Re: large organization nameservers sending icmp packets to dns servers.

2007-08-09 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Drew Weaver wrote: Is it a fairly normal practice for large companies such as Yahoo! And Mozilla to send icmp/ping packets to DNS servers? If so, why? And a related question would be from a service provider standpoint is there any reason to deny ICMP/PING packets to

Re: IPv6 PI block is announced - update your filters 2620:0000::/23

2006-09-15 Thread Doug Barton
Gert Doering wrote: > Does the policy really permit /40.../47 assignments? http://www.arin.net/registration/guidelines/ipv6_assignment.html#step2 -- If you're never wrong, you're not trying hard enough

Re: managing mycompany.{all iso TLD + icann TLD) ?

2006-07-24 Thread Doug Barton
Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > Someone's possesion of a domain name contining a string you have a > trademark on *in one specific line of business* *does not constitute an > infringement of your trademark*. > > Unless they *use it* *in conjunction with a product or service name* > *in the appropriate

Re: managing mycompany.{all iso TLD + icann TLD) ?

2006-07-24 Thread Doug Barton
David Ulevitch wrote: > > > On Jul 24, 2006, at 6:18 AM, Jim Mercer wrote: > >> the company i'm working for has a growing list of domains for the company >> and its trademarks. >> >> are there resellers out there that have agreements with _most_ TLD >> registries? >> >> i realize that i won't l

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-12 Thread Doug Barton
Fred Baker wrote: > Now, as to ccTLDs vs gTLDs, if anyone wants to eliminate one or the > other they get my vote. The political reality is that ccTLDs will never go away. The business reality is that gTLDs (at least the majority of the ones we have now) will never go away. So, can we move on to

Re: Equal access to content

2005-11-02 Thread Doug Barton
Sean Donelan wrote: > Should content suppliers be required to provide equal access to all > networks? Or can content suppliers enter into exclusive contracts? SBC and Yahoo! have already answered this question (for example). I also think that most people on this list will remember the early day

Re: IANA Blackhole Servers Ill?

2005-10-21 Thread Doug Barton
Crist Clark wrote: > > We got some very weird compaints about applications "hanging." Tracked > it down to reverse lookups timing out. Reverse lookups to RFC1918 space. > Looks like the IANA blackhole servers for RFC1918 are not well? >From my location (Comcast cable modem in LA) I can see the I

New IANA IPv6 allocation for RIPE NCC (2A01:0000::/23)

2005-07-14 Thread Doug Barton
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New IANA IPv6 allocation for APNIC (2400:2000::/19)

2005-07-08 Thread Doug Barton
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New IANA IPv4 allocation for RIPE NCC (89/8, 90/8, 91/8)

2005-06-30 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, This is to inform you that the IANA has allocated the following three (3) IPv4 /8 blocks to RIPE NCC: 89/8 90/8 91/8 For a full list of IANA IPv4 allocations please see: <http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space> - -

New IANA IPv4 allocations to ARIN (74/8, 75/8, 76/8) and LACNIC (189/8, 190/8)

2005-06-17 Thread Doug Barton
: <http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space> - -- Doug Barton General Manager, The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCs2C8wtDPyTesBYwRAscHAKCQEWrG96z/1FmhZWl1Mrt13hzBngCeNUCF SldR9Wbc4WTNoLoI7dJlKJc= =cq00 -E

New block of AS Numbers to APNIC (37888-38911)

2005-06-09 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, This is to inform you that the IANA has allocated the following block of AS Numbers to APNIC: 37888-38911 For a full list of IANA AS Number allocations please see <http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers> - -- Doug Barton G

New IANA IPv6 allocation for APNIC (2400::/19)

2005-05-23 Thread Doug Barton
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Re: Paul Wilson and Geoff Huston of APNIC on IP address allocation ITU v/s ICANN

2005-04-28 Thread Doug Barton
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: So, like ICANN, governements and big corporations are represented at the ITU. Like ICANN, ordinary users are excluded. I think groups like the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (http://gnso.icann.org/non-commercial/) and the At Large Advisory Committee (http://alac.ican

New IPv6 allocations from IANA to RIPE NCC (2a00::/21) and ARIN (2600::/22, 2604::/22, 2608::/22, 260c::/22)

2005-04-19 Thread Doug Barton
:::/22ARIN 2608:::/22ARIN 260C:::/22ARIN For a full list of IANA IPv6 allocations please see: <http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-unicast-address-assignments> - -- Doug Barton General Manager, The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: Auerbach Accuses ICANN Board of Dereliction of Duty on IP Allocation

2005-04-13 Thread Doug Barton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whether Karl is in fact right or a raving net.loon, there is indeed something very wrong with the process if he's 25% of the input. It may be useful to keep in mind that this is the tail end of a long process that we're talking about here. There was already a lot of discu

Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)

2005-04-13 Thread Doug Barton
Jeroen Massar wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 23:42 -0300, Doug Barton wrote: This is to inform you that the IANA has allocated the following one (1) IPv4 /8 block to AfriNIC: 41/8 AfriNIC Would you (read: IANA) also be so kind and give them a nice chunk out of: http://www.iana.org/assignments

New block of AS Numbers to AfriNIC (36864 - 37887)

2005-04-12 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, This is to inform you that the IANA has allocated the following block of AS Numbers to AfriNIC: 36864 - 37887 For a full list of IANA AS Number allocations please see <http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers> - -- Doug Barton G

New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)

2005-04-12 Thread Doug Barton
first allocation to AfriNIC after their recent recognition as a Regional Internet Registry. The ICANN staff would like to offer its congratulations to AfriNIC for this significant achievement. - -- Doug Barton General Manager, The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- V

New IANA IPv4 allocation for ARIN (73/8)

2005-04-12 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, This is to inform you that the IANA allocated the following IPv4 /8 block to ARIN on 30 March 2005: 73/8ARIN For a full list of IANA IPv4 allocations please see: <http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space> - -- Doug

Re: ICANN on the panix.com theft

2005-03-29 Thread Doug Barton
it will present its preliminary results and recommendations from > its review of the incident. That agenda has now been updated. As I understand it, the final version of the agenda had to wait on some coordination with the local host, which has now been completed. FYI, Doug - -- Doug Bart

New IANA IPv4 allocation for APNIC (124/8, 125/8, 126/8)

2005-01-27 Thread Doug Barton
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New IANA IPv6 allocation for RIPE NCC (2003:0000::/18)

2005-01-12 Thread Doug Barton
pv6-tla-assignments> - -- Doug Barton General Manager, The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB5aL5wtDPyTesBYwRAm4zAJ9a/3st27eUsCQeD2WKIoL8QVNA5gCfWc9F eHLYn34mS0qj3IhwU2woMLU= =qS1+ -END PGP SIGNATURE-

New IANA IPv6 allocation for RIPE NCC (2001:4C00::/23)

2004-12-15 Thread Doug Barton
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New IANA IPv6 allocation for APNIC (2001:8000::/23 - 2001:AE00::/23)

2004-11-29 Thread Doug Barton
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New IANA IPv6 allocation for RIPE NCC (2001:5000::/20)

2004-09-09 Thread Doug Barton
RIPE NCC 2001:5A00::/23RIPE NCC 2001:5C00::/23RIPE NCC 2001:5E00::/23RIPE NCC For a full list of IANA IPv6 allocations please see: <http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-tla-assignments> - -- Doug Barton General Manager, The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority -BEG

New IANA IPv6 allocation for ARIN (2001:4800::/23)

2004-08-23 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, This is to inform you that the IANA has allocated the following one (1) IPv6 /23 block to ARIN: 2001:4800::/23ARIN For a full list of IANA IPv6 allocations please see: <http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-tla-assignments> - -

Re: New IANA IPv6 allocation for RIPE NCC (2001:4600::/23)

2004-08-16 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Doug Barton wrote: For a full list of IANA IPv4 allocations please see: <http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space> This would have been more useful if I had copied and pasted from the right message, sorry: For a ful

New IANA IPv6 allocation for RIPE NCC (2001:4600::/23)

2004-08-16 Thread Doug Barton
ace> - -- Doug Barton General Manager, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBIVY/wtDPyTesBYwRAi8/AJ44TNst0AM4xqOHDXZcmo+rCqOP1QCbBR0g zhtl1VzZ7/2W7luxyN/b/NU= =5pBC -END PGP SIGNATURE-

New IANA IPv4 allocation for ARIN (71/8, 72/8)

2004-08-02 Thread Doug Barton
full list of IANA IPv4 allocations please see: <http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space> - -- Doug Barton General Manager, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBDuAYwtDPyTesBYwRAq9aAJ99l6Pib51qvGRgYuPam+jFv/TBOg

New IANA IPv6 Allocations

2004-06-11 Thread Doug Barton
eing sent to the following communities: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Doug - -- Doug Barton General Manager, The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAykOQwtDPy

New block of AS Numbers to ARIN

2004-05-28 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is to inform you that the IANA has allocated the following block of AS Numbers to ARIN: 32768 - 33791 For a full list of IANA AS Number allocations please see http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers - -- Doug Barton General Manager, The

New IPv6 Allocation to ARIN

2004-05-21 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is to inform you that the IANA has allocated the following IPv6 /23 block to ARIN: 2001:3C00::/23 ARIN For a full list of IANA IPv6 allocations please see: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-tla-assignments - -- Doug Barton General

Re: New IANA allocations to RIPE NCC

2004-05-08 Thread Doug Barton
a sign of good faith in our dealings with the RIRs. Hope this helps, Doug - -- Doug Barton General Manager, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAnLSWwtDPyTesBYwRAne4AJ0Rvv5NldNaQqkQk8Erc2AoRfLDhgCeIRyi qoCOvUJRzE77u4WSqkNr5AI= =vmPW -END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: updated root hints file (fwd)

2004-02-06 Thread Doug Barton
home page, and deleted some less frequently used ones. Please take a look at http://www.iana.org/ and let me know what you think. We have more improvements planned for the IANA site down the road as resources become available, but in the short term I think these changes will help. Doug -- Doug B

Re: updated root hints file

2004-02-03 Thread Doug Barton
you please fix that? thanks. Good idea. I had that in mind along with some other changes for later this quarter, but given the amount of attention this topic is generating, I'll try to get something up asap. Thanks, Doug -- Doug Barton General Manager, The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

Re: example.com/net/org DNS records

2004-01-06 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Roger Marquis wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Doug Barton wrote: > > > > > There's already been a lot of discussion about why this is a good thing, > > so I won't reiterate it all. > > Thanks Doug. Are those discussions available on

Re: example.com/net/org DNS records

2004-01-05 Thread Doug Barton
it other than logging it, so we wouldn't miss it if it went away. :) Hopefully this information is useful. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me. Doug -- Doug Barton General Manager, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

Re: RR/ATDN NYC

2003-11-24 Thread Doug Barton
ests to the proper channels, so if it's actually something significant, don't hesitate to mail them. Doug -- Doug Barton, Yahoo! DNS Administration and Development "You like pain? Try wearing a corset!" Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann, in "Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl"

ICANN Secsac message to the board

2003-09-22 Thread Doug Barton
input on this topic, and your very helpful suggestions were incorporated in the final product. On behalf of the Committee, I'd like to thank you for these contributions, and encourage you to continue sending comments and suggestions regarding operational or security issues. Doug Barton

Re: Wildcards: ICANN and IAB posted their commentaries

2003-09-19 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-19sep03.htm Folks, In regards to the statement above, the Security and Stability Advisory Committee is sincerely interested in your feedback regarding this i

Re: BIND 9 (Re: ISC Patches)

2003-09-18 Thread Doug Barton
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Todd Vierling wrote: > (Although I noticed that NetBSD's pkgsrc version of bind9 doesn't install > the HTML docs, which are now required in order to understand named.conf > changes. I'll probably submit a change request for that.) FreeBSD's does. :) Doug (aka [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Important changes to the .org tld today.

2003-09-05 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm speaking officially only for myself here, although my opinion is informed by the fire drill at work today. :) On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Rodney Joffe wrote: > During the root zone (.) update later today, specifically with root > zone serial number 2003

Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today

2003-08-22 Thread Doug Barton
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Owen DeLong wrote: > Sure, it won't happen in 30 minutes, but, I don't understand why this > wasn't started when F-Secure first noticed the situation. I seriously doubt that most (any?) ISP would be willing to accept the legal liability for altering anything on the computer

Re: 69/8...this sucks

2003-03-10 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, E.B. Dreger wrote: > The suggestion is to move ALL root, and as many TLD as possible, > servers into the new space. Nobody has said "move one or two", > which indeed would be ineffective. Ah, sorry, I wasn't aware of the full extent of your crack-smoking-ness. :) You'll nev

Re: 69/8...this sucks

2003-03-10 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, E.B. Dreger wrote: > > JSW> Date: 10 Mar 2003 15:23:52 -0500 > JSW> From: Jeff S Wheeler > > > JSW> I repeat my suggestion that a number of DNS root-servers or > JSW> gtld-servers be renumbered into 69/8 space. If the DNS > JSW> "breaks" for these neglected networks, I suspe

Re: [Re: [Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives]]

2003-02-21 Thread Doug Barton
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, E.B. Dreger wrote: > BB> Recent versions of un*x BIND will pick a random port above > BB> 1024 for udp conversations. It can and has picked 1434. > > Standard socket(2) behavior. BIND [hopefully] runs chown(2)ed, > so the source port number must be >= 1024. At startup, name

Re: DOS?

2003-01-25 Thread Doug Barton
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Christopher J. Wolff wrote: > > Greetings, > > It looks like all hell is breaking loose on some of the nations > backbones. http://www.internethealthreport.com > > The port counters on my AT&T DS3 were reading in the 250 megabit range, > that is a DS3, mind you. > > Any sour

Re: CC-TLD .af

2003-01-07 Thread Doug Barton
y accurate. At least, the entry for .af gives you a few more e-mail addresses to try, and some phone numbers. Also, if you find that the information there is not up to date, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is generally appreciative of your feedback. Hope this helps. -- Doug Barton, Yahoo! DNS Adm

Re: Yahoogroups

2002-12-22 Thread Doug Barton
pefully) not something gone wacky on our end. Do you have access to a command line somewhere that you can run dig from? If so, please mail me privately and we can try to work out what's going on. Doug Barton Yahoo! DNS Administration

Re: DNS issues various

2002-10-25 Thread Doug Barton
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Simon Waters wrote: > Last time it was discussed I thought that the provisions already > in the DNS RFC's to allow zone transfer for "." to recursive > servers is a neat solution for the root zone. There are pluses and minuses to that approach. The people at .biz and .info a

Re: Who does source address validation? (was Re: what's that smell?)

2002-10-13 Thread Doug Barton
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > Ok, but how do you generate megabits worth of traffic for which there is > no return traffic? At some level, someone or something must be trying to > do something _really hard_ but keep failing every time. It just doesn't > make sense. I could s

RE: Thanks! Re: Re: Root DNS Server Issues?

2002-10-04 Thread Doug Barton
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Bodie Francis wrote: > I am sure Doug and others could use this to reduce the typing (the reason > Unix was invented) when doing recursive queries for delegations (it even > identifies lame delegations quite nicely.) Sorry if I wasn't clear. My example was intended to be ped

Re: Thanks! Re: Re: Root DNS Server Issues?

2002-10-04 Thread Doug Barton
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, John Neiberger wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who helped me out and I hope you don't mind > me making a fool of myself. :-) I (and others that I work > with) learned quite a lot from your responses to this little > incident. If I have to be a little bit foolish to learn > s

Re: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon

2002-08-13 Thread Doug Barton
Blake Fithen wrote: >>Brad Knowles: >> The Pentagon has windows. It also has an ancient system of air >>pipes aimed at all of the windows... > > > > > Is this sensitive info? Given that I saw this on the history channel the other night, I'd s

Re: CA Power

2002-07-11 Thread Doug Barton
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Gary E. Miller wrote: > > Yo Martin! > > If there is plenty of power in CA then howcum there was a "stage 2" alert > yesterday and a "market alert today"? Today's "projected demand" equaled > "available resources" today If demand played out as expected there > would have b

Re: bulk email

2002-04-23 Thread Doug Barton
N etc..) in order to be able to guarantee > delivery and lower the risk of email that's been requested by an > end user being mistakenly blackholed or treated as spam by their > ISP (or webmail provider). http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/spam/spam-17.html -- Doug Barton, Yahoo! DN

Re: is your host or dhcp server sending dns dynamic updatesforrfc1918?

2002-04-19 Thread Doug Barton
advice of some windows experts on whether this would break things. It's been in place for about 6 months now, and so far we haven't heard a single complaint. The only problem this ever causes is when registering domains through certain ccTLD registries that require MNAME to be one of the s