Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-24 Thread Randy Bush
When did this become slashdot? about 1996 randy

Re: Daily Industry and Government call for Commuinications infrastructure (fwd)

2010-01-24 Thread Reynold Guerrier
To all I received yesterday morning from Mr. Montaigne Marcelin, Director of Conatel the aid that has been given by Codetel to help the technicians in the Telecommunications sector: 1. 9 packs of rice 60 Kg 2. 2 packs of beans 60 Kg 3. 2 containers of oil 30 pounds each 4. 4 herring

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-24 Thread Gadi Evron
On 1/24/10 7:48 AM, Damian Menscher wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Gadi Evrong...@linuxbox.org wrote: On 1/24/10 6:37 AM, Damian Menscher wrote: So... you're taking incomplete information hyped up by tech reporters operating based on leaks from people tangential to an investigation

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-24 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:04:31 CST, Larry Sheldon said: I remember a day when 18 was the largest number of computers that would ever be needed. First off, it was 5, not 18. :) Second, there's not much evidence that TJ Watson actually said it.

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-24 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 1/24/2010 10:03 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:04:31 CST, Larry Sheldon said: I remember a day when 18 was the largest number of computers that would ever be needed. First off, it was 5, not 18. :) Second, there's not much evidence that TJ Watson actually said

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-24 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 23, 2010, at 8:04 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote: On 1/23/2010 9:47 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: 64 bits is enough networks that if each network was an almond MM, you would be able to fill all of the great lakes with MMs before you ran out of /64s. Did somebody once say something like that

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-24 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:57:17 -0800 Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Jan 23, 2010, at 8:04 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote: On 1/23/2010 9:47 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: 64 bits is enough networks that if each network was an almond MM, you would be able to fill all of the great lakes with

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-24 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Jan 24, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Mark Smith wrote: Actually, from what Christian Huitema says in his IPv6: The New Internet Protocol book, the original IPv6 address size was 64 bits, derived from Steve Deering's Simple Internet Protocol proposal. IIRC, they doubled it to 128 bits to

Re: Best Practices - BGP community to signal transit announces.

2010-01-24 Thread Andy Davidson
On 23/01/2010 17:51, Patrick Tracanelli wrote: I am acting as transit for a number of ASNs, and my upstream peers do filter my announces (as they should as I understand). Absolutely. Is there any best practices or RFC which shall suggest how this community should be set up? Say, while I do

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-24 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:01:21 EST, Steven Bellovin said: Actually, Scott Bradner and I share most of the credit (or blame) for the change from 64 bits to 128. During the days of the IPng directorate, quite a number of different alternatives were considered. At one point, there was a

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-24 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Jan 24, 2010, at 6:26 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:01:21 EST, Steven Bellovin said: Actually, Scott Bradner and I share most of the credit (or blame) for the change from 64 bits to 128. During the days of the IPng directorate, quite a number of different

Re: Status as of Friday COB @ Boutillers, Port au Prince, Haiti

2010-01-24 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Jan 23, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: Reginald Chauvet, the owner of the Data Center in Boutillers, in which the .ht Country Code registry is a tenant, has left Haiti with his family. All the critical telecom infrastructures are located at the Data Center in Boutillers.

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-24 Thread Nathan Ward
On 24/01/2010, at 5:28 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:52:21PM +0100, Mathias Seiler wrote: I use a /126 if possible but have also configured one /64 just for the link between two routers. This works great but when I think that I'm wasting 2^64 - 2

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-24 Thread Glen Turner
On 24/01/10 12:54, Owen DeLong wrote: Use the /64... It's OK... IPv6 was designed with that in mind. I'd suggest using a /126. For two reasons. 1) Using EUI-64 addresses on router-router links is an error, the consequences of which you encounter the first time you replace some faulty

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-24 Thread Mark Smith
On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:41:18 -0500 Steven Bellovin s...@cs.columbia.edu wrote: On Jan 24, 2010, at 6:26 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:01:21 EST, Steven Bellovin said: Actually, Scott Bradner and I share most of the credit (or blame) for the change from 64

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-24 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:12:04 +1030 Glen Turner g...@gdt.id.au wrote: On 24/01/10 12:54, Owen DeLong wrote: Use the /64... It's OK... IPv6 was designed with that in mind. I'd suggest using a /126. For two reasons. 1) Using EUI-64 addresses on router-router links is an error, the

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-24 Thread Rubens Kuhl
During the days of the IPng directorate, quite a number of different alternatives were considered.  At one point, there was a compromise proposal known as the Big 10 design, because it was propounded at the Big Ten Conference Center near O'Hare.  One feature of it was addresses of length

DURZ published in root - you ready?

2010-01-24 Thread Danny McPherson
Figured I'd drop a note here reminding folks of the signed root zone publication timeline, which calls for L root to begin serving a 'DURZ' the week of 1/25/2010 -- which is now - depending on what timezone you're in: http://www.root-dnssec.org/2010/01/14/status-update-january-2010/ If

Re: DURZ published in root - you ready?

2010-01-24 Thread Jorge Amodio
Good point, tomorrow/today we'll start seeing what gets broken and hopefully why. Regards. Jorge On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Danny McPherson da...@tcb.net wrote: Figured I'd drop a note here reminding folks of the signed root zone publication timeline, which calls for L root to begin

Re: DURZ published in root - you ready?

2010-01-24 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 202705b1001241834l5b1911bat97ee2130f632f...@mail.gmail.com, Jorge Amodio writes: Good point, tomorrow/today we'll start seeing what gets broken and hopefully why. Regards. Jorge I don't expect to see much until the last root server (J) switches over. DNS implemententations are

Re: DURZ published in root - you ready?

2010-01-24 Thread Mehmet Akcin
Danny/NANOG'ers L-Root will start serving DURZ 2010-01-27 2000 UTC. Let me know if you have any questions Mehmet Akcin ICANN/L-ROOT On 1/24/10 6:30 PM, Danny McPherson da...@tcb.net wrote: Figured I'd drop a note here reminding folks of the signed root zone publication timeline, which

Re: DURZ published in root - you ready?

2010-01-24 Thread Joe Abley
On 2010-01-24, at 21:30, Danny McPherson wrote: Figured I'd drop a note here reminding folks of the signed root zone publication timeline, which calls for L root to begin serving a 'DURZ' the week of 1/25/2010 -- which is now - depending on what timezone you're in:

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-24 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 24, 2010, at 4:29 PM, Nathan Ward wrote: On 24/01/2010, at 5:28 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:52:21PM +0100, Mathias Seiler wrote: I use a /126 if possible but have also configured one /64 just for the link between two routers. This