REVERSE DNS Practices.

2009-03-21 Thread Beavis
hi, I want to ask some folks out there that maintain reverse DNS queries of their respective IP blocks. I want to know if there is a need for me to contact my upstream provider. I am in charge of 2 /24's under LACNIC. I've already registered my DNS servers on LACNIC. but for some weird reason

Savvis Outage?

2009-03-21 Thread Jeff Rooney
Anyone else seeing an outage with Savvis in the Chicago area? Specifically in their colo we are seeing asynchronous connectivity, traffic is coming in, but not getting back out. Jeff Rooney jtroo...@nexdlevel.com

Re: REVERSE DNS Practices.

2009-03-21 Thread bruce
Slighty related... Can people please post their recommended reverse dns naming conventions for a small ISP with growth and scalability in mind. I already have one drawn up, but I would like to contrast and compare :D Thanks On 21 Mar 2009 10:32:30 -, John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: I

Re: REVERSE DNS Practices.

2009-03-21 Thread John Levine
I want to ask some folks out there that maintain reverse DNS queries of their respective IP blocks. I want to know if there is a need for me to contact my upstream provider. I am in charge of 2 /24's under LACNIC. I've already registered my DNS servers on LACNIC. but for some weird reason it's

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2009-03-21 Thread david gathu
i am getting one volume of the list thats vol 14.i sure bet i am missing some vol's. can you give me a hand on this anyone -- regards DAVID

Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 14, Issue 44

2009-03-21 Thread Mike Bailey
nanog-requ...@nanog.org wrote: hi, I want to ask some folks out there that maintain reverse DNS queries of their respective IP blocks. I want to know if there is a need for me to contact my upstream provider. I am in charge of 2 /24's under LACNIC. I've already registered my DNS servers on

Re: REVERSE DNS Practices.

2009-03-21 Thread bmanning
the 20th or 21st century answer? if you really don't care about the actual node, then you should map the numbers to topologically significant names - after all, the reverse map follows topology, not some goofball - layer 9 - ego trip thing. or - the more modern approach is to let the node

Re: Redundant AS's

2009-03-21 Thread Florian Weimer
* Hank Nussbacher: Older LIRs have more allocations which compensates for the time factor of the algorithm. Older allocations need almost no human handling by the RIR vs a new LIR of a year which has a oodles of tickets that need human intervention. And how much of that is the result of not

Re: REVERSE DNS Practices.

2009-03-21 Thread jamie rishaw
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 8:00 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: the 20th or 21st century answer? if you really don't care about the actual node, then you should map the numbers to topologically significant names - after all, the reverse map follows topology, not some

Re: Redundant AS's

2009-03-21 Thread Randy Bush
It takes me about 3-5 hours of work to track down and get an old unused ASN to be deallocated. How about updating the 2010 charging model so that LIRs that return ASNs are compensated? I don't think this is a good way of using RIR funds. Why should the old guys receive even more special

Re: Redundant AS's

2009-03-21 Thread Florian Weimer
* Randy Bush: the real path is to move forward, increase income, and grow. Sure. I was enlightened when someone posted to a RIPE mailing list, we are heading towards a future where address space is scarce (my words, not his). But the exact opposite is true.

Re: Redundant AS's

2009-03-21 Thread bmanning
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:44:23AM -0700, Randy Bush wrote: perhaps there is a lesson here. move on to 4-byte asns. randy er... 'parm me sir, but aren't -all- ASNs 4 bytes? i mean, for lo these many years we cheated and only used the first two bytes... but the

RE: REVERSE DNS Practices.

2009-03-21 Thread Frank Bulk
The recommendations in this draft proposal have worked for me: http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-msullivan-dnsop-generic-naming-schemes-00.txt Frank -Original Message- From: br...@yoafrica.com [mailto:br...@yoafrica.com] Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 5:39 AM To: John Levine Cc:

Re: Redundant AS's

2009-03-21 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Heather Schiller wrote: I don't think old vs new really matters.. pardon me for sticking w/ ARIN in this example.. I can follow their fee structure easiest - and doesn't have the old vs new: (https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html) ARIN charges $100/yr for ASN's

Re: REVERSE DNS Practices.

2009-03-21 Thread Mark Tinka
On Saturday 21 March 2009 06:38:55 pm br...@yoafrica.com wrote: Slighty related... Can people please post their recommended reverse dns naming conventions for a small ISP with growth and scalability in mind. I already have one drawn up, but I would like to contrast and compare :D As