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messy
by Lucy Lynch 02 Jul '07

02 Jul '07

and hard to read... http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/allochrt.pdf adhoc allocation taken to it's limits?

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Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine
by Dan Mahoney, System Admin 01 Jul '07

01 Jul '07

Hey all, This seems a wee bit off topic, but definitely relates to network operations (somewhere below layer 1) and I can't think of a better place to ask. Upon leaving a router at telx and asking one of their techs to plug in the equipment for me, I came back to find all my cat5 cables neatly tied with some sort of waxed twine, using an interesting looping knot pattern that repeated every six inches or so using a single piece of string. For some reason, I found this trick really cool. I have tried googling for the method, (it's apparently standard, I've seen it in play elsewhere), and for the type of twine, but had little luck. I was wondering if any of the gurus out there would care to share what this knot-pattern is actually called, and/or if there's a (illustrated) howto somewhere? -Dan "Tired of getting scratched up by jagged cable ties" Mahoney -- --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org ---------------------------

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who was the last legit spammer?
by Travis H. 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

Hey, was discussing something from the long distant past recently. Specifically it was my memory of the last legitimate spamhaus, and how (IIRC) their backbone was DDoS'd as an act of pseudo-vigilante justice. I also seem to remember their backbone as spinning it as a content-neutral free-speech kind of thing, but they buckled and the Internet was probably better off. This isn't the kind of thing where one can make an easy google query, but I'll bet you that someone here remembers a name that would lead to a URL that I could forward to the person asking for more info. TIA. -- ``Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.'' -- Albert Einstein -><- <URL:http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/> For a good time on my UBE blacklist, email john(a)subspacefield.org.

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Yahoo! clue
by Simon Waters 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Is there a Yahoo! abuse contact around who will talk, and not just sended me canned responses? Their abuse team seems very responsive, but I fear they don't actually read the whole email, but just hit the button for the most appropriate "canned response" as soon as they think they know what is being said. (Let he who is without sin here, cast the first stone). Thanks, Simon

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Lightning talks at NANOG 39!
by Steve Feldman 31 May '07

31 May '07

We have reserved one hour of the NANOG 39 agenda for "Lightning Talks". A lightning talk is a very short presentation or speech by any attendee on any topic relevant to the NANOG audience. These are limited to ten minutes; this will be strictly enforced. If you have a topic that's timely, interesting, or even a crackpot idea you want to share, we encourage you to consider presenting it. The Program Committee will decide which submissions are relevant (using criteria based on the NANOG mailing list AUP) and choose the best six to be presented. Use of slides is optional. All slides must be in PDF or Powerpoint format, and will be loaded in advance onto the speaker laptop on the podium. There is a good overview of the use of lightning talks at the Perl conference at http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/07/30/lightningtalk.html. Although their format is slightly different, many of their ideas will apply here. To submit a lightning talk proposal for NANOG 39, go to http://www.nanogpc.org/lightning/ See you in Toronto! Steve Feldman PC Chair

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RE: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)
by michael.dillon＠bt.com 17 May '07

17 May '07

> how do you define your schema? > how long does it take to insert/index/whatnot the data? This is a much bigger deal than most people realize. Poor schema design will cause your system to choke bade when you try to scale it. In fact, relational databases are not the ideal way to store this kind of data so when you design your schema, you are really fighting against the database to wrestle it into something that will work. > this is a huge burden to figure it all out, implement > and then monitor/operate 24x7. miss enough samples or data > and you end up billing too little. this is why most folks > have either cooked their own, or use some expensive suite of > tools, leaving just a little bit of other stuff out there. Personally, I doubt that it is possible to build a workable system, even with plugins, that will do the job for a significant percentage of service providers. Different companies have different needs, different hot button items, etc. This is an area where breaking the problem down into well-defined separate problems with a well-defined linkage, will go a long way. But to start with, just solving the data storage problem is a good place to start. If someone can create a specialized network monitoring database that scales, then the rest of the toolkit will be much easier to deal with. Note that people have done a lot of research on this sort of time-series database. People working in high-energy physics also have to deal with massive sets of time-series data. There is plenty of literature out there to help guide a design effort. But Open-Source developers don't usually do this kind of up-front research before starting coding. Money and manpower won't solve that kind of problem. --Michael Dillon

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RE: Google wants to be your Internet
by michael.dillon＠bt.com 09 May '07

09 May '07

> We also see this with extranet/supply-chain-type connectivity > between large companies who have overlapping address space, > and I'm afraid it's only going to become more common as more > of these types of relationships are established. Fortunately, IP addresses are not intended for use on the Internet. Rather, they are intended for use with Internet Protocol (IP) implementations. That's why the RIRs, in alignment with RFC 2050, section 3(a), do give out IP address allocations to organizations who are connected to extranet-type networks. If you read RFC 1918, section 2, category 3, you will see that this is consistent. So if the power companies want to assign a unique network address to all power meters then there is no good reason to stop them. After all, it is consistent with the goals of the original IP designers to address every light switch and toaster. Just remember, IP addresses are *NOT* Internet addresses. They are Internet Protocol addresses. Connection to the Internet and public announcement of prefixes are totally irrelevant. --Michael Dillon

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Google wants to be your Internet
by Mark Boolootian 09 May '07

09 May '07

Cringley has a theory and it involves Google, video, and oversubscribed backbones: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070119_001510.html

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Slightly OT: Looking for an old domain for spam collection
by Ken Simpson 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

Hi There, Does anyone out there have an unused domain name that formerly received lots of email? I am looking for a source of "throw away" SMTP traffic. I don't need to own the domain -- just to have its MX'es redirected to our farm. Karma and humor will be gladly provided in exchange for your generosity. Thanks! Ken -- Ken Simpson, CEO MailChannels Corporation Reliable Email Delivery (tm) http://www.mailchannels.com

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PG&E on data centre cooling..
by Alexander Harrowell 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&art…

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