There are 6 or 8 top-level peering points around the country; two of them are within 10 miles or so of me -- Nasa Ames and MAE West. David Gillett On 9 Jun 2001, at 22:09, Carl E. Mankinen wrote: > Goto 55 marietta in Atlanta and you will see a large peering > arrangement. Lot's of fiber terminating there and it's pretty > interesting all the politics behind peering agreements. > > -----Original Message----- > From: firewalls-owner@Lists.GNAC.NET > [mailto:firewalls-owner@Lists.GNAC.NET]On Behalf Of Zachary Uram > Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 5:15 PM > To: dgillett@deepforest.org > Cc: firewalls@Lists.GNAC.NET > Subject: How to protect natl. critical infrastructure? (was Re: > analyzing traceroute ouput) > > > On Sat, 9 Jun 2001 dgillett@deepforest.org wrote: > > If A and B are on two different ISPs that don't currently have a > > common peering point, they must traverse some other backbone ISP, and > > this choice may be made differently depending on the origin ISP of > > the packet.... > > Thanks for info David. Fascinating, I didn't realize that. How do > 2 ISPs become "peers"? They are on same backbone? > I heard on CNN this morning that during height of CA power crisis > a group of anti-US Chinese hackers broke into components of the > CA state power grid control network and although they didn't > reach critical systems an audit showed that with more persistence > they could have exploited vulnerabilities and gained access to > critical areas of the system. This is disturbing. I was more > disturbed by the reported saying somethinb to the effect "The > security issues have been resolved and the system is now totally > secure." Why is such a critical system as power grid even > PUBLICLY accessible. Shouldn't they be on their own closed > network? I hope the nuclear power plants and ballistic missile > control networks are more secure. Yikes! > > SDG, > Zach > > uram@cmu.edu > "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have faith." - John 20:29 > > - > [To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@lists.gnac.net with > "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.] > > - [To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@lists.gnac.net with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]