Re: Superfast internet may replace world wide web

2008-04-07 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 7, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 08:24:54 -0700 (PDT) Lucy Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://xkcd.com/401/ Also http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080330 and http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080406 I love those! I also love

Re: wanted: server hotel location(s) in SE,GR

2008-02-28 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 28, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Feb 28, 2008, at 3:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew of server hotel locations in Sweden I would recommend Netnod in Sweden. Kurtis Lindqvist is a good contact there. NetNod is a secure IX in Sweden,

Re: ISP's who where affected by the misconfiguration: start using IRR and checking your BGP updates

2008-02-26 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 25, 2008, at 11:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've only dealt with a handful of the bigger networks, but every transit BGP session I've ever been the customer role on has been filtered by the provider. From memory and in no particular order, that's UUNet, Level3, Digex,

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-25 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 25, 2008, at 2:27 AM, Hank Nussbacher wrote: At 07:15 PM 24-02-08 -0500, Randy Epstein wrote: More importantly, why is PCCW not prefix filtering their downstreams? Why? - Lack of clue - Couldn't care less - No revenue Take your pick - or add your own reason. PCCW is not alone.

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-25 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 25, 2008, at 2:32 AM, Hank Nussbacher wrote: At 05:31 AM 25-02-08 +, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: Seriously -- a number of us have been warning that this could happen. More precisely, we've been warning that this could happen *again*; we all know about many older incidents, from the

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 24, 2008, at 7:36 PM, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: I'm sure we can all find a list of critical infrastructure ASes that could be trusted to peer via the high priority AS. I'd say that the criteria should be: 1: Hosted at a Tier 1 provider. That is a silly requirement. (I am sorry, I tried

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 25, 2008, at 12:31 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: Seriously -- a number of us have been warning that this could happen. More precisely, we've been warning that this could happen *again*; we all know about many older incidents, from the barely noticed to the very noisy. (AS 7007,

Re: Question on the topology of Internet Exchange Points

2008-02-16 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 15, 2008, at 8:04 AM, Greg VILLAIN wrote: Obvious as it is, if one of your peerings on an IX gets big in terms of in/out volumes, you HAVE to secure it by PNI. You need a way to prevent the IX's equipments from being a SPoFs between you and that peer. HAVE to is such a strong

Re: Question on the topology of Internet Exchange Points

2008-02-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 14, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Andy Davidson wrote: On 14 Feb 2008, at 17:02, Kai Chen wrote: A typical Internet Exchange Point (IXP) consists of one or more network switches, to which each of the participating ISPs connect. We call it the exchange-based topology. My question is if some

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

2008-01-22 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 21, 2008, at 6:14 PM, David Barak wrote: Wouldn#39;t a reasonable approach be to take the sum of a 6500/ msfc2 and a 2851, and assume that the routing computation could be offloaded? The difficulty I have with this discussion is that the cost per prefix is zero until you need to

Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial

2008-01-20 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 19, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Taran Rampersad wrote: Rod Beck wrote: Ironically, the Net Neutrality debate is about the access providers trying to impose usage-based pricing through the backdor - on the content providers. It goes without saying I oppose it. It's the end users who decide

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

2008-01-20 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 19, 2008, at 12:55 PM, William Herrin wrote: On Jan 19, 2008 11:48 AM, Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's some debate in RIPE land right now that discusses, what actually is the automatic, free, right to PI ? Every other network in the world pays the cost when someone

Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial

2008-01-20 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 19, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Joe Greco wrote: Mikael Abrahamsson writes: Customers want control, that's why the prepaid mobile phone where you get an account you have to prepay into, are so popular in some markets. It also enables people who perhaps otherwise would not be eligable

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

2008-01-20 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 20, 2008, at 6:06 AM, William Herrin wrote: On Jan 19, 2008 11:43 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 19, 2008, at 12:55 PM, William Herrin wrote: There was some related work on ARIN PPML last year. The rough numbers suggested that the attributable economic cost

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

2008-01-20 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
interpretation of the numbers for PA:PI smaller prefix origins? Kind Regards Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Herrin Sent: 20 January 2008 11:06 To: Patrick W. Gilmore Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Cost per prefix [was: request

Re: Massive ATT outage?

2008-01-20 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
Good thing neither pizzahut.com or any other single-homed att customer injected an extra prefix into the table and raised everyone's cost by multi-homing! :) -- TTFN, patrick On Jan 20, 2008, at 2:53 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The oddball

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

2008-01-20 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 20, 2008, at 12:22 PM, William Herrin wrote: I think you mean in tiny fractions of a single cent per router per year No, I don't. The lower bound for that particular portion of the cost analysis is easy to calculate: Your calculation is in error. Entry level DFZ router: $40,000

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

2008-01-20 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 20, 2008, at 3:34 PM, William Herrin wrote: The difference is much, much, much greater than that. Can the switch do ACLs? Policy routing? SFlow with the same sampling rate? Same number of BGP session? Is there some alternate piece of cheap hardware that supports the DFZ prefix

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

2008-01-20 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
a 7600 is the # of prefixes it can take, I'm not sure why I am still reading your posts. On Jan 20, 2008 5:10 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 20, 2008, at 3:34 PM, William Herrin wrote: ( [entry level router's cost attributable to prefixes]/[expected lifespan] ) / [DFZ

Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial

2008-01-18 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 18, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Jan 18, 2008, at 3:11 PM, Michael Holstein wrote: My guess is the market will work this out. As soon as it's implemented, you'll see ATT commercials in that town slamming cable and saying how DSL is really unlimited. P.S. Perhaps

Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial

2008-01-18 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 18, 2008, at 3:11 PM, Michael Holstein wrote: The problem is the inability of the physical media in TWC's case (coax) to support multiple simultaneous users. They've held off infrastructure upgrades to the point where they really can't offer unlimited bandwidth. TWC also wants to

Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial

2008-01-18 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 18, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: I always find it interesting that people with a telco background keep trying to go back to the ma bell days and ways, even as the telcos themselves are abandoning those models for phone service. I am not at all certain that is what is

Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial

2008-01-18 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 18, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Rod Beck wrote: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/61251.html So, anyone but me think that this will end in disaster? Possibly. But I do not think it for the same reason you do. I think the model where you

Re: request for help w/ ATT and terminology

2008-01-16 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 16, 2008, at 4:37 PM, Mike Donahue wrote: Hi. I'm by no means an ip/networking expert, and we're having some difficulty communicating with the boffins at ATT. Any input/advice/translation would be appreciated. We own our own class C netblock. Our previous provider, Sprint, had no

Re: request for help w/ ATT and terminology

2008-01-16 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 16, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Darryl Dunkin wrote: If you want connectivity from both ATT and Sprint with your one block, you have plenty of justification from ARIN to get your AS assigned assuming both feeds come into one location. However, it looks like you are asking two providers to

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

Re: Using x.x.x.0 and x.x.x.255 host addresses in supernets.

2008-01-08 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 8, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Joshman at joshman dot com wrote: As a general rule, is it best practice to assign x.x.x.0 and x.x.x. 255 as host addresses on /23 and larger? I realize that technically they are valid addresses, but does anyone assign a node or server which is a member of a

Re: South America Peering

2007-12-27 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 27, 2007, at 9:44 PM, Robert Boyle wrote: At 07:39 PM 12/27/2007, AD wrote: does anyone have any experience with peering in S. America? I am looking to move a lot of data between NewYork/LA and a few south american countries and looking for some ISPs that have reliable peering

Re: DNS servers

2007-11-06 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 6, 2007, at 3:06 PM, J. Oquendo wrote: Nice to get news third string... // Last week, ICANN setup a new IP address for one of the thirteen root name servers that oversee DNS queries across the net, and it plans on retiring the old address as soon as the late spring.

Re: DNS servers

2007-11-06 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 6, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Nov 6, 2007, at 3:06 PM, J. Oquendo wrote: Nice to get news third string... // Last week, ICANN setup a new IP address for one of the thirteen root name servers that oversee DNS queries across the net, and it plans on retiring

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 5, 2007, at 7:40 AM, Joe Greco wrote: Reinventing the DNS protocol in order to intercept odd stuff on the Web seems to me to be overkill and bad policy. Could someone kindly explain to me why the proxy configuration support in browsers could not be used for this, to limit the

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 5, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:32:25AM -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: A single provider doing this is not equivalent to the root servers doing it. You can change providers, you can't change . in DNS. This is true, but Verisign wasn't doing

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 4, 2007, at 1:52 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On 11/3/07, Allan Liska [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is just anecdotal, but I have Verizon FIOS in Northern Virginia and I have not seen sitefinder pop up. I just verified with a few sites to make sure.

Re: How Not to Multihome

2007-10-09 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 9, 2007, at 8:15 AM, Jamie Bowden wrote: On Oct 8, 2007, at 6:45 PM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: If you do you have permission from the owner of the block, you Should Not Announce it. Agreed. I stated above that you should

Re: How Not to Multihome

2007-10-09 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 9, 2007, at 1:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are currently ~1500 prefixes with inconsistent origin AS. These are trivially identifiable: http://www.cymru.com/BGP/incon_asn_list.html Some of them are obvious mistakes (I doubt HKSuper is supposed to originate 4/8). But many

Re: How Not to Multihome

2007-10-08 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 8, 2007, at 5:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a client that wants us to advertise an IP block assigned by another ISP. I know that the best practice is to have them request an AS number from ARIN and peer with us, etc. However, I cannot find any information that states as

Re: How Not to Multihome

2007-10-08 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 8, 2007, at 5:55 PM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a client that wants us to advertise an IP block assigned by another ISP. I know that the best practice is to have them request an AS number from ARIN and peer with us, etc. However,

Re: How Not to Multihome

2007-10-08 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 8, 2007, at 6:19 PM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That brings up an interesing point. My biggest fear was that one of my other customers could possible be closer to me that the ISP that provides the primary link and it would cause them to

Re: How Not to Multihome

2007-10-08 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 8, 2007, at 6:45 PM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: It's not 'law' per se, but having the customer originate their own announcements is definitely the Right Way to go. That is not at all guaranteed. I never said it was. My experience, both

Re: How Not to Multihome

2007-10-08 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 8, 2007, at 9:46 PM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: If you went ahead and did this, the more specific route being announced by you on behalf of your customer would be more likely to attract traffic back to you. Prefix length is checked

Re: Upstreams blocking /24s? (was Re: How Not to Multihome)

2007-10-08 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:28 PM, David Conrad wrote: The argument, as I understand it (and those who argue this direction feel free to correct me if I misstate), is that as the IPv4 free pool exhausts, there will be a natural pressure to increase address utilization efficiency. This will

Re: Extreme congestion (was Re: inter-domain link recovery)

2007-08-17 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 17, 2007, at 6:57 AM, Stephen Wilcox wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:07:31AM -0700, Hex Star wrote: How does akamai handle traffic congestion so seamlessly? Perhaps we should look at existing setups implemented by companies such as akamai for guidelines regarding how to

Re: inter-domain link recovery

2007-08-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 15, 2007, at 12:06 AM, Chengchen Hu wrote: I find that the link recovery is sometimes very slow when failure occures between different ASes. The outage may last hours. In such cases, it seems that the automatic recovery of BGP-like protocol fails and the repair is took over

Re: Content Delivery Networks

2007-08-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 10, 2007, at 12:46 PM, John Levine wrote: Very interesting. We've all heard and probably all passed along that little bromide at one time or another. Is it possible that at one time it was true (even possibly for AOL) but with the rise of CDNs, policies of not honoring TTL's

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

2007-08-08 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 8, 2007, at 6:20 PM, william(at)elan.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Donald Stahl wrote: All things being equal (which they're usually not) you could use the ACK response time of the TCP handshake if they've got TCP DNS resolution available. Though again most

Re: Content Delivery Networks

2007-08-07 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:59 AM, Michal Krsek wrote: 5) User redirection - You have to implement a scalable mechanisms that redirects users to the closes POP. You can use application redirect (fast, but not so much scalable), DNS redirect (scalable, but not so fast) or anycasting (this needs

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

2007-08-07 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 7, 2007, at 4:33 PM, Donald Stahl wrote: [...] If you don't like the rules- then change the damned protocol. Stop just doing whatever you want and then complaining when other people disagree with you. I think this last part is the key. Remember the old adage: My network, My

Re: Content Delivery Networks

2007-08-06 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 6, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Rod Beck wrote: Can anyone give a breakdown of the different kinds of content deliver networks? For example, we have Akamai, which appears to be a pure Layer 3 network that is tailored to pushing relatively small files like web pages and we have Lime Light

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

2007-08-06 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 6, 2007, at 4:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:11:36 EDT, Matthew Crocker said: But you could, it isn't hard to dump a BGP view into a box from a border router and use that map to determine the proper DNS records to return. It's harder than it looks, given the

Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's?

2007-07-25 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 25, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: If they can be avoided, why do we put up with them? Do we really want our colo in downtown San Francisco bad enough to take the risk of having a single point of failure? How can we, as engineers, ask questions about how many generators,

Port 587 vs. 25 [was: DNS Hijacking by Cox]

2007-07-23 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 23, 2007, at 2:18 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: * Sean Donelan: On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, William Allen Simpson wrote: Comcast still blocks port 25. And last week, a locally well- known person was blocked from sending outgoing port 25 email to their servers from her home Comcast service.

Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox

2007-07-22 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 22, 2007, at 9:29 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:56:13 -0700 Andrew Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like cox is hijacking dns for irc servers. And people wonder why I support DNSsec Steve, One of us is confused. It might be me, but right now I

dual-stack [was: NANOG 40 agenda posted]

2007-05-30 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On May 30, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Randy Bush wrote: This is a grand game of chicken. The ISPs are refusing to move first due to lack of content pure bs. most significant backbones are dual stack. you are the chicken, claiming the sky is falling. I guess we have different definitions for

Re: IPv4 multihomed sites statistics

2007-05-15 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On May 15, 2007, at 5:23 AM, Masafumi Watari wrote: I'm looking for statistics that may provide hints on the number of IPv4 multihomed sites that exist today. Are there any pointers? Perhaps start with the number of ASNs? Also, is there a way to find the average number of peers that

Re: BOGON Announcement question

2007-04-30 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 30, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Randy Bush wrote: Collector: CIXP Prefix: 128.0.0.0/2 Last update time: 2007-04-27 07:36:30Z Peer: 192.65.185.140 Origin: 29222 My question is, why am I not seeing more issues because of the announcement? because everyone with enough clue to watch what

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-23 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 23, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Kradorex Xeron wrote: On Monday 23 April 2007 14:40, J. Oquendo wrote: Marcus H. Sachs wrote: If we had clean registries and signed/verifiable advertisements this would not be an issue. Most of you know that DHS was pushing the Secure Protocols for the

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-23 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 23, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 04:52 PM 4/23/2007, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: I do not want any particular gov't (US or otherwise) to be in charge of the Internet any more than the next person. And good thing too, because it simply cannot happen, political pipe-dreams

Re: UK ISP threatens security researcher

2007-04-20 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
well-deserved criminal record for his stupidity. Where is the criminal record for the idiot who allowed remote access with a single username and password to every single cable modem? That's pretty damned stupid. Honetly- when did we all become such vindictive assholes? Had the guy

Re: Number of BGP routes a large ISP sees in total

2007-04-18 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 18, 2007, at 2:43 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Yi Wang wrote: sense about the average (e.g., about 5? 10? 20?), as for a large ISP. Well, if you're interconnecting with other large ISPs in 5 places then you'll get each prefix at least 5 times. Having 5 eBGP

Re: Number of BGP routes a large ISP sees in total

2007-04-17 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 17, 2007, at 8:20 PM, Yi Wang wrote: I guess what I see there is the lower bound of the path diversity? Because even though an edge router received more than one path for a prefix, it'll only export the best route to the other edge routers of the ISP. Depends on the route server.

Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 10, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Joseph S D Yao wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 03:54:39PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 06:15:34PM -0500, J. Oquendo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 24 lines which said: was successfully configured by NASA Glenn Research Center

Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 10, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Joseph S D Yao wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:10:59PM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: ... Second, who said v6 was the heights? ... My, aren't we serious? Too serious to realize that satellites are a little higher than I, at least, can reach. Guess I

Re: single homed public-peer bandwidth ... pricing survey ?

2007-03-06 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Mar 6, 2007, at 4:51 PM, Jason Arnaute wrote: I am currently hosted in a small, independent datacenter that has 4 or 5 public peers (L3, Sprint, UUnet, ATT and ... ?) Those are not public peers, those are transit providers. They are a very nice facility, very technical and

Re: single homed public-peer bandwidth ... pricing survey ?

2007-03-06 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Mar 6, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Jason Arnaute wrote: --- Patrick Giagnocavo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Arnaute wrote: I am currently hosted in a small, independent datacenter that has 4 or 5 public peers (L3, Sprint, UUnet, ATT and ... ?) They are a very nice facility, very technical

Re: meeting in the Dominican Republic

2007-02-26 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 26, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote: What reason would NANOG have for holding a meeting in DR? Not a lot of context. DR is also in the LACNIC region. LACNIC has meetings similiar to RIPE in content i.e. policy and ops. http://lacnic.net/en/eventos/lacnicix/index.html LACNIC is

Re: meeting in the Dominican Republic

2007-02-26 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 26, 2007, at 2:38 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote: On Feb 26, 2007, at 1:05 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote: What reason would NANOG have for holding a meeting in DR? Not a lot of context. DR is also in the LACNIC region. LACNIC has meetings similiar to RIPE in content i.e. policy and ops.

Re: meeting in the Dominican Republic

2007-02-26 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 26, 2007, at 11:42 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote: Incorrect. I think that there are more than just philanthropic considerations and language is one, as well as financials being another. I believe the majority of the list is in agreement. We all agree that there is more to this than going

Re: Do routers prioritize control traffic?

2007-02-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 12, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Christos Papadopoulos wrote: I know routers today have the ability to prioritize traffic, but last I heard, these controls are not often used for user traffic (let's not discuss net neutrality here). Are they used for control (e.g., routing) traffic? Please say a

Re: i wanna be a kpn peer

2007-01-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 10, 2007, at 10:54 PM, Chris L. Morrow wrote: On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Randy Bush wrote: route-views.oregon-ix.netsh ip bg 203.10.63.0 BGP routing table entry for 0.0.0.0/, version 2 do most folks setup route-views peers as a 'standard customer' or are they generally on a special

Re: i wanna be a kpn peer

2007-01-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 10, 2007, at 11:28 PM, Randy Bush wrote: I don't think a spurious prefix directly injected into route-views is proof a network is broken. we've had this discussion 42 times. it is not proof of anything and no one has said it is. but if it was one of my areas of responsibility

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-07 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 7, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Alexander Harrowell wrote: 1) Just unicasting it over the radio access network is going to use a lot of capacity, and latency will make streaming good quality tough. I'm confused why high latency makes streaming good quality tough? Perhaps this goes back to the

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-07 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 7, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Brandon Butterworth wrote: The real problem with P2P networks is that they don't generally make download decisions based on network architecture. Indeed, that's what I said. Until then ISPs can only fix it with P2P aware caches, if the protocols did it then they

Re: Collocation Access

2006-12-27 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 27, 2006, at 3:42 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 09:06 -0800, Owen DeLong wrote: Savvis wants to retain your ID if they issue a cage-key to you. If they (or others) asked you to let them hold $50 cash to cover their key/lock replacement costs would you feel more

Re: Collocation Access

2006-12-27 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 27, 2006, at 6:13 PM, Leo Vegoda wrote: On Dec 27, 2006, at 11:20 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: [...] To open a totally separate can-of-worms, why not take my driver's license? Easier to replace than a passport and much less trouble when crossing borders. And before someone says

Re: Reasons for attendance drop off

2006-12-03 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 30, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Christian Nielsen wrote: If the issue is to save costs for the attendees, IMHO the best place would be Las Vegas during the non-peak travel dates. Nanog Starts on Sundays and goes to Wednesdays. Flights into and out of Vegas are not as full going in on Sunday

Re: problem with BGP or I am an Idiot

2006-11-17 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 17, 2006, at 9:57 AM, Bruce Pinsky wrote: Probabaly the the latter; however here is the situation. I am advertising a rte 1.1.1.1 via BGP to the Internet via ISP_A via my location in NJ. At my other location in CA where I am advertising another rte 2.2.2.2 via BGP to the Internet

Re: Cogent now peering with Sprint?

2006-10-31 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 31, 2006, at 2:12 AM, Bob Collie wrote: That looks like a transit connection that Cogent bought at Ashburn, VA, not SFI peering connection. Hrmm, I can't tell by looking at a traceroute who paid whom, if anyone. Care to explain your magic? Is there a code in the in- addrs?

Re: register.com down sev0?

2006-10-28 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 28, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Donald Stahl wrote: I submitted both spams to spamcop and the appropriate abuse addresses would have been notified in both cases. I got no response from either of my submissions. As for a reason for ignoring my complaint I really couldn't say since, well

DNS DDoS [was: register.com down sev0?]

2006-10-26 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 26, 2006, at 1:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is essentially impossible to distinguish end-user requests from (im)properly created DoS packets (especially until BCP38 is widely adopted - i.e. probably never). Since there is no single place - no 13 places - which can withstand a

Re: BCP38 thread 93,871,738,435 (was Re: register.com down sev0?)

2006-10-26 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 26, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: Put another way, anti-spoofing does three things: it makes reflector attacks harder, it makes it easier to use ACLs to block sources, and it helps people track down the bot and notify the admin. Are people actually successfully doing

Re: register.com down sev0?

2006-10-26 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 26, 2006, at 11:24 AM, Randy Bush wrote: the case for which we know bcp 38 is useful, is the dns reflector attack. so far, botnets seem to have no need to spoof, they just overwhelm you with zombies from real space. Incorrect. While that is one mode of attack from a botnet, it is

Re: register.com down sev0?

2006-10-25 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 26, 2006, at 12:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Oct 2006, Paul Vixie wrote: i wonder if that's due to the spam they've been sending out? Paul, this isn't nanae. Let's not sling accusations like that wildly. Accusations and objective facts are two separate things. there is no

Re: Did Cogent L3 de-peer again?

2006-10-23 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 23, 2006, at 3:42 PM, chuck goolsbee wrote: We've had a few customers report issues. We don't see anything too bad from here, but Keynote scoreboard has been showing some ugly between those two networks for the past hour or so. It has been about a year since the last time hasn't

Re: Refusing Pings on Core Routers??? A new trend?

2006-10-19 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 19, 2006, at 10:14 PM, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote: template response -- I hear is Well, you can't rely on traceroute because of ICMP prioritisation. When you start to explain how traceroute actually works (both ICMP-based and UDP-based (which still relies on ICMP responses, of course!)),

Re: Boeing's Connexion announcement

2006-10-16 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 15, 2006, at 5:44 PM, Rich Fulton wrote: and you will NEVER see this service again until there is a monetary incenctive to offer said service. So.. why is this still a discussion? I seem to recall someone (Rodney?) saying it was already generating positive cash flow on

Re: Boeing's Connexion announcement

2006-10-15 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 14, 2006, at 9:04 PM, Todd Underwood wrote: I disagree. i disagree with your disagreement. You are welcome to your opinion. Seat power is ubiquitous on some airlines (e.g. American), and available in all but coach on others (e.g. Virgin, Luftansa). It's all but coach?

Re: Boeing's Connexion announcement

2006-10-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 14, 2006, at 2:13 AM, Roland Dobbins wrote: On Oct 13, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Rodney Joffe wrote: Maybe the Connexion folks on the list could tell us what is needed to make it work on the network side - I'm sure we have enough resources between us to handle that. And there are a number

Re: Aggregation path information [was: 200K prefixes - Weekly Routing Table Report]

2006-10-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 14, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick W. Gilmore) writes: Obviously the table contains kruft. But I know we could not shrink it to 109K prefixes without losing something from where I sit. Are you sure there's no additional path info? before we could

200K prefixes - Weekly Routing Table Report

2006-10-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 13, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Routing Analysis Role Account wrote: Routing Table Report 04:00 +10GMT Sat 14 Oct, 2006 Analysis Summary BGP routing table entries examined: 200339 Prefixes after maximum aggregation:

Aggregation path information [was: 200K prefixes - Weekly Routing Table Report]

2006-10-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 13, 2006, at 3:04 PM, Philip Smith wrote: I was kinda hoping that it would hit 200K on Tuesday, then I could have added the announcement to my aggregation recommendations lightning talk! ;-) Bit sad that a 200K table can be aggregated down to 109k prefixes with no loss of path

Re: Aggregation path information [was: 200K prefixes - Weekly Routing Table Report]

2006-10-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 13, 2006, at 3:26 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 03:14:38PM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Obviously the table contains kruft. But I know we could not shrink it to 109K prefixes without losing something from where I sit. Are you sure there's no additional path info

Re: icmp rpf

2006-09-26 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 26, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Mark Kent wrote: I asked: Who among AS1239, AS701, AS3356, AS7018, AS209 does loose RPF (not just strict RPF on single-homed customers)? and Patrick answered: I'm wondering why that is relevant. It's relevant because it was suggested that loose RPF should be

New router feature - icmp error source-interface [was: icmp rpf]

2006-09-25 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 25, 2006, at 9:06 AM, Ian Mason wrote: ICMP packets will, by design, originate from the incoming interface used by the packet that triggers the ICMP packet. Thus giving an interface an address is implicitly giving that interface the ability to source packets with that address to

Re: icmp rpf

2006-09-25 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 25, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Mark Kent wrote: Jared Mauch wrote: I would hope they're doing it for more than just ICMP packets. yes, loose RPF, but I just care about ICMP. I would argue should be, or is a current best practice. OK, so I must have missed the memo :-) It's been all the

Re: New router feature - icmp error source-interface [was: icmp rpf]

2006-09-25 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
situations, then it is probably something we want to push the vendors to implement. -- TTFN, patrick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick W. Gilmore Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 9:23 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Cc: Patrick W. Gilmore

Re: New router feature - icmp error source-interface [was: icmp rpf]

2006-09-25 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 25, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 09:22:34AM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Sep 25, 2006, at 9:06 AM, Ian Mason wrote: ICMP packets will, by design, originate from the incoming interface used by the packet that triggers the ICMP packet

Re: icmp rpf

2006-09-24 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
[Can we all have a moment of silence for a useful, interesting, and on-topic post?] On Sep 24, 2006, at 5:59 PM, Mark Kent wrote: A smaller North American network provider, with a modest North American backbone, numbers their internal routers on public IP space that they do not announce to

Re: Removal of my brain

2006-09-20 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 20, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Richard Irving wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hrmm How many of you realize who Bill Manning is ? While you are at it, go flame Vinton Cerf... I am sure he will learn from you, too.. I have known Bill for years, and respect him for a lot of

Re: [routing-wg]BGP Update Report

2006-09-08 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 8, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Hank Nussbacher wrote: On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strike me as curious, but this seems as if Connexion by Boeing is handing off a /24 from ASN to ASN as a certain plane moves over certain geographic areas. Or is there some other explanation?

Re: AW: ams-ix - worth using?

2006-08-25 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 25, 2006, at 8:10 AM, Gunther Stammwitz wrote: Without getting in the middle of the eternal contest over who is better, LINX or AMS-IX (each has its own advantages and disadvantages), the AMS-IX website says 165Gbps, the LINX website says 95Gbps (actual publicly switched traffic), and

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