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noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:00:00 +0000

Government orders partial shut down of GSM network in twin cities during Long March!

Orders of shutting down GSM service have been recieved by GSM operaters. The orders were sent by the regulator (PTA).

According to a source at the leading GSM company in Pakistan, orders have been recieved to shut down the service in certain areas of the twin cities at 12 midnight today till further orders.

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:08:00 +0000

PTCL ITI and TW1 BackBone Connectivity Affected by Submarine Cable Cut...

As luck would have it, the SMW3 and SMW4 submarine cable systems developed faults today which has severely impaired the Internet traffic to Pakistan.

At the moment, PTCL ITI is running at 25% less capacity. Users are experiencing high latency and a degraded service level resulting in extremely low speed on downloads.

TW1 also has the same issue. TW1 relies mainly on the SMW4 western segment.

The SMW4 fault is confirmed to be a sumbarine cable cut. Estimated repair time at this point-in-time is close to two weeks.

It is quite strange how multiple cable systems can be affected in different places at the same time. Is it just a coincidence?

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Robin Williams: Hilarious Stand-up Comedy!

Being an old Robin Williams fan, I had to share this piece of stand-up comedy. Robin is without doubt the best stand-up comedian around! And a great actor he is too!!

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:07:00 +0000

The Moon: India vs Pakistan

As a South Asian, I am delighted that Indians have finally touched the Moon. Chandrayaan-I, the Indian Lunar craft finally kissed the moon by sending its probe onto the Lunar surface. You can read more about it here. Hmmm... well, I guess us pakistanis can start kissing mother Earth ... for all we are worth!... as the lovely Moon seems out of our reach anyway.

The moon is this shiny object that we see in the sky. Its like a bright yellow plate which according to old Punjabi folklore has an old lady with her spinning wheel making some sort of thread. Thank God that Chandrayaan-I didnt hurt her. Moonlight is also said to warm up the cockles of one's heart. Muslims have a particular attachment with the Moon as the Muslim calendar is based on the Moon as opposed to the Christian Gregorian Calendar, which is sort of, well, fixed. This allows some Muslims to celebrate two birthdays - one following the Muslim Calender and one with the Gregorian Calendar!. Well, who cares, as long as you are getting gifts on both birthdays! :-)

In 1969, when I was in heavens and when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, the Maulvis (clergymen) of some areas of Punjab gave the fatwa that no infidel can set foot on the moon! They went so far as to say that anyone believing that a non-muslim had set foot on their beloved Moon would actually have their marriage anulled. Lol. Fiendish clergymen must have an eye on a neighbors wife. That is the only logic that I can find for such a fatwa.

The Moon or Chaand (as is it referred to in Urdu) is a subject of profound interest in the Indo Pak culture. But that is a subject that a single post would not do justice. So more on that in some other post.

In the end, I'ld like to reproduce a photo from the daily The News so as a Nation we know where we stand viz a viz the Indians. Are we ever going to kiss the moon?

Pakistanis: Still looking for the Moon......

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:21:00 +0000

Mobilink's CEO Replaced? : Mr Rashid Khan from Banglalink rumuored as CEO

While it is unofficial, there is a strong rumuor that Mr Zohair Khaliq has been removed as the CEO of Mobilink GSM, Pakistan's largest cellular company, owned by Orascom Telecom and will be sent to Orascom Telecom, Egypt.

Mr Rashid Khan (ex VP Commercial Mobilink and CEO Banglalink) will be taking over as the new CEO of Mobilink.

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:21:00 +0000

Nokia to slash workforce in Pakistan / Afghanistan

Nokia-Siemens Pakistan will be slashing its workforce by 60% in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Nokia-Siemens major customers Telenor and Mobilink have almost entirely frozen work on new sites because of the economic condition.

Among the Pakistani GSM operators, Mobilink is probably the provider with the highest non-productive expenses and is said to be mulling a cutdown of its workforce.

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:00:00 +0000

Wimax: The Broadband Titanic: It's Never Going to Arrive!

A month or two ago, I raised some questions regarding Orascom's Mobilink Wimax venture under the Mobilink Infinity brandname. Well, it has just come to my knowledge that Orascom Telecom (the parent company of Mobilink) has refused to release any more funds for the Mobilink Infinity expansion in the north and central regions of Pakistan.

Rumuor has it that the Broadband Unit (BBU) within Mobilink looking after Wimax might be scrapped. The part of the BBU looking after the long haul network (DWDM, Next-Generation SDH etc) will survive.

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:00:00 +0000

مغلظّاتِ ُاردو

کہا جاتا ہے کہ داغ دہلوی ایک بار محبوبہ سے ملاقات کے لئے طے شدہ مقام پر پہچے تو موصوفہ نے
دیوار کی اوٹ سے دال ماش جنابِ داغ کی سمت پھینکے۔ اُستاد نے، کہ رمز شناس و موقع شناس تھے، فوراً
موقع سے چلتا کیےِ۔

آپ کےایک شاگرد نے کہ معاملات عشق و محبت سے نا آشنا تھا پوچھا کہ حضور یہ دال کا کیا قصّہ
ہے۔ جنابِ داغ کہ دلِ داغدار رکھتے تھے یوں گویا ہوئے کہ ارے احمق! ماش کو اُلٹا کرو تو کیا بنتا ہے۔

شام۔ درحقیقت یہ اس بات کا اشارا تھا کہ میاں وقت ملاقات کےلئے موزوں نھیں۔ شام کو آنا۔

تو صاحبو! اس تھوڑا لکھے کو بہت جانئے اور سر دُھنئے جنابِ داغ پر

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:50:00 +0000

Conned by the Private 'Federal Reserve'

Here's an excellent video from a respectable American.

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:24:00 +0000

FTTH in Japanese Market

(Left): Mr Masato Taguchi, Manager, New Project Development Team and (Right)Mr Wataru Kambe, General Manager FTTH Products and Promotion Office, Sumitomo Corporation

Japan has seen a phenomenal growth in the FTTU market in recent years. Mr Kambe, General Manager of Sumitomo Japan paid us a visit with Mr Tomohiro Osawa and Mr Masato Taguchi. Sumitomo is a significant player in the world Optics market and makes Fiber Optic Cable, Connecters, Splicers, Optic Splitters and other Optical components. The Fusion splicer world market is led by Fujikura with around 40% market share and Sumitomo at a close 30%.

Nayatel PON network in islamabad is designed with a radius of 20km whereas in Tokyo the radius of a PON would be close to 5km due to the density of customers. The Nayatel PON is used by banks and other commercial entities whereas in Japan most of the carriers, banks and enterprises prefer to have dedicated Point-to-Point links.

On the rise of the broadband in Japan, Mr Kambe told us that Japanese housewives were fond of having blogs and uploading Videos and Photographs. On this, I thanked God that Pakistani housewives had not developed this habit which would give them one extra excuse to boot their hubbies. However, this might just be the reason to have a Japanese wife lol. This is why the sages have said that is a dangerous species. So, these japanese housewives are among a growing crowd demanding more and more bandwidth.

The other chunk of this crowd is youngsters who want to stay indoors and don't want to move around too much. Couch Potatoes. They also want to be able to work remotely. And ADSL just doesn't cut it. So PON is THE way to go. While Nayatel PON is BPON (and soon to be GPON), GEPON rules in Japan.

Another interesting comparison is that of Electric power. There is no concept of a power outage in Japan so the FTTU installations are not supplied with a UPS as in Pakistan. All Nayatel installations in Islamabad are supplied with a custom UPS which powers the Optical Network Terminal (ONT), the box in which the fiber terminates. The UPS typically provides eight hours of backup for Triple play services. In Japan, power backup (generators) is usually found in government buildings or hospitals.

Among the interesting Sumitomo products were Field Assembled Connecters. This nifty little thing allows the fiber technicians to connectorize fiber on-the-spot without the need for a splicing machine!! This is way cool! Another item of interest was the bend-insensitive fiber. You could literally take this fiber optic cable and wrap it around a pencil and it would still show zero optical loss !. Way to go Sumitomo!!

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:29:00 +0000

Mobilink Infinity: A good business Case?
A hundred Million dollars and three months later, the Mobilink Infinity Customer base in Karachi, stands at a dismal thousand customers. Does Wimax really make a business case?

I'm not aware of the RF planning details of Mobilink Infinity project but the upcoming WiTribe Wimax from Burraq Telecom (now Qatar Telecom) RF Planning is based on 90% indoor Wimax CPEs and only 10% outdoor Wimax CPEs. Failure of Wateen Telecom's Wimax had poor RF planning as one of the major factors responsible for the failure. Wateen designed the network on the assumption that a very high number of customers would be using Outdoor Wimax CPEs. Also, Wateen used the existing infrastructure of Warid Telecom, a GSM provider and Wateen Telecom's sister concern.

While I cannot predict the future, from the ground view, it does not look like Wimax will make it to Long Term Evolution (LT).

Users on DSL or FTTU are not going to switch to wimax just for fun. In such a situation, one really needs to re-assess Wimax as a viable business case.

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:49:00 +0000

Mobilink Launches Wimax Service in Karachi

Mobilink launched it's Wimax Services in Karachi. Branded Mobilink Infinity, this service will be competing directly with Wateen's flawed Wimax offering.

Mobilink Infinity rates are quite reasonable. CPE Cost is Rs 12,000 (approx.USD 160) which is being offered at a subsidized cost of Rs 6000 (usd 85 approx). One-tme setup charges are Rs 2000 (usd 30 approx). These have been waived off at the initial launch. Let's see how the Mobilink offering fares in Karachi.

Update linuxgeek has been using Mobilink Infinity in Karachi. Click here to read about his experience.

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:16:00 +0000

Phillip Jopa, CTO Allied Telesis delivering his presentation

Allied-Telesis Holds Seminar in Islamabad

Allied Telesis (formerly Allied Telesyn), held a seminar on its products and on Triple Play rollouts in general highlighting their integrated Multiservice Access Platform (iMAP) at Serena Islamabad.

This box does all you can imagine ... and Allied Telesys of course pitched it to be superior to Cisco and Juniper solutions.

Nah...it doesn't do GPON. It does do GEPON. And lots of other stuff.

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:57:00 +0000

Nayatel Chooses Tellabs to roll out Next Generation SDH Network

Nayatel has chosen the Tellabs Next-Generation SDH platform to roll out its NG-SDH Network. Geared towards providing legacy TDM services to the market, Tellabs platform provides TDM, Assured Ethernet as well as CWDM and DWDM capability.

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:32:00 +0000

Nayatel and Wateen Form First End-to-End MPLS VPN
Nayatel and Wateen Telecom successfully commissioned an MPLS IP VPN for a customer. This is the first InterProvider MPLS VPN between two providers in Pakistan that I am aware of. The last mile in Islamabad is provided by Nayatel on its MPLS Metro and the last mile in Lahore is provided by Wateen Telecom.

A few months back, I asked TWA1 and PTCL to form the Interprovider MPLS VPN with Nayatel. TWA1 was busy at that moment and from PTCL my email elicited no reply as usual.

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:21:00 +0000

Meeting on the .PK Future at PTA Headquaters

The dot PK Hullabaloo

Someone once quipped that the best workers in the world were Pakistanis and the worst ones were Pakistanis working in a group. I couldn't agree more. Not directly connected to this is Rodney King's quote that was caught on tape as ruthless L.A.P.D. officers beat him "Can't we all get along?". With Pakistani mind, there could be more serious fundamental questions like "Why in the hell do I want to get along?" or "Who the f*** are you to tell me to get along?". Sigh.

Ashar Nisar, from UET 82 session, and of course my university senior has been running PKNIC, the company that manages Pakistan's top level Domain .PK since the last sixteen years.

First, back in the 1980s, Pakistan Telecomunications Company (ala PTCL) tried it's garangutan ego to 'save' the PK domain from a Pakistani working out of the US. Thank God that PTCL failed. Hmmm... we never hear of PTCL's successes do we :-)

After a while, the National Telecommunications Corporation (NTC) caught the same virus of conquering the .PK domain. Thank God that they failed miserably as well. NTC quotes 'national security' concerns for bringing the .PK 'back home'. 'Masud Saab, we are very concerned about National Security and what the Americans could do if they changed the records of the .PK TLD in the US' said a Colonel. 'But Colonel....are the Americans going to do it', I asked. 'Well they could', he said. 'Yes, Colonel. And what if they screw the Root Servers controlling the .net, .com, .org and other Top Level Domain?. That would affect the whole world!'. Seeing that I was not impressed with his argument, he quickly changed the topic. Had NTC got the .PK domain, I can bet that the turn around time for a process that took one minute would have gone to a year!!

Finally, Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) woke up and realized what a great golden-egg-laying chick the PKNIC was. So far so good. The .PK TLD is still controlled and maintained by PKNIC. What does a regulator have to do with something like a .PK TLD?

At the meeting called by PTA on the topic, I was surprised by the ignorance of the people from public and even IT companies who did not have a clue to how the Domain Name System (DNS) worked. One person quipped... 'NADRA ka sara data PKNIC say paas ho kay jaata hay' (all data of the National Database passes through PKNIC). On hearing this, I seriously looked around to find a wall to bang my head against it :-). Strangely enough, the PTA clock showed the GMT+5 timezone whereas PTA ordered the whole nation to switch to the GMT+6 timezone at Midnight of 1st June, 2008. A legless man teaching running :-)

The PTA Clock... An hour behind the nation

Coming back to Why can't we all get along? paradigm, why can't we just let PKNIC run the .PK domain. Can't we just a moment appreciate the good that a person or company is doing?

Seriously, we need to learn to give credit where credit is due. Lets at least pretend to have a big heart!

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:25:00 +0000

Blast at Danish Embassy in Islamabad Kills 8

Just as I was leaving for Lunch with a friend, we heard a very loud blast. I took this picture from my office. You can see the smoke rising from the site of the blast in the picture below. It was only in the restaurant that we learned from GEO News that eight people had been killed in this blast which took place in the parking of the Denmark Embassy. This country is really going to the dogs!

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Mon, 26 May 2008 08:11:00 +0000

SEAMEWE-4 Cable Cut again near Singapore
The SEAMEWE-4 Cable system was cut about 46km off Singapore today which resulted in the internet traffic on the Pakistan's Upstream Provider TW1 being blackholed for sometime.

At the moment, no official email has been recieved from the SEAMEWE-4 NOC although an estimated repair time is four days.

The Western segment of SEAMEWE-4 is fine at the moment. PTCL traffic is fine as well since they load balance on SEAMEWE-3 and FLAG cable systems.

Now lets wait for the news as to how this particular cable cut occurred.

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:41:00 +0000

DIALLOG all set to Launch EV-DO

Diallog is a CDMA-based Local Loop operator in Islamabad/Rawalpindi area. Operating in the 450 Mhz spectrum, Diallog currently serves about 60,000 customers in the region. Diallog has been offering CDMA based 1x data since quite some time.

But now Diallog is all set to offer High Speed Data using EVDO (Evolution Data-Only). Mr Artem, the CEO, today showed us the combo Wifi/EVDO and the USB-based EVDO teminals. The EVDO can provide 2Mbps+ of downloads and 1.8Mbps of upload. On an average, a user can easliy get 500-600 Kbps of data throughput.

When this is launched, this is certainly going to become another alternative for bandwidth-hungry rambos like myself :-).

Combo EVDO / Wifi box ideal for home use. About 150 usd

USB-based EVDO terminals are also available in different forms. The problem with them is that the closer to the laptop they are, the more likely they are to decrease data speeds since the laptops are not that well shielded. If you have used PCMCIA cards for GRPS/EDGE on GSM networks (such as those from Mobilink, Telenor and the like), you will find out that their speed is not that good when you compare them with the thoughtput on the same network using a modem that is placed a bit far from your laptop.

A four-port switch is built-in as is a USB port. The unit has four antennas. Two for Wifi and two for CDMA.

USB-based EVDO terminals. True High-speed data connectivity on-the-go.

EVDO vs Wimax vs GPRS/EGDE vs FTTH

Diallog's EVDO launch is definity going to be a lucrative option for bandwidth-hungry users. Compared to the GSM operators pathetic GPRS/EDGE performance, EVDO looks promising. I'll try to get a terminal and do some testing. At the moment, I use Mobilink GPRS/EDGE which is offered for a flat Rs 500 / month (approx. usd 10) fee. Yeah, I don't pay for it...

Mobilink's GPRS/EDGE coverage is good on the Lahore-Islamabad motorway where Blackberry service is available all along the motorway. In Lahore, GPRS coverage is truly pathetic in Model Town where I live and EDGE is no where to be found in Lahore. But then for a flat 10 usd per month, this is not a bad deal. In Islamabad on EDGE, typical ping times to yahoo.com, for example, are 600ms-700ms at best and more than a second at worst.

Wimax is what I called a Future-Failure technology. No way is this technology making it to 4G. Already, due to Wateen's greatly flawed rollout of it's Motorola-based Wimax network, Mobilink has delayed the commercial launch of its Wimax rollout gearing for densely populated cities like Karachi and Lahore instead of Islamabad.

Telenor charges an exhorbitant amount of money for their EDGE connectivity since it is volume-based. So the more your usage on the internet, the higher the bill. Since the Telenor sites are all powered by newer Nokia-Siemens BTS sites, they are all EDGE enabled. I haven't had a chance to try Telenor EDGE yet.

Warid Telecom BTS sites are powered by Ericsson which is also EDGE enabled. I haven't had a chance (i.e. didn't get time) to test this yet. I will test EDGE on both of these networks soon.

Nayatel FTTH remains the unbeatable value-for-money in the market at the moment. Not because I work for Nayatel but because of the technology. On my home FTTU connection, I get 5Mbps plus of data from the internet at which all these other technologies cannot shake their stick at :-).

If you need mobility and you are based in the Islamabad region, certainly the Diallog EVDO is going to be better than the GSM data counterparts.

You might have noted that I have not mentioned PTCL's EVDO. From the looks of things, PTCL will be a dead horse within the next five years. It is unfortunate that it was sold to Etisalat which is a monopoly itself in the UAE and has no idea of what to do in a competitive market. I will do a separate piece on PTCL's EVDO.

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:20:00 +0000

Cisco 7609 Bugs Galore

The Cisco IOS is, I read somewhere, not unlike women :-). Just when you think that you know her, you see a new side that you hadn't seen before. Oh Yeah! :-)

The Nayatel Core team has been able to create two new Bug IDs in the Cisco 7609s IOS. The first one is CSCsh60112. This bug is a real nasty one. Imagine this: all internet traffic entering the Autonomous System stops. You get a call telling you that the Internet is down. You login and check the BGP neighbor relationship and find that all neighbors are up and reachable. Next, you check the IGP. Everything seems to be in order. ISIS is working perfectly. Hmmm. You dialup and reach the internet through a 2nd provider and check the routes on the Internet. Voila! BGP is not advertising the subnets anymore!.

A quick show ip route on the Internet gateway confirms that the nailed-down /24s which were being redistributed into the IGP have disappeared. You login to the PE router on which the redistribution was taking place and check the routes using the show running-config command. Well, the routes ARE shown. But they are not being redistributed anymore!!!!.

Solution: You decide to remove the static routes to Null0 and put them back again. This solves the problem and since the Gateway now learns the /24s from the IGP, BGP starts advertising those routes again. When 622Mbps of Internet connectivity goes down, keeping one's cool is the best thing to do :-). And that reminds me of the decade old Sysadmin rule: Rule #1. Don't Panic. Rule #2. Don't Panic. Rule #3. Don't Panic.... Words to Live By!

Here's the official Bug Detail: After SSO failover, static Null0 routes are not seen in the RIB but are still seen in the running config!

As if this wasn't enough along came Bug CSCsm32555. The Bug description is "Unable to Route traffic across MPLS VRF to GRE peer". The Customer had multiple sites connected via Layer 3 MPLS VPNs. A remote site did not have MPLS-enabled ISP so I decided to bring the traffic via a GRE tunnel and make it a part of the Customers VPN. Easier said than done. When the GRE tunnel was made part of the VRF, connectivity to the remote site (from where the GRE tunnel originated) was broken.

I terminated the tunnel on a 7206-VXR to ensure that this was an IOS bug. On the 7206, things were fine and it was proven that this was a 7609 IOS bug.

This bug is now resolved in 12.2(33.0.6)SRC!.

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:50:00 +0000

PTA to install NARUS Secure Suite at TWA1 Landing Station

In a bid to monitor H.323 and SIP traffic entering and exiting Pakistan, Pakistan Telecommunications Authority will be commissioning the NARUS-based monitoring system on May 1st, 2008 at TWA1's landing station in Karachi. A Juniper M320 is the router used for terminating trans-ocean links at the landing station. The basic purpose of this system, as we are told, is to ensure that no 'gray' voice traffic ends up through the internet in Pakistan. Such traffic should be terminated through the LDIs (Burraq Telecom, PTCL, and Wateen among others) who are licensed to do so.

This also raises serious concern regarding privacy of users legitimate voice traffic carried using Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, SKYPE and other popular programs in addition to a users Internet activity in general.

Here are some of NARUS 'features' as taken from the Narus website:

* Real-time data capture, classification and normalization at speeds from 100baseT to 10G/OC192 and Narus Virtual-Analyzer (IP data from network elements, e.g. SNMP data, flow data from Cisco or Juniper routers, GTP streams from SGSN and GGSN elements, log files such as syslog files from network hosts, etc.)

* Information on all IP traffic, regardless of the protocol or network type

* Utilizes full traffic flow and all network layers of visibility for accurate detection

Note that the NARUS system is already enabled on PTCL's ITI Infrastructure. TWA1 will be under the same monitoring now beginning May 1st 2008. Passive monitoring, that NARUS supports is fine as long as the intent is to stop the gray voice traffic. However, the same system can also be used to spy on anyone's Internet activity as long as the IP Address of the user is identified.

Phil Zimmerman wrote in the user guide of his famous PGP program that

If Privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy

Phil's essay Why I wrote PGP is a must read.

Meanwhile, I just ensured that encryption on my Internet connection is working fine. As Phil wrote: Its Personal. Its Private. And it's none of anyone's business!

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:53:00 +0000

RAD Asia Pacific Conference, Macau, China

Last month, I had the oppurtunity to attend and present a case study at RAD's Asia Pacific Conference in Macau China.

Macau is one of the largest gambling places in Asia. Its a beautiful city with a population of about 500,000. It was a portugese colony before Chinese got control of it. The immigration forms and the road signs have Portugese in addition to English and chinese.

To us Pakistanis, every single place outside Pakistan seems neater, tidier, more disciplined and very much 'out of Pakistan' :-).

noreply@blogger.com (Masud) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:29:00 +0000

PTA Orders all ISPs to implement URL filtering within Three Months

In a meeting at PTA today, which I attended as well, it was decided that all Service Providers would implement URL filtering solution individually. PTCL representative told the Member PTA that PTCL would bring the URL filtering service in production within a three month time period. TWA1 already has this ability.

The smaller Internet Service Providers would also have to implement the URL filtering solution since PTA doesn't want any finger-pointing at itself in case a URL is blocked.

Also, PTA has decided that in the future it will not issue orders for blocking an IP address. It will only order to block a specific URL.