Re: Telco's write best practices for packet switching networks

2002-03-08 Thread Leo Bicknell
you would need to configure both the address and the port. In any event, I wonder if there is an opportunity here for additional security. Although any changes are clearly years off. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read

Re: Help with bad announcement from UUnet

2002-03-29 Thread Leo Bicknell
e adds a call to both my-upstream-noc, and b0rken-noc-upstream-noc. It would seem going direct would put a lower load on NOC's in general, which presumably would let them spend more time on problems and provide better service. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP

Route Filtering (Was: Re: genuity - any good?)

2002-04-12 Thread Leo Bicknell
stomers. For larger customers, that's not enough headroom, but if the customer is that large some clue is assumed, and so a limit of 2x the registered (eg supernet) prefixes is probably fine. I would allow a customer a higher limit if they can demonstrate a good reason. What do you find reaso

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread Leo Bicknell
ber more applications for a more flexible mechanism. Of course, it would require more human smarts, which might be why vendors don't do it. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: Per message costs of email (was: Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?)

2002-05-05 Thread Leo Bicknell
Publishers Clearinghouse wants to award you $1 Million!" Maybe that wouldn't be so bad, the spam would be less offensive. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: Interconnects

2002-05-17 Thread Leo Bicknell
the upside, but that's just my opinion. I know nothing about Paul's specific case, but in general be patient with fiber in Manhattan, and from talking to other carriers that is not unique to MFN. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Leo Bicknell
ll have been moved up to roles with more responsibility, and significantly more money. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: Certification or College degrees?

2002-05-22 Thread Leo Bicknell
uch better that your car will run again if you have a certified mechanic. Many have said business is simply risk management, and certifications are a way of managing that risk. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 05:00:27PM -0700, Paul Vixie wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leo Bicknell) writes: > > If you ever want to become a team leader, or a manger, or run a > > theoretical group you are going to need the math and English > > backgrounds

Re: IP renumbering timeframe

2002-05-30 Thread Leo Bicknell
one whole paperwork/justification step (for your first address allocation). For subsequent allocations there is an example (that /24) of how efficiently the ISP uses the space. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG Lis

Re: IP renumbering timeframe

2002-05-30 Thread Leo Bicknell
is might be 5-15k new routes, which is probably 3-13% of the total space already announced. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: IP renumbering timeframe

2002-05-30 Thread Leo Bicknell
no other registry assigned space assigned to you". I specifically exclude provider allocated space, as I'm assuming the ASN goal is to multihome. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: IP renumbering timeframe

2002-06-01 Thread Leo Bicknell
rs is near zero. That's not saying we might be able to do things more intelligent with a new system, but the grand goal is a pipe dream. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: Bogon list

2002-06-04 Thread Leo Bicknell
over the exchange) from one or more players. The exchange operator should run the box "announcing" the exchange. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: Bogon list

2002-06-04 Thread Leo Bicknell
(preferably from their own AS). If you're not a transit provider, don't send it to peers. Regardless, filter all the exchanges you are present at on _all_ inbound BGP sessions. Only use your local route. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http

Re: how is cold-potato done?

2002-06-26 Thread Leo Bicknell
ith equal MEDS, then it will choose the one with the lower router ID. As you can see, there are many other steps to the selection process, as documented in the link above. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: Sprint peering policy

2002-07-01 Thread Leo Bicknell
't bet on your ISP staying in business though, and I wouldn't bet on the price, once this is all shaken out, being that low. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: WorldComm Fiber Cut????

2002-07-08 Thread Leo Bicknell
oolish. If you use more than one tool, you can compare them and determine which is correct. Assuming that the graphs we make public are the only graphs we have would be a bad mistake. There's also the obvious, if you can "show int" on the box, you can always double check a graph, in

Re: multicast (was Re: Readiness for IPV6)

2002-07-09 Thread Leo Bicknell
provider. The first adopters need to be DSL and cable modem providers, to the end user, on by default. Then we can go somewhere. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: multicast (was Re: Readiness for IPV6)

2002-07-09 Thread Leo Bicknell
omers actually had it turned on, I believe. I'd be suprised if 1% of _residential end users_ were on multicast enabled networks today. Very surprised. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: multicast (was Re: Readiness for IPV6)

2002-07-09 Thread Leo Bicknell
sender on your network, and the 5 clients are on 5 different peer networks. You just carried 5 times the traffic on your network, and billed your client once. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in my MUA OT

2002-07-10 Thread Leo Bicknell
plain about HTML mail when someone is also sending you text, just because you're too backwards to display it. If we could convert the whole country, including Joe Idiot from Leaded to Unleaded gas, I'm sure some "network savvy" people can figure out how to make basic MIME wo

Re: Max Prefixes Configured on Customer BGP

2002-08-16 Thread Leo Bicknell
imum length as set by your ISP. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up

2005-07-28 Thread Leo Bicknell
e me feel better right now they could contact my company via normal support channels and have a frank and open discussion about what this paper/presentation means, and what action if any they are taking as a result. Somehow for what the boxes and support costs that doesn't seem like too much to

Re: Cisco IOS Exploit Cover Up

2005-07-28 Thread Leo Bicknell
run a decompiler was instantly a crimimal. It probably all came about from the crazy decision that software should be licensed, not sold. We'd be in a world of hurt if anyone who figured out how to put a lift kit on his pickup was sued by ford for "disassembling" the truck and figuring

Re: Cisco and the tobacco industry

2005-07-28 Thread Leo Bicknell
rting joe random with a small office and a 2501 in the corner he should pay attention, but it's probably not enough. If a hacker manages to take over twenty or thirty thousand routers thoughI suspect a flood of calls Cisco's direction. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: IPv6 Address Planning

2005-08-10 Thread Leo Bicknell
ion we need to ask is how many independant subnets will they need. This is why many people are proposing a /56 for home users, as it gives you 256 subnets. Still more than most people will need. Others have proposed /52 and /60, since many want to claim DNS is easier if done in nibbles. -- L

Re: IPv6 Address Planning

2005-08-10 Thread Leo Bicknell
ith auto configuration and soforth and you have quite a mess with no group clearly "leading in the polls". -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org pgp3VgWJ3KbYd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Did we forget that ISP's are businesses?

2005-10-06 Thread Leo Bicknell
to them which is causing the peers to notice and take action. I also find Cogent's practice of offering Level 3 customers free service unseemly. They are partially responsible for the outage, and are trying to use that fact to lure customers. That makes me wonder if they've written off Le

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-06 Thread Leo Bicknell
oblem. There is nothing wrong with the technology, architecture, or anything else. There is something wrong with the business model of one, or both of these companies. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org pgpYhJeDjKGD9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-07 Thread Leo Bicknell
etwork off from someone else for a business reason they will be able to do that whatever the design of the network may be. Level 3 and Cogent are both actively causing this outage. It's not some grand design failure. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: Level 3's side of the story

2005-10-08 Thread Leo Bicknell
etwork that was sending more traffic should now pay for > transit, even though this traffic was traffic that their own customers > were requesting and paying them to transmit! > > There are ways to deal with it though, like cold potato routing. My message to JC: In a mes

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Leo Bicknell
to see those more into BGP routing analysis to look at that (possible) trend. It's probably causing a shift in how BGP processing occures on both a device and a network level (more redundant paths) which could have implications for future gear. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill]

2005-11-11 Thread Leo Bicknell
arketing. Don't sell "Internet Access" if you can't access "the whole internet" for what 99 out of 100 people define as "the whole internet". If you want to sell some more limited service, fine, give it a new name because it's not "Internet Access&qu

Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill]

2005-11-12 Thread Leo Bicknell
awsuit is filed and/or decided) and once you do know you're probably so far in the red from the lawsuit it wasn't worth the savings or extra revenue you thought you were getting from short changing the customer. Bottom line. Selling "internet access" where you can't get t

Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill]

2005-11-13 Thread Leo Bicknell
e cards locally, and has to send off to the national HDTV center to get one. They lock down their set top box to a single resolution, which is not the resolution of my TV, nor the resolution of the local broadcasters. They don't carry anything but the three local networks in HD. They are also losing my business as we type to another provider who offers a better service. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org pgpZMDMWSKGco.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: T1 vs. T2 [WAS: Apology: [Tier-2 reachability and multihoming]]

2005-03-30 Thread Leo Bicknell
's either. Full tables are not done on a peering level, ever. If anything wonky is being done it's done with selective leaking of routes in one or both directions, never ever ever with a full table. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://

Re: Paul Wilson and Geoff Huston of APNIC on IP address allocation ITU v/s ICANN etc

2005-04-27 Thread Leo Bicknell
in your local RIR and/or the IETF processes. "Network engineers" with hands on day to day experience tend to be underrepresented in both forums. For those of you in North America (after all, this is NANOG) check out ARIN's Public Policy Mailing List, information is on ARIN's

Re: PAIX Outages

2005-04-28 Thread Leo Bicknell
or a sign that operators are doing their job. There should be enough redundancy in the system that loss of any one site, for whatever reason, doesn't cause a major, or even minor disruption. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bickn

Re: selective prepends...one more time

2002-09-30 Thread Leo Bicknell
hand, even at some quite large providers. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: selective prepends...one more time

2002-09-30 Thread Leo Bicknell
up with a per-peer specific configuration. It would seem to me that the opportunity for mistakes is grealy increased. Even if we assume all the people using it really need it, is it worth risking the performance of 500 or 1000 customers for the 5-10 who actually use the features? --

Re: selective prepends...one more time

2002-10-01 Thread Leo Bicknell
decision to deploy it. Several people mailed me to say they were resisting deploying a similar setup because they believed no one would use it. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: Sprint VS. Qwest

2002-10-18 Thread Leo Bicknell
re is a complicated problem. Peering contracts can prohibit it. Everyone wants to hide their own skeletons. Information is often distorted on the way from engineering to sales. That's no reason to take "trust us, we do a good job" as an answer. Having the information to make you

Re: Operational Issues with 69.0.0.0/8...

2002-12-06 Thread Leo Bicknell
3) Drop the supernet test on the same day of the first allocation. 4) Listen to feedback from the first few people allocated space and if it still is not properly routed send out another notice to people and possibly delay additional allocations from the block for another month.

Re: Operational Issues with 69.0.0.0/8...

2002-12-09 Thread Leo Bicknell
ries. IMHO it is there job to make sure IANA has a way to send those sorts of messages. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: Operational Issues with 69.0.0.0/8...

2002-12-09 Thread Leo Bicknell
those in North America (this is nanog, isn't it) ARIN is it. As the communities desigated represenative to interface with IANA, I feel it is ARIN's duty to collect and distribute information from IANA. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http:/

Re: Cogent and Level3 Peering Issues

2002-12-18 Thread Leo Bicknell
ider the paths that are available for a moment, I think most people can deduce why they are choosing the Level 3 path, and it has nothing to do with performance. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [E

Re: AOL & Cogent

2002-12-28 Thread Leo Bicknell
uld have been if the charge was only for the amount over 2:1, and was a reasonable price for peering, perhaps $15/Meg and AOL gets to pick the locations -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.t

Re: AOL & Cogent

2002-12-28 Thread Leo Bicknell
eer with someone /even though they are shifting cost to the other party/. I've never understood how someone can argue that a ratio is about protecting their company from bearing a disproportionate amount of the cost, and then also prevent their company from shifting that cost to someone else (as

Re: AOL & Cogent

2002-12-30 Thread Leo Bicknell
uy from them. So which is it? Do you peer with the little guys who don't run networks because content peering is good, or do you not peer with them because it forces them to buy from somebody, and if everyone does that it's good for ISP's in general? It seems to me you want to have yo

Re: COM/NET informational message

2003-01-03 Thread Leo Bicknell
s, one for each higher level application. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org msg07723/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: COM/NET informational message

2003-01-04 Thread Leo Bicknell
ices if they are accidently given one of these "special" names. Was this problem discussed in the working group? -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org msg07739/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What could have been done differently?

2003-01-28 Thread Leo Bicknell
The fact that new, recent software is coming out with buffer overflows is bad enough, the fact that people are still buying it, and also making the companies own up to their mistakes is amazing. I have to think there's billions of dollars out there for class action lawyers. Right n

Re: What could have been done differently?

2003-01-28 Thread Leo Bicknell
I thought was the best solution in general. It doesn't apply very directly to the specific events of the last few days. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org msg08607/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Banc of America Article

2003-01-28 Thread Leo Bicknell
ource, who said customer financial information was never in danger of being stolen." -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org msg08642/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bell Labs or Microsoft security?

2003-01-29 Thread Leo Bicknell
oices you site were made at a very different time, and for very different reasons. I highly doubt if Bell Labs had to make choices today that they would choose the same outcome. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG

Re: VoIP QOS best practices

2003-02-10 Thread Leo Bicknell
ed to blow the delay budget? What percentage of reordered packets starts to cause issues? -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org msg08964/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mfnx

2003-02-19 Thread Leo Bicknell
t, and AS 6461 records will (after a bit of IVR) get you to someone who can help. peering@ also opens a ticket. The same applies. Note, for us noc@ and peering@ go two different places. noc@ is realtime issues, peering@ is policy/requests and other non-realtime issues. -- Leo Bicknell - [E

Re: Reports of flooding in Tyson's Corner Virginia

2003-02-22 Thread Leo Bicknell
ith a few access roads for it. The actual area is fine, and not in a flood plain. That's not to say there won't be other roof issues or clogged drains, but I don't think there's any reason to fear it's all underwater, or anything. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Have address space? You too can make policy.

2003-03-02 Thread Leo Bicknell
subscribe to their Public Policy Mailing List (PPML): http://www.arin.net/mailing_lists/index.html#ppml Many issues that affect smaller ISPs are being decided by the large ISPs, only because they often are the only ones with people participating in the process. Don't let that happen! --

Re: APNIC returning 223/8 to IANA

2003-03-17 Thread Leo Bicknell
internet is an even bigger, and more immediate concern that should warrant the same treatment. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: APNIC returning 223/8 to IANA

2003-03-17 Thread Leo Bicknell
much more serious operational problems. Maybe it would be better for APNIC to give up 223/8 for 70/8, since I suspect 70/8 will have the same filtering problems as 69/8. If they want to make life worse for their users, more power to them. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - C

Re: (possible Flame bait) Backbone Building vs Transit purchasing

2003-03-21 Thread Leo Bicknell
ple who require you to have a network to be taken seriously. At the end of the day my assumption that both options are executed well is the most often violated, and a prime cause is that it was not in a companies core interest. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys

Re: The weak link? DNS

2003-03-26 Thread Leo Bicknell
The shorter TTL allows these boxes to get rid of the junk entries much faster. Depending on your web content I'd recommend 15 minute to 1 hour TTL values. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: State Super-DMCA Too True

2003-03-30 Thread Leo Bicknell
ople get the government involved, and the government will fix it in it's usual bull-in-a-china-shop way, which will be very bad for the ISP, and hopefully only slightly bad for the consumer. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Cisco HFR

2004-05-25 Thread Leo Bicknell
are used to direct information and data on a network. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org pgp2XZoR1LnUi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: AboveNet major backbone issues

2004-06-12 Thread Leo Bicknell
ve limited data at this time. Customers who have problems should send in a traceroute (bidirectional if at all possible) to the usual support channels. Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes your the bug. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.

Akamai DNS Issue?

2004-06-15 Thread Leo Bicknell
? Comments from Akamai? -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org pgpfJT8Kq8B1k.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: what's going on with yahoo and gmail lately?

2004-06-21 Thread Leo Bicknell
a provider of network services I take great pleasure that people want to do that to their e-mail, because in the end it is more bits moving across my network. If google helps people send bigger e-mails, with more attachments and more graphics and so on good for them! More bits for all of us to

Re: ultradns reachability

2004-07-02 Thread Leo Bicknell
oftware has issues, and until they are fixed I don't think this is just a slam dunk. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org pgpl7qJSgADVu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ultradns reachability

2004-07-02 Thread Leo Bicknell
+ unicast for a "busy" zone and can provide real distribution of queries data (particularly before and after an outage) that would be quite interesting. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org pgpNyLLWFQrLt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ultradns reachability

2004-07-03 Thread Leo Bicknell
gle box, particularly when you consider they are all high profile DDoS targets as well. If it were trivial, more GTLD's would be doing it. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-06 Thread Leo Bicknell
ave to hide the fact that they are throwing it over the wall. When some colo providers want to do things like charge a 0-mile local loop for a fiber across the room people think it's too much, and run their own "over the wall" fiber. However since it's technically not allowed

Re: DS-3 extended demarc photos

2004-07-30 Thread Leo Bicknell
rs (no batteries on the -48VDC side) they will probably still insist on batteries in their own rack. So, it's not quite a "does not trust anyone", but for practical matters in non-(telco)datacenter buildings that is true. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440

Re: APNIC Privacy of customer assignment records - implementation update

2004-09-23 Thread Leo Bicknell
nts. I'm not quite sure how we enforce those requirements. However, the lack of being able to enforce those requirements does not make listing everyone any better of a solution. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org pgpx6vVNt3du2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

2004-11-08 Thread Leo Bicknell
rafts, and submit your comments to the working group. The information for the working group is at http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ipv6-charter.html, and includes their mailing list archives and information on how to subscribe and/or post. Even if you disagree with me, much like voting the im

Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

2004-11-08 Thread Leo Bicknell
omises of "global uniqueness" that are at best inappropriate, at worst a road to disaster. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org pgp3IhQIqfPjN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

2004-11-08 Thread Leo Bicknell
going to forget those idea's because someone told them "rigid boundaries are good" and "you don't need private space anymore". -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

2004-11-08 Thread Leo Bicknell
e randomly assigned worldwide out of a single /7. Distilled down the proposal makes no sense. 1 You can have globally unique addresses. 2 You can use them between organizations. a If your organization is an ISP, please don't allow them on the "Internet". -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org pgpIMWJAZgOxZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

2004-11-09 Thread Leo Bicknell
will exist, and as such consider what the impact will be on the network. Good product design means designing for people who do stupid stuff with your product, to a certain degree. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG

Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

2004-11-09 Thread Leo Bicknell
ill probably > be sufficiently cheap that even organizations in less developed > countries can afford it. The draft also states, and I quote: - Permanent with no periodic fees. So yes, everyone will be able to afford it. There is not a competition angle here. There is a huge question of how you're going to run a registry with no funding though. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

2004-11-09 Thread Leo Bicknell
on would be -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org

Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

2004-11-09 Thread Leo Bicknell
" (yes, simplified, but you get my point) and recompiling your NAT code, I'm not sure what will be the barrier to IPv6 NAT. I would love to see a solid technical reason why IPv6 NAT will NOT work. In the absense of that I will stick to my guns and say that it will work and be available, an

Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?

2004-11-11 Thread Leo Bicknell
h out an additional IP address to every end box, and update your IGP, firewall rules, and other configs, or is it easier to run NAT at the edge to convert your local network to public IP's? -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bickn

Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

2004-11-11 Thread Leo Bicknell
isconnect from an ISP does not sound like a step forward from either public PI space, or from using 1918 space and NAT. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org pgpQXylh056ZC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: I want my own IPs

2004-11-12 Thread Leo Bicknell
erve a contiguous /19 for you if you > can justify that you'll use it within the next 3-6 months. Note, if you are multi-homed the prefix length is a /22. http://www.arin.net/policy/2002_3.html -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.o

Re: Stupid Ipv6 question...

2004-11-19 Thread Leo Bicknell
ion, I have yet to see any IPv6 gear that cares about prefix length. Configuring a /1 to a /128 seems to work just fine. If anyone knows of gear imposing narrower limits on what can be configured I'd be facinated to know about them. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP

Re: BBC does IPv6 ;) (Was: large multi-site enterprises and PI

2004-11-27 Thread Leo Bicknell
that there will be too many routes, but that all the IPv6 researchers are bringing forth this view. 8 years too late guys. We've figured out table management. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PRO

Re: ULA and RIR cost-recovery

2004-11-29 Thread Leo Bicknell
l to large ISP's and everything inbetween solving real world allocation problems every day. The history tells us is the policy will change over time. History also tells us being too liberal early on can never be "fixed". The RIR's will change policy as time goes

Re: ULA and RIR cost-recovery

2004-11-29 Thread Leo Bicknell
to give the customers the space they need, and with technologies like DHCP and the like it is much easier for many end users to live with IP's from their upstream, even if they change once in a while. Couple that with a (very small) amount of paperwork and fees and you do cut out many of the fri

Re: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator

2003-04-04 Thread Leo Bicknell
or your train locomotive, so the gensets are less tested, harder to find, and more expensive. So, IMHO, natural gas is good for smaller applications (probably under 250Kw), in areas where the gas is stable so you don't have to do on site storage. Otherwise Diesel is probably cheaper (both in

ISP in Exodus Dulles (Sterling)?

2003-06-01 Thread Leo Bicknell
Are you an ISP (in the sense of terminates leased line type things) in Exodus Dulles (aka Sterling)? If so, I'd like to ask you a few questions off list. Thanks. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [

Re: Non-GPS derived timing sources (was Re: NTp sources that work in a datacenter)

2003-06-02 Thread Leo Bicknell
es (the receivers themselves) "hidden", and provide a unix box syncing to all of them as the front end. From my limited knowledge, that front end box will only show the one source it has picked as "best". -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at ht

High Speed IP-Sec

2003-06-09 Thread Leo Bicknell
lerator cards I figure someone has to make the stripped down solution for a reasonable price. Any pointers welcomed. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: High Speed IP-Sec - Summary

2003-06-10 Thread Leo Bicknell
rds with IPSec coprocessors onboard supported by some free OS's: http://www.iwill.net/products/ProductDetail.asp?vID=129&CID=110 -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: more on lame-delegation.org, seems to waste IP space and DNS

2003-06-17 Thread Leo Bicknell
lame name servers removed from their records, possibly existing with no nameservers, until the owner pointed them at the right place. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org pgp0.pg

Re: Major E-mail Delivery for FTC DNCR Launch

2003-06-25 Thread Leo Bicknell
eaders, no "untrusted sender used -f", etc. Valid abuse@ for the machine name, and the parent domain are essential. Valid contacts for the domain and IP block are helpful. In general this sounds like a low-risk activity, as described. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440

Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened

2003-06-27 Thread Leo Bicknell
gress, the FTC, and the FCC could do for spam what they are doing for the telephone. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.tmbg.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Netsol fubar.

2003-07-01 Thread Leo Bicknell
lar issue, although not on all domains. A number that I know where registered between 1992 and 1997 now all have creation dates in 2002. It is disturbing, to say the least. -- Leo Bicknell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List

Re: Backbone Infrastructure and Secrecy

2003-07-09 Thread Leo Bicknell
n a city probably takes 30 minutes of walking around looking at the ground. Even with the people who plan for dual failures 5-10 simultaneous cuts would probably take them down every time, and no one would pay attention to a group of grubby workers with a backhoe on a corner sitting around doing

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