Re: Discovering policy

2007-08-16 Thread Mark Andrews
On Aug 15, 2007, at 5:34 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: Yes, and this convention still generates nuisance root traffic whenever the application fails to comprehend . is a special target. This is true even when _defined_ as a special target for the specific resource record, as with

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007, Fred Baker wrote: And finally why only do this during extreme congestion? Why not always do it? I think I would always do it, and expect it to take effect only under extreme congestion. Well, emprically (on multi-megabit customer-facing links) it takes effect

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Fred Baker
On Aug 15, 2007, at 10:13 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: Well, emprically (on multi-megabit customer-facing links) it takes effect immediately and results in congestion being avoided (for values of avoided.) You don't hit a hm, this is fine and hm, this is congested; you actually notice a much

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Fred Baker wrote: On Aug 15, 2007, at 8:39 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Fred Baker wrote: So I would suggest that a third thing that can be done, after the other two avenues have been exhausted, is to decide to not start new sessions unless there is some

wierd dns thread (Re: Discovering policy)

2007-08-16 Thread Paul Vixie
i wasn't reading this thread at all since i thought it was about discovering policy, like the subject says. horror of horrors, it's about dns internals, which means the thread is not only mislabelled, but also off-topic. i think it could go to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], or perhaps

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Randy Bush
So that's why I keep returning to the need to pushback traffic a couple of ASNs back. If its going to get dropped anyway, drop it sooner. ECN

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Alexander Harrowell
An Internet variable speed limit is a nice idea, but there are some serious trust issues; applications have to trust the network implicitly not to issue gratuitous slow down messages, and certainly not to use them for evil purposes (not that I want to start a network neutrality flamewar...but what

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Stephen Wilcox
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:58:48PM -0700, Tony Li wrote: On Aug 15, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Stephen Wilcox wrote: Remember the end-to-end principle. IP backbones don't fail with extreme congestion, IP applications fail with extreme congestion. Hmm I'm not sure about that... a 100% full

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Stephen Wilcox
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 10:55:34AM +0100, Alexander Harrowell wrote: An Internet variable speed limit is a nice idea, but there are some serious trust issues; applications have to trust the network implicitly not to issue gratuitous slow down messages, and certainly not to use them

RE: Network Inventory Tool

2007-08-16 Thread James Fogg
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wguisa71 Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 11:31 PM To: NANOG Subject: Network Inventory Tool Guys, Does anyone known some tool for network documentation with:

Re: Network Inventory Tool

2007-08-16 Thread Jason LeBlanc
I would second this. We're evaling it right now, takes a little getting used to but the capabilities are pretty impressive. There is a pretty steep cost to play initially. Once the first chunk of existing devices are licensed adding more isn't as painful, at least thats how I'm selling it

RE: Discovering policy

2007-08-16 Thread michael.dillon
Section 5.1 of the updated version of 2821 allows A or when there is no MX. This allowance must become obsolete and the process ends when there is no MX record. This idea is fundamentally flawed. There is an assumption in the Internet that email is a universal service. In

RE: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread michael.dillon
In many cases, yes. I know of a certain network that ran with 30% loss for a matter of years because the option didn't exist to increase the bandwidth. When it became reality, guess what they did. How many people have noticed that when you replace a circuit with a higher capacity one, the

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Sean Donelan
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Alexander Harrowell wrote: An Internet variable speed limit is a nice idea, but there are some serious trust issues; applications have to trust the network implicitly not to issue gratuitous slow down messages, and certainly not to use them for Yeah, that's why I was

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Hex Star
How does akamai handle traffic congestion so seamlessly? Perhaps we should look at existing setups implemented by companies such as akamai for guidelines regarding how to resolve this kind of issue...

RE: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How many people have noticed that when you replace a circuit with a higher capacity one, the traffic on the new circuit is suddenly greater than 100% of the old one. Obviously this doesn't happen all the time, such as when you have a 40%

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Randy Bush wrote: So that's why I keep returning to the need to pushback traffic a couple of ASNs back. If its going to get dropped anyway, drop it sooner. ECN Oh goody, the whole RED, BLUE, WRED, AQM, etc menagerie. Connections already in progress (i.e. the ones with

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Fred Baker
yes. On Aug 16, 2007, at 12:29 AM, Randy Bush wrote: So that's why I keep returning to the need to pushback traffic a couple of ASNs back. If its going to get dropped anyway, drop it sooner. ECN

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Randy Bush
So that's why I keep returning to the need to pushback traffic a couple of ASNs back. If its going to get dropped anyway, drop it sooner. ECN Oh goody, the whole RED, BLUE, WRED, AQM, etc menagerie. wow! is that what ECN stands for? somehow, in all this time, i missed that. live and

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Randy Bush
Yeah, that's why I was limiting the need (requirement) to only 1-few ASN hops upstream. I view this as similar to some backbones offering a special blackhole everything BGP community that usually is not transitive. This is the Oh Crap, Don't Blackhole Everything but Slow Stuff Down BGP

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Randy Bush
Alexander Harrowell wrote: Yeah, that's why I was limiting the need (requirement) to only 1-few ASN hops upstream. I view this as similar to some backbones offering a special blackhole everything BGP community that usually is not transitive. This is the Oh Crap, Don't Blackhole Everything

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 8/16/07, Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, that's why I was limiting the need (requirement) to only 1-few ASN hops upstream. I view this as similar to some backbones offering a special blackhole everything BGP community that usually is not transitive. This is the Oh Crap,

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Fred Baker
On Aug 16, 2007, at 7:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In many cases, yes. I know of a certain network that ran with 30% loss for a matter of years because the option didn't exist to increase the bandwidth. When it became reality, guess what they did. How many people have noticed that when

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Sean Donelan
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Randy Bush wrote: Alexander Harrowell wrote: Yeah, that's why I was limiting the need (requirement) to only 1-few ASN hops upstream. I view this as similar to some backbones offering a special blackhole everything BGP community that usually is not transitive. This is the

DNS not working

2007-08-16 Thread leeyao
Hi, I try adding google.com to my dns server to get more visitors but google.com still show search engine. Please advise how to do so more visitor in return? May the Gods be with you!

DNS not working

2007-08-16 Thread leeyao
Hi, I try adding google.com to my dns server to get more visitors but google.com still show search engine. Please advise how to do so more visitor in return? May the Gods be with you!

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Deepak Jain
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How many people have noticed that when you replace a circuit with a higher capacity one, the traffic on the new circuit is suddenly greater than 100% of the old one. Obviously this doesn't happen all the time, such

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Deepak Jain wrote: Depends on your traffic type and I think this really depends on the granularity of your study set (when you are calculating 80-90% usage). If you upgrade early, or your (shallow) packet buffers convince to upgrade late, the effects might be different.

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Fred Baker wrote: world, they're perfectly happen to move it around the world. Hence, moving a file into a campus doesn't mean that the campus has the file and will stop bothering you. I'm pushing an agenda in the open source world to add some concept of locality, with

Re: Power, Data Centres ,and Iceland

2007-08-16 Thread Scott Francis
On 8/16/07, Rod Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How much is power as a percent of data centre operating expense? What sort of a range do you see? We are building a high capacity cable to Iceland, which has already become a major aluminum smelting centre due to its cheap geothermal and

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Ted Hardie
Fred Baker writes: Hence, moving a file into a campus doesn't mean that the campus has the file and will stop bothering you. I'm pushing an agenda in the open source world to add some concept of locality, with the purpose of moving traffic off ISP networks when I can. I think the user

RE: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread michael.dillon
The TCPs don't slow down. They use the bandwidth you have made available instead. in your words, the traffic on the new circuit is suddenly greater than 100% of the old one. Exactly! To be honest, I first encountered this when Avi Freedman upgraded one of his upstream connections from

Re: Power, Data Centres ,and Iceland

2007-08-16 Thread David Lesher
How much is power as a percent of data centre operating expense? What sort of a range do you see? A serial entrepreneur friend just closed his colo business. He labeled it reselling electricity, at a loss.. If you have sea water available for cooling, that will further cut your power

question on algorithm for radius based accouting

2007-08-16 Thread Joe Shen
hi, I 'google' algorithm for radius based accounting. but can't find anything. My question is: what's the best algorithm for constrcting broadband access record from radius accouting packets? To my knowledge, some system takes: Record Accouting-on packet arriving time -

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-16 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm pushing an agenda in the open source world to add some concept of locality, with the purpose of moving traffic off ISP networks when I can. I think the user will be just as happy or happier, and folks pushing large optics will

RE: question on algorithm for radius based accouting

2007-08-16 Thread Alex Rubenstein
My question is: what's the best algorithm for constrcting broadband access record from radius accouting packets? Read the RFC. No, I am being serious. Record Accouting-on packet arriving time - record Accouting-Off packet's Acct-Session-Time and Acct-Delay-Time - The

Re: Do I or RR need dns clue?

2007-08-16 Thread Mark Andrews
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: Down is there isn't power to it until it gets repaired. So its not answering period. A nslookup shows timed-out. A dig shows connection timed out; no servers could be reached (When querying ONLY against the down