Re: Fiber cut in SJ

2005-08-05 Thread George William Herbert
>> So... is mail not getting in/out from Nanog right now, >> or is the fairly major fiber cut in San Jose not newsworthy >> on the operational list anymore? > >I'm gonna guess that people were too distracted with "Oh crap, where'd >the internet go?" I couldn't get to outside email from insi

Re: Fiber cut in SJ

2005-08-05 Thread Wayne E. Bouchard
I'm gonna guess that people were too distracted with "Oh crap, where'd the internet go?" So since there's the question, for those not in the know, the word is that there was a cut through half of a 1000 strand cable owned by Level3, affecting 502 fibers. It's my understanding that they've been s

Re: Fiber cut in SJ

2005-08-05 Thread William Petrisko
> - Forwarded message from George William Herbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > So... is mail not getting in/out from Nanog right now, > or is the fairly major fiber cut in San Jose not newsworthy > on the operational list anymore? Should be :) L3 fiber cut in SJC/Sunnyvale area, 552 pa

Fiber cut in SJ

2005-08-05 Thread George William Herbert
So... is mail not getting in/out from Nanog right now, or is the fairly major fiber cut in San Jose not newsworthy on the operational list anymore? -george william herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Traffic to our customer's address(126.0.0.0/8) seems blocked by packet filter

2005-08-05 Thread Peter Lothberg
> > You can ping to 126.66.0.30/8. > and how does one ping a /8? > randy Just send 2^(24) ping packets! (not?) -P

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 06:25:00PM +0100, Brandon Butterworth wrote: > But we could trade putting content on V6 for them if they make their > network do multicast for us. > > Deal? IPv6 multicast with embedded RP? Deal! Regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROT

Re: RFC for Mask/Gateway

2005-08-05 Thread Scott Altman
Thanks to all who replied, actually 791 doesn't specify that a host needs to implement these things; it lays out IP and how to use a network mask / gateway. RFC1122 (thanks to you off-listers) section 3.3.1.6 specifically (using the RFC's famed "MUST" verbiage) states that a host use a configurab

Re: RFC for Mask/Gateway

2005-08-05 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 03:09:53PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 13:55:58 CDT, Scott Altman said: > > > Is there an RFC or other standard that specifies that IPv4 connected > > > devices must support the concepts of Subnet

Re: RFC for Mask/Gateway

2005-08-05 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 03:09:53PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 13:55:58 CDT, Scott Altman said: > > Is there an RFC or other standard that specifies that IPv4 connected > > devices must support the concepts of Subnet Mask and Default Gateway? > > No, because there's plen

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Florian Weimer
* Iljitsch van Beijnum: > Is there any particular reason why a service over IPv6 couldn't be > load balanced by putting a good number of records in the DNS? This doesn't work for most dynamic content because it lacks session affinity.

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 12:17:55PM -0400, Daniel Golding wrote: > Why do so many v6 folks fill their arguments with notes of alarmism? Why > don't we just make an orderly migration when it is called for, rather than > using hyperbole to scare people? I rather infer, Daniel, that the issue is "how

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 04:10:46AM -0700, Bill Woodcock wrote: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Sabri Berisha wrote: > > With the use of anycast DNS servers on the internet, TCP is no longer an > > option for DNS. > > Bzzzt. Try again. Naw; c'mon, guys: we did this one *last* month; I still

Re: RFC for Mask/Gateway

2005-08-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 13:55:58 CDT, Scott Altman said: > Is there an RFC or other standard that specifies that IPv4 connected > devices must support the concepts of Subnet Mask and Default Gateway? No, because there's plenty of applications (embedded systems, for example), where you have no need or

Re: RFC for Mask/Gateway

2005-08-05 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Scott Altman wrote: > > Apologies upfront for my not being able to successfully google this on my > own... > > Is there an RFC or other standard that specifies that IPv4 connected > devices must support the concepts of Subnet Mask and Default Gateway? > > I have a kludgy (

RFC for Mask/Gateway

2005-08-05 Thread Scott Altman
Apologies upfront for my not being able to successfully google this on my own... Is there an RFC or other standard that specifies that IPv4 connected devices must support the concepts of Subnet Mask and Default Gateway? I have a kludgy (<- technical term) vendor that has developed a custom AP th

RIP: small DSL ISPs in the US

2005-08-05 Thread David Conrad
FCC just decided ILECs don't need to share lines. http://www.fcc.gov/meetings/080505/sharing.pdf (1.8M PDF) Sigh. Rgds, -drc

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Randy Bush
> Why do so many v6 folks fill their arguments with notes of alarmism? old bad habits. the sky has been falling for a decade now. the problem is it makes it hard to separate signal from noise. e.g. after many years of telling us 3gpp was about to be a major address space eater, we stopped list

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 12:17:55 EDT, Daniel Golding said: > Why do so many v6 folks fill their arguments with notes of alarmism? Why > don't we just make an orderly migration when it is called for, rather than > using hyperbole to scare people? We tried that a few years ago. Nobody moved. So we com

Weekly Routing Table Report

2005-08-05 Thread Routing Table Analysis
This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Internet Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan. Daily listings are sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any comments please contact Philip Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Routing Table Report 04:00 +10GMT Sat 06 Aug, 2005

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Brandon Butterworth
> Why should content providers be at all interested in driving v6 usage? Only if there are people on V6 that can't get to our V4 services, otherwise we're just doing it for the good of the net > They are interested in meeting demand, innovating, collecting > ad revenue, etc. The ROI to the given

FCC puts DSL on same footing as cable service

2005-08-05 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Marguerite Reardon writes in the C|Net News Broadband Blog: [snip] The Federal Communications Commission on Friday did away with old rules that require phone companies to share their infrastructure with Internet service providers. The new framework puts DSL service in line with cable modem se

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Daniel Golding
On 8/4/05 6:49 PM, "Steve Feldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I meant to ask this at a nanog or this IETF... why don't some of the >> larger content providers (google, msn, yahoo, to name 3 examples) put >> records in for their maint content pieces? why don't they get v6 >> connecti

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Michael Loftis
--On August 5, 2005 12:50:08 PM +0200 Sabri Berisha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 12:05:08PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Hi, I'm not sure how much room additional records take up, but I think it's a little under 30 bytes. At this rate, there is no way yo

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Daniel Golding
On 8/4/05 4:46 PM, "Daniel Roesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Famous last words when driving down a long road towards a firm wall of > concrete. You want to rush then? Do you wait for the pain to fully > extend? I prefer orderly, planned, concious migrations, not a state of > "uhm, we cannot

Why some of us are IPv6 holdouts (Was: /8 end user assignment?)

2005-08-05 Thread Michael Loftis
--On August 5, 2005 11:13:13 AM +0200 Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any particular reason why a service over IPv6 couldn't be load balanced by putting a good number of records in the DNS? Since most IPv6-capable browsers have decent support for trying mult

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 5 Aug 2005, at 07:54, Sabri Berisha wrote: On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 04:10:46AM -0700, Bill Woodcock wrote: On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Sabri Berisha wrote: With the use of anycast DNS servers on the internet, TCP is no longer an option for DNS. Bzzzt. Try again.

Re: cogent network issues.

2005-08-05 Thread Jeroen Massar
Christian Malo wrote: > Seems like cogent has been having issues this morning. I'm seeing high > latency all over the place. > > > Anyone has any idea what's going on? The aliens are attacking, the sky is falling down! You might want to add at least a traceroute and a location explaining at lea

Re: cogent network issues.

2005-08-05 Thread Christian Malo
forget it, the issue is related to issues with a transit provider. *shrug* -chris On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Christian Malo wrote: > > Seems like cogent has been having issues this morning. I'm seeing high > latency all over the place. > > > Anyone has any idea what's going on? > > > -chris > >

cogent network issues.

2005-08-05 Thread Christian Malo
Seems like cogent has been having issues this morning. I'm seeing high latency all over the place. Anyone has any idea what's going on? -chris

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Todd Vierling
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Joe Abley wrote: > > Creating a seperate instance or path though all that for IPv6 is probably > > going to be hard if it is all setup for everything to go one way. > > I know people who have set up such things using reverse proxies (listen on v6 > for query, relay request to

The Cidr Report

2005-08-05 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Aug 5 21:45:43 2005 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: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Sabri Berisha
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 11:51:53AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sabri Berisha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > With the use of anycast DNS servers on the internet, TCP is no > > longer an option for DNS. > > Erm, bollocks. > > Just because a few nameservers are anycasted doesn't me

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Sabri Berisha
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 04:10:46AM -0700, Bill Woodcock wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Sabri Berisha wrote: > > With the use of anycast DNS servers on the internet, TCP is no longer an > > option for DNS. > > Bzzzt. Try again. /--[cabernet]--[merlot]--[ri

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread
Sabri Berisha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > With the use of anycast DNS servers on the internet, TCP is no > longer an option for DNS. Erm, bollocks. Just because a few nameservers are anycasted doesn't mean that the vast majority of non-anycasted servers may not use TCP. Optimising the co

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Elmar K. Bins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joel Jaeggli) wrote: > >With the use of anycast DNS servers on the internet, TCP is no longer an > >option for DNS. > > oddly enough there's been some research on this subject. you might not in > fact be able to conclude that if your routing is sufficiently stable. Actually,

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Joel Jaeggli wrote: On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Sabri Berisha wrote: With the use of anycast DNS servers on the internet, TCP is no longer an option for DNS. oddly enough there's been some research on this subject. you might not in fact be able to conclude that if your routing

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Sabri Berisha wrote: On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 12:05:08PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Hi, I'm not sure how much room additional records take up, but I think it's a little under 30 bytes. At this rate, there is no way you're going to run out of 512 bytes with le

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Petri Helenius
Daniel Roesen wrote: I would guesstimate about 8 Terabyte per day, judging from the traffic I saw towards a virgin /21 (1 GByte per day). /18 attracts 19kbps on average, with day averages between 5 and 37 kilobits per second. That would translate to only 50 to 400 megabytes a day. So

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Sabri Berisha wrote: > With the use of anycast DNS servers on the internet, TCP is no longer an > option for DNS. Bzzzt. Try again. -Bill

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Sabri Berisha
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 12:05:08PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Hi, > I'm not sure how much room additional records take up, but I > think it's a little under 30 bytes. At this rate, there is no way > you're going to run out of 512 bytes with less than 10 records. > Then th

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 5-aug-2005, at 11:33, Bruce Campbell wrote: Is there any particular reason why a service over IPv6 couldn't be load balanced by putting a good number of records in the DNS? _Eventually_, DNS packet size and a desire to avoid truncation at that level would stop you. Nothing stoppin

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Bruce Campbell wrote: On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: could you comment on christopher's observation that, given the likely volume of v6 traffic, you would not have a v6 load worth balancing? Is there any particular reason why a service over IPv6 couldn

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Bruce Campbell
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: could you comment on christopher's observation that, given the likely volume of v6 traffic, you would not have a v6 load worth balancing? Is there any particular reason why a service over IPv6 couldn't be load balanced by putting a good number

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Andy Davidson
Joel Jaeggli wrote: LVS which rather a lot of people use for load balancing supports ipv6 and has since 2002 This is what I binned in favour of Redline. I don't know whether you're balancing HTTP or something else, but if you are balancing web traffic, then you may get much better performanc

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 5-aug-2005, at 10:59, Randy Bush wrote: Until such devices support IPv6, to reiterate Steve's point, it's not an option to consider approaching connectivity suppliers with IPv6 enquiries. could you comment on christopher's observation that, given the likely volume of v6 traffic, you wo

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Andy Davidson
Randy Bush wrote: Until such devices support IPv6, to reiterate Steve's point, it's not an option to consider approaching connectivity suppliers with IPv6 enquiries. could you comment on christopher's observation that, given the likely volume of v6 traffic, you would not have a v6 load worth ba

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Andy Davidson wrote: Christopher L. Morrow wrote: will the v6 access really be enough to require LB's? or are they there for other reasons (global lb for content close to customers, regionalized content) perhaps reasons which would matter 'less' in an initial v6 world wher

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Randy Bush
> Until such devices support IPv6, to reiterate Steve's point, it's not an > option to consider approaching connectivity suppliers with IPv6 enquiries. could you comment on christopher's observation that, given the likely volume of v6 traffic, you would not have a v6 load worth balancing? of cou

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Andy Davidson
Christopher L. Morrow wrote: will the v6 access really be enough to require LB's? or are they there for other reasons (global lb for content close to customers, regionalized content) perhaps reasons which would matter 'less' in an initial v6 world where you were getting the lb's fixed by their v

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 5-aug-2005, at 0:09, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: 2. We know cable companies, dsl providers and mobile companies can use this many IPs, but they generally seem to make use of NAT and IPv6. If everyone in this category who could justify a /8 applied and received them we might be in real

Re: Your router/switch may be less secure than you think

2005-08-05 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Scott Francis wrote: On 8/3/05, Robert E. Seastrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Beer, unsupported assertions, and lack of rigorous audit methodology can be blended together to make one's code more secure? what unsupported assertions? The project's record speaks for itsel

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, David Conrad wrote: > > ? > > % whois -h whois.arin.net 126.0.0.0 > > OrgName:Asia Pacific Network Information Centre > ReferralServer: whois://whois.apnic.net > > NetRange: 126.0.0.0 - 126.255.255.255 > CIDR: 126.0.0.0/8 > On Aug 5, 2005, at 12:35 AM, Bill Woodc

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Joe Abley wrote: > > > On 4 Aug 2005, at 21:51, Simon Lyall wrote: > > > Creating a seperate instance or path though all that for IPv6 is > > probably > > going to be hard if it is all setup for everything to go one way. > > I know people who have set up such things using reve

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, David Conrad wrote: > % whois -h whois.arin.net 126.0.0.0 > OrgName:Asia Pacific Network Information Centre > > And this helps them justify a /8 _in the US_ how? Ah, I'd misunderstood, from all the talk about ARIN, I thought somehow ARIN was involved.

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Randy Bush
>> They are one of the largest ISPs in Japan. > And this helps them justify a /8 _in the US_ how? dunno. that would probably be hard. which is why they got it from apnic. randy

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread David Conrad
? % whois -h whois.arin.net 126.0.0.0 OrgName:Asia Pacific Network Information Centre OrgID: APNIC Address:PO Box 2131 City: Milton StateProv: QLD PostalCode: 4064 Country:AU ReferralServer: whois://whois.apnic.net NetRange: 126.0.0.0 - 126.255.255.255 CIDR: 12

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, David Conrad wrote: > They are one of the largest ISPs in Japan. And this helps them justify a /8 _in the US_ how? -Bill

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Randy Bush
> The business of the rir's is providing ip addresses to their members. if > withholding the remaining address space became more important than > supporting the needs of the community of interest, then they've obviously > failed their membership. not for long, as their membership elects/appoin

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread David Conrad
Hi, If you can justify a /8, ARIN will allocate one to you (not that I speak for ARIN or anything, but that's how things work). Presumably Softbank BB justified the /8 APNIC allocated to them. I don't know about APNIC, but ARIN's rules are generally structured to make justification of a /

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread kawamura seiichi
hi randy! >indeed, this was a very interesting, if somewhat odd, presentation. >e.g. the growth graphs had no labels on the y axes:-). oops. we'll have to tell kousuke-san. :-) >my impression was that it was essentially a request to extend the >time of the trial because it was moving more slowl

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] t>, "Stephen J. Wilcox" writes: > >2. We know cable companies, dsl providers and mobile companies can use this ma >ny >IPs, but they generally seem to make use of NAT and IPv6. If everyone in this >category who could justify a /8 applied and received them we might