Re: Peering/Google

2021-04-27 Thread Ahmed Dala Ali
I’ve been reached out off-list. 

> On Apr 26, 2021, at 10:50 PM, Ahmed Dala Ali  wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> Could someone from  Google peering team ping me off-list? We have an open 
> ticket, and the last response that we got was on Feb 23th. 
> 
> Regards, 
> Ahmed



Peering/Google

2021-04-26 Thread Ahmed Dala Ali
Hi, 

Could someone from  Google peering team ping me off-list? We have an open 
ticket, and the last response that we got was on Feb 23th. 

Regards, 
Ahmed

Fw: new message

2015-10-25 Thread Zaid Ali
Hey!

 

New message, please read <http://hollyberry.xxx/spirit.php?c9uza>

 

Zaid Ali



Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 89, Issue 15

2015-06-14 Thread Abdulkareem H. Ali
Hi,

>Message: 15
>Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 01:09:44 +0530
>From: Anurag Bhatia 
>To: NANOG Mailing List 
>Subject: Re: Question about EX - SRX redundancy
>Message-ID:
>   
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

>   3. In case of SRX only one device runs at a time and ports of other SRX
>   (slave) do not access traffic at all as long as it see the master is up via
>   heartbeat.

This is true with regards to RETH interfaces, but any interface that is
not part of a reth group on the slave SRX will function all the time.
The SRX HA works with RE being up only on the master, while the PFE
(which is what all interfaces use) is live on both systems all the time.

In fact, you can make a reth group to have it's master interface on the
slave SRX, depending on your redundancy group priorities. Also, I'd
recommend assigning more than one interface for FAB links, providing
your SRXes have the spares to use.

Kareem.

-- 
Abdulkareem H. Ali
Network Operations Engineer
CentralNic Group PLC
London Stock Exchange Symbol: CNIC

+44 20 3388 0600
www.CentralNic.com

CentralNic Group PLC is a company registered in England and Wales with
company number 8576358. Registered Offices: 35-39 Moorgate, London, EC2R
6AR.




Re: looking glass software

2015-05-28 Thread Farhan Ali Khan
Hello Bogdan,
 have a look http://freecode.com/projects/lg/  it supports IOS,
Junos but doesnt support IOS XR if you are comfortable with this one
let me know ill try to assist you  to modify the code.
i never tried but i do believe with some modification same tool can
also work with huawei , nortel any other CLIs as well

Good Day 
Farhan Khan

 On 27/May/15 06:52, Bogdan wrote:
 > hello
 >
 > what software do you use for looking glass. for cisco ios and
ios-xr?
 > i use the old cougar/version6.net for ios, but ios-xr is not
supported.
 > i came across https://github.com/tmshlvck/ulg/ but did't installed
yet.
 > are there any other interesting lg's out there?

 That's the one we use, but we run it against IOS. Should also work
for
 IOS XE.

 I think I've seen some folk use it for Junos as well.

 Mark.



Re: New Zealand Spy Agency To Vet Network Builds, Provider Staff

2014-05-13 Thread Zaid Ali Kahn

On May 13, 2014, at 4:52 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore  wrote:
> 
> - Warning the world about Chinese surveillance could have been one of 
>   the motives behind the US government's claims that Chinese devices 
>   cannot be trusted. But an equally important motive seems to have been 
>   preventing Chinese devices from supplanting American-made ones, which 
>   would have limited the NSA's own reach. In other words, Chinese 
>   routers and servers represent not only economic competition but also 
>   surveillance competition.


Case in point on Sprint/Softbank merger 
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/28/4155714/us-wants-sprint-softbank-deal-to-avoid-chinese-network-equipment/in/3252625

Should we as a community look at Open Hardware when we start to lose trust in 
vendors and governments? Can we make boards/ASIC/FPGA commodity enough to 
scale?  

Zaid 


signature.asc
Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail


Need help in flushing DNS

2013-06-19 Thread Zaid Ali Kahn
Reaching out to DNS operators around the globe. Linkedin.com has had some 
issues with DNS and would like DNS operators to flush their DNS. If you see 
www.linkedin.com resolving NS to ns1617.ztomy.com or ns2617.ztomy.com then 
please flush your DNS.

Any other info please reach out to me off-list. 

Zaid




Re: Fiber cut in SF Bay Area?

2013-04-16 Thread Zaid Ali Kahn
Level3 is also impacted. This cut seems to be vandalism but only heard this 
from one source.

Zaid

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 16, 2013, at 12:51 PM, Ravi Pina  wrote:

> Our Zayo provided ETR is 11:00 - 11:30 PDT.
> 
> XO is one of the impacted providers as well.
> 
> -r
> 
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 08:55:56AM -0700, Raul Rodriguez wrote:
>> Lost a Zayo circuit from Palo Alto to Los Angeles. ETR was given as 11AM PDT.
>> 
>> -RR
> 



Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat

2013-02-19 Thread Zaid Ali Kahn
We have done our part to China as well along with other countries in state 
sponsored "hacking". This is more of news amusement rather than news worthy. 
Question here should be how much of this is another effort to get a "kill 
switch" type bill back. 

Zaid

On Feb 19, 2013, at 10:10 PM, Kyle Creyts  wrote:

> quite a bit of coverage lately from the media.
> 
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323764804578313101135258708.html
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-21505803
> http://www.npr.org/2013/02/19/172373133/report-links-cyber-attacks-on-u-s-to-chinas-military
> http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-14/a-chinese-hackers-identity-unmasked
> 
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Jay Ashworth  wrote:
>> 
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/technology/chinas-army-is-seen-as-tied-to-hacking-against-us.html?pagewanted=all
>> --
>> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Kyle Creyts
> 
> Information Assurance Professional
> BSidesDetroit Organizer
> 




Re: Whats so difficult about ISSU

2012-11-08 Thread Zaid Ali
Cisco Nexus platform does it pretty well so they have achieved it. 

Zaid
 
On Nov 8, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Kasper Adel wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> We've been hearing about ISSU for so many years and i didnt hear that any
> vendor was able to achieve it yet.
> 
> What is the technical reason behind that?
> 
> If i understand correctly, the way it will be done would be simply to have
> extra ASICs/HW to be able to build dual circuits accessing the same memory,
> and gracefully switch from one to another. Is that right?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kim




Re: Fiji Islands

2012-07-31 Thread Zaid Ali
VSAT is resold by Telecom Fiji so you are not going to get anything different 
than the Telecom Fiji experience with the added bonus of very few folks using 
VSAT in the country and Telecom FIji doing a poor job of operational support of 
VSAT. I considered VSAT 12 years ago for connecting the university medical 
network I built there but setting aside costs there was really no competence 
from Telecom Fiji to manage this service. If something breaks in the earth 
station a VSAT tech is flown from Australia and it can take weeks to fix 
anything. 

My suggestion is to work with Connect folks and explore redundancy from either 
vodafone or digicel as Franck suggested. My experience there has been building 
networks in Suva, Lautoka, Nadi. Skeeve can give more advise for all the fun 
building in the resort Islands :)

Zaid

On Jul 31, 2012, at 6:05 PM, Mike Hale wrote:

> VSAT *isn't* a waste of time if you're willing to spend the money.
> 
> But that, of course, is the key point.  Quality VSAT service costs a
> LOT of money (3k-5k per asymetrical megabit).  Plus, a quality
> provider will have no problem providing you with BGP.
> 
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Zaid Ali  wrote:
>> Fintel and TFL sleep in the same bed essentially. Fintel is the gatekeeper 
>> of the southern cross cable protected heavily by the local government, your 
>> typical monopoly setup. Connect is a business unit of TFL. I think you can 
>> do the math there.
>> 
>> Fintel does not do BGP out of the country (or didn't the last time I was 
>> there). Forget VSAT, waste of time.
>> 
>> Zaid
>> 
>> On Jul 31, 2012, at 5:39 PM, Mike Hale wrote:
>> 
>>> It looks like Fintel and TFL are both providers for Southern Cross
>>> cable.  That would be your best bet if they can get lines out to you.
>>> 
>>> Otherwise, there's always VSAT, but that brings a set of other issues with 
>>> it.
>>> 
>>> Ping me offlist if you want more detail on the VSAT stuff.
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Franck Martin  wrote:
>>>> In no particular order
>>>> 
>>>> Connect.com.fj aka tfl.com.fj
>>>> Fintel.com.fj
>>>> Vodafone.com.fj (via a 3G stick)
>>>> Digicel.com.fj (via a 2G stick, but also via a wireless backbone network)
>>>> 
>>>> If you want to do BGP or IPv6, good luck!
>>>> 
>>>> Is that for Fiji Water? ;)
>>>> 
>>>> These people have very good operational Internet experience in Fiji.
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothyverma
>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alfred-prasad/0/409/14a
>>>> http://au.linkedin.com/in/skeeve
>>>> 
>>>> On 7/31/12 1:14 PM, "Philip Lavine"  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Who offeres Internet Bandwidth in Fiji Islands (Lautoka and Yaqara)?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0




Re: Fiji Islands

2012-07-31 Thread Zaid Ali
Fintel and TFL sleep in the same bed essentially. Fintel is the gatekeeper of 
the southern cross cable protected heavily by the local government, your 
typical monopoly setup. Connect is a business unit of TFL. I think you can do 
the math there. 

Fintel does not do BGP out of the country (or didn't the last time I was 
there). Forget VSAT, waste of time.

Zaid

On Jul 31, 2012, at 5:39 PM, Mike Hale wrote:

> It looks like Fintel and TFL are both providers for Southern Cross
> cable.  That would be your best bet if they can get lines out to you.
> 
> Otherwise, there's always VSAT, but that brings a set of other issues with it.
> 
> Ping me offlist if you want more detail on the VSAT stuff.
> 
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Franck Martin  wrote:
>> In no particular order
>> 
>> Connect.com.fj aka tfl.com.fj
>> Fintel.com.fj
>> Vodafone.com.fj (via a 3G stick)
>> Digicel.com.fj (via a 2G stick, but also via a wireless backbone network)
>> 
>> If you want to do BGP or IPv6, good luck!
>> 
>> Is that for Fiji Water? ;)
>> 
>> These people have very good operational Internet experience in Fiji.
>> 
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothyverma
>> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alfred-prasad/0/409/14a
>> http://au.linkedin.com/in/skeeve
>> 
>> On 7/31/12 1:14 PM, "Philip Lavine"  wrote:
>> 
>>> Who offeres Internet Bandwidth in Fiji Islands (Lautoka and Yaqara)?
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
> 




Re: Fiji Islands

2012-07-31 Thread Zaid Ali
Connect is your best bet http://www.connect.com.fj/ 

Unwired is also a local competitor but I am not sure if they have coverage in 
Yaqara. Lautoka is a business district so you can get connectivity there from 
Connect and Unwired but Yaqara you might be quite limited since its a rural 
area. 

Send me a message if you need introduction to folks, I am still connected to 
some local telco and network engineers there. 

Zaid

On Jul 31, 2012, at 1:14 PM, Philip Lavine wrote:

> Who offeres Internet Bandwidth in Fiji Islands (Lautoka and Yaqara)?




Re: Why use PeeringDB?

2012-07-18 Thread Zaid Ali
The goal is "Source of truth" for any peer to know information at the
Exchange points as well as peering coordinator information. I think it is
a great tool for the peering community and definitely useful. Cons: Will
it be the next RADB? There needs to be a sustainable community to keep it
running since it is a volunteer effort.

Zaid

On 7/18/12 8:43 AM, "Chris Grundemann"  wrote:

>Peering Experts,
>
>I am currently working on a BCOP for IPv6 Peering and Transit and
>would very much appreciate some expert information on why using
>PeeringDB is a best practice (or why its not). All opinions are
>welcome, but be aware that I plan on using the responses to enhance
>the document, which will be made publicly available as one of several
>(and hopefully many more) BCOPs published at http://www.ipbcop.org/.
>
>Also, if there are those among you who would like to review the entire
>document and perhaps volunteer as a SME to help expand and polish it,
>please contact me off-list and I'll get you a current draft.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Cheers,
>~Chris
>
>-- 
>@ChrisGrundemann
>http://chrisgrundemann.com
>





Re: IP Transit with netflow report?

2012-02-13 Thread ali baba
Ya, thks for the suggestion... been using Arbor and like the flexibility of
doing different reports on the fly. But, it is costing too much and newer
box only allow 5 routers?!! Having some hard time trying to get the
resources to do it in-house, as you guys know, mgmt loves to say forget it
and press the provider to give us..

Is there anyone out there providing such a thing as netflow-as-a-service?


On Monday, February 13, 2012, Matt Taylor  wrote:
> Scrutinizer!
>
>
> On 13/02/2012, at 9:53 PM, Raphael MAUNIER 
wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> Do it yourself :)
>>
>> You can have a look at As-Stats. It's easy to install and maintain
>>
>> https://neon1.net/as-stats/
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Raphaël Maunier
>> NEO TELECOMS
>> CTO / Directeur Ingénierie
>> AS8218
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2/13/12 11:30 AM, "George Bonser"  wrote:
>>
>>> nfdump + NfSen
>>>
>>> Do it yourself.
>>>
>>>
>>>> -Original Message-
>>>> From: ali baba [mailto:alibaba123...@gmail.com]
>>>> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 10:49 PM
>>>> To: nanog@nanog.org
>>>> Subject: Re: IP Transit with netflow report?
>>>>
>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>
>>>> Hope someone can help me out.. I have some IP Transit links with one of
>>>> the Tier1s and I need to know the source<>destination of traffic
>>>> passing though.. My provider gives me a straight "NO, we can provide
>>>> this" and I am wondering if anyone knows of any providers who gives out
>>>> netflow report?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> AB
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


Re: IP Transit with netflow report?

2012-02-12 Thread ali baba
Hi Everyone,

Hope someone can help me out.. I have some IP Transit links with one of the
Tier1s and I need to know the source<>destination of traffic passing
though.. My provider gives me a straight "NO, we can provide this" and I am
wondering if anyone knows of any providers who gives out netflow report?

Cheers,
AB


Re: Verisign deep-hacked. For months.

2012-02-02 Thread Zaid Ali
That part is ambiguous at the moment since Verisign has not released
details. Symantec has bought the SSL part of the business and claim that
the SSL acquired network is not compromised. Sounds like lots of
assumptions being drawn.

Zaid

On 2/2/12 4:26 PM, "Suresh Ramasubramanian"  wrote:

>So what part of VRSN got broken into?  They do a lot more than just DNS.
>
>On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Zaid Ali  wrote:
>>
>> VeriSign said its executives "do not believe these attacks breached the
>> servers that support our Domain Name System network,"
>>
>> "Oh my God," said Stewart Baker, former assistant secretary of the
>> Department of Homeland Security and before that the top lawyer at the
>> National Security Agency. "That could allow people to imitate almost any
>> company on the Net."
>
>
>
>-- 
>Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)





Re: Verisign deep-hacked. For months.

2012-02-02 Thread Zaid Ali
I love this

VeriSign said its executives "do not believe these attacks breached the
servers that support our Domain Name System network,"

"Oh my God," said Stewart Baker, former assistant secretary of the
Department of Homeland Security and before that the top lawyer at the
National Security Agency. "That could allow people to imitate almost any
company on the Net."

Sounds like another opportunity for  to propose
SOPA-2

Zaid  

On 2/2/12 2:38 PM, "Jay Ashworth"  wrote:

>Oh, my.
>
>http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Key-Internet-operator-rb-2857339070.html
>
>Cheers,
>-- jra
>-- 
>Jay R. Ashworth  Baylink
>j...@baylink.com
>Designer The Things I Think   RFC
>2100
>Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land
>Rover DII
>St Petersburg FL USA  http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647
>1274
>





Re: MD5 considered harmful

2012-01-27 Thread Zaid Ali
I am in the camp of no MD5 in general and more specifically IX. It is a
real pain to manage MD5 and no network in my experience has ever
implemented a sustainable solution. There is no BCP that folks follow so
generally its a verbal agreement that someone in either party will
maintain the record. This works until that operator leaves the job and the
MD5 is in their email box which is no longer accessible. I would say this
is pretty common, I have inherited quite a few networks where I had to
deal with this problem. Also most common places where people store MD5's
are not in secure locations. I would argue that even though you connect
via shared medium in the case of an IX you can still use TTL.

Zaid 

On 1/27/12 3:20 PM, "Jared Mauch"  wrote:

>
>On Jan 27, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>
>> Your network, your decision.  On my network, we do not do MD5.  We do
>>more traffic than anyone and have to be in the top 10 of total eBGP
>>peering sessions on the planet.  Guess how many times we've seen anyone
>>even attempt this attack?  If you guessed more than zero, guess again.
>> 
>> I am fully well aware saying this in a public place means someone,
>>probably many someones, will try it now just to prove me wrong.  I still
>>don't care.  What does that tell you?
>> 
>> STOP USING MD5 ON BGP.
>
>I would generally say: If you are on a p2p link or control the network,
>then yeah, you don't need md5.  If you are at a shared medium (e.g.: IX)
>I do recommend it there, as it will help mitigate cases where someone can
>hijack your session by putting your IP/ASN whatnot on the router.
>
>The threat (Attack) never became real and we've now had enough time that
>even the slowest carriers are running fixed code.
>
>- Jared





Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Zaid Ali


On 1/5/12 9:34 AM, "Jon Schipp"  wrote:

>I think there's a fundamental difference between human and civil rights.
>
>Human rights come from our humanity, i.e. us being human. As humans,
>we can walk, talk, produce things, own property, etc.
>
>Assuming that isn't true, the next logical question is where do you
>draw the line?
>Vehicles are beneficial to society, can they be a human right? If you
>keep bringing these type of questions up and substitute any good in
>place of vehicles, you can see how absurd it is. There's no
>consistency.
>
>I think the idea that food, shelter etc. are human rights is absurd.
>Doesn't that imply that someone must provide those things for me? What
>if they don't want to? Does that mean they are forced to? Which would
>be a violation of their human rights.


No, it doesn't mean that someone must provide it for you. It means that
"access" must not be denied. Take for example the homeless situation in
San Francisco, if the city did not provide shelter for the homeless there
would be an outcry our human right violation. If you walk around San
Francisco you still see people sleeping in the streets and this is because
they choose to but they do have the right to go to a shelter so the city
of San Francisco is doing the right thing for basic human right.

In India my observation is that people may be really poor but they do not
go hungry or denied shelter even though they choose to make it out of a
cardboard box. The government makes sure that the lands are protected
which is why the slumps are not bulldozed by a developer. This is a good
example of human right. Electricity, communication mediums are all things
that people get together to bring either as an individual self or a
community.

Zaid





Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Zaid Ali

On 1/5/12 8:07 AM, "Jay Ashworth"  wrote:

>- Original Message -
>> From: "Zaid Ali" 
>
>> On 1/5/12 7:22 AM, "Jay Ashworth"  wrote:
>> 
>> >Vint Cerf says no: http://j.mp/wwL9Ip
>> >
>> >But I wonder to what degree that's dependent on how much our
>>governments
>> >make Internet access the most practical/only practical way to interact
>> >with them.
>> >
>> >Understand: I'm not saying that FiOS should be a human right. But as a
>> >society, America's recognized for decades that you gotta have a
>>telephone,
>> >and subsidized local/lifeline service to that extent; that sort of
>>subsidy
>> >applies to cellular phones now as well.
>
>> I agree with Vint here. Basic human rights are access to food, clothing
>> and shelter. I think we are still struggling in the world with that.
>>With
>> your logic one would expect the radio and TV to be a basic human right
>>but
>> they are not, they are and will remain powerful medium which be enablers
>> of something else and the Internet would fit there.
>
>Well, I dunno... as I think was obvious from my other comments: TV and
>Radio
>are *broadcast* media; telephones and the internet are not; they're
>*two-way*
>communications media... and they're the communications media which have
>been
>chosen by the organs of government we've constituted to run things for us.
>
>You hit the important word, though, in your reply: "*access to* food,
>clothing,
>and shelter"... not the things themselves.
>
>The question here is "is *access to* the Internet a human right,
>something 
>which the government ought to recognize and protect"?  I sort of think it
>is,
>myself... and I think that Vint is missing the point: *all* of the things
>we generally view as human rights are enablers to other things, and we
>generally dub them *as those things*, by synecdoche... at least in my
>experience.


If I wrote a blog article that criticized the government and it was
shutdown along with my Internet access I wouldn't say that my right to the
Internet was violated. I would say that my right to free speech was
violated. Regardless of one way or two way communication it is
communication. 

Zaid 





Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Zaid Ali
I agree with Vint here. Basic human rights are access to food, clothing
and shelter. I think we are still struggling in the world with that. With
your logic one would expect the radio and TV to be a basic human right but
they are not, they are and will remain powerful medium which be enablers
of something else and the Internet would fit there.

Zaid

On 1/5/12 7:22 AM, "Jay Ashworth"  wrote:

>Vint Cerf says no: http://j.mp/wwL9Ip
>
>But I wonder to what degree that's dependent on how much our governments
>make
>Internet access the most practical/only practical way to interact with
>them.
>
>Understand: I'm not saying that FiOS should be a human right.  But as a
>society, America's recognized for decades that you gotta have a telephone,
>and subsidized local/lifeline service to that extent; that sort of subsidy
>applies to cellular phones now as well.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Cheers,
>-- jr 'yes, I know I'm early...' a
>-- 
>Jay R. Ashworth  Baylink
>j...@baylink.com
>Designer The Things I Think   RFC
>2100
>Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land
>Rover DII
>St Petersburg FL USA  http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647
>1274
>





AS376

2011-08-08 Thread Zaid Ali
Can someone from AS 376 contact me offline? s'il vous plaît?

I am seeing a routing issue in your AS.

Merci,
Zaid


Re: STRIKE: VZN

2011-08-06 Thread Zaid Ali
I heard a few days ago this might happen through another carrier who depends on 
a local loop from VZ. If you are waiting on circuit installs or someone has to 
swap out an NI card this may impact you. 

Thanks for the link.

Zaid

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 6, 2011, at 10:14 PM, Jay Ashworth  wrote:

> As of midnight, 45,000 IBEW and CWA members are striking Verizon, as their
> contract has expired.
> 
> http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/07/us-verizon-labor-idUSTRE7760C320110807
> 
> It's not clear how this might affect what we do, but it might, and I 
> figured the heads up would probably be useful.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> -- 
> Jay R. Ashworth  Baylink   
> j...@baylink.com
> Designer The Things I Think   RFC 2100
> Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII
> St Petersburg FL USA  http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
> 



Re: internap fcp competitors?

2011-07-21 Thread Zaid Ali

On Jul 20, 2011, at 11:52 PM, Gregory Edigarov wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:35:05 -0400
> "MageMojo"  wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone know of competitors to internap's fcp product?
> 

Avaya/Route Science. I would check if this product is still sold by Avaya. Many 
moons ago I tested it.

> Also, I would greatly appreciate if anybody could explain what
> technically is internap fcp.
> 

A box that can manipulate your outbound BGP routes since BGP doesn't take into 
consideration link congestion, delays etc. 

Zaid
_
NANOG mailing list
NANOG@nanog.org
https://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog


Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Zaid Ali

On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> - Original Message -
>> From: "Joel Barnard" 
> 
>> I hope they've considered what will happen if you go to
>> http://localhost/ or
>> http://pcname/
>> 
>> Is that the local networks pcname, or the gTld pcname?
>> Are we going to have to start using a specially reserved .local gTld?
> 
> No, of *course* ICANN didn't give any engineering thought to it.  Cause the
> engineers?  Are all *here*.  And David Conrad's apparently the only guy
> who's heard about it.  :-)


I have seen many NANOG folks at ICANN meetings discussing this and also active 
on ALAC so David isn't the only guy. Also do a search on the list and you will 
find threads dating back.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.operators.nanog/56728/match=gTLDs

Zaid


Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Zaid Ali

On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Benson Schliesser wrote:

> 
> On Jun 17, 2011, at 4:21 PM, David Conrad wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 17, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>>> Aw, Jeezus.
>>> 
>>> No.  Just, no.
>>> 
>>> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/17/202245/
>> 
>> You just learned about this now?
> 
> On a related topic, the US DoJ recently wrote a letter suggesting that DNS 
> registry/registrar vertical integration might not be a good idea (from an 
> anti-trust perspective).
> 
> http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/strickling-to-dengate-thrush-16jun11-en.pdf
> 
> Cheers,
> -Benson


And before that, a need for a comprehensive economic study 
http://forum.icann.org/lists/5gtld-guide/msg00013.html

See a pattern?

Zaid


Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Zaid Ali
On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Paul Graydon wrote:

> On 06/17/2011 11:33 AM, David Conrad wrote:
>> On Jun 17, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/17/202245/
 You just learned about this now?
>>> In fact I did.  I certainly haven't seen it mentioned on NANOG in the last 6
>>> months or so; where should I have seen it?
>> New TLDs have been discussed now for over a decade.  Press (both technical 
>> and popular) on ICANN activities have ratcheted up significantly recently, 
>> particularly with the approval of .XXX (which was recently discussed here on 
>> NANOG: http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-March/034488.html). Not 
>> blaming/accusing, just surprised this would be a surprise. I guess I've been 
>> living in the layer9 cloud too long
>> 
>> Regards,
>> -drc
> I've seen the stuff about adding a few extra TLDs, like XXX.  I haven't seen 
> any references until now of them considering doing it on a commercial basis.  
>  I don't mind new TLDs, but company ones are crazy and going to lead to a 
> confusing and messy internet.
> 
> Paul
> 

There has been a lot of work put into this. I suggest you start looking at the 
application guide book http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/dag-en.htm

If folks have been debating about this for 10 years then you can be assured the 
concerns of a messy internet have been brought up.

Don't tell me folks will have an existential moment about IDN's and gTLD.

Zaid


Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Zaid Ali
On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> - Original Message -
>> From: "David Conrad" 
> 
>> On Jun 17, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>>> Aw, Jeezus.
>>> 
>>> No. Just, no.
>>> 
>>> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/17/202245/
>> 
>> You just learned about this now?
> 
> In fact I did.  I certainly haven't seen it mentioned on NANOG in the last 6 
> months or so; where should I have seen it?

Just an example, it has hit main stream media 
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/17/who-runs-the-internet/ 

Or you could have gone to one of the many free iCANN meetings where you can 
hear about this till your ears go blue.  It has only been a topic for 
discussion for about 10 years :) but of course if it's not on NANOG it can't be 
true.

Zaid


Re: $ 90 million fine for cutting Internet services

2011-05-28 Thread Zaid Ali
I am a little skeptic that this fine imposed is because the government truly 
believes in Internet freedom. Many factions of the Egyptian government was to 
get as much money out of Mubarak as they can and this might be a way to do just 
that. What would be interesting is if there is a law passed preventing any 
member of the government from cutting off Internet access.

Zaid

On May 28, 2011, at 12:23 PM, ML wrote:

> On 5/28/2011 12:18 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
>> I remember some discussion of this outage on NANOG, and on what it was 
>> costing Egypt. Well, here is
>> an estimate - almost $ 20 million USD / day (which actually sounds low to 
>> me).
>> 
>> Regards
>> Marshall
>> 
>> 
>> http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/05/201152811555458677.html
>> 
>> An Egyptian court has fined ousted president Hosni Mubarak and former 
>> officials more than $90m for cutting off access to internet and mobile phone 
>> services during the country's massive protests in January.
>> 
>> A court source told the Reuters news agency on Saturday that Mubarak's fine 
>> is $34m, former interior minister Habib al-Adly will owe $53m, and former 
>> prime minister Ahmed Nazif has a fine of $7m.
>> 
>> The fine is to be paid from personal assets...
> 
> Can I fine TEDATA for committing VoIP fraud against my network during that 
> same time period?
> 
> 
> 
> 




Edgecast?

2011-05-21 Thread Zaid Ali
Anyone from edgecast here? I am seeing peering issues to a particular CDN. 
Please contact me offline.

Zaid


Re: Using Region-X assigned IP space in Region-Y?

2011-03-27 Thread Zaid Ali

On 3/27/11 10:54 AM, "Jima"  wrote:

> On 3/27/2011 12:10 PM, Zaid Ali wrote:
>> On 3/27/11 8:19 AM, "valdis.kletni...@vt.edu"
>> wrote:
>>> There's only one question to be asked - will the (possibly new) upstream
>>> of the moved datacenter announce the route for the /24 or not?
>> 
>> Why would the new upstream refuse to announce the /24 assuming he has the
>> correct information for his route objects and visible through the RIR
>> database.
> 
>   Some transit providers dislike announcing smaller networks, and thus
> have lower limits.
> 
>   Jima
> 

Then the said transit provider customer will turn off the circuit and move
to the next transit provider that doesn't have a problem with /24. If you
are in a monopolistic ISP environment then it is different and that is a
different topicof discussion. Sadly been there done that.

Zaid





Re: Using Region-X assigned IP space in Region-Y?

2011-03-27 Thread Zaid Ali

On 3/27/11 8:19 AM, "valdis.kletni...@vt.edu" 
wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:58:29 MDT, Mark Leonard said:
> 
>> Is it possible/allowable to move one of these datacenters to a different
>> geographical region with a different RIR and keep using the same two
>> subnets, or will a new /24 need to be requested from the new RIR?
> 
> There's only one question to be asked - will the (possibly new) upstream
> of the moved datacenter announce the route for the /24 or not?

Why would the new upstream refuse to announce the /24 assuming he has the
correct information for his route objects and visible through the RIR
database.

Zaid 







Re: Regional AS model

2011-03-25 Thread Zaid Ali

On Mar 24, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Michael Hallgren wrote:

> Le jeudi 24 mars 2011 à 14:26 -0700, Bill Woodcock a écrit :
>> On Mar 24, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>>> On Mar 24, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>>>> On Mar 24, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Zaid Ali  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I have seen age old discussions on single AS vs multiple AS for backbone 
>>>>> and datacenter design. I am particularly interested in operational 
>>>>> challenges for running AS per region e.g. one AS for US, one EU etc or I 
>>>>> have heard folks do one AS per DC. I particularly don't see any advantage 
>>>>> in doing one AS per region or datacenter since most of the reasons I hear 
>>>>> is to reduce the iBGP mesh. I generally prefer one AS  and making use of 
>>>>> confederation. 
>>>> 
>>>> If you have good backbone between the locations, then, it's mostly a 
>>>> matter of personal preference. If you have discreet autonomous sites that 
>>>> are not connected by internal circuits (not VPNs), then, AS per site is 
>>>> greatly preferable.
>>> 
>>> We disagree.
>>> Single AS worldwide is fine with or without a backbone.
>>> Which is "preferable" is up to you, your situation, and your personal 
>>> tastes. 
>> 
>> 
>> We're with Patrick on this one.  We operate a single AS across 
>> seventy-some-odd locations in dozens of countries, with very little of what 
>> an eyeball operator would call "backbone" between them, and we've never seen 
>> any potential benefit from splitting them.  I think the management headache 
>> alone would be sufficient to make it unattractive to us.
>> 
>>-Bill
>> 
>> 
> 
> Right. I think that a single AS is most often quite fine. I think our
> problem space is rather about how you organise the routing in your AS.
> Flat, route-reflection, confederations? How much policing between 
> regions do you feel that you need? In some scenarios, I think 
> confederations may be a pretty sound replacement of the multiple-AS
> approach. Policing iBGP sessions in a route-reflector topology? Limits?
> Thoughts?

I always look at confederations as a longer term plan because you have some 
idea how your backbone is going to shape out. Knowing where you are going makes 
confederation planning easier. Start with RR's and then see if confeds make 
sense.

Zaid 


Regional AS model

2011-03-24 Thread Zaid Ali
I have seen age old discussions on single AS vs multiple AS for backbone and 
datacenter design. I am particularly interested in operational challenges for 
running AS per region e.g. one AS for US, one EU etc or I have heard folks do 
one AS per DC. I particularly don't see any advantage in doing one AS per 
region or datacenter since most of the reasons I hear is to reduce the iBGP 
mesh. I generally prefer one AS  and making use of confederation. 

Zaid


Re: External sanity checks

2011-02-05 Thread Zaid Ali

On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Franck Martin wrote:

> 
> - Original Message -
>> From: "Paul Graydon" 
>> To: nanog@nanog.org
>> Sent: Friday, 4 February, 2011 8:39:09 AM
>> Subject: Re: External sanity checks
>> On 02/03/2011 08:04 AM, Philip Lavine wrote:
>>> To all,
>>> 
>>> Does any one know a Vendor (NOT Keynote) that can do sanity checks
>>> against your web/smtp/ftp farms with pings, traceroutes, latency
>>> checks as well as application checks (GET, POST, ESMTP, etc)
>>> 
>>> Thank you,
>>> 
>>> Philip
>>> 
>> Slight hijack, I'm interested in the answer to this question, but I'm
>> also wondering about a service that will actually phone you (or is
>> there
>> a reliable text/e-mail->phone call service?) I'd appreciate actually
>> being phoned overnight if something dies drastically to the outside
>> world!
> 
> A bit different, but if you are looking for something that works a bit before 
> the problem becomes visible to the user, check:
> 
> http://www.avonsys.com/Application+Monitoring
> 

I used Avonsys before for monitoring. You can have Keynote, Gomez, homegrown 
tool  etc but you still need someone with clue on how to interpret it, verify 
alerts, find odd performance problems etc. Contact me off list if you want 
reference.

Zaid


bestpath as-path multipath-relax

2011-01-24 Thread Zaid Ali
I am looking for some operational feedback of this undocumented feature, bgp 
bestpath as-path multipath-relax, for IOS. If you are using this for outbound 
load balancing I would like to hear your experiences. Also if you are running 
it across edges.

Thanks,
Zaid


Re: wikileaks unreachable

2010-12-03 Thread Zaid Ali
I see a new T-Shirt "Free speech has an IP address"

Zaid


On 12/3/10 8:38 AM, "// ravi"  wrote:

> On Dec 3, 2010, at 1:19 AM, Jorge Amodio wrote:
>>> and this is based on what facts?
>> 
>> Instead of tweeting about how to reach their content, or their IP
>> addresses to bypass DNS [snip happens]
> 
> 
> http://twitter.com/#!/wikileaks/status/10621245489938433
> 7 hours ago
> 
> (Randy, I plan/hope to requote your earlier message ‹ non-commercial use ‹
> with attribution)
> 
> ‹ravi
> 





Re: wikileaks unreachable

2010-11-28 Thread Zaid Ali
I heard there are DDoS attacks on the Wikileaks site.

Zaid


On 11/28/10 1:34 PM, "Randy Bush"  wrote:

> anyone know why https://www.wikileaks.org/ is not reachable?  nations
> state level censors trying to close the barn door after the horse has
> left?
> 
> randy
> 





Re: Interesting IPv6 viral video

2010-10-28 Thread Zaid Ali

On 10/28/10 4:06 PM, "Scott Weeks"  wrote:

> 
> 
> --- z...@zaidali.com wrote:
> Wait till CNN/FOX etc makes this a big issue and claim the
> internet is going to come to an end
> -
> 
> 
> http://www.argee.net/chickenlittleagenda/CLA%2072.jpg
> 
> scott


We have all seen the trend set by the Cyberwar news reports.

Zaid





Re: Interesting IPv6 viral video

2010-10-28 Thread Zaid Ali

On 10/28/10 2:24 PM, "Beavis"  wrote:

> lol... Is this video by cisco? what a funny way to mis-inform non-tech folks.

Yes it is. When do marketing people get it right? I actually think the fun
hasn't begun yet. Wait till CNN/FOX etc makes this a big issue and claim the
internet is going to come to an end then folks with clue will have to go on
TV and calm the hysteria.

Zaid 





Re: Interesting IPv6 viral video

2010-10-28 Thread Zaid Ali

On 10/28/10 2:11 PM, "Leo Bicknell"  wrote:

> If you have been trying to get your C-Level folks to understand the
> problem for months or years and they won't listen, yet they come
> to you after watching this Cisco video then you should go visit
> www.monster.com, or www.careerbuilder.com.

I don't have this problem thankfully but I know many do and it is probably
the major reason why v6 adoption is slow. Many networks needs money invested
to upgrade for v6 readiness. The message is do it now before the costs
dramatically increase. The problem with C-level folks is not they don't want
to do it but there is no financial incentive for them to do it, if there is
no direct benefit to drive revenue then why put the money? The barrier for
v6 is not technical it is purely financial, some understand the economics
and some don't. Finance people usually think that the longer you can put off
expenses the better it looks for your balance sheet. This is really the crux
of the problem.

Zaid 





Interesting IPv6 viral video

2010-10-28 Thread Zaid Ali
Not quite accurate and a bit too dramatic on the panic side but the approach
is interesting to put C-Level folks in the hot seat about v6. Would be
interesting also to see if folks here get asked by C-Level folks bout IPv6.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYffYT2y-Iw

Zaid





Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Zaid Ali

On 10/19/10 3:58 PM, "Mark Andrews"  wrote:

> Adding is seperate IPv6 server is a work around and runs the risk
> of being overloaded.

And what a wonderful problem to have! You can show a CFO a nice cacti graph
of IPv6 growth so you can justify him/her to sign off on IPv6 expenses. A
CFO will never act unless there is a real business problem. There are some
of us here who have management with clue but there are many that don't,
sadly this is the majority and a large contributor to the slow adoption of
IPv6.

Zaid





Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Zaid Ali

On 10/19/10 2:37 PM, "Mark Andrews"  wrote:
> 
> So stick a router in parallel and just route IPv6 over it.
> So stick in a IPv6->IPv4 proxy and send that traffic through the
> load balancer.

Nah considering v6 traffic is small I have a simpler solution, I prefer to
set up a temporary web service running v6 native outside LB's and offer
experimental service, that way I can keep yelling at Vendors to get their
act together because if they don't hear user requests then v6 will not be a
priority for them. The last thing you want to go is build a kluge and stay
silent.

Zaid





Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

2010-10-19 Thread Zaid Ali
If you run Cisco ACE load balancers and start with your web server farm I
can assure you that you will be stuck because ACE loaad balancers do not
support v6 and don't plan to until mid next year and not without a new
card/cost. If you run ACE in non routed mode then you a doubly stuck because
you can't even by bypass the loadbalancer to reach one of your webservers
since the ACE doesn't pass v6 traffic! So I agree, don't start there instead
get the corporate LAN, learn from it then move onto your production facing
networks. Also get white listed for Google NS so you can see more user
traffic.

Zaid


On 10/19/10 11:30 AM, "Franck Martin"  wrote:

> No, no
> 
> Putting your servers on IPv6 is a major task. Load balancers, proprietary
> code, log analysis, database records... all that needs to be reviewed to see
> if it is compatible with IPv6 (and a few equipments need recent upgrades if
> even they can do IPv6 today).
> 
> Putting your client machines (ie internal network) to IPv6 is relatively easy.
> Enable IPv6 on the border router, you don't need failover (can built it later)
> as anyhow the clients will failover to IPv4 if IPv6 fails... So as failover is
> not needed you can have a separate simple IPv6 network infrastructure on top
> of your IPv4 Infrastructure.
> 
> So my advocacy, is get your client (I'm not talking about customers here, but
> client as client/server) machines on IPv6, get your engineers, support
> staff,.. to be familiar with IPv6, then all together you can better understand
> how to migrate your servers infrastructure to IPv6 (and your customers to IPv6
> if you are an ISP).
> 
> If you do that, you will see migration to IPv6 is made much easier, and much
> faster.
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "Owen DeLong" 
> To: "Franck Martin" 
> Cc: "Jonas Frey (Probe Networks)" , "Jeffrey Lyon"
> , "NANOG list" 
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 October, 2010 8:55:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA
> 
> Servers work just fine over tunnels if necessary too.
> 
> Get your public-facing content and services on IPv6 as fast as possible.
> Make IPv6 available to your customers as quickly as possible too.
> 
> Finally, your internal IT resources (other than your support department(s))
> can
> probably wait a little while.
> 
> Owen
> 
> On Oct 18, 2010, at 1:41 PM, Franck Martin wrote:
> 
> 





Re: 12 years ago today...

2010-10-16 Thread Ali S
He should have been better known for his work. The intertubes will miss you

Sent via mobile.

On Oct 15, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Jorge Amodio  wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Rodney Joffe  wrote:
>> On October 16th, we lost a real friend and hero. Sigh
>> 
>> http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.html
> 
> Amen. Long Live Jon Postel !!
> 



Re: 12 years ago today...

2010-10-15 Thread Zaid Ali

On 10/15/10 8:38 PM, "Jorge Amodio"  wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Rodney Joffe  wrote:
>> On October 16th, we lost a real friend and hero. Sigh
>> 
>> http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.html
> 
> Amen. Long Live Jon Postel !!
> 

And you can sometimes hear his comments http://www.facebook.com/jon.postel
:)





Re: Choice of network space when numbering interfaces with IPv6

2010-10-15 Thread Zaid Ali
Bahh had my head turned around and brain fried on a Friday. I was more
curious about /64 vs /126 from management perspective. Thanks everyone for
answering offline as well, I got my questions answered.

Zaid


On 10/15/10 12:26 PM, "Zaid Ali"  wrote:

> SO I have been turning up v6 with multiple providers now and notice that
> some choose /64 for numbering interfaces but one I came across use a /126. A
> /126 is awfully large (for interface numbering) and I am curious if there is
> some rationale behind using a /126 instead of a /64.
> 
> Zaid
> 
> 
> 





Choice of network space when numbering interfaces with IPv6

2010-10-15 Thread Zaid Ali
SO I have been turning up v6 with multiple providers now and notice that
some choose /64 for numbering interfaces but one I came across use a /126. A
/126 is awfully large (for interface numbering) and I am curious if there is
some rationale behind using a /126 instead of a /64.

Zaid





MsgSent statistics question

2010-10-14 Thread Zaid Ali
I am trying to troubleshoot an odd v6 peering connection issue. Does anyone
know at what point is MsgSent in BGP summary or neighbor summary calculated?
Does the MsgSent include initial TCP connections before establishment?

Thanks,
Zaid





Re: Facebook down!! Alert!

2010-10-05 Thread Zaid Ali
I think the Outages mailing list is more appropriate for this.


On 10/5/10 9:46 PM, "Mike Lyon"  wrote:

> Same here in SF Bay Area
> 
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:44 PM, James Smith wrote:
> 
>> At 1:20am here in Canada, NB our networks are showing that facebook is
>> down.
>> Please confirm in the USA.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ~SmithwaySecurity
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> 





Re: L3 Issues this Morning?

2010-09-30 Thread Zaid Ali
Not sure if this is related but my Level 3 BGP peer went down at 3:33:57 GMT
for just over 6 hours. This was in the San Jose/Santa Clara area. Their
reason was an OSPF problem.

Zaid


On 9/30/10 10:39 AM, "Khurram Khan"  wrote:

> Learn something new everyday, that's awesome. We've got several data
> centers between San Diego, Denver, Tulsa, Chicago, Washington DC. All
> of the circuit's between those POP's , and all are L3, just dropped
> traffic.
> 
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:35 AM, James Smith
>  wrote:
>> None Down here in Canada
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Sep 30, 2010, at 2:32 PM, Khurram Khan  wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello All,
>>> 
>>> This is my first time writing to this list and wanted to check if
>>> anyone experienced issues with L3 circuits between 12:50 ET and 13:05
>>> ET. All our core backbone circuits re-converged and we saw a
>>> significant drop in traffic.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Khurram
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 





Re: Chase.com outage

2010-09-16 Thread Zaid Ali
Isn't that reserved for beer sessions at NANOG?


On 9/16/10 9:13 AM, "N. Yaakov Ziskind"  wrote:

> Does anyone have any information (beyond the wimpy statement that
> "technical issues" were to blame) on the Chase outage?
> 
> It seems that when a multibillion dollar company's major web site is
> down for more than a day, there must be juicy "technical issues" that
> beg to be told. So, can anyone dish? :-)
> 
> --  
> _
> Nachman Yaakov Ziskind, FSPA, LLM   aw...@ziskind.us
> Attorney and Counselor-at-Law   http://ziskind.us
> Economic Group Pension Services http://egps.com
> Actuaries and Employee Benefit Consultants
> 





Re: BCP38 exceptions for RFC1918 space

2010-08-23 Thread Ali
Hahahahah 
How do we prevent BGP loops? Hahahhaahb 

Sent via mobile.

On Aug 23, 2010, at 2:31 AM, "Leigh Porter"  
wrote:

> I very often see 1918 space in ICMP responses. It's quite dumb.
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu [mailto:valdis.kletni...@vt.edu] 
> Sent: 16 August 2010 14:27
> To: Joe Greco
> Cc: na...@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: BCP38 exceptions for RFC1918 space
> 
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:50:00 CDT, Joe Greco said:
> 
>>> What *possible* use case would require a 1918-sourced packet to be 
>>> traversing the public internet? We're all waiting with bated breath 
>>> to hear this one. ;)
>> 
>> It's great for showing in traceroutes who the heel is.
> 
> Like I said, at that point it's name-n-shame time.
> 



Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster

2010-08-09 Thread Zaid Ali
The devil is always in the details. The Network management piece is quite
glossed over and gives a different perception in the summary. You can't
perform the proposed network management piece without deep packet inspection
which violates every users privacy.

Zaid


On 8/9/10 11:52 AM, "Joly MacFie"  wrote:

> Surely "differentiated services" could include a 'YouTube Channel' -
> something they deny in the call?
> 
> I've blogged the proposal at http://www.isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=1112
> 
> j
> 
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Jason Iannone wrote:
> 
>> 
>> http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/08/joint-policy-proposal-for-open
>> -internet.html
>> 
>> Pretty boiler plate pro net neutral.  The transparency requirements
>> and 'differentiated services' exceptions are particularly interesting.
>> 
>> 





Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

2010-07-27 Thread Zaid Ali
Great! So I assume he is an elder of the Internet?

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRmxXp62O8g


On 7/27/10 4:43 PM, "andrew.wallace"  wrote:

> A British computer expert has been entrusted with part of a digital key, to
> help 
> restart the internet in the event of a major catastrophe.
> 
>  
> Paul Kane talked to Eddie Mair on Radio 4's PM programme about what he might
> be 
> called upon to do in the event of an international online emergency.
>  
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10781240
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 





Re: v6 bgp peer costs?

2010-07-21 Thread Zaid Ali

On 7/21/10 12:39 PM, "Seth Mattinen"  wrote:

> On 7/21/2010 12:08, Zaid Ali wrote:
>> I currently have a v4 BGP session with AS 701 and recently requested a v6
>> BGP session to which I was told a tunnel session will be provided (Same
>> circuit would be better but whatever!). Towards the final stage in
>> discussions I was told that it will cost $1500. I find this quite ridiculous
>> and it will certainly not motivate people to move to v6 if providers put a
>> direct price tag on it. I am going through a bandwidth reseller though so I
>> am not sure who is trying to jack me here. Has anyone here gone through a
>> similar experience?
>> 
> 
> Ooh, Verizon? Good luck. Do you know what pop (VZ calles them "hubs")
> your existing circuit is out of? Not all of 701 is IPv6 enabled. If you
> are currently served from a v4 only location you're out of luck.
> 

POS-6 SJC

> I ordered an Ethernet circuit from Verizon last year as dual-stack
> IPv4/IPv6. There was no extra cost involved. However, they never did
> actually deliver the layer 3 portion, so I just let them languish into
> obscurity. My problem was that I'm closer to a v4 only pop (Sacramento),
> but the closest 4/6 pop is further away in San Jose. For some reason
> they could not figure out how to go there and kept defaulting to Sac.
> Eventually they called me and said it's just not possible to deliver the
> service. I ended up placing an order with Global Crossing and the
> dual-stack process was completely painless.

Sigh.. Explains why I never got a straight answer on native v6 support.
First they said yes then now Tunnel only. Perhaps time to turn them off.

Zaid





Re: v6 bgp peer costs?

2010-07-21 Thread Zaid Ali
I already have a v6 BGP tunnel with Hurricane Electric and works like a
charm :) It is other vendors I am concerned about.

Zaid


On 7/21/10 12:38 PM, "Mike Leber"  wrote:

> 
> You can get a free IPv6 BGP tunnel from Hurricane Electric at
> http://tunnelbroker.net
> 
> We have tunnel servers spread through out the world, so typically the
> nearest server has reasonably low latency from your location.
> 
> Of course our main business is selling wholesale native IPv6 and IPv4
> transit, however you don't have to be a paying customer to use our free
> service.
> 
> Mike.
> 
> On 7/21/10 12:08 PM, Zaid Ali wrote:
>> I currently have a v4 BGP session with AS 701 and recently requested a v6
>> BGP session to which I was told a tunnel session will be provided (Same
>> circuit would be better but whatever!). Towards the final stage in
>> discussions I was told that it will cost $1500. I find this quite ridiculous
>> and it will certainly not motivate people to move to v6 if providers put a
>> direct price tag on it. I am going through a bandwidth reseller though so I
>> am not sure who is trying to jack me here. Has anyone here gone through a
>> similar experience?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Zaid
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 





Re: v6 bgp peer costs?

2010-07-21 Thread Zaid Ali

On 7/21/10 12:22 PM, "Marco Hogewoning"  wrote:

> 
> On 21 jul 2010, at 21:08, Zaid Ali wrote:
> 
>> I currently have a v4 BGP session with AS 701 and recently requested a v6
>> BGP session to which I was told a tunnel session will be provided (Same
>> circuit would be better but whatever!). Towards the final stage in
>> discussions I was told that it will cost $1500. I find this quite ridiculous
>> and it will certainly not motivate people to move to v6 if providers put a
>> direct price tag on it. I am going through a bandwidth reseller though so I
>> am not sure who is trying to jack me here. Has anyone here gone through a
>> similar experience?
> 
> I think the main question here would be, what they would charge for a change
> to a v4 session. Most likely they just decided that setting up the tunnel and
> configuring BGP takes time and since time is money they decided to charge for
> you. Seems like a reasonabe rule of business, why should it be free ? At the
> same time, the same set of economics will probably find you somebody who will
> do this for less and maybe even is happy to take your business and setup v4/v6
> dual stack for free.
> 
> So get a quote from a competitor, call back 701 and offer them the choice of
> setting up the tunnel or loose a customer. My personal preference would be to
> leave and find somebody who can do native all the way.
> 
> MarcoH
> 

Thanks, I am trying to see if there is a trend or anomalous gouging. From
off-list answers it doesn't seem like a trend among other vendors. My worry
about high costs is when you have several circuits this will add up and
going to a CFO to justify will be pretty hard. A CFO will generally say lets
deal with that problem next year when v4 actually runs out. Two years ago I
felt there wasn't enough motivation for folks to move to v6, I don't see
this changing especially when vendors, resellers etc charge more $$ for v6.

Zaid 





v6 bgp peer costs?

2010-07-21 Thread Zaid Ali
I currently have a v4 BGP session with AS 701 and recently requested a v6
BGP session to which I was told a tunnel session will be provided (Same
circuit would be better but whatever!). Towards the final stage in
discussions I was told that it will cost $1500. I find this quite ridiculous
and it will certainly not motivate people to move to v6 if providers put a
direct price tag on it. I am going through a bandwidth reseller though so I
am not sure who is trying to jack me here. Has anyone here gone through a
similar experience?

Thanks,
Zaid





Email over v6

2010-07-07 Thread Zaid Ali
Are there any folks here who would be inclined to do SMTP over IPv6? I have
a test v6 network with is ready to do email but getting some real world data
to verify headers would be more helpful. Please send me an email offlist if
you are interested.

Thanks,
Zaid





Re: Internet Kill Switch.

2010-06-18 Thread Zaid Ali


On 6/18/10 2:21 PM, "Matthew Petach"  wrote:
> He also seemed to miss one of the really, REALLY important points;
> if "Internet is for everyone" were really true, then IPv6 adoption should
> have been one of his driving points.  After all with a world population of
> 7 billion, you certainly can't have "Internet [...] for everyone" with only
> 4 billion IP addresses, unless you put a *lot* of NAT in place.

I read "Internet is for everyone" a bit beyond IP address. When I worked in
the south pacific (1996-1998) we had challenges bringing Internet to
residences because Internet was considered "for the wealthy". It took my
colleagues and I a long time to break down this barrier. I have seen
language barriers as another reason why Internet is not adopted in many
places and thanks to IDN we can see this adoption increase.

Although Vint doesn't call out IPv6 in this RFC he does talk about
supporting work in the IETF, IAB etc and IPv6 work has come out of such
dedication by many folks on this list. There are other challenges yet to
tackle when it comes to making the Internet available to everyone e.g.
Privacy. There are still folks who don't "trust" the internet so will not
use it, for them we need to build a trustworthy internet.

I do agree with your point that IPv6 is important and more important
considering the Internet's explosive growth.

Zaid





Re: Securing the BGP or controlling it?

2010-05-10 Thread Zaid Ali
What we need (as operators) is to get better at ensuring that advertisements
are coming from the valid owner of said address space. What we don't need is
a separate governance model which I worry this article is trying to imply. I
still use RADB but I hear not every peer/provider checks there anymore? This
is hearsay so interested in other opinions.

As far as the mistakes pointed out in this article one can be assured that
these things are bound to happen. The youtube situation could have been
prevented if the peer opening a filter (and responsible for announcing out)
had reach to a system where the other peer's advertisement can be verified.
I don't think leaning on competency is a good way to go about solving this
problem, we need a system or model in place to ensure we have a trust and
verification system.

Zaid


On 5/10/10 9:54 AM, "Thomas Magill"  wrote:

> All of the major providers I have worked with have required proof of
> 'ownership' of address space or an LoA from the registered holder of that
> space before they would allow advertisements from me, which are then filtered.
> Is this not the norm?  I can understand if they are talking about an operator
> making a mistake, but the article seems to imply that anyone running BGP can
> bring down the Internet...  I think any competent provider can easily
> eliminate this threat from customers.  Are there any types of penalties if an
> ISP is found to not be taking adequate precautions, other than the possible
> threat of losing business?
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Franck Martin [mailto:fra...@genius.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:48 AM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Securing the BGP or controlling it?
> 
> APNIC allows you to put your BGP data in the whois, so like this you have a
> third party verification tool on who is peering with who.
> 





Re: Internationalized domain names in the root

2010-05-06 Thread Zaid Ali
I agree Safari experience looks much nicer and yes whole host of potential
malice to arise. Firefox shows punycode

 http://xn--4gbrim.xnrmckbbajlc6dj7bxne2c.xn--wgbh1c/ar/default.aspx

Now if I understood arabic only and was travelling or happen to use Firefox
which showed punycode how would I trust it? If it was directly translated to
latin characters I could trust it with verification from someone I know who
understands english. I would not trust puny code because an end user does
not know what it means, I think there is potential for a lot of issues here.

Zaid  


On 5/6/10 11:45 AM, "Geoff Adams"  wrote:

> On 5 May 2010, at 2:16 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote:
>> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:34 AM, David Conrad  wrote:
>>> Perhaps a bit off-topic, but some folks might get support calls...
>>> 
>>> http://وزارة-الأتصالات.مصر/
>>> 
>>> (that's Arabic for .)
>> 
>> Great progress and interesting addition to the root, only issue is
>> that after all the work with IDNs you land on a page written in
>> english (web browser lang does not matter, name resolves to the same
>> IP as the original URL). Hope they soon take advantage of the new name
> 
> The page shows up in Arabic for me in all three of Safari (in which the URL
> bar also shows the Arabic name), Chrome and Firefox (in both of which the URL
> bar shows the encoded US-ASCII characters for the domain name). I tested using
> the Mac versions of these three browsers, and English is set as my preferred
> language. Arabic doesn't appear until much farther down on the list.
> 
> The Safari experience looks nicer, but I suppose it leaves its users more
> susceptible to maliciously-constructed domain names that look similar to
> well-known ones. I wonder if they've addressed that issue in some way. I
> haven't been checking recently.
> 
> - Geoff





Re: Weekly Routing Table Report

2010-04-16 Thread Zaid Ali

On 4/16/10 11:28 AM, "Franck Martin"  wrote:

> Would it not be time, to have the IPv6 equivalent of this table report?
> 
> 5% of the Internet is IPv6, that's an interesting threshold that was just
> passed.

I think that time has come :)

Zaid





Re: Carrier class email security recommendation

2010-04-12 Thread Zaid Ali
I think it is a perfectly reasonable question to ask in NANOG. If someone
asks how much memory do I need on my router to do BGP, you have to ask the
fundamental question of how big your routing table will be. I don't see this
as any different. Its helpful to provide opinions when you are guided by
some data :)

Zaid


On 4/12/10 9:06 AM, "Suresh Ramasubramanian"  wrote:

> Its nanog and not an RFQ process or I'd have asked him that too :)
> 
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Zaid Ali  wrote:
>> I haven't seen the man ask support for messages/hour, 3M..10M..1B ? Or maybe
>> I missed this question?
> 
> 





Re: Carrier class email security recommendation

2010-04-12 Thread Zaid Ali
I haven't seen the man ask support for messages/hour, 3M..10M..1B ? Or maybe
I missed this question?

Zaid


On 4/12/10 8:47 AM, "Suresh Ramasubramanian"  wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:45 PM, todd glassey  wrote:
>> On 4/12/2010 7:22 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>>> The man did say "carrier class" .. not "small webhost for four
>>> families and dog".
>> 
>> yes he did Suresh ... meaning that something larger and more secure than
>> the off-the-shelf copy of Linux is needed. Funny the NSA and many others
>> would disagree with you.
> 
> I know of (and have been the postmaster for) multiple million user
> installations that run happily on linux + postfix (and sendmail,
> qmail..).
> 
> None that run on one server running webmin, even a 3U server.
> 
>> or layered as stages within a new system design based on GPU's which
>> allow for the specific assignment of threads of control to specific
>> processes. Imaging a cloud type environment running in a single GPU with
>> the abililty to properly map threads to GPU threads.
> 
> You don't have "single" of anything at all for large and well scaled
> environments.
> 
>> OK our server is 3U but that was because I wanted bigger fans inside
>> it... The 1U single TESLA based email GW is exactly what you describe -
>> a 512 thread CUDA based GPU with serious capabilities therein.
> 
> So how many users do you run on that one 3U box?  100K?  300K?  A
> couple of million?  :)
> 
> The man said carrier class.  And when you talk that you dont just talk
> features, you talk operations on a rather larger scale than what
> you're describing.
> 
> --srs





Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Zaid Ali

On 4/4/10 2:04 PM, "Vadim Antonov"  wrote:

> 
>> Zaid
>> 
>> P.s. Disclaimer: I have always been a network operator and never a dentist.
> 
> I would have thought opposite.
> 

It is sometimes helpful to draw lessons from nature and other systems :)

> People who have been on this list longer would probably remember when I
> was playing in this sandbox.
> 
> The real wisdom about networks is "never try to change everything and
> everywhere at once".  You either do gradual migration, or you end up in a
> big pile of poo.  Which what IPv6 transition situation is.
> 
> --vadim
> 

I too apply the same "real wisdom" and view IPv6 transition as a gradual
migration and we are seeing a lot of success already with this approach, its
just that the adoption numbers are slower than we would like. I get a sense
that our 5+ year IPv6 discussions have people worried and panicked that the
best thing is to leave things as they are  which makes
me think we should perhaps spend less time on the advocacy part of IPv6
solution and put our efforts on what we get out of implementation.

Zaid





Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Zaid Ali

On 4/4/10 6:44 AM, "Leen Besselink"  wrote:

> "Out of the total number of emails received, 14% were received over
> IPv6, the rest over IPv4."

It should be clear that 14% received here is email to RIPE NCC servers. I
don't think we have 14% of SMTP traffic out there coming via IPv6. Actual
SMTP traffic may still be under 1%, I have done some work with a colleague
to sample 0.5M domains yielding in <2%  MX records and we heard similar
data with other folks that ran a similar experiment. Seeing an uptick on
quad A MX record is still a good thing and tells us there is some form of
migration but SMTP over IPv6 will be really valuable data here. Has anyone
collected and published data on this?

Zaid  





Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Zaid Ali



On 4/3/10 9:12 PM, "Owen DeLong"  wrote:

> Uh, netflix seems fully functional to me on IPv6.  What do you think is
> missing?

Functional is the easy part and it seems Netflix has executed that well. I
was implying that the v6 traffic rate might not be quite there yet which is
what we saw with Google a while back but eventually v6 traffic started to
multiply. I could be wrong here and happy to be corrected.

Zaid





Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Zaid Ali
This sounds like

Step 1: I have a wisdom tooth, it hurts on my right jaw and so I will chew
from my left.

Step 2: Take some pain killers.

Step 3: Damn it hurts I will ignore it and it will eventually heal.

Step 4: Continue to take pain killers and perhaps if I sleep more it will
grow in the right direction and everything will be fine.

Step 5: Wake up everything is fine.

You will actually wake up without a toothache and things will seem fine
except you now have teeth you don't actually need because they will cause
blockage, hard to brush, floss constraints, many future dental trips etc.
Your ancestors needed wisdom teeth in the stone age because they bit off
more than they could chew, food was rough and coarse and teeth fell out
easily. Through evolution diet changed and jaws eventually became smaller
and humans chewed differently so you don't need the protection of wisdom
teeth. Given that understanding you can avoid 5 painful steps and go to a
doctor to have it pulled out, slight extra pain in doing so but you gain
healthier teeth. 

Leaving dentistry and coming back to IP, we have to think of what we want
the future IP address model to be and how does it affects the future of the
Internet model. A lot of smart people have come together to bring the IPv6
solution, it works (not without flaws but neither did IPv4 in the early
days) so lets work together in figuring out implementation and adoption.
There is nothing stopping anyone from writing an RFC on IP option for low
order bits+NAT et al and to that I wish anyone well. Just make sure one
addresses scaling/backward compatibility because it will be like not being
able to predict what kind of food will get stuck around your oddly grown
wisdom tooth that caused a hole and now need a filling.

Implementing IPv4 patches/NAT etc will not harm or break the Internet model
but the question is do we want this or do we want to implement IPv6 that may
be have a bit of pain now but the right thing for the future. Lets go where
we want and have a healthy Internet, adopt IPv6 and phase out IPv4.


Zaid

P.s. Disclaimer: I have always been a network operator and never a dentist.
I did build networks for a medical university many moons ago and often got
into interesting discussions about medicine.
 


On 4/3/10 11:11 PM, "Vadim Antonov"  wrote:

> 
> With all that bitching about IPv6 how come nobody wrote an RFC for a very
> simple solution to the IPv4 address exhaustion problem:
> 
> Step 1: specify an IP option for extra "low order" bits of source &
> destination address.  Add handling of these to the popular OSes.
> 
> Step 2: make NATs which directly connect extended addresses but also NAT
> them to non-extended external IPs.
> 
> Step 3: leave backones unchanged.  Gradually reduce size of allocated
> blocks forcing people to NAT as above.
> 
> Step 4: watch people migrating their apps to extended addresses to avoid
> dealing with NAT bogosity and resulting tech support calls & costs.
> 
> Step 5: remove NATs.
> 
> --vadim
> 
> 





Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Zaid Ali
They are not glowing because applications are simply not moving to IPv6.
Google has two popular applications on IPv6, Netflix is on it way there but
what are other application companies doing about it? A popular application
like e-mail is so far behind [ref:
http://eng.genius.com/blog/2009/09/14/email-on-ipv6/] and I still encounter
registrar's providing DNS service not supporting Quad A's.

I feel talking to network operators is preaching to the choir, the challenge
is helping content providers think about moving to IPv6.

I think we will only see success once we are able to successfully
work with content providers but they are quite busy now building real
technology like the "Cloud" 

Zaid
 


On 4/3/10 2:22 PM, "Frank Bulk"  wrote:

> If "every significant router on the market" supported IPv6 five years ago,
> why aren't transit links glowing with IPv6 connectivity?  If it's not the
> hardware, than I'm guessing it's something else, like people or processes?
> 
> Frank
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Michael Dillon [mailto:wavetos...@googlemail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 1:07 PM
> To: Larry Sheldon
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: legacy /8
> 
>> Not often you hear something that has changed just about every aspect of
>> life and enabled things that could not be imagined at its outset  called
>> a failure
> 
> Sounds like you are describing the Roman Empire. It failed and that's why
> we now have an EU in its place.
> 
> Things change. Time to move on.
> 
> IPv4 has run out of addresses and we are nowhere near finished GROWING
> THE NETWORK. IPv6 was created to solve just this problem, and 10 years
> ago folks started deploying it in order to be ready. By 5 years ago, every
> significant router on the market supported IPv6. Now that we actually need
> IPv6 in order to continue network growth, most ISPs are in the fortunate
> position that their network hardware already supports it well enough, so
> the investment required is minimized.
> 
> --Michael Dillon
> 
> 





Re: Gmail Down?

2009-09-24 Thread Zaid Ali

Seems like the contact portion only.

Gmail is temporarily unable to access your Contacts. You may  
experience issues while this persists.


Zaid

On Sep 24, 2009, at 8:08 AM, Chris Gotstein wrote:


Anyone else seeing Google's Gmail down right now?  Seems to have been
down since 10am CST.  We are connected through Chicago.
downforeveryoneorjustme.com is also reporting it's down.

--
   
Chris Gotstein, Sr Network Engineer, UP Logon/Computer Connection UP
http://uplogon.com | +1 906 774 4847 | ch...@uplogon.com






Re: Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation

2009-09-15 Thread Zaid Ali
I think costs of maintaining an abuse helpdesk is a big factor here. I  
don't see many ISP's putting money and resources into an abuse  
helpdesk and this is because it is low cost to obtain a Netblock so  
why should one employ and build expertise on managing it. If you go to  
SpamHaus you will see a major ISP and their netblocks listed and  
associated with known spammers. What is this ISP doing about this?  
Nothing!  My guess is that they look at their bottom $$ and look at  
Spamming customer A and say "crap we will be spending $$$ on this  
customer just to get them off SpamHaus so just leave it, we are  
afterall in the bandwidth business". If ARIN were to say to this major  
ISP that they wont allocate more addresses to them until they adhere  
to an AUP then maybe the game will change but the bigger question here  
is should ARIN get into this kind of policy.


Zaid


On Sep 15, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote:


On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:23 PM,   wrote:

On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:01:48 PDT, Shawn Somers said:


  Anyone that intentionally uses address space in a manner that they
know will cause it to become contaminated should be denied on any
further address space requests.


You *do* realize that the people you're directing that paragraph at  
are
able to say with a totally straight face: "We're doing nothing  
wrong and

we have *no* idea why we end up in so many local block lists"?


Also, you can very well disable new allocations to Spammer-Bob, did
you also know his friend Sue is asking now for space? Sue is very
nice, she even has cookies... oh damn after we allocated to her we
found out she's spamming :(

Spammers have a lot of variables to change in this equation, RIR's
dont always have the ability to see all of the variables, nor
correlate all of the changes they see :(

-Chris






Re: Multi-homed clients and BGP timers

2009-05-22 Thread Zaid Ali
>From experience I found that you need to keep all the timers in sync with all 
>your peers. Something like this for every peer in your bgp config.

neighbor xxx.xx.xx.x timers 30 60

Make sure that this is communicated to your peer as well so that their timer 
setting are reflected the same.

Zaid
- Original Message -
From: "Steve Bertrand" 
To: "nanog list" 
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 3:45:20 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Multi-homed clients and BGP timers

Hi all,

I've got numerous single-site 100Mb fibre clients who have backup SDSL
links to my PoP. The two services terminate on separate
distribution/access routers.

The CPE that peers to my fibre router sets a community, and my end sets
the pref to 150 based on it. The CPE also sets a higher pref for
prefixes from the fibre router. The SDSL router to CPE leaves the
default preference in place. Both of my PE gear sends default-originate
to the CPE. There is (generally) no traffic that should ever be on the
SDSL link while the fibre is up.

Both of the PE routers then advertise the learnt client route up into
the core:

*>i208.70.107.128/28
172.16.104.22 0150  0 64762 i
* i 172.16.104.23 0100  0 64762 i

My problem is the noticeable delay for switchover when the fibre happens
to go down (God forbid).

I would like to know if BGP timer adjustment is the way to adjust this,
or if there is a better/different way. It's fair to say that the fibre
doesn't 'flap'. Based on operational experience, if there is a problem
with the fibre network, it's down for the count.

While I'm at it, I've got another couple of questions:

- whatever technique you might recommend to reduce the convergence
throughout the network, can the same principles be applied to iBGP as well?

- if I need to down core2, what is the quickest and easiest way to
ensure that all gear connected to the cores will *quickly* switch to
preferring core1?

Steve




partial routes for AS701 and AS3365

2009-05-19 Thread Zaid Ali
Anyone here doing partial routes with AS701 and AS3356? If so can you tell me 
how many routes you are receiving?

Thanks,
Zaid



CN=Ali Khurram/O=KFPW is out of the office.

2009-04-21 Thread ali . khurram

I will be out of the office starting  30/03/2009 and will not return until
26/04/2009.



UNITED GROUP
This email message is the property of United Group. The information in this 
email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for 
the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are 
not the intended recipient, you may not disclose, copy or distribute this 
email, nor take or omit to take any action in reliance on it. United Group 
accepts no liability for any damage caused by this email or any attachments due 
to viruses, interference, interception, corruption or unauthorised access.
If you have received this email in error, please notify United Group 
immediately by email to the sender's email address and delete this document.



Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..

2009-02-25 Thread Zaid Ali
I think a major reason why recipients click the 'Spam' button is because often 
times its not obvious how to identify the opt out link in the email. You can 
perhaps put the opt out link on the top of the email so that the user clicks 
that instead of the 'Spam' button. There is also the issue of weather the user 
trusts the opt out link, I have been in discussions where data shows that most 
users don't generally trust it.

On the subject of feedback loop I think that if you sign up to receive FBL 
emails then you must do something about it. I think its useless to sign up for 
FBL's and not take any action because ESP's monitor FBL rate so if they feel 
that you are not taking action then you can expect to see your emails go to a 
junk folder or be subjected to greylisting. 

Zaid
- Original Message -
From: "Peter Beckman" 
To: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" 
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:28:46 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Peter Beckman  wrote:
>>  Why the hell can't AOL integrate the standard listserv commands integrated
>>  into many subscription emails into a friggin' button in their email
>>  client, right next to "Spam" (or even in place of it) that says
>>  "Unsubscribe?"
>
> Because a lot of spammers would prefer that people simply unsub from
> their lists rather than they get blocked?
>
> And because unsub urls could lead to a lot of nastiness if theres a
> truly malicious spammer?
>
> And because .. [lots of other reasons]
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Peter Beckman ALSO wrote:
>> I realize it could be used badly if globalized, but if AOL got off their
>> duff and vetted some of the higher volume truly honest subscription
>> emailers and allowed their emails to activate the Spam->Unsub button, it
>> might save everyone some headaches.

  As I said (but you clipped), the suggestion could (and would likely) be
  abused if turned on globally, but if AOL vetted some of the more popular
  subscription mailings where people were clicking spam rather than
  unsubscribe for trusted sources, it could work.

> There are a few (sender driven) initiatives to move towards a trusted
> unsubscribe, but ..

  I think in order for an Unsubscribe button to be implemented by Gmail,
  Yahoo, AOL, etc, there would have to be some sort of internally reviewed
  list of trusted senders for which each company had a mail admin contact
  for (technical implementation not applicable for this discussion).

  Working together to communicate openly about subscription email with
  trusted parties would help (in theory) to reduce the effects of clueless
  end users who lazily click "Spam" and cause headaches for both senders and
  receivers of legitimate subscription email.

Beckman
---
Peter Beckman  Internet Guy
beck...@angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/
---



Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?

2009-02-19 Thread Zaid Ali
Most of all my providers use a route registry and if they don't I would 
question it. I am all for a route registry but can we adopt one or one of X 
registries which I think is what is happening. For my ease of management I 
would like to use one and also pay (and budget) for one since its the same 
information (or should be).

Zaid
- Original Message -
From: "Heather Schiller" 
To: "Zaid Ali" 
Cc: "Jon Lewis" , "NANOG list" 
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 3:21:13 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?


No.  Use of a routing registry is not required.. ARIN's, RADB's or 
otherwise.  You might want to check out this presentation:

http://nanog.org/meetings/nanog44/abstracts.php?pt=ODg4Jm5hbm9nNDQ=&nm=nanog44

This is an entirely different statement from "Your globally unique IP's 
should to be allocated to you in an RIR's database before someone routes 
them for you"   For example 207.76.0.0/14 is allocated to us, you can 
see it in ARIN's whois, but it is not registered in ARIN's IRRD, or any 
other.

As further proof - note that people publicly route resources that aren't 
registered in a "routing registry database" or even registered to them 
by an RIR at all:

http://www.cidr-report.org/as2.0/#Bogons

I'm not saying this is a good thing.. I would like to see the system 
drastically improved and secured.. I'm just pointing out how things 
actually work today.

Check w/ your provider, but in most cases you will find that they don't 
use a route registry.

  --Heather


  Heather SchillerVerizon Business
  Customer Security1.800.900.0241
  IP Address Managementhel...@verizonbusiness.com
=

Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Zaid Ali wrote:
> 
>> Hi, need some advise here. Do I still need to maintain my objects (and 
>> pay) RADB? I use ARIN as source and all my route objects can be 
>> verified with a whois.
> 
> If your objects are all maintained via another routing registry (ARIN's, 
> altdb, etc.) and you don't care to maintain objects with radb.ra.net, 
> then you do not need to pay RADB maintenance fees.
> 
> --
>  Jon Lewis   |  I route
>  Senior Network Engineer |  therefore you are
>  Atlantic Net|
> _ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_
> 
> 




Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?

2009-02-19 Thread Zaid Ali
Yes but I wanted to get a feel from the community and I get a notification 
message from RADB to pay up I wanted to get a feel from providers. I am happy 
to take my question off the list :)

Zaid

- Original Message -
From: "Bruce Robertson" 
To: "Zaid Ali" 
Cc: "NANOG list" 
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:19:42 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?

But I pay for all that already, so it seems that using ARIN is a no-brainer. 

Zaid Ali wrote: 

It's not entirely free since you have to pay an AS maintenance fee and if you 
are assigned a netblock directly then you pay maintenance on that also. I would 
rather maintain everything in one place rather than paying an extra $495 to 
RADB if my BGP peers can source it from ARIN. 

Zaid
- Original Message -
From: "Bruce Robertson"  To: "NANOG list" 
 Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:07:31 PM GMT -08:00 
US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?

Is the ARIN registry free, then?

Jon Lewis wrote: 

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Zaid Ali wrote: 

Hi, need some advise here. Do I still need to maintain my objects 
(and pay) RADB? I use ARIN as source and all my route objects can be 
verified with a whois. If your objects are all maintained via another routing 
registry 
(ARIN's, altdb, etc.) and you don't care to maintain objects with 
radb.ra.net, then you do not need to pay RADB maintenance fees.

--
 Jon Lewis   |  I route
 Senior Network Engineer |  therefore you are
 Atlantic Net|
_ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_ 



Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?

2009-02-19 Thread Zaid Ali
It's not entirely free since you have to pay an AS maintenance fee and if you 
are assigned a netblock directly then you pay maintenance on that also. I would 
rather maintain everything in one place rather than paying an extra $495 to 
RADB if my BGP peers can source it from ARIN. 

Zaid
- Original Message -
From: "Bruce Robertson" 
To: "NANOG list" 
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:07:31 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: do I need to maintain with RADB?

Is the ARIN registry free, then?

Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Zaid Ali wrote:
>
>> Hi, need some advise here. Do I still need to maintain my objects 
>> (and pay) RADB? I use ARIN as source and all my route objects can be 
>> verified with a whois.
>
> If your objects are all maintained via another routing registry 
> (ARIN's, altdb, etc.) and you don't care to maintain objects with 
> radb.ra.net, then you do not need to pay RADB maintenance fees.
>
> --
>  Jon Lewis   |  I route
>  Senior Network Engineer |  therefore you are
>  Atlantic Net|
> _ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_
>
>
>
>
>



do I need to maintain with RADB?

2009-02-19 Thread Zaid Ali
Hi, need some advise here. Do I still need to maintain my objects (and pay) 
RADB? I use ARIN as source and all my route objects can be verified with a 
whois. 

Thanks,
Zaid



Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Zaid Ali

>You are arguing that ISPs should make changes  
>without any obvious mechanism to guarantee some return on the  
>investment necessary to pay for those changes.

Nail on the head and the 800 pound gorilla in the room. Japan gave tax 
incentives which helped their ISP's to move to IPv6. Find a lazy lobbyist who 
can educate a senator to say that there will be no more tubes left on the 
internet and slide a tax incentive into the next stimulus package :)

Zaid   

- Original Message -
From: "David Conrad" 
To: "Mark Andrews" 
Cc: "NANOG list" 
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 8:18:33 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: IPv6 Confusion 

On Feb 17, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> In otherwords ISP's need to enter the 21st century.

Yeah, those stupid, lazy, ISPs.  I'm sure they're just sitting around  
every day, kicking back, eating Bon Bons(tm), and thinking of all the  
new and interesting ways they can burn the vast tracts of ill-gotten  
profits they're obviously rolling in.

Reality check: change in large scale production networks is hard and  
expensive. There needs to be a business case to justify making  
substantive changes.  You are arguing that ISPs should make changes  
without any obvious mechanism to guarantee some return on the  
investment necessary to pay for those changes.  This is a waste of time.

In general, NAT is paid for by the end user, not the network  
provider.  Migrating to IPv6 on the other hand is paid for entirely by  
the network provider.  Guess which is easier to make a business case  
for?

Note that I'm not saying I like the current state of affairs, rather  
I'm suggesting that jumping up and down demanding ISPs change because  
you think they're stuck in the last century is unlikely to get you  
very far.  You want a concrete suggestion? Make configuring DDNS on  
BIND _vastly_ simpler, scalable to tens or hundreds of thousands of  
clients, and manageable by your average NOC staff.

Regards,
-drc





unsolicited name transfers from Godaddy

2009-02-10 Thread Zaid Ali
I have been receiving a high number of unsolicited domain transfer requests 
from Godaddy and have also written to Godaddy support about unsolicited domain 
transfer requests. Since I am not a Godaddy customer I got a standard talk to 
the hand. I have colleagues confirming that some similar chatter is also 
happening in the ICANN space with respect to Godaddy. 

Are folks here experiencing this also?

Thanks,
Zaid



Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-03 Thread Zaid Ali
Yes we all go to NANOG meetings and talk about these solutions but the change 
has to come from within. its not just a technical solution. There has to be 
motivation and incentive for people to make this change.

Zaid

- Original Message -
From: "Paul Timmins" 
To: "Zaid Ali" 
Cc: "Roger Marquis" , nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 10:22:16 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

Zaid Ali wrote:
> I don't consider IPv6 a popularity contest. It's about the motivation and the 
> willingness to. Technical issues can be resolved if you and people around you 
> are motivated to do so. I think there are some hard facts that need to be 
> addressed when it comes to IPv6. Facts like 
>
> 1. How do we migrate to a IPv6 stack on all servers and I am talking about 
> the 
>thousands of servers that exist on peoples network that run SaaS, 
> Financial/Banking systems. 
>   
Just upgrade your load balancer (or request a feature from your load 
balancer company) to map an external IPv6 address to a pool of IPv4 
servers. Problem solved.

> 2. How do we make old applications speak IPv6? There are some old back-end 
> systems 
>that run core functions for many businesses out there that don't really 
> have any
>upgrade path and I don't think people are thinking about this.   
>   
Continue to run IPv4 internally for this application. There's no logical 
reason that IPv4 can't continue to coexist for decades. Heck, people 
still run IPX, right?

-Paul




Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-03 Thread Zaid Ali
I don't consider IPv6 a popularity contest. It's about the motivation and the 
willingness to. Technical issues can be resolved if you and people around you 
are motivated to do so. I think there are some hard facts that need to be 
addressed when it comes to IPv6. Facts like 

1. How do we migrate to a IPv6 stack on all servers and I am talking about the 
   thousands of servers that exist on peoples network that run SaaS, 
Financial/Banking systems. 

2. How do we make old applications speak IPv6? There are some old back-end 
systems 
   that run core functions for many businesses out there that don't really have 
any
   upgrade path and I don't think people are thinking about this.   

>From a network perspective IPv6 adoption is just about doing it and executing 
>with your fellow AS neighbors. The elephant in the room is the applications 
>that ride on your network.

Zaid

- Original Message -
From: "Roger Marquis" 
To: nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 9:39:33 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>> Except the RIRs won't give you another /48 when you have only used one
>> trillion IP addresses.
>
> Are you sure?  According to ARIN staff, current implementation of policy
> is that all requests are approved since there are no defined criteria
> that would allow them to deny any.  So far, nobody's shown interest in
> plugging that hole in the policy because it'd be a major step forward if
> IPv6 were popular enough for anyone to bother wasting it...

Catch 22?  From my experience IPv6 is unlikely to become popular until it
fully supports NAT.

Much as network providers love the thought of owning all of your address
space, and ARIN of billing for it, and RFCs like 4864 of providing
rhetorical but technically flawed arguments against it, the lack of NAT
only pushes adoption of IPv6 further into the future.

Roger Marquis




recommendation for SIP integration

2009-01-12 Thread Zaid Ali
Hi, I am looking for a solution where I can tie a US number to a SIP solution. 
Has anyone had experience with this and if so can you make some 
recommendations? 

Zaid



Re: Christmas spam from RESERVED IANA adressblock ?

2008-12-24 Thread Zaid Ali
If you want to file a spam complaint I suggest you do a whois for 
76.74.250.247. This is the external facing mail server that sent you the email. 
Most applications these days are built in layers so a web layer forwards the 
email to an email server, if the application is not designed to suppress the 
HELO from the web layer then you will see internal email routing information. 
As for the network side most networks filter out BOGONS so you would not get 
RFC1918 into your network. 

Zaid


-Original Message-
From: macbroadcast [mailto:m...@let.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 6:48 AM
To: NANOG list
Subject: Christmas spam from RESERVED IANA adressblock ?

hello ladys and getlepersons


just out of curiosity  i looked a bit closer  into this  spammail header,
because this company is  really annoying and  abusing a lot of internet
citizens.


Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:
> Von: maill...@ualadys.com
> Datum: 24. Dezember 2008 12:30:18 MEZ
> An: m...@let.de
> Betreff: E-Mail For You @ ualadys.com
> Return-Path: 
> Received: from mx2.mail.vrmd.de ([10.0.1.21]) by vm42.mail.vrmd.de 
> (Cyrus v2.2.12-Invoca-RPM-2.2.12-9.RHEL4) with LMTPA; Wed, 24 Dec
> 2008 12:30:25 +0100
> Received: from mx2.iispp.com ([76.74.250.247]) by mx2.mail.vrmd.de 
> with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 
> 1LFRwW-00011o-DY for m...@let.de; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:30:25 +0100
> Received: from web1.iispp.com (w1 [172.16.21.244]) by mx2.iispp.com
> (Postfix) with ESMTP id B71CF3504DB for ; Wed, 24 Dec
> 2008 11:30:18 + (UTC)
> Received: by web1.iispp.com (Postfix, from userid 33) id A5C7917A405C; 
> Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:30:18 -0500 (EST)


"Whois" wurde gestartet .


OrgName:Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
OrgID:  IANA
Address:4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
City:   Marina del Rey
StateProv:  CA
PostalCode: 90292-6695
Country:US

NetRange:   172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
CIDR:   172.16.0.0/12
NetName:IANA-BBLK-RESERVED
NetHandle:  NET-172-16-0-0-1
Parent: NET-172-0-0-0-0
NetType:IANA Special Use
NameServer: BLACKHOLE-1.IANA.ORG
NameServer: BLACKHOLE-2.IANA.ORG
Comment:This block is reserved for special purposes.
Comment:Please see RFC 1918 for additional information.
Comment:http://www.arin.net/reference/rfc/rfc1918.txt
RegDate:1994-03-15
Updated:2007-11-27

OrgAbuseHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgAbuseName:   Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
OrgAbusePhone:  +1-310-301-5820
OrgAbuseEmail:  ab...@iana.org

OrgTechHandle: IANA-IP-ARIN
OrgTechName:   Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number
OrgTechPhone:  +1-310-301-5820
OrgTechEmail:  ab...@iana.org

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2008-12-23 19:10 # Enter ? for
additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.


so how is this possible ?

merry christmas anyway


Marc

> X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2
> Envelope-To: m...@let.de
> Delivery-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:30:25 +0100
> X-Id-From: 1000
> X-Id-To: 238141
> X-Mail-Id: 203714382
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/html
> Message-Id: <20081224113018.a5c7917a4...@web1.iispp.com>
> X-Spam-Suspicion: No
> X-Purgate: Clean X-purgate-ID:  
> 150741::081224123024-0FFB86C0-283E8BDE/0-0/0-1 X-purgate-Ad: For more 
> information about eXpurgate please visit http://www.expurgate.net/
>
>
>
>
> marc, You have new mail
> This is to notify you that you have received an E-Mail from
>
> View Photos
> DetailsIrina O #1000
> Subject: Destiny has linked us...
>
> Date: 24 December 2008
>
> To read the message go here:
>
> PLEASE, DO NOT REPLY TO THIS E-MAIL - FOLLOW THE LINK
>
> http://www.ualadys.com/view_mail.rpx?hash=a71d2600f032ece232a391296f5f
> 071e&mid=203714382&uid=238141
>
> Thank you,
> ualadys.com Support Team
>
> Favorites  ualadys.com
>
> 24x7 Call center
>
> United States
> +1 (315) 849-5814
>
> United Kigdom
> +44 (315) 849-5814
>
> Skype support : ualadys
>
>
>
> For any question in english
> about this site please call:
> +1 (212) 226-8900
> Mon-Fri 9:00-16:00 (EST)





Re: XO Outage

2008-09-22 Thread Zaid Ali

I am seeing it on my end also:

traceroute: Warning: www.cnn.com has multiple addresses; using 
157.166.224.25

traceroute to www.cnn.com (157.166.224.25), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  hq-rtr1.genius.local (64.244.66.1)  0.891 ms  0.429 ms  0.449 ms
 2  ip65-46-253-157.z253-46-65.customer.algx.net (65.46.253.157)  1.856 
ms  2.860 ms  1.881 ms
 3  p3-0-0.mar2.fremont-ca.us.xo.net (207.88.80.181)  16.922 ms  2.041 
ms  2.013 ms
 4  p4-3-0.rar2.sanjose-ca.us.xo.net (65.106.5.161)  2.637 ms  2.192 ms 
 2.823 ms
 5  p6-0-0.rar1.la-ca.us.xo.net (65.106.0.17)  10.308 ms  10.258 ms 
10.386 ms
 6  207.88.13.22.ptr.us.xo.net (207.88.13.22)  10.931 ms  10.535 ms 
10.037 ms

 7  *^C


Justin Sharp wrote:

We are seeing some issues w/ XO/Savvis peering..

Trace from XO to Savvis IP space (64.75.10.151)

Keys:  Help   Display mode   Restart statistics   Order of fields   quit

Packets   Pings
Host  
Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
1. scrubbed 
  
0.0% 60.6   0.5   0.4   0.6   0.1
2. 
ip65-44-114-97.z114-44-65.customer.algx.net 
0.0% 61.3   1.3   1.2   1.4   0.1

3. ???


Trace from Savvis to XO IP space (65.44.114.97)

1. scrubbed 
  
0.0%380.4   0.4   0.3   0.5   0.1
2. 
64.41.199.129   
0.0%371.0  24.0   0.6 330.2  80.4
3. 
hr1-ge-7-47.santaclarasc5.savvis.net
0.0%370.7   1.4   0.6  27.3   4.4
4. 
er1-te-1-0-0.sanjose3equinix.savvis.net 
0.0%370.7   5.2   0.6 140.3  23.2
5. 
cr1-tenge-0-7-5-0.sanfrancisco.savvis.net   
2.7%372.9   4.0   2.6  16.6   2.5
6. 
cr2-pos-0-0-3-3.dallas.savvis.net   
0.0%37   42.6  43.1  42.3  51.4   1.4
7. 
dpr1-ge-4-0-0.dallasequinix.savvis.net  
0.0%37   43.1  44.8  42.9  76.9   6.7
8. 
er1-te-2-1.dallasequinix.savvis.net 
0.0%37   43.3  49.2  42.8 233.6  31.6
9. 
208.175.175.90  
0.0%37   43.0  42.8  42.6  43.6   0.2
10. 
65.106.1.102   
75.0%37   43.5  46.5  43.4  62.9   6.3
11. 
65.106.1.101
0.0%37   43.4  47.8  43.2 112.3  12.5
12. 
65.106.0.41 
0.0%37   57.5  65.1  57.1 177.3  21.0
13. 
65.106.1.73 
0.0%37   57.4  66.5  57.1 162.1  24.2

14. ???

Trying to call into XO and they aren't even taking calls, they mention 
something about network issues in Spokane. Any ideas as to what is going 
on/ETA to fix?


--Justin







Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

2008-06-26 Thread Zaid Ali
I hear from my friend's attending ICANN in Paris that there are tons  
of business folks who want to scoop up a gTLD. I haven't heard of  
anything that will be structured so looks like it will be a blood bath.


Zaid

On Jun 26, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Ken Simpson wrote:


Two years ago I posed the question here about the need for TLDs
(http://www.mcabee.org/lists/nanog/May-06/msg00110.html).
I summerizsed that companies IP (Intellectual Property) guidelines
would never allow domain.org to exist if they owned domain.com
(ibm.org vrs ibm.com).I felt that TLDs really represented a
monetary harvesting scheme as every new TLD forced companies to "pay
for yet another domain name" (slowly milking businesses).   At that
time several knowledgeable folks commented that TLDs  were necessary
in the beginning due to the need to distribute queries.   Now it
seems, ICANN has decided to add a new paradigm :-)   How will a TLD
like .ibm be handled now, and how is this different than what I
proposed in 2006?


How will ICANN be allocating these? An auction format? It will be a  
blood bath otherwise.. And for abuse and spam, this is a nightmare.







XO contact

2008-06-24 Thread Zaid Ali
Can someone from XO who handles this neighbor 65.46.253.157 help me  
out with a BGP session going down? This is the second time within a  
week where a misconfiguration of an ACL on XO end is bringing down my  
BGP session with you and its frustrating to go through the normal tech  
support chain.


Zaid