[NANOG-announce] Proposed NANOG bylaws amendments

2012-09-19 Thread Steve Feldman
Please review and comment on the proposed amendments to the NANOG bylaws at: https://sites.google.com/a/newnog.org/bylaws-2012/ It has become apparent that cleaning up and simplifying our bylaws will be a long-term project, more than can be accomplished in a single election cycle. These

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Sep 18, 2012, at 21:11 , Mike Hale eyeronic.des...@gmail.com wrote: this is the arin vigilante cultural view of the world. luckily, the disease does not propagate sufficiently to cross oceans. I'd love to hear the reasoning for this. Why would it be bad policy to force companies to

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread goemon
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Owen DeLong wrote: On Sep 18, 2012, at 21:11 , Mike Hale eyeronic.des...@gmail.com wrote: this is the arin vigilante cultural view of the world. luckily, the disease does not propagate sufficiently to cross oceans. I'd love to hear the reasoning for this. Why would it be

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Jo Rhett
On Sep 18, 2012, at 11:40 PM, goe...@anime.net wrote: Is they are not using them directly on the public internet, then there's no reason we can't use them. Problem solved! Dude, seriously. Just because they aren't in *YOUR* routing table doesn't mean that they aren't in hundreds of other

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Mark Andrews
In message pine.lnx.4.64.1209182339200.5...@sasami.anime.net, goe...@anime.ne t writes: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Owen DeLong wrote: On Sep 18, 2012, at 21:11 , Mike Hale eyeronic.des...@gmail.com wrote: this is the arin vigilante cultural view of the world. luckily, the disease does not

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread goemon
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Mark Andrews wrote: In message pine.lnx.4.64.1209182339200.5...@sasami.anime.net, goe...@anime.ne t writes: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Owen DeLong wrote: On Sep 18, 2012, at 21:11 , Mike Hale eyeronic.des...@gmail.com wrote: this is the arin vigilante cultural view of the

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-19 Thread Seth Mos
Op 18-9-2012 22:50, William Herrin schreef: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 18/09/2012 21:24, William Herrin wrote: IPv6 falls down compared to IPv4 on wifi networks when it responds to a router solicitation with a multicast (instead of unicast) router

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-19 Thread Masataka Ohta
William Herrin wrote: Unicast since its responding to a solicitation? RFC4861 states: A router MAY choose to unicast the response directly to the soliciting host's address (if the solicitation's source address is not the unspecified address), but the usual case is to

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Elmar K. Bins
eyeronic.des...@gmail.com (Mike Hale) wrote: You know what sucks worse than NAT? Memorizing an IPv6 address. ;) I agree. But we'll have to live with it until something better comes along. The assumption behind my original question is that the IP space simply isn't used anywhere near as

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-19 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: Big Temporary Networks Date: Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 01:03:00PM -0700 Quoting Jo Rhett (jrh...@netconsonance.com): On Sep 13, 2012, at 7:29 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: I'm talking to the people who will probably be, in 2015, running the first Worldcon I can practically drive to, in

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-19 Thread Masataka Ohta
Seth Mos wrote: Yes, radvd has a configuration option to send unicast packets. But I think the effects are slightly overstated. A senario considered by IEEE11ai is that a very crowded train arrives at a station and all the smart phones of passengers try to connect to APs. Then, it is

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Alex Harrowell
On 19/09/12 08:04, goe...@anime.net wrote: On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Mark Andrews wrote: In message pine.lnx.4.64.1209182339200.5...@sasami.anime.net, goe...@anime.ne t writes: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Owen DeLong wrote: On Sep 18, 2012, at 21:11 , Mike Hale eyeronic.des...@gmail.com wrote: this is

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Tim Franklin
So...why do you need publicly routable IP addresses if they aren't publicly routable? Because the RIRs aren't in the business of handing out publicly routable address space. They're in the business of handing out globally unique address space - *one* of the reasons for which may be

IMPLEMENTING A SOFTWARE BASED ROUTE SERVER

2012-09-19 Thread Joseph M. Owino
Hi, Hope you are all well. I work at an exchange point and was seeking any assistance on how to implement a software based route server as currently we are using a Cisco Router for that purpose. Any form of assistance will be highly appreciated. regards Muga

Re: IMPLEMENTING A SOFTWARE BASED ROUTE SERVER

2012-09-19 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2012-09-19 14:05 , Joseph M. Owino wrote: Hi, Hope you are all well. I work at an exchange point and was seeking any assistance on how to implement a software based route server as currently we are using a Cisco Router for that purpose. Any form of assistance will be highly appreciated.

Re: IMPLEMENTING A SOFTWARE BASED ROUTE SERVER

2012-09-19 Thread Phil Regnauld
Joseph M. Owino (jpmuga) writes: Hi, Hope you are all well. I work at an exchange point and was seeking any assistance on how to implement a software based route server as currently we are using a Cisco Router for that purpose. Any form of assistance will be highly appreciated.

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 09:11:50PM -0700, Mike Hale wrote: I'd love to hear the reasoning for this. Why would it be bad policy to force companies to use the resources they are assigned or give them back to the general pool? While I personally think ARIN should do more to

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread John Osmon
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:07:33AM -0500, Jimmy Hess wrote: Assume you have a public IPv4 assignment, and someone else starts routing your assignment... legitimately or not, RIR allocation transferred to them, or not. There might be a record created in a database, and/or internet routing

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-19 Thread TJ
SNIP The only thing operators have to know about IPv6 is that IPv6, as is currently specified, is not operational. I think it is safe to say that this is provably false. Are there opportunities for increased efficiency, perhaps ... however: I get native IPv6 at home via my standard

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Seth Mos
Op 19-9-2012 14:35, Leo Bicknell schreef: In a message written on Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 09:11:50PM -0700, Mike Hale wrote: I'd love to hear the reasoning for this. Why would it be bad policy to force companies to use the resources they are assigned or give them back to the general pool?

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Cutler James R
On Sep 19, 2012, at 9:24 AM, John Osmon jos...@rigozsaurus.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:07:33AM -0500, Jimmy Hess wrote: Assume you have a public IPv4 assignment, and someone else starts routing your assignment... legitimately or not, RIR allocation transferred to them, or not.

Recommended Generator Service in Northern Colorado

2012-09-19 Thread Blake Pfankuch
Looking for some recommendations on a company to do regularly scheduled maintenance work on our Generac Generator in Northern Colorado. The company who did the installation is out of business, and the company who most recently did work does not believe in answering the phone... Any

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-19 Thread Sean Harlow
On Sep 19, 2012, at 04:25, Masataka Ohta wrote: As I already stated, DHCP discover/request from STA to AP is unicast. This didn't sound right, so I decided to test. With the three clients available to me (laptop running OS X 10.7.4, phone running Android 4.0, and iPod running iOS 4.1.2) all

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Jo Rhett
On Sep 19, 2012, at 1:46 AM, Alex Harrowell wrote: To be provocative, what on earth is their excuse for not using IPv6 internally? By definition, an internal network that isn't announced to the public Internet doesn't have to worry about happy eyeballs, broken carrier NAT, and the like

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread joel jaeggli
On 9/19/12 10:42 AM, Jo Rhett wrote: And second, have you ever worked on a private intranet that wasn't connected to the internet through a firewall? Skipping oob networks for equipment management, neither have I. Plenty of people on this list have worked on private internet(s) with real AS

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Cutler James R
On Sep 19, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Jo Rhett jrh...@netconsonance.com wrote: And second, have you ever worked on a private intranet that wasn't connected to the internet through a firewall? Skipping oob networks for equipment management, neither have I. Yes, for many years. External connections

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Scott Howard
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Mike Hale eyeronic.des...@gmail.comwrote: So...why do you need publicly routable IP addresses if they aren't publicly routable? Because doing anything else is Harmful! There's even an RFC that says so! http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1627 - Network 10

They aren't on *MY* Internet, so I should get their space!

2012-09-19 Thread Jo Rhett
I'm renaming the thread to what the argument really is. On Sep 19, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Cutler James R wrote: On Sep 19, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Jo Rhett jrh...@netconsonance.com wrote: And second, have you ever worked on a private intranet that wasn't connected to the internet through a firewall?

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread David Conrad
On Sep 19, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Mike Hale eyeronic.des...@gmail.comwrote: So...why do you need publicly routable IP addresses if they aren't publicly routable? Because doing anything else is Harmful! There's even an RFC

Comcast mail admin contact?

2012-09-19 Thread George Bonser
We are having trouble that seems to look like we are being throttled from one of our production nets to Comcast's pop3 service (mail.comcast.net). Service appears to work fine from other addresses in our network, just transactions from one of our more active production source IPs seems to

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Lynda
On 9/19/2012 10:52 AM, joel jaeggli wrote: On 9/19/12 10:42 AM, Jo Rhett wrote: And second, have you ever worked on a private intranet that wasn't connected to the internet through a firewall? Skipping oob networks for equipment management, neither have I. Plenty of people on this list have

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread david peahi
Those who argue that IPv4 addresses must be reclaimed seem to have forgotten that even for small organizations, converting IPv4 address space to RFC1918 addresses, or IPv6, is a huge task given the fixed IP addresses of many devices (printers, copy machines, etc.), and even worse, the many key

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Robert Guerra
Am I correct in assuming that the unused IP block would not be sold as is mentioned in the article, but instead be returned to RIPE to be reallocated? Robert On 18 Sep 2012, at 10:07, Eugen Leitl wrote:

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread George Herbert
As the subsequent discussion here shows, unused is a press inaccuracy. The nets are in active use; much of that use is not publicly advertised, but it's still in use. George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone On Sep 19, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Robert Guerra rgue...@privaterra.org wrote: Am I

RE: Recommended Generator Service in Northern Colorado (from nanog)

2012-09-19 Thread Blake Pfankuch
Since I have gotten many off list responses.. I have a submitted an Information Request they sent me back the list which is on their website of 24 shops within 75 miles. Looking for a little bit more information/history, as two of them I called this morning I went to their voicemail. Of

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread David Conrad
Robert, On Sep 19, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Robert Guerra rgue...@privaterra.org wrote: Am I correct in assuming that the unused IP block would not be sold as is mentioned in the article, but instead be returned to RIPE to be reallocated? Assuming for the sake of argument that the 51/8 is actually

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 19/09/2012 22:02, David Conrad wrote: Assuming for the sake of argument that the 51/8 is actually unused (which it apparently isn't), the UK gov't would be under no contractual obligation to return the address space to IANA (which is (arguably) the allocating registry, not RIPE) -- I

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread John Levine
In article 450916d8-fa1d-4d43-be8f-451d50dd6...@privaterra.org you write: Am I correct in assuming that the unused IP block would not be sold as is mentioned in the article, but instead be returned to RIPE to be reallocated? Since there is no chance of either one happening, no. R's, John

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-19 Thread Masataka Ohta
Sean Harlow wrote: As I already stated, DHCP discover/request from STA to AP is unicast. This didn't sound right, so I decided to test. Your test is invalid. With the three clients available to me (laptop running OS X 10.7.4, phone running Android 4.0, and iPod running iOS 4.1.2) all

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-19 Thread Masataka Ohta
TJ wrote: The only thing operators have to know about IPv6 is that IPv6, as is currently specified, is not operational. I think it is safe to say that this is provably false. You failed to do so. Are there opportunities for increased efficiency, perhaps ... however: Congestion collapse is

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Doug Barton
Imagine that you are the DWP. You're given a block of addresses, told that they will be yours forever, plan your network accordingly, and implement your plan. Now, decades later, people are telling you that forever is over, and you have to totally re-address your network because you have

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:54:35 +0900, Masataka Ohta said: Sean Harlow wrote: As I already stated, DHCP discover/request from STA to AP is unicast. This didn't sound right, so I decided to test. Your test is invalid. You forgot to include a .jpg of Darth Vader playing bagpipes on a

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Joe Maimon
Doug Barton wrote: We were already looking at the IPv4 runout problems when I was at IANA in 2004. We already knew (in large part thanks to folks like Tony Hain and Geoff Huston) that we'd run out in the 2010-2012 time frame, and a lot of us pushed a lot of rocks up a lot of hills to get our

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-19 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Sean Harlow s...@seanharlow.info wrote: On Sep 19, 2012, at 04:25, Masataka Ohta wrote: As I already stated, DHCP discover/request from STA to AP is unicast. This didn't sound right, so I decided to test. With the three clients available to me (laptop

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:36:08 -0400, Joe Maimon said: So 6-8 years to try and rehabilitate 240/4 was not even enough to try? 6 years of work to accomplish something that would only buy us 16 /8s, which would be maybe 2 year's supply, instead of actually deploying IPv6. And at the end of the 2

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Joe Maimon
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:36:08 -0400, Joe Maimon said: So 6-8 years to try and rehabilitate 240/4 was not even enough to try? 6 years of work What I said is that they knew they would have had at least 6 years or _more_ to rehabilitate it, had they made a

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 nanog@nanog.org

2012-09-19 Thread Robert Bonomi
From: Jo Rhett jrh...@netconsonance.com Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:42:30 -0700 Subject: Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 [[ sneck ]] And second, have you ever worked on a private intranet that wasn't connected to the internet through a firewall? Skipping oob

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-19 Thread Masataka Ohta
William Herrin wrote: I think Masataka meant to say (and said previously) that the DHCP request from the wifi station is, like all packets from the wifi station to the AP, subject to wifi's layer 2 error recovery. It's not unicast but its subject to error recovery anyway. Mostly correct.

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 nanog@nanog.org

2012-09-19 Thread Jo Rhett
On Sep 19, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: In the financial and/or brokerage communities, there are internal networks with enough 'high value'/sensitive information to justify air gap isolation from the outide world. Also, in those industries, there are 'semi-isolated' networks where

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-19 Thread TJ
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Masataka Ohta mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp wrote: A single counter example is enough to deny IPv6 operational. Really? If that is really your opinion, the entire conversation is a rather moot point as I believe you and pretty much the rest of the world

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 nanog@nanog.org

2012-09-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:46:54 -0700, Jo Rhett said: You're all missing the point in grand style. Given that the entire thread is based on somebody who missed the point in totally grand style and managed to get press coverage of said missing the point, I am starting to suspect that several people

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 nanog@nanog.org

2012-09-19 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 06:46:54PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: For these networks to have gateways which connect to the outside, you have to have an understanding of which IP networks are inside, and which IP networks are outside. Your proxy client then forwards connections to outside networks to

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 9/19/12, John Osmon jos...@rigozsaurus.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:07:33AM -0500, Jimmy Hess wrote: But your unconnected network, is unaffected. Ahh... But the network may not be unconnected. Just because *you* don't have a path to it doesn't mean others are similarly

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Leo Vegoda
On Sep 19, 2012, at 5:50 pm, Joe Maimon jmai...@ttec.com wrote: […] So 6-8 years to try and rehabilitate 240/4 was not even enough to try? 6 years of work What I said is that they knew they would have had at least 6 years or _more_ to rehabilitate it, had they made a serious effort at

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Doug Barton
On 09/19/2012 15:36, Joe Maimon wrote: So 6-8 years to try and rehabilitate 240/4 was not even enough to try? All the experts I consulted with told me that the effort to make this workable on the big-I Internet, not to mention older private networks; would be equivalent if not greater than the

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 505a8828.9040...@dougbarton.us, Doug Barton writes: On 09/19/2012 15:36, Joe Maimon wrote: So 6-8 years to try and rehabilitate 240/4 was not even enough to try? All the experts I consulted with told me that the effort to make this workable on the big-I Internet, not to mention

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-19 Thread Masataka Ohta
TJ wrote: A single counter example is enough to deny IPv6 operational. Really? With the Internet wide scope, yes, of course. In general, as IPv6 was designed to make ND uber Alles, not IP uber Alles, and ND was designed by a committee with only ATM, Ethernet and PPP in mind, ND can not be an

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Joe Maimon
Leo Vegoda wrote: There was even a dedicated mailing list. But the drafts never made it beyond drafts, which suggests there was not a consensus in favour of an extra 18 months of IPv4 space with dubious utility value because of issues with deploy-and-forget equipment out in the wild. The

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-19 Thread David Miller
On 9/19/2012 11:33 PM, Masataka Ohta wrote: TJ wrote: A single counter example is enough to deny IPv6 operational. Really? With the Internet wide scope, yes, of course. So, a single example of IPv4 behaving in a suboptimal manner would be enough to declare IPv4 not operational? Reductio

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 9/19/12, Joe Maimon jmai...@ttec.com wrote: Why is this cast as a boolean choice? And how has the getting on with IPv6 deployment been working out? getting a single extra /4 is considered, not enough of a return to make the change. I don't accept that, but as far as rehabilitating

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread John Levine
So 6-8 years to try and rehabilitate 240/4 was not even enough to try? Since it would require upgrading the IP stack on every host on the internet, uh, no. If you're planning to do that, you might as well make the upgrade handle IPv6. and no quantity of pixie dust is going to cause new space

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Daniel Richards
There is still no technical reason that 240/4 cannot be rehabilitated, other than continued immaterial objections to doing anything at all with 240/4, and given the rate of IPv6 adoption thus far, if not for those, it could possibly be reopened as unicast IPv4, and be well-supported by

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Mark Andrews
In message caaawwbw2oh0-cpsvwyrfdodvjotavaq8wdlussqvshs5cot...@mail.gmail.com , Jimmy Hess writes: On 9/19/12, Joe Maimon jmai...@ttec.com wrote: Why is this cast as a boolean choice? And how has the getting on with IPv6 deployment been working out? getting a single extra /4 is

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Seth Mos
Op 20 sep 2012, om 07:34 heeft Mark Andrews het volgende geschreven: In message caaawwbw2oh0-cpsvwyrfdodvjotavaq8wdlussqvshs5cot...@mail.gmail.com , Jimmy Hess writes: The work to fix this on most OS is minimal. The work to ensure that it could be used safely over the big I Internet

[Nanog-futures] Possible word error in section 18.1 Liability

2012-09-19 Thread Jack Hamm
I'm not a lawyer, but in section 18.1: (a) beach of the director’s or officer’s duty of loyalty to NANOG; I believe that is meant to say (a) breach of the Cheers, Jack Hamm ___ Nanog-futures mailing list Nanog-futures@nanog.org