Re: BGP Monitoring

2024-02-27 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Hi Alex, l...@qrator.net (Alexander Lyamin) wrote: > Ray mentioned precisely that he wants to monitor BGP announcements and > route changes. > > Leak detection is kind of on a different level. You need a bit more data > to effectively detect them. ( I kind of know that). Our use case is

Re: BGP Monitoring

2024-02-26 Thread Elmar K. Bins
nanog@nanog.org (Alexander Lyamin via NANOG) wrote: > RIPE RIS > https://www.ripe.net/analyse/internet-measurements/routing-information-service-ris/ > is also good, but as Job Snijders pointed me out doesn't send emails out > of the box. It does provide a filterable live feed that we use for

Re: Arelion/Telia AS1299 issues?

2023-10-24 Thread Elmar K. Bins
We also observed this today, UTC morning, esp. across the pond, and our alternative paths from Europe to the US were suffering from the still unfixed fibre cut, so I was a bit unhappy with 200 extra ms, and 60% loss. 1299 seems to've found an alternative path in the meantime, looks good to us.

Re: maximum ipv4 bgp prefix length of /24 ?

2023-10-04 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Re Mark, mark@tinka.africa (Mark Tinka) wrote: > From our customers, the most we are accepting today is a /24 and a /48. This > is for transit customers with their own AS and address space. Oh sure - I was looking at those customers who might need multihoming to their ISP, but not multihoming

Re: maximum ipv4 bgp prefix length of /24 ?

2023-10-04 Thread Elmar K. Bins
li...@mtin.net (Justin Wilson (Lists)) wrote: > I think it is going to have to happen. We have several folks on the IX and > various consulting clients who only need 3-6 Ips but have to burn a full /24 > to participate in BGP. I wrote a blog post awhile back on this topic >

Re: maximum ipv4 bgp prefix length of /24 ?

2023-09-29 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Volkan, you are confusing routing and forwarding. Elmar. volkan.salih...@gmail.com (VOLKAN SALİH) wrote: > how would you route 800 Gigabit-ethernet that will soon be released as IEEE > standart? > > we were paying 1 usd per megabit several years ago. now it is as low as 4 > usd cent. > > As i

Re: LINX is down?

2023-02-08 Thread Elmar K. Bins
dmi...@interhost.net (Dmitry Sherman) wrote: > Hello any problems with Linx? I've seen an "At Risk" notice this morning, about some emergency fibre testing. Our equipment is not affected, but other locations might be. If you're a member, https://portal.linx.net/member/maintenance/1670 HTH,

Re: AS3491 Contact

2023-01-11 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Aaron, > Would someone from AS3491 please contact me off-list? if you find one, plesae share... Thx, Elmar.

Contact for AS 19338

2022-11-11 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Hello 'body, I'm looking for a NOC contact for AS 19338, the old Telmex Chile AS. Anybody have anything? Thanks, Elmar.

Equinix: Still looking for routeserver community info

2022-11-02 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Hi folks, my inquiry kind of dead-ended here; I still have trouble in Warsaw (could be the name of a movie). Whether I send my prefix with NO_EXPORT, or with the secretly documented 24115:65281 (or 2 or 3) (from https://ix.equinix.com/portal/resources/mlpe-information), the routeserver just eats

Re: Equinix routeservers (MLPE) behavior c/f no_export

2022-10-28 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Re Frank, thanks for the quickie, ge...@geier.ne.tz (Frank Habicht) wrote: > it seems to be a not completely agreed/standardised question. > https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7947#section-2.2.4 [...] > https://docs.ixpmanager.org/features/route-servers/#rfc1997-passthru [...] Yeah, I know... I

Equinix routeservers (MLPE) behavior c/f no_export

2022-10-28 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Hi guys (and others), I couldn't find an official description/explanation of this (EQX docs only mention that this should behave the same as their "set the no_export" TE community. We are using Equinix' IXP platform's routeserver service (MLPE) in a few locations on the planet, and due to the

Re: jon postel

2022-10-17 Thread Elmar K. Bins
joey@gmail.com (Joseph) wrote: > A good book on the topic of the early internet is "Where Wizards Stay Up > Late" by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon. +1 The only thing I have to criticize is that the book has way too few pages.

Re: any dangers of filtering every /24 on full internet table to preserve FIB space ?

2022-10-10 Thread Elmar K. Bins
na...@ics-il.net (Mike Hammett) wrote: > Feasibility of adding some middleware that culls unneeded routes (existing > more specific and aggregate routes pointing to the same next hop), when that > table starts to fill? Well... if that covering prefix goes away, let's hope you still have a

Re: Equinix IX support contact me please

2022-08-05 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Hi Chris, ch...@noskillz.com (Chris) wrote: > I'd personally recommend logging into the portal and opening a case, I've done that in parallel, of course. (Also, as expected, they don't use their own documentation, you have to point your finger to it when they want to "find a physical

Equinix IX support contact me please

2022-08-04 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Hi folks at Equinix, your peeringdb entry contact address (servicesupp...@equinix.com) bounces. Please contact me right away to fix a MAC filter. Elmar.

Re: "Permanent" DST

2022-03-15 Thread Elmar K. Bins
dedel...@iname.com (Dave) wrote: > Folks for most systems, this is a change to a single file. Not a really hard > thing to accomplish Well... 1 - I'm surprised anybody is running local timezones on their systems at all 2 - I like how american politics is capable of creating new problems;

701 contact that actually responds...

2021-08-31 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Hi guys, we (1280) have a prefix missing from 701's routing tables that harms us quite a bit. I've tried contacting the obvious email addresses with details, but got zero response (I've checked the spamtrap) inside 24 hours. Is there a better way to contact the actual NOC than

Contact for Telmex Chile

2021-08-23 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Hi folks, peeringdb is very quiet about them - does anybody have a NOC email contact for Telmex Chile (I have them as AS19338)? Trying to resurrect something... TIA, Elmar.

Re: MGMIX (Montgomery, AL) - contact me please

2021-06-24 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Hi Walt, folks, > Holt, Marcus > Has been and is a good contact Thank you - unfortunately, my emails seem to land in his spam folder (sent half a dozen over the last year, never heard a peep). Marcus - you reading this? Elmar.

MGMIX (Montgomery, AL) - contact me please

2021-06-24 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Hi everyone, someone from MGMIX in Montgomery, AL, contact me please. Your official address (supp...@mgmix.net) bounces as undeliverable. Elmar.

Re: 2021.02.10 community meeting unofficial notes

2021-02-10 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Matt, thank you for the notes, very helpful! (Also, sorry for dropping out of the BoF, my ISP decided it was time for some downtime, I hope they'll get it sorted) Elmar.

Re: Any2 Los Angeles down again

2021-01-26 Thread Elmar K. Bins
avel...@misaka.io (Siyuan Miao) wrote: > Does anybody know if there's an alternative to Any2 Los Angeles > with predictable uptime and enough members in LA? Sure, there's NYIIX LA. Tried searching peeringdb? Elmar.

Re: Contact for OCIX (Philipsburg, SX)

2020-06-30 Thread Elmar K. Bins
e...@4ever.de (Elmar K. Bins) wrote: > I'm looking for a working email address to contact the OCIX exchange in Sint > Maarten. Unfortunately, ocix.net points to a single MX without A/ > records... They moved their MXs yesterday after I got them through telemgroup.sx, so oc

Contact for OCIX (Philipsburg, SX)

2020-06-29 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Hi people, I'm looking for a working email address to contact the OCIX exchange in Sint Maarten. Unfortunately, ocix.net points to a single MX without A/ records... Thanks in advance, Elmar.

Re: Anyone have contacts at Bharti Airtel?

2019-12-07 Thread Elmar K. Bins
bottige...@gmail.com (Bottiger) wrote: > Does anyone have any contacts at Bharti Airtel? I either get no response or > full inbox for emails in their WHOIS at AS9498 and AS24560. Hi, if you get a response, please share...I'm also at a loss there... Elmar.

AS112 contact

2019-03-26 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Hi guys, I hope this is only slightly off-topic... I'm looking for the correct address for AS112, 1...@root-servers.org keeps bouncing whatever I try. If anybody can drop me a line...much appreciated. Cheers, Elmar.

Sourcing Dell servers in Buenos Aires (AR)

2018-06-20 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Hi helpful people around the world, we are currently at a loss of sourcing Dell servers (R630 etc.) for our Buenos Aires datacenter... can anybody here jump in and provide us with hardware there short-term, or recommend a local dealer? We need to upgrade quickly, and estimates for import run

Re: Bezeq Internet (IL) around?

2018-06-06 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Re Hank, thank you for the comprehensive info, this kind of help is why I still consider NANOG a very good community and this mailing list one of the major tools of the network business. Not to even mention the really nice people that hang out here. Thanks again, Elmar.

Bezeq Internet (IL) around?

2018-05-24 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Hi Bezeq people, I hope you're subscribed here, I could use your immediate help, probably leading to a contract... Yours, Elmar.

Re: aggregate6 - a fast versatile prefix list compressor

2017-12-01 Thread Elmar K. Bins
na...@studio442.com.au (Julien Goodwin) wrote: > > The first optimisation is to remove any supplied prefixes which are > > superfluous because they are already included in another supplied > > prefix. For example, 2001:67c:208c:10::/64 would be removed if > > 2001:67c:208c::/48 was also supplied.

Re: Request for comment -- BCP38

2016-09-26 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Re Stephen, > So, to beat that horse to a fare-thee-well, to be BCP38 compliant I need, on > every interface sending packets out to the internet, to block any source > address matching a subnet in the BOGON list OR not matching any of my > routeable network subnets? Plus add null-route entries

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2015-10-25 Thread Elmar K . Bins
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Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...

2015-06-06 Thread Elmar K. Bins
eyeronic.des...@gmail.com (Mike Hale) wrote: We need a pool on what percentage of readers just googled traceroute. None of course!

Re: From Europe to Australia via right way

2015-04-02 Thread Elmar K. Bins
piotr.1...@interia.pl (Piotr) wrote: What's the reason, there are some telecoms,isp that have paths eastbound, southbound but in routing table they prefer longer path via US ? Come on - you do know that it's called policy routing for a reason? Costs, reserved bw/s for high-rollers,

Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]

2014-10-22 Thread Elmar K. Bins
na...@jack.fr.eu.org (na...@jack.fr.eu.org) wrote: I'm not gonna throw Debian away due to such a mess, without fighting hard, and I think you should do the same: talk, patch if needed, show you're here ...and sit it out with wheezy-LTS... Elmar.

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Elmar K. Bins
eyeronic.des...@gmail.com (Mike Hale) wrote: You know what sucks worse than NAT? Memorizing an IPv6 address. ;) I agree. But we'll have to live with it until something better comes along. The assumption behind my original question is that the IP space simply isn't used anywhere near as

Re: LinkedIn password database compromised

2012-06-20 Thread Elmar K. Bins
(Fight of the Leos...) bickn...@ufp.org (Leo Bicknell) wrote: Users would find it much more convenient and wonder why we ever used passwords, I think... Yeah cool. Shame I have three accounts on peerindb.com alone...

Re: .GW registrar?

2012-06-06 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Re Ben, b...@bencarleton.com (Ben Carleton) wrote: Does anyone have a contact at either DENIC or Fundação IT MEDIA Universidade de Bissao that can advise if registrations are currently being accepted for .GW domain names? The IANA admin contact, ad...@register.gw, is at a domain with no

Re: Questions about anycasting setup

2012-03-12 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Morn' Steve, s...@gibbard.org (Steve Gibbard) wrote: I have no idea what Cisco equipment Elmar is using, but I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that it can't withdraw routes when needed. We use scripts external to both the routing platform and the service delivery platform to check the

Re: Questions about anycasting setup

2012-03-09 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Bill, wo...@pch.net (Bill Woodcock) wrote: 2. We plan to use this anycasting based setup for DNS during initial few months. Assuming low traffic for DNS say ~10Mbps on average (on 100Mbps port) and transit from just single network (datacenter itself) - is this setup OK for simple

Re: Questions about anycasting setup

2012-03-09 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Re Bill, p...@altadena.net (Pete Carah) wrote: Well, let's say, using Quagga/BIRD might not really be best practice for everybody... (e.g., *we* are using Cisco equipment for this) Actually there is a *very* good reason why many (most?) anycast instances use quagga/BIRD/gated/etc to speak

Re: Questions about anycasting setup

2012-03-09 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Re Bill, wo...@pch.net (Bill Woodcock) wrote: Well, let's say, using Quagga/BIRD might not really be best practice for everybody... (e.g., *we* are using Cisco equipment for this) How does your Cisco know whether an adjacent nameserver is heavily loaded, and adjust its BGP announcements

Re: Can somebody stop nanog@nanog.org from forwarding spam, kthx!

2011-07-12 Thread Elmar K. Bins
jer...@unfix.org (Jeroen Massar) wrote: I am fairly sure that the fake Western Union message and various other spams that are dripping through are from real subscribers... Err... what I find most interesting is that I have received no spam via this list today. I've checked my spamfilters'

Re: experience with equinix exchange

2010-11-30 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Re, meh...@akcin.net (Mehmet Akcin) wrote: But all the traffic on every Equinix and PAIX switch combined, is still lower than the traffic on any one of the three large exchanges in Europe. It really is all about the PNIs. I wonder how is NOTA like, do they ever make the traffic info

Re: Reverse DNS for IPv6 client networks

2010-09-15 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Re Harry, Owen and all the others, first, thank you for your feedback. Seems there is no real consensus, but people are leaning more towards if it's dynamic, forget rDNS. The PowerDNS solution looks nice to me (alas, another chunk of software the system droids would have to maintain). I am also

Re: Web expert on his 'catastrophe' key for the internet

2010-07-28 Thread Elmar K. Bins
andrew.wall...@rocketmail.com (andrew.wallace) wrote: A British computer expert has been entrusted with part of a digital key, to help restart the internet in the event of a major catastrophe.   Paul Kane talked to Eddie Mair on Radio 4's PM programme about what he might be called

Re: v6 bgp peer costs?

2010-07-22 Thread Elmar K. Bins
mle...@he.net (Mike Leber) wrote: You can get a free IPv6 BGP tunnel from Hurricane Electric at http://tunnelbroker.net We have tunnel servers spread through out the world, so typically the nearest server has reasonably low latency from your location. Of course our main business is

Re: Cisco ASR

2010-05-26 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Re guys, just to enforce the statement that the ASR is not really in the Kindergarten anymore: rt uptime is 22 weeks, 1 day, 17 hours, 33 minutes Uptime for this control processor is 22 weeks, 1 day, 17 hours, 34 minutes System returned to ROM by reload at 11:00:33 CET Mon Dec 21 2009 System

Juniper SRX-210 -- CCC certificate required

2010-05-18 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Hello altogether, I'm in kind of a pinch currently - I have to get a Juniper SRX-210 into China. That got the box stuck at import there, and they demand the CCC certificate from us. Unfortunately, Juniper has as yet not been willing or able to respond to this request (ongoing for weeks), and I

Re: Juniper SRX-210 -- CCC certificate required

2010-05-18 Thread Elmar K . Bins
Re Gordon, gordsla...@ieee.org (gordon b slater) wrote: ...something in the back of my head says they retracted from their initial stance recently (few month ago?) and said the CCC for IT security kit was only needed for Gov't Procurement kit - I could be very wrong, it was a snippet of

Re: Juniper SRX-210 -- CCC certificate required

2010-05-18 Thread Elmar K. Bins
ssh...@gmail.com (Lala Lander) wrote: You should buy locally in China and Juniper's partner in china will provide you CCC. Thank you for the insight, Shahid. Can you please send me your time machine? ;-) Elmar.

Re: Peering Exchange Configurations

2010-04-08 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Re JOe, jab...@hopcount.ca (Joe Abley) wrote: 1) Is a private AS typically used for the exchange side of the session? No. Also many exchange points do not run route servers at all, and expect participants to build bilateral BGP sessions directly between each other. ...which is a shame.

Re: NAP of Americas

2009-09-11 Thread Elmar K. Bins
xbanc...@telconet.net (Xavier Banchon) wrote: Does anyone have issues with Internet connection through NAP of Americas? Yes - there's obviously been some failure on the DC power, which took the peering grid down (and a few ISPs, too). Session's have come up again around an hour ago. Btw -

Conclusion: Smart hands in NYC area and new: Tokyo

2009-08-06 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Hello altogether, I got a couple of freelancers and a few tips which companies to use. I thought I'd at least share the company recommendations, of which I'll have the bosses pick. One other thing - I'll be needing the same thing in Tokyo by the end of the year. If anyone has recommendations,

Smart hands in NYC area

2009-08-04 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Hello friendly NANOGers, we'll have to move out of a colo in the NYC area (Verizon DC Elmsford) soon and I need two guys to disassemble half a rack full of equipment, pack the stuff securely and send it away in two batches (one within the US, one to Germany). Packing material needs to be

Re: Fiber cut - response in seconds?

2009-06-02 Thread Elmar K. Bins
jcdill.li...@gmail.com (JC Dill) wrote: Why do they watch and monitor rather than proactively go out and say watch out, there's an unmarked cable here and keep them from cutting the cable in the first place? *snicker* You ever been to a construction site?

Re: Fiber cut - response in seconds?

2009-06-02 Thread Elmar K. Bins
sro...@fattoc.com (Shane Ronan) wrote: In my experience they are required not only to mark the line, but to identify it with the initials of the owner. Hell yeah - but that's not the point I wanted to make. For any given construction project, the main goal is to build something without

Re: Managing your network devices via console

2009-05-15 Thread Elmar K. Bins
jvar...@crypticstudios.com (Jake Vargas) wrote: I stumbled across these, which look like decent alternatives to getting a 2511 from eBay: http://www.perle.com/products/Terminal-Server.shtml The 48-port 1U terminal server with redundant power looks particularily nice. I've no

Re: NPE-G2 vs. Sup720-3BXL

2009-05-15 Thread Elmar K. Bins
dstora...@teljet.com (David Storandt) wrote: Our engineering team has settled on three $20k/node options: - Sup720-3BXLs with PS and fan upgrades Still quite slow CPU wise. RSP's are supposed to be a lot faster and actually usable. - Sup2s as switches + ISIS + statics and no BGP, push BGP

Re: shipping pre-built cabinets vs. build-on-site

2009-04-06 Thread Elmar K. Bins
mar...@theicelandguy.com (Martin Hannigan) wrote: 1. as-builts designated by the RU 2. physical layer wiring diagram 3. cable run list (optical, fiber, connector type, pots) 4. Bill of materials down to the rack mount kit screws 5. cut view, detailing cabinet details _from the datacenter_.

Re: FW: Ctrl+Shift+6 then X

2009-02-23 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Re Bruce, br...@yoafrica.com (Bruce Grobler) wrote: Using Putty or any other ssh/telnet terminal I find that Ctrl+Shift+6 then X (on a cisco) works only sometimes after beating your keyboard multiple times with a hammer, has anyone else come across or had a solution to this problem ? I

Re: World famous cabling disasters?

2009-02-11 Thread Elmar K. Bins
patr...@ianai.net (Patrick W. Gilmore) wrote: I'm looking for a couple of pictures of the worst cabling infrastructure ever seem. One Wilshire meet me room comes to mind. Anyone got any links to their photo albums, etc? I've always considered this the worst:

Re: Network equipments process utilization

2009-02-10 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Good morning (from here), lion...@samsung.com (???×?) wrote: I wonder which percentage is good level of CPU and Memory util of network equipment ? In my case, I try to keep under 30% cpu util and 70% memory util. My most equipment are Cisco product. I have no technical reference about

Re: Network equipments process utilization

2009-02-10 Thread Elmar K. Bins
h...@efes.iucc.ac.il (Hank Nussbacher) wrote: - slow-CPU boxes like everything Cisco with SUPs, since the CPU load _always_ jumps to 100% for short periods of time - BGP needs something calculated ;-) I get interested whenever CPU load _stays_ high Yeah - Cisco would like to

Re: Network equipments process utilization

2009-02-10 Thread Elmar K. Bins
li...@memetic.org (Adam Armstrong) wrote: CPU load _always_ jumps to 100% for short periods of time - BGP needs something calculated ;-) I get interested whenever CPU load _stays_ high Yeah - Cisco would like to know why as well:

Re: One /22 Two ISP no BGP

2009-02-07 Thread Elmar K. Bins
Re Charles, this is all about control, so you don't lose connectivity in case something outside your control fails. The best idea so far is the ebgp-multihop idea with your ISP's transit provider. This means speaking BGP to them yourself and taking care that the traffic takes the intended path,

Re: Creating demand for IPv6

2007-10-03 Thread Elmar K. Bins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Abley) wrote: 6to4 (for content- or access-focussed networks) is surely a solution to the problem of I have no good way to acquire IPv6 transit; It solves another problem as well, like I cannot go v6 to my servers because my load balancing and packet filtering black