Re: CIsco IOS bug info request

2011-04-20 Thread Randy Bush
A little bit older one, but bigger - took down the whole internet: for a small value of whole internet same for ripe/duke experiment gone bad randy

Re: supporting IPv6 --- what it means exactly?

2011-04-23 Thread Randy Bush
i think jan zorz, over in slovenia has developed a good check list with the gang there which is being used more and more generally in the ripe region. randy

Re: supporting IPv6 --- what it means exactly?

2011-04-23 Thread Randy Bush
Is there any clear understanding of what supporting IPv6 means? ripe-501 may be helpful, jan zorz's docco enshrined in ripeness and overwebification. http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-501 randy

Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes

2011-05-06 Thread Randy Bush
It's perhaps worth noting that there is work in the IETF to recommend that every prefix originated as part of an anycast cloud uses a unique origin AS (see http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-grow-unique-origin-as-00). I'm not personally convinced of the arguments in the draft, but

Re: Suspecious anycast prefixes

2011-05-10 Thread Randy Bush
I might not explain the background clearly and confused people. We're doing research on multiple origin AS issue, and we want to confirm if our inference is correct based on history data we collected. For example, we found several hundreds of prefixes with multiple origins more than two, some

Re: Interested in input on tunnels as an IPv6 transition technology

2011-05-13 Thread Randy Bush
The good thing about tunnels is people can build them where there's no proper network and the result is a network that is broken differently

Re: Yahoo and IPv6

2011-05-13 Thread Randy Bush
My Desktop is not able to make any IPv4 socket connections anymore. I get Protocol not supported. So there are IPv6-only users, already bitten by no . So that's -1 from me. i choose to only run decnet ii, and the world should fix my connectivity problem. randy

Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any Other Company

2011-05-18 Thread Randy Bush
another view might be that netflix's customers are eating the bandwidth randy

Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any Other Company

2011-05-18 Thread Randy Bush
Since a good number of us get paid for delivering bits, isn't this a good thing? at layer eight, having a single very large customer can be a source of unhappy surprises. randy

Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any Other Company

2011-05-18 Thread Randy Bush
why not permit your users to subscribe to shows/instances, stream them on-demand for viewing later... and leave truly live content (news/sports/etc) as is, with only the ability to pause/rewind? how is this different from broadcast tv today though? for some of us, the thing that is

Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any Other Company

2011-05-18 Thread Randy Bush
for some of us, the thing that is wonderful about netflix is the long tail.  my tastes are a sigma or three out. in all seriousness, if the content was available and you could request it be streamed to you 'sometime tomorrow' or 'sometime before Friday', you and the other people like you

skype

2011-06-07 Thread Randy Bush
http://heartbeat.skype.com/ skype has been microsofted already. small number of users my ass. probably 7/8 of the users i would see at this time are not on. randy

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-11 Thread Randy Bush
Though it's nice to have why would one *need* 100 Mbps at home? some of us try to get work done from home. and anyone who has worked and/or lived in a first world country thinks american 'broadband' speeds are a joke, even for a home network. randy

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-18 Thread Randy Bush
i am not learning anything here. well, except maybe that someone who normally has his head up his butt also had it in the sand. what's new? how about the operational technical effects, like data from modeling various resolvers' responses to a large root zone? randy

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Randy Bush
Now I'm tempted to be the guy that gets .mail express that temptation in dollars, and well into two commas. randy

Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.

2011-06-22 Thread Randy Bush
This discussion was going on this list 10-15 years ago and the numbers being squabled over were three orders of magnitude lower then they are today. and will be discussed again when the numbers are orders of magnitude greater than they are now. i think we should keep a pointer to this thread

Re: BGP Design question.

2011-06-22 Thread Randy Bush
vrrp?

Re: AS and advertisen questions

2011-06-25 Thread Randy Bush
Can we use same AS to advertise different networks in different location? We would like to use Seattle as production network and New York as testing eg: Seattle: network 66.49.130.0/24 New York: network 67.55.129.0/24 and ipv6 network. you have not made clear whether ny and sea are

Re: Anybody can participate in the IETF (Was: Why is IPv6 broken?)

2011-07-10 Thread Randy Bush
The IETF is run by volunteers. They volunteer because they find designing protocols to be fun. For the most part, operators are not entertained by designing network protocols. So, for the most part they don't partiticpate. Randy Bush, Editorial zone: Into the Future with the Internet Vendor

Re: Anybody can participate in the IETF (Was: Why is IPv6 broken?)

2011-07-11 Thread Randy Bush
Well, you work at Zynga, a company which makes facebook games. Before that you worked at Nokia, company which makes phones but doesn't run phone networks. Before that it was Check Point Software, a company which makes firewalls but doesn't run networks. And before that it was the University

Re: Anybody can participate in the IETF (Was: Why is IPv6 broken?)

2011-07-11 Thread Randy Bush
My focus in this thread is this: how do we help the next teams avoid the discourtesy and the smackdown that the v6 teams are getting for not adequately recognizing the ops' issues. These guys should have been heroes but instead they screwed the pooch and everybody's paying for it. How do we

Re: Anybody can participate in the IETF (Was: Why is IPv6 broken?)

2011-07-11 Thread Randy Bush
I said there is an ops directorate that reviews basically every draft in front of the iesg. and this directorate is a group of actual operators? randy

Re: NANOG List Update - Moving Forward

2011-07-12 Thread Randy Bush
If you have any questions or concerns please let me know. we haz spam! randy

Re: Spam?

2011-07-12 Thread Randy Bush
New location means we now get spam on Nanog? no extra charge :) i have lived through maintaing decades of mailing lists and do not envy the nanog mailing list crew and glen over at amsl. thanks for the hard work, folk. randy

Re: NANOG List Update - Moving Forward

2011-07-12 Thread Randy Bush
Thankfully, the current test has been a success.  We are going to stay in Hooray for testing in production. we are not dealing with stupid or inexperienced people here. i assume they tested. but, like our beloved vendors, they also have a hard time reproducing the real network in the lab, so

Re: Spam?

2011-07-12 Thread Randy Bush
thanks for the hard work, folk. Let's work harder thanks for volunteering. when will you be flying out to the bay? randy

Re: Spam?

2011-07-12 Thread Randy Bush
Also, where is the reply to header? still in the garbage, where it belongs

in defense of lisp (was: Anybody can participate in the IETF)

2011-07-12 Thread Randy Bush
W.R.T. to LISP, in defense of the IETF or the IRTF, i do not believe the IETF has told the world that LISP is the best fit for the Internet or solves any specific problem well. The IETF has never said the Internet Architecture is going to LISP, and it likely will not / cannot. My

Re: in defense of lisp (was: Anybody can participate in the IETF)

2011-07-13 Thread Randy Bush
i will not dispute this, not my point. but i have to respect dino and the lisp fanboys (and, yes, they are all boys) for actually *doing* something after 30 years of loc/id blah blah blah (as did hip). putting their, well dino's, code where their mouths were and going way out on a limb. [

Re: in defense of lisp (was: Anybody can participate in the IETF)

2011-07-13 Thread Randy Bush
btw, a litte birdie told me to take another look at 6296 IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix Translation. M. Wasserman, F. Baker. June 2011. (Format: TXT=73700 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL) which also could be considered to be in the loc/id space randy

Re: in defense of lisp (was: Anybody can participate in the IETF)

2011-07-13 Thread Randy Bush
I also view RFC6296 as a perpetuation of the clear violation of the end-to-end principle (i.e., ' . . . functions placed at low levels of a system may be redundant or of little value when compared with the cost of providing them at that low level . . .') embodied in the abomination of NAT/PAT

Re: in defense of lisp (was: Anybody can participate in the IETF)

2011-07-14 Thread Randy Bush
you want to give ops feedback to the ietf, well ... i suggest a loc/id session at the next nanog, 20-30 mins each for LISP ILNP 6296 where each is explained at an architectural level in some detail with also a predeterimied list of questions such as how does this address loc/id separation,

problems with dnswl.org

2011-07-19 Thread Randy Bush
% /usr/local/bin/rsync \ --times \ -v \ rsync2.dnswl.org::dnswl/bind-dnswl.zone \ /var/dns/primary/org.dnswl opening tcp connection to rsync2.dnswl.org port 873 rsync: failed to connect to rsync2.dnswl.org (85.25.63.16): Operation timed out (60) rsync error: error in socket IO

Re: problems with dnswl.org

2011-07-20 Thread Randy Bush
opening tcp connection to rsync2.dnswl.org port 873 rsync: failed to connect to rsync2.dnswl.org (85.25.63.16): Operation timed out (60) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(122) [Receiver=3.0.8] any other paying users seeing this or know anything? no response to

list

2011-07-31 Thread Randy Bush
not to detract from the seasonal sorbs pissing contest, but in the spirit of you never notice operations when it works, i wish to thank and congratulate the folk who moved this mailing list. i seems to just work. randy

Re: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-08 Thread Randy Bush
When I send someone on site to do work for me, I don't want to have to prepare excessive instructions on how to connect their laptop to the local LAN. I want to say, This switch, this port and then move on to the actual work I sent them there to do. when i am allowed, i put up open wireless

Re: OSPF vs IS-IS

2011-08-11 Thread Randy Bush
The only reason in my opinion to run IS-IS rather than OSPF today is due to the fact that IS-IS is decoupled from IP making it less vulnerable to attacks. how about simpler and more stable? randy

Re: Experience with Juniper MX-80s

2011-08-11 Thread Randy Bush
I am curious if anyone has any experiences positive or negative with Juniper MX-80s. they seem to work Our recent experience with Juniper has not been great both in terms of new product offerings (SRX) and software bugs in the recent revs of Junos for the MX platform. yes, juniper has

Re: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

2011-08-12 Thread Randy Bush
I'm curious what other NANOGers have in their home compute centers? a soekris 5501 running freebsd 8-stable a mac mini connected to the tee vee an apple tv connected to the tee vee i moved all servers and such crap into real racks in real colos over a decade ago. i don't want that kind of crap

personal backup

2011-08-12 Thread Randy Bush
charles skipped what i see as a highly critical question, personal backup. my life is on a 13 macbook air, all data, mail back decades (i do not save all mail), etc. the whole drive is encrypted, my main reason for moving to lion. i have two time machine drives, one at home and one i carry on

Re: OSPF vs IS-IS

2011-08-13 Thread Randy Bush
That's interesting and if true would represent a real change. Can you list the larger SPs in the US that use OSPF? att is-is in ntt, sprint, verizon, ... randy

Re: How long is your rack?

2011-08-15 Thread Randy Bush
I've always wondered if the next cisco/juniper 0 day will be delivered via a set of exploits delivered via a link posted to NANOG. :) Maybe I'll do a talk at DEFCON next year about that. more likely a 'shortened' url. how anyone can click those is beyond me. randy

Re: How long is your rack?

2011-08-15 Thread Randy Bush
more likely a 'shortened' url. how anyone can click those is beyond me. I'm curious what your objection is. i have no assurance that a shortened url does not lead to a malicious site. also your privacy issue, but that is secondary. you really have no idea what you're going to receive when

Re: How long is your rack?

2011-08-16 Thread Randy Bush
I really do not want 18 months of research to vanish. a fool and his data are soon parted -- monty williams, a co-worker about 1990

Re: OSPF vs IS-IS

2011-08-17 Thread Randy Bush
What would you rather rely on at 3am in the morning when things are breaking? Someone who has just learned IS-IS or someone who already has good experience with OSPF? what would you rather rely on at three in the morning when things are breaking, someone who has just learned OSPF or someone

LISP/ILNP/RFC6296 - what do you want?

2011-08-20 Thread Randy Bush
i am told that the following session has been accepted for the nanog agenda. A Comparison of Approaches to Loc/ID, Routing Scaling, and the Universe Abstract: This session looks at and contrasts: LISP (Dino Farinacci) ILNP (Saleem Bhatti) RFC 6296 (Fred Baker)

Re: LISP/ILNP/RFC6296 - what do you want?

2011-08-20 Thread Randy Bush
o Trust model (how much trust is put in whom so that connectivity works) o How much state where o Security implications (where are the weak links, vectors for attack) o Traffic engineering (ingress and egress) features o Session survivability on rerouting (manual and due to outages) -

Re: resolving prefix hijacks (was Re: Prefix hijacking by Michael Lindsay via Internap)

2011-08-21 Thread Randy Bush
John Curran appears to be completely open to constructive suggestions very well phrased unfortunately it is a long way to results, with very high variance randy

Re: New Natural Disaster! 8/27/2011 Hurricane Irene

2011-08-26 Thread Randy Bush
Subject:Urgent hurricane alert Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:55:15 -0400 From: borowitzreport.com a...@borowitzreport.com To: z...@psg.com Internet Outages from Hurricane Could Force People to Interact with Other People, Officials Warn FEMA: Prepare for Unwanted Eye

Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-01 Thread Randy Bush
i do not support getting paid for community service. a primrose path. randy

Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-01 Thread Randy Bush
How is that getting paid? you're kidding, right? Don't know if you've ever done Habitat for Humanity no. i teach in the poor countries. i pay my way. To bring it closer to home - we give our presenters a free admission - should we also stop that? i am ambivalent. i think there is

Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-01 Thread Randy Bush
On the flip side of this, many of our employers donate our time that they are paying us for in order for us to serve NANOG with nary a benefit. If you take just committee calls for the PC alone, this is 48 hours a year - a workweek. Perhaps they should feel that this donation nets them

Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-01 Thread Randy Bush
For context in this discussion, how many times have you personally accepted free registration in return for presenting? btw, i do not remember a meeting where being comped as an SC member or a speaker affected whether i would attend or not. [ and no, senator mccarthy, i am not now nor have i

Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-02 Thread Randy Bush
The SC did not receive comp registration any time while I was serving on it. aha! sorry. my memory is not what it used to be. I do feel the need to suggest that Dorian/Randy are on the mark here, most of these people would pay anyways. as i said, if nanog has the funds, i would support

Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics

2011-09-04 Thread Randy Bush
relationships, that providers prefer customers over peers (in fact, a number of global Tier-1 providers have preferred peers for decades), and that relationships are valley free, which also has significant exceptions. Yet these invalid assumptions may underpin the simulation results. --- Randy Bush ra

Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics

2011-09-04 Thread Randy Bush
the previous paper is flawed and if the findings where true you would wonder how anyone ever created a viable online business. to me honest, what set me off was http://transition.fcc.gov/pshs/advisory/csric3/wg-descriptions_v1 describing, among others, a routing working group of an fcc

Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics

2011-09-04 Thread Randy Bush
the previous paper is flawed and if the findings where true you would wonder how anyone ever created a viable online business. to me honest, what set me off was http://transition.fcc.gov/pshs/advisory/csric3/wg-descriptions_v1 describing, among others, a routing working group of an

Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics

2011-09-04 Thread Randy Bush
I have worked for more then one transit free network, and have work with people from (most) of the rest, we always prefer cust over peer, every time. again, more than one of the world's largest providers prefer peers. and even if they wanted to change, it would be horribly anti-pola to the

Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics

2011-09-04 Thread Randy Bush
As one of the co-chairs of this working group, I'd like to chime in to clarify the purpose of this group. Our goal is to assemble a group of vendors and operators (not publish or perish academics) to discuss and recommend effective strategies for incremental deployment of security solutions

Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics

2011-09-04 Thread Randy Bush
While I can think of some corner cases for this, ie you have a satellite down link from one provider and fiber to anther. I expect this is not the norm for most networks/customers. what is it you do not understand about more than one of the world's largest providers? not in corner cases, but

Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics

2011-09-04 Thread Randy Bush
Because routing to peers as a policy instead of customer as a matter of policy, outside of corner cases make logical sence. welcome to the internet, it does not always make logical sense at first glance. the myth in academia that customers are always preferred over peers comes from about '96

Re: NAT444 or ?

2011-09-07 Thread Randy Bush
In a typical DS-Lite deployment you won't be using NAT444. One of the key advantages of DS-Lite (and A+P, I believe) is that there's only one level of NAT between the end user and the public internet. yep. and in ds-lite that nat is in the core, so you talk to comcast's lawyers when you need

Re: NAT444 or ?

2011-09-07 Thread Randy Bush
I'm going to have to deploy NAT444 with dual-stack real soon now. you may want to review the presentations from last week's apnic meeting in busan. real mesurements. sufficiently scary that people who were heavily pushing nat444 for the last two years suddenly started to say it was not me who

Re: what about the users re: NAT444 or ?

2011-09-08 Thread Randy Bush
Can we really push an IPv6 agenda for CDN's when IPv6 routing at high backend levels is still not complete? I certainly don't have the 'clout' to push that, but full routing between Cogent and HE needs to be fixed. if you are worried about full v4 or v6 or v8-juice routing between cogent

Re: NAT444 or ?

2011-09-09 Thread Randy Bush
When you need to pile up this amount of trickery to make something work, it's probably high time for letting the thing die :-) You could say the same thing about NAT44 from the very start! many of us did randy

Re: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates)

2011-09-12 Thread Randy Bush
But Gregory is right, you cannot really trust anybody completely. Even the larger and more respectable commercial organisations will be unable to resist insert intel organisation here when they ask for dodgy certs so they can intercept something.. No, as soon as you have somebody who is not

Re: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates)

2011-09-12 Thread Randy Bush
with dane, i trust whoever runs dns for citibank to identify the cert for citibank. this seems much more reasonable than other approaches, though i admit to not having dived deeply into them all. If the root DNS keys were compromised in an all DNS rooted world... unhappiness would ensue in

Re: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates)

2011-09-12 Thread Randy Bush
as eliot pointed out, to defeat dane as currently written, you would have to compromise dnssec at the same time as you compromised the CA at the same time as you ran the mitm. i.e. it _adds_ dnssec assurance to CA trust. Yes, I saw that. It also drives up complexity too and makes you wonder

Re: ouch..

2011-09-14 Thread Randy Bush
http://www.overpromisesunderdelivers.net/ amazingly professional. not. but lead contestant for pathetic jealousy post of the year

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-15 Thread Randy Bush
I hate to beat/stab a dead horsey, but I found this by happenstance: https://www.arin.net/resources/whoisrws/whois_diff.html which describes some of the differences between RWS output and traditional output. For the scripty-minded folks out there: $ wget -O - -q

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-16 Thread Randy Bush
Someone laying that restful whois to rest or at least maintaining the old whois in parallel would be great. Lots and lots of scripts to go spammer hunting using regexps to find all the netblocks assigned to a spammer had to be rewritten :( when you have a monopoly, you do not have the

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-16 Thread Randy Bush
If you have a particular suggestion for changing whois, please feel free to submit it. simple. don't. if you want to do something new, don't call it whois. randy

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-16 Thread Randy Bush
One approach would be the use of an option flag on the query to obtain the new hierarchical output No flag = no output change. Would that suffice? how to do something new is best discussed by folk who want or need something new, the folk with skin in the game. so, though i have an opinion

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-16 Thread Randy Bush
One approach would be the use of an option flag on the query to obtain the new hierarchical output No flag = no output change. Would that suffice? how to do something new is best discussed by folk who want or need something new, the folk with skin in the game. so, though i have an

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-16 Thread Randy Bush
Saying NANOG = ARIN is like saying Middle East = Terrorist. That kind of generalization is never useful. ARIN is one of many non-Government organizations that make decisions regarding the Internet. As for your reference to Obama-style I'm not sure if you're trying to pay homage to, or

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-16 Thread Randy Bush
As an ISP, ARIN will not give you any space if you are new. You have to already have an equivalent amount of space from another provider. does arin *really* still have that amazing barrier to market entry? arin claims to be a shining example of industry self-governance. to me, this barrier to

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-16 Thread Randy Bush
As an ISP, ARIN will not give you any space if you are new. You have to already have an equivalent amount of space from another provider. I think it is really stupid, and encourages wasting IP space, but that is what the current policy is. If you go to ARIN, day one, and ask for address

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-16 Thread Randy Bush
People have been bleating about routing tables sizes for years and everything has been fine. You could argue that the bleating has helped keep the size down of course, perhaps it has. guy walks into a psychiatrist's office waving a newspaper. shrink asks why are you waving that newspaper?

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-17 Thread Randy Bush
As an ISP, ARIN will not give you any space if you are new. You have to already have an equivalent amount of space from another provider. does arin *really* still have that amazing barrier to market entry? Yes. If you want PI space, you have to start off with PA space, utilize it, and then

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-17 Thread Randy Bush
One more reason we can all do ourselves a favor by moving to ipv6, remove the number scarcity issue and associated baggage of begging for numbers silly hope. we created monopoly organizations. this kind of thing is self-perpetuating. randy

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-17 Thread Randy Bush
I have absolutely no doubt that there are sufficient folks participating in NANOG to get nearly any policy desired through the ARIN policy process. To the extent that folks don't care to learn the current policies and participate in the policy development process, they end up

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-17 Thread Randy Bush
I have absolutely no doubt that there are sufficient folks participating in NANOG to get nearly any policy desired through the ARIN policy process. To the extent that folks don't care to learn the current policies and participate in the policy development process, they end up

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-17 Thread Randy Bush
Strange... You seem to overcome it well enough to join in the discussion on PPML, but not to actual propose changes to policy. i believe you are mistaken. i am not knowingly a subscriber to ppml, and am not, to the best of my knowledge, participating in any discussion(s) there. a search of

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-17 Thread Randy Bush
One more reason we can all do ourselves a favor by moving to ipv6, remove the number scarcity issue and associated baggage of begging for numbers silly hope. we created monopoly organizations. this kind of thing is self-perpetuating. Randy - If you wish to propose an alternative which

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-17 Thread Randy Bush
rick adams was right. this could be done very minimally with some software and maybe six to ten folk to back it up. gedanken experiment. instead of frelling up whois, printing comic books, and playing weenie regulators, design and describe an rir with a sign on the door which says internet

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-17 Thread Randy Bush
From: Randy Bush ra...@psg.com Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...) Date: February 21, 2011 9:00:50 PM EST To: Dan Wing dw...@cisco.com Cc: 'NANOG list' nanog@nanog.org, 'ARIN-PPML List' arin-p...@arin.net http://tools.ietf.org/html

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-17 Thread Randy Bush
From: Randy Bush ra...@psg.com Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...) Date: February 21, 2011 9:00:50 PM EST To: Dan Wing dw...@cisco.com Cc: 'NANOG list' nanog@nanog.org, 'ARIN-PPML List' arin-p...@arin.net http://tools.ietf.org/html

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-18 Thread Randy Bush
one to post overly aggressive defensive messages on nanog I am not convinced that Mr. Bush is best placed to comment on this particular issue. you seem to have a problem differentiating defense from offense. i recommend you not play chess. :) randy

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-18 Thread Randy Bush
one to post overly aggressive defensive messages on nanog I am not convinced that Mr. Bush is best placed to comment on this particular issue. you seem to have a problem differentiating defense from offense. i recommend you not play chess. :) Randy is perfectly right in expressing his

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-18 Thread Randy Bush
I'm told of others that have bought legacy IPv4 prefixes with no intention of updating whois at this time - no desire to enter into a relationship with ARIN and be subjected to existing policy, for instance. so your point is that your friends at depository.com will be attractive to ip address

Re: SDH Fiber Problem

2011-09-19 Thread Randy Bush
I can ping on point to point I have BGP up and running When I try to pass traffic over the link my clients are unable to pass any meanigful traffic asn browsing is impossible. mtu? try various size pings. filters? randy

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-19 Thread Randy Bush
All transfer requests which meet the policies get approved and updated in the registry. ARIN does turn down transfer requests which don't meet policy, and this potential is often understood and covered in proposed sale documents for IP address blocks. would you be willing to describe what

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-19 Thread Randy Bush
1) One IP connection via a T-1. Second IP connection via GRE tunnel carried on first. 2) One IP connection via a T-1 that doesn't have transit, only peering with providers B and C. IP connections via two GRE tunnels to providers B and C. 3) One IP connection via MPLS over T-1. Second

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-20 Thread Randy Bush
http://ibm-1401.info/ A few (dozen) years ago, I was treated to a interesting demonstration where a coworker poured an oily fluid containing tiny metallic flakes on a patch of tape. The bits on the tape could be clearly seen by the naked eye, and could be decoded (ever so slowly!) using a

Re: RADB/RIR Scraper

2011-09-21 Thread Randy Bush
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Re: Internet mauled by bears

2011-09-22 Thread Randy Bush
while we still lived on the farm, two vallies away was gordon, who ran a dairy farm, milked, and delivered around coos and curry counties twice a week. he told of deciding to go down to the big city, san francisco. so he put good clothes on and packed a suitcase and headed south (a long day

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-23 Thread Randy Bush
A nominating committee's essential function is to ensure that a minimum number of qualified, vetted individuals are placed on the slate of candidates for election. it should ensure that folk who are not *technically* qualified, e.g. not members, not human people, ... are not on the slate.

Re: ISIS and OSPF together

2013-05-12 Thread Randy Bush
One scenario that i can think of when somebody might run the 2 protocols ISIS and OSPF together for a brief period is when the admin is migrating from one IGP to the other. This, i understand never happens in steady state. The only time this can happen is if an AS gets merged into another AS

Re: ISIS and OSPF together

2013-05-13 Thread Randy Bush
Folks could, at least theoretically, use ISIS or OSPF multi instance/multi topology extensions to support IPv4 and IPv6 topologies. This way they would only need to run a single protocol and thereby requiring expertise in handling only one protocol. and, as is-is supports 4 and 6, why do you

huawei

2013-06-13 Thread Randy Bush
we really should not be putting huawei kit into the backbone, there might be backdoors where they can spy on our traffic oh well, so much for that randy

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