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Re: 95th percentile
by Barb Dijker 19 Aug '02

19 Aug '02

I have a home grown program that gives 95th percentile from mrtg data files... and can display it on the mrtg page as an odometer (using fly) or text for a monthly report. Because of mrtg data reduction, it isn't exact (weighted on the most recent three days), but it does its best to compensate for that. ...Barb At 11:29 AM 8/19/02 -0700, you wrote: >Sorry for the slightly off topic question but very briefly. > >What tools are people using for 95th percentile billing. Anything unix >based maybe around mysql would be great. Or do most people grow their >own? > >Thanks > >Scott

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95th percentile
by Scott Granados 19 Aug '02

19 Aug '02

Sorry for the slightly off topic question but very briefly. What tools are people using for 95th percentile billing. Anything unix based maybe around mysql would be great. Or do most people grow their own? Thanks Scott

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Re: Major Labels v. Backbones
by michael.dillon＠radianz.com 19 Aug '02

19 Aug '02

The industry needs one or more clueful persons willing to act as expert witnesses in these types of court cases. Because of Dave Farber's role in the early Internet, the legal community views him as an authority on the subject. At this point I think there are a lot of people whose knowledge is more current and more thorough and these people could help the courts make better decisions if they would step up and offer their services as expert witnesses or as advisors to the legal teams arguing these cases. Michael Dillon

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RE: Re: Secure Cabinets
by Rishi Singh 19 Aug '02

19 Aug '02

http://www.mtpartners.com/home.htm > -----Original Message----- > From: Benjamin J. Carrasco [mailto:carrasco@digitalrealm.net] > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 1:09 PM > To: nanog(a)merit.edu > Subject: RE: Re: Secure Cabinets > > > > Andrew, > > I am looking for a cabinet that I can install in my own > server room to > > protect my machines from prying fingers and other > illegal access. > This > > cabinet needs to have vault like qualities and not just > be some glass > and > > metal thrown together. Maybe something like two key opening > procedures, > > etc. > > I'd suggest looking at Metal-Tech Partners, we've had > pretty good experiences with their products. You will > probably be interested in their all metal seismic line of > cabinets. There is a pretty wide assortment of > industrial grade steel doors that surpass the strength of > cabinets like Chatsworth. They also offer dual locking > mechanisms that can consist of a center combination lock, > and top and bottom key-based locks. We have had them > customized in the past to alternate the top and bottom > key-base locks (by default, one key is necessary to open > both locks). A side from building a makeshift colo in an > abandoned missile silo, it should provide both a > comfortable level of physical security. I can not for the > life of me remember what their URL is. > > -Ben > > > >

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RE: Re: Secure Cabinets
by Benjamin J. Carrasco 19 Aug '02

19 Aug '02

Andrew, > I am looking for a cabinet that I can install in my own server room to > protect my machines from prying fingers and other illegal access. This > cabinet needs to have vault like qualities and not just be some glass and > metal thrown together. Maybe something like two key opening procedures, > etc. I'd suggest looking at Metal-Tech Partners, we've had pretty good experiences with their products. You will probably be interested in their all metal seismic line of cabinets. There is a pretty wide assortment of industrial grade steel doors that surpass the strength of cabinets like Chatsworth. They also offer dual locking mechanisms that can consist of a center combination lock, and top and bottom key-based locks. We have had them customized in the past to alternate the top and bottom key-base locks (by default, one key is necessary to open both locks). A side from building a makeshift colo in an abandoned missile silo, it should provide both a comfortable level of physical security. I can not for the life of me remember what their URL is. -Ben

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new reverse-DNS generation process at APNIC
by George Michaelson 19 Aug '02

19 Aug '02

Reverse-DNS changes for 61/8, 202/8, 203/8, 210/8, 211/8, 218/8, 219/8, 220/8, 221/8, 2001:0200::/23 and 2001:0C00::/23 APNIC has converted its DNS generation processes to a new system. This is in preparation for conversion to RPSL based whois services, as APNIC generates authoritative in-addr.arpa, ip6.arpa and ip6.int reverse-DNS records directly from whois information. This conversion will also improve reverse-DNS services for the IPv4 and IPv6 ranges APNIC has responsibility for, by providing faster resolution of reverse-DNS lookup, faster termination of lookup for non-existing domains, and a more stable DNS generation process. The reverse zone of a /8 for IPv4, or a pair of /24 for IPv6, now contain all children objects directly, and intermediate zones (which we used to assert down to the edge resource records in some cases) have been withdrawn. For all IPv4 and IPv6 ranges APNIC is authoritative for, the reverse DNS zones are now generated in a more efficient manner. Updates will propagate from whois domain objects to DNS more effectively. At present APNIC re-generates the reverse DNS zones on a 2 hour cycle, every day, and only increments the zone serial on changes to resource records. This is in line with the zonefiles asserted by RIPE NCC and ARIN, and will provide a more uniform global DNS service in respect of reverse-DNS. Kind regards, George Michaelson -- George Michaelson | APNIC Email: ggm(a)apnic.net | PO Box 2131 Milton QLD 4064 Phone: +61 7 3858 3100 | Australia Fax: +61 7 3858 3199 | http://www.apnic.net

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QWEST IP engineer please contact off list...
by Rich Sena 19 Aug '02

19 Aug '02

As subject says - having a problem with inconsistant views at 2 peering points and am tired of the phone que... -- Rich Sena - ras(a)thick.net ThickNET Consulting "On the way to understanding; you understand, and forget."

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Re: Echo
by Martin Hannigan 18 Aug '02

18 Aug '02

> Hi, Martin. > > What is an "echo mail reflector?" Is this something I could provide? > It basically allow you to "bounce" mail off of the address and returns a copy of your mail replete with headers. Useful for testing mail configuration, latency, etc. Someone just pinged me and said that echo(a)psi.net<- is still operational.

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Re: Dave Farber comments on Re: Major Labels v. Backbones
by Patrick W. Gilmore 18 Aug '02

18 Aug '02

At 03:07 PM 8/17/2002 -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote: >On 17 Aug 2002, Paul Vixie wrote: >> I want to know what the homeland security department is likely to do >> about all this, not what is good/bad for the citizens of hostile >> nations or even nonhostile nations. > >Likely nothing, unless they are complete incompetents. The point is: >there's no feasible way to achieve any gains by restricting access on >per-country basis. I doubt they are complete incompetents, but they are politicians. Sometimes people who are interested in a sound-bite or press-release do things which look, at least in retrospect, as stupid so they can garner some instant public reaction. IOW: They may know it will not do any good, but they may do it any way for a front-page headline. Or at least to look like they are doing something. At least that is my fear. -- TTFN, patrick

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Re: Dave Farber comments on Re: Major Labels v. Backbones
by smd＠clock.org 18 Aug '02

18 Aug '02

Hm, why stop with just backbone networks? Why shouldn't edge networks, corporate networks, and household networks chip in to uphold civil judgements against infringers? Surely I should not object if the RIAA insists that I block access of my small collection of computers to hosts which exist solely to distribute infringing material? Surely Dr Farber has already volunteered to adjust his own border filtering, since it is no great inconvenience to do so, the case is clear-cut, and this bad law is still on the books and therefore should continue to be followed. Sean.

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