It's been 5 years...

2003-10-16 Thread Rodney Joffe
| Jon Postel | August 6, 1943 - October 16, 1998 ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2468.txt Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum

Re: possible ORG problems, maybe?

2003-10-16 Thread Randy Bush
If you or any other folks ever see any oddness with the UltraDNS nameservers, it would be helpful if you could provide traceroutes. and what assurance do you have that the traceroute is to the same server to which the original query failed? difficulty debugging anycast dns was the major

[Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service]

2003-10-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Ouch. Original Message Subject: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 02:38:14 -0400 From: Dave Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 23:30:44 -0700 (PDT) From:

Re: possible ORG problems, maybe?

2003-10-16 Thread Rodney Joffe
Randy Bush wrote: and what assurance do you have that the traceroute is to the same server to which the original query failed? difficulty debugging anycast dns was the major reason for sceptisim re anycast auth servers. You're right, Randy. However, things are never black or white. In

Re: possible ORG problems, maybe?

2003-10-16 Thread Brandon Butterworth
it would appear that given the large scale ddos attacks against networks, and dns in particular over the last year, an anycast implementation is the *only* way that dns has a chance of surviving. It might help but isn't a cure all. If they can query it they can DoS it and given the splay

more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread David Lesher
Err.. at least in the meeting, the VeriSlime carefully evaded giving any quantifiable answer as to warning time. I have no idea what they spun to the press afterwards. What I observed was they started out cocky...as the meeting went on and the questioning got pointed, they got snippy and

Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread Miles Fidelman
Just out of curiousity, I wonder how many domain registrations those of us on nanog represent? Contract sanctions from ICANN are one thing, taking all of our business elsewhere might also be effective at getting a point across (though it might also backfire - pushing Verisign to be even more

Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread Leo Bicknell
What I think will be interesting is who has the bind patch this time around. The first time many companies didn't deploy the bind patch for reasons ranging from taking a few days to study the impact to not being able to deploy new software on their nameservers that quickly to not being able to

RE: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread McBurnett, Jim
All, I hate to agree but he is right. With companies like godaddy out there. Does it make sense to pay Verislime money to fund sitefinder and our headaches? To change this: what else can we do to prevent this? Does the last BIND version truly break sitefinder? Later, Jim --Original

Re: ISC causes stability problems

2003-10-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
Sean Donelan wrote: An anonymous reader using almost identical language to Verisign Usage of the patch unexpectedly broke at least 7 Top Level Domains, ISC announced 3 weeks later, after users started having problems. Where? I cannot find the announcement. ... how will the Verisign

RE: Pitfalls of annoucing /24s

2003-10-16 Thread McBurnett, Jim
--Original Message- -From: Phil Rosenthal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -As long as it's provider assigned, and your provider announces the -supernet that the /24 is from, it will still work. If you -announce PI -space out of the old class A space in /24's, many networks -wont be able

Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread Mike Lewinski
Miles Fidelman wrote: Just out of curiousity, I wonder how many domain registrations those of us on nanog represent? Contract sanctions from ICANN are one thing, taking all of our business elsewhere might also be effective at getting a point across (though it might also backfire - pushing

Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
Miles Fidelman wrote: Just out of curiousity, I wonder how many domain registrations those of us on nanog represent? Contract sanctions from ICANN are one thing, taking all of our business elsewhere might also be effective at getting a point across (though it might also backfire - pushing

Re: ISC causes stability problems

2003-10-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
William Allen Simpson writes on 10/16/2003 7:04 PM: broke at least 7 Top Level Domains, ISC announced 3 weeks later, after users started having problems. Where? I cannot find the announcement. This bind-announce post - http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bind/2003/0023.html srs

RE: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread Kevin Bednar
Amen to that. We did as well, except for our customers that re-upped themselves with Verislime. Kevin Bednar Network Engineer Dedicated Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] (973)940-6126 Personal Service with a :-) Semper Vigilo Tellurian Networks - Le Package Totale http://www.tellurian.com/

Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread Michael . Dillon
Just out of curiousity, I wonder how many domain registrations those of us on nanog represent? Contract sanctions from ICANN are one thing, taking all of our business elsewhere might also be effective at getting a point across (though it might also backfire - pushing Verisign to be even more

RE: Pitfalls of annoucing /24s

2003-10-16 Thread Peter E. Fry
On 16 Oct 2003 at 9:44, McBurnett, Jim wrote: [...] We are annoucing a /24 from the 66 /8 block and I have only found 2 ISP's (according the the netlantis project) that can't reach me. We are multihomed. I suspect that may be due to aggregation. But even with our backup online, I still saw

Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread Ray Bellis
Verisign obviously doesn't want the Registrar business, or they would have found out a way to combine all those accounts when we asked. You do know they just this morning announced that they're selling the Registrar business, don't you? Ray -- Ray Bellis, MA(Oxon) - Technical Director

Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Mark Radabaugh
This is interesting: Dear Valued Network Solutions® Customer, Today VeriSign, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Network Solutions to a new entity formed by Pivotal Private Equity. Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635 begin 666 clear.gif

VeriSign to Sell Network Solutions Business

2003-10-16 Thread Mark Vallar
Just got this email from Network Solutions... Hm --mval From: Network Solutions, Inc. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 10:31 AM To: domreg@ Subject: Announcement Dear Valued Network Solutions® Customer, Today VeriSign, Inc. announced that it has entered

Verisign to spin off NetSol?! WAS Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread up
I don't know if this is a related move or not, but I just received an email from Verisign that they are selling NetSol. A snippet: Dear Valued Network Solutions(R) Customer, Today VeriSign, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Network Solutions to a new

Verisign is selling Netsol [was Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service]

2003-10-16 Thread Kee Hinckley
At 3:18 PM +0100 10/16/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiousity, I wonder how many domain registrations those of us on nanog represent? Contract sanctions from ICANN are one thing, taking all of our business elsewhere might also be effective at getting a point across (though it might

Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE-NCC)
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In this day and age, people don't guess URLs anymore by sticking .com at the end of a word so there is no longer any advantage to using a .com domain name over a .biz or .info or .us. FWIW, I still do as it is faster than google. I bet that that

Re: BGP and OSPF

2003-10-16 Thread Jean-Yves Le Boudec
I have received many very helpful responses to that question. In summary, the majority common practice for the case I presented seems to be: 1. run BGP on all routers in the core, even those that do not have interfaces to the outside of the AS. Here, this means R0 should run BGP. 2. This

Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Ray Bellis
Quoting Rusty Lewis from http://verisign.com/corporate/news/2003/pr_20031007b.html?sl=070804 We will continue to take feedback from both Internet users and the technical community on how we can ensure that the service is available for the many Internet users who clearly like it. Well that's

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Lucy E. Lynch
so, luxury hotels, japanese fiber, and registery services? I guess booking is a booking. http://www.pivotalgroup.com/newsopen.html Lucy E. Lynch Academic User Services Computing CenterUniversity of Oregon llynch @darkwing.uoregon.edu

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Todd Vierling
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Adam C. Greenfield wrote: : Yea, looks like (after a brief reading of the press release on their : site) that they are just selling their registrar business off, but will : still be the people maintaining the com and net registries. Which sounds like an attempt to prevent

Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread Andrew D Kirch
I would certainly say there's an elitism, or perhaps a higher level of credibility given to a .com or .net site, due to the fact that they've probably existed for quite a bit longer than a .biz or .info. Although looking at that list I might note that I probably would include .us with .com

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Woodfield
So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the registry services operations and the GTLD maintenance operations for .com/.net will be owned by different companies? Isn't that what we wanted all along? -C On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 10:58:11AM -0400, Adam C. Greenfield wrote: Yea,

Re: possible ORG problems, maybe?

2003-10-16 Thread William Astle
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Rodney Joffe wrote: Joe sent a note that identified a possible common thread in the version of bind the recursive servers were using. Could you perhaps look at that and see if there is any commonality? I'll see what I can do about that. Unfortunately, the folks

Re: possible ORG problems, maybe?

2003-10-16 Thread Bruce Campbell
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Rodney Joffe wrote: Randy Bush wrote: and what assurance do you have that the traceroute is to the same server to which the original query failed? difficulty debugging anycast dns was the major reason for sceptisim re anycast auth servers. However as the dns

Re: Verisign is selling Netsol [was Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service]

2003-10-16 Thread Bruce Campbell
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Kee Hinckley wrote: This point just became moot. Versign is selling the registry business. Network Solutions is being spun off. They retain the back end DNS. They're selling the _registrar_ business off. They retain the _registry_ and the associated stuff to the back

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Adam C. Greenfield
It is a much better idea that these functions are performed by a seperate (IMHO). Of course they are doing it to resolve the conflict of interest issue, and the people saying (and filing suit) about the fact that SiteFinder is un-fair competition between them and the other registrars. I'm not

Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Miles Fidelman wrote: Just out of curiousity, I wonder how many domain registrations those of us on nanog represent? Contract sanctions from ICANN are one thing, taking We've been moving all our domains to OpenSRS for a year, but doing it as they come up for renewal.

RE: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
He's right, and we should actually take our business elsewhere. Unfortunately, we can't. They have a monopoly. No matter what registrar we use to register our domains, that registrar is paying the part of Verislime that is inflicting this on us to run the REGISTRY for .com and .net. The only

RE: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Dan Lockwood
Recognizing that I am not an 'expert', I have got to ask just one question. Can these people at Verisign really think that they know better than all of the real experts that have worked with/on the DNS over the years. It seems rather silly to assume that a few people have more knowledge than

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Thu Oct 16, 2003 at 11:19:25AM -0400, Chris Woodfield wrote: So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the registry services operations and the GTLD maintenance operations for .com/.net will be owned by different companies? Isn't that what we wanted all along? Yes,

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Michael . Dillon
So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the registry services operations and the GTLD maintenance operations for .com/.net will be owned by different companies? Yep. And it means that Verisign business is no longer based so much on serving customers but more on leveraging

Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:16:53 CDT, Andrew D Kirch [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I would certainly say there's an elitism, or perhaps a higher level of credibility given to a .com or .net site, due to the fact that they've probably existed for quite a bit longer than a .biz or .info. Most of my spam

Re: VeriSign to Sell Network Solutions Business

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
Does anyone know if this includes ALL of Network Solutions or just the Registrar? Does Verisign plan to keep the Registry or does it go along with the Network Solutions sale? Owen --On Thursday, October 16, 2003 10:40 AM -0400 Mark Vallar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just got this email from

Re: Verisign is selling Netsol [was Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service]

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
The back end DNS is the registry service. What you are saying they are doing is selling the REGISTRAR business and keeping the REGISTRY. Or did I miss something? Owen --On Thursday, October 16, 2003 10:46 AM -0400 Kee Hinckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 3:18 PM +0100 10/16/03, [EMAIL

Re: Pitfalls of annoucing /24s

2003-10-16 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Hello; On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 11:57 PM, Forrest wrote: True enough, but are there any providers currently that filter /24's from the old Class C space that /24's were assigned directly from? As someone who is multihomed but uses others /24's, I am sensitive to this. I do not

RE: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Brandon Butterworth
What effective action can we take as a collective group to get the point across that we will not tollerate this type of behavior? Internet death penalty? (at last a topic you can configure your router for) Having been provided a mechanism to catch all those typos what ISP wouldn't want that

RE: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread Jeff Shultz
ICANN threatened legal action before, effectively. Are they doing anything this time? On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 08:56:47 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: He's right, and we should actually take our business elsewhere. Unfortunately, we can't. They have a monopoly. No matter what registrar we use to

Re: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service]

2003-10-16 Thread JC Dill
At 02:56 AM 10/16/2003, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Ouch. http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5092133.html VeriSign to revive redirect service by Declan McCullagh VeriSign will give a 30- to 60-day notice before resuming a controversial and temporarily suspended feature that redirected many .com

RE: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
They claim to be representing the USER community and to know better than we what they end users want. They think we're just a bunch of geek engineers that are unwilling to embrace new ideas. Most of all, they think they can make money this way, and, they don't really care about anything else.

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread just me
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the registry services operations and the GTLD maintenance operations for .com/.net will be owned by different companies? Yep. Uh, actually, no. They're spinning off the registRAR

Re: VeriSign to Sell Network Solutions Business

2003-10-16 Thread Ray Bellis
Does anyone know if this includes ALL of Network Solutions or just the Registrar? Does Verisign plan to keep the Registry or does it go along with the Network Solutions sale? According to the press release they plan to keep the registry. Ray

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
--On Thursday, October 16, 2003 5:08 PM +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the registry services operations and the GTLD maintenance operations for .com/.net will be owned by different companies? Yep. And it means that Verisign business is

Re: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Wayne E. Bouchard
Yes, I will heartily agree with this. Having this functionality be triggered by a wildcard in the DNS records is the wrong approach. It's the application that should be taking care of this if (NXDOMAIN) redirect(preferences-sitefinder_host, url); If verisigin wants to partner with someone to

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
Correction... People would prefer that Verisign keept the REGISTRAR operations for .com/.net and sold the REGISTRY operations. REGISTRY is the monopoly part that the REGISTRARs feed into. Owen --On Thursday, October 16, 2003 4:58 PM +0100 Simon Lockhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu Oct 16,

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread E.B. Dreger
CW Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:19:25 -0400 CW From: Chris Woodfield CW So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the CW registry services operations and the GTLD maintenance CW operations for .com/.net will be owned by different CW companies? I wonder just how different they are,

Re: Verisign is selling Netsol [was Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service]

2003-10-16 Thread Kee Hinckley
At 9:19 AM -0700 10/16/03, Owen DeLong wrote: The back end DNS is the registry service. What you are saying they are doing is selling the REGISTRAR business and keeping the REGISTRY. Or did I miss something? No, that's correct. I just can't keep them straight in my fingers (and neither can

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Mark Radabaugh
So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the registry services operations and the GTLD maintenance operations for .com/.net will be owned by different companies? Yep. And it means that Verisign business is no longer based so much on serving customers but more on leveraging

Re: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service]

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
I like it. I'm game. Owen --On Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:04 AM -0700 JC Dill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:56 AM 10/16/2003, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Ouch. http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5092133.html VeriSign to revive redirect service by Declan McCullagh VeriSign will give a 30-

Re: VeriSign to Sell Network Solutions Business

2003-10-16 Thread Jeff Shultz
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:41:52 +0100, Ray Bellis wrote: Does anyone know if this includes ALL of Network Solutions or just the Registrar? Does Verisign plan to keep the Registry or does it go along with the Network Solutions sale? According to the press release they plan to keep the

RE: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service]

2003-10-16 Thread Dan Lockwood
OK, so who is responsible for bringing the fruit? Does our registration fee cover that? :D Dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JC Dill Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:05 To: NANOG Subject: Re: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect

Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Lewis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:16:53 CDT, Andrew D Kirch [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I would certainly say there's an elitism, or perhaps a higher level of credibility given to a .com or .net site, due to the fact that they've probably existed for quite a bit longer than a .biz or

OT: Dark Fiber in Portland/Beaverton Area

2003-10-16 Thread Brennan_Murphy
Email me if you are familiar with the fiber landscape (dark/lit) or lack thereof in the Portland/Beaverton areas. Thanks, BM

Re: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Jared Mauch
I've been thinking that there should be a new type of record introduced to be application specific for HTTP, just as MX only applies to smtp. Due to a wide variety of applications relying upon A records as their method, or method of last resort (eg: if no MX, go directly to the

Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread JC Dill
Dan and Owen, I nominate you two for the tomato acquisition and distribution committee. To recap: At NANOG 29 in Chicago, on Monday October 20th at 9:15 am a session on VeriSign's Wildcard Record: Effects and Responses will be held, with Mark Kosters and Matt Larson from VeriSign and Suzanne

Re: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Jack Bates
Owen DeLong wrote: They claim to be representing the USER community and to know better than we what they end users want. They think we're just a bunch of geek engineers that are unwilling to embrace new ideas. Most of all, they think they can make money this way, and, they don't really care

Re: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 02:08:41PM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote: I've been thinking that there should be a new type of record introduced to be application specific for HTTP, just as MX only applies to smtp. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is basically what SRV records (rfc2782) are intended

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Wayne E. Bouchard
Just a brief statement that kinda goes without saying but I'll say it anyway. Although I'm not going to be there personally, I do intend to watch the netcast. I would just ask (and I'm sure merit folks share this) that despite the actions that have been taken by verisign and the conflicts etc,

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Scott Bradner
Dan and Owen, I nominate you two for the tomato acquisition and distribution committee. lets not tomatoes != knowledge (nor are an indicator of same) Scot

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
Dan and Owen, I nominate you two for the tomato acquisition and distribution committee. To recap: At NANOG 29 in Chicago, on Monday October 20th at 9:15 am a session on VeriSign's Wildcard Record: Effects and Responses will be held, with Mark Kosters and Matt Larson from VeriSign and

RE: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Michael Loftis
I have a good one, when was the last tiema telco asked any of us, or anyone for that matter, how to handle an NPA-NXX assignment? or LERG? NEVER. We're not qualified to make decisions like that because we don't know what the effects could or would be. Likewise VeriSign obviously doesn't,

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
Agreed. I plan to wear a red shirt and bring a tomatoe. The tomato will sit quietly on the table near me. It will not be used as a projectile no matter how much Verisign tries to convince me it should. Really. I will not throw the tomato at Verisign no matter how much they deserve it. Wayne is

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
I would also suggest that we try to make contact with a second-harvest or other organization that may be able to use the tomatoes afterwards. Owen --On Thursday, October 16, 2003 11:36 -0700 Wayne E. Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a brief statement that kinda goes without saying but

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Chris Strandt
Maybe a vote at the end of the presentation would be better. After Verisign has to say what they want, it would be interesting to see what the participants think of starting Site Finder again. Its not as press worthy... but it lets Verisign have their say, and gives the community a voice right

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Andy Dills
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Scott Bradner wrote: Dan and Owen, I nominate you two for the tomato acquisition and distribution committee. lets not tomatoes != knowledge (nor are an indicator of same) Nope, they're an indicator of distaste and disrespect. I don't think anybody wants to convey

RE: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
--On Thursday, October 16, 2003 12:57 -0600 Michael Loftis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a good one, when was the last tiema telco asked any of us, or anyone for that matter, how to handle an NPA-NXX assignment? or LERG? This isn't necessarily a great analogy for this situation. It is

(on-topic) / RE: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Bryan Bradsby
I for one am going to dumping all traffic bound to SiteFinder. One (operational) suggestion. Kindly return an icmp [net|host|port] unreachable, not just a route to /dev/null. Just a thought about the (waste of) client retrys and timeouts. Thank you, -bryan bradsby == The

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread JC Dill
At 12:00 PM 10/16/2003, Owen DeLong wrote: Agreed. I plan to wear a red shirt and bring a tomatoe. The tomato will sit quietly on the table near me. It will not be used as a projectile no matter how much Verisign tries to convince me it should. Really. I will not throw the tomato at Verisign

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:03:44PM -0400, Andy Dills wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Scott Bradner wrote: Dan and Owen, I nominate you two for the tomato acquisition and distribution committee. lets not tomatoes != knowledge (nor are an indicator of same) Nope, they're an indicator

Re: possible ORG problems, maybe?

2003-10-16 Thread Rodney Joffe
Bruce Campbell wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Rodney Joffe wrote: However as the dns was walked, if indeed a server had a problem, in a non-anycast implementation you could tell which server ip address had the problem. But you could not always tell which actual machine had a problem if

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
If you are attending NANOG 29, please attend this session and wear a red shirt. Ahem. Many of us are Star Trek experts, and it will take a LOT more than this to get people to wear a red shirt. Huh? I'm somewhat familiar with Star Trek, and, I realize the red shirts are usually the first to die

RE: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Sean Donelan
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Owen DeLong wrote: --On Thursday, October 16, 2003 12:57 -0600 Michael Loftis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a good one, when was the last tiema telco asked any of us, or anyone for that matter, how to handle an NPA-NXX assignment? or LERG? This isn't

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Keptin Komrade Dr. BobWrench III esq.
You have to give Verisign some props for having the balls to present at NANOG...and those props should be in the form of not chasing them from the room with angry threats and pitchforks. Mark and the rest of the folks from Verisign, formerly NSI, formerly Internic, etc, etc have long been

requesting hard data sources on ramifications of verisign wildcard

2003-10-16 Thread k claffy
as already mentioned, fascinating public policy theatre is going on in DC on the verisign wildcard issue, see http://secsac.icann.org/ [all video and even transcripts of both meetings online. go icann.] you are encouraged to read through all of it before making public comments on this

Re: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Kee Hinckley
At 4:07 PM +0100 10/16/03, Ray Bellis wrote: Quoting Rusty Lewis from http://verisign.com/corporate/news/2003/pr_20031007b.html?sl=070804 We will continue to take feedback from both Internet users and the technical community on how we can ensure that the service is available for the many Internet

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Scott Weeks
: Agreed. I plan to wear a red shirt and bring a tomatoe. The tomato will : sit quietly on the table near me. It will not be used as a projectile : no matter how much Verisign tries to convince me it should. Really. : I will not throw the tomato at Verisign no matter how much they deserve

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread JC Dill
At 11:56 AM 10/16/2003, Chris Strandt wrote: Maybe a vote at the end of the presentation would be better. After Verisign has to say what they want, it would be interesting to see what the participants think of starting Site Finder again. Its not as press worthy... but it lets Verisign have

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Vadim Antonov
Ahem. Many of us are Star Trek experts, and it will take a LOT more than this to get people to wear a red shirt. A red EFF t-shirt (as a sign of recent donation) would be a good choice :) --vadim

Re: possible ORG problems, maybe?

2003-10-16 Thread Joe Abley
On 16 Oct 2003, at 11:25, Bruce Campbell wrote: I know to look for 'version.bind', 'id.server', 'version.server' and a few others, but I hadn't considered asking for 'whoareyou.arbitary.domain'. Why would other people consider it? Incidentally, there is a similar mechanism available for the F

Re: (on-topic) / RE: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Michael Loftis
My bad I should've been more specific, that is indeed what I will personally be doing on any networks that I can, which should be basically everything. I'm also considering the other alternative suggested by some, which is to push traffic to a host of my own. I will have to do something about

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 12:45 PM -0700 10/16/03, JC Dill wrote: At 11:56 AM 10/16/2003, Chris Strandt wrote: Maybe a vote at the end of the presentation would be better. After Verisign has to say what they want, it would be interesting to see what the participants think of starting Site Finder again. Its not as

Re: possible ORG problems, maybe?

2003-10-16 Thread Daniel Senie
At 03:30 PM 10/16/2003, Rodney Joffe wrote: Bruce Campbell wrote: [much snipped] Also, did the query that I'm debugging really go to the same host that I just got the real IP address from? I believe I covered that in my initial response to Randy which you snipped. I said: Dan Senie has

RE: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Vachon, Scott
all those who approve of the wildcards would put their token-of-choice in another pile. Might I suggest the joker out of a deck of playing cards ? ; ) Learn more about Paymentech's payment processing services at www.paymentech.com THIS MESSAGE IS CONFIDENTIAL. This e-mail message and

RE: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Dan Lockwood
I will do my best to get the tomatos. How many do you think we will need? Dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JC Dill Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 12:12 To: NANOG Subject: Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29 At 12:00 PM

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread David Meyer
I would also suggest that we try to make contact with a second-harvest or other organization that may be able to use the tomatoes afterwards. Or just use your time and resources to do some good for those who are less fortunate in the first place. Using food of any kind

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Gerald
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, JC Dill wrote: Great idea! Can we count on Dan for tomato acquisition and for Owen for post-protest dispersal to a foodbank? Having been a part of many fraternity pranks along this line, I might remind some of a glitch with this line of thinking. VeriSign employees read

RE: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Geo.
Verisign is trying to move this argument into a question of what best serves the end-user. This doesn't matter, their point should be moot. Verisign is charged with managing the .com and .net domains for the public. They DO NOT OWN those domains so they are not allowed to use them for their own

Re: requesting hard data sources on ramifications of verisign wildcard

2003-10-16 Thread Eric A. Hall
on 10/16/2003 2:26 PM k claffy wrote: caida has the following request on behalf of icann's secsac committee a common theme over the last week is an admitted lack of hard data [rather than lists of theoretical breakages, and anecdotal evidence, and predictions] from the operational

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
I have no religion about the particular choice of fruit/vegetable (yes, I know tomatoes are technically fruit). However, I think we should try to stick to Red and the symbolism of the tomato cannot be denied. It has long been used as a response to bad implementation and that is exactly what we

Re: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Jason Slagle
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Kee Hinckley wrote: Verisign is trying to move this argument into a question of what best serves the end-user. They are doing this because the public understands that, and because they know they can't win the question of what best serves the infrastructure providers.

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
The two options are not mutually exclusive, and, since Verisign has chosen to turn this into a press-battle, I think it would be good not to ignore that battlefield. Owen --On Thursday, October 16, 2003 14:56 -0400 Chris Strandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe a vote at the end of the

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS
I have to agree with Scott. Be professional. Y'all can use tomato.net as examples if you want (though actually that one belongs to buydomains.com, which buys potentially resellable domain names.) A more important concern is that they keep mentioning that they've been talking to web users and

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:38:57 EDT, Vachon, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: THIS MESSAGE IS CONFIDENTIAL. This e-mail message and any attachments are proprietary and confidential information intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above. Well.. I severely doubt that any of the

Re: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread E.B. Dreger
KH Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 15:23:41 -0400 KH From: Kee Hinckley KH Verisign is trying to move this argument into a question of what best KH serves the end-user. They are doing this because the public KH understands that, and because they know they can't win the question KH of what best serves

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