Re: US .mil blocking in Japan

2011-03-16 Thread Jeff Aitken
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 09:49:56PM -0600, ryanL wrote: should i be surprised that this hasn't been discussed much? anyone care to elaborate and/or expand on the real telecom damage done in japan? What's to be surprised about? The US military is temporarily blocking access to certain

Re: US .mil blocking in Japan

2011-03-16 Thread Jeff Aitken
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 09:14:13AM -0700, andrew.wallace wrote: This isn't the rhetoric of a super power, more like one of a university campus. [...] It strikes me straight away as amateurish to be blocking web sites in able to have enough bandwidth for operational purposes. On the contrary,

Re: Router only speaks IGP in BGP network

2011-01-03 Thread Jeff Aitken
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 08:52:42AM -0500, ML wrote: If you're only redistributing 10 prefixes into OSPF? Problem? I know I'm a little late to this thread, but figured I'd point out one reason why this can be very dangerous: In IOS, you use a route-map to control redistribution between

Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming

2010-11-22 Thread Jeff Aitken
[ Meant to send this to the list and not directly to Richard. ] On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 03:07:40AM +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote: If any of you have any additional suggestions, you are more than welcome to share them. I heard hexquad somewhere awhile back and have been using it since...

Re: RIP Justification

2010-10-04 Thread Jeff Aitken
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:28:30PM +, Tim Franklin wrote: Leaf-node BGP config is utterly trivial [...] The Enterprise guys really need to get out of the blanket BGP is scary mindset It's not just enterprise mindset. Over the years I've seen a lot of deployed gear that either didn't

Re: Time Warner/Road Runner issues in the Mid West

2009-10-09 Thread Jeff Aitken
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 07:30:19AM -0700, Mike Maberry wrote: Is anyone else seeing connectivity issues to the internet using Time Warner/Road Runner in the Mid West? Kansas City and Wisconsin seem to be unable to access sites on the west coast... Mike, There is an ongoing issue that our ops

Re: Data Center testing

2009-08-26 Thread Jeff Aitken
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:45:07PM -0500, Frank Bulk - iName.com wrote: There's more to data integrity in a data center (well, anything powered, that is) than network configurations. Understood and agreed. My point was that induced failure testing isn't the right way to catch incorrect or

Re: Data Center testing

2009-08-25 Thread Jeff Aitken
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:38:38AM -0400, Dan Snyder wrote: We have done power tests before and had no problem. I guess I am looking for someone who does testing of the network equipment outside of just power tests. We had an outage due to a configuration mistake that became apparent when a

Re: ISP BGP Resources

2009-07-10 Thread Jeff Aitken
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 08:17:43AM -0400, Babak Pasdar wrote: Are there any resources (books, web sites, mailing lists, etc..) that anyone can recommend? Richard Steenbergen did a nice preso on this subject a couple years ago:

Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity facts

2008-11-03 Thread Jeff Aitken
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 04:34:16PM -0200, Nicolas Antoniello wrote: Sorry for my possible ignorance, but could you explain me what are you calling transit-free? Transit-free means that you don't pay anyone else to reach some 3rd-party network. In other words, if I'm Sprint, I don't pay UUNET

Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

2008-08-18 Thread Jeff Aitken
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 09:51:20AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: m4 is a macro processor that you probably should not bother learning since you can do everything that it does by using Python Oh, Abley is gonna have fun with this... and for the record, my money is on Joe. He could probably

Re: Traceroute and random UDP ports

2008-08-13 Thread Jeff Aitken
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 07:56:53AM -0500, John Kristoff wrote: Also, why do we increase the UDP port number with each subsequent traceroute packet that is sent? I don't know definitively, but I have an of educated guess From /usr/src/contrib/traceroute/traceroute.c: /* * Notes * -