Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-08-01 Thread Simon Leinen
Noel Chiappa writes: From: Joe Touch to...@isi.edu what people want (ISP operators, or at least some of them), was an artificial way to differentiate home customers from commercial providers. I.e., they wanted to create a differentiation that wasn't part of the Internet architecture, so they

Meetecho archive down? / Availability of collaboration services [was: Re: IETF chair's blog]

2013-03-03 Thread Simon Leinen
Randy Bush writes: so your criteria acctually open and continual availability, and availability of export. i think these would apply well to ietf or whatever services as well. Right. As a data point, I haven't been able to access the archived Meetecho streams from past IETF meetings lately,

Re: Meetecho archive down? / Availability of collaboration services [was: Re: IETF chair's blog]

2013-03-03 Thread Simon Leinen
, Simon Simon Leinen simon.lei...@switch.ch ha scritto: [...] Right. As a data point, I haven't been able to access the archived Meetecho streams from past IETF meetings lately, e.g. http://recordings.conf.meetecho.com/Recordings/watch.jsp?recording=IETF84_TSVAREAchapter=part_3 [...]

Re: Spammers answering TMDA Queries

2007-10-04 Thread Simon Leinen
Fred Baker writes: On Oct 4, 2007, at 11:56 AM, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: The problem is the amount of time it is taking to moderate mail sent by non subscribers. yes. For example, every email from @cisco.com is dkim-signed. The IETF can automagically dump any such email that is not

Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-dnsop-reflectors-are-evil-04.txt

2007-10-03 Thread Simon Leinen
Danny McPherson writes: Really? How many ISPs are you aware of that have *decommissioned* every piece of routing gear in their network in the past 7 years? I think we're an ISP (AS559), and we don't have any equipment that would be unable to filter against spoofed source addresses. In fact I

Re: [tsv-dir] Re: Transport Directorate review of draft-ietf-ipfix-implementation-guidelines-06.txt

2007-09-10 Thread Simon Leinen
I'm a bit wary to step in this discussion, but anyway. Here's a little input from an operator who has been using various variants of Netflow over the years. Netflow is rather like IPFIX over UDP as far as congestion (non-)handling is concerned. Lars Eggert writes: On 2007-9-6, at 14:51, ext

Re: NATs as firewalls

2007-03-11 Thread Simon Leinen
Darryl \(Dassa\) Lynch writes: Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: There is a major difference between a NAT box plugged into the real Internet and a NAT box plugged into another NAT box. It is a pretty ugly one for the residential user. I'm afraid it is already happening on a large scale in some

Address consumption vs. routing table growth [was: Re: NATs as firewalls]

2007-03-11 Thread Simon Leinen
Tony Hain writes: On top of that look closely at the graph I referenced yesterday and you will note that the RIPE region is burning through space the fastest. The last I looked Geoff's numbers showed the APnic region having the fastest growth in the routing system, so where are all those

Re: IM and Presence history

2006-11-28 Thread Simon Leinen
Hallam-Baker, Phillip writes: Incidentally, it does need to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not [EMAIL PROTECTED] Google, Yahoo and co need to stop trying to turn us into serfs by refusing to allow us to own our own online identity. Stop trying to make a service sticky by making it costly to switch

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-21 Thread Simon Leinen
Stephane Bortzmeyer writes: On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 12:42:17PM -0800, Ned Freed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 35 lines which said: The privileged port concept has some marginal utility on multiuser systems where you don't Joe-random-user to grab some port for a well known service.

Vancouver IETF network; bogus IPv6 RAs [was: Re: jabber rooms]

2005-11-09 Thread Simon Leinen
John C Klensin writes: I hypothesize that there have been few complaints this week for the same reason that the absence of jabber room reminders may not have been noticed -- I've only occasionally found the network stable enough in the meeting sessions to make use of jabber rooms effective

Re: Vancouver IETF network; bogus IPv6 RAs

2005-11-09 Thread Simon Leinen
Simon Leinen writes: Anyway, I finally learned how to configure filters on my Linux laptop, and found that the following command (as root) makes my box ignore RAs from that particular address: ip6tables -A INPUT -s fe80::204:23ff:fe7a:fb3e \ --protocol ipv6-icmp --icmpv6-type router

Re: IETF62 Network and Terminal Room Information

2005-03-11 Thread Simon Leinen
I partly share Jordi's concerns about the newfangled IETF WLAN. While the network basically worked reliably for me once I nailed my adapter to 802.11a, it was truly disappointing to see IPv6 being turned off a(between Monday and Tuesday IIRC). I wonder whether the decision to turn off IPv6 was

Re: IETF62 Network and Terminal Room Information

2005-03-11 Thread Simon Leinen
Brian E Carpenter writes: Simon Leinen wrote: I wonder whether the decision to turn off IPv6 was just part of a general feature-shedding strategy to stabilize the network, This is my understanding Thanks, I suspected as much. So here's a plea to consider un-shedding that particular feature

Re: RFC1269 -

2004-12-16 Thread Simon Leinen
Eliot Lear writes: I'll remove it from the list with the expectation that the new MIB will obsolete the old one. However, I note that is currently not stated in the header of the draft. I think RFC1269 (BGP-3 MIB) can safely be dropped even today, because nobody is using BGP-3 anymore, and as

Re: The gaps that NAT is filling

2004-12-02 Thread Simon Leinen
Iljitsch van Beijnum writes: But all of this is only delaying the inevitable (not that that can't be useful sometimes): at some point, we need to move away from the premise that all default-free routers must know about all reachable prefixes. But isn't this the *definition* of a default-free

Re: Document Action: 'BinaryTime: An alternate format for representing date and time in ASN.1' to Experimental RFC

2004-11-15 Thread Simon Leinen
Graham Klyne writes: The integer value is the number of seconds after midnight UTC, January 1, 1970. NEW: The integer value is the number of seconds, ignoring leap seconds, after midnight UTC, January 1, 1970. This slipped under my radar until this announcement. Has there been

Re: Yahoo is not using ESMTP

2004-11-13 Thread Simon Leinen
ned freed writes: In many situations around the world in developing countries, it is totally impossible to send a 10MB e-mail because the link will be at least break once in the time it takes to send 10MB. As e-mail does not resume... FWIW, RFC 1845 specifies such a mechanism for SMTP. There

Re: IPv6 in the network, please

2004-11-09 Thread Simon Leinen
Trond Skjesol writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: they are working on it. I'll get to mention that responses are nice. OK, hope they will succeed. aolMe too!/aol My laptop builds a 6to4 tunnel when it doesn't receive a global IPv6 address, but unfortunately the next instance of the anycast

Re: survey on Friday IETF sessions

2004-08-02 Thread Simon Leinen
Bill Manning writes: perhaps the reason there has not been more participation in your survey is associated w/ the following: A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function calls leading up to the error, in the order they occurred. this error could be due to the fact

handy RFC mini-index

2004-03-02 Thread Simon Leinen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- The following URL points to a Web page with a single-page index to all RFCs, with hyperlinks to those that are online, and (if you support Javascript) display of RFC titles on mouse-over: http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/doc/standard/rfc/mini-index.html I've

www.isoc.org unreachable when ECN is used [was: Re: ITU takes over?]

2003-12-11 Thread Simon Leinen
Ole J Jacobsen writes: Yep, works fine for me, Stef. Time to switch providers? :-) Time to disable ECN? $ telnet www.isoc.org 80 Trying 206.131.249.182... ^C : [EMAIL PROTECTED]; su Password: # ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_ecn_permitted 0 # telnet www.isoc.org 80

Re: Non terminated traffic...

2003-12-11 Thread Simon Leinen
Joe Abley writes: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-turk-bgp-dos-04.txt http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/working-groups/routing-discussion/current/msg00688.html draft-marques-idr-flow-spec-00.txt seems to be sort-of a generalized version of this (which doesn't necessarily mean that

Re: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-13 Thread Simon Leinen
Randy Bush writes: Note that getting 802.11a works even better. until everybody does, and 'everbody' is twice as many people as now I think 802.11a should be able to support more than twice as many users than 802.11b. At least in the US, the band reserved for 802.11a has more channels

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your Misspelling Are Belong To Us]

2003-09-19 Thread Simon Leinen
Yakov Shafranovich writes: Just to follow up on this - I just spoke to an engineer at Verisign and he informed me that the SMTP daemon is being replaced in a few hours with an RFC-compliant one. As for not giving a warning - this came from a higher policy level at Verisign and he is just an

Re: non-complain mail system at alcatel.com

2003-06-24 Thread Simon Leinen
this will be fixed, and Alcatel would be well-advised to turn off the ns-required option until it is. -- Simon Leinen. SWITCH ---End Message---

Re: site local addresses

2003-03-29 Thread Simon Leinen
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:11:15 -0800 (PST), Spencer Dawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: To echo the favorable review of Steve's presentation: It's at http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/01aug/slides/plenary-1/index.html, and is well worth the few minutes it takes to read/re-read... If you have a bit

Re: Regarding MIBs

2002-06-13 Thread Simon Leinen
own OID subtree in the enterprise-specific space (1.3.6.1.4.1.YOUR-PRIVATE-ENTERPRISE-NUMBER). -- Simon Leinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] SWITCH http://www.switch.ch/misc/leinen/ Computers hate being anthropomorphized.

Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

2001-03-30 Thread Simon Leinen
"ln" == Lyndon Nerenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes (for a larger value of "all" than RealPlayer supports). vic/vat/rat are portable to many UNIX variants, and also run under Windows. I think that MacOS is the only orphan in this scenario, but ISTR there are protocol proxies available