Re: Calling TeliaSonera - time to implement prefix filtering

2008-04-15 Thread James Blessing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're currently receiving the following prefix from TeliaSonera on one of our IP transit links in Oslo: aut-num:AS29049 as-name:Delta-Telecom-AS descr: Delta Telecom LTD. descr: International Communication Operator descr:

BGP Communities

2007-11-18 Thread James Blessing
Hi, Following up on the thread about BGP communities, I was wondering if there is a guide on how to actually implement communities within a network... There are a couple of presentations about why communities are good and about the general design of communities but my googlefu has so far not

Re: BGP Communities

2007-11-18 Thread James Blessing
Robert Baxter wrote: This may be of use to you. http://www.secsup.org/Tracking/ Thanks, should have been more specific, its more a case of being able to give traffic engineering like the ones listed on http://www.onesc.net/communities/ J -- COO Entanet International T: 0870 770 9580 W:

Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?

2007-10-23 Thread James Blessing
Joe Provo wrote: A provider-hosted solution which managed to transparently handle this across multiple clients and trackers would likely be popular with the end users. but not with the rights holders... J -- COO Entanet International T: 0870 770 9580 W: http://www.enta.net/ L:

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-05 Thread James Blessing
Hex Star wrote: Why is it that the US has ISP's with either no quotas or obscenely high ones while countries like Australia have ISP's with ~12gb quotas? Is there some kind of added cost running a non US ISP? In the UK there is a very good reason - BT, see this write up:

Re: shameful-cabling gallery of infamy - does anybody know where

2007-09-10 Thread James Blessing
Alexander Harrowell wrote: Our Internet service is in the toilet again! Yes, that's where we installed it.. http://www.computing.co.uk/vnunet/news/2196948/university-taps-sewers-internet -- COO Entanet International T: 0870 770 9580 W: http://www.enta.net/ L: http://tinyurl.com/3bxqez

Network Level Content Blocking (UK)

2007-06-07 Thread James Blessing
Hi all, Sorry for the cross posting to a number of lists but this is an important topic for many of you (especially if you get multiple copies). As many people are aware there is an 'expectation' that 'consumer' broadband providers introduce network level content blocking for specified content

Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK)

2007-06-07 Thread James Blessing
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: [trimmed other lists, not sure if they'd appreciate nanog volumes] On 7-jun-2007, at 11:06, James Blessing wrote: As many people are aware there is an 'expectation' that 'consumer' broadband providers introduce network level content blocking for specified

Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK)

2007-06-07 Thread James Blessing
Joe Abley wrote: Anyway, how does BT's cleanfeed work? How are British 3G operators doing equivalent blocking? I'd be interested in learning about the implementation. There is an excellent paper on the failures of clean feed here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/cleanfeed.pdf J -- COO

Re: How many others are nullrouting BT?

2007-05-14 Thread James Blessing
Jo Rhett wrote: We've long been aware that BT *never* deals with spammers or DoS attacks that originate from their network, but a new issue has come to light. BT has a number of users who are apparently testing out stolen credit card numbers from their network against stores of all

Re: IP Block 99/8

2007-04-23 Thread James Blessing
Shai Balasingham wrote: We recently started to assign these blocks. So all the ranges are not assigned yet. Following are some... 99.245.135.129 99.246.224.1 99.244.192.1 All reachable from here (as8468) J -- COO Entanet International T: 0870 770 9580 W: http://www.enta.net/ L:

Re: 96.2.0.0/16 Bogons

2007-02-26 Thread James Blessing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Ortega wrote: I am a network engineer for Midcontinent Communications We are an ISP in the American Midwest. Recently, we were allocated a new network assignment: 96.2.0.0/16. We've been having major issues with sites still blocking this

Re: RPSL question

2007-02-17 Thread James Blessing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Voellmy wrote: I'm trying to learn about BGP and just ran across RPSL. I've seen www.radb.net http://www.radb.net and know that lots of people are registering their policies here. Are organizations also using these RPSL policies to

Re: botnets: web servers, end-systems and Vint Cerf

2007-02-16 Thread James Blessing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You misunderstand. The problem of securing machines *IS* solved. It is possible. It is regularly done with servers connected to the Internet. There is no *COMPUTING* problem or technical problem. True *BUT* (and this is

Re: Birmingham UK colocation

2007-01-30 Thread James Blessing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Gristina wrote: I have two racks in London UK. The colocation is currently in London. The contract is up soon and most of the feet on the ground in the UK of the company is in the greater Birmingham area. So I'm interested in colocating

Quick BGP peering question

2007-01-03 Thread James Blessing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Very simply : Would you accept traffic from a customer who insists on sending 0 prefixes across a BGP session? J - -- COO Entanet International T: 0870 770 9580 http://www.enta.net/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32)

Re: Quick BGP peering question

2007-01-03 Thread James Blessing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil J. McRae wrote: are you advertising them routes? If so then why wouldn't you expect traffic? -Original Message- Very simply : Would you accept traffic from a customer who insists on sending 0 prefixes across a BGP session?

Re: today's Wash Post Business section

2006-12-21 Thread James Blessing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Edward Lewis wrote: Yeah, granted anyone looking for myspace might meet that demographic, but how many neophytes would use Google for a IP Who Is search? That's the listing I thought odd. Having looked at the article isn't this a case of someone

Re: OT: How to stop UltraDNS sales people calling

2006-11-28 Thread James Blessing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Lyons wrote: Get the guys direct number and start calling him all day. Direct marketers/debt collectors really hate it when you call them at work and bug them.. :) Or give them a premium rate number that they can call that goes to permanent

Re: OT: How to stop UltraDNS sales people calling

2006-11-28 Thread James Blessing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Levine wrote: He told me he would still calling until he got through to the right person. I am the right person. Next time, try asking for the name and phone number of his boss, so you can call and report what an excellent job he's doing.

Re: ams-ix - worth using?

2006-08-24 Thread James Blessing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 matthew zeier wrote: Does it simply provide an easy way to privately connect to transit and peers? Or can I also go crazy and peer with anyone who wants to peer (like in the olden day!) ? EU peering is very different from US peering (as many