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Re: New Zealand Spy Agency To Vet Network Builds, Provider Staff

2014-05-13 Thread Zaid Ali Kahn
On May 13, 2014, at 4:52 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > > - Warning the world about Chinese surveillance could have been one of > the motives behind the US government's claims that Chinese devices > cannot be trusted. But an equally important motive seems to have been > preventing Chin

Need help in flushing DNS

2013-06-19 Thread Zaid Ali Kahn
Reaching out to DNS operators around the globe. Linkedin.com has had some issues with DNS and would like DNS operators to flush their DNS. If you see www.linkedin.com resolving NS to ns1617.ztomy.com or ns2617.ztomy.com then please flush your DNS. Any other info please reach out to me off-list.

Re: Fiber cut in SF Bay Area?

2013-04-16 Thread Zaid Ali Kahn
Level3 is also impacted. This cut seems to be vandalism but only heard this from one source. Zaid Sent from my iPhone On Apr 16, 2013, at 12:51 PM, Ravi Pina wrote: > Our Zayo provided ETR is 11:00 - 11:30 PDT. > > XO is one of the impacted providers as well. > > -r > > On Tue, Apr 16, 201

Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat

2013-02-19 Thread Zaid Ali Kahn
We have done our part to China as well along with other countries in state sponsored "hacking". This is more of news amusement rather than news worthy. Question here should be how much of this is another effort to get a "kill switch" type bill back. Zaid On Feb 19, 2013, at 10:10 PM, Kyle Cre

Re: Whats so difficult about ISSU

2012-11-08 Thread Zaid Ali
Cisco Nexus platform does it pretty well so they have achieved it. Zaid On Nov 8, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Kasper Adel wrote: > Hello, > > We've been hearing about ISSU for so many years and i didnt hear that any > vendor was able to achieve it yet. > > What is the technical reason behind that? >

Re: Fiji Islands

2012-07-31 Thread Zaid Ali
x27;t* a waste of time if you're willing to spend the money. > > But that, of course, is the key point. Quality VSAT service costs a > LOT of money (3k-5k per asymetrical megabit). Plus, a quality > provider will have no problem providing you with BGP. > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2

Re: Fiji Islands

2012-07-31 Thread Zaid Ali
Fintel and TFL sleep in the same bed essentially. Fintel is the gatekeeper of the southern cross cable protected heavily by the local government, your typical monopoly setup. Connect is a business unit of TFL. I think you can do the math there. Fintel does not do BGP out of the country (or did

Re: Fiji Islands

2012-07-31 Thread Zaid Ali
Connect is your best bet http://www.connect.com.fj/ Unwired is also a local competitor but I am not sure if they have coverage in Yaqara. Lautoka is a business district so you can get connectivity there from Connect and Unwired but Yaqara you might be quite limited since its a rural area. Se

Re: Why use PeeringDB?

2012-07-18 Thread Zaid Ali
The goal is "Source of truth" for any peer to know information at the Exchange points as well as peering coordinator information. I think it is a great tool for the peering community and definitely useful. Cons: Will it be the next RADB? There needs to be a sustainable community to keep it running

Re: Verisign deep-hacked. For months.

2012-02-02 Thread Zaid Ali
rote: >So what part of VRSN got broken into? They do a lot more than just DNS. > >On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Zaid Ali wrote: >> >> VeriSign said its executives "do not believe these attacks breached the >> servers that support our Domain Name System network,"

Re: Verisign deep-hacked. For months.

2012-02-02 Thread Zaid Ali
I love this VeriSign said its executives "do not believe these attacks breached the servers that support our Domain Name System network," "Oh my God," said Stewart Baker, former assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and before that the top lawyer at the National Security Agen

Re: MD5 considered harmful

2012-01-27 Thread Zaid Ali
I am in the camp of no MD5 in general and more specifically IX. It is a real pain to manage MD5 and no network in my experience has ever implemented a sustainable solution. There is no BCP that folks follow so generally its a verbal agreement that someone in either party will maintain the record. T

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Zaid Ali
On 1/5/12 9:34 AM, "Jon Schipp" wrote: >I think there's a fundamental difference between human and civil rights. > >Human rights come from our humanity, i.e. us being human. As humans, >we can walk, talk, produce things, own property, etc. > >Assuming that isn't true, the next logical question

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Zaid Ali
On 1/5/12 8:07 AM, "Jay Ashworth" wrote: >- Original Message ----- >> From: "Zaid Ali" > >> On 1/5/12 7:22 AM, "Jay Ashworth" wrote: >> >> >Vint Cerf says no: http://j.mp/wwL9Ip >> > >> >But I wonder to wh

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Zaid Ali
I agree with Vint here. Basic human rights are access to food, clothing and shelter. I think we are still struggling in the world with that. With your logic one would expect the radio and TV to be a basic human right but they are not, they are and will remain powerful medium which be enablers of so

AS376

2011-08-08 Thread Zaid Ali
Can someone from AS 376 contact me offline? s'il vous plaît? I am seeing a routing issue in your AS. Merci, Zaid

Re: STRIKE: VZN

2011-08-06 Thread Zaid Ali
I heard a few days ago this might happen through another carrier who depends on a local loop from VZ. If you are waiting on circuit installs or someone has to swap out an NI card this may impact you. Thanks for the link. Zaid Sent from my iPhone On Aug 6, 2011, at 10:14 PM, Jay Ashworth wro

Re: internap fcp competitors?

2011-07-21 Thread Zaid Ali
On Jul 20, 2011, at 11:52 PM, Gregory Edigarov wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:35:05 -0400 > "MageMojo" wrote: > >> Does anyone know of competitors to internap's fcp product? > Avaya/Route Science. I would check if this product is still sold by Avaya. Many moons ago I tested it. > Also, I w

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Zaid Ali
On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Joel Barnard" > >> I hope they've considered what will happen if you go to >> http://localhost/ or >> http://pcname/ >> >> Is that the local networks pcname, or the gTld pcname? >> Are we going to have to

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Zaid Ali
On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Benson Schliesser wrote: > > On Jun 17, 2011, at 4:21 PM, David Conrad wrote: > >> On Jun 17, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >>> Aw, Jeezus. >>> >>> No. Just, no. >>> >>> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/17/202245/ >> >> You just learned about this n

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Zaid Ali
On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Paul Graydon wrote: > On 06/17/2011 11:33 AM, David Conrad wrote: >> On Jun 17, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/17/202245/ You just learned about this now? >>> In fact I did. I certainly haven't seen it mentioned

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Zaid Ali
On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "David Conrad" > >> On Jun 17, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: >>> Aw, Jeezus. >>> >>> No. Just, no. >>> >>> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/17/202245/ >> >> You just learned about this now? >

Re: $ 90 million fine for cutting Internet services

2011-05-28 Thread Zaid Ali
I am a little skeptic that this fine imposed is because the government truly believes in Internet freedom. Many factions of the Egyptian government was to get as much money out of Mubarak as they can and this might be a way to do just that. What would be interesting is if there is a law passed p

Edgecast?

2011-05-21 Thread Zaid Ali
Anyone from edgecast here? I am seeing peering issues to a particular CDN. Please contact me offline. Zaid

Re: Using Region-X assigned IP space in Region-Y?

2011-03-27 Thread Zaid Ali
On 3/27/11 10:54 AM, "Jima" wrote: > On 3/27/2011 12:10 PM, Zaid Ali wrote: >> On 3/27/11 8:19 AM, "valdis.kletni...@vt.edu" >> wrote: >>> There's only one question to be asked - will the (possibly new) upstream >>> of the moved datacent

Re: Using Region-X assigned IP space in Region-Y?

2011-03-27 Thread Zaid Ali
On 3/27/11 8:19 AM, "valdis.kletni...@vt.edu" wrote: > On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:58:29 MDT, Mark Leonard said: > >> Is it possible/allowable to move one of these datacenters to a different >> geographical region with a different RIR and keep using the same two >> subnets, or will a new /24 need to

Re: Regional AS model

2011-03-25 Thread Zaid Ali
On Mar 24, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Michael Hallgren wrote: > Le jeudi 24 mars 2011 à 14:26 -0700, Bill Woodcock a écrit : >> On Mar 24, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: >>> On Mar 24, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >>>> On Mar 24, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Zaid

Regional AS model

2011-03-24 Thread Zaid Ali
I have seen age old discussions on single AS vs multiple AS for backbone and datacenter design. I am particularly interested in operational challenges for running AS per region e.g. one AS for US, one EU etc or I have heard folks do one AS per DC. I particularly don't see any advantage in doing

Re: External sanity checks

2011-02-05 Thread Zaid Ali
On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Franck Martin wrote: > > - Original Message - >> From: "Paul Graydon" >> To: nanog@nanog.org >> Sent: Friday, 4 February, 2011 8:39:09 AM >> Subject: Re: External sanity checks >> On 02/03/2011 08:04 AM, Philip Lavine wrote: >>> To all, >>> >>> Does any one

bestpath as-path multipath-relax

2011-01-24 Thread Zaid Ali
I am looking for some operational feedback of this undocumented feature, bgp bestpath as-path multipath-relax, for IOS. If you are using this for outbound load balancing I would like to hear your experiences. Also if you are running it across edges. Thanks, Zaid

Re: wikileaks unreachable

2010-12-03 Thread Zaid Ali
I see a new T-Shirt "Free speech has an IP address" Zaid On 12/3/10 8:38 AM, "// ravi" wrote: > On Dec 3, 2010, at 1:19 AM, Jorge Amodio wrote: >>> and this is based on what facts? >> >> Instead of tweeting about how to reach their content, or their IP >> addresses to bypass DNS [snip happens

Re: wikileaks unreachable

2010-11-28 Thread Zaid Ali
I heard there are DDoS attacks on the Wikileaks site. Zaid On 11/28/10 1:34 PM, "Randy Bush" wrote: > anyone know why https://www.wikileaks.org/ is not reachable? nations > state level censors trying to close the barn door after the horse has > left? > > randy >

Re: Interesting IPv6 viral video

2010-10-28 Thread Zaid Ali
On 10/28/10 4:06 PM, "Scott Weeks" wrote: > > > --- z...@zaidali.com wrote: > Wait till CNN/FOX etc makes this a big issue and claim the > internet is going to come to an end > - > > > http://www.argee.net/chickenlittleagenda/CLA%2072.jpg > > scot

Re: Interesting IPv6 viral video

2010-10-28 Thread Zaid Ali
On 10/28/10 2:24 PM, "Beavis" wrote: > lol... Is this video by cisco? what a funny way to mis-inform non-tech folks. Yes it is. When do marketing people get it right? I actually think the fun hasn't begun yet. Wait till CNN/FOX etc makes this a big issue and claim the internet is going to come

Re: Interesting IPv6 viral video

2010-10-28 Thread Zaid Ali
On 10/28/10 2:11 PM, "Leo Bicknell" wrote: > If you have been trying to get your C-Level folks to understand the > problem for months or years and they won't listen, yet they come > to you after watching this Cisco video then you should go visit > www.monster.com, or www.careerbuilder.com. I do

Interesting IPv6 viral video

2010-10-28 Thread Zaid Ali
Not quite accurate and a bit too dramatic on the panic side but the approach is interesting to put C-Level folks in the hot seat about v6. Would be interesting also to see if folks here get asked by C-Level folks bout IPv6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYffYT2y-Iw Zaid

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Zaid Ali
On 10/19/10 3:58 PM, "Mark Andrews" wrote: > Adding is seperate IPv6 server is a work around and runs the risk > of being overloaded. And what a wonderful problem to have! You can show a CFO a nice cacti graph of IPv6 growth so you can justify him/her to sign off on IPv6 expenses. A CFO will ne

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Zaid Ali
On 10/19/10 2:37 PM, "Mark Andrews" wrote: > > So stick a router in parallel and just route IPv6 over it. > So stick in a IPv6->IPv4 proxy and send that traffic through the > load balancer. Nah considering v6 traffic is small I have a simpler solution, I prefer to set up a temporary web service

Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Zaid Ali
If you run Cisco ACE load balancers and start with your web server farm I can assure you that you will be stuck because ACE loaad balancers do not support v6 and don't plan to until mid next year and not without a new card/cost. If you run ACE in non routed mode then you a doubly stuck because you

Re: 12 years ago today...

2010-10-15 Thread Zaid Ali
On 10/15/10 8:38 PM, "Jorge Amodio" wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Rodney Joffe wrote: >> On October 16th, we lost a real friend and hero. Sigh >> >> http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.html > > Amen. Long Live Jon Postel !! > And you can sometimes hear his comments http://w

Re: Choice of network space when numbering interfaces with IPv6

2010-10-15 Thread Zaid Ali
Bahh had my head turned around and brain fried on a Friday. I was more curious about /64 vs /126 from management perspective. Thanks everyone for answering offline as well, I got my questions answered. Zaid On 10/15/10 12:26 PM, "Zaid Ali" wrote: > SO I have been turning up v6

Choice of network space when numbering interfaces with IPv6

2010-10-15 Thread Zaid Ali
SO I have been turning up v6 with multiple providers now and notice that some choose /64 for numbering interfaces but one I came across use a /126. A /126 is awfully large (for interface numbering) and I am curious if there is some rationale behind using a /126 instead of a /64. Zaid

MsgSent statistics question

2010-10-14 Thread Zaid Ali
I am trying to troubleshoot an odd v6 peering connection issue. Does anyone know at what point is MsgSent in BGP summary or neighbor summary calculated? Does the MsgSent include initial TCP connections before establishment? Thanks, Zaid

Re: Facebook down!! Alert!

2010-10-05 Thread Zaid Ali
I think the Outages mailing list is more appropriate for this. On 10/5/10 9:46 PM, "Mike Lyon" wrote: > Same here in SF Bay Area > > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:44 PM, James Smith wrote: > >> At 1:20am here in Canada, NB our networks are showing that facebook is >> down. >> Please confirm in

Re: L3 Issues this Morning?

2010-09-30 Thread Zaid Ali
Not sure if this is related but my Level 3 BGP peer went down at 3:33:57 GMT for just over 6 hours. This was in the San Jose/Santa Clara area. Their reason was an OSPF problem. Zaid On 9/30/10 10:39 AM, "Khurram Khan" wrote: > Learn something new everyday, that's awesome. We've got several dat

Re: Chase.com outage

2010-09-16 Thread Zaid Ali
Isn't that reserved for beer sessions at NANOG? On 9/16/10 9:13 AM, "N. Yaakov Ziskind" wrote: > Does anyone have any information (beyond the wimpy statement that > "technical issues" were to blame) on the Chase outage? > > It seems that when a multibillion dollar company's major web site is >

Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster

2010-08-09 Thread Zaid Ali
The devil is always in the details. The Network management piece is quite glossed over and gives a different perception in the summary. You can't perform the proposed network management piece without deep packet inspection which violates every users privacy. Zaid On 8/9/10 11:52 AM, "Joly MacFie

Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

2010-07-27 Thread Zaid Ali
Great! So I assume he is an elder of the Internet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRmxXp62O8g On 7/27/10 4:43 PM, "andrew.wallace" wrote: > A British computer expert has been entrusted with part of a digital key, to > help > restart the internet in the event of a major catastrophe. > >   >

Re: v6 bgp peer costs?

2010-07-21 Thread Zaid Ali
On 7/21/10 12:39 PM, "Seth Mattinen" wrote: > On 7/21/2010 12:08, Zaid Ali wrote: >> I currently have a v4 BGP session with AS 701 and recently requested a v6 >> BGP session to which I was told a tunnel session will be provided (Same >> circuit would be better bu

Re: v6 bgp peer costs?

2010-07-21 Thread Zaid Ali
gt; service. > > Mike. > > On 7/21/10 12:08 PM, Zaid Ali wrote: >> I currently have a v4 BGP session with AS 701 and recently requested a v6 >> BGP session to which I was told a tunnel session will be provided (Same >> circuit would be better but whatever!). Towards t

Re: v6 bgp peer costs?

2010-07-21 Thread Zaid Ali
On 7/21/10 12:22 PM, "Marco Hogewoning" wrote: > > On 21 jul 2010, at 21:08, Zaid Ali wrote: > >> I currently have a v4 BGP session with AS 701 and recently requested a v6 >> BGP session to which I was told a tunnel session will be provided (Same >>

v6 bgp peer costs?

2010-07-21 Thread Zaid Ali
I currently have a v4 BGP session with AS 701 and recently requested a v6 BGP session to which I was told a tunnel session will be provided (Same circuit would be better but whatever!). Towards the final stage in discussions I was told that it will cost $1500. I find this quite ridiculous and it wi

Email over v6

2010-07-07 Thread Zaid Ali
Are there any folks here who would be inclined to do SMTP over IPv6? I have a test v6 network with is ready to do email but getting some real world data to verify headers would be more helpful. Please send me an email offlist if you are interested. Thanks, Zaid

Re: Internet Kill Switch.

2010-06-18 Thread Zaid Ali
On 6/18/10 2:21 PM, "Matthew Petach" wrote: > He also seemed to miss one of the really, REALLY important points; > if "Internet is for everyone" were really true, then IPv6 adoption should > have been one of his driving points. After all with a world population of > 7 billion, you certainly can

Re: Securing the BGP or controlling it?

2010-05-10 Thread Zaid Ali
What we need (as operators) is to get better at ensuring that advertisements are coming from the valid owner of said address space. What we don't need is a separate governance model which I worry this article is trying to imply. I still use RADB but I hear not every peer/provider checks there anymo

Re: Internationalized domain names in the root

2010-05-06 Thread Zaid Ali
I agree Safari experience looks much nicer and yes whole host of potential malice to arise. Firefox shows punycode http://xn--4gbrim.xnrmckbbajlc6dj7bxne2c.xn--wgbh1c/ar/default.aspx Now if I understood arabic only and was travelling or happen to use Firefox which showed punycode how would I

Re: Weekly Routing Table Report

2010-04-16 Thread Zaid Ali
On 4/16/10 11:28 AM, "Franck Martin" wrote: > Would it not be time, to have the IPv6 equivalent of this table report? > > 5% of the Internet is IPv6, that's an interesting threshold that was just > passed. I think that time has come :) Zaid

Re: Carrier class email security recommendation

2010-04-12 Thread Zaid Ali
ed by some data :) Zaid On 4/12/10 9:06 AM, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" wrote: > Its nanog and not an RFQ process or I'd have asked him that too :) > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Zaid Ali wrote: >> I haven't seen the man ask support for messages/hour,

Re: Carrier class email security recommendation

2010-04-12 Thread Zaid Ali
I haven't seen the man ask support for messages/hour, 3M..10M..1B ? Or maybe I missed this question? Zaid On 4/12/10 8:47 AM, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:45 PM, todd glassey wrote: >> On 4/12/2010 7:22 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: >>> The man did say "carr

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Zaid Ali
On 4/4/10 2:04 PM, "Vadim Antonov" wrote: > >> Zaid >> >> P.s. Disclaimer: I have always been a network operator and never a dentist. > > I would have thought opposite. > It is sometimes helpful to draw lessons from nature and other systems :) > People who have been on this list longer wou

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Zaid Ali
On 4/4/10 6:44 AM, "Leen Besselink" wrote: > "Out of the total number of emails received, 14% were received over > IPv6, the rest over IPv4." It should be clear that 14% received here is email to RIPE NCC servers. I don't think we have 14% of SMTP traffic out there coming via IPv6. Actual SMTP

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Zaid Ali
On 4/3/10 9:12 PM, "Owen DeLong" wrote: > Uh, netflix seems fully functional to me on IPv6. What do you think is > missing? Functional is the easy part and it seems Netflix has executed that well. I was implying that the v6 traffic rate might not be quite there yet which is what we saw with

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Zaid Ali
This sounds like Step 1: I have a wisdom tooth, it hurts on my right jaw and so I will chew from my left. Step 2: Take some pain killers. Step 3: Damn it hurts I will ignore it and it will eventually heal. Step 4: Continue to take pain killers and perhaps if I sleep more it will grow in the rig

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Zaid Ali
They are not glowing because applications are simply not moving to IPv6. Google has two popular applications on IPv6, Netflix is on it way there but what are other application companies doing about it? A popular application like e-mail is so far behind [ref: http://eng.genius.com/blog/2009/09/14/em

Re: Gmail Down?

2009-09-24 Thread Zaid Ali
Seems like the contact portion only. Gmail is temporarily unable to access your Contacts. You may experience issues while this persists. Zaid On Sep 24, 2009, at 8:08 AM, Chris Gotstein wrote: Anyone else seeing Google's Gmail down right now? Seems to have been down since 10am CST. We ar

Re: Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation

2009-09-15 Thread Zaid Ali
I think costs of maintaining an abuse helpdesk is a big factor here. I don't see many ISP's putting money and resources into an abuse helpdesk and this is because it is low cost to obtain a Netblock so why should one employ and build expertise on managing it. If you go to SpamHaus you will

Re: Multi-homed clients and BGP timers

2009-05-22 Thread Zaid Ali
>From experience I found that you need to keep all the timers in sync with all >your peers. Something like this for every peer in your bgp config. neighbor xxx.xx.xx.x timers 30 60 Make sure that this is communicated to your peer as well so that their timer setting are reflected the same. Zaid

partial routes for AS701 and AS3365

2009-05-19 Thread Zaid Ali
Anyone here doing partial routes with AS701 and AS3356? If so can you tell me how many routes you are receiving? Thanks, Zaid

Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..

2009-02-25 Thread Zaid Ali
I think a major reason why recipients click the 'Spam' button is because often times its not obvious how to identify the opt out link in the email. You can perhaps put the opt out link on the top of the email so that the user clicks that instead of the 'Spam' button. There is also the issue of w

Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?

2009-02-19 Thread Zaid Ali
s the same information (or should be). Zaid - Original Message - From: "Heather Schiller" To: "Zaid Ali" Cc: "Jon Lewis" , "NANOG list" Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 3:21:13 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: do I need to maintain with

Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?

2009-02-19 Thread Zaid Ali
Yes but I wanted to get a feel from the community and I get a notification message from RADB to pay up I wanted to get a feel from providers. I am happy to take my question off the list :) Zaid - Original Message - From: "Bruce Robertson" To: "Zaid Ali" Cc

Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?

2009-02-19 Thread Zaid Ali
Zaid - Original Message - From: "Bruce Robertson" To: "NANOG list" Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:07:31 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: do I need to maintain with RADB? Is the ARIN registry free, then? Jon Lewis wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Zaid Ali wrot

do I need to maintain with RADB?

2009-02-19 Thread Zaid Ali
Hi, need some advise here. Do I still need to maintain my objects (and pay) RADB? I use ARIN as source and all my route objects can be verified with a whois. Thanks, Zaid

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Zaid Ali
>You are arguing that ISPs should make changes >without any obvious mechanism to guarantee some return on the >investment necessary to pay for those changes. Nail on the head and the 800 pound gorilla in the room. Japan gave tax incentives which helped their ISP's to move to IPv6. Find a laz

unsolicited name transfers from Godaddy

2009-02-10 Thread Zaid Ali
I have been receiving a high number of unsolicited domain transfer requests from Godaddy and have also written to Godaddy support about unsolicited domain transfer requests. Since I am not a Godaddy customer I got a standard talk to the hand. I have colleagues confirming that some similar chatte

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-03 Thread Zaid Ali
Yes we all go to NANOG meetings and talk about these solutions but the change has to come from within. its not just a technical solution. There has to be motivation and incentive for people to make this change. Zaid - Original Message - From: "Paul Timmins" To: "Zaid A

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-03 Thread Zaid Ali
I don't consider IPv6 a popularity contest. It's about the motivation and the willingness to. Technical issues can be resolved if you and people around you are motivated to do so. I think there are some hard facts that need to be addressed when it comes to IPv6. Facts like 1. How do we migrate

recommendation for SIP integration

2009-01-12 Thread Zaid Ali
Hi, I am looking for a solution where I can tie a US number to a SIP solution. Has anyone had experience with this and if so can you make some recommendations? Zaid

Re: Christmas spam from RESERVED IANA adressblock ?

2008-12-24 Thread Zaid Ali
If you want to file a spam complaint I suggest you do a whois for 76.74.250.247. This is the external facing mail server that sent you the email. Most applications these days are built in layers so a web layer forwards the email to an email server, if the application is not designed to suppress

Re: XO Outage

2008-09-22 Thread Zaid Ali
I am seeing it on my end also: traceroute: Warning: www.cnn.com has multiple addresses; using 157.166.224.25 traceroute to www.cnn.com (157.166.224.25), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 hq-rtr1.genius.local (64.244.66.1) 0.891 ms 0.429 ms 0.449 ms 2 ip65-46-253-157.z253-46-65.customer.algx

Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

2008-06-26 Thread Zaid Ali
I hear from my friend's attending ICANN in Paris that there are tons of business folks who want to scoop up a gTLD. I haven't heard of anything that will be structured so looks like it will be a blood bath. Zaid On Jun 26, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Ken Simpson wrote: Two years ago I posed the ques

XO contact

2008-06-24 Thread Zaid Ali
Can someone from XO who handles this neighbor 65.46.253.157 help me out with a BGP session going down? This is the second time within a week where a misconfiguration of an ACL on XO end is bringing down my BGP session with you and its frustrating to go through the normal tech support chain.