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Re: ALERT: Sean Donelan cuts fiber
by Brendan Coffey 12 May '99

12 May '99

Lo! It is written in the book of Andrew Brown: > i thought he was just a second cousin to wintermute and could "feel" > the cuts... ;-) > Heh. >From an anonymous source: http://www.seanslandscaping.baweb.com/ Coincidence? I think not... -Brendan

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PERL script for PPP debug
by Tatsuya Kawasaki 12 May '99

12 May '99

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ALERT: Sean Donelan cuts fiber
by Brendan Coffey 12 May '99

12 May '99

Does anyone think it inescapably odd that Sean Donelan _always_ knows the who, the what, the when, and the where of nearly _every_ fiber cut in North America (and occasionally beyond) nearly as soon as it happens? I'm thinking maybe he drives a backhoe on the side. -Brendan

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VPN
by Jason Taylor 12 May '99

12 May '99

I realize that this is probably not the proper list for this, but I am hoping somone can point me in the right direction. We have a customer who wants to setup VPN between their location and a remote site. Both sites will be running WIndows NT 4.0 the setup is no problem, I am wondering how much bandwidth they are going to need. They are only going to be using an automotive DOS based inventory system between locations and an occasional e-mail. If anyone could let me know how to calculate the bandwidth or give me some pointers I would appreciate it. Thanks... Jason Taylor Jason(a)aiis.net Network Systems Engineer AIIS Voice - (810)794-1650 http://www.aiis.net

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www.whitehouse.gov down for 24 hours
by Sean Donelan 12 May '99

12 May '99

In case your NOCs get phone calls from customers reporting they can't reach the White House. The Associated Press is reporting the www.whitehouse.gov web site will be down for 24 hours due to hacking activity originating in Hong Kong. Over the weekend, the White House web site was reportly down briefly due to an unrelated equipment problem. In other Washington outage news, Bell Atlantic is working yet another cable cut in the District, 7,000 people without phone service. Over the weekend MFS had an OC-12 equipment failure near the Capital. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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FLASH CROWD: media stimulated simultaneous usage event
by Sean Donelan 12 May '99

12 May '99

Unless you've been off-planet, I think most people in the US are aware Star Wars tickets go on sale on Wednesday May 12 at 3pm EDT via phone, web, and box office. Some folks may remember a few years ago when Garth Brooks tickets went on sale in Washington DC, and the local phone system was overwhelmed for most of the day. And during the Gulf War the Pepsi Company was requested not to run a contest during the Superbowl involving a 1-800 number. I happen to be in DC for an ATIS meeting, so it should be interesting to see how many telco-types are beeped out of the meeting during the day tomorrow. I've been checking around, and found in most cities the movie theatre tickets-by-phone numbers are not on the local "choke" exchange. Instead they are dispersed on whatever exchange the theatre happens to located. This may not be a problem in cities with modern switches, because they can program full-10-digit "chokes." National 1-800 service (SCP/STP) may be hit by a large number of call-attempts, and re-dials as people try to get through. The "redial" button is an evil invention as far as telephone switch design is concerned. Local PBX's of companies with a lot employees interested in the movie may also experience overloading. Due to the way the Internet traffic fans out (see the CAIDA maps), I would expect only localized hot spots near the tickets-by-web sites. The Internet doesn't have centralized control points like SCP/STP's, so Internet users should be unaffected except for those particular ticket web servers and possibly those sharing the same subnet or same last router as the ticket web servers. NOC managers may want to keep this event in mind if they need to reach other NOCs tomorrow afternoon, or if they need to call in their own engineers if something happens. You may need to use alternate contact methods to reach them. On the other hand, perhaps the American public has reached the hype saturation point, and nobody will buy tickets tomorrow. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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Draft NANOG agenda
by Susan R. Harris 11 May '99

11 May '99

Greetings - here's the draft agenda for NANOG16. See you in Eugene! ------------------------- Sunday, May 23: Tutorials ------------------------- 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Introduction to MPLS Peter Ashwood-Smith, Nortel 3:15 - 5:15 p.m. Router Configuration Management Tools Avi Freedman, AboveNet Abha Ahuja, Merit 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Implementing IP over Satellite Andrew Khoo, VersaTel Telecom NL Avi Freedman, AboveNet -------------- Monday, May 24 -------------- 9:00 a.m. Welcome, Introductions, Future Meetings Craig Labovitz, Merit TBA, Univ. of Oregon/Verio 9:15 a.m. DNSSec and the New Version of BIND Paul Vixie/David Conrad, Internet Software Consortium 9:45 a.m. Security Attacks and Detection on OC-12 & Above Backbones Y. John Jiang, Cable & Wireless 10:15 a.m. FBI Responses to Security Attacks on the Internet Infrastructure Scott Larson/Steve Schmidt, FBI 10:45 a.m. BREAK 11:00 a.m. Network Security Experiences: A Military Perspective TBA 11:30 a.m. Controlled De-Aggregation: A Successful Experiment in More Optimal Routing Avi Freedman, AboveNet 12:00 LUNCH 1:30 p.m. SONET Technology Primer Marty Schulman, Juniper 2:00 p.m. IP over Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing Larry McAdams, Cisco 2:30 p.m. Packet Optimized Optical Transport Solutions Marc Teichtahl, VersaTel Telecom 3:00 p.m. BREAK 3:15 p.m. US-Sprint Optical Internet Design Peter Lothberg, Sprint 4:15-5:15 p.m. Deploying a Greenfield Network using POS and MPLS Alan Hannan, GlobalCenter 5:30-7:30 p.m. Beer n'Gear! --------------- Tuesday, May 25 --------------- 9:00 a.m. Industry Plans for Wireless Technologies TBA, Lucent 9:30 a.m. Wireless Networks and Improved Networking in Rural Areas John M. Brown, iHighway 10:00 a.m. SURFnet and the GigaPort Project Erik-Jan Bos, SURFNet 10:30 a.m. BREAK 10:45 a.m. Interconnection Strategies for ISPs Bill Norton, Equinix 11:15 a.m. Architecting Multicast Backbones John Meylor, Cisco 12:00 p.m. LUNCH 1:30 p.m. News from the Exchange Points PacBell NAP Mark Pryor, PacBell The MAEs Steve Feldman, MCI Worldcom Ameritech NAP Mark Cnota, Ameritech Amsterdam Internet Erik-Jan Bos, SURFnet Exchange 2:15 p.m. ARIN Update Nate Davis, ARIN 2:30 p.m. InterNIC Update Mark Kosters, InterNIC 3:00 p.m. Y2K Status and NOC Contingency Planning Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates 3:45 p.m. IETF Y2K Investigations Philip J. Nesser II, Nesser & Nesser Consulting 4:00 p.m. Closing Remarks Craig Labovitz, Merit ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Susan R. Harris, Ph.D. Merit Network, Inc. Phone: 734.936.2100 srh(a)merit.edu Senior Science Writer Fax: 734..647.3185 -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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bootp packets on MaeWest FDDI
by Matt Hempel 11 May '99

11 May '99

I've been getting a number of 0.0.0.0 (68) -> 255.255.255.255 (67) packets getting trapped in my filters on MaeWest's FDDI this morning. I have the FDDI MACs. Is it proper to broadcast them here? They're coming from more than one source. --matt hempel

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10 May '99

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Re: Above.net off the air
by Sean Donelan 08 May '99

08 May '99

smd(a)clock.ORG writes: >You would think that a person working at UUNET might be able >to find a counterpart at Abovenet and ask directly, rather than >floating a "ha ha look - Abovenet crashed!" message on the NANOG >mailing list. Could be a few different reasons. a) Curiousity b) Concern it may have a root cause shared by other providers c) Lack of notification via formal channels d) Spite e) All of the above What's the only thing worse for a network engineer than having his network crash? No one noticing it crashed. I'm really surprised more providers haven't figured out one way to keep people from posting about their outages is by setting up peering agreements with NDA's and then keeping the other providers informed about problems. Of course if there isn't an NDA or they learn about the outage from other sources, they are free to inform the world about the outage. Oh well, another Sprint exec Gerry Degruiter is going to stop by next week. I hope he can tell me why our Sprint line failed last November, no one else has been willing too. I'll keep you posted :-) -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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