Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit

2008-02-28 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Owen DeLong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Feb 24, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Stephen Sprunk wrote: The wording of the question and response referred only to "ARIN members". That does not include most orgs with _only_ legacy allocations, but it would include orgs with b

Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit

2008-02-24 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Tom Vest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Feb 23, 2008, at 1:54 PM, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Rechecking my own post to PPML, 73 Xtra Large orgs held 79.28% of ARIN's address space as of May 07; my apology for a faulty memory, but it's not off by enough to i

Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit

2008-02-22 Thread Stephen Sprunk
fore the mega-mergers started; after all, you only need >/14 to be Xtra Large. Given how most tend to operate in silos, they might still be separate orgs as far as ARIN is concerned... S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "

Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit

2008-02-21 Thread Stephen Sprunk
ell into a decline, which isn't going to happen for a long time. If that happens by 2020, I'll be pleasantly surprised. S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSSdice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2008-01-03 Thread Stephen Sprunk
's a suboptimal solution, though, for reasons too numerous to list.) S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSSdice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-25 Thread Stephen Sprunk
the problem any better than RA/RS; you have to fiddle with the hosts' routing tables to get things set up right. S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSSdice at ev

Re: IEEE 40GE & 100GE

2007-12-13 Thread Stephen Sprunk
ut you pay labor and sparing over and over. S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSSdice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking

Re: 240/4

2007-10-18 Thread Stephen Sprunk
atch themselves or bully vendors to patch), but that's all that's worth discussing now. Short of someone from Microsoft indicating they'd post a patch on Windows Update for Vista, XP, and possibly earlier systems, any discussion of _when_ these addresses _might_ be usable on a publ

Re: Access to the IPv4 net for IPv6-only systems, was: Re: WG Action: Conclusion of IP Version 6 (ipv6)

2007-10-04 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 2-okt-2007, at 15:56, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Second, the ALGs will have to be (re)written anyways to deal with IPv6 stateful firewalls, whether or not NAT-PT happens. That's one solution. I like the hole punchin

Re: Creating demand for IPv6, and saving the planet

2007-10-03 Thread Stephen Sprunk
ou're going to the trouble of making a killer app and giving/selling it to the public, why wouldn't you include support for IPv4? Virtually every "unique" feature of IPv6, except the number of bits in the address, has been back-ported to IPv4. There is simply no other ad

Re: Creating demand for IPv6

2007-10-02 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Seth Mattinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Stephen Sprunk wrote: If you feel ARIN has not solved the PIv6 issue sufficiently well, please take that argument to PPML. As of today, if you qualify for PIv4 space, you qualify for PIv6 space automatically -- and you only have

Re: Access to the IPv4 net for IPv6-only systems, was: Re: WG Action: Conclusion of IP Version 6 (ipv6)

2007-10-02 Thread Stephen Sprunk
trivially" through v4 NAT will also work "trivially" through NAT-PT and v6 stateful firewalls. The interesting apps are the ones that don't work through NAT or firewalls without ALGs. If you're making some silly argument about non-NAT v4 access, well, you're over

Re: Creating demand for IPv6

2007-10-02 Thread Stephen Sprunk
you have a PIv6 block and ISPs won't route it, please publicly shame the offending parties here so the rest of us will know not to give them our money. S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, an

Re: Access to the IPv4 net for IPv6-only systems, was: Re: WG Action: Conclusion of IP Version 6 (ipv6)

2007-10-02 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Duane Waddle On 10/2/07, Stephen Sprunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you think anyone will be deploying v6 without a stateful firewall, you're delusional. That battle is long over. The best we can hope for is that those personal firewalls won't do NAT as well.

Re: Access to the IPv4 net for IPv6-only systems, was: Re: WG Action: Conclusion of IP Version 6 (ipv6)

2007-10-02 Thread Stephen Sprunk
ou think anyone will be deploying v6 without a stateful firewall, you're delusional. That battle is long over. The best we can hope for is that those personal firewalls won't do NAT as well. S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSSdice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking

Re: Access to the IPv4 net for IPv6-only systems, was: Re: WG Action: Conclusion of IP Version 6 (ipv6)

2007-10-02 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 1-okt-2007, at 19:56, Stephen Sprunk wrote: There is no "IPv6 world". I've heard reference over and over to how developers shouldn't add "NAT support" into v6 apps, but the reality is tha

Re: Access to the IPv4 net for IPv6-only systems, was: Re: WG Action: Conclusion of IP Version 6 (ipv6)

2007-10-01 Thread Stephen Sprunk
then all the whining about how "evil" NAT-PT is is obviously bunk. We can't have it both ways, folks: either NAT-PT breaks things and people would move to native v6 to get away from it, or NAT-PT doesn't break things and there's no reason not to use it. S St

Re: Access to the IPv4 net for IPv6-only systems, was: Re: WG Action: Conclusion of IP Version 6 (ipv6)

2007-10-01 Thread Stephen Sprunk
we run out of v4 addresses in a few years, what do you propose we do? It makes little sense to tunnel v4 over v6 until v6 packets become the majority on the backbones -- and the only way that'll happen is if everyone dual-stacks or is v6-only. If everyone has v6 connectivity, then why

Re: Access to the IPv4 net for IPv6-only systems, was: Re: WG Action: Conclusion of IP Version 6 (ipv6)

2007-10-01 Thread Stephen Sprunk
t will be their motivation to get real IPv6 connectivity and turn the NAT-PT box off -- or switch it around so they can be a v6-only site internally. The alternative is that everyone just deploys multi-layered v4 NAT boxes and v6 dies with a whimper. Tell me, which is the lesser of the two

Re: Question on Loosely Synchronized Router Clocks

2007-09-18 Thread Stephen Sprunk
(i.e. if the server says it's now 1 Jan 1980 00:00:00 and an object expires on 31 Jan 1980 00:00:00, and my local time is now 18 Sep 2007 19:49:00, my client should actually use an expiration of 17 Oct 2007 19:49:00.) That's ugly. S Stephen Sprunk "God does not pla

Re: Question on Loosely Synchronized Router Clocks

2007-09-18 Thread Stephen Sprunk
degree _if it was ever correct in the first place_. However, many people do not bother setting the clocks at all (which will often result in a clock that's off by a decade or more), or intentionally set them to be wrong. A lot of folks had to set their clocks back a few years around Y2k, for insta

Re: Route table growth and hardware limits...talk to the filter

2007-09-10 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Kevin Loch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Stephen Sprunk wrote: Sucks to be them. If they do not have enough PA space to meet the RIR minima, the community has decided they're not "worthy" of a slot in the DFZ by denying them PI space. Not true, there is an

Re: Route table growth and hardware limits...talk to the filter

2007-09-10 Thread Stephen Sprunk
h no covering CIDR. IMHO, such networks are broken and they should be filtered. If people doing this found themselves unable to reach the significant fraction of the Net (or certain key sites), they would add the covering route even if they were hoping people would accept their incompetent/TE

Re: Route table growth and hardware limits...talk to the filter

2007-09-10 Thread Stephen Sprunk
with another solution being proposed to allow longer-than-RIR-minima routes with a short AS PATH. S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSSdice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking

Re: [funsec] The "Great IPv6 experiment" (fwd)

2007-09-05 Thread Stephen Sprunk
raffic in "soft"ware would be rather embarassing, right? S P.S. I'm writing this from behind a monopoly ISP who deliberately blocks all proto 41 traffic, and thus 6to4, so I have no idea what content, if any, the Experiment is actually providing... Anyone want to give me a Teredo

Re: For want of a single ethernet card, an airport was lost ...

2007-08-20 Thread Stephen Sprunk
mean all security hinges on making sure only authorized people vote, and only once at that; you can't back out fraudulent votes after they're cast, which is why all of the attacks are on the authorization system and being undetected in an audit doesn't matter. S Stephen Sprunk

Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan

2007-07-25 Thread Stephen Sprunk
esn't matter what the other 2550 LIRs do because they're insignificant factors in overall consumption. S Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know everything CCIE #3723 are a great annoyance to those of us who do." K5SSS --Isaac Asimov

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Stephen Sprunk
ems, etc.) that're going to eat us all alive in 3-4 years if things don't change Real Soon Now(tm). Kudos to Apple for being the first vendor to wake up; let's hope the others follow their lead in time to make a difference. S Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think th

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Stephen Sprunk
ems, etc.) that're going to eat us all alive in 3-4 years if things don't change Real Soon Now(tm). Kudos to Apple for being the first vendor to wake up; let's hope the others follow their lead in time to make a difference. S Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think th

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Stephen Sprunk
- and certainly not one that's an adaptation of that evil NAT stuff. S Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know everything CCIE #3723 are a great annoyance to those of us who do." K5SSS --Isaac Asimov

Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking)

2007-06-09 Thread Stephen Sprunk
ntent they didn't censor (either by intent or mistake). This was a particularly interesting case, since the implication was that ISPs who _don't_ censor content _are_ common carriers, which I don't think has otherwise been touched upon in the US. S Stephen Sprunk &quo

Re: Security gain from NAT

2007-06-06 Thread Stephen Sprunk
me device will probably be a v4 NAT device; nobody is trying to take that away because it's a necessary evil. However, NAT in v6 is not necessary, and it's still evil. S Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know everything CCIE #3723 are a

Re: IPv6 Advertisements

2007-06-02 Thread Stephen Sprunk
l, considering how good the aggregation is on paper, how do we ever expect to get it working within a region? S Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know everything CCIE #3723 are a great annoyance to those of us who do." K5SSS --Isaac Asimov

Re: NANOG 40 agenda posted

2007-06-01 Thread Stephen Sprunk
larger-than-minimum blocks. OTOH, the community may see how small the v6 table is and decide that N bits of deaggregation wouldn't hurt. After all, with ~25k ASes today, and router vendors claiming to be able to handle 1M+ routes, it seems we could tolerate up to 5 bits of deaggregation --

Re: NANOG 40 agenda posted

2007-06-01 Thread Stephen Sprunk
ill probably constitute a critical mass of clients and servers, but it doesn't solve the problem for the growing underclass of folks who are and always will be stuck on PA and have to suffer all the bad side effects of that. S Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know everything CCIE #3723 are a great annoyance to those of us who do." K5SSS --Isaac Asimov

Re: IPv6 Advertisements

2007-06-01 Thread Stephen Sprunk
housands of locations (with internal connectivity) that I have a problem with calling each location a "site". Below that, it doesn't do much harm. S Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know everything CCIE #3723 are a great annoyance to those of us who do.&qu

Re: IPv6 Advertisements

2007-05-31 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Jeroen Massar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Stephen Sprunk wrote: First of all, there's disagreement about the definition of "site", The general definition of a site that I find appropriate is and works pretty well as a rule of thumb: "A s

Re: IPv6 Advertisements

2007-05-31 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Stephen Sprunk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Someone recently posted a link (either on PPML or here -- I can't find it now) that showed ARIN's minima for the various v4 and v6 blocks. The v4 ones were all over the map, but there are relatively few v6 blocks and a

Re: IPv6 Advertisements

2007-05-31 Thread Stephen Sprunk
continually whine about routing table bloat whenever loosening policies for small orgs is discussed. S Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know everything CCIE #3723 are a great annoyance to those of us who do." K5SSS --Isaac Asimov

Re: IPv6 Advertisements

2007-05-31 Thread Stephen Sprunk
en advantage of that. So, it's entirely possible someone could get a /40 and deaggregate that into 256 routes if they wanted to. Given the entire v6 routing table is around 700 routes today, it's obviously not a problem yet :) S Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they kno

Re: Microsoft and Teredo

2007-05-31 Thread Stephen Sprunk
r is that a site with IPv4-only security devices has to choose whether they're going to allow or block all Teredo/6to4 traffic. If they want finer control, they need to upgrade to a native v6 network and native v6 security devices. S Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know

Re: IPv6 Advertisements

2007-05-31 Thread Stephen Sprunk
(Yes, this means you can't just CNAME the service hostname to the real hostname, but there are several other strategies.) S Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know everything CCIE #3723 are a great annoyance to those of us who do." K5SSS --Isaac Asimov

Re: IPv6 Advertisements

2007-05-31 Thread Stephen Sprunk
m are /32 except for one that's /48. The upside is that in the block you're expected to accept /48s, nobody will have a /32. The downside is that anyone who gets a larger-than-minimum sized allocation/assignment can deaggregate down to that level. S Stephen Sprunk "Those pe

Re: RTT from NY to New Delhi?

2007-05-16 Thread Stephen Sprunk
because it's cheaper and sounds better. S Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know everything CCIE #3723 are a great annoyance to those of us who do." K5SSS --Isaac Asimov

Re: ISP CALEA compliance

2007-05-10 Thread Stephen Sprunk
selves. If you don't have anything to hide- then why should you care right? On the other hand- these sorts of laws may just be enough to push everyone to use encryption- and then what will LE do? Arrest everyone! Have you forgotten the court ruling a year or two ago that using PGP

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-23 Thread Stephen Sprunk
need to use longer routes than the real holders of the space? To paraphrase Barbie, "security is hard; let's go shopping!" S Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know everything CCIE #3723 are a great annoyance to those of us who do." K5SSS --Isaac Asimov

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-16 Thread Stephen Sprunk
ritative answer of 0.0.0.1 instead. Of course, dealing with idiot consumers on a regular basis, their tech support folks insist the problem is on the user's machine and that it's a bug in their v6 stack, despite Ethereal captures showing the bad DNS response packets coming from their box..

Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-16 Thread Stephen Sprunk
m apps that still bomb when both ends have IPv6 and there's only a v4 path between them (though most have been fixed over the last few years), but the OS is working correctly. S Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know everything CCIE #3723 are a great annoyance to those of us who do." K5SSS --Isaac Asimov

Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet

2007-04-14 Thread Stephen Sprunk
;d be either something like 1400 bytes or 9000 bytes, depending on whether the path included segments that hadn't been upgraded yet... S Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know everything CCIE #3723 are a great annoyance to those of us who do." K5SSS --Isaac Asimov

Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet

2007-04-13 Thread Stephen Sprunk
nations and/or not as smart as it should be. S * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\ Parameters\EnablePMTUBHDetect=1 Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know everything CCIE #3723 are a great annoyance to those of us who do." K5SSS --Isaac Asimov

Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet

2007-04-13 Thread Stephen Sprunk
tightly controlled environments like HPC or internal datacenters. Perry Lorier's solution is rather clever; perhaps we don't even need a protocol sanctioned by the IEEE or IETF? S Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know everything C

Re: Jumbo frames

2007-03-30 Thread Stephen Sprunk
ht be another story, but most folks today use "jumbo" to mean packets of 8kB to 10kB, and "baby jumbos" to mean 2kB to 3kB. S Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think they know everything CCIE #3723 are a great annoyance to those of us who do." K5SSS --Isaac Asimov

Re: Ethernet won (was: RE: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband...)

2007-03-14 Thread Stephen Sprunk
till suck because their gear is designed for consumers. Sticking with "residential" service for your home office will pay for basic server colo space somewhere else, and you'll get more for your money. S Stephen Sprunk "Those people who think

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Stephen Sprunk
ave a decent excuse for bad upload speeds; shared bandwidth is bad enough, but in addition 1000 nodes transmitting to 1 node is much tougher electrically than 1 node transmitting to 1000 nodes. Sooner or later, they're going to have to start shrinking cell sizes and/or allocating a heck o

Re: Do routers prioritize control traffic?

2007-02-17 Thread Stephen Sprunk
ally put control traffic to/from the local node into a separate path that completely bypasses the standard queueing mechanisms (and predates operator-accessible QOS). In other routers, the control plane and forwarding plane are segregated, which achieves the same goal but with a rather dif

Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11

2007-02-11 Thread Stephen Sprunk
nd downloading of "old" content. Of course, this is a pointless discussion since residential multicast is virtually non-existent today, and there's no sign of it being imminent. Anyone want to take bets on whether IPmc or IPv6 shows up first? ;-) S Stephen Sprunk "

Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11

2007-02-11 Thread Stephen Sprunk
ws will destroy them -- though that won't stop some dinosaurs from trying it. S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSSdice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: broken DNS proxying at public wireless hotspots

2007-02-02 Thread Stephen Sprunk
sta users will pressure them to get their systems fixed, but I'm not holding my breath. They'll probably just make "disable IPv6" part of their standard troubleshooting routine, just like telling you to reboot your PC. After all, nobody uses it, right? S Stephen Sprunk

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-21 Thread Stephen Sprunk
h people in Malaysia and Poland than with my next-door neighbor is the ISPs' fault, not Bram's. S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSSdice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-21 Thread Stephen Sprunk
URLs (or know where to find said URLs) even if there is an option? Remember, we're talking about Joe Sixpack here, not techies. You would, however, be able to pick whatever STB you wanted (unless ISPs deliberately blocked competitors' services). S Stephen Sprunk "God

Re: Google wants to be your Internet

2007-01-20 Thread Stephen Sprunk
roblem. This works better for me since all my non-BT traffic isn't competing for limited port bandwidth, and it works better for them since my BT traffic is unencrypted and easy to de-prioritize -- but they don't limit it per se, just mark it to be dropped first during congestion,

Re: Google wants to be your Internet

2007-01-20 Thread Stephen Sprunk
count for it, but an ISP runs too much risk of breaking users' experiences when they apply caching indiscriminately to the entire Web. Non-idempotent GET requests are the single biggest breakage I ran into, and the proliferation of dynamically-generated "Web 2.0" pages (or fault

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-20 Thread Stephen Sprunk
folks are working on deals to integrate BT (the protocol) into STBs, routers, etc. so that users won't even know what's going on beneath the surface -- they'll just see a TiVo-like interface and pay a monthly fee like with cable. S Stephen Sprunk "God does

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-13 Thread Stephen Sprunk
rice of the 10% that isn't crap and give the other 90% away. Of course, the logical solution is to quit producing crap so that such games aren't necessary, but since when has any MPAA or RIAA member decided to go that route? S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play d

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-11 Thread Stephen Sprunk
ompensate the producers -- both business problems, though for different folks. Interesting problems to solve, but NANOG probably isn't the appropriate forum. S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSSdice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking

Re: Boeing's Connexion announcement

2006-10-15 Thread Stephen Sprunk
account at the departure airport hotspot to grab all my mail, work on it during the flight, and then use the hotspot at the other end to send it all when I land. That's good enough for a 2-5hr flight, and it doesn't get me in trouble with accounting. S Stephen Sprunk "

Re: IPv6 PI block is announced - update your filters 2620:0000::/23

2006-09-13 Thread Stephen Sprunk
ne day, but the little guys won for now. Even if we're wrong, that's a good thing for a variety of reasons. S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSSdice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking

Re: [Fwd: Kremen VS Arin Antitrust Lawsuit - Anyone have feedback?]

2006-09-13 Thread Stephen Sprunk
table ZIP code: it's mine for life as long as I pay for the service it came with, no matter where I move. ) S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSSdice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking

Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-12 Thread Stephen Sprunk
fall below the standards you're safe -- but you can't get more until you're back up to the standards. All in all, the process is decent, and it has community support. Ideal? No, but nothing ever is when lawyers get involved. S Stephen Sprunk "God does no

Re: [Fwd: Kremen VS Arin Antitrust Lawsuit - Anyone have feedback?]

2006-09-08 Thread Stephen Sprunk
fixes are more likely to be routed, therefore refusing to grant larger prefixes (which aren't justified, in ARIN's view) is another barrier to entry. Again, since the folks deciding these policies are, by and large, folks who are already major players in the market, it's easy

Re: [Fwd: Kremen VS Arin Antitrust Lawsuit - Anyone have feedback?]

2006-09-08 Thread Stephen Sprunk
h Kremen construes as being anticompetitive via creating artificial barriers to entry. That may end up being changed. S Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSSdice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking

Re: comast email issues, who else has them?

2006-09-07 Thread Stephen Sprunk
nd even that worked for years; it just broke a few months ago. The real killer is it's broken in both directions; I can't come up with any legitimate reason for that. Inbound (to comcast), I could blame on spam filters, but not outbound. S Stephen Sprunk "God does no

Re: comast email issues, who else has them?

2006-09-06 Thread Stephen Sprunk
egitimate mail. Perhaps people are using the wrong tools to solve the problems? Because Comcast's tools are broken and when other mail admins or even their own customers call them on it, they're not even competent enough to understand the complaint and refuse to escalate? S

Re: NNTP feed.

2006-09-05 Thread Stephen Sprunk
es may be needed to cut down on the whiney pirates. (Besides, all the binaries on usenet are available via BitTorrent somewhere anyways; NNTP does not make a good piracy protocol from a technical perspective, only from an anonymity one) S Stephen Sprunk "God does not

Re: Web typo-correction (Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel...)

2006-07-14 Thread Stephen Sprunk
but the HTTP SRV could point to the typo-correction server. I'd not be inclined to argue with such a setup, but it requires a refresh of every browser out there, so it's not realistic. S Stephen Sprunk"Stupid people surround themselves with smart CCIE #3723 people. Smart people surround themselves with K5SSS smart people who disagree with them." --Aaron Sorkin

Re: Fwd: 41/8 announcement

2006-05-26 Thread Stephen Sprunk
#x27;s extremely ugly, but that's what one gets for using private address space. This exact scenario was a large part of why I supported ULAs for IPv6. S Stephen Sprunk"Stupid people surround themselves with smart CCIE #3723 people. Smart people surround them

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread Stephen Sprunk
ing in any other gTLD/ccTLD? S Stephen Sprunk"Stupid people surround themselves with smart CCIE #3723 people. Smart people surround themselves with K5SSS smart people who disagree with them." --Aaron Sorkin

Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism

2006-04-13 Thread Stephen Sprunk
from my message, and RAS didn't change it back to something inoffensive when he replied to me. While one can certainly find reasons to killfile RAS, this is not one of them. Grow a sense of humor, already... S Stephen Sprunk"Stupid people surround themselves with smart CCIE #37

Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism

2006-04-12 Thread Stephen Sprunk
r the legal risk of acting is, no matter how small, it's not worth it. On the plus side, after seeing D-Link's (lack of) reaction to this, I'll bet none of us will buy another of their products again. S Stephen Sprunk"Stupid people surround themselves with smart

Re: IP ranges, re- announcing 'PA space' via BGP, etc

2006-04-07 Thread Stephen Sprunk
lt in suboptimal routing. The correct** solution is to help them become an LIR, assuming they qualify. S * meaning a route for part of another ISP's aggregate ** for some values of "correct" Stephen Sprunk"Stupid people surround themselves with smart CCIE #3723

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-06 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Daniel Golding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 3/6/06 10:25 AM, "Stephen Sprunk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, unless there's policy change, most end-user orgs will have no choice but to pay the market rate for IPv4 addresses. Spot markets are good wh

Re: Welcome back, Ma Bell

2006-03-06 Thread Stephen Sprunk
ns can do to keep the mess running; there's nobody left to integrate anything and get the "synergistic cost savings" that management touts when they propose mergers. S Stephen Sprunk"Stupid people surround themselves with smart CCIE #3723 people. Smart p

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-06 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Eliot Lear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Stephen Sprunk wrote: Shim6 is an answer to "what kind of multihoming can we offer to sites without PI space?"; it is yet to be seen if anyone cares about the answer to that question. This argument is circular. The only

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-06 Thread Stephen Sprunk
is elastic, but we're faced with a market that has growing inelastic demand that will outstrip fixed supply in a decade. Capitalism doesn't handle that well. S Stephen Sprunk"Stupid people surround themselves with smart CCIE #3723 people. Smart people surround

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-06 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Tony Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Stephen Sprunk wrote: Who exactly has been trying to find scalable routing solutions? Well, for the last decade or so, there's been a small group of us who have been working towards a new routing architecture. Primary infl

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Stephen Sprunk
er spent on a scalable IDR solution. Luckily, we still have another decade or so to come up with something. S Stephen Sprunk"Stupid people surround themselves with smart CCIE #3723 people. Smart people surround themselves with K5SSS smart people who disagree with them." --Aaron Sorkin

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-04 Thread Stephen Sprunk
-- they'll want to issue their own certs to squeeze revenue from non-customers. "You want to buy transit from our peers instead of us? That's great. But, if you want reliable access to our customers from your PI block, you have to pay $100/mo for a routing slot." Bingo

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-03 Thread Stephen Sprunk
choice. Isn't that about what happened with CIDR, in a nutshell? S Stephen Sprunk"Stupid people surround themselves with smart CCIE #3723 people. Smart people surround themselves with K5SSS smart people who disagree with them." --Aaron Sorkin

Re: absense of multicast deployment

2006-03-03 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Joe Abley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 3-Mar-2006, at 11:48, Stephen Sprunk wrote: That depends on your perspective. There's a compelling need for usable multicast in many environments, and so far there's nobody (in the US) with a compelling need for I

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-03 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Man, I hope I never become as cynical as you. A pessimist is never disappointed. On 2-mrt-2006, at 11:09, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Why is it even remotely rational that a corporate admin trust 100k+ hosts infested with wo

Re: 2005-1, good or bad? [Was: Re: Shim6 vs PI addressing]

2006-03-03 Thread Stephen Sprunk
length filters accordingly so I couldn't reach the F root server over IPv6. Moral of the story: if you build in a way for people to screw up, they'll do it. After that, they'll start throwing out some babies with the bath water. There's a different policy for IPv6 mic

Re: Shim6 vs PI addressing

2006-03-03 Thread Stephen Sprunk
ng tables are well within our capabilities and growing slowly. If we were on the verge of another serious problem, like we where when the CIDR fire drill happened, ISPs could easily cut the tables in half simply by filtering prefixes longer than RIR minima. S Stephen Sprunk"Stupid peop

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 3-mrt-2006, at 17:04, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Keep in mind that current RIR allocations/assignments are effectively leases (though the RIRs deny that fact) and, like any landlord, they can refuse to renew a lease or incr

Re: Shim6 vs PI addressing

2006-03-03 Thread Stephen Sprunk
;let the swamp in". One of the key attributes of the v4 swamp is that most orgs got more than one assignment (aka routing slot), often dozens to hundreds; the proposed policies for a "v6 swamp" do not allow that. S Stephen Sprunk"Stupid people surround themselves wi

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread Stephen Sprunk
hed (itself no fixed date), and potentially much longer if middlebox support is added (and without which shim6 will certainly never see the light of day). S Stephen Sprunk"Stupid people surround themselves with smart CCIE #3723 people. Smart people surround themselves with K5SSS smart people who disagree with them." --Aaron Sorkin

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread Stephen Sprunk
it's very expensive. Ah, but why? As long as IPv4 has similar or better performance characteristics to IPv6, why would anyone _need_ to migrate? Add to that the near certainty that vendors will create NAT devices that will allow an entire v4 enterprise to reach the v6 Internet... S Step

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Stephen Sprunk
n't interested, some group of vendors will, if for no other reason than that's what will be needed for the vendors to sell routers in a few years. Is it any surprise that $vendor is pushing how many millions of routes they can handle in the FIB today? IPv6 is just a convenient pla

Re: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs

2006-02-28 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Scott Weeks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Stephen Sprunk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ITYM two big transit LANs -- one must be prepared for a switch to fail. These're going to be router-to-router connections (each AR is connected to both CRs) and I had

Re: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs

2006-02-28 Thread Stephen Sprunk
b/s in each direction (two CRs connected to two switches each). Whether you break that into PTP VLANs or shared VLANs shouldn't affect anything. [ Note that this is moot since the OP responded he's running a physical mesh ] S Stephen Sprunk"Stupid people surround the

Re: Transit LAN vs. Individual LANs

2006-02-25 Thread Stephen Sprunk
d one more router. That's just too much complexity for virtually no gain, and as Owen notes, it is generally bad for your logical topology to not match the physical one. S Stephen Sprunk"Stupid people surround themselves with smart CCIE #3723 people. Smart peopl

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