4tI6zSw== =O6SD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Internet assessment - September 13 2001
by Sean Donelan 14 Sep '01

14 Sep '01

Approximately 5,000 people are still missing in three different areas, rescue efforts continue in New York City. Recovery efforts are underway at the Pentagon and southwest Pennsylvania crash sites. Normal telephone repair activities are still suspended in New York City and parts of Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC. Verizon is continuing its repair of 140 West. NYSE is closed Friday, and plans to conduct a full scale stress test over the weekend, and reopen on Monday. Other than 140 West and the equipment in the World Trade Center, no other telecommunication CO's have any reported structural problems. Access to several telecommunication sites in Manhattan is still restricted. Reports of imminent collapse of other Internet or Telco facilities in New York City have been false. AT&T and Earthlink have added additional Internet dialup telephone numbers in the New York area. Earthlink status pages show many DSL lines in New York City are still down. Genuity's web site has a message from its Chairman about the three people still missing from the Genuity family. UUNET status page reports they are working under "routine emergency" operations. Sprint is restoring Sprint PCS service in Manhattan. Four cell sites were damaged, and other cell sites were cut off due to failures in the wireline carrier. RCN, a major regional provider in New York City and Washington DC, status page reports its service has been restored. Qwest, Level 3, Williams and other new carriers report no impact on their networks. www.cw.net hasn't been updated in months. Anyone know a current website for C&W? Equinix, Exodus, MFN/PAIX/Abovenet, and other colocation providers announced they are prepared to assist companies needing to emergency assistance to relocate Internet operations. See the company's web site for details on how to contact them if you need such assistance. Fuel supplies reached 25 Broadway, but the generator shutdown shortly afterwards due to overtemperature. Telehouse Broadway acts as one of the US/European exchange points for several regional and mid-level networks. Based on figures from the NYIIX web site and Abovenet MRTG graphs, several hundred megabytes of traffic shifted to alternate routes. The Internet routed around much of the failure, but there seem to be only a few individual networks which are unreachable. The generator was restored and then failed again. Power is still out in lower Manhattan, ConEdision is bringing in additional generators with the assistance of FEMA. ConEd is also helping some sites arrange fuel deliveries. Cisco TAC has created a new priority schedule for replacement parts within the USA. There are now priority levels above P1 for problems affecting national security and emergency service (hospital, police) networks. "Normal" P1 calls and shipment of any replacement parts will be handled after national security and emergency service networks. Air cargo shipments are still delayed. I expect other major router hardware vendors have implemented similar priority shipping schedules. Special Note: There have been several hoaxes directed at Internet Service Providers. ISPs shouldn't make changes based on phone calls allegedly from police, military or similar sources. Consider using extra care to verify the source of the information or request.

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Re: Malformed AS PATH
by Marshall Eubanks 14 Sep '01

14 Sep '01

> >> >> >Well, I got this as AS 16517. s/as/at/ > >Can you be more specific. The 6:00 am >status run is going on right now, but my initial probes >into the routers seems OK. > >Except - >show ip bgp incon >reveals a LOT of inconsistent routes - I will know a lot more in >about 10 minutes. > Everything seems normal here - the inconsistent routes were present 24 hours ago, so I do not think that they are caused by your problem. Regards Marshall Eubanks >Regards >Marshall Eubanks > >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>Hash: SHA1 >> >>Not that anyone will ever get this as I'm in penalty box hell, but >>did that malformed as_path just hit every1 else? We saw our eleet >>RFC compliant edge gear disconnect itself from every ebgp peer.. Can >>anyone confirm seeing this elsewhere? > >> >> >> >>Regards, >>Matt >> >> >>- -- >>Matt Levine >>@Home: matt(a)deliver3.com >>@Work: matt(a)easynews.com >>ICQ : 17080004 >>PGP : http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6C0D04CF >> >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> >> >>iQA/AwUBO6GuMMp0j1NsDQTPEQLMtgCgxkznNF9nTA0FhjSQ7U1Ev91795IAoKtv >>Cy0FmfqfO7YHLwJ5iaHFtUeU >>=8PfI >>-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> Marshall Eubanks tme(a)21rst-century.com

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Re: Emergency Alert System TEST - This is only a TEST
by Marshall Eubanks 14 Sep '01

14 Sep '01

> Dear Sean; Do you know if they are interested in webcasters and other Internet news / entertainment services ? Regards Marshall Eubanks >FEMA will be conducting a TEST of the primary entry point system >for the Emergency Alert System. The Emergency Alert System is >the successor to the Emergency Broadcast System, and is frequently >used for tornado warnings, hurricane warnings, flash floods warnings >and so forth. It is also designed, but never in history used, for >Presidential messages to the nation. > >The FCC Compliance Bureau has suspended all other testing of the >Emergency Alert System for 30 days. However, some automated broadcast >stations may send a test message without operator intervention. > >If the EAS is activated in your area listen carefully if it is a >test or a real activation. The EAS has been accidently activated >in the past, so if it is activated, avoid undue panic and listen >carefully. Severe weather alerts using the EAS are continuing. > >Most broadcast AM/FM, television and cable systems participate in >the Emergency Alert System. However, participation is voluntary. >Individual stations may or may not be participate. Non-participating >stations will go off the air during a national EAS activation. > >Once again, this is a TEST. This is only a TEST. > >> GREETINGS: >> >> THE PRIMARY ENTRY POINT SYSTEM WILL BE TESTED IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS. THE >> TESTS WILL BE CLOSED CIRCUIT AT BEST. THERE MAY BE SOME AUDIO PASSED AS >> PART OF THE TEST. IN ONE CONFIGURATION THE PEP CONFERENCE IS INVOKED, BUT >> ENDECS ARE NOT ADDRESSED OR POLLED. >> >> DAVE PIPER AND I HAVE GONE OVER THE TEST PLAN TO CONFIRM THAT IT IS WITHIN >> THE PEP SPECIFICATIONS. REST ASSURED THAT THE PEP SYSTEM WILL NOT BE >> ACTIVATED WITHOUT PROPER AUTHORIZATION AND APPROVAL. >> >> I WILL TRY TO MAKE THE RESULTS OF THE TEST AVAILABLE VIA THIS SITE, TIME AND >> WORKLOAD PERMITTING. >> >> I HAVE HAD A LOT OF E-MAILS ON THE TESTING, THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS AND >> INPUT. CIRCUMSTANCES ARE SUCH THAT THE TESTING MUST BE ACCOMPLISHED AT THIS >> TIME. >> >> PUTPRUSH SENDS >> >> TIMOTHY L. PUTPRUSH, FEMA PEP PROJECT MANAGER > > > Marshall Eubanks tme(a)21rst-century.com

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Re: 25 Broadway...
by Marshall Eubanks 14 Sep '01

14 Sep '01

> >On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Keith Woodworth wrote: > > > The Dante US world service (provides international connectivity to some >of the ten-155 european academic network members) is there for example. And we have lost all connectivity to Dante and points beyond (26 ASN in all). Regards Marshall Eubanks > >--Ariel >> >> ok as I dont know but who/what is housed in 25 broadway in regards to >> equipment? If it goes down how serious an affect will it be? >> > >-- >Ariel Biener >e-mail: ariel(a)post.tau.ac.il >PGP(6.5.8) public key http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html > > Marshall Eubanks tme(a)21rst-century.com

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Re: Malformed AS PATH
by Marshall Eubanks 14 Sep '01

14 Sep '01

> > Well, I got this as AS 16517. Can you be more specific. The 6:00 am status run is going on right now, but my initial probes into the routers seems OK. Except - show ip bgp incon reveals a LOT of inconsistent routes - I will know a lot more in about 10 minutes. Regards Marshall Eubanks >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Not that anyone will ever get this as I'm in penalty box hell, but >did that malformed as_path just hit every1 else? We saw our eleet >RFC compliant edge gear disconnect itself from every ebgp peer.. Can >anyone confirm seeing this elsewhere? > > > >Regards, >Matt > > >- -- >Matt Levine >@Home: matt(a)deliver3.com >@Work: matt(a)easynews.com >ICQ : 17080004 >PGP : http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6C0D04CF > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> > >iQA/AwUBO6GuMMp0j1NsDQTPEQLMtgCgxkznNF9nTA0FhjSQ7U1Ev91795IAoKtv >Cy0FmfqfO7YHLwJ5iaHFtUeU >=8PfI >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Marshall Eubanks tme(a)21rst-century.com

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List of port numbers used by P2P applications?
by Chris Boyd 14 Sep '01

14 Sep '01

Has anyone compiled a reasonably complete list of P2P filesharing application port numbers? I've got the following so far: 1214 - napster and the like 5000 5555 6346 - Gnutella and clones 7777 8311 8875 8888 - AudioGalaxy? 6257 - WinMX TCP 6699 - WinMX UDP Thanks for any input. -- Chris Boyd Director of Technology Apogee Telecom 512-493-8546

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