Re: REVERSE DNS Practices.

2009-03-21 Thread Mark Tinka
On Saturday 21 March 2009 06:38:55 pm br...@yoafrica.com wrote: > Slighty related... > > Can people please post their recommended reverse dns > naming conventions for a small ISP with growth and > scalability in mind. I already have one drawn up, but I > would like to contrast and compare :D As

Re: Redundant AS's

2009-03-21 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Heather Schiller wrote: I don't think old vs new really matters.. pardon me for sticking w/ ARIN in this example.. I can follow their fee structure easiest - and doesn't have the old vs new: (https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html) ARIN charges $100/yr for ASN's ..

RE: REVERSE DNS Practices.

2009-03-21 Thread Frank Bulk
The recommendations in this draft proposal have worked for me: http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-msullivan-dnsop-generic-naming-schemes-00.txt Frank -Original Message- From: br...@yoafrica.com [mailto:br...@yoafrica.com] Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 5:39 AM To: John Levine Cc: nanog@nanog

Re: Redundant AS's

2009-03-21 Thread bmanning
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:44:23AM -0700, Randy Bush wrote: > > perhaps there is a lesson here. move on to 4-byte asns. > > randy er... 'parm me sir, but aren't -all- ASNs 4 bytes? i mean, for lo these many years we cheated and only used the first two bytes... but the

Re: Redundant AS's

2009-03-21 Thread Florian Weimer
* Randy Bush: > the real path is to move forward, increase income, and grow. Sure. I was enlightened when someone posted to a RIPE mailing list, "we are heading towards a future where address space is scarce" (my words, not his). But the exact opposite is true.

Re: Redundant AS's

2009-03-21 Thread Randy Bush
>> It takes me about 3-5 hours of work to track down and get an old >> unused ASN to be deallocated. How about updating the 2010 charging >> model so that LIRs that return ASNs are compensated? > > I don't think this is a good way of using RIR funds. Why should the > old guys receive even more s

Re: REVERSE DNS Practices.

2009-03-21 Thread jamie rishaw
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 8:00 AM, wrote: > the 20th or 21st century answer? > if you really don't care about the actual node, then you should map the > numbers to topologically significant names - after all, the reverse map > follows topology, not some goofball - layer 9 - ego tr

Re: Redundant AS's

2009-03-21 Thread Florian Weimer
* Hank Nussbacher: > Older LIRs have more allocations which compensates for the time > factor of the algorithm. Older allocations need almost no human > handling by the RIR vs a new LIR of a year which has a oodles of > tickets that need human intervention. And how much of that is the result of

Re: REVERSE DNS Practices.

2009-03-21 Thread bmanning
the 20th or 21st century answer? if you really don't care about the actual node, then you should map the numbers to topologically significant names - after all, the reverse map follows topology, not some goofball - layer 9 - ego trip thing. or - the more modern approach is to let the node (

Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 14, Issue 44

2009-03-21 Thread Mike Bailey
nanog-requ...@nanog.org wrote: hi, I want to ask some folks out there that maintain reverse DNS queries of their respective IP blocks. I want to know if there is a need for me to contact my upstream provider. I am in charge of 2 /24's under LACNIC. I've already registered my DNS servers on LACN

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2009-03-21 Thread david gathu
i am getting one volume of the list thats vol 14.i sure bet i am missing some vol's. can you give me a hand on this anyone -- regards DAVID

Re: REVERSE DNS Practices.

2009-03-21 Thread bruce
Slighty related... Can people please post their recommended reverse dns naming conventions for a small ISP with growth and scalability in mind. I already have one drawn up, but I would like to contrast and compare :D Thanks On 21 Mar 2009 10:32:30 -, John Levine wrote: >> I want to ask s

Re: REVERSE DNS Practices.

2009-03-21 Thread John Levine
> I want to ask some folks out there that maintain reverse DNS queries >of their respective IP blocks. I want to know if there is a need for >me to contact my upstream provider. I am in charge of 2 /24's under >LACNIC. I've already registered my DNS servers on LACNIC. but for some >weird reason it'