Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Jake Khuon
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 07:06 +0100, Serge Radovcic wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5837LcDHfE Excellent production. Sometimes it's hard for those who have been so involved in maintaining the grounds to describe what the forest looks like to common folk. Perhaps as a followup to this

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Jake Khuon wrote: Excellent production. ... but still an advertisement for use of IXPs instead of private peering or alike. I'd say it contains several factual errors or at least omittance of important factors (settlement free peering in other ways than IXPs, for

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Jake Khuon
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 09:55 +0100, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Jake Khuon wrote: Excellent production. ... but still an advertisement for use of IXPs instead of private peering or alike. I'd say it contains several factual errors or at least omittance of important

Re: about udp 80,8080,0

2010-02-10 Thread Truman Boyes
On 10/02/2010, at 5:01 AM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: If you don't need UDP, disallow it to your entire network or to the /xx where such is applicable. We have basic filters like this with our carriers upstream and have prevented several Gbps of traffic from ever hitting our filters as a result.

Re: ip address management

2010-02-10 Thread Phil Regnauld
Mark Scholten (mark) writes: Hello, I am also working on creating a IP address management tool (including changing rDNS), of course it should work with IPv4 and IPv6. If someone is interested in it, please mail me (so I know I have to inform him/her when I release it). If there are certain

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 10, 2010, at 3:55 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Jake Khuon wrote: Excellent production. ... but still an advertisement for use of IXPs instead of private peering or alike. I'd say it contains several factual errors or at least omittance of important factors

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: And no, omittance of important factors is not a factual error in a 5 minute video of a wide and amazingly complex topic. I guess we can agree to disagree then. I think it's highly biased towards promoting IXPs, and it gives the impression that

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/10/2010 7:55 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Feb 10, 2010, at 3:55 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Jake Khuon wrote: Excellent production. I'll go with that. ... but still an advertisement for use of IXPs instead of private peering or alike. I'd say it contains

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Jay Ess
Larry Sheldon wrote: That is definitely the best answer--if you don't like it, do one (at your expense of time and other resources) that you like better. Zzz. I think I am probably a member of the target audience, and I though it was great (and recommended it to other folk). I like it

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Alex Balashov
On 02/10/2010 09:46 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: But one factual error for instance, a TCP session (a picture being transfrred) doesn't take multiple paths, that's just wrong to say so. So showing a picture being chopped up in packets and sent over different paths, well that just doesn't

RE: black listing of web traffic

2010-02-10 Thread Dylan Ebner
You mentioned this was a student network. Could it be your students are running bit torrent clients and your ISP doesn't like that so they are rate limiting you? This might explain why apple loads and facebook doesn't. I do not know much about facebooks architecture, but I would guess they

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 10, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: And no, omittance of important factors is not a factual error in a 5 minute video of a wide and amazingly complex topic. I guess we can agree to disagree then. I think it's highly biased

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 10, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Jay Ess wrote: I think I am probably a member of the target audience, and I though it was great (and recommended it to other folk). I like it for what it was. But i agree with Mike's points. This video is something i could show my mother when she asks how the

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 10/02/2010 14:46, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: I guess we can agree to disagree then. I think it's highly biased towards promoting IXPs, Uh, it was produced and paid for by IXPs for the intention of promoting IXPs. Why do you have an issue with this? and it gives the impression that private

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/10/2010 9:28 AM, Jay Ess wrote: So, for example, if i don't like how a car works i must be able to build a car to be allowed to voice my opinion? How much did you pay for the video? -- Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have.

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/10/2010 9:42 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Not everyone who works on the Internet is a routing engineer. I(including some who bill themselves as such. But that is for a different rant. -- Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have.

RE: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Chris Campbell
-Original Message- From: Jay Ess [mailto:li...@netrogenic.com] Sent: 10 February 2010 15:29 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available So, for example, if i don't like how a car works i must be able to build a car to be allowed to

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Cian Brennan
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:56:25AM -0600, Larry Sheldon wrote: On 2/10/2010 9:28 AM, Jay Ess wrote: So, for example, if i don't like how a car works i must be able to build a car to be allowed to voice my opinion? How much did you pay for the video? What does that matter? Whether you

Q9 BGP contact needed, urgently

2010-02-10 Thread James Smith
Please contact me off list. -- James Smith

Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Charles N Wyble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-10/google-plans-to-build-high-speed-fiber-optic-networks-update2-.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html What do folks think? Granted it's very early on, and g00g

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/10/2010 12:30, Charles N Wyble wrote: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-10/google-plans-to-build-high-speed-fiber-optic-networks-update2-.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html What do folks think? Optimistic view: It can force the

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Jared Mauch
I think it's great! I've been preparing to float a similar idea locally. If this is how they use their market cap, I would love for them to do it in my local market, which does seem to hold a near-and-dear place in the heart of some google C* types. - Jared * Local details/breakdown:

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Seth Mattinen se...@rollernet.us wrote: On 2/10/2010 12:30, Charles N Wyble wrote: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-10/google-plans-to-build-high-speed-fiber-optic-networks-update2-.html

RE: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread David Hubbard
On 2/10/2010 12:30, Charles N Wyble wrote: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-10/google-plans-to-build-high-s peed-fiber-optic-networks-update2-.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experiment al.html What do folks think? Residential computers with

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Matt Simmons
I'm really interested in their distribution ideas, as well as the bottleneck from the Google network to the rest of the internet. Ah, who am I kidding, it's not like anyone cares about the rest of the internet, right? --Matt On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Charles N Wyble

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* David Hubbard: Residential computers with enough bandwidth to DoS hosting providers; that should be fun. How is this different from a typical dorm network? (Perhaps with all that P2P filtering software in place, it's a mere self-DoS nowadays, but the analogy was not that far off five years

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Charles N Wyble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jared Mauch wrote: I think it's great! I've been preparing to float a similar idea locally. If this is how they use their market cap, I would love for them to do it in my local market, which does seem to hold a near-and-dear place in the

RE: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread David Hubbard
From: Florian Weimer [mailto:f...@deneb.enyo.de] * David Hubbard: Residential computers with enough bandwidth to DoS hosting providers; that should be fun. How is this different from a typical dorm network? (Perhaps with all that P2P filtering software in place, it's a mere self-DoS

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Matt Simmons wrote: I'm really interested in their distribution ideas, as well as the bottleneck from the Google network to the rest of the internet. Ah, who am I kidding, it's not like anyone cares about the rest of the internet, right? The WSJ says: In an

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Michael Hallgren
Le mercredi 10 février 2010 à 15:53 +, Nick Hilliard a écrit : On 10/02/2010 14:46, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: I guess we can agree to disagree then. I think it's highly biased towards promoting IXPs, Uh, it was produced and paid for by IXPs for the intention of promoting IXPs. Why

dark fiber

2010-02-10 Thread James Jones
I am doing some researchis there a way to find out where there is dark fiber and who own's it?

Re: dark fiber

2010-02-10 Thread Charles N Wyble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Jones wrote: I am doing some researchis there a way to find out where there is dark fiber and who own's it? In California I have had the best success with environmental impact reports from he public utility commission office. Your

Re: Connectivity problems to google via openDNS

2010-02-10 Thread David Ulevitch
On 2/9/10 3:43 PM, Matthew Palmer wrote: Turned out that the DNS responses from OpenDNS (they were in a cafe somewhere with free wireless that was using OpenDNS) were giving slightly wrong addresses -- like the real address for example.com was 192.0.2.12, and OpenDNS was giving the response that

Re: dark fiber

2010-02-10 Thread Jared Mauch
On Feb 10, 2010, at 5:08 PM, James Jones wrote: I am doing some researchis there a way to find out where there is dark fiber and who own's it? You may be better off asking nznog if it's local to you (or your email). - Jared

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Jared Mauch
On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jared Mauch wrote: I think it's great! I've been preparing to float a similar idea locally. If this is how they use their market cap, I would love for them to do it in my local market,

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Ronald Cotoni
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Steven Bellovin s...@cs.columbia.edu wrote: On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Matt Simmons wrote: I'm really interested in their distribution ideas, as well as the bottleneck from the Google network to the rest of the internet. Ah, who am I kidding, it's not like

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Ken Gilmour
Maybe they're getting their Ideas from the Irish :). Magnet (www.magnet.ie) does a similar thing which started over four years ago. They offer fiber to the home and you can use it for triple-play. I believe when they started the offering, the bandwidth was (initially intended to be) limited only

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Charles N Wyble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jared Mauch wrote: On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jared Mauch wrote: I think it's great! I've been preparing to float a similar idea locally. If this is how they use their

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Abdulkadir Egal
Hi Jared You can now nominate your community http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/public/options Regards Abdul On 2/10/10 2:18 PM, Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net wrote: On Feb 10, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jared

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Charles N Wyble wrote: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-10/google-plans-to-build-high-speed-fiber-optic-networks-update2-.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html What do folks think? Wonderful move - might breath life

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Charles N Wyble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I honestly wonder if they will use ipv4 or ipv6 for their rollout... Could be interesting to watch! Hopefully both. This could be one of the first large scale, dual stacked offerings to end users. There is of course Comcast who recently

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Charles N Wyble wrote: announced a v6 beta, and impulse.net for folks in the SoCal region. Not sure of any other CLEC types offering v6, but if you are speak up! I suspect you're more likely to find regional ISPs offering v6 than CLECs. The latter seem driven by the sale

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Scott Weeks
--- ae...@cisco.com wrote: From: Abdulkadir Egal ae...@cisco.com You can now nominate your community http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/public/options --- When you select 'nominate your community' you're taken to a 'create an account' page.

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Agree to disagree is right. The film is called The Internet Revealed: _A_film_about_IXPs_. You find it strange that the film would actually focus on IXPs. I find it strange that you

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Scott Weeks wrote: When you select 'nominate your community' you're taken to a 'create an account' page. I doubt they'd consider Sunset Beach on the North Shore of Oahu Hawaii anyway. That's kinda out there... ;-) No but maybe Kailua (home of Obama's western

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Tony Varriale
Residential computers with enough bandwidth to DoS hosting providers; that should be fun. Maybe it will encourage the incumbant ISP's to start offering users meaningful bgp communities since they won't be able to keep up with the abuse reports. David That's already here today. tv

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
Our typical gambling/casino customer has maybe 1 - 2 Mbps available to them. Pretty much anyone in the U.S. could DDoS them if they didn't have their HTTP/HTTPS traffic proxied and there are plenty more without any protection at all. Jeff On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Tony Varriale

Re: dark fiber

2010-02-10 Thread James Jones
Sent from my iPhone On Feb 10, 2010, at 5:15 PM, Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net wrote: On Feb 10, 2010, at 5:08 PM, James Jones wrote: I am doing some researchis there a way to find out where there is dark fiber and who own's it? You may be better off asking nznog if it's local

Linux Router distro's with dual stack capability

2010-02-10 Thread Blake Pfankuch
Anyone have some insight on a good dual stack Linux (or BSD) router distro? Currently using IPCop but it lacks ipv6 support. I've used SmoothWall Express but not in some time and not sure how well it works with IPv6. Not looking for something huge, just something for the equivalent of a

Re: Linux Router distro's with dual stack capability

2010-02-10 Thread Bryan Irvine
would pfsense work for you? On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Blake Pfankuch bpfank...@cpgreeley.com wrote: Anyone have some insight on a good dual stack Linux (or BSD) router distro?   Currently using IPCop but it lacks ipv6 support.  I've used SmoothWall Express but not in some time and

RE: Linux Router distro's with dual stack capability

2010-02-10 Thread Gregory J. Boehnlein
Anyone have some insight on a good dual stack Linux (or BSD) router distro? Currently using IPCop but it lacks ipv6 support. I've used SmoothWall Express but not in some time and not sure how well it works with IPv6. Not looking for something huge, just something for the equivalent of a small

Re: Linux Router distro's with dual stack capability

2010-02-10 Thread Wade Blackwell
Sorry for the top post, BB won't let me punch this at the bottom. I believe 2.0 is in beta and supports ipv6, I don't know if beta is something you want to mess around with. The PF products have been bulletproof for quite a long time. -W --Original Message-- From: Bryan

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Ramanpreet Singh
Are they going to use Google routers for the deployment? On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Charles N Wyble char...@knownelement.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: Linux Router distro's with dual stack capability

2010-02-10 Thread Mark Price
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Blake Pfankuch bpfank...@cpgreeley.com wrote: Anyone have some insight on a good dual stack Linux (or BSD) router distro? Mikrotik RouterOS. It is based on Linux and a bit more feature-rich than some of the linux router distros I've tried such as IPCop. Licenses

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Leo Bicknell
There are some FTTH deployments in the US, like the well known FIOS to a number of lesser known municipal deployments in small towns. If you want to live in a house that is served in this way, how do you find it. I don't believe there is a FTTH field in MLS yet. Would be nice to have a google

RE: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Luan Nguyen
They don't have a field in the MLS for that, but most people put the description FTTH in. There are quite a few communities with FTTH in the Wash DC metropolitan area that is not FIOS. Openband is one of them serving my house. The 100M fiber comes into a transition network converter and then to a

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Darren Bolding
Look, it's a very nice video, and I think it is useful and the creators should be complimented on their work. Overall it is something I would like to use to educate less IP-savvy folk. But, as a hyper-aware viewer I did detect a tone in favor of network neutrality type arguments- and I suppose

Re: Linux Router distro's with dual stack capability

2010-02-10 Thread Aaron C. de Bruyn
On 2010-02-10 at 17:12:28 -0700, Blake Pfankuch wrote: Anyone have some insight on a good dual stack Linux (or BSD) router distro? Currently using IPCop but it lacks ipv6 support. I've used SmoothWall Express but not in some time and not sure how well it works with IPv6. Not looking for

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread James Hess
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:00 PM, David Hubbard dhubb...@dino.hostasaurus.com wrote: Residential computers with enough bandwidth to DoS hosting providers; that should be fun.  Maybe it will Enough to DoS hosting providers based on _current_ practices. If 1g FTTH catches on, hosting providers

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Joel Esler
I have gig copper ran all over my house. Handy for large file transfers. I have fios as well, and wish it was faster. (yes, all I know is it's a setting, it costs them nothing more) -- Joel Esler 302-223-5974 Sent from my iPhone On Feb 10, 2010, at 8:02 PM, Luan Nguyen l...@netcraftsmen.net

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Randy Bush
But, as a hyper-aware viewer I did detect a tone in favor of network neutrality type arguments- and I suppose that is OK. is this a bug or a feature randy

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: But, as a hyper-aware viewer I did detect a tone in favor of network neutrality type arguments- and I suppose that is OK. is this a bug or a feature bug -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: dark fiber

2010-02-10 Thread Martin Hannigan
FCC filings are rich with this type information. http://www.fcc.gov On 2/10/10, James Jones ja...@freedomnet.co.nz wrote: I am doing some researchis there a way to find out where there is dark fiber and who own's it? -- Martin Hannigan

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Jorge Amodio
What do folks think? I think it's a better use of their capital resources than paying big fat bonuses to big fat executives. Sounds like a well funded initiative that may provide an interesting platform to explore new technologies and develop a new array of applications. It would be nice to

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Jorge Amodio
Very cool production. For the duration and intended audience it looks like a nice and very clear documentary about how the net works. For insiders the last minute may feel borderline with science fiction and advertising but I see no evil. I think it was a great contribution from Euro-IX to relax

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread ck
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Jorge Amodio jmamo...@gmail.com wrote: It would be nice to hear from local folks about how the WiFi experiment in Mountain View worked out. i use the mtview wifi almost everyday, and it works great the last metrics i saw were presented by tropos and indicated

Re: Linux Router distro's with dual stack capability

2010-02-10 Thread Carlos A. Carnero Delgado
Have you checked Vyatta? HTH, Carlos.

RE: Linux Router distro's with dual stack capability

2010-02-10 Thread Blake Pfankuch
I actually spaced about vyatta when I wrote this email. I have since been forcefully reminded. About 30 times :) In the process of testing it, however my main concern is some of the complexity of the config options. The GUI is a welcome addition since 4, however I still find it a bit

Re: Google to offer fiber to end users

2010-02-10 Thread Henry Linneweh
This is actually good new's, considering this line of thought began to look promising in 2000, other unmentioned providers have business models not inclusive of this for another 10 years. I think this at least shows American private industry that we are at least attempting to catch up with