Re: soBGP deployment

2005-05-23 Thread Geoff Huston
At 04:00 AM 24/05/2005, Daniel Golding wrote: I suspect the right thing to do is to ask why soBGP and sBGP have failed? And yes, they've failed. Just like DNSSec, we aren't seeing even limited adoption. Why? Too complex, too many moving parts, too much reliance on iffy third parties and requi

Re: as numbers

2005-07-30 Thread Geoff Huston
At 05:13 PM 30/07/2005, Daniel Karrenberg wrote: Henk hits the nail on the head. And reclamation is not straightforward: The RIPE NCC has hit strong resistance to reclamation, most often with the argument that the ASes are used in inter-domain routing on the Internet but our BGP data collectors

Re: as numbers

2005-08-01 Thread Geoff Huston
At 08:15 PM 1/08/2005, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Geoff Huston wrote: > So - to NANOG at large - if you want your vendor to include 4-Byte AS support > in their BGP code anytime soon, in order to avoid some last minute panic in a > couple of years hence, then

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-14 Thread Geoff Huston
At 11:56 PM 13/10/2005, Brandon Ross wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure that there will be a frantic scramble, but I don't expect it to last long enough for an IPv4 black market to form. There's already a black market in IPv4. I've seen plenty of offers to "buy"

Re: prepending 2 bytes of zeros....

2005-10-24 Thread Geoff Huston
At 03:46 AM 25/10/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am greatful to Geoff for his consistant ability to get me interested in breaking things... so, for the assembled mutlitude, what would the impact on various peers be if I was to change my orign AS (ok, so i'll have to change the router code

Re: ASN database files from LACNIC or AFRINIC?

2005-10-29 Thread Geoff Huston
For LACNIC the database is available under terms of a specific research-use agreement with LACNIC I am unsure if the Afrinic data is being made available regards, Geoff At 10:07 AM 29/10/2005, Andreas Ott wrote: Hello, I am currently looking for ASN databases from LACNIC and AFRINI

Re: ASN database files from LACNIC or AFRINIC?

2005-10-29 Thread Geoff Huston
nice try, but the data is not entirely consistent :-( Geoff At 02:30 PM 29/10/2005, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote: ftp://ftp.lacnic.net/pub/stats/lacnic/delegated-lacnic-latest has IP space and ASN allocations. ASN lines look like this: lacnic|MX|asn|278|1|19890331|allocated lacnic|AR|asn|676|1|

Re: classful routes redux

2005-11-02 Thread Geoff Huston
At 01:16 PM 3/11/2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Fred Baker wrote: > > actually, no, I could compare a /48 to a class A. > (someone might already have asked this, but...) why /48? Because the thinking at the time appears to be that to "ease' renumbering reduce the c

Re: classful routes redux

2005-11-04 Thread Geoff Huston
From [bgp.potaroo.net], the number of all ASs seen in all theroute-views routing tables is around 21,000. Plenty of space to recover, even though some of those might be inprivate use (and might or might not be able to use private ASNs).There just doesn't seem to be the political will to do so (e.g.

Re: classful routes redux

2005-11-04 Thread Geoff Huston
At 07:27 AM 5/11/2005, Randy Bush wrote: > RIRs, and if we assume no change in AS number policies, and no > change in the trend of ageing out 'old' AS numbers at a rate of > some 5% per year into the unadvertised pool, then the 2byte field > will exhaust sometime in October 2010. no waffling.

Re: classful routes redux

2005-11-04 Thread Geoff Huston
At 11:10 AM 5/11/2005, Randy Bush wrote: >> no waffling. you said october 14th, and we're holding you to it! >> we would like to know about what time of day, so we can schedule >> lunch and coffee. > well, the figures indicate that RIPE will receive 10 requests on that day, > and will start the

Re: classful routes redux

2005-11-05 Thread Geoff Huston
Also, some of the original motivations behind CIDR starts to go out the window when you have enough IP space that you can hand out huge chunks ahead of immediate need. Who cares about efficient utilization or "but I only need a /35 and you gave me a whole /32, I'm wasting so much space" when th

Re: classful routes redux

2005-11-05 Thread Geoff Huston
At 03:09 AM 5/11/2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Russ White wrote: > > - -- BGP is currently moving to a 2^32 space for AS numbers. That's odd, > if there's only 18,044 origins in the current table, and it won't ever > grow to much more--how'd we lose 40,000 or so AS nu

Re: Level3 Question

2005-11-13 Thread Geoff Huston
At 04:10 PM 12/11/2005, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Nov 11, 2005, at 5:19 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote: I think, however, that this will be less dramatic than other things. This is a "relatively" simple software change. The one thing it *will* do is make sure that all the old hardware out the

Re: IAB and "private" numbering

2005-11-13 Thread Geoff Huston
Example registered but not 'routed': 7.0.0.0/8 Not a good example. This particular /8 allocation is described by IANA as "007/8 Apr 95 IANA - Reserved" in http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space while a whois query to the ARIN database reveals: $ whois 7.0.0.0 OrgName:

Re: IAB and "private" numbering

2005-11-13 Thread Geoff Huston
I don't believe there is a 'rfc1918' in v6 (yet), I agree that it doesn't seem relevant, damaging perhaps though :) So you how would interpret the combination of RFC4913 and the statistical analysis known as "the birthday problem"? I offer the interpretation of this as use of address space

Re: IAB and "private" numbering

2005-11-13 Thread Geoff Huston
At 05:41 AM 13/11/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: routed where? your router? my router? until/unless you can look at EVERY router and see this mythical DFP in ALL of them, then i remain convinced you are deluded. Such applaudable absolutism does you credit in a ma

Re: IAB and "private" numbering

2005-11-15 Thread Geoff Huston
I think I can state authoritatively (:-)) that the IANA is aware of (at least some of) the discrepancies and has address registry data synchronization on its priority list. Thank you - as you are aware I've documented what I have seen in terms of discrepencies at http://draft-huston-ipv4-ia

RE: Issue AS and Subnet Announcment on BGP - Conflict with a major TelCO - 30h+ of route flapping unresolved

2005-11-17 Thread Geoff Huston
Normally I'm rather loathe to send urls around - but in this case you may find this APNIC work directly relevant to what you are asking for: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-51/presentations/pdf/ripe51-address-certificate.pdf I also did some work a year or so back on the differences bet

Re: Issue AS and Subnet Announcment on BGP - Conflict with a major TelCO - 30h+ of route flapping unresolved

2005-11-17 Thread Geoff Huston
At 05:57 AM 18/11/2005, Jeroen Massar wrote: Geoff Huston wrote: > > Normally I'm rather loathe to send urls around - but in this case you > may find this APNIC work directly relevant to what you are asking for: > > http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-51/presentation

Re: The Cidr Report

2004-11-13 Thread Geoff Huston
At 09:47 AM 13/11/2004, Randy Bush wrote: > ASnumNetsNow NetsAggr NetGain % Gain Description > > AS18566 7516 74599.2% CVAD Covad Communications are these numbers what i think, but hope not, they are? e.g. is AS18566 the origin AS for 751 prefixes that could be coll

Re: The Cidr Report

2004-11-13 Thread Geoff Huston
> e.g. is AS18566 the origin AS for 751 prefixes that could be > collapsed to 6? > Sort of - from here it looks like they aren't actually announcing the supernets. The covering /162, /15 and /14 aggregates are being globally announced, and the more specifics are being announced from the

RE: The Cidr Report

2004-11-13 Thread Geoff Huston
Interestingly enough what Covad appears to be saying is: If we had a way to announce two things 1 - here are the advertisements for covering aggregates for Covad AND 2 - do not believe any more specifics for these address blocks, as they are NOT part of Covad's routing policy for these prefixes t

Re: 69.0.0.0/8 - Please update your filters

2003-02-26 Thread Geoff Huston
pful action to consider. regards, Geoff Huston At 02:09 PM 2/25/2003 -0800, Hsu, Vicky wrote: -Original Message- From: Chan, KaLun Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 4:18 PM To: Chan, KaLun; DL NOC Managers; DL NOC-IP Services Cc: Eisenhart, William; Minter, Daniel; DL Neteng-core-ip Subject

Re: Does anyone have an up to date list of ASN allocations?

2003-05-30 Thread Geoff Huston
At 05:58 PM 28/05/2003 -0700, Herb Leong wrote: E.B. Dreger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #HL> Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 17:28:45 -0700 #HL> From: Herb Leong # # #HL>Does anyone have an up to date list of ASN assignments? #HL> All of the usual places that I normaly check are now out #HL> of date. Se

Re: Full Internet ASN <--> AS Name resolution

2003-06-08 Thread Geoff Huston
sigh - yes - the whois scripts are not perfect - I'm cleaning up the file now Geoff At 01:35 PM 6/06/2003 -0400, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Lucy; Whatever it is, there are some bugs : AS27949 AS27949 Segmentation Fault AS27950 AS27950 Segmentation Fault AS27951 AS27951 Segmentation Fault AS279

IETF Area Director position

2003-11-17 Thread Geoff Huston
I'm posting this on behalf of Rich Draves, the chair of the IETF Nominations Committee. Please direct any followup questions to Rich at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Geoff Huston Last week Randy Bush resigned from his position as Opera

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread Geoff Huston
One thing that Geoff hasn't been cynical enough to put forward is the idea that orgs with lots of valuable, monetized address space may very well end up lobbying the IAB and RIRs to erect new cost structures around green-fields IPv6 allocations as well, to make sure that the profit-providing ma

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-05 Thread Geoff Huston
At 07:37 AM 4/03/2006, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Mar 3, 2006, at 5:55 AM, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: On 2 mar 2006, at 06.16, Kevin Day wrote: No, I'm just trying to be practical here... Estimates of IPv4 pool exhaustion range from Mid 2008 (Tony Hain's ARIN presentation) to roughly 20

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-05 Thread Geoff Huston
At 07:43 AM 4/03/2006, Brandon Ross wrote: On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Marshall Eubanks wrote: I will bet anyone reading this $ 20 USD right now that what will actually happen is the development of a spot market in IPv4 address space. That's a sucker bet. What's worse is that unless people start c

4-Byte ASNs from the perspective of the 2-Byte world

2006-10-10 Thread Geoff Huston
On a related note, but not directly on the topic of the format of 4 Byte AS numbers, I prepared some notes about the view of 4-Byte AS numbers from the perspective of the 2-Byte AS realm, in the format of a presentation. These notes may be helpful to some of the NANOG audience: http://www.po

Re: 4-Byte ASNs from the perspective of the 2-Byte world

2006-10-11 Thread Geoff Huston
These notes may be helpful to some of the NANOG audience: http://www.potaroo.net/presentations/2006-10-11-asns.pdf Thanks! It would be very helpful if you could add slides indicating which Cisco and Juniper versions support NEW_AS_PATH. That's a good point Hank, thanks! It would be very

Re: The Cidr Report

2006-11-12 Thread Geoff Huston
When my zebra BGP daemin looses its grip on life and dies a horrible death the rest to the scripts wander into a strange twilight zone and make up numbers sorry (I really need to code more defensively for this type of condition!) geoff At 04:56 AM 11/11/2006, Fergie wrote: Indeed -- it

RE: The Cidr Report

2006-11-12 Thread Geoff Huston
heh heh No its all amateur time round here. :-) Geoff At 06:17 AM 13/11/2006, Scott Morris wrote: It sounds like government work! When something doesn't work, they just make numbers up! (Just be sure to create more plausible numbers next time! (smirk))

Re: Fwd: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry

2006-12-03 Thread Geoff Huston
At 01:06 PM 30/11/2006, Deepak Jain wrote: Does anyone have a current projection of when AS# (16 bit) exhaust will occur? 14 October 2010 http://www.potaroo.net/tools/asns/ regards, Geoff

4 Byte AS tested

2007-01-11 Thread Geoff Huston
# bgpctl show rib 203.10.62.0/24 flags: * = Valid, > = Selected, I = via IBGP, A = Announced origin: i = IGP, e = EGP, ? = Incomplete flags destination gateway lpref med aspath origin *>203.10.62.0/24 147.28.0.1 100 0 0.3130 0.1239 0.4637 0.4637 0.4637 0.

4 Byte AS tested

2007-01-11 Thread Geoff Huston
# bgpctl show rib 203.10.62.0/24 flags: * = Valid, > = Selected, I = via IBGP, A = Announced origin: i = IGP, e = EGP, ? = Incomplete flags destination gateway lpref med aspath origin *>203.10.62.0/24 147.28.0.1 100 0 0.3130 0.1239 0.4637 0.4637 0.4637 0.

Re: 4 Byte AS tested

2007-01-11 Thread Geoff Huston
At 04:59 AM 12/01/2007, Todd Underwood wrote: all, we (renesys) saw as23456 adjacent to both 1221 (expected) and 65001 (not), originating two prefixes: that was me, yes :-) I apologise for the 65001 leak . In mitigation I can only add that it did not last very long! 203.10.62.0/24 a

Re: 4 Byte AS tested

2007-01-11 Thread Geoff Huston
At 04:59 AM 12/01/2007, Todd Underwood wrote: all, we (renesys) saw as23456 adjacent to both 1221 (expected) and 65001 (not), originating two prefixes: 203.10.62.0/24 and 203.10.63.0/24 paths looked like: 7474 1221 65001 23456 23456 23456 and many similar This particular path illustrates

Re: 4 Byte AS tested

2007-01-11 Thread Geoff Huston
At 09:04 AM 12/01/2007, MAEMURA Akinori wrote: Hi Randy, Yes. We can never have the knowledge of *all* BGP speakers in the world, then keeping a 4-byte ASN announced to let everyone observe it looks a good strategy to see what would be happening. The test you did has already proven that the c

RE: 4 Byte AS tested

2007-01-11 Thread Geoff Huston
At 09:33 AM 12/01/2007, Anderson, Matthew R [NTK] wrote: One test case I would like to see is alternating 2- and 4-byte ASNs in the path. This may be harder. E.g., AS_PATH = 1239 23456 1221 23456 23456 23456. Or how about an AS_PATH including the 4-byte ASN placeholder (23456) whose origin

Re: Lessons from the AU model

2008-01-20 Thread Geoff Huston
Randy Bush wrote: and pricing in australia had nothing to do with a monopilist telco with a rapacious plan highly well articulated and sold to the govt by an arch-capitalist with a silver tongue? I don't know about that. However, I do know that relatively small isolated communities in the

Re: Lessons from the AU model

2008-01-20 Thread Geoff Huston
Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote: Southern Cross cost some US $1B to construct about a decade ago RFS was Nov 2001. They full paid the debt from a US$1.3B cost of construction in Oct 2005. (see http://www.southerncrosscables.com/public/News/newsdetail.cfm?StoryID=14) So, they're making some V

Re: Lessons from the AU model

2008-01-21 Thread Geoff Huston
Tom Vest wrote: So if they don't have a billion or so dollars stored away somewhere, they're selling below replacement value. With very few exceptions there's no "they"; the old "they" is gone, the new "they" didn't take over until fairly recently, didn't bankroll the original construction

Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit

2008-02-23 Thread Geoff Huston
Stephen Sprunk wrote: Thus spake "Tom Vest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I agree, to a point. My prediction is that when the handful of mega-ISPs are unable to get the massive quantities of IPv4 addresses they need (a few dozen account for 90% of all consumption in the ARIN region)... I keep readin

Re: Calling TeliaSonera - time to implement prefix filtering

2008-04-15 Thread Geoff Huston
Martin Hannigan wrote: Yes, it is operational. On 4/15/08, Fred Reimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But isn't this what nanog is for? It appears to be more on-topic than the email threads. More E than S. As well as 62.0.0.0/8 there is 88.0.0.0/8 (originated by AS13064, with upstreams of