Re: ARIN whois contact abuse from ipv4depot aka Silicon Desert International Inc

2023-10-13 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
--- Original Message --- On Thursday, October 12th, 2023 at 18:59, Niels Bakker wrote: > RIPE have a policy that states Which is exactly what I said Neils. When I asked about it, they pointed me at a policy. Well hell, theoretically my company has a policy that describes

Re: ARIN whois contact abuse from ipv4depot aka Silicon Desert International Inc

2023-10-12 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
Honestly Mike I don't think they care. I mean, most (all ?) of the registries still can't be bothered to validate the information the resource holders post to the database.  Last time I asked, e.g. RIPE about it, they basically said "not my problem guv" , pointed me to some policy document

Re: FYI - 2FA to be come mandatory for ARIN Online? (was: Fwd: [arin-announce] Consultation on Requiring Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for ARIN Online Accounts

2022-05-24 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
Its 2022. Do we really still need a consultation on why mandatory 2FA is a good thing ? Even more so for something like ARIN ? --- Original Message --- On Tuesday, May 24th, 2022 at 19:28, John Curran wrote: > NANOGers -  > A consultation opened today on potentially requiring use of

Re: 10 Do's + Don'ts for Visiting Québec + Register Now for N85!

2022-05-08 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
--- Original Message --- On Sunday, May 8th, 2022 at 21:31, Stephen Fulton wrote: > If you are not from Canada and do not speak French I speak French, but the European one. I struggled to make myself understood because I was speaking with the "proper" accent and mannerisms (e.g.

Re: 10 Do's + Don'ts for Visiting Québec + Register Now for N85!

2022-05-08 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
--- Original Message --- On Friday, May 6th, 2022 at 13:59, J EMail <70ford...@gmail.com> wrote: > poutine should be on this list. God no !  There are many great things about Canada and Québec but poutine most certainly is not. A culinary abomination that deserves to be confined

Re: Any sign of supply chain returning to normal?

2022-04-22 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
--- Original Message --- On Friday, April 22nd, 2022 at 13:24, Drew Weaver wrote: > Has anyone seen any progress whatsoever on supply chain issues with > networking hardware? Nope. Personally speaking I'm struggling on everything from simple Intel network cards to half-decent

Re: IP Reputation Services

2022-04-04 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
On Monday, April 4th, 2022 at 15:37, Mike Hammett wrote: > I'm checking in to see what people think of IP reputation services. Pre-IPv6 I was always a little apprehensive of using them for general use because it was always a bit murky how they collected the IPs in the first place. This of

Re: Cogent ...

2022-03-31 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
--- Original Message --- On Thursday, March 31st, 2022 at 16:43, Joe Greco wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 03:38:15PM +0000, Laura Smith via NANOG wrote: > > Because they know that the sillier bits will be poked fun at on NANOG > > if they allow them to be disclosed?

Cogent ...

2022-03-31 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
Hmmm Spring has sprung and the waft of drivel from a new season Cogent salesdroid filled my telephone earpiece today. I've never liked the Cogent way of business and my understanding of their IP transit is that it falls into the "cheap for a reason" category. However, perhaps someone

Re: Vodafone-UA

2022-03-07 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
Putting the weirdness of your message aside for a moment ... Its bad enough trying to get hold of anyone remotely competent at a Western EU division of Vodafone at the best of times.  Therefore, I suspect the chances of anyone at Vodafone Ukraine being bothered to reply to some random person

Re: Conflicts and fiber cuts

2022-03-07 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
On Sunday, March 6th, 2022 at 23:40, Sean Donelan wrote: > Historically, the largest telecommunication outages have been due > to > operator error Yeah, tell me about it. In the very recent past there was a certain Tier 1 operator who decided to move a core router between X & Y within the

Re: Conflicts and fiber cuts

2022-03-06 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
You do realise there's a shedload of fibre running around Europe ? There are so many redundant paths that you'd have to chop through quite a lot of it before anyone noticed much difference. I mean even within Ukraine itself, traditional internet (i.e. non-satcom) has proven to be surprisingly

Re: Simplified BGP peering solution

2022-02-07 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
--- Original Message --- On Monday, February 7th, 2022 at 12:18, Josh Saul wrote: > How many active ISPs are most of the people on this list dealing with? > > 1-2 - I'm an end user just trying to load balance3-5 - I'm aggressively > looking for the best paths for my "customer"

RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Flow collection and analysis

2022-01-28 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, January 28th, 2022 at 11:52, Jean St-Laurent wrote: > Why DNS are still travelling in clear text? > It doesn't have to. In 2022 there are many encryption options for DNS. There are also things like DNSSEC and DANE for ensuring authenticity over

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Flow collection and analysis

2022-01-28 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, January 28th, 2022 at 03:55, Mel Beckman wrote: > But nobody asked for anything from scratch Eric. Open SSL is it complete > ready to integrate package. Any developer worth his salt should be able to > put it on any web application. In addition to

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Flow collection and analysis

2022-01-28 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 at 14:49, heasley wrote: > > confidentiality and integrity, even if you do not care about authentication. > > I am surprised that question is asked. > Indeed. And to add the obvious to the obvious observation above, in certain

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Flow collection and analysis

2022-01-26 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, January 26th, 2022 at 11:08, Eric Kuhnke wrote: > elastiflow is extremely easy to run on an httpd listening only on localhost > and proxy behind a simple nginx TLS1.2/1.3 only configuration listening on > port 443. > I don't know about anyone

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Flow collection and analysis

2022-01-25 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
On Tuesday, January 25th, 2022 at 23:50, Compton, Rich A wrote: > You can pretty much do the same thing with Elastic’s filebeat > (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/current/filebeat-module-netflow.html). >   > Has Elastic decided to join the rest of the world in the 21st century

Re: Flow collection and analysis

2022-01-25 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, January 25th, 2022 at 16:44, Mel Beckman wrote: > We use, depending on the situation, Intermapper, PRTG, and NTop. > > PRTG includes its web-based flow collector and viewer for free, and there is > even a free 100-sensor edition of the product that

Re: Flow collection and analysis

2022-01-25 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
On Tuesday, January 25th, 2022 at 15:46, David Bass wrote: > Wondering what others in the small to medium sized networks out there are > using these days for netflow data collection, and your opinion on the tool? > > Thanks! Not a suggestion, but a question Curious to know if anyone

Re: Operator survey: Incrementally deployable secure Internet routing

2022-01-24 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, January 21st, 2022 at 22:07, Yixin Sun wrote: > Dear Nanog, > > We appreciate that your time is very precious, but we wanted to ask you for > your help in answering a brief survey about a new secure routing system we > have developed in a research

Re: Anyone else seeing DNSSEC failures from EU Commission ? (european-union.europa.eu)

2021-12-08 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 01:27:23PM +, > > Laura Smith via NANOG nanog@nanog.org wrote > > a message of 18 lines which said: > > > Bit of a long stretch given the US audience, but I'm seeing lots of things > > like this at the moment: > > Indeed, they botched DNSS

Anyone else seeing DNSSEC failures from EU Commission ? (european-union.europa.eu)

2021-12-08 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
Bit of a long stretch given the US audience, but I'm seeing lots of things like this at the moment: info: validation failure : key for validation european-union.europa.eu. is marked as invalid because of a previous validation failure : DS got unsigned CNAME answer from 2600:9000:5301:a200::1

Re: ROA mirror to IRR?

2021-10-27 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, October 26th, 2021 at 21:17, Shawn wrote: > Is it standard practice to accept more specifics (append IPv4 "le /24" and > IPv6 "le /48")? There was an blog post written somewhere (unfortunately I cannot locate it) that urged caution as to how you

Re: S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge

2021-10-01 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
Thanks for your insight Matt, much appreciated.

Re: S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge

2021-10-01 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
> The bad news now, is, there are plenty of many, small, local > and regional ISP's who are willing to do whatever it takes to > work with the content providers. All that's required is some > network, a half-decent data centre and an exchange point. Gone > are the days where customers clamored

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-29 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
I agree with Dan. In Switzerland you can get 10Gb symmetric to the home for 49.95 per month (or 39.95 if you have a mobile with the same ISP) . As with Dan, average utilisation is measured in Mb.  But then the ability to go from that to download 10GB of the latest patches from Microsoft or

Re: Tier1 BGP filter generation data sources & frequency

2021-05-23 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
I thought everyone was supposed to be migrating to MANRS. ;-) Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, 22 May 2021 00:40, Clinton Work wrote: > Is there any compiled information for Tier1 providers on the supported BGP > filter generation data

Re: Google IP Geolocation

2021-04-10 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
Yup. I've had this problem with Google for two years now. "We're Google. We know better than you. We're not interested in discussion. And no, you can't have access to the ISP portal you silly little person"  .. is the summary of my experience. And all this is despite my network peering

Re: Global Peer Exchange

2020-11-30 Thread Laura Smith via NANOG
I stopped reading at "Cogent" ;-) Telemarketing pests. My dislike of electronic spam is only preceded by my utter contempt for those people who both physically and mentally interrupt my work. Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, November 30, 2020