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Re: Phone networks struggle in Hurricane Katrina's wake
by Fergie (Paul Ferguson) 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

And via Slashdot: [snip] "In this age of cheap commoditized consumer electronics and advanced mobile technology, why can't all the people of a city make contact during an emergency? Cell phone circuits filled up during 9/11 attacks and in the wake of hurricane Katrina very few victims can make contact with their families, despite the fact that they have all those mobile phones. The Red Cross is looking to deploy satellite equipment From the article: to restore communications in affected areas." "Katrina made landfall in Louisiana early this morning with sustained winds of 145 mph, but veered just enough to the east to spare New Orleans a direct blow. Even so, flooding, power outages and heavy damage to structures were reported throughout the region. The Red Cross tomorrow expects to begin deploying a host of systems it will need, including satellite telephones, portable satellite dishes, specially equipped communications trucks, high- and low-band radio systems, and generator-powered wireless computer networks, said Jason Wiltrout, a Red Cross network engineer." [snip] http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/recovery/story/0,10801… - ferg -- "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg(a)netzero.net> wrote: Via Reuters. [snip] Telephone companies struggled to restore service and measure the damage to their networks in Louisiana and Mississippi on Tuesday after Hurricane Katrina cut power and triggered severe flooding. A spokesman for BellSouth Corp., the largest local telephone company in the region, said while the company estimated about 53,000 lines were out in the two states, the actual numbers were likely to be higher. Cingular Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. said cellular service in the area had been affected as well. All three companies said power losses were the main threat to further service failures, but that flooding was hampering their efforts to reach network equipment. Entergy Corp. reported more than a million customers without power in Louisiana and Mississippi, and warned customers to expect a long and difficult restoration that could take weeks. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin told television station WWL that 80 percent of the city was under water, and authorities declared martial law in some areas. [snip] http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=9512696 - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(a)netzero.net or fergdawg(a)sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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Vonage Contacts?
by Mike Lyon 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

If anyone from Vonage is on NANOG could you please drop me an e-mail off-list? Thank You, Mike

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New Orleans Cops Use Single Radio Channel
by Fergie (Paul Ferguson) 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

An AP newswire article by Bruce Myerson, via Yahoo! News, reports that: [snip] By Thursday, nearly 10,000 satellite-based wireless phones had poured into the hurricane zone to coordinate relief efforts by federal disaster personnel and Red Cross workers, said service providers Globalstar LLC and Iridium Satellite LLC. [snip] http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050902/ap_on_hi_te/katrina_te… - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(a)netzero.net or fergdawg(a)sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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DirectNIC requests BellSouth help.
by Adam 'Starblazer' Romberg 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Straight from the source: "If anyone who works for or has connections with Bell South or Telcove is reading this, tell us what it's going to take to get those OC3s back up and running. We will try to coordinate and make it happen. " http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/39993.html ---------------------------------------------------- Adam 'Starblazer' Romberg Store Line: 920-738-9032 System Administrator Direct Line: 920-968-7713 ExtremePC LLC -=- http://www.extremepcgaming.net

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RE: August 2005: Drone Army Botnet C&C listing
by Hannigan, Martin 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

> 30058 FDCSERVERS - FDCservers.net LL 123 43 > 21840 SAGONET-TPA - Sago Networks 53 26 > Much better. And no IL-CERT. :-) Is it safe to say the resolutions, at least in these two cases, are because of others mitigation activities i.e. snatching back the RR's, shutting off the domain, black holes, etc? -M<

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BellSouth: 180 Central Offices on Generator Power, 870,000 Lines Out
by Sean Donelan 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

BellSouth is concentrating on repairing major cables, ensuring telephone switching centers continue to have back-up power until commercial power can be restored, as well as getting communications established for emergency personnel, city and government officials and hospitals. COX has not begun making an assessment, but did announce it was suspending billing for residential and commercial customers in New Orleans.

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Cisco as a "First Responder"?
by Fergie (Paul Ferguson) 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Interestingly enough, there's an article on MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9131498/ ...that talks about all of the "gee whiz" tech stuff that is getting deployed to assist in the aftermath of Katrina: [snip] Among the first high-tech responders was Cisco Systems, which is setting up mobile communication kits and wiki-based networks to deal with Katrina's information overload. "Just wanted you to know that we will have 'feet on the wet street,'" Cisco's Lori Bush reported in a posting to fellow members of the National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue. Some of the equipment, like the Cisco kits, can fit into a search-and-rescue effort instantly. Other gadgets are being put into service on the fly, in hopes of boosting the communication systems currently being used. And still others aren't yet ready for prime time but will be tested in real-world conditions. [snip] - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(a)netzero.net or fergdawg(a)sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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now it's really serious in New Orleans
by Fred Heutte 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

In an running on WWL TV right now, Mayor Ray Nagin says that a planned sandbag drop to stop the levee breach near pump #6 at the 17th St. Canal didn't happen and the pump has failed, so the probability is that the "bowl will now be filled," meaning water will flood the majority of the city including the Garden District, French Quarter and CBD. If unabated the water will go to the level of Lake Pontchartrain, about 3 feet ASL, which means, for example, 9 feet of water on St Charles Street. The mayor called the missed opportunity a "blunder" and said this would unfold over the next 12-15 hours. Now it's time to really worry. fh

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RE: redcross.org certificate problems with Akamai
by Hannigan, Martin 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-nanog(a)merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of > Jay R. Ashworth > Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 3:12 PM > To: nanog(a)merit.edu > Subject: Ops: redcross.org certificate problems with Akamai > > > > The donations page is Akamaized, and the certificate says > "a248.e.akamai.net" instead of "www.redcross.org". > > I have the certificate signature available off-line. Which part of the transaction does this occur at? Do you have a specific URL? All of the VeriSign security seals are reporting known and trusted host and the certs are matching. They appear to be outsourcing their payment processing to Convio. It's all matching up. -M<

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Ops: redcross.org certificate problems with Akamai
by Jay R. Ashworth 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

The donations page is Akamaized, and the certificate says "a248.e.akamai.net" instead of "www.redcross.org". I have the certificate signature available off-line. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra(a)baylink.com Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "NPR has a lot in common with Nascar... we both turn to the left." - Peter Sagal, on Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me!

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