Re: Is there an established method for reporting/getting removed a company with 100% false peeringdb entries?

[James Breeden]

Yeah, I know a couple of people who have thrown massive peeringdb operations up 
just to make them look big but their routing table analysis looks nothing like 
what they say they have.


James W. Breeden

Managing Partner



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From: NANOG  on behalf of Eric 
Kuhnke 
Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2021 6:14 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org list 
Subject: Is there an established method for reporting/getting removed a company 
with 100% false peeringdb entries?

First, take a look at this:

https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/18894


Now look at these (or use your own BGP table analysis tools):

https://bgp.he.net/AS18894

https://stat.ripe.net/18894

The claimed prefixes announced, traffic levels and POPs appear to have no 
correlation with reality in global v4/v6 BGP tables.

It is also noteworthy that I have inquired with a number of persons I know who 
are active in network engineering in NYC, and nobody has ever encountered this 
company.

Re: telia selling carrier ops to polhem infra

[James Breeden]

Still smells Swedish to me. Probably will end up with a different name, but 
other than that I don't see much changing. Sounds more like a spinoff than 
acquisition.


James W. Breeden

Managing Partner



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From: NANOG  on behalf of 
aar...@gvtc.com 
Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 9:36 AM
To: Nanog@nanog.org 
Subject: telia selling carrier ops to polhem infra


I wonder how this will affect those who have Telia as an upstream Internet 
provider?  Will it be business as usual and just different company name?  Or 
maybe other changes to come?



Telia Company today (10-06-2020) announces that it has reached an agreement 
with Polhem Infra for the sale of its international carrier business, Telia 
Carrier...

https://www.teliacompany.com/en/news/press-releases/2020/10/telia-company-reaches-agreement-to-sell-its-carrier-operation-to-polhem-infra-and-proposes-to-reinstate-the-original-dividend-for-2019/







Aaron

aar...@gvtc.com

Partial vs Full tables

[James Breeden]

I have been doing a lot of research recently on operating networks with partial 
tables and a default to the rest of the world. Seems like an easy enough 
approach for regional networks where you have maybe only 1 upstream transit and 
some peering.

I come to NANOG to get feedback from others who may be doing this. We have 3 
upstream transit providers and PNI and public peers in 2 locations. It'd 
obviously be easy to transition to doing partial routes for just the peers, 
etc, but I'm not sure where to draw the line on the transit providers. I've 
thought of straight preferencing one over another. I've thought of using BGP 
filtering and community magic to basically allow Transit AS + 1 additional AS 
(Transit direct customer) as specific routes, with summarization to default for 
the rest. I'm sure there are other thoughts that I haven't had about this as 
well

And before I get asked why not just run full tables, I'm looking at regional 
approaches to being able to use smaller, less powerful routers (or even layer3 
switches) to run some areas of the network where we can benefit from 
summarization and full tables are really overkill.



James W. Breeden

Managing Partner



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Legacy Concentric/XO Web Services Blocking?

[James Breeden]

NANOG,

Looking for anyone from XO or Legacy Concentric web hosting services (now 
VDMS). I have a mutual customer that is getting caught at some form of Web App 
firewall coming from a specific IP range.

Thank you!


James W. Breeden
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RE: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

[James Breeden]

Hmm. Wonder if this can be used to cancel some cogent services... I mean, they 
technically aren't providing access to the full internet now. 路‍♂️樂



Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note9, an AT 5G Evolution capable smartphone



 Original message 
From: Rich Kulawiec 
Date: 1/7/20 7:02 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: North American Network Operators' Group 
Subject: Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 04:54:22PM -0600, Mike Hammett wrote:
> That said, if there's a stern warning about Cogent abusing the system,
> maybe their customers finding out is a good thing for the overall
> community. ;-)

And that is what I would suggest: reply to all queries with a notice
that explains what is happening, why it's happening, and provides
contact information for Cogent executives: preferably their *personal*
email addresses and phone numbers.

---rsk

RE: AT AS7018 - Filter Changes

[James Breeden]

Yes. That's the ticket I've had open for 4 days. Do they not support IRR based 
filtering? I think that's the hangup we're having...



Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note9, an AT 5G Evolution capable smartphone



 Original message 
From: TJ Trout 
Date: 12/23/19 6:07 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: James Breeden 
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: AT AS7018 - Filter Changes

Did you try opening a ticket with express ticketing for a route change? they 
normally handle them almost instantly every time I've ever added or changed a 
prefix

On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 2:00 PM James Breeden 
mailto:ja...@arenalgroup.co>> wrote:
Anyone here high enough in AT IP engineering that can grab a lifecycle ticket 
and make some filter changes on a BGP session? I’ve had a ticket open to make 
some transit filter adjustments for almost 4 days now and no updates and nobody 
seems to understand what RADB is….

Feel free to hit me offlist.


James W. Breeden
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AT AS7018 - Filter Changes

[James Breeden]

Anyone here high enough in AT IP engineering that can grab a lifecycle ticket 
and make some filter changes on a BGP session? I've had a ticket open to make 
some transit filter adjustments for almost 4 days now and no updates and nobody 
seems to understand what RADB is

Feel free to hit me offlist.


James W. Breeden
Managing Partner

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Sprint Operations

[James Breeden]

Hello,

If anyone from Sprint Mobile operations is on list, could you reach out to me 
off list? Having issues with some ip ranges properly communicating with your 
WiFi Calling and SMS over IP hosts.

James

Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note9, an AT 5G Evolution capable smartphone

Hill Country Telephone Cooperative

[James Breeden]

Anyone from HCTC operations on here? Trying to reach your wholesale sales team, 
web contacts aren't getting answered. Please reach out offlist.
Thanks!


James W. Breeden

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Re: colocation in Kansas City

[James Breeden]

I've done business with Tierpoint before but not in KC. Good facilities, kinda 
middle of the road support - they take care of you though. Fairly easy to work 
with. I remember security being kinda lax, you signed in on a kiosk but it 
didnt really integrate with the doors and you just kinda picked up a general 
visitor access card to go in at the time.. hopefully that's changed by now.


James W. Breeden

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From: NANOG  on behalf of Tom Ammon 

Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 10:06:04 PM
To: NANOG
Subject: colocation in Kansas City

Does anybody here do business with Tierpoint in Kansas City? Do you recommend 
them?

Tom

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Re: Service Provider NetFlow Collectors

[James Breeden]

Jim, please send me additional information on your solution as well, we're in 
the market for a flow analytics solution.



James W. Breeden

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From: NANOG  on behalf of jim deleskie 

Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 8:30:30 AM
To: Erik Sundberg
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Service Provider NetFlow Collectors

Erik,

  Feel free to ping me, I own Mimir Networks, we have a full-service flow 
collection/DDoS detection and mitigation system that I'd love to show you.  We 
built it having been a long time user of other commercial and open source 
tools, for very large deployments.  Would be happy to give you a free trial of 
the system.

-jim
www.mimirnetworks.com

On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 11:30 PM Erik Sundberg 
mailto:esundb...@nitelusa.com>> wrote:

Hi Nanog….



We are looking at replacing our Netflow collector. I am wonder what other 
service providers are using to collect netflow data off their Core and Edge 
Routers. Pros/Cons… What to watch out for any info would help.



We are mainly looking to analyze the netflow data. Bonus if it does ddos 
detection and mitigation.



We are looking at

ManageEngine Netflow Analyzer

PRTG

Plixer – Scrutinizer

PeakFlow

Kentik

Solarwinds NTA





Thanks in advance…



Erik





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Re: Centurylink/Level3 WDM?

[James Breeden]

followup: they fixed it. Accidental fiber roll on their interface facing us 
during maintenance.



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From: NANOG  on behalf of James Breeden 

Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 12:48:25 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Centurylink/Level3 WDM?


Anyone else having issues with Centurylink IP (Legacy Level3/3356)  in/around 
Houston, or WDM issues between Houston and San Antonio?




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Centurylink/Level3 WDM?

[James Breeden]

Anyone else having issues with Centurylink IP (Legacy Level3/3356)  in/around 
Houston, or WDM issues between Houston and San Antonio?




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RE: routeviews.org pending delete

[James Breeden]

Kudos to Eric for finding my inquiry and getting us all up and running on 
Routeviews. Thanks!


From: NANOG  On Behalf Of James Breeden
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2018 12:17 PM
To: Eric Smith ; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: routeviews.org pending delete

Eric

Is this ownership /steward change why I haven't been able to reach anyone at 
Routeviews via the web or help addresses recently? I've been trying to set up 
some new multi hop sessions for a couple networks I operate.

Thanks
James




Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note9, an AT 4G LTE smartphone


 Original message 
From: Eric Smith mailto:emsm...@routeviews.org>>
Date: 12/21/18 1:25 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: nanog@nanog.org<mailto:nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: RE: routeviews.org pending delete

Hey folks,

Thanks for the heads-up, we've already been working through this with Network 
Solutions.  The project has switched stewards recently and the renewal 
notification got lost in the transition.  The NS records should point back to 
the correct routeviews.org address now.  We're also working through the 
permanent transfer of ownership to avoid this in the future.

Eric

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:
RE: routeviews.org pending delete
Date:
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:29:03 +
From:
David Guo via NANOG mailto:nanog@nanog.org>>
Reply-To:
David Guo mailto:da...@xtom.com>>
To:
Siyuan Miao mailto:avel...@misaka.io>>, 
nanog@nanog.org<mailto:nanog@nanog.org> 
mailto:nanog@nanog.org>>

It's your cache resule



root@server ~ # whois routeviews.org

Domain Name: ROUTEVIEWS.ORG

Registry Domain ID: D48496876-LROR

Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.networksolutions.com

Registrar URL: http://www.networksolutions.com

Updated Date: 2018-12-17T18:54:32Z

Creation Date: 2000-12-14T23:05:47Z

Registry Expiry Date: 2019-12-14T23:05:47Z

Registrar Registration Expiration Date:

Registrar: Network Solutions, LLC

Registrar IANA ID: 2

Registrar Abuse Contact Email: ab...@web.com<mailto:ab...@web.com>

Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8003337680

Reseller:

Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited 
https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited

Domain Status: autoRenewPeriod https://icann.org/epp#autoRenewPeriod

Registrant Organization:

Registrant State/Province: OR

Registrant Country: US

Name Server: GUELAH.SHRUBBERY.NET

Name Server: PHLOEM.UOREGON.EDU

DNSSEC: unsigned



From: NANOG mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org>> 
On Behalf Of Siyuan Miao
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2018 8:34 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org<mailto:nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: routeviews.org pending delete



All,



routeviews.org is pending delete now.



Domain Name: ROUTEVIEWS.ORG

Registry Domain ID: D48496876-LROR

Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.networksolutions.com

Registrar URL: http://www.networksolutions.com

Updated Date: 2018-12-17T09:33:18Z

Creation Date: 2000-12-14T23:05:47Z

Registry Expiry Date: 2019-12-14T23:05:47Z

Registrar Registration Expiration Date:

Registrar: Network Solutions, LLC

Registrar IANA ID: 2

Registrar Abuse Contact Email: ab...@web.com<mailto:ab...@web.com>

Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8003337680

Reseller:

Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited 
https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited

Domain Status: autoRenewPeriod https://icann.org/epp#autoRenewPeriod

Registrant Organization: Network Solutions LLC

Registrant State/Province: FL

Registrant Country: US

Name Server: NS1.PENDINGRENEWALDELETION.COM

Name Server: NS2.PENDINGRENEWALDELETION.COM

DNSSEC: unsigned

URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form 
https://www.icann.org/wicf/)

>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2018-12-17T12:28:37Z <<<





routeviews.org.   86400 IN   NS   ns2.pendingrenewaldeletion.com.

routeviews.org.   86400 IN   NS   ns1.pendingrenewaldeletion.com.



I was wondering if there is anyone here can contact them to renew it if 
this project is still
alive.



Regards,

Siyuan

Re: routeviews.org pending delete

[James Breeden]

Eric

Is this ownership /steward change why I haven't been able to reach anyone at 
Routeviews via the web or help addresses recently? I've been trying to set up 
some new multi hop sessions for a couple networks I operate.

Thanks
James




Sent via the Samsung Galaxy Note9, an AT 4G LTE smartphone


 Original message 
From: Eric Smith 
Date: 12/21/18 1:25 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: routeviews.org pending delete

Hey folks,

Thanks for the heads-up, we've already been working through this with Network 
Solutions.  The project has switched stewards recently and the renewal 
notification got lost in the transition.  The NS records should point back to 
the correct routeviews.org address now.  We're also working through the 
permanent transfer of ownership to avoid this in the future.

Eric

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:
RE: routeviews.org pending delete
Date:
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:29:03 +
From:
David Guo via NANOG 
Reply-To:
David Guo 
To:
Siyuan Miao , nanog@nanog.org 

It’s your cache resule



root@server ~ # whois routeviews.org

Domain Name: ROUTEVIEWS.ORG

Registry Domain ID: D48496876-LROR

Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.networksolutions.com

Registrar URL: http://www.networksolutions.com

Updated Date: 2018-12-17T18:54:32Z

Creation Date: 2000-12-14T23:05:47Z

Registry Expiry Date: 2019-12-14T23:05:47Z

Registrar Registration Expiration Date:

Registrar: Network Solutions, LLC

Registrar IANA ID: 2

Registrar Abuse Contact Email: ab...@web.com

Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8003337680

Reseller:

Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited 
https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited

Domain Status: autoRenewPeriod https://icann.org/epp#autoRenewPeriod

Registrant Organization:

Registrant State/Province: OR

Registrant Country: US

Name Server: GUELAH.SHRUBBERY.NET

Name Server: PHLOEM.UOREGON.EDU

DNSSEC: unsigned



From: NANOG  On Behalf Of Siyuan Miao
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2018 8:34 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: routeviews.org pending delete



All,



routeviews.org is pending delete now.



Domain Name: ROUTEVIEWS.ORG

Registry Domain ID: D48496876-LROR

Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.networksolutions.com

Registrar URL: http://www.networksolutions.com

Updated Date: 2018-12-17T09:33:18Z

Creation Date: 2000-12-14T23:05:47Z

Registry Expiry Date: 2019-12-14T23:05:47Z

Registrar Registration Expiration Date:

Registrar: Network Solutions, LLC

Registrar IANA ID: 2

Registrar Abuse Contact Email: ab...@web.com

Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8003337680

Reseller:

Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited 
https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited

Domain Status: autoRenewPeriod https://icann.org/epp#autoRenewPeriod

Registrant Organization: Network Solutions LLC

Registrant State/Province: FL

Registrant Country: US

Name Server: NS1.PENDINGRENEWALDELETION.COM

Name Server: NS2.PENDINGRENEWALDELETION.COM

DNSSEC: unsigned

URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form 
https://www.icann.org/wicf/)

>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2018-12-17T12:28:37Z <<<





routeviews.org.   86400 IN   NS   ns2.pendingrenewaldeletion.com.

routeviews.org.   86400 IN   NS   ns1.pendingrenewaldeletion.com.



I was wondering if there is anyone here can contact them to renew it if 
this project is still
alive.



Regards,

Siyuan

Re: How to choose a transport(terrestrial/subsea)

[James Breeden]

I can't stress enough the importance of controlling your own route and even 
cable diversity. Require KMZs of the routes for any services you take 
(especially single path Wave type services). Put them in the contracts if you 
can.


I've had at least 1 situation where we had vendor diversity and what was 
supposed to be route diversity- 3 separate waves coming south and southeast out 
of a datacenter to 3 separate cities. Imagine my surprise when we took a outage 
one day that severed all 3 circuits. Yes all 3 circuits, going to 3 separate 
cities, on 3 separate carrier/s DWDM platforms, all happened to show up in the 
same sheath of cable at one location that happened to experience backhoe fade. 
Was not a good day



James W. Breeden

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From: NANOG  on behalf of Brandon Martin 

Sent: Monday, December 17, 2018 4:59:44 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: How to choose a transport(terrestrial/subsea)

On 12/17/18 3:51 PM, Mehmet Akcin wrote:
>
> One question, how much people care about vendor diversity? I do and did
> care. I don’t want to put all my eggs in one basket. Do you care? Thank you

There are advantages and disadvantages to vendor diversity.

As advantages, you won't be subject to complete loss of connection
because of a single dispute or provisioning/control plane issue with
that one vendor.  You can also more easily pit vendors against each
other for pricing if you are already vendor-diverse.

As a disadvantage, not only does vendor diversity obviously not imply
route diversity, but it will completely put the onus on you to ensure
route diversity if you want it.  With a single vendor, you can demand
that your circuits have route diversity and, assuming you trust them,
they have all the information they need to make that happen for you.
--
Brandon Martin

RE: Puerto Rico Internet Exchange

[James Breeden]

Mehmet,

My opinion to you (and I have no network in the Carribbean or interest in it 
other than a purely academic and technical exercise)  would be that you guys go 
ahead and start, even if you just initially split the cost of the switch and 
interfaces to peer among yourselves. Once you get a base established of a lot 
of routes available, it may give you better “clout” for getting some larger 
players to connect to your IX or at least help sponsor an extension over 
transport to a Miami reach?

Just thinking aloud.


James W. Breeden
Managing Partner

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From: NANOG  On Behalf Of Mehmet Akcin
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2018 3:27 PM
To: nanog 
Subject: Re: Puerto Rico Internet Exchange

It has been little over a year and we have been working on launching an 
internet exchange in puerto rico but of course hurricane and other things got 
in the way of achieving this.

We now have identified what we believe the right location (most of the isp’s 
have presence in this location) backbone/ip transit connectivity, local team to 
provide onsite support.

Having said that We have been engaged with several content delivery networks, 
OTTs but general feedback was that Puerto Rico was not on their radar for 2018 
hence delayed launch. Now we are talking to same players about 2019 but general 
answer seemed like people were satisfied enough to serve Puerto Rico from Miami.

Perhaps we are talking to really big CDNs, OTTs and we should engage 
differently however the level of interest is very low and I really don’t want 
to “build and they will come” again ;-)

Bottom line is, if there was an IXP in Puerto Rico similar to ones in Florida, 
I am trying to understand who would actually deploy (just speak to your company 
only please) because most of my assumptions were proven wrong ;-)

I guess I want to ask two questions, given its location in caribbean, does 
Puerto Rico need an internet exchange point? Would you join it?(it will be a 
membership based IXP where members share cost)

Mehmet

On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 4:27 AM Mehmet Akcin 
mailto:meh...@akcin.net>> wrote:
Hey there!

... ok this time I am not going to call it PRIX ;) well name doesn't matter 
really. Nearly 13 years ago I have attempted to start Puerto rico Internet 
exchange in San Juan. I have lived there over 5 years and i just wanted to 
really watch videos faster. The project somewhat died when i moved to LA but 
now there are few interested party to start an internet exchange in Puerto 
rico. The jsland historically had one of the slowest broadband/internet 
services which seemed to have improved in recent years however as of 2017 there 
still is not an IX in Puerto rico.

We , 3-4 internet engineers (on island and remote) , want to look into relaunch 
of this IX and hopefully find a way to keep local traffic exchanged at high 
speeds and low cost. We need expertise, and people who want to help any way 
they can.

We are trying to make this IX a not-for-profit one and we are looking at 
opeeating models to adapt which has worked incredibly well like Seattle IX.

We are hoping the relaunch to happen sometime in 2018. Thanks in advance hope 
to share more info and traffic data sometime , soon. Watch this space!

Mehmet
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Mehmet
+1-424-298-1903

Centurylink/Level3 Plans

[James Breeden]

Does anyone know what the plans or even watercooler chat is concerning 
Centurylink (AS209) and Level3 (AS3356) integration, direct peering, or 
continuing separation?

We are looking at a IP Transit deal involving one or both networks and while 
I'd love to have transit routes from both, I don't want to design to be shot in 
the foot later on either if they are talking about soon-to-be integrated or 
something.

TIA...

James W. Breeden
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Re: BGP Community Support WAS: Re: Cogent vs. HE ;-) WAS: Anyone using Cogent Ethernet

[James Breeden]

I've seen the onestep list but the presentation is helpful. I guess my question 
was moreso to the people side of communities vs the technicalities of 
communities - what ones do people find themselves using most often and what do 
they wish was available from providers that really isn't otherwise out there?



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From: christopher.mor...@gmail.com <christopher.mor...@gmail.com> on behalf of 
Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 1:07:29 PM
To: Mike Hammett
Cc: James Breeden; NANOG list
Subject: Re: BGP Community Support WAS: Re: Cogent vs. HE ;-) WAS: Anyone using 
Cogent Ethernet



On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 1:40 PM, Mike Hammett 
<na...@ics-il.net<mailto:na...@ics-il.net>> wrote:
These? :-)

https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog40/presentations/BGPcommunities.pdf


you could also probably get some good examples cribbed from the collection:
   https://onestep.net/communities/

BGP Community Support WAS: Re: Cogent vs. HE ; -) WAS: Anyone using Cogent Ethernet

[James Breeden]

While we're on the topic of BGP community support, I'd be interested in the 
greater group's favorites, pros, and cons of what you want to see in a BGP 
community support table/system from a provider. Taking notes for a customer..


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From: NANOG  on behalf of Mike Hammett 

Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 8:12 AM
Cc: NANOG list
Subject: Cogent vs. HE ;-) WAS: Anyone using Cogent Ethernet

If only they had decent BGP community support.




-
Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com

Midwest-IX
http://www.midwest-ix.com

- Original Message -

From: "Martin List-Petersen" 
To: "Michael Crapse" 
Cc: "Mike Hammett" , "NANOG list" 
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2018 8:24:46 PM
Subject: Re: Anyone using Cogent Ethernet

On 23/01/18 02:12, Michael Crapse wrote:
> Tier 1 just means they don't pay for ip transit themselves, only Peering.
> Doesn't mean that it's good transit.
> Best provider i've ever used is hurricane electric, actually a tier 2
> provider, but bigger/better than many tier 1s.

I'd still categorise Hurricane a lot better than Cogent.

Both quality and customer service wise.

/M




> On 22 January 2018 at 19:07, Martin List-Petersen  wrote:
>
>> On 22/01/18 20:05, Mike Hammett wrote:
>>
>>> I much prefer using WDM transport as opposed to Ethernet\VPLS transport
>>> due to it being significantly harder (I try not to say impossible) to
>>> oversubscribe. That said, it isn't always available at a decent rate at a
>>> given location.
>>>
>>> Cogent has a reputation (right or wrong) for running things a little hot.
>>>
>>> Have any of you used Cogent Ethernet\VPLS services? What are you
>>> experiences? Offlist is fine if you don't want it public.
>>>
>>
>> Never use them without a backup alternative. I've seen more outages, that
>> one would want to ever see from a provider, that would like to be
>> categorised as Tier1.
>>
>> Especially, when some of these are longer than expected, because there
>> were no cold-spares in the country and the cold-spare needed missed the
>> flight.
>>
>> /M
>> --
>> Airwire Ltd. - Ag Nascadh Pobail an Iarthair
>> http://www.airwire.ie
>> Phone: 091-395 000
>> Registered Office: Moy, Kinvara, Co. Galway, 091-395 000 - Registered in
>> Ireland No. 508961
>>
>


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Ireland No. 508961

MultiCarrier Fiber Mapping Tools

[James Breeden]

Anyone aware of competitors to the NEF FiberLocator tool out there?


Fiberlocator has gotten way too pricey in my mind. They used to give a free 
seat for giving them your map but they only give like 10% off now.


Thanks in advance.



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AS Numbers unused/sitting for long periods of time

[James Breeden]

Before I take this to the ARIN PPML, wanted to get NANOG's thoughts.


I'm amazed at the number of AS numbers that are assigned, but not actively 
being used. I'm not talking just like they are offline for a week or month, 
this is complete non-use of the AS in the global routing table within *years*. 
They are completely abandoned resources - Whois data is inaccurate by 5-10 
years, no routeviews data in the same time period, the owning organization (if 
you can find it) scratches their heads about responding whether they use it or 
not, etc.


I know we're currently not in a push to get AS numbers or close to exhaustion, 
but I do believe that people who have global AS numbers should have a 
requirement to use them or return them to the global pool. Am I the only one 
thinking this?


And before you come back with "Well they may be using it internally where it 
doesn't need to be in the GRT" - that's why we have Private AS numbers.


I.e. some form of ARIN or global policy that basically says "If AS number not 
routed or whois updated or used in 24 months, said AS number can be public 
noticed via mailing list and website and then revoked and reissued to a 
pending, approved AS request"


Just thinking aloud. Happy New Year all!


James W. Breeden

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4 or smaller digit ASNs

[James Breeden]

Hello NANOG...

I have a client interested in picking up a new AS number but they really want 
it to be 3 or 4 digits in length.

Is there a process to request this from ARIN, or doss anyone know of unused 
ASns fitting this that anyone is looking to sell for some quick cash?

Thanks!
James




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RE: NANOG 70 network diagram and upstream

[James Breeden]

Yeah, I was wondering about that 4x100G. is that a necessity or a "because we 
can" move?


-Original Message-
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Eric Dugas
Sent: Friday, June 2, 2017 4:35 PM
To: Aaron Gould 
Cc: NANOG 
Subject: RE: NANOG 70 network diagram and upstream

And the 4x100G. That's four times the capacity of the network I work for.
~100k subs.

On Jun 2, 2017 16:54, "Aaron Gould"  wrote:

> Btw
>
> Wow, a ~2 million dollar boundary (dual PTX1000's) for the NANOG 70 
> conference geez
>
> -aaron
>
> -Original Message-
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Eric Kuhnke
> Sent: Friday, June 2, 2017 1:43 PM
> To: nanog@nanog.org list 
> Subject: NANOG 70 network diagram and upstream
>
> Just a small thing, but as one of the folks who used to work on the 
> core network gear of AS11404, the network diagram has something in it 
> that might confuse attendees as to who is really sponsoring the upstream:
>
> https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog70/diagram
>
> AS11404 was formerly known as Spectrum Networks, acquired in 2013 by 
> Wavedivision Holdings LLC (Wave Broadband) and became the backbone of 
> the Wave network. It's a totally different thing than the Charter 
> service which is trademarked as as Spectrum.
>
> https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/11404
>
> The logo in the right side bubble there shouldn't be the 
> Charter/Spectrum trademarked font, but rather should be Wave, who 
> built the dark fiber into the hotel and are providing the upstream. 
> The last mile fiber into the hotel is Wave.
>
>
> -Eric
>
>

RE: RFC2544 Testing Equipment

[James Breeden]

When we had to do this once in a blue moon, we just bought a pair of old 
Agilent Framescopes off ebay. They worked great but we had issues getting 
reporting out of them. They had RJ45 and SFP on them. 

-Original Message-
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+james=arenalgroup...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of 
Nick Olsen
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 10:23 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RFC2544 Testing Equipment

 Greetings all,
  
 Looking for a good test set. Primary use will be testing L2 circuits (It'll 
technically be VPLS, But the test set will just see L2). Being able to test 
routed L3 would also be useful. Most of the sets I've seen are two sided, A 
"reflector" at the remote side, And the test set in hand run by the technician.
  
 Looking to test up to 1Gb/s at various packet sizes, Measure Packet loss, 
Jitter..etc. Primarily Copper, But if it had some form of optical port, I 
wouldn't complain. Outputting a report that we can provide to the customer 
would be useful, But isn't mandatory. Doesn't need anything fancy, Like MPLS 
awareness, VLAN ID's..etc. 

  
   Nick Olsen
 Sr. Network Engineer
 Florida High Speed Internet
 (321) 205-1100 x106

  

  
  

RE: Ingress filtering from an external cloud service to the internal network

[James Breeden]

Is it possible for you to get a private/direct connect service from your 
network perimeter to the cloud provider and eliminate using the public 
connectivity? 

Or because its Internet-based you have to use public connectivity? 

James W. Breeden
Managing Partner


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-Original Message-
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Torres, Matt
Sent: Thursday, May 4, 2017 7:47 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Ingress filtering from an external cloud service to the internal 
network

NANOG,

We have a hybrid cloud model that includes an external cloud service that needs 
to reach back into our internal network. The application documentation states 
that this connection cannot go through a proxy server. I am not in a position 
to redesign this solution or change the parameters. My question to NANOG is how 
to manage (filter/secure) the ingress traffic from the external cloud service. 
Past network guy managed inbound firewall rules based on the cloud-providers 
source IP address, but this wasn't sustainable and led to multiple outages as 
the external (source) IP has changed from time to time. I can define the 
destination ports well enough, but not the source IP addresses.

Any ideas on how I can filter this type of inbound traffic from an 
internet-based service?

Thanks
Matt

New ASN Assignments in ARIN

[James Breeden]

If requesting a new ASN assignment in the ARIN region these days, what block of 
ASNs is ARIN assigning from?

More curiosity than anything.


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RE: difference with caching when connected to telia internet

[James Breeden]

Shouldn't be. It could just be that the content on the cache locally is not 
what the user is requesting. 

-Original Message-
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Gould
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 9:59 AM
To: 'NANOG' 
Subject: difference with caching when connected to telia internet

Regarding, caching services like Netflix OCA and Google GGC, does anyone know 
if there is something strange that occurs when connected to Telia BGP
AS1299 ?  .meaning, if I have local Netflix/google caches, and then later I 
establish a BGP session for Internet with Telia/BGP 1299, would there be 
something that would make netflix and google caches reachable via Telia look 
better than my local ones ?!

 

-Aaron

 

RE: BGP Route Reflector - Route Server, Router, etc

[James Breeden]

Justin,

Fusion has run Route Reflection for some time as we didn't want to play full 
mesh. 

Our current design is that we have 2 routers that are designated as the route 
reflectors, and every other router maintains RR sessions with those. There is 
no real additional overhead as the BGP transactions and messaging are handled 
at the management plane of most routers, not the routing plane. Ours are 
directly on our Brocade MLXe.

As we are scaling past the initial build, we are running into certain minor 
routing hiccups dealing with remote routers sometime preferring routes from the 
reflectors vs their closer routes. We found this to be a function of ingesting 
transit and default routes directly into route reflector routers and that those 
routes tended to get preferred in the table than routes from other routers in 
the network. Our answer to this and what we are deploying this year is that we 
are picking a site per time zone to be a Route Reflector, which will give us 4 
RRs in the states, but we will not use sites that are Transit ingest sites. 
This way we are more balancing the BGP table across the entire network. Also, I 
believe we will move to default-free status this year with this same move. 

Happy to discuss more indepth offlist if you'd like. 

​-- 

James Breeden
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-Original Message-
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Justin Krejci
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2017 2:33 PM
To: NANOG ‎[nanog@nanog.org]‎ <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: BGP Route Reflector - Route Server, Router, etc

Nanog,

I am working on some network designs and am adding some additional routers to a 
BGP network. I'd like to build a plan of changing all of the existing routers 
over from full iBGP mesh to something more scalable (ie route reflection). 
Fortunately, I am also going to be able to decommission some older routers from 
the network and so shrinking the existing iBGP full mesh is something I am all 
too happy to spend time and energy on.

For the purpose of this thread though, I am not really interested in the route 
reflector vs confederation discussion.

In doing some research[1][2][3][4][5] I see a lot of discussions, config 
examples, etc on using route reflectors but most suggest picking a router, or 
more appropriately a set of routers, to become route reflectors within an ASN. 
I have not found many resources discussing using a non-router box as a route 
reflector (ie a device not necessarily in the forwarding path of the through 
traffic). I am thinking things like OpenBGPd and BIRD could make a good route 
reflector though they are most often discussed in the context of IXPs (ie eBGP 
sessions).

I am wondering if people can point me in the direction to some good resource 
material on how to select a good BGP route reflector design. Should I just dust 
off some 7206VXR routers to act as route reflectors? Use a few existing live 
routers and just add the responsibility of being route reflectors, is there a 
performance hit? Install and run BIRD on new server hardware? Buy some newer 
purpose built routers (Cisco, Juniper, Brocade, etc) to act as route reflectors 
and add them to the iBGP topology? GNS3 running IOS on server hardware? 
Something else? How many reflectors should be implemented? Two? Four?

What are the pros and cons of one design over another? On list or private off 
list replies would be great; I'd welcome real world experiences (especially any 
big gotchas or caveats people learned the hard way) as well as just links to 
previous discussions, PDFs, slideshows, etc. Heck even a good book suggestion 
that covers this topic would be appreciated.

[1] - iBGP-to-RR migration slideshow: 
http://meetings.ripe.net/ripe-42/presentations/ripe42-eof-bgp/sld015.html
[2] - General RR design issues: 
http://www.netcraftsmen.com/bgp-route-reflector-design-issues/
[3] - Video intro to RR from Cisco: 
http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/training-events/le31/le46/cln/qlm/CCIP/bgp/introducing-route-reflectors-2/player.html
[4] - Quagga and BIRD as RR example: 
https://bsdrp.net/documentation/examples/bgp_route_reflector_and_confederation_using_quagga_and_bird
[5] - Countless hours on youtube: 
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bgp+route+reflector

Lots more data is out there of course as that is part of my problem.

Thanks!

Justin