Re: Measured Internet good v. bad traffic

2003-09-01 Thread Omachonu Ogali
Oops, didn't fully understand the post before I hit reply. Ignore that little rant.

RE: Measured Internet good v. bad traffic

2003-09-01 Thread David Schwartz
I realize that you rescinded this post, but I still think it's worth responding to the arguments to show why they're wrong. On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 03:44:00PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: If you don't want to, don't accept that traffic. It's just like a store stocking Christmas

RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?

2003-09-01 Thread Daniel Golding
Level(3) is generally very good. Great engineering team and very reliable. I'm not sure if their pricing will maintain their business model in the long run, but I certainly hope so. - Daniel Golding On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Sean Crandall wrote: One of the providers we are looking at is

Re: On the back of other 'security' posts....

2003-09-01 Thread Paul Vixie
... That depends on your definition of edge, I suppose. ... in SAC 004 (http://www.icann.org/committees/security/sac004.txt) we see: 1 - Connection Taxonomy 1.1. The Internet is a network of networks, where the component networks are called Autonomous Systems (AS), each having a

Re: What do you want your ISP to block today?

2003-09-01 Thread Paul Vixie
... Micr0$0ft's level of engineered-in vulnerabilities and wanton disregard for security in the name of features. ... i can't see it. i know folks who write code at microsoft and they worry as much about security bugs as people who work at other places or who do software as a hobby. the

RE: Tier-1 without their own backbone?

2003-09-01 Thread Paul Timmins
Agreed. I know nothing about the pricing but last time I had a problem with BGP, it only took a few minutes to get someone with enable and clue, calling their general support number posted on their website. The problem was on their end and it was fixed while I was on the phone. Arguably one of

Weekly lamer list

2003-09-01 Thread Rob Thomas
Hi, NANOGers. While sipping your morning coffee don't forget to check for lame DNS delegations. There are 43585 entries in the lamer report for the week ending 31 AUG 2003. These entries are often indicators of greater problems with name server configurations.

Re: What do you want your ISP to block today?

2003-09-01 Thread Vadim Antonov
When you don't have liability you don't have to worry about quality. What we need is lemon laws for software. --vadim On 1 Sep 2003, Paul Vixie wrote: ... Micr0$0ft's level of engineered-in vulnerabilities and wanton disregard for security in the name of features. ... i can't see

Verio is reporting outage at 401 N. B.

2003-09-01 Thread alex
Since about 10am today, Verio had been out at 401 N. Broad in Phialdelphia due to OC-48 down Alex

Re: Verio is reporting outage at 401 N. B.

2003-09-01 Thread vbono
We are on the same fiber bundle as they are on one of our paths and we are fine. Must be equipment. Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon 9/1/03 13:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Verio is reporting outage at 401 N. B. Since

RE: On the back of other 'security' posts....

2003-09-01 Thread Terry Baranski
the rest of the paper is also germane to this thread. just fya, we keep rehashing the UNimportant part of this argument, and never progressing. (from this, i deduce that we must be humans.) Ok, so we seem to have a general agreement that anti-spoof BGP prefix filtering on all standard