Re: Note change in IANA registry URLs

2010-04-02 Thread Robert Kisteleki
On 2010.04.02. 6:16, Leo Vegoda wrote: On Mar 31, 2010, at 8:22 PM, Dan White wrote: […] http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ I think it's worth pointing out again that the URLs for IANA registries have changed and the old URLs, like the one above, will be going away from

Re: Note change in IANA registry URLs

2010-04-02 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 11:42:25AM +0200, Robert Kisteleki rob...@ripe.net wrote a message of 20 lines which said: I don't know what good reasons you might have to pull down the current URLs. Please keep them working. I strongly agree and, by the way, it seems this was partially mentioned

Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
This morning I went digging for a book to recommend that someone in our NOC read in order to understand at a high level how Internet infrastructure works (bgp, igps, etc) and discovered that the old standbys (Huitema, Halabi, Perlman) have all not been updated in a decade or so. On the one hand,

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Apr 2, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: So, what are you having your up-and-coming NOC staff read? http://www.amazon.com/Router-Security-Strategies-Securing-Network/dp/1587053365/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1270210783sr=8-2

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Michael Dillon
So, what are you having your up-and-coming NOC staff read? In an attempt to wean them off of unmanageable PERL scripts http://www.complete.org/FoundationsOfPythonNetworkProgramming There are tons of tutorials and articles on the web, often with links to other useful stuff

RE: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Express Web Systems
So, what are you having your up-and-coming NOC staff read? While not specifically a NOC book, we find that it lays a great foundation to build from (if, perhaps, a bit basic in certain areas): Network Warrior by Gary A. Donahue

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread John Kristoff
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:09:29 -0400 Robert E. Seastrom r...@seastrom.com wrote: This morning I went digging for a book to recommend that someone in our NOC read in order to understand at a high level how Internet infrastructure works (bgp, igps, etc) and discovered that the old standbys

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:48:48 BST, Michael Dillon said: So, what are you having your up-and-coming NOC staff read? In an attempt to wean them off of unmanageable PERL scripts There is not, and there never will be, a useful programming language that makes it the least bit difficult to write

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/2/2010 08:39, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:48:48 BST, Michael Dillon said: So, what are you having your up-and-coming NOC staff read? In an attempt to wean them off of unmanageable PERL scripts There is not, and there never will be, a useful programming

RE: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Scott Berkman
I just show them this: http://warriorsofthe.net/ -Scott -Original Message- From: Larry Sheldon [mailto:larryshel...@cox.net] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 9:46 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Books for the NOC guys... On 4/2/2010 08:39, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Brad Fleming
On Apr 2, 2010, at 7:09 AM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: This morning I went digging for a book to recommend that someone in our NOC read in order to understand at a high level how Internet infrastructure works (bgp, igps, etc) and discovered that the old standbys (Huitema, Halabi, Perlman) have

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-04-02 Thread Jimi Thompson
On 3/31/10 8:14 PM, Jorge Amodio jmamo...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with the misuse of the term Engineer in IT. I think it should only be used for the official protected title of civil engineer. Which I believe is a very respectable job. Sad but true, in IT too many people have some form of

Re: Raised floor, Solid floor... or carpet?

2010-04-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday 01 April 2010 02:36:56 pm telmn...@757.org wrote: Its an april fools joke for them. Dare I say that I have actually seen DCs with carpeting. My jaw dropped but it does exist. We had carpeted floor tiles in a data center where I used to work. It was bound to the raised floor

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Jens Link
Robert E. Seastrom r...@seastrom.com writes: So, what are you having your up-and-coming NOC staff read? http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Network-Modern-Kaufmann-Metworking/dp/0123745411/ I think it's quite good and covers many modern topics. One drawback: It mentions ethereal and not

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Eliot Lear
On 4/2/10 2:09 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: So, what are you having your up-and-coming NOC staff read? Practice of System and Network Administration by Limoncelli, Hogan, and Challup. I may be biased, being married to Hogan. Eliot

Re: Raised floor, Solid floor... or carpet?

2010-04-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 02 April 2010 10:29:10 am Lamar Owen wrote: A large portion of the other 12,000 square feet is, pardon the usage, 'puke yellow' in color. The 18,000 sq feet is a nice gray color. All have static draining foil and/or wires woven in the carpet for static control. A couple of pictures

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
The Limoncelli etc book is brilliant. There's phil smith and barry greene's old Cisco ISP Essentials too. Very good if somewhat outdated And then there's this if you just want security -

Re: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?

2010-04-02 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 1, 2010, at 2:25 PM, George Bonser wrote: I beg to differ. I know several ISPs that have been quietly putting quite a bit of engineering resource behind IPv6. The public announcement of residential IPv6 trials by Comcast was not the beginning of a serious commitment to IPv6 by

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Bryan Irvine
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Express Web Systems mailingli...@expresswebsystems.com wrote: So, what are you having your up-and-coming NOC staff read? While not specifically a NOC book, we find that it lays a great foundation to build from (if, perhaps, a bit basic in certain areas):

Re: Note change in IANA registry URLs

2010-04-02 Thread David Conrad
On Apr 1, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Robert Kisteleki wrote: I don't know what good reasons you might have to pull down the current URLs. Because the content has changed from arbitrary ASCII text files into more easily parseable XML and backporting to those arbitrary ASCII text files has proven too

RE: Finding content in your job title

2010-04-02 Thread Justin Horstman
-Original Message- From: Jimi Thompson [mailto:jimi.thomp...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 9:20 AM To: Jorge Amodio; Jeroen van Aart Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Finding content in your job title On 3/31/10 8:14 PM, Jorge Amodio jmamo...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with

Re: Note change in IANA registry URLs

2010-04-02 Thread Leo Vegoda
On 2 Apr 2010, at 2:53, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 11:42:25AM +0200, Robert Kisteleki rob...@ripe.net wrote a message of 20 lines which said: I don't know what good reasons you might have to pull down the current URLs. Please keep them working. I strongly agree

Re: Note change in IANA registry URLs

2010-04-02 Thread Robert Kisteleki
On 2010.04.02. 18:16, David Conrad wrote: On Apr 1, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Robert Kisteleki wrote: I don't know what good reasons you might have to pull down the current URLs. Because the content has changed from arbitrary ASCII text files into more easily parseable XML and backporting to those

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-04-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 02 April 2010 12:25:12 pm Justin Horstman wrote: [Your title] does however answer the question of Who is responsible for... which I believe to be extremely valuable. Then again, I might be weird. No, this is exactly how 'business at large' uses the idea of title. In some

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 02 April 2010 11:36:53 am Eliot Lear wrote: Practice of System and Network Administration by Limoncelli, Hogan, and Challup. I may be biased, being married to Hogan. +1 on PSNA. I like it as much for its non-technical content as for its technical content (a similar book, by

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 02/04/2010 14:39, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:48:48 BST, Michael Dillon said: So, what are you having your up-and-coming NOC staff read? In an attempt to wean them off of unmanageable PERL scripts There is not, and there never will be, a useful programming

Re: Important: IPv4 Future Allocation Concept RFC

2010-04-02 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net wrote: Someone suggested this be posted more visibly. Joe, Been there, done that: http://bill.herrin.us/network/ipxl.html Maybe the humor was too subtle... -Bill -- William D. Herrin her...@dirtside.com

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/02/2010 10:43 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: In short: less zealotry, more pragmatism and a realisation that each language has its own strengths and weaknesses. Bad code is bad code in any language. All true, but I'd still say there's a special rung in hell for bad perl. Mike

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com said: All true, but I'd still say there's a special rung in hell for bad perl. Ehh, bad perl is still more readable than good APL. At least I can reformat the perl! :-) -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY

RE: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
Well, speaking as one who wrote an ISP-specific, although not NOC-specific book about a decade ago, it doesn't seem as if there is a commercial motivation to update them. For the record, it's _Building Service Provider Networks_ (Wiley, 2001), and I'm proud of it. Nevertheless, I'm not opposed

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Bryan Irvine
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Once upon a time, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com said: All true, but I'd still say there's a special rung in hell for bad perl. Ehh, bad perl is still more readable than good APL.  At least I can reformat the perl! :-) In

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Ray Sanders
It's the same level reserved for child molesters and people who talk at the theater... Michael Thomas wrote: On 04/02/2010 10:43 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: In short: less zealotry, more pragmatism and a realisation that each language has its own strengths and weaknesses. Bad code is bad code

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Stefan
Aside from the ones already mentioned, troubleshooting books are a great asset, also. Here are some of my favorites: http://www.amazon.com/Network-Analysis-Troubleshooting-Scott-Haugdahl/dp/0201433192/ http://www.amazon.com/Troubleshooting-Campus-Networks-Practical-Protocols/dp/0471210137/

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Joel Jaeggli
While not the stevens book, the illustrated network isbn 978-0-12-374541-5 was a pretty good attempt to do a modern version of the same. any book that attempts to cover all layers of the stack is going to have it's limits, but it has saved my bacon a couple of times now... The author is normally

Weekly Routing Table Report

2010-04-02 Thread Routing Analysis Role Account
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Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Michael Dillon
In short: less zealotry, more pragmatism and a realisation that each language has its own strengths and weaknesses.  Bad code is bad code in any language. All true, but I'd still say there's a special rung in hell for bad perl. And it is exacerbated by the huge volume of bad PERL books out

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Apr 2, 2010, at 1:53 44PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com said: All true, but I'd still say there's a special rung in hell for bad perl. Ehh, bad perl is still more readable than good APL. At least I can reformat the perl! :-) -- Oh, I don't know

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Bill Stewart
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Eliot Lear l...@cisco.com wrote:  On 4/2/10 2:09 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: So, what are you having your up-and-coming NOC staff read? Practice of System and Network Administration by Limoncelli, Hogan, and Challup.  I may be biased, being married to Hogan.

legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Jeroen van Aart
I am curious. Once we're nearing exhausting all IPv4 space will there ever come a time to ask/demand/force returning all these legacy /8 allocations? I think I understand the difficulty in that, but then running out of IPs is also a difficult issue. :-) For some reason I sooner see all IPv4

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 02:01:45PM -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote: I am curious. Once we're nearing exhausting all IPv4 space will there ever come a time to ask/demand/force returning all these legacy /8 allocations? I think I understand the difficulty in that, but then running out of IPs is

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Charles N Wyble
Hmmm... it is 2pm on a Friday afternoon. I guess it's the appropriate time for this thread. *grabs popcorn and sits back to watch the fun*

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 02 April 2010 04:08:03 pm Michael Dillon wrote: If someone wanted to play the game and trump me, then they would quote the title of another book, or at least a substantial website tutorial, that uses another programming language. I wish I could reply to this yesterday Then, I

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread jim deleskie
Must resist urge to bash v6... must start weekend... must turn off computer for my own good. On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Charles N Wyble char...@knownelement.com wrote: Hmmm... it is 2pm on a Friday afternoon. I guess it's the appropriate time for this thread. *grabs popcorn and sits

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Chris Grundemann
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 15:01, Jeroen van Aart jer...@mompl.net wrote: I am curious. Once we're nearing exhausting all IPv4 space will there ever come a time to ask/demand/force returning all these legacy /8 allocations? snip Legacy vs RIR allocated/assigned space is not a proper distinction,

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/2/2010 16:08, Charles N Wyble wrote: Hmmm... it is 2pm on a Friday afternoon. I guess it's the appropriate time for this thread. *grabs popcorn and sits back to watch the fun* While it is true that this is likely to be one of the less productive windmill jousts. I used to work for a

BGP Update Report

2010-04-02 Thread cidr-report
BGP Update Report Interval: 25-Mar-10 -to- 01-Apr-10 (7 days) Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS131072 TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS Rank ASNUpds % Upds/PfxAS-Name 1 - AS30890 43018 4.0% 95.6 -- EVOLVA Evolva Telecom s.r.l. 2 - AS845214685

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Cutler James R
I also just got a fresh box of popcorn. I will sit by and wait for Jeroen to do a business analysis and tell me the return on investment. (Assuming that he can find any legal grounds for demanding return of legacy /8 allocations.) All of the analysis results I have seen mention figuratively

The Cidr Report

2010-04-02 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Apr 2 21:11:30 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: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Owen DeLong
Sigh... Guess you missed the last several go-arounds of Running out of IPv4 will create some hardships. That cannot be avoided. Even if we were to reclaim the supposed unused legacy /8s, we'd still only extend the date of IPv4 runout by a few months. The amount of effort required to reclaim

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Chris Grundemann wrote: On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 15:01, Jeroen van Aart jer...@mompl.net wrote: I am curious. Once we're nearing exhausting all IPv4 space will there ever come a time to ask/demand/force returning all these legacy /8 allocations? snip Legacy vs

RE: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Joe Johnson
Owen DeLong wrote: The amount of effort required to reclaim those few IPv4 addresses would vastly exceed the return on that effort. Far better for that effort to be directed towards the addition of IPv6 capabilities to existing IPv4 deployments so as to minimize the impact of IPv4 exhaustion.

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 05:19:12PM -0500, Joe Johnson wrote: Maybe encourage people like Apple, Xerox, HP or Ford to migrate their operations completely to IPv6 and return their /8? How are they going to completely migrate to v6 while there is a demand for v4 space (specifically, THEIR

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Cutler James R wrote: I also just got a fresh box of popcorn. I will sit by and wait I honestly am not trying to be a troll. It's just everytime I glance over the IANA IPv4 Address Space Registry I feel rather annoyed about all those /8s that were assigned back in the day without apparently

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Andrew Gray
Jeroen van Aart writes: Cutler James R wrote: I also just got a fresh box of popcorn. I will sit by and wait I honestly am not trying to be a troll. It's just everytime I glance over the IANA IPv4 Address Space Registry I feel rather annoyed about all those /8s that were assigned back in

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 02 April 2010 06:14:33 pm Owen DeLong wrote: This is where Legacy vs. RIR becomes meaningful. Legacy holders have no contractual obligation to return unused space. RIR recipients, on the other hand, do. Some legacy holders might, I imagine, be 'squatting' on that legacy space and

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Matthew Kaufman
Jeroen van Aart wrote: Cutler James R wrote: I also just got a fresh box of popcorn. I will sit by and wait I honestly am not trying to be a troll. It's just everytime I glance over the IANA IPv4 Address Space Registry I feel rather annoyed about all those /8s that were assigned back in

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread John Palmer (NANOG Acct)
On the topic of IP4 exhaustion: 1/8, 2/8 and 5/8 have all been assigned in the last 3 months yet I don't see them being allocated out to customers (users) yet. Is this perhaps a bit of hoarding in advance of the complete depletion of /8's? - Original Message - From: Majdi S. Abbas

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 05:48:44PM -0500, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote: On the topic of IP4 exhaustion: 1/8, 2/8 and 5/8 have all been assigned in the last 3 months yet I don't see them being allocated out to customers (users) yet. Is this perhaps a bit of hoarding in advance of the

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 2, 2010, at 8:10 AM, Jens Link wrote: Robert E. Seastrom r...@seastrom.com writes: So, what are you having your up-and-coming NOC staff read? http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Network-Modern-Kaufmann-Metworking/dp/0123745411/ I think it's quite good and covers many modern

Re: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?

2010-04-02 Thread Owen DeLong
I've gotten multiple emails about this... Yes, this is a known issue at the moment due to an upgrade put in place at DeLong. There is an open ticket with Juniper on why the 6in4 tunnels are not working on the SRX-100 and why traffic coming in through the alternate path is not being correctly

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 2, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Andrew Gray wrote: Jeroen van Aart writes: Cutler James R wrote: I also just got a fresh box of popcorn. I will sit by and wait I honestly am not trying to be a troll. It's just everytime I glance over the IANA IPv4 Address Space Registry I feel rather annoyed

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Apr 2, 2010, at 6:38 26PM, Andrew Gray wrote: Jeroen van Aart writes: Cutler James R wrote: I also just got a fresh box of popcorn. I will sit by and wait I honestly am not trying to be a troll. It's just everytime I glance over the IANA IPv4 Address Space Registry I feel rather

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Michael Dillon
You know, I've felt the same irritation before, but one thing I am wondering and perhaps some folks around here have been around long enough to know - what was the original thinking behind doing those /8s? Read your network history. In the beginning all allocations were /8s, in fact the slash

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Jeffrey I. Schiller
On 04/02/2010 06:38 PM, Andrew Gray wrote: I understand that they were A classes and assigned to large companies, etc. but was it just not believed there would be more than 126(-ish) of these entities at the time? Or was it thought we would move on to larger address space before we did? Or

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread John Palmer (NANOG Acct)
- Original Message - From: Majdi S. Abbas m...@latt.net To: John Palmer (NANOG Acct) nan...@adns.net Cc: NANOG list nanog@nanog.org Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 5:52 PM Subject: Re: legacy /8 On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 05:48:44PM -0500, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote: On the topic of

Re: Note change in IANA registry URLs

2010-04-02 Thread David Conrad
On Apr 2, 2010, at 7:13 AM, Robert Kisteleki wrote: You're confusing two things: URL and content. According to the announcement, TXT files will be generated still. Why, again, must the URL change? As Leo pointed out, a message will be displayed at the historical URL. Does this address your

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 4/2/10 3:01 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: I am curious. Once we're nearing exhausting all IPv4 space will there ever come a time to ask/demand/force returning all these legacy /8 allocations? I think I understand the difficulty in that, but then running out of IPs is also a difficult issue. :-)

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Barry Shein
On April 2, 2010 at 15:25 jer...@mompl.net (Jeroen van Aart) wrote: I honestly am not trying to be a troll. It's just everytime I glance over the IANA IPv4 Address Space Registry I feel rather annoyed about all those /8s that were assigned back in the day without apparently

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread bmanning
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 03:13:16PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: Sigh... Guess you missed the last several go-arounds of Running out of IPv4 will create some hardships. That cannot be avoided. we won't run out, we won't exaust, we are -NOT- killing the last tuna. what we are doing

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread bmanning
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 03:25:22PM -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote: Cutler James R wrote: I also just got a fresh box of popcorn. I will sit by and wait I honestly am not trying to be a troll. It's just everytime I glance over the IANA IPv4 Address Space Registry I feel rather annoyed about

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread bmanning
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 03:46:55PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: The expectation was that those /8s would be subnetted into vast arrays of Class C sized chunks and that subnets within a given /8 all had to be the same size (this used to be necessary to keep RIP happy and every machine

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Randy Bush
ipv4 spae is not 'running out.' the rirs are running out of a free resource which they then rent to us. breaks my little black heart. even if, and that's an if, ipv6 takes off, ipv4 is gonna be around for a lng while. when 95% of the world has end-to-end ipv6, do you think amazon et alia

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Randy Bush
IPv6 as effectively reindroduced classful addressing. but it's not gonna be a problem this time, right? after all, 32^h^h128^h^h^h64 bits is more than we will ever need, right? randy

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread bmanning
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 09:25:08AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: IPv6 as effectively reindroduced classful addressing. but it's not gonna be a problem this time, right? after all, 32^h^h128^h^h^h64 bits is more than we will ever need, right? randy well... looking at a diet analogy,

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread jim deleskie
Just like 640k or memory :) On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: IPv6 as effectively reindroduced classful addressing. but it's not gonna be a problem this time, right?  after all, 32^h^h128^h^h^h64 bits is more than we will ever need, right? randy

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread David Conrad
On Apr 2, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: Take back all the IP space from China and give them a single /20 and tell them to make do. At current consumption rates, that'd buy us another year or so. Then what? Regards, -drc

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 4/2/10 6:36 PM, David Conrad wrote: On Apr 2, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: Take back all the IP space from China and give them a single /20 and tell them to make do. At current consumption rates, that'd buy us another year or so. Then what? Regards, -drc To quote: we get

Anyone observing latency and dropped packets at peering points in Seattle?

2010-04-02 Thread eric clark
I've been troubleshooting an issue all day. Traffic leaving our site, on Verizon public transport, destined for the Spokane area is routing to Qwest and hitting 400ms rapidly. The offending router seems to be a Verizon router (number 6 here). On top of that, we're seeing this via Level3 coming in

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Jim Burwell
On 4/2/2010 17:22, Randy Bush wrote: ipv4 spae is not 'running out.' the rirs are running out of a free resource which they then rent to us. breaks my little black heart. even if, and that's an if, ipv6 takes off, ipv4 is gonna be around for a lng while. when 95% of the world has

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/2/2010 19:25, Randy Bush wrote: IPv6 as effectively reindroduced classful addressing. but it's not gonna be a problem this time, right? after all, 32^h^h128^h^h^h64 bits is more than we will ever need, right? Just like last time. -- Democracy: Three wolves and a sheep voting on the

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Michael Thomas
Larry Sheldon wrote: On 4/2/2010 19:25, Randy Bush wrote: IPv6 as effectively reindroduced classful addressing. but it's not gonna be a problem this time, right? after all, 32^h^h128^h^h^h64 bits is more than we will ever need, right? Just like last time. Oh brother.

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Dan White
On 03/04/10 00:09 +, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 03:13:16PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: Sigh... Guess you missed the last several go-arounds of Running out of IPv4 will create some hardships. That cannot be avoided. we won't run out, we won't

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Cutler James R
The last time I discussed IP Address needs with a company the builds automobiles, they wanted forty million addresses for robots, sensors, and the like for manufacturing. A single /8, were it available, would only yield about 20% of that requirement. On Apr 2, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Owen DeLong

RE: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread George Bonser
-Original Message- From: Jim Burwell [mailto:j...@jsbc.cc] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 6:00 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: legacy /8 So, jump through hoops to kludge up IPv4 so it continues to provide address space for new allocations through multiple levels of NAT (or

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread jim deleskie
I'm old but maybe not old nuff to know if this was discussed before or not, but I've been asking people last few months why we don't just do something like this. don't even need to get rid of BGP, just add some extension, we see ok to add extensions to BGP to do other things, this makes at least

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread John Palmer (NANOG Acct)
Is someone volunteering to work on an RFC? Or, has someone done so for this already? - Original Message - From: jim deleskie deles...@gmail.com To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 9:17 PM Subject: Re: legacy /8 I'm old but maybe not old nuff to know if this was

RE: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, Joe Johnson wrote: Maybe encourage people like Apple, Xerox, HP or Ford to migrate their operations completely to IPv6 and return their /8? Perhaps 45.0.0.0/8 can start, that shouldn't be too hard to migrate out of? :P -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...@swm.pp.se

RE: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread George Bonser
-Original Message- From: jim deleskie Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 7:17 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: legacy /8 I'm old but maybe not old nuff to know if this was discussed before or not, but I've been asking people last few months why we don't just do something like

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:38:26 -0700 Andrew Gray 3...@blargh.com wrote: Jeroen van Aart writes: Cutler James R wrote: I also just got a fresh box of popcorn. I will sit by and wait I honestly am not trying to be a troll. It's just everytime I glance over the IANA IPv4 Address Space

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:49:58 MDT, Brielle Bruns said: we get some IP space back to buy us more time Didn't say it was a solution, but we're all talking about buying more time for ipv6 transition. Its no worse then any other suggestion people have proposed. :) They've had plenty of time

RE: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread George Bonser
-Original Message- From: John Palmer (NANOG Acct) [mailto:nan...@adns.net] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 7:29 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: legacy /8 Is someone volunteering to work on an RFC? Or, has someone done so for this already? I have never heard of anything along

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 21:29:20 -0500 John Palmer \(NANOG Acct\) nan...@adns.net wrote: Is someone volunteering to work on an RFC? Or, has someone done so for this already? Probably similar to this (and others that remove end-site knowledge from the Internet core) - The Locator Identifier

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Randy Bush
Anyway, I see it as pretty much moot, since many major players (Comcast, Google, etc) are in the midst of major IPv6 deployments as we speak. Eventually you will have to jump on the bandwagon too. :-) clue0: the isp for which i work deployed ipv6 in the '90s. we were the world's

RE: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread George Bonser
-Original Message- From: George Bonser [mailto:gbon...@seven.com] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 7:53 PM To: John Palmer (NANOG Acct); nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: legacy /8 They hard part is getting all the end nodes to use IPIP tunneling as their primary protocol by default. It

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread bmanning
i had a bet w/ some folks when RFC 1918 came into existance. I postulated that it might be better for the Internet if the RFC 1918 space was used to address the public Internet and the rest of the space be used inside folks walled gardens... circa 1996 or so. --bill On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at