GTLD inconsistency, was: Re: AAAAs in the Root and /48 Filtering

2008-02-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 1 feb 2008, at 20:22, Scalzo, Frank wrote: If you are having IPv6 reachability problems to the V6 IP addresses for a.root-servers.net and j.root-servers.net (2001:503:BA3e::2:30 and 2001:503:C27::2:30) please feel free to contact us. We may be able to assist in getting filters updated or

FW: [menog] FLAG Cable Cut - Update

2008-02-05 Thread Barry Greene (bgreene)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Reposted with author's permission.] + Notice that there are more issues than what is reported in the popular press. + Notice that there are issues with more submarine systems (APCN), but they are not news. As has been pointed out before, there

named.root (was: Yay! AAAA records added for root servers)

2008-02-05 Thread David Freedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shame its not made it to HTTP yet: $ lynx --source http://www.internic.net/zones/named.root | grep A | wc -l ~ 17 $ lynx --source http://www.internic.net/zones/named.root | grep | wc -l ~ 0 $ lynx --source

Re: named.root (was: Yay! AAAA records added for root servers)

2008-02-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 12:25:52PM +, David Freedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 114 lines which said: Shame its not made it to HTTP yet: Nothing to do with the protocol but with the organization which manages the server: $ lynx --source

Re: named.root

2008-02-05 Thread David Freedman
Well gosh, and there was me thinking that both would work together to make such a change :) And there is http://www.root-servers.org/ suggesting The root hints file (named.cache, root.ca, root.hints, ...) can be obtained via IANA's page for popular links (http://www.iana.org/popular.htm)

Re: named.root

2008-02-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 02:31:09PM +, David Freedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 33 lines which said: Well gosh, and there was me thinking that both would work together to make such a change :) ICANN is typically 2-3 days behind the root zone file editor.

No GTLD inconsistency (was Re: GTLD inconsistency, was: Re: AAAAs in the Root and /48 Filtering)

2008-02-05 Thread Larson, Matt
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: # dig @h.root-servers.net GTLD-SERVERS.net. ns [The expected response to this query--a normal referral to .net name servers--omitted for brevity] However, I'm thinking this is the reason why BIND isn't using that glue: # dig

Re: named.root (was: Yay! AAAA records added for root servers)

2008-02-05 Thread David Conrad
Hi, There is a nightly cron job on ftp.internic.net that mirrors ftp.rs.internic.net. Said cron job was failing, likely due to the maximum number of connections limit being reached on ftp.rs.internic.net. Folks at VeriSign said they would be temporarily raising said limit. You will note that

Re: named.root

2008-02-05 Thread David Conrad
Hi, In the case of root zone file edits, IANA does not post completion until we are notified by VeriSign that the change is complete. This typically lags a few days from when the change actually enters the zone file. This is an issue we have raised with VeriSign on several occasions and should

RE: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

2008-02-05 Thread Frank Coluccio
Today's MIT Technology Review newsletter contains an article by John Borland, aided in large part by Tim Strong of Telegeography Research, covering the recent spate of submarine cable failures in the ME: Analyzing the Internet Collapse By John Borland | Feb 5, 2008 MIT Technology Review

Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

2008-02-05 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:11:13 -0600 Frank Coluccio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today's MIT Technology Review newsletter contains an article by John Borland, aided in large part by Tim Strong of Telegeography Research, covering the recent spate of submarine cable failures in the ME: Analyzing

RE: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

2008-02-05 Thread Rod Beck
There is an important point to make here. The word 'cut' is misleading as it suggests that someone cut it. The correct terminology is 'non-operational cable'. Shakespeare faces no competition from my industry ... Most cable failures occur when deep ocean currents rub the cable against rocks

Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

2008-02-05 Thread ' =JeffH '
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: A few afterthoughts after receiving a number of offlist mailings responding to my earlier post of yesterday concerning the naval submarine, Jimmy Carter I will have to read up on that boat. apropos this subthread, I recommend these two books (I've read both) that

Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

2008-02-05 Thread Randy Bush
Analyzing the Internet Collapse analysing press sensationalist hyperbole http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20152/?nlid=854 not bad. but no new insight and facts differ from other reports (marsailles). randy

Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

2008-02-05 Thread Hascall Sharp
For Lebanon: Here is the MPT's web site on submarine cables: http://www.mpt.gov.lb/berytar.htm It has links to aletar and cadmos as well. Chip Sharp Marshall Eubanks wrote: Dear Sean; Do you know how Syria, Jordan and Lebanon get their connectivity ? They have dropped off the map today

FW: Jeanette Symons Memorial Service

2008-02-05 Thread John Lee
Sent: Tue 2/5/2008 2:49 PM To: John Lee Subject: Jeanette Symons Hi John, You may remember me. I am Sasha Match. Steve Speckenbach was my late husband. I saw your posting online about Jeanette's death and several people were requesting information

Re: FW: Jeanette Symons Memorial Service

2008-02-05 Thread Martin Hannigan
John, I am sorry for your loss. I hope that you are doing well with this. I would like to ask that we take this off the NANOG list. I think that it would be much more suitable for a blog or a website where people can interact if they choose. I would appreciate your cooperation. Best Regards,

Re: FW: Jeanette Symons Memorial Service

2008-02-05 Thread Martin Hannigan
Obviously, this was meant to be a private communication. My apologies for cc'ing the nanog list, it was intended to follow the admins procedure and go to nanog admins and respect the feelings of the poster. Best Regards, Martin On Feb 5, 2008 9:10 PM, Martin Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Repotting report

2008-02-05 Thread Mark Andrews
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: On Feb 5, 2008 2:10 AM, Pekka Savola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Leo Bicknell wrote: may try dig any . @[a-m].root-servers.net. When I do that, I get the following response: a, c, d e, f, g, i and j return 1 SOA, 8 A, and 3

Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

2008-02-05 Thread George William Herbert
An interesting line from page 10 of the article: Diversity is not needed in the deep ocean, but land crossings are viewed as considerably more risky. This philosophy should probably be rethought somewhat, as we may have discovered this past week. All the recent cuts were littoral, near

Re: Repotting report

2008-02-05 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Feb 6, 2008 12:11 AM, Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (from me) How does a cache-resolver know that it's time to issue a query with edns0? cache-resolver that support EDNS0 will make EDNS0 queries by default. They will fallback to plain DNS if the query

Re: Repotting report

2008-02-05 Thread Mark Andrews
On Feb 6, 2008 12:11 AM, Mark Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (from me) How does a cache-resolver know that it's time to issue a query with edns0? cache-resolver that support EDNS0 will make EDNS0 queries by default. They will fallback to plain DNS if the query

Route Reflector full mesh

2008-02-05 Thread Adhy
Hi list, Is it possible to prove that if we have 3 RRs with each has different cluster ID and each pointing to each other may create loop ? What I've been doing is to simulate (not simulate by doing it on simulator, but by drawing it on visio) BGP update mesg if the update comes from eBGP then