Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse (was Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?)

2005-07-05 Thread Mark Newton
exist every time the concept is mentioned from now until eternity, just like they do now. Right now, on July 5th 2005, "The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse" has absolutely zero operational impact on any network operators. So could y'all please perh

Re: London incidents

2005-07-12 Thread Mark Newton
t someone at the Port Authority has made a unilateral decision to shut off the cells, and now if there -is- a real emergency nobody can call 911. Breathtaking. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer Email:

Re: Network Map Generator

2005-09-26 Thread Mark Newton
highlights packet loss, congestion, unreachability, etc. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Ma

Obsolete bogon filtering

2005-03-09 Thread Mark Newton
any bogon filtering, can you please check your border ACLs and BGP prefix filters to ensure that you're no longer preventing access to 58.0.0.0/8 or 59.0.0.0/8 ? Thanks, - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer

Re: Obsolete bogon filtering

2005-03-09 Thread Mark Newton
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 11:51:40AM +1030, Mark Newton wrote: > If you run any bogon filtering, can you please check your border ACLs > and BGP prefix filters to ensure that you're no longer preventing > access to 58.0.0.0/8 or 59.0.0.0/8 ? Further to this: If anyone from

Re: Obsolete bogon filtering

2005-03-12 Thread Mark Newton
m without any further thought. Even some Serious Blue-Chip Multinationals appear to have professional Network Security divisions who really should know better, but don't. It's a real eye-opener. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Netwo

Contact from ACM?

2005-03-30 Thread Mark Newton
x27;d appreciate it. Thanks, - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark

Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

2005-04-26 Thread Mark Newton
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:38:00PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > So much for any sort of journalistic ethic, fact checking, or, unbiased > reporting. Schneier isn't a journalist or reporter; He's a security vendor. - mark -- Mark Newton

Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

2005-04-26 Thread Mark Newton
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 06:06:22AM +, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: > -- Mark Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:38:00PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > > > So much for any sort of journalistic ethic, fact checking, or, unbiased > &g

Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

2005-04-27 Thread Mark Newton
names in non-English alphabets. Perhaps then you can tell what to look for in a string of Kanji symbols which might be suggestive of the concept of "static". - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer Email:

Re: Stanford Hack Exposes 10,000

2005-05-25 Thread Mark Newton
are going to get the hint and stop using SSN's as ID > numbers.. Around about whenever the US Federal Government gets the hint and passes a bill which makes it illegal to use social security numbers for any purpose other than the administration of social securit

"Internode Nodemap" network visualization/monitoring software

2004-08-17 Thread Mark Newton
etails are on the website referenced above. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223

Re: Open-Source Network Management Tools

2004-09-15 Thread Mark Newton
site descriptions, etc) - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223

Re: Shim6 vs PI addressing

2006-03-02 Thread Mark Newton
problem is -easy-, it's just plainly obvious to me that it'll need to be solved anyway, and the IPv6 PA advocacy that keeps coming up seems to be an exercise in denial...) - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer

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

2006-03-02 Thread Mark Newton
network smaller than 254 hosts and it hasn't made a lick of difference to universal reachability. What's to stop someone who wants to carry around less prefixes from saying, "Bugg'rit, I'm not going to accept anything smaller than a /18"? - mark -- Mark Newton

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

2006-03-02 Thread Mark Newton
ver that the race to $0 for IP transit prices has created a world in which they make more money by selling their IPv4 addresses than they make by selling Internet access? Will we see them coming out as a strong supporter of restrictive RIR policies and IPv6 technologies whi

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

2006-03-04 Thread Mark Newton
ear 4523. ("Hey, guys, you're all using these CIDR blocks which have real monetary value, how about you all agree to deploy this technology which will make them all valueless again? Huh? Hello? Anyone listening? Where'd everyone go?") - mark -- Mark Newton

Re: Net Neutrality Legislative Proposal

2006-07-11 Thread Mark Newton
transit. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223

Re: Net Neutrality Legislative Proposal

2006-07-11 Thread Mark Newton
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:39:50AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Mark Newton: > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 07:58:48AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > (I've wondered for quite some time if "net neutrality" implies that > > > Ebay or Goog

Re: Net Neutrality Legislative Proposal

2006-07-11 Thread Mark Newton
. Regardless of any retail restrictions, the fact still remains that your local Cable company is selling connectivity to other peoples' autonomous systems. That's transit. And that's what eBay and Google don't sell. - mark -- Mark Newton

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

2007-10-01 Thread Mark Newton
, it'll get improved. It'll keep getting better until we don't need it anymore (or forever, whichever comes first) - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H) Internode

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

2007-10-02 Thread Mark Newton
boptimal solutions create their own new problems. If you believe that v4 exhaustion is a pressing problem, then I'd humbly suggest that 2007 is a good time to shut the hell up about how bad NAT is and get on with fixing the most pressing problem. If we're successful, there'll be plent

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

2007-10-02 Thread Mark Newton
where you only get to deploy new IPv4 applications when the powers that be permit you to. So everyone will deploy IPv6 applications, which require no ALGs, instead. Isn't that a solution that everyone can be happy with? - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL

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

2007-10-03 Thread Mark Newton
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 09:50:09PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 2-okt-2007, at 16:55, Mark Newton wrote: > >So everyone will deploy IPv6 applications, which require no ALGs, > >instead. > >Isn't that a solution that everyone can be happy with? > &g

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

2007-10-03 Thread Mark Newton
'll be plenty of time to go back and > >re-evaluate NAT afterwards when IPv6 exhaustion is a distant memory. > > Right. Building something that can't meet reasonable requirements > first and then getting rid of the holes worked so well for the email > spam pro

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

2007-10-03 Thread Mark Newton
o existing ones) if they > >care about the protocols in question because they have no choice -- > >security is the law. > > Seems to work well, that law. > > But these people don't complain when their video streaming/chatting > doesn't work out

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

2007-10-03 Thread Mark Newton
er example of you proposing that we all behave like old-skool telcos inside the exact same 24 hour period when you decry any suggestion that we act like old-skool telcos. Whatever. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer

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

2007-10-04 Thread Mark Newton
duopoly, e.g., http://www.pipenetworks.com/docs/media/ASX_07_08_09%20Runway%20Update%204%20-%20BSa.pdf I suspect we're going to have an interesting few years. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer Email

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

2007-10-05 Thread Mark Newton
, as much as your marketplace derides caps and quotas, I'm pretty sure that most of you would prefer to do business with my constraints than with yours. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223

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

2007-10-06 Thread Mark Newton
x27;s shaped your perspective of what "reasonable" is. It's completely delusional of you to insist that the rest of the world follow the same definition of "reaosnable", *ESPECIALLY* when the rest of the world is subsidizing your domestic Internet by paying for

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

2007-10-07 Thread Mark Newton
t industry? Be warned that the industry is already full of sharks who don't know what they're talking about, and if what you suggest happens to match the business model deployed by one of those guys who has subsequently gone broke, I reserve the right to point and laugh derisively. Y

Re: Oregon storms affect trans-pacific traffic

2007-12-04 Thread Mark Newton
worksite. Ouch. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223

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

2008-01-18 Thread Mark Newton
y want to pay more for more quota. Bytecounts are retrieved via SNMP (for business customers) or Radius (for DSL, dial, ISDN, etc). When transit is costing $250 per megabit per month, there aren't many other options. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTE

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

2008-01-20 Thread Mark Newton
paper isn't trailblazing, and every issue you can think of to explain why it'll be horrible and won't work has already been demolished by real-life day-to-day business in other countries. You guys who are behaving as if the sky will fall are going to have to explain why th

Re: Lessons from the AU model

2008-01-20 Thread Mark Newton
PPC-1 shakes the market up next year. We're looking forward to it. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 &q

Re: Lessons from the AU model

2008-01-20 Thread Mark Newton
st any terms whatsoever if it means they can reduce or elminiate their financial commitments to the other four. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H) Internode Systems Pt

Re: Lessons from the AU model

2008-01-21 Thread Mark Newton
ainable. You guys might think they're a novel and unwelcome arrival at the moment, but give it a few years and we'll see what happens :-) - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer Email: [EMAIL PR

Re: Lessons from the AU model

2008-01-21 Thread Mark Newton
On 22/01/2008, at 10:21 AM, Tom Vest wrote: On Jan 21, 2008, at 6:10 PM, Mark Newton wrote: It goes a bit deeper than that when the monopoly can compound the problem my artificially constraining capacity by underspending on infrastructure (e.g., only lighting one pair on a multi-pair cable

Re: Lessons from the AU model

2008-01-22 Thread Mark Newton
imit? Here's a question for you: Power is metered. Water is metered. Gas is metered. Heating oil is metered. Even cable-TV is packaged so that you pay more if you want to use more channels... ... what economic fundamentals exist to suggest that Internet access should be the _only_ domest

Re: Lessons from the AU model

2008-01-22 Thread Mark Newton
ffering a package that fits your needs in a competitive environment. In my observation, customers who are repeatedly DDOS'ed are usually doing something to provoke it. I don't think I've ever seen an instance where a DDOS'ed customer has had a repeat occurrance

Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

2008-02-03 Thread Mark Newton
Doesn't really work, does it?) Politicians have succeeded in watering down the definition of the word "terrorism" to the point where it no longer has any meaning. But we're rational adults, not politicians, right? If we can't get it right, who will? - mark -- Mark Newton

Re: [admin] [summary] RE: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Newton
of making rtconfig work properly in various situations (heck, do people still use that? Does it even do IPv6 right?) Yeah, we use it. And (following a bunch of patches we made a couple of months ago) we've convinced it to do IPv6 too. - mark -- Mark Newton

Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-12 Thread Mark Newton
g to happen in this space, my guess is that it'll be with custom Linux firmware running on a LinkSys blob with no vendor support. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H) In

Re: Collocation Access

2006-12-27 Thread Mark Newton
hen you're finished. - mark -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82282999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223

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

2007-02-11 Thread Mark Newton
> have to pay for also. Sounds great. We won't all have to move to IPv6 after all! - mark :-) -- Mark Newton Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) Network Engineer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd