Re: If you have nothing to hide

2002-08-04 Thread Paul Vixie
. Clark *that* slack, even if you must (righteously, I might add) blast him on other issues. -- Paul Vixie

Re: AS286 effectively no more..

2002-07-28 Thread Paul Vixie
thing, but older customers probably wish it hadn't happened.) -- Paul Vixie

Re: fractional gigabit ethernet links?

2002-07-18 Thread Paul Vixie
one small note, in passing: In other words..intermittent intergap delay? when PAIX sells what it calls Fractional Gig E, it's just Gig E with rate limiting. nothing special at the link level.

Re: Internet vulnerabilities

2002-07-04 Thread Paul Vixie
for a trillion packets per second per root server, there is no way to get the whole Internet, which is full of Other People's Networks, provisioned at that level. Wide area anycast, dangerous though it can be, works around that. See www.as112.net for an example of how this might work. More later. -- Paul

Re: Sprint peering policy

2002-07-01 Thread Paul Vixie
What is the connection between unregulated peering and the financial difficulties we have seen? The problems have been caused by: - Bad business models - Greed - Corporate officers who have shirked their fudiciary responsibilities to the stockholders If you can somehow tie

Re: Vixie puts his finger squarely on the key issue Re: Sprint

2002-06-30 Thread Paul Vixie
than is being done now. when i added my comments to the parent thread, i only meant to indicate my surprise that such isn't being tried -- NOT any disappointment. -- Paul Vixie

Re: Paix-NY and NYIIX -- link stil going to happen?

2002-06-30 Thread Paul Vixie
representative of mfn's or paix's actual plans/desires. -- Paul Vixie

Re: Sprint peering policy

2002-06-29 Thread Paul Vixie
: when this situation has existed in other industries, gov't intervention : has always resulted. even when the scope is international. i've not : been able to puzzle out the reason why the world's gov'ts have not : stepped in with some basic interconnection requirements for IP carriers.

Re: Any opinions regarding Telehouse ?

2002-06-20 Thread Paul Vixie
within a quarter mile of that intersection. -- Paul Vixie

Re: GigEth regenerators

2002-06-13 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniska Tomas) writes: a brief summary of responses up to now: in response to my earlier reply on this topic, i was also pointed at http://www.nbase-xyplex.com/products.html which indeed shows how to do 65Km regen points. pretty cool other stuff too.

Re: GigEth regenerators

2002-06-12 Thread Paul Vixie
/Model1280GbX_092101.pdf ...which Pac*Bell SBC is using for its new GigaMan product. -- Paul Vixie

Re: statistics.

2002-06-12 Thread Paul Vixie
I am looking for a ballpark count concerning amount of current internet nodes. ( obviously not exact ) With data relevant to this year. Feel free to contact off-list. http://www.isc.org/ds/ -- Paul Vixie

Re: proposed government regulation of .za namespace

2002-05-25 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randy Bush) writes: well, za and some of its principal subdomains are the highest error rate zones i secondary or use. but i can imagine a different part of the government doing an even funkier job. the contest is likely keen. ISC has had very little in the way of

Re: Interconnects

2002-05-20 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Golding) writes: PAIX shares MFN/Abovenet's peering agreements? That's quite a trick. ... No. PAIX has no peering agreements of any kind. This is not to slam PAIX or Paul Vixie - I'm a big PAIX fan, and Paul has done a superb job. However, MFN adds no value

Re: PAIX (was Re: Interconnects)

2002-05-18 Thread Paul Vixie
and that multilaterals are kind of swampy. but if there's interest, we'll find the old paperwork and shuffle it anew. -- Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] President, PAIX.Net Inc. (NASD:MFNXE)

Re: EBITDA [was Re: Interconnects]

2002-05-18 Thread Paul Vixie
on. -- Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] President, PAIX.Net Inc. (NASD:MFNX)

Re: Interconnects

2002-05-17 Thread Paul Vixie
There are some relatively small regionals like NYIIX where you won't find many large carriers, but they still have their own little nitch markets. There's been rumors of NYIIX and PAIX-NY linking up like SIX and PAIX-seattle. It's not a rumour. PAIX is interconnecting with NYIIX as

Re: Interconnects

2002-05-17 Thread Paul Vixie
It's not a rumour. PAIX is interconnecting with NYIIX as soon as the fiber engineering people say that the photons will travel end to end. Will PAIX be around as an entity capable of providing any services in 3 month? PAIX is modestly profitable and has been for years. We are quite

Re: Interconnects

2002-05-17 Thread Paul Vixie
. I'm no fiber expert, but the parent company (MFN) does employ such experts, so let's remain calm. -- Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] President, PAIX.Net Inc. (NASD:MFNXE)

PAIX (was Re: Interconnects)

2002-05-17 Thread Paul Vixie
a nonstrategic asset and that they intended to sell us. -- Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] President, PAIX.Net Inc. (NASD:MFNXE)

Re: Interconnects

2002-05-17 Thread Paul Vixie
know a lot more about fiber in general AND this plant in particular than I do. -- Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] President, PAIX.Net Inc. (NASD:MFNX)

Re: anybody else been spammed by no-ip.com yet?

2002-05-05 Thread Paul Vixie
There will be a day when folks will need to pay to transit email (Paul Vixie, 1998). Still working on that better mouse trap? well, other than that i wish i could charge _you_ for the spam i get that's due to the several MAILTO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s on your www.dotcomeon.com site, no. it's

Re: anybody else been spammed by no-ip.com yet?

2002-05-04 Thread Paul Vixie
trollishly What do you guess for the amortized cost/spam? /trollishly a cost that you are forced to pay in order to enrich somebody else is theft, no matter how microscopic the payment might be. we all know what (they) are, now we're just arguing about the price. I do find it amusing

anybody else been spammed by no-ip.com yet?

2002-05-03 Thread Paul Vixie
as a coauthor of rfc2136, my curiousity is always piqued when spammers use the technology. can i get private forwards of other similar messages? (see below.) (and yes, i'll also be in touch with level3, who serves 166.90.15.236, from whence this message came.) (time was, anyone who could use

Re: anybody else been spammed by no-ip.com yet?

2002-05-03 Thread Paul Vixie
... I'm not sure entirely what the big deal with spam is. Honestly sure I get it like everyone else, in some of my accounts more than others ... I have a delete key ... in the time between when you sent the above, and when i read it, the following messages were added to my mailbox: 1+

Re: anybody else been spammed by no-ip.com yet?

2002-05-03 Thread Paul Vixie
... not only does it cost usually very little to receive these messages ... even if i granted to a third party the right to determine the value of my time, which i don't, the fact is that an hour or more of my time per day is too high a price to pay to receive these messages, by _any_

Re: DEC AS33 NOC Contact

2002-05-03 Thread Paul Vixie
Anyone have a good NOC contact for DEC, AS33? I checked Jared's NOC page and I don't see them listed. when you find it, send it to me :) you need number 6. in order, as33 was maintained by: 1. brian reid 2. richard johnsson 3. me 4. stephen stuart 5. drew kramer number six is

Re: Selective DNS replies

2002-04-26 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric A. Hall) writes: Clayton Fiske wrote: [bind question] [bind answer] this is nanog, you probably want bind-users[-request]@isc.org.

Re: is your host or dhcp server sending dns dynamic updates for rfc1918?

2002-04-19 Thread Paul Vixie
now as to who's responsible, first off you have to understand that we block rfc1918-sourced packets at our AS boundary. (otherwise these numbers would be Much Higher are you sure? i suspect they are windows 2000 systems behind NATs. so the dynamic update is for the 1918 address, but

Re: is your host or dhcp server sending dns dynamic updates for rfc1918?

2002-04-19 Thread Paul Vixie
according to http://root-servers.org/, dns transactions concerning rfc1918 address space are now being served by an anycast device near you ... And right you are. However, pray tell, why doesn't bind feature a simple way to not log these spurious updates? As far as I can tell lots of

Re: is your host or dhcp server sending dns dynamic updates for rfc1918?

2002-04-19 Thread Paul Vixie
(received privately, answering publically) any AS owner who wants to localize these updates can do so by simply anycasting the 192.175.48/24 netblock and serving dns on .1,=20 .6, and .42. Will it be a _bad_ thing if I just null-route those addresses in a

Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre

2002-04-18 Thread Paul Vixie
... So - that is the larger picture, but was not my question to NANOG. We wish to be able to provide this peering, but we find that UUnets cross-connect policy interferes with our aims - as it requires potential peers in the data center to separately purchase connectivity to us (in the

Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre

2002-04-17 Thread Paul Vixie
While acknowledging that a data center may make any rules it likes, I am asking nanog how common this practice is. data center is too amorphous a term to be used here. private data centers owned by banks or insurance companies aren't relevant at all. telco motels aren't really data

Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre

2002-04-17 Thread Paul Vixie
there's no answer to the question, as posed. can you be more specific? I think the poster was inquiring as to common practice. Yes, but there isn't going to be a common practice for data centers as a whole. There's going to be a common practice for telco/fiber hotels, and a common

Re: packet reordering at exchange points

2002-04-09 Thread Paul Vixie
H. You're right. I lost sight of the original thread... GigE inter-switch trunking at PAIX. In that case, congestion _should_ be low, and there shouldn't be much queue depth. indeed, this is the case. we keep a lot of headroom on those trunks. But this _does_ bank on current real

packet reordering at exchange points

2002-04-08 Thread Paul Vixie
packet reordering at MAE East was extremely common a few years ago. Does anyone have information whether this is still happening? more to the point, does anybody still care about packet reordering at exchange points? we (paix) go through significant effort to prevent it, and interswitch

Re: MAE-Phoenix info request

2002-04-06 Thread Paul Vixie
The MAE in Phoenix was originally constructed by Dave Siegel and it ran from 1996 through 1998/9. and if anybody thinks phoenix still/again needs an exchange point, i'd thank you very much for contacting me about it off-list. -- Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] President, PAIX.Net Inc

Re: Internet Exchange Questions

2002-03-19 Thread Paul Vixie
you know who to yell at. Until MFN sells them in coming months in their attempts to pay off billions of dollars of debt... No change is expected in who you yell at if PAIX isn't doing a good job. (That is, me.) -- Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] President, PAIX.Net Inc. (NASD:MFNX)

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