Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites

2006-03-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 3/7/06, Owen DeLong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Singapore seems to force all of their ISPs to send all HTTP requests through a proxy that has a set of rules defining sites you are not allowed to visit. As does (for example) the UAE, and China. But not Italy. So this is quite moot, I

AW: Italy orders ISPs to block sites

2006-03-07 Thread tom
Hi Folks across the ocean.. I understand, that from an American point of view this kind of restriction looks strange and is against your act of freedom, however here in Europe gambling is a state controlled business that supports the state economy and in most European countries gambling outside

Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites

2006-03-07 Thread bmanning
actually, they -can- order it... its the delivery thats the hard part. :) on-line gaming is handled pretty much the same way - the tax authorities really want to know where that loot came from ... or went to !!! :) --bill On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:13:21AM

Re: AW: Italy orders ISPs to block sites

2006-03-07 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 7-mrt-2006, at 9:13, tom wrote: Hi Folks across the ocean.. I understand, that from an American point of view this kind of restriction looks strange and is against your act of freedom, however here in Europe gambling is a state controlled business It looks strange from the right

Re: AW: Italy orders ISPs to block sites

2006-03-07 Thread Simon Waters
On Tuesday 07 Mar 2006 08:13, you wrote: I understand, that from an American point of view this kind of restriction looks strange and is against your act of freedom, however here in Europe gambling is a state controlled business that supports the state economy and in most European countries

Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites

2006-03-07 Thread Owen DeLong
--On March 7, 2006 1:35:05 PM +0530 Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/7/06, Owen DeLong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Singapore seems to force all of their ISPs to send all HTTP requests through a proxy that has a set of rules defining sites you are not allowed to visit.

Re: AW: Italy orders ISPs to block sites

2006-03-07 Thread Owen DeLong
--On March 7, 2006 9:13:21 AM +0100 tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks across the ocean.. I understand, that from an American point of view this kind of restriction looks strange and is against your act of freedom, however here in Europe gambling is a state controlled business that

Re: Italy is promoting djbdns

2006-03-07 Thread Peter Dambier
Marco d'Itri wrote: On Mar 06, Rodney Joffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears that Italy has ordered Italian ISPs to block access to a number of Internet Gambling sites. It would be interesting to see how the Italian ISPs are handling this, what with dynamic DNS and all that... So

Re: AW: Italy orders ISPs to block sites

2006-03-07 Thread Fred Baker
On Mar 7, 2006, at 12:13 AM, tom wrote: I hope you don't mind this commentary from a European... I certainly don't mind commentary from a European. I just wouldn't want to hear the same European complaining about the Chinese... :-)

AW: Italy orders ISPs to block sites

2006-03-07 Thread tom
Hi folks just one addition..as it was already mentioned where the money is from and where it goes thats money-washing and again, this is a criminal act in lots of countries.. do not missunderstand me.. I do not mind gambling and if people wanna do it, let them.. but if their goverment wants to

Re: Presumed RF Interference

2006-03-07 Thread Ian Mason
On 6 Mar 2006, at 15:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 09:49:39AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 21:17:17 +1100 Matthew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (In the UK where I served my apprenticeship, we were required to provide earth bonding to

Re: AW: Italy orders ISPs to block sites

2006-03-07 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Mar 7, 2006, at 3:56 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: I understand, that from an American point of view this kind of restriction looks strange and is against your act of freedom, however here in Europe gambling is a state controlled business that supports the state economy and in most European

Re: AW: Italy orders ISPs to block sites

2006-03-07 Thread Owen DeLong
--On March 7, 2006 8:12:59 AM -0500 Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 7, 2006, at 3:56 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: I understand, that from an American point of view this kind of restriction looks strange and is against your act of freedom, however here in Europe gambling is a

Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites

2006-03-07 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Owen DeLong wrote: Singapore seems to force all of their ISPs to send all HTTP requests through a proxy that has a set of rules defining sites you are not allowed to visit. or comply in the other manner which is to null route the top 100 sites... but yes.

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 6-mrt-2006, at 22:08, Owen DeLong wrote: What I hear is any type of geography can't work because network topology != geography. That's like saying cars can't work because they can't drive over water which covers 70% of the earth's surface. No, it's more like saying Cars which can't

Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites

2006-03-07 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:13:21AM +0100, tom wrote: Hi Folks across the ocean.. I understand, that from an American point of view this kind of restriction looks strange and is against your act of freedom, however here in Europe gambling is a state controlled business that supports the

RE: Italy orders ISPs to block sites

2006-03-07 Thread Neil J. McRae
Switzerland has made similar requests and ISPs in .CH have deployed acl to block the sites and remove them from DNS. Neil. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rodney Joffe Sent: 06 March 2006 19:41 To: NANOG Subject: Italy orders

How to measure network qualityperformance for voipgameservers (udp packetloss, delay, jitter,...)

2006-03-07 Thread Gunther Stammwitz
Hello colleages, I'm trying to find out how one can measure the performance or quality of a network for gamers and voip-users. Both applications are very sensitive to packetloss, delays or jitter since they're using udp instead of tcp and are very timing critical. == Which tools (under linux)

Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites

2006-03-07 Thread Andre Oppermann
Neil J. McRae wrote: Switzerland has made similar requests and ISPs in .CH have deployed acl to block the sites and remove them from DNS. It was just one single investigation judge who requested this as a temporary restraint order in a libel case because they couldn't shut down the server or

UDP Badness [Was: Re: How to measure network qualityperformance for v oipgameservers (udp packetloss, delay, jitter,...)]

2006-03-07 Thread Fergie
The problem with UDP is that there is no explicit feedback-loop or congestion control frobs -- this is generally kicked up the protocol stack for the application itself to figure out. UDP is designed that way: push traffic into the network as fast as the network can take it, and expect the

RE: Italy orders ISPs to block sites

2006-03-07 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Neil J. McRae wrote: Switzerland has made similar requests and ISPs in .CH have deployed acl to block the sites and remove them from DNS. So long as there no criminal penalties associated with the half-assed solutions I suppose it doesn't really matter. Gov'ts will see

RE: Italy orders ISPs to block sites

2006-03-07 Thread Mehmet Akcin
Well, I can't blame Italy for trying to enforce their laws, but maybe can give them a better idea. Maybe instead of all those ACLs, other type of Blocks, DNS removals,etc.. Governments should more go to the direction of making agreement on the credit card companies which automatically will

AW: UDP Badness [Was: Re: How to measure network qualityperformance for voipgameservers (udp packetloss, delay, jitter,...)]

2006-03-07 Thread Gunther Stammwitz
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Fergie Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. März 2006 18:16 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: UDP Badness [Was: Re: How to measure network qualityperformance for voipgameservers

Re: UDP Badness [Was: Re: How to measure network qualityperformance for voipgameservers (udp packetloss, delay, jitter,...)]

2006-03-07 Thread tony sarendal
On 07/03/06, Gunther Stammwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Im Auftrag von Fergie Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. März 2006 18:16 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: UDP Badness [Was: Re: How to measure

Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites

2006-03-07 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:53:40 + Mehmet Akcin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I can't blame Italy for trying to enforce their laws, but maybe can give them a better idea. Maybe instead of all those ACLs, other type of Blocks, DNS removals,etc.. Governments should more go to the

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread John Curran
At 1:08 PM -0800 3/6/06, Owen DeLong wrote: I've got no opposition to issuing addresses based on some geotop. design, simply because on the off chance it does provide useful aggregation, why not. OTOH, I haven't seen anyone propose geotop allocation as a policy in the ARIN region (hint to those

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread Edward B. DREGER
JC Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:38:50 -0500 JC From: John Curran JC Does anyone have statistics for the present prefix mobility experiment JC in the US with phone number portability? It would be interesting to JC know what percent of personal and business numbers are now routed JC permanently

Re: How to measure network qualityperformance for voipgameservers (udp packetloss, delay, jitter,...)

2006-03-07 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Justin Church wrote: Vince Hoffman wrote: On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Gunther Stammwitz wrote: Hello colleages, I'm trying to find out how one can measure the performance or quality of a network for gamers and voip-users. Both applications are very sensitive to

Re: 2005-1, good or bad? [Was: Re: Shim6 vs PI addressing]

2006-03-07 Thread Per Heldal
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 11:24:59 +0100, Kurt Erik Lindqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [snip] Ok, so shim6 doesn't require a change to the transport layer and it doesn't change the forwarding plane. It does create a mapping state at the end-nodes. So claiming it to be either is probably wrong.

Re: UDP Badness [Was: Re: How to measure network qualityperformance for voipgameservers (udp packetloss, delay, jitter,...)]

2006-03-07 Thread tony sarendal
On 07/03/06, Gunther Stammwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Im Auftragvon tony sarendal Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. März 2006 19:05 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: UDP Badness [Was: Re: How to measure

AW: UDP Badness [Was: Re: How to measure network qualityperformance for voipgameservers (udp packetloss, delay, jitter,...)]

2006-03-07 Thread Gunther Stammwitz
Unfortunately not. Iperf has suited me fine where I don't require professional (pricey) testers. The fact that it is console based I usually see as a plus. -- Tony Sarendal - [EMAIL PROTECTED] IP/Unix -= The scorpion replied,

Re: UDP Badness [Was: Re: How to measure network qualityperformance for voipgameservers (udp packetloss, delay, jitter,...)]

2006-03-07 Thread tony sarendal
On 07/03/06, Gunther Stammwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well that's true but Iperf won't show you at which time a loss occured. Itwill simply print out the results when the test has been finished. I need something well more accurate that can also tell me which hop is causing theproblems. Last I

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Hm, I would rather do this globally but maybe this is the way to go... Geo-aggregation is something that stands its best chance of being implemented locally: - the 'players' involved will be fewer - requirements for a workable policy will be

announcement: reporting and mitigating malicious websites and phishing

2006-03-07 Thread Gadi Evron
On the public botnets mailing list, there have been quite a few off topic reports of Malicious Websites. Sites holding malware, malicious code, drive-by installs, phishing sites, etc. The botnets list is of high traffic while it is busy figuring itself out. We expected this might happen,

RE: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread Tony Hain
Paul Jakma wrote: On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Hm, I would rather do this globally but maybe this is the way to go... Geo-aggregation is something that stands its best chance of being implemented locally: While I agree that any aggregation would happen locally, the

RE: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Tony Hain wrote: While I agree that any aggregation would happen locally, the overall allocation policy for a consistent geo approach needs to be done globally. Ideally, yes. Failling that, it's still possible for it to be done unilaterally at a regional level, there

Re: Honest Cogent opinions without rhetoric.

2006-03-07 Thread alex
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Martin Hannigan wrote: I am looking for user experiences for people who have purchased transit from cogent in the 300Mbps or up range as far as performance, stability, and any other measurable metric of quality you can come up with. We have heard a

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread Owen DeLong
--On March 7, 2006 1:38:50 PM -0500 John Curran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 1:08 PM -0800 3/6/06, Owen DeLong wrote: I've got no opposition to issuing addresses based on some geotop. design, simply because on the off chance it does provide useful aggregation, why not. OTOH, I haven't seen

Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites

2006-03-07 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:- Mehmet == Mehmet Akcin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I can't blame Italy for trying to enforce their laws, but maybe can give them a better idea. no no, please blame :) Maybe instead of all those ACLs, other type of Blocks, DNS removals,etc.. Governments should more go