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

2002-03-06 Thread Ron da Silva
Sean, On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 07:56:05AM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: > > > Cool, who has an OC-192 firewall on their control elements? What is > a control element, is that the same as a router or is that a signaling > gateway? Hmm...gotta say it (again). Of course oc192/10ge firewalls are no

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

2002-03-06 Thread Ron da Silva
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 09:41:55AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric Brandwine writes: > > > > >Firewalls are good things for general purpose networks. When you've > >got a bunch of clueless employees, all using Windows shares, NFS, and > >all sorts of n

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

2002-03-06 Thread Ron da Silva
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:04:00PM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > ...For a backbone filtering is another story entirely. Filtering > backbone equipment for it's protection is also a completely different > topic... Filtering on the backbone is exactly what I mean. Clueful backbone prov

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

2002-03-08 Thread Ron da Silva
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:48:49AM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > ...I don't think I can put it any more clearly. There has got > to be a push from the USERS of this equipment (not just one user, all > users) to get line rate, full packet filtering capability on ALL > interfaces on EVER

Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org

2002-08-21 Thread Ron da Silva
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 10:00:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > what are the more basic problems you're trying to fix? > > I'd like to be able to publish DNS records announcing my domain's *outbound* > mail servers, with nice abbreviated forms to say "they're the same as my > inbou

the cost of carrying routes

2002-10-14 Thread Ron da Silva
Some ISPs charge for actual bits carried (peak usage, actual count, whatever) in addition to or instead of per port/circuit charges. Do any ISPs charge based on the number of announcements a customer advertises? If downstream advertisements became mainly smaller prefixes (say /24) that were no

Re: ISP allocation/assignment practices

2002-11-12 Thread Ron da Silva
Fundamentally, you can implement an allocation/assignment policy that optimizes utilization at the cost of aggregation or a policy that optimizes aggregation at the cost of utilization. The challenge is to find a reasonable solution in the middle of those extremes. -ron

Re: aol and 69.0.0/8

2003-01-23 Thread Ron da Silva
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 05:18:52PM -0800, Scott Granados wrote: > > Anyone hear of aol not allowing in 69.0.0.0/8 addresses. It was just > claimed to me but I thought that seemed highly unlikely. no. -ron

re: BST - BGP Scalable Transport

2003-02-10 Thread Ron da Silva
Van/Cengiz/Kedar, Questions that missed the cutoff at the end of your preso: Most operators have some per-peer inbound policies. Since the next hop adjacency may move around due to chaning primaries, where do you configure the policy ? (all routers?) Also, some of those polices include modifyi

Re: untied

2003-02-24 Thread Ron da Silva
Hmm...I've called one of their 800's before and had an option to select "3" to complain (er I mean talk to someone) about their website. Maybe you can reach someone who knows someone with a clue that way... -ron

Re: Question concerning authoritative bodies.

2003-03-11 Thread Ron da Silva
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 02:59:05PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I suspect AOL and Earthlink run their own DNSBLs primarily for the second > reason. How would you convince them to trust and give up control to a > central authority? > > Even if IANA were to create or bless some existing DN

Re: Question concerning authoritative bodies.

2003-03-12 Thread Ron da Silva
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:07:18AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can you elaborate on why? > > You can use a central DNSBL without giving up total control. Shortly > after I configured servers to use a DNSBL for the first time, I recognized > the need for a local DNSWL and have continue

Re: AOL Mail Blocking

2003-07-18 Thread Ron da Silva
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:38:53PM -0400, Gary Attard wrote: > >Anyone notice any issues that began today regarding AOL blocking mail >servers? Would they happen to be mail servers that are sending spam? -ron

Re: AOL Proxy Servers not connecting via https - resolved

2003-09-25 Thread Ron da Silva
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 06:11:23PM -0400, Brian Bruns wrote: > > This might be helpful to people setting up ACLs and the like: > > http://webmaster.info.aol.com/proxyinfo.html I think the point that Mike was making is that RFC1918 space is 172.16.0.0/20 not a /8. -ron

Re: AOL Proxy Servers not connecting via https - resolved

2003-09-26 Thread Ron da Silva
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:48:11PM -0700, Andy Ellifson wrote: > > Actually a /12. But the value of 172.16.0.0 0.15.255.255 has been > burned into my head for some reason... yup... s/20/12/ typo...thanks Andy -ron

Re: Hijacked IP space.

2003-11-03 Thread Ron da Silva
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:10:27AM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Ray Wong wrote: > > > I'm starting to figure that, given the delays, there's been enough damage > > done that 204.89.224/24 will never be able to get off the blocking lists > > anyway, so perhaps I'll turn i

Re: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work.

2004-02-29 Thread Ron da Silva
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 08:47:21PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > Randy Bush [2/29/2004 7:53 PM] : > >just say no to html > > and to top posting and fullquoting all the ugly, malformed microsoft > html [1] as well, I hope? :) urlview and lynx are your firends... -ron

Re: First Post! Annoying Debate at Work.

2004-02-29 Thread Ron da Silva
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 01:54:36PM -0500, Ron da Silva wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 08:47:21PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > > > Randy Bush [2/29/2004 7:53 PM] : > > >just say no to html > > > > and to top posting and fullquoting all the

verizon contact

2004-03-23 Thread Ron da Silva
Anyone from Verizon on this list care to reply directly? thanks, -ron

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

2007-10-05 Thread Ron da Silva
On 10/5/07 5:28 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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 major way here in the United States, as well. > > We've dropped the ball in any place where

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

2007-10-26 Thread Ron da Silva
On 10/22/07 2:01 AM, "Mikael Abrahamsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could someone who knows DOCSIS 3.0 (perhaps these are general > DOCSIS questions) enlighten me (and others?) by responding to a few things > I have been thinking about. > > Let's say cable provider is worried about aggregate u

96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing

2007-05-01 Thread Ron da Silva
Randy's MUA automatically deletes email sent directly to him...can anyone else here provide some insight into the reachability testing provided for this allocation given to Randy from ARIN? Thanks, -ron -- Forwarded Message From: "da Silva, Ronald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 200

Re: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing

2007-05-02 Thread Ron da Silva
On 5/1/07 7:19 PM, "Scott Weeks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : Randy's MUA automatically deletes email sent directly to him... > > Probably because you have a 12+ line .sig full of lawyer-speak. Both practices arguably ingenious or idiotic... > Randy's MUA automatically deletes email sent dire

Re: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing

2007-05-02 Thread Ron da Silva
On 5/2/07 2:58 PM, "Scott Weeks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I gotta admit it's a really big .sig that's utterly useless. It *IS* being > disseminated, distributed and copied and on a global basis. It's "unlawful" > in what country? No one's going to delete all copies. Blah, blah, blah... I'

Re: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing

2007-05-02 Thread Ron da Silva
I see not a lot has changed on egg^H^H^Hnanog. I'll forward to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see where that goes (only useful reply). Thanks for the entertainment! :-) -ron - This E-mail and any of its attachments may contain Time Warner Cable proprietary infor