Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:53 AM, David Barak wrote: --- On Tue, 1/13/09, Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net wrote: No, they are both victims. If I inject a path that purports there is an edge between two networks which are engaged in a bitter dispute, (i'll use cogent sprint as an

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 13, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Filtering and other manipulation happened on your router, prepending my ASN is putting that information into every router. That seems to be a serious qualitative difference to me. Do you disagree? I think

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 13, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: How can anyone seriously argue the ASN owner is somehow wrong and keep a straight face? How can anyone else who actually runs a network not see that as ridiculous? Speaking purely

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
Seriously, you believe it's OK to blame the guy whose ASN was spoofed for spending too long researching it? I was _literally_ shaking my head when I read that. -- TTFN, patrick

Re: Cogent (was the poetry thread)

2009-01-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 12, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Jan 12, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: Jeffrey Lyon wrote: Mike, Aside from the occasional peering wars i've never had or witnessed any serious issues with Cogent. If you want some redundancy you might also try some other

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 12, 2009, at 4:12 PM, Joe Abley wrote: On 2009-01-12, at 15:39, Florian Weimer wrote: So does academic mean unethical these days? I think this is over the line. You can't put other people's IDs into routing data on production networks. (Well, technically you can, obviously, but you

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 12, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Michienne Dixon wrote: But isn't this method kind of related to how an network from the Mediterranean/Mid-east went about blocking what they felt was undesirable/offensive content from entering their network? No. -- TTFN, patrick

Re: Ethical DDoS drone network

2009-01-05 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 5, 2009, at 3:39 AM, Gadi Evron wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, kris foster wrote: On Jan 4, 2009, at 11:11 PM, Gadi Evron wrote: On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Jan 5, 2009, at 1:33 AM, Roland Dobbins wrote: On Jan 5, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: I can

Re: Ethical DDoS drone network

2009-01-05 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 5, 2009, at 2:54 AM, Roland Dobbins wrote: On Jan 5, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: I can think of several instances where it _must_ be external. For instance, as I said before, knowing which intermediate networks are incapable of handling the additional load is useful

Re: Ethical DDoS drone network

2009-01-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 4, 2009, at 9:18 PM, deles...@gmail.com wrote: Super risky. This would be a 99% legal worry plus. Unless all the end points and networks they cross sign off on it the risk is beyond huge. Since when do I need permission of networks they cross to send data from a machine I

Re: Ethical DDoS drone network

2009-01-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 5, 2009, at 1:33 AM, Roland Dobbins wrote: On Jan 5, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: You want to 'attack' yourself, I do not see any problems. And I see lots of possible benefits. This can be done internally using various traffic-generation and exploit-testing tools

Re: What is the most standard subnet length on internet

2008-12-19 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 19, 2008, at 12:27 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Even if a longer prefix like a /24 is announced, chances of people accepting it is slim. Especially, as you say, if the RIR allocation is something larger than /24 And I have a feeling acceptance /24 route announcements of anything

Re: Re: What is the most standard subnet length on internet

2008-12-19 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
Even if a longer prefix like a /24 is announced, chances of people accepting it is slim. Especially, as you say, if the RIR allocation is something larger than /24 And I have a feeling acceptance /24 route announcements of anything other than legacy classful space, infrastructure space like

Re: What is the most standard subnet length on internet

2008-12-19 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 19, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Joe Abley wrote: It'd be nice if some grad student somewhere with friends in the operations community was to experiment with /24s carved out of larger blocks from all over the planet and present some empirical data. We don't need a student. We have actual

Re: _65000_ in as-path - paging 8544, 16229, 37958

2008-12-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 10, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Cvetan Ivanov wrote: Marshall Eubanks wrote: Is there some reason why 65000 is especially problematic ? 65000 and above are private as numbers and should not be seen in the global table. 64512 above. -- TTFN, patrick

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:58 AM, Måns Nilsson wrote: --On söndag, söndag 30 nov 2008 23.05.01 -0500 Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Sweden, the reason to not choose NetNod (and to go with the smaller exchangepoints) is price and only price. No swedish ISP I know of has stated

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:12 AM, Randy Bush wrote: I don't think any IXP can become a significant player on the Internet today by only attracting participants from the country in question. netnod is very successful. i guess they must operate from more than sweden, then, eh? NetNod is

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Randy Bush wrote: some go to sweden for the weather. some go for netnode. netnode does not go to them. and yes, netnod is bunkered up the ying yang. qed. By your logic, every IXP which has any participants is a good model and cannot be improved. An obvious

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 1, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Måns Nilsson wrote: End of day, an IXP is not some magical thing. It is an ethernet switch allowing multiple networks to exchange traffic more easily than direct interconnection - and that is all it should be. It should not be mission critical. Treating it

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 1, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Jean-François Mezei wrote: Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: End of day, an IXP is not some magical thing. It is an ethernet switch allowing multiple networks to exchange traffic more easily than direct interconnection - and that is all it should be. It should

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-12-01 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Dec 1, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: On 1-Dec-08, at 10:27 AM, Danny McPherson wrote: On a related noted, some have professed that adapting old ships into data centers would provide eco-friendly secure data center solutions. Your data connection to shore is going to be tenuous

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-11-30 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 30, 2008, at 10:50 PM, Niels Bakker wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick W. Gilmore) [Mon 01 Dec 2008, 02:34 CET]: On Nov 28, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Jean-François Mezei wrote: The advantage of this swedish data centre is that even if its location is well known, it is pretty hard to harm

Re: Potential Prefix Hijack

2008-11-11 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
Possibly silly question: If a small ISP is leaking a full table and you cannot reach them, why not contact their upstreams? Can't really check a router from here, but I saw (for instance) Verio mentioned. I am certain as2914 runs a 24/7 NOC and is responsive. -- TTFN, patrick

Re: Why do some companies get depeered and some don't?

2008-11-05 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 5, 2008, at 6:14 AM, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: Isn't it because the receiver is more likely to backhaul the traffic further, due to hot-potato routing - at least in the case of large networks with multiple points of interconnect? That's the reason given. One can argue over

Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity facts

2008-11-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 4, 2008, at 9:49 AM, David Freedman wrote: 2. The Internet cannot route around de-peering I know everyone believes the Internet routes around failures. While occasionally true, it does not hold in this case. To route around the failure would require transit. See item #1. The

Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity facts

2008-11-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 4, 2008, at 11:02 AM, David Schwartz wrote: Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Nov 4, 2008, at 9:49 AM, David Freedman wrote: 2. The Internet cannot route around de-peering I know everyone believes the Internet routes around failures. While occasionally true, it does not hold in this case

Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity facts

2008-11-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
could say the current situation is a political success. -- TTFN, patrick -Original Message- From: Patrick W. Gilmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 8:10 AM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity facts On Nov 4, 2008, at 11:02 AM, David

Re: routing around Sprint's depeering damage

2008-11-03 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 3, 2008, at 9:41 AM, HRH Sven Olaf Prinz von CyberBunker- Kamphuis MP wrote: No, but the providers who provide those connections should be multihomed. If they're not, I'd consider switching providers. Simple as that. multihomed to whichever parties decide to generate split ups on

Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity facts

2008-11-03 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 3, 2008, at 10:03 AM, David Schwartz wrote: Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: 4. There is a reason behind ratios which has nothing to do with telco sender-pays There is an alleged reason. Peering rations were first 'big news' when BBN wanted to de-peer Above.Net, Global Center, and Exodus

Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity facts

2008-11-03 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 3, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Tore Anderson wrote: Another point worth mentioning is that the traffic is going to flow between those two ISPs _anyway_. I believe the events of 2-3 days ago disproves your assertion. Therefore, in many cases the only ones to profit from them not reaching a

Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity facts

2008-11-03 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 3, 2008, at 2:35 AM, Paul Wall wrote: On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Neither Sprint nor Cogent have transit Both Sprint Cogent are transit-free networks. (Notice how I carefully avoided saying tier one?) How do you explain Cogent's

Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity facts

2008-11-03 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 3, 2008, at 4:26 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: * Patrick W. Gilmore: 1. Neither Sprint nor Cogent have transit Both Sprint Cogent are transit-free networks. (Notice how I carefully avoided saying tier one?) Whether one or both _should_ have transit is not a fact, and therefore outside

Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity facts

2008-11-03 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 3, 2008, at 3:49 PM, Rod Beck wrote: And a 'Tier One' nework is a transit-free network that can reach all end points (end user IP addresses)? A transit free network that has no settlements. Which means no network is strictly tier one. Read

Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity facts

2008-11-03 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 3, 2008, at 8:16 PM, George William Herbert wrote: Patrick writes: 3. Standard transit contracts do not guarantee full connectivity If you are a Cogent customer, it is very unlikely your contract will allow you SLA or other credits for not being able to reach Sprint unless you negotiated

Re: Sprint / Cogent dispute over?

2008-11-02 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 2, 2008, at 7:06 PM, Randy Epstein wrote: https://www.sprint.net/cogent.php Yes, I've read it. They need to fix their TITLE. So while Cogent was depeered by Sprint, we contacted the CEO of Cogent on Friday to try and arrange at least a temporary peering arrangement so that bits

Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity facts

2008-11-02 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
Having skimmed the Sprint / Cogent threads, I saw multiple errors and lots of really bad guesses. Instead of replying individually, I thought I would sum up a few facts so everyone was on the same page. This way when we run off into another 100 post thread, we can at least -start- from

Re: Why do some companies get depeered and some don't?

2008-11-01 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:32 AM, Nelson Lai wrote: Why do some companies like Cogent get depeered relatively often and companies like Teleglobe don't even get talked about and operate in silence free from depeering? That's funny. One of the first networks to de-peer Cogent was Teleglobe.

Re: Sending vs requesting. Was: Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-11-01 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 1, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, bas [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I've heard eyeball networks refer to traffic flows as sending too.. You content hosters are sending us too much traffic, we want money to upgrade ports and transport all that traffic Complete

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Majdi S. Abbas wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:20:23PM -0400, Randy Epstein wrote: We hope Sprint and Cogent work out their differences, but in the mean time, we unfortunately will remain partitioned from Cogent. Randy, This brings up

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 31, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Maybe they can bring it up at the November 4th FCC open meeting : [snip] While I agree regulation is a possible outcome, I am always amazed at the US gov't self-delusion that they can somehow regulate something like the Internet.

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 30, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Todd Underwood wrote: so far there have been some good values articulated and there may be more (reach, latency, diversity of path, diversity of capacity, control, flexibility, options, price negotation) and some additional costs have been mentioned (capex for

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
with no loss of redundancy. Plus you get all the other things peering is good for. -- TTFN, patrick -Original Message- From: Patrick W. Gilmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:15 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Peering - Benefits? On Oct 30, 2008, at 10:49 AM

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-30 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 30, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Joe Greco wrote: Looks like maybe Sprint and Cogent are experiencing communications difficulties in the DC (and probably other) areas. Theories include a potential depeering. Not a theory. -- TTFN, patrick

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 30, 2008, at 10:19 PM, vijay gill wrote: This is probably going to be a somewhat unpopular opinion, mostly because people cannot figure out their COGS. If you can get transit for cheaper than your COGS, you are better off buying transit and not peering. There are some small arguments to

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-30 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:05 AM, vijay gill wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 30, 2008, at 10:19 PM, vijay gill wrote: This is probably going to be a somewhat unpopular opinion, mostly because people cannot figure out their COGS. If you

Re: [Nanog-futures] [NANOG-announce] Election reminder - charter amendments

2008-10-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
[Sorry for top post, the Jesus-Phone still needs some work.] If any one cares, I vote for #1. -- TTFN, patrick iPhone 3-J (That's 3-Jezuz for the uninitiated.) On Oct 3, 2008, at 17:45, Steve Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 2, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Steve Gibbard wrote: ... I notice

Re: [Nanog-futures] [NANOG-announce] Election reminder - charter amendments

2008-10-02 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 2, 2008, at 3:07 AM, Philip Smith wrote: Please take a moment to look at the current charter amendment proposals for the October ballot at: http://www.nanog.org/charter/ If you have comments on the proposals, please post them on the nanog-futures list or send them to [EMAIL

Reading NANOG-Futures [was: Hey ISC, thanks for providing free wifi to intercage!]

2008-10-02 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 2, 2008, at 9:33 AM, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Joe Abley wrote: How about moving the meta-nanog themes in this thread to nanog- futures, instead of adding to the noise on the main list? Because nobody reads it? I've been called a lot of things, but I can't seem to remember

Re: Google's PUE

2008-10-02 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 1, 2008, at 1:52 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: [#include: boiler-plate apology for operational content] Google has released its PUE numbers: http://www.google.com/corporate/datacenters/measuring.html There is a nice explanation of this, including a graph showing why DC efficiency

Google's PUE

2008-10-01 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
[#include: boiler-plate apology for operational content] Google has released its PUE numbers: http://www.google.com/corporate/datacenters/measuring.html There is a nice explanation of this, including a graph showing why DC efficiency is more important than machine efficiency (on the second

Re: Atrivo/Intercage

2008-09-22 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 22, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Tom Sparks (Applied Operations) wrote: Basically is what it boils down to for me - its easy to blame an NSP/ISP/Hoster for what their clients do, it takes real dedication to find out whats *actually* going on. Tom, Atrivo is not just a spammer, and Intercage

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-22 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
] wrote: Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: There is no law or even custom stopping me from asking you to prove you are worthy to connect to my network. There may not be a law preventing you from asking him for proof of legitimate customers, but there is a law preventing him from answering you

Re: Atrivo/Intercage: NO Upstream depeer

2008-09-21 Thread Patrick W . Gilmore
On Sep 21, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Emil Kacperski wrote: Don't believe everything you read. Most excellent advice. [SNIP] -- TTFN, patrick

Re: Atrivo/Intercage: Now Only 1 Upstream

2008-09-18 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 17, 2008, at 4:07 PM, David Ulevitch wrote: Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Sep 17, 2008, at 1:32 PM, David Ulevitch wrote: At the end of the day, nobody is going to drop packets for amazon's IP space. I'm afraid reality disagrees with you - there already are networks doing it. Being

Re: Atrivo/Intercage: Now Only 1 Upstream

2008-09-17 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 17, 2008, at 1:32 PM, David Ulevitch wrote: Christopher Morrow wrote: How about providing some open-source intelligence in a centralized and machine-parsable fashion (perhaps with community input of intel even) which would allow better decsions to be made? Reputation based on

Re: Atrivo/Intercage: Now Only 1 Upstream

2008-09-16 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 16, 2008, at 1:55 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote: By the way, a lot of folks are watching all domains registered within Atrivo/Intercage IP address space every day. Here's a few for you to decide -- and they have been registered only in the past few days: undaground.biz pillshere.net

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 12, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Steve Gibbard wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Going back a bit in case you forgot, we were discussing the fact you have NO RIGHT to connect to my network, it is a privilege, not a right. You responded with: If I have either a peering

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 12, 2008, at 1:42 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: [On-list comment. Off-list comments longer.] On Thursday 11 September 2008 22:23:35 Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: If I have either a peering agreement or a transit arrangement with a written contract, then that contract supports my 'rights' under

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 12, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Oh, and I notice you ignored my question, again. I won't bother copy/pasting it here just to have you continue to ignore it, I think the audience gets the point - you don't have an answer. In fairness, he sent me an answer privately

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-11 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 11, 2008, at 8:50 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Thursday 11 September 2008 06:23:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not a court. In court, if you are determined guilty a large punishment may be exacted Depeering is not a large punishment? In the internet world, mass depeering /

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-11 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 11, 2008, at 6:52 PM, Randy Bush wrote: In the internet world, mass depeering / de-transitting like we've see in this instance is akin to capital punishment. By vigilantes. The US Old West redux. Connecting to my network is a PRIVILEGE, not a right. You lose a criminal case, you lose

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-11 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 11, 2008, at 9:11 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Thursday 11 September 2008 18:37:59 Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Sep 11, 2008, at 8:50 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Thursday 11 September 2008 06:23:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not a court. In court, if you are determined guilty a large

Re: only WV FIBER now peering with Atrivo / Intercage

2008-09-07 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 7, 2008, at 8:16 AM, Andrew D Kirch wrote: Brandon Butterworth wrote: Anton's post that GX is still providing them transit is a bit curious, since I was under the impression GX had severed all ties with Atrivo. But the table does not lie, a path of 174 3549 27595 is clearly

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-07 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 7, 2008, at 4:32 AM, InterCage - Russ wrote: Seeing the activity in regards to our company here at NANOG, I believe this is the most reasonable and responsible place to respond to the current issues on our network. We hope to obtain non-bias opinion's and good honest and truthful

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-07 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 7, 2008, at 11:58 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Sep 7, 2008, at 4:32 AM, InterCage - Russ wrote: Seeing the activity in regards to our company here at NANOG, I believe this is the most reasonable and responsible place to respond to the current issues on our network. We hope

Re: only WV FIBER now peering with Atrivo / Intercage

2008-09-06 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 6, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Paul Wall wrote: A quick look at route-views will confirm that Atrivo is multi-homed. And WV Fiber is a transit provider to them, not a peer. As NANOG community members in good standing, I'm sure WV, nLayer, etc would take the appropriate action if you were to

Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: Count you which way? You seem to agree with me. Everyone should be doing both, not discounting BCP38 because they aren't seeing an attack right now. No one sees attacks that BCP38 would stop? Wow, I thought things like the Kaminsky bug were

Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 4, 2008, at 1:14 PM, james wrote: On Sep 4, 2008, at 7:24 AM, James Jun wrote: Indeed... In today's internet, protecting your own box (cp-policer/ control plane filtering) is far more important IMO than implementing BCP38 when much of attack traffic comes from legitimate IP sources

Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
the thread is already confused) Sorry for the confusion. Yes, I am a BCP38 evangelist. I apologize if it came across wrong. -- TTFN, patrick On Sep 4, 2008, at 10:05 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: Count you which way? You seem to agree with me

Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 4, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Gadi Evron wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Jo Rhett wrote: On Sep 4, 2008, at 7:24 AM, James Jun wrote: Indeed... In today's internet, protecting your own box (cp-policer/ control plane filtering) is far more important IMO than implementing BCP38 when much of attack

Re: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior

2008-08-29 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 29, 2008, at 22:41, jim deleskie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm afraid of the answer to that question No you are not, since you already know the answer. -- TTFN, patrick On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Adrian Chadd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008, jim deleskie

Re: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior

2008-08-28 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 28, 2008, at 6:25 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Most of the spammer acquired /16s have been 1. pre arin 2. caused by buying up assets of long defunct companies .. assets that just happen to include a /16 nobody knew about Not exactly hijacks this lot .. just like those barely

Re: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior

2008-08-27 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 27, 2008, at 11:07 PM, John Lee wrote: 1. The technique is not new it is well known BGP behavior and not stealthy to people who route for a living. Using existing technology in novel ways is still novel. Plus it makes the technique more accessible. (Perhaps that is not a good

Re: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior

2008-08-27 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 27, 2008, at 11:47 PM, John Lee wrote: The traceroute utility that I used gave me a list of hops that the packet I was interested in transited and a time when it transited the hop. When the TTL was reached it would terminate the listing. You are very confused how traceroute works.

Re: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior

2008-08-27 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 28, 2008, at 1:40 AM, Jim Popovitch wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming it is in the wrong place, you may be able to detect the intrusion. But most people do not run traceroutes all day and watch for it to change. If you run

Re: Public shaming list for ISPs announcing other ISPs IP space by mistake

2008-08-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 13, 2008, at 4:48 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:04:27PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: The italian courts seem to have told ISPs there to block ThePirateBay (bittorrent tracker), and this evening (CET) LLNW (AS22822) originated 88.80.6.0/24 via 6762 (telecom

Re: Public shaming list for ISPs announcing other ISPs IP space by mistake

2008-08-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 13, 2008, at 5:04 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:52:46PM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Sure. I'd also like to see providers actually just shut off customers that originate stuff like ms-sql slammer packets still. But it keeps flowing. I'm sure

Re: Coop Peering Fabric??

2008-08-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 12, 2008, at 3:37 AM, Paul Wall wrote: If it were as easy as you make it sound, I can assure you people would be doing it. People are. I (and others) mentioned SIX TorIX, plus I mentioned PaNAP. Then there's AtlantaIX, although that recently got slurped by TelX. (Hrmmm, could

Re: Coop Peering Fabric??

2008-08-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 12, 2008, at 10:23 AM, David Diaz wrote: Second, I have heard a lot of talk about SIX over the last year or so and there is no guarantees that situation won't change. As a board member of SIX, I can tell you that we are not going away any time soon. -- TTFN, patrick

Re: Traceroute and random UDP ports

2008-08-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 12, 2008, at 7:54 PM, Glen Kent wrote: The outgoing packets from traceroute are sent towards the destination using UDP and very high port numbers, typically in the range of 32,768 and higher. This is because no one is gernally expected to run UDP services up there, so when the packet

Re: Coop Peering Fabric??

2008-08-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 12, 2008, at 4:48 PM, Paul Wall wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tons of others exist, in big and little markets. There's one in 365 Main SF, there's KleyReX in the same building as DE-CIX, Big APE in 111 8th, NYCx there too

Re: Coop Peering Fabric??

2008-08-11 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
As a big ra-ra guy around peering, I thought this might be interesting, but I do not think I agree with the numbers. On Aug 11, 2008, at 11:15 PM, Deepak Jain wrote: Given Cogent (and others) recent pursuit of sub $4/mb/s transit... and the relatively flat cost of a paid peering fabric

Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

2008-08-07 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 7, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Pete Templin wrote: Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Filter your bogons. But do it in an automated fashion, from a trusted source. Of course, I recommend Team Cymru, which has a most sterling record. Nearly perfect (other than the fact they still recommend MD5

Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

2008-08-07 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
[Just a correction because Randy attributed something to me that I didn't do.] On Aug 7, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Randy Bush wrote: btw, patrick neglected the last sentences of that paragraph, which made me wonder what rob would actually say. luckily, in response to my post, rob replied that

Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

2008-08-07 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 7, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How much does it help to filter the bogons? In one study conducted by Rob Thomas of a frequently attacked site, fully 60% of the naughty packets were obvious bogons (e.g. 127.1.2.3, 0.5.4.3, etc.)

Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

2008-08-06 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 6, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Rob Thomas wrote: This makes sense especially for static filters. Automated feeds, such as the bogon route-server or DNS zones, leaves folks with options. Honestly, I don't believe the 80/20 rules applies here. Until all transit networks are willing to

Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

2008-08-06 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 6, 2008, at 11:46 AM, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Leo Bicknell wrote: Have bogon filters outlived their use? Is it time to recommend people go to a simpler bogon filter (e.g. no 1918, Class D, Class E) that doesn't need to be updated as frequently? Seems like filtering against

Re: Out of Date Bogon Prefix

2008-08-05 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 5, 2008, at 3:26 PM, Tim Sanderson wrote: Ya sure, like any of us would admit to 50% clue-ness. With all the posts here about bogons I would really be surprised that any nanog readers didn't know about keeping bogons updated. I'd be shocked it there were no people who read NANOG and

Re: Level3 tries cell-phone style billing scam on customers

2008-08-02 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Aug 2, 2008, at 8:24 PM, Jeff MacDonald wrote: On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 11:15:06AM -0700, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: There's a big difference between the airlines hiking fares for future flights, which you can see when searching, and choose the competition; and companies adding surcharges to

Re: Level3 tries cell-phone style billing scam on customers

2008-07-31 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 31, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Jamie A Lawrence wrote: On Jul 31, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Gadi Evron wrote: Isn't malicious, just not very ethical. Having been on the recieving end a few times.. you don't always know it is happening. I'm not sure that's a useful distinction. I strongly doubt any

Re: Level3 tries cell-phone style billing scam on customers

2008-07-31 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 31, 2008, at 3:34 PM, Wayne E. Bouchard wrote: Hoping for a company which will put ethics above profit is like looking for an honest politician. They're extremely rare. I'm just looking for a company that looks past the next quarterly investor call. Because then at least some ethics

Re: Exploit for DNS Cache Poisoning - RELEASED

2008-07-23 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 23, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 21:17 -0400, Joe Abley wrote: Luckily we have the SSL/CA architecture in place to protect any web page served over SSL. It's a good job users are not conditioned to click OK when told the certificate for this site is

Re: OT: www.Amazon.com down?

2008-06-06 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Lasher, Donn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Checked, and doublechecked, not just me www.amazon.com returns: Http/1.1 Service Unavailable Anyone have a URL for a network/etc status page, or info on the outage? Been that way for a while this morning. HTTPS works. --

Re: Same AS number from different location and Migration of IP addresses

2008-05-24 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On May 24, 2008, at 9:15 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On May 23, 2008, at 8:15 PM, devang patel wrote: Is that okay to use Same AS number for the two different site on different location? To answer this specific question, Autonomous Systems should be topologically convex. This means, at

Re: [Nanog-futures] Subject line Tag and footer

2008-05-05 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On May 5, 2008, at 10:31 PM, Gregory Hicks wrote: From: Joe Abley [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 5 May 2008, at 21:47, Scott Weeks wrote: I have been waiting to send this, but please reconsider the Subject line tag and the footer. It is very bothersome. If given a choice, I would opt for neither.

Re: [NANOG] fair warning: less than 1000 days left to IPv4 exhaustion

2008-05-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On May 4, 2008, at 11:01 PM, David Conrad wrote: On May 3, 2008, at 8:37 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: William Warren wrote: That also doesn't take into account how many /8's are being hoarded by organizations that don't need even 25% of that space. which one's would those be? While I wouldn't

Re: [NANOG] fair warning: less than 1000 days left to IPv4 exhaustion

2008-05-02 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On May 2, 2008, at 5:40 PM, jamie wrote: You first, mister chicken-with-his-head-cut-off. What's your plan? Mike owns Hurricane Electric. HE.net has the most v6 routes, peering, and pretty much any other metric you can dream up. His .sig says Wholesale IPv4 and IPv6 Transit. What do

Re: [NANOG] fair warning: less than 1000 days left to IPv4 exhaustion

2008-05-02 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On May 2, 2008, at 6:01 PM, Marc Manthey wrote: P.S. 10K of your not-so-close friends? does this mean this list has 10.000 subscribers ? I've heard all kinds of numbers, you can probably dig something out of the archives. But my understanding is there are far greater than 10K mailboxes

Re: [Nanog] ATT VP: Internet to hit capacity by 2010

2008-04-18 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 18, 2008, at 4:15 PM, Scott Francis wrote: http://www.news.com/2100-1034_3-6237715.html I find claims that soon everything will be HD somewhat dubious (working for a company that produces video for online distribution) - although certainly not as eyebrow-raising as in 3 years' time,

Re: [Nanog] List Change [was Re: [OT] Fwd: Photo]

2008-04-18 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
Despite the chatter, I think we should all congratulate Merit on a very smooth and orderly transition to the new server. No, it was not perfect, but given all the possible outcomes, we are definitely in the top quartile. IMHO, of course. -- TTFN, patrick

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