Re: Shortest path to the world

2009-07-15 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Leo Bicknell wrote: Quite frankly, your question reminds me a bit of the geography question "where is the center of the US". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_center_of_the_contiguous_United_States While nifty trivia, it acutally has no useful value for well, anything.

Re: Shortest path to the world

2009-07-15 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:39:05PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: > As I said in the original message, every nation in the world. Or more > specifically the largest number of IP endpoints reachable in the most > nations from the locations chosen. > > A = the few locations you p

Re: Shortest path to the world

2009-07-15 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Randy Bush wrote: The typical network architecture problem, what are the best (shortest latency, greatest bandwidth, etc) locations to connect to the every nation in the world? As you increase the number of locations, how do the choices change? If you only had small (2 3 5

Re: The actual value, from a security standpoint, of using a proxy domain registrar?

2009-07-15 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <1b5c1c150907151452k52093694mc8b93538b4707...@mail.gmail.com>, Mike Lyon writes: > Howdy, > > I am curious what others in the industry think on this topic. When one > registers a domain they can put in their real information or they can use a > proxy, like Go-Daddy's Domains By Proxy.

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RE: Issues accessing hulu.com from new(ish) US range

2009-07-15 Thread Frank Bulk
I've written up a wiki page: http://nanog.cluepon.net/index.php/GeoIP Please feel free to edit -- if you're too lazy to write but know something is wrong/missing, please shoot me an e-mail offline with your "back of the napkin" comments. Frank -Original Message- From: Chris Taylor [mailt

Re: The actual value, from a security standpoint, of using a proxy domain registrar?

2009-07-15 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Mike Lyon wrote: Howdy, I am curious what others in the industry think on this topic. When one registers a domain they can put in their real information or they can use a proxy, like Go-Daddy's Domains By Proxy. Now, personally, I would prefer just to get a PO Box and put that address on my do

Re: The actual value, from a security standpoint, of using a proxy domain registrar?

2009-07-15 Thread Jeremy Hanmer
Not everybody charges for the service. Shop around. On Jul 15, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Mike Lyon wrote: I still think it's a huge waste of money. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Ray Sanders < ray.sand...@villagevoicemedia.com> wrote: And that falls right into some of the scare tactic sales pitc

Re: The actual value, from a security standpoint, of using a proxy domain registrar?

2009-07-15 Thread Mike Lyon
I still think it's a huge waste of money. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Ray Sanders < ray.sand...@villagevoicemedia.com> wrote: > And that falls right into some of the scare tactic sales pitches the > domain registrars use. > > "they can look up your domain and find your home address!" > > He

Re: The actual value, from a security standpoint, of using a proxy domain registrar?

2009-07-15 Thread Ray Sanders
And that falls right into some of the scare tactic sales pitches the domain registrars use. "they can look up your domain and find your home address!" Heck, even a p.o box could leave someone open to a stalker, if said stalker is determined enough. so yes, I'll concede that point to a certain

Re: The actual value, from a security standpoint, of using a proxy domain registrar?

2009-07-15 Thread David E. Smith
Mike Lyon wrote: I am curious what others in the industry think on this topic. When one registers a domain they can put in their real information or they can use a proxy, like Go-Daddy's Domains By Proxy. If you're using it for your business, the value is pretty slim. You probably want your b

Re: The actual value, from a security standpoint, of using a proxy domain registrar?

2009-07-15 Thread Ray Sanders
My opinion is that it's nothing more than a "value-add" for domain registrars. The domain registration fees these days have razor thin margins. So places like Godaddy and others offer these services to make up for their domains essentially being "loss-leaders". A lot of these places use scare ta

The actual value, from a security standpoint, of using a proxy domain registrar?

2009-07-15 Thread Mike Lyon
Howdy, I am curious what others in the industry think on this topic. When one registers a domain they can put in their real information or they can use a proxy, like Go-Daddy's Domains By Proxy. Now, personally, I would prefer just to get a PO Box and put that address on my domain info instead of

Re: Can someone from SORBS contact me offlist?

2009-07-15 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: [ clip ] > > > Lastly, I'm going to suggest that this is drifting rather afar OT from > the charter of the group, and suggest that the MLM may want to put the > kibosh on this thread. > > > That's exactly what happened the last time we discus

New IPv6 Interview: David Freedman of Claranet

2009-07-15 Thread Alex Band
We recently added another IPv6 interview to our ipv6actnow.org and youtube pages. This time David Freedman talks about their planning and deployment, including addressing plans and training, as well as the MPLS issues that they faced. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQtbz1ahRxE We plan to h

Re: Issues accessing hulu.com from new(ish) US range

2009-07-15 Thread Chris Taylor
Frank Bulk - iName.com wrote: A few others I would check: - Akamai (you can contact them via their web page, but there are also people on this listserv that can check, too) - Google (if their search pages comes up in American English, you're good to go, otherwise there's info in their help that

Re: Shortest path to the world

2009-07-15 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Jul 15, 2009, at 5:07 AM, Sean Donelan wrote: The typical network architecture problem, what are the best (shortest latency, greatest bandwidth, etc) locations to connect to the every nation in the world? As you increase the number of locations, how do the choices change? If you only ha

Re: AT&T and having two BGP peers

2009-07-15 Thread Jay Nakamura
All, Thanks for the help. I just got word that AT&T approved the two BGP peering with us. I think telling them others have done it with AT&T helped. Much appreciated. -Jay On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Jay Nakamura wrote: > We are getting an Ethernet DIA circuit from AT&T but they insist t

RE: Issues accessing hulu.com from new(ish) US range

2009-07-15 Thread Frank Bulk - iName.com
A few others I would check: - Akamai (you can contact them via their web page, but there are also people on this listserv that can check, too) - Google (if their search pages comes up in American English, you're good to go, otherwise there's info in their help that will let you fill out a form) -

Re: Issues accessing hulu.com from new(ish) US range

2009-07-15 Thread Chris Taylor
ML wrote: Chris Taylor wrote: Would someone from hulu.com please contact me offlist? Alternatively, if anyone has contact details for a vaguely clueful person there, that would be appreciated. We had a new range allocated to us by ARIN around 6 months ago for our US business, and hulu are c

Re: Shortest path to the world

2009-07-15 Thread Randy Bush
> The typical network architecture problem, what are the best (shortest > latency, greatest bandwidth, etc) locations to connect to the every > nation in the world? As you increase the number of locations, how do the > choices change? > > If you only had small (2 3 5 7 11) number of locations,

Re: Shortest path to the world

2009-07-15 Thread Jeroen Massar
Sean Donelan wrote: > The typical network architecture problem, what are the best (shortest > latency, greatest bandwidth, etc) locations to connect to the every > nation in the world? As you increase the number of locations, how do > the choices change? > > If you only had small (2 3 5 7 11) numb

Shortest path to the world

2009-07-15 Thread Sean Donelan
The typical network architecture problem, what are the best (shortest latency, greatest bandwidth, etc) locations to connect to the every nation in the world? As you increase the number of locations, how do the choices change? If you only had small (2 3 5 7 11) number of locations, where woul

Re: Swedish bittorrent dropped 40Gbps with an EU law? (DCMA -like)

2009-07-15 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jul 15, 2009, at 7:29 AM, Charlie Allom wrote: Hello, I am interested in a claim made[1] that with the implementation of EU Directive 2004/48/EC [2] that Swedish traffic dropped 40Gb/s: http://stats.autonomica.se/mrtg/sums/All.html Could this really mean that everyone in Sweden just 'turn

Swedish bittorrent dropped 40Gbps with an EU law? (DCMA -like)

2009-07-15 Thread Charlie Allom
Hello, I am interested in a claim made[1] that with the implementation of EU Directive 2004/48/EC [2] that Swedish traffic dropped 40Gb/s: http://stats.autonomica.se/mrtg/sums/All.html Could this really mean that everyone in Sweden just 'turned off their bittorrent clients' on the 1st of April?

Re: Issues accessing hulu.com from new(ish) US range

2009-07-15 Thread ML
Chris Taylor wrote: Would someone from hulu.com please contact me offlist? Alternatively, if anyone has contact details for a vaguely clueful person there, that would be appreciated. We had a new range allocated to us by ARIN around 6 months ago for our US business, and hulu are claiming it'

Issues accessing hulu.com from new(ish) US range

2009-07-15 Thread Chris Taylor
Would someone from hulu.com please contact me offlist? Alternatively, if anyone has contact details for a vaguely clueful person there, that would be appreciated. We had a new range allocated to us by ARIN around 6 months ago for our US business, and hulu are claiming it's non-us. Our guess i