Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-30 Thread David Conrad
Owen, On Apr 30, 2010, at 7:04 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > Ideally, in the vast majority of cases, resolv.conf is populated by dhcpv6 or > it's successor. :-). I haven't been following the religious war against DHCPv6 -- is it now acceptable to get DNS information via DHCPv6? I note that MacOSX s

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-30 Thread Paul Timmins
David Conrad wrote: Paul, On Apr 29, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Paul Timmins wrote: If you change ISPs, send out an RA with the new addresses, wait a bit, then send out an RA with lifetime 0 on the old address. Even if this works (and I know a lot of applications that use the socket() API th

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-30 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 30, 2010, at 6:26 PM, David Conrad wrote: > Paul, > > On Apr 29, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Paul Timmins wrote: >> If you change ISPs, send out an RA with the new addresses, wait a bit, then >> send out an RA with lifetime 0 on the old address. > > Even if this works (and I know a lot of applica

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-30 Thread David Conrad
Paul, On Apr 29, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Paul Timmins wrote: > If you change ISPs, send out an RA with the new addresses, wait a bit, then > send out an RA with lifetime 0 on the old address. Even if this works (and I know a lot of applications that use the socket() API that effectively cache the add

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-30 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:22:47 -0700 Bill Stewart wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> Here's an exercise.  Wipe a PC.  Put it on that cable modem with no > >> firewall.  Install XP on it.  See if you can get any service packs > >> installed before the box is infecte

The Cidr Report

2010-04-30 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Apr 30 21:11:43 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

BGP Update Report

2010-04-30 Thread cidr-report
BGP Update Report Interval: 22-Apr-10 -to- 29-Apr-10 (7 days) Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS131072 TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS Rank ASNUpds % Upds/PfxAS-Name 1 - AS35805 29526 2.2% 47.9 -- UTG-AS United Telecom AS 2 - AS17672 21731 1.6%

Re: Connectivity to an IPv6-only site

2010-04-30 Thread joel jaeggli
On 4/26/2010 8:07 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Don't forget the hotspot vendor that returns an address of 0.0.0.1 for every A query if you have previously done an query for the same name (and timed out). That's a fun one. so... a

Weekly Routing Table Report

2010-04-30 Thread Routing Analysis Role Account
This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Internet Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan. Daily listings are sent to bgp-st...@lists.apnic.net For historical data, please see http://thyme.apnic.net. If you have any comments please contact Philip Smith . Routing

x-small IPv4 ISPs going to IPv6

2010-04-30 Thread Owen DeLong
As a data point, there are currently 866* x-small IPv4 ISP organizations in the ARIN region. There are a total of 3,562* ISP organizations in the ARIN region (including IPv4 and IPv6). x-small IPv4 providers as such, constitute about 1/4 of the total ARIN ISP constituency. The maximum reven

RE: [only half OT] A socio-psychological analysis of the firstinternet war (Estonia)

2010-04-30 Thread Michael Smith
What is/isn't a "war"? Was US/Vietnam a war? It wasn't declared legally... do you take issue with using the word war due to the nature of the event, or is it simply a question of scale? From what I've read so far of this paper, the incident being called "a war" isn't central to the thesis.

Re: Edu versus Speakeasy Speedtest

2010-04-30 Thread Jeff Kell
On 4/30/2010 8:49 AM, Jeff wrote: > There are better tools than a simple iperf server: > > http://psps.perfsonar.net/toolkit/ There is also http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/ which is an excellent connectivity check, although your mileage may vary with higher-speed bandwidth testing from it. Jeff

Re: Edu versus Speakeasy Speedtest

2010-04-30 Thread Bret Clark
Jeff wrote: The problem is the Faculty^Wusers are smart, but not experienced in networking, so they buy into the marketing and eye candy of the speed dials on the Speakeasy and assorted speed testing tool sites. Not just them, we are constantly dealing with our new HS users who go to those s

Re: Edu versus Speakeasy Speedtest

2010-04-30 Thread Jeff
On 4/30/10 3:15 AM, Steve Bertrand wrote: Your observation is disturbingly bleak... do you have a recommendation? ...perhaps a site with good bandwidth and a cluster of iperf(1) boxes available? :) There are better tools than a simple iperf server: http://psps.perfsonar.net/toolkit/ There

Re: [only half OT] A socio-psychological analysis of the first internetwar (Estonia)

2010-04-30 Thread Gadi Evron
On 4/29/10 6:04 PM, Michael Smith wrote: No GPL for the full paper, huh? Back to the cathedral What's the toll in case I can get some buddies to pitch-in to buy access to the full content? I don't really expect people to pay for it. I hope it will eventually become freely available.

Re: Edu versus Speakeasy Speedtest

2010-04-30 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.04.29 17:31, Robert Enger - NANOG wrote: > 1) The capacity that a campus has into I2 or NLR is different than the > BW the campus purchases from their commercial provider(s). > 2) The commercial BW test sites are not optimized for speed. They do > not have unlimited capacity network con