Re: constant FEC errors juniper mpc10e 400g

2024-04-20 Thread borg
Erm, WAN-PHY did not extend into 40G because there was not much of those STM-256 deployment? (or customers didnt wanted to pay for those). WAN-PHY was designed so people could encapsulate Ethernet frames right into STM-64. Once world moved out of SDH/SONET stuff, there was no more need for

Re: puck not responding

2024-03-01 Thread borg
Yeah, thats cool. It reminds me good old internet from 90's and early 2000. Anyway, if that list is so importand, maybe its time to run it with redundancy of 1+N (master-slave topology)? Its all MTAs so its pretty easy, all you need to sync data from master to slaves via push (best, because its

Re: starlink ixp peering progress

2024-02-27 Thread borg
Well, for some basic overview you can use CAIDA AS rank. You can use it directly, or you may try my (more user friendly) frontend for it: http://as-rank.uu3.net/?as=14593 -- Original message -- From: Dave Taht To: NANOG Subject: starlink ixp peering progress Date: Tue, 27 Feb

Re: IPv6? Re: Where to Use 240/4 Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block

2024-01-12 Thread borg
I could NOT agree more. Even tho, I am IPv6 phobic, let IPv4 go away. At least, make it go away from mainstream commercial Internet. 90% users do NOT care about it. They want to browse web, watch movies or play games. They can do it using IPv6. I cant wait :) more IPv4 address space for people

Re: ipv6 address management - documentation

2023-11-16 Thread borg
I use my own console/terminal based stuff. Its composed of 2 main scripts called blgrep for searching and bldiff to display differences between revision/files. Backend is SVN to keep stuff in sync and allow multiple people to work on data. Works pretty well for small/medium DC/NOC. I guess it

Re: .US Harbors Prolific Malicious Link Shortening Service

2023-11-04 Thread borg
Yeah. I wonder why this cannot be reversed really? First domain registration should cost more.. 50 USD maybe? Dunno. And then, when you want to extend the domain, price should be around 5 times lower? Those who want to use it for legal activity will chew that little CAPEX. -- Original

Re: maximum ipv4 bgp prefix length of /24 ?

2023-10-11 Thread borg
Well, I think the sane solution would be to push customers/clients into IPv6 and keep services IPv4. Then start moving services to dualstack. Most of todays customers/clients are consumers. They just connect to server to get data, watch movies, listen to music. Gaming is similar. That way, ISPs

Re: ARIN email address (was cogent spamming directly from ARIN records?)

2023-10-04 Thread borg
This is not the outcome of internet ecosystem, this is outcome of commercialization, where money is what is all cared, not good product, ethical behavior, etc. This is also because good guys do NOT fight back strong enough. Cogent start to give you hard time? Start to filter they whole prefixes?

Re: Dodgy AS327933 ...?

2023-08-11 Thread borg
Haha :) you are right. I just checked Caida AS ranking: http://as-rank.uu3.net/?as=2 A lot of "providers" for UDEL-DCN. Yeah right.. They all indeed probably try to prepend their AS 2 times ending up having ASN 2 in path. -- Original message -- From: Mike Davis To:

Re: malware warning

2023-07-22 Thread borg
Thats not it.. But I finally found it: https://blog.apnic.net/2018/07/12/shutting-down-the-bgp-hijack-factory/ -- Original message -- From: Niels Bakker To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: malware warning Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 19:42:58 +0200 * b...@uu3.net (b...@uu3.net) [Sat 22

Re: malware warning

2023-07-22 Thread borg
Oh, just dont bother. The battle is over and we lost it, because good people are too soft. The only interesting action I ever saw was: "Shutting down email spam factory"; where some network was depeered from internet completly. Well done. (Somehow I cannot find post about that anymore). The only

Re: FCC Chair Rosenworcel Proposes to Investigate Impact of Data Caps

2023-06-19 Thread borg
Heh, its kinda sad that noone mentions space environment impact at all. How that 40k sats will pollute already decently pulluted orbit. I wonder if decommision process will be clean (burn in atmosphere). If there will be failure rate, we will end up w/ dead sats at orbit. I really wonder if

Re: G root servers unreachable via ICMP(v6)

2023-05-16 Thread borg
So, DoD does NOT have capacity to answer those little ICMP echo request packets? Heh.. Anyway, this is IMO terrible practice. Many many times I have to deal w/ "products" that do exacly the same because its so much "secure" to not respond to ping. Any basic network security researcher know that

Re: Amprnet? (was Re: [anti-abuse-wg] Yet another BGP hijacking towards AS16509)

2022-08-30 Thread borg
Yeah, ARDC sold part of it to Amazon. I doubt they even had right to do so due to 44/8 was an legacy IP range.. ARIN allowed it.. All too shady. Anyway, according to AMPRnet that range was unallocated, so no active radio ham networks were at that range, so I doubt it was someone from AMPRnet.

Re: BGP Javascript Map/Visualization

2022-05-26 Thread borg
You were close... I think you mean this one? https://as2914.net/ -- Original message -- From: Brian Johnson To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: BGP Javascript Map/Visualization Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 20:07:51 + Hey all, Sorry for the noise. Years ago someone here built and

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-20 Thread borg
I know its the same, but from UX standpoints looks different. Anyway, that was just one example. As for IPv6 -> IPv4 (note the arrow) its pretty much easy. IPv6 have much bigger address space, so it can embed IPv4 addresses in special interop subnets that are routed to special NAT GW that handle

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-18 Thread borg
While Im dont like IPv6, I see it as a bad idea. >From my knowledge I dont see a way of extending IPv4 without making it a new protocol. It was not designed that way. What I would LOVE to see that someone will pop in with new IP protocol that is much more similar to IPv4, just extends address

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-18 Thread borg
Yes, you are right. And gradually IPv4 was improved and fixed. We learned how to defend L2. CIDR was added (with should be thing from the begining instead of netmasks, but who could forsee...) And in case of IPv6 it seems that all that experience was throwed out of window. Design was much

RE: V6 still not supported

2022-03-17 Thread borg
Ohh sorry if I misunderstood orginal message a bit. I am all on your side about it indeed. I am el-cheapo dual-homed at home, and this setup is impossible to do without NAT. I can add/del ISP connections at any time with minimal reconf. Have static IPs in LAN and overlay network. Life is good.

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-17 Thread borg
Yes, IPv6.. but for example 64bit address space but with a much closer ties to IPv4 imo. So network people would be much more confortable with it. I already said how my ideal IPv6 should look like. Many people disagree with that ok. Its very hard to please everyone indeed, hence KISS concept

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-17 Thread borg
It seems team developing IPv6 had ONE way of doing things, with is actually recipe for disaster. Why? Because they were building an IP protocol. Something that will be using globally by ALL networks around. Not some local IOT (useless) shit used here and there. Thats why such IP protocol should

Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public

2021-11-18 Thread borg
No, you are not alone. This just gets kinda pathetic. It also shows how an IPv6 is a failure. (No please, leave me alone all you IPv6 zealots). I think its time to go back to design board and start working on IPv8 ;) so we finnaly get rid of IPv4... -- Original message -- From:

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-29 Thread borg
Oh well.. Then how you gonna solve the el-cheapo SOHO multihoming? Im currently dual homed, having 2 uplinks, RFC1918 LAN, doing policy routing and NATing however I want.. -- Original message -- From: Mark Andrews To: b...@uu3.net Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: IPv6 woes -

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-28 Thread borg
Heh, NAT is not that evil after all. Do you expect that all the home people will get routable public IPs for all they toys inside house? And if they change ISP they will get new range? Doesnt sounds nice to me.. But I guess I its just me Yeah I am aware of putting additional aliases on loopback.

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-25 Thread borg
Because IPv4 loopback is 127.0.0.1/8 and its usefull? 0:0:1-:0/32 means you generate addreses from that range and not necessary using /32 prefix.. It just range thats reserved for LL. Same about RFC1918 aka space.. its a range reserved for local addreses. The whole rationale is: - shorter

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-25 Thread borg
Well, I think we should not compare IPX to IPv4 because those protocols were made to handle completly different networks? Yeah, IPv6 is new, but its more like revolution instead of evolution. Well, Industry seems to addapt things quickly when they are good enough. Better things replace worse. Of

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-24 Thread borg
Well, I see IPv6 as double failure really. First, IPv6 itself is too different from IPv4. What Internet wanted is IPv4+ (aka IPv4 with bigger address space, likely 64bit). Of course we could not extend IPv4, so having new protocol is fine. It should just fix problem (do we have other problems I am

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-24 Thread borg
Oh yeah, it would be very funny if this will really happen (new protocol). Im not happy with IPv6, and it seems many others too. This is short list how my ideal IPv6 proto looks like: - 64bit address space more is not always better - loopback 0:0:0:1/48 - soft LL 0:0:1-:0/32 (Link Local) -

Re: 10 years from now... (was: internet futures)

2021-03-30 Thread borg
So, I assume you have PI IPv6 space and doing BGP with HE? In other case, if anything will happen to HE (they close they tunnelbroker service) you will have to renumber. -- Original message -- From: Javier J To: b...@uu3.net Cc: nanog Subject: Re: 10 years from now... (was:

Re: 10 years from now... (was: internet futures)

2021-03-26 Thread borg
Oh, sorry to disappoint you, but they are not missing anything.. Internet become a consumer product where data is provided by large corporations similary to TV now. Your avarage Joe consumer does NOT care about NAT and that he cant run services or he does NOT have full e2e communication. Yes, you

Re: Newbie Question: Is anyone actually using the Null MX (RFC 7505)?

2021-02-26 Thread borg
Hmm right... Somehow I tought that having that special Null MX will silently discard message... I dont know why... So, RFC 7505 is pretty much even pointless in my opinion. You have to do more.. to pretty much achieve the same.. Its just easier to not having MX on subdomains that does not serve

Re: Newbie Question: Is anyone actually using the Null MX (RFC 7505)?

2021-02-26 Thread borg
Well, I bet my legacy system will bounce it for example... Postfix 3.0: RFC 7505 ("Null MX" No Service Resource Record), Earlier Postfix versions will bounce mail because of a "Malformed DNS server reply". I cant speak about Sendmail, qmail, Exim.. when they started supporting it. So, In my

Re: Newbie Question: Is anyone actually using the Null MX (RFC 7505)?

2021-02-26 Thread borg
Thats cute, but remember that there are gazylion of legacy systems on Internet as well. They might have no clue what do do with it.. Also remember that MTA is supposed to accept email to [ip] too. On my opinion, its best to just have no MX record at all. While MTA can fallback and try to do

Re: Texas internet connectivity declining due to blackouts

2021-02-17 Thread borg
Hold on.. Math doesnt add-up here. Are you telling me that a gallon propane tank (3.8l) can last 24 hours for about 1000W power generation. Are you sure? I could belive for 6 hours... maybe 8.. not 24 hours. So either you are using up 200-300W.. or you have superior power generator. Can you share

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-21 Thread borg
Oh, no worries.. It will never happen ;) There is reason why everyone stick to IPv4... Also, there was also nice space that could be used safely on private networks [14.0.0.0/8]. Unfortunately money needs to flow, so it was converted to normal space. Shame. Same with recent shady action w/

Re: Fiber Bypass Switch

2014-01-31 Thread Jakob Borg
There's also for example http://www.silicom-usa.com/Intelligent_Bypass_Switches/IBS10G-Intelligent_10G_Bypass_Switch_33 //jb 2014-01-27 Keyser, Philip pkey...@fibertech.com: Does anyone have any recommendations for a fiber bypass switch? I am looking for something capable of 10G that when