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Carbon Monoxide warnings - keep generators outside 20ft away from doors and windows
by Sean Donelan 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

One person has died and at least 27 people are being treated for carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators. Officials are reminding people to operate portable generators only outside, 20 feet away from homes, doors and windows. Not in carports, garages, basements. To restore power, Entergy has "islanded" (disconnected) the City of New Orleans from the regional grid and started a local power plant. The transmission lines were toppled during the storm, but the cables were still connected to the terminals. Islanding the city makes sense, but I don't remember a power company islanding large parts of the grid before. Public officials are now saying it may be 30+ days to fully restore power. Entergy has implemented restoration priority, which means hospitals, public safety and critical infrastructure will be restored first. Along with some incidental customers on the same circuits. Customers out of service Louisiana - 987,588 Mississippi - 31,516 Florida - 21,867 California - 21,339 Pennsylvania - 10,415 Reminder, Puerto Rico still has not fully recovered from hurricanes in 2017. Puerto Rico still has rolling blackouts. And yes, Puerto Rico is an island, so its electric grid is naturally an island. The major wireless providers have activated their open roaming agreements, allowing customers to roam on any working infrastructure from other service providers. They are also waiving overages and many other feeds in the affected region. Check your service provider's website for details. AT&T says 82 percent of its network in service in Louisiana. First responders say the AT&T FIRSTNET failed (again) during the hurricane. T-Mobile says 70 percent of its network in service in Louisiana. Verizon says it has "gaps in coverage" but its network remains resilient. I don't know what that means. I haven't found reports from cable companies in the region.

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NANOG Embraces Hybrid FAQs + Upcoming Webinar
by Nanog News 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

Upcoming Webinar - Fireside Chat with CENIC Network Interconnection Engineer *The fireside chat will include several topics including:* - The path taken to a tech career - What is CENIC - Opportunities for volunteer or educational work *Speaker:* Nick Plunkett, Network Interconnection Engineer - Internet Services at CENIC Nick is a Network Interconnection Engineer - Internet Services at CENIC, where he has been working with both internal and external colleagues to expand the interconnection network of the California Research and Education Network (CalREN). *REGISTER NOW <https://www.nanog.org/events/webinar-fireside-cenic/>* NANOG Embraces Hybrid Meetings *Meetings will now be offered in-person + virtually — *NANOG has made a permanent shift to becoming an hybrid event platform, offering equally robust programming from the comfort of your laptop and/or in-person venues! We are excited to announce NANOG 83 <https://www.nanog.org/events/nanog-83/>as our first hybrid event. NANOG 83 will take place virtually + in-person in Minneapolis, MN from Nov. 1 - 3. Register now. <https://www.nanog.org/events/nanog-83/> *Have questions? *We have answers! Check out our FAQ sheet. *READ FAQs* <https://www.nanog.org/stories/hybrid-event-faqs/>

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An update on the AfriNIC situation
by Bill Woodcock 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

As many of you are aware, AfriNIC is under legal attack by Heng Lu / “Cloud Innovation.” John Curran just posted an excellent summary of the current state of affairs here: https://teamarin.net/2021/08/27/afrinic-and-the-stability-of-the-internet-n… If, like me, you feel like chipping in a little bit of money to help AfriNIC make payroll despite Heng having gotten their bank accounts frozen, some of the African ISP associations have put together a fund, which you can donate to here: https://www.tespok.co.ke/?page_id=14001 It’s an unfortunate situation, but the African Internet community has really pulled together to defend themselves, and they’ve got a lot less resources than most of us do. -Bill

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Happy 40th anniversary RFC 791!
by Michael Thomas 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

aka IPv4. The RFC doesn't have the exact date it was published, but the internet as we know it was being born. What a journey it's been. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc791 Mike

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Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle! (geofeeds)
by Lyden, John C 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

> But I also agree there are limits to what needs IoTing. I don't live in a > house large enough that I can't go see if the box needs cleaning within > about 20s. I also sure as hell don't need a notification on my phone that > one of them just made a deposit. *ding!* 1 New Notification: "clean my filth, human servant." My wife has been campaigning for one for about 2 months now. I'm unsure how it'll do with 4 of varying age from 1 to 16 though. Still tempting. John C. Lyden Manager of Network Infrastructure Infrastructure Services, Division of Information Resources & Technology Rowan University

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701 contact that actually responds...
by Elmar K. Bins 31 Aug '21

31 Aug '21

Hi guys, we (1280) have a prefix missing from 701's routing tables that harms us quite a bit. I've tried contacting the obvious email addresses with details, but got zero response (I've checked the spamtrap) inside 24 hours. Is there a better way to contact the actual NOC than CaryNMC-IP(a)verizon.com ? Thanks for any help, Elmar.

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Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch
by Jay Hennigan 31 Aug '21

31 Aug '21

On 8/25/21 12:03, Jay Nugent wrote: > Greetings, > And in that moment before the circuit breaker on your generator > trips, your 120/240 volts has been stepped up to 7200 through the "pole > pig" transformer in your neighborhood, and has KILLED the lineman > working to fix that 7200 feeder circuit. > > It only takes a MOMENT to stop someone's heart through electocution. > It takes several milliseconds to pop a breaker. And it would have only taken that lineman a few seconds to attach a grounding bond to the supposedly dead feeder and transformer before grabbing it bare-handed while speculating as to why it sounds like there's an engine running at constant RPM coming from the house connected to the service drop. Serious accidents are often caused not by a single failure but several. -- Jay Hennigan - jay(a)west.net Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV

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Main electric transmission towers collapsed--New Orleans at 11% Internet connectivity
by Sean Donelan 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

Due to catastrophic electric transmission line failures. All of Orleans Parish is currently without power. Over 830,000 electric customers in 8 counties have lost power. Approximately 80% of customers in southern Louisiana have lost power. Internet connectivity is down to 11% of normal levels. In other news, Puerto Rico is still experiencing rolling blackouts due to slow electric grid and generation repairs after hurricane Maria in 2017. 110,000 customers in Puerto Rico are without power tonight. There is no storm tonight in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory, and residents are U.S. citizens.

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Microsoft peering contact
by Tomas Lynch 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

Hi, We have sent emails to Microsoft AS8075 peeringdb contacts but we have not received any answer yet. Can someone share a contact, in unicast, who can answer some issues with the Azure API? Thanks, Tomas Lynch

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Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch
by Mark Tinka 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

On 8/30/21 18:19, Chris Cariffe wrote: > That's a ground loop, you want to avoid that. Yes, that... Mark.

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