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Re: Gigabit Linux Routers

2008-12-17 Thread Scott Francis
the recent facebook engineering post on scaling memcached to 200-300K UDP requests/sec/node may be germaine here (in particular, patches to make irq handling more intelligent become very useful at the traffic levels being discussed). http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=39391378919&id=944554719

Re: Advice requested for OpenBSD vs. Linux/OpenBGP vs. Quagga router deployment.

2008-12-17 Thread Scott Francis
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Marc Runkel wrote: [snip] > Greetings all, > > We are a software development firm that currently delivers our install ISOs > via Sourceforge. > We need to start serving them ourselves for marketing reasons and are > therefore increasing > our bandwidth and gettin

NTIA/DOC requesting comments on root DNSSEC deployment

2008-10-09 Thread Scott Francis
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/DNS/DNSSEC.html vote early, vote often. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],darkuncle.net} || 0x5537F527 http://darkuncle.net/pubkey.asc for public key

remembering Jon Postel: Looking Beyond the Decade

2008-10-01 Thread Scott Francis
nice writeup by Mr. Cerf: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081001_remembering_jon_postel_a_decade/ I was not fortunate enough to have known Mr. Postel, but I have developed a deep posthumous respect for the work he did from listening to what others have had to say about him, and from using (and ben

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Scott Francis
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Keith Medcalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > If even one delegation is unsigned or even one resolver does not >> > enforce DNSSEC, then, from an actual security perspective, you will >> > be far worse off than you are now. > >> Why? > > If the local resolver does

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Scott Francis
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Jason Frisvold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Chris Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Chicken, meet egg. >> >> I think the point of the original post is that one end or the other has to >> start things. At least we have one US zone

hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Scott Francis
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/22/1253201&from=rss nice to see a wholesale DNSSEC rollout underway (I must confess to being a little surprised at the source, too!). Granted, it's a much more manageable problem set than, say, .com - but if one US-controlled TLD can do it, hope i

Re: RouterOS performance?

2008-08-17 Thread Scott Francis
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Nathan Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18/08/2008, at 12:16 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > >> haven't used routeros in a while but at the time it was inoffensive, it's >> not derived from a general purpose system so it's not something you bolt >> additional bits on

Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs)

2008-06-27 Thread Scott Francis
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:49 PM, David Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 27, 2008, at 12:23 PM, Scott Francis wrote: >> >> If we can't even guarantee >> reliability with the small handful of TLDs currently in use, when we >> start introducing arbi

Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs)

2008-06-27 Thread Scott Francis
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:06 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:24:48 PDT, Scott Francis said: > >> serve to increase complexity and add additional confusion to a system >> that the standard user has just now come to grips with >> ("ww

what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs)

2008-06-27 Thread Scott Francis
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Jean-François Mezei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip conflict examples] > Finally, will there be any performance impact on DNS servers around the > world (thinking of caching issues) ? more to the point ... what problem is ICANN trying to solve with this proposal?

[Nanog] ATT VP: Internet to hit capacity by 2010

2008-04-18 Thread Scott Francis
http://www.news.com/2100-1034_3-6237715.html I find claims that "soon everything will be HD" somewhat dubious (working for a company that produces video for online distribution) - although certainly not as eyebrow-raising as "in 3 years' time, 20 typical households will generate more traffic than

Re: Network Operations Guide

2007-08-31 Thread Scott Francis
On 8/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip details on keeping e.g. IP assignment data in databases] > To an IT person this all may sound rather crude and hardly any better > than just keeping a bunch of spreadsheets, but they probably never have > to deal with the consequences

Re: Anyone seeing Level3 issues in Dallas ?

2007-07-20 Thread Scott Francis
On 7/20/07, Scott Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: panther reports issues between L3 and e.g. Savvis, GBLX, PCCW and others in the LAX/SFO area (we're having performance issues with some of their CDN nodes in those areas right now). Possibly more widespread than just California .

Re: Anyone seeing Level3 issues in Dallas ?

2007-07-20 Thread Scott Francis
panther reports issues between L3 and e.g. Savvis, GBLX, PCCW and others in the LAX/SFO area (we're having performance issues with some of their CDN nodes in those areas right now). Possibly more widespread than just California ... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],darkuncle.net} || 0x5537F527 encrypted em