Re: "Permanent" DST

2022-03-17 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 10:29:07AM -0700, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote: > > You’re right… Two changes to a single file in most cases: > > 1.Set the correct new timezone (e.g. MST for California). > 2.Turn off the Daylight Stupid Time flag. > > The previous change involved updating MANY zo

Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

2021-02-16 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 08:02:38AM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote: > > On 2/16/21 07:49, Matthew Petach wrote: > > > Isn't that a result of ERCOT stubbornly refusing to interconnect with > > the rest of the national grid, out of an irrational fear of coming under > > federal regulation? > > > > I suspe

Re: 60 ms cross-continent

2020-06-21 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 02:17:08PM -0300, Rubens Kuhl wrote: > On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 5:05 PM Marshall Eubanks > wrote: > > > This was also pitched as one of the killer-apps for the SpaceX > > Starlink satellite array, particularly for cross-Atlantic and > > cross-Pacific trading. > > > > > > ht

Re: CloudFlare issues?

2019-07-06 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 11:46:05AM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote: > I finally thought about this after I got off my beer high :-). > > Some of our customers complained about losing access to Cloudflare's > resources during the Verizon debacle. Since we are doing ROV and > dropping Invalids, this should

Re: What's the point of prepend communities?

2017-10-29 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 07:01:13AM -0500, Mike Hammett wrote: > If I understand the OP correctly, I will use this real world example: > > https://onestep.net/communities/as174/ > > 174:3001 through 174:3003 as compared to doing the prepending > yourself. What is the functional difference? > >

Re: What's the point of prepend communities?

2017-10-26 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 03:05:25PM -0400, William Herrin wrote: > > You'd only use communities like that if you want to signal the ISP to > deprioritize your advertisement on a particular peer or set of peers but > not others. That's when you're getting fancy. It's not the norm. The norm > is you

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-14 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 02:02:47PM -, John Levine wrote: > In article <63cd2031-701d-4567-b88a-2986e8b3f...@beckman.org> you write: > >But as I said, harvesting emails is not illegal under can spam. > > This might be a good time to review 15 USC 7704(b)(1), which is titled > "Address harvesti

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-14 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 01:21:21PM +, Mel Beckman wrote: > Rodney, > > You make a good point. But I wonder how often spammers are so > obvious, and I wonder if his "leveraging" falls amiss of CAN-SPAM's > specific prohibition: > > (I) harvesting electronic mail addresses of the users of a web

Re: [NOC] ARIN contact needed: something bad happens with legacy IPv4 block's reverse delegations

2017-03-20 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 09:27:11PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > > > As to why DNS-native zone operations are not utilized, the challenge > > is that reverse DNS zones for IPv4 and DNS operations are on octet > > boundaries, but IPv4 address blocks may be aligned on any bit > > boundary. > > Yes, d

Re: SHA1 collisions proven possisble

2017-02-26 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 12:18:48PM -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > > I repeat something I've said a couple times in this thread: If I can > somehow create two docs with the same hash, and somehow con someone > into using one of them, chances are there are bigger problems than a > SHA1 hash coll

Re: Accepting a Virtualized Functions (VNFs) into Corporate IT

2016-11-28 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 01:44:25PM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 09:53:41AM -0800, Kasper Adel wrote: > > Vendor X wants you to run their VNF (Router, Firewall or Whatever) and they > > refuse to give you root access, or any means necessary to do 'maintenance' > > kind of wo

Re: NEVERMIND! (was: Seeking Google reverse DNS delegation

2016-11-13 Thread Brett Frankenberger
contact) User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 03:57:19PM -0800, Christopher Morrow wrote: > So... actually someone did tell arin to aim these at > ns1/2google.com... > I'll go ask arin to 'fix the glitch'. For 138.8.204.in-addr.arpa ... ARIN is delegating to ns[12].saversa

Re: Dyn DDoS this AM?

2016-10-21 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 05:11:34PM -0700, Crist Clark wrote: > > Given the scale of these attacks, whether having two providers does any > good may be a crap shoot. > > That is, what if the target happens to share the same providers you do? > Given the whole asymmetry of resources that make this a

Re: DHCPv6 PD & Routing Questions

2015-12-06 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 02:20:36PM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote: > > As an alternative worth considering, it could do this with BGP instead of > OSPF. > > There’s nothing mythical or magical about BGP. A CPE autoconfiguring > itself to advertise the prefix(es) it has received from upstream > DHCPv6

Fw: new message

2015-10-25 Thread Brett Frankenberger
Hey! New message, please read <http://clddesign.com/tired.php?l9> Brett Frankenberger

Re: buffer bloat and packet pacing

2015-09-03 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 05:48:00PM +0300, Saku Ytti wrote: > Hey Brett, > > > Here's a paper that shows you don't need buffers equal to > > bandwidth*delay to get near capacity: > > http://www.cs.bu.edu/~matta/Papers/hstcp-globecom04.pdf > > (I'm not endorsing it. Just pointing out it out as a dat

Re: buffer bloat and packet pacing

2015-09-03 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 01:04:34PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 03/09/2015 11:56, Saku Ytti wrote: > > 40GE server will flood the window as fast as it can, instead of > > limiting itself to 10Gbps, optimally it'll send at linerate. > > optimally, but tcp slow start will generally stop this fro

Re: United Airlines is Down (!) due to network connectivity problems

2015-07-08 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 01:55:43PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 17:42:52 -, Matthew Huff said: > > Given that the technical resources at the NYSE are significant and > > the lengthy duration of the outage, I believe this is more serious > > than is being reported

Re: Charter ARP Leak

2014-12-29 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 12:27:04PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > > > Valdis, you are correct. What your seeing is caused by multiple IP > > blocks being assigned to the same CMTS interface. > > Am I incorrect, though, in believing that ARP packets should only be visible > within a broadcast doma

Re: Equinix Virginia - Ethernet OOB suggestions

2014-11-10 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 08:20:44AM -0600, Joe Greco wrote: > > Hey, > > > > VPN setup is not really a viable option (for us) in this scenario. > > Honestly, I'd prefer to just call it done already and have a VPN but due to > > certain restraints, we have to go down this route. > > Without explain

Re: Marriott wifi blocking

2014-10-05 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 11:19:57PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > > > There's a lot of amateur lawyering ogain on in this thread, in an area > > where there's a lot of ambiguity. We don't even know for sure that > > what Marriott did is illegal -- all we know is that the FCC asserted it > > was and

Re: Marriott wifi blocking

2014-10-04 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 01:33:13PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Oct 4, 2014, at 12:39 , Brandon Ross wrote: > > > On Sat, 4 Oct 2014, Michael Thomas wrote: > > > >> The problem is that there's really no such thing as a "copycat" if > >> the client doesn't have the means of authenticating th

Re: 2000::/6

2014-09-14 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 04:19:42PM -0500, Jimmy Hess wrote: > On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Tarko Tikan wrote: > > 2000::/64 has nothing to do with it. > > > > Any address between 2000::::::: and > > 23ff::::::: together with misconfigured

Re: So Philip Smith / Geoff Huston's CIDR report becomes worth a good hard look today

2014-08-13 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 07:53:45PM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > > you mean your vendor won't give you the knobs to do it smartly ([j]tac > > tickets open for five years)? wonder why. > > Might be useful if you mentioned what you considered a "smart" way to > trim the fib. But then you could

Re: Large DDoS, small extortion

2014-05-23 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 02:09:18PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote: > > On May 24, 2014 at 00:38 rdobb...@arbor.net (Roland Dobbins) wrote: > > Never, under any circumstances, pay. Not even if you've persuaded > > the Men from U.N.C.L.E. to help you, and they suggest you pay > > because they think th

Re: Need trusted NTP Sources

2014-02-09 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 03:45:19PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Saku Ytti" > > > > That's only true if the two devices have common failure modes, > > > though, is it not? > > > > No, we can assume arbitrary fault which causes NTP to output bad time. With >

Re: Updated ARIN allocation information

2014-01-31 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 05:10:51AM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote: > > > A /8 slot costs as much as a /28 slot to hold process etc. A routing > > slot is a routing slot. The *only* reason this isn't a legal problems > > at the moment is people can still get /24s. The moment /24's aren't > > readily a

Re: Headscratcher of the week

2013-05-31 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 03:25:22PM -0700, Mike wrote: > Gang, > > In the interest of sharing 'the weird stuff' which makes the job of > being an operator ... uh, fun? is that the right word?..., I would > like to present the following two smokeping latency/packetloss > plots, which are by fa

Re: Variety, On The Media, don't understand the Internet

2013-05-15 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 09:14:56PM -0400, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote: > On 13-05-14 20:55, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > > > Since when is peering not part of the Internet? > > Yes, one car argue that an device with an IP address routable from the > internet is part of the internet. > > But when t

Re: 100.100.0.0/24

2012-10-06 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 10:24:18AM -0500, Ben Bartsch wrote: > use this: > > http://www.team-cymru.org/Services/Bogons/bgp.html Please tell me how I can configure my router to use that feed to automatically reject any bogon advertisements I receive from other BGP neigbhors. > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8 nanog@nanog.org

2012-09-19 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 06:46:54PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: > > For these networks to have gateways which connect to the outside, you > have to have an understanding of which IP networks are inside, and > which IP networks are outside. Your proxy client then forwards > connections to "outside" netwo

Re: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 09:08:18AM -0500, Naslund, Steve wrote: > Also, we are only talking about a delay long enough to satisfy the > longest circuit so you could not push your timestamp very far back and > would have to get the fake one done pretty quickly in order for it to be > worthwhile. The

Re: raging bulls

2012-08-08 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 08:52:51AM -0500, Naslund, Steve wrote: > It seems to me that all the markets have been doing this the wrong way. > Would it now be more fair to use some kind of signed timestamp and > process all transactions in the order that they originated? Perhaps > each trade could ha

Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space

2012-07-15 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 09:48:49PM -0400, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: > > Actually, that's one of the most insightful meta-points I've seen on > NANOG in a long time. > > There is a HUGE difference between IPv4 and IPv6 thinking. We've all > been living in an austerity regime for so long that we'v

Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

2012-07-04 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 05:02:02PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:44:40 -0500, Brett Frankenberger said: > > > Leap Seconds and Leap Years are completely unrelated and solve two > > completely different problems. > > > > Leap Seconds

Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

2012-07-04 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 04:54:24PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:49:40, Peter Lothberg said: > > > Leapseconds can be both positive and negative, but up to now, the > > earth has only slowed down, so we have added seconds. > > That's what many people believe, but

Re: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-02 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 09:09:09AM -0700, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 11:30:06AM -0400, Todd Underwood > wrote: > > from the perspective of people watching B-rate movies: this was a > > failure to implement and test a reliable system for streaming those > >

Re: FYI Netflix is down

2012-06-30 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 01:19:54PM -0700, Scott Howard wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Todd Underwood wrote: > > > This was not a cascading failure. It was a simple power outage > > > > Cascading failures involve interdependencies among components. > > > > Not always. Cascading failu

Re: Dear Linkedin,

2012-06-10 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 03:47:20PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Jun 10, 2012, at 3:06 PM, Brett Frankenberger wrote: > > > > Eliminating fraud isn't an objective of card issuers. Making money is. > > Fraud reduction is only done when the savings from the reduc

Re: Dear Linkedin,

2012-06-10 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 04:34:55PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:29:46 -0700, Owen DeLong said: > > It is far preferable for the merchant to request ID and verify that the > > signature matches the ID _AND_ the picture in the ID matches the customer. > > Maybe from

Re: IPv6 day and tunnels

2012-06-04 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 07:39:58AM -0700, Templin, Fred L wrote: > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-generic-v6ops-tunmtu/ > > 3) For IPv6 packets between 1281-1500, break the packet >into two (roughly) equal-sized pieces and admit each >piece into the tunnel. (In other words, inten

Re: DNS anycasting - multiple DNS servers on same subnet Vs registrar/registry policies

2012-05-28 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 09:32:29PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:21:10AM +0530, > Anurag Bhatia wrote > a message of 28 lines which said: > > > I know few registry/registrars which do not accept both (or all) > > name servers of domain name on same subnet. > >

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 06:45:30PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 05/04/2012 17:48, goe...@anime.net wrote: > > But they will care about a /24. > > I'm curious as to why they would want to stop at /24. If you're going to > take the shotgun approach, why not blacklist the entire ASN? It's a bal

Re: Quad-A records in Network Solutions ?

2012-03-28 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:13:53PM -0300, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote: > I'm not convinced. What you mention is real, but the code they need is > little more than a regular expression that can be found on Google and a > 20-line script for testing lames. And a couple of weeks of testing, and > I

Re: OT: Traffic Light Control (was Re: First real-world SCADA attack in US)

2011-11-23 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 05:45:08PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > Yeah. But at least that's stuff you have a hope of managing. "Firmware > underwent bit rot" is simply not visible -- unless there's, say, signature > tracing through the main controller. I can't speak to traffic light controller

Re: First real-world SCADA attack in US

2011-11-22 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 06:14:54PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Matthew Kaufman" > > > Indeed. All solid-state controllers, microprocessor or not, are required > > to have a completely independent conflict monitor that watches the > > actual HV outputs to t

Re: OT: Traffic Light Control (was Re: First real-world SCADA attack in US)

2011-11-22 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 02:26:34PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > Yes, but the complexity of a computerized controller is 3-6 orders of > magnitude higher, *and none of it is visible* You can't see the electrons in the relays either. > > Some other things to consider. > > > > Relays are more li

Re: OT: Traffic Light Control (was Re: First real-world SCADA attack in US)

2011-11-22 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:16:54AM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Owen DeLong" > > > As in all cases, additional flexibility results in additional > > ability to make mistakes. Simple mechanical lockouts do not scale > > to the modern world. The benefits of

Re: First real-world SCADA attack in US

2011-11-22 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:16:56AM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Brett Frankenberger" > > > The typical implementation in a modern controller is to have a separate > > conflict monitor unit that will detect when confli

Re: First real-world SCADA attack in US

2011-11-22 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:16:14PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > Precisely. THe case in point example these days is traffic light > controllers. > > I know from traffic light controllers; when I was a kid, that was my dad's > beat for the City of Boston. Being a geeky kid, I drilled the guys i

Re: Arguing against using public IP space

2011-11-13 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 06:29:39PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > SCADA networks should be hard air-gapped from any other network. > > In case you're in charge of one, and you didn't hear that, let me say > it again: > > *SCADA networks should he hard air-gapped from any other network.* > > If

Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue

2011-09-28 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 04:09:03PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > > > Yes, it is realistic to expect every mom-and-pop posting a personal > > web site to utilize a provider that implements SNI, and the sooner > > they do it. > > No, it isn't because it requires you to send the domain portion of the

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

2011-09-20 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 04:13:57PM -0400, Dorn Hetzel wrote: > > "full time connection to two or more providers" should be satisfied when the > network involved has (or has contracted for and will have) two or more > connections that are diverse from each other at ANY point in their path > between

Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases

2011-09-13 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:45:39AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Tei said: > > He, I just want to self-sign my CERT's and remove the ugly warning that > > browsers shows. > > SSL without some verification of the far end is useless, as a > man-in-the-middle attack can create self-s

Re: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-07 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 09:45:31PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:47:48 EDT, Randy Carpenter said: > > Does AT&T seriously serve the entire state of Indiana from a single POP??? > > Sounds crazy to me. > > It makes sense if they're managing to bill customers by the

Re: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's possible?with today's technology.

2011-05-20 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 09:34:59AM -1000, Paul Graydon wrote: > On 05/20/2011 08:53 AM, Brett Frankenberger wrote: > >On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 06:46:45PM +, Eu-Ming Lee wrote: > >>To do this, you only need 2 numbers: the nth digit of pi and the number of > >>digits. &

Re: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's possible?with today's technology.

2011-05-20 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 06:46:45PM +, Eu-Ming Lee wrote: > To do this, you only need 2 numbers: the nth digit of pi and the number of > digits. > > Simply convert your message into a single extremely long integer. Somewhere, > in the digits of pi, you will find a matching series of digits th

Re: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's possible with today's technology.

2011-05-18 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:26:26AM +0100, Heath Jones wrote: > I wonder if this is possible: > > - Take a hash of the original file. Keep a counter. > - Generate data in some sequential method on sender side (for example simply > starting at 0 and iterating until you generate the same as the origi

Re: Amazon diagnosis

2011-05-01 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 12:50:37PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > From my reading of what happened, it looks like they didn't have a > single point of failure but ended up routing around their own > redundancy. > > They apparently had a redundant primary network and, on top of that, a > secondar

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:42:09AM -0600, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > From: Leo Bicknell > > > > So if it's illegal for you to put a letter inside a FedEx box, > > Bzzt! It's -not- illegal to put a letter inside a FedEx box. It just has > to have the appropriate (USPS) postage on it, _as_well_

Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, PrioritizedTraffic?

2010-09-13 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:15:02AM -0400, Jamie Bowden wrote: > > I was thinking more along the lines of the fact that I pay for access > at home, my employer pays for access here at work, and Google, Apple, > etc. pay for access (unless they've moved into the DFZ, which only > happens when it's be

Re: ISP port blocking practice

2010-09-06 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 10:38:15PM +, deles...@gmail.com wrote: > > Having worked in past @ 3 large ISPs with residential customer pools > I can tell you we saw a very direct drop in spam issues when we > blocked port 25. No one is disputing that. Or, at least, I'm not disputing that. I'm qu

Re: ISP port blocking practice

2010-09-06 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 09:18:54PM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote: > > Anti-spam is a never ending arms race. That's really the question at hand here -- whether or not there's any benefit to continuing the "never ending arms race" game. Some people think there is. Others question whether anything is r

Re: Did your BGP crash today?

2010-08-29 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 12:30:21AM -0700, Paul Ferguson wrote: > > It would seem to me that there should actually be a better option, e.g. > recognizing the malformed update, and simply discarding it (and sending the > originator an error message) instead of resetting the session. > > Resetting o

Re: Did your BGP crash today?

2010-08-28 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 02:19:28PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Claudio Jeker: > > > I think you blame the wrong people. The vendor should make sure that > > their implementation does not violate the very basics of the BGP > > protocol. > > The curious thing here is that the peer that resets

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-15 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:44:18AM -0400, Owen DeLong wrote: > > You and Randy operate from the assumption that these less certain > rights somehow exist at all. I believe them to be fictitious in > nature and contrary to the intent of number stewardship all the way > back to Postel's original note

Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

2010-07-18 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 07:13:46AM +0930, Mark Smith wrote: > > This document supports that. If the definition of a software router is > one that doesn't have a fixed at the factory forwarding function, then > the ASR1K is one. The code running in the ASICs on line cards in 6500-series chassis is

Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

2010-07-18 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 06:12:29PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 18 Jul 2010, at 10:58, "Dobbins, Roland" wrote: > > ASR1K, which is what I'm assuming you're referring to, is a > > hardware-based router. Same for ASR9K. > > My c* SE swears that the asr1k is a "software router". I didn't push

Re: On the control of the Internet.

2010-06-13 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 03:23:06PM -0500, Larry Sheldon wrote: > On 6/13/2010 14:59, Joe Greco wrote: > > How about the case where the master zone file has be amputated and the > secondaries can no longer get updates? > > Mea culpa. > > That was suppose to say "How about the case where

Re: RFID in datacenter (was Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment)

2010-01-13 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 01:51:41PM -0500, George Imburgia wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Barry Shein wrote: > >> The big advantage of RFIDs is that you don't need line of sight access >> like you do with bar codes, they use RF, radio frequency. > > Which is also a big disadvantage in a datacenter.

Re: Consumer-grade dual-homed connectivity options?

2009-12-30 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:13:24AM -0500, Steven Bellovin wrote: > > I know nothing of how to do this on a Catalyst; for PCs, my own guess > is that you're looking far too high-end. If the issue is relaying to > the outside, I suspect that a small, dedicated Soekris or the like > will do all you

Re: DMCA takedowns of networks

2009-10-24 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:06:29AM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > On Oct 24, 2009, at 10:53 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 09:36:05AM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: >>> On Oct 24, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: >>> Outside of child pornography there is

Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re "impacting revenue"]

2009-04-25 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:12:42PM +0100, Michael Dillon wrote: > > I think that many company officers will ask to see the results of an audit > before they sign this document, and they will want the audit to be performed > by qualified CPAs. Are your IPv4 records in good enough shape that an > ac

Re: Shady areas of TCP window autotuning?

2009-03-17 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:48:42PM -0500, Frank Bulk - iName.com wrote: > It was my understanding that (most) cable modems are L2 devices -- how it is > that they have a buffer, other than what the network processor needs to > switch it? The Ethernet is typically faster than the upstream cable cha

Re: What is the most standard subnet length on internet

2008-12-24 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 08:25:40AM -0600, Alex H. Ryu wrote: > Also one of the reason why not putting default route may be because of > recursive lookup from routing table. > If you have multi-homed site within your network with static route, and > if you use next-hop IP address instead of named in

Re: ARCOS Outage

2008-12-06 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 09:31:11AM -0500, Alex Rubenstein wrote: > > I wonder if having a spare card there would have been cheaper than > this outage and resulting flights and labour? It unquestionably would have cheaper to have a spare for that card at that location. What might not have been che

Re: Telecom Collapse?

2008-12-04 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 08:48:27AM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Paul Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I deliberated for a while on whether to send this, or not, but I figure it > > might be of interest to this community: > > > > http://techliberation.com/2008/12/04/telecom-