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Comment on OUCS Backbone Network Naming and Numbering Conventions by anjanesh babu

anjanesh babu — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:35:21 +0000

this is informative,well written and to the point.Did not realise the Looking Glass tool existed till now…thanks

Comment on MAC Flaps – why are they bad? by rob

rob — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:58:07 +0000

Great article, answered my question.

Comment on How to generate graphs with gnuplot by Alexander Dutton

Alexander Dutton — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:24:38 +0000

Yay; statistics! As part of the JISC Open to Change project I've been working on a data store and public API for time-series data. At the moment it's just got electricity meter data, but it would be great if we could include other types of data. Do you think it'd be possible to get hourly or daily usage statistics (e.g. OWL-Visitor, Eduroam, and network usage) to load into the store? At the moment we haven't done much with the data we have, but there is a demonstration graphing tool available. [Sorry to people outside the University network; this is still in closed beta]

Comment on MAC Flaps – why are they bad? by OUCS Backbone Network Naming and Numbering Conventions | OUCS Networks Team

OUCS Backbone Network Naming and Numbering Conventions | OUCS Networks Team — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:28:11 +0000

[...] it has the disadvantage of creating a large L2 (failure) domain which is a Very Bad Idea. See http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/networks/2011/02/04/mac-flaps-why-are-they-bad/ for more on this. Some Annexes have their own L3 connection which is less convenient but better [...]

Comment on The Week Before World IPv6 Day by Dominic Hargreaves

Dominic Hargreaves — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:44:01 +0000

For completeness, I thought I’d point out that as of this morning, http://www.oxon.org also has an IPv6 address.

Comment on The State of the IPv6 Deployment by The Week Before World IPv6 Day | OUCS Networks Team

The Week Before World IPv6 Day | OUCS Networks Team — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:07:08 +0000

[...] the long term you should take a look at the basic IPv6 preparation advice if you haven’t [...]

Comment on Machine Room IPv6 and checklist for early IPv6 adopters by The Week Before World IPv6 Day | OUCS Networks Team

The Week Before World IPv6 Day | OUCS Networks Team — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:05:54 +0000

[...] both local units are taking part as IPv6 early adopters. We can’t currently offer IPv6 to all units until we’ve a working IPAM for IPv6. The [...]

Comment on Webcache IPv6 enabled by The Week Before World IPv6 Day | OUCS Networks Team

The Week Before World IPv6 Day | OUCS Networks Team — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:04:27 +0000

[...] webcache.ox.ac.uk (relevant blog post) [...]

Comment on IPv6 deployment – irc.ox.ac.uk and ntp6.oucs.ox.ac.uk complete by The Week Before World IPv6 Day | OUCS Networks Team

The Week Before World IPv6 Day | OUCS Networks Team — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:03:24 +0000

[...] (relevant blog post although the service is now hosted by the Systems Development [...]

Comment on DNSSEC first steps by John P

John P — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:34:19 +0000

And it looks like JANET started signing .ac.uk shortly after you wrote this.

https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=DNSSEC-DISCUSS;ad1ce0dc.1101

I’m looking forward to being able to sign ox.ac.uk names soon.