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199.36.104.84 is the IP that resolves to it mkb: looks to me like somebody forgot the . at the end of the PTR entry brycec: heh -: brycec is trying to debug why a customer on their network is getting horrible download speeds from his service brycec: Full speed from ARP and another datacenter (IO Networks, Phoenix). But shit speed from my home Comcast, from Hostdime in Orlando, FL, and from a datacenter in North Carolina -: brycec is collecting mtr's, whee mercutio: brycec: it'll be some peering dispute probbably. brycec: heh
And I *just* closed the doc with all the mtr's so I can't speak too smartly on it
But there was one node in the route (in sjc) that was common to most bottlenecks. And also all transit from gtt. mercutio: there were like 3 cables cut in california the other day too brycec: (not all bottlenecks had sjc, but all routes through sjc were bottlenecked) mercutio: the sabotage thing brycec: yeah. crazy vandalism mercutio: it sounds like it's most likely malicious
rather than vandalism brycec: I consider vandalism malicious,.. mercutio: ahh i think of vandalism like drunk kids smashing letter boxes brycec: And that isn't malicious? mercutio: still malicious, but not nearly as premeditated.. brycec: @ud malicious BryceBot: malicious: Malicious is another word for bad. Usually used to describe a virus. See also:rmenacing <2006-02-27T00:00:00+00:00> Example: "WITH:r1#: heyr2#: hir1#: have u downloaded 'pwnage free website maker'?r2#: no thats got malicious code in it!rWITHOUT:r1#: heyr2#: hir1# have u downloaded 'pwnage free website maker'?r2#: no thats got a virus!" brycec: lol mercutio: whereas sabotage is much more on purpose brycec: sabotage is directed
vandalism is just malicious for the sake of being malicious
at least, that's my definition mercutio: yeh
that's how i see it too
but it's been called vandalism in news a bit mike-burns: For the lulz. mercutio: you think? -: mike-burns shrugs
brycec thinks. about things. and stuff. mercutio: heh
have you tried tcptrace btw brycec .. you were saying about performance issues to some locations.. brycec: technically "from" mercutio: and sometimes it's hard to do testing between dodgy location and dodgy location.
err from a dodgy location..
no ... the dodgy location is in between
coffee, work! brycec: I got it down to 3 hops, from their equipment to their datacenter's speedtest, it was dog slow. mercutio: so you can tcpdump and run traceroute on it brycec: So I closed that as "the provider is throttling you, not my problem" mercutio: ahh easymac: 5
grr brycec: 6
yay
"vandalism" http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/california-fiber-optic-cable-vandalism-continues-unabated/ BryceBot: Ars Technica: "California fiber optic cable vandalism continues unabated" brycec: "...the bureau has discovered "no real motive" for the cable cutting." mercutio: that doesn't mean there's no motive brycec: Just that they haven't been able to piece one together, I know. mercutio: it just seems like they're underplaying it m0unds: lots of telecom vandalism like that is perpetrated by former employees mercutio: i was reading a while back about how the US doesn't want to increase taxes on gas. brycec: If The World understood how fragile everything was, they would (or should be) panicking non-stop. mercutio: and they've got no money to repair bridges, etc.
and they've been trying to find money with no luck
but the gas tax hasn't increased even to keep in line with inflation, as the voters don't want to pay more m0unds: a big part of the issue w/that is that gov agencies don't want their budgets cut mercutio: and no-one wants to become unpopular... mike-burns: It's the gray aliens cutting the cables. m0unds: mike-burns: you're not supposed to talk about Them brycec: m0unds: I see that as one of the biggest issues overall. Nobody ever wants their budget cut, even if they don't need it. So at the end of the year they burn through whatever leftover budget they have so it's not cut next year, and might even be increased. mike-burns: Oh shi brycec: December was always a good month for telecom equipment sales ;P m0unds: brycec: yep, having worked for tribal gov i got to see that on a smaller scale every single year
it was awful brycec: Now if those greedy fuckers would quit that, we could start making some progress on this debt -: brycec rages m0unds: every november, buy stupid shit we don't want or need so we can deplete our budget. if we don't, they might cut it mercutio: but i think usually we're meant to have no idea how much work goes into power, water, roads, internet etc m0unds: then they stopped asking me to find stupid stuff to buy and transferred it to travel and sent people to vegas for no reason and our budget got cut :) mercutio: m0unds: damn. brycec: lol m0unds mercutio: m0unds: i don't think that's uncommon though m0unds: it's not at all mercutio: i've heard of people who have no budget for stationery etc too m0unds: we had to beg for stuff like canned air
or printer paper mercutio: so it can go both ways..
oh, so they had money left in their budget because they wouldn't let you buy anything? m0unds: because they wouldn't let me order stuff like that w/our money because they always felt it was the division's budget who should cover office supplies
they wouldn't let me buy equipment, so we ran really lean w/spares and stuff
they'd let me buy non capex stuff like tools or whatever mercutio: peoples attitudes towards things like office supplies is a good way to judge how well things are functioning i reckon m0unds: but no switch gear or spare disks or anything like that mercutio: because it's a small cost overall really, and it shows willingness or not whether to allow things through in a timely manner
m0unds: a server is a tool right? :) brycec: so is this "external hdd" m0unds: nah, it was based more on $ amount brycec: Oh, so not all tools either then m0unds: no, they let me buy anything that was a tool brycec: eg: $150 lineman's set vs $150 external hdd m0unds: it was stupid
vs
$50 SSD
yeah
i couldn't buy spare ssds
but i could buy retarded things like..cable analyzers
$1800
so backwards, that place
it seems the tribal casinos who have a corporation running their business enterprises tend to do somewhat better in managing money
like, organizationally speaking mercutio: heh m0unds: updated osx on my mbp and it seems that disk access is significantly slower now for some reason mercutio: ssd or hdd?
maybe ssd needs a refresh m0unds: ssd
i'll probably do it w/the next osx release
just tested it and it benchmarked within spec. meh. mercutio: maybe it's some sync thing m0unds: could be, don't know
boot was horribly slow and it was terribly slow to open a disk image to install the doxie client
one really nice thing about it being hot is that even with my AC set conservatively, it feels downright amazing to come back indoors mercutio: heh, i kind of feel that way about having heater on inside and going outside
come back in and it's much warmer than when you left.. m0unds: yeah
just had a sweet microburst w/thunderstorm
75+ mph winds for 2 mins or so ***: NiTe has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 252 seconds)
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NiTe has joined #arpnetworks m0unds: haha, great. lost about 1/3 of the northern facing part of my roof to that thunderstorm, lol
peeled it right off and threw it in my front yard brycec: oh shit that really sucks m0unds: yeah, i went out front to make sure i didn't have tree damage and there was a pile of shingles
seems like it only really impacted people w/2-story houses. there's a couple houses up the road from me who had new roofs installed in the last 2 yrs who have more extensive damage than me
no fun at all
about to get another round - would have loved to go up and place a tarp up there, but there's too much lightning atm brycec: Ooh fun
And good luck m0unds: thanks, hahaha ***: jlgaddis has quit IRC (Ping timeout: 244 seconds)
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kellytk has left "WeeChat 1.0.1" mercutio: m0unds: do you often get short thunderstorms like that?
sounds insane :)
no time to prepare and all m0unds: desert thunderstorms are usually like that mercutio: ahh m0unds: hit really hard, dump tons of rain really fast, cause flooding mercutio: i've seen rapid rain before, but it's usually quite light but a lot of it
so just a bit of surface flooding rather than damage brycec: @wiki flash flood BryceBot: Flash flood :: A flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and basins. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm, hurricane, tropical storm, or meltwater from ice or snow flowing over ice sheets or snowfields. Flash floods may occur after the collapse of a natural ice or debris dam, or a human structure such as... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash%20flood m0unds: ^ brycec: ^^ what m0unds lives with, and what I grew up with
fun stuff m0unds: every afternoon during monsoon season = flash flood watches or warnings mercutio: it was the wind rather than the rain that was damaging though, right? m0unds: right mercutio: the motorways here don't have good water clearance
it's bloody annoying
so whenever there's a lot of rain quickly, there's a lot of water lying on the road, and people drive too fast
and trucks tend to spray it up m0unds: it's enough of an issue in my county that there's a flood control authority whose only duty is to handle what they call arroyos
sort of like big-ass canals that channel flood waters into the rio grande mercutio: what country are you in? m0unds: county - bernalillo county, new mexico, usa mercutio: i saw pictures of the tidal wave in japan after the earthquake a few years back
that was insane
oh and thailand had insane flooding
ahh,..
i kind of thought the US was mostly pretty dry
and that flooding/flash storms etc were more likely in islandish countries brycec: Here's a pic from a couple years back, mercutio http://watchdog.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2013/09/flash-flooding-krqe.png mercutio: uhh
that looks menacing m0unds: yeah, that's hitting a bridge pylon along interstate 40 mercutio: is that some kind of river thing normally m0unds: san mateo bridge
no
it's dry
hahaha mercutio: ok m0unds: it's a flood control canal mercutio: the other side is dry
ahh ok m0unds: when it rains, they fill with water mercutio: i see
very dirty water.. m0unds: yeah, it's a desert brycec: (Matching news story http://watchdog.org/105990/after-a-long-drought-rain-pounds-new-mexico/) mercutio: hah it stuck the ) on the end
confused the poor little web site m0unds: http://binged.it/1GTFJhv BryceBot: http://binged.it/1GTFJhv -> http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=pvhjnr63hwqc&lvl=19.56&dir=342.16&sty=b&q=i40 and san mateo&form=LMLTCC m0unds: that's the canal in the photo mercutio: two years of drought wow
so the ground is all hard
and can't absorb water? m0unds: right brycec: yep, because dry m0unds: http://www.amafca.org/media/floodphotos/TruckinNDC.jpg mercutio: sheit brycec: Could be worse, m0unds http://i.azcentral.com/i/b/c/4/L169_CIFRcdeda899cabeb2cb13ea2734d82bc4cb.jpg mercutio: i dunno if i'd rather be in or out of the truck m0unds: whoops mercutio: i imagine in is probably a "little" safer brycec: (http://archive.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/free/20130915phoenix-man-new-mexico-flooding.html ) m0unds: ouch
poor elephant butte brycec: to be fair, that was T or C, NM ;P mercutio: 10 inches of rain, wow
1" is bad enough for me :/ m0unds: yeah, that was the summer that our transformers at work flooded and blew up a bunch of my gear
haha brycec: lol the pie chart at the bottom http://www.srh.noaa.gov/abq/?n=prepawaremonsoonflashfloods
(I lol because it's stupd but true) m0unds: lol
ahahahah
the "drove car into water"
omg BryceBot: That's what she said!! brycec: I remember the news reiterating that point so. many. times. do NOT. It is usually deeper than you think, etc mercutio: yeh brycec: And drove into water --> swept away in vehicle very eassily. mercutio: usually people walk first m0unds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC3fwdmJkSk BryceBot: YouTube video: "North Diversion Channel August 13, 2014 - AFD Deployment" by Albuquerque Metro Arroyo Flood Control Authority mercutio: if they're trying to get into their home or something
and people mark it
if driving through, you follow someone else m0unds: timelapse shows how fast it fills mercutio: don't try to shfit around people etc. brycec: Yeah no kidding m0unds. All of a sudden a wall rushing in m0unds: yeah, it's wacky - most of the flood control stuff in the city dumps into that particular channel
it empties into the river in northern abq mercutio: look how few are from structural failure
that's what i'd worry about haha
but your'e more likely to just get flooding coming into your house
and lose electricity and not be able to get stuff dry
and have everything go mouldy
the cleanup must suck
i'm on a hill, i dunno what i'm worried about :) m0unds: yeah, the people who are dumb and build on a floodplain end up with their house filling with mud brycec: The hill giving way?
mercutio: I'll point out that the temps are usually 35C+ so it's AC lost too. "and lose electricity and not be able to get stuff dry" mercutio: oh
so it's humid too
and sticky BryceBot: That's what she said!! mercutio: yeah i think erosion here is unlikely brycec: Yeah. Real gross without AC, and life-threatening. mercutio: that said, the drains at the bottom of my driveway are all screwed
they're taking ages trying to fix them
i couldn't use my driveway the other day
i'd just be stuck at home :/
do they have ads on tv saying to not drive into the water?
when there were earthquakes in my old city the roads got heaps of holes in them, and people kept driving
by rivers was extra dangerous.
because often near rivers you've got underground rivers too... brycec: Yes indeed, probably. (I seem to recall there were, but it's been quite a number of years since I watched TV commercials.)