Re: A crazy idea

2021-08-10 Thread james.cut...@consultant.com
Thank you, Tim. I have often suggested that clear business purposes should drive implementation of technology. Every cogent analysis of IPv6 shows that there are enough addresses that we need not worry about running out of addresses for many decades. Even swarms of devices should not seriously

Opt-in national WEA test in the United States on Aug 11 at 2:20pm EDT

2021-08-10 Thread Sean Donelan
Tommorrow, Wednesday, August 11, 2021 at 2:20 p.m. EDT the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will be testing the national emergency alert system and wireless emergency alert system. Most of the news reporting has tried to simplify things. The Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) test on

Re: Does anybody here have a problem

2021-08-10 Thread Mike Hammett
Are you referring to mailing lists that lack some kind of added prefix to the subject? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "C. A. Fillekes" To: "NANOG mailing list" Sent: Monday, August

Re: Does anybody here have a problem

2021-08-10 Thread joe hess
There used to be (1990’s) a bunch of guys that were Interop volunteers, but they also owned the Renaissance Fair in Novato, Ca. The company name on the fair program as its owner was “The Society for Creative Anachronism.” I know there used to be a fair amount of overlap between the NANOG

Re: Does anybody here have a problem

2021-08-10 Thread Matthew Petach
On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 12:20 AM Robert Brockway wrote: > On Mon, 9 Aug 2021, C. A. Fillekes wrote: > > > telling the difference between their NANOG and SCA mail? > > Can't say that I do. I've been on NANOG for about 17 years. I used to be > subscribed to over 100 technical lists. Despite

Re: "Tactical" /24 announcements

2021-08-10 Thread Mark Tinka
On 8/9/21 19:38, Tom Beecher wrote: Folks can announce longer than 24 masks all day. They're unlikely to propagate very far though, since most won't accept longer than 24 from the world at large. Been waiting for the day when /27's, /28's and /29's are going to make it into the DFZ, as

Re: "Tactical" /24 announcements

2021-08-10 Thread Masataka Ohta
Sabri Berisha wrote: Just for fun, I did the math. A total of 16,777,216 /24s fit in 32 bits. Take away all the reserved space as per IANA (this is 1,266,696 /24s, see below), > 240.0.0.0/41048576 I think we should also take away multicast addresses of > 224.0.0.0/41048576

Re: Does anybody here have a problem

2021-08-10 Thread Robert Brockway
On Mon, 9 Aug 2021, C. A. Fillekes wrote: telling the difference between their NANOG and SCA mail? Can't say that I do. I've been on NANOG for about 17 years. I used to be subscribed to over 100 technical lists. Despite these two facts I have no idea what you mean by SCA in this context.

Re: "Tactical" /24 announcements

2021-08-10 Thread Lukas Tribus
On Mon, 9 Aug 2021 at 17:47, Billy Croan wrote: > Are there any big networks that drop or penalize announcements like this? It's possible you could get your peering request denied for this. I have put *reasonable* prefix aggregation into peering requirements for some years now. If you are a