new reverse-DNS generation process at APNIC

2002-08-19 Thread George Michaelson
Reverse-DNS changes for 61/8, 202/8, 203/8, 210/8, 211/8, 218/8, 219/8, 220/8, 221/8, 2001:0200::/23 and 2001:0C00::/23 APNIC has converted its DNS generation processes to a new system. This is in preparation for conversion to RPSL based whois services, as APNIC generates authoritative

Re: Major Labels v. Backbones

2002-08-19 Thread Owen DeLong
Majdi S. Abbas wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 05:04:05PM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote: --The service provider must not determine the recipients of the material. One could argue (in theory) that a routing-table lookup may satisfy this. I'm not so sure. Generally

Re: Major Labels v. Backbones

2002-08-19 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Jeff Ogden wrote: The thing that I find most disturbing with this latest approach to enforcement by the RIAA is that they have targeted backbone providers who probably don't have any business or other relationship with the

Re: Major Labels v. Backbones

2002-08-19 Thread michael . dillon
The industry needs one or more clueful persons willing to act as expert witnesses in these types of court cases. Because of Dave Farber's role in the early Internet, the legal community views him as an authority on the subject. At this point I think there are a lot of people whose knowledge

Re: Major Labels v. Backbones

2002-08-19 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 11:46, Owen DeLong wrote: *snip* Please, the intent of that sentence is to say that the ISP cannot set the destination IP address for the content. The intervening backbones don't do that, they merely copy it to the next hop as the MAC addresses are modified to send

Secure Cabinets

2002-08-19 Thread Andrew Dorsett
Hey everyone, I know this is slightly off topic but I'm hoping that someone from Verisign or the like will respond. I am looking for a VERY secure computer cabinet to replace an open rack I have now. I'm looking for almost vault like qualities. Is anyone willing to make recommendations on

Fwd: Re: Secure Cabinets

2002-08-19 Thread Andrew Dorsett
Andrew Dorsett [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hey everyone, I know this is slightly off topic but I'm hoping that someone from Verisign or the like will respond. I am looking for a VERY secure computer cabinet to replace an open rack I have now. I'm looking for almost vault like

Re: Dave Farber comments on Re: Major Labels v. Backbones

2002-08-19 Thread Marshall Eubanks
A question : Doesn't Internap use BGP as part of its load balancing ? Don't they sell / market this service ? Isn't each Internap node connected to 4 providers ? SO, wouldn't canceling China Telecom BGP through ATT CW and UUnet do nothing except cause some BGP advertisement changes at

Re: Major Labels v. Backbones

2002-08-19 Thread Greg Maxwell
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Jeff Ogden wrote: The thing that I find most disturbing with this latest approach to enforcement by the RIAA is that they have targeted backbone providers who probably don't have any business or other relationship with

RE: Re: Secure Cabinets

2002-08-19 Thread Rishi Singh
http://www.mtpartners.com/home.htm -Original Message- From: Benjamin J. Carrasco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 1:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Re: Secure Cabinets Andrew, I am looking for a

Re: Dave Farber comments on Re: Major Labels v. Backbones

2002-08-19 Thread Stephen Stuart
Or maybe, the four providers named are the same 4 being used by Internap at that node, so effectively terminating the announcement from all 4 directions to Internap solves the problem. There is a historical precedent that supports this theory. For those who can set their Way-Back Machines

Re: Major Labels v. Backbones

2002-08-19 Thread David Schwartz
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:59:03 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The industry needs one or more clueful persons willing to act as expert witnesses in these types of court cases. Because of Dave Farber's role in the early Internet, the legal community views him as an authority on the subject. At

Re: 95th percentile

2002-08-19 Thread Scott Granados
I actually didn't see anything but its probably my own bad search:) I'll try again. Thanks On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the slightly off topic question but very briefly. What tools are people using for 95th percentile billing. Anything unix based

Re: Dave Farber comments on Re: Major Labels v. Backbones

2002-08-19 Thread Tim Thorne
Marshall Eubanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SO, wouldn't canceling China Telecom BGP through ATT CW and UUnet do nothing except cause some BGP advertisement changes at Internap ? I'm not even sure if shutting listen4ever down is on the RIAA agenda. Wouldn't the easiest course of action be to

Re: 95th percentile

2002-08-19 Thread Barb Dijker
I have a home grown program that gives 95th percentile from mrtg data files... and can display it on the mrtg page as an odometer (using fly) or text for a monthly report. Because of mrtg data reduction, it isn't exact (weighted on the most recent three days), but it does its best to

Re: Dave Farber comments on Re: Major Labels v. Backbones

2002-08-19 Thread Joe Baptista
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Tim Thorne wrote: I'm not even sure if shutting listen4ever down is on the RIAA agenda. Wouldn't the easiest course of action be to file suit against Verisign and have their DNS nuked? that would be the logical approach. or they could get an order against the usg and

Re: Secure Cabinets

2002-08-19 Thread Allan Liska
Hello Andrew, Monday, August 19, 2002, 12:11:02 PM, you wrote: AD Hey everyone, I know this is slightly off topic but I'm hoping that someone AD from Verisign or the like will respond. I am looking for a VERY secure AD computer cabinet to replace an open rack I have now. I'm looking for

RE: ASN registry?

2002-08-19 Thread Mark Segal
It's a list... But it includes the asn-name and registering nic-handle. ftp://ftp.arin.net/netinfo/asn.txt Regards, Mark -- Mark Segal Director, Data Services Futureway Communications Inc. Tel: (905)326-1570 -Original Message- From: Ralph Doncaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: Major Labels v. Backbones

2002-08-19 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Benjamin J. Carrasco wrote: place. In my opinion, the RIAA is not unlike a predator that has acquired an insatiable appetite; it needs to be placed on a very short leash. The RIAA is one of the few organizations that have etched out a policy that is overtly alienating

Re: ASN registry?

2002-08-19 Thread Andy Dills
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote: I've always used whois.arin.net to check ASN registrations, and until now it's always had information on those that I've checked. It doesn't have anything for 1221, which according to route-views.oregon-ix.net is Telstra. Is there a single

RE: ASN registry?

2002-08-19 Thread Derek Samford
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Andy Dills Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 3:42 PM To: Ralph Doncaster Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ASN registry? On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote: I've always used

RE: ASN registry?

2002-08-19 Thread Kris Foster
maybe you're forgetting Australia... think APNIC... -Original Message- From: Derek Samford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 3:51 PM To: 'Andy Dills'; 'Ralph Doncaster' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: ASN registry? -Original Message-

RE: ASN registry?

2002-08-19 Thread Michael Hallgren
[...] the lower range controlled by ARIN. No idea why ARIN doesn't have a record for it...they only carry records for ASN 16779, which is Telstra-USA. Andy I noticed that as well. But a quick google shows that Telstra is most definitely AS1221. Maybe they forgot to renew one of

RE: ASN registry?

2002-08-19 Thread Derek Samford
That's a little odd, considering that's included in a range of AS' that RIPE shows as delegated to ARIN. Anyone have any ideas? Derek -Original Message- From: Kris Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 3:56 PM To: 'Derek Samford'; 'Andy Dills'; 'Ralph

RE: ASN registry?

2002-08-19 Thread Michael Hallgren
That's a little odd, considering that's included in a range of AS' that RIPE shows as delegated to ARIN. Anyone have any ideas? aut-num AS1221, inverse [...] remarks AS assigned by the former InterNIC [...] source APNIC mh Derek -Original

Re: Major Labels v. Backbones

2002-08-19 Thread JC Dill
On 08:43 AM 8/19/02, Jeff Ogden wrote: I am also concerned that the backbone providers might not put up a rigorous fight against the RIAA since they would mostly be defending the rights of people and organizations that they don't do business with directly. I can imagine that Worldcom may

RE: ASN registry?

2002-08-19 Thread Michael Hallgren
aut-num AS1221, inverse as-name ASN-TELSTRA descrTelstra Pty Ltd descrLocked Bag No. 5744 descrGPO, Canberra, ACT, 2601 country AU admin-c GH105-AP, inverse tech-c

Re: Major Labels v. Backbones

2002-08-19 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, JC Dill wrote: rigorous fight against the RIAA since they would mostly be defending the rights of people and organizations that they don't do business If one voluntarily caves in, they will almost certainly see their sales plummet. Would you buy bandwidth from a

Re: ASN registry?

2002-08-19 Thread Ralph Doncaster
That seems to be the closest to a complete db, but I noticed it doesn't necessarily have the same info as ARIN. For example ARIN's listing for 1239 has a lot more details than the RADB entry. From the responses so far, it seems that it is necessary in some cases to query ARIN, RIPE, and APNIC

Sniffers/Analysers

2002-08-19 Thread Dr. Mosh
Anyone have recommendations for LAN analysers? (besides building a box and using tcpdump) Personal experiences, recommendations, etc...? Private reply works. Thanks -- -- http://www.zeromemory.com - metal for your ears.

RE: Sniffers/Analysers

2002-08-19 Thread Stanley, Jon
Ethereal - free, and decent. Shomiti Surveyor - expensive, requires special hardware for line rate (and excess) traffic generation, and difficult as could be to use. But very powerful. Basically, it depends on what you want to do with it. If you want to analyze what's going on on the LAN, I

Re: Corporate PGP for network operators

2002-08-19 Thread Len Sassaman
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Sean Donelan wrote: Ok, extremely dumb question. But I'm sure lots of other people have already solved this one. Network operators have been using various PGPs to exchange confidential information for many years. I have my own personal PGP key for my own use and a

RE: ASN registry?

2002-08-19 Thread Steve Meuse
At 04:10 PM 8/19/2002 -0400, Andy Dills wrote: Interesting. So then, how did that happen? as-block:AS1 - AS1876 descr: ARIN ASN block remarks: These AS numbers are further assigned by ARIN remarks: to ARIN members and end-users in the ARIN region admin-c: ARIN1-RIPE

Re: ASN registry?

2002-08-19 Thread bmanning
S! Don't tell folks that there were delegation registries that predated RIPE, APNIC, ARIN (created in that order). --bill

Re: ASN registry?

2002-08-19 Thread Philip Smith
Ralph, ARIN only handles the ASNs for North and South America, and the southern half of Africa. And has the records for most of the historical stuff from when before APNIC and RIPE NCC existed. Simple rule, if it isn't at ARIN, check APNIC and RIPE NCC databases. Telstra is in Australia,

Re: Fwd: Re: Secure Cabinets

2002-08-19 Thread David Lesher
There was a GSA approved container [i.e. safe to you laymen] that was built to hold Milnet routers, yet have ventilation and cable access. Uou might find it a little rich and a little heavy for your needs... -- A host is a host from coast to [EMAIL PROTECTED] no one will talk to a host

Broadview Networks

2002-08-19 Thread Mike Moglin
Has anyone else had the unpleasant experience of dealing with Broadview?? I'd love to hear some horror stories

Re: ASN registry?

2002-08-19 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 10:45 AM 20-08-02 +1000, Philip Smith wrote: ARIN is in the midst of a process to move the pre-existing ASNs to RIPE and APNIC. See: http://www.arin.net/registration/erx/index.html Interesting is that AS1221 is not listed on that page. -Hank Ralph, ARIN only handles the ASNs for