Re: ICMP Blocking Woes

2003-09-30 Thread Geo.
AFAIK, it's been that way since Win95. I recall a certain vendor's dodgy ISDN router * * * on Windows traceroute, but working fine under *ix... for whatever reason, said router didn't like the ICMP traceroute, but returned unreachables in response to UDP when TTL expired. WindowsNT

Re: ICMP Blocking Woes

2003-09-30 Thread Eric Kagan
WindowsNT tracert.exe uses 92 byte icmp packets. There is a modified version that uses a smaller sized icmp packet at http://www.nthelp.com/NT6/tracert_broken.htm that works fine on Windows 2000. So if tracert1 doesn't work, would that mean Comcast is actually blocking all ICMP ? I have

Re: ICMP Blocking Woes

2003-09-30 Thread Eric Kagan
WindowsNT tracert.exe uses 92 byte icmp packets. There is a modified version that uses a smaller sized icmp packet at http://www.nthelp.com/NT6/tracert_broken.htm that works fine on Windows 2000. So if tracert1 doesn't work, would that mean Comcast is actually blocking all ICMP ? I have

Re: ICMP Blocking Woes

2003-09-30 Thread Anthony Cennami
They are filtering either ICMP echo or echo reply; using an LBNL/Unix traceroute is successful the entire path. Eric Kagan wrote: WindowsNT tracert.exe uses 92 byte icmp packets. There is a modified version that uses a smaller sized icmp packet at http://www.nthelp.com/NT6/tracert_broken.htm

FW: Cidera Service Shutting Down

2003-09-30 Thread Shawn Solomon
For those of you who didn't get the memo :) It is happening, Again. -- Shawn Solomon Senior Network Engineer / Systems Design IHETS / ITN 317.263.8875 [EMAIL PROTECTED] fx317.263.8831 -Original Message- From: Julie Peoples [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September

RE: Cidera Service Shutting Down

2003-09-30 Thread John Lord
Is there another sat news service ? John Lord It Manager AllTurbo Internet Services Inc 410-213-9388 Office www.allturbo.com -Original Message- From: Shawn Solomon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: Cidera Service

Re: Converting from telco Major-V, Major-H coordinates to Lat Long

2003-09-30 Thread Jared Mauch
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:55:30AM -0400, Eric Germann wrote: I've contemplated a project to make an independent VH database and I'm looking for input as to whether anyone would care. We currently maintain a searchable db of NPA/NXX info at http://www.cctec.com - Search - Search for info

Alternative Satellite news feed needed

2003-09-30 Thread Jeffrey Wheat
Since Cidera is going offline again, I am in need of seeking an alternative. Does anyone know of a non-land line based news feed? With the tremendous amount of news that we pull a day, I am not willing to spend the kind of money that would be required to sustain the same amount of traffic over

Re: Converting from telco Major-V, Major-H coordinates to Lat Long

2003-09-30 Thread Andy Ellifson
I came across this one while writing dial-peers for a VoIP network that went outside the North American Numbering Plan: http://www.numberingplans.com They sell a complete database for €249 (or €49/month subscription) but also have a free tool to look up individual numbers. -Andy --- Jared

Re: what happened to ARIN tonight ?

2003-09-30 Thread Richard Jimmerson
This issue is being looked into right now. Richard Jimmerson Director of Operations American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Haesu wrote: I am seeing the same. ARIN is completely off the air box02rsm-en01.twdx.net sh ip bgp 192.149.252.16 % Network not in table

Re: Converting from telco Major-V, Major-H coordinates to Lat Long

2003-09-30 Thread Paul Timmins
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 11:00, Jared Mauch wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:55:30AM -0400, Eric Germann wrote: I've contemplated a project to make an independent VH database and I'm looking for input as to whether anyone would care. We currently maintain a searchable db of NPA/NXX

Re: what happened to ARIN tonight ?

2003-09-30 Thread William Allen Simpson
Swiftly :-) Received: from smtp1.arin.net (smtp1.arin.net [192.149.252.33]) by segue.merit.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B869F5DDBC for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:13:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: by smtp1.arin.net (Postfix, from userid 5003) id 84AFA636; Sun, 28

Re: Alternative Satellite news feed needed

2003-09-30 Thread Richard Irving
If you are at an exchange, we can do the old days type usenet peering... We (operators) used to have a full mesh along the core prior to Cidera Much of that is disassembled It will now probably be re-assembled. (Heavens knows I am FWIW. :) Anyone interested , private

InterNAP

2003-09-30 Thread Gabriel
Anybody seeing routing trouble getting to internap network? It looks like internap is unreachable: ... 14 InterNAPSeattle2.so-2-0-0.ar2.SEA1.gblx.net (208.51.239.178) [AS3549] 71 ms 71 ms 70 ms 15 border5.ge3-1-bbnet1.sef.pnap.net (63.251.160.10) [AS14744] 216 ms 115 ms 203 ms 16 *

Re: InterNAP

2003-09-30 Thread John Kinsella
Their circuit to CW out of SFO is down, seems fine to me otherwise, though... John On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:17:49AM -0700, Gabriel wrote: Anybody seeing routing trouble getting to internap network? It looks like internap is unreachable: ... 14

Adjusting TCP windows on production systems?

2003-09-30 Thread Temkin, David
Title: Adjusting TCP windows on production systems? Is there anyone in a production environment who, as part of their system build process, adjusts the TCP receive window/MSS/etc. on production systems? I'm dealing with a few latency issues and the MSS settings improve them, but I'm hesitant

ATTN: Anyone with RBL clue at att.net

2003-09-30 Thread Ben Browning
Something must be highly broken at ATT. I have been receiving tons of emails in response to a Usenet posting I made months ago asking if anyone knew how to get out of att.net's private RBL. The procedure: What I did: Called the contact in the whois record... Administrative Contact,

Re: Adjusting TCP windows on production systems?

2003-09-30 Thread Steve Francis
We do on some systems that do bulk data transfer over links with latency (latency being 70 ms cross country). Temkin, David wrote: Is there anyone in a production environment who, as part of their system build process, adjusts the TCP receive window/MSS/etc. on production systems? I'm

Network abuse - Phone Wars

2003-09-30 Thread Sean Donelan
CNN and Fox News personalities have been trading phone numbers. CNN Tucker Carlson gave out Fox News's Washington bureau phone number on the air. Fox New retaliated by posting Carlson's unlisted home number on its Web site. The result was both sides have been innundated with many phone calls

Re: Adjusting TCP windows on production systems?

2003-09-30 Thread Rob Thomas
Hi, Dave. ] Is there anyone in a production environment who, as part of their system ] build process, adjusts the TCP receive window/MSS/etc. on production ] systems? Increasing it helps, particularly if both ends have the same setting. Don't forget to enable both RFC1323 and RFC2018 support

Re: Adjusting TCP windows on production systems?

2003-09-30 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:44:03 -0400 Temkin, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone in a production environment who, as part of their system build process, adjusts the TCP receive window/MSS/etc. on production systems? Look at http://www.internet2.edu/~shalunov/writing/tcp-perf.html

Re: Alternative Satellite news feed needed

2003-09-30 Thread Pete Ashdown
My cursory investigations reveal there is no apparent alternative to Cidera in the US right now. I'd be interested in talking to anyone who knows the technology behind uplinking a newsfeed in order to replace Cidera's news service. I'd guess there is a whole lot of infrastructure on the client

Re: Adjusting TCP windows on production systems?

2003-09-30 Thread Steve Francis
Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:44:03 -0400 Temkin, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone in a production environment who, as part of their system build process, adjusts the TCP receive window/MSS/etc. on production systems? As a concrete data point: the tuning

Re: Adjusting TCP windows on production systems?

2003-09-30 Thread Steve Francis
Just as a head up - this sort of below should not be done on things like web servers that support lots of concurrent connections - you'll eat all your memory for sockets. Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:44:03 -0400 Temkin, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone in a

Re: ICMP Blocking Woes

2003-09-30 Thread bdragon
AFAIK, it's been that way since Win95. I recall a certain vendor's dodgy ISDN router * * * on Windows traceroute, but working fine under *ix... for whatever reason, said router didn't like the ICMP traceroute, but returned unreachables in response to UDP when TTL expired. Eddy Wasn't

Re: ICMP Blocking Woes

2003-09-30 Thread Crist Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, it's been that way since Win95. I recall a certain vendor's dodgy ISDN router * * * on Windows traceroute, but working fine under *ix... for whatever reason, said router didn't like the ICMP traceroute, but returned unreachables in response to UDP when

Re: ICMP Blocking Woes

2003-09-30 Thread John Kristoff
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 05:22:25PM -0700, Crist Clark wrote: Wasn't this based upon the premise that gear should not return ICMP errors as a result of ICMP packet input as a precaution against error loops? ie said dodgy router did the _right_ thing? That would be disingenious. RFC1122

Shaw Cable/Big Pipe contact needed

2003-09-30 Thread Eric Kuhnke
Could somebody from Shaw Cable/Bigpipe please contact me off-list? I've encountered a rather odd issue that the phone CSRs don't know how what to do about...

Re: ICMP Blocking Woes

2003-09-30 Thread Crist Clark
John Kristoff wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 05:22:25PM -0700, Crist Clark wrote: Wasn't this based upon the premise that gear should not return ICMP errors as a result of ICMP packet input as a precaution against error loops? ie said dodgy router did the _right_ thing? That would

ARIN policy proposals of interest

2003-09-30 Thread Owen DeLong
There are two policy proposals coming up at ARIN that may be of particular interest to ISPs here that may not normally pay much attention to ARIN. The first is 2002-3 which allows for end-user assignments of /22 instead of /20. The second is 2003-15 which, if passed, would provide /22 ALLOCATIONS