Re: Heads up: Long AS-sets announced in the next few days

2005-03-02 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Hank Nussbacher wrote: At 02:49 AM 02-03-05 +0100, Daniel Roesen wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:27:31AM +, James A. T. Rice wrote: What exactly are you attempting to do here? Those announcements will get dropped on the floor at least in this AS right away:

Re: Heads up: Long AS-sets announced in the next few days

2005-03-02 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Hank Nussbacher wrote: At 02:49 AM 02-03-05 +0100, Daniel Roesen wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:27:31AM +, James A. T. Rice wrote: What exactly are you attempting to do here? Those announcements will get

Re: High volume WHOIS queries

2005-03-02 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 06:00 PM 01-03-05 -0500, Larry J. Blunk wrote: ftp://ftp.arin.net/info/asn.txt Lists AS number, the whois AS name, and POC handle for each AS. Jeff If you are also interested in AS info outside the ARIN region, the following file may be of interest --

Re: High volume WHOIS queries

2005-03-02 Thread Daniel Senie
At 03:01 AM 3/2/2005, Hank Nussbacher wrote: At 06:00 PM 01-03-05 -0500, Larry J. Blunk wrote: ftp://ftp.arin.net/info/asn.txt Lists AS number, the whois AS name, and POC handle for each AS. Jeff If you are also interested in AS info outside the ARIN region, the following file may be of

Re: AOL scomp

2005-03-02 Thread Jim Segrave
On Tue 01 Mar 2005 (22:36 -0500), Joe Maimon wrote: Barry Shein wrote: On March 1, 2005 at 14:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Segrave) wrote: I don't understand this complaint - we process AOL TOS Notifications daily and I find perhaps 1 in a hundred or so are not valid complaints.

Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?

2005-03-02 Thread JP Velders
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:54:23 -0500 From: Nils Ketelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587? [ ... ] I do not know about your E-Mail Policy, but normally it is either allowed to use an external mailserver or not. If it is

More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-02 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
advancedIPpipeline is running another article this morning in their series of articles covering the Vonage service disruptions that [allegedly] invlove an ISP port blocking SIP connectitity between Vonage's client equipment and Vonage's servers. While there is a bit more decriptive detail in

RE: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-02 Thread Church, Chuck
Those are good points. Someone last week mentioned what I thought was a great list of priorities for an ISP: 1. Keep the network running 2. Remove those violating policies 3. Route packets (or something along those lines) A 30/50/90 kbps unicast stream isn't going to affect #1. I

RE: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-02 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
One the points that I left unsaid, however, is that there may be many, many reasons -- both technically and business-wise -- why an ISP would want to port- filter, or for a better generalization, suppress some traffic. For instance, blocking p2p traffic, or a known worm, whatever. And there very

Is anyone actually using OER to do traffic shaping/balancing?

2005-03-02 Thread Drew Weaver
Hit me offlist if you have experience with this actually working for you. -Drew

Re: AOL scomp

2005-03-02 Thread Todd Vierling
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Well - there's a way out, sort of. 1. Route .forwarded email out a separate IP (besides cutting down on accepting and forwarding spam) or 2. Find some way - like an X-Forwarded-For header, that AOL can tag on. --srs Your third option

Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-02 Thread Patrick Muldoon
Church, Chuck wrote: Another thing for an ISP considering blocking VoIP is the fact that you're cutting off people's access to 911. That alone has got to have some tough legal ramifications. I can tell you that if my ISP started blocking my Vonage, my next cell phone call would be my

Re: AOL scomp

2005-03-02 Thread Gregory Hicks
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:25:56 +0530 From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:28:31 -0500, Vinny Abello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can attest that we do not see the same here as you are seeing (1 in 100). I'd agree more with the 1/3 being stupid AOL users

RE: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-02 Thread Church, Chuck
Yeah, I forgot about the regulation thing. I suppose I'd give the ISP a call first, but I'd expect it to be working within a few hours. But now that cable modem providers themselves are providing VoIP/dialtone, wouldn't those be regulated by the FCC? I know that my cable modem ISP (Charter)

ingress filter

2005-03-02 Thread adrian kok
Hi all I used ingress-loose-template from cisco and applied to my bgp ingress filter. I got the following part of the log files and not sure it is right filter or not Can you help? BGP: 1.2.3.4 rcvd UPDATE about 168.187.178.0/24 -- DENIED due to: filter; BGP: 1.2.3.4 rcvd UPDATE about

Re: AOL scomp

2005-03-02 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
Otherwise, I think that it can be helpful in identifying issues. We use it to help advise us with respect to the IADB accreditation database, and what we have found is that yes, there are a lot of complaints for legitimate opt-in mail, but a demonstrable change in *volume* (rather than the

Re: Heads up: Long AS-sets announced in the next few days

2005-03-02 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
Gert Doering wrote: 2005-03-04: 14:00 UTC: 10-element AS-set 14:30 UTC: withdrawal 16:00 UTC: 25-element AS-set 16:30 UTC: withdrawal Please do not announce AS-sets that contain 5539. We are not part of your experiment, and we don't want to see our AS appear in

Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-02 Thread John Levine
Yeah, I forgot about the regulation thing. I suppose I'd give the ISP a call first, but I'd expect it to be working within a few hours. But now that cable modem providers themselves are providing VoIP/dialtone, wouldn't those be regulated by the FCC? The phone service is, the ISP isn't.

Comcast Contact. (was: RE: AOL scomp)

2005-03-02 Thread chuck goolsbee
Pardon my interruption of the ongoing discussion of SMTP trust models and FUSSPs (which I think is very important BTW), but if there is somebody from Comcast here that can help us solve an immediate related issue, please contact me or one of my postmasters off list? Normal channels have been

RE: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-02 Thread kwallace
Subject: Re: More on Vonage service disruptions... Yeah, I forgot about the regulation thing. I suppose I'd give the ISP a call first, but I'd expect it to be working within a few hours. But now that cable modem providers themselves are providing VoIP/dialtone, wouldn't those be

Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-02 Thread Daniel Senie
At 09:46 AM 3/2/2005, you wrote: advancedIPpipeline is running another article this morning in their series of articles covering the Vonage service disruptions that [allegedly] invlove an ISP port blocking SIP connectitity between Vonage's client equipment and Vonage's servers. While there is a

RE: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff Rosowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A question to ponder - what would happen to your network , from both a technical and financial perspective if all of your customers circuit switched voice traffic suddenly became ip? Offer a Quality of Service product to enhance voice over IP

RE: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-02 Thread andrew2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: More on Vonage service disruptions... Yeah, I forgot about the regulation thing. I suppose I'd give the ISP a call first, but I'd expect it to be working within a few hours. But now that cable modem providers themselves are providing VoIP/dialtone,

RE: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-02 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Ah, and therein lies the rub. Any sort of QoS frob that is implemented for VoIP (or any other traffic for that matter) _must_ be truly honored end-to-end, and at every intermediate hop in between, for it to be guaranteed -- otherwise when traffic that you may designate as higher quality is

Re: Heads up: Long AS-sets announced in the next few days

2005-03-02 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-02, at 19.38, James A. T. Rice wrote: This seems to suggest that you are just picking ASns at random to inject into the paths, and that you don't have a set of ASs which you have the assignees permission to use. Would't this then

RE: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-02 Thread Daniel Senie
At 01:24 PM 3/2/2005, you wrote: Subject: Re: More on Vonage service disruptions... Yeah, I forgot about the regulation thing. I suppose I'd give the ISP a call first, but I'd expect it to be working within a few hours. But now that cable modem providers themselves are providing

Re: AOL scomp

2005-03-02 Thread Gary E. Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yo Joe! On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Joe Maimon wrote: Apparently the ratio of valid/invalid AOL notifications is a usefull indicator on the cleanliness of the relevant network. Or it just may tell you the clue level of the recipients. I run a mail

So, anyone still using Redbus?

2005-03-02 Thread Joe Johnson
Ouch . . . http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/01/rebdus_power_failure/. Sincerely, Joe Johson www.JoeLovesDreamweaver.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Heads up: Long AS-sets announced in the next few days

2005-03-02 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
James A. T. Rice wrote: This seems to suggest that you are just picking ASns at random to inject into the paths, and that you don't have a set of ASs which you have the assignees permission to use. In which case please keep AS8330, AS8550, and AS8943 out of your experiments too. Using not yet

Re: So, anyone still using Redbus?

2005-03-02 Thread Brandon Butterworth
Sure, the other two buildings still work. Hex has had a history of power problems. I'm in Sovereign and it's been OK so far. Of course we have other buildings as anything can break (e.g. 25 Broadway) We host ecommerce sites turning over million of pounds, pay redbus a significant amount

Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-02 Thread Robert M. Enger
The subject is of most concern at the edge. There are multiple long-haul providers, but often the consumer has only one option for multi-megabit connectivity. The entity currently enjoying the edge monopoly attempts to create vertical service alignment, to maximize profit. They DON'T want to

Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-02 Thread Adi Linden
Actually, anticompetitive, and restraint-of-trade come in as better arguments. They go along with blocking port 587/110, keeping users from getting at legitimate, well-run remote mail servers. The end user paid for packet service, and the Internet generally permits any protocol to be run.

Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-02 Thread Network.Security
So...how much of the revenue stream is built around the actual facilities (i.e. copper, fiber, etc) ownership monopoly? Shouldn't senior staff recognize the short-sightedness of building one revenue stream from two distinct sources: one content delivery and one plant ownership? Sell access

Re: Internet Email Services Association

2005-03-02 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Todd Vierling) [Tue 01 Mar 2005, 19:18 CET]: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] These core operators sign up to a multilateral mail peering agreement and provide email transit services for other operators. The next layer is the non-core email service

Re: AOL scomp

2005-03-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:15:51 -0500 (EST), Todd Vierling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your third option is best. (Excuse the signature-pun. :) SRS does not require SPF, and provides auditability for forwarded mail: http://spf.pobox.com/srs.html In which case dont futz about with SES

Re: Is anyone actually using OER to do traffic shaping/balancing?

2005-03-02 Thread Chris A. Epler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Drew Weaver wrote: | Hit me offlist if you have experience with this actually | working for you. I'd be interested in seeing a summary of responses on-list if you wouldn't mind. - -- ~ /\ ~ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN ~ X

Localizing traffic using BGP

2005-03-02 Thread Ashe Canvar
Hello all, BGP design question. My scenario is very much like an online gaming company with servers on multiple continents. Details : 1. I have datacenters/servers in many POPs globally. 2. I am a stub AS with multiple ISPs available at each POP. 3. I do not have the resources to buy

Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-02 Thread JC Dill
Patrick Muldoon wrote: What is more stable where you are, your broadband connection or your telephone line to your LEC? (if you still have one). I know in my case at home, the phone line was much more reliable, then my cable modem. I can count the times on 1 hand that I had been without Dial

RE: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-02 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: Ah, and therein lies the rub. Any sort of QoS frob that is implemented for VoIP (or any other traffic for that matter) _must_ be truly honored end-to-end, and at every intermediate hop in between, for it to be guaranteed -- otherwise

RE: Heads up: Long AS-sets announced in the next few days

2005-03-02 Thread David Schwartz
Ok, I realize I might have given the wrong impression here. Sorry. So here's what we are doing: by artificially inserting ASes into the AS-set of an announcement, the ISP that makes the announcement can control where the announcement is propagated and thus discover paths followed by its

Re: Localizing traffic using BGP

2005-03-02 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Well, the most specific prefix wins in the forwarding selection process, but I won't make any comments on best current practice since best is somewhat relative to the idea of max-aggregation but this reference might help: G. Huston Request for Comments: 3221 Commentary on Inter-Domain