Re: ipmi access

2014-06-02 Thread Brian Dickson
Here's one useful method, which depends on having appropriate subnet and VLAN capabilities. Have all hosts at a given site, have their main interface do dot1q (switch config trunked port). The ipmi interfaces will be on one VLAN (put those ports in that VLAN). The first VLAN is the public routed

Re: Naive IPv6 (was ATT UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO)

2013-12-04 Thread Brian Dickson
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Rob Seastrom r...@seastrom.com wrote: Brian Dickson brian.peter.dick...@gmail.com writes: Rob Seastrom wrote: Ricky Beam jfbeam at gmail.com http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog writes: * On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 08:39:59 -0500, Rob Seastrom

Re: Naive IPv6 (was ATT UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO)

2013-12-04 Thread Brian Dickson
Seastrom r...@seastrom.com wrote: Brian Dickson brian.peter.dick...@gmail.com writes: Rob Seastrom wrote: Ricky Beam jfbeam at gmail.com http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog writes: * On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 08:39:59 -0500, Rob Seastrom rs at seastrom.com http

Re: Naive IPv6 (was ATT UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO)

2013-12-04 Thread Brian Dickson
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Tony Hain alh-i...@tndh.net wrote: Brian Dickson wrote: And root of the problem was brought into existence by the insistence that every network (LAN) must be a /64. [snip] about how many bits to add for hosts on the lan. The fact it came out to 64

Re: Naive IPv6 (was ATT UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO)

2013-12-04 Thread Brian Dickson
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Dec 4, 2013, at 10:21 , Brian Dickson brian.peter.dick...@gmail.com wrote: Second of all, what would make much more sense in your scenario is to aggregate at one or two of those levels. I'd expect probably the POP

Re: Naive IPv6 (was ATT UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO)

2013-12-04 Thread Brian Dickson
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Brian Dickson brian.peter.dick...@gmail.com wrote: Except that we have a hard limit of 1M total, which after a few 100K from where does the 1M come from? FIB table sizes

Re: route for linx.net in Level3?

2013-04-04 Thread Brian Dickson
Leo Bicknell wrote: Even if the exchange does not advertise the exchange LAN, it's probably the case that it is in the IGP (or at least IBGP) of everyone connected to it, and by extension all of their customers with a default route pointed at them. Actually, that may not be the case, and

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-04-01 Thread Brian Dickson
For filtering to/from client-only networks, here's the filtering rules (in pseudo-code, convert to appropriate code for whatever devices you operate), for DNS. The objective here is: - prevent spoofed-source DNS reflection attacks from your customers, from leaving your network - prevent your

puck.nether.net outage?

2013-02-13 Thread Brian Dickson
Anyone know about puck.nether.net? I read the outages list via web archive there, but can't connect currently. (I know - irony or what.) If you know what's going on, please post on NANOG? kthanks, Brian

Re: Update from the NANOG Communications Committee regarding recent off-topic posts

2012-07-30 Thread Brian Dickson
As a quick update, we've implemented some list settings last week to help to keep spam off the list. New subscribers are moderated until we're comfortable with their posts. We rejected the idea of keyword based message filtering since not only is a lot of work to maintain, it's trivial

Re: [Idr] draft-ietf-idr-as0-00 (bgp update destroying transit on redback routers ?)

2011-12-03 Thread Brian Dickson
Can anyone familiar with this knob and its usage, answer a question: Would anything break, in terms of use of that knob, if instead of zeroing the AGGREGATOR, the local AS (as seen from the outside world, in the case of confederations) were used? Would the functionality of the knob, in reducing

Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers

2011-10-25 Thread Brian Dickson
Owen wrote: On Oct 25, 2011, at 3:29 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:35:31 PDT, Owen DeLong said: If they are using someone else's mail server for outbound, how, exactly do you control whether or not they use AUTH in the process? 1) You don't even really

Re: Cogent HE

2011-06-09 Thread Brian Dickson
RAS wrote: On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 12:55:44AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: Respectfully, RAS, I disagree. I think there's a big difference between being utterly unwilling to resolve the situation by peering and merely refusing to purchase transit to a network that appears to offer little or no

RE: 1/8 and 27/8 allocated to APNIC

2010-01-22 Thread Brian Dickson
Nick Hilliard wrote: Someone else mentioned that we are now scraping the bottom of the ipv4 barrel. As of two days ago, there were quantifiable problems associated with 13 out of the 26 remaining /8s. 12 of these are known to be used to one extent or another on internet connected networks, and

RE: 1/8 and 27/8 allocated to APNIC

2010-01-22 Thread Brian Dickson
pain would really be unusually cruel.) Brian -Original Message- From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:n...@foobar.org] Sent: January-22-10 3:09 PM To: Brian Dickson Cc: William Allen Simpson; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: 1/8 and 27/8 allocated to APNIC On 22/01/2010 16:32, Brian Dickson wrote

RE: DNS question, null MX records

2009-12-16 Thread Brian Dickson
I realize we're a bit off-topic, but to be tangential to the original topic, and thus barely relevant: (Presuming the sink.arpa. thing succeeds, big presumption I realize...) So, how about using sink.arpa. as a(n) MNAME? Or perhaps, one of the hosts listed in AS112? Maybe a new AS112 entry

RE: backupdns.com down?

2009-11-22 Thread Brian Dickson
Ditto (puck.nether.net +9). Thanks on behalf of everyone, Jared. For those wanting further diversity, I also recommend using any or all of: everydns.net twisted4life.com afraid.org Also easy to use and set-up, IMHO. YMMV. Brian Dickson From

RE: Upstream BGP community support

2009-11-02 Thread Brian Dickson
(Apologies for top-replying, but hey, it makes it easier to ignore stuff you've already read.) I think the main things to consider in identifying what things belong in a standardized community are: - is it something that is really global, and not local, in behaviour and scope? - is it something

RE: Keepalives are temporarily in throttle due to closed TCP window

2009-09-16 Thread Brian Dickson
RAS wrote: [ lots of good stuff elided for brevity ] c) lower the mtu on the ds3 interface to 1500. This will have another benefit, if it is done to all such interfaces on the two devices. (Where by all such interfaces, I mean everything with set-able MTU 1500.) Configuring one common MTU

RE: Keepalives are temporarily in throttle due to closed TCP window

2009-09-15 Thread Brian Dickson
And more specifically, possibly an interface MTU (or ip mtu, I forget which). If there is a mismatch between ends of a link, in one direction, MTU-sized packets get sent, and the other end sees those as giants. I've seen situations where the MTU is calculated incorrectly, when using some

Re: Redundancy Summarization

2009-08-21 Thread Brian Dickson
My institution has a single /16 spread across 2 sites: the lower /17 is used at site A, the upper /17 at site B. Sites A B are connected internally. Currently both sites have their own ISPs and only advertise their own /17's. For redundancy we proposed that each site advertise both their

Re: Great Suggestion for the DNS problem...?

2008-08-28 Thread Brian Dickson
to confuse folks too much. But, the short answer is: If you use the IRR, the full value is best realized by adding *as-path* filters to the things you build from the IRR data, and applying them to your customers (and peers !!). Oh, and if you already do IRR stuff, it's really quite easy to do. Brian

Re: Great Suggestion for the DNS problem...?

2008-08-28 Thread Brian Dickson
Alex Pilosov wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Brian Dickson wrote: However, if *AS-path* filtering is done based on IRR data, specifically on the as-sets of customers and customers' customers etc., then the attack *can* be prevented. The as-path prepending depends on upstreams and their peers

Re: Great Suggestion for the DNS problem...?

2008-07-28 Thread Brian Dickson
What would the ip-blocking BGP feed accomplish? Spoofed source addresses are a staple of the DNS cache poisoning attack. Worst case scenario, you've opened yourself up to a new avenue of attack where you're nameservers are receiving spoofed packets intended to trigger a blackhole filter,

Re: cooling door

2008-03-30 Thread Brian Dickson
Paul Vixie wrote: if you find me 300Ksqft along the caltrain fiber corridor in the peninsula where i can get 10mW of power and have enough land around it for 10mW worth of genset, and the price per sqft is low enough that i can charge by the watt and floor space be damned and still come out

Mailing list newbies suggestion

2008-03-22 Thread Brian Dickson
Here's a suggestion - perhaps it should go to nanog-futures, not sure... Since newbies have to first subscribe before they can post... Why not have the subscription procedure include sending the newbie a link to a page with newbie-related material, much like the nanog page on tools and

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL leased line customers

2008-01-02 Thread Brian Dickson
distant. The only caveat is, that some parties may mess with it on prefixes they receive. I've used it in the past, with considerable success. Brian Dickson