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whois search question
by larrys＠lexis-nexis.com 30 Dec '98

30 Dec '98

Hi All -- I was trying to chase down a site for Helm, Inc. (publishers of OEM automotive shop manuals). A whois (from the nic website but that shouldn't matter) of 'helm' returned a bunch of answers, but not them. A similar search of 'helm,' found them. Is a comma a searchable character? Should it be? thanx, -ls-

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Re: Is the US domain screwed up, or is it Internic, or whut?
by sob＠academ.com 30 Dec '98

30 Dec '98

I only checked venera.isi.edu for pima.az.us. Here is what I got: owlman.academ.com% dig @venera.isi.edu pima.az.us ns ; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> @venera.isi.edu pima.az.us ns ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; pima.az.us, type = NS, class = IN ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: az.us. 1D IN SOA VENERA.ISI.EDU. us-domain.ISI.EDU. ( 981221 ; serial 12H ; refresh 1H ; retry 2W ; expiry 1D ) ; minimum ;; Total query time: 374 msec ;; FROM: owlman.academ.com to SERVER: venera.isi.edu 128.9.176.32 ;; WHEN: Tue Dec 29 16:29:55 1998 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 28 rcvd: 93 Checking the US-Domain list of delegates, I see that pima.az.us is not supposed to be delegated. I see that co.pima.az.us is. academ.com% dig @venera.isi.edu co.pima.az.us ns ; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> @venera.isi.edu co.pima.az.us ns ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10 ;; flags: qr rd ra; Ques: 1, Ans: 2, Auth: 0, Addit: 2 ;; QUESTIONS: ;; co.pima.az.us, type = NS, class = IN ;; ANSWERS: co.pima.az.us. 604800 NS ns.co.pima.az.us. co.pima.az.us. 604800 NS tophat.co.pima.az.us. ;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS: ns.co.pima.az.us. 604800 A 159.233.1.2 tophat.co.pima.az.us. 604800 A 159.233.1.1 ;; Total query time: 168 msec ;; FROM: academ.com to SERVER: venera.isi.edu 128.9.176.32 ;; WHEN: Tue Dec 29 17:38:40 1998 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 31 rcvd: 101 -- Stan | PGP Key ID: 55CB6421 | Opinions expressed are only mine. Olan | Phone: +1-713-793-0222 | Email: sob(a)academ.com Barber | Fax: +1-713-793-0221 | http://www.academ.com/~sob

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Re: Is the US domain screwed up, or is it Internic, or whut?
by sob＠academ.com 29 Dec '98

29 Dec '98

pima.az.us does not appear to be delegated anymore. Other delegations (at least the short list I tested) do appear to be working. -- Stan | PGP Key ID: 55CB6421 | Opinions expressed are only mine. Olan | Phone: +1-713-793-0222 | Email: sob(a)academ.com Barber | Fax: +1-713-793-0221 | http://www.academ.com/~sob

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Is the US domain screwed up, or is it Internic, or whut?
by Ehud Gavron 29 Dec '98

29 Dec '98

jp.co.pima.az.us is a perfectly good domain with servers kappa.jp.co.pima.az.us ns.pima.gov arizona.edu The root servers claim the following can give me good answers: Server: A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET Address: 198.41.0.4 Authoritative answers can be found from: US nameserver = VENERA.ISI.EDU US nameserver = EXCALIBUR.USC.EDU US nameserver = NS.ISI.EDU US nameserver = RS0.INTERNIC.NET US nameserver = NS.UU.NET US nameserver = ADMII.ARL.MIL However, of those, only the first three respond correctly to a lookup. RS0.INTERNIC.NET and NS.UU.NET give me an obsolete server (tophat). ADMII.ARL.MIL gives me no records found. Is it that I'm just too stupid to use nslookup/dig on a Tuesday, or is there a configuration issue here somewhere? Ehud

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IGP Implementation
by Dan Rabb 29 Dec '98

29 Dec '98

Can anyone refer me to a good whitepaper on IS-IS and/or any documents that compare IS-IS to OSPF as an IGP? Private replies would be appreciated, I will post a summary of all resources. Thank you, Dan Rabb digital broadcast network (314) 733-3127 dan(a)dbn.net

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Re: OUTAGE: DACS failure in USWEST/spokane
by Nathan Stratton 28 Dec '98

28 Dec '98

On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Deepak Jain wrote: > In all cases where the telco/clec/ixc demarcs the equipment in the > customer's offices/pop doesn't the customer not only provide power, but > space and cooling? Yep. > I don't think we have a facility that doesn't provide power, cooling and > space to each carrier we use. They still provide their own battery > shelves, rectify their own D.C. power in some cases, but we still provide > the "line A/C" that runs through our batteries and generators. Yep. > Most facilities I have toured seemed to be setup similarly. > > Are these facilities' setups different than most others? Most larger ISPs are able to get the IXC/ILECs to place there hardware in the customers space, but with many smaller ISPs this is not the case. The is more then case with ILECs who like to place SONET hardware in a common building location and not in the customers space. Many times when the ILEC does put a MUX in the customers space it is just a stub off of a MUX somewhere in the building. -- Check out the new CLEC mailing list at http://www.robotics.net/clec ><> Nathan Stratton Telecom & ISP Consulting www.robotics.net nathan(a)robotics.net > -Deepak. > AiNET

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VoIP at last (Atlanta) NANOG?
by Pete Kruckenberg 28 Dec '98

28 Dec '98

Hate it when this happens... I'm having a conversation with someone about VoIP, and I am remembering something about the last NANOG where someone was talking about building VoIP gateways where they used DSPs to work directly with the digitally-encoded voice (PCM?) signal rather than the "normal" way. If anyone remembers this presentation (I may have been in an alternate reality at the time), could you remind me who gave it? Thanks. Pete.

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Re: OUTAGE: DACS failure in USWEST/spokane
by Sean Donelan 28 Dec '98

28 Dec '98

SEAN(a)dra.COM (Sean Donelan) writes: >This morning USWEST lost a DACS serving Spokane (and other places >in Washington State). Now the story starts changing. The telco is now saying it was a power outage, and the standby power failed at the central office. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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Re: OUTAGE: DACS failure in USWEST/spokane
by Sean Donelan 28 Dec '98

28 Dec '98

rmeyer(a)mhsc.COM (Roeland M.J. Meyer) writes: >After five years of dealing with USworst ... dumb management. Those guys >couldn't find a clue in a clue factory. The Colorado Public utilities The reason I asked is the "problem" doesn't seem to be confined to USWEST. I've experienced the DACS problem with different RBOCS and several inter-exchange carriers. So I don't think it is just a USWEST issue. I don't know the DACS vendor used in the various incidents, so there may be a correlation by equipment vendor. In this incident, it turned out not to be a DACS problem, but a power problem. Nevertheless, my initial comments did cause a number of people to go Hmm? I received a several responses. From the anedoctal reports, something seems amiss. Several people reported a detectable up-tick in DACS related problems this year. Was there some sort of upgrade everyone installed their DACS in the last year? Even if it is just customer service reps playing the "Wheel of Excuses," there is usually some problem trend which leads them to start using a particular problem to close trouble tickets. Most customer serice reps wouldn't know a DACS if it fell on them. Someone must be using the term in their presence. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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Re: New resource available!
by jprovo＠ma.ultranet.com 28 Dec '98

28 Dec '98

[snip] >> Care to explain why the heck we need yet another forum for that sort of stuff? > If you can point me to other forums where it belongs and that do >the same thing I would be interested in knowing. I have yet to see a list >(Which doesn't mean one doesn't exist) where people (Hopefully ISPs and >NSPs and the likes) talk about where they are seeing a smurf attack, or >who is strobing them or other such activities. Funny, ongoing attacks that one wishes to be pubilc about sure sound "operational" in nature to me. If one didn't wish to be public, sending data to the appropriate molassas-agency (CERT, et al) would make sense. Was anyone yelled at on NANOG for talking about ongoing attacks? I don't think so. Personally, I'm so pleased to see the current commodity nature of domain names put to such good use; the internet version of one-hit-wonders/one trick ponies/etc. Joe

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