Re: SmartNet Alternatives

2011-02-16 Thread Christian de Larrinaga
Can anybody point to dependable analysis of the performance credentials on green (CO2/carbon neutral, recycling, etc) and financial cost recovery of the Internet vendors such Juniper and Cisco et al? The story emerging here is not looking very encouraging. Christian On 13 Feb 2011, at

Re: SmartNet Alternatives

2011-02-16 Thread Neil J. McRae
I've used NHR for a number of deployments over the past couple of years and they are a fantastic organisation to work with. I've used them for maintenance support in the US for replacement of parts - highly recommended. - Original Message - From: tbran...@gmail.com Sent: Tue, February

Re: NIST and SP800-119

2011-02-16 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-02-16, at 02:44, Douglas Otis wrote: Routers indicate local MTUs, but minimum MTUs are not assured to have 1280 octets when IPv4 translation is involved. See Section 5 in rfc2460. I've heard that interpretation of 2460 before from Bill Manning, but I still don't see it myself. The

Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

2011-02-16 Thread Franck Martin
- Original Message - From: Martin Millnert milln...@gmail.com To: Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv Cc: North American Network Operators Group nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thursday, 17 February, 2011 8:28:22 AM Subject: Re: NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet On Wed,

Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

2011-02-16 Thread Fred Baker
I don't think that the Egyptian shutdown of domain names had much effect; that's why the bgp prefixes were withdrawn. What was effective was the withdrawal of BGP prefixes. http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml notes, for example, that routes *through* Egypt were

Re: Fwd: [arin-announce] IN-ADDR.ARPA Zone Transfer Complete

2011-02-16 Thread Doug Barton
John, Congratulations to you and ICANN for this significant step, at all the various layers and meanings of significant. :) Relevant to another post today, I've noticed that neither the *.ip6-servers.arpa nor the *.in-addr-servers.arpa allow axfr. Which leads to the following questions:

Re: [arin-announce] IN-ADDR.ARPA Zone Transfer Complete

2011-02-16 Thread John Curran
On Feb 16, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Doug Barton wrote: John, Congratulations to you and ICANN for this significant step, at all the various layers and meanings of significant. :) Relevant to another post today, I've noticed that neither the *.ip6-servers.arpa nor the *.in-addr-servers.arpa

Re: [arin-announce] IN-ADDR.ARPA Zone Transfer Complete

2011-02-16 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/16/2011 13:44, John Curran wrote: On Feb 16, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Doug Barton wrote: John, Congratulations to you and ICANN for this significant step, at all the various layers and meanings of significant. :) Relevant to another post today, I've noticed that neither the

Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

2011-02-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 2/16/11 4:25 PM, Fred Baker wrote: I don't think that the Egyptian shutdown of domain names had much effect ... ditto. i'm not aware of any actions by the .eg registry operator, though i'll ask, coincidental to the prefix withdrawal. i suppose in the interests of completeness i should

Re: NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet

2011-02-16 Thread Richard Barnes
Never mind, Messrs. Cowie and Baker answered my question: http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2011-February/033181.html Couldn't have paths through Egypt if layer 2 were cut off. (Right?) --Richard On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Richard Barnes richard.bar...@gmail.com wrote: It also

Re: [arin-announce] IN-ADDR.ARPA Zone Transfer Complete

2011-02-16 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-02-16, at 17:33, Doug Barton wrote: This leads to 2 additional questions: 1. Is the zone available from those 2 locations the same as what's available on the authoritative servers, or is there a lag time between updates on the auth and the xfr servers? The two servers mentioned

Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

2011-02-16 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Feb 16, 2011, at 4:25 13PM, Fred Baker wrote: I don't think that the Egyptian shutdown of domain names had much effect; that's why the bgp prefixes were withdrawn. What was effective was the withdrawal of BGP prefixes. Per the NYT article, the issue was the Egyptian Intranet -- people

Re: [arin-announce] IN-ADDR.ARPA Zone Transfer Complete

2011-02-16 Thread Franck Martin
- Original Message - From: Joe Abley jab...@hopcount.ca To: Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us Cc: John Curran jcur...@arin.net, NANOG na...@merit.edu Sent: Thursday, 17 February, 2011 12:05:16 PM Subject: Re: [arin-announce] IN-ADDR.ARPA Zone Transfer Complete On 2011-02-16, at

Re: ATT MPLS / BIB Routers

2011-02-16 Thread Mikeal Clark
I'm building up to 3000-4000ms latency with these BIB routers. We never had this issue on the old point to points using Cisco gear. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Jim Gettys j...@freedesktop.org wrote: On 02/16/2011 05:44 PM, Mikeal Clark wrote: We just put in a ATT MPLS and are having a

Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

2011-02-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 2/16/11 6:10 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote: On Feb 16, 2011, at 4:25 13PM, Fred Baker wrote: I don't think that the Egyptian shutdown of domain names had much effect; that's why the bgp prefixes were withdrawn. What was effective was the withdrawal of BGP prefixes. Per the NYT article, the

Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

2011-02-16 Thread Fred Baker
ah On Feb 16, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote: On Feb 16, 2011, at 4:25 13PM, Fred Baker wrote: I don't think that the Egyptian shutdown of domain names had much effect; that's why the bgp prefixes were withdrawn. What was effective was the withdrawal of BGP prefixes. Per

Re: NIST and SP800-119

2011-02-16 Thread Douglas Otis
On 2/16/11 10:57 PM, Joe Abley wrote: On 2011-02-16, at 02:44, Douglas Otis wrote: Routers indicate local MTUs, but minimum MTUs are not assured to have 1280 octets when IPv4 translation is involved. See Section 5 in rfc2460. I've heard that interpretation of 2460 before from Bill Manning,

Re: NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet

2011-02-16 Thread Martin Millnert
Mounir, On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Mounir Mohamed mounir.moha...@gmail.com wrote: No the BGP and the physical links were down. did you have any domestic BGP sessions up? Regards, Martin

Re: [arin-announce] IN-ADDR.ARPA Zone Transfer Complete

2011-02-16 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/16/2011 15:13, Franck Martin wrote: - Original Message - From: Joe Ableyjab...@hopcount.ca To: Doug Bartondo...@dougbarton.us Cc: John Curranjcur...@arin.net, NANOGna...@merit.edu Sent: Thursday, 17 February, 2011 12:05:16 PM Subject: Re: [arin-announce] IN-ADDR.ARPA Zone

Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

2011-02-16 Thread Franck Martin
- Original Message - From: Randy Bush ra...@psg.com To: Fred Baker f...@cisco.com Cc: Franck Martin fra...@genius.com, North American Network Operators Group nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thursday, 17 February, 2011 2:37:02 PM Subject: Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found

Re: [arin-announce] IN-ADDR.ARPA Zone Transfer Complete

2011-02-16 Thread David Conrad
Congrats to all on getting this done! It's been a long time in coming. Good to see it finally finished. Regards, -drc On Feb 16, 2011, at 1:00 PM, John Curran wrote: Apologies for cross-posting, but I believe this relevant to the NANOG operator community. FYI, /John Begin forwarded

Re: Slaving the root and other top-level DNS zones

2011-02-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:14:48 +0800, Phil Regnauld said: Point 2: I've heard that 98% of traffic to the root is junk, but since NXDOMAINs get quickly neg cached, how much bandwidth conservation and resource preservation are we talking about ? If one takes

To the people who answer tech questions on this list

2011-02-16 Thread Michael Dillon
This list serves a number of purposes and one of them is to answer technical networking questions. But this list is also not the only place that these types of questions are asked. For instance, LinkedIn has a QA feature where people can ask and answer questions on a wide range of topics. Just

Re: ATT MPLS / BIB Routers

2011-02-16 Thread Jim Gettys
On 02/16/2011 06:16 PM, Mikeal Clark wrote: I'm building up to 3000-4000ms latency with these BIB routers. We never had this issue on the old point to points using Cisco gear. Bufferbloat is getting more and more common, as memory has gotten cheaper, and braindead people claim that 0 packet

Re: NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet

2011-02-16 Thread Michael Dillon
No the BGP and the physical links were down. What about non-Internet layer 2 links? A number of companies have private IP networks extending into Egypt providing MPLS or other VPN services. In addition, there are often longlines into the Gulf states to provide the Egyptian sites with redundancy.

RE: To the people who answer tech questions on this list

2011-02-16 Thread Brandon Kim
I'm never afraid to ask a question, just as long as I've done my homework (due diligence) and not using this group to do work for me. Believe me, this group has helped me tremendously. As for LinkedIN, I have nothing against, it, but I don't use it. I don't have an account on it and not

Re: To the people who answer tech questions on this list

2011-02-16 Thread Phil Regnauld
Michael Dillon (wavetossed) writes: What do you think? (Probably best to answer this on the NANOG group over at... Hmm, wouldn't http://serverfault.com/ or http://www.quora.com/ be a more appropriate / efficient forum for technical questions ? Or does it have to be

RE: ATT MPLS / BIB Routers

2011-02-16 Thread George Bonser
From: Mikeal Clark Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 3:16 PM To: Jim Gettys Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: ATT MPLS / BIB Routers I'm building up to 3000-4000ms latency with these BIB routers. We never had this issue on the old point to points using Cisco gear. Something I

Re: Slaving the root and other top-level DNS zones

2011-02-16 Thread Phil Regnauld
Doug Barton (dougb) writes: Actually it seems like you want to jump up and down on it. Given that both the benefits and the potential problems have been extensively debated elsewhere, I'll simply say that you raise interesting questions that I think people interested in this method should

Re: Slaving the root and other top-level DNS zones

2011-02-16 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/16/2011 22:16, Phil Regnauld wrote: Doug Barton (dougb) writes: Actually it seems like you want to jump up and down on it. Given that both the benefits and the potential problems have been extensively debated elsewhere, I'll simply say that you raise interesting questions that I think

Re: To the people who answer tech questions on this list

2011-02-16 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 19:03 16/02/2011 -0800, Michael Dillon wrote: This list serves a number of purposes and one of them is to answer technical networking questions. But this list is also not the only place that these types of questions are asked. For instance, LinkedIn has a QA feature where people can ask and

Re: To the people who answer tech questions on this list

2011-02-16 Thread TJ
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 22:23, Phil Regnauld regna...@nsrc.org wrote: Michael Dillon (wavetossed) writes: What do you think? (Probably best to answer this on the NANOG group over at... Hmm, wouldn't http://serverfault.com/ or http://www.quora.com/ be a more appropriate /