Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread Petri Helenius
I'm putting the number closer to 40 (the NFL cities) right now, and 150 by the end of the decade, and ultimately any metro with population greater than 50K in a 100 sq Km area will need a neutral exchange point (even if it's 1500 sqft in the bottom of a bank building.) What application will

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread E.B. Dreger
PV Date: 14 Nov 2002 05:14:30 + PV From: Paul Vixie [ re number of US exchange points ] DD Right now seems domestically 6 may be all we need. PV I'm putting the number closer to 40 (the NFL cities) right PV now, and 150 by the end of the decade, and ultimately any PV metro with population

Re: [South Florida Network Operators Group]

2002-11-14 Thread Joshua Smith
Dale Levesque [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Attachment: MIME Type: multipart/alternative - Does anyone in here now of a South Florida Network Operators Group, or something similar, and if

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread Paul Vixie
I'm putting the number closer to 40 (the NFL cities) right now, and 150 by the end of the decade, and ultimately any metro with population greater than 50K in a 100 sq Km area will need a neutral exchange point (even if it's 1500 sqft in the bottom of a bank building.) What application

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread David Diaz
Well thanks for the agreement Ed. Philosophically, I agree with Paul. I think 40 exchange points would be a benefit. At this time though, there is no model that would support it. 1) Long haul circuits are dirt cheap. Meaning distance peering becomes more attractive. L3 also has an MPLS

Blocking specific sites within certain countries.

2002-11-14 Thread Alif The Terrible
Good Morning, I am interested in how everyone who is affected by the recent Spanish Judicial order to block specific terrorist affiliated sites from access to Spanish nationals? Without re-starting the endless debate over how impossible this is in fact, since that is obvious -

compuserve proxy ips

2002-11-14 Thread Jason Beltrame
Does anyone know where I can get a list of compuserve's proxy ip's? Thanks, Jason -- Jason Beltrame INetU, Inc.(tm)- http://www.INetU.net Electronic commerce - Web development - Web

Re: compuserve proxy ips

2002-11-14 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
not meaning to sound facetious but have you asked compuserve? On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Jason Beltrame wrote: Does anyone know where I can get a list of compuserve's proxy ip's? Thanks, Jason --

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread fkittred
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:22:09 -0500 David Diaz wrote: 2) There is a lack of a killer app requiring peering every 100 sq Km. David; I recommend some quality time with journals covering South Korea, broadband, online gaming and video rental. regards, fletcher

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:22:09 -0500 David Diaz wrote: 2) There is a lack of a killer app requiring peering every 100 sq Km. David; I recommend some quality time with journals covering South Korea, broadband, online gaming and video rental. Current peering

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread Pete Kruckenberg
Wired covered several of these topics in their August issue. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.08/korea.html The article points out several subtle, yet fundamental, changes that happen socially and psychologically once the broadband network is available everywhere, to virtually everyone,

RE: Blocking specific sites within certain countries.

2002-11-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
-- On Thursday, November 14, 2002 12:11 PM -0500 -- Jim Deleskie [EMAIL PROTECTED] supposedly wrote: Its my understanding that since Akamai is based on DNS resolves if you where to use the method of blocking it within the DNS system it would make no difference. Although I'm no Akamai expert.

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread David Diaz
Still seems that none of these requires peering every 100 km. Latency is still not a factor in this case. People seem to prefer cost of quality at this time. Good Fast Cheap Pick any two. As far as digital libraries and content and such... proxies and caches would fill the roll here.

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread Brian
Used to be when it first came out, Wired was a mag the best quality printing on no substance I had ever seen, really seemed like a borderline artist mag. The colors were amazing. I see now, upon looking at a recent issue, their content seems to have improved dramatically. Brian -

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread E.B. Dreger
DD Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:22:09 -0500 DD From: David Diaz DD 1) Long haul circuits are dirt cheap. Meaning distance DD peering becomes more attractive. L3 also has an MPLS product DD so you pay by the meg. I am surprised a great many peers are DD using this. But apparently CFOs love it

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread David Diaz
At 18:31 + 11/14/02, E.B. Dreger wrote: DD Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:22:09 -0500 DD From: David Diaz DD 1) Long haul circuits are dirt cheap. Meaning distance DD peering becomes more attractive. L3 also has an MPLS product DD so you pay by the meg. I am surprised a great many peers are

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake E.B. Dreger [EMAIL PROTECTED] DD 1) Long haul circuits are dirt cheap. Meaning distance DD peering becomes more attractive. L3 also has an MPLS product DD so you pay by the meg. I am surprised a great many peers are DD using this. But apparently CFOs love it Uebercheap

RE: Blocking specific sites within certain countries.

2002-11-14 Thread hostmaster
This all strikes me as incorrect. The function of the domain name system is primarily to translate an IP number into a domain name, vice versa. If a user wishes to browse to http://64.236.16.20 he/she will arrive also at www.cnn.com. The domain name is propagated and subsequently refreshed

DNS Subdomains

2002-11-14 Thread Gawie Marais (Home)
Helo, Might be a simple question But... I've got no idea what the answer could be... In the early days, one only had a .com address space (amongst the most popular ones). These days, there is .com(this) and .com(that) and any kind of .(whatever) you can think of. My question... How does

Re: Blocking specific sites within certain countries.

2002-11-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:11:14 EST, Jim Deleskie [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Its my understanding that since Akamai is based on DNS resolves if you where to use the method of blocking it within the DNS system it would make no difference. Although I'm no Akamai expert. The Akamai gotcha is that if

Re: DNS Subdomains

2002-11-14 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
well current practice seems to be to declare yourself the legitimate root authority and go out and set them up however for the rest of us who either like the internet to continue to function in a predictable manner or are mere mortals not worthy of declaring ourselves root the answer is you cant

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread E.B. Dreger
SS Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:32:55 -0600 SS From: Stephen Sprunk SS Incorrect. Cheap longhaul favors a few centralized SS exchanges. If there is no economic value in keeping traffic SS local, it is in carriers' interests to minimize the number of SS peering points. True. However, cheap

Re: DNS Subdomains

2002-11-14 Thread David Charlap
Gawie Marais (Home) wrote: Might be a simple question But... I've got no idea what the answer could be... In the early days, one only had a .com address space (amongst the most popular ones). These days, there is .com(this) and .com(that) and any kind of .(whatever) you can think of. My

DNS Subdomains

2002-11-14 Thread Gawie Marais (Home)
Helo, Might be a simple question But... I've got no idea what the answer could be... In the early days, one only had a .com address space (amongst the most popular ones). These days, there is .com(this) and .com(that) and any kind of .(whatever) you can think of. My question... How does

Re: Blocking specific sites within certain countries.

2002-11-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
-- On Thursday, November 14, 2002 4:52 PM -0500 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] supposedly wrote: On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:11:14 EST, Jim Deleskie [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Its my understanding that since Akamai is based on DNS resolves if you where to use the method of blocking it within the DNS system it

RE: Blocking specific sites within certain countries.

2002-11-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
-- On Thursday, November 14, 2002 8:52 PM +0100 -- hostmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] supposedly wrote: This all strikes me as incorrect. The function of the domain name system is primarily to translate an IP number into a domain name, vice versa. If a user wishes to browse to http://64.236.16.20

RE: Blocking specific sites within certain countries.

2002-11-14 Thread Simon Waters
This all strikes me as incorrect. The function of the domain name system is primarily to translate an IP number into a domain name, vice versa. If a user wishes to browse to http://64.236.16.20 he/she will arrive also at www.cnn.com. Remember some servers won't work with IP address,

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, David Diaz wrote: 2) There is a lack of a killer app requiring peering every 100 sq Km. Peering every 100 sq km is absolutely infeasible. Just think of the number of alternative paths routing algorithms wil lhave to consider. Anything like that would require serious

Re: Blocking specific sites within certain countries.

2002-11-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:26:21 EST, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Not if you block the domain name terrorist.com from resolving at the caching name server, only if you block the IP address to which is resolves on your routers. (Which in many cases will be an Akamai server inside

DirecPC Protocols

2002-11-14 Thread Crist J. Clark
I've been looking for some technical descriptions on how DirecPC works from a TCP/IP point of view. Does anyone out there have some references? I have not been able to find anything too detailed, and from what I have been told, they are not too forthcoming when contacted directly. I know the

Re: DirecPC Protocols

2002-11-14 Thread Clayton Fiske
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:53:59PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: I've been looking for some technical descriptions on how DirecPC works from a TCP/IP point of view. Does anyone out there have some references? I have not been able to find anything too detailed, and from what I have been told,

Re: DirecPC Protocols

2002-11-14 Thread Scott Granados
Well there are some two way dish solutions for consumers now that don't need a dial-uplink. I think dishnetwork has such a thing as does direct tv. Doesn't help much but does help people in remote areas. On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Crist J. Clark wrote: I've been looking for some technical

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread Rafi Sadowsky
## On 2002-11-14 14:44 -0800 Vadim Antonov typed: VA VA VA On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, David Diaz wrote: VA VA 2) There is a lack of a killer app requiring peering every 100 sq Km. VA VA Peering every 100 sq km is absolutely infeasible. Just think of the VA number of alternative paths routing

Re: DirecPC Protocols

2002-11-14 Thread Michael Painter
If you don't get an answer here, you might want to try the isp-satellites list. http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-satellites/ Also, there are a -few- knowledgable folks on alt.satellite.direcpc. Good luck...I'd be interested in hearing the description myself. --Michael - Original

RE: Blocking specific sites within certain countries.

2002-11-14 Thread hostmaster
At 05:28 PM 11/14/2002, Patrick W. Gilmore most definitely admitted: -- On Thursday, November 14, 2002 8:52 PM +0100 -- hostmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] supposedly wrote: This all strikes me as incorrect. The function of the domain name system is primarily to translate an IP number into a domain

Re: Blocking specific sites within certain countries.

2002-11-14 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:26:21 EST, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Not if you block the domain name terrorist.com from resolving at the caching name server, only if you block the IP address to which is resolves on

Re: DirecPC Protocols

2002-11-14 Thread Michael Painter
Scott, Just an f.y.i., Charlie Ergan (DishNetwork) said he couldn't see how the business plan could succeed and pulled out of StarBand. They are currently in Chap. 11. http://65.186.192.177/liarband/ch11.html --Michael - Original Message - From: Scott Granados [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Blocking specific sites within certain countries.

2002-11-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
-- On Thursday, November 14, 2002 6:01 PM -0500 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] supposedly wrote: On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:26:21 EST, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Not if you block the domain name terrorist.com from resolving at the caching name server, only if you block the IP address to

RE: Blocking specific sites within certain countries.

2002-11-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
-- On Friday, November 15, 2002 12:45 AM +0100 -- hostmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] supposedly wrote: At 05:28 PM 11/14/2002, Patrick W. Gilmore most definitely admitted: Suppose they just make it a law that each ISP has to block domain.com in their caching name servers? Who is 'they', Patrick

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread David Diaz
Voice of reason... The only possible reason I can think of is if these data networks replace the present voice infrastructure. Think about it, if we really all do replace our phones with some video screen like in the movies, then yes, most of those calls stay local within the cities. Mom

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread David Diaz
At 1:20 +0200 11/15/02, Rafi Sadowsky wrote: ## On 2002-11-14 14:44 -0800 Vadim Antonov typed: VA VA VA On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, David Diaz wrote: VA VA 2) There is a lack of a killer app requiring peering every 100 sq Km. VA VA Peering every 100 sq km is absolutely infeasible. Just think of the

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Rafi Sadowsky wrote: VA 2) There is a lack of a killer app requiring peering every 100 sq Km. VA VA Peering every 100 sq km is absolutely infeasible. Just think of the VA number of alternative paths routing algorithms wil lhave to consider. VA VA Anything like

Re: Blocking specific sites within certain countries.

2002-11-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:59:59 CST, Chris Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You don't. If you configure your name server to block resolution of terrorist.com, you'll never find out that it goes to an Akamai server. Unfortunately, the politicians would actually believe that.