Economic Justification / Rationale for MPLS

2002-10-01 Thread Shannon Lake
Ladies and Gentlemen: I have been conducting research looking for the economic justification for MPLS. I have some feedback, but sound rationale from the industry has eluded me thus far. I am looking for a paper, website, etc that explains the benefits of implementing MPLS (other than

Re: SPEWS removal (SPEWS: S1970, 65.107.235.160/27)

2002-10-01 Thread Michael L. Barrow
Ok -- I'm a dumbass. Sorry about this posting. Next time I'll drink my coffee before trying to read web pages. *sigh* -- Michael L. Barrow E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]P: 805-566-0885

slapper changed to udp 1812?

2002-10-01 Thread fingers
hi I might be totally off the mark here, but has slapper now changed to port 1812? This'll make it really difficult to filter, if you're using this port for RADIUS. I'm seing huge volumes of traffic, to what seem to be slapper infected hosts. I see 2 infected hosts, with 2343 and 2384 unique

Re: slapper changed to udp 1812?

2002-10-01 Thread Scott Call
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, fingers wrote: hi I might be totally off the mark here, but has slapper now changed to port 1812? This'll make it really difficult to filter, if you're using this port for RADIUS. We saw this yesterday, directed at a previously infected slapper.a (2002/udp

Updated ASN allocation to ARIN

2002-10-01 Thread Rob Thomas
Hi, NANOGers. A range of ASNs have been allocated to ARIN as of September 2002. The range is 26624 - 27647. You may wish to adjust your filters. The definitive list can be found here: http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers I have updated my bogus ASN monitoring to reflect these

Re: selective prepends...one more time

2002-10-01 Thread Leo Bicknell
Just to summarize the private replies I got about this feature. One network showed moderate use. All of the rest showed very limited use (count the customers using it on one hand or two). It was suggested by a few people that only the largest customers tend to use it, which may weigh in the

Re: Root DNS Server Issues?

2002-10-01 Thread Rob Thomas
Hi, John. ] We seem to be getting name resolution errors when we query any ] of the root servers, and this just started a hour or so ago. Everything looks OK here. I tried a few DNS traces and queries without any errors. http://www.cymru.com/DNS/dns.html http://www.cymru.com/DNS/dnstext.html

Re: Root DNS Server Issues?

2002-10-01 Thread Sean Donelan
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, John Neiberger wrote: We seem to be getting name resolution errors when we query any of the root servers, and this just started a hour or so ago. Anyone else noticing a problem? http://f.root-servers.org/ The web status pages for the F root server shows traffic dropping

Re: Root DNS Server Issues?

2002-10-01 Thread Sean Donelan
never mind, I didn't read the notes at the bottom of the page. The MRTG graphs are no longer being updated.

Re: Root DNS Server Issues?

2002-10-01 Thread John M. Brown
Here is for L, F also seems to reply. Tested from 8 different places on the net. OTW Transit splay on the test was 8 different providers. Can you give a sample of the errors you are seeing? Got a sample DIG line ?? John Brown Le Geek %dig l.root-servers.net com ns ; DiG 8.3

Re: Re: Root DNS Server Issues?

2002-10-01 Thread John Neiberger
Forgive me for being a DNS clunkhead. g I honestly don't know much about it, but I thought I'd post this to the list because it did appear to be a problem with the root servers, which would be A Bad Thing (tm). Probable dumb question: if I do an nslookup from a desktop directed at a root

Re: Re: Root DNS Server Issues?

2002-10-01 Thread John Neiberger
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Adam McKenna ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 07:46:00PM -0400, John Neiberger wrote: We're getting responses from the root servers, the names just aren't resolving. From a windows NT machine the error is Non- existent Domain.

Re: Root DNS Server Issues?

2002-10-01 Thread Rodney Joffe
John M. Brown wrote: Root servers don't resolve names other than the TLD's. Except when they do ;-) [rjoffe@layer9 rjoffe]$ dig a.gtld-servers.net www.tombannenchev.com ; DiG 9.2.1 a.gtld-servers.net www.tombannenchev.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode:

Re: Root DNS Server Issues?

2002-10-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 17:11:00 PDT, Rodney Joffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [rjoffe@layer9 rjoffe]$ dig @a.gtld-servers.net www.tombannenchev.com Well... a.gtld-servers.net isn't a root server (got bit by that myself a while ago ;) and even then... tombannenchev.com. 172800 IN NS

Thanks! Re: Re: Root DNS Server Issues?

2002-10-01 Thread John Neiberger
Thanks to everyone who helped me out and I hope you don't mind me making a fool of myself. :-) I (and others that I work with) learned quite a lot from your responses to this little incident. If I have to be a little bit foolish to learn something valuable, then so be it! g Thanks

Root DNS Server Issues?

2002-10-01 Thread John Neiberger
We seem to be getting name resolution errors when we query any of the root servers, and this just started a hour or so ago. Anyone else noticing a problem? John

Re: Re: Root DNS Server Issues?

2002-10-01 Thread David Van Duzer
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 17:46, John Neiberger wrote: We're getting responses from the root servers, the names just aren't resolving. From a windows NT machine the error is Non- existent Domain. Ah, I just noticed something. The packet length for the DNS response is supposed to be 510

Re: Re: Root DNS Server Issues?

2002-10-01 Thread John M. Brown
Don't worry about being a DNS clunkhead. Though some on this list will banish you for trying to learn. The root servers are non-recursive. Otherwords they only answer for what they know. WHat you are asking for is a server to be recursive in its answer to your query. This is what a ISPs