Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread John Lee
It is the DISA DOD NIC at: https://disa.mil/About/Contact Which will give you the DISA help desk phone number. John Lee On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 3:57 AM Chris Knipe wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Except for the email on ARIN's details, does anyone else have a contact > for the DoD? > > We are

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread Doug Barton
I used to help large companies rearchitect their addressing, implement IPv6, etc. for a living, so no one is more sympathetic than I am about how difficult it can be to make these changes. However, I have to ask, how far backwards do we want to bend for those that refuse to migrate? There

Re: USENET peers?!

2021-01-20 Thread bzs
On January 20, 2021 at 16:06 nanog@nanog.org (Grant Taylor via NANOG) wrote: > On 1/20/21 3:50 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: > > Around 300MB/day. > > Interesting. > > I see 50-70 MB / day for text only newsgroups. > > Perhaps I want to step up to more than text only on some of my

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread Randy Bush
> due to it being so massive and unused for so long, certain large > corporations that have run out of RFC1918, etc. space have started > using it internally. i first saw that on a traceroute from my hotel at ripe bologna in 2001. i was told i was lng late to finding it. randy

Re: USENET peers?!

2021-01-20 Thread Grant Taylor via NANOG
On 1/20/21 3:50 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: Around 300MB/day. Interesting. I see 50-70 MB / day for text only newsgroups. Perhaps I want to step up to more than text only on some of my servers. -- Grant. . . . unix || die smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: USENET peers?!

2021-01-20 Thread bzs
On January 20, 2021 at 13:41 b...@herrin.us (William Herrin) wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 12:40 PM wrote: > > 2. Usenet is dead and besides a full feed is 20+TB/day because it's > > dead, but 20TB/day... > > Hi Barry, > > How much is it per day if you skip the groups distributing

Re: USENET peers?!

2021-01-20 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 12:40 PM wrote: > 2. Usenet is dead and besides a full feed is 20+TB/day because it's > dead, but 20TB/day... Hi Barry, How much is it per day if you skip the groups distributing finger-quote "linux isos"? Regards, Bill Herrin

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread Owen DeLong
> And don't get me wrong. I'm not advocating against v6. I'm merely explaining > how > difficult it can be to migrate. In most large companies, the network is like > PG (the power utility California). If it works, nobody says well done. But > if > the power is out, everyone gets angry and asks

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread Bryan Fields
On 1/20/21 12:52 PM, John Curran wrote: > On 20 Jan 2021, at 12:17 PM, Bryan Fields > mailto:br...@bryanfields.net>> wrote: >> >> AFAIK IANA and the RIR's cannot enforce use of IP space assignments on any >> network. > > While route hijacking isn't necessarily an ARIN issue, I will note >

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread Eric Kuhnke
Additionally, examples of impersonating a corporate entity to acquire unused IP space (Erie Forge and Steel's /16, anyone?) undoubtedly fall under existing, pre-internet interstate commerce fraud laws... http://web.mit.edu/net-security/Camp/2003/DBowie_IP_Hijacking.pdf

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread Eric Kuhnke
Organizations that I have seen doing as you describe, because they ran out of RFC1918 IP space, are also often using their existing private IP space wastefully in the first place. Rather than using DoD /8s internally, if they absolutely need to support v4-only equipment on their internal

USENET peers?!

2021-01-20 Thread bzs
Through a coincidence of hardware failures "out there", which should come back soon, and admittedly some inattentiveness as peers went away, The World finds itself looking for some Usenet peers. Not a full feed, we can talk. 1. OT? Feel free to point me to a better place which anyone is likely

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread Sabri Berisha
- On Jan 20, 2021, at 6:58 AM, j k wrote: Hi, > My question becomes, what level of risk are these companies taking on by using > the DoD ranges on their internal networks? And have they quantified the costs > of this outage against moving to IPv6? Not so long ago, while working for a

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread Jim Young via NANOG
> On Wednesday, January 20, 2021 13:48, Owen DeLong <...> wrote: > > Do you think this still holds true if DoD were to (e.g.) sell that space > to $CLOUD_PROVIDER or $ISP or $SUPPLIER or…? > > I don’t have any knowledge of any events surrounding this space > currently, but I do know that press

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread Brandon Martin
On 1/20/21 1:48 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Do you think this still holds true if DoD were to (e.g.) sell that space to $CLOUD_PROVIDER or $ISP or $SUPPLIER or…? I don’t have any knowledge of any events surrounding this space currently, but I do know that press releases and congress have discussed

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread Owen DeLong
> On Jan 20, 2021, at 07:11 , Brandon Martin wrote: > > On 1/20/21 9:58 AM, j k wrote: >> My question becomes, what level of risk are these companies taking on by >> using the DoD ranges on their internal networks? And have they quantified >> the costs of this outage against moving to IPv6?

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread John Curran
Brandon - Agreed – the key phrase being "within a more limited scope” … /John > On 20 Jan 2021, at 1:26 PM, Brandon Martin wrote: > > On 1/20/21 12:52 PM, John Curran wrote: >> >> While route hijacking isn't necessarily an ARIN issue, I will >> note that several US law

Re: RADB contact needed

2021-01-20 Thread Ostap Efremov
for.. unallocated ipv4 space... created today.. 20210120 https://www.radb.net/query?advanced_query=1=-M+196.52.0.0%2F14&-T+option=_option=&-i+option==RADB There is also a bunch of RIPE-NONAUTH and ARIN-NONAUTH that is awaiting cleanup by RIPE and ARIN, they have been notified. For a little ba

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread Brandon Martin
On 1/20/21 12:52 PM, John Curran wrote: > >  While route hijacking isn't necessarily an ARIN issue, I will note > that several US law enforcement agencies (FBI & NCIS Cybercrime units) are > quite interested in such events and do investigate them looking for criminal > activity.    > > (See 

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread John Curran
On 20 Jan 2021, at 12:17 PM, Bryan Fields mailto:br...@bryanfields.net>> wrote: AFAIK IANA and the RIR's cannot enforce use of IP space assignments on any network. While route hijacking isn't necessarily an ARIN issue, I will note that several US law enforcement agencies (FBI & NCIS

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread Bryan Fields
On 1/20/21 10:05 AM, Dorn Hetzel wrote: > I am aware of some companies that have used parts of a DoD /8 internally to > address devices in the field that are too old to ever support IPV6. Those > devices also never interact with the public internet, and never will, so > for them, I guess the only

Re: RADB contact needed

2021-01-20 Thread Matt Harris
Matt Harris|Infrastructure Lead Engineer 816-256-5446|Direct Looking for something? Helpdesk Portal|Email Support|Billing Portal We build and deliver end-to-end IT solutions. On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 10:56 AM Mel Beckman wrote: > Ostap, > > Why was this prefix revoked? And what is your interest

Re: RADB contact needed

2021-01-20 Thread Mel Beckman
Ostap, Why was this prefix revoked? And what is your interest in the matter? I ask because, of late, there have been attempts to lockdown African Internet access by various political factions, for example the situation in Uganda. -mel > On Jan 20, 2021, at 8:33 AM, Ostap Efremov wrote: >

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread Dorn Hetzel
Yeah, definitely talking about use that is deep behind multiple layers of firewalls, or maybe even air-gapped with respect to routable protocols. I won't say what sort of industry runs large piles of ancient gear, but you could probably guess... On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 10:13 AM Brandon Martin

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread Dorn Hetzel
I am aware of some companies that have used parts of a DoD /8 internally to address devices in the field that are too old to ever support IPV6. Those devices also never interact with the public internet, and never will, so for them, I guess the only risk would be that some other internal system

Revoked AFRINIC block resulting in more than 350 bogon prefixes

2021-01-20 Thread Ostap Efremov
Hi, 196.52.0.0/14 was recently revoked by AFRINIC. However, more than 350 prefixes inside of this /14 are currently still announced. This is all unallocated and should not be routed at all. Example https://bgp.he.net/net/196.54.129.0/24#_netinfo Here is a full list of them

RADB contact needed

2021-01-20 Thread Ostap Efremov
Hello, I'm in need off a RADB contact. I have reached out to them multiple times the past 72 hours requesting urgent removal of all IRR records for a recently revoked afrinic /14 However they did not reply and did not remove any records which belong to this unallocated ip space. This concerns

Upcoming operational changes to ARIN services (was: Fwd: [arin-announce] Reminder--Upcoming Security Improvements and Change to RDAP URL)

2021-01-20 Thread John Curran
Folks – Please note upcoming TLS 1.1 deprecation and RDAP URL changes – if you need to update your systems, please start this process sufficiently early to avoid impacts. Thanks! /John John Curran President and CEO American Registry for Internet Numbers Begin forwarded message: From: ARIN

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread Fred Baker
I recently had a discussion with an Asian ISP that was asking the IETF to PLEASE re-declare DoD space to be private space so that they could use it. This particular ISP uses IPv6 extensively (a lot of their services are in fact IPv6-only) but has trouble with its enterprise customers. Frankly,

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread Brandon Martin
On 1/20/21 9:58 AM, j k wrote: My question becomes, what level of risk are these companies taking on by using the DoD ranges on their internal networks? And have they quantified the costs of this outage against moving to IPv6? Honestly I can't think of much unless maybe they're a defense

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread j k
My question becomes, what level of risk are these companies taking on by using the DoD ranges on their internal networks? And have they quantified the costs of this outage against moving to IPv6? Joe Klein "inveniet viam, aut faciet" --- Seneca's Hercules Furens (Act II, Scene 1) "*I skate to

Re: Hosting recommendations ... ?

2021-01-20 Thread Bryan Holloway
Thank you, everyone, for the advice, input, and suggestions, both on- and off-list. Got a few sales pitches too, which was to be expected. :) All good. Much appreciated, again. Cheers, - bryan On 1/19/21 4:44 PM, Bryan Holloway wrote: Hey gang ... Looking for a reputable

Spectrum Routing Contact

2021-01-20 Thread Robert Blayzor
I was wondering if someone from Spectrum engineering could hit me out of band. We have a customer in one of our data centers that is having some strange routing issues through Cogent and Spectrum AS's 7843 & 12271. Was wondering if someone could share some insight BGP looking glass type info

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread John Curran
Indeed. /John > On Jan 20, 2021, at 8:47 AM, Cynthia Revström wrote: > > But if you do this, make sure you keep track of where you might have put > policies like this in, in case the DoD sells some the space or whatever in > the future.

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread Cynthia Revström via NANOG
I believe the DoD space might be a bit of a difficult one, because (correct me if I am wrong here) due to it being so massive and unused for so long, certain large corporations that have run out of RFC1918, etc. space have started using it internally. So my take on it is, don't consider it as a

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread John Curran
Tom – Most definitely: lack of routing history is not at all a reliable indicator of the potential for valid routing of a given IPv4 block in the future, so best practice suggest that allocated address space should not be blocked by others without specific cause. Doing otherwise opens one