Why are paper LOAs still used?

2024-02-26 Thread Seth Mattinen via NANOG
Why do companies still insist on, or deploy new systems that rely on paper LOA for IP and ASN resources? How can this be considered more trustworthy than RIR based IRR records? And I'm not even talking about old companies, I have a situation right now where a VPS provider I'm using will no

Re: .US Harbors Prolific Malicious Link Shortening Service

2023-11-05 Thread Seth Mattinen via NANOG
On 11/2/23 1:30 PM, goemon--- via NANOG wrote: Are there any legitimate services running solely on .us domain names? Yes.

Re: maximum ipv4 bgp prefix length of /24 ?

2023-09-29 Thread Seth Mattinen via NANOG
On 9/29/23 10:24, VOLKAN SALİH wrote: you guys become rich this way.. by playing penny pincher. I asked global firms like Huawei, not some local company called ADAMS! You joined the wrong mailing list then. This is NANOG, which has companies of all sizes and private individuals operating

Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe)

2023-08-09 Thread Seth Mattinen via NANOG
On 8/9/23 3:25 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: Note that NIST operates a pool of 24 time servers for public use.  These are spread across four different locations in two different states.  My understanding is that they all get their time directly from the official NIST clocks

Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe)

2023-08-09 Thread Seth Mattinen via NANOG
On 8/9/23 2:39 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote: When GPS is working, time transmission with accuracies of under 1 microsecond is common.   This is especially true if the GPS integrates some sort of disciplined oscillator.  Note that this is in excess of what NTPd running on a

GGC need portal access restored

2023-03-21 Thread Seth Mattinen via NANOG
I also need someone at GGC to contact me ASAP; a tech showed up on site to replace hardware in a node and I've come to find out my portal access is no longer available and I can't place it into maintenance mode. ~Seth

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-01 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 6/1/22 8:12 PM, Mitchell Tanenbaum via NANOG wrote: Believe it or not, there is cable within 500 yards, but they won’t extend it. (: 50 feet across the street from me on the east side of the road is AT FTTH territory. My side of the street is not. F the west side apparently.

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-01 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 5/23/22 12:00 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: On 5/23/22 11:49 AM, Aaron Wendel wrote: The Fiber Broadband Association estimates that the average US household will need more than a gig within 5 years.  Why not just jump it to a gig or more? Really? What is the average household doing to use

Re: Disney+ Issues

2022-05-01 Thread Seth Mattinen
Disney+ started error 73'ing me and my customers again. Same as back in November 2020. Hooray for breaking things that used to work. I tried the chat method again, but unlike last time where they asked me for IP ranges in chat, now I've been given a case number and someone is supposed to

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-09 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/9/22 12:01 PM, Jay Hennigan wrote: It's not just equipment vendors, it's ISPs. Here in Oregon, Frontier was recently acquired by Ziply. They're doing massive infrastructure work and recently started offering symmetrical gigabit FTTH. This is a brand new greenfield PON deployment. No IPv6.

Re: 202203071610.AYC Re: Making Use of 240/4 NetBlock

2022-03-09 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/7/22 2:14 PM, Abraham Y. Chen wrote: The cost of this software engineering should be minimal. So basically no solution is offered to what is the showstopper for this proposal, only a hand wave that it "should be" easy to fix (but that's everyone else's problem). I mean, I believe this

Re: questions about ARIN ipv6 allocation

2021-12-07 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 12/7/21 8:48 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: I can't imagine, as a percentage, a significant amount of voting ARIN members give a crap about what happens with legacy resources. If I had legacy resources I might, but I don't so it's an issue that I bounce between fully ignore or don't see why I

Re: Fiber Network Equipment Commercial Norms

2021-09-22 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/22/21 6:12 PM, Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE wrote: If someone were to make us remove a redundant DWDM node, we’d charge them list price to ever consider putting it back*, plus a deposit, plus our costs for the removal in the first place. Bad move. Enjoy the $8million, it could

Re: PeerinDB refuses to register certain networks [was: Setting sensible max-prefix limits]

2021-08-19 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 8/19/21 11:19 AM, Ross Tajvar wrote: I, and many others that I know, have successfully listed our networks in PeeringDB while having no peering. You may just need to try again. All of the argument is based around an email dated in *2015*. So yeah, try again.

Re: Any2 LAX

2021-06-11 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 6/11/21 11:18 AM, Bryan Holloway wrote: This is what I got from those guys ... -- CoreSite Incident Notification Description:  During a planned maintenance event to integrate new hardware into our MPLS core an extreme dip in Any2 traffic was observed. After about 4 hours running in a

Re: Any2 LAX

2021-06-11 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 6/11/21 10:16 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: On Fri, 11 Jun 2021, Seth Mattinen wrote: Did Any2 LAX barf last night between about 1am and 8am Pacific time? More like 00:00-7:45 (Pacific time). Anyone know what broke, and why the IX was dead for nearly 8 hours? This is our second recent issue

Any2 LAX

2021-06-11 Thread Seth Mattinen
Did Any2 LAX barf last night between about 1am and 8am Pacific time?

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-06-02 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 6/2/21 2:00 PM, Baldur Norddahl wrote: The kind of WISP we have around here is one or more AP on a tower or corn silo and that one tower will cover a huge area by line of sight. There will be nothing like you describe as each AP has separate frequency and therefore no conflict. The gear is

Re: login.authorize.net has A and CNAME records

2021-04-06 Thread Seth Mattinen
What kind of local problem or network problems could cause a servfail response from the authoritative ns? I'm beginning to think this is a DNSSEC related problem, I'll ask on the pdns-users list. I see it's asking for a DS record on login.authorize.net.cdn.cloudflare.net when the

Re: login.authorize.net has A and CNAME records

2021-04-06 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 4/6/21 11:35 AM, Arne Jensen wrote: login.authorize.net. is a CNAME, but does not have any A records itself. This one returns A records: ; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Debian <<>> A login.authorize.net @ns0210.secondary.cloudflare.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<-

Re: login.authorize.net has A and CNAME records

2021-04-06 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 4/6/21 11:35 AM, Arne Jensen wrote: Den 06-04-2021 kl. 19:50 skrev Seth Mattinen: On 4/6/21 9:33 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: Is anyone from authorize.net on here? You are publishing both an A and CNAME record for login.authorize.net, and the CNAME points

Re: login.authorize.net has A and CNAME records

2021-04-06 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 4/6/21 9:33 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: Is anyone from authorize.net on here? You are publishing both an A and CNAME record for login.authorize.net, and the CNAME points to login.authorize.net.cdn.cloudflare.net which doesn't resolve. Looks like this may be a cloudflare related issue; I'm

login.authorize.net has A and CNAME records

2021-04-06 Thread Seth Mattinen
Is anyone from authorize.net on here? You are publishing both an A and CNAME record for login.authorize.net, and the CNAME points to login.authorize.net.cdn.cloudflare.net which doesn't resolve.

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-24 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/24/21 8:08 AM, Phineas wrote: Chiming in as a somewhat-younger network engineer here (19) - I think that Discord should be more widely considered and approved as an option across the board here. I’m active on mailing lists, and while they work, at the end of the day I’d much rather be

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-23 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/23/21 8:26 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: On 3/23/21 17:11, Seth Mattinen wrote: Okay great for those apps, but if nobody tells me where the new action is... how does that help me? With the list here at least it's on NANOG's website and they tell you how to join in. This feels like you're

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-23 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/23/21 7:40 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: On 3/23/21 16:34, Seth Mattinen wrote: The problem with other "social" formats I've found is that they're often an exclusive club you have to know about through connections or be invited to. You can also be excluded on a whim. What you can

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-23 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/22/21 11:22 PM, Cynthia Revström via NANOG wrote: I haven't ever used facebook beyond receiving some invitation for an event, and I feel like that's the most common case for people around my age group. (not using Facebook that is) Facebook has effectively become social media for old

Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

2021-03-22 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/22/21 7:00 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: TBH, most discussion in the WISP space has moved to Facebook. The busy WISPA mailing lists used to get about 20k messages per year. When I last checked, they were down to 5k or so and on a downward trend. Meanwhile, the Facebook groups have exploded,

Re: Famous operational issues

2021-02-18 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/18/21 1:07 AM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: On that note, I'd be very interested in hearing stories of actual incidents that are the cause of why cardboard boxes are banned in many facilities, due to loose particulate matter getting into the air and setting off very sensitive fire detection

Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

2021-02-16 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/16/21 09:49, Michael Thomas wrote: On 2/16/21 8:50 AM, John Von Essen wrote: I just assumed most people in Texas have heat pumps- AC in the summer and minimal heating in the winter when needed. When the entire state gets a deep freeze, everybody is running those heat pumps non-stop, and

Re: Any2 Los Angeles down again

2021-02-01 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/26/21 3:51 AM, Siyuan Miao wrote: Does anybody know if there's an alternative to Any2 Los Angeles with predictable uptime and enough members in LA? It's the second outage this month and we've observed at least 7 outages in the past year and we didn't even receive any maintenance notice

Re: Any2 Los Angeles down again

2021-01-27 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/27/21 5:40 AM, Ryan Landry wrote: If you haven't already, I encourage you to subscribe to Coresite's maintenance notifications. Not sure it needs to be duplicated as a notification service to nanog@. I'm kind of curious what the actual problem is. I'm on Any2 in LA, but I haven't been

Re: Parler

2021-01-12 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/12/21 1:47 PM, John Curran wrote: On 12 Jan 2021, at 12:40 PM, Andy Ringsmuth wrote: And yet, Amazon will still happily sell you this item: https://www.amazon.com/Anarchist-Cookbook-William-Powell/dp/1607966123/ In fact, it is listed as: #1 Best Seller in Anarchism Thanks for the

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/10/21 4:00 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: sro...@ronan-online.com : While Amazon is absolutely within their rights to suspend anyone they want for violation of their TOS, it does create an interesting problem. Amazon is now in the content moderation business, which could potentially open

Re: Show NOCs: OIG report: Should you charge extra for NOC tours?

2021-01-08 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/7/21 10:31 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: NOC tours seem like a very 1990's thing, that and 'datacenter tours'. I still offer them because as a small company a lot of people think unless you're $bigname that whatever a small company can possibly offer is trash.

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-28 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 12/28/20 9:11 AM, Aaron Wendel wrote: Actually our free service doesn't have limitations, has an SLA, no time/term restrictions, a CPE, support, etc. How do SLA refunds work on free service? Do you just pay them some cash value instead of credits?

Re: Disney+ Geolocation (again)

2020-11-21 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 11/21/20 08:48, Mike Hammett wrote: I think this is another example of the disconnect between technical teams and support teams at consumer-facing organizations. Consumer-facing support often can't find their way out of a wet paper bag on consumer-related issues, much less on network

Re: Disney+ Geolocation (again)

2020-11-20 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 11/20/20 3:29 PM, Jeff Mansukhani wrote: Yes, per the support team, ISP and end-users would go throuh the same initial point of contact to report issue so they may properly track and redirect as appropriate.  Thank you. When I called the service rep had no idea what to do with an ISP

Re: Disney+ Geolocation (again)

2020-11-20 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 11/20/20 11:41 AM, Andy Ringsmuth wrote: In other words: “oops, I shouldn’t have given out the secret e-mail addresses that actually work." I did try calling, and it's just an end user dead end. ~Seth

Re: Disney+ Geolocation (again)

2020-11-13 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 11/13/20 12:52 PM, Niels Bakker wrote: * se...@rollernet.us (Seth Mattinen) [Sun 08 Nov 2020, 18:21 CET]: I've had 74.118.152.0/21 allocated to me since 2005. So many IPs in possession for so long, yet so little reverse DNS: --- $ (for j in `jot 7 2`; do for i in `jot 255`; do host

Re: Disney+ Geolocation (again)

2020-11-08 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 11/8/20 8:58 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: Ugh, they used to. I can't stand these consumer-focused organizations that are irresponsible to the greater operator community. I was told to go to help.disneyplus.com to resolve this, which just gives you the "you're on a VPN" page if you type in

Disney+ Geolocation (again)

2020-11-08 Thread Seth Mattinen
People can't watch Disney+. Looked at old emails, read them. Checked every geolocation site for my netblocks (which return ok). Emailed to netad...@disneystreaming.com They responded with "We do not service these requests via this email". Now what? Anyone have a secret contact that can

Re: Ingress filtering on transits, peers, and IX ports

2020-10-13 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 10/13/20 8:04 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote: If I had a dollar for every 'scary security alert' email received in a NOC email inbox from a 'security researcher group' that is the results of a port scan, or some small subset of trojan infected residential endpoint computers attempting outbound

Re: Hurricane Electric AS6939

2020-10-13 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 10/13/20 5:10 PM, Darin Steffl wrote: You would do well to add them to your mix and remove one of the other ones. I'd probably remove spectrum and replace with HE. We've only had 30 minutes of downtime total in 5 years so they've been very reliable for us. I removed Spectrum (Charter)

Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4

2020-09-28 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/27/20 18:33, Daniel Sterling wrote: It is true that I've yet to see any FPS game use ipv6. I assume that's cuz they can't count on users having v6, so they have to support v4, and it wouldn't be worth their while to have their gaming host support dual-stack. just a guess there Xbox

Re: Rogue BGP Routes

2020-05-15 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 5/14/20 1:53 PM, Gary Godard via NANOG wrote: Hi,       We are having an issue with Charter Communications advertising 2 of our IP ranges. We are in the process of implementing RPKI now, but does anyone have a suggestion on how to get them to stop? We have tried contacting them via email

Re: Google peering pains in Dallas

2020-04-30 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 4/30/20 11:38 AM, Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG wrote: Why isn't there a well-known anycast ping address similar to CloudFlare/Google/Level 3 DNS, or sorta like the NTP project? Get someone to carve out some well-known IP and allow every ISP on the planet to add that IP to a router or BSD box

Nitel peering contact

2020-04-09 Thread Seth Mattinen
Anyone from Nitel peering on here? The peer...@nitelusa.com address listed in peeringdb just returns an O365 "The group peering only accepts messages from people in its organization or on its allowed senders list" error.

Re: Internet operations during pandemics

2020-03-19 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/19/20 9:51 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: During this time, however, 'work from home' technology hasn't really progressed along the same path, has it? So, "get to the vpn" is still largely a process of getting packets across the wide internet and to small locations (your enterprise), there's

Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks

2020-03-18 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/17/20 10:03 AM, Mike Bolitho wrote: We have two redundant private lines out of each hospital connecting back to primary and DR DCs and a metro connecting everything together in each region. But for things we do not own that are not hosted locally, what are we supposed to do? We have to

Re: Google peering in LAX

2020-03-02 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/2/20 4:32 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: That said, I fear this is going to be a problem long term. A blind “no /24s” filter is dangerous, plus it might solve all traffic issues. It is going to take effort to be sure you don’t get bitten by the Law Of Unintended Consequences. As soon

Re: Google peering in LAX

2020-03-02 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/2/20 3:09 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Your routers, your decision. But how much traffic are you sending TO Google? Most people get the vast majority of traffic FROM Google. They send you videos, you send them ACKs. Does it matter where the ACKs go? A customer is complaining that

Re: Google peering in LAX

2020-03-02 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/2/20 3:02 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote: I would say it would be best to see if you can get a direct peer with Google via the IX. I have done this with some of the ISPs I work with. It was no additional cost since the physical connections are already in place and actually was highly

Re: Google peering in LAX

2020-03-02 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/2/20 2:20 PM, Hugo Slabbert wrote: I believe Owen was referring here to Google's actions: that the disagg is the antisocial behaviour and that transit providers (the people they are paying) would be more tolerant of that antisocial behaviour than would be peers (the people they are not

Re: Google peering in LAX

2020-03-02 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/2/20 12:44 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: In part, it might be because people you’re not paying may be less tolerant of anti-social behavior than people you are paying. I'm not sure how I was being offensive but OK.

Google peering in LAX

2020-03-02 Thread Seth Mattinen
Anyone know why Google announces only aggregates via peering and disaggregate prefixes over transit? For example, I had a customer complaining about a path that was taking the long way instead of via peering and when I looked I saw: Only 172.217.0.0/16 over Any2 LAX That plus

Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-02-12 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/12/20 11:48, Josh Luthman wrote: In low power state, usually standby, they're connected to the network and listen for requests to download a new title (bought online) or updates.  I know on the Xbox One side of things this feature is semi-off by default as it turns the HDD off to save

Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-02-12 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/12/20 11:31, Livingood, Jason wrote: But I think folks are correct that the issue may be more that a given gaming device was turned off at night (though no reason that device could not pre-cache the content from the source). In any case, there should be a better way to address this. The

Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-02-12 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/12/20 10:02, Jared Mauch wrote: When you see this please raise it to my attention. I can't promise a resolution but will promise clarity in what is going on. This was in May 2019 so what's done is done at this point, but I will forward you the email offlist.

Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-02-12 Thread Seth Mattinen
The wheels of bureaucracy are certainly a problem. The largest peer on our local exchange couldn't even get Akamai to complete a peering turn up because whoever was working on the ticket on the Akamai side got stuck on trying to set up the wrong location. And then months pass, it never got

Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-02-12 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/12/20 8:36 AM, Aaron Gould wrote: Netflix oca has it figured out, as my fill windows is during off-peak time, 2 a.m. - 6 am. and I think it's also configurable in the oca portal. It's not fill, it's that people don't turn on their xbox or whatever until after they get home from work

Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-02-12 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/12/20 8:13 AM, Brandon Martin wrote: It would be really nice if the major CDNs had virtual machines small network operators with very expensive regional transport costs could spin up.  Hit rate would be very low, of course, but the ability to grab some of these mass-market huge updates

Re: Charter contact

2020-02-10 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/7/20 6:36 PM, Mehmet Akcin wrote: Hey there I am looking for a contact in Charter for a 10G wave. Reno > SF or Reno to > LA. Please let me know if you know people who may help. If you can get them to actually sell you a 10G. Last time I dealt with Charter they maxed out at offering

Re: 5G roadblock: labor

2020-01-17 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/17/20 02:13, Alexandre Petrescu wrote: From the web: the band 48 (3550-3700MHz) is for CBRS in US (Citizens' band broadband service; I suppose something like voice between trucks) CBRS (and the soon to be former NN band) doesn't have anything to do with CB radios.

Re: Cost Recovery Surcharge & Va Personal Property Tax Recovery for IP Transit

2020-01-06 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/6/20 9:21 AM, Tom Beecher wrote: "Property Tax Recovery" charges are also to my knowledge 100% optional fees. It's the carrier charging you a fee so they can pay their property taxes. Somehow, this sort of thing is legal. I mean, it's legal if someone signed an agreement that says they

Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read

2019-12-31 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 12/31/19 8:10 AM, joel jaeggli wrote: Argumentation on the basis of a tu quoque fallacy doesn't really add much to the dicussion. Depreciating potentialy dangerous and definitely obsolete protocols does not make you a hypocrite. Then how about privilege? If someone is living in a

Re: Paging anyone from ntpd.org

2019-12-31 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 12/31/19 1:32 AM, Harlan Stenn wrote: On 12/30/2019 8:32 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: On 12/30/19 8:22 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: Is anyone from ntpd.org on here? You're pointing DNS at me for some reason. That zone (ntpd.org) isn't in our system. Your NS looks odd too, *.darkness-reigns.net

Re: Wikipedia drops support for old Android smartphones; mandates TLSv1.2 to read

2019-12-31 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 12/31/19 12:50 AM, Ryan Hamel wrote: Just let the old platforms ride off into the sunset as originally planned like the SSL implementations in older JRE installs, XP, etc. You shouldn't be holding onto the past. Because poor people anywhere on earth that might not have access to the

Re: Paging anyone from ntpd.org

2019-12-30 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 12/30/19 8:22 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: Is anyone from ntpd.org on here? You're pointing DNS at me for some reason. That zone (ntpd.org) isn't in our system. Your NS looks odd too, *.darkness-reigns.net and .nl? Is that legit? I don't know what it was before because I've never looked

Paging anyone from ntpd.org

2019-12-30 Thread Seth Mattinen
Is anyone from ntpd.org on here? You're pointing DNS at me for some reason. That zone (ntpd.org) isn't in our system. Your NS looks odd too, *.darkness-reigns.net and .nl? Is that legit? I don't know what it was before because I've never looked, but that seems off. ~Seth

Re: Requesting /24 from ARIN

2019-12-28 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 12/28/19 7:12 AM, Terrance Devor wrote: Thank You Jorge! What is important for us is not to overpay That's why auctions are really a last resort. Can someone please walk me through this with a few links? This is my first time going through this process. Ask ARIN. They will help you.

Re: AT AS7018 - Filter Changes

2019-12-24 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 12/24/19 8:03 AM, James Breeden wrote: Yes. That's the ticket I've had open for 4 days. Do they not support IRR based filtering? I think that's the hangup we're having... No. Send them a list of prefixes and an LOA.

Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai

2019-12-07 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 12/6/19 06:46, Fawcett, Nick via NANOG wrote: We had three onsite Akamai caches a few months ago.  They called us up and said they are removing that service and sent us boxes to pack up the hardware and ship back.  We’ve had quite the increase in DIA traffic as a result of it. Same

Re: RTG

2019-10-30 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 10/30/19 10:10 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: On 10/30/19 6:13 AM, John Von Essen wrote: I too love RTG, been using it forever, appears to handle interfaces all the way up 10G. I still use RTG. Not for graphing or anything fancy, just for polling counters in a database to be queried by other

Re: RTG

2019-10-30 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 10/30/19 6:13 AM, John Von Essen wrote: I too love RTG, been using it forever, appears to handle interfaces all the way up 10G. I still use RTG. Not for graphing or anything fancy, just for polling counters in a database to be queried by other things. It's still useful for raw numbers

Re: Request comment: list of IPs to block outbound

2019-10-13 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 10/13/19 8:58 AM, Stephen Satchell wrote: In trying to research what would constitute "best practice", the papers I found were outdated, potentially incomplete (particularly with reference to IPv6), or geared toward other applications. This table currently does not have exceptions -- some

Re: Cogent & FDCServers: Knowingly aiding and abetting fraud and theft?

2019-10-12 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 10/11/19 07:16, Daniel Seagraves wrote: This should not be just a “nitpick". AT announces our extremely legacy ARIN allocation for us because we do not qualify to have an ASN, but I absolutely did not, will not, and*have actively resisted attempts to* transfer the block to them. I would

Re: IPv6 Pain Experiment

2019-10-03 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 10/3/19 5:34 PM, John Levine wrote: In article you write: that gets me on to my small annoyance... /64 bit subnet masks for local networks. really? Yup. Making everything is a /64 is the best because means never again having to waste brain cycles on right-sizing subnets. And the

Re: IPv6 Pain Experiment

2019-10-03 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 10/3/19 13:13, Mark Andrews wrote: On 4 Oct 2019, at 4:35 am, Seth Mattinen wrote: On 10/2/19 15:03, Naslund, Steve wrote: In my experience, the biggest hurdle to installing a pure IPv6 has nothing to do with network gear or network engineers. That stuff I expect to support v6

Re: IPv6 Pain Experiment

2019-10-03 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 10/2/19 15:03, Naslund, Steve wrote: In my experience, the biggest hurdle to installing a pure IPv6 has nothing to do with network gear or network engineers.  That stuff I expect to support v6.  This biggest hurdle is the dumb stuff like machinery interfaces, surveillance devices, the must

Re: Weekly Routing Table Report

2019-09-02 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/2/19 15:02, Masataka Ohta wrote: then applying that very same standard of evidence to your assertions leads directly to "can safely be ignored" As I already wrote: > The following page by Geoff Huston is better than your delusion. > http://www.potaroo.net/ispcolumn/2001-03-bgp.html

Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet

2019-08-05 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 8/5/19 10:05 AM, William Herrin wrote: The best cure for speech is more speech. The President notwithstanding, hateful behavior has a hard time surviving the light of day. You shouldn't be the censor but you can shine the light. That doesn't seem to work on Facebook, where people spew the

Re: 44/8

2019-07-22 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/22/19 10:16 AM, William Herrin wrote: Respectfully John, this wasn't a DBA or an individual figuring the org name field on the old email template couldn't be blank. A class-A was allocated to a _purpose_. You've not only allowed but encouraged that valuable resource to be reassigned to

Re: 44/8

2019-07-19 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/19/19 6:33 AM, Matt Harris wrote: After reading the analogy above regarding spectrum space, I shudder to think what the community response would be if the FCC were to tacitly allow the ARRL to receive several million (or billion in this case) dollars from, say, Verizon in exchange for

Re: Antennas in the data center

2019-07-18 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/18/19 6:54 AM, Robert Webb wrote: Manager has no issue with equipment purchased and has polled the other tenants in the same data center and they are also OK with it. He has just cited that there is some standard but has not been forthcoming with any documentation. Never heard of

Re: Colo in Africa

2019-07-16 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/16/19 4:30 PM, Ken Gilmour wrote: TBs of data is not really that much data on average when  you average it over thousands of customers. The data is summarized, There are a ton of other things happening in the background that I've already explained in the thread and are really irrelevant

Re: Colo in Africa

2019-07-16 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 7/16/19 10:53 AM, Akshay Kumar via NANOG wrote: Then you are "doing it wrong(tm). Good luck. Are you saying that anyone choosing not to use "the cloud" is simply wrong because "cloud" is always right?

Re: Traffic ratio of an ISP

2019-06-20 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 6/20/19 7:16 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: The problem you're running into, Prasun, is that people either aren't actually reading what you're saying or have poor comprehension skills. Very few people are directly addressing what you're asking. A good question would be, who actually cares about

Re: BGP prefix filter list

2019-05-20 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 5/20/19 4:26 PM, John Kristoff wrote: On Mon, 20 May 2019 23:09:02 + Seth Mattinen wrote: A good start would be killing any /24 announcement where a covering aggregate exists. I wouldn't do this as a general rule. If an attacker knows networks are 1) not pointing default, 2) dropping

Re: BGP prefix filter list

2019-05-20 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 5/20/19 3:05 PM, William Herrin wrote: The technique you describe was one variant of FIB Compression. It got some attention around 8 years ago on the IRTF Routing Research Group and some more attention about 5 years ago when several researchers fleshed out the possible algorithms and

Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report

2019-05-15 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 5/15/19 7:10 PM, Brandon Martin wrote: I dunno how the big guys get away with it.  If I hit something, you can darn well bet someone's going to be on my neck immediately to shut the job down and pull my bond if possible. It helps when the people in the field are like 3 subcontractors

Re: NTP question

2019-05-03 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 5/1/19 8:35 PM, Mel Beckman wrote: But wait. What is the GPS constellation goes down? THEN we have bigger problems For timing if we lose the WWV stations and CDMA, then it seems the diversity plan is going to be a combination of US GPS, Galileo, and GLONASS disciplined sources.

Re: AT contact

2019-04-30 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 4/30/19 13:18, Mehmet Akcin wrote: Peering email is broken, looking for an AT contact. Please contact me off list. There's other contacts listed in peeringdb

Re: Comcast storing WiFi passwords in cleartext?

2019-04-24 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 4/24/19 8:13 AM, Benjamin Sisco wrote: The bigger concern should be the cleartext portion of the subject. There’s ZERO reason to store or transmit any credentials (login, service, keys, etc.), in any location, in an unencrypted fashion regardless of their perceived value or purpose.

Re: Comcast storing WiFi passwords in cleartext?

2019-04-23 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 4/23/19 16:46, Töma Gavrichenkov wrote: Apparently there's a concern with customers that their seemingly private passphrases, entered in their own boxes, are being shared with the upstream ISP without an explicit customer consent, and are kept in the ISP database for an unspecified period of

Re: Frontier rural FIOS & IPv6

2019-03-31 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/31/19 13:31, David Hubbard wrote: Things are no better in Spectrum land; gotta love the innovation in monopoly markets….  I ask every year and expect it in perhaps thirty. It depends if you're Charter or Time Warner. Charter does.

Re: Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?

2019-03-09 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/9/19 12:03 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: Automatically geo-locating indoor smart speakers and smart TVs is more difficult, but if advertisers can get geolocation information from AT, Amazon, Apple, Google, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, etc; why can't emergency alerts? There's no technical

Re: a detour DANE, was A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking

2019-02-27 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/27/19 7:02 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: I have proposed many times to just move domain WHOIS data into a new RRTYPE and let whoever owns the domain put in that whatever they want, including (and perhaps most usefully for many) just a URL for further detail. We kind of have that with RP

Re: 2FA, was A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking

2019-02-26 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/25/19 9:59 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote: Are you offering an indemnity in case that code is malicious? What are the terms and the amount of the indemnity? Anyone who is that paranoid should read the RFC and write their own TOTP client that lets them indemnify themselves from their own

Re: Initial ARIN IPv4 membership and resource request

2019-02-06 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/6/19 13:24, Nathanael Catangay Cariaga wrote: lol thatvis something i missed in the portal... well thanks anyways..  ARIN's free pool ran out on September 24, 2015. You can of course join the waiting list for whatever it's worth:

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