Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-05 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
and Sprint basically). There is no route filtering going on, only the lack of full propagation due to transit purchasing decisions, or in this case the lack thereof. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-05 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
judicial, regulatory, or law making body steps and makes them. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-05 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
desperation depeering (brandish the sword and see who is willing to pay you money to leave them alone), and historically is an indication of serious financial problems in the very near future. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-05 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
you're going to see a dime or make them stop under the terms of your contract. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-05 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
when has honesty ever been a part of marketing? -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-05 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
money for them to buy transit to L3 when L3 wants to depeer them. That is why smart people who use Cogent multihome. Anyone who doesn't understand this is not understanding the simple economic realities of the product they are buying. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-05 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
highly recommend reading their posts before jumping to any conclusions that the way you see peering as a small network operator has ANY relationship to the way a large network operator has to see it. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID

Dep(3)(3)ring

2005-09-27 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
Since it hasn't hit nanog yet, I guess I'll go ahead and go ahead and be the first to point it out. It seems that Level 3 (3356) and XO (2828) are no longer carrying each other's routes. :) And just when I was about to release http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras/failure.jpg :) -- Richard

Re: 209.68.1.140 (209.68.1.0 /24) blocked by bellsouth.net for SMTP

2005-09-26 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
? -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Hope this isnt a redundant question : Cisco IOS Netflow analysis mechanisms?

2005-09-26 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
going to be releasing some code that lets you use netflow to engage in more intelligent peering and transit capacity planning. If you just want to know where is my traffic going right now, use flow-tools. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID

Re: Hurricane Rita targeting Texas Gulf Coast

2005-09-21 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, it looks like traffic from Atlanta and further north would go directly in to Dallas as a primary path. http://www.level3.com/userimages/DotCom/en_US/images/ir_full.jpg -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF

Re: PBR needing to hit the cpu?

2005-09-18 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
of performance as regular IP routing. Most vendors make a product that fits into each category. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry

2005-09-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. Anything else requires a call to a rep and establishing a relationship. Same concept really, they only list retail pricing for low-end products. Anything bigger, and you need to talk to a rep who is trained in maximum extraction. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e

Re: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry

2005-09-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
they just funded your better deal. And if you have any doubt about who has and who hasn't mastered the art of maximum extraction in the name of profit, compare: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cf?s=CSCO vs http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cf?s=LVLT -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: cogent and level3

2005-09-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, send the traceroute to customer support and tell them to get it fixed. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: 12/8 problems?

2005-09-12 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 06:15:38AM -0700, Eric Louie wrote: FYI, happened again this morning for (at least) 12/8 duration approx 30 minutes starting at 5:45 AM PDT. Notice that ATT is no longer taking chances, and is announcing 2 /9s. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-11 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, but at least the current system will keep scaling for quite a while. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-11 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 09:51:47AM -0700, David Conrad wrote: Hi, On Sep 11, 2005, at 12:52 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: This says that although there are 170k prefixes on the Internet, there are only 20k entities who actually need to announce IP space. There is only one

Re: 12/8 problems?

2005-09-09 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
and Sprint have a lot to answer for right about now. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: 12/8 problems?

2005-09-09 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 11:25:25AM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: Looks like 12956 is announcing some /8s to every peer and transit. Worse still, Sprint and GX are propagating it. This is not the first time that Telefonica has leaked a lot of garbage routes with serious network impact

Re: 12/8 problems?

2005-09-09 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
says someone forgot ip classless. $20 says this devolves into a discussion about pgp key signed bgp announcements or some other impractical soapbox within less than 10 emails. :) Now if only they made no ip clueless. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras

Re: Katrina impact on US internet backbone -- analysis

2005-09-04 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
explain why we've heard so little about non-regional impact for the majority of users. Anyone want to take a stab as to what vendor the Internet2 guys are using? -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41

Re: Phone networks struggle in Hurricane Katrina's wake

2005-08-30 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
This stuff doesn't even come close to being NANOG worthy, let alone on-topic or appropriate. Note: nothing personal to those being quoted. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Phone networks struggle in Hurricane Katrina's wake

2005-08-30 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
its place, that is why people read Slashdot and watch the news, but replacing an operational mailing list with the slashdot commentary section and seeing what happens is not my or anyone else's idea of a good time. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras

Re: Katrina could inundate New Orleans

2005-08-29 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, which a lot of people do. Of course if you don't (for example: http://www.cogentco.com/htdocs/map.php), the only way you're going west is through NYC/Boston. Expect a bad day in terms of latency if that happens. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG

Re: Order of ASes in the BGP Path

2005-08-29 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
abuse tracking/reporting. Basically you'd be making a general pain in the ass out of yourself, so hopefully you have a damn good reason for it. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1

Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays

2005-08-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
backbone network. Of course, your congested cable modem with 30ms of jitter even during normal operation trying to get to you from down the street doesn't fit the same model. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F

Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays

2005-08-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
the flow control mechanisms of the higher level protocols (like TCP) to slow down. Plenty of folks who enjoy math have done lots of research on the subject, and there are lots of pretty graphs out there. Perhaps someone will come up with a link to one. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL

Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays

2005-08-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
than networks who have capacity. But @#$% does happen even to the best of us, my take is that there is no point being so macho about it that you won't use a little technology to reduce the pain when it does happen. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG

Re: Question about propagation and queuing delays

2005-08-21 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
be absurd. Ironically, the cost of linking the different carriers who are in different buildings within the same metro area in all the cities necessary is probably right up there with the cost of the longhaul itself. :) Bottom line about latency, gamers don't pay the bills. -- Richard

Re: centrist...

2005-08-19 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
numbers. Are you stupider than a monkey? - Simpsons If that doesn't summarize this argument, and this thread, I don't know what will. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls

2005-08-18 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
liable for other people's fraud? Sounds like a disclaimer requirement to me, nothing related to fraud just good business practice. You must be confusing this with exotic 900# and international locations which are used to scam people. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e

Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls

2005-08-18 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. I'm not sure which part of this seems to have nothing to do with toll scams wasn't clear the first time around, but this response still seems to have no basis given the facts... -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204

Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls

2005-08-18 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 04:05:30AM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: Sounds like the standard notice that all reputable ISPs are probably already giving. Given the very real potential for grandma and grandpa to pick a number off a list which

Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls

2005-08-18 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 04:19:25AM -0400, Eric A. Hall wrote: On 8/18/2005 3:54 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: I'm not sure which part of this seems to have nothing to do with toll scams wasn't clear the first time around, but this response still seems to have no basis given

Re: Operational: Wiltel Peering with MCI problems around D.C

2005-08-18 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
on the phone until they address the problem. If not, take a stab at it that WCG is the most interested party in getting it fixed, and try nagging them some more. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA

Re: botnet reporting by AS - what about you?

2005-08-12 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
their customers. We have far too many people who sit around wringing their hands about how horrible the botnets are, but who won't tell anyone who can do anything about it out of a paranoid sense of security. I'm not sure this is the best way to go about that though. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL

Re: ... with a hint of citrus ...

2005-08-11 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
? -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: fcc ruling on dsl providers' access to infrastructure

2005-08-07 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: OT: Cisco.com password reset.

2005-08-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
talking about, and the higher number of 1.5m). Perhaps Cisco should hire some spammers to consult for them. Those folks certainly don't seem to have a ~7-8 mail/sec limitation. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204

Re: Problems at Microsoft?

2005-08-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
be switching back to Akamai soon. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Problems at Microsoft?

2005-08-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
for Savvis and/or MS to get their act together. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: MCI billing fraud ... again

2005-07-23 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. :) Seems to happen a LOT in this industry, across many vendors, but some more often than others. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Anyone seeing issues in the Sprint Network?

2005-07-13 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
part of this made you think that this was a Sprint problem and not Yahoo's side of a Sprint transit demarc, most likely with a default route kicking things back to the Sprint transit interface? Or what made you think that this needed to go to NANOG? -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Equinox Power Failure

2005-06-30 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, and actually delivered on SLA credits much faster than other colos in similar situations. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Equinix Chicago Power Outage

2005-06-25 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
on the incident: http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/local/11981877.htm -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: GBLX congestion in Dallas area

2005-06-07 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
are for, but since there is nothing they can do to splice it any faster, I'm going to recommend a healthy dose of suck it up and deal. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: GBLX congestion in Dallas area

2005-06-07 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
of communication. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: DOS attack tracing

2005-05-09 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
are you routing, what kind of interfaces and how many, basic things like that. Without details, the best that you're likely to get (now that Dean is gone :P) is something akin to go buy a volvo, namely go buy a Juniper. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras

Re: On the-record - another off-topic post

2005-05-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
and that the process is unfair. If everyone would please make the effort to not respond to the blatant personal attacks, no matter how justified the response may be, it will help the process along. In the end this is the important part of not feeding the trolls. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Slashdot: Providers Ignoring DNS TTL?

2005-05-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
with this, nor are my customers or the vast majority of other Internet users. Therefore, if vendors want to design a product that end-run the problem by maintaining packet ordering when they load balance, good for them. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG

Re: SMTP AUTH

2005-05-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
mail: see transcript for details The original message was received at Sun, 1 May 2005 23:29:56 -0400 from dakota.av8.net [130.105.19.131] Just be glad no one has set up a net kook DNSBL yet. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC

Re: OC3 to Gig-E conversion

2005-04-29 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 01:45:24AM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 05:20:21PM -0400, Peering wrote: All, Is there something out there (other than a router) that will convert

Re: PAIX Outages

2005-04-28 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, if they keep this up their are going to need to change their name to Switch or Data. Oh well, at least this didn't happen during the SD sponsored NANOG. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA

Re: PAIX Outages

2005-04-28 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 02:11:40PM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 01:51:54PM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: Personally I tend to suspect the general lack of uproar is a rather unfortunate (for them) sign that PAIX is no longer relevant when

Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent

2005-04-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
; fraud; cunning. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent

2005-04-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
during depeering. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent

2005-04-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
really hasn't been paying attention. What remains to be seen from all of this is who blinks first, if anyone else jumps in at the same time, and if any of it changes anything in the marketplace. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC

Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent

2005-04-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
disgruntled customers from both sides. Either side could end the lack of connectivity if they wanted, yet they both clearly see business reasons not to do so. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41

Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent

2005-04-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
it depends how important I am, doesn't it? If I may, you sound like someone whom FT has depeered in the past? :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-11 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. This rant has gotten off topic and out of hand even for the zero censorship crowd. Thanks. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: T1 vs. T2 [WAS: Apology: [Tier-2 reachability and multihoming]]

2005-03-29 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: T1 vs. T2 [WAS: Apology: [Tier-2 reachability and multihoming]]

2005-03-28 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
that someone peers with? Patrick? :) Somehow I suspect that 701's customer base (702 and 703 aren't included in the above count BTW) overpower even the most aggressively open of peering policies, in this particular random pointless and arbitrary contest at any rate. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL

Re: Blackhole Routes

2004-10-02 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
decisions. However, based on the knowledge that a blackhole community route is no different than a regular route in its ability to cause unreachability if incorrectly announced, I would tend to suspect that most people would choose to allow this to be propagated globally. -- Richard

Re: Blackhole Routes

2004-09-30 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
already will someone please get this put into a draft already. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Blackhole Routes

2004-09-30 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
by prefix length, etc. There would still remain a clear role for no-export and more specifics upto /32 between networks who have negotiated this relationship, but there absolutely no reason you couldn't and shouldn't have global blackholes available as well. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL

Re: AS22534 Leaking, anybody alive their?

2004-09-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
: 64.12.0.0/16 (AOL) 6461 22534 3356 1668 8176 I MFN in turn seems to be leaking it to all (or atleast most) peers. This is actually the 2nd major leak from MFN in the past couple of days. It would be nice if they would knock it off. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: optics pricing (Re: Weird GigE Media Converter Behavior)

2004-08-28 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
into paying absurd markup for their optics, intentionally designing interfaces with fixed optics so that you have to purchase more cards than you might actually need in order to have the necessary optics, etc. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key

Re: filtering 1918 (was Re: Summary with...: Domain Name System ...)

2004-08-18 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
that you, as a root server operator, can't just suck it up and deal? Sure there are going to be a few folks who are misconfigured, but I can't imagine that it is enough to cause operational issues. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC

Re: filtering 1918 (was Re: Summary with...: Domain Name System ...)

2004-08-18 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 02:18:32PM -0700, David A. Ulevitch wrote: quote who=Richard A Steenbergen Is it really enough traffic that you, as a root server operator, can't just suck it up and deal? Sure there are going to be a few folks who are misconfigured, but I can't imagine

Re: filtering 1918 (was Re: Summary with...: Domain Name System ...)

2004-08-18 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
aggregation boxes which still don't support uRPF. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: SYN flood atacks?

2004-08-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
be a conspiracy. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Crackdowns don't slow Internet piracy

2004-07-15 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
it. You can't have it both ways. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-12 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
-Name:HyperSpace Communications network:Street-Address: 74 West Street network:City:Waltham network:State:MA network:Postal-Code:02451 network:Country-Code:US network:Tech-Contact:ZC108-ARIN -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F

Re: South Florida IXes

2004-07-06 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
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Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
different folks with public GigE exchange ports sitting at 920-960Mbps peak *RIGHT NOW*. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 08:28:50AM -0400, ren wrote: At 02:07 AM 7/3/2004 -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: b) The price being charged for the public exchange ports is non-trivial (especially compared to the cost of transit these days!), and is billed on a port basis instead

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
), not the hardware. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
in connecting with the smaller guys will go ahead and pay for it. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: ARIN Comment

2004-07-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
deserve any less consideration. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Peering point speed publicly available?

2004-07-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
interface, probably Cisco, and the IR designation on XO indicates a peering router. Educated hunch based on what the traffic levels between 3549 and 2828 in Seattle probably are... OC3? -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59

Who broke .org?

2004-07-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
I guess I'll ask first... -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Peering point speed publicly available?

2004-07-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
routing it through an unused 10Mbps ethernet or unused OC-192. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Peering point speed publicly available?

2004-07-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
- they sometimes provoke huge fights even within providers. Sounds like a NANOG talk presentation to me. I love a good debate between airport codes and clli codes (not!). :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF

Re: Can a Customer take their IP's with them? (Court says yes!)

2004-06-29 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
/ -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Can a Customer take their IP's with them? (Court says yes!)

2004-06-29 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
Superior Court, where I no longer have easy access to the documents. I would be happy to take offline submissions of the legal filings from anyone willing to waste more on this than the $0.07/page that PACER charges. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG

Re: Can a Customer take their IP's with them? (Court says yes!)

2004-06-29 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
can whine about the routing table, go right ahead. And you wonder why judges don't listen to engineers some days. Sheesh. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: (UPDATE) Can a Customer take their IP's with them? (Court says yes!)

2004-06-29 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
something in this that I am not? -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: The use of .0/.255 addresses.

2004-06-26 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
control the ignorant population: whenever you hear someone say class [ABC] in reference to anything other than a historical allocation, smack them. Hard. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1

Re: Interesting Occurrence

2004-06-21 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
vulnerability that has not been publicly released? Any clues? Dare I ask, what part of North American Network Operators Group made you think that this could POSSIBLY be on-topic or of interest to anyone here? -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID

Re: Real-Time Mitigation of Denial of Service Attacks Now Available With ATT

2004-06-02 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
border capacity, you may never see the gigabits of src bogons, protocol 0 or 255, port 0, 40 byte syns w/no MSS option, etc, and assume that these attacks are out of style because the only ones that get through are the WinXP MSS+SACK unforged drone SYNs. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Real-Time Mitigation of Denial of Service Attacks Now Available With ATT

2004-06-02 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 11:39:39AM -0600, Danny McPherson wrote: On Jun 2, 2004, at 10:56 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: What people may being seeing is that poorly randomized source attacks are being automatically filtered by uRPF loose or other means before they ever reach

Re: issues with AOL Time Warner

2004-05-21 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:08:22PM -0700, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: I've been noting considerable problems traversing through atdn.net backbone this afternoon from the west coast... This is what happens when Vijay has nothing to present at nanog... Next stop, the apocalypse. -- Richard

Massive stupidity (Was: Re: TCP vulnerability)

2004-04-20 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, rather than run around trying to set up MD5 with every peer. As a long term improvement, a random ephemeral port selection process could be used. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Xspedius / E.Spire as wellRe: Winstar says there is no TCP/BGP vulnerability

2004-04-20 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
in something other than ram) or following an MD5 key mismatch for whatever reason. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: UUNet-Teleglobe

2004-03-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
.HongKong.Teleglobe.net (64.86.80.129) 352 ms (ttl=240!) 353 ms (ttl=240!) 352 ms (ttl=240!) Happy traceroute engineering. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: Compromised Hosts?

2004-03-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
... :) Bottom line, it is remarkably difficult to take action based on random internet complaints. If there is a well known authoritive source for DoS tracking who wants to publish a list to ISP's fine, but don't expect the same reaction to random joe blow complainer. -- Richard A Steenbergen

Re: Personal Co-location Registry

2004-03-20 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, the logistics can be decent too. It's unfortunate that BayTech's pinout for serial console stuff is only slightly less evil than satan, but their power systems are nice. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C

Re: 2001:590::/32 announced by both AS4436 (nLayer) and AS4474 (Global Village, no contact in whois, but seems to be nLayer...)

2004-03-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
in the appearence of inconsistant origin ASs on locally originated routes. Who would have thought local-as would bring down the wrath of the net k00ks. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)

Re: 2001:590::/32 announced by both AS4436 (nLayer) and AS4474 (Global Village, no contact in whois, but seems to be nLayer...)

2004-03-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
peers to depeer someone because of an inconsistant origin AS caused by the use of local-as. Actions like that (and these for that matter) tend to get one branded a net kook... And feedings the kooks is never productive. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net

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