Re: New router feature - icmp error source-interface [was: icmp rpf]

2006-09-25 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
.) Please stop talking about networking on NANOG, you're confusing people. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: New router feature - icmp error source-interface [was: icmp rpf]

2006-09-25 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
IP space. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: New router feature - icmp error source-interface [was: icmp rpf]

2006-09-25 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
are out of date because IP blocks supplied by peers, exchange points, or transit providers, are too much of a pain to keep updated when interfaces move etc. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA

Re: New router feature - icmp error source-interface [was: icmp rpf]

2006-09-25 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
generating processor on Cisco that doesn't spike every time BGP scanner runs. Silencing end users who have figured out how to work traceroute (or worse MTR) is worth its weight in gold. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59

Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day

2006-09-21 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
American Network Tech Support Operators Group? Was the memo distributed via HTML e-mail only or something? Maybe it was redacted from the archives so I didn't see it... Seriously Gadi, what *possible* relevence could this have to network operations? -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day

2006-09-21 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
responsibility for the self policing that we're all supposed to be doing in srh's absence. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-12 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
of meetings. Hrm guess I had better offer dinner in St Louis is on me for whichever one of my friends on the ARIN travel plan complains about this post first. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF

Re: [OT] Connexion {Was: Re: [routing-wg]BGP Update Report}

2006-09-10 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
are utterly shocked when reality catches up with their wild, unchecked, and stupid spending. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: TCP receive window set to 0; DoS or not?

2006-09-08 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 11:28:47PM -0700, Jim Shankland wrote: Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Advertising a window of 0 is a perfectly valid way of telling the other side that you are temporarily out of resoruces, and would like them to stop sending you data

Re: TCP receive window set to 0; DoS or not?

2006-09-07 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, many years. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: NNTP feed.

2006-09-05 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
spam, net kooks, and trolls. There is a certain type of content that people want, and I'll give you one guess what that is... If you don't carry that content, you'll probably be doing more traffic in backscatter on the IP space then you will in NNTP. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Is it my imagination or are countless operations impacted today with mysql meltdowns

2006-08-26 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
with MySQL faults or off-topic posts, and it is venturing dangerously close to actually talking about routing issues. We'd best change the subject to spam or botnets or something, before somebody gets the wrong idea about this list. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e

Re: ams-ix - worth using?

2006-08-24 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
in the country, but there is plenty of global traffic there too. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: AW: ams-ix - worth using?

2006-08-24 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
out, particularly to new customers. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Wikipedia/Cogent

2006-08-18 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
So, lets kick this Friday off right... I don't suppose anybody has noticed that Wikipedia is being blackholed by Cogent, and that it seems to be intentional? :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF

Re: Wikipedia/Cogent

2006-08-18 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
months to renumber out of the IP allocation. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Cox leaking 128.0.0.0/1

2006-08-18 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
Oh and if you are on this list (and therefore accepting that prefix), you may need better filters. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: i am not a list moderator, but i do have a request

2006-08-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
people can actually discuss network operations. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: GTSM - Do you use it?

2006-08-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
think XR on GSR support is limited too, but nobody runs that in production anyways. :) And no, nobody seriously deploys GTSM today in any kind of scale. AFAIK no other vendors support it yet either, so requiring it on sessions is a non-starter. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Captchas was Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam

2006-08-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
('click the kitten' being a good example). How many CAPTCHA tests can a human making minimum wage complete in an hour? Ask the post office people who input handwritten zipcodes. A tougher question might be, what does any of this have to do with NANOG? -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: AS 8437 announced a quarter of the net for half of an hour

2006-08-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
stupid unnecessary shit that breaks more than it fixes in the name of security. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: SORBS Contact

2006-08-13 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
contract or not) and sniff or alter them for the purpose of doing something Bad (tm) with the data (probably because said bad activity is already convered under some existing law, e.g. no extorting people, no impersonating others, etc). -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e

Re: Unique BGP Regular Communities

2006-08-10 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. But the short answer to your cryptic question is yes anyone can send you anything at any time, and if you don't want them to do so, filter appropriately on your border. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C

Re: Abovenet fibre cut

2006-07-28 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
for a lot of folks and the closest detour is probably going to be up through Dallas, Chicago, and New York. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
a few good stories about routers you could scramble eggs on. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: SBC Lost of connectivty to Canada?

2006-07-24 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
probably weren't even affected. Another day on the internet. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: SBC Lost of connectivty to Canada?

2006-07-24 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 09:43:19PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:18:42 EDT, Richard A Steenbergen said: Actually they just leaked some routes this morning, and blew out max prefixes to most peers. Pretty typical as far as accidental leaks go, those folks

Re: Deaggregation Disease

2006-07-21 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: key change for TCP-MD5

2006-06-24 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
) and make it faster/better because the router has hardware crypto available, folks will actually start buying new RPs/etc. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: key change for TCP-MD5

2006-06-23 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
information, such as matching the segment to a proper TCB by ip/port/seq #, before doing the MD5 calculation. This makes DoS against MD5 where you don't know the full L4 port #'s and the seq # pretty impossible on its own, without needing to involve the TTL hack. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL

Re: key change for TCP-MD5

2006-06-23 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 05:01:00PM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: Obviously in a perfect world, you don't want to do the expensive MD5 check anywhere sooner than the last possible moment before you declare the data valid and add it to the socket buffer. I assume that the reason

Re: key change for TCP-MD5

2006-06-21 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
there that had not yet been made then by all means now is the time to make it. Otherwise, you would really be better served by devoting your time and energy into solving real problems. If you're running low on real problems to solve, I would be happy to send you some of mine. :) -- Richard

Re: key change for TCP-MD5

2006-06-20 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
and rediscovering how stuff worked all along. Why don't we spend our time going forward solving actual issues like filtering/announcement authentication, and stop trying to solve the non-existant problems. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID

Re: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.

2006-06-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
retreat while they are distracted), but otherwise they don't see the benefit in it. Why bother configuring your router better when you can just send your $5/hr monkey over with a redhat cd and have them reinstall, right? :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net

Re: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.

2006-06-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
better. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Telia network degredation / POC

2006-05-31 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
at the border between Hurricane Electric and Telia? HE is a customer of Telia. You should be contacting your provider (HE) to resolve the issue, not Telia. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41

Re: private ip addresses from ISP

2006-05-23 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
anything. If you really can't stand seeing an RFC1918 sourced packet over the Internet it is more of a personality problem than a networking problem, so a good shrink is probably going to be more useful than a good firewall. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e

Re: private ip addresses from ISP

2006-05-23 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
and large networks tend to be a bad mix. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Anyone got numbers on peering vs transit?

2006-05-05 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Tier 2 - Lease?

2006-05-02 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
As of this exact moment that I'm posting, that article is actually reasonably accurate. Of course I'm sure in 5 minutes 100 people will be updating it to include their favorite not-really-a-tier-1 carrier. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID

Re: Google AdSense Crash

2006-04-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
people. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Determine difference between 2 BGP feeds

2006-04-18 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
received-routes quit Followed by 30 secs with awk(1), cut(1), diff(1), etc. For floundry, something dirt simple like grep / | awk '{ print $2 }' should do the trick. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C

Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism

2006-04-12 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
% responsible is probably a good way to hurt any kind of case you might actually have against them too. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: XO Peering

2006-04-11 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
in shame. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism

2006-04-07 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
and one more thing, if the goal was restricting the traffic to only people who participated at this IX (as per the description), please add this to the list of reasons why announcing your IX subnet over the global internet is a BAD IDEA! -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e

Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism

2006-04-07 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. However, that doesn't change the facts here. This is a non-issue, and there are many many easy ways to fix it. I'm perfectly ok with calling out dlink for their stupidity, but I think expecting them (or phk) to pay $62k or more for this is ridiculous. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED

some funky bgp communities

2006-04-02 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
bug being set off by as5400 getting a little community happy? -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: ATT: 15 Mbps Internet connections irrelevant

2006-04-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
attendees. Stephenson said that ATT's field tests have shown no discernable difference between ATT's 1.5 Mbps service and Comcast's 6 Mbps because the problem is not in the last mile but in the backbone. No the problem is at ATT's congested peering edge. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL

Re: UDP Badness [Was: Re: How to measure network qualityperformance for voipgameservers (udp packetloss, delay, jitter,...)]

2006-03-10 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
paths + wannabe network engineers armed with a noc phone number list and traceroute, mtr, or those wonderful visual traceroute programs that they insist on taking 6MB bmp screenshots of and sticking into word documents so they can email that as an attachment. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL

Re: UDP Badness [Was: Re: How to measure network qualityperformance for voipgameservers (udp packetloss, delay, jitter,...)]

2006-03-10 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
with expertise and years of experience. Jumping to conclusions about what is or isn't wrong based on traceroute is probably one of the largest failings of noc people in general. But thanks for reminding us of the crappy crappy networking that went on 5 years ago. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL

Re: Cogent Outage

2006-03-02 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. Stuff happens. You CAN hold it against them when a single metro cut takes out half of a longhaul crosscountry ring though, or when two simultanious cuts segment the network into east and west sides of the country. Thats just bad planning. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Exchange Points

2006-02-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. Whether they have power or space for you is another matter. If you're confused by any of this, you probably shouldn't be peering, especially given the price of transit. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C

Re: Yahoo, Google, Microsoft contact?

2006-02-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
-- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Anyone heard of INOC-DBA?

2006-02-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 02:34:16PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: Until someone invents a universally recognized system where you can call and say Hi I'm CCIE #12345, I'm certified to know what I'm talking about and I have an actual network

Re: Yahoo, Google, Microsoft contact?

2006-02-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:55:04PM +0100, Per Heldal wrote: On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 14:10:26 -0500, Richard A Steenbergen [snip] The heart of this problem, like so many other problems before it, is that most people are dumber than dirt itself. So ... responsible prociders should only serve

Re: 74/8 75/8 76/8

2006-02-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
not like those blocks are going to assigned to some random network who goes to use them and finds out there is a Cymru announcement on their space. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: So -- what did happen to Panix?

2006-01-30 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
idea, define filters for what is allowed in the table based on what we see people trying to put into the table, brilliant!) and you quickly see how IRR data becomes stale and eventually worthless. I'll save the rest of my rant for the presentation on the subject in Dallas. :) -- Richard

Re: I never realized so many trains derailed until my Internet kept going out

2006-01-29 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
into the tunnel for days. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Strange issue involving sampling

2006-01-18 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
it their best shot to figure out what your problem is. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: GoDaddy.com shuts down entire data center?

2006-01-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
in the respecting them for taking a stand regarding the abuse of their service category, rather than the wackjob conspiracy theorist power-crazed zealot category we all know and love. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59

Re: GoDaddy.com shuts down entire data center?

2006-01-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. Hardly an uncommon sight. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: workhorse of the future...

2006-01-10 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
future. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: live chat with other nanog'ers

2005-12-29 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
and go with some frequency. Having said all that, by all means if #nanog on efnet doesn't fit your tastes, no one is twisting anyone's arm to be there. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA

Re: live chat with other nanog'ers

2005-12-29 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
by the recommendation of #ciscohelp. If in doubt, #nanog is probably not the place for you. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Compromised machines liable for damage?

2005-12-28 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
of situations, particularly gaming. * They don't give a flying crap what a bunch of perceived whining kooks on NANOG think about that tradeoff. God knows, I wouldn't. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF

Re: Destructive botnet originating from Japan

2005-12-25 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
and moaning about botnets you are too sekure to tell anyone else about, thus assuring they never get fixed, at least it's nice to do it in one secret place so I don't have to hear it. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59

Re: Level3 Blackhole Community

2005-12-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
?) is applied to any peer route. I've been told the community you're looking for is 3356:, and not as widely speculated, 3356:174. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: www.google.com latency/packet loss/very slow thru savvis

2005-12-13 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
435.464 ms You'd be better off with an AS-PATH, but just follow the chain... Savvis - Singtel - Pakistan Telecom - Seabone - Google. Where I'm from, we call that a routing leak. Doesn't take too much work to guess where either. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e

Re: www.google.com latency/packet loss/very slow thru savvis

2005-12-13 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 05:02:42PM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: You'd be better off with an AS-PATH, but just follow the chain... Savvis - Singtel - Pakistan Telecom - Seabone - Google. Where I'm from, we call that a routing leak. Doesn't take too much work to guess where either

Re: Juniper DNS cache

2005-12-09 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
/juniper-nsp/) too. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: BGP Security and PKI Hierarchies

2005-11-29 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:21:53AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's hard to imagine an organization who can afford to run a network using BGP to announce a class C block and not be able to afford $1250 per year. Sounds like a failure of imagination to me. -- Richard A Steenbergen

Re: the future of the net

2005-11-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
Netstradamus. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Peering VLANs and MAC addresses

2005-11-09 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
without blowing anything up, so those results might be a little biased. Only connecting routers is really just attempting to mitigate the effects of stupid people by forcing them to run configurations so simple even a monkey could pull it off. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: classful routes redux

2005-11-05 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
certain we won't have to deal with NAT ever again. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: classful routes redux

2005-11-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
bit of common sense. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: cogent+ Level(3) are ok now

2005-11-02 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
so that you can zero out those MEDs. With enough time and energy anything is possible, the point is that most folks don't consider it to be worth the time, let alone the customer anger when it degrades your traffic. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras

Re: SBC/ATT + Verizon/MCI Peering Restrictions

2005-11-02 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
executives in a board room with arms interlocked at the elbow, skipping merrily in a circle with giant grins on their faces, chanting: o/~ We're gonna be a tier 1 o/~ o/~ We're gonna be a tier 1 o/~ -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID

Re: Using BGP to force inbound and outbound routing through particular routes

2005-11-02 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
the CCIE medals of anyone caught using the words Class C for a /24 out of 66. space. D) Please do not feed the trolls. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Using BGP to force inbound and outbound routing through particular routes

2005-11-02 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: cogent+ Level(3) are ok now

2005-11-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
free or super-low-cost inbound in order to prop up its ratios? How much revenue has been generated by depeering Cogent because of ratio imbalances? The numbers speak for themselves, regardless of who does or doesn't pay a higher amount to deliver the traffic. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL

Re: cymru down?

2005-10-31 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
network outage anyways? :) With each passing day I find myself wishing more and more that there was a Cisco Certified Traceroute Engineer program, and a convenient system to ignore emails with traceroutes from anyone else. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net

Re: Level3 problems

2005-10-21 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Level3 problems

2005-10-21 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
think they'll have any trouble finding it under total network outage :P). Rumor has it a maintenance in Chicago backfired (it did start at exactly 02:00 EDT on the dot). Anyone else having flashbacks to IGP/CEF bugs? :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras

Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system

2005-10-18 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
in 2000), which were in turn based off of 1997 technology back when they were manufactured in 1998-1999? -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: IPv6 news [global crossing]

2005-10-12 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
with the GSRs, or even how many of them they have left, but I di know that all of the Juniper-based v6 is native. The MPLS-based backbone stuff is just standard marketing fluff. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-12 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Problems

2005-10-11 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
transport via northern paths. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Problems

2005-10-11 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
(this is why there are southern paths :P). Last report I heard on the subject a couple of hours ago was that Qwest had not begun splicing but is standing by to do so as soon as the scene is cleared. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID

Re: Level 3's side of the story

2005-10-08 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
network, or dealt with customers wondering why you are routing their traffic across the country and back again. Anyone who values the quality of their connectivity will stick to arm-chair engineering and not actually building a network this way. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Level 3's side of the story

2005-10-08 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
true here whether they had an existing ability to flip a switch and route via (3) or not. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Level 3's side of the story

2005-10-08 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, and I'm certain no one is going to give us an answer publicly. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-07 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
benefit for you. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Level 3's side of the story

2005-10-07 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
of course depends on Cogent's willingness to maintain their side of the traffic exchange. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Level 3's side of the story

2005-10-07 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
to be attached to, along with helpful advice as to how it might be made to fit there. Cogent will not waste time or money on lawsuits for disgruntled ex-Verio T1 customers. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF

Re: Level 3's side of the story

2005-10-07 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
to know, and they were never ambiguous about the fact that they were fully expecting to be segmented from (3). -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Level 3's side of the story

2005-10-07 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 01:24:40AM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: I don't know how you missed it, but as far as I can tell every sales rep (3) has was mobilized to call every customer or potential customer they Errr every sales rep Cogent had, sorry. I never heard anything about

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-06 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. Besides, if anyone is depeering Cogent now because of their disruptive pricing in the market, they're a couple years late. Speculate all you like, but I suspect there is more to it than that. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-06 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
for their business manage to sit on necessary upgrades to peers for months or even years longer than they would if it was a customer port. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-06 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
as they are. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-05 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
.com (209.245.19.42) 1 f29.ba01.b005944-0.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.250.56.189) 4 msec 4 msec 0 msec 2 * * * 3 * * * I guess the earlier reports of (3)'s lack of testicular fortitude may have been exagerated after all. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

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