Re: In Need of 10GbE Optics @AMS4

2012-11-18 Thread Fredy Kuenzler
I guess the Flexoptix experts are able to adress this problem... 
http://www.flexoptix.net/

HTH, Fredy / Init7

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

Am 18.11.2012 um 05:00 schrieb Pete Ashdown pashd...@xmission.com:

 I don't have the quantity you need, but this reminded me that I'm in
 need of a reliable supplier of CWDM 40KM XFP 10GbE optics.  Specifically
 1310nm, but I'll need other wavelengths soon.  These things seem to be
 manufactured by elves.  I can't find a reliable supplier anywhere.  Can
 anyone help?
 



Re: In Need of 10GbE Optics @AMS4

2012-11-18 Thread Erik Bais
You could contact Solid Optics in The Netherlands.

Contact : wouter AT solid-optics.eu 

Regards,
Erik Bais

Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad

Op 17 nov. 2012 om 22:20 heeft Brant I. Stevens 
bra...@networking-architecture.com het volgende geschreven:

 Please forgive the cross-post, but figured this was the best way to reach
 my target audiences.  I am onsite and in need of:
 
 -8 10GbE Single-Mode SFP's.
 -4 10GbE Single-Mode XFPs.
 
 If you have them available for sale, that would be great, but pointing us
 in the direction of where to obtain them in-country, quickly, would be very
 useful as well.
 
 Regards,
 - Brant
 aim:branto



Re: In Need of 10GbE Optics @AMS4

2012-11-18 Thread Tammy A Wisdom
Also terabit systems has an office in Amsterdam http://www.terabitsystems.com/
I know they definitely have optics there :)


Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 18, 2012, at 2:55, Fredy Kuenzler kuenz...@init7.net wrote:

 I guess the Flexoptix experts are able to adress this problem... 
 http://www.flexoptix.net/
 
 HTH, Fredy / Init7
 
 Von meinem iPhone gesendet
 
 Am 18.11.2012 um 05:00 schrieb Pete Ashdown pashd...@xmission.com:
 
 I don't have the quantity you need, but this reminded me that I'm in
 need of a reliable supplier of CWDM 40KM XFP 10GbE optics.  Specifically
 1310nm, but I'll need other wavelengths soon.  These things seem to be
 manufactured by elves.  I can't find a reliable supplier anywhere.  Can
 anyone help?
 



Re: In Need of 10GbE Optics @AMS4

2012-11-18 Thread Rinse Kloek
+1 :)



Erik Bais eb...@a2b-internet.com schreef:You could contact Solid Optics in 
The Netherlands.

Contact : wouter AT solid-optics.eu 

Regards,
Erik Bais

Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad

Op 17 nov. 2012 om 22:20 heeft Brant I. Stevens 
bra...@networking-architecture.com het volgende geschreven:

 Please forgive the cross-post, but figured this was the best way to reach
 my target audiences.  I am onsite and in need of:
 
 -8 10GbE Single-Mode SFP's.
 -4 10GbE Single-Mode XFPs.
 
 If you have them available for sale, that would be great, but pointing us
 in the direction of where to obtain them in-country, quickly, would be very
 useful as well.
 
 Regards,
 - Brant
 aim:branto



Re: In Need of 10GbE Optics @AMS4

2012-11-18 Thread Arnold Nipper
On 18.11.2012 05:00, Pete Ashdown wrote:

 I don't have the quantity you need, but this reminded me that I'm in
 need of a reliable supplier of CWDM 40KM XFP 10GbE optics.  Specifically
 1310nm, but I'll need other wavelengths soon.  These things seem to be
 manufactured by elves.  I can't find a reliable supplier anywhere.  Can
 anyone help?
 

try http://www.cubeoptics.com/en/ ... well established since years, not
only selling transceivers but also manufacturing muxes and other
opticals stuff. If you need a contact let me know.

If anyone is in need of DWDM 40km XFP next year, I have hundreds of them
available


Best regards
Arnold
-- 
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email: arn...@nipper.de  phone: +49 6224 5593407 2
mobile: +49 152 53717690 fax:   +49 6224 5593407 9



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Apple iMessage

2012-11-18 Thread Grant Ridder
Hi,

Is anyone having trouble with apples iMessage service?  A friend and I are
in Wisconsin and Illinois respectfully and messages via iMessage are taking
up to several minutes to send.  I am using a 4s on iOS 5 and my friend is
using a 3GS.

Thanks
Grant


Re: Apple iMessage

2012-11-18 Thread Mikeal Clark
I'm having issues as well on my iPhone 5. (Wi)

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Grant Ridder shortdudey...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 Is anyone having trouble with apples iMessage service?  A friend and I are
 in Wisconsin and Illinois respectfully and messages via iMessage are taking
 up to several minutes to send.  I am using a 4s on iOS 5 and my friend is
 using a 3GS.

 Thanks
 Grant



Re: Apple iMessage

2012-11-18 Thread Jason Biel
Issues in FL as well.

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Mikeal Clark mikeal.cl...@gmail.comwrote:

 I'm having issues as well on my iPhone 5. (Wi)

 On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Grant Ridder shortdudey...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Hi,
 
  Is anyone having trouble with apples iMessage service?  A friend and I
 are
  in Wisconsin and Illinois respectfully and messages via iMessage are
 taking
  up to several minutes to send.  I am using a 4s on iOS 5 and my friend is
  using a 3GS.
 
  Thanks
  Grant




-- 
Jason


Re: Apple iMessage

2012-11-18 Thread Matthew Litt
Having same issues in Los Angeles. 
iMessages are failing. 



On Nov 18, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Jason Biel ja...@biel-tech.com wrote:

 Issues in FL as well.
 
 On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Mikeal Clark mikeal.cl...@gmail.comwrote:
 
 I'm having issues as well on my iPhone 5. (Wi)
 
 On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Grant Ridder shortdudey...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Is anyone having trouble with apples iMessage service?  A friend and I
 are
 in Wisconsin and Illinois respectfully and messages via iMessage are
 taking
 up to several minutes to send.  I am using a 4s on iOS 5 and my friend is
 using a 3GS.
 
 Thanks
 Grant
 
 
 
 
 -- 
 Jason



Re: Apple iMessage

2012-11-18 Thread Syed W Ahmed
In canada. Same issue now imessage activation failing.


Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 18, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Jason Biel ja...@biel-tech.com wrote:

 Issues in FL as well.
 
 On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Mikeal Clark mikeal.cl...@gmail.comwrote:
 
 I'm having issues as well on my iPhone 5. (Wi)
 
 On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Grant Ridder shortdudey...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Is anyone having trouble with apples iMessage service?  A friend and I
 are
 in Wisconsin and Illinois respectfully and messages via iMessage are
 taking
 up to several minutes to send.  I am using a 4s on iOS 5 and my friend is
 using a 3GS.
 
 Thanks
 Grant
 
 
 -- 
 Jason



Re: Apple iMessage

2012-11-18 Thread Curtis Generous
Issues in Northern Virginia as well..

On 11/18/12 3:30 PM, Syed W Ahmed waqqasah...@gmail.com wrote:

In canada. Same issue now imessage activation failing.


Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 18, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Jason Biel ja...@biel-tech.com wrote:

 Issues in FL as well.
 
 On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Mikeal Clark
mikeal.cl...@gmail.comwrote:
 
 I'm having issues as well on my iPhone 5. (Wi)
 
 On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Grant Ridder shortdudey...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Is anyone having trouble with apples iMessage service?  A friend and I
 are
 in Wisconsin and Illinois respectfully and messages via iMessage are
 taking
 up to several minutes to send.  I am using a 4s on iOS 5 and my
friend is
 using a 3GS.
 
 Thanks
 Grant
 
 
 -- 
 Jason






Re: Apple iMessage

2012-11-18 Thread Bryan Tong
Down in Colorado as well.

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Curtis Generous cur...@generous.com wrote:
 Issues in Northern Virginia as well..

 On 11/18/12 3:30 PM, Syed W Ahmed waqqasah...@gmail.com wrote:

In canada. Same issue now imessage activation failing.


Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 18, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Jason Biel ja...@biel-tech.com wrote:

 Issues in FL as well.

 On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Mikeal Clark
mikeal.cl...@gmail.comwrote:

 I'm having issues as well on my iPhone 5. (Wi)

 On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Grant Ridder shortdudey...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 Hi,

 Is anyone having trouble with apples iMessage service?  A friend and I
 are
 in Wisconsin and Illinois respectfully and messages via iMessage are
 taking
 up to several minutes to send.  I am using a 4s on iOS 5 and my
friend is
 using a 3GS.

 Thanks
 Grant


 --
 Jason







-- 

Bryan Tong
Nullivex LLC | eSited LLC
(507) 298-1624



Re: Apple iMessage

2012-11-18 Thread Ferguson, Chris
I'm experiencing the same issue.

Chris Ferguson
Systems and Network Administrator | NEPC, LLC
617-395-7329

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 18, 2012, at 3:13 PM, Grant Ridder shortdudey...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,
 
 Is anyone having trouble with apples iMessage service?  A friend and I are
 in Wisconsin and Illinois respectfully and messages via iMessage are taking
 up to several minutes to send.  I am using a 4s on iOS 5 and my friend is
 using a 3GS.
 
 Thanks
 Grant
 




Re: Apple iMessage

2012-11-18 Thread Zaid Hammoudi
Seeing the same thing here in Edmonton AB.

Sent from my iPhone

On 2012-11-18, at 1:13 PM, Grant Ridder shortdudey...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,

 Is anyone having trouble with apples iMessage service?  A friend and I are
 in Wisconsin and Illinois respectfully and messages via iMessage are taking
 up to several minutes to send.  I am using a 4s on iOS 5 and my friend is
 using a 3GS.

 Thanks
 Grant



Re: Apple iMessage

2012-11-18 Thread Steven Noble
It came back for me.. was doing txt messages between iPhones but now iMessage 
but delayed.
On Nov 18, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Zaid Hammoudi zaid.hammo...@gmail.com wrote:

 Seeing the same thing here in Edmonton AB.
 
 Sent from my iPhone
 
 On 2012-11-18, at 1:13 PM, Grant Ridder shortdudey...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 Is anyone having trouble with apples iMessage service?  A friend and I are
 in Wisconsin and Illinois respectfully and messages via iMessage are taking
 up to several minutes to send.  I am using a 4s on iOS 5 and my friend is
 using a 3GS.
 
 Thanks
 Grant
 




Re: Apple iMessage

2012-11-18 Thread Andrey Khomyakov
Still out for me in MA and a friend in IL


--Andrey


On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Steven Noble sno...@sonn.com wrote:

 It came back for me.. was doing txt messages between iPhones but now
 iMessage but delayed.
 On Nov 18, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Zaid Hammoudi zaid.hammo...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  Seeing the same thing here in Edmonton AB.
 
  Sent from my iPhone
 
  On 2012-11-18, at 1:13 PM, Grant Ridder shortdudey...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Hi,
 
  Is anyone having trouble with apples iMessage service?  A friend and I
 are
  in Wisconsin and Illinois respectfully and messages via iMessage are
 taking
  up to several minutes to send.  I am using a 4s on iOS 5 and my friend
 is
  using a 3GS.
 
  Thanks
  Grant
 





Google/Youtube problems

2012-11-18 Thread Daniel Suchy
Hello,
for approx. last 14 days we're seeing problems with video playing from
youtube (page loads without problems, but player shows error), and also
other applications like maps are having problems. As these problems were
only for some of prefixes announced out of AS 8251, we recognised that
as problem with Google's CDN and reported it to Google. As workaround,
filtering affected prefixes from peering in Prague partially helped.

We already tried communicate problem with Google from the beginning (in
our network, around 5 end users are directly afected), and they're
claiming, that problem is related only to our network and there's no
global issue. But similar issues we're seeing from some other networks,
which are peering with Google and have nothing common with our AS8251.
We sent emails to Google NOC/NST, also tried to phone them about the
problems, but according to end-user claims, problem persist. Problem is
isolated only to peak hours, when something seems to be saturated.

If I recall past optional IPv6 from Google, they said: It is very
important to us that our users always receive the best possible
experience. But majority of end users still uses IPv4 and we're seeing
problems here - and response is minimal. At least information about
cause of the problem and expected time for problem resolution.

Is anyone else seeing similar problems with Google/Youtube?

With regards,
Daniel



Re: Apple iMessage

2012-11-18 Thread BEN BROWN
Correct, down in Ohio. 

-Ben Brown


On Nov 18, 2012, at 3:42 PM, Bryan Tong cont...@nullivex.com wrote:

 Down in Colorado as well.
 
 On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Curtis Generous cur...@generous.com wrote:
 Issues in Northern Virginia as well..
 
 On 11/18/12 3:30 PM, Syed W Ahmed waqqasah...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 In canada. Same issue now imessage activation failing.
 
 
 Sent from my iPhone
 
 On Nov 18, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Jason Biel ja...@biel-tech.com wrote:
 
 Issues in FL as well.
 
 On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Mikeal Clark
 mikeal.cl...@gmail.comwrote:
 
 I'm having issues as well on my iPhone 5. (Wi)
 
 On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Grant Ridder shortdudey...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Is anyone having trouble with apples iMessage service?  A friend and I
 are
 in Wisconsin and Illinois respectfully and messages via iMessage are
 taking
 up to several minutes to send.  I am using a 4s on iOS 5 and my
 friend is
 using a 3GS.
 
 Thanks
 Grant
 
 
 --
 Jason
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 -- 
 
 Bryan Tong
 Nullivex LLC | eSited LLC
 (507) 298-1624
 



Long and unabbreviatable IPv6 addresses with random overloaded bits, vs. tunnelbroker

2012-11-18 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Dear NANOG@,

I came across an interesting problem in trying to find an affordable
KVM provider with IPv6 support.

It seems like several rather major and reputable providers in the
value sector do claim to have IPv6 support, but once you get your IPv6
addresses or subnets from them, you might be rather disappointed.

== Example of edis.at ==

edis.at gives you an IPv4 address of, for example, 158.255.21x.xxx,
and the IPv6 /112 that you get is 2a03:f80:ed15:158:255:21x:xxx:0/112
(really a /48), with 2a03:0f80:ed15::1 as the gateway.

I've tried contacting them in an effort to receive any kind of a
proper IPv6 address without the plaintext IPv4 embedment, but
they've given me all sorts of crazy and (IMHO) far-sketched excuses;
from not wanting to maintain a separate database of IPv6
addresses/subnets, and from lack of software provisioning support; to
supposedly RIPE and/or edis' upstream providers requiring public whois
entries for any /64's that edis.at would allocate for their customers,
and to not having control of the underlying routers/switches/firewalls
in any but one of their 13+ datacentres that thus makes creating 2^16
separate routes problematic.  ???

All I'm asking for, are sane and short addresses and/or a saner /112,
don't really care if it's still a shared /48 underneath.


== Example of buyvm.net ==

On the other hand, buyvm.net claims to give you 16 IPv6 addresses.
This is the kind of addresses that they give out (some consecutive 4
out of the 16 provided addresses listed):

2607:f358:0001:fed5:0022:a124:fe56:,
2607:f358:0001:fed5:0022:f6a6:dffe:,
2607:f358:0001:fed5:0022:c6a3:7826:,
2607:f358:0001:fed5:0022:654f:964d:.

This is the response I've got from buyvm.net when trying to ask for
some reasonable (shorter) addresses or a whole subnet instead:

 We cannot offer that at this time as we have to store these IPs in
MySQL which would slow down the database. 

WTF?  Surely offering some 16 random addresses that are 128-bits long
doesn't slow down MySQL, but offering one single, short and
abbreviatable /64 or /112 subnet would.  I'm puzzled!

== ==

(HE's tunnelbroker.net, on the other hand, has no problem in giving
out IPv6 addresses that, when abbreviated, can be represented by the
same number of ASCII characters as an IPv4 address; for free, might I
add.)

== ==


Am _I_ supposed to have a MySQL database with the list of the IPv6
addresses that my virtual private servers have been assigned?
Wouldn't it slow down MySQL, so to speak?  :-)


What's your take on this?  Since IPv6 is still a very low priority for
many of the hosting providers (edis.at cited a rather negligible
amount of IPv6 traffic, so, they argue that, as a small shop, they
simply can't justify spending much RD on further improving something
that they consider already supported and not broken in the first
place), would I be crazy to opt-out of such pathetic IPv6 support, and
sign back up with a tunnelbroker from HE.net instead?

(In fact, my preliminary tests show that IPv6 latency between Austria
and Fremont, London and Moscow are either the same or slightly better
when using the HE.net tunnelbroker in Prague, instead of edis.at
native IPv6 support; bandwidth doesn't seem to be affected, either.)

A little extra latency (only potentially) and MTU reduction by 20
bytes are the only negatives, right?

Yet on the positive side, I'll get a proper and short /64 or /48
subnet, proper rDNS support, guaranteed proper intermediate hops with
proper rDNS entries and no stupid hops impeding traceroute,
potentially much better IPv6 routing/peering/latency, and short or
custom ...:face:b00c::-style addresses to my liking; and, last but not
least, a higher number of potential KVM providers to choose from,
since I wouldn't require any native IPv6 support with such an
arrangement.

Comparing these options, seems like on the KVM hoster side, a blanket
IPv6 support (with no /48 or /64 promises) is thus basically a
useless concept anyways, and, at this time, should not even be sought?
 Any thoughts?  Did I miss anything?

In summary, I thought I have to have native IPv6 support in any new
VPS that I buy, but looks like using a tunnelbroker might just be a
much cleaner and better solution anyways.

P.S.  Does anyone other than me object to calling /48 subnets with
allocations such as 2a03:f80:ed15:158:255:21x:xxx:0/112 as native IPv6
in this context of VPS hosting?  How should such
addresses/subnets/arrangements be called?

Best regards,
Constantine.



Re: Long and unabbreviatable IPv6 addresses with random overloaded bits, vs. tunnelbroker

2012-11-18 Thread Doug Barton
On 11/18/2012 02:53 PM, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
 All I'm asking for, are sane and short addresses and/or a saner /112,
 don't really care if it's still a shared /48 underneath.

How do you define sane, and why do you care?

Doug



Re: Apple iMessage

2012-11-18 Thread A. Pishdadi
not only issues, but getting messages that were either not directed to me
or delivered weeks late, my girlfriend downstairs just got a text from me
that i didnt sent, said it was sent at 10am this morning, but i never sent
her a message at that time or a message ever in a sentence the way it was
worded..

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Andrey Khomyakov 
khomyakov.and...@gmail.com wrote:

 Still out for me in MA and a friend in IL


 --Andrey


 On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Steven Noble sno...@sonn.com wrote:

  It came back for me.. was doing txt messages between iPhones but now
  iMessage but delayed.
  On Nov 18, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Zaid Hammoudi zaid.hammo...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
   Seeing the same thing here in Edmonton AB.
  
   Sent from my iPhone
  
   On 2012-11-18, at 1:13 PM, Grant Ridder shortdudey...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  
   Hi,
  
   Is anyone having trouble with apples iMessage service?  A friend and I
  are
   in Wisconsin and Illinois respectfully and messages via iMessage are
  taking
   up to several minutes to send.  I am using a 4s on iOS 5 and my friend
  is
   using a 3GS.
  
   Thanks
   Grant
  
 
 
 



Re: Apple iMessage

2012-11-18 Thread Albert Whale
Issues as well in Pittsburgh, PA

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 18, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Grant Ridder shortdudey...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,
 
 Is anyone having trouble with apples iMessage service?  A friend and I are
 in Wisconsin and Illinois respectfully and messages via iMessage are taking
 up to several minutes to send.  I am using a 4s on iOS 5 and my friend is
 using a 3GS.
 
 Thanks
 Grant



Re: Long and unabbreviatable IPv6 addresses with random overloaded bits, vs. tunnelbroker

2012-11-18 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi,

 I've tried contacting them in an effort to receive any kind of a
 proper IPv6 address without the plaintext IPv4 embedment, but
 they've given me all sorts of crazy and (IMHO) far-sketched excuses;
 from not wanting to maintain a separate database of IPv6
 addresses/subnets, and from lack of software provisioning support; to
 supposedly RIPE and/or edis' upstream providers requiring public whois
 entries for any /64's that edis.at would allocate for their customers

I can guarantee you that RIPE does *not* require public whois records for 
individual /64s (or even for separate /48s in PA space).

- Sander




Re: Long and unabbreviatable IPv6 addresses with random overloaded bits, vs. tunnelbroker

2012-11-18 Thread Brandon Ross

On Sun, 18 Nov 2012, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:


I came across an interesting problem in trying to find an affordable
KVM provider with IPv6 support.


Does affordable mean cheap?...


I've tried contacting them in an effort to receive any kind of a
proper IPv6 address without the plaintext IPv4 embedment, but
they've given me all sorts of crazy and (IMHO) far-sketched excuses;


So you've contacted cheapo providers and you are now surprised that they 
can't afford to hire people who know what they are talking about?



(HE's tunnelbroker.net, on the other hand, has no problem in giving
out IPv6 addresses that, when abbreviated, can be represented by the
same number of ASCII characters as an IPv4 address; for free, might I
add.)


Clearly HE has people who know what they are doing when it comes to IPv6, 
probably because they have made a MAJOR investment in both people and 
infrastructure to do so.


Explain again why you aren't using HE for your services?


--
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+1-404-635-6667ICQ:  2269442
Schedule a meeting:  https://doodle.com/brossSkype:  brandonross



Re: Long and unabbreviatable IPv6 addresses with random overloaded bits, vs. tunnelbroker

2012-11-18 Thread Bryan Fields
On 11/18/12 5:53 PM, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
 edis.at gives you an IPv4 address of, for example, 158.255.21x.xxx,
 and the IPv6 /112 that you get is 2a03:f80:ed15:158:255:21x:xxx:0/112
 (really a /48), with 2a03:0f80:ed15::1 as the gateway.

Vote with your dollars and find a provider with clue?  It's the only way
you'll get the service you want.


And also, dear god a /112.  It's giving me a flash back to a tier 2 carrier I
consulted for about 2 years ago.  Their guy (who was a CCNP :rolleyes:), threw
out my plans as being wasteful of space (each site a /48 out of a /40
reservation, each network a /64, etc.).  The entire thing was done out of a
/112 at each site with /120's for subnets.

Course this same guy asked why we needed oc-48's between locations, he wanted
to get bonded gigE's of IP transport and do a VPN..

-- 
Bryan Fields

727-409-1194 - Voice
727-214-2508 - Fax
http://bryanfields.net



Re: Apple iMessage

2012-11-18 Thread David Coulson

http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/systemstatus/

On 11/18/12 3:12 PM, Grant Ridder wrote:

Hi,

Is anyone having trouble with apples iMessage service?  A friend and I are
in Wisconsin and Illinois respectfully and messages via iMessage are taking
up to several minutes to send.  I am using a 4s on iOS 5 and my friend is
using a 3GS.

Thanks
Grant





Re: Long and unabbreviatable IPv6 addresses with random overloaded bits, vs. tunnelbroker

2012-11-18 Thread Jon Lewis

On Sun, 18 Nov 2012, Bryan Fields wrote:


On 11/18/12 5:53 PM, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:

edis.at gives you an IPv4 address of, for example, 158.255.21x.xxx,
and the IPv6 /112 that you get is 2a03:f80:ed15:158:255:21x:xxx:0/112
(really a /48), with 2a03:0f80:ed15::1 as the gateway.


By KVM, I assume he's talking about cloud or VPS, i.e. a KVM based 
virtual machine.  With cloud in particular, I've been trying to decide how 
to dole out IPv6 space.  Because we're doing bridged networking for the 
VMs, we've been giving out IPv4 /32s to each VM and all VMs are in the 
same VLAN.


It seems insane to try to setup a proper IPv6 subnet and unique gateway 
for each VM, so I've been thinking something similar to what the host 
being complained about here has done is the only way to go.  Not down to 
the detail of making the IPv6 ip based on the IPv4 IP, but giving out 
very small v6 blocks, (i.e. maybe /120 or /124), out of a /48 with the 
prefix::1/48 IP as everyone's gateway.  Sure, IPv6 is big enough that we 
could give out /64s from that /48 and not run out of numbers, but I'm 
concerned about what happens when an abusive customer turns up 2^64 
addresses and overloads the neighbor discovery cache on our gear.  What's 
anyone really going to do with more than a few IP addresses on a VPS 
anyway?  Just as we do with additional v4 IPs, if someone really has a 
need for additional v6 subnets, those could be provided, likely for a fee.



--
 Jon Lewis, MCP :)   |  I route
 Senior Network Engineer |  therefore you are
 Atlantic Net|
_ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_



Re: Long and unabbreviatable IPv6 addresses with random overloaded bits, vs. tunnelbroker

2012-11-18 Thread John Levine
 What's anyone really going to do with more than a few IP addresses on a VPS 
anyway?

Give every web site its own IP address, rather than using virtual
hosts, I expect.

On the other hand, I suppose if someone has more than a a few dozen web sites
on a single VPS, more likely than not something peculiar is going on.

R's,
John

PS: For something peculiar, see http://wild.sp.am/ which broke the
bingbot, and Google's been spidering for months, emptying out the
queue they built up before I put in a robots.txt saying to go away.



Re: Long and unabbreviatable IPv6 addresses with random overloaded bits, vs. tunnelbroker

2012-11-18 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Jon Lewis jle...@lewis.org wrote:
 It seems insane to try to setup a proper IPv6 subnet and unique gateway for
 each VM, so I've been thinking something similar to what the host being
 complained about here has done is the only way to go.  Not down to the
 detail of making the IPv6 ip based on the IPv4 IP, but giving out very
 small v6 blocks, (i.e. maybe /120 or /124), out of a /48 with the
 prefix::1/48 IP as everyone's gateway.  Sure, IPv6 is big enough that we
 could give out /64s from that /48 and not run out of numbers, but I'm
 concerned about what happens when an abusive customer turns up 2^64
 addresses and overloads the neighbor discovery cache on our gear.  What's
 anyone really going to do with more than a few IP addresses on a VPS anyway?
 Just as we do with additional v4 IPs, if someone really has a need for
 additional v6 subnets, those could be provided, likely for a fee.

Hi Jon,

Why not assign a single IPv6 address to each VM and then for those
folks who need more, *route* a /64 to the original address? With
Linux, I think you can then attach the whole /64 to a loopback alias
(lo:1) and the host will understand that it has the entire /64 without
creating neighbor table entries or any other chancy things.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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Re: Long and unabbreviatable IPv6 addresses with random overloaded bits, vs. tunnelbroker

2012-11-18 Thread Owen DeLong

On Nov 18, 2012, at 4:53 PM, Jon Lewis jle...@lewis.org wrote:

 On Sun, 18 Nov 2012, Bryan Fields wrote:
 
 On 11/18/12 5:53 PM, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
 edis.at gives you an IPv4 address of, for example, 158.255.21x.xxx,
 and the IPv6 /112 that you get is 2a03:f80:ed15:158:255:21x:xxx:0/112
 (really a /48), with 2a03:0f80:ed15::1 as the gateway.
 
 By KVM, I assume he's talking about cloud or VPS, i.e. a KVM based virtual 
 machine.  With cloud in particular, I've been trying to decide how to dole 
 out IPv6 space.  Because we're doing bridged networking for the VMs, we've 
 been giving out IPv4 /32s to each VM and all VMs are in the same VLAN.
 
 It seems insane to try to setup a proper IPv6 subnet and unique gateway for 
 each VM, so I've been thinking something similar to what the host being 
 complained about here has done is the only way to go.  Not down to the detail 
 of making the IPv6 ip based on the IPv4 IP, but giving out very small v6 
 blocks, (i.e. maybe /120 or /124), out of a /48 with the prefix::1/48 IP as 
 everyone's gateway.  Sure, IPv6 is big enough that we could give out /64s 
 from that /48 and not run out of numbers, but I'm concerned about what 
 happens when an abusive customer turns up 2^64 addresses and overloads the 
 neighbor discovery cache on our gear.  What's anyone really going to do with 
 more than a few IP addresses on a VPS anyway?  Just as we do with additional 
 v4 IPs, if someone really has a need for additional v6 subnets, those could 
 be provided, likely for a fee.

Setting up a proper IPv6 subnet and unique gateway for each VM is probably 
insane, but, potentially less insane than some other alternatives. Setting one 
up for each customer's collection of VMs, OTOH, might not be so insane. 
Remember, you can have multiple IPv6 subnets on the same link without much 
penalty. Since you probably want the ability to have VPS portable across 
physical servers, you probably don't want to set up a subnet per physical 
server with all the VPS on a given PS sharing that subnet which is the 
numerically simplest approach.

I'd have to review your actual architecture (physical and overlaid virtual) to 
really know what would be best for your particular circumstance. Contact me 
off-list if you're interested in something like that.

Owen