AS7018 (ATT) bgp contact needed

2008-03-21 Thread Kevin Loch
Could someone from AS7018 (AT&T) please contact me about a route you are originating that is hijacking/blackholing traffic? The route is: 66.235.248.0/22 - Kevin

Re: request for help w/ ATT and terminology

2008-01-16 Thread Kevin Loch
Mike Donahue wrote: Hi. I'm by no means an ip/networking expert, and we're having some difficulty communicating with the boffins at AT&T. Any input/advice/translation would be appreciated. We own our own class C netblock. Our previous provider, Sprint, had no problem "adding" it to their net

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-24 Thread Kevin Loch
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 24 dec 2007, at 20:00, Kevin Loch wrote: RA/Autoconf won't work at all for some folks with deployed server infra, That's just IPv4 uptightness. As long as you don't change your MAC address you'll get the same IPv6 address every time,

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-24 Thread Kevin Loch
Christopher Morrow wrote: RA/Autoconf won't work at all for some folks with deployed server infra, all they want is a method to get a static addr on a box and route properly. Perhaps RA gets them the 'route properly' part easily enough but I can imagine places where that is even turned off. I

Re: Route table growth and hardware limits...talk to the filter

2007-09-10 Thread Kevin Loch
Stephen Sprunk wrote: Sucks to be them. If they do not have enough PA space to meet the RIR minima, the community has decided they're not "worthy" of a slot in the DFZ by denying them PI space. Not true, there is an ARIN policy that allows you to get a /24 from one of your providers even if

Re: TCP congestion

2007-07-12 Thread Kevin Loch
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: How exactly are you going to get out-of-order packets over a single link? There is a once popular router that has been known to do that in some configurations due to multiple paths within the device. - Kevin

Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering...

2006-10-09 Thread Kevin Loch
Randy Bush wrote: - 'Canonical representation of 4-byte AS numbers ' as an Informational RFC and what is good or bad about this representation? seems simple to me. and having one notation seems reasonable. what am i missing? Using '.' as a delimiter will be somewhat annoying when

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin Loch
Kevin Day wrote: If you include "Web hosting company" in your definition of ISP, that's not true. Unless you're providing connectivity to 200 or more networks, you can't get a /32. If all of your use is internal(fully managed hosting) or aren't selling leased lines or anything, you are not

Re: do bogon filters still help?

2006-01-12 Thread Kevin Loch
Florian Weimer wrote: * Pim van Pelt: Hi, here's a member of 'the folks at bit.nl'. Just a quick note to say that we have been sourcing IPv4 packets from 192.88.99.1 at a rate of 2.000 to 10.000 packets per second since early 2003, so I'm guessing we have sent some 750.000 billion packets by

Re: Deploying IPv6 in a datacenter (Was: Awful quiet?)

2005-12-21 Thread Kevin Loch
Kevin Day wrote: We wouldn't have met the proposed 2005-1 requirements for a /44 (we don't come close to 100,000 devices), and lose functionality if we're required to advertise it through a single aggregated address. The high requirements of the "current" 2005-1 were so thoroughly rejected

Re: Deploying IPv6 in a datacenter (Was: Awful quiet?)

2005-12-21 Thread Kevin Loch
Kevin Day wrote: 9) Once we started publishing records for a few sites, we started getting complaints from some users that they couldn't reach the sites. It is possible that a broken 6to4 relay somewhere was causing problems. Running your own local 6to4 relay (rfc3068) will improve perf

Re: a record?

2005-11-14 Thread Kevin Loch
Jeroen Massar wrote: Enjoy scanning, even I and I guess the rest of this list will be long time retired and sipping pina coladas and other good stuff (hot chocolate milk with whipcream and baileys anyone? :) in hawaii or some other heavenly place the day that the hardware and pipes are available

Re: classful routes redux

2005-11-02 Thread Kevin Loch
Bill Woodcock wrote: On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Fred Baker wrote: > While I think /32, /48, /56, and /64 are reasonable prefix lengths > for what they are proposed for, I have this feeling of early > fossilization when it doesn't necessarily make sense. Yeah, that's what seems imp

Re: IPv6 daydreams

2005-10-17 Thread Kevin Loch
Mark Smith wrote: We didn't get 48 bits because we needed them (although convenience is a need, if it wasn't we'd still be hand winding our car engines to start them ). We got them because it made doing other things much easier, such as (near) guarantees of world wide unique NIC addresses, allow

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-17 Thread Kevin Loch
Paul Jakma wrote: And 6to4 obviously won't fly for long after the 4 tank runs dry. Hopefully it won't need to at that point as it is only intended as a transitional step. I like the simplicity of 6to4 and the way it preserves end-to-end addresses. If only there was a way to adapt it's stat

Re: IPv6 and BGP

2005-10-13 Thread Kevin Loch
Mike Hyde wrote: On the subject of ipv6, is there currently any way to multi-home with IPv6 yet? There has always been a way to multihome in IPv6. Announce a prefix to two or more providers. As with IPv4, YMMV. There is a proposal to allow direct IPv6 end site assignments that will be con

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-12 Thread Kevin Loch
Randy Bush wrote: and don't you just love the suggestions of natting v6? No, but I would like to see consumer routers support rfc3068 (automatic 6to4 tunneling) by default when there is no native IPv6 access service. If we could convince manufacturers that rfc3068 is "NAT" for ipv6 they'll pr

Re: Level 3's side of the story

2005-10-07 Thread Kevin Loch
Richard A Steenbergen wrote: Certainly these are high-margin but low-bandwidth customers, maybe with enough complaints Cogent will be willing to stick them on a smaller seperate ASN which is willing to buy transit. Does anyone have reachability data for c-root during this episode? I wonder i

Re: IPv6 Address Planning

2005-08-10 Thread Kevin Loch
Roy Badami wrote: And on that vein perhaps it's prudent for people using network prefixes longer than /64 to take care to ensure that the bit positions in the IPv6 address that should correspond to the u and g bits in the modified EUI-64 interface ID (according to RFC 3513) are both set to Is

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-06-30 Thread Kevin Loch
Todd Underwood wrote: where is the service that is available only on IPv6? i can't seem to find it. A better question would be "What services does the competition offer via IPv6?" If the answer is "none" then how long will that situation last? What point along the adoption curve do you want

Re: Problems with NS*.worldnic.com

2005-04-26 Thread Kevin Loch
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: I'd say fix the resolver to not try resolve v6 where there exists no v6 connectivity I'd say fix the broken v6 connectivity. - Kevin

Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]

2004-11-21 Thread Kevin Loch
Paul Vixie wrote: But to consider a /40 minimum allocation size, you'd be saying that you thought a table containing O(1e12) discrete destinations Except that we are talking about allocations out of 2001::/16 which yeilds a about 1e7 prefixes, not subtracting the huge chunks taken by /32 allocatio

Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]

2004-11-20 Thread Kevin Loch
to those who need it the most. -- Kevin Loch

Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]

2004-11-19 Thread Kevin Loch
o. I don't think we are going to find a "one size fits all" solution to IPv6 multihoming. As for renumbering, we all know that will be solved by some form of address translation (like it or not). -- Kevin Loch

Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]

2004-11-19 Thread Kevin Loch
iated (off-list). -- Kevin Loch

Re: Stupid Ipv6 question...

2004-11-19 Thread Kevin Loch
4 bit prefixes are the mattress tags of IPv6 interfaces. -- Kevin Loch

Re: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown

2004-01-29 Thread Kevin Loch
Nicole wrote: In the past few days our AOL users have been reporting serious problems Several Brickshelf users have complained about the new "blurry images" problem using AOL. I have not heard any reports of broken images or upload problems yet. Kevin Loch I

Re: NOAA warning for rf communications

2003-10-24 Thread Kevin Loch
The NOAA links seem saturated... http://www.sec.noaa.gov/ I have a Solar Data page here: http://n3kl.org/sun/noaa.html And Solar status monitor images you can deep link on your own page: http://n3kl.org/sun/status.html The above pages poll data from ftp.sec.noaa.gov, which is still available. K

Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread Kevin Loch
"... in an attempt to assert a dubious right to regulate non-registry services." This explains everything. They don't believe the stability of com and net are in any way related to their registry duties. That quote alone should be sufficient to deny them custody of com and net.

Re: Verisign Responds

2003-09-23 Thread Kevin Loch
Daniel Karrenberg wrote: What else does the IETF need to do here? Recognize the legacy status of certain zones and establish strict criteria for making configuration changes to them. This would be in addition to any guidance for all zones with delegations. KL

Are Wildcards another Y2K?

2003-09-21 Thread Kevin Loch
One thing that Y2K taught us was that programmers do some really stupid things with hard coded "this should never occur naturally" values. The year '99' was used to trigger all kinds of interesting things like erasing backup tapes, destroying inventory and worse. It is not implausible that someon

Re: What *are* they smoking?

2003-09-15 Thread Kevin Loch
- Original Message - From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, September 15, 2003 7:34 pm Subject: Re: What *are* they smoking? > > No, it accepts if the from domain exists - but only if it *REALLY* > exists. Anyone want to guess what happens to all those from addr

Re: RPC errors and latest worm

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin Loch
- Original Message - From: Scott Fendley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, August 11, 2003 7:49 pm Subject: Re: RPC errors and latest worm > > " * Close port 135/tcp (and if possible 135-139, 445 and > 593) ". Is there a Windows service that uses port 136, or was it included b

Re: State Super-DMCA Too True

2003-03-30 Thread Kevin Loch
- Original Message - From: William Allen Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, March 30, 2003 9:39 am Subject: Re: State Super-DMCA Too True >(b) Conceal the existence or place of origin or destination of any >telecommunications service. > > [no encryption, no steganography

Re: State Super-DMCA Too True

2003-03-29 Thread Kevin Loch
- Original Message - From: Jack Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, March 30, 2003 0:22 am Subject: Re: State Super-DMCA Too True > > (Some DSL/cable companies try to charge per machine, and record > the > > machine address of the devices connected.) > > And to use NAT to circum

Re: 69/8...this sucks

2003-03-10 Thread Kevin Loch
Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: I repeat my suggestion that a number of DNS root-servers or gtld-servers be renumbered into 69/8 space. If the DNS "breaks" for these neglected networks, I suspect they will quickly get enough clue to fix their ACLs. Nice idea in principal (from a purist point of view) bu

Re: OpenSSH Trojan=tisk tisk

2002-08-01 Thread Kevin Loch
jnull wrote: > > A Sun server as a host for a OpenBSD source is like writing combinations > to a bank vault on the back of your hand. > s/Sun server/university/ They get bonus points for this too: > 220 merlin FTP server (SunOS 4.1) ready. ^^^ KL

Re: operational: icmp echo out of control?

2002-05-28 Thread Kevin Loch
Chris Woodfield wrote: >...the next-best method is to probe HTTP ports, but we don't want to > have to pull down thousands of web pages just to get performance stats. Why not just passively measure the time it takes to send actual traffic to actual clients? It shouldn't take too much talent t

Re: bulk email

2002-04-22 Thread Kevin Loch
Lionel wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:53:58 +0100, James Cronin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > [opt-in bulk email] > >Has anyone ever actually come across such a contract in real life > >or are they just urban myths? > > Urban myth. > If you make damn sure that you clearly mark your bulk

Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre

2002-04-17 Thread Kevin Loch
"Rubens Kuhl Jr." wrote: > > Spread-spectrum radio systems are not that easy to DoS, a good benefit from > the original military applications. Actually, at close range it should be trivial to Dos an 802.11 system. Just throw up a strong enough carrier anywhere within the receivers passband and