Re: [Misc][Rant] Internet router

2005-09-30 Thread Elmar K. Bins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Per Gregers Bilse) wrote: My finest Dilbert moment; it's over ten years old now, in fact. [...] *g* It is _so_ true and so happens in probably 80% of the companies. It got so bad that if there was nothing to report (ie, no outages, no problems, everything just worked) Boss

GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

2005-09-30 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
It can be of operational interest or it can fuel a new flame about alternative DNS roots. http://www.neustar.com/pressroom/files/announcements/ns_pr_09282005.pdf GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services to More than 680 Global GSM Mobile Operators ... NeuStar's

Re: GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

2005-09-30 Thread Randy Bush
different meaning of 'root server'. pretty surely written by a droid. randy

Re: [Misc][Rant] Internet router (straying slightly OT)

2005-09-30 Thread Sabri Berisha
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 05:39:30PM -0400, Mark Owen wrote: Any suggestions? Start with the OSI[1] model to grasp the fundamentals, next make sure you have a basic knowledge of how TCP/IP addressing works[2]. To get an understanding of routing-protocols, begin with RIP[3] and perhaps run your

Re: Weird DNS issues for domains

2005-09-30 Thread Peter
Crist Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The problem I've seen is when an SMTP server does not accept emails which have non-resolvable MAIL FROM domain. When the sender is a dumb SMTP client, not an MTA, this can cause problems. Well, that dumb SMTP client should stop pretending to be a MTA

Re: Weird DNS issues for domains

2005-09-30 Thread Brandon Butterworth
Besides, what sort of dumb SMTP client did you have in mind? Formmail scripts? Worms? Outlook Express? I can't say I'd miss mail from any of those. Pot, kettle... Yours seem to have come via a train wreck of mua/mta's From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Sep 30 08:42:11 2005 Delivered-To: [EMAIL

Re: Weird DNS issues for domains

2005-09-30 Thread Simon Waters
On Friday 30 Sep 2005 9:37 am, Brandon Butterworth wrote: spam and virus rating on outgoing is pointless nobody in their right mind is going to use them. Whilst I think it is silly to do. Why not drop emails that claim to be viruses or spam? Of course why anyone would allow their servers

Re: GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

2005-09-30 Thread Romeo Zwart
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: It can be of operational interest or it can fuel a new flame about alternative DNS roots. Another flame fest? Possibly, but only if caused by lack of understanding where the Neustar DNS root will be living. This DNS structure for GPRS roaming lives in its own

Re: [Misc][Rant] Internet router (straying slightly OT)

2005-09-30 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Sabri Berisha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To get an understanding of routing-protocols, begin with RIP[3] and perhaps run your own RIP-lab necromancy will be severely punished. ---rob

Re: [Misc][Rant] Internet router (straying slightly OT)

2005-09-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 05:50:52 EDT, Robert E.Seastrom said: Sabri Berisha [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To get an understanding of routing-protocols, begin with RIP[3] and perhaps run your own RIP-lab necromancy will be severely punished. Sayeth RFC1925: (4) Some things in life can never

Re: GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

2005-09-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 30/09/05, Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It can be of operational interest or it can fuel a new flame about alternative DNS roots. http://www.neustar.com/pressroom/files/announcements/ns_pr_09282005.pdf It is not a public root and it is not available over the internet

Re: GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

2005-09-30 Thread Brandon Butterworth
It is not a public root and it is not available over the internet either A closed service available solely over the gprs network Until the users want to access the same stuff from their PC and they petition for it to be in the public root too To the public if it looks like internet they

The Cidr Report

2005-09-30 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Sep 30 21:45:58 2005 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of an AS4637 (Reach) router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org/as4637 for a current version of this report. Recent Table

Re: GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

2005-09-30 Thread Niels Bakker
It is not a public root and it is not available over the internet either A closed service available solely over the gprs network * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brandon Butterworth) [Fri 30 Sep 2005, 12:55 CEST]: Until the users want to access the same stuff from their PC and they petition for it to

Re: GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

2005-09-30 Thread Brandon Butterworth
You are misunderstanding. I'm extrapolating, things rarely stay restricted to the original use they existed for. At some point I expect they'll put something on it that users become aware of and think it'd be much more convenient if we could use the same on the internet The data in .gprs is

Re: [political pontification] Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers

2005-09-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere
Vint, I don't think I know any longer, if I ever did, what IDN means. Alternatives to Unicode were proposed during the IETF IDN WG lifetime, both as a single normative reference, and as a normative reference. Likewise an intermediate tables redefinition of Unicode, mentioned in my last

[ON TOPIC] Was: Re: GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

2005-09-30 Thread James R. Cutler
Management of Naming, Addressing, and the related directory service (DNS) is properly part of Network Operations. Thus, on topic for NANOG. At 9/30/2005 01:43 PM +0100, Brandon Butterworth wrote: snip/ If they restrict it to internal use then it's non news, anyone can make up stuff with risk of

Re: [Misc][Rant] Internet router (straying slightly OT)

2005-09-30 Thread Randy Bush
To get an understanding of routing-protocols, begin with RIP[3] and perhaps run your own RIP-lab necromancy will be severely punished. many hand-on routing workshops start with rip, though with the warning you will now learn why not to use rip. it makes it easy to teach poison reverse, ...

Re: [Misc][Rant] Internet router (straying slightly OT)

2005-09-30 Thread Joe Abley
On 30-Sep-2005, at 09:32, Randy Bush wrote: To get an understanding of routing-protocols, begin with RIP[3] and perhaps run your own RIP-lab necromancy will be severely punished. many hand-on routing workshops start with rip, though with the warning you will now learn why not to use rip.

Re: [Misc][Rant] Internet router (straying slightly OT)

2005-09-30 Thread Sabri Berisha
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:01:34AM -0400, Joe Abley wrote: Hi, RIP also has the advantage that a worked, non-trivial example of the protocol can fit on a whiteboard, which makes it a reasonable way to teach the concept of a routing protocol to a classroom full of people who have never

Re: GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

2005-09-30 Thread Sabri Berisha
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 02:33:13PM +0200, Niels Bakker wrote: Hi, To the public if it looks like internet they expect it to work like internet You are misunderstanding. The data in .gprs is used by infrastructure in the GSM networks to decide where a user's home station is. End users

Re: [Pr-plan] Public-Root resolution problems and UNIDT (fwd)

2005-09-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:57:47 +0200, Peter Dambier said: http://www.cynikal.net/~baptista/P-R/2005-09-29%20Memo%20to%20the%20Internet% 20Community.pdf There was an attempt by UNIDT to start a new root system called the United-Root. Attempts by Ankara to test this root on l.public-root.net at

Re: [Pr-plan] Public-Root resolution problems and UNIDT (fwd)

2005-09-30 Thread Andy Davidson
Peter Dambier wrote: The Ankara root injected a number of older records into the DNS resulting in false answers to queries. Ankara was also listing as root servers some DNS that pointed back to ICANN data and did not resolve the Public-Root. This was very unprofessional behavior on behalf of

Re: [Pr-plan] Public-Root resolution problems and UNIDT (fwd)

2005-09-30 Thread Roy Arends
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Peter Dambier wrote: Statement of the Official Public-Root Representative Public-Root resolution problems I in my capacity as the Official Public-Root Representative and whistle-blower, asked Peter Dambier to publish to NANOG a notice that the Public-Root had

Re: [Pr-plan] Public-Root resolution problems and UNIDT (fwd)

2005-09-30 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 04:05:34PM +0100, Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 19 lines which said: A bit like an internationally organized, non-profit corporation ... Has anyone considered this ? Yes, replacing the DoC puppet by an internationally organized corporation

Life of Brian, was Re: [Pr-plan] Public-Root resolution problems and UNIDT (fwd)

2005-09-30 Thread Roy Arends
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Peter Dambier wrote: Statement of the Official Public-Root Representative Public-Root resolution problems I in my capacity as the Official Public-Root Representative and whistle-blower, asked Peter Dambier to publish to NANOG a notice that the Public-Root had

Re: [Misc][Rant] Internet router (straying slightly OT)

2005-09-30 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Randy Bush writes: To get an understanding of routing-protocols, begin with RIP[3] and perhaps run your own RIP-lab necromancy will be severely punished. many hand-on routing workshops start with rip, though with the warning you will now learn why not to use

Paul Vixie serving ORSN

2005-09-30 Thread Peter Dambier
Interesting: regards, Peter and Karin Original Message From: Markus Grundmann/ORSN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:03:56 +0200 Organization: ORSN, Open Root Server Network Subject: [ORSN.TECH] We Are Complete List-Archive:

Re: [political pontification] Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers

2005-09-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere
Are there operational issues to attempt to make this thread remotely on point for NANOG? Probably not. Its just bits, and whether the bits are all 0x000 or quasi-random distributions between 0x000 and 0x177 is water under somebody else's bridge. The constraint-space is solve in applications

Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN

2005-09-30 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Dambier writes: Interesting: I don't regard this as good, but note this from the ORSN FAQ: * Has ORSN additional TLDs like .DNS, .AUTO? No. ORSN is a Legacy Root and 100% compatible with ICANN's root zone. and

209.68.1.140 (209.68.1.0 /24) blocked by bellsouth.net for SMTP

2005-09-30 Thread Eadi Gvron
I don't understand why there's all these flame wars and pissing contests or people unhappy with the noise I've added to this mailing list... all this debate about what is or isn't on topic, Oy Vey! You'd think this list existed for years before I learned about it and decided to spew my

Re: Weird DNS issues for domains

2005-09-30 Thread Crist Clark
Peter wrote: Crist Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The problem I've seen is when an SMTP server does not accept emails which have non-resolvable MAIL FROM domain. When the sender is a dumb SMTP client, not an MTA, this can cause problems. Well, that dumb SMTP client should stop

Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN

2005-09-30 Thread Paul Vixie
I don't regard this as good, but note this from the ORSN FAQ: * Has ORSN additional TLDs like .DNS, .AUTO? No. ORSN is a Legacy Root and 100% compatible with ICANN's root zone. and Furthermore, no additional (alternative) top level domains will

Weekly Routing Table Report

2005-09-30 Thread Routing Table Analysis
This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Internet Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan. Daily listings are sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any comments please contact Philip Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Routing Table Report 04:00 +10GMT Sat 01 Oct, 2005

Re: [Misc][Rant] Internet router (straying slightly OT)

2005-09-30 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:39:30 -0400 Mark Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/29/05, Warren Kumari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have met Senior Network Engineers who don't understand longest match rule (The traffic will take 10/8 instead of 10.0.0.0/24 because it has a better admin distance,

Re: [eng/rtg] changing loopbacks

2005-09-30 Thread Sean Figgins
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: ospf doesn't, for router-id on cisco's atleast, as Warren pointed out :( however! switching from ospf to 'another igp' (ISIS would work well) would avoid that, slide off ospf and onto ISIS, kill ospf when all next-hops switch, which should be

Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN

2005-09-30 Thread Roy Arends
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Paul Vixie wrote: I don't regard this as good, but note this from the ORSN FAQ: * Has ORSN additional TLDs like .DNS, .AUTO? No. ORSN is a Legacy Root and 100% compatible with ICANN's root zone. and Furthermore, no additional

Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN

2005-09-30 Thread Paul Vixie
# It is *not* the same as what you've been advocating. # # indeed, it is not. ... # # I don't get this. You pretend there is a difference between ICANN / VeriSign # / US-DoC and universal IANA namespace. They are one and the same. you must have misread me. see http://fm.vix.com/ today.

Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN

2005-09-30 Thread Roy Arends
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Paul Vixie wrote: # It is *not* the same as what you've been advocating. # # indeed, it is not. ... # # I don't get this. You pretend there is a difference between ICANN / VeriSign # / US-DoC and universal IANA namespace. They are one and the same. you must

Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN

2005-09-30 Thread Paul Vixie
# you must have misread me. see http://fm.vix.com/ today. # # I've read it. Twice now. I'd like some help on what part I've misread ? i'm indifferent to their reasons, as long as they don't add any new TLD's... # I don't think the independence argument holds, as explained by my previous #

Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN

2005-09-30 Thread Roy Arends
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Paul Vixie wrote: # you must have misread me. see http://fm.vix.com/ today. # # I've read it. Twice now. I'd like some help on what part I've misread ? i'm indifferent to their reasons, as long as they don't add any new TLD's... I understood that you're indifferent

Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN

2005-09-30 Thread Paul Vixie
# I understood that you're indifferent to _their_ reasons. I'm curious about # _your_ reasons. Solely to learn and for the stats? I couldn't deduct that # from fm.vix.com. internet governance ain't what it will be. anyone who wants to keep name universality in place as the system evolves, can

Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN

2005-09-30 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Vixie writes: it's enough for me that they're going to do it no matter what you (or i) say, and that they're doing it responsibly (without any namespace pollution). if ORSN is afraid war is going to break out somewhere and that ICANN might delete the ccTLD's

.iq [ was: Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN ]

2005-09-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere
it's enough for me that they're going to do it no matter what you (or i) say, and that they're doing it responsibly (without any namespace pollution). if ORSN is afraid war is going to break out somewhere and that ICANN might delete the ccTLD's for countries that are part of the axis of

Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN

2005-09-30 Thread Paul Vixie
# Paul, if we ever get DNSSEC deployed, what will/should OSRN return for # # dig ns . # # --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb i don't know ORSN's plans. i believe that the standard testbed methodology (and bill manning would be the one to correct me here,

Re: .iq [ was: Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN ]

2005-09-30 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: I suppose I should mention that ICANN redelegated .iq for some mumble reason, compare, .pn. Not that it matters, but Hamas is the government of parts of Palestine, no matter how much heartburn this gives some people, and

Re: .iq [ was: Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN ]

2005-09-30 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere wrote: For those who care about excesses of zeal, the Elashi brothers (operators as well as sponsor delagees of .iq) of someplace in Texas, were charged with giving money to Hamas or a charity linked to Hamas, and sending a PC to

Re: [Pr-plan] Public-Root resolution problems and UNIDT (fwd)

2005-09-30 Thread Todd Vierling
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Peter Dambier wrote: I also want to take this time to criticize NANOG (North American Network Operators Group) and the inclusive and alternative namespace communities. However, my main concern is NANOG. I find the fact the people of Turkey are being the subject of

Re: .iq [ was: Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN ]

2005-09-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere
Bill, Have you got an opinion on .mm? Last December (when Vint and I did exchange notes on getting India to allow relief workers into the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and some British embassy in Baghdad guy who wanted to get .iq for the Occupation regime-de-jour) it so happened that all their

Re: .iq [ was: Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN ]

2005-09-30 Thread Bill Woodcock
Have you got an opinion on .mm? Last December it so happened that all their servers (in the UK, which isn't part of Burma, or Burma Shave, or ...) were dark. If those facts were present today, would you be ready to delta dot? My inclination has been to solve problems

Re: .iq [ was: Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN ]

2005-09-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere
For those who care about excesses of zeal, the Elashi brothers (operators as well as sponsor delagees of .iq) of someplace in Texas, were charged with giving money to Hamas or a charity linked to Hamas, and sending a PC to Syria, and parts of a PC -- perhaps a mouse pad -- to Libya.

Re: .iq [ was: Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN ]

2005-09-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere
Bill, I forgot to mention that the idiot Brit who wanted .iq was going to run it -- all of it -- off of generators from inside the Green Zone. I don't know if my notes made a bit of difference, but I advised that ICANN not redel and open the adverse redel can unnecesarily. I'm not sure if I

Re: .iq [ was: Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN ]

2005-09-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere
And they did violate US laws in the US. An export regulation, one normally punished by a fine. Ah well, maybe they will get deported when they get released from prison, just like their wives. There is an interesting register of export violaters, and quite a few are foreign nationals, and

Re: .iq [ was: Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN ]

2005-09-30 Thread David W. Hankins
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:38:43AM -0400, Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere wrote: It all comes down to pretending a PC is a supercomputer, An ordinary PC, by today's standards average, is defined by US law as a supercomputer, legally a munition (weapon of war). Wether you yourself

Re: .iq [ was: Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN ]

2005-09-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere
David, Before turning to your certainty that laws are self-explanitory and not nuanced, I should mention soething I forgot. The Elashi case rattled the Export Controls Defense bar, because the Elashis didn't actually send anything to Libya, their buyer was some computer broker in Malta, and

Re: [eng/rtg] changing loopbacks

2005-09-30 Thread Austin
It's worth noting that C's don't need actual IP address space assigned to the router-id for OSPF. It's just an arbitrary value; it's probably better karma to set it to whatever you want (maybe something that doesn't look like an IP address). RFC 2328: Router ID A 32-bit

Re: .iq [ was: Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN ]

2005-09-30 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Bill Woodcock wrote: ...whereas post-redelegation, .iq is administered by the Iraqi communications ministry from Bhagdad, Current Iraq government exists because there is substantial US military presence in the country. Lets assume that at some future point US gets tired

Re: .iq [ was: Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN ]

2005-09-30 Thread Sam Hayes Merritt, III
Not that it matters, but Hamas is the government of parts of Palestine, no matter how much heartburn this gives some people, and the Elashis are diaspora Palestinians. And they did violate US laws in the US. Ah well, maybe they will get deported when they get released from prison, just

IP Database

2005-09-30 Thread Kevin Billings
Title: IP Database I am looking for an IP database for our Company that can be used from a service provider needs and also from an Enterprise that will need to track IP's down to the host level. Also need to have RWhois integration for ARIN swip's. Does anyone have any suggestions or

Re: IP Database

2005-09-30 Thread Bruce Pinsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Billings wrote: I am looking for an IP database for our Company that can be used from a service provider needs and also from an Enterprise that will need to track IP's down to the host level. Also need to have RWhois integration for ARIN