Re: Shortest path to the world

2009-07-16 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Leo Bicknell wrote: Quite frankly, your question reminds me a bit of the geography question where is the center of the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_center_of_the_contiguous_United_States While nifty trivia, it acutally has no useful value for well, anything.

Re: Shortest path to the world

2009-07-16 Thread Michiel Klaver
Sean Donelan wrote: The typical network architecture problem, what are the best (shortest latency, greatest bandwidth, etc) locations to connect to the every nation in the world? As you increase the number of locations, how do the choices change? If you only had small (2 3 5 7 11)

Re: The actual value, from a security standpoint, of using a proxy domain registrar?

2009-07-16 Thread Florian Weimer
* Mike Lyon: So the question I have is this: What actual security are these proxy companies providing to the end-user? You can register domains without alerting your competition that you plan to provide a particular service (which could be guessed based on the domain name). Or a merger is

Re: Issues accessing hulu.com from new(ish) US range

2009-07-16 Thread Chris Taylor
Thanks to all that contacted me offlist and on, I believe it should be sorted shortly in all the relevant databases. Thanks again, Chris

Re: Shortest path to the world

2009-07-16 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Michiel Klaver mich...@klaver.it wrote: Sean Donelan wrote: The typical network architecture problem, what are the best (shortest latency, greatest bandwidth, etc) locations to connect to the every nation in the world? As you increase the number of

Re: The actual value, from a security standpoint, of using a proxy domain registrar?

2009-07-16 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 03:13:26PM -0700, Ray Sanders wrote: A lot of these places use scare tactics to convince domain buyers that privacy is essential, otherwise one would get spam, telemarketing calls and junk mail. Well, that's partly true, as some companies do scrape whois data.

Quick question about inbound route-selection

2009-07-16 Thread Drew Weaver
Howdy, Keep in mind I am basing this 'idea' off of fixed orbit's data which can sometimes be a bit out of date, etc. (in theory, and based upon number of peers, data): If you have a network with these upstream connections to the Internet you should see inbound traffic utilization in this

Re: Quick question about inbound route-selection

2009-07-16 Thread Joe Provo
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:45:24AM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote: Howdy, Keep in mind I am basing this 'idea' off of fixed orbit's data which can sometimes be a bit out of date, etc. Understatement. [snip] I realize that we can use communities, and prepends to control the inbound flow, I am

Re: Shortest path to the world

2009-07-16 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 02:07:12AM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: Unless you were Federal Express, and wanted to understand where the center of your service area was to help pick better airport hub locations. Add in some offsets for time zones, weather, and even more

RE: The actual value, from a security standpoint, of using a proxy domain registrar?

2009-07-16 Thread Jason Gurtz
I am curious what others in the industry think on this topic. When one registers a domain they can put in their real information or they can use a proxy, like Go-Daddy's Domains By Proxy. More food for thought: http://blog.easydns.org/archives/247-Why-we-do-not-offer-Whois-masking-at

Re: Quick question about inbound route-selection

2009-07-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:45:24AM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote: I realize that we can use communities, and prepends to control the inbound flow, I am just speaking from a purely natural standpoint. I don't know where people are getting this natural bgp path selection concept from, but it is

Border routers

2009-07-16 Thread Livio Zanol Puppim
Hello guys, I need to buy 2 border routers to handle 2 155Mbps links using BGP full route with each ISP. What may I analyse at the routers hardware? I'm asking for: 1Giga Byte of RAM expansible to 1,5GB 1.000.000 FIB capacity in hardware (since 512K won't be enought soon) 1.000.000 RIB capacity.

Re: The actual value, from a security standpoint, of using a proxy domain registrar?

2009-07-16 Thread Daryl G. Jurbala
On Jul 16, 2009, at 4:27 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: OTOH, there doesn't seem to be a legitimate long-term use for business purposes. (In my view, the secondary domain market is not legitimate---online advertisers keep it alive to artificially increase conversion rates, essentially defrauding

Re: Shortest path to the world

2009-07-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:03:56 +0900, Randy Bush said: The typical network architecture problem, what are the best (shortest latency, greatest bandwidth, etc) locations to connect to the every nation in the world? As you increase the number of locations, how do the choices change? And

Re: The actual value, from a security standpoint, of using a proxy domain registrar?

2009-07-16 Thread John Levine
Example: I work for a VoIP provider that sells to large customers. Their customers sell to smaller customers that want to operate their own small scale VoIP business. No one 2 or 3 levels down knows who we are, and the people upstream want it that way. Sure. Solution? Generic sounding

Re: The actual value, from a security standpoint, of using a proxy domain registrar?

2009-07-16 Thread Robert Bonomi
From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi@nanog.org Wed Jul 15 16:52:59 2009 Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:52:44 -0700 Subject: The actual value, from a security standpoint, of using a proxy domain registrar? From: Mike Lyon mike.l...@gmail.com To: NANOG nanog@nanog.org Howdy,

RE: Quick question about inbound route-selection

2009-07-16 Thread Deepak Jain
As for trying to determine where your inbound traffic is coming from by looking at natural bgp, this is absolutely impossible to do correctly. First off, your inbound is someone else's outbound, and the person sending the traffic outbound is in complete and total control. The vast majority of

Probes from root servers

2009-07-16 Thread Pederson, Krishna
One of our IP addresses is being probed by up to 8 of the 13 root dns servers every 15 seconds. I'm looking for input on how to contact the admins for the servers or perhaps a way to figure out if perhaps someone is spoofing the affected customer IP address, causing the root servers to send the

Re: Quick question about inbound route-selection

2009-07-16 Thread Wayne E. Bouchard
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 06:32:32PM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote: As for trying to determine where your inbound traffic is coming from by looking at natural bgp, this is absolutely impossible to do correctly. First off, your inbound is someone else's outbound, and the person sending the traffic

Re: Border routers

2009-07-16 Thread GIULIANO (UOL)
Livio, You can use one M7i from Juniper Networks (new 09 bundle with enhanced cfeb): - 1 x M7iE-5GE-RE850-US-B or M7iE-2GE-RE850-US-B - 1 x PE-2OC3-SON-SFP It will work very well for your environment. Att, Giuliano

Re: Probes from root servers

2009-07-16 Thread John Kristoff
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:56:29 -0700 Pederson, Krishna peder...@covad.com wrote: One of our IP addresses is being probed by up to 8 of the 13 root dns servers every 15 seconds. I'm looking for input on how to contact the admins for the servers or perhaps a way to figure out if perhaps someone