Re: Internet Exchange Questions

2002-03-19 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:53:04PM -0500, Streiner, Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 72 lines which said: > Most providers lack the levels of traffic or the geographic footprint to > peer with the big guys (UUNET, Sprint, AT&T, CW, Genuity, etc), who > typically build private int

Re: Internet Exchange Questions

2002-03-19 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 04:40:20PM -0800, Jon Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 21 lines which said: > buy PAIX and if there is a way to continue to make money selling > cross connects in the future. Not all exchange points are built with the idea of making money. Some are grat

One more reason to drop Network Solutions

2002-03-25 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
This morning, when clicking on Help on their Web site: You are Here: Help -> Error Error We were unable to answer your question for the following reason: Compiled keyword file not found. Package at 'nsol' could not be loaded. Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] © Copyright 2002 Veri

Re: de-peering and peering

2002-04-02 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wednesday 3 April 2002, at 1 h 9, "Shashi Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let us say Network A has a peering Agreement with Network B. Now let us > say Network X wants to reach Network B. X and B do not have a peering > agreement. Can Network A use the peering Link between A nd B to ro

Re: route statistics

2002-05-19 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 07:02:58PM -0400, Ralph Doncaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 10 lines which said: > I'm trying to collect statistics on how many routes match certain > patterns. So far I've been using zebra, set term len 0, and then sh ip > bgp regexp, and wait for the to

Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?

2005-07-04 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 05:21:47PM +, Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 6 lines which said: > > Every public root experiment that I have seen has always > > operated as a superset of the ICANN root zone. > > not www.orsn.net. You are playing with words. ORSN serves the sa

Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?

2005-07-04 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:38:55PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 12 lines which said: > You are playing with words. ORSN serves the same data as ICANN. So, > it is a superset, albeit a strict one. (The excellent readers of NANOG already sa

Re: DNS .US outage

2005-07-07 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:25:20AM -0500, Church, Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 109 lines which said: > Is it possible that one of the authoritative servers for .us > is unreachable/down at the moment, at least from name server > 24.197.96.16's point of view? It is perfec

Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed

2005-07-18 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 04:29:52PM +, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 49 lines which said: > Forwarded Message from Neil Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- ... > After extensive analysis and discussion, the Mozilla community and Opera > have already produced a fi

Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed

2005-07-18 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 09:49:32PM -0700, Dave Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 25 lines which said: > 2. Who is the authority that decides whether a TLD uses an > acceptable policy? That's the big problem with this so-called "solution".

Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers

2005-09-27 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 12:45:33PM +0300, Evren Demirkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 29 lines which said: > I am located in Turkiye..Can Any one simplify the whole stuff in > plain English? There is nothing related with your country in the whole thread. The subject is misleading.

Re: PRIX - Puerto RIco Internet Exchange

2005-09-27 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:55:51AM -0600, John Neiberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 10 lines which said: > Would it be improper to suggest that you pick a different acronym? :-) Mehmet did not say so, but I assume his mailing list will be in spanish and that PRIX is OK in his lan

Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers

2005-09-28 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 07:39:29PM -0700, Tony Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 20 lines which said: > Actually, I think you've got it backwards. .us and all of the other > country-specific TLDs are the last vestiges of nationalism. The problem is that all gTLD are controlled only in

Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers

2005-09-28 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:56:50PM -0400, Robert Boyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 26 lines which said: > Well said! Other than government entities, I never understood why > anyone would want a country specific name. So he can call upon the law of his country, rather than the law o

GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services

2005-09-30 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
It can be of operational interest or it can fuel a new flame about alternative DNS roots. http://www.neustar.com/pressroom/files/announcements/ns_pr_09282005.pdf GSM Association and NeuStar Sign Agreement to Offer Root DNS Services to More than 680 Global GSM Mobile Operators ... NeuStar's Roo

Re: [Pr-plan] Public-Root resolution problems and UNIDT (fwd)

2005-09-30 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 04:05:34PM +0100, Andy Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 19 lines which said: > A bit like an internationally organized, non-profit corporation ... > Has anyone considered this ? Yes, replacing the DoC puppet by an internationally organized corporation w

Re: TLD anycast clouds?

2005-10-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 11:54:03PM -0700, william(at)elan.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 49 lines which said: > they [ISC] run .museum TLD It does not seem so. > and serve as secondary for one or two other TLDs. Not with their anycast servers, unless they added this service very

Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers

2005-10-06 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:19:07AM +0200, MÃ¥ns Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 34 lines which said: > .museum is operated from Sweden. Correct, Europeans will stop using ".com" and switch to ".museum", its main competitor :-)

Re: IPv6 and BGP

2005-10-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 01:32:32PM -0500, Mike Hyde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 3 lines which said: > On the subject of ipv6, is there currently any way to multi-home > with IPv6 yet? RFC 4177: Architectural Approaches to Multi-homing for IPv6 (five approaches, including at least o

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 12:08:38PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 28 lines which said: > There are 437 cities of 1 million or more population. There are > roughly 5,000 cities of over 100,000 population. And there are > 3,047,000 named communities in the world.

Re: How to check the As path from internet

2005-11-23 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 05:45:30PM +0600, Md. kamal Hossain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 54 lines which said: > I am a newbie in bgp. I'm not sure that NANOG charter allow posting by BGP newbies :-) But, since I'm not an operator myself: > Would any one describe the as path from th

Re: [Fwd: zone transfers, a spammer's dream?]

2004-12-13 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:52:38AM +0200, Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 174 lines which said: > 171 uk.zone Everything is in subdomains like co.uk, so there is no point in blocking zone transfers for the TLD.

Re: Anycast 101

2004-12-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 07:59:58PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 26 lines which said: > I'll leave the packet layout and arithmetic as an exercise for the > reader This has been already done :-) http://w6.nic.fr/dnsv6/resp-size.html

Re: Anycast 101

2004-12-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 12:31:37AM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 68 lines which said: > and then sees an anycast instance for all root servers over > peering. If then something bad happens to the peering connection ... > but even if 5 or 8 or 12 addresses b

Re: Anycast 101

2004-12-20 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
[Warning: I've never actually deployed an anycast DNS setup so you are free to ignore my message.] On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:28:43PM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 109 lines which said: > 1. There should always be non-anycast alternatives I believe there

Re: Measure overall network availability

2005-01-07 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:43:40AM -0500, Nils Ketelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 28 lines which said: > > is there any recommended method to measure overall > > network availability? > > The problem is, that most people have no definition when they > consider their network avai

Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonymity" when domain exists, whois not updated

2005-01-13 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 04:11:42PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 16 lines which said: > And if you will trust an ISP to deliver port 25 packets then why > wouldn't you trust them to deliver email messages? There are *many* ISP which provide a reasonable job w

Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonym

2005-01-13 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:59:43AM -0500, Steven Champeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 98 lines which said: > 0) for the love of God, Montresor, just block port 25 outbound > already. If there is no escape / exemption (as proposed by William Leibzon), then, as a consumer, I scream "

Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonym

2005-01-13 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:59:43AM -0500, Steven Champeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 98 lines which said: > 1) any legitimate mail source MUST have valid, functioning, > non-generic rDNS indicating that it is a mail server or > source. (Most do, many do not. There is NO reason why

Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonym

2005-01-13 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:59:43AM -0500, Steven Champeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 98 lines which said: > 4) all domains with invalid whois data MUST be deactivated (not > confiscated, just temporarily removed from the root dbs) immediately > and their owners contacted. Because

Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "an

2005-01-13 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:21:20AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 45 lines which said: > > Requesting rDNS means "I don't want to receive email from Africa". > > Having an rDNS entry for a host doesn't mean you know if it is/isn't > in Africa, Of course, I kn

Re: Registrar and registry backend processes.

2005-01-21 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 05:08:18AM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 61 lines which said: > Further, these options are not documented anywhere, In the man page of GNU whois :-) When querying \fIwhois.denic.de\fP for domain names, the program will automatically

Re: UN Panel Aims to End Internet Tug of War by July

2005-02-25 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 05:00:22PM -0500, William Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 45 lines which said: > If the UN wants control of the INET WE invented. Who is WE? ICANN? The US governement?

Re: Internet Email Services Association ( wasRE: Why do so few mail providers su

2005-03-01 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 05:44:26AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 27 lines which said: > I'm skeptical that a model that only sort of works for under 30K ASNs > and maybe 1K bilateral peering agreements for the *really* big Tier-1s > won't scale to a world that

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-09 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 03:55:15PM -0700, Vicky Rode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 20 lines which said: > Just wondering how many have transitioned to djbdns from bind If transitioning from BIND, why go to the non-free and non-compliant djbdns instead of nsd (http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/

Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)

2005-04-13 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:14:05AM +0200, Jeroen Massar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 49 lines which said: > Btw, is there going to be an LACNIC-alike system for transfering > RIPE/ARIN resources to AfriNIC? AFAIK, all inetnums belonging to Africa in the RIPE-NCC database have alread

Re: using TCP53 for DNS

2005-04-27 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 12:39:09PM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 22 lines which said: > From the thread (certainly not a scientific sampling), many people > seem to be filtering port 53 TCP to their name servers. Again, a non-scientific sampling but AFNIC ("

Re: using TCP53 for DNS

2005-04-27 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 07:01:47PM +, Christopher L. Morrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 29 lines which said: > Even after I imagine that folks left the filters in place either > 'because' or 'I don't run router acls' or 'laziness' [Warning, operational content.] Remember t

Re: using TCP53 for DNS

2005-04-27 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 03:04:25PM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 46 lines which said: > I am interested in how many name servers - caching or authoritative > - are filtering incoming and/or outgoing TCP port 53. For authoritative name servers of TLD, you can

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

2005-04-28 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:52:04PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 49 lines which said: > the only entities that can be members are nations/governments. This is no longer true (for several years). Corporations ("Sector members") can now join (ITU is the only UN

Re: Underscores in host names

2005-05-18 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 12:11:14AM -0400, Steven Champeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 92 lines which said: > So, these are *all* non-compliant? Yes, and you can easily check that the FreeBSD resolver, for instance, cannot retrieve them (the GNU libc resolver on Linux can). notux:~

Re: Underscores in host names

2005-05-18 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:05:56AM +0100, Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 12 lines which said: > However case insensitivity puts a big spanner in the works. And the fact that you can use any 8-bits character in a domain name but nothing says what the encoding is. UTF-8 ? Lat

Email peering (Was: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender IDAuthentication......?]

2005-06-16 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:32:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 21 lines which said: > The number of agreements needed in the email world is significantly > higher than what is needed for BGP. The proponents of "email peering" typically want to switch from t

Re: Good quotes on importance of good network addressing

2002-10-07 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thursday 3 October 2002, at 12 h 23, Scott Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure how applicable it may be, but the OpenBSD FAQ has referenced (since > at least 2.7) a paper called "Understanding IP Addressing" that I found to = > be > pretty useful. > http://www.3com.com/corpinfo/en

Re: CC-TLD .af

2003-01-07 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tuesday 7 January 2003, at 16 h 40, Hendrianto Muljawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to register a domain in the com.af, but I couldn't find any registrar > who can help. Giving the situation in Afghanistan, I wish you good luck. > I did try to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED], that is li

Re: EuroNOG

2003-02-04 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 04:52:57PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 45 lines which said: > how/why is this proposed group distinct from the European Operator Forum? Bill, Nicolas Deffayet just wanted a NOG for himself. Let him play. For those who are not membe

Re: EuroNOG

2003-02-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wednesday 5 February 2003, at 0 h 54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > NDSoftware exist. ... > I'm still waiting. NDsoftware does not exist, at least as a company in France. It is *not* registered in any French directory of companies (check it out: http://www.societe.com/). Theref

Re: BGP to doom us all

2003-03-03 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:53:51AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 55 lines which said: > Yes there are other ways and I suggest that the optimal choice of protocol > for publishing this information is LDAP, not DNS. ... > Next step is to get ISPs to replace t

Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts

2004-09-06 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 04:26:04AM -0700, Henry Linneweh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 4 lines which said: > This is not a good beginning > > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1642848,00.asp Bad paper. The CipherTrust story, which is mentioned, is very weak: it contains several b

Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts

2004-09-07 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 11:32:11AM +0100, Paul Jakma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 24 lines which said: > Also, SPF doesnt tell you whether it is spam. Of course. It never pretended to do so. > Indeed, apparently majority of SPF-valid email at moment is spam! No. Where did you find

Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts

2004-09-10 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:59:51PM +, Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 27 lines which said: > you could bet that by closing off this avenue, SPF will force > spammers to use other methods that are more easily > detected/filtered, and that if you play this cat&mouse game lo

Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts

2004-09-10 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:15:14PM -0500, Robert Bonomi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 37 lines which said: > Same thing applies for 'simple' forwarding via sendmails '~/.forward' > mechanism. the mail server 'accepts' the mail from the original source, > and then 're-sends' to the ne

Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts

2004-09-10 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 01:57:51AM -0700, Joe Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 19 lines which said: > I'm not sure where "true" diverges from reality in your analysis, > but perhaps you should create one of those mail environments and > test before you put your foot in your mouth a

Re: Sender-ID denied by IETF?

2004-09-13 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 10:58:13AM -0400, Jeff Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 19 lines which said: > Top story on Slashdot: > http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/09/13/1317238.shtml?tid=172&tid=95&tid=218 Warning: this is probably non-operational content. I suggest to move the discus

Re: Ivan damage...

2004-09-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 03:42:26PM -0700, Gary E. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 25 lines which said: > Not been able to reach my machines in Jamaica. The Kingston Daily > Gleaner is back up with text only pages. They report BOTH the > primary and secondary submarine cables to

Re: Email Complexes

2004-09-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 09:08:21AM -0500, Hosman, Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 22 lines which said: > We would like accounts setup at these companies to monitor outgoing > email to these complexes. May be it would be simpler to suggest them to implement Message Tracking? (http:

Re: IPv6 support for com/net zones on October 19, 2004

2004-10-27 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 02:10:58PM -0400, Matt Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 27 lines which said: > A few people have asked me privately to publish the IPv6 addresses > ahead of time for reachability testing purposes, so here they are: > > 2001:503:a83e::2:30 (a.gtld-servers.n

Re: IPv6 support for com/net zones on October 19, 2004

2004-10-28 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 04:01:45PM -0400, Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 42 lines which said: > Since I mailed that, 3557 started receiving a covering /48 for A. a.gtld-servers.net works now for us. Verisign does not reply but may listen :-) b is still unreachable. We get a

Re: anycast roots

2004-11-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:00:54PM +, Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 18 lines which said: > as far as i know, the root-servers.org web site is 100% accurate, Following the recent discussion about "anycast jitter" with j.root-servers.net, I believe one information is mi

Re: anycast roots

2004-11-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:37:25PM +0100, Elmar K. Bins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 34 lines which said: > in alternating fashion, but I would assume "jns1" through "jns6" are > just the individual servers of a setup called "hgtld". That's a reasonable guess. Someone from Verisign

Re: anycast roots

2004-11-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:05:20AM -0500, Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 36 lines which said: > I have no idea about Verisign's scheme, but in case anybody notices > similar distribution of queries across F root servers, it may help to > know that: > > xxxNa.f.root-server

Re: Stupid Ipv6 question...

2004-11-19 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 03:06:43AM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 25 lines which said: > I'm having trouble wrapping my head around ipv6 style suffixes -- > does anyone have a chart handy? How big is a /64, specifically? Since an IPv6 address is 128 b

Re: Opinions of recent ITU Comments on the Management of IP Addresses

2004-11-23 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 08:16:43PM +, Vince Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 22 lines which said: > "This memorandum includes a proposal to create a new IPv6 address > space distribution process, based solely on national authorities. This is a wrong presentation of the ITU d

Re: anyone has netrange -> cidr conversion script to share?

2003-06-13 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:12:54PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 12 lines which said: > Does anyone here has a script (or perl procedure) for converting range > of ips (i.e. 10.0.0.0 - 10.0.2.255) into cidr (i.e. result would be > 10.0.0.0/23,10.0.2.0/24 fr

[Administrativia] Posting rules: are messages silently dropped?

2003-09-22 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
Messages I send from an email address which is not subscribed to nanog-post are apparently silently dropped. I do not receive a bounce (like it is typically the case when a list is closed) but, according to the archives, they are not distributed either (which may be good for the S/N ratio but I di

Re: Operations notification manager software

2003-09-22 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 12:23:35AM -0500, Justin Shore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 20 lines which said: > > What software is available/recommended for NOC contact > > management? > > I've used Nagios (formerly NetSaint) in the past and have been very > impressed with it. I used N

[OT] NXDOMAIN sanctified in RFC (Was: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service]

2003-10-18 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thursday 16 October 2003, at 22 h 52, Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i think i agree with where this was going, but it would be a fine thing if > we all stop calling this NXDOMAIN. the proper term is RCODE 3. when you say > NXDOMAIN you sound like you've only read the BIND sources

Re: IAB concerns against permanent deployment of edge-based filtering

2003-10-20 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:00:58AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 35 lines which said: > then there is the idea of "permanent" deployment ... > little is permanent in networking. the hard problem > is when vendors put filters in silicon. :(

Re: Out of office/vacation messages

2003-12-25 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thursday 25 December 2003, at 14 h 18, "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Among the ones I found when I looked into the question with some > rigor a few years ago were that mailing list traffic often no longer > has a useful "precedence" value that was used to screen such

Re: Out of office/vacation messages

2003-12-26 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Friday 26 December 2003, at 0 h 50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Suresh Ramasubramanian) wrote: > > There are several other tests to perform (if you are a reasonable program, > > that is), before sending an "Out of the office" message. An obvious one is to > > see wether your human owner is mentioned i

Re: Out of office/vacation messages

2003-12-26 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Friday 26 December 2003, at 11 h 18, "Stephen J. Wilcox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Surely regardless of the presence of precedence you would never autoreply to an > email that wasnt addressed to you personally? And I add: in the To: field, not the CC: one.

Re: Out of office/vacation messages

2003-12-26 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Friday 26 December 2003, at 9 h 11, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I said is that the method proposed wouldn't cut down on OOOs to the > list. Yes, it will, in most cases. Let's take the following message: From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMA

Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones

2004-01-08 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:41:54PM -0500, Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 16 lines which said: > I didn't notice anybody saying "thank you for doing the right thing > by announcing the change" amongst the flurry of jerking knees. So, > thank you for doing the right thing. Good

Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones

2004-01-08 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 05:43:01PM -0800, Martin J. Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 9 lines which said: > I believe there have been 26 (opps, now 27) responses to this > announcement in the last 2 hours 45 minutes, that's about one response > every 6 minutes. This is normal and re

Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones

2004-01-08 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 05:21:33AM -0800, Avleen Vig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 22 lines which said: > Verisign is learning their lesson, and it might take a while yet, but ... > Verisign didn't do right last time, but they did this time. No, they are not learning. At least this i

Re: updated root hints file

2004-01-30 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:44:42PM -0800, bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 54 lines which said: > > http://www.root-servers.org/ seems to only have news on I's ASN change, no > > mention of B or J or the anycast F/K/I's ... methinks this info should have a > > home on this site..

Re: updated root hints file

2004-01-30 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:19:43PM -0500, Coppola, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 22 lines which said: > In preparation for tomorrow morning's B-root IP change from 128.9.0.107 to > 192.228.79.201 I notice trouble to reach the new server from many places. Here a machine connec

Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls

2004-02-10 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
[I'm sure that Paul Vixie knows the difference but others may not and the Washington Post paper, mentioned at the beginning of the thread, was quite confused.] On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 04:37:09AM +, Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 22 lines which said: > why? that is, why

Re: WMF patch

2006-01-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 05:58:16PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 46 lines which said: > How many times do you propose we FTDT before we get fed up and ask > upper management to authorize a migration to some other software > with a better record? And how many m

Re: cctld server traffic

2006-01-23 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 10:42:36AM +0900, Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 4 lines which said: > any cctld ops seeing unusual traffic in the last hours? DSC showed nothing at all on Sunday for the ".fr" nameservers that we directly manage. Some are also secondaries for other

Re: cctld server traffic

2006-01-25 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:48:19PM -0800, william(at)elan.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 18 lines which said: > Maybe I'm ignorant, but isn't there [cc]tld operations mail list > somewhere? There is no worldwide TLD (or even ccTLD) operations list (I would be on it). There are sev

Re: com/net Whois format change notice

2006-03-24 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:56:56AM -0500, Jon Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 37 lines which said: > No more Registrant, POCs, or physical address information? Remember that ".com" and ".net" are thin registries.

Re: OT: Xen

2006-04-03 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 04:51:09PM -0600, Chris Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 17 lines which said: > unixshell.com claims more service (RAM, disk, monthly transfer) for less > per month: > > http://www.unixshell.com/ Apparently, it is no based on Xen which you may find a good

Re: OT: Xen

2006-04-04 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:11:32AM +1000, Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 14 lines which said: > Fairly well -- a lot better than (eg) vservers, and almost certainly > better than UMLs. Because they are different virtualisation solutions with different requirments. If yo

Re: well-known NTP? (Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism)

2006-04-12 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:01:10PM +, Edward B. DREGER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 27 lines which said: > AS112-style NTP service, anyone? That would be cooperative and > possibly even useful. It already exists (Security warning: do not use it on strategic machine, there is no

Re: [Fwd: [Full-disclosure] NISCC DNS Protocol Vulnerability]

2006-05-01 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:51:19PM +0200, Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 106 lines which said: > As an FYI, seems serious. If I read correctly the announce, only Delegate and JunOS are currently found vulnerable (of course, more vulnerabilities may be discovered in the futu

Re: Zebra/linux device production networking?

2006-06-12 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 02:42:36PM -0700, Nick Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 39 lines which said: > How many of you have actually use(d) Zebra/Linux as a routing device IMHO, the question is not perfectly phrased. You actually have several issues: * use a regular PC instead o

Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel...

2006-07-10 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 09:06:20AM -0700, Rick Wesson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 49 lines which said: > OpenDNS is not SiteFinder; Give them a try, the DNS resolution is > blazing fast For the typical NANOGer, yes, but remember that the Internet is larger than that. From France, t

Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel...

2006-07-11 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 11:19:51PM -0700, Steve Sobol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 16 lines which said: > There's a big difference, of course, between INTENTIONALLY pointing > your computers at DNS servers that do this kind of thing, and having > it done for you without your knowledg

Re: www.gigablast.com

2006-07-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 06:24:08PM -0400, Jim Popovitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 32 lines which said: > The strangeness is that some of their crawling is looking for URLs > with multiple exclamation points, those URLs never existed. This may > be indicative of a character transla

Re: Detecting parked domains

2006-08-01 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 03:35:40PM -0400, Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 6 lines which said: > Has anyone come up with a quick method for detecting if a domain > name is parked, but is not being used except displaying ads? I don't think it is possible: "being parked" cann

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

2007-11-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:54:05AM -0500, Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 29 lines which said: > One could argue that it is less evil to do this at recursive > servers, because people could choose not to use that service by > installing their own full resolvers or whatev

Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-16 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:14:33PM -0600, David E. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 61 lines which said: > To try to make this slightly more relevant, is it a good idea, > either technically or legally, to mandate some sort of standard for > this? I'm thinking something like the "N

Re: v6 gluelessness

2008-01-18 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 03:51:26PM +0900, Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 10 lines which said: > similarly for the root, as rip.psg.com serves some tlds. The request has to come from a TLD manager (anyone which uses rip.psg.com) but, of course, you would get a more authorita

Hollywood's 'Untraceable': Fact or fiction?

2008-01-21 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
Very interesting interview of an Hollywood consultant (and former FBI agent) about the facts in the movie 'Untraceable'. Among the many technical details, I note: > Q: Any other elements in the movie the naysayers may call you and > the writers out on as being technically inaccurate? > A: The IP

Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal

2008-01-25 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:42:44AM +, Roland Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 15 lines which said: > in the UK it [phone number portability] 's done with something > similar to DNS. The telephone system looks up the first N digits of > the number to determine the operator it wa

Re: named.root (was: Yay! AAAA records added for root servers)

2008-02-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 12:25:52PM +, David Freedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 114 lines which said: > Shame its not made it to HTTP yet: Nothing to do with the protocol but with the organization which manages the server: > $ lynx --source http://www.internic.net/zones/named

Re: named.root

2008-02-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 02:31:09PM +, David Freedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 33 lines which said: > Well gosh, and there was me thinking that both would work together > to make such a change :) ICANN is typically 2-3 days behind the root zone file editor.

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-26 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:27:41AM +0200, Hank Nussbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 17 lines which said: > - Lack of clue > - Couldn't care less > - No revenue > > Take your pick - or add your own reason. PCCW is not alone. They just > happen to be the latest in a long line of

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-26 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:43:10AM +0100, Arnd Vehling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 12 lines which said: > Every ISP requesting an ASN from one of the LIR's should be required > to make a test covering the neccessary skillsets. Giving the rapid turnover of people in this industry, I

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