Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 01:00:35AM -0400, Patrick W Gilmore wrote: On Jul 2, 2004, at 9:31 PM, Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS wrote: Also, if you're dealing with ISPs that use public peering points, those may be a performance concern, but in the US that's mostly not Tier1-Tier1. (Linx

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Edward B. Dreger
PWG Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 01:00:35 -0400 PWG From: Patrick W Gilmore PWG Any particular reason you would worry about public peering PWG points these days? ANES, perhaps? Those who finally found old NANOG-L and i-a archives have decided public peering is bad. H let's see cheap,

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Edward B. Dreger
RAS Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 02:07:06 -0400 RAS From: Richard A Steenbergen RAS What is with people in this industry, who latch onto an idea RAS and won't let go? If someone was talking about 80286 based RAS machines in 2004 we would all be in utter disbelief, but you RAS can still routinely find

Re: Who broke .org?

2004-07-03 Thread Per Gregers Bilse
On Jul 2, 2:48pm, Jeff Wasilko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 02:38:12PM -0400, Patrick W Gilmore wrote: run .org, I just think a blanket statement anycast is bad is, well, bad.) I'd be totally happy to see a combination, too. It's just pretty obvious that the current

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: b) The price being charged for the public exchange ports is non-trivial (especially compared to the cost of transit these days!), and is billed on a port basis instead of a usage basis (at least in the US). Since public peering is

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread ren
At 02:07 AM 7/3/2004 -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: b) The price being charged for the public exchange ports is non-trivial (especially compared to the cost of transit these days!), and is billed on a port basis instead of a usage basis (at least in the US). Since public peering is

Re: ultradns reachability

2004-07-03 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 05:55:13PM -0700, Matt Ghali wrote: DNS traffic, surprisingly, is not very fat. It is no HTTP nor SMTP. The engineering behind appropriately sizing a unicast fallback would be pretty trivial, especially compared to building a somewhat-robust

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: The price being charged for the public exchange ports is non-trivial Only at the (very few) commercial exchanges. The vast majority are free or of trivial expense. But some people really like to lose money, since then they get to hang

Re: ultradns reachability

2004-07-03 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: 10.1.0.1 Anycast1 (x50 boxes) 10.2.0.1 Anycast2 (x50 boxes - different to anycast1) In each scenario two systems have to fail to take out any one customer.. but isnt the bottom one better for the usual pro anycast reasons?

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Bill Woodcock writes on 7/3/2004 7:02 PM: On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: The price being charged for the public exchange ports is non-trivial Only at the (very few) commercial exchanges. The vast majority are free or of trivial expense. But some people really like

Re: Who broke .org?

2004-07-03 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Jeff Wasilko wrote: Can't we just go back to non-anycast, please? Uh, how much additional down-time did you want? Rolling the clock back a decade isn't going to make things _better_. -Bill

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 08:28:50AM -0400, ren wrote: At 02:07 AM 7/3/2004 -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: b) The price being charged for the public exchange ports is non-trivial (especially compared to the cost of transit these days!), and is billed on a port basis instead of a

Re: Who broke .org?

2004-07-03 Thread Edward B. Dreger
PGB Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 11:28:10 +0100 PGB From: Per Gregers Bilse PGB At least the previous outage (a couple of weeks ago) had PGB nothing to do with anycast, I was getting NXDOMAIN replies PGB back, and no kind of fallback or non-anycast deployment PGB would have helped. Moreover, it would

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Randy Bush
The price being charged for the public exchange ports is non-trivial Only at the (very few) commercial exchanges. The vast majority are free or of trivial expense. by count of small 10/100 switches or by traffic volume? it costs to build, maintain, and manage an exchange which carries

Re: Who broke .org?

2004-07-03 Thread Edward B. Dreger
JW Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 11:22:34 -0400 JW From: Jeff Wasilko JW On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 06:45:44AM -0700, Bill Woodcock wrote: JW JW Uh, how much additional down-time did you want? Rolling JW the clock back a decade isn't going to make things JW _better_. JW JW Why do you say that? JW JW

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, ren wrote: 5. Costs. Private peering is expensive, don't let anyone fool you. There is a resource investment in human terms that is rarely calculated properly, I agree with you 100%. Working at a nordic european operator being present at LINX, AMSIX and all the

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Randy Bush wrote: it costs to build, maintain, and manage an exchange which carries significant traffic. costs get recovered. life is simple. What is significant traffic? What is the cost? If you have an exchange with let's say 20 people connected to it and they all

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Randy Bush
What is significant traffic? What is the cost? If you have an exchange with let's say 20 people connected to it and they all connect using GE. Running this exchange in an existing facility with existing people, you can easily run it for under $10k per year per connected operator or less as

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Randy Bush wrote: no. in the first case, you're just hiding the incremental costs. eventually, some bean counter is gonna want to recover them, and then folk get quite unhappy. What costs are you referring to? You basically need a few hours time per month from engineers

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Randy Bush wrote: no. in the first case, you're just hiding the incremental costs. eventually, some bean counter is gonna want to recover them, and then folk get quite unhappy. What costs are you referring to? You basically need a few hours time per

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Does the person that sweeps the floor do so for free? And supply the broom? The marginal cost of half a rack being occupied by an IX switch in a multi-hundred-rack facility is negiglabe. Yes, it should carry a cost of a few hundred dollars

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 08:47:11AM -0700, Randy Bush wrote: The price being charged for the public exchange ports is non-trivial Only at the (very few) commercial exchanges. The vast majority are free or of trivial expense. by count of small 10/100 switches or by traffic volume?

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Randy Bush wrote: no. in the first case, you're just hiding the incremental costs. eventually, some bean counter is gonna want to recover them, and then folk get quite unhappy. What costs are you referring to? You

RE: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Michael Smith
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mikael Abrahamsson Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 10:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?] On Sat, 3 Jul

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: This is simply untrue. Whilst it is possible to establish an exchange with minimal cost if it is successful your costs will soon escalate. To provide carrier class service for the worlds top carriers you need to invest in the latest

RE: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Michael Smith wrote: 1) 1 Rack 2) Space for the rack in a secure facility 3) AC for the equipment 4) Power for the equipment (including line and UPS) This can be had for approx $300-1000 a month in my market. 5) Fiber and Copper runs to the facility for cross-connects

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Randy Bush
i look forward to my next trip to sweden, where i expect many nice free lunches randy

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Randy Bush wrote: i look forward to my next trip to sweden, where i expect many nice free lunches If you start working in a resturant, you can probably expect that. -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Randy Bush
i look forward to my next trip to sweden, where i expect many nice free lunches If you start working in a resturant, you can probably expect that. but you seem to think they are served in exchange points, and not just to those that run them, but to all comers. very cool. sad to say, we're

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:57:20AM -0700, Michael Smith wrote: At the Seattle Internet Exchange a, granted, smaller peering exchange, you have to account for the following costs (and, mind you, this list is not exhaustive). 1) 1 Rack 2) Space for the rack in a secure facility 3) AC for

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Randy Bush
beware. six is funny. it's in seattle's carrier hotel, the westin, 32 floors of racks, more colo providers than fleas on a dawg, and very very low inter-suite fiber rates from the building owners. so, though the six does have a core, it is also kinda splattered into switches all over the

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Randy Bush wrote: but you seem to think they are served in exchange points, and not just to those that run them, but to all comers. very cool. sad to say, we're past 1999 now. out here in the free world (and those countries we bomb and/or invade[0]) folk seem to want

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Troy Davis
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 01:39:03PM -0700, Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: building owners. so, though the six does have a core, it is also kinda splattered into switches all over the building; with ease of connection and low cost being achieved at the expense of reliability. Though

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Randy Bush
let's just say that my experience is not all that reliable. i i suspect it varies greatly between colo/sub-switch providers. but considering the cost, i ain't got no complaints. qed. randy