Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel...

2006-07-11 Thread Joe Greco
#x27;s enough > Internet to go around for everyone, whether they use the service or not. Well, it may not be perfect, but it is at least a "Sitefinder done (more) right" than the last spectacle. I have my reservations. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee

Re: Net Neutrality Legislative Proposal

2006-07-11 Thread Joe Greco
party, which is what net neutrality is largely about. > (I've wondered for quite some time if "net neutrality" implies that > Ebay or Google must carry third party traffic on their corporate > networks, by the way.) No, why would it? (note that I may be missing something; I&

Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel...

2006-07-13 Thread Joe Greco
zaofbrookfield.com" or "martyspizza.biz". In Marty's case, they don't even have a domain name, but you can find their web page easily enough via search engines. Of course, this leaves some questions, such as what happens for e-mail purposes (3LD? works) or when

Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel...

2006-07-13 Thread Joe Greco
> On Jul 13, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > > I don't really think it is entirely appropriate that a child who is > > looking > > for information on the White House could land somewhere obscene > > through > > entering a web address that appears

Re: Consumers of Broadband Providers (ISP) may be open to hijack attacks

2006-07-19 Thread Joe Greco
If it is important, it ought to be encrypted, for example. This is really neither new nor shocking to anyone who has been working with TCP/IP for any length of time. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the app

Re: Data Center Wiring Standards

2006-09-09 Thread Joe Greco
ably don't have a lot of realistic options other than what they already do, given the sheer complexity of it all. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won&

Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox

2007-07-23 Thread Joe Greco
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote: > > And, incidentally, I do consider this a false positive. If any average > > person might be tripped up by it, and we certainly have a lot of average > > users on IRC, then it's bad. So, the answer is, "at least one fal

Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking

2007-07-23 Thread Joe Greco
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote: > > I think there's a bit of a difference, in that when you're using every > > commercial WiFi hotspot and hotel login system, that they redirect > > everything. Would you truly consider that to be the same thing as one &g

Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking

2007-07-23 Thread Joe Greco
> On 7/23/07, Joe Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All right, here we go. Please explain the nature of the bot on my freshly > > installed (last night) FreeBSD 6.2R box. > > %age of freshly installed freebsd 6.2R boxes v/s random windows boxes > on cox cable?

Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking

2007-07-23 Thread Joe Greco
the wrong block. Demanding > zero chance of error before ISPs doing anything just means ISPs won't do > anything. "Think before act." ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple'

Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking

2007-07-23 Thread Joe Greco
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote: > > So how do you connect to the real IRC server, then? Remember that most > > end users are not nslookup-wielding shell commandos who can figure out > > whois and look up the IP. > > If those users are so technically unsophisti

Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox

2007-07-23 Thread Joe Greco
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote: > > I can't help but notice you totally avoided responding to what I wrote; > > I would have to take this to mean that you know that it is fundamentally > > unreasonable to expect users to set up their own recursers to wo

Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking

2007-07-23 Thread Joe Greco
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote: > >> So are you claiming no bots ever try to connect to that server? > > > > I don't care if bots ever try to connect to that server. I can effectively > > stop the bots from connecting to servers by shutting down the

Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking

2007-07-23 Thread Joe Greco
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote: > >> Although this seems to be the first bit mistake in over two years, does > >> that make the practice unacceptable as another tool to respond to Bots? > > > > The practice of blocking public EFnet servers? > >

Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking

2007-07-23 Thread Joe Greco
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 02:48:05PM -0500, Joe Greco wrote: > > > > > On 7/23/07, Joe Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > All right, here we go. Please explain the nature of the bot on my > > > > freshly > > > > installed

Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking

2007-07-23 Thread Joe Greco
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote: > > Hint: there is no bot. My traffic is being redirected regardless. Were I > > a Cox customer (and I'm not), I'd be rather ticked off. > > Hint: the bots are on computers connecting to the irc server, not the irc >

Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking

2007-07-23 Thread Joe Greco
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote: > >> Please enlighten me. > > > > Intercept and inspect IRC packets. If they join a botnet channel, turn on > > a flag in the user's account. Place them in a garden (no IRC, no nothing, > > except McAfee or your

Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox

2007-07-23 Thread Joe Greco
> > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote: > > > > I can't help but notice you totally avoided responding to what I > wrote; > > > > I would have to take this to mean that you know that it is > fundamentally > > > > unreasonable to exp

Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking

2007-07-23 Thread Joe Greco
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote: > > "Some privacy advocates" will be upset with ISP's doing what Cox is doing. > > Maybe you missed that. If we assume that it is okay for Cox to actually > > intercept the IRC sessions of their users, we're wa

Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox

2007-07-23 Thread Joe Greco
> Quoting Joe Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote: > >> > And, incidentally, I do consider this a false positive. If any average > >> > person might be tripped up by it, and we certainly have a lot of average > >>

Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking

2007-07-24 Thread Joe Greco
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote: > > > > Yes, when there are better solutions to the problem at hand. > > > > > > Please enlighten me. > > > > Intercept and inspect IRC packets. If they join a botnet channel, turn on > > a flag in the

Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking

2007-07-24 Thread Joe Greco
> On 7/24/07, Joe Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem is isolating the traffic in question. Since you DO NOT HAVE > > GIGABITS OF TRAFFIC destined for IRC servers, this becomes a Networking > > 101-style question. A /32 host route is going to be effecti

Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking

2007-07-24 Thread Joe Greco
> On Jul 24, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > > But, hey, it can be done, and with an amount of effort that isn't > > substantially different from the > > amount of work Cox would have had to do to accomplish what they did. > > Actually, it's re

Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking

2007-07-24 Thread Joe Greco
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote: > > So I'm supposed to invent a solution that does WAY MORE than what Cox > > was trying to accomplish, and then you'll listen? Forget that (or > > pay me). > > Since it was a false positive, Fact not in evidence,

Re: How should ISPs notify customers about Bots (Was Re: DNS Hijacking

2007-07-24 Thread Joe Greco
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote: > > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Joe Greco wrote: > > > > > > Yes, when there are better solutions to the problem at hand. > > > > > > > > > > Please enlighten me. > > > > > > > >

Re: Using Mobile Phone email addys for monitoring

2007-09-06 Thread Joe Greco
27;ve no experience with T-Mobile. > > T-Mobile dropped their TAP access several years ago. Well, good, because they were pretty cruddy at it. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give

Re: Using Mobile Phone email addys for monitoring

2007-09-06 Thread Joe Greco
ble to dismiss a page with a single keystroke, and overall I preferred the way the Mot Adv Elite used to work. Anyways, this is an interesting and useful topic, which I'm watching with some interest. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We

Re: Good Stuff [was] Re: shameful-cabling gallery of infamy - does anybody know

2007-09-12 Thread Joe Greco
il the advent of X2, which required T1's to a Total Control chassis, at which point they started to migrate to rackmount gear (they had no space to go beyond 1200 analog Couriers anyways). ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it

Re: Good Stuff [was] Re: shameful-cabling gallery of infamy - does anybody know where it went?

2007-09-12 Thread Joe Greco
ng it so easy to debug what's going on when something goes wrong. The design for your facility is best based on the unique situation present at your facility. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the appl

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-04 Thread Joe Greco
nection certainly makes the ISP business model easier, but in the long term, isn't going to work out well for the Internet's continuing evolution. And before anyone accuses me of sounding overly critical towards the AU ISP's, let me point out that we've dropped the ball in a majo

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-04 Thread Joe Greco
> On 4-Oct-2007, at 1416, Joe Greco wrote: > > It'd be interesting to know what the average utilization of an > > unlimited > > US broadband customer was, compared to the average utilization of an > > unlimited AU broadband customer. It would be interesting,

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-05 Thread Joe Greco
They'd be lucky to pull any number of dollars these days. It's a planned expense. As for physical plant, I'd imagine that a large amount of that is also a planned expense, and is being paid down (or already paid off), so arguing that this is somewhere that a lot of extra expense will exist

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-05 Thread Joe Greco
ld seem like a larger payoff to simply make sure sufficient capacity existed to move packets as required, since this not only solves the "local packet" problem you suggest, but the more general overall problem that ISP's face. > And P2P is the main way to ^curren

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-05 Thread Joe Greco
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007, Joe Greco wrote: > > > > Technically the user can use the connection to it's maximum theoretical > > > speed as much as they like, however, if an ISP has a quota set at > > > 12G/month, it just means that the cost is passed a

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-06 Thread Joe Greco
> Joe Greco wrote: > >> Technically the user can use the connection to it's maximum > >> theoretical speed as much as they like, however, if an ISP has a > >> quota set at 12G/month, it just means that the cost is passed along > >> to them when they e

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-06 Thread Joe Greco
t most of you would prefer to do > business with my constraints than with yours. That's nice from *your* point of view, as an ISP, but from the end-user's point of view, it discourages the development and deployment of the next killer app, which is the point that I've been ma

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-06 Thread Joe Greco
and making enough money to fund expansion and eat is harder at > a non US ISP. It's harder, but there's nothing wrong with it. It compels > you to get inventive. The costs to provide DSL up here in Milwaukee are kind of insane, as you tend to get it on both ends. However, I'm

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-06 Thread Joe Greco
sible. However, it is equally possible that there'll be some newfangled killer app that comes along. At some point, this will present a problem. All the self-justification in the world will not matter when the customers want to be able to do something that uses up a little more bandwidth.

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-06 Thread Joe Greco
SPECIALLY* when the rest > of the world is subsidizing your domestic Internet by paying for all > the international transit. Interesting thing about how the market works, isn't it. It seems that there's substantially more value to be had in AU connecting to the US than there

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-07 Thread Joe Greco
> On Sat, Oct 06, 2007, Joe Greco wrote: > > However, it is equally possible that there'll be some newfangled killer > > app that comes along. At some point, this will present a problem. All > > the self-justification in the world will not matter when the customers

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-07 Thread Joe Greco
problem in general. I *am* interested in the impact that it has on the evolution of the Internet. That you're so pleased to be "diverse" in a way that makes it more difficult for your users to join the modern era and use modern apps is sufficient to make me wonder. There's

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-08 Thread Joe Greco
e as being a precursor to video things-to-come. Looking at whether or not AU has stifled new uses for the Internet, or has otherwise impacted the way users use the Internet, could be interesting and potentially valuable information to futurists and even other operators. ... JG -- Joe Greco -

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-08 Thread Joe Greco
possible to make a video call to your cousin who owns a farm outside of town, but doing so probably requires you to be signed up for satellite based broadband, or long distance wireless. Both services exist, and people do use them. I know one guy in rural Illinois who maintains a radio tower so he

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-08 Thread Joe Greco
> $quoted_author = "Joe Greco" ; > > > > > >That's approximately correct. The true answer to the thought experiment > > > >is "address those problems, don't continue to blindly pay those costs and > > > >complain about h

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-10 Thread Joe Greco
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Joe Greco wrote: > > It's arrogant to fix brokenness? Because I'm certainly there. In my > > experience, if you don't bother to address problems, they're very likely > > to remain, especially when money is involved on the opp

Re: Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-10 Thread Joe Greco
> On Oct 10, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Joe Greco wrote: > >> One of the biggest challenges for the Internet has got to be the > >> steadily > >> increasing storage market, combined with the continued development of

Re: 240/4

2007-10-18 Thread Joe Greco
n. I could even sue you for releasing 240/4 and causing me economic harm by forcing me to upgrade a bunch of infrastructure. Funny how that blade can cut both ways. > We should do everything we can to remove roadblocks which would cause > IPv4 to run out sooner, Where practical. This ...

Re: 240/4

2007-10-18 Thread Joe Greco
t knowledge of network classes is built into software, and the subtle ways in which things may break, even if they appear to "work" for some crappy definition of "work"? Please don't try to re-engineer the entire IPv4 Internet because you'd like a small additional alloc

Re: 240/4

2007-10-18 Thread Joe Greco
gt; But for the owners of those dark > corners it makes economic sense so why should anyone try and convert > them to the one true Internet architecture? Possibly because they want to be connected to it? Just a thought. If you want to be part of the community, it is probably a good idea t

Re: 240/4

2007-10-18 Thread Joe Greco
> Joe, > On Oct 18, 2007, at 8:49 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > > The ROI on the move to v6 is immense compared to the ROI on the move > > to v4-240+, which will surely only benefit a few. > > I am told by people who have inside knowledge that one of the issues > they are

Re: 240/4

2007-10-18 Thread Joe Greco
e's a certain amount of freedom to recycle as much of the existing IP space as is needed. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you

Re: 240/4

2007-10-18 Thread Joe Greco
> Or simply ask IANA to open up 256/5. After all, this is just an entry in a > table, should be easy to do, especially if it is done on Apr 1st. ;-) DOH! Point: you. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one b

Re: 240/4

2007-10-18 Thread Joe Greco
d networking gear - that's the problem. If you just want to discuss your clever Linux patches, the Linux mailing lists are >>> thataway. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give

Re: 240/4

2007-10-18 Thread Joe Greco
technical issue." Deploying it on a wider scale ... not so simple. What kind of customer would actively solicit an IP address assignment that won't reach random segments of the Internet? ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call

Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads

2007-10-20 Thread Joe Greco
ring. I simultaneously think that P2P is a fantastic technology from a showing- off-the-idea-behind-the-Internet viewpoint, and that in the end, the Internet will need to be able to handle more applications like this, as we see things like videophones etc. pop up. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.ne

Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?

2007-10-21 Thread Joe Greco
signers to improve > >> those particular applications. > > > > Good luck with that. > > It took a while, but it worked with the UDP audio/video protocol folks who > used to stress networks. Eventually those protocol designers learned to > control their applicat

Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?

2007-10-21 Thread Joe Greco
ckle, there's something very wrong. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-ma

Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?

2007-10-21 Thread Joe Greco
> Joe Greco wrote: > > Well, because when you promise someone an Internet connection, they usually > > expect it to work. Is it reasonable for Comcast to unilaterally decide that > > my P2P filesharing of my family photos and video clips is bad? > > > > Comc

Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?

2007-10-21 Thread Joe Greco
I have no doubt that you'll be able to burst higher, but I'm a bit skeptical about continuous use. Noticed about two months ago that AT&T started putting kiosks for U-verse at local malls and movie theatres. Coincidence? ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwau

Re: Internet access in Japan (was Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets)

2007-10-24 Thread Joe Greco
providers, etc.? The implications of the so-called net neutrality issues are just one example of future issues. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won&#

Re: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-24 Thread Joe Greco
imply cannot do it, since the available capacity on your last mile simply isn't sufficient for the numbers you're selling, even if you are able to buy cheaper upstream bandwidth for it. Perhaps that's just an argument to fix the last mile. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services

Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?

2007-10-26 Thread Joe Greco
types of, all} traffic, 3) Change user behaviours, or 4) Add some more capacity Come to mind as being the major available options. ALL of these can be effective. EACH of them has specific downsides. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We c

Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?

2007-10-26 Thread Joe Greco
> > On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Paul Ferguson wrote: > > The part of this discussion that really infuriates me (and Joe > > Greco has hit most of the salient points) is the deceptiveness > > in how ISPs "underwrite" the service their customers subscribe to. > > &

Re: Any help for Yahoo! Mail arrogance?

2007-10-30 Thread Joe Greco
frequently), Yahoo! (infrequently), and other places where the mail stream consists of a low volume (<10/day) of transactional and support e-mail directly arising from user-purchased services, on an IP address that had never previously sent e-mail - ever. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Ser

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Joe Greco
be quite ideal for this, but wouldn't it be much less of a technical challenge to develop a PAC or PAC-like framework to do this in an idealized fashion, and then actually do so? ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the

Re: cpu needed to NAT 45mbs

2007-11-08 Thread Joe Greco
45. With sufficient speed, you can make up for many sins, including a relatively naive implementation. With that in mind, I'd guess that you are more likely to be successful than not. The downside is that if it doesn't work out, you can recycle that PC into a more traditional role. .

Re: General question on rfc1918

2007-11-13 Thread Joe Greco
g complaints about being unable to reach a destination, it's got to be configured correctly ... right? Consider it life on the Internet. Do their job for them. Around here, we've been doing BCP38 since before there was a BCP38. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI

Re: unwise filtering policy from cox.net

2007-11-20 Thread Joe Greco
x27;s all right to have this problem, but I would certainly encourage you to try sending along a brief note without any BL-listed URL's, to see if you can get a response that way. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one

Re: unwise filtering policy from cox.net

2007-11-21 Thread Joe Greco
rk. Sadly, it is frequently assumed that if you cannot configure your system to do X, then it's all right to not do X, regardless of what the RFC's say. The need to be able to accept unfiltered recipients has certain implications for mail operations, such as that it could be &qu

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-21 Thread Joe Greco
I can't find the rationale from the end-user's side to allocate a /48. I can maybe see it if you want to justify it from the provider's side, the cost of dealing with multiple prefix sizes. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-21 Thread Joe Greco
for any home user that wants more than one subnet > /48 for any home user that can show need. I'd say skip the /64 and /48. Don't do the /64, as future-proofing. A /48 is just something I cannot see need for, given the number of addresses available as a /56, unless the "home user"

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-21 Thread Joe Greco
you will receive it or be told no. So, as I said... > Most likely, that is how most such v6 gateways will function. /Possibly/. It would be much more likely to be that way if everyone was issued large CIDR blocks, every router was willing to delegate a prefix, and there was no call

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-23 Thread Joe Greco
yone who thinks otherwise is welcome to explain to me what's going to happen in the case where there are no P's to D. I will leave the difference between corporate and residential as an exercise to the reader; suffice it to say that the answers are rather obvious in the same manner. ...

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-23 Thread Joe Greco
d absolutely like to see DHCP PD be usable for environments where multiple prefixes are available and allowed, but I believe we're going to also be needing to look at bridging. There's /going/ to be some crummy ISP somewhere that only allocates end users a /64, or there's /going/ t

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-23 Thread Joe Greco
#x27;s to at least consider the issues, and it will most likely force users to buy into technologies that allow them to do what they want. And inside a /64, you have sufficient space that there's probably nothing you can't do. :-) ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwauk

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-23 Thread Joe Greco
posing that RIR's cease the practice of charging different amounts for different allocation sizes, please feel free to shepherd that through the approvals process, and then I will certainly agree that there is no longer a meaningful cost differential for the purposes of this discussion.

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-23 Thread Joe Greco
uch money does the ISP really want to throw at extra address space? (Do you want me to discuss naivety now?) And just /how/ is this in any way similar to Ethernet MAC addresses, again? Maybe I'm just too slow and can't see how "fixed cost" == "variable cost." I won

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-24 Thread Joe Greco
ones. :-/ ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-24 Thread Joe Greco
> Joe Greco wrote: > [..] > > Okay, here, let me make it reaaally simple. > > Yes, indeed lets make it reaaally simple for you: > > > If your ISP has been delegated a /48 (admittedly unlikely, but possible= > ) > > for $1,250/year, a

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-25 Thread Joe Greco
> both > > cases, while the device someone who has relied on PD is going to break > > when it isn't available. > > > Assuming that PD is available is naive. However, assuming it is not is > equally naive. No, it's not equally naive. The bridging scenario is

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-26 Thread Joe Greco
rts of this can we tackle through RIR policy? RFC requirements? Best practice? Customer education? ( :-) ) Other ideas? ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] t

Re: Assigning IPv6 /48's to CPE's?

2007-12-31 Thread Joe Greco
er field into the lower bits of the address field... I'm sure someone has a name for this already, but I have no idea what it is. Anyways, I suggest you run over and read http://www.6net.org/publications/standards/draft-vandevelde-v6ops-nap-01.txt as it is useful foundation material to explain I

Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-13 Thread Joe Greco
e that you'll provide to your customers. If you've made promises, then you're simply in the unenviable position of needing to make good on those. Operating an IP network with a basic SLA like this can be a bit of a challenge. You have to be prepared to actually make good on it

Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-13 Thread Joe Greco
> Joe Greco wrote, > > There are lots of things that could heavily stress your upload channel. > > Things I've seen would include: > > > > 1) Sending a bunch of full-size pictures to all your friends and family, > >which might not seem too bad

Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-13 Thread Joe Greco
he year (don't think TiVo? Maybe Apple, then... who knows?) Downloads "interesting" content for local storage. Everyone's buzzing about it. The lucky 10% buy it. Now the question that will come back to you is, why can't your network deliver what's been promised? The

Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-13 Thread Joe Greco
ied and whined about how they were being undercut by competitive LD carriers. They ... adapted. Can you? Will you? And yes, I realize that this borders on unfair-to-the-(W)ISP, but if you are incapable of considering and contemplating these sorts of questions, then that's a bad thing. ..

Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-14 Thread Joe Greco
ly began offering a 20M symmetrical FiOS product. There must be some people who feel differently. So, do the "modulations" of your "access technologies" dictate what your users are going to want to do with their Internet in the future, or is it possible that you'll have to

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-14 Thread Joe Greco
What exactly does this imply, though, from a networking point of view? ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marke

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Joe Greco
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:43:12 -0500 > "William Herrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 14, 2008 5:25 PM, Joe Greco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So users who rarely use their connection are more profitable to the ISP. > > > >

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Joe Greco
> Joe Greco wrote: > > Time to stop selling the "always on" connections, then, I guess, because > > it is "always on" - not P2P - which is the fat man never leaving. P2P > > is merely the fat man eating a lot while he's there. > > As long a

Re: Looking for geo-directional DNS service

2008-01-15 Thread Joe Greco
geo-DNS service. The ones I've done in the past simply built in knowledge of the networks in question, and where such information wasn't available, took "best guess" and then may have done a little research after the fact for future queries. This isn't as comprehensive

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Joe Greco
> Joe Greco wrote: > > I have no idea what the networking equivalent of thirty-seven half-eaten > > bags of Cheetos is, can't even begin to imagine what the virtual equivalent > > of my couch is, etc. Your metaphor doesn't really make any sense to me, > >

Re: Looking for geo-directional DNS service

2008-01-15 Thread Joe Greco
it at a higher level? (I can hear everyone groaning now, and some purist somewhere probably having fits) ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't co

Re: Looking for geo-directional DNS service

2008-01-16 Thread Joe Greco
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Greco) writes: > > ... > > So, anyways, would it be entertaining to discuss the relative merits of > > various DNS implementations that attempt to provide geographic answers > > to requests, versus doing it at a higher level? (I can hear ever

Re: request for help w/ ATT and terminology

2008-01-17 Thread Joe Greco
that gets wired in by IP address, particularly on remote computers, would make this a killer. That could include things such as firewall rules/ACL's, recursion DNS server addresses, VPN adapters, VoIP equipment with stacks too stupid to do DNS, etc. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network S

Re: request for help w/ ATT and terminology

2008-01-17 Thread Joe Greco
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:15:30 CST, Joe Greco said: > > make this a killer. That could include things such as firewall rules/ACL's, > > recursion DNS server addresses, VPN adapters, VoIP equipment with stacks too > > stupid to do DNS, etc. > > I'll admi

Re: request for help w/ ATT and terminology

2008-01-18 Thread Joe Greco
get me a fair supply of stories best > > told over a pitcher of Guinness down at the Undergroud.. > > I prefer nice, hoppy ales to Guiness, but either works for stories.. Heh. > > *Choosing* to hardcode rather than use DNS is one thing. *Having* to > > hardcode because th

Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial

2008-01-19 Thread Joe Greco
that's the top-of-the-line legacy (non-U-verse) AT&T DSL offering; there are less expensive ones. Getting back to what Roderick Beck said, AT&T is *effectively* offering mixed pricing schemes, simply by offering various DSL speeds. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Mi

Re: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial

2008-01-20 Thread Joe Greco
To put it another way, they do not give you a better price per minute if you go and deposit $2400 in your prepaid account. You can use your volume discount argument once you come up with a compelling explanation for that. ;-) ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http:/

Re: Cost per prefix [was: request for help w/ ATT and terminology]

2008-01-20 Thread Joe Greco
to contemplate commercial realities. So, what can reasonably be done? Given what I've seen over the years, I keep coming back to the idea that PI space allocations are not all that far out of control, but the PA deaggregation situation is fairly rough. There would also seem to be some things

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