Re: does KPNQwest really start to shut down?

2002-07-19 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
They keep saying this but never on the homepage.. maybe this is finally it! We still have a full table from them so we'll see it die later on. (10pm local time) Steve On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Nipper, Arnold wrote: From their website: If no agreement can be reached, the network will be shut

Re: does KPNQwest really start to shut down?

2002-07-19 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
the threaths from the old-Ebone network managed out of Brussels (who was part of KPNQwest) and the original KPNQwest network managed out of the Netherlands. The message of today is about the original KPNQwest network as far as I know. - kurtis -

KPNQwest to be shut down ?

2002-07-13 Thread Andre Chapuis
http://www.cbronline.com/cbr.nsf/latestnews/3D7D494A2E3C728A80256BF4001084B0?Opendocument 07/12/2002 Curtain Being Drawn on KPNQwest Network The future of the KPNQwest network looks bleak, after the Customer Support KPNQwest

Re: KPNQwest to be shut down ?

2002-07-13 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
/2002 Curtain Being Drawn on KPNQwest Network The future of the KPNQwest network looks bleak, after the Customer Support KPNQwest foundation decided to withdraw its support for the operation from 23.00 hours

Re: KPNQwest to be shut down ?

2002-07-13 Thread Daniel Concepcion
Hi I Could confirm that the AS286 is dead in Spain (286 2845249 754590 00 1d17hActive) The national AS2134 appears to be live but announce only 14 prefix. They announce to us 100 prefix before of their financial crash. Regards, Daniel On Sunday 14 July 2002 02:48,

Re: [Henk.Steenman@ams-ix.net: NOTIFICATION: KPNQWEST disconnection]

2002-06-28 Thread Neil J. McRae
So who felt sorry for them, and sponsored their ports? ;-) If someone did do this they have no idea how stupid a move that was. -- Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Henk.Steenman@ams-ix.net: NOTIFICATION: KPNQWEST disconnection]

2002-06-27 Thread Neil J. McRae
Yeah old news, The AMS-IX announced today that both ports had been re-enabled. I hope that means AMS-IX was paid. Regards, Neil.

Re: [Henk.Steenman@ams-ix.net: NOTIFICATION: KPNQWEST disconnection]

2002-06-27 Thread Chrisy Luke
Neil J. McRae wrote (on Jun 27): Yeah old news, The AMS-IX announced today that both ports had been re-enabled. I hope that means AMS-IX was paid. Nah, another last-minute 2-week stay of execution most likely. Kill it and be done with already. The only ones making money out of KPNQ are the

Re: Re[2]: KPNQWEST cease operation?

2002-06-14 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
I am sorry, their NOC is located in Belgium. Well, there is operational staff all across Europe. If that is enough to keep the network up - I don't know. There are other issue playing in as well on what can be kept up. Notice that the message sent out is that the volunteer NOC will

Re: KPNQWEST cease operation?

2002-06-14 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
much will be allocated to KPNQwest. The trustees had hoped to collect enough money to keep the businesses running until July 1, but fell short of that goal. There should be enough money to keep the business operational for the next couple of weeks, said someone close to the company. The lenders

Re: KPNQWEST cease operation?

2002-06-14 Thread Neil J. McRae
What I wonder is what they mean by shutdown. If this means that the equipment is unplugged, then how many of these alternate providers will suddenly discover that they have a dependency on an Ebone SDH/SONET ADM or an Ebone DWDM box? If management at these alternate providers is just

Re: KPNQWEST cease operation?

2002-06-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:37:04 BST, Neil J. McRae said: Michael, I can't imagine a single carrier that doesn't know that HER=GTS=EBONE=KQ. [Certainly by the volume of orders I've seen somebody knows ! :D] You're only seeing orders from the ones who know. The others you'll find out about at

Re: KPNQWEST cease operation?

2002-06-13 Thread Rafi Sadowsky
## On 2002-06-14 04:08 +0100 Chrisy Luke typed: CL CL ?$BLpEDIt?(B wrote (on Jun 14): CL I heard that NOC of KPQWEST in Frankfurt would cease operation at 1400 CL hour (local time) today. CL CL Is there any additional information about this? CL CL http://live.ebone.com/ is probably about

Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-11 Thread Bruce Campbell
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, John Payne wrote: I found it interesting to note that a significant number of cctld servers ignore the suggestions for root-servers in BCP40/RFC2870... Other major zone server operators (gTLDs, ccTLDs, major zones) may also find it useful. and leave recursion enabled on

Re: Updates to the root zone Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-07 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
This is not a political question, only operational process. Has ICANN and NTIA worked out their operational issues so they can quickly change the root zone to reflect changes in ccTLD nameservers if people need to change which name servers are handling the ccTLDs. Last year, some of the

Re: Re: Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-07 Thread Arnold Nipper
Hallo Sabine, lange nichts gehoert ... On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 09:51:11AM +0200, Sabine Dolderer/Denic wrote: At least each IXP member would have direct connectivity to such infrastructural services (DNS, NTP, WHOIS, NNTP??) and thereby their customers would benefit from it. I agree

Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-07 Thread bmanning
number and distribution of registrations maybe - that comes down to number and sizing of servers and geography/network diversity, the others are at best operational concerns for the backend, not for the frontend DNS servers. backend/frontend? Taking RFC 2870, why wouldn't all of

Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 12:18:19 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: sure, you could take those sections as a starting point. But why stop at TLDs? Why not make this applicable to -ALL- dns servers? Mighty fine pharmaceuticals you got there. ;) I'd settle for a requirement that dns

Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-07 Thread Eric A. Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mean, is it *that* hard to avoid lame delegations and typos in the SOA or NS records? apparently -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-07 Thread John Payne
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 08:36:21AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd settle for a requirement that dns servers have *basic* configuration correct - I mean, is it *that* hard to avoid lame delegations and typos in the SOA or NS records? Don't even get me started on typos in the delegation

Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-07 Thread Randy Bush
Don't even get me started on typos in the delegation records at the TLD servers (entered by the registrants at least) there are currently 112 domains in .com alone with at least one incorrect NS record pointing at my nameservers. MX0 lame.delegation.to.hostname. * MX0

Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-07 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo John! On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, John Payne wrote: Don't even get me started on typos in the delegation records at the TLD servers (entered by the registrants at least) there are currently 112 domains in .com alone with at least one incorrect NS record pointing at my nameservers. There is an

Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-07 Thread John Payne
On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:48:24AM -0700, Gary E. Miller wrote: Yo John! On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, John Payne wrote: Don't even get me started on typos in the delegation records at the TLD servers (entered by the registrants at least) there are currently 112 domains in .com alone with at

Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-07 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Gary E. Miller wrote: Yo John! There is an easy tool I use to fix that. Just put up a zone file for them on your NS that points their www to www.playboy.com. This gets action fast! I think pointing it to www.poopsex.com would be far more entertaining. Charles RGDS

Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread Daniel Concepcion
On Thursday 06 June 2002 01:08, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote: At 11:04 -0700 5/6/02, Randy Bush wrote: Given the current situation of KPNQwest and the possibility of its services going offline sometime soon, the RIPE NCC in agreement with KPNQwest will be temporally hosting this server

Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread Jesper Skriver
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 07:25:47PM +0200, Daniel Diaz wrote: Dear all, Given the current situation of KPNQwest and the possibility of its services going offline sometime soon, the RIPE NCC in agreement with KPNQwest will be temporally hosting this server (ns.eu.net) in its premises

RE: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread Neil J. McRae
I suggest that if the RIPE need another provider that they take time and issue a proper RFI/P/Q through the European Journal. It does ask an interesting question over disaster recovery in situations like this. Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae - COLT [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread Nipper, Arnold
PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 9:43 AM Subject: Re: Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server. Hello, DENIC runs currently several secondarys (not only DE but also for some other TLDs) in different places worldwide. We are willing to offer secondary service for other ccTLDs

RE: Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread Daniska Tomas
2002 16:07 To: Jan-Ahrent Czmok; Sabine Dolderer/Denic Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server. As a lot

Re: Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread Jared Mauch
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 9:43 AM Subject: Re: Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server. Hello, DENIC runs currently several secondarys (not only DE but also for some other TLDs) in different places worldwide. We are willing to offer secondary service for other ccTLDs

Re: Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread Daniel Concepcion
Yes, but there is problem about the transit for the network of the IXP In my experience, some big providers only have the commercial view of internet. Really, if all the IXP members give some transit to the IXP for essential services, internet will be more robust. Daniel Intelideas On

Re: Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread Måns Nilsson
--On Thursday, June 06, 2002 10:16:34 -0400 Jared Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While a good idea, not everyone can announce or reach the IX fabrics that they connect to or are out there. One solution to that problem is to have the IX operate a zeebra/gated/whatnot box (or

Updates to the root zone Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread Sean Donelan
This is not a political question, only operational process. Has ICANN and NTIA worked out their operational issues so they can quickly change the root zone to reflect changes in ccTLD nameservers if people need to change which name servers are handling the ccTLDs. Last year, some of the ccTLD

RE: Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread Daniska Tomas
PROTECTED]] Sent: 6. júna 2002 16:29 To: Daniska Tomas Cc: Nipper, Arnold; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server. On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 04:13:08PM +0200, Daniska Tomas wrote: how would you guarantee connectivity? as you have a lot of ISPs around you it should

Re: Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread Arnold Nipper
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 04:31:21PM +0200, Daniel Concepcion wrote: Yes, but there is problem about the transit for the network of the IXP In my experience, some big providers only have the commercial view of internet. If an IXP decides to offer infrastructural services then you have to

RE: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread Neil J. McRae
Gert, On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:59:22PM +0100, Neil J. McRae wrote: I suggest that if the RIPE need another provider that they take time and issue a proper RFI/P/Q through the European Journal. It does ask an interesting question over disaster recovery in situations like this.

Re: Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 9:43 AM Subject: Re: Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server. Hello

Re: Updates to the root zone Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread Måns Nilsson
--On Thursday, June 06, 2002 10:47:52 -0400 Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not a political question, only operational process. Has ICANN and NTIA worked out their operational issues so they can quickly change the root zone to reflect changes in ccTLD nameservers if

Re: Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread Chrisy Luke
Stephen J. Wilcox wrote (on Jun 06): Indeed, for example k.root-servers.net is hosted at LINX and is reachable globally by this kind of setup.. A few of LINXs' members also transit the services provided by LINX for the good of the community - ie, at zero cost. That includes k.root. I don't

Re: Updates to the root zone Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread Randy Bush
Has ICANN and NTIA worked out their operational issues so they can quickly change the root zone to reflect changes in ccTLD nameservers if people need to change which name servers are handling the ccTLDs. Last year, some of the ccTLD operators were complaining it sometimes took weeks after

Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread David Conrad
Czmok [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 9:43 AM Subject: Re: Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server. Hello

Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread Joao Luis Silva Damas
At 16:35 +0200 6/6/02, Gert Doering wrote: Hmmm? As far as I can see, RIPE has enough providers. The problem is that the ccTLD secondary server hosted at KQ broke - ns.eu.net has not broke. At least not yet. KPNQwest still has very competent people (and I would like to specifically thank

Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread John Payne
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 04:24:40PM +0200, Daniel Concepcion wrote: Yes Neil, It should be interesting to know the 'official' requirements/recommendations for ccTLD's hosting For example: diversity geographical, network needs, security needs, building environment., etc I've only been

Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel Concepcion writes: Yes Neil, It should be interesting to know the 'official' requirements/recommendations for ccTLD's hosting For example: diversity geographical, network needs, security needs, building environment., etc I don't know of any official

Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread John Payne
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 02:12:36PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel Concepcion writes: Yes Neil, It should be interesting to know the 'official' requirements/recommendations for ccTLD's hosting For example: diversity geographical, network needs,

Re: Updates to the root zone Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread Simon Lyall
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Randy Bush wrote: that was the fast track. it can take months. Months? Years more like. .nz have been trying to update their whois information for a couple of years (IIRC) now. From what I understand the update have been refused since their won't sign the ICANN contracts

Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread bmanning
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel Concepcion writes: Yes Neil, It should be interesting to know the 'official' requirements/recommendations for ccTLD's hosting For example: diversity geographical, network needs, security needs, building environment., etc I don't know of

Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-06 Thread bmanning
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 07:53:49PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I don't know of any official requirements. But RFCs 2182 and 2870 offer good guidance. (Some of 2870 is root zone-specific, but most of it would apply to a ccTLD server.) --Steve Bellovin,

Re: KPNQwest ns.eu.net server.

2002-06-05 Thread Randy Bush
Given the current situation of KPNQwest and the possibility of its services going offline sometime soon, the RIPE NCC in agreement with KPNQwest will be temporally hosting this server (ns.eu.net) in its premises. nice emergency hack and sorry to whine. but i used them both to get

Betr.: KPNQwest

2002-05-31 Thread eric
well bad sad news, http://www.totaltele.com/view.asp?ArticleID=52446pub=ttcategoryid=0

KPNQwest

2002-05-30 Thread Rob Evans
Considering the number of messages about companies going bust, this one seems vaguely operational for some... http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/020529/200205292257000882_2.html There are a number of quotes from people familiar with the matter, but as I understand it the background is sound. If

Betr.: KPNQwest

2002-05-30 Thread eric
Anyone able to outline a worst case scenario, on what the effect would be, if the KPN network really goes down? cheers eric Considering the number of messages about companies going bust, this one seems vaguely operational for some...

Re: Betr.: KPNQwest

2002-05-30 Thread Randy Bush
Anyone able to outline a worst case scenario, on what the effect would be, if the KPN network really goes down? the world ends, we all die, and the universe goes dark

Re: Betr.: KPNQwest

2002-05-30 Thread Arnold Nipper
-founder of Xlink = KPNQwest Germany)

Re: Betr.: KPNQwest

2002-05-30 Thread Erik-Jan Bos
Randy, Anyone able to outline a worst case scenario, on what the effect would be, if the KPN network really goes down? the world ends, we all die, and the universe goes dark But the Internet, build on resilient technology, will survive... __ Erik-Jan.

Re: KPNQwest

2002-05-30 Thread Michael Hallgren
Quoting Rob Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Considering the number of messages about companies going bust, this one seems vaguely operational for some... http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/020529/200205292257000882_2.html There are a number of quotes from people familiar with the matter, but as

Re: KPNQwest

2002-05-30 Thread Neil J. McRae
Rob. I fully agree: operational importance, in deed and afaik, for commercial as well as for RE. Let's hope for some 11th hour fix... If anyone is concerned please feel free to drop me an email. Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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: Betr.: KPNQwest

2002-05-30 Thread James
I think Erik-Jan was dripping sarcasm :) - James -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Majdi S. Abbas Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 1:00 PM To: Erik-Jan Bos Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Betr.: KPNQwest On Thu, May 30