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.

QUIC, Connection IDs and NAT

2021-05-31 Thread Robert Brockway
QUIC has Connection IDs independent from IP. This was done to make it easier to move from one IP network to another while keeping connections active, as most here will know. Does the existence of Connection IDs separate from IP mean that the host/IP contention ratio in CGNAT can be higher? I

RE: wow, lots of akamai

2021-04-05 Thread Robert Brockway
On Thu, 1 Apr 2021, Jean St-Laurent via NANOG wrote: What happened is that it would create a kind of internal DDoS and they would all timed out and give a weird error message. Something very useful like Error Code 0x8098808 Please call our support line at this phone number. If only there was

Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

2021-03-24 Thread Robert Brockway
On Tue, 23 Mar 2021, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: The problem comes when the younger generation *does* need access to the same knowledge - and the older generation is unreachable and/or actually gone. Exactly. Let's keep in mind that it is not fanciful that networks may need to be built from the

Re: Are the days of the showpiece NOC office display gone forever?

2020-12-22 Thread Robert Brockway
On Thu, 17 Dec 2020, Tom Beecher wrote: I'm sure when the automation is perfect and widespread to the point that it catches and alerts on every network event, the monitoring rooms will disappear. The chances of this happening are exactly 0%. Indeed. More broadly, a lot of people have trie

Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe.

2018-10-16 Thread Robert Brockway
On Tue, 16 Oct 2018, Michael Thomas wrote: I believe that the IETF party line these days is that Postel was wrong on this point. Security is one consideration, but there are others. Postel's Law is about robustness of network communications. As such it can *increase* network security by impr

Re: 2017 NANOG Elections General Information

2017-09-14 Thread Robert Brockway
On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Dave Temkin wrote: Hi NANOG Community, Nominations are rapidly coming to a close - September 8th is the last day to submit nominees. Unfortunately, to follow up on my paragraph about diversity: So far, every single candidate that has completed the nomination process is a wh

Re: recommendations for external montioring services?

2011-12-13 Thread Robert Brockway
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Eric J Esslinger wrote: I'm not looking to monitor a massive infrastructure: 3 web sites, 2 mail servers (pop,imap,submission port, https webmail), 4 dns servers (including lookups to ensure they're not listening but not talking), and one inbound mx. A few network points t

Re: Internet Edge and Defense in Depth

2011-12-06 Thread Robert Brockway
On Tue, 6 Dec 2011, Holmes,David A wrote: Some firewall vendors are proposing to collapse all Internet edge functions into a single device (border router, firewall, IPS, caching engine, proxy, etc.). A general Internet edge design principle has been the "defense in depth" concept. Is anyone co

RE: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-16 Thread Robert Brockway
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Brandon Kim wrote: The issue is that I'm looking for an application that is as turnkey as possible, even if it's a little bit more. That "could" be vCloud Director, I don't know yet Hi Brandon. Turnkey is a relative term - relative to the experience and knowledge le

Re: OT: VM slicing and dicing

2010-11-12 Thread Robert Brockway
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Charles N Wyble wrote: I use Proxmox exclusively and am very happy with it. It's a great product. You might need to do a bit of CLI work if you want to support multiple VLANS or other slightly advanced features. I'm lazy but I might get around to patching the web UI at som

Re: Terry Childs conviction

2010-04-29 Thread Robert Brockway
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, William Pitcock wrote: Same difference, he still committed a crime and anyone who is defending him seems to not understand this. Whatever we want to call that crime, it's still a crime, and he got the appropriate penalty. Hi William. I have to agree that it does seem he

Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-19 Thread Robert Brockway
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Owen DeLong wrote: I'm looking at both, and, frankly, LSN (large scale NAT) is not as trivial as you think. I actually talk to and work with some of these very large providers on a regular basis. None of them is looking forward to deploying LSN with anything but dread. The

Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?

2010-04-04 Thread Robert Brockway
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010, Jim Burwell wrote: I agree. I remember back in the 80s when I first got access to UseNet and UUCP based email thinking and saying things like "the net will change the world", because for the first time people from all over the globe were communicating fairly openly and inexp

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Robert Brockway
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010, jim deleskie wrote: Just like 640k or memory :) But what if I said "640 petabytes will be more than anyone will ever need". The future might prove me wrong but it probably won't happen for a long time. That's a better analogy for IPv6. IPv6 could have included a larg

Re: Time for a lounge mailing list

2010-03-31 Thread Robert Brockway
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Jorge Amodio wrote: Interesting idea. Then we'll start posting at nanog that there must be some operational problem because nobody is posting on the other list. -lounge and -chat lists are common in many technical organisations I'm a member of. They are generally used th

Re: Time for a lounge mailing list

2010-03-31 Thread Robert Brockway
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Michael Dillon wrote: Then we can just remind people to take the non technical discussions to the social networking site. I find that mailing lists flow much better than the discussions on social networking sites. The tools available to manage messages on forums and soc

Re: IP4 Space

2010-03-08 Thread Robert Brockway
On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Shon Elliott wrote: I would love to move to IPv6. However, the IPv6 addressing, I have to say, is really tough to remember and understand for most people. Where Hi Shon. But we have a system in place which allows non-technical people to ignore IP addresses entirely. Up

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-22 Thread Robert Brockway
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Larry Sheldon wrote: Believe it or not, some people have email addresses that are not intrinsically "ISP" addresses. Indeed. I'm sure pretty much everyone here know why ISPs offer email services. My reaction, if I were in a position to do so, would be to stop providin

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-22 Thread Robert Brockway
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Dorn Hetzel wrote: I am sure the various carriers faced with the onset of Local Number Portability and WLNP in this part of the world would have been happy to escape with only forwarding phone calls for 3 months. I'm sure they would :) I know very little of the workings o

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-22 Thread Robert Brockway
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, James Jones wrote: Why does this seem like a really bad idea? While I think the principal is noble there are operational problems: 1) Large and increasing quantity of email will be forwarded between Israeli ISPs, loading their networks with traffic that could have been

Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!

2010-01-05 Thread Robert Brockway
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Dobbins, Roland wrote: In the most basic terms, a stateful firewall performs bidirectional classification of communications between nodes, and makes a pass/fail determination on each packet based on a) whether or not a bidirectional communications session is already open be