Re: New IANA allocations to RIPE NCC

2004-05-07 Thread Bastiaan Spandaw
On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 04:07, william(at)elan.net wrote: > On Sat, 8 May 2004, Bastiaan Spandaw wrote: > > > On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 03:30, william(at)elan.net wrote: > > > > > My understanding is that they have made twice as many ip6 allocations as > > > rest of the world combined! That is very i

Re: New IANA allocations to RIPE NCC

2004-05-07 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sat, 8 May 2004, Bastiaan Spandaw wrote: > On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 03:30, william(at)elan.net wrote: > > > My understanding is that they have made twice as many ip6 allocations as > > rest of the world combined! That is very impressive indeed!!! > > But its still not enough reason for them to

Re: Corporations becoming a LIR

2004-05-07 Thread Tom Vest
Hi Leo, I find the information under the individual LIR entries interesting. For example, I looked under CN (China) and found 14 European LIRs. I couldn't find any explanation for the "serviced areas" field in the LIR refbook -- what exactly does it mean? In this particular case, it could not

Re: New IANA allocations to RIPE NCC

2004-05-07 Thread Bastiaan Spandaw
On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 03:30, william(at)elan.net wrote: > My understanding is that they have made twice as many ip6 allocations as > rest of the world combined! That is very impressive indeed!!! > But its still not enough reason for them to have received more then 10 > times ip6 space from IANA

Re: New IANA allocations to RIPE NCC

2004-05-07 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sat, 8 May 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 8-mei-04, at 1:18, william(at)elan.net wrote: > > > Why so many ip6 blocks at once? > > The RIPE NCC gives out /32s to ISPs, but they actually reserve a /29. > This means they have to get a new /23 for every 64 ISPs that request v6 > space

Re: New IANA allocations to RIPE NCC

2004-05-07 Thread bmanning
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 04:41:41PM -0700, william(at)elan.net wrote: > > > Also FYI - I noticed this message was actually signed (PGP) and I believe > that may be first iana announcement message that was, thank you !!! nope... old IANA msgs (1996-1998) were signed as well. --bill

Re: New IANA allocations to RIPE NCC

2004-05-07 Thread Ariel Biener
On Fri, 7 May 2004, william(at)elan.net wrote: > Why so many ip6 blocks at once? > > Its not that I'm worrried about us running out of ip space for ip6 :) > but is ripe really using ip6 20 times more then rest of the world? Not 20 times more (AFAIK), but Europe is using IPv6 much more than anyon

Re: New IANA allocations to RIPE NCC

2004-05-07 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 8-mei-04, at 1:18, william(at)elan.net wrote: Why so many ip6 blocks at once? The RIPE NCC gives out /32s to ISPs, but they actually reserve a /29. This means they have to get a new /23 for every 64 ISPs that request v6 space. I imagine this gets old fast after a while. :-) What I don't get

Re: New IANA allocations to RIPE NCC

2004-05-07 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Fri, 7 May 2004, william(at)elan.net wrote: > Why so many ip6 blocks at once? There were some things brought up at this weeks ripe meeting, i cant find the references tho, perhaps someone else will answer this. > Its not that I'm worrried about us running out of ip space for ip6 :) > but i

Re: New IANA allocations to RIPE NCC

2004-05-07 Thread william(at)elan.net
Also FYI - I noticed this message was actually signed (PGP) and I believe that may be first iana announcement message that was, thank you !!! P.S. Of course its also notable that it says "Version: PGP 8.0 - not licensed for commercial use". I kind of wonder if use by IANA or ICANN is considere

Re: New IANA allocations to RIPE NCC

2004-05-07 Thread william(at)elan.net
Why so many ip6 blocks at once? Its not that I'm worrried about us running out of ip space for ip6 :) but is ripe really using ip6 20 times more then rest of the world? On Fri, 7 May 2004, John L Crain wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greetings, > > This is t

Why don't X care more about Y?

2004-05-07 Thread Sean Donelan
Dave Farber's interesting people list has a post by a former bank credit card officer explaining why banks don't get as excited about fraud as customers do. http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200405/msg00041.html Many of the statements apply to anyone who deals with ma

New IANA allocations to RIPE NCC

2004-05-07 Thread John L Crain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, This is to inform you that the IANA has allocated the following sixteen (16) IPv6 /23 blocks to RIPE NCC: 2001:1C00::/23RIPE NCC 2001:1E00::/23RIPE NCC 2001:2000::/23RIPE NCC 2001:2200::/23RIPE NCC 2001:2400::/23RIPE NCC

Re: ISP for Bangalore, India

2004-05-07 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Eric Gauthier wrote: Heya, I'm spec'ing out a project that involves some large-scale video conferencing and collaboration amoung several locations. The ones in the US are looking to use AccessGrid software, which we're anticipating will be about an 11Mbps peak load. Anyone know if its possible

ISP for Bangalore, India

2004-05-07 Thread Eric Gauthier
Heya, I'm spec'ing out a project that involves some large-scale video conferencing and collaboration amoung several locations. The ones in the US are looking to use AccessGrid software, which we're anticipating will be about an 11Mbps peak load. Anyone know if its possible to get a "reasonabl

Re: FW: Worms versus Bots

2004-05-07 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Nothing (except a good spanking -:)) can help in such case. We are not talking about static NAT and inbound connections. I told about dynamic PNAT _only_. > > Once upon a time, Alexei Roudnev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Any simple NAT (PNAT, to be correct) box decrease a chance of infection by

Re: orkut dns?

2004-05-07 Thread Matt Larson
On Thu, 06 May 2004, Stephen Stuart wrote: > > > i smell a hijack. the correct data are on google's servers. > > ... or a transfer that the registry didn't handle so well. ...or an issue with the zone's former authoritative name servers. The registry acts as directed by the registrars and ta

Fiber Still in Baltimore Tunnels?

2004-05-07 Thread David Kennedy CISSP
Ordnance Find Closes Baltimore Tunnel BALTIMORE (AP) -- The Baltimore Harbor Tunnel has been closed indefinitely after a worker at a nearby construction site discovered military ordnance. Nine munitions, ranging in size from 500 to 4,000 pounds, had been found since early We

RE: FW: Worms versus Bots

2004-05-07 Thread Michel Py
>> The problem is that Joe User (or his kid) wants to run >> some random P2P program without having to reconfigure >> NAT port mappings, so they have all inbound connections >> mapped to a static internal IP. > If Joe (L)User or his kid sets up his NAT that way... > well, quite honestly he gets

Re: FW: Worms versus Bots

2004-05-07 Thread Jeff Shultz
** Reply to message from Chris Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 7 May 2004 09:45:36 -0500 > Once upon a time, Alexei Roudnev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Any simple NAT (PNAT, to be correct) box decrease a chance of infection by > > last worms to 0. Just 0.%. > > The problem is that Joe Us

Re: FW: Worms versus Bots

2004-05-07 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Alexei Roudnev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Any simple NAT (PNAT, to be correct) box decrease a chance of infection by > last worms to 0. Just 0.%. The problem is that Joe User (or his kid) wants to run some random P2P program without having to reconfigure NAT port mappings,

Re: MD5 proliferation statistics

2004-05-07 Thread John Kristoff
On Thu, 6 May 2004 17:52:16 -0400 "Patrick W.Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, my organization was not passive until we got to see what > the threat actually was, so our numbers are not useful. Would any > traffic-carrying-organization care to discuss their numbers?

The Cidr Report

2004-05-07 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri May 7 21:43:29 2004 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of an AS4637 (Reach) router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org/as4637 for a current version of this report. Recent Table Hist

Re: BGP Exploit

2004-05-07 Thread Ingo
Hi it would be a much better idea to force cisco to fix their bgp-feature bug (redistributing wrong as-paths and dropping after that the bgp-session) before talking long and wide about the bgp/tcp "problem". as far as i know, the last 2 big internet-blackouts could be tracked down to wrong as-pa

Re: MD5 proliferation statistics

2004-05-07 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
We requested md5 by emailing all our peers several weeks ago, responses have been steady. We have 49% of peering sessions MD5 (thats 43% counted by ASN) In general small ISPs and customers have been poor to respond with large ISPs and those operating ticket systems on their peering contact em

Re: Corporations becoming a LIR

2004-05-07 Thread leo vegoda
Hi Dan, On May 7, 2004, at 12:02 am, Drumm, Dan wrote: [...] We now have a European division, Ball-Europe (http://www.ball-europe.com). They have RFC 1918 addressing internally, and have the usual problems with NAT and overload addressing. I’m starting the process of filling out an applicati