RE: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-03 Thread Jeffrey Race
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:15:48 -0500 (EST), Greg Boehnlein wrote: So, set your Rate-Limiting of SIP traffic to 1 packet per second for the network that YOU control and then offer your VoIP subscribers a different QOS profile at a higher cost. Bingo, problem solved. The economy will work itself

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

2005-03-03 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-03, at 10.27, Geoff Huston wrote: 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

Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-03 Thread Michael . Dillon
Vonage style VoIP is unflatteringly but accurately called parasitic, it sits on top of someone else's network connection without supporting that connection at all, competing with any other IP traffic on the connection, with traffic going back to a switch wherever the VoIP company is. One

RE: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-03 Thread Michael . Dillon
If you do not own the end-to-end network infrastructure, there is no way to guarantee any preferential handling of any particular subset of traffic. There is a way to guarantee end-to-end QoS even if you don't own all networks along the way. That is for a 3rd party organization to impose a

Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-03 Thread Michael . Dillon
To diverge from VoIP, an interesting situation will present itself in the future. Verizon is installing FTTH. Data offerings in their present service area are: 5, 15, and 30Mbps downstream. http://www22.verizon.com/fiosforhome/channels/fios/root/package.asp These speeds would support

Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-03 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Wed 02 Mar 2005, 19:24 CET]: 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? Jack all, as I expect the amount of Internet traffic to be

scanner-dns

2005-03-03 Thread Vicky Rode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, Just wondering if there is any way I could use a scanner (I have a home grown script for this) that would go thru the DNS registries from some public source, scan for keywords in the domain name. Anything that is available only to ISP's and

public accessible snmp devices?

2005-03-03 Thread Vicky Rode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, Just wondering if there are any pool of public accessible (read-only) snmp enabled devices that one can access for testing purposes (such as snmpwalk, polling devices via oid/mib, graphing chart..etc)? I'm looking for a pool of devices that I

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

2005-03-03 Thread Joe Abley
On 2 Mar 2005, at 22:30, David Schwartz wrote: Please just clarify the following point: do you intend to advertise paths containing AS numbers belonging to other entities on the public Internet without the permission of the owners of those AS numbers? You admit that you don't know what the

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

2005-03-03 Thread Jeroen Massar
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 20:27 +1100, Geoff Huston wrote: 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

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

2005-03-03 Thread Jerry Pasker
On 2 Mar 2005, at 22:30, David Schwartz wrote: Please just clarify the following point: do you intend to advertise paths containing AS numbers belonging to other entities on the public Internet without the permission of the owners of those AS numbers? You admit that you don't know what the

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

2005-03-03 Thread Blaine Christian
I am probably telling you what you already know, but for the ones who don't know it yet: Secure BGP (S-BGP): http://www.ir.bbn.com/projects/s-bgp/ http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0306/pdf/bellovinsbgp.pdf http://www.nwfusion.com/details/6484.html?def and of course the sister by amongst

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

2005-03-03 Thread Jeroen Massar
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 13:51 -0500, Blaine Christian wrote: And, of course, the RPSEC working group draft that is supposed to target the BGP requirements for those proposed systems is... http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-rpsec-bgpsecrec-01.txt The folks who worked on S-BGP and

Reminder: 2005 NANOG Program Survey

2005-03-03 Thread Steve Feldman
Just a reminder to fill out the NANOG program survey! The survey can be reached via the Community Survey link on http://www.nanog.org/surveys.html We need _your_ input to help improve the quality of NANOG meeting content. Steve

Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-03 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:46:05AM -0600, 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,

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

2005-03-03 Thread David Schwartz
On 2 Mar 2005, at 22:30, David Schwartz wrote: Please just clarify the following point: do you intend to advertise paths containing AS numbers belonging to other entities on the public Internet without the permission of the owners of those AS numbers? You admit that you don't

Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-03 Thread Richard Cox
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 12:39:45 -0500 Thor Lancelot Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:46:05AM -0600, 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

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

2005-03-03 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
James A. T. Rice wrote: You appear to be trying to take advantage of a side effect of this behaviour, in order to see what other ASn transitive adjacancies are available that would not normally be used, by inserting the ASns of transit AS's that would normally be used, into the as path you are

Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-03 Thread Adi Linden
When that happens, if VOIP access to 911/112 is still problematic, we can expect standards for it to be mandated by governments - and they WILL do it - there is nothing politicians hate more than an avoidable fatality where the blame can be attributed to their failure to act. So what is

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

2005-03-03 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
David Schwartz wrote: Prepending announcements with remote AS numbers has been a well-known technique for preventing prefixes from propagating to particular ASes for a long time. And therefore such use would not be considered experimental. We are talking about experimenting with routes that

Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-03 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thor Lancelot Simon) [Thu 03 Mar 2005, 23:01 CET]: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:46:05AM -0600, 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

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

2005-03-03 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lorenzo Colitti) [Fri 04 Mar 2005, 00:09 CET]: David Schwartz wrote: Every piece of BGP documentation I have ever seen says that this attribute documents the ASes that the route has actually passed through. I think the above paragraph of RFC 1771 disagrees with you.

Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-03 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
..and apparently this is happening more and more. There was actually a story in USA Today a couple of days ago where a family tried calling 911 on their VoIP service during a burglary only to be told by a recorded message that they must dial 911 from another phone...

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

2005-03-03 Thread David Schwartz
David Schwartz wrote: Prepending announcements with remote AS numbers has been a well-known technique for preventing prefixes from propagating to particular ASes for a long time. And therefore such use would not be considered experimental. We are talking about experimenting with

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

2005-03-03 Thread James
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 02:28:43PM -0800, David Schwartz wrote: [ snip ] Every piece of BGP documentation I have ever seen says that this attribute documents the ASes that the route has actually passed through. Do I need to get permission from Sprint before I include 1239:100 as

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

2005-03-03 Thread Matthew Crocker
On Mar 3, 2005, at 7:22 PM, James wrote: You certainly need their permission before you can advertise routes that falsely came to have passed through their network! What kind of specific _technical_ issue do I create by prepending another ASN on AS_PATHs I advertise, without such owner's

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

2005-03-03 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
David Schwartz wrote: They are experimental in that yes, we are experimenting with a new technique for topology discovery which to our knowledge has not been proposed before. So you do not know what affect your announcements will have. We don't know the effectiveness of the technique. That

Vonage: Telco agrees to stop blocking VoIP calls

2005-03-03 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
CNET News.com is reporting that: A North Carolina telecommunications company accused of deliberately blocking Internet phone traffic has reached a deal with federal regulators to halt the controversial practice.

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

2005-03-03 Thread Lorenzo Colitti
Niels Bakker wrote: Every piece of BGP documentation I have ever seen says that this attribute documents the ASes that the route has actually passed through. I think the above paragraph of RFC 1771 disagrees with you. Please quote properly; the context was AS_path, not AS_set. David Schwartz was

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

2005-03-03 Thread James
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 07:40:53PM -0500, Matthew Crocker wrote: [ snip ] Oh, I don't know, increasing the size of an already bloated global routing table; possibly crashing routers which are already starving for FIB RAM? Probably not FIB, may be the BGP RIB for the most people that

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

2005-03-03 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lorenzo Colitti) [Fri 04 Mar 2005, 02:09 CET]: As far as the RFC is concerned, the AS-set is part of the AS-path. See Section 4.3, which says the AS-path is a well-known mandatory attribute that is composed of a sequence of AS path segments. Each AS path segment is

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

2005-03-03 Thread David Schwartz
The RFC also says: An AS_SET implies that the destinations listed in the NLRI can be reached through paths that traverse at least some of the constituent autonomous systems. which is exactly what we are doing. Yes, you can cite sections of the RFC that you

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

2005-03-03 Thread David Schwartz
So, given these considerations, is everyone announcing an AS-set announcing routes that falsely claim to have passed through another autonymous system? Yes. From RFC1771: Ok, so if everyone announcing an AS-set is announcing routes that falsely claim to have passed through another

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

2005-03-03 Thread Brian (nanog)
James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They are not playing with the core. The result of what they are doing is dependent on specific topology and level of direction they are throwing prefixes at. While I will not dispute your statement, I believe that every ASN should be responsible of their

Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-03 Thread John Levine
There was actually a story in USA Today a couple of days ago where a family tried calling 911 on their VoIP service during a burglary only to be told by a recorded message that they must dial 911 from another phone... I was surprised to see on Packet8's web site that they now offer E911 in a lot

Re: scanner-dns

2005-03-03 Thread John Levine
Just wondering if there is any way I could use a scanner (I have a home grown script for this) that would go thru the DNS registries from some public source, scan for keywords in the domain name. If you just want the list of domain names and not the rest of the whois data, it's not hard to get

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

2005-03-03 Thread Randy Bush
lorenzo, i think we're ratholing here. can you tell us in simple words o what you are trying to learn with your experiment and why it will help us understand or better manage our networks (thanks rodney) o why the way you are doing it is safe and will not affect the packets

RE: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-03 Thread Scott Morris
Perhaps it varies by state, but I thought part of the E-911 service regulations was that if you were offering (charging) for it, you had to offer it as lifeline service which meant it had to survive power outage. *shrug* I guess the original regs weren't written with these things in mind!

Process and Procedure of a NOC

2005-03-03 Thread Anvaj A B
Hi I am in the process of preparing a process and procedure documents for a newly setup NOC. Could any one help me by sending sample process and procedure documents / or key domains I need to focus on Best regards, Anvaj