Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-24 Thread Alexei Roudnev
It is not true. Many tier-2 ISP specializes in very ghigh quality Internet access, so mnasking problems of big ISP (who in reality never can provide high quality Internet at all). Good example - Internap. So, it is not about tier-1 vs tier-2, it is about ISP specialized on cheap acvcess and ISP

Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system

2005-10-24 Thread Alexei Roudnev
One question - which percent of routing table of any particular router is REALLY used, say, during 1 week? I have a strong impression, that answer wil not be more than 20% even in biggerst backbones, and will be (more likely) below 1% in the rest of the world. Which makes a hige space for

Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-24 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Randy; we are living on Earth with small size (only 6,000 km in radius), so we will never see unlimited grouth in multihomed networks. It is not a problem. We are not building Internet for the whole universe. Good old Moore can deal with our planet very well. I repeated many times - IPv6 idea of

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-24 Thread Alexei Roudnev
We do not think, that _it wil be IPv6_. IPv6 is a good example of _second_ system, and do not looks as _succesfull_ for now. And it is not definitely _LAST PROTOCOL_. It _can be_ IPv6, true. But it can be other protocol (or just workaround for IPv4, as we had CIDR and CLASSLESS) instead. -

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-24 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 24/10/05, Alexei Roudnev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We do not think, that _it wil be IPv6_. IPv6 is a good example of _second_ system, and do not looks as _succesfull_ for now. And it is not definitely _LAST PROTOCOL_. enter jim fleming (or those chinese guys, more recently) with ipv9 srs

ADSL multiplexing (bonding)

2005-10-24 Thread Gregory Edigarov
Hello List, Need an advice on what type of equipment/manufacturer would one use to multiplex 2 or 4 ADSL lines? E.g we need to get 2 ADSL line to act as one. Something like Etherchanel with Ciscos. Any advise? Thanks a lot in advance. -- With best regards, GRED-RIPE

What is multihoming was (design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation)

2005-10-24 Thread Michael . Dillon
the market wouldn't feel the need to have to dual home. the internet model is to expect and route around failure. Seems to me that there is some confusion over the meaning of multihoming. We seem to assume that it means BGP multihoming wherein a network is connected to multiple ASes and

Re: ADSL multiplexing (bonding)

2005-10-24 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Gregory Edigarov wrote: Hello List, Need an advice on what type of equipment/manufacturer would one use to multiplex 2 or 4 ADSL lines? E.g we need to get 2 ADSL line to act as one. Something like Etherchanel with Ciscos. Are all these DSLs parallel to each other

Re: ADSL multiplexing (bonding)

2005-10-24 Thread Gregory Edigarov
william(at)elan.net wrote: On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Gregory Edigarov wrote: Hello List, Need an advice on what type of equipment/manufacturer would one use to multiplex 2 or 4 ADSL lines? E.g we need to get 2 ADSL line to act as one. Something like Etherchanel with Ciscos. Are all these

Re: What is multihoming was (design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation)

2005-10-24 Thread Owen DeLong
--On October 24, 2005 10:01:21 AM +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the market wouldn't feel the need to have to dual home. the internet model is to expect and route around failure. Seems to me that there is some confusion over the meaning of multihoming. We seem to assume that it means

Re: What is multihoming was (design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation)

2005-10-24 Thread Jeroen Massar
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 02:24 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: SNIP 3.Most multihoming today is done using BGP, but, many other solutions exist with various tradeoffs. In V6, there is currently only one known (BGP) and one proposed, but, unimplemented (Shim6) solution under

Re: ADSL multiplexing (bonding)

2005-10-24 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Gregory Edigarov wrote: Let's think I will answer yes to the questions one at a time. :-) I do not have the formal task description yet, so I am merely looking for opinions on options available, so I could start making decisions. If you have direct connection

Re: design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation

2005-10-24 Thread Michael . Dillon
The way around it is to stop growing the DFZ routing table by the size of the Prefixes. If customers could have PI addreses and the DFZ routing table was based, instead, on ASNs in such a way that customers could use their upstream's ASNs and not need their own, then, provider switch would

Re: ADSL multiplexing (bonding)

2005-10-24 Thread Pim van Pelt
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 12:22:59PM +0300, Gregory Edigarov wrote: | Let's think I will answer yes to the questions one at a time. :-) | I do not have the formal task description yet, so I am merely looking | for opinions on options available, | so I could start making decisions. We use

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-24 Thread James
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 11:23:38PM -0700, Alexei Roudnev wrote: It is not true. Many tier-2 ISP specializes in very ghigh quality Internet access, so mnasking problems of big ISP (who in reality never can provide high quality Internet at all). Good example - Internap. Masking problems of

Re: design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation

2005-10-24 Thread Owen DeLong
--On October 24, 2005 10:44:31 AM +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One way to do this is for two ISPs to band together in order that each ISP can sell half of a joint multihoming service. Each ISP would set aside a subset of their IP address space to be used by many such multihomed customers.

Re: h-root-servers.net

2005-10-24 Thread Sabri Berisha
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 04:07:03PM -0500, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote: Dear John, No, why don't you stop insulting people, Niels. You attack Peter because of his involvment in the Inclusive Namespace. FYI: Public root servers are online and available. Maybe the h-root ops should ask the

Re: What is multihoming was (design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation)

2005-10-24 Thread Jeroen Massar
[re-ordered front-posting] 24 okt 2005 kl. 11.35 skrev Jeroen Massar: The multihoming that people here seem to want though is the Provider Independent one, and that sort of automatically implies some routing method: read BGP. On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 11:40 +0200, Peter Salanki wrote: Or

Re: ADSL multiplexing (bonding)

2005-10-24 Thread Ryan O'Connell
On 24/10/2005 10:22, Gregory Edigarov wrote: william(at)elan.net wrote: On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Gregory Edigarov wrote: Need an advice on what type of equipment/manufacturer would one use to multiplex 2 or 4 ADSL lines? E.g we need to get 2 ADSL line to act as one. Something like Etherchanel

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-24 Thread Michael . Dillon
We do not think, that _it wil be IPv6_. IPv6 is a good example of _second_ system, and do not looks as _succesfull_ for now. And it is not definitely _LAST PROTOCOL_. enter jim fleming (or those chinese guys, more recently) with ipv9 No, enter the National Science Foundation...

Re: Level 3 RFO

2005-10-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* Daniel Roesen: On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 09:48:58PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: This isn't the first time this has happened to an ISP. 8-( Indeed. Are there any configuration tweaks which can locally confine such an event? Something like the hard prefix limit for BGP, perhaps. JunOS:

Recommendations for ISPs around the world

2005-10-24 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Dear colleagues, I'm at a loss here. My current project is to find good transit providers in those regions: South America, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asian-Pacific. Requirements are simple: - good regional connectivity/peerings - fair reach to mainland Europe (London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt)

Re: Recommendations for ISPs around the world

2005-10-24 Thread Kim Onnel
For Africa, check out Equant and BTOn 10/24/05, Elmar K. Bins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear colleagues,I'm at a loss here. My current project is to find good transit providersin those regions: South America, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asian-Pacific.Requirements are simple: - good regional

Re: h-root-servers.net (Level3 Question)

2005-10-24 Thread Peter Dambier
Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Daniel Roesen wrote: On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 11:59:15AM +0200, Peter Dambier wrote: I means, here in germany we cannot see h.root-servers.net Here is my traceroute to h.root-servers.net right now: So, where do you see a problem related

Re: h-root-servers.net

2005-10-24 Thread Peter Dambier
Sabri Berisha wrote: On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 04:07:03PM -0500, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote: Peter Dambier did post nonsense. In fact, it was total nonsense since the AMS-IX is not present in any KPN datacentre, *and* it is impossible for end-hosts to connect to the AMS-IX directly. Part

AfNOG and AfriNIC Joint Announcement: Meetings in May 2006

2005-10-24 Thread Randy Bush
AfNOG and AfriNIC Joint Announcement: Meetings in May 2006 7th AfNOG Meeting AfriNIC-4 Meeting The African Network Operators' Group (AfNOG) and the African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) are pleased to announce that the 7th AfNOG Meeting and the AfriNIC-4

RE: Level3 problems

2005-10-24 Thread Gary Hale
Hmmm ... I suppose I would prefer this community not be made an explicit source of information for a reporter. Implicitly, if reporters must hang off this thread, they should be able to discern impact from perspective given here. However, if questions like the one(s) asked below became standard

Re: h-root-servers.net

2005-10-24 Thread Sabri Berisha
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:40:14PM +0200, Peter Dambier wrote: Sabri Berisha wrote: Dear Peter, Peter Dambier did post nonsense. In fact, it was total nonsense since the AMS-IX is not present in any KPN datacentre, *and* it is impossible for end-hosts to connect to the AMS-IX directly.

RE: Level3 problems

2005-10-24 Thread Michael . Dillon
Hmmm ... I suppose I would prefer this community not be made an explicit source of information for a reporter. You're about 10 years too late. Reporters have been lurking on the NANOG list for at least that long. Only the newbie reporters post info requests to the lists. The pros send private

Customer view vs. operator view was:( h-root-servers.net)

2005-10-24 Thread Michael . Dillon
I know of one host here in germany who can see h.root-servers.net. That host is living in a KPN data centre directly connected to Amterdam IX. Your own traceroute clearly shows that your host is not directly connected to the AMS-IX. Nor does the KPN datacenter it resides in. The

Re: Customer view vs. operator view was:( h-root-servers.net)

2005-10-24 Thread Sabri Berisha
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 03:06:35PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Michael, This is a good example of a useless argument caused when one person is speaking from a customer viewpoint and one customer is speaking from an operator viewpoint. Last time I checked, the O in [EU|NA|AFRI]NOG

Hurricane Wilma

2005-10-24 Thread techlist
It would be very helpful for operators to advise on any status they are seeing. Hopefully someone from the Nap Of The Americas can also provide some information. Right now XO says they are experiencing some outages. I have not see any outages from other providers but I am sure they

RE: Hurricane Wilma

2005-10-24 Thread Peering
I have some customers down, probably due to power outages or Bell issues, as I'm getting AIS on their ports. Otherwise, we're operational on generator power. Hopefully, Wilma will move out soon so we can get our techs back in and see what the neighborhood looks like. I just hope they're pretty

RE: Hurricane Wilma

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Boyd
I have a couple of customers hosted at Verio in Boca Raton. We're seeing routing issues inside Verio and no response from DNS, web and SMTP servers. --Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of techlist Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005

[nanog] Re: Hurricane Wilma

2005-10-24 Thread Andrew White
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:32:23 -0400 From: techlist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: [nanog] Hurricane Wilma It would be very helpful for operators to advise on any status they are seeing. Hopefully someone from the Nap Of The Americas can also provide some information.

Re: [nanog] Re: Hurricane Wilma

2005-10-24 Thread techlist
Who is your transport into the NAP? Is it Bellsouth? One interesting effect during the last hurricane was that Broward county customers (Ft Lauderdale is in that county) had no dial tone service but dsl was working. Someone mentioned they lost the tandem. The comment was made that voip

Community Meeting Notes

2005-10-24 Thread Matthew Petach
(oops--sent this out last night, but forgot to change the sender to the subscribed-to-nanog address first, gomennasai minnasan) Matt I took some notes at the NANOG community meeting tonight, and thought I'd share them with the list members in the spirit of transparency--apologies for the

Re: Community Meeting Notes

2005-10-24 Thread Randy Bush
thanks! for the terminally bored, the foils i used are at http://rip.psg.com/~randy/051023.nanog-sc.pdf randy

Re: Level 3 RFO

2005-10-24 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:25:23PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: Are there any configuration tweaks which can locally confine such an event? Something like the hard prefix limit for BGP, perhaps. JunOS: set protocols ospf prefix-export-limit n set protocols isis level n

RE: Level3 problems

2005-10-24 Thread Gary Hale
Not delusional ... just prefer it not be an explicit thread to all of the community ... or ... consistent w/ your observation below (ref. lurking) ... -gh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005

Re: [nanog] Re: Hurricane Wilma

2005-10-24 Thread techlist
XO NOC says they have outages in the S FL area. At the NAP there are definitely at least some customers down starting at just before 8am.  Last hurricane there were many people without dialtone in Broward.  I can tell you that since I experienced it.  I do not have any details on the cause

Re: Level 3 RFO

2005-10-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* Daniel Roesen: On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:25:23PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: Are there any configuration tweaks which can locally confine such an event? Something like the hard prefix limit for BGP, perhaps. JunOS: set protocols ospf prefix-export-limit n set protocols isis

Re: Recommendations for ISPs around the world

2005-10-24 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Kim Onnel wrote: For Africa, check out Equant and BT For eastern europe I'm really at a loss, and Africa seems to lack regional connectivity. All I can found is local stuff. It's a whole continent. Some countries have more isp's, richer international connectivity and

prepending 2 bytes of zeros....

2005-10-24 Thread bmanning
I am greatful to Geoff for his consistant ability to get me interested in breaking things... so, for the assembled mutlitude, what would the impact on various peers be if I was to change my orign AS (ok, so i'll have to change the router code on my end to support this) from 4554

Re: design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation

2005-10-24 Thread John Dupuy
One way to do this is for two ISPs to band together in order that each ISP can sell half of a joint multihoming service. Each ISP would set aside a subset of their IP address space to be used by many such multihomed customers. Each ISP would announce the subset from their neighbor's space

Re: design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation

2005-10-24 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:53:12 CDT, John Dupuy said: In fact, this is technically feasible right now with IPv4. Does anyone know of a pair of ISPs doing this? technically feasible and business case reasonable are two different things. Under what conditions does this sort of cooperation with a

Re: design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation

2005-10-24 Thread Joe Maimon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:53:12 CDT, John Dupuy said: In fact, this is technically feasible right now with IPv4. Does anyone know of a pair of ISPs doing this? technically feasible and business case reasonable are two different things. Under what conditions does

Re: design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation

2005-10-24 Thread Joe Abley
On 24-Oct-2005, at 11:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:53:12 CDT, John Dupuy said: In fact, this is technically feasible right now with IPv4. Does anyone know of a pair of ISPs doing this? technically feasible and business case reasonable are two different things.

RE: Level3 problems

2005-10-24 Thread Matt Ghali
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Gary Hale wrote: Hmmm ... I suppose I would prefer this community not be made an explicit source of information for a reporter. Implicitly, if reporters must hang off this thread, they should be able to discern impact from perspective given here. However, if

Re: prepending 2 bytes of zeros....

2005-10-24 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote something about prepending 2 bytes of zeros: Hi, I am greatful to Geoff for his consistant ability to get me interested in breaking things... so, for the assembled mutlitude, what would the impact on various peers be if I was to change my

Re: prepending 2 bytes of zeros....

2005-10-24 Thread Geoff Huston
At 03:46 AM 25/10/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am greatful to Geoff for his consistant ability to get me interested in breaking things... so, for the assembled mutlitude, what would the impact on various peers be if I was to change my orign AS (ok, so i'll have to change the router code

WI.RR.com

2005-10-24 Thread Jeffrey Sharpe
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Re: What is multihoming was (design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation)

2005-10-24 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] the market wouldn't feel the need to have to dual home. the internet model is to expect and route around failure. Seems to me that there is some confusion over the meaning of multihoming. We seem to assume that it means BGP multihoming wherein a network is

Re: What is multihoming was (design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation)

2005-10-24 Thread Crist Clark
Stephen Sprunk wrote: [snip] Other people use this term in very different ways. To some people it means using having multiple IP addresses bound to a single network interface. To others it means multiple websites on one server. That is virtual hosting in a NANOG context. Some undereducated

Re: What is multihoming was (design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation)

2005-10-24 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:31:17 PDT, Crist Clark said: Stephen Sprunk wrote: [snip] Other people use this term in very different ways. To some people it means using having multiple IP addresses bound to a single network interface. To others it means multiple websites on one server.

RE: Really odd pings going out - Found It's SKYPE!

2005-10-24 Thread Nicole
Hi Thanks to everyone who sent helpfull advice for tracking this down. I wanted to follow up and say that I tried every test imaginable and nothing was found. finnaly I got a period were I could do without skype and found that when skype was off.. No more pings were going out at random

Re: What is multihoming was (design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation)

2005-10-24 Thread John Reilly
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 10:01 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other people use this term in very different ways. To some people it means using having multiple IP addresses bound to a single network interface. To others it means multiple websites on one server. Do you not mean a single host

Re: What is multihoming was (design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation)

2005-10-24 Thread John Reilly
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 02:24 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: As I understand it, the term multihoming in a network operations context is defined as: (A multihomed network is) A network which is connected via multiple distinct paths so as to eliminate or reduce the likelihood that a single

Re: Customer view vs. operator view was:( h-root-servers.net)

2005-10-24 Thread Peter Dambier
Thank you Michael, for throwing light into this. Yes, I see, Sabri and me are on two different rails, one leading north, the other one leading east. I hope Sabri still has got all his hairs. I am counting mine now. Kind regards and thank you again, Peter Dambier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

ICANN and Verisign settle over SiteFinder

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Woodfield
Said the flowerpot: Oh no, not again... http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8DEL2TO7.htm? campaign_id=apn_tech_downchan=tc -C

open jabber server and conference room for nanog-arin meeting

2005-10-24 Thread Paul Vixie
in an unusual fit of effacacy, i brought up an open jabber server today and created a persistent conference room. i'm not a fan of the monolithic public jabber.org server. if you have a jabber account somewhere, you can join the conference room: [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you don't have a jabber

Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system

2005-10-24 Thread Tony Li
On Oct 23, 2005, at 11:33 PM, Alexei Roudnev wrote: One question - which percent of routing table of any particular router is REALLY used, say, during 1 week? I have a strong impression, that answer wil not be more than 20% even in biggerst backbones, and will be (more likely) below

Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system

2005-10-24 Thread Blaine Christian
As of the last time that I looked at it (admittedly quite awhile ago), something like 80% of the forwarding table had at least one hit per minute. This may well have changed given the number of traffic engineering prefixes that are circulating. Tony Yea, but that's just me pinging

VoIP Security Threat Taxonomy: Request for Comments

2005-10-24 Thread David Endler
The Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) is pleased to announce the first draft release of the VoIP Security Threat Taxonomy. The draft is available at http://www.voipsa.org/Activities/taxonomy.php and your comments are greatly appreciated. In fact, we've opened up the online wiki

Re: open jabber server and conference room for nanog-arin meeting

2005-10-24 Thread Susan Harris
Many thanks for doing this Paul. As far as me monitoring, I've never had any luck getting a jabber client going so help would be welcome. And, if anyone in the audience sees a question come in, don't hesitate to go up to the mike and ask it. On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Paul Vixie wrote: in an

Re: What is multihoming was (design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation)

2005-10-24 Thread Owen DeLong
I believe RFC1122 was written in the days when there was a one-to-one correlation between IP addresses and interfaces, and, you couldn't have one machine with multiple addresses on the same network. Obviously, also, we are talking about network multihoming, not host multihoming in a NANOG

Re: What is multihoming was (design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation)

2005-10-24 Thread Owen DeLong
... shim6 doesn't fit into the definition does it? Its seems to be a question of multihomed networks Vs. multihomed hosts (although the effect may be the same at the end of the day). Yes... The network is still multihomed, but, instead of using routing to handle the source/dest addr.

Re: open jabber server and conference room for nanog-arin meeting

2005-10-24 Thread Paul Vixie
jabber update. folks have reported some unreachability, but being network admins, did not say ping worked (or not) and didn't send a traceroute. if they'd done either, i'd've asked what server were you logged into, since the connection that's failing is server-to-server (from the server where

Re: ICANN and Verisign settle over SiteFinder

2005-10-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* Chris Woodfield: Said the flowerpot: Oh no, not again... http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8DEL2TO7.htm? campaign_id=apn_tech_downchan=tc I don't understand what VeriSign receives in return for their kowtow (under the agreement, they basically waive any right to criticize