Re: Check this out T-Mobile Launches GoSmart Prepaid Service Nationally on Phone Scoop

2013-02-20 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
If only there were some kind of method for Jay to publish which addresses are actually authorized to send mail on behalf of baylink.com (which could then be leveraged by sc1.nanog.org to turn the recommended soft fail into a hard fail and stop this kind of silliness cold)... Billet:~ rs$ dig

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-09 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Masataka Ohta mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp writes: Robert E. Seastrom wrote: Let's assume 4:1 concentration with PON. Why on earth would we assume that when industry standard is 16 or 32? That is because additional 4:1 concentration is usually at CO, which does not contribute

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-09 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Jason Baugher ja...@thebaughers.com writes: Our main cost is labor. Fiber, fdh, splitters, etc... are marginal. dingdingdingding WE HAVE A WINNER. :-) -r

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-02-08 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Masataka Ohta mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp writes: Let's assume 4:1 concentration with PON. Why on earth would we assume that when industry standard is 16 or 32? 16 is a safe number. -r

Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-02-06 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com writes: In that case its even harder. Before you even consider doing open access talk to your FTTx vendor and find out how many they have done using the same architecture you're planning on deploying. Open access in an active Ethernet install is actually

Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-02-06 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
, Robert E. Seastrom [[r...@seastrom.com]] wrote: Scott Helms [[khe...@zcorum.com]] writes: In that case its even harder.  Before you even consider doing open access talk to your FTTx vendor and find out how many they have done using the same

Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-02-06 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com writes: On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Robert E. Seastrom [[r...@seastrom.com]] wrote: If you were talking about layer 2 handoffs, your statement is perhaps even more untrue - active ethernet and PON layer 2 handoffs

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-02-05 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com writes: Still, the power budget improvements by not going with a single strand active ethernet solution (which were another suggested technology and has actually been deployed by some muni PON folks like Clarkesville, TN) are huge. Imagine a 24 port switch that

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-02-03 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Leo Bicknell bickn...@ufp.org writes: In a message written on Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 08:55:34PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: From: Robert E. Seastrom r...@seastrom.com There is no reason whatsoever that one can't have centralized splitters in one's PON plant. The additional costs to do so

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-02-02 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Owen DeLong o...@delong.com writes: On Jan 29, 2013, at 20:30 , Jean-Francois Mezei jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca wrote: On 13-01-29 22:03, Leo Bicknell wrote: The _muni_ should not run any equipment colo of any kind. The muni MMR should be fiber only, and not even require so much as a

Re: Netflix transit preference?

2012-12-27 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Jeff Kell jeff-k...@utc.edu writes: On 12/27/2012 1:26 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Dec 27, 2012, at 13:19 , randal k na...@data102.com wrote: (We move ~1.4gbps to Netflix, and are thus not a candidate for peering. And they have no POP close.) Why don't you ask Netflix? And why not ask

Re: carping about CARP

2012-11-30 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
David Walker davidianwal...@gmail.com writes: [ patent fight recap ] Thanks for posting those. I recall the discussions surrounding the HSRP patents well, but it's been a while and I have proportionally more gray hair (and less overall) now. My problem is not with Theo nor with the IETF. My

Re: carping about CARP

2012-11-30 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Henning Brauer hb-na...@bsws.de writes: * Robert E. Seastrom r...@seastrom.com [2012-11-30 13:46]: My problem is not with Theo nor with the IETF. My problem is with a crappy and credulous implementation. When an outage is caused by redundancy software that comes from an organization

Re: carping about CARP

2012-11-30 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Jussi Peltola pe...@pelzi.net writes: The amount of detail in the original posting is rather disappointing, with absolutely no hope of anyone being able to reproduce the problem with the data given. It was not intended as a bug report, instead merely an expression of disappointment and an

Re: carping about CARP

2012-11-30 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org writes: I don't see anything here indicating that it's to do with CARP believing things sent over the wire, I suspect the problem would still occur if CARP were disabled on the pfSense box. (Do people really run CARP in the wild without authentication

carping about CARP

2012-11-29 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
I can't seem to recall anyone griping about this here on our august little list but google finds that I'm by no means the first to have been burned by an unholy interaction between VRRP and CARP. Let's skip the protocol discussions (same protocol number and uses multicast) [*] and go straight to

Re: NTP Issues Today

2012-11-21 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Blake Dunlap iki...@gmail.com writes: That's what happens when you just follow vendor recommendations blindly. If you do follow that on vm's (which can actually be a good practice), make sure they pull from your own time infrastructure, and not just the world at large, and that those servers

Ethernet NID plus POE+ (802.3at)... or POE+ injector with OAM...

2012-11-14 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Hi everyone, I'm looking for a gigabit ethernet media converter to go from SFP plugable optics to 802.3at POE+. The application involves wireless access points some distance from a central switch for a venue. Difficulty: in my old age, I've become allergic to installing completely unmanaged

Re: Another LTE network turns up as IPv4-only

2012-10-11 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Subscription only, $199/year (special introductory offer, normally $499!). Try it free for two weeks but only if you cough up info. How about a summary for those of us who are disinclined to do either? -r bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com writes:

Re: IPv4 address length technical design

2012-10-03 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Chris Campbell ch...@ctcampbell.com writes: Is anyone aware of any historical documentation relating to the choice of 32 bits for an IPv4 address? Cheers. 8 bit host identifiers had proven to be too short... :) -r

Re: IPv6 Ignorance

2012-09-18 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Seth Mattinen se...@rollernet.us writes: I came across these threads today; the blind ignorance towards IPv6 from some of the posters is kind of shocking. There are actually a few good points mixed in there, like the guy who observes that dual stacking is of limited utility if there are no

Re: Google / Gmail SSL write errors

2012-09-12 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Paul Kelly :: Blacknight p...@blacknight.com writes: Are any of you (that use Exim as their MTA) having SSL write errors in your exim logs when delivering e-mail to Gmail or Google addresses? Don't see anything from here. More details when you post to exim-users couldn't hurt.

Re: Are people still building SONET networks from scratch?

2012-09-09 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Will Orton w...@loopfree.net writes: I've considered using J's PE-4CHOC3-CE-SFP (OC3 emulated SAToP), then I could do it all with gig-e underneath. Does anyone make a cheaper OC3 circuit emulation module or box? Most likely the customer wouldn't believe such a thing is possible and we'd

Re: NANOG Website Redesign Project

2012-09-03 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Randy Bush ra...@psg.com writes: NANOG is in the process of completely redeveloping its website (http://www.nanog.org) and is looking for feedback from the community and NANOG members. i have been exceedingly impressed by the current web site's serious feature set implemented without a

Re: Fair Use Policy

2012-08-22 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Hi Shahab, You can find out how much bandwidth they're using by having that reported periodically via RADIUS (or at least when the session ends, worst case). Store in database. SELECT sum(blah) from foo where id=bar. Next question is what do you want to do to them once they exceed their

Re: Comcast vs. Verizon for repair methodologies

2012-08-21 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
You're lucky. Verizon did a great job installing mine (ONT on the backboard I put in the basement for them, handoff on ethernet rather than MOCA, etc) but somehow never managed to get around to dispatching anyone to actually install the permanent fiber drop (despite multiple calls).

NANOG poll: favorite cable labeler?

2012-08-21 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Hey everyone, Many moons ago I worked in a place where we had a Brady LS2000 wire labeler. So long as the supplies were fresh it was great. In the storage unit I have a Brady TLS2200. Supplies are expensive, but it works reasonably well. Unfortunately the battery is shot (gotta replace

Re:

2012-08-21 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:06 PM, goe...@anime.net wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, George Herbert wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:25 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:11:49 -0500, Grant Ridder said: I love spam from

Re: Comcast 1, Verizon 0 [was: Comcast vs. Verizon for repair methodologies]

2012-08-20 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Perhaps this time they can afford to run you some real, honest-to-god Helvetica cable rather than Arial cable as you noted below. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial#Criticism You're definitely a bigger geek than I am though for griping about the font they used for the writing on your drop

IRR-clueful person at 3356?

2012-08-17 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Hi folks, Sorry for the extremely broad email but I'm trying to sort out an IRR issue regarding automatic filter generation at Level(3) on behalf of a friend. The telemetry I'm getting (thirdhand and believed to originate from first line support) suggests that both Level(3)'s direct customer

Re: IRR-clueful person at 3356?

2012-08-17 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Thanks to all who reached out to me in private email and on IRC. Here's the thumbnail explanation of how to do it (so some future searcher doesn't curse me for not summarizing to the list). By default Level(3) only searches one IRR component for you. I can understand why one would want to

Re: Does anyone use anycast DHCP service?

2012-08-13 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
An anycast solution that doesn't involve a way to promptly yank the route when the service is unhappy is not really a full anycast solution. You could probably use http://code.google.com/p/dhquery/ for health checking, wrap in a script with something to talk to bgpctl (if you're running

Re: using reserved IPv6 space

2012-07-14 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Actually, that's one of the most insightful meta-points I've seen on NANOG in a long time. There is a HUGE difference between IPv4 and IPv6 thinking. We've all been living in an austerity regime for so long that we've completely forgotten how to leave parsimony behind. Even those of us who

Re: job screening question

2012-07-05 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Diogo Montagner diogo.montag...@gmail.com writes: For screening questions (for 1st level filtering), IMO, the questions has to be straight to the point, for example: 1) What is the LSA number for an external route in OSPF? This can have two answer: 5 or 7. So, I will accept if the

Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

2012-07-04 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Tyler Haske tyler.ha...@gmail.com writes: Someone running an NTP Server connected to a cesium clock could run the leap-second time code. Since its *their job* to have the correct time, they can do all the fancy rarely used things that make parts of the Internet die every couple of years.

Re: strat-1 gps

2012-06-26 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Word around the campfire is that the 18x is jittery compared to the 18. Maybe it only matters if you are super-anal. Majdi, do you have any current info on this? -r Ryan Malayter malay...@gmail.com writes: +1 on the freesd-or-linux. with say a Garmin GPS-18x or whatever timing puck. Have

Re: pbx recco

2012-05-15 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Randy Bush ra...@psg.com writes: have a friend who is a penguinista and wants to run a simple soft pbx. support of soft phones, 7960s, connect to a commercial sip gate, ... reccos for a packaged solution. While Asterisk's configuration files are horrible (and written by people who didn't

Re: Squeezing IPs out of ARIN

2012-04-25 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Andy Susag asu...@ifncom.net writes: Seems kind of counterproductive to ARIN though. I wouldn't think they'd like a database full of fudged SWIP info, but I guess they're OK with it... They require an officer attestation. SWIP info that is made up out of whole cloth sounds suspiciously like

Re: Cheap Juniper Gear for Lab

2012-04-11 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
sth...@nethelp.no writes: Anyway, not the best devices for an edge router that is for sure. Which is too bad... for very small DC edge applications, the J6350 was a pretty cool router in earlier versions of JunOS that didn't decide to re-engineer your network and transit for you. We have

Re: Question about peering

2012-04-07 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Actually, Suresh, I disagree. It depends on the facility/country/continent, the cost of joining the local IX fabric at a reasonable bandwidth, your cost model, and your transit costs. In short, it's not 1999 anymore, and peering is not automatically the right answer from a purely fiscal

Re: Question about peering

2012-04-07 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Luke S. Crawford l...@prgmr.com writes: On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 06:16:30PM -0400, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: Sometimes making the AS path as short as possible makes a lot of sense (e.g. when trying to get an anycast network to do the right thing), but assumptions that peering results in lower

Re: Question about peering

2012-04-07 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Luke S. Crawford l...@prgmr.com writes: On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 07:25:24PM -0400, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: Generally the costs of transit are pushed down by competition. As a vendor your costs for bandwidth/transport/port*bw may drop but you are unlikely to drop your prices to your

Re: SIP Carrier Consolidation

2012-04-05 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
SIP trunking consolidation is buzzword heavy and context-light. What problem are you trying to solve and at what scale? Do you have a requirement to have the provider be a traditional TDM-based organization or is an aggregator sufficient? How price-sensitive are you? At fairly small scale (10

Re: Verizon, FiOS, and CLEC/UNE orders (was ATT diversity)

2012-03-22 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com writes: Seems like a waste for VZ not to reclaim it so it can be recycled/put to good use. To put some numbers with this statement (which I agree with btw): OSP cable is commonly available composed of 19 AWG, 22 AWG, 24 AWG, and 26 AWG pairs. 19 and 26 are

Re: Verizon, FiOS, and CLEC/UNE orders (was ATT diversity)

2012-03-22 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
William Herrin b...@herrin.us writes: That depends on the cost of recovering it. We're not talking about salvage operators pulling cable, we're talking about highly trained [sic] Verizon installers. The last 4 pairs in use on that 3000 count cable will tend to linger a long, long time

Re: shared address space... a reality!

2012-03-15 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
More like wasting no time in fulfilling the prophesy that people will treat it like just another rfc1918 space and deploy it wherever they want. not that randy is likely to get bitten because he's not behind a cgn nor is he planning to be, but still, that took all of what, 72 hours? -r George

Re: shared address space... a reality!

2012-03-15 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Robert E. Seastrom r...@seastrom.com wrote: More like wasting no time in fulfilling the prophesy that people will treat it like just another rfc1918 space and deploy it wherever they want. not that randy

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-14 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Faisal Imtiaz fai...@snappydsl.net writes: I am not familiar with VZ's FIOS network... however I suspect that if they are using a Redback at the Headend, it would allow you to have a 'bridge' network with secure arp settings. (it's a feature that we have seen on Redback's...) AFAIK Verizon

Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?

2012-03-14 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Robert E. Seastrom r...@seastrom.com wrote: Faisal Imtiaz fai...@snappydsl.net writes: I am not familiar with VZ's FIOS network... however I suspect that if they are using a Redback at the Headend

Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary

2012-03-12 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us writes: On 3/11/2012 3:15 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: But ARIN's action meant it never had a chance. I really don't get why they felt the need to start allowing IPv6 PI after a decade Because as far back as 2003 ARIN members (and members from all the

Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary

2012-03-12 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Ryan Malayter malay...@gmail.com writes: On Mar 12, 10:07 am, Robert E. Seastrom r...@seastrom.com wrote: It didn't help that there was initially no implementation of shim6 whatsoever.  That later turned into a single prototype implementation of shim6 for linux.  As much as I tried to keep

Re: BGP MD5 at IXP

2012-03-10 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Andy Davidson a...@nosignal.org writes: Because TCP MD5 packets touch a router's CPU, using MD5 introduces a new attack vector - see nanogii passim (e.g. http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog39/presentations/Scholl.pdf). Don't do it. :-) Tom's slide deck is often misinterpreted - the salient

Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India

2012-03-10 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Anurag Bhatia m...@anuragbhatia.com writes: Can someone share if there's huge difference in . root servers Vs gTLD servers? I understand that root only hold all TLD's - cc and gTLD delegation that would be few hundred TLDs delegation while gTLDs hold lot of domain names but if one country

Re: Switch designed for mirroring tap ports

2012-03-01 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
A. Pishdadi apishd...@gmail.com writes: We are looking for a switch or a device that we can use for mirroring tap ports. For example , take a mirror port off of a core router say a 6509, connect it to a port on said device, say port 1. I would like then to be able to mirror port 1 on said

Re: Programmers with network engineering skills

2012-02-29 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Is clearance the problem, or the ability to obtain clearance due to something in their background?  If your work requires it, you should have some recourse for applicants to obtain the required clearance, no? My understanding is that while primary and subcontractor companies can put people

Re: [#135346] Unauthorized BGP Announcements (follow up to Hijacked

2012-02-03 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Randy Bush ra...@psg.com writes: well, not exactly. to quote myself from the other week in another forum [ 30 lines deleted ] Sorry to drone on, but these three really need to be differentiated. The truly wonderful thing about the evolution of BGP security is its elegant simplicity. It

Re: US DOJ victim letter

2012-02-02 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com writes: I missed the part where ARIN turned over its address database w/ associatedd registration information to the Fed ... I mean I've always advocated for LEO access, but ther has been significant pushback fromm the community on unfettered access to that

This network is too good...

2012-02-01 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Hi all, Any thoughts on products that screw up networks in deterministic (and realistic found-in-the-wild) ways? I'm thinking of stuff like PacketStorm, Dummynet, etc. Dial up jitter, latency, tail drop, RED, whatever... (I know someone's gonna say Just buy a Brand Z FubarSwitch 3k, they will

Re: using ULA for 'hidden' v6 devices?

2012-01-31 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Tim Chown t...@ecs.soton.ac.uk writes: On 26 Jan 2012, at 16:53, Owen DeLong wrote: On Jan 26, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Ray Soucy wrote: Does this mean we're also looking at residential allocations larger than a /64 as the norm? We certainly should be. I still think that /48s for

Re: VZ FiOS DNS issues:

2012-01-23 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Brandon Kim brandon@brandontek.com wrote: I have FIOS and I have no issues. However I do know awhile back they had issues and I was affected by the outage Maybe it hasn't made its way to me

Re: VZ FiOS DNS issues:

2012-01-23 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Jamie Bowden ja...@photon.com writes: I don't care for the Actiontec boxes either, but the STB program guides and other features don't work without it, so I have mine forward all IP traffic unmolested to my own as the DMZ host Actually this can be worked around. My config has SA, er, Cisco

Re: enterprise 802.11

2012-01-18 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com writes: - Original Message - From: Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net network side. I'm personally not convinced of the value of very short lease times (less than an hour) Less than an hour, perhaps not. On small residential networks, though --

Re: De-bogon not possible via arin policy.

2011-12-14 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
What do you mean by de-bogon? Do you mean that your customers' addresses are listed in various RBLs for previous misbehavior? That they are using addresses that were never properly allocated to them? Something different? You don't own IPv4 addresses; they are assigned or allocated to you in

Re: IP addresses are now assets

2011-12-02 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: Would it be correct to summarize the ARIN position as It's murkier than Cerner makes it out to be, and some lawyers are gonna get stinking filthy rich litigating this one? :) In any litigation, Counsel always wins. I often remind myself that there's still

Re: Network device command line interfaces

2011-11-24 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us writes: On 11/24/2011 11:58, Jonathon Exley wrote: That's the problem - as a propellorhead I don't make the purchasing decisions. I can recommend products but low cost speaks more loudly than this gear is a dog to work with. That's where you get a chance

Re: OT: Traffic Light Control (was Re: First real-world SCADA attack in US)

2011-11-23 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Mark Radabaugh m...@amplex.net writes: On 11/23/11 11:23 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:14:34 EST, Bryan Fields said: So really all a hacker needs is a pair of dykes, some electrical tape, and an all black jumpsuit. Actually, you want a really dark blue

Re: Any recommended router. They are reliable and have good support.

2011-11-22 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Leigh Porter leigh.por...@ukbroadband.com writes: Has anybody had experience of mikrotik support? Is it any good? Any thoughts about the time to fix bugs? I have dealt with Mikrotik support. They were easily comparable to [CJ]TAC. Which is to say guy was pleasant and courteous, I could tell

Re: Fwd: Welcome to the Marketing mailing list

2011-11-17 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
To echo what Betty said and address an unspoken concern: market...@nanog.org is the mailing list (and external interface?) for the folks who make sure that there are good cookies and other break goodies, beer-n-gear sponsors, meeting hosts, etc. It is most assuredly not a spamming list, which I

Re: economic value of low AS numbers

2011-11-17 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us writes: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: The real question is whether it was issued after HHGTTG. HHGTTG first appeared on the BBC in 1978. Thinking Machines Corporation was formed in 1982. As far as I can tell the first

Re: NANOG Board Announcement

2011-08-10 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Steven Feldman feld...@nanog.org writes: I am sad to announce that Robert Seastrom has resigned from the NewNOG Board of Directors, effective yesterday. Accordingly, the board has selected Michael K. Smith to fill the vacant position between now and the October Election. Just wanted to

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Randy Bush ra...@psg.com writes: what's new? how about the operational technical effects, like data from modeling various resolvers' responses to a large root zone? I think the proper model is popular TLDs, perhaps the traditional gTLDs. As any (even former) decent sized TLD operator can

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Matthew Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org writes: And it only gets better from there... how many places have various cutesy naming schemes that might include one or more trademarks (or whatever) that someone might want as a TLD? As it happens, I have a set of routers that are named { craftsman,

Re: What vexes VoIP users? - Bufferbloat

2011-03-09 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Jim Gettys j...@freedesktop.org writes: Now that I have mitigated the bufferbloat disaster in my home cable service via bandwidth shaping, Skype works sooo much better for me. This is what devices such as Ooma are doing. Unfortunately, it means you have to defeat features such as Comcast's

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org writes: It's not usable as general purpose unicast. Both those drafts attempt to do that. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wilson-class-e-00 does not. Recommend you re-read. It would be possible to use it as restricted purpose unicast, i.e. to connect from a

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Owen DeLong o...@delong.com writes: The DoD does not seem particularly anxious to announce or explain their usage of those blocks to the rest of the community. They have much larger quantities of significantly more sophisticated armaments than ARIN. I agree it would be nice if they would

Re: Is it permissible to advertise number resources allocated by one RIR to a ISP in a region governed by a different RIR? Practical?

2011-02-09 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Crooks, Sam sam.cro...@experian.com writes: Is it permissible, from a policy perspective, for a multi-homed end user to announce the numbering resource allocation received from one RIR (for discussion purposes, let's say ARIN) to upstream service providers in a different region (for example,

Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-09 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Scott Helms khe...@ispalliance.net writes: IPv6 for some ISPs will be extraordinarily painful because of legacy layer 2 gear (usually DSLAMs that drop any frame with IPv6 in the EtherType field), inability to upgrade customer gear efficiently (again mainly a DSL problem where TR-069 isn't in

Re: [Nanog-futures] Membership model

2011-02-08 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Owen DeLong o...@delong.com writes: I fully expect the record to be placed soon and it looks like that is the last remaining hurdle. Once that is done, I will pay my dues. There have been records in the zone for ages. I don't have a problem with you calling out our oversight on a

Re: Membership model

2011-02-08 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Owen DeLong o...@delong.com writes: I fully expect the record to be placed soon and it looks like that is the last remaining hurdle. Once that is done, I will pay my dues. There have been records in the zone for ages. I don't have a problem with you calling out our oversight on a

anyone running GPS clocks in Southeastern Georgia?

2011-01-21 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
It is unclear from this NOTAM whether this is an intentional perturbation of the satellite signals vs. a terrestrial transmitter (my money is on the latter), but it illustrates why one might want geographically dispersed time sources on one's network, as well as why the current trend towards

Re: anyone running GPS clocks in Southeastern Georgia?

2011-01-21 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Matlock, Kenneth L matlo...@exempla.org writes: Probably related to: http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/20/faa-warns-of-ongoing-gps-issues-in-so utheastern-us-due-to-defens/ Sounds like they're doing 'tests' on GPS near SE Georgia. Yes, very likely related considering that the map from the

Re: anyone running GPS clocks in Southeastern Georgia?

2011-01-21 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Michael Holstein michael.holst...@csuohio.edu writes: I'd be curious to see what effects (if any) those who use GPS-disciplined NTP references in Southeastern Georgia see from this experiment. Aren't CDMA BTS clocked off GPS? NTP isn't going to be the only ripple. Sure, and there are

Re: anyone running GPS clocks in Southeastern Georgia?

2011-01-21 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Gary Buhrmaster gary.buhrmas...@gmail.com writes: NTP isn't going to be the only ripple. Most of the brand name GPS NTP solutions have a clock with is more than stable enough to survive without GPS lock for 45 minutes(*). Some of the more expensive units with temperature controlled

Re: anyone running GPS clocks in Southeastern Georgia?

2011-01-21 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Joel Jaeggli joe...@bogus.com writes: Sure, and there are GPS-steered Rb clocks in telco-land too as well as a ton of stuff I don't know about yet until everyone else here chimes in; it's just that NTP is highly visible to NANOGers. if your high quality stratum one time source isn't capable

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-07 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Kevin Oberman ober...@es.net writes: The next ship will be departing in a hundred years or so, advance registration for the IPv7 design committee are available over there. Sorry, but IPv7 has come and gone. It was assigned to the TUBA proposal, basically replacing IP with CLNP. IPv8 has

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-06 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Owen DeLong o...@delong.com writes: Personally, I think /64 works just fine. I continue to believe that the allocate the /64, configure the /127 as a workaround for the router vendors' unevolved designs approach, which Igor and I discovered we were in violent agreement on when on a panel a few

Re: FAA - ASDI servers

2011-01-05 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
TR Shaw ts...@oitc.com writes: There is a federal directive that has been in place for a number of years that requires IPV6 support for all new IT contracts/systems and also a directive to all federal agencies to support IPV6 by 2008 (See

POE bump-in-the-wire conversion

2010-12-31 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Perhaps someone from this august list can offer a clue here. Have: Cisco 3524-PWR (paleo-POE, pre-802.3af Cisco standard). It runs the 7960Gs great. Have: Wireless AP stuff that wants 12v on the unused pairs for passive POE. 48v will let the magic smoke out. Might buy: phone that does

Re: POE bump-in-the-wire conversion

2010-12-31 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
tagn...@gmail.com writes: The Ubuquti Instant 802.3af seems to do what you want (as long as the equipment can handle 16v) http://ubnt.com/8023af http://ubnt.com/downloads/instant8023af.pdf On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Robert E. Seastrom r...@seastrom.com wrote: Perhaps someone from

Re: .gov DNSSEC operational message

2010-12-29 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com writes: - Original Message - From: Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us Now OTOH if someone wants to demonstrate the value in having a publication channel for TLD DNSKEYs outside of the root zone, I'm certainly willing to listen. Just be forewarned that you

Re: 5.7/5.8 GHz 802.11n dual polarity MIMO through office building glass, 1.5 km distance

2010-12-29 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Wayne E. Bouchard w...@typo.org writes: Codes are usually defined in one of two ways... Either cannot be above the building parapet or cannot be visible from the street below (which allows you to position a stant at the center of the roof so you can clear the parapet) but when talking to

Re: Public Wireless access (ticket / token / schedule based)

2010-12-27 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Bill Lewis ble...@hottopic.com writes: What is everyone using for enterprise grade wireless authentication for simple public access (i.e. users that are non-employee that need internet access (non-PCI) while in your building). Obviously I will hang this off a DMZ switch outside of my private

Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks

2010-12-18 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Jon Lewis jle...@lewis.org writes: This Can't End Well. Why not? As people shift from watching broadcast channels to streaming content and look to shut off their cable TV service, but keep internet, the cable co's are just going to have to raise internet prices to compensate. I can see a

Re: BGP multihoming question.

2010-12-11 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
George Bonser gbon...@seven.com writes: -Original Message- From: Bret Clark Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 7:08 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: BGP multihoming question. On 12/10/2010 10:01 AM, Dylan Ebner wrote: 3. You cannot trust the second isp to advertise the SWIP

Re: [Operational] Internet Police

2010-12-09 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
mikea mi...@mikea.ath.cx writes: On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 06:26:30PM +, Dobbins, Roland wrote: On Dec 10, 2010, at 1:19 AM, Michael Smith wrote: front lines of this cyberwar? Warfare isn't the correct metaphor. Espionage/covert action is the correct metaphor. Low intensity

Re: ARIN space not accepted

2010-12-06 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Kevin Oberman ober...@es.net writes: From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:00:15 -0500 On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:24:16 PST, Leo Bicknell said: It is speculated that no later than Q1, two more /8's will be allocated, triggering a policy

Re: Cage nuts/rack hw near SAVVIS DC3 (Sterling VA)

2010-11-30 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Owen DeLong o...@delong.com writes: On Nov 30, 2010, at 5:32 AM, Christopher J. Pilkington wrote: Anyone know where I can buy cage nuts and rack screws locally near SAVVIS DC3 in Sterling, VA? They don't seem to have a local supply here, and somehow the racks we bought came with a 2:1

Re: experience with equinix exchange

2010-11-19 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Paul is pretty clueful; I think he was asking for specifics as to what the layer 8/9 issues are at Equinix, rather than an explanation of what layer 8 and 9 means. Fly Fast, -r Justin Horstman justin.horst...@gorillanation.com writes: 8 users 9 politics and policies -Original

Re: Why is your company treating IPv6 turn ups as a sales matter?

2010-11-19 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
George, Wes E [NTK] wesley.e.geo...@sprint.com writes: Sprint and Qwest, I know you're guilty. Bill, I know that you mean well and you're just trying to push IPv6 deployment, and sometimes a little public shame goes a long way, but in the future, before you call my company out in public

Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching

2010-11-03 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Gary Baribault g...@baribault.net writes: OK, I haven't taken it back out of the box, but anyone still have 8 bit ISA Arcnet with thin coax? Sorry bro, only Farallon PhoneNet and Gatorboxes here. back to the shadows -r

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