How big a network is routed these days?

2007-01-17 Thread John Smith
Hello, my organization is considering PI addresses as a way to multihost. Having read the archives regarding disadvantages and alternatives, my question is how big a network must one have to be reasonably sure the BGP routers will accept the route? regards, JS

Re: How big a network is routed these days?

2007-01-17 Thread sthaug
my organization is considering PI addresses as a way to multihost. Having read the archives regarding disadvantages and alternatives, my question is how big a network must one have to be reasonably sure the BGP routers will accept the route? /24 Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, [EMAIL

Re: How big a network is routed these days?

2007-01-17 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, John Smith wrote: my organization is considering PI addresses as a way to multihost. Having read the archives regarding disadvantages and alternatives, my question is how big a network must one have to be reasonably sure the BGP routers will accept the route? A /24 is

RE: Pac Rim Cable Damage Defies Repair [was: AFP article on Taiwan cable repair effort]

2007-01-17 Thread Frank Bulk
This article paints a rather dismal picture: Despite optimistic estimates that it would take only three weeks to repair the massive damage done to what are now said to be eight submarine cables by the Dec. 26, 2006, magnitude-6.7 earthquake near Taiwan, reports today indicate that not one of

RE: Pac Rim Cable Damage Defies Repair [was: AFP article on Taiwan cable repair effort]

2007-01-17 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Frank Bulk wrote: This article paints a rather dismal picture: Despite optimistic estimates that it would take only three weeks to repair the massive damage done to what are now said to be eight submarine cables by the Dec. 26, 2006, magnitude-6.7 earthquake near Taiwan,

IPv6 section of ARIN Number Resource Policy (Sec 6.5.1.1.c)

2007-01-17 Thread Nicolás Antoniello
Hi, This question is about the IPv6 section of ARIN Number Resource Policy Manual. From the manual (Section 6.5.1.1.c): - 6.5.1.1. Initial allocation criteria c. Plan to provide IPv6 connectivity to organizations to which it will assign IPv6 address space, by advertising that

Re: what happens when you put a typo in a DNSBL server?

2007-01-17 Thread Steve Atkins
On Jan 16, 2007, at 8:36 AM, Wes Hardaker wrote: A number of ISPs use njabl.org as a DNS BL server. However, starting jan 2 a new domain exists njalb.org which is serving A records for anything queried against it's DNS server. (note the difference: njaBL vs njaLB). Previous to this date a

Re: IPv6 section of ARIN Number Resource Policy (Sec 6.5.1.1.c)

2007-01-17 Thread Pekka Savola
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Nicolás Antoniello wrote: A /28 prefix may have a lot of incoming traffic associated to it, so I believe the dissagregation (subnets) of the prefix should be allowed by the policy. What do you think? Do you have a similar problem? Please achieve inbound load balancing

Re: How big a network is routed these days?

2007-01-17 Thread David Freedman
I'm interested as to why RIRs dont set the minimum PI allocatable to /24 in order to fit with the current trend. I mean, I can see the reason for smaller allocations where an LIR routes and aggregates both but these are rare and probably legacy examples. Changing the allocation policy such

Re: How big a network is routed these days?

2007-01-17 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:19 PM, David Freedman wrote: I'm interested as to why RIRs dont set the minimum PI allocatable to /24 in order to fit with the current trend. In the 2002-3 micro-assignment policy, the RIR's assign a minimum of a /22. As far as I know, all of the PI /24's are

Shaw Cable Contact?

2007-01-17 Thread Ken Simpson
I need to talk to someone clueful at Shaw Cable about a core network issue. The tech line as usual is not helpful. Thanks very much, Ken -- Ken Simpson, CEO MailChannels Corporation Reliable Email Delivery (tm) http://www.mailchannels.com

Re: IPv6 section of ARIN Number Resource Policy (Sec 6.5.1.1.c)

2007-01-17 Thread Jeroen Massar
Pekka Savola wrote: On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Nicolás Antoniello wrote: A /28 prefix may have a lot of incoming traffic associated to it, so I believe the dissagregation (subnets) of the prefix should be allowed by the policy. I guess you are talking about 2800:a0::/28 which was allocated by

Re: How big a network is routed these days?

2007-01-17 Thread Joe Abley
On 17-Jan-2007, at 12:43, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:19 PM, David Freedman wrote: I'm interested as to why RIRs dont set the minimum PI allocatable to /24 in order to fit with the current trend. In the 2002-3 micro-assignment policy, the RIR's assign a minimum of a

Re: How big a network is routed these days?

2007-01-17 Thread Owen DeLong
4.3.2.1 Single Connection The minimum block of IP address space assigned by ARIN to end- users is a /20. [...] 4.3.2.2 Multihomed Connection For end-users who demonstrate an intent to announce the requested space in a multihomed fashion, the minimum block of IP address space assigned is

Re: How big a network is routed these days?

2007-01-17 Thread Joe Abley
On 17-Jan-2007, at 18:36, Owen DeLong wrote: Actually, generally, the expectation under 4.4 is that the addresses will not be advertised at all for the most part, since, generally, there's no need to advertise the route to the exchange point, itself, into the global routing table. 4.4

Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-17 Thread Travis H.
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 03:35:30PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: SecureID might be helpful if you want to differentiate your product between automatic and manual use, but it doesn't do anything to authenticate the party you are relaying information to. But it's useless in a phishing context.

HTML email, was Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-17 Thread Travis H.
If you don't have personal control over the mail system you are using, it's possible that you don't have control over whether or not you use HTML. As an armchair security pundit, I think phishing has adequately highlighted the ability of HTML to mislead, in the sense that its intended

RE: HTML email, was Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-17 Thread Joseph Jackson
(Snip) but they could be corrected with proper education (how about keeping every URL under one second-level domain related to your company, perhaps companyname.com) (Snip) Proper education for whom, the people setting up the site probably know this already. It's the bosses and marketing that

Sprint Cellular: The Final Insult

2007-01-17 Thread nealr
We used to have five phones with Sprint. Two months ago we dropped them after six months of trying to get them to bill us for our plan. The bills had been consistently 50% - 100% over what we expected. Each time they were apologetic and a refund was issued. The final straw was an hour

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-17 Thread Travis H.
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 02:35:25PM +, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: Oh I should be clear too. We use SI powers of 10, just like for bandwidth, not powers of two like for storage. We quote in Megabytes because caps are usually in gigabytes, so it's more clear for users. IEC 60027-2 prefixes

Re: Sprint Cellular: The Final Insult

2007-01-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sprint certainly (luckily, not to me yet...) has a serious billing problem under certain mysterious conditions that nobody seems to ever be able to explain hence their ability to never fix.. I've been lucky but I have read of horror stories.. this not being the first. :( nealr wrote: