RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Frank Bulk wrote: Except that upstreams are not at 27 Mbps (http://i.cmpnet.com/commsdesign/csd/2002/jun02/imedia-fig1.gif show that you would be using 32 QAM at 6.4 MHz). The majority of MSOs are at 16-QAM at 3.2 MHz, which is about 10 Mbps. We just took over two systems

RE: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Ben Butler
Hi, That is where I got to last night with my cogitations before I feel asleep. Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Bonomi Sent: 16 January 2008 01:26 To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: BGP Filtering > Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:1

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: "Joe Greco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [snip] As long as you fairly disclose to your end-users what limitations and restrictions exist on your network, I don't see the problem. You've set out a qualification that generally doesn't exist. For example, this discu

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Joe Greco wrote: As long as you fairly disclose to your end-users what limitations and restrictions exist on your network, I don't see the problem. You've set out a qualification that generally doesn't exist. For example, this discussion included someone from a WISP, Amplex, I believe, t

Re: Looking for geo-directional DNS service

2008-01-15 Thread Joe Greco
> Unless you define "topologically nearest" as "what BGP picks", that is > incorrect. And even if you do define topology to be equivalent to > BGP, that is not what is of the greatest interest. > "Goodput" (latency, packet loss, throughput) is far more important. > IMHO. Certainly, but

Re: Looking for geo-directional DNS service

2008-01-15 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Patrick W.Gilmore")] > And even if you do define topology to be equivalent to BGP, that is not > what is of the greatest interest. "Goodput" (latency, packet loss, > throughput) is far more important. IMHO. in my less humble justified true belief, this is 100% truth. > This

Re: Looking for geo-directional DNS service

2008-01-15 Thread Patrick W.Gilmore
On Jan 15, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Joe Greco wrote: Except Hank is asking for true topological distance (latency / throughput / packetloss). Anycast gives you BGP distance, not topological distance. Say I'm in Ashburn and peer directly with someone in Korea where he has a node (1 AS hop), but I get

Re: Off Topic

2008-01-15 Thread Alex Pilosov
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Rod Beck wrote: > At the risk of incurring Mr. Pilosoft's wrath (the Putin of NANOG?), You meant the "srh of nanog". And I'm not ;) > I'll looking for NANOG style ISP meetings to attend in Europe this year > (France, Germany, UK, Belgium, and Netherlands). Any suggestions wo

Re: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Jon Lewis
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Christopher Morrow wrote: Jon, didn't you start: http://www.wibble.co.uk/archives/nanog/2007/msg05265.html Yep. and Ben, is this sort of what you are looking for? Or would it accomplish the same thing for you? I don't think it's at all what Ben "wants", but I think i

Re: [Fwd: Unstable BGP Peerings?]

2008-01-15 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Jan 13, 2008 6:56 PM, Paul Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Interesting, given that TTNet sits atop this ranking: > > https://nssg.trendmicro.com/nrs/reports/rank.php?page=1 > > I wonder if this is somehow related? ;-) > probably not..

Re: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Jan 15, 2008 2:02 PM, Jon Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Ben Butler wrote: > > > I want a filter that will automatically match the shorter prefixes that > > match any longer prefix, once I can match them I can drop them. > > I don't want to manually configure a static

Re: Off Topic

2008-01-15 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Jan 15, 2008 2:42 PM, Rod Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At the risk of incurring Mr. Pilosoft's wrath (the Putin of NANOG?), I'll he's not a bad guy actually :) it's a rough job corralling all the -admin folks I'm certain. Also this isn't really that off topic is it? > looking for NANOG

Re: Looking for geo-directional DNS service

2008-01-15 Thread Joe Abley
On 15-Jan-2008, at 12:50, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Anycast gives you BGP distance, not topological distance. Yeah, it's topology modulated by economics :-) Joe

Re: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:16:04 -0500 > From: "William Herrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: BGP Filtering > > > On Jan 15, 2008 12:51 PM, Dave Israel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I think I understand what you want, and you don't want it. If you > > receive a route for, say, 204.91.0.

RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Frank Bulk
Except that upstreams are not at 27 Mbps (http://i.cmpnet.com/commsdesign/csd/2002/jun02/imedia-fig1.gif show that you would be using 32 QAM at 6.4 MHz). The majority of MSOs are at 16-QAM at 3.2 MHz, which is about 10 Mbps. We just took over two systems that were at QPSK at 3.2 Mbps, which is a

RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Frank Bulk wrote: I'm not aware of MSOs configuring their upstreams to attain rates for 9 and 27 Mbps for version 1 and 2, respectively. The numbers you quote are the theoretical max, not the deployed values. But with 1000 users on a segment, don't these share the 27 meg

RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Frank Bulk
I'm not aware of MSOs configuring their upstreams to attain rates for 9 and 27 Mbps for version 1 and 2, respectively. The numbers you quote are the theoretical max, not the deployed values. Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mikael A

RE: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Ben Butler
Hi, It is late and am just checking email. But... The /24 is more specific than the /19 therefore the /24 take priority. In my opinion AS path length became somewhat redundant with the rise of confederations and BGP doesn't understand bandwidth, latency and congestion. But I didn't write it,

Re: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Deepak Jain
But if I can see the /19 in the table, do I care about a load of /24s because the whole of the /19 should be reachable as the origin AS is announcing it somewhere in their network and it is being received my a transit so should be reachable. The "presumption" in cases like this is that the /24

RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Rod Beck
I have reached the conclusion that some of these threads are good indicators of the degree of underemployment among our esteemed members. But don't worry, I am not a snitch. Roderick S. Beck Director of European Sales Hibernia Atlantic 1, Passage du Chantier, 75012 Paris http://www.hiberniaatla

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Jan 15, 2008 3:52 PM, Joe Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Joe Greco wrote: > > > I have no idea what the networking equivalent of thirty-seven half-eaten > > > bags of Cheetos is, can't even begin to imagine what the virtual > > > equivalent > > > of my couch is, etc. Your metaphor doe

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Joe Greco
> Joe Greco wrote: > > I have no idea what the networking equivalent of thirty-seven half-eaten > > bags of Cheetos is, can't even begin to imagine what the virtual equivalent > > of my couch is, etc. Your metaphor doesn't really make any sense to me, > > sorry. > > There isn't one. The "fat man

Re: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Dave Israel
William Herrin wrote: On Jan 15, 2008 12:51 PM, Dave Israel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think I understand what you want, and you don't want it. If you receive a route for, say, 204.91.0.0/16, 204.91.0.0/17, and 204.91.128.0/17, you want to drop the /17s and just care about the /16.

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Barry Shein
This is amazing. People are discovering oversubscription. When we put the very first six 2400bps modems for the public on the internet in 1989 and someone shortly thereafter got a busy signal and called support the issue was oversubscription. What? You mean you don't have one modem and phone lin

Re: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread William Herrin
On Jan 15, 2008 12:51 PM, Dave Israel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think I understand what you want, and you don't want it. If you > receive a route for, say, 204.91.0.0/16, 204.91.0.0/17, and > 204.91.128.0/17, you want to drop the /17s and just care about the /16. But > a change in topol

Re: Looking for geo-directional DNS service

2008-01-15 Thread Joe Greco
> Except Hank is asking for true topological distance (latency / > throughput / packetloss). > > Anycast gives you BGP distance, not topological distance. > > Say I'm in Ashburn and peer directly with someone in Korea where he > has a node (1 AS hop), but I get to his node in Ashburn through

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-15 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Randy Bush wrote: > > > Fallback to A should be removed sure sounds like a plan. > > great idea. it will only break mail to 42% of the internet. Randy's right, though it's email *from* 42% of the Internet that's the biggest problem. [rant about email from shitty php web form

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-15 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Mark Andrews wrote: > > Since there is no [MX] fallback to Wrong. http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg49841.html Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ FISHER GERMAN BIGHT: SOUTHERLY BECOMING CYCLONIC THEN WESTERLY 7 TO SEVE

Off Topic

2008-01-15 Thread Rod Beck
At the risk of incurring Mr. Pilosoft's wrath (the Putin of NANOG?), I'll looking for NANOG style ISP meetings to attend in Europe this year (France, Germany, UK, Belgium, and Netherlands). Any suggestions would be appreciated. Please bypass the list and send them directly to me. Roderick S. B

RE: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Jon Lewis
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Ben Butler wrote: I want a filter that will automatically match the shorter prefixes that match any longer prefix, once I can match them I can drop them. I don't want to manually configure a static prefix list for lots and lots and lots of reasons. If the longer prefix disa

Re: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Dave Israel
The /17 isn't sitting there still being filtered; it was never there to begin with. Your router heard the /17, saw that it didn't want it because of your filter settings, and promptly forgot it. You can tell your router to remember routes it doesn't install; it's called soft reconfiguration

Re: houston.rr.com MX fubar?

2008-01-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I see roadrunner listens. frodo:~ dig +short houston.rr.com mx 0 . frodo:~ dig +short houston.rr.com txt "v=spf1 -all" --srs On Jan 13, 2008 8:55 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A bunch of roadrunner subdomains migrated over to comcast and those are dud. > > One operati

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread David E. Smith
Joe Greco wrote: I have no idea what the networking equivalent of thirty-seven half-eaten bags of Cheetos is, can't even begin to imagine what the virtual equivalent of my couch is, etc. Your metaphor doesn't really make any sense to me, sorry. There isn't one. The "fat man" metaphor was get

RE: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Ben Butler
Hi Dave, Yes that is what I was thinking I want to do - so I am guessing here - I think what we are saying is the /17s never get re-added when the /16 is withdrawn because this does not - for very good reasons when I think about it- cause the filter to be evaluated upon the withdrawal of a prefix

RE: NANOG website unreachable?

2008-01-15 Thread Darden, Patrick S.
I see the site, not the error. --Patrick Darden -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Daniele Arena Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:48 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: NANOG website unreachable? Hi, Am I the only one to get a 403 on http://

Re: Level 3 (3356) issues?

2008-01-15 Thread Scott Berkman
I know of Level 3 issues in the Tampa area. Where are you? -Scott - Original Message - From: "David Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: nanog@merit.edu Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:44:31 AM (GMT-0500) America/New_York Subject: Level 3 (3356) issues? Just curious if anyone is seein

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Joe Greco
> Joe Greco wrote: > > Time to stop selling the "always on" connections, then, I guess, because > > it is "always on" - not P2P - which is the fat man never leaving. P2P > > is merely the fat man eating a lot while he's there. > > As long as we're keeping up this metaphor, P2P is the fat man who

Re: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Dave Israel
Ben, I think I understand what you want, and you don't want it. If you receive a route for, say, 204.91.0.0/16, 204.91.0.0/17, and 204.91.128.0/17, you want to drop the /17s and just care about the /16. But a change in topology does not generally result in a complete update of the BGP ta

Re: Looking for geo-directional DNS service

2008-01-15 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 15, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Bill Woodcock wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Hank Nussbacher wrote: The Ultradns (now Neustar) Directional DNS service is based on statically defined IP responses at each of their 14 sites so there is no proximity checking done. Yes, and that's how anycast work

RE: Level 3 (3356) issues?

2008-01-15 Thread David Hubbard
Looks like this was localized to Tampa. I've received emails from two other people connected through Tampa, like us, who were having the same issues. I finally got TCAM on the phone after about an hour. They have a master ticket for a failure of "three DLM modules" lasting 47 minutes but it is

RE: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Ben Butler
Hi, Agreed that is why I have lots of RAM - doesn't mean I should carry on upgrading my tower of babble though to make it ever higher and higher if there is a better way of doing things. I still don't see how a default route to a portioned pop is going to help in the slightest - you are saved by

RE: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Geo.
> As long as we're keeping up this metaphor, P2P is the fat man who says Guys, according to wikipedia over 70 million people fileshare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_of_file_sharing That's not the fat man, that's a significant portion of the market. Demand is changing, meet the new needs o

RE: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Ben Butler
Hi, I might be being slow, or you might not understand my question - I am not sure it has been a long day. I want a filter that will automatically match the shorter prefixes that match any longer prefix, once I can match them I can drop them. I don't want to manually configure a static prefix li

Re: Looking for geo-directional DNS service

2008-01-15 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Hank Nussbacher wrote: > The Ultradns (now Neustar) Directional DNS service is based on > statically defined IP responses at each of their 14 sites so there > is no proximity checking done. Yes, and that's how anycast works: it directs traffic to the _top

Re: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Joe Abley
On 15-Jan-2008, at 11:40, Ben Butler wrote: Defaults wont work because a routing decision has to be made, my transit originating a default or me pointing a default at them does not guarantee the reachability of all prefixes.. Taking a table that won't fit in RAM similarly won't guarantee

Re: Level 3 (3356) issues?

2008-01-15 Thread Mike Lyon
Our DS3 here in Cupertino, Ca seems to be working flawless -Mike On Jan 15, 2008 8:44 AM, David Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just curious if anyone is seeing issues with Level 3 > right now? Our session is still up but we can't > see any outside routes through them currently. I'

RE: Level 3 (3356) issues?

2008-01-15 Thread Paul Stewart
No issues here full feed coming in and no issues getting out (that have been noticed so far) 2 so-8-0.hsa1.Detroit1.Level3.net (166.90.248.1) [AS 3356] 12 msec 8 msec 12 msec 3 so-4-3-0.mp1.Detroit1.Level3.net (4.68.115.1) [AS 3356] 12 msec 12 msec 8 msec 4 as-4-0.bbr2.NewYork1.Level3.n

RE: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Mike Walter
Ben, Look here. They show an example of prefix filtering on the 128.0.0.0/8 network. I would assume you could extrapolate and come up with your own rule. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_0/np1/configuration/guide/1cbgp.h tml#wp7487 Mike Walter, MCP Systems Administrator 3z.net a PCD Co

Level 3 (3356) issues?

2008-01-15 Thread David Hubbard
Just curious if anyone is seeing issues with Level 3 right now? Our session is still up but we can't see any outside routes through them currently. I'm guessing by the fact that I've been on hold for 25 minutes that I'm not the only one having an issue with them but wanted to double check. Tha

RE: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Ben Butler
Hi Jason, Fantastic news, it is possible. We are using Cisco - would you be so kind as to give me a clue into which bit of Cisco's website you would like me to read as I have already read the bits I suspected might tell me how to do this but have guessed wrong / the documentation hasn't helped -

RE: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Ben Butler
Hi, Default wont work - I do care about my transit providers network becoming partitioned or IXPs having problems or fiber cuts etc etc So I need my router to see all the reachability of a prefix in BGP so that my router knows which transit to send it to. Defaults wont work because a routing de

Re: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Jared Mauch
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 04:11:36PM -, Ben Butler wrote: > As a transit consumer - why would I want to carry all this cr*p in my > routing table, I would still be getting a BGP route to the larger prefix > anyway - let my transit feeds sort out which route they use & traffic > engineering.

BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Ben Butler
Hi, Considering: http://thyme.apnic.net Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 113220 ! /20:17046 /21:16106 /22:20178 /23:21229 /24:126450 That is saying to me that a significant number of these smaller prefixes are due to de-aggregation of PA and not PI

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread David E. Smith
Joe Greco wrote: Time to stop selling the "always on" connections, then, I guess, because it is "always on" - not P2P - which is the fat man never leaving. P2P is merely the fat man eating a lot while he's there. As long as we're keeping up this metaphor, P2P is the fat man who says he's go

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Joe Greco
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:43:12 -0500 > "William Herrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 14, 2008 5:25 PM, Joe Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So users who rarely use their connection are more profitable to the ISP. > > > > > > The fat man isn't a welcome sight to the owner of the AY

Re: Looking for geo-directional DNS service

2008-01-15 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 12:14 AM 16-01-08 +1300, jamie baddeley wrote: Yes, but that would require them to run a DNS server at each of their 4 locations. They do not want to run their own DNS. They want it outsourced. Thanks, -Hank Thought about anycasting? Broad as a barn door, but if you add health checking

Looking for geo-directional DNS service

2008-01-15 Thread Hank Nussbacher
I am looking for a commercial DNS service that provides geo-directionality. Suppose I have 4 data centers scattered thruout the world and want users to hit the closest data center based on proximity checks (pings, TTLs, latency, load, etc.). I know one can "roll their own", using various ge

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:56:30 +0900 Adrian Chadd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008, Mark Smith wrote: > > > But the fat man isn't allowed to take up residence in the restaurant > > and continously eat - he's only allowed to be there in bursts, like we > > used to be able to ass

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Brandon Galbraith wrote: I think no matter what happens, it's going to be very interesting as Comcast rolls out DOCSIS 3.0 (with speeds around 100-150Mbps possible), Verizon FIOS Well, according to wikipedia DOCSIS 3.0 gives 108 megabit/s upstream as opposed to 27 and 9

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 1/15/08, Adrian Chadd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ffs, stop with the crappy analogies. > > The internet is like a badly designed commodity network. Built > increasingly > cheaper to deal with market pressures and unable to shift quickly to > shifting > technologies. > > Just like the telcos

ipflow/netflow appliance

2008-01-15 Thread Stefan Hegger
Hi, thanks for all your answers it helped a lot, we will do a test with nProbe. Best Stefan -- Stefan Hegger Internet System Engineer Lycos Europe GmbH Carl-Bertelsmann Str. 29 Postfach 315 33312 Gütersloh Phone: Tel: +49 5241 8071 334 Fax: +49 5241 80671 334 Mobile: +49 170 1892720 Sitz d

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008, Mark Smith wrote: > But the fat man isn't allowed to take up residence in the restaurant > and continously eat - he's only allowed to be there in bursts, like we > used to be able to assume people would use networks they're connected > to. "Left running" P2P is the fat man n

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:43:12 -0500 "William Herrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 14, 2008 5:25 PM, Joe Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So users who rarely use their connection are more profitable to the ISP. > > > > The fat man isn't a welcome sight to the owner of the AYCE buffe