Re: Satellite latency

2002-03-05 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
buffer or the file runs out, and then the kernel will spend the 5 minutes transfering it to the dialup user. Have that happen a few times, and you get an instant mbuf exaustion (or whatever internal mechanism your OS of choice uses) and kernel panic... -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: long distance gigabit ethernet

2002-03-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
and beliefs about LAN vs WAN technology and all that nonsense... Short of that, Cogent offers a layer 3 transport service with gige on both ends as an option... :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8

Re: long distance gigabit ethernet

2002-03-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
a couple time there... -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Transatlantic response times.

2002-03-25 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
the people were when they laid your fiber. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd)

2002-03-25 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
this problem (Vendor F comes to mind, but their SSH implementation also doesn't work with OpenSSH w/freebsd localisations, so something else is afoot there as well). -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14

Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd)

2002-03-25 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. The pace has since slowed down a bit, but appears to be holding steady at doubling every 18 months (1995-present). Not to be too picky, but how is going from doubling every 2 years to doubling every 18 months slowing down? :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e

Re: Let's talk about Distance Sniffing/Remote Visibility

2002-03-28 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
of course. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: MAE-Phoenix info request

2002-04-06 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. The MAE in Phoenix was originally constructed by Dave Siegel and it ran from 1996 through 1998/9. Or companies like http://www.maedulles.net/ who aren't exchange points at all. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29

Re: Load balancing in routers

2002-04-08 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
greatly when they no longer need a Patricia tree. To quote Avi Freedman, Customer Enragement Feature. To quote Majdi Abbas, John Chambers owes me a pony. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14

Re: NANOG on Trial

2002-04-08 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
said in #nanog I have over 50 cases of showing pornography to a minor.. 'nuf said... -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: packet reordering at exchange points

2002-04-08 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
distribution; it uses hashes. Sure, hashed distribution isn't perfect. But it's better than perfect distribution with added latency and/or retransmits out the wazoo. You don't even need varying paths to create a desynch, all you need is varying size packets. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Qwest Transit

2002-04-08 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
? -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: packet reordering at exchange points

2002-04-09 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
lack of things for end users to do with that much bandwidth even if they got it. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: fixing TCP buffers (Re: packet reordering at exchange points)

2002-04-09 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
particular flow, since you've eliminated the concept of one flow hogging the socket buffer and leave it to TCP to work out the sharing of the link. Second opinions? -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3

Re: [Q] BGP filtering policies

2002-04-09 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
of their networks. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: fixing TCP buffers (Re: packet reordering at exchange points)

2002-04-09 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
and simplistic paging. But I think that's plausible.) You're missing the point, you don't allocate ANYTHING until you have a packet to fill that buffer, and then when you're done buffering it, it is free'd. The limits are just there to prevent you from running away with a socket buffer. -- Richard

Re: fixing TCP buffers (Re: packet reordering at exchange points)

2002-04-09 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
data. Once a socket proves its intentions (and periodically after that), it gets to use a BIG buffer, so we find out just how fast the connection can go. That doesn't prevent an intentional local DoS though. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID

Re: genuity - any good?

2002-04-12 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
of your network. /rant -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: UUNET service

2002-04-15 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
somewhere. It's just not an easily scalable solution. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Selective DNS replies

2002-04-24 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
see it. If you have a network, you can just use the same IP for your dns servers in multiple locations, and let your IGP route it to the closest one. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
a no export community with ones peers (being non transitive, it would still distribute the force of the attack). Many people do this already. If you're looking to purchase transit and you think this is something you'll care about, ask for it or vote with your wallet. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
can get anything from this is when you admit defeat on keeping your services responding to new connection but want to keep existing connections and/or the end servers from failing completely. Depending on the service in question this may or may not be a good goal. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-02 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:56:07PM -0600, Pete Kruckenberg wrote: On Thu, 2 May 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: You have an interesting situation. I think rate limiting outbound RSTs would be the least offensive thing you could do, off the top of my head. What about just

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-02 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
complaint about 1.2.3.182, the campus computer nerd looks it up, and goes to knock on that persons door. Little do they know that the actual compromised machine is 1.2.3.97 spoofing it. You ever tried explaining this to the campus nerd? Not pretty! -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-02 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-02 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
wildly into the internet. The latter is usually used as a stopgap measure to limit the number of spoofed packets coming into your network via transits. The number you'd expect to filter is 50%, assuming the attacker in question is using an evenly distributing random() function. -- Richard

Re: anybody else been spammed by no-ip.com yet?

2002-05-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-04 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
forth and be filterful. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: anybody else been spammed by no-ip.com yet?

2002-05-04 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
effective. That said, I'm pretty sure this thread has now excercised my D key more then a month's supply of spam. Isn't it about time we called it a day, or perhaps moved this to a list more appropriate for complaining and sending email about people sending email. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen

Re: uRPF Loose Check Mode vs. ACL

2002-05-05 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
a Filtering Information Base mtrie for source address rules. This is the entire point of standard access-lists, and more recently compiled access-lists. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36

Re: Semi OT: Co-Location in Virginia/DC/Maryland

2002-05-06 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
For price, quality, and if your goal is primarily to purchase transit, I would recommend Equinix, located in Ashburn VA. That said, this isn't the appropriate list for that kind of question. ISP-Bandwidth or ISP-Colo might be more appropriate. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-06 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
defenses. Don't confuse the rantings of a nutcase and his T1 with useful information about DoS. I have to admit I like the direction the made up acronyms are going though, can we have MS-DOS next? :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID

Re: ratios

2002-05-09 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. Multiply that by the number of people they do peer with, and it adds up to a lot. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: DirecPC Engineering Contact

2002-05-13 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
a few people do (though I personally would not buy from them). -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: BGP and aggregation

2002-05-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
for getting around MTUs you can't increase. Unfortunately, I do not believe Juniper has any such functionality (even when gre is done by the RE). -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: The market must be coming back

2002-05-20 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
existing functionality work correctly and behave in a sensible fashion. Nothing personal against Foundry, but the people in charge couldn't possibly not get it any more than they do now. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8

Re: Cisco 7200 VXR with NPE-400 (was RE: The market must be coming back)

2002-05-20 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
TAC after hours, all you'll get is someone's house with their screaming kids in the background. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Cisco 7200 VXR with NPE-400 (was RE: The market must be coming back)

2002-05-21 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
a telephone, thanks. :) And it's nothing personal, I have actually been one of Foundry's biggest supporters compared to almost every other engineer I know. Everyone else gave up using them in layer 3 a long time ago. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras

Re: Cisco quality

2002-05-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
is actually hiring people to censor NANOG 24/7 someone needs to reevaluate their funding), but I have seen censoring in the past which is almost comical in nature, for example the Sexual Harassment filter. Best be careful, the PC police are coming for you. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL

Re: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, the other I fired after 3. Sir, I think you have me confused with someone who cares. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, and CSCO. http://www.bblabs.com/highspeed.htm http://www.bblabs.com/data_center_picture.html http://www.bblabs.com/dedicated_server.htm -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
style works best upon others is neither smart nor productive. Can we all just leave it at that, and try to get back to something operational? -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: operational: icmp echo out of control?

2002-05-23 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
them). * Have an opt out option for networks who REALLY don't like probes. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
2GHz box for computationally intensive tasks (like a route reflector). -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: operational: icmp echo out of control?

2002-05-28 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
passively. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Contact for UniNet S.A. de C.V. (NETBLK-UNINET-NETBLK-12)

2002-05-29 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
? -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: IP renumbering timeframe

2002-05-30 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
it. If we could seperate the people with legitimate needs from the net polluters, we could then proceed to filter with a vengence. 5000 for 62000 sounds like a good tradeoff to me. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8

Re: Trying to find a connectivity provider that wont go under (was RE: CAIS/Ardent and now Network Access Solutions)

2002-05-30 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. That said, this has very little place on NANOG. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: AS8070

2002-06-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 06:42:58PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster wrote: I've noticed a large chunk of my customer traffic coming from Microsoft. Anyone know if they peer anywhere on the East coast? I think you have [EMAIL PROTECTED] confused with [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Richard A Steenbergen

Re: route authentication

2002-06-04 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
rather have routes converge 30% faster than protect against an attack noone has ever done. That and its just one more thing to negotiate with the other side. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3

Re: Bogon list

2002-06-04 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
(at least not on the border device connecting to it :P) from source addresses. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Bogon list

2002-06-04 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
, therefore you should not hear them from your peers. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Meltdown somewhere?

2002-06-05 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 01:07:21AM -0500, John Palmer wrote: Is there some sort of a router meltdown somewhere this evening? I cant get through to most destinations, either with TELNET, http, ftp, DNS - nothing. And yet, unfortunately for us all, your mail continues to work. -- Richard

Re: Bogon list

2002-06-05 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
would want to make traceroutes lose all information about the circuits you're traveling through. It would make diagnostics an everloving nightmare, IMHO. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36

Re: OT: Re: Bogon list

2002-06-05 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
it * Not posting in HTML * Not posting where can I get a T1 in BF Egypt * Not posting everyone on the internet is down but me! etc. Not to be mean to anyone, but if you're expecting something else, you should probably look at one of the isp-* lists. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL

Re: How many protocols...

2002-06-10 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 09:33:09AM -0700, todd glassey wrote: Is there a standard list of protocols that all carriers support? IP. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: LEAP Security Vulnerabilities??

2002-06-13 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
for 802.11a I believe they're doing better. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: remember the diameter of the internet?

2002-06-18 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
things get extreme, but it would be nice to see nationals peer in the south as well. If one has peering requirements, at least set them to reach a positive goal... BGP twiddling cannot fix a broke-ass network design. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP

Re: SPEWS?

2002-06-21 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
weight to kill an email, and osirusoft uses SPEWS. I don't like spam any more then anyone else, but this situation is damn near pathetic. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Sprint peering policy

2002-06-27 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
Note the date, February 8, 2000. Over 2 years later is an eternity in peering requirement land. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Sprint peering policy

2002-06-29 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
and cashflow. What about the other way around, eyeball providers who depeer content providers so they can try to sell content hosting. I think this is something Vijay may be more familiar with. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177

Re: interconnection richness effects Re: Was [Re: Sprint peering policy]

2002-06-29 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
routing crowd to try and take advantage of all the richness of paths out there which aren't being used efficiently, break BGP very very quickly (in my experience at any rate). -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E

Re: Sprint peering policy

2002-07-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
to potentially use it completely or near completely). Just because you aren't paying for the bandwidth doesn't mean you can't end up spending more than you would for transit if you don't know what you are doing. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID

Re: Sprint peering policy

2002-07-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
filing chapter 11 myself. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Sprint peering policy

2002-07-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
% in chicago. I avoid the chicago and virginia peers as much as possible. To get it off their network, yes UU doesn't have to carry it very far. As for where it actually goes, thats their peers' problem. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID

Re: Sprint peering policy

2002-07-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
the system) going through the US backbones I'd be very surprised. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Internet vulnerabilities

2002-07-04 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
millions, not pissing off a few nerds and disrupting eBay's profit margin for a week. As much as we like to think we are important, I'd hardly put them in the same class. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2

Re: DOS attack from PANAMSAT

2002-07-07 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
the victem from sending complaints, since they assume that either everything is spoofed, or nothing will be done since it will never be traced back to the actual originating machine. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8

Re: Internet vulnerabilities

2002-07-07 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
to the closest server with via regular IP, based on which server the request hits. Of course then there is no failover, but thats life. DNS is also more scalable for doing anycast with customers. Which method to use is up to you. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e

Re: rewars/benefit bogon filters

2002-07-08 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
the extra 40% of the attack and have the immediate cues and traceability provided by spotting obvious bogons coming in. Or use a Juniper, and do both. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE

Re: multicast (was Re: Readiness for IPV6)

2002-07-09 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
at the customers' port, as a receiver of multicast there are no issues, but as a sender I havn't seen anyone come up with a satisfactory way to charge for it. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3

CA Power

2002-07-10 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
Hrm looks like I beat Sean Donelan... http://www.caiso.com/awe/systemstatus.html http://www.caiso.com/outlook.html Is it time for a rolling blackout again? -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3

Re: No one behind the wheel at WorldCom

2002-07-13 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
job maintaining their own IRR entries, but I'm certain they peer with people who don't have a current db. Probably not, since the vast majority of their current peers don't meet their current peering requirements. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP

Re: No one behind the wheel at WorldCom

2002-07-13 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 10:20:01PM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: Supposidly Level 3 requires IRR filtering on their peers, but do they actually try to enforce this? I know they do an excellent job maintaining their own IRR entries, but I'm certain they peer with people who don't have

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-15 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
/23s unless you are a customer, and for the most part they are right. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Act Surprised.....

2002-07-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
a betting pool on chpt11 dates count as operational? :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: PSINet/Cogent Latency

2002-07-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
of their degraded performance and unwillingness to upgrade, but a de-localpref'ing is probably a good idea. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: PSINet/Cogent Latency

2002-07-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
of the surest ways to lose customers to someone who doesn't. I'd rather have a noncongested gige public peer than a ds3 private peer any day. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: PSINet/Cogent Latency

2002-07-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
someone could write this kind of system to run on the RE, is beyond me. I blame generations of dumbed down network engineers wielding perl as their only tool. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8

Re: PSINet/Cogent Latency

2002-07-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: PSINet/Cogent Latency

2002-07-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
should be easy and painless. I don't know if I call periodic ftp painless but its certainly a start. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: PSINet/Cogent Latency

2002-07-23 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
with many interfaces. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-25 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
they would actually follow through with this though, all it takes is one incident where they cause financial harm to someone with an mp3 they misidentify and their highground is gone. Then again, I can't imagine congress being so massively stupid either, so I suppose anything is possible. -- Richard

Re: verio arrogance

2002-07-26 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
%). -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: istop arrogance

2002-07-27 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
limited subset of the internet (but hey it doesn't cost you anything). Your economic problems are your own, if you were smart you would learn how to solve them within the rules of the game. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7

Re: routing table size

2002-07-29 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?

2002-08-10 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
a bugfix code rev is still beyond me. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?

2002-08-10 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
configuration is slow and a pain, and with some of them charging you per-vlan what it would cost for a copper crossconnect, it's no wonder most people don't use them. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8

Re: wcg.com dead?

2002-08-15 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
will fix them, or at least shut them down. Either way, an improvement for the internet. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Max Prefixes Configured on Customer BGP (WAS Re: ALGX problems?)

2002-08-15 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
-lists. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Max Prefixes Configured on Customer BGP

2002-08-15 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
be at least a slightly better way of recovering quickly once the problem has passed, without mucking things up every 15 minutes in the process. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Major Labels v. Backbones

2002-08-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
as an appropriate retort? -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: Major Labels v. Backbones

2002-08-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: your mail

2002-08-20 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
lifting, or hire your own $10/hr rack and stack monkeys. At any rate, this has no place on nanog. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

Re: DNS entries for infrastructure equipment

2002-08-21 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
But if you're going to be one of the one big word or lots of dashes people, I (unfortunately) can't stop you. Some very good examples of a logical layout you could model from are UU/GX, and Verio. My award for most annoying layout goes to CW. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs?

2002-08-21 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
from, or even if they have any clue how to hack anything. I highly doubt they'll be attaching riaa.com to it either. I suppose if you want symbolism, you can host -l riaa.com and wack their wcom webserver and other stuff at att, but I'd harly call that productive. -- Richard A Steenbergen

Re: Eat this RIAA (or, the war has begun?) - Why not all ISPs?

2002-08-21 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
something to do if you even knew the provider that was planning on giving them service for such activities. Until then, it's all a bunch of speculation, and my money is still on idle threats and hype. -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID

Re: ATT NYC

2002-08-28 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
). But to be fair, when a NOC or Customer Service person writes an RFO, it usually comes out sounding very very bad, regardless of the actual complexity of the situation. I'm certain all the ATT customers hope that was the case here. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e

Re: ATT NYC

2002-09-03 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
someone DOES die (and not necessarily old age :P). -- Richard A Steenbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)

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