Re: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-15 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 11/15/13 13:25, Jay Ashworth wrote: > You seem to be taking this awfully personally, though, Mike; did you > *set* the policies and procedures I'm scoffing at? I am NOT TAKING IT PERSONALLY DAMMIT!!! Okay, now being serious (note clever way of avoiding using emoticons while pointing out that

Re: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-15 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 11/15/13 12:29, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Michael Sinatra" > >> UC Berkeley installed 3 CEVs (Controlled Environment Vaults) below >> ground on campus about 10-15 years ago. One of them houses one of the >> two main

Re: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-15 Thread Michael Sinatra
Hi Justin and Roy: On 11/13/13 12:05, Justin M. Streiner wrote: > On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, Roy hockett wrote: > >> Has anyone ever used a below grade vault for housing fiber cross >> connects? >> >> We have to move a fiber interconnect facility due to the current >> building being demolished. If you

Re: Comcast Launches IPv6 for Business Customers

2013-05-01 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 04/29/13 15:38, Brzozowski, John wrote: > FYI for folks that are interested: > > http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/comcast-launches-ipv6-for-business-customers Great news! Strangely, I (a Comcast Business customer at home) have noticed RAs coming across my wire for several months no

Re: OpenBGPd problems relating to misuse of RESERVED bits in BGP Attribute Flags field

2012-11-29 Thread Michael Sinatra
Jeff and NANOG: We are currently dropping the bad attribute within our network (as293) and are working with the customer to determine the origin of the attribute (equipment, code rev, etc.). The bad attribute should not be leaking beyond our AS at all. If you're filtering routes from AS68, you s

Re: OpenBGPd problems relating to misuse of RESERVED bits in BGP Attribute Flags field

2012-11-29 Thread Michael Sinatra
Hi Jeff (and NANOG) This is one of our customers, and we're going to get it fixed (or worked around) ASAP. michael On 11/29/12 12:44 AM, Jeff Wheeler wrote: > I had two downstream BGP customers experience problem with an OpenBGPd bug > tonight. Before diving into detail, I would like to link th

Re: Google burp

2012-10-31 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 10/31/12 2:55 PM, Blair Trosper wrote: > I guess I'll be the one to ask...what's going on over at Google? Service > interruptions and front-end errors all over the place across what appears > to be all services, though Gmail seems to have bounced back up. Google's > service disruption is about

Re: DNS noise

2012-04-06 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 04/06/12 10:47, Keegan Holley wrote: Have you tried contacting the owner of the IP? A DDOS attack from that particular IP would be ironic. # # The following results may also be obtained via: # http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=72.20.23.24?showDetails=true&showARIN=false&ext=netref2 # Stamin

Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US

2012-03-30 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 03/30/12 13:41, Henry Yen wrote: uunet/vzb "will terminate its United States Newsreader and Newsfeed services on March 31, 2012, with no plans to offer a replacement, and any content/data remaining after that date will be unrecoverably deleted". does anyone on NANOG have any thoughtful commen

Re: did AS174 and AS4134 de-peer?

2012-03-07 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 03/07/12 16:10, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Mar 7, 2012, at 19:06 , Jim Cowie wrote: As a meta-comment: this "Quick Look" style of blog is an experiment we're trying, based on feedback that the community wanted to hear about more of these little events as they happen. In a Quick Look, we

Re: Common operational misconceptions

2012-03-03 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 03/03/12 00:33, Mukom Akong T. wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Michael Sinatra wrote: ULA is the IPv6 equivalent of RFC1918 Michael, could you explain this a bit more? In the sense that : a. Anyone can use ULA pretty much as they wish without having to go to their ISP or RIR

Re: time sink 42

2012-02-16 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 02/16/12 14:21, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Bryan Irvine said: And watch for the removable faceplates. We've been bitten before after a server move by rebooting a server that had the correct label but the wrong faceplate. Now we label the faceplate as well as underneath of it too.

Re: Common operational misconceptions

2012-02-16 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 02/15/12 23:34, Owen DeLong wrote: I think one of the most damaging fundamental misconceptions which is not only rampant among students, but, also enterprise IT professionals is the idea that NAT is a security tool and the inability to conceive of the separation between NAT (header mutilation)

Re: Common operational misconceptions

2012-02-16 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 02/16/12 05:17, Ray Soucy wrote: I've found starting off with some history on Ethernet (Maine loves Bob Metcalfe) becomes a very solid base for understanding; how "Ethernet" today is very different; starting with hubs, bridges, collisions, and those problems, then introducing modern switching,

Re: Common operational misconceptions

2012-02-15 Thread Michael Sinatra
ULA is the IPv6 equivalent of RFC1918 RFCs are standards (i.e. all of them, or RFC is synonymous with standard) The words "Internet" and "Web" can be used interchangeably Not only does NAT provide "security," but it's NECESSARY for "security." Alternatively, you can't possibly be as secure wi

Re: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-24 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 12/23/11 13:00, Masataka Ohta wrote: > Tomas Podermanski wrote: > >> It sounds good, but according to RFC 6434 ( IPv6 Node Requirements) >> SLAAC is required, > > Not at all. SLAAC is required only if ND is supported, which > is optional. > > Note that ND works poorly over link layers such a

Re: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-24 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 12/23/11 12:52, Masataka Ohta wrote: > Michael Sinatra wrote: > >> The only time you need to perform extra steps is when you want to run >> DHCPv6. You need to enable the M and/or O flags and turn off the >> 'autonomous' flag (if you don't want a host to

Re: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-23 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 12/22/11 12:09, Tomas Podermanski wrote: We have to use SLAAC as well because we do not have other choice. Not all operating systems supports DHCPv6 today. But we are not happy about it (problems with privacy extensions, security as I mentioned before). DHCPv6 do not have to be run on a cent

Re: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-23 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 12/22/11 16:16, Masataka Ohta wrote: > Glen Kent wrote: > >> While in some environments, typically with small number of devices, >> its indispensable. Small businesses may not want the complexity of >> setting up a central server (for DHCP) - SLAAC works very well in such >> environments. > >

Re: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2011-12-21 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 12/21/11 12:40, Ray Soucy wrote: I'm afraid you're about 10 years too late for this opinion to make much difference. ;-) We have been running IPv6 in production for several years (2008) as well (answering this email over IPv6 now, actually) yet I have completely different conclusions about th

Re: IPV6 issue

2011-12-20 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 12/20/11 12:22, Mark Andrews wrote: In message<4ef09908.3050...@netwolves.com>, Steve Clark writes: Hello, I have a SIXXS ipv6 tunnel that terminates in Ashburn, Va. I have two HE ipv6 tunnels, one terminates in Dallas the other terminate in Ashburn. I can ping each endpoint of the tunnels t

Re: what if...?

2011-12-20 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 12/20/11 09:31, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:16:06 GMT, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com said: the one difference is that ISC will be shipping RPZ enabled code v. the blackhat having to hack the machine and modify the configuration. EIther way, the bla

Re: IPV6 issue (occaid.net)

2011-12-20 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 12/20/11 06:33, Jeroen Massar wrote: On 2011-12-20 15:17 , Steve Clark wrote: Hello, I have a SIXXS ipv6 tunnel that terminates in Ashburn, Va. I have two HE ipv6 tunnels, one terminates in Dallas the other terminate in Ashburn. I can ping each endpoint of the tunnels that terminate in Ashbu

Re: Arguing against using public IP space

2011-11-15 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 11/13/11 07:36, Jason Lewis wrote: I don't want to start a flame war, but this article seems flawed to me. It seems an IP is an IP. http://www.redtigersecurity.com/security-briefings/2011/9/16/scada-vendors-use-public-routable-ip-addresses-by-default.html I think I could announce private IP

Re: Arguing against using public IP space

2011-11-15 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 11/15/11 09:15, William Herrin wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: William Herrin wrote: If your machine is addressed with a globally routable IP, a trivial failure of your security apparatus leaves your machine addressable from any other host in the entire world

Re: meeting network

2011-10-10 Thread Michael Sinatra
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011, Randy Bush wrote: if it's wifi that's causing the trouble, the usual causes are: is the complaint the hotel ROOM wireless? or the meeting-room? meeting net, a-secure and a. really bad during the night, but still bouncing up until 08:30 when i turned laptop off to partici

DNSSEC in China

2011-10-05 Thread Michael Sinatra
The thread on f-root reminded my of an anecdotal datum regarding DNSSEC in China. I was in China back in August, staying at the Green Lake Hotel in Kunming, Yunnan Provence. When connecting to the hotel in-room network (there was no wireless but a wired connection), I was able to properly val

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-19 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 09/18/11 19:41, Frank Bulk wrote: I should have made myself more clear -- the policy amendment would make clear that multihoming requires only one facilities-based connection and that the other connections could be fulfilled via tunnels. This may be heresy for some. I don't think the policy

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-17 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 09/16/11 08:35, John Curran wrote: On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Leigh Porter wrote: -Original Message- From: Randy Bush [mailto:ra...@psg.com] Sent: 16 September 2011 16:05 To: John Curran Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ? If you

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 09/12/11 17:49, Jimmy Hess wrote: I think arin-discuss would be a better place for this than arin-ppml. You're suggesting using ARIN's private members-only mailing list over a public one? That doesn't make sense, because this is a public issue, not a members issue. PPML isn't right either, t

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 09/12/11 10:13, Always Learning wrote: Primarily IP ranges to block and/or abuse email addresses. https://www.arin.net/participate/mailing_lists/ Thank you. I will try it. Oh, and there they also like to see your real name and not a junk mail address. Just like on the RIPE mailinglis

Re: Retraining "IT" on networking myths (the cloud to the rescue!)

2011-06-08 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 06/08/11 18:32, Jared Mauch wrote: MYTHS: TCP/53 is only for zone transfers ICMP is a security risk/ddos avenue Internal networks must be secured with NAT A firewall is the only way to secure the perimiter In fact for IPv6, ICMP is more important vs less. Firewalls frequently harm and don'

Re: ISOC-HK Kickstart IPv6! webcast 0600UTC = 2am EDT

2011-06-07 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 06/07/11 22:00, Joly MacFie wrote: ISOC Hong Kong has a great World IPv6 Day event - Kickstart IPv6! - starting at 2pm HKT = 0600UTC (around an hour from now) and running 3 and a half hours. It will be webcast live via the ISOC Chapters Livestream Channel on the ISOC-HK site - http://isoc.h

Re: IPv6 day fun is beginning!

2011-06-07 Thread Michael Sinatra
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: www.juniper.net is on IPv6 www.facebook.com has but doesn't load for me over IPv6, it does for others though Working great for me. Getting to it via HE. www.level3.com works fine over v4 but shows a 404 over IPv6 Yes, I am seeing th

Re: ILNP and DNS (from 2010.10.04 NANOG50 day 1 morning notes)

2010-10-05 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 10/5/10 9:52 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Tony Finch wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Michael Sinatra wrote: Hence the question: How should I provision authoritative DNS servers, given that the prefix information is provided via DNS--including the prefix

Re: ILNP and DNS (from 2010.10.04 NANOG50 day 1 morning notes)

2010-10-05 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 10/5/10 9:18 AM, Tony Finch wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Michael Sinatra wrote: Hence the question: How should I provision authoritative DNS servers, given that the prefix information is provided via DNS--including the prefix information for the DNS servers themselves--leading to a chicken

ILNP and DNS (from 2010.10.04 NANOG50 day 1 morning notes)

2010-10-05 Thread Michael Sinatra
Michael Sinatra, UCB; what are thoughts around best practices for auth DNS server in ILNP world, and how do you handle updates for locator values to the auth servers when a link changes? A: you need DNSsec to be running, you make updates, you check authenticity of the update, etc. How will

Re: DURZ published in root - you ready?

2010-01-25 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 01/24/10 18:53, Mark Andrews wrote: In message<202705b1001241834l5b1911bat97ee2130f632f...@mail.gmail.com>, Jorge Amodio writes: Good point, tomorrow/today we'll start seeing what gets broken and hopefully why. Regards. Jorge I don't expect to see much until the last root server (J) switc

Re: Revisiting the Aviation Safety vs. Networking discussion

2009-12-28 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 12/25/09 7:57 AM, Anton Kapela wrote: What I'm getting at is that after following this thread for a while, I'm not convinced any amount of process-borrowing is going to solve problems better, faster, or even avoid them in the first place. At best, our craft is 1/3rd as "old" (if that's someho

Re: Security team successfully cracks SSL using 200 PS3's and MD5

2009-01-05 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 01/05/09 12:47, Randy Bush wrote: > perhaps i am a bit slow. but could someone explain to me how trust in > dns data transfers to trust in an http partner and other uses to which > ssl is put? Because I have to trust the DNS anyway. If the DNS redirects my users to a bad site, they may not no

Re: Yahoo DNS broken?

2008-12-03 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 12/03/08 12:36, Larry Daberko wrote: I am unable to resolve www.yahoo.com. Tracing DNS back from the root servers shows that www.yahoo.com is a CNAME to www.wa1.b.yahoo.com and there are no A records for that hostname. Anyone have more details or a Yahoo contact? I'm unable to get to their

Re: IPv6 routing /48s

2008-11-19 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 11/19/08 14:05, Jack Bates wrote: Nathan Ward wrote: The problem here is XPSP2/Vista assuming that non-RFC1918 = unfiltered/unNATed for the purposes of 6to4. Well, deeper problem is that they're using 6to4 on an end host I suppose - it's supposed to be used on routers. While I don't doub

Re: IPv6 routing /48s

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 11/18/08 9:59 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote: Michael Sinatra wrote: On 11/18/08 9:26 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Nathan Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wish them good luck in reaching the DNS root servers. They are in "critical infrastruc

Re: IPv6 routing /48s

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 11/18/08 9:26 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Nathan Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wish them good luck in reaching the DNS root servers. They are in "critical infrastructure" space, which is a single /32 with traceroute6 to the ISC's v6 allocation(s)

Re: IPv6 routing /48s

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 11/17/08 14:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ARIN claims they are seeing /48s routed, at least in their route tables. I have seen some new momentum on the allocation of /32's, don't know if that is in response to rules like this?? Would be awefully difficult for our organization to come up wit

Re: Multiple DNS implementations vulnerable to cache poisoning

2008-07-10 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 07/10/08 11:03, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: Another test, that apparently was publicized on some dnsops list: dig +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT The "some dnsops list" is the OARC public dns-operations list, and this posting explains the tool and briefly describes the results: http://lists.

Re: DNS problems to RoadRunner - tcp vs udp

2008-06-15 Thread Michael Sinatra
Mark Andrews wrote: Authoritative only servers need hints so that NOTIFY will work in the general case. Presumably that's because the authoritative server will want to look up the RDATA (hostname) of each NS record that serves a zone for which it is authoritative. Could you avoid

Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?

2008-05-07 Thread Michael Sinatra
Kevin Oberman wrote: >> I agree with Iljitsch that it happens frequently, but I think I am >> justified in expecting more than that from Microsoft. Anything less >> would be unprofessional. > > And you would consider an organization that threatens someone who > complains publicly about its obv

Re: [NANOG] Microsoft.com PMTUD black hole?

2008-05-07 Thread Michael Sinatra
Nathan Anderson/FSR wrote: > Here is a brief update on the situation: > > I have been in contact with someone at Microsoft's service operations > center, who has confirmed for me that MS does in fact block _all_ ICMP > at the edge of their network, that they are aware that this will in fact > b

Re: Comcast problems?

2008-04-05 Thread Michael Sinatra
Ted Fischer wrote: I didn't save any of my Wireshark traces, but this is what I observed (I'm behind Charter at home but visiting my brother in NJ - Comcast territory). All attempts to check my e-mail (neither Charter nor Comcast) showed the syns going out but no syn acks coming back. The