RE: rack power question

2008-03-25 Thread Ben Butler
While it has the potential to catch fire - it does however work fine in my car engine. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Shore Sent: 25 March 2008 14:20 To: Dorn Hetzel Cc: nanog list Subject: Re: rack power question Dorn Hetzel wr

RE: rack power question

2008-03-23 Thread Ben Butler
There comes a point where you cant physically transfer the energy using air any more - not less you wana break the laws a physics captin (couldn't resist sorry) - to your DX system, gas, then water, then in rack (expensive) cooling, water and CO2. Sooner or later we will sink the hole room in oil,

FW: BGP TTL Security

2008-02-14 Thread Ben Butler
IX and all peers are one hop away. Kind Regards Ben -Original Message- From: Danny McPherson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 February 2008 01:16 To: Ben Butler Cc: Hank Nussbacher Subject: Re: BGP TTL Security On Feb 14, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Ben Butler wrote: > Hi, > > I have

BGP TTL Security

2008-02-14 Thread Ben Butler
this a Cisco bug? Kind Regards Ben Butler ++ C2 Internet Ltd Globe House, The Gullet, Nantwich, Cheshire, CW5 5RL E mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] W http://www.c2internet.net/ B1 http://c2internet.blogspot.com/ B2 http://c2noc.blogspot.com/ T +44-(0)845-658-

RE: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

2008-02-04 Thread Ben Butler
The US Navy will deploy their killer ninja dolphins to bottlenose any wrong doers :@) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kee Hinckley Sent: 04 February 2008 17:08 To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Ee

RE: Blackholes and IXs and Completing the Attack.

2008-02-03 Thread Ben Butler
Hi, "your point here is that perhaps instead of this scheme one would just advertise the max-prefix-length (/24 currently) from a 'better' place on your network and suck all the 'bad' traffic (all traffic in point of fact) for the attacked destination via a transit/peer/place which can deal with

RE: Blackholes and IXs and Completing the Attack.

2008-02-03 Thread Ben Butler
Hi Barry, Thank you for some really useful pointers, I am off to do some more reading. Kind Regards Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Greene (bgreene) Sent: 03 February 2008 21:07 To: Christopher Morrow; Tomas L. Byrnes Cc: nan

RE: Blackholes and IXs and Completing the Attack.

2008-02-03 Thread Ben Butler
Original Message- From: Tomas L. Byrnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 February 2008 07:54 To: Ben Butler; nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: Blackholes and IXs and Completing the Attack. "Well then they wouldn't be peering with this route reflector " Well then, the utility is

RE: Blackholes and IXs and Completing the Attack.

2008-02-03 Thread Ben Butler
From: Rick Astley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 February 2008 06:56 To: Ben Butler Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Blackholes and IXs and Completing the Attack. I see your point, but I think maintaining the box for the control session would also require a decent amount of work. Presumably,

FW: Blackholes and IXs and Completing the Attack.

2008-02-02 Thread Ben Butler
it. Kind Regards Ben From: Rick Astley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 February 2008 01:02 To: Ben Butler Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Blackholes and IXs and Completing the Attack. While I am not sure I fully understand your suggestion, I don't

RE: Blackholes and IXs and Completing the Attack.

2008-02-02 Thread Ben Butler
--- From: Tomas L. Byrnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 February 2008 20:39 To: Ben Butler; Paul Vixie; nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: Blackholes and IXs and Completing the Attack. You could achieve the exact same result simply by not advertising the network to your peers, or by advertising a bogus

RE: Blackholes and IXs and Completing the Attack.

2008-02-02 Thread Ben Butler
AN infrastructure to ensure enough head room ideal capacity is a particularly economically sensible approach to the problem. Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Vixie Sent: 02 February 2008 21:37 To: Ben Butler Cc: nanog@merit.edu Sub

RE: Blackholes and IXs and Completing the Attack.

2008-02-02 Thread Ben Butler
D] Sent: 02 February 2008 20:49 To: Ben Butler Cc: NANOG NANOG Subject: Re: Blackholes and IXs and Completing the Attack. On Feb 2, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Ben Butler wrote: > > So, given we all now understand each other - why is no one doing the > above? Some folks are doing this, just n

RE: Blackholes and IXs and Completing the Attack.

2008-02-02 Thread Ben Butler
ng the Attack. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Ben Butler") writes: > ... > This hopefully will ensure a relatively protected router that is only > accessible from the edge routers we want and also secured to only > accept filtered announcements for black holing and in consequence

Blackholes and IXs and Completing the Attack.

2008-01-30 Thread Ben Butler
to, so why is the above a dumb idea / what have I missed that makes the above unworkable because it does seem kind of obvious now I have done some work with this. Kind Regards Ben Butler ++ C2 Internet Ltd Globe House, The Gullet, Nantwich, Cheshire, CW5

RE: Worst Offenders/Active Attackers blacklists

2008-01-29 Thread Ben Butler
Hi, Is not the other danger that any anti Dos measure is likely to fail unless unified over a significant % of the Internet / AS numbers to block to the BotNet client machines at source within their home AS. Once the army has been amassed and escaped their home ASes they can launch an attack aga

RE: Lessons from the AU model

2008-01-22 Thread Ben Butler
Or even Blue Security. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Butler Sent: 22 January 2008 10:26 To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: Lessons from the AU model Hi, Regarding Dos filtering, I guess that really depends on whether we are

RE: Lessons from the AU model

2008-01-22 Thread Ben Butler
Hi, Regarding Dos filtering, I guess that really depends on whether we are talking about completing the attack and filtering in upstream transits, or, filtering source / traffic classification within the AS keeping the destination alive throughout the attack and utilising WAN/Transit bandwidth in

RE: Cost per prefix [was: request for help w/ ATT and terminology]

2008-01-20 Thread Ben Butler
the Internet. -- TTFN, patrick On Jan 20, 2008, at 7:08 AM, Ben Butler wrote: > > Hi, > > Out of curiosity was the reasoning also to charge the PA who are > deagregating? > > To restate there are 113,220 extra routes smaller than RIR minimums > out > of the /24:126,450

RE: Cost per prefix [was: request for help w/ ATT and terminology]

2008-01-20 Thread Ben Butler
Hi, Out of curiosity was the reasoning also to charge the PA who are deagregating? To restate there are 113,220 extra routes smaller than RIR minimums out of the /24:126,450 in the table. The today reality seems to be that 113K of that 126K is probably being caused by existing networks de-aggre

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: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Ben Butler
m: Deepak Jain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 January 2008 22:09 To: Ben Butler Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: BGP Filtering > 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

RE: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Ben Butler
though? Ben From: Dave Israel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 January 2008 17:51 To: Ben Butler Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: BGP Filtering Ben, I think I understand what you want, and you don't want it. If you receive a route for, say, 204.9

RE: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Ben Butler
hances. Bogons - obviously. My question was if what I was asking was possible. Kind Regards Ben -Original Message- From: Joe Abley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 January 2008 17:07 To: Ben Butler Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: BGP Filtering On 15-Jan-2008, at 11:40, B

RE: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Ben Butler
refix list for lots and lots and lots of reasons. If the longer prefix disappears from the route table I want to stop filtering the shorter prefixes - automatically. -Original Message- From: Mike Walter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 January 2008 16:52 To: Ben Butler; nanog@merit.edu Su

RE: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Ben Butler
7;t helped - so a handy pointer would be appreciated. Kind Regards Ben -Original Message- From: Jason Dearborn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 January 2008 16:35 To: Ben Butler Subject: Re: BGP Filtering That's typically a function of your router software. Juniper, Force10, and

RE: BGP Filtering

2008-01-15 Thread Ben Butler
gards Ben -Original Message- From: Jared Mauch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 January 2008 16:19 To: Ben Butler Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: BGP Filtering 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

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

Visting Vancouver

2006-08-22 Thread Ben Butler
Hi, I am visiting Vancouver (Canada not Washington) between 25 Aug and 12 Sept if there is anyone in the area that wants to meet up for a beer. Kind Regards Ben

Regulatory - North Americas - Internet Access

2006-08-15 Thread Ben Butler
Hi,   Hoping someone may be able to help.   Could someone please point me in the direction of any legislation / regulations that would effect providers of "Internet access" (DSL & Metro Ethernet) services to residential and business customers located in the US and Canada.   Am I correct in

RE: New Laptop Polices

2006-08-14 Thread Ben Butler
Hi, My parents flew back from New York to Manchester yesterday - complete with clear plastic bag - less cough syrup which was refused entry onto the plane. Ti it seems to be (some) flights terminating in the UK not simply originating there. Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Cisco 7200 + NPE-G1 / 7301

2005-11-18 Thread Ben Butler
isco. Kind Regards Ben Butler ++ C2 Internet Ltd Globe House The Gullet Nantwich Cheshire CW5 5RL W http://www.c2internet.net/ T +44-(0)845-658-0020 F +44-(0)845-658-0070 All quotes & services from C2 are bound by our standard terms and conditions which are avai

RE: Peering VLANs and MAC addresses

2005-11-09 Thread Ben Butler
*** Your mail has been scanned by InterScan VirusWall. ***-*** Hi, This should sort you out. no keepalive spanning-tree bpdufilter enable Kind Regards Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Br

Routers RAM and BGP table bloat

2005-10-21 Thread Ben Butler
rowing BGP table size. And yes I do know that if I was running Quagga on a PC I could have 4GB of inexpensive RAM very easily, but I want to avoid the x is better than y discussion. Kind Regards Ben Butler ++ C2 Internet Ltd Globe House The Gullet Nantwich Cheshire

RE: IPv6 news - newbie

2005-10-14 Thread Ben Butler
*** Your mail has been scanned by InterScan VirusWall. ***-*** "One thing i find promising/good: Lots of people here sent their v6 traces to the list, so it's not just a few random geeks messing with v6 as much anymore, it's there. - jared" Hi, Wel