Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-08 Thread Nathan Ward
Vicky - "Thou shalt not post about DJB software to a mailing list Vixie reads regularly". I take it you didn't listen in bible study class.. I had a play with DJBDNS after using BIND for years. Here's why I switched back: - No AXFR support - No TCP support - I was forced to use DJBs naming conve

Getting a BGP table in to a lab

2005-04-20 Thread Nathan Ward
om a production router, disconnect, and then start peering with lab routers. Am I reinventing a wheel here? -- Nathan Ward

Re: Getting a BGP table in to a lab

2005-04-21 Thread Nathan Ward
Nathan Ward wrote: >I'm trying to come up with a way to get a full BGP routing table in to >my lab. >I'm not really fussed about keeping it up to date, so a snapshot is fine. >At the moment, I'm thinking about spending a few hours hacking together >a BGP daemon in

Re: Getting a BGP table in to a lab

2005-04-21 Thread Nathan Ward
Nathan Ward wrote: >I'm trying to come up with a way to get a full BGP routing table in to >my lab. >I'm not really fussed about keeping it up to date, so a snapshot is fine. >At the moment, I'm thinking about spending a few hours hacking together >a BGP daemon in

Re: Going dual-stack, how do apps behave and what to do as an operator (Was: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?)

2007-09-16 Thread Nathan Ward
uot;Check out our Cool new toy: we got IPv6!" or something and ask them how it works. Mozilla.org are doing this for example. Cue Matthew Zeier. (Apologies for a dis-jointed email. It's 1am, I'm tired and in a ranty mood) -- Nathan Ward

Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?

2007-09-17 Thread Nathan Ward
've got a bunch of slides - if you think that they'll be of use I can clean them up. I intend to add some step-by-step textual stuff to http:// ipv6.cluepon.net/ but haven't had a chance yet, I've only really covered end user Teredo stuff - please add stuff if you can. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Going dual-stack, how do apps behave and what to do as an operator (Was: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?)

2007-09-24 Thread Nathan Ward
uot; other unknown protocols, instead of discarding them. Probably doesn't work so well if you have 6k people behind the same NAT, and they all try and use proto-41, though. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Going dual-stack, how do apps behave and what to do as an operator (Was: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?)

2007-09-24 Thread Nathan Ward
4801 and NET4501, as that's what I've got here right now. The only stuff left to do is put some basic configs on there, and test Miredo some. 6to4 etc. all functions fine, it just needs some hand holding. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Going dual-stack, how do apps behave and what to do as an operator (Was: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?)

2007-09-24 Thread Nathan Ward
On 24/09/2007, at 11:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:35:12 +1200, Nathan Ward said: Probably doesn't work so well if you have 6k people behind the same NAT, and they all try and use proto-41, though. If you have 6,000 people behind a single NAT, proto-41 is pro

Re: abandon cable & the price of copper

2007-09-27 Thread Nathan Ward
s copper or fibre or dead or alive can be kinda hard for a guy on a fishing boat with a hook. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Sun Project Blackbox / Portable Data Center

2007-10-14 Thread Nathan Ward
or a cluster delivering video on demand in each Asian city with more than 500,000 people. Or say, lots of processing somewhere short term - like video editing/ rendering/whatever at the Olympic games. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Geographic map of IPv6 availability

2007-10-15 Thread Nathan Ward
rs the host's configuration of the address selection policy - which seems more likely than implementing it itself. For those who missed it - OS level address selection policy won't apply to BIND without specific code, as BIND is a recursive resolver so won't be calling getaddrinfo(3). -- Nathan Ward

Re: Network Operator Groups Outside the US

2008-01-19 Thread Nathan Ward
On 17/01/2008, at 1:55 AM, Skeeve Stevens wrote: NZNog – The New Zealand Operator Group - http://www.nznog.org/ - 2008 Conference will be held in a couple of week - http://2008.nznog.org/ s/a couple of/1/ It starts this coming Wednesday, and goes until Friday. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Transition Planning for IPv6 as mandated by the US Govt

2008-03-15 Thread Nathan Ward
about 10 lines, and requires you to inject an anycast IPv4 /24 and an IPv6 /16 in to your IGP(s). Thanks, -- Nathan Ward [1] RFC3056 [2] RFC4380, see also http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457011.aspx [3] I made this up. But seriously, prove me wrong. Current numbers (well

Re: Transition Planning for IPv6 as mandated by the US Govt

2008-03-17 Thread Nathan Ward
y and 6to4 in hardware. If you're a vendor and do, tell me, and I'll encourage people to give you lots of money. Pps. I'll reply to those of you who asked me for 6to4 Cisco configs and code later today (it's 1.30pm here), I'm just heading off to fix some stuff first. That wiki thing Michael posted links to has the cisco stuff. Thanks, -- Nathan Ward

Re: Transition Planning for IPv6 as mandated by the US Govt

2008-03-17 Thread Nathan Ward
On 18/03/2008, at 3:34 PM, Andy Dills wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Nathan Ward wrote: I'm not selling anything. Code is freely available. When I've got some decent instructions for it I'll post links to NANOG if you like. To be fair, it's really nothing more than Free

Re: IPv6 Training?

2007-05-31 Thread Nathan Ward
colleagues seem to be learning quite a bit from the books there, I think the "IPv6 Essentials" animal book is popular. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 Training?

2007-06-03 Thread Nathan Ward
Unless these boxes get IPv6 support really fast, I will definitely be recommending against customers using them. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Security gain from NAT

2007-06-06 Thread Nathan Ward
blocker for security reasons, and solutions were presented so that it no longer is, assuming adequate education is provided. -- Nathan Ward