Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-22 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 05:16:08PM -0700, Crist Clark wrote: It seems to me is what hurts the ISPs is the accompanying upload streams, not the download (or at least the ISP feels the same download pain no matter what technology their end user uses to get the data[0]). Throwing more bandwidth

Re: trans-Atlantic latency?

2007-06-28 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 06:20:31PM -0500, Neal R wrote: I have a customer with IP transport from Sprint and McLeod and fiber connectivity to Sprint in the Chicago area. The person making the decisions is not a routing guy but is very sharp overall. He is currently examining the latency on

NANOG39 PGP Key Signing

2007-01-30 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
We will be running the keysigning sessions in Toronto during the general session breaks (the breaks start sometime between 1000 and 1030 each day) in Hall F. You may add your key to the keyring at: http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?keyring=9342 Additional details

Re: For anyone who hasn't yet asked Ren for an explanation...

2007-01-19 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 10:55:53AM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote: ...of how this whole ATT rebranding thing works, Stephen Colbert summs it up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj1Mtv9cD0Ieurl= Much along the lines of seeing how fast you can name the states, or their capitals

NANOG38 PGP Key Signing

2006-10-08 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
The key signings will be during the Monday and Tuesday morning breaks in Director's Row 46. Please try to get those keys into me by 9pm CDT on Sunday, however any late submissions will be accomodated as best I can. --msa -snip- Stickers for Your Name Badge When you stop by

NANOG36 PGP Key Signing

2006-02-07 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
The key signing will be on Monday at 3pm in the State room. If you can't make it, feel free to submit keys as there will be a follow-up session during the Wednesday morning break. So get those keys in and I'll see you in Dallas! --msa -snip- Stickers

Re: Spring time fiber cuts (was Re: fiber cut 19 May/PM - 20 May /AM) (fwd)

2004-05-23 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 02:05:36PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote: and telcos usually do. but they almost always tell you it's protected. force them to test, or pull one side yourself. and repeat the test every quarter. Actually Randy, I would say 85% of the APS problems I've had were not

Re: Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall

2004-05-18 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 02:26:37PM -0700, Jared B. Reimer wrote: This is a pretty serious flaw IMHO, if it is (in fact) true. qmail isn't the only mailer that behaves this way. It looks like they may have tried to kludge their way around this with LDAP in the case of MS Exchange, which

NANOG30 PGP Key Signing

2004-01-28 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
When you stop by the registration desk at NANOG30, there will be colored stickers available for your nametag that indicate if you have an interest in signing PGP keys. If people keep trying to peer with you, you've picked up the wrong color sticker and should go back.

Re: Block all servers?

2003-10-11 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:07:05PM -0600, Adam Selene wrote: IMHO, all consumer network access should be behind NAT. -snip- As for plug-in workgroup networking (the main reason why everything is open by default), when you create a Workgroup, it should require a key for that workgroup and

Re: .ORG problems this evening

2003-09-18 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 02:22:19PM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote: Sucks to be anyone trying to use the service whose routers pick those nodes as the only ones available. That's the fault of the implementor, not the client. I have a sneaking suspicion that if UltraDNS's tld cluster that

Re: Nanog LAN - no rDNS?

2003-06-03 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 04:10:19PM +0100, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: Hi, can we get any reverse DNS for the meeting LAN? Email to nanog-support is usually a good way to bring attention to this sort of problem during the conference, however, I note that it's working okay for me:

Re: Global Crossing right now

2003-04-01 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 12:04:28PM -0800, Scott Granados wrote: There has been a lot of latency on several 7018 peers including 3561 and 3549 for the last week or so. Also wierd asimetric routing like one direction will have 7018 6461 and the other wil have 6461 3561 7018 with the 3561

Re: 923 Mbps across the Ocean ...

2003-03-07 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:57:22PM -0500, Eric Germann wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/07/speed.record/index.html Comments folks? Given enough thrust, pigs fly just fine...demonstrated by a professional driver on a closed track, please do not try

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-07 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:01:33AM +0530, alok wrote: there was a comment from chris saying...never possible to knw what networks an bgp customer uplinks via you which is very true.. ..so i assume u mean non-bgp customers? loose or strict, rpf will not work for aasymterically connected bgp

Re: iBGP next hop and multi-access media

2002-10-07 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 11:40:11PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote: Manually configuring a static route in router A would achieve the result: ip route 172.16.16.0 255.255.255.0 fa0/0 However, I'm surprised that there's no dynamic routing protocol that allows you to do everything you can with

Re: IP over in-ground cable applications.

2002-09-12 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 11:24:15AM -0700, Christopher J. Wolff wrote: The cable companies do this quite well; however, it's not immediately clear to me how I would multiplex the IP traffic and the existing video and deliver it to a home. Well, the traditional solutions involve some

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-10 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 12:45:01PM -0700, Al Rowland wrote: Steganography looked great in that hollywood movie Along Came a Spider with Morgan Freeman (or at least the 'screen friendly' version they portrayed) but a recent study of millions of graphics across USENET found zero steganographic

Re: Standalone Stratum 1 NTP Server

2002-08-28 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 09:55:21AM -0400, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: No. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enselm=3C32924F.994E1D01%40udel.edu Every critical organization should run at least four low-stratum servers configured as above, so dependant servers and clients can do the

Re: Standalone Stratum 1 NTP Server

2002-08-27 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 11:57:39PM -0400, John Todd wrote: Hmm... $2400 is still in the pricey range to be throwing out bunches of these across a network in wide distribution. (Pardon me if some of you on the list snicker at my reluctance at the $2400 price - for some of us the new, new

Re: your mail

2002-08-20 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 03:08:22PM -0400, N. Richard Solis wrote: I think that getting caught is a good indication that they take the security of the facility seriously. Which is clearly exhibited by them leaving a side door propped open, or not checking or securing this door

Re: Major Labels v. Backbones

2002-08-17 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 05:04:05PM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote: --The service provider must not determine the recipients of the material. One could argue (in theory) that a routing-table lookup may satisfy this. I'm not so sure. Generally speaking, a destination network is a

Re: Is the PAIX Palo Alto taking a dump?

2002-07-31 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 05:24:57PM -0700, Herb Leong wrote: All my sessions at the PAIX are active--anybody else seeing this? I saw a fairly large traffic hit on the public fabric less than an hour ago. I'm currently seeing 87.5% of my sessions down. I suspect that the sessions that

Re: AS286 effectively no more..

2002-07-25 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 09:46:07AM +0300, Huopio Kauto wrote: Interesting how quietly one of the powerhouses in Europe has been shut down yesterday evening. Any notes on increased latency / routing issues wrt AS286 shutdown? On a much quieter note, how many people noticed that AS1673

Re: No one behind the wheel at WorldCom

2002-07-15 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 01:58:44AM -0400, Frank Scalzo wrote: See now we are back to the catch 22 that is IRR. No one will use it because the data isnt there, and no one will put the data into it because no one uses it. [CC: list trimmed] Actually, I think you'll find that

Re: XO

2002-07-10 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 11:00:58AM -0400, Pawlukiewicz Jane wrote: Anybody have a noc phone number for these guys? I can't seem to find anything on them publicly, except the usual hype. Jane, had you actually read many of the postings on this list before jumping right in and posting

Re: Sprint peering policy

2002-06-26 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 12:39:11PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote: While many other tier-1's have publicly listed their peering policies, I've never seen anything for 1239. Not that I'd stand a chance, but does anyone know what their peering requirements are? sprintlink.net# grep peering

Re: Sprint peering policy

2002-06-26 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 02:34:42PM -0400, Mitchell, Dan wrote: a strong management team (after all, they *did* build MFS) ^ `- I think you have mistaken this for an endorsement. And in the age of cooked books, stated revenue can be misleading, particularly when it

Re: Adeklphia update

2002-06-18 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 05:30:50PM -0400, blitz wrote: Adelphia announced price increases today 90 cents a month for cable TV, bringing the package to about $39. a month in Buffalo, and $41. outside. Also they increased the powerlink cablemodem $2.00 a month. (this is the second

Re: Bogon list

2002-06-04 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 01:24:04PM -0700, Clayton Fiske wrote: How does the absence of an IXP route affect traceroutes -through- it? The IXP device has a route back to the source of the trace, so it can reply. The traceroute packets are addressed to the ultimate destination, so they don't

Re: Betr.: KPNQwest

2002-05-30 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:46:16AM +0200, Erik-Jan Bos wrote: But the Internet, build on resilient technology, will survive... Is it? --msa

Re: PAIX (was Re: Interconnects)

2002-05-18 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 04:51:27PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote: One BGP session instead of dozens is more convenient. Maybe not more useful for engineering, but certainly less work than negotiating and configuring a bunch of sessions for bilateral peering. For smaller ISPs like mine,

Re: UUNET service

2002-04-12 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 04:04:42PM -0400, Bradley Corner wrote: I tried to notify UUNET at their 800-900-0241 number that there was a loop in their network. They told me that if I didn’t have an account with them they were not interested in any information that I may have had for them. I

Re: Need Verio Contact

2002-03-13 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:37:37AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have current contact info for VERIO NOC or Engineering? puck data is completely out of date, as is my internal lists. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is out of date? --msa