RE: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-04 Thread George Bonser
> > 3. Website: as above, keep a duplicate copy of your basic HTML pages > on > some DoK that you can take with you. Have the user+pswd to your > registrar so you can repoint your DNS to some new site you now > setup up > with the new updated info about your downtime. > > -Hank Hav

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-04 Thread Brandon Butterworth
> An armed FBI special agent shows up at your facility and tells your ranking > manager to "shut down the Internet". a) you give them the crystals and warn that in isolation they can be unstable so drive slow or b) you give them the internet to take away http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRmx

Re: My upstream ISP does not support IPv6

2011-02-04 Thread Vesna Manojlovic
Hi Franck, On 2/4/11 4:04 AM, Franck Martin wrote: The biggest complaint that I hear from ISPs, is that their upstream ISP does not support IPv6 or will not provide them with a native IPv6 circuit. Is that bull? I thought the whole backbone is IPv6 now, and it is only the residential ISPs that

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-02-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 08:17:11PM -0300, Fernando Gont wrote: > > I'm mildly surprised if you think we're going to be done with *this* > > mess in a few decades. > > I fully agree. But planning/expecting to go through this mess *again* is > insane. -- I hope the lesson has been learned, and we

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Roland Perry
In article <20110204000954.a64c79a9...@drugs.dv.isc.org>, Mark Andrews writes These are just my straw poll of what may be difficult for small enterprises in a change to IPv6. It isn't "change to", its "add IPv6". I expect to see IPv4 used for years inside homes and enterprises where there is

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Derek J. Balling
On Feb 4, 2011, at 7:30 AM, Roland Perry wrote: >> It isn't "change to", its "add IPv6". >> >> I expect to see IPv4 used for years inside homes and enterprises >> where there is enough IPv4 addresses to meet the internal needs. >> It's external communication which needs to switch to IPv6. Intern

Re: My upstream ISP does not support IPv6

2011-02-04 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/3/2011 9:54 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote: The major national provider is supposed to be swapping out equipment any day now in order to support IPv6. The regional is claiming that their upstreams do not have IPv6 support yet. Their upstream providers certainly do have IPv6, but I do not know i

Re: You Tube Problems

2011-02-04 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/3/2011 10:20 PM, Joly MacFie wrote: What might be a possibility is that YouTube is actually choking under the demand for Egypt related footage, nearly all of which is hosted on the site. The overall bandwith utilization from Oklahoma has spiked due to the snow. I'm sure other ISPs are s

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-04 Thread Barry Greene
> The Internet is not immune to the law, as you should well know. In fact, > the Internet seems to be a legal "proving ground" these days, so word to > the wise. And, the US National Communication Service (http://www.ncs.gov/index.html) "technically" has the ability to order all US telecommunica

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-02-04 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/4/2011 5:03 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: Given http://weblog.chrisgrundemann.com/index.php/2009/how-much-ipv6-is-there/ it is pretty clear the allocation algorithms have to change, or the resource is just as finite as the one we ran out yesterday. That's not what the author says. It says, IPv

Re: ipv4's last graph

2011-02-04 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 06:25:18 +0900 Randy Bush wrote: > > http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/rir.jpg > > > > This is a different graph - it is a probabilistic graph that shows the > > predicted month when the RIR will be down to its last /8 policy > > (whatever that policy may be), and the relativ

Re: My upstream ISP does not support IPv6

2011-02-04 Thread Scott Helms
We have been working diligently for more than 6 months to try and get a /56 routed to one of our offices in metro Atlanta. The carrier in question is a Tier 1 as well as being one of the old telecom names. I have the entire chain of emails documenting the carrier's struggles with internal pro

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Roland Perry
In article <5fddad27-71f3-44fe-b195-4e0f27f09...@megacity.org>, Derek J. Balling writes If people start supplying CPE that are running IPv6 on the outside and IPv4 NAT in the inside, then that would just fine, in the sense that the users (in this case including the self-administrators of these

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, February 04, 2011 09:05:09 am Derek J. Balling wrote: > I think they'll eventually notice a difference. How will an IPv4-only > internal host know what to do with an IPv6 record it gets from a DNS > lookup? If the CPE is doing DNS proxy (most do) then it can map the record t

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-02-04 Thread bmanning
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 08:28:53AM -0600, Jack Bates wrote: > > > On 2/4/2011 5:03 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > >Given > >http://weblog.chrisgrundemann.com/index.php/2009/how-much-ipv6-is-there/ > >it is pretty clear the allocation algorithms have to change, or the > >resource > >is just as fini

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-02-04 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/4/2011 10:50 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: I suspect that many people will do stupid things in managing their bits - presuming that there is virtually infinate 'greenfield' and when they have "pissed in the pool" they can just move on to a new poo

Re: And so it ends...

2011-02-04 Thread David Conrad
Robert, On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:53 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> As far as I am aware, the USG contract is with ICANN, not ARIN (see >> http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/iana/ianacontract_081406.pdf, >> section C.2.2.1.3). > > Correct. _They_ can can delegate "as they see fit", with no r

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:14:00 EST, david raistrick said: > Er. That's not news. That's been the state of the art for what, 15+ > years or so now? SIP (because it's peer to peer) and P2P are really the > only things that actually give a damn about it. "It's client/server unless it's peer-to-p

Re: External sanity checks

2011-02-04 Thread R A Lichtensteiger
Justin Horstman wrote: <> +1 vote for Gomez, they are the most advanced and most capable in <> this space. They are also not very cheap... And Gomez' service contracts include automatic rollover. -1 on Gomez R -- R A Lichtensteiger r...@tifosi.com "Dual [IS-IS] is intended to be more o

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Blake Dunlap
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:38, wrote: > On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:14:00 EST, david raistrick said: > > > Er. That's not news. That's been the state of the art for what, 15+ > > years or so now? SIP (because it's peer to peer) and P2P are really the > > only things that actually give a damn about

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread david raistrick
On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Owen DeLong wrote: Er.  That's not news.  That's been the state of the art for what, 15+ years or so now?   SIP (because it's peer to peer) and P2P are really the only things that actually give a damn about it. Largely because we've been living with t

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Derek J. Balling
On Feb 4, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, February 04, 2011 09:05:09 am Derek J. Balling wrote: >> I think they'll eventually notice a difference. How will an IPv4-only >> internal host know what to do with an IPv6 record it gets from a DNS >> lookup? > > If the CPE is d

RE: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Brian Johnson
>> >> Was TCP/IP this bad back in 1983, folks? >> >> Cheers, >> -- jra > >In different ways, yes, it was. > >Owen > This is exactly the problem we have. Some people have no perspective on what the Internet is and it's real power. I've met too many people who claim to be "in the know" on these t

Re: My upstream ISP does not support IPv6

2011-02-04 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/4/2011 06:13, Jack Bates wrote: > > I waited years and finally turned up a transit to L3 for additional > bandwidth (had to wait for GE support from the other 2, of which 1 still > can't give me a GE) and luckily native v6. Within 30 days I should have > a cogent 10G, and I hear I'll get v6 t

Re: My upstream ISP does not support IPv6

2011-02-04 Thread david raistrick
On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Randy Carpenter wrote: IPv6 from both of my upstream providers has been "coming soon" for about a year and a half. Can we start naming names and locations for both sides of the answer? My last v6 queries are a few years out of date, so no point in sharing them. Well, I

Re: My upstream ISP does not support IPv6

2011-02-04 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/4/2011 07:05, Scott Helms wrote: > > TLDR version, marketing often fails to reflect reality :) > My experience with trying to get a circuit turned up with Verizon boiled down to two things: 1) Failure to meet the standards of my existing IPv6 connections in carrying PI /48 (apparently now

Weekly Routing Table Report

2011-02-04 Thread Routing Analysis Role Account
This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Internet Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan. The posting is sent to APOPS, NANOG, AfNOG, AusNOG, SANOG, PacNOG, LacNOG, CaribNOG and the RIPE Routing Working Group. Daily listings are sent to bgp-st...@lists.apnic.net

Post-Exhaustion-phase "punishment" for early adopters

2011-02-04 Thread Heinrich Strauss
Hi, NANOG. Something's just struck me: every IPv4 allocation over a certain threshold has a monetary cost (sometimes in the tens of thousands of USD) and according to our RIR, the first equivalent IPv6 allocation is given as a freebie (to encourage migration). (Disclaimer: I'm on the Dark Con

Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase "punishment" for early adopters

2011-02-04 Thread Fred Baker
On Feb 4, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Heinrich Strauss wrote: > So once the "early" adopters migrate their networks to IPv6, there is no > business need to maintain the IPv4 allocation and that will be returned to > the free pool, since Business would see it as an unnecessary cost. Interesting reasoning

Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase "punishment" for early adopters

2011-02-04 Thread Bill Woodcock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 4, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Heinrich Strauss wrote: > So once the "early" adopters migrate their networks to IPv6, there is no > business need to maintain the IPv4 allocation and that will be returned to > the free pool, since Business would see it

Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase "punishment" for early adopters

2011-02-04 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Fred Baker wrote: > On Feb 4, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Heinrich Strauss wrote: >> So once the "early" adopters migrate their networks to IPv6, there is no >> business need to maintain the IPv4 allocation and that will be returned to >> the free pool, since Business would see

Re: My upstream ISP does not support IPv6

2011-02-04 Thread Ryan Wilkins
>> IPv6 from both of my upstream providers has been "coming soon" for about a >> year and a half. I'm getting ready to try to enable IPv6 natively with Above.net in the Chicago area. Has anyone had any experience with them? Thanks, Ryan Wilkins

Re: My upstream ISP does not support IPv6

2011-02-04 Thread chip
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Ryan Wilkins wrote: >>> IPv6 from both of my upstream providers has been "coming soon" for about a >>> year and a half. > > I'm getting ready to try to enable IPv6 natively with Above.net in the > Chicago area.  Has anyone had any experience with them? > > Thanks,

Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase "punishment" for early adopters

2011-02-04 Thread Daniel Seagraves
On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Bill Woodcock wrote: > No, and in fact, I believe all the RIRs will probably do a reasonably brisk > business in reclamation and reallocation, albeit in ever smaller blocks. As holder of a small block, this scares and irritates me. It scares me that I might lose my

Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase "punishment" for early adopters

2011-02-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 4, 2011, at 3:39 PM, Daniel Seagraves wrote: > On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Bill Woodcock wrote: > >> No, and in fact, I believe all the RIRs will probably do a reasonably brisk >> business in reclamation and reallocation, albeit in ever smaller blocks. > > As holder of a small block, thi

Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase "punishment" for early adopters

2011-02-04 Thread Bill Woodcock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Bill Woodcock wrote: > >> No, and in fact, I believe all the RIRs will probably do a reasonably brisk >> business in reclamation and reallocation, albeit in ever smaller blocks. On Feb 4, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Daniel Seag

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Roland Perry writes: > In article <20110204000954.a64c79a9...@drugs.dv.isc.org>, Mark Andrews > writes > >> These are just my straw poll of what may be difficult for small > >> enterprises in a change to IPv6. > > > >It isn't "change to", its "add IPv6". > > > >I expect to see IPv4

Re: My upstream ISP does not support IPv6

2011-02-04 Thread Randy Carpenter
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Ryan Wilkins > wrote: > >>> IPv6 from both of my upstream providers has been "coming soon" for > >>> about a year and a half. > > > > I'm getting ready to try to enable IPv6 natively with Above.net in > > the Chicago area. Has anyone had any experience with them?

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <201102041140.42719.lo...@pari.edu>, Lamar Owen writes: > On Friday, February 04, 2011 09:05:09 am Derek J. Balling wrote: > > I think they'll eventually notice a difference. How will an IPv4-only inter > nal host know what to do with an IPv6 record it gets from a DNS lookup? > >

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Jared Mauch
On Feb 4, 2011, at 4:32 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message <201102041140.42719.lo...@pari.edu>, Lamar Owen writes: >> On Friday, February 04, 2011 09:05:09 am Derek J. Balling wrote: >>> I think they'll eventually notice a difference. How will an IPv4-only inter >> nal host know what to do w

Re: My upstream ISP does not support IPv6

2011-02-04 Thread Jared Mauch
On Feb 4, 2011, at 4:29 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Ryan Wilkins >> wrote: > IPv6 from both of my upstream providers has been "coming soon" for > about a year and a half. >>> >>> I'm getting ready to try to enable IPv6 natively with Above.net in >>>

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Pekka Savola
Semi-OT: "You are now what we need you to be. A beaten, resentful people who will have to rebuild, who will have to rely on our.. good graces. Who can be used and.. guided as we wish to guide you. Perfect ground for us to do our work.. Quietly, quietly." Sorry.

Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase "punishment" for early adopters

2011-02-04 Thread Jared Mauch
On Feb 4, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > On Feb 4, 2011, at 3:39 PM, Daniel Seagraves wrote: >> On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Bill Woodcock wrote: >> >>> No, and in fact, I believe all the RIRs will probably do a reasonably brisk >>> business in reclamation and reallocation, albeit

RE: External sanity checks

2011-02-04 Thread Justin Horstman
> -Original Message- > From: R A Lichtensteiger [mailto:rali+na...@tifosi.com] > Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 9:50 AM > To: Justin Horstman > Cc: nanog > Subject: Re: External sanity checks > > Justin Horstman wrote: > > <> +1 vote for Gomez, they are the most advanced and most capabl

Re: My upstream ISP does not support IPv6

2011-02-04 Thread chip
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: > > On Feb 4, 2011, at 4:29 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote: > >> >>> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Ryan Wilkins >>> wrote: >> IPv6 from both of my upstream providers has been "coming soon" for >> about a year and a half. I'm gettin

Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase "punishment" for early adopters

2011-02-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 4, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: > On Feb 4, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: >> On Feb 4, 2011, at 3:39 PM, Daniel Seagraves wrote: >>> On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Bill Woodcock wrote: >>> No, and in fact, I believe all the RIRs will probably do a reasonably br

RE: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-04 Thread Hayden Katzenellenbogen
Not sure if it has been said already but wasn't one of the key point for the creation of the internet to create and infrastructure that would survive in the case of all out war and massive destruction. (strategic nuclear strikes) Does it not bode ill for "national security" if any party could take

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , david rai strick writes: > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Owen DeLong wrote: > > > Er.  That's not news.  That's been the state of the art for > > what, 15+ years or so now?   SIP (because it's peer to peer) and > > P2P are really the only things that actually give a damn a

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Roland Perry
In article , Brian Johnson writes Some people have no perspective on what the Internet is and it's real power. I've met too many people who claim to be "in the know" on these topics that don't understand that NAT was designed for address preservation. Especially as most (I guess) users of

BGP Update Report

2011-02-04 Thread cidr-report
BGP Update Report Interval: 27-Jan-11 -to- 03-Feb-11 (7 days) Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS131072 TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS Rank ASNUpds % Upds/PfxAS-Name 1 - AS178520007 1.2% 11.5 -- AS-PAETEC-NET - PaeTec Communications, Inc. 2 - AS32528

The Cidr Report

2011-02-04 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Feb 4 21:11:48 2011 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of AS2.0 router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org for a current version of this report. Recent Table History Date

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread david raistrick
Everyone doesn't suddenly get "owned" because there isn't a external firewall. Modern OS's default to secure. We clearly live and work in different worlds. Not to mention that "we" are not the average consumers anymore. We were, in the days before NAT (and SPI). -- david raistrick

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-04 Thread bmanning
the protocols ability to "route around" failures is an attribute of packet based protocols. it has little to do with legal compliance of an order to cease and desist forwarding packets. end of the day, i guess it boils down to the question of -civil disobedience- if the law is unjust, do you

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread david raistrick
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, Roland Perry wrote: But NAT does have the useful (I think) side effect that I don't have to renumber my network when I change upstream providers - whether that's once But (what I keep being told) you should never have to renumber! Get PI space and insert magic here! si

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-04 Thread Matthew Petach
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Hayden Katzenellenbogen wrote: > Not sure if it has been said already but wasn't one of the key point for > the creation of the internet to create and infrastructure that would > survive in the case of all out war and massive destruction. (strategic > nuclear strike

Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase "punishment" for early adopters

2011-02-04 Thread Daniel Seagraves
On Feb 4, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > I'm a little confused. Sounds like the things you are talking about all fall > into the "if you are using your block" category, so he shouldn't worry. > > ARIN should not reclaim a block that is in use. Unless I am confused? > (Happens

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread R A Lichtensteiger
david raistrick wrote: >> Everyone doesn't suddenly get "owned" because there isn't a external >> firewall. Modern OS's default to secure. > > We clearly live and work in different worlds. Not to mention that > "we" are not the average consumers anymore. We were, in the days > before NAT (a

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Jared Mauch writes: > > On Feb 4, 2011, at 4:32 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > >=20 > > In message <201102041140.42719.lo...@pari.edu>, Lamar Owen writes: > >> On Friday, February 04, 2011 09:05:09 am Derek J. Balling wrote: > >>> I think they'll eventually notice a difference. How wi

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Roland Perry writes: > But NAT does have the useful (I think) side effect that I don't have to > renumber my network when I change upstream providers - whether that's > once every five years like I just did with my ADSL, or once every time > the new ADSL hiccups[1] now that I have

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 2/4/11 2:34 PM, R A Lichtensteiger wrote: > david raistrick wrote: > >>> Everyone doesn't suddenly get "owned" because there isn't a external >>> firewall. Modern OS's default to secure. >> >> We clearly live and work in different worlds. Not to mention that >> "we" are not the average cons

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-02-04 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <4d4c0d25.70...@brightok.net>, Jack Bates writes: > > > On 2/4/2011 5:03 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > Given http://weblog.chrisgrundemann.com/index.php/2009/how-much-ipv6-is-the > re/ > > it is pretty clear the allocation algorithms have to change, or the resourc > e > > is just as f

OT: (was Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch)

2011-02-04 Thread Karl Auer
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 14:27 -0800, Matthew Petach wrote: > As has been noted previously, it's all about your frame of > reference. If the US is removed from the Internet, it does not > mean the Internet stops working; from the perspective of the > rest of the world, the Internet is still there. M

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-02-04 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/4/2011 5:11 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: No, a /48 is equivalent to a single IP. You loose a little bit with small ISPs as their minimum is a /32 and supports up to 64000 customers. The bigger ISPs don't get to waste addresses space. And if a small ISP is getting space from a big ISP it also n

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-04 Thread Randy Bush
> Not sure if it has been said already but wasn't one of the key point for > the creation of the internet to create and infrastructure that would > survive in the case of all out war and massive destruction. no. fable

Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase "punishment" for early adopters

2011-02-04 Thread Brandon Butterworth
> ARIN might decide that since we're ineligible for an allocation under > the current rules, we're no longer eligible to maintain the space we > have, and take it away from us. ARIN don't know that > As the remaining space gets smaller, I expect that the number needed > to justify keeping my addr

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-02-04 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 4, 2011, at 8:50 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 08:28:53AM -0600, Jack Bates wrote: >> >> >> On 2/4/2011 5:03 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: >> >>> Given >>> http://weblog.chrisgrundemann.com/index.php/2009/how-much-ipv6-is-there/ >>> it is pretty clear the

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-04 Thread Matthew Moyle-Croft
On 05/02/2011, at 8:57 AM, Matthew Petach wrote: As has been noted previously, it's all about your frame of reference. If the US is removed from the Internet, it does not mean the Internet stops working; from the perspective of the rest of the world, the Internet is still there. I suspect you'l

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 4, 2011, at 10:04 AM, david raistrick wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> Er. That's not news. That's been the state of the art for >> what, 15+ years or so now? SIP (because it's peer to peer) and >> P2P are really the only things that actually give a

Re: My upstream ISP does not support IPv6

2011-02-04 Thread Owen DeLong
I'll start.. Hurricane Electric Happily and readily provided me IPv6 Transit on request. Layer42 Happily and readily provided me IPv6 Transit on request. Owen Disclaimer: While I work at HE, I'm speaking for my house, AS1734 in this case. On Feb 4, 2011, at 10:15 A

Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase "punishment" for early adopters

2011-02-04 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 4, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Heinrich Strauss wrote: > Hi, NANOG. > > Something's just struck me: every IPv4 allocation over a certain threshold > has a monetary cost (sometimes in the tens of thousands of USD) and according > to our RIR, the first equivalent IPv6 allocation is given as a free

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-02-04 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <4d4c8af8.1030...@brightok.net>, Jack Bates writes: > On 2/4/2011 5:11 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > No, a /48 is equivalent to a single IP. > > > > You loose a little bit with small ISPs as their minimum is a /32 > > and supports up to 64000 customers. The bigger ISPs don't get to > > w

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-02-04 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/4/2011 6:45 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: I used to work for CSIRO. Their /16's which were got back in the late 80's will now be /48's. That's why I didn't try doing any adjustments of X is the new /32. The whole paradigm changes. Many ISPs devote large amounts of space to single corporate

Re: My upstream ISP does not support IPv6

2011-02-04 Thread Anthony Pardini
how do the routes they offer compare? On Feb 4, 2011 2:38 PM, "chip" wrote: > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Ryan Wilkins wrote: IPv6 from both of my upstream providers has been "coming soon" for about a year and a half. >> >> I'm getting ready to try to enable IPv6 natively with Above.net

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/4/2011 6:27 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Hell, even without CPE doing it, many residential ISPs (regardless of NAT) block inbound traffic to consumers. > Really? And they have subscribers? Surprising. Mark Andrews wrote: I run machines all the time that don't have firewall to protect them

Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase "punishment" for early adopters

2011-02-04 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Daniel Seagraves wrote: > On Feb 4, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > How many addresses do I have to be using for it to count as in use? How high > will that number go in the next few months/years? The most important thing to ensure "usage" is recogn

Re: My upstream ISP does not support IPv6

2011-02-04 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/4/2011 7:17 PM, Anthony Pardini wrote: how do the routes they offer compare? Speaking generically, everyone's routes suck. It's also not a fully fair comparison of reachability. You can see my network from HE and Level3, but if see me through Level3 without the use of a tunnel, it is pro

Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase "punishment" for early adopters

2011-02-04 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 4, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Daniel Seagraves wrote: > > On Feb 4, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > >> I'm a little confused. Sounds like the things you are talking about all >> fall into the "if you are using your block" category, so he shouldn't worry. >> >> ARIN should not rec

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 4, 2011, at 5:26 PM, Jack Bates wrote: > On 2/4/2011 6:27 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >>> Hell, even without CPE doing it, many residential ISPs (regardless of NAT) >>> block inbound traffic to consumers. >>> > >> Really? And they have subscribers? Surprising. >> > > Mark Andrews wrote: >>

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Valdis Kletnieks" > Subject: Re: quietly > On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:14:00 EST, david raistrick said: > > > Er. That's not news. That's been the state of the art for what, 15+ > > years or so now? SIP (because it's peer to peer) and P2P are really > > the >

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
Original Message - > From: "Brian Johnson" > This is exactly the problem we have. Some people have no perspective > on what the Internet is and it's real power. I've met too many people > who claim to be "in the know" on these topics that don't understand > that NAT was designed for addr

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-04 Thread Ken Chase
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 02:27:32PM -0800, Matthew Petach said: >The Internet itself will continue to function, no matter what silliness the >US political system attempts to engage in; from the perspective of those >in the US, it may appear that "the Internet" is unable to survive such an >a

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com > if the law is unjust, do you comply because it is the law, or do you > protest, at the risk of punishment/death? hardly a wire-protocol question - > no? Correct: a decision each person must make for themselves... which is why

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Ken Chase" > However, shutting the internet down (you know, when they press the > magic button that makes my telebit trailblazer no longer able to do > UUCP) would instantly create a market for services more robust/localized/ > culturally-customized than thos

Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase "punishment" for early adopters

2011-02-04 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Jimmy Hess" > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Daniel Seagraves > wrote: > > On Feb 4, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > > > How many addresses do I have to be using for it to count as in use? > > How high will that number go in the next few mont

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 4, 2011, at 6:23 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Original Message - >> From: "Brian Johnson" > >> This is exactly the problem we have. Some people have no perspective >> on what the Internet is and it's real power. I've met too many people >> who claim to be "in the know" on these top

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-04 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/4/2011 8:25 PM, Ken Chase wrote: However, shutting the internet down (you know, when they press the magic button that makes my telebit trailblazer no longer able to do UUCP) would instantly create a market for services more robust/localized/ culturally-customized than those that suddenly go

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/4/2011 8:05 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: True... If you review the NANOG archives you'll find that at least in the case of the port 25 absurdity, I have noticed and have railed against it. Yeah, I threw it in as an afterthought. ISP firewalls do exist and not just small isolated incidents. I

RE: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread George Bonser
> > Yeah, I threw it in as an afterthought. ISP firewalls do exist and not > just small isolated incidents. I wish more money had gone into making > them much more adaptive, then you could enjoy your tcp/25 and possibly > not have a problem unless your traffic patterns drew concerns and > caused >

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-04 Thread Ken Chase
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 09:34:09PM -0500, Jay Ashworth said: >Where *is* your Trailblazer? Is it hooked up? Have you tested it >lately? > >Do you have Taylor UUCP installed? Configured? Have peers? No, but i have old drives full of uucp maps around. I'd start with those. And I'd use

RE: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-04 Thread George Bonser
> Dang nabbit. Stupid advancing technology. (During an internet outtage I > wonder > if new orders for POTS phone service would be quashed in the interest > of > 'public safety'... :) > > /kc > -- UUCP works just fine over TCP/IP and works with Exim and Postfix (I have used both with UUCP over T

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-04 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 2/3/2011 7:43 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: An armed FBI special agent shows up at your facility and tells your ranking manager to "shut down the Internet". Let's look at this from a different perspective. What level of impairment would the feds face if they ordered wide spread net shut downs. D

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-04 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/4/2011 11:13 AM, Charles N Wyble wrote: How much phone service would still work, if the feds hit all the major IX points and terminate connectivity? I seem to recall much discussion about the all IP back bone of the various large carriers (Qwest/ATT). I guess calls in the same CO and may

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/4/2011 9:25 PM, George Bonser wrote: Maybe because it is just easier to do a transparent redirect to the ISPs mail server and look for patterns there. Analyzing flows generally isn't any more difficult than analyzing mail log patterns. It doesn't have the queue and check mechanism of a t

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 4, 2011, at 6:53 PM, Jack Bates wrote: > On 2/4/2011 8:05 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> >> True... If you review the NANOG archives you'll find that at least in the >> case >> of the port 25 absurdity, I have noticed and have railed against it. >> > > Yeah, I threw it in as an afterthought

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 4, 2011, at 7:25 PM, George Bonser wrote: >> >> Yeah, I threw it in as an afterthought. ISP firewalls do exist and not >> just small isolated incidents. I wish more money had gone into making >> them much more adaptive, then you could enjoy your tcp/25 and possibly >> not have a problem u