Softlayer/Network layer partial outage in Asian region?

2012-09-13 Thread Anurag Bhatia
Seems like Softlayer/Network layer having rouitng glitches in Asia. Their prefix 216.12.192.0/19 is not working in South East. Route goes till Singapore router and times out there. traceroute to hostgator.com (216.12.194.67), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 router.local (192.168.1.1) 1.576

Re: Softlayer/Network layer partial outage in Asian region?

2012-09-13 Thread Aftab Siddiqui
No issues in other parts of the south east. But interestingly I just circled around the globe to reach the destination you mentioned as per the ptr. traceroute to 216.12.194.67 (216.12.194.67), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 124.29.233.141 (124.29.233.141) 0.303 ms 0.413 ms 0.442 ms 2

Re: APIs for domain registration and management

2012-09-13 Thread Troy Davis
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.netwrote: I expect folks on NANOG would know: Are there any domain registrars who provide APIs for managing domains and/or DNS records? It's kind of a pain managing large numbers of domains I've been very happy with

ipv6mon v1.0 released! (IPv6 address monitoring daemon)

2012-09-13 Thread Fernando Gont
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Folks, We are pleased to announce the release of ipv6mon v1.0! ** Description ** ipv6mon (http://www.si6networks.com/tools/ipv6mon) is a tool for monitoring IPv6 address usage on a local network. It is meant to be particularly useful in networks

Re: ipv6mon v1.0 released! (IPv6 address monitoring daemon)

2012-09-13 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2012-09-13 14:21 , Fernando Gont wrote: Folks, We are pleased to announce the release of ipv6mon v1.0! ** Description ** ipv6mon (http://www.si6networks.com/tools/ipv6mon) is a tool for monitoring IPv6 address usage on a local network. It is meant to be particularly useful in

Re: ipv6mon v1.0 released! (IPv6 address monitoring daemon)

2012-09-13 Thread Fernando Gont
On 09/13/2012 09:31 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote: ipv6mon employs active probing to discover IPv6 addresses in use, and determine whether such addresses remain active. You mean, like what NDPMon has been delivering for several years already: Does NDPMon do active probing? If it doesn't, it's not

Re: ipv6mon v1.0 released! (IPv6 address monitoring daemon)

2012-09-13 Thread Steve Meuse
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Jeroen Massar jer...@unfix.org wrote: You mean, like what NDPMon has been delivering for several years already: Having a choice is never a bad thing(tm). -Steve

RE: ipv6mon v1.0 released! (IPv6 address monitoring daemon)

2012-09-13 Thread Paul Kelly :: Blacknight
You mean, like what NDPMon has been delivering for several years already: Having a choice is never a bad thing(tm). +1

Real ops talking to future ops

2012-09-13 Thread John Kristoff
Hello friends, I've made this call once before and the response was very positive so I thought I'd do it again. As some of you know, I occasionally teach networking classes at DePaul University in Chicago. What has gone over extremely well in the past is when I've had a real op come talk to the

Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Jay Ashworth
My best friend just got back from Chicon 7 last week, this year's World Science Fiction Convention. He tells me that the networking at the con hotel, the Chicago Hyatt, was miserable, whether wired or wireless... and that Sprint 4G wasn't much better. I'm talking to the people who will probably

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2012-09-13 16:29 , Jay Ashworth wrote: [..] If not, do any of the people who've already done have 5 minutes to chime in on what they did and what they learned? You might want to go through the network presentations given for IETF, NANOG/ARIN and last but definitely not least: CCC congress +

Re: APIs for domain registration and management

2012-09-13 Thread Todd Lyons
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: I expect folks on NANOG would know: Are there any domain registrars who provide APIs for managing domains and/or DNS records? It's kind of a pain Melbourne IT has a thorough POST API for all of the above and

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Mike Lyon
I did a hack a thon a few months back in Palo Alto a few blocks down from PAIX. I used 6 of the Xirrius high density access points. About a 1000 attendees scattered over about 1/2 city block. 6 access points was overkill. Doing the same for a film festival here in a couple of weeks as well.

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread George Herbert
On Sep 13, 2012, at 7:37 AM, Jeroen Massar jer...@unfix.org wrote: On 2012-09-13 16:29 , Jay Ashworth wrote: [..] If not, do any of the people who've already done have 5 minutes to chime in on what they did and what they learned? You might want to go through the network presentations

RE: Layer2 over Layer3

2012-09-13 Thread Matt Newsom
There are lots of options but beware of the MTU. -Original Message- From: Philip Lavine [mailto:source_ro...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 5:23 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Layer2 over Layer3 To all,   I am trying to extend a layer2 connection over Layer 3 so I can

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Chris Boyd
On Sep 13, 2012, at 9:29 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: If not, do any of the people who've already done have 5 minutes to chime in on what they did and what they learned? I have not done any that size/duration but I have done some where the scale is 1000s of attendees over a long weekend event,

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com I know someone who did Interop's networking for a number of years and does it for various non-Worldcon conventions. His short summary was to stage and label and debug and test extensively beforehand, even if the

Re: APIs for domain registration and management

2012-09-13 Thread Chris Woodfield
Dynect has a RESTful API as well. They even host a number of sample scripts at GitHub: http://dyn.com/managed-dns-dynect-5-api-access-load-balancing-geo-traffic-management/ https://github.com/dyninc -C On Sep 12, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Hi Folks,

Re: ipv6mon v1.0 released! (IPv6 address monitoring daemon)

2012-09-13 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Steve Meuse wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Jeroen Massar jer...@unfix.org wrote: You mean, like what NDPMon has been delivering for several years already: Having a choice is never a bad thing(tm). Indeed! +1 Antonio Querubin e-mail: t...@lavanauts.org

RE: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Dylan Bouterse
-Original Message- From: Jay Ashworth [mailto:j...@baylink.com] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 11:44 AM To: NANOG Subject: Re: Big Temporary Networks - Original Message - From: George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com I know someone who did Interop's networking for a

Re: APIs for domain registration and management

2012-09-13 Thread John Levine
OpenSRS and Enom both have APIs. I've ben using OpenSRS's for ages. It's reasonably well documented and works. They do nearly all their business with resellers who typically host their own web sites and use the API to fill the orders, so the API is critical infrastructure for them. R's, John

[NANOG-announce] RESCHEDULE NOTIFICATION for NANOG mail list maintenance - Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

2012-09-13 Thread Randy Epstein
Colleagues: The NANOG mailman list upgrade and transition was not completed this morning. The maintenance has been rescheduled for Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 6 am Eastern time. Regards, Randy Epstein NANOG CC Chair On behalf of the NANOG Communications Committee

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Lynda
On 9/13/2012 7:29 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: I know without a doubt that this is a problem NANOG PCs deal with 3 times a year; is there any collected wisdom on the web already about how this has been dealt with, that I can pore over? Pointers to good archive threads? I'm surprised (well,

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Tim Franklin
You'll need a beefy NAT box. Linux with Xeon CPU and 4GB RAM minimum. Or not. The CCC presentation is showing *real* Internet for everyone, unless I'm very much mistaken... Regards, Tim.

HXXP browser protocol

2012-09-13 Thread Matthew Black
Checking if anyone else has heard of this protocol. It seems to be a method of bypassing security filtering software. The reason I ask is that we received a security alert with a link hxxp://pastebin.com/###. Seems very suspicious and want to know if anyone can shed light. Is this a new

Re: HXXP browser protocol

2012-09-13 Thread Sean Harlow
On Sep 13, 2012, at 12:34, Matthew Black wrote: Checking if anyone else has heard of this protocol. It seems to be a method of bypassing security filtering software. The reason I ask is that we received a security alert with a link hxxp://pastebin.com/###. Seems very suspicious and

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2012-09-13 18:32 , Tim Franklin wrote: You'll need a beefy NAT box. Linux with Xeon CPU and 4GB RAM minimum. Or not. The CCC presentation is showing *real* Internet for everyone, unless I'm very much mistaken... No NAT was involved there indeed. Typically conferences can get a

Re: APIs for domain registration and management

2012-09-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Thanks everyone for your responses. -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Donald Eastlake
The 2015 WorldCon site selection is contested. There is a group seeking selection for the Disney Coronado Spring Resort in Florida but also competing groups seeking Spokane, Washington, and Helsinki, Finland. Thanks, Donald = Donald E. Eastlake 3rd +1-508-333-2270

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Chris Boyd
On Sep 13, 2012, at 11:32 AM, Tim Franklin wrote: Chris Scribbled: You'll need a beefy NAT box. Linux with Xeon CPU and 4GB RAM minimum. Or not. The CCC presentation is showing *real* Internet for everyone, unless I'm very much mistaken... If you know of an ISP in Central Texas that can

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Josh Baird
We have been using Unifi (a Ubiquiti WIFI product) for local conventions and festivals. The product is fairly cheap, robust, and their access points have very good range. We have deployed it at several commercial businesses as well with great success. The deployment is very easy. We run the

RE: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Dylan Bouterse
-Original Message- From: Josh Baird [mailto:joshba...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 4:03 PM To: Donald Eastlake Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: Big Temporary Networks We have been using Unifi (a Ubiquiti WIFI product) for local conventions and festivals. The product is fairly

APIs galore: All RIPE NCC Developer Docs

2012-09-13 Thread Alex Band
I wanted to let you know we've created a dedicated page for all developer documentation about our different APIs. Apart from the best known one for the RIPE Database REST API, there is also documentation for the RIPE NCC LIR Portal API, giving you access to access to all your (private)

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: RE: Big Temporary Networks Date: Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 04:05:41PM + Quoting Dylan Bouterse (dy...@corp.power1.com): I'm not sure if this is obvious for this list or not, but with your WiFi nodes, a good practice for that kind of density is more nodes, lower power. Keep the

Re: Layer2 over Layer3

2012-09-13 Thread Mike Jones
On 12 September 2012 23:23, Philip Lavine source_ro...@yahoo.com wrote: To all, I am trying to extend a layer2 connection over Layer 3 so I can have redundant Layer connectivity between my HQ and colo site. The reason I need this is so I can give the appeareance that there is one gateway

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Donald Eastlake d3e...@gmail.com The 2015 WorldCon site selection is contested. There is a group seeking selection for the Disney Coronado Spring Resort in Florida but also competing groups seeking Spokane, Washington, and Helsinki, Finland. I knew about

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Josh Baird joshba...@gmail.com We have been using Unifi (a Ubiquiti WIFI product) for local conventions and festivals. The product is fairly cheap, robust, and their access points have very good range. We have deployed it at several commercial businesses as

Re: HXXP browser protocol

2012-09-13 Thread Ricky Beam
The reason I ask is that we received a security alert with a link hxxp://pastebin.com/###. hxxp has been around for a long time. It's a lame hack that was never widely accepted by browsers. The purpose was to have a clickable link that didn't send a referer. (i.e. copy-n-paste) There

Re: HXXP browser protocol

2012-09-13 Thread Landon Stewart
On 13 September 2012 09:38, Sean Harlow s...@seanharlow.info wrote: Using hxxp is a common method to prevent auto-linking by various email/IM clients and/or forum software to then require the user to actively copy/paste the URL to get the content. In the case of a security alert, I could see

Re: HXXP browser protocol

2012-09-13 Thread Sean Harlow
On Sep 13, 2012, at 17:21, Landon Stewart wrote: All true and commonly used but it's worth mentioning that putting a space before the dot TLD is a better way to prevent auto linking in email/IM clients since most of them detect the formation URLs by other means rather than rely on the

Re: HXXP browser protocol

2012-09-13 Thread Sean Harlow
Fur further reference, wiki gives the following reasons for hxxp or other similar methods of URL obfuscation: Some of the uses of this method include: * to avoid passing the HTTP referrer header which would reveal the referring web site to the target. * avoiding automated web crawlers from

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Josh Baird
Yes, we backhaul our own bandwidth to it; either using Cambium or Ubiquiti unlicensed 5Ghz backhauls. Depending on the distance and type of backhaul, we can get 50-150mbps to the event. Josh On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message -

Re: anyone from spamhaus hanging around?

2012-09-13 Thread Brad Barnett
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:17:44 -0400 Brad Barnett b...@gamingsolutions.ca wrote: We've been running a clean operation for years, but recently, one of our clients spammed then entire universe (using external mail servers, but linking to some internal URLs). We've since terminated them,

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Måns Nilsson mansa...@besserwisser.org 04:05:41PM + Quoting Dylan Bouterse (dy...@corp.power1.com): I'm not sure if this is obvious for this list or not, but with your WiFi nodes, a good practice for that kind of density is more nodes, lower power.

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Nat Morris
On 13 September 2012 22:13, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Josh Baird joshba...@gmail.com Besides this, we have a fairly beefy box that handles DNS and DHCP and basic firewalling. Have you had to/been able to haul in your own bandwidth to feed it?

Re: APIs for domain registration and management

2012-09-13 Thread Matthieu MICHAUD
http://wiki.gandi.net/en/xml-api On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.netwrote: Hi Folks, I expect folks on NANOG would know: Are there any domain registrars who provide APIs for managing domains and/or DNS records? It's kind of a pain managing large

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Sean Lazar
WLAN in large conferences certainly is a challenge. You basically want to get as many people on 5GHz as possible due to more available channels. 2.4GHz becomes quite noisy. Also, configuring your access points for high density helps. This means disabling the lowest data rates. You also don't want

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Derek Ivey
Thanks for sharing that. I just got my CCNA and find this stuff interesting. Derek On Sep 13, 2012, at 7:18 PM, Nat Morris n...@nuqe.net wrote: On 13 September 2012 22:13, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Josh Baird joshba...@gmail.com Besides this, we

Re: anyone from spamhaus hanging around?

2012-09-13 Thread Christopher Singhaus
Brad, I in no way represent Spamhaus, but as someone who has had lots of experience with them, I can assure you that you are not blackholed. You resolved the complaint how? Did you respond to the SBL? Did you get an auto-acknowledgement when you did respond to the SBL? Post up your SBL links

Re: anyone from spamhaus hanging around?

2012-09-13 Thread Jon Lewis
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Brad Barnett wrote: We've been running a clean operation for years, but recently, one of our clients spammed then entire universe (using external mail servers, but linking to some internal URLs). We've since terminated them, and such things are against our terms of use.

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Kauto Huopio
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Donald Eastlake d3e...@gmail.com wrote: The 2015 WorldCon site selection is contested. There is a group seeking selection for the Disney Coronado Spring Resort in Florida but also competing groups seeking Spokane, Washington, and Helsinki, Finland.

Re: Big Temporary Networks

2012-09-13 Thread Michael Painter
Jay Ashworth wrote: is there any collected wisdom on the web already about how this has been dealt with, that I can pore over? Pointers to good archive threads? If not, do any of the people who've already done have 5 minutes to chime in on what they did and what they learned? Cheers, -- jra

Re: Layer2 over Layer3

2012-09-13 Thread Carlos Alcantar
+1 on the l2tpv3 but watch out for your mtu's Carlos Alcantar Race Communications / Race Team Member 1325 Howard Ave. #604, Burlingame, CA. 94010 Phone: +1 415 376 3314 / carlos(@)race.com / http://www.race.com -Original Message- From: Philip Lavine source_ro...@yahoo.com Reply-To: