Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming

2005-03-24 Thread Steve Gibbard
G Pavan Kumar wrote: I have been working on characterizing the internet hierarchy. I noticed that 27% of the total possible tier-2 provider node pairs are unreachable i.e., they dont have any tier-1 node connecting them nor a direct peering link between them. Multihoming can be used

Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Henk Uijterwaal
At 20:05 23/03/2005, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Randy Bush writes: We were recently assigned a 72.244/16 allocation from ARIN. Friendly reminder that ARIN started allocating 72/8 since Aug. If you have a static bogon filters, can you please make sure they are

Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Michael . Dillon
a bit more coffee made me realize that what might best occur would be for the rir, some weeks BEFORE assigning from a new block issued by the iana, put up a pingable for that space and announce it on the lists so we can all test BEFORE someone uses space from that block. ARIN meeting

Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread william(at)elan.net
a bit more coffee made me realize that what might best occur would be for the rir, some weeks BEFORE assigning from a new block issued by the iana, put up a pingable for that space and announce it on the lists so we can all test BEFORE someone uses space from that block. Based on what I've seen

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-24 Thread David Barak
--- William Allen Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, Utah law _already_ means no links to Planned Parenthood et alia. Planned Parenthood is quite alive and well in Utah. Contraceptives are freely advertised on TV and given out on campus at the U of U. All of the other stuff you're

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-24 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
pornography, and said a legal challenge is likely. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyncid=1212e=3u=/ap/20050324/ap_on_hi_te/internet_pornsid=95573501 - ferg -- David Barak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so while I agree that this is a goofy law which was poorly written - there IS a demand

Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Randy Bush
a bit more coffee made me realize that what might best occur would be for the rir, some weeks BEFORE assigning from a new block issued by the iana, put up a pingable for that space and announce it on the lists so we can all test BEFORE someone uses space from that block. ARIN meeting

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-24 Thread Michael . Dillon
so while I agree that this is a goofy law which was poorly written - there IS a demand for this type of service, and we'll see how it plays out. Right! Not everyone needs or wants plain old raw Internet access. That is a commodity service which appealed to the early adopters who were

Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Michael . Dillon
it seems that even bureaucrazy ripe managed to do it without holding policy discussions; see henk's posting. I believe that RIPE does these things BECAUSE it is more bureaucratic than ARIN. As a result, RIPE staff feel more empowered to do sensible projects outside of the policy process. In

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-24 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
1) unenforcable old blue laws similar to how Native Americans need to be escorted by police in Massachussetts (i.e. they never got around to fixing old bad law, but noone cares anymore) Actually, Indian towns were goverened by Blue Laws up the second half of the 20th century. Not every law

Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Randy Bush
In any case, it is not important how the message gets communicated to ARIN. What is important is for network operators to *TELL* ARIN what they need ARIN to do. One way to talk to ARIN is through the public meetings and another way is to email one of the trustees. and one is to send an

Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any case, it is not important how the message gets communicated to ARIN. What is important is for network operators to *TELL* ARIN what they need ARIN is arin the problem here? or are 'lazy'/'dumb'/'mistaken'/'poorly informed' admins the

Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Jon Lewis
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any case, it is not important how the message gets communicated to ARIN. What is important is for network operators to *TELL* ARIN what they need ARIN is arin the problem here? or are

Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Michael . Dillon
In any case, it is not important how the message gets communicated to ARIN. What is important is for network operators to *TELL* ARIN what they need ARIN is arin the problem here? or are 'lazy'/'dumb'/'mistaken'/'poorly informed' admins the problem? ARIN is not part of the problem, but

Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Senie
At 10:06 AM 3/24/2005, Jon Lewis wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any case, it is not important how the message gets communicated to ARIN. What is important is for network operators to *TELL* ARIN what they need ARIN

Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Randy Bush
is arin the problem here? or are 'lazy'/'dumb'/'mistaken'/'poorly informed' admins the problem? Lazy/misguided/ex admins / downsized networks are the problem. if aol is not worried enough to tell us an address to ping, perhaps you can see why we prospective pingers are not getting our undies

RE: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Hannigan, Martin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Randy Bush Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: 72/8 friendly reminder In any case, it is not important how the message gets

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-24 Thread William Allen Simpson
David Barak wrote: Planned Parenthood is quite alive and well in Utah. Contraceptives are freely advertised on TV and given out on campus at the U of U. All of the other stuff you're seeing is either: 1) unenforcable old blue laws similar to ... Don't know about Utah, but do know about

Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Daniel Senie wrote: At 10:06 AM 3/24/2005, Jon Lewis wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any case, it is not important how the message gets communicated to ARIN. What is important is

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-24 Thread Richard Irving
David Barak wrote: snip For crying out loud - this is UTAH, not the moon: the people there are just like people everywhere. Yeah, they tend to be a bit more socially conservative than the libertarian-leaning NANOG membership is used to, but it's not like they've got 2 heads and three arms - if

Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Jon Lewis
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Randy Bush wrote: ARIN is in a unique position to be able to do something to at least try to mitigate the problem without too much effort before handing damaged IP space out to members. damaged? so you will do your bit to undamage unused ip space by not bogon

ARIN, was Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Edward Lewis
At 15:17 + 3/24/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To begin with, nothing I have to say here has any bearing on the other IRR's. There is a reason there are 4-5 IRRs, each should be tuned to local sensibilities. However, ARIN today is a very dysfunctional organization. That is a very brash

Re: ARIN, was Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Michael . Dillon
The other consequence is that the membership takes on the responsibility for ARIN's actions. Not the staff's actions, but ARIN's actions. If there is any dysfunction in ARIN, I suspect that it lay here. Yes, this is what I believe. The ARIN membership is more passive than I think is

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-24 Thread David Barak
--- William Allen Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm assuming that you really operate an ISP in Utah. And that you are willing to spend some time in jail at various times, have $10,000 or so for bail, and a few $100,000 for attorney fees -- none of which you'll get back even should

Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Jon Lewis
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: is arin the problem here? or are 'lazy'/'dumb'/'mistaken'/'poorly informed' admins the problem? Lazy/misguided/ex admins / downsized networks are the problem. ARIN is in a unique position to be able to do something to at least try

Re: IBM to offer service to bounce unwanted e-mail back to the

2005-03-24 Thread Rich Kulawiec
If FairUCE can't verify sender identity, then it goes into challenge-response mode, sending a challenge email to the sender, Let me rephrase that more accurately: ...spamming everyone who has been so unfortunate as to have their address forged into a mail message...

Re: ARIN, was Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Andrew Dul
From: Michael.Dillon Date: Thu Mar 24 11:34:52 2005 The other consequence is that the membership takes on the responsibility for ARIN's actions. Not the staff's actions, but ARIN's actions. If there is

RE: Vonage SUED over not clearly informing customers re 911 service lacking

2005-03-24 Thread Oren Levin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J.D. Falk Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 1:37 AM On 03/23/05, Sam Hayes Merritt, III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: Vonage sold over not clearly informing customers re 911 service lacking

RE: Vonage SUED over not clearly informing customers re 911 service lacking

2005-03-24 Thread Daniel Senie
At 01:38 PM 3/24/2005, Oren Levin wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J.D. Falk Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 1:37 AM On 03/23/05, Sam Hayes Merritt, III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: Vonage sold over not clearly

RE: Vonage SUED over not clearly informing customers re 911 service lacking

2005-03-24 Thread Network.Security
Re: Your Call Will Go To A General Access Line at the Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP). This is different from the 911 Emergency Response Center where traditional 911 calls go. In talking with my local PSAP about VoIP services and this particular issue, they (PSAPs collectively) are fairly

Re: Please verify RFC1918 filters

2005-03-24 Thread vijay gill
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 03:13:07PM -0800, Randy Bush wrote: y'all might give us something pingable in that space so we can do a primitive and incomplete test in a simple fashion. randy try 172.128.1.1 /vijay

Re: Please verify RFC1918 filters

2005-03-24 Thread Randy Bush
try 172.128.1.1 thanks. yummy. randy

Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming

2005-03-24 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, G Pavan Kumar wrote: Actually, I am not doing what you think I am. I am using the RouteViews aggregation of the BGP routing tables. RouteViews is a project at the univ. of Oregon that peers with backbones. Really? Could you tell us more about it? I

Re: ARIN, was Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Edward Lewis
At 17:01 + 3/24/05, Andrew Dul wrote: I agree, I'd certainly like to see more people actively participate in the process. If nanog folks believe that the ARIN membership is not getting the right stuff done... How do we fix this problem? How do we get more operators involved and active in

Re: Vonage SUED over not clearly informing customers re 911 service lacking

2005-03-24 Thread Adam Rothschild
On 2005-03-24-14:02:26, Network.Security [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not saying (nor do I hope the PSAPs are either) that Vonage should cease and desist service because of the 911 issues, rather greater partnership needs to be initiated to insure that VoIP service and POTS have the same

Re: ARIN, was Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Owen DeLong
I agree, I'd certainly like to see more people actively participate in the process. If nanog folks believe that the ARIN membership is not getting the right stuff done... How do we fix this problem? How do we get more operators involved and active in the RIRs? I'd like to point out that

Re: ARIN, was Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Andrew Dul
---Original Message--- From: Edward Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ARIN, was Re: 72/8 friendly reminder Sent: 24 Mar 2005 12:20:08 At 17:01 + 3/24/05, Andrew Dul wrote: I agree, I'd certainly like to see more people actively participate in the process. If nanog

Re: ARIN, was Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Owen DeLong
One question does haunt me about how the operations community views ARIN. Most ARIN policies are concerned with address allocation, reporting, and such. There are not many policies regarding the functional role ARIN plays in the Internet, the only one that leaps to mind is a lame delegation

Re: ARIN, was Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Owen DeLong
--On Thursday, March 24, 2005 3:20 PM -0500 Edward Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 17:01 + 3/24/05, Andrew Dul wrote: I agree, I'd certainly like to see more people actively participate in the process. If nanog folks believe that the ARIN membership is not getting the right stuff

FW: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Member Services
ARIN supports the idea of doing reachability testing on new /8 blocks issued by the IANA and will begin to set a plan in motion to move forward on this. Once more details have been worked out, we will notify the community. Regards, Leslie Nobile Director, Registration Services American Registry

Re: ARIN, was Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Edward Lewis
At 12:53 -0800 3/24/05, Owen DeLong wrote: NO. Operational specifications and routing are the domain of the IETF and _NOT_ ARIN. ARIN is responsible for the stewardship of assigned numbers within the ARIN region. This includes IP addresses, Autonomous System Numbers, and, DNS delegations for

Re: ARIN, was Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Edward Lewis
At 13:01 -0800 3/24/05, Owen DeLong wrote: There are not many such proposals in play at the moment because the ARIN community reached consensus around most of these issues over the last two years. There seems to be general agreement that the current state of things is acceptable in terms of Whois

MIT Hosed? (anyone from Ebay or Rogers available)

2005-03-24 Thread Jeffrey I. Schiller
Looking for some help... Net 18/8 seems to be unable to reach significant portions of the Internet. I suspect that someone is advertising a bogus route for us. None of the regular looking glasses show any problems though. If anyone from Ebay or Rogers Cable (AS812) is listening, I would really

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-24 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:12:33PM -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote: The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. or vice versa. Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. Defending *palatable* speech is unremarkable. -- me Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-24 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 05:48:00AM -0800, David Barak wrote: if you prick them, they'll bleed... What color? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100

Attractive Nuisance, was Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Mike Leber
Jeeze... It seems there are all kinds of policy wonks ever so ready to errect fantastic edifices and structure all manner of procedure and organization in order to fix the problem of newly allocated address space being filtered that is largely caused by a highly visible attractive nuisance, and

Re: Vonage SUED over not clearly informing customers re 911 service lacking

2005-03-24 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 01:02:26PM -0600, Network.Security wrote: I read on a Vonage customer forum about testing your 911 service with them, I don't know that I'd advocate that as the PSAPs will likely be ticked. But again, it emphasizes a point about collaboration between Vonage and the

Re: FW: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 04:20:10PM -0500, Member Services wrote: ARIN supports the idea of doing reachability testing on new /8 blocks issued by the IANA and will begin to set a plan in motion to move forward on this. Once more details have been worked out, we will notify the community. /me

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-24 Thread William Allen Simpson
David Barak wrote: wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to simply get a lawyer and an engineer in the same room and brainstorm until you came up with something which pretty-much-worked(tm) and was at least arguably compliant with the law? There have been a couple of ideas bandied about on this list

Bandwidth Advisors - www.bandwidthadvisors.com

2005-03-24 Thread Tim Pozar
Just got a call from Tosten of a company called Bandwidth Advisors. They represent themselves as a Independent Telco Colo Consultants (see web page). Seems that they are calling around ISPs and asking them if they have an agent program. After talking to him a bit I find out that they will

FW: [IP] a briefing at the National Academies

2005-03-24 Thread Irwin Lazar
FYI: -- Forwarded Message From: Brownstein, Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:05:58 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: can you assist in announcing this To interested IP'ers The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies invites you to a

RE: Bandwidth Advisors - www.bandwidthadvisors.com

2005-03-24 Thread Hannigan, Martin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tim Pozar Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 6:58 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Bandwidth Advisors - www.bandwidthadvisors.com Just got a call from Tosten of a company called Bandwidth Advisors.

Re: MIT Hosed? (anyone from Ebay or Rogers available)

2005-03-24 Thread Jeffrey I. Schiller
Problem solved (sort of). Thanks to all who helped. An unamed ISP was leaking routes they picked up via a biazzare (and apparently nonfunctional path). The last hop before the path got to us was Sprint (AS1239) (which we are connected to). We have withdrawn our route from Sprint which made the

Re: Bandwidth Advisors - www.bandwidthadvisors.com

2005-03-24 Thread Paul G
- Original Message - From: Tim Pozar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nanog@merit.edu Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 6:57 PM Subject: Bandwidth Advisors - www.bandwidthadvisors.com Just got a call from Tosten of a company called Bandwidth Advisors. They represent themselves as a Independent

Re: Attractive Nuisance, was Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread David Barak
--- Mike Leber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip regarding attractive nuisance Well, there has been some movement - Cisco has changed their policy, as noted here: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2005-02/msg00354.html Now if we can just get everyone else to play along... David Barak Need

Re: Bandwidth Advisors - www.bandwidthadvisors.com

2005-03-24 Thread Tim Pozar
Hannigan, Martin wrote: They're brokers. There's really nothing wrong with what they are doing, although they may not have explained it to you too well. I guess not. What they do is become an agent, or reseller, for a company and they get a residual on anyone they refer. So if you are a corp IT

Re: ARIN, was Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Randy Bush
NO. Operational specifications and routing are the domain of the IETF and _NOT_ ARIN. whoever wrote this should share what they're smoking. Let's say DNSSEC is ready for deployment. and cash falls from the sky randy

Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming

2005-03-24 Thread bmanning
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:18:34PM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, G Pavan Kumar wrote: Actually, I am not doing what you think I am. I am using the RouteViews aggregation of the BGP routing tables. RouteViews is a project at the univ. of Oregon that

Intradomain DNS Anycast revisited

2005-03-24 Thread Joe Shen
Hi, I'm trying to set up a anycast DNS server farm for customer service. In order to improve availability, we plan to install those servers in one LAN which has the similar structure like : server-(1,3)---switch1---router-1---(outside) | |

Re: ARIN, was Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Owen DeLong
--On Thursday, March 24, 2005 16:32 -0500 Edward Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:53 -0800 3/24/05, Owen DeLong wrote: NO. Operational specifications and routing are the domain of the IETF and _NOT_ ARIN. ARIN is responsible for the stewardship of assigned numbers within the ARIN region.

Re: ARIN, was Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Owen DeLong
Here's my dilemma. On the one hand I hear calls for greater operational input to ARIN. On the other hand is empirical evidence that there isn't much input being given. Correct... Generally, you hear those calls coming from ARIN because ARIN is trying to maximize the involvement of its

Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming

2005-03-24 Thread G Pavan Kumar
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Bill Woodcock wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, G Pavan Kumar wrote: Actually, I am not doing what you think I am. I am using the RouteViews aggregation of the BGP routing tables. RouteViews is a project at the univ. of Oregon that peers with backbones. Really?

Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming

2005-03-24 Thread Patrick W Gilmore
On Mar 25, 2005, at 12:25 AM, G Pavan Kumar wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Bill Woodcock wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, G Pavan Kumar wrote: Actually, I am not doing what you think I am. I am using the RouteViews aggregation of the BGP routing tables. RouteViews is a project at the

Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming

2005-03-24 Thread G Pavan Kumar
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:18:34PM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, G Pavan Kumar wrote: Actually, I am not doing what you think I am. I am using the RouteViews aggregation of the BGP routing tables. RouteViews is a project

RE: ARIN, was Re: 72/8 friendly reminder

2005-03-24 Thread Hannigan, Martin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Owen DeLong Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 12:00 AM To: Edward Lewis Cc: Andrew Dul; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: ARIN, was Re: 72/8 friendly reminder [ snip ] Right... So, things divide into two

Re: Intradomain DNS Anycast revisited

2005-03-24 Thread Bill Woodcock
1) should each dns cache server be configured a static default route (0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0)? If server-(1,3) is configured statically to use router-1 as default router, will Quagga make it use router-2 when router-1 is not reachable? No, because both routers are reached

Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming

2005-03-24 Thread G Pavan Kumar
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Patrick W Gilmore wrote: Okie, this has gone on long enough. If you would like some help, please stop, take a deep breath, count to ten slowly, then ask nicely and some people here might teach you something. May be you should spend more time on networking than your partime

Re: Intradomain DNS Anycast revisited

2005-03-24 Thread Joe Shen
thanks. No, because both routers are reached through the same L1/L2 medium, so Quagga can't use link-state to determine reachability of the next-hop. You could fix that by getting rid of the switches, and just having a bunch of router interfaces facing two Ethernet interfaces on each