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Re: ALERT: Sean Donelan cuts fiber
by Sean Donelan 13 May '99

13 May '99

bcoffey(a)connix.COM (Brendan Coffey) writes: >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. Its unfounded rumors such as that which lead to visits from the men in dark sunglasses with no sense of humor. Who are not on the best terms with me after last weekend anyway. Hint: It might sound like a good idea at the time, but do NOT put network equipment inside a 'secure' government building. If the equipment fails, it is a pain in the a** to get in on the weekend. The careful reader will note such a backhoe would have to be capable of faster than light travel to damage fiber on opposite coasts at virtually the same time in some cases in the past. If I had FTL travel, do you really think I would be wasting my time on this antiquated Internet? The only known person with such a device is Kris Kringle. Due to the enormous power consumption of the FTL device, he can only use his FTL sled once a year. Besides I hear Kringle's non-disclosure agreement has some very harsh penalities for breach of contract. Seriously, I learn about most fiber cuts from the following sources: - I notice something is down, and its annoying enough I look into it. - Reports from the DRA NOC. DRA may not have an OC-192 network, but it only takes one 56Kbps DDS circuit in each right-of-way to notice most outages around the country. I get annoyed when the other 56Kbps circuits which weren't supposed to be in the same right-of-way also turns red at the same time. Yes, DRA's NOC has a pretty network map which turns red just like those other providers with NOC's which look like the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. - Reports from DRA customers using other providers. Every customer service rep knows users are the "canaries" of the Internet. - Reports from various people on the net who send me e-mail instead of posting it themselves. - Reports from various news and wire services (AP, CNN, etc). - Reports from the provider itself. I usually get the initial report from somewhere else, and I will call or check provider's web pages for more details. Also I frequently receive corrections from individuals (but never 'official' spokespersons, and therefore prefer to remain anonymous) at a provider after I post something egregiously wrong. In any case, you should be learning about these outages from your provider anyway, not from me. You should be asking your provider why with their billion dollar operations, you read about an outage first from someone who does it only occasionally in his spare time. Really, this is not my real job. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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Re: ALERT: Sean Donelan cuts fiber
by owen＠dixon.DeLong.SJ.CA.US 12 May '99

12 May '99

> > http://www.seanslandscaping.baweb.com/ > > > *heh* from the web page... > > Site Work: Dozer, Backhoe, and Machinery Hire > > > ouch! But it goes so well with the Bell Atlantic logo at the bottom of the page. :-) Owen

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RE: ALERT: Sean Donelan cuts fiber
by Lauren.Nowlin＠Level3.com 12 May '99

12 May '99

Actually... even on vacation in the West Indies Sean is interested in fiber cuts. Catch a shot of him in his infamous "Call Before You Dig" wear: http://www.i-regatta.org/History/1998/Chris-pics/Chris-pics/I%20think%20I%20 found%20the%20problem.JPG John Curran, Chris Icide & I tripped over this one body surfing at Mayreaux, WI last December. -Ren ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ren(a)Level3.net http://www.Level3.net Level 3 Communications tel.: 303-635-9647 fax.: 303-926-3353 nasdaq: LVLT On Wednesday, May 12, 1999 10:55 AM, Brendan Coffey [SMTP:bcoffey@connix.com] wrote: > > > 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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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

Does anyone have a perl progam to decode PPP debug created by cisco router? TIA, Tatsuya /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Tatsuya Kawsaki KIVEX.com Unlock the Power of the Internet URL:www.KIVEX.com Phone 301.215.6777 Fax 301.215.5991 /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/

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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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