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[NANOG] Level3 not honoring Broadwing contracts?
by up＠3.am 29 May '08

29 May '08

In 2006, I signed a 3 year contract with Broadwing for a 1 cabinet colocation with 6Mbs dedicated for under $1,000/mo. A few weeks ago, about halfway through this contract, I get a letter from Level 3's "Director of Colocation" that they are going to raise my price by several hundred dollars a month. I spoke with my new Level 3 rep, and he just notified me that their legal deparment confirms that all they have to do is give me 30 days notice to increase their price. This does not make sense to me. I am bound to a 3 year contract, where I have to pay them the rest of the term if I were to leave early, but they can jack up the price by 40-50% during that time, arbitrarily? I do not see that provision in my contract, and would rather avoid legal expenses if possible. Has anyone else had to deal with this sort of thing from Level 3? TIA, James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up(a)3.am http://3.am ========================================================================= _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list NANOG(a)nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog

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APNIC receives 112 /8 and 113 /8
by Leslie Nobile 29 May '08

29 May '08

Forwarding this email on behalf of APNIC... ________________________________________________________________________ New IPv4 allocation for APNIC (112/8 and 113/8) ________________________________________________________________________ Dear colleagues The information in this announcement is to enable the Internet community to update network configurations, such as routing filters, where required. APNIC received the following IPv4 address blocks from IANA in May 2008 and will be making allocations from these ranges in the near future: 112/8 113/8 Reachability and routability testing of the new prefixes will commence soon. The daily report will be published at the usual URL: http://www.ris.ripe.net/debogon For more information on the resources administered by APNIC, please see: http://www.apnic.net/db/ranges.html For information on the minimum allocation sizes within address ranges administered by APNIC, please see: http://www.apnic.net/db/min-alloc.html Kind regards, ________________________________________________________________________ APNIC Secretariat Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Tel: +61-7-3858-3100 PO Box 2131 Milton, QLD 4064 Australia Fax: +61-7-3858-3199 Level 1, 33 Park Road, Milton, QLD http://www.apnic.net ________________________________________________________________________

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Announcing iBGPlay: visualization of BGP events
by Maurizio Pizzonia 29 May '08

29 May '08

iBGPlay is a free tool that graphically displays and animates BGP routing announcements (http://www.ibgplay.org) iBGPlay will be presented at NANOG43 on June 3, 2008. For those that are familiar with BGPlay (http://bgplay.routeviews.org/bgplay/, http://www.ris.ripe.net/bgplay) - iBGPlay offers a similar service showing BGP updates received by the border routers of the ISP that uses it. Hence, it is somehow complementary to BGPlay. - BGP updates received by different border routers of the ISP are shown in an integrated view. Maurizio Pizzonia iBGPlay team -- _Maurizio Pizzonia_______________________________________________ Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione ph. +39-06-5733-3311 Universita` Roma Tre fax +39-06-5733-3211 ____________________________ http://www.dia.uniroma3.it/~pizzonia

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Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days)
by David Ulevitch 29 May '08

29 May '08

We've noticed that 1234567890(a)vtext.com is no longer a very reliable form of delivery for alerts from Nagios, et al. It seems as our volume of alerts has risen, our delivery rate has dropped precipitously. We don't expect much trying to actually reach a postmaster for vtext.com so I thought the better question would be to ask what the current best practice is to get SMS alerts out? Back in the day, I remember a company I worked for had something called a TAP gateway. Is that still a good route? I've also been told to check out an SMS gateway/api service called clickatell.com -- anyone using them to delivering timely notifications? Is the best thing to do to try and get a programmable cellphone in a datacenter? What else are operators doing to get the pages out when things go wonky? -David

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Network meltdowns anywhere in US?
by Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET 29 May '08

29 May '08

Hi, Sorry, would have posted this elsewhere, but I can't get to alot of places... I originally started chasing not being able to get to 71.74.56.243 (RR Mail server). I then found out neither L3 nor my other connection saw it in the table. I checked a few other router servers, some had it, some didn't. Now, though, I'm trying to get a few other places and most of them oddly seem to hang off L3.... (Like the outages list. :) ) Any ideas of there is some meltdown happening in L3 or elsewhere? Thanks, Tuc

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AT&T BGP blackholing
by Philip L. 28 May '08

28 May '08

Does anyone have information or a contact at AT&T with regards to setting up BGP blackholing with them? I see that the question has been asked in the past but there was no definitive answer, at least none that I could find. --Philip L.

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[NANOG-announce] Program Committee Nominations
by Todd Underwood 27 May '08

27 May '08

Attached are all of the the current nominations to the nanog program committee. comments in support (or opposition) to any candidate can be made to the nanog steering committee steering(a)nanog.org. (if you submitted a nomination and you do not see it here, please notify me immediately, resend it and we'll get it added). thanks, todd underwood chair, nanog program committee Nominated by David Conrad - Nominee's name (if not you) - Nominee's email address: drc(a)virtualized.org - Reason why: I was the co-founder and original program chair committee for APRICOT for 3 years, been loosely involved with APRICOT since then. Been doing various jobs in network infrastructure since around 1983. I'm fairly well versed in network operations, at least from a non-router jockey point of view. Due to a change in my job responsibilities, I have a bit of time that could be supported by my company (ICANN) to do this sort of thing. Nominated by Aaron Hughes - Nominees name: Randy Epstein - Nominees email: repstein(a)chello.at - Reason why: For starters, take a look at his linkedin profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=11803139 He has a hell of a lot of industry experience, a great personality, is well known in the community and respected for his decisions. I believe Randy would make a fantastic addition to the PC. Nominated by Michael K. Smith - Nominee's name (if not you) - Nominee's email address: mksmith(a)adhost.com - Reason why: Strong desire to see NANOG continue to be relevant to the largest group of people possible through a diverse and dynamic program offering. - I have a keen sense of irony - I have a thick skin - I've been attending NANOG since 1998 - I have a diverse networking background that includes at least one thing at each of the OSI Extended Layers through 12. - I would really enjoy giving back to a community that has given me a lot over the years (seriously). Nominated by jared mauch - Nominees name: Mike Long - Nominees email: Moong(a)us.ntt.net - Reason why: Mike is our top operations guy for our backbone and would be an asset in providing critical reviews of presentations. I hope he accepts this nomination! Nominated by John G. Scudder - Nominee's name: Ron Bonica - Nominee's email: rbonica(a)juniper.net - Reasons why: Ron has a long history with Internet operations, first as an operator (Internet MCI, VBNS) and now as IETF Operations Area co-director. I think this would be a good opportunity to improve communications between the operations community and the IETF. Also, Ron is very easy to get along with! - Nominater Kevin Epperson - Nominate Brian Deardorff - Brian.Deardorff(a)Level3.com - 720-888-1227 - Brian has extensive experience working for ISPs going back to 1995 racking and stacking Portmasters. He is currently a senior engineer at Level 3 working on multiple products and technologies in the layer 2/3/4 space. He would be a great addition to the program committee bringing both techinical expertise and outstanding industry knowledge from an ISP point of view. Please consider this nomination for Brian to the NANOG PC. Please contact me if you have any questions. - Your name: Richard Steenbergen - Nominee's name (if not you): Tom Scholl - Nominee's email address: tscholl(a)gmail.com - Reasons why you believe the nominee is qualified to serve on the Program Committee. Tom is very experienced in the operation of large scale networks, and a frequent contributor to the NANOG program. His many years of experience at SBC/AT&T would be an excellent replacement to the value Ted Seely brought to the Program Committee with his experience from Sprint. - Nominee's name (if not you) - Celeste Anderson - Nominee's email address - celestea(a)usc.edu - Reasons why you believe the nominee is qualified to serve on the Program Committee quoting bill woodcock: "Celeste has been at the center of the Southern-California academic networking scene for, I believe, twenty years. Which is about as long as there's been an Internet that counts. She ran the Los Angeles IXP since it was established in 1994/1995, and grew it very well, way beyond how it could have grown if it had been done solely as an academic project. She included all kinds of commercial and governmental folks, roped in One Wilshire, etc. Very active in getting everybody there to peer, regardless of many of them not having much of any language in common, since LA is such a big hub for Asian traffic. At the same time that she was doing all the outward-facing IXP stuff, she was also equally active in Los Nettos, the SoCal R&E network. Lots of contacts within the research community, the peering community, the network ops community, and the R&E-specific-networking community." -- _____________________________________________________________________ todd underwood +1 603 643 9300 x101 renesys corporation general manager babbledog todd(a)renesys.com http://www.renesys.com/blog _______________________________________________ NANOG-announce mailing list NANOG-announce(a)nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog-announce

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Oregon/Washington Comcast outage
by Kameron Gasso 27 May '08

27 May '08

Looks like I can't reach several of Comcast's fiber/coax customers in Oregon and Washington: grps-edge-rtr-1#trace 75.145.64.XXX Type escape sequence to abort. Tracing the route to 75-145-64-XXX-Oregon.hfc.comcastbusiness.net (75.145.64.XXX) 1 fa-6-0.grps-edge-rtr-2.visp.net (208.74.128.9) 0 msec 4 msec 0 msec 2 c1-mdfd-s40-visp.mind.net (69.9.134.65) [AS 6296] 0 msec 4 msec 0 msec 3 so-2-1-0.ar2.SEA1.gblx.net (64.212.109.181) [AS 3549] 12 msec 12 msec 12 msec 4 pos10-0-2488M.cr1.SEA1.gblx.net (67.17.71.182) [AS 3549] !H * !H Our NOC has had several calls from folks using Comcast who weren't able to reach us, and we then confirmed that they had no network connectivity whatsoever... -- Kameron Gasso | Senior Systems Administrator | visp.net Direct: 541-955-6903 | Fax: 541-471-0821

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Re: IPV6 network feeds
by Martin Hannigan 27 May '08

27 May '08

I think HE does native as well. Likely good based on their rep. Best, Marty ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Dorsett <vtadorsett(a)gmail.com> To: nanog(a)nanog.org <nanog(a)nanog.org> Sent: Tue May 27 20:27:42 2008 Subject: Re: IPV6 network feeds On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Mike Linsenmayer <mlinsenmayer(a)symantec.com> wrote: > I am looking for a IPV6 internet feed for our testing labs in Southern > California, I know this is off subject but I am a little exasperated in > trying to locate one. if anyone on the list knows of a provider please > contact me off list. It seems that in North America many providers are spouting v6, but it's transit or tunneled, not native internet service. I've had native v6 internet service from NTT/Verio since 2004. Been great so far... Andrew

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Re: IPV6 network feeds
by Martin Hannigan 27 May '08

27 May '08

You didn't say native was required and a tunnel might be ok for testing. Try Hurricane Electric's Tunnel Broker. Your favorite search engine will find it ie 'Hurricane Electric Tunnel Broker' IIRC. -M<. ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Linsenmayer <mlinsenmayer(a)symantec.com> To: nanog(a)merit.edu <nanog(a)merit.edu> Sent: Tue May 27 17:37:43 2008 Subject: IPV6 network feeds Hey all, I am looking for a IPV6 internet feed for our testing labs in Southern California, I know this is off subject but I am a little exasperated in trying to locate one. if anyone on the list knows of a provider please contact me off list. Thanks! Mike Linsenmayer Sr. Manager Labs Engineering QALABS Symantec Corporation www.symantec.com <http://www.symantec.com> ___________________________ Office: 424.750.7560 Cell: 805.404.1813 YIM: mike_linsenmayer ___________________________ ___________________________

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