Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage....

2004-09-01 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2004-08-24, at 12.58, Bruce Campbell wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Tony Li wrote: Did they arrest the crew? They have grounds on negligence charges... The crew of the ship for having dropped anchor presumably in defiance of 'Undersea

re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

2004-09-01 Thread Roland Perry
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Battle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Akamai or not, microsoft is overwhelmed by the demand for SP2, and today is giving the message listed below on windowsupdate: Download and install it now - Currently not available We are currently experiencing a high level of

Re: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior)

2004-09-01 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2004-08-29, at 15.58, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: If you find the prices staggering, it's likely that you and your organization don't need this product. Arguments about price gouging on memory, GBICs, power cords, and other commodity items

re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

2004-09-01 Thread David A. Ulevitch
quote who=Roland Perry I have a solution, but it's expensive. A url for the whole 266MB download (and not the smaller selective download that Windows Update would provide). If anyone's that desperate, email me. I only used it after waiting a week with the Automatic Updates switched on, and

Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

2004-09-01 Thread Roland Perry
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David A. Ulevitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Microsoft isn't hiding the link: http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/5/165b076b-aaa9-443d-84f0-73cf11fdcdf8/WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe linked from:

Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

2004-09-01 Thread Peter Galbavy
Michel Py wrote: 2) Make audio CD's unreadable in a computer so nobody can rip the .wav tracks to .mp3. Totally stupid: 2.a) Remember the last ones that tried (namely Sony)? Their protection scheme could be defeated in 2 seconds with a sharpie. I'm still laughing at it. Hara-kiri comes to mind.

XP SP2 other than windows update

2004-09-01 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, David A. Ulevitch wrote: would provide). If anyone's that desperate, email me. I only used it after waiting a week with the Automatic Updates switched on, and nothing arriving. Microsoft isn't hiding the link:

Re: XP SP2 other than windows update

2004-09-01 Thread Thornton
The CD's are supposed to hit Comp USA and Best BUy within the next month or two for SP2. The download link in this email should work fine for you even though it is the large network install if you really need it and have broadband go for it. On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 03:59, Sean Donelan wrote: On

Re: XP SP2 other than windows update

2004-09-01 Thread Roland Perry
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes You can order a Free CD on the Microsoft web site. Although it says 4-6 weeks, people report they are getting a CD in the mail in about a week. Is distribution from all their worldwide offices, or will users outside the USA

Re: XP SP2 other than windows update

2004-09-01 Thread Thornton
They will have to wait for international delivery. On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 04:18, Roland Perry wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes You can order a Free CD on the Microsoft web site. Although it says 4-6 weeks, people report they are getting a CD in the

Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

2004-09-01 Thread Jeff Wheeler
Not that I'm trying to put words in your mouth, but I believe you meant suprnova.org which is a BitTorrent site (supernova.org is not a bittorrent site). Check out this link for a list of other BitTorrent sites and applications: http://kevinrose.typepad.com/kr/2004/07/darktip_the_bes.html

RE: XP SP2 other than windows update

2004-09-01 Thread Michel Py
Roland Perry wrote: I'm an IT professional, but only one of my PCs is running XP. And it's a full-price retail copy, not a bundled-OEM or upgrade. Hence me feeling left out when I'm told that IT professionals have already been allowed their Windows-update. Every IT professional I know has

RE: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

2004-09-01 Thread Michel Py
Peter Galbavy wrote: My personal reasons for any downloading of audio, specifically, in it's unavailability through retail channels. I keep picking up references to older stuff that has been dumped by the pop-bods many years ago and cannot be bought for love nor money. I may be breaking

Re: XP SP2 other than windows update

2004-09-01 Thread Roland Perry
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] ca.us, Michel Py [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Every IT professional I know has had SP2 available three different ways for two weeks: 1) Somewhere on a server for support staff to begin to experiment with and for a small set of guinea pig users to install. 2) On a CD

RE: XP SP2 other than windows update

2004-09-01 Thread Hannigan, Martin
Already got mine and it went nice and smooth as far as I can tell. Kudos to MS. Has anyone noticed a real impact on the internet, traffic wise, related to XP2? I'd suspect that some of the tier1's may see the traffic? Maybe not? -M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XP SP2 other than windows update

2004-09-01 Thread Steven Susbauer
I would be surprised if it wasn't on akamai, which would cut down on much of the external traffic. On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 12:01:24 -0400 , Hannigan, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Already got mine and it went nice and smooth as far as I can tell. Kudos to MS. Has anyone noticed a real

RE: XP SP2 other than windows update

2004-09-01 Thread Hannigan, Martin
That URL does resolve to Akamai, but I had heard a rumor they weren't going that route. -M -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steven Susbauer Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 12:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XP SP2 other

Re: XP SP2 other than windows update

2004-09-01 Thread Steven Susbauer
I hadn't heard they were keeping it off akamai. I have heard they're asking ISP's not to mirror it (and any other mirrors), and have shut down bittorrent downloads. That's understandable as they would be blamed if someone downloaded a compromised version (strange how they didn't mind Sp1

RE: XP SP2 other than windows update

2004-09-01 Thread Michel Py
Title: Re: XP SP2 other than windows update From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Steven SusbauerSent: Wed 9/1/2004 9:49 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: XP SP2 other than windows update I hadn't heard they were keeping it off akamai. I have heard they'reasking ISP's not to mirror

DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

2004-09-01 Thread Steve Francis
I'm sure there is research out there, but I can't find it, so does anyone know of any research showing how good/bad using DNS anycast is as a kludgey traffic optimiser? (i.e. having multiple datacenters, all anycasting the authoritative name server for a domain, but each datacenters' DNS server

Re: XP SP2 other than windows update

2004-09-01 Thread Roland Perry
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steven Susbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes That's understandable as they would be blamed if someone downloaded a compromised version (strange how they didn't mind Sp1 mirroring...). I would have thought that they would have checksummed the file to a known value, so

Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

2004-09-01 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Steve Francis wrote: I'm sure there is research out there... Why? :-) ...how good/bad using DNS anycast is as a kludgey traffic optimiser? I'd hardly call it a kludge. It's been standard best-practice for over a decade. THe question is, what is that

Linux w/o checking TCP sequence numbers

2004-09-01 Thread Steve Francis
Not really the right forum for this, but the kindo f thing nanog'ers know: Is there a way to make Linux ignore TCP sequence numbers? My goal is to be able to have a test network with servers that a point real traffic at, mirrored off the live network. Of course, only the live servers will be

Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

2004-09-01 Thread Steve Francis
Bill Woodcock wrote: On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Steve Francis wrote: I'm sure there is research out there... Why? :-) Usual - if I build it myself, will it work well enough, or should I pony up for a CDN? ...how good/bad using DNS anycast is as a kludgey traffic optimiser? I'd hardly

noc/mail admin contact for hotmail.com?

2004-09-01 Thread Dave Dennis
I need to get in touch with RP at hotmail, tried [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is only for consumers of hotmail, as it needs to reference a hotmail account. I tried [EMAIL PROTECTED], but have received no response. Is there a more appropriate known address? This has to do with blocking mail at the

Re: Linux w/o checking TCP sequence numbers

2004-09-01 Thread Petri Helenius
Steve Francis wrote: Not really the right forum for this, but the kindo f thing nanog'ers know: Is there a way to make Linux ignore TCP sequence numbers? You want to RTFS tcp_data_queue in tcp_input.c. However, even if you get what you ask for you don't get what you wish to accomplish. Pete

Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

2004-09-01 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
(Caution: Chris is a chemical engineer, not an anycast engineer) On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Steve Francis wrote: Bill Woodcock wrote: ...how good/bad using DNS anycast is as a kludgey traffic optimiser? I'd hardly call it a kludge. It's been standard best-practice for over a decade. If

Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

2004-09-01 Thread Matt Larson
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004, Steve Francis wrote: I'm sure there is research out there, but I can't find it, so does anyone know of any research showing how good/bad using DNS anycast is as a kludgey traffic optimiser? (i.e. having multiple datacenters, all anycasting the authoritative name

Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

2004-09-01 Thread Steve Francis
Christopher L. Morrow wrote: If I read your original request correctly you were planning on: 1) having presence in multiple datacenters (assume multiple providers as well) 2) having a 'authoritative' DNS server in each facility (or 2/3/4 whatever per center) 3) return datacenter-1-host-1 from

Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

2004-09-01 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Steve Francis wrote: Christopher L. Morrow wrote: If I read your original request correctly you were planning on: 1) having presence in multiple datacenters (assume multiple providers as well) 2) having a 'authoritative' DNS server in each facility (or 2/3/4 whatever

Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

2004-09-01 Thread Paul Vixie
This isn't really 'anycast' so much as 'different A records depending on server which was asked' right. Well, there'd be one NS record returned for the zone in question. That NS record would be an IP address that is anycasted from all the datacenters. So end users (or their DNS

IMP #1

2004-09-01 Thread Peter H Salus
Tomorrow (Sept. 2) it will be 35 years since IMP #1 was plugged in at Len Kleinrock's lab at UCLA. Happy Birthday! Peter

Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

2004-09-01 Thread James
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 08:00:53PM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Steve Francis wrote: Christopher L. Morrow wrote: If I read your original request correctly you were planning on: 1) having presence in multiple datacenters (assume multiple providers as

Re: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior)

2004-09-01 Thread Måns Nilsson
--On onsdag 1 september 2004 10.31 +0200 Kurt Erik Lindqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: didn't we have this discussion when the T640 came out. How many have one? Nordunet has one. Nice box. -- Måns Nilsson Systems Specialist +46 70 681 7204 KTHNOC

Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

2004-09-01 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, James wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 08:00:53PM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Steve Francis wrote: Christopher L. Morrow wrote: Hmm, why not anycast the service/application ips? Having inconsistent DNS info seems like a

Verizon mail contact

2004-09-01 Thread Joe Hamelin
I'm having some issues getting mail out to Verizon accounts from windermere.com. Could a verizon postmaster please contact me? Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 206-315-4357 -- Joe Hamelin Edmonds, WA, US

Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

2004-09-01 Thread Joe Abley
On 2 Sep 2004, at 06:05, Bill Woodcock wrote: If you want nearest server, anycast will give you that essentially 100% of the time. Just to clarify this slightly, since I've known people to misinterpret this point: a clear, contextual understanding of the word nearest is important in

Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

2004-09-01 Thread Andre Gironda
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:06:16AM -0700, Steve Francis wrote: I'm sure there is research out there, but I can't find it, so does anyone know of any research showing how good/bad using DNS anycast is as a kludgey traffic optimiser? http://www.caida.org/outreach/papers/2002/Distance/ this

Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

2004-09-01 Thread Steve Francis
Paul Vixie wrote: not only is it bad dns, it's bad web service. the fact that a current routing table gives a client's query to a particular anycasted DNS server does not mean that the web services mirror co-located with that DNS server is the one that would give you the best performance. for

Re: IMP #1

2004-09-01 Thread joe mcguckin
I wonder if that was the same IMP that was gathering dust in a corner of the student/staff lounge in Boelter Hall at UCLA? I used to see it when I would pass by there on my way to the library 20 years ago... Joe On 9/1/04 1:40 PM, Peter H Salus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tomorrow (Sept.

Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

2004-09-01 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Steve Francis wrote: Paul Vixie wrote: not only is it bad dns, it's bad web service. the fact that a current routing table gives a client's query to a particular anycasted DNS server does not mean that the web services mirror co-located with that DNS server is the one

Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

2004-09-01 Thread Patrick W Gilmore
On Sep 1, 2004, at 2:17 PM, Steve Francis wrote: ...how good/bad using DNS anycast is as a kludgey traffic optimiser? I'd hardly call it a kludge. It's been standard best-practice for over a decade. I thought it was standard best practice for availability, like for root name servers. I

RE: Colo b/w in Australia

2004-09-01 Thread Anshuman Kanwar
Thanks to all the off-list responses. Really insightful. Short summary : 1. IP back to the US is between $300 and $700 (AU) per month per Mbps. 2. Difficult to peer directly with the 4 big ISPs. Easier (relatively speaking) to find multilaretal peering with the 600-odd smaller ISPs. 3.

Re: IMP #1

2004-09-01 Thread Jake Khuon
### On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 14:47:26 -0700, joe mcguckin [EMAIL PROTECTED] casually ### decided to expound upon Peter H Salus [EMAIL PROTECTED], NANOG ### [EMAIL PROTECTED] the following thoughts about Re: IMP #1: jm I wonder if that was the same IMP that was gathering dust in a corner of the jm

Re: IMP #1

2004-09-01 Thread Peter H Salus
Jake, The diagram was attributed to Vint Cerf by Alex McKenzie, who allowed me to copy it for Casting the Net (1995). It's on p. 55. Peter

Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

2004-09-01 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Steve Francis wrote: I'm sure there is research out there... Why? :-) Usual - if I build it myself, will it work well enough, or should I pony up for a CDN? Uh, what about that makes you sure that there's research out there? I thought it was

Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

2004-09-01 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, James wrote: Hmm, why not anycast the service/application ips? Having inconsistent DNS info seems like a problem waiting to bite your behind. Which begs the question.. is anyone doing this right now? Yes, lots of people. Akamai is the largest

Re: IMP #1

2004-09-01 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 1-sep-04, at 22:40, Peter H Salus wrote: Tomorrow (Sept. 2) it will be 35 years since IMP #1 was plugged in at Len Kleinrock's lab at UCLA. Happy Birthday! Well, one IMP does not a network make... When did they connect the second one?

Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

2004-09-01 Thread Steve Francis
Bill Woodcock wrote: On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Steve Francis wrote: I'm sure there is research out there... Why? :-) Usual - if I build it myself, will it work well enough, or should I pony up for a CDN? Uh, what about that makes you sure that there's research out there? Oops,

Re: IMP #1

2004-09-01 Thread Gregory Hicks
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IMP #1 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 01:19:36 +0200 To: Peter H Salus [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 1-sep-04, at 22:40, Peter H Salus wrote: Tomorrow (Sept. 2) it will be 35 years since IMP #1 was plugged in at Len

Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

2004-09-01 Thread Duane Wessels
So there is no need to anycast the DNS servers and rely on BGP topology for selection. Instead use bind's behaviour so that each resolving nameserver will be querying the authoritative nameserver that responds the fastest. However, note that only BIND does this. djbdns always selects

RE: IMP #1

2004-09-01 Thread Allen McRay
Here's the answer, and a photo of the IMP. http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Inet/birth.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Iljitsch van Beijnum Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 6:20 PM To: Peter H Salus Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Cyclades KVM/Net

2004-09-01 Thread Chris Allermann
If anybody is currently using a Cyclades KVM/Net please contact me off list. Thanks.

Re: IMP #1

2004-09-01 Thread Peter H Salus
Sorry, Karl. IMP #2 went into Englebart at SRI; IMP #3 to UC-Santa Barbara; IMP #4 to University of Utah. That was it in 1969: a four-note ARPAnet. Peter

force10 gear experiences/thoughts/comments

2004-09-01 Thread Paul G
folks, looking to continue the week whichhas beengoing strong so far with no mention of gmail, verisign and bad analogies, i have these questions i'm hoping someone can chime in on: * any good/bad experiences with force10 gear in general? * thoughts on usage in a relatively simple

RE: XP SP2 other than windows update

2004-09-01 Thread Michel Py
Steven Susbauer wrote: I hadn't heard they were keeping it off akamai. Me neither. Although I had it for a while I downloaded it from the Microsoft web site again twice today (did not bother to look where it resolved), from home and office, and it came each time in less than 15 minutes for the

Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?

2004-09-01 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Steve Francis wrote: I thought it was standard best practice for availability, like for root name servers. I thought it was not a good closest server selection mechanism, as you'll be going to the closest server as determined by BGP - which may have little relationship to