[Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Adam Waite
I didn't see this on NANOG yet, but it's caused a stir on the RIPE list. ---BeginMessage--- Dear Colleagues, As you may be aware, the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB) has convened an ITU IPv6 Group, the first meeting of which

RE: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Brandon Kim
Interesting, why is it causing quite a stir? Is it because they are trying to allocate a large pool of addresses? Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:03:01 +0100 From: awa...@tuenti.com To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Jared Mauch
On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Brandon Kim wrote: Interesting, why is it causing quite a stir? Is it because they are trying to allocate a large pool of addresses? For those of you that are unaware, it is possible to contact the State Department to get involved with ITU activities and be

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Brandon Kim wrote: Interesting, why is it causing quite a stir? Is it because they are trying to allocate a large pool of addresses? For those of you that are unaware, it is possible to contact the State

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Mans Nilsson
Subject: RE: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU?IPv6 Group] Date: Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:47:57AM -0500 Quoting Brandon Kim (brandon@brandontek.com): Interesting, why is it causing quite a stir? Is it because they are trying to allocate a large pool

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Jorge Amodio
Interesting, why is it causing quite a stir? Is it because they are trying to allocate a large pool of addresses? ITU is trying to stay relevant and justify its existence, over the years they have been loosing their grip over telecom and networking standards. This last move to grab a chunk

Euro-IX ASN Tools updated

2010-02-26 Thread Serge Radovcic
After several peering community requests we have now extended our ASN tool set to allow searches on not only European IXP participants but also those in other regions. The Euro-IX ASN database has some 9.200 entries of participants from 280 IXPs from around the globe. The data stored in our ASN

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Tom Vest
On Feb 26, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Brandon Kim wrote: Interesting, why is it causing quite a stir? Is it because they are trying to allocate a large pool of addresses? For those of you

Re: ISP in Johannesburg in Southdafrika

2010-02-26 Thread Randy Bush
On 2010-02-26 00:41, Graham Beneke wrote: On 26/02/2010 04:08, Randy Bush wrote: Internet connectivity here in 'deepest darkest Africa' is actually quite advanced ;-) and the most expensive you can imagine. welcome to a telkom monopoly. The monopoly is over! how many carriers with

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Dillon
For those of you that are unaware, it is possible to contact the State Department to get involved with ITU activities and be added to their mailing lists to discuss these positions. In addition, if you work for a largish company, they probably have a regulatory department which may already

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread gordon b slater
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 09:40 -0600, Jorge Amodio wrote: I guess nobody needs ITU-T anymore, or do we ? ZCZC well, from vague memory, H.264, G711/729, H323, X.509 were/are ITU-T standards - maybe X.25 too though I could have that one wrong. I'll just sit on the fence: as an old radiocomms guy,

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Feb 26, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Tom Vest wrote: On Feb 26, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Brandon Kim wrote: Interesting, why is it causing quite a stir? Is it because they are trying to allocate a

MENOG6 Call for Papers

2010-02-26 Thread Mehmet Akcin
Colleagues thought it would be useful to send this to few lists who have interest in doing / extending their business in Middle East. Looking forward to see you all in Riyadh! Mehmet Akcin / MENOG Programme Committee Middle East Network Operators Group (MENOG) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 10 - 14

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
From: gordon b slater gordsla...@ieee.org Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:52:21 + On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 09:40 -0600, Jorge Amodio wrote: I guess nobody needs ITU-T anymore, or do we ? ZCZC well, from vague memory, H.264, G711/729, H323, X.509 were/are ITU-T standards - maybe X.25 too

Re: ISP in Johannesburg in Southdafrika

2010-02-26 Thread Graham Beneke
On 26/02/2010 18:43, Randy Bush wrote: On 2010-02-26 00:41, Graham Beneke wrote: On 26/02/2010 04:08, Randy Bush wrote: Internet connectivity here in 'deepest darkest Africa' is actually quite advanced ;-) and the most expensive you can imagine. welcome to a telkom monopoly. The monopoly

Re: Spamcop Blocks Facebook?

2010-02-26 Thread Bob Poortinga
Shon Elliott s...@unwiredbb.com writes: Feb 25 19:08:18 postfix/smtpd[12682]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from outmail011.snc1.tfbnw.net[69.63.178.170]: 554 5.7.1 Service unavailable; host [69.63.178.170] blocked using bl.spamcop.net; Blocked - see http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml?69.63.178.170;

Re: ISP in Johannesburg in Southdafrika

2010-02-26 Thread Randy Bush
I can think of six operators lighting their own fiber to the borders and the landing stations of the various cable systems. Additional to that - I know of dozens of operators running their own international L2 circuits and lighting their own metro and national fiber. no intl L1? Why is it

Re: Spamcop Blocks Facebook?

2010-02-26 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/26/10 9:56 AM, Bob Poortinga wrote: Shon Elliott s...@unwiredbb.com writes: Feb 25 19:08:18 postfix/smtpd[12682]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from outmail011.snc1.tfbnw.net[69.63.178.170]: 554 5.7.1 Service unavailable; host [69.63.178.170] blocked using bl.spamcop.net; Blocked - see

Fwd: Comcast IPv6 Trials Update

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Greb
Received this message today. They haven't updated the http://www.comcast6.net/ site yet. Mike Begin forwarded message: An Important Message From Comcast Dear Comcast Customer, Thank you for volunteering to participate in Comcast's IPv6 trials! I wanted to provide you with a quick

Re: ISP in Johannesburg in Southdafrika

2010-02-26 Thread Randy Bush
Why is it so hard for you to believe that things are changing for the better? http://www.hellkom.co.za/ http://www.ispa.org.za/ http://www.ispa.org.za/press-release/ispa-calls-on-icasa-to-make-a-firm-commitment-to-llu randy

Re: Future timestamps in /var/log/secure

2010-02-26 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 2/26/10 11:20 AM, Wade Peacock wrote: I found a while ago in /var/log/secure that for an invalid ssh login attempt the ssh Bye Bye line is in the future. I have searched the web and can not find a reason for the future time in the log. Here is a sample. Repeated lines are shown once in first

RE: Comcast IPv6 Trials Update

2010-02-26 Thread Brandon Kim
Wow that's great, hopefully Cablevision will do the same with their optimum online!!! From: mich...@thegrebs.com Subject: Fwd: Comcast IPv6 Trials Update Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:15:45 -0500 To: nanog@nanog.org Received this message today. They haven't updated the

Re: Future timestamps in /var/log/secure

2010-02-26 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/26/2010 12:29 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: On 2/26/10 11:20 AM, Wade Peacock wrote: I found a while ago in /var/log/secure that for an invalid ssh login attempt the ssh Bye Bye line is in the future. I have searched the web and can not find a reason for the future time in the log. Here is a

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread David Conrad
On Feb 26, 2010, at 10:22 AM, gordon b slater wrote: I must admit to total confusion over why they need to grab IPs from the v6 address space? Surely they don't need the equivalent of band-plans for IP space? Or have I missed some v6 technical point totally? The ITU Secretariat and a few

Re: ISP in Johannesburg in Southdafrika

2010-02-26 Thread Colin
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: Why is it so hard for you to believe that things are changing for the better? http://www.hellkom.co.za/ http://www.ispa.org.za/ http://www.ispa.org.za/press-release/ispa-calls-on-icasa-to-make-a-firm-commitment-to-llu

RE: Future timestamps in /var/log/secure

2010-02-26 Thread Joe
I happend upon this ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=193184 ) which seems to suggest/explain the occurrence. I know it was mentioned to be in the CentOS distro, but I think this might have been adopted into that distro as well since I see the same issues on a RedHat Distro. Not sure

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Jorge Amodio
well, from vague memory,  H.264, G711/729, H323, X.509 were/are ITU-T standards - maybe X.25 too though I could have that one wrong. Some of the encoding stds are not that bad. The X series and colored books are from the CCITT era, that BTW given that they were Recommendations many phone

Re: Future timestamps in /var/log/secure

2010-02-26 Thread gordon b slater
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 11:29 -0700, Brielle Bruns wrote: Isn't the timestamps inserted by syslog rather then the reporting program itself? that's my understanding also (clarification: syslogs of your server have timestamps of your syslegsserver's time, IMHO) eg: on my Debain systems I don't

Re: Future timestamps in /var/log/secure

2010-02-26 Thread Wade Peacock
It is classic syslogd syslogd -v syslogd 1.4.1 I was thinking timezone but we are PST (-8:00) so I can not explain the +12:00 difference. Isn't the timestamps inserted by syslog rather then the reporting program itself? What syslog do you use - classic (ie: sysklogd) or a modern one like

Re: Future timestamps in /var/log/secure

2010-02-26 Thread Wade Peacock
the proftpd line happened to be the next line in the log. the next simular ssh lines looks like (duplicate removed) Feb 26 10:08:48 mx sshd[22165]: Did not receive identification string from UNKNOWN Feb 26 10:09:27 mx sshd[22261]: Failed password for root from 219.137.192.231 port 54111 ssh2

Weekly Routing Table Report

2010-02-26 Thread Routing Analysis Role Account
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Re: Future timestamps in /var/log/secure

2010-02-26 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 11:29 -0700, Brielle Bruns wrote: Isn't the timestamps inserted by syslog rather then the reporting program itself? The syslog message sent to the local unix socket (/dev/log or /dev/syslog) may contain a timestamp, in which case, that timestamp may be used instead of the

Re: Future timestamps in /var/log/secure

2010-02-26 Thread gordon b slater
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 10:55 -0800, Wade Peacock wrote: the proftpd line happened to be the next line in the log. the next simular ssh lines looks like (duplicate removed) Feb 26 10:08:48 mx sshd[22165]: Did not receive identification string from UNKNOWN Feb 26 10:09:27 mx sshd[22261]:

Re: Future timestamps in /var/log/secure

2010-02-26 Thread Brielle Bruns
If someone wants to do testing, I believe I can fairly easily build a Xen CentOS domU once I get home (30 mins). Contact me offlist and we'll figure it out. --Original Message-- From: gordon b slater To: wade.peac...@sunwave.net Cc: nanog@nanog.org ReplyTo: gordsla...@ieee.org Subject:

Re: Future timestamps in /var/log/secure

2010-02-26 Thread gordon b slater
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 13:17 -0600, William Pitcock wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 11:29 -0700, Brielle Bruns wrote: Isn't the timestamps inserted by syslog rather then the reporting program itself? The syslog message sent to the local unix socket (/dev/log or /dev/syslog) may contain a

Re: Future timestamps in /var/log/secure

2010-02-26 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:51:43 PST, Wade Peacock said: It is classic syslogd syslogd -v syslogd 1.4.1 I was thinking timezone but we are PST (-8:00) so I can not explain the +12:00 difference. Feb 26 09:50:38 mx sshd[19102]: Feb 26 17:50:38 mx sshd[19113]: That's 8 hours difference,

Re: Future timestamps in /var/log/secure

2010-02-26 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 19:30 +, gordon b slater wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 13:17 -0600, William Pitcock wrote: The syslog message sent to the local unix socket (/dev/log or /dev/syslog) may contain a timestamp, in which case, that timestamp may be used instead of the local time. As

Re: Future timestamps in /var/log/secure

2010-02-26 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/26/2010 11:46, William Pitcock wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 19:30 +, gordon b slater wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 13:17 -0600, William Pitcock wrote: The syslog message sent to the local unix socket (/dev/log or /dev/syslog) may contain a timestamp, in which case, that timestamp may

Re: Future timestamps in /var/log/secure

2010-02-26 Thread Wade Peacock
It might be prudent to mention that all of the connections of this type are null routed via an iptables drop rule after three failed attempts via a home grown daemon similar to DENYHOSTS. All traffic from host is DENIED for 120 days unless we manually over ride it. I do appreciate the

Re: Future timestamps in /var/log/secure

2010-02-26 Thread Wade Peacock
That does make sense. I will try to simulate that with a temporary virtual machine as a different timezone. Wade aha! there you go, mine doesn't but maybe yours does? The specification for the syslog protocol is that timestamps embedded in the message should be used instead of syslogd's time.

Re: ISP in Johannesburg in Southdafrika

2010-02-26 Thread Randy Bush
http://www.ispa.org.za/press-release/ispa-calls-on-icasa-to-make-a-firm-commitment-to-llu Those are all _extremely_ out dated references. i am used to dealing with time zones, even the international date line. but i am having a really hard time considering 2010-02-23 as extremely out of date.

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, David Conrad wrote: non-biased way). There are a couple of papers put out by the ITU (or perhaps more accurately, ITU-funded folks) that discuss this. If anyone cares, I can dig them up. Some googling for 'itu ipv6' turns up the following (among other things):

Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Sokolov
Daniel Senie d...@senie.com wrote: Better than western Massachusetts, where there's just no connectivity at = all. Even dialup fails to function over crappy lines. Hmm. Although I've never been to Western MA and hence have no idea what the telecom situation is like over there, I'm certainly

Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)

2010-02-26 Thread Brandon Galbraith
Get dry loops from the ILEC and place repeaters at strategic points? On 2/26/10, Michael Sokolov msoko...@ivan.harhan.org wrote: Daniel Senie d...@senie.com wrote: Better than western Massachusetts, where there's just no connectivity at = all. Even dialup fails to function over crappy lines.

Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)

2010-02-26 Thread James Jones
The Massachusetts Broadband Institute is currently working a middle mile solution to help with some of the issues in western ma. Thing do sound promising. On 2/26/10 4:34 PM, Michael Sokolov wrote: Daniel Senied...@senie.com wrote: Better than western Massachusetts, where there's just

Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)

2010-02-26 Thread Daniel Senie
From what I've read, they may well get higher bandwidth out to the town centers on fiber. There has been little discussion of how to distribute from there. I suppose Verizon, the only company offering anything out there, will take advantage and use the fiber to improve speeds in the centers of

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 26/02/2010 21:13, Antonio Querubin wrote: Some googling for 'itu ipv6' turns up the following (among other things): http://www.itu.int/net/ITU-T/ipv6/itudocs.aspx Wow, there are some real classics in there. Anyone in need of a good end-of-week belly laugh should take a look at Delayed

BGP Update Report

2010-02-26 Thread cidr-report
BGP Update Report Interval: 18-Feb-10 -to- 25-Feb-10 (7 days) Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS131072 TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS Rank ASNUpds % Upds/PfxAS-Name 1 - AS31055 19341 1.8%6447.0 -- CONSULTIX-AS Consultix GmbH 2 - AS45983 11585

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Jorge Amodio
Some googling for 'itu ipv6' turns up the following (among other things): http://www.itu.int/net/ITU-T/ipv6/itudocs.aspx yeah, yeah, ITU still making noise with the Y Series docs and NGN (Next Generation Networks) framework. Jeluuu ITU, kind of you are 25+ years late ...

The Cidr Report

2010-02-26 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Feb 26 06:11:26 2010 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of AS2.0 router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org for a current version of this report. Recent Table History Date

Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)

2010-02-26 Thread James Jones
I am in planning states for a new metro ethernet service here in the springfield area. that will slowly extend to the town as I can get there. On 2/26/10 4:45 PM, Daniel Senie wrote: From what I've read, they may well get higher bandwidth out to the town centers on fiber. There has been

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread David Conrad
On Feb 26, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 26/02/2010 21:13, Antonio Querubin wrote: Some googling for 'itu ipv6' turns up the following (among other things): http://www.itu.int/net/ITU-T/ipv6/itudocs.aspx Wow, there are some real classics in there. Anyone in need of a good

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Nick Hilliard wrote: The pitiful level of misunderstanding displayed by the authors of these documents is frightening. Indeed. A usern...@domain is as valid a VOIP ID as is a traditional telephone number. And country coded TLDs can be moved around the net more easily

Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Sokolov
Brandon Galbraith brandon.galbra...@gmail.com wrote: Get dry loops from the ILEC and place repeaters at strategic points? I guess I need a little more education on how the process of ordering dry pairs from an ILEC works. I thought it works like this: 1. You have to be colocated in the CO to

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Jorge Amodio
The pitiful level of misunderstanding displayed by the authors of these documents is frightening. Are the ITU folks planning to manage IPv6 address space allocations the same way they number their documents (ie no more than 100 docs per subject on the Y series) ? ;-}

RE: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)

2010-02-26 Thread Crooks, Sam
I had good luck getting my dad some form of broadband access in rural Oregon using a 3g router (Cradlepoint), a Wilson Electronics signal amp (model 811211), and an outdoor mount high gain antenna. It's not great, but considering the alternatives (33.6k dialup for $60/mo or satellite broadband

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Bill Stewart
Maybe I'm dense, but I don't see the problem. One of the great things about IPv6's address space being mindbogglingly large is that there's plenty of it to experiment with. If the ITU wants an RIR-sized block to do RIR-like work, so what? If they wanted a /2 or /4 I'd be concerned, or if there

RE: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)

2010-02-26 Thread Haney, Wilson
As we all know it's expensive building out any landline network. Rural areas just get over looked. Check out this tech coming out of Motorola and to a Verizon/ATT tower near you soon. 100 Mbps possible off cellular signals. Looks like they will throttle it to 20 Mbps and less though.

Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)

2010-02-26 Thread Paul Bosworth
I think a lot of people often forget that ISPs are actually businesses trying to turn a profit. At my last job we built out a fiber to the home ILEC in relatively rural Louisiana. This means that we had quite a number of customers that didn't meet the density requirements for deployment. Using

Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)

2010-02-26 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Paul Bosworth pboswo...@gmail.com wrote: I think a lot of people often forget that ISPs are actually businesses trying to turn a profit. There are alternatives though, if the need exists and folks are able: http://www.rric.net/ -- Brandon Galbraith Mobile:

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Jorge Amodio
Maybe I'm dense, but I don't see the problem. It breaks the existing regional allocation and policy development process model establishing a second source that will probably not just want to allocate but also develop a parallel policy that will most probably not be consistent or compatible with

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:43:11 -0800 David Conrad d...@virtualized.org wrote: On Feb 26, 2010, at 10:22 AM, gordon b slater wrote: I must admit to total confusion over why they need to grab IPs from the v6 address space? Surely they don't need the equivalent of band-plans for IP space? Or

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Jorge Amodio
 Syria wants to roll the clock back. Not only Syria, some developed countries want to have 100% control of the big switch to turn the net off/on, if possible on a packet by packet basis. PTT = Prehistoric Telecommunications Technologies ... IMHO the most important driving factor behind all

Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Sokolov
Brandon Galbraith brandon.galbra...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.rric.net/ I'm very familiar with those folks of course, they've been an inspiration to me for a long time. However, my needs are different. RRIC's model basically involves a specific community with a well-defined boundary: bring

Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)

2010-02-26 Thread Daniel Senie
Hopefully someone will bother to cover the rural areas with cell service eventually. Much of western Massachusetts (by which I mean the Berkshires, more than I mean the Pioneer Valley) is not covered by cell service. Where there is cell service, most cell sites have only minimal data speeds.

Revelation Networks

2010-02-26 Thread Chadwick Sorrell
Does anyone have any experiences with Revelation Networks? They're AS26821, and I'm looking for good or bad experiences with their services. Prefer an off-list reply. Thanks

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 26/02/2010 22:13, David Conrad wrote: If you want to be really frightened, remember that the IPv4 free pool is going to be exhausted in something like 576 days. Given the lack of IPv6 deployment, the subsequent food fights that erupt as markets in IPv4 addresses are established are likely

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 26, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 26/02/2010 21:13, Antonio Querubin wrote: Some googling for 'itu ipv6' turns up the following (among other things): http://www.itu.int/net/ITU-T/ipv6/itudocs.aspx Wow, there are some real classics in there. Anyone in need of a good

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Danny McPherson
On Feb 26, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: I think that PTT is the operative token here, but for reasons having nothing to do with competition. If all they wanted was competition, the easy answer would be to set up more registries -- or registrars -- not bounded by geography;

Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)

2010-02-26 Thread Greg Bur
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 18:10 -0500, Paul Bosworth wrote: I think a lot of people often forget that ISPs are actually businesses trying to turn a profit. That sums it up pretty well. In a previous life I operated an ISP in a small town. When I entered the arena there was one other competitor,

Re: Spamcop Blocks Facebook?

2010-02-26 Thread Rich Kulawiec
[ This discussion really should be on spam-l, not nanog. ] I'm not affiliated with Spamcop, however, it's well-known among those of us who work in this area that (a) Facebook has been spamming for quite some time and (b) they're not the only social network that's doing so. So it's not especially

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Phil Regnauld
Nick Hilliard (nick) writes: And the politicians. Yes, they will erupt in hitherto unseen outbursts of self-righteous indignation at the stupid internet engineers who let this problem happen in the first place and who made no provision whatsoever for viable alternatives, Um, not to

RE: Spamcop Blocks Facebook?

2010-02-26 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
There's more to it than just that Facebook themselves occasionally fit the profile of a spammer, and so some of the more stringent networks may filter mail from them. Facebook is a major source of drive-by malware, and some of the apps on Facebook tread close to the spyware/adware/parasite line

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread John Levine
There is much political froth being stirred up here. I don't see what the big deal is. It was patently unfair not to give every country a one-digit country code like the US and Russia have. So they don't want to make the same mistake with IPv6. R's, John

Hotels in Tampa

2010-02-26 Thread Joe Hamelin
I'm going to be in Tampa for two weeks turning up a 4G data center. Any recommendations on good hotels that allow smoking? -- Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474

Re: Hotels in Tampa

2010-02-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
tripadvisor.com probably has a lot of hotel reviews for you. carrier hotels that allow smoking (!) might be more on topic on nanog i guess? On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Joe Hamelin j...@nethead.com wrote: I'm going to be in Tampa for two weeks turning up a 4G data center. Any

Level3 tonight in Washington/New York

2010-02-26 Thread Shon Elliott
Is anyone else seeing some serious Packet Loss from New York/Washington area within Level3's network tonight? I'm seeing around 5% packet loss.. -S

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:04:12 +0800 From: Phil Regnauld regna...@nsrc.org Nick Hilliard (nick) writes: And the politicians. Yes, they will erupt in hitherto unseen outbursts of self-righteous indignation at the stupid internet engineers who let this problem happen in the first

Chile (fyi)

2010-02-26 Thread chaim . rieger
Gettingreports of loss of connectivity to parts of chile They had an 8.5 a short while ago. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Jake Khuon
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 22:20 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: Let's face reality. We have met the enemy and he is us. (Apologies to Walt Kelly.) We, the network engineers simply kept ignoring IPv6 for years after it was available. Almost all operating systems have been IPv6 capable for at least five