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Knowledge tracking tools
by Steve Francis 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

What do people use for knowledgebases? I'm looking for a better (preferably open source) way to track change plans, event resolutions, etc. e.g. an easy way to dig up what the changes that occured on a system were for, who did them, etc. Obviously rancid et al shows us what changed when, but not the change plan that was responsbile or what problem it solved. Possibly adopting a new ticketing system as part of this, so if people have built such system on top of RT, etc, that would be good to know. Thanks

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Informational Notice: AS3561 domain change
by James A. Farrar 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

As part of SAVVIS Communications continued integration of the assets of Cable & Wireless USA, Inc., Cable & Wireless Internet Services, Inc., and certain other U.S.-based affiliates, we will be re-branding the AS3561 network elements on 1 April 2004. The re-branding will be a DNS change from cw.net to savvis.net only. All hostnames will stay the same with the exception of the domain portion. This re-branding will only affect AS3561 network devices at this time. AS3561 will remain intact and continue to be operated as it is today. Future changes that may affect customer services and/or devices will be communicated in a different notification. We do not expect any impact to the network, as this is merely a name change. Any applications utilizing name-based resolution will need to be updated accordingly. Please contact ipnoc(a)savvis.net with any additional questions. Thanks, Savvis Network Operations

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IRRToolset/RAToolset on Debian latest
by Bora Akyol 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

Before I do the work to get this sw to compile with gcc3.3.3,etc. Has anyone done the work already to get it to compile, please contact me off-list. I am running the latest stable release of Debian and have tried multiple versions of RAToolset and/or IRRToolset without success. I have searched the archives for the tool without any satisfactory result. If no debian, I can also live with OS X version. Thanks in advance, Bora

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Open Source Asset Management Solutions
by Micah McNelly 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

Nanog, I need an open source asset management system to track serial, location, hardware type etc. Something with a mysql backside would most likely be the best choice. Can you hit me up off list if you have any recommendations? Thanks! /micah

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Problems with .de abuse
by up＠3.am 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

over the past couple of days, at least two of our servers have been inundated with rather amateurish attempts to login as various priviledged users. We're talking at least hundreds of attempts, mostly from 62.104.92 and 62.104.82. I whois shows the /16 (which I finally null routed the whole thing) belongs to: role: Network Management address: freenet Cityline GmbH address: Network Managment Center address: Juri Gagarin Ring 88 address: 99084 Erfurt address: Germany phone: +49 361 594 2961 remarks: **************************************************** remarks: * please report spam/abuse mailto:abuse@pppool.de * remarks: * reports to other addresses will not be processed * remarks: **************************************************** I sent the abuse email 2 days ago and got no response. After 2 more days of this, I finally just tried to call that number, and it's bogus (or at least not working). Does anyone have a clue who this is and/or how to actually get ahold of someone there (preferably one who speaks or reads/writes English)? TIA, James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up(a)3.am http://3.am =========================================================================

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Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish
by Joe St Sauver 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

Hi, #Powerpoint has its place, but it's not really a #format for the distribution of research information. The information #density just isn't there. That, and without the audio of the #presentation to go along with the slides, most of the actual content #is lost. That doesn't *have* to be the case. You *can* create presentations that are designed to be "stand alone" documents with persistent content value. Unfortunately, doing so generally requires creation of a quite detailed talk, which can be time consuming for the presenter (it is just like preparing a formal academic lesson plan or lecture), and which somewhat destroys the "illusion of spontaneity" that the best of non-technical speakers will strive to convey. Two examples of detailed powerpoint talks designed to have stand-alone usability are talks I've done for NLANR/Internet2 Joint Techs on open proxies (http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joe/jt-proxies/open-proxy-joint-techs.ppt or pdf) and jumbo frames (http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joe/jumbos/jumbo-frames.ppt or pdf). I believe it is worth doing this simply because you know that with limited travel budgets and parallel session tracks, your in-person audience will often be just a fraction of the total number of folks who might be trying to follow along online, or who might subsequently look at presentation materials via the web. Detailed presentation materials are also a tremendous help if you have audience members whose native language isn't english. Similarly, I'm a big believer in *printed* copies of presentations, either as collated proceedings or as individual papers, if only so you can easily mark up the parts you may want to investigate further, or to serve as a reminder when you eventually go to clean off your desk. Just my two cents... Regards, Joe St Sauver (joe(a)oregon.uoregon.edu) University of Oregon Computing Center

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Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish
by Matthew F. Ringel 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 03:01:56PM -0500, Daniel Golding wrote: > > Slightly off-topic... > > Most technical fields have standard journals that they use to publish > interesting findings and new ways of doing things. Everything from Nature to > the JAMA. Here's the question for the group: Do these sorts of publications > exist in the networking/carrier/internetworking space, and if not, should > they? > > Some possible examples (if anyone reads them): > SIGCOMM (http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/) > BCR (http://www.bcr.com/bcrmag/) > Cisco's IPJ (http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/759/) USENIX's ";login" (http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/) is another good example. > > I'm leaving off "news" publications like Light Reading and Network World. > Any thoughts? Have NANOG powerpoint presentations made these sorts of > journals obsolete? :) > I certainly hope not. Powerpoint has its place, but it's not really a format for the distribution of research information. The information density just isn't there. That, and without the audio of the presentation to go along with the slides, most of the actual content is lost. I believe that NANOG should have an actual journal of some kind, likely with issues on a thrice-yearly basis. I'd wager that most NANOG presentations have a paper's worth of information backing them. Writing out the information in publication form not only makes it a useful reference for later perusal, but gives something you can point to as part of a concrete body of work that you've created, the benefits of which I leave as an exercise for the reader. ....Matthew ------ Matthew F. Ringel Sr. Network Engineer Tufts University

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