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RE: microsoft.com
by Vachon, Scott 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

> Bryan Heitman wrote: > >> Several networks I have talked to are reporting they can't get to >> www.microsoft.com >> >> Has the virus began? anyone? > > > Yep, remember it's already August 16th in some parts of the world. > Unable to get to www.microsoft.com at 0958 EDT. > Northeastern US. No problems reaching it here. ATT & Qwest are ISPs. Learn more about Paymentech's payment processing services at www.paymentech.com THIS MESSAGE IS CONFIDENTIAL. This e-mail message and any attachments are proprietary and confidential information intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not print, distribute, or copy this message or any attachments. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this message and any attachments from your computer.

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microsoft.com
by Bryan Heitman 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

Several networks I have talked to are reporting they can't get to www.microsoft.com Has the virus began? anyone? Bryan

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RE: microsoft.com
by Pranav Sheth 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

Windowsupdate does seem a bit slow. The drones are marching. -----Original Message----- From: Robbie Foust [mailto:rfoust@duke.edu] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 9:04 AM To: Chris Horry Cc: Bryan Heitman; nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: Re: microsoft.com I've had no problem getting to Microsoft's site(s) today...I'm in the southeastern US if it makes a difference. - Robbie Chris Horry wrote: > > Bryan Heitman wrote: > >> Several networks I have talked to are reporting they can't get to >> www.microsoft.com >> >> Has the virus began? anyone? > > > Yep, remember it's already August 16th in some parts of the world. > Unable to get to www.microsoft.com at 0958 EDT. > > Chris > -- Robbie Foust, IT Analyst Systems and Core Services Duke University

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RE: microsoft.com
by Huopio Kauto 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

It seems that Microsoft is Akamai'zing as we speak.. --Kauto Kauto Huopio - kauto.huopio(a)ficora.fi Information Security Adviser / CERT-FI -coordinator Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority / CERT-FI tel. +358-9-6966772, fax. +358-9-6966515 CERT-FI duty desk +358-9-6966510 / http://www.cert.fi -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Heitman [mailto:bryan@bryanheitman.com] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 8:48 AM To: nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: microsoft.com Several networks I have talked to are reporting they can't get to www.microsoft.com Has the virus began? anyone? Bryan

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Re: power failure causes and effects
by Fred Heutte 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

It appears that this was the largest power outage on record, in a variety of respects (geographic reach, number of grid line-miles, megawatts of capacity, number of affected customers, etc.). Despite all the noise already arising about the "antiquated" American grid, it's important to recognize how stable and reliable it generally is. (did Bill Richardson really say "third world"? now there's someone who doesn't know anything about power engineering here *or* there) The reason is simple: it gets down to good engineering practiced over 100 years. Strogatz and Watts did an interesting "small world" analysis of the western power grid about six years ago. A more recent paper by Motter and Lai compares cascading failures of the Internet at the AS level and the western power grid -- side by side! http://chaos1.la.asu.edu/~yclai/papers/PRE_02_ML_3.pdf Some of this work is now being transmuted into practical form at EPRI and other transmission research places: http://www.epri.com/programHigh.asp?objid=261741 The emergent properties of the power grid and the net are similar for quite obvious reasons. Whether consciously done or not, good design requires hierarchical ordering, loose coupling of regional systems, self-healing and "immune response" mechanisms, and so forth. These are then discoverable at the mathematical level, which is what the "small world" approach is all about. Neglect of infrastructure certainly raises the prospects for cascading failures. But the causality associated with one single incident -- even one as widespread as msblast or the August 14 power failure, is not easily attributable to any single element, even if an initial failure point can be identified. Fred

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The Cidr Report
by cidr-report＠potaroo.net 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

This report has been generated at Fri Aug 15 21:47:34 2003 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of an AS4637 (Reach) router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org/as4637 for a current version of this report. Recent Table History Date Prefixes CIDR Agg 08-08-03 124082 88568 09-08-03 124348 88510 10-08-03 124220 88564 11-08-03 124223 88575 12-08-03 124320 88542 13-08-03 124171 88551 14-08-03 124191 88511 15-08-03 123680 87047 AS Summary 15269 Number of ASes in routing system 6030 Number of ASes announcing only one prefix 1374 Largest number of prefixes announced by an AS AS701 : ALTERNET-AS UUNET Technologies, Inc. 73223424 Largest address span announced by an AS (/32s) AS568 : SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA Aggregation Summary The algorithm used in this report proposes aggregation only when there is a precise match using the AS path, so as to preserve traffic transit policies. Aggregation is also proposed across non-advertised address space ('holes'). --- 15Aug03 --- ASnum NetsNow NetsAggr NetGain % Gain Description Table 121911 87190 34721 28.5% All ASes AS4323 617 180 437 70.8% TW-COMM Time Warner Communications, Inc. AS701 1374 965 409 29.8% ALTERNET-AS UUNET Technologies, Inc. AS7018 1350 963 387 28.7% ATT-INTERNET4 AT&T WorldNet Services AS3908 906 535 371 40.9% SUPERNETASBLK SuperNet, Inc. AS7843 567 208 359 63.3% ADELPHIA-AS Adelphia Corp. AS11305 359 38 321 89.4% INTERLAND-NET1 Interland Incorporated AS6197 567 257 310 54.7% BATI-ATL BellSouth Network Solutions, Inc AS1221 1043 734 309 29.6% ASN-TELSTRA Telstra Pty Ltd AS6198 509 201 308 60.5% BATI-MIA BellSouth Network Solutions, Inc AS4355 398 114 284 71.4% ERMS-EARTHLNK EARTHLINK, INC AS6347 344 91 253 73.5% DIAMOND SAVVIS Communications Corporation AS1239 874 626 248 28.4% SPRINTLINK Sprint AS27364 317 84 233 73.5% ACS-INTERNET Armstrong Cable Services AS17676 251 25 226 90.0% GIGAINFRA Softbank BB Corp. AS22773 239 17 222 92.9% CCINET-2 Cox Communications Inc. Atlanta AS209 516 299 217 42.1% ASN-QWEST Qwest AS4134 321 125 196 61.1% CHINANET-BACKBONE No.31,Jin-rong Street AS705 482 305 177 36.7% ALTERNET-AS UUNET Technologies, Inc. AS6327 194 22 172 88.7% SHAW Shaw Communications Inc. AS2386 374 203 171 45.7% INS-AS AT&T Data Communications Services AS7132 410 240 170 41.5% SBIS-AS SBC Internet Services - Southwest AS2048 255 87 168 65.9% LANET-1 State of Louisiana AS17557 303 139 164 54.1% PKTELECOM-AS-AP Pakistan Telecom AS14654 165 3 162 98.2% WAYPORT Wayport AS4538 167 21 146 87.4% ERX-CERNET-BKB China Education and Research Network Center AS20115 475 329 146 30.7% CHARTER-NET-HKY-NC Charter Communications AS9800 198 56 142 71.7% UNICOM CHINA UNICOM AS9583 241 100 141 58.5% SATYAMNET-AS Satyam Infoway Ltd., AS3602 221 81 140 63.3% SPRINT-CA-AS Sprint Canada Inc. AS6140 298 160 138 46.3% IMPSAT-USA ImpSat Total 14335 7208 7127 49.7% Top 30 total Possible Bogus Routes 24.119.0.0/16 AS11492 CABLEONE CABLE ONE 61.12.32.0/24 AS7545 TPG-INTERNET-AP TPG Internet Pty Ltd 61.12.34.0/24 AS7545 TPG-INTERNET-AP TPG Internet Pty Ltd 64.30.64.0/19 AS14900 USLEC-CORP-1 USLEC Corp. 66.41.192.0/18 AS13367 ATT-BBND-B AT&T Broadband 132.0.0.0/10 AS568 SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA 137.0.0.0/13 AS568 SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA 138.136.0.0/13 AS568 SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA 140.143.2.0/24 AS1221 ASN-TELSTRA Telstra Pty Ltd 140.240.0.0/13 AS1 GNTY-1 Genuity 158.0.0.0/13 AS568 SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA 165.212.0.0/16 AS7424 USANET USA.Net 166.16.0.0/16 AS7132 SBIS-AS SBC Internet Services - Southwest 192.43.230.0/24 AS4738 SAARDNET-AS South Australian Academic Research and Development Network 192.44.0.0/19 AS702 ALTERNET-AS UUNET Technologies, Inc. 192.83.16.0/20 AS5515 SONERA-GLOBAL-IP Sonera Solution Autonomous System 192.83.32.0/19 AS5515 SONERA-GLOBAL-IP Sonera Solution Autonomous System 192.83.64.0/19 AS5515 SONERA-GLOBAL-IP Sonera Solution Autonomous System 192.83.96.0/22 AS5515 SONERA-GLOBAL-IP Sonera Solution Autonomous System 192.83.100.0/24 AS5515 SONERA-GLOBAL-IP Sonera Solution Autonomous System 192.88.99.0/24 AS3246 SONGNETWORKS Song Networks 192.119.135.0/24 AS270 PSCNI-AS National Aeronautics and Space Administration 192.124.252.0/22 AS680 AS680 DFN-IP service G-WiN 192.135.50.0/24 AS7018 ATT-INTERNET4 AT&T WorldNet Services 192.136.71.0/24 AS719 AS719 LANLINK autonomous system 192.136.79.0/24 AS719 AS719 LANLINK autonomous system 192.153.136.0/21 AS568 SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA 192.153.144.0/21 AS568 SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA 192.172.0.0/19 AS568 SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA 192.188.208.0/20 AS568 SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA 192.243.32.0/23 AS2044 PALIN-AS Palin Aquisitions Inc. 198.23.26.0/24 AS4390 BELLATLANTIC-COM Bell Atlantic, Inc. 198.97.72.0/21 AS568 SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA 198.97.80.0/20 AS568 SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA 198.97.88.0/24 AS89 NUSC-CSTLNET-AS Naval Underwater Systems Center 198.97.192.0/20 AS568 SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA 198.97.240.0/20 AS568 SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA 198.98.8.0/21 AS3701 NERONET Oregon Joint Graduate Schools of Engineering 198.101.4.0/22 AS568 SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA 198.136.32.0/20 AS19329 MCNET Martin County Board of County Commissioners 198.144.32.0/19 AS3998 CITY-NET CityNet, Inc. 198.161.87.0/24 AS6539 GROUPTLCOM GT Group Telecom Services Corp. 198.161.165.0/24 AS852 ASN852 Telus Advanced Communications 198.163.155.0/24 AS684 MBNET-AS Manitoba Regional Network 198.167.0.0/16 AS7456 INTERHOP Interhop Network SERVICES Inc. 198.167.163.0/24 AS15290 ATTCA-15290 AT&T Canada Telecom Services Company 198.168.0.0/16 AS701 ALTERNET-AS UUNET Technologies, Inc. 198.169.0.0/16 AS803 SASKTEL SaskTel 198.232.133.0/24 AS23075 SKOTOS-AS Skotos Tech, Inc 199.10.0.0/16 AS568 SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA 199.60.0.0/20 AS271 BCNET-AS University of British Columbia 199.79.32.0/20 AS3701 NERONET Oregon Joint Graduate Schools of Engineering 199.84.0.0/16 AS701 ALTERNET-AS UUNET Technologies, Inc. 199.114.0.0/18 AS568 SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA 199.114.0.0/21 AS568 SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA 199.114.128.0/18 AS568 SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA 199.114.140.0/24 AS3544 ITSDN-U7 DISA/UNRRA 199.114.152.0/24 AS1913 DLA4 Defense Logistics Agency 199.120.32.0/19 AS16582 NEXTLEVELINTERNET NEXTLEVEL INTERNET, INC. 199.121.0.0/16 AS568 SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA 199.123.16.0/20 AS568 SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA 199.123.80.0/21 AS568 SUMNET-AS DISO-UNRRA 199.189.32.0/19 AS7332 IQUEST-AS IQuest Internet 199.202.0.0/16 AS701 ALTERNET-AS UUNET Technologies, Inc. 202.0.180.0/24 AS4058 APNIC-4058 Asia Pacific Network Information Centre 202.3.144.0/24 AS17557 PKTELECOM-AS-AP Pakistan Telecom 202.3.145.0/24 AS17557 PKTELECOM-AS-AP Pakistan Telecom 202.3.146.0/24 AS17557 PKTELECOM-AS-AP Pakistan Telecom 202.3.147.0/24 AS17557 PKTELECOM-AS-AP Pakistan Telecom 202.3.148.0/24 AS17557 PKTELECOM-AS-AP Pakistan Telecom 202.3.149.0/24 AS17557 PKTELECOM-AS-AP Pakistan Telecom 202.3.150.0/24 AS17557 PKTELECOM-AS-AP Pakistan Telecom 202.3.151.0/24 AS17557 PKTELECOM-AS-AP Pakistan Telecom 202.3.152.0/24 AS17557 PKTELECOM-AS-AP Pakistan Telecom 202.3.153.0/24 AS17557 PKTELECOM-AS-AP Pakistan Telecom 202.3.154.0/24 AS17557 PKTELECOM-AS-AP Pakistan Telecom 202.3.155.0/24 AS17557 PKTELECOM-AS-AP Pakistan Telecom 202.3.156.0/24 AS17557 PKTELECOM-AS-AP Pakistan Telecom 202.3.157.0/24 AS17557 PKTELECOM-AS-AP Pakistan Telecom 202.3.158.0/24 AS17557 PKTELECOM-AS-AP Pakistan Telecom 202.3.159.0/24 AS17557 PKTELECOM-AS-AP Pakistan Telecom 202.4.252.0/22 AS4808 CHINA169-BJ CNCGROUP IP network¡ªChina169 Beijing Province Network 202.4.255.0/24 AS4799 UNSPECIFIED Ji Tong Communications Co., Ltd. 202.6.96.0/24 AS4761 INDOSAT1-AP INDOSATNET-ASN 202.6.97.0/24 AS4761 INDOSAT1-AP INDOSATNET-ASN 202.6.99.0/24 AS4761 INDOSAT1-AP INDOSATNET-ASN 202.10.72.0/21 AS9716 AUSTAR-AS-AP Austar Entertainement 202.44.112.0/20 AS17458 CWNETDG-IO-AP Cable and Wireless 202.89.200.0/24 AS7473 SINGTEL-AS-AP Singapore Telecom 202.93.0.0/20 AS4134 CHINANET-BACKBONE No.31,Jin-rong Street 202.93.64.0/19 AS9425 I-NEXT-AS-AP Inter.net Philippines border AS 202.122.76.0/24 AS17553 TIMELESS-AP System Integration provider 202.130.224.0/20 AS4808 CHINA169-BJ CNCGROUP IP network¡ªChina169 Beijing Province Network 202.130.240.0/21 AS4808 CHINA169-BJ CNCGROUP IP network¡ªChina169 Beijing Province Network 202.130.248.0/22 AS4812 CHINANET-SH-AP China Telecom (Group) 202.130.252.0/22 AS4812 CHINANET-SH-AP China Telecom (Group) 202.136.254.0/23 AS4808 CHINA169-BJ CNCGROUP IP network¡ªChina169 Beijing Province Network 202.136.254.0/24 AS4808 CHINA169-BJ CNCGROUP IP network¡ªChina169 Beijing Province Network 202.142.130.0/23 AS17820 DIL-AP DIRECT INTERNET LTD. 202.142.132.0/22 AS17820 DIL-AP DIRECT INTERNET LTD. 202.143.48.0/21 AS4795 INDOSAT2-ID-AP INDOSATNET-ASN 202.143.56.0/21 AS4795 INDOSAT2-ID-AP INDOSATNET-ASN 202.161.0.0/19 AS10097 FLOWCOM flow communications level 2 541 kent st sydney nsw 2000 202.161.0.0/21 AS4634 -No Whois Entry- 202.161.8.0/21 AS4634 -No Whois Entry- 202.164.192.0/19 AS7599 IPXC-AS-AP IP Exchange 202.165.0.0/19 AS9443 INTERNETPRIMUS-AS-AP Primus Telecommunications 202.189.234.0/23 AS9658 ETPI-IDS-AS-AP Eastern Telecoms Phils., Inc. 203.62.0.0/17 AS7572 AARNET-ACT-RNO Australian Academic and Reasearch Network (AARNet) 203.76.128.0/24 AS9729 IS-AP iAdvantage Limited 203.76.224.0/24 AS9549 COMDEK-ISP-AS-AP Comdek ISP 203.78.125.0/24 AS17653 PCM-HK-AP Pacific Century Matrix 203.86.2.0/23 AS4058 APNIC-4058 Asia Pacific Network Information Centre 203.90.192.0/20 AS9658 ETPI-IDS-AS-AP Eastern Telecoms Phils., Inc. 203.132.95.0/24 AS9787 CONCEPT-AU-AP Concept Networks 203.132.97.0/24 AS7652 VIANET-AS-AP Vianet Communications Pty Ltd 203.132.99.0/24 AS7657 TIG-US-PAS-AP The Internet Group Limited 203.132.102.0/24 AS9398 ARACHNET-AS-AP Arachnet 203.132.103.0/24 AS9663 KARRATHA-AS-AP Karratha Internet Support Services 203.132.104.0/24 AS9663 KARRATHA-AS-AP Karratha Internet Support Services 203.132.105.0/24 AS9663 KARRATHA-AS-AP Karratha Internet Support Services 203.132.106.0/24 AS9398 ARACHNET-AS-AP Arachnet 203.132.107.0/24 AS10236 FOXGOLD-NET-AU-AP FOXGOLD COMMUNICATIONS 203.132.108.0/24 AS10236 FOXGOLD-NET-AU-AP FOXGOLD COMMUNICATIONS 203.132.109.0/24 AS10141 CALOUNDRA-AS-AP Caloundra.net 203.132.110.0/24 AS7598 ALPHALINK-AS-AP Alphalink Pty Limited - Melbourne, Australia 203.132.111.0/24 AS10236 FOXGOLD-NET-AU-AP FOXGOLD COMMUNICATIONS 203.132.112.0/24 AS10236 FOXGOLD-NET-AU-AP FOXGOLD COMMUNICATIONS 203.132.118.0/24 AS18065 CENTRALDATA-WA Central Data Pty Ltd. 203.132.122.0/24 AS4802 WANTREE-AS-AP Wantree Development 203.132.123.0/24 AS18065 CENTRALDATA-WA Central Data Pty Ltd. 203.132.124.0/24 AS18065 CENTRALDATA-WA Central Data Pty Ltd. 203.132.125.0/24 AS4817 TECHEX1-AS-AP Techex Primary Netblock 203.135.99.0/24 AS2687 IBM-MMD-AS IBM 203.135.224.0/19 AS4058 APNIC-4058 Asia Pacific Network Information Centre 203.171.96.0/19 AS703 ALTERNET-AS UUNET Technologies, Inc. 203.171.102.0/24 AS703 ALTERNET-AS UUNET Technologies, Inc. 204.19.224.0/19 AS816 UUNET-AS4 UUNET Technologies, Inc. 204.29.189.0/24 AS3956 TX-METRO Texas Metronet 204.52.232.0/24 AS7177 DFWNET DFW Internet Services, Inc. 204.89.225.0/24 AS2495 KANREN Kansas Research and Education Network 204.154.240.0/21 AS11572 MEDIACOM Mediacom,llc / RidgeNet 205.150.0.0/15 AS701 ALTERNET-AS UUNET Technologies, Inc. 206.41.32.0/19 AS14824 NEWSOUTH NewSouth Communications Corp. 206.81.187.0/24 AS19194 JOVITA Sentris Network LLC 206.82.64.0/18 AS7029 ALLTELNET Alltel Information Services, Inc. 206.108.34.0/24 AS852 ASN852 Telus Advanced Communications 206.108.35.0/24 AS852 ASN852 Telus Advanced Communications 206.126.0.0/19 AS5750 FLEXNET-HAWAII FlexNet Inc. 206.167.57.0/24 AS376 RISQ-AS Reseau Interordinateurs Scientique Quebecois (RISQ) 206.191.64.0/18 AS15290 ATTCA-15290 AT&T Canada Telecom Services Company 206.251.69.0/24 AS27429 TIL Telesat International Ltd. 207.47.39.0/24 AS816 UUNET-AS4 UUNET Technologies, Inc. 207.92.0.0/14 AS2551 ICG ICG NetAhead, Inc. 207.162.192.0/19 AS4589 EASYNET Easynet Group Plc 207.231.96.0/19 AS11194 NUNETPA NuNet Inc 208.65.232.0/23 AS701 ALTERNET-AS UUNET Technologies, Inc. 208.81.187.0/24 AS19194 JOVITA Sentris Network LLC 208.104.103.0/24 AS1239 SPRINTLINK Sprint 209.104.252.0/22 AS12030 PACIFIC-ONLINE-PON Pacific Online Services 209.108.0.0/14 AS2551 ICG ICG NetAhead, Inc. 209.151.128.0/19 AS816 UUNET-AS4 UUNET Technologies, Inc. 209.160.73.0/24 AS13415 LUMIX Lumix Communications, Inc. 209.169.219.0/24 AS189 GENUITY-AS189 Genuity 209.169.223.0/24 AS189 GENUITY-AS189 Genuity 209.172.0.0/18 AS7770 TRITON Triton Technologies, Inc. 209.213.32.0/19 AS10629 INTERPAC Inter-Pacific Network Services 209.213.160.0/19 AS4355 ERMS-EARTHLNK EARTHLINK, INC 209.222.137.0/24 AS27429 TIL Telesat International Ltd. 209.240.96.0/19 AS10815 KCNET KCnet, Inc. 209.251.0.0/19 AS11036 SISCOM SISCOM, Inc 209.251.64.0/19 AS10266 NETWAY-AS MDC, Inc. 210.4.20.0/22 AS10095 -No Whois Entry- 210.4.60.0/24 AS10095 -No Whois Entry- 210.4.61.0/24 AS10095 -No Whois Entry- 210.213.0.0/19 AS6453 TELEGLOBE-AS Teleglobe Inc 211.27.156.0/24 AS9768 PUBNET1-AS KT 216.18.224.0/21 AS11458 IMBRIS IMBRIS, INC. 216.18.224.0/22 AS11458 IMBRIS IMBRIS, INC. 216.18.228.0/22 AS11458 IMBRIS IMBRIS, INC. 216.47.32.0/19 AS11304 SPLUS Solutions Plus Inc. 216.96.128.0/18 AS7018 ATT-INTERNET4 AT&T WorldNet Services 216.153.0.0/17 AS6203 ISDN-NET ISDN-Net Inc. 216.226.108.0/22 AS3602 SPRINT-CA-AS Sprint Canada Inc. Please see http://www.cidr-report.org for the full report ------------------------------------ Copies of this report are mailed to: nanog(a)merit.edu eof-list(a)ripe.net apops(a)apops.net routing-wg(a)ripe.net afnog(a)afnog.org

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RE: Battery lifetimes RE: East Coast outage?
by McBurnett, Jim 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

>ut all those SONET hubs in basements, SLC's in the burbs and such >-- they don't have generators. They have X hours of batteries. In >the fine print, it says the LEC will have a portable generator >on site before they die. >That's doable if the failure is local; say a semi taking out >a power pole. But given anything bigger, a citywide or bigger >blackout, a regional ice storm, or whatever.... they do not have >the quantity of gensets they'd need, much less the manpower to >deploy AND maintain [refuel] same. Here in the SE we had a little Experience with this EXACT issue back in december. We had a power outage that lasted 4 days. Bellsouth's plan, and it seemed to work, was to hook gensets to a truck run to a battery pack run the generator long enough to recharge the pack and then drop and run to the next one. They started this within an hour or two of the power outage. None of my circuits went down during those days. (We had generator power at our office) This may be a larger, but we had about 2 Million out of power in little ole SC.. IMHO, J

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Anti-spam scripts
by just me 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

Pardon the posting from (for once) a non-blackout area, but I have a small request. I just lost a large chunk of my work to a disk failure. A couple of months ago, I mailed out a bunch of my anti-spam scripts and database schemas to someone on this list. I'd know who, but my mail was hosed, too. If that was you, would you mind mailing the info back to me? I'd be forever indebited. Sorry for the WOB. Matt Ghali --mghali(a)snark.net------------------------------------------<darwin>< Flowers on the razor wire/I know you're here/We are few/And far between/I was thinking about her skin/Love is a many splintered thing/Don't be afraid now/Just walk on in. #include <disclaim.h>

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NERC summer 2003 power predictions
by Sean Donelan 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

>From North American Electric Reliability Council May 2003 Reliability Summer Assessment Assessment Summary Generating resources are expected to be adequate to meet projected demand for electricity in North America this summer. However, there are some areas of concern in NPCC: southwestern Connecticut, New York City and Long Island. Locally tight resources compounded by transmission limitations into and within those areas make them particularly susceptible to reliability problems that can be caused if there is lower than expected generating unit availability, or high demand caused by extreme weather. Even in areas where resources are expected to be adequate, unanticipated equipment problems and extreme weather can combine to produce situations in which demands temporarily exceed available generation and transmission capacity.

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cat6k msfc2 boot procedure details?
by Jochen Kaiser 15 Aug '03

15 Aug '03

Good morning, I try to understand the boot process of a msfc2 in cat6500 in hybrid mode. After reading the appropriate docs at CCO and some practise, I understand how to boot it and mostly (*sigh*) it works. Asking these detailed questions to ppl also administrating cat6k revealed a deep lack of knowledge ;-( Can anyone enlighten me/us? --- I understand, that there are 4 mechanisms on the msfc2: --------------------------------------------------------- 1. config register 2. BOOT variable (???) 3. BOOTLDR for helper image 4. 'boot system' statement in nvram config I assume, that there are 3 image types: 1. ROM image -> loaded when all fails 2. a c6msfc2-boot image -> loaded when other image fails (that's what I've read, but I watched, that it is booted each time, also when a loadable normal image is reachable on bootflash) 3. a c6msfc2 -> regular image Now we have different situations: ---------------------------------- a) an image is defined in nvram config 'boot system' and the image is on the bootflash -> image loads b) an image is defined but not on bootflash and there is an 'boot' image on bootflash -> boot-image boots my q: - is the position of the boot image of any relevance? I heard, that it is important, that it is the 1st file on the bootflash. Is this right? - does this just happen, when the config register has the appropriate value of 0x2000 ? - what is the exact role of the 'BOOTLDR'-variable? c) no image defined, config register 0x102 and boot image is on bootflash -> ???? my q: - What happens? d) an image is defined in the 'BOOT'-variable -> ???? my q: - what is the sense of the boot-variable? - how is it set? e) image is on ata-flash-disk and a boot image is on bootflash. image is defined via nvram 'boot system' -> since the appropriate image is not found, it boots the 'boot' image from bootflash, reads the nvram config and sees the sup-disk0 and loads the real image as a replacement my q: - is this correct? ------------ Especially I've a problem with setting the boot-variable (during normal operation of a regular booted image). router#sh boot BOOT variable = sup-disk0:c6msfc2-jo3sv-mz.121-19.E.bin,1 CONFIG_FILE variable does not exist BOOTLDR variable does not exist Configuration register is 0x2102 tia & greetings, Jochen Kaiser -- Dipl. Inf. Jochen Kaiser, GPG 0x3C93A870, phone +49 9131 85-28681 Network Administration mailto:jochen.kaiser@rrze.uni-erlangen.de Regionales Rechenzentrum Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Homepage and PublicKey: http://ipv6.rrze.uni-erlangen.de/~unrz111

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