Re: Dampening considered harmful? (Was: Re: verizon.net and other email grief)

2004-12-16 Thread Jared Mauch
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:43:12PM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 12:42:21AM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > > > On 17-dec-04, at 0:21, Jerry Pasker wrote: > > > > >> ie: does dampening cause more problems than it tries to solve/avoid > > >>these days. > > > > >I do

Re: Dampening considered harmful? (Was: Re: verizon.net and other email grief)

2004-12-16 Thread Jared Mauch
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 12:42:21AM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > On 17-dec-04, at 0:21, Jerry Pasker wrote: > > >>ie: does dampening cause more problems than it tries to solve/avoid > >>these days. > > >I don't know what takes more router resources; dampening enabled > >doing the

Re: Anycast 101

2004-12-16 Thread Steve Gibbard
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > I got some messages from people who weren't exactly clear on how > anycast works and fails. So let me try to explain... Nice try. > Anycast is now deployed for a significant number of root and gtld > servers. Before anycast, most of those ser

Re: Anycast 101

2004-12-16 Thread Alon Tirosh
To add, there are also a lot of edge appliances (Company C appliances that start with P) that block 53/tcp >= 512B by default without admins realizing, hence EDNS gets actively blocked while normal DNS traffic works (this is a major issue for Enterprise Windows Admins.) On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 01:54

Re: Anycast 101

2004-12-16 Thread Suzanne Woolf
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 07:59:58PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Crist Clark writes: > > > >Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > > >> Due to limitations in the DNS protocol, it's not possible > >> to increase the number of authoritative DNS servers for a zone beyon

Re: Anycast 101

2004-12-16 Thread Crist Clark
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Crist Clark writes: Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Due to limitations in the DNS protocol, it's not possible to increase the number of authoritative DNS servers for a zone beyond around 13. I believe you misspelled, "Due to people who do not

Re: Anycast 101

2004-12-16 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Crist Clark writes: > >Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > >> Due to limitations in the DNS protocol, it's not possible >> to increase the number of authoritative DNS servers for a zone beyond >> around 13. > >I believe you misspelled, "Due to people who do not understa

Re: Anycast 101

2004-12-16 Thread Crist Clark
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Due to limitations in the DNS protocol, it's not possible to increase the number of authoritative DNS servers for a zone beyond around 13. I believe you misspelled, "Due to people who do not understand the DNS protocol being allowed to configure firewalls..." -- Crist

Re: Dampening considered harmful? (Was: Re: verizon.net and other email grief)

2004-12-16 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 17-dec-04, at 0:21, Jerry Pasker wrote: ie: does dampening cause more problems than it tries to solve/avoid these days. I don't know what takes more router resources; dampening enabled doing the dampening calculations, or no dampening and constantly churning the BGP table. I would a

Anycast 101

2004-12-16 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
I got some messages from people who weren't exactly clear on how anycast works and fails. So let me try to explain... In IPv6, there are three ways to address a packet: one-to-one (unicast), one-to-many (multicast), or one-to-any (anycast). Like multicast addresses, anycast addresses are shared

Re: Dampening considered harmful? (Was: Re: verizon.net and other email grief)

2004-12-16 Thread Jerry Pasker
i've been wondering, since most people aren't using a 25xx class router for bgp anymore, and the forwarding planes are able to cope more when 'bad things(tm)' happen, what the value of dampening is these days. ie: does dampening cause more problems than it tries to solve/avoid these da

Dampening considered harmful? (Was: Re: verizon.net and other email grief)

2004-12-16 Thread Jared Mauch
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:43:25PM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote: > > > If both anycast routes converges to the same broken pod > somehow(damping?). > > And troublshooting that when it only happens in AS sounds like it > > would be a bit more difficult. > > That's not an anycast pr

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-16 Thread Bill Woodcock
> If both anycast routes converges to the same broken pod somehow(damping?). > And troublshooting that when it only happens in AS sounds like it > would be a bit more difficult. That's not an anycast problem, that's just a misconfiguration. -Bill

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-16 Thread Joe Maimon
Steve Gibbard wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Having just two addresses is the main problem, the fact that they're also anycast just makes it even worse under certain circumstances. How does anycast make it worse? If both anycast routes converges to the same brok

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-16 Thread just me
Thank you for mutating this into yet another interminable topic. matt ghali On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:35:09 PST, just me said: > is org the sole delegation from . If you're trying to register in .org, yes. If you want to claim "but the

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:35:09 PST, just me said: > is org the sole delegation from . If you're trying to register in .org, yes. If you want to claim "but the organization looking to register under .org can go register under .com or .net or .biz", ask yourself why we bother having TLD's at all? W

Re: Interesting DNS problem.

2004-12-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
a related problem is having N ip addrs bound to M nics on a host, where N > M. if an ssl connection fails and debug is needed between the M:N:host and some other ssl-speaking box, then it makes a difference if the ssl connection is associated with the primary, or some aliased (set N-1) ip addr. c

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:24:56 PST, just me said: > So the competing .org provider deploys their better solution and > survives, how, exactly? > > > Are there not a variety of other registries? It's not a registry problem. % dig org. ns and ponder all the competition. pgputEARn6nGr

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-16 Thread just me
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:24:56 PST, just me said: > So the competing .org provider deploys their better solution and > survives, how, exactly? > > > Are there not a variety of other registries? It's not a registry problem

Re: Interesting DNS problem.

2004-12-16 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Bob Martin wrote: > I've just been hired to fix problems at a small ISP. One of their > customers has listed several nameservers with a single IP. > I didn't know this was possible. I thought there was a 1 to 1 > relationship with nameserver names/addresses. I'm trying to

RE: identifying application type of network traffic

2004-12-16 Thread Cheung, Rick
Title: RE: identifying application type of network traffic     I believe NBAR stats are accessible via SNMP, so you can use MRTG to graph application utilization. http://vermeer.org/display_doc.php?doc_id=6 ___ Thanks,

RE: Interesting DNS problem.

2004-12-16 Thread Hannigan, Martin
That's called "hosting". There only thing "wrong" with it is they aren't split across two - which is generally recommended operationally. Did you customer say why they thought that was a problem i.e. "can't reach" "won't resolve" etc.? ARIN says you own that IP space so I'm not sure what you

Re: Interesting DNS problem.

2004-12-16 Thread Forrest W. Christian
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Bob Martin wrote: > I didn't know this was possible. I thought there was a 1 to 1 > relationship with nameserver names/addresses. I'm trying to figure out > if this is or will be a problem. Paul Vixie can probably better address this than myself, but I will mention that with

Interesting DNS problem.

2004-12-16 Thread Bob Martin
I've just been hired to fix problems at a small ISP. One of their customers has listed several nameservers with a single IP. I didn't know this was possible. I thought there was a 1 to 1 relationship with nameserver names/addresses. I'm trying to figure out if this is or will be a problem. Any

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:33:27 PST, just me said: > and be done with it? Look. Some folks think that $technology is a good > solution for $application. Some don't. The great thing about teh > internat is that differing solutions to common problems are embraced. > > Better solutions reap their re

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-16 Thread just me
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 10:33:27 PST, just me said: > and be done with it? Look. Some folks think that $technology is a good > solution for $application. Some don't. The great thing about teh > internat is that differing solutions to common pr

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-16 Thread Steve Gibbard
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > Having just two addresses is the main problem, the fact that they're > also anycast just makes it even worse under certain circumstances. How does anycast make it worse? -Steve

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-16 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 16-dec-04, at 19:33, just me wrote: The great thing about teh internat is that differing solutions to common problems are embraced. Better solutions reap their rewards, and generally survive. I wonder how many folks perpetually arguing this point have ever actually implemented anycasted DNS se

Thank you for the response!! Sincerely requesting help again for my Doctoral study

2004-12-16 Thread Ananth
Dear Respected Participants of Nanog Greetings! I introduce myself as Ananth Chiravuri, a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. As part of my doctoral dissertation, I am working on how best to come to a consensus when capturing knowledge, and am studying the effectiveness of

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-16 Thread just me
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: And that's exactly why UltraDNS' treatment of .org is evil. I really don't understand why people with .org domains aren't complaining louder about this. Instead of re-starting this particular perennial thread, can we please just abbreviate

RE: identifying application type of network traffic

2004-12-16 Thread Adam Atkinson
> Currently, I use (protocol, port_number) as indicator > of application. Referring to rfc on wellknown protocol > and port allocation, I can only identity about 50% of > traffic type. > > Is there a complete (protocol, port_number) list ? or > is there a better way to identify application type

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-16 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 16-dec-04, at 12:52, Daniel Karrenberg wrote: That's definitely true, though it can be used successfully -- if there's a very reliable kill-switch to withdraw the advertisement in a moment, or some kind of fallback mechanism in place to handle gross failures. Using this as the *only* remedy f

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-16 Thread Daniel Karrenberg
On 14.12 09:39, Todd Vierling wrote: > > That's definitely true, though it can be used successfully -- if there's a > very reliable kill-switch to withdraw the advertisement in a moment, or some > kind of fallback mechanism in place to handle gross failures. Using this as the *only* remedy for u

RE: identifying application type of network traffic

2004-12-16 Thread Antonio Sanchez-Monge
Hi Joe, The official port list is: www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers And the unofficial (for special applications) has many versions of course, one is: www.practicallynetworked.com/sharing/app_port_list.htm Cheers, Ato. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL P

RE: identifying application type of network traffic

2004-12-16 Thread Joe Shen
Thanks for all your reply. My situation is not to apply QoS policy to those application but to get statistics of applications. According to netflow records, the traffic across our egress interface has port number range from 11 to 65534 , there is record for port 0! So, what are those applicatio

Re: identifying application type of network traffic

2004-12-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:41:49 +0800 (CST), Joe Shen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My situation is not to apply QoS policy to those > application but to get statistics of applications. > > According to netflow records, the traffic across our > egress interface has port number range from 11 to > 6