Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-30 Thread bdragon
> I think you may have misread my comment. ARIN ALLOWS the issuance of /24s to > multihomed enterprises. The recent policy decision was made to allow > upstreams to do this sort of allocation, without having to receive any other > justification, other than multihomed status. This could seem to be

RE: verio arrogance

2002-07-30 Thread Daniel Golding
(SNIP) > > Currently, RIR's will issue an AS and will allow the issuance > of a /24 to a > > multihomed enterprise, simply on the basis of being multihomed. > From this > > point of view, it's easy to make the case that the proper "RIR-approved" > > boundary for prefix filtering should be at the

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-29 Thread bdragon
> This is all great and wonderful, except for one thing - the RIR allocation > boundaries were never really meant to be used as "official" filtering prefix > length limits. I certainly support Verio's right to filter on whichever > boundaries make business sense to them. However, there is no deny

RE: verio arrogance

2002-07-29 Thread Daniel Golding
MAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Stephen Griffin > Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 10:24 PM > To: Stephen Stuart > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: verio arrogance > > > > In the referenced message, Stephen Stuart said: > > > > > I can't really see wh

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-27 Thread Ralph Doncaster
> > > Announce your largest aggregate, and announce more-specifics tagged > > > no-export to those peers who agree to accept them? > > > > Which is worse than announcing just the more specifics to 2 different > > transit providers in 2 different cities. > > Worse for those two transit providers

RE: verio arrogance

2002-07-27 Thread Ralph Doncaster
> You aren't the biggest offender, but how should anyone draw an arbitrary > line for "you are polluting too much" and "you are polluting, but to a > reasonable extent". The most reasonable and quantitative means I can see is technical; if there is no network engineering benefit to announcing mo

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-26 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 10:49:21PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote: > > > Announce your largest aggregate, and announce more-specifics tagged > > no-export to those peers who agree to accept them? > > Which is worse than announcing just the more specifics to 2 different > transit providers in 2 di

RE: verio arrogance

2002-07-26 Thread Phil Rosenthal
9 PM To: Stephen Griffin Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: verio arrogance > > I'm a little disappointed you're wasting list bandwidth after this > > has been well discussed, and not a single post has offered a better > > technical alternative to de-aggregating my ARIN

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-26 Thread Ralph Doncaster
> > I'm a little disappointed you're wasting list bandwidth after this has > > been well discussed, and not a single post has offered a better > > technical alternative to de-aggregating my ARIN /20 (given my network > > topology). > > > > -Ralph > > Announce your largest aggregate, and announc

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-26 Thread Stephen Griffin
In the referenced message, Ralph Doncaster said: > > I'm a little disappointed in Verio, if they really did decide to accept > > your unneccessarily deaggregated prefixes. > > I'm a little disappointed you're wasting list bandwidth after this has > been well discussed, and not a single post has

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-26 Thread Stephen Griffin
In the referenced message, Stephen Stuart said: > > > I can't really see why, as long as the provider has punched the > > appropriate hole for your aggregate in their filters. More specific > > routes always win out. Or am I missing your point? > > The point, I think, is the effort involved i

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-26 Thread Ralph Doncaster
> I'm a little disappointed in Verio, if they really did decide to accept > your unneccessarily deaggregated prefixes. I'm a little disappointed you're wasting list bandwidth after this has been well discussed, and not a single post has offered a better technical alternative to de-aggregating my

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-26 Thread Stephen Griffin
In the referenced message, Ralph Doncaster said: > > > That said, their current policy of refusing to accept de-aggregated > > prefixes from peers (while accepting such from paying customers) makes > > perfect sense, IMHO. Not arrogant, just a smart & reasonable business > > decision. > > I ha

RE: verio arrogance

2002-07-19 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
> table. Why should we shoot for a 100,000 route table instead of 500,000 > if it does not impact performance? Convergence time? - kurtis -

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-18 Thread Jared Mauch
> > >That is why the NANAE people don't like verio. But, nonetheless, I > >don't think that putting verio's mailserver on a formmail list is > >accomplishing anything good, since they fixed THAT problem... > > > >--Phil > > > >-Original Me

RE: verio arrogance

2002-07-18 Thread David Diaz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of >Kai Schlichting >Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 6:37 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: Kai Schlichting >Subject: Re: verio arrogance > > > >How's THIS for Verio arrogance, going to a whole new level: > >htt

RE: verio arrogance

2002-07-18 Thread Phil Rosenthal
blem... --Phil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kai Schlichting Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 6:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Kai Schlichting Subject: Re: verio arrogance How's THIS for Verio arrogance, going to a whole new level

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-18 Thread Kai Schlichting
How's THIS for Verio arrogance, going to a whole new level: http://www.monkeys.com/anti-spam/filtering/verio-demand.ps Details were on the SPAM-L list Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:51:05 EDT: Verio threatens to sue Ron Guilmette over the IP 208.55.91.59 appearing on his FormMail.pl open-proxy/for

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-18 Thread Peter E. Fry
Daniel Golding wrote: > > RADB is largely meaningless, in terms of authorization or authority to > advertise. However, if you have a properly delegated SWIP entry for the > block, few providers will request LOA. Those who do, should probably be > avoided. Largely? I like to see the SWIP, but

RE: verio arrogance

2002-07-18 Thread Daniel Golding
RADB is largely meaningless, in terms of authorization or authority to advertise. However, if you have a properly delegated SWIP entry for the block, few providers will request LOA. Those who do, should probably be avoided. I still like the idea of using the DNS system for this, since there are

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-18 Thread Stephen Stuart
> I can't really see why, as long as the provider has punched the > appropriate hole for your aggregate in their filters. More specific > routes always win out. Or am I missing your point? The point, I think, is the effort involved in using global route announcements to solve your traffic engi

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-18 Thread Ralph Doncaster
> On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote: > > > And your suggestion has technical deficiencies as well. I have a leased > > line between Toronto and Ottawa, so I want to announce my Ottawa IPs to my > > Toronto transit provider as well as an Ottawa transit provider. And the > > reverse for

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-18 Thread up
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote: > And your suggestion has technical deficiencies as well. I have a leased > line between Toronto and Ottawa, so I want to announce my Ottawa IPs to my > Toronto transit provider as well as an Ottawa transit provider. And the > reverse for the Toronto

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-18 Thread Ralph Doncaster
> (Apologies if this is flogging a dead horse, but some messages are worth > repeating, if for no other reason than to illustrate the down side of > not understanding the proper rationale for CIDR.) I thought the dead horse was the conclusion that small ISPs should use whatever means the ARIN ru

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-18 Thread Mark Kent
>> I have one downstream ISP customer that explicitly asked for "full BGP >> routes" to be written into the contract. Why Verio's customer's wouldn't >> want full routes makes no business sense to me. The reasons are related to the law of diminishing returns. -mark

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-18 Thread Ralph Doncaster
> That said, their current policy of refusing to accept de-aggregated > prefixes from peers (while accepting such from paying customers) makes > perfect sense, IMHO. Not arrogant, just a smart & reasonable business > decision. I have one downstream ISP customer that explicitly asked for "full B

RE: verio arrogance

2002-07-18 Thread Daniel Golding
Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Ralph Doncaster > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 6:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: verio arrogance > > > > On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > > >

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-18 Thread Peter E. Fry
Brian Wallingford wrote: [...] > That said, their current policy of refusing to accept de-aggregated > prefixes from peers (while accepting such from paying customers) makes > perfect sense, IMHO. Not arrogant, just a smart & reasonable business > decision. Interesting. Looking around, it se

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-18 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
> That said, their current policy of refusing to accept de-aggregated > prefixes from peers (while accepting such from paying customers) makes > perfect sense, IMHO. Not arrogant, just a smart & reasonable business > decision. You could turn this around and ask what reasons there are to not

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-17 Thread Brian Wallingford
: : They tend to match the size of the smallest block assigned by the :registries. : Calling it a tendency is probably a stretch. They only bowed to RIR policy once in recent memory, when ARIN began allocating /20 PI blocks. Prior to that, they nearly got their logo placed in Webster's

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-17 Thread Austin Schutz
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 05:55:51PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > This is really old news...actually, I seem to recall that they would only > accept /19 or shorter prefixes from former Class A & B space...I pressed > Sprint for a /21 from the swamp (instead of the former Class A space /2

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-15 Thread Ralph Doncaster
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 05:10:28PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote: > > Announcing a covering /20 along with the regional more specifics I have > > will only serve to increase the size of the routing table for most > > backbones, and lead to sub o

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-15 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Unless you are in "the swamp" - the old Class C, where I believe that they do accept /24's. Regards Marshall Eubanks Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 05:10:28PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote: > >>http://info.us.bb.verio.net/routing.html#PeerFilter >> >>It seems if I were

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-15 Thread up
This is really old news...actually, I seem to recall that they would only accept /19 or shorter prefixes from former Class A & B space...I pressed Sprint for a /21 from the swamp (instead of the former Class A space /21 they initially assigned) because of Verio's policy, in fact. They must have

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-15 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 05:10:28PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote: > > http://info.us.bb.verio.net/routing.html#PeerFilter > > It seems if I were one of their customers they would accept my > 66.11.168/23 announcement and re-announce it to their peers, but they > won't accept it from any of their

verio arrogance

2002-07-15 Thread Ralph Doncaster
http://info.us.bb.verio.net/routing.html#PeerFilter It seems if I were one of their customers they would accept my 66.11.168/23 announcement and re-announce it to their peers, but they won't accept it from any of their peers. Announcing a covering /20 along with the regional more specifics I ha