Wave circuitsOn Jan 23, 2025, at 13:54, Jeff Behrns via NANOG wrote:
Identify L2 control protocols which will require transparent tunneling end to end before making a decision on underlay tech. Beware of multiple vendor handoffs / NNIs under the hood of any solution, but especially an "oMPLS
our customer suffers an outage that's your
> fault... Well, you see where this is going.
Yep. Other-Bill has this exactly right. To add a little to that, for an IXP
to be successful, many ISPs have to trust it enough to build out to it and
participate in it, which requires investment on their
CC isn’t particularly known for looking at
costs or alternatives or the big picture.
But this isn’t _bad_ if you aren’t too concerned about fragility, and aren’t
worried about it completely distracting people from the other three quadrants
of that matrix.
-Bill
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ngTLD round. At least everybody’s a lot more educated this
time around.
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ext round. Because, you
know, inflation or something.
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ications, and I expect a lot of
companies to go into that with their eyes more open than last time, knowing why
they’re doing it. It’s not about brand protection, it’s about
disintermediating the root of trust and giving yourself a solid foundation for
your security architecture.
> On May 18, 2024, at 11:55, Saku Ytti wrote:
> On Sat, 18 May 2024 at 10:38, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>> So, yes, I think having an open peering policy should be a requirement for
>> operating a root nameserver. I don’t think there’s any defensible rationale
>>
was about Cogent, which is about as clearly
in the for-profit camp as it’s possible to be.
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d, all be accessible to all networks.
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cations#Peering_disputes
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State and
Commerce were considering reassigning it as an apology for the Rousseff spying
incident in 2013, but they didn’t quite get it together to act.
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to do that.
John is exactly correct on each of these points. And I guess I’d go a little
further and say that ICANN and IANA are separate entities, with IANA predating
ICANN by a decade.
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, which is attached to the loopback,
depending whether you’re ready to service traffic.
-Bill
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u.int. Both are
pretty quiet, though both have very helpful people on them.
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u.int. Both are
pretty quiet, though both have very helpful people on them.
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documentation stores, with servers in San Jose and Washington DC,
a couple of years later. A couple of years further on and the World Wide Web
was a thing, and everybody was doing it.
-Bill
> On Feb 24, 2024, at 7:38 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
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>
>
&
>>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 8:11 AM Bill Woodcock wrote:
>>> Not exactly down… they just busted their DNSSEC, or their domain got
>>> hijacked or something. Bad DNSKEY records.
>>
>> On Jan 31, 2024, at 06:34, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
>> Not necess
> On Jan 30, 2024, at 17:00, Dmitry Sherman wrote:
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> ru tld down?
Not exactly down… they just busted their DNSSEC, or their domain got hijacked
or something. Bad DNSKEY records.
-Bill
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I just checked with NASA DNS ops, and they said that it was a DNSSEC issue with
the delegation from .GOV, which has since been resolved.
-Bill
> On Dec 22, 2023, at 15:43, Leato, Gary via NANOG wrote:
>
> Are there any admins on list from nasa? L
Got it, thank you.
> On Dec 19, 2023, at 15:57, Mike Hammett wrote:
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> p { margin: 0; }
> I responded offlist.
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> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> http://www.ics-il.com
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> Midwest-IX
> http://www.midwest-ix.com
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different than this time last year, or the year before. Happy to
help however we can.
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Exactly. Speed x distance = cost. This is _exactly_ why IXPs get set up. To
avoid backhauling bandwidth from Dallas, or wherever. Loss, latency,
out-of-order delivery, and jitter. All lower when you source your bandwidth
closer.
-Bill
> On Oct 15, 2
is datacenters, which
profit immensely if there’s a successful IXP in them, but can never afford to
locate themselves where IXPs would be most valuable, and don’t like to have to
provide free backhaul to better IXP locations.
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Recently reached out to Zayo and found out we have a new account manager, and
also discovered they were acquired by a company called ENA...
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From: NANOG on behalf of
Mike Hammett
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 7:19 AM
To: Randy Carpenter
Cc: nanog
to do that, and thus might consider it a
breach of etiquette for you to do so.
-Bill
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… it just costs money, now, to buy.
If you’re in the US, just use ARIN. ARIN’s processes aren’t arcane,
particularly compared with RIPE, and fees are predictable and relatively low.
-Bill
> On Jul 6, 2023, at 16:29, Dave Taht wrote:
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> I have an o
gt; still feel those need to be kept up to date. This is just for the individual
> end user IPs.
I think it’s really useful… but as IPv4 becomes a thing of the past, it
probably needs to be supplied dynamically by a plug-in to your nameserver,
rather than in giant static tables.
-Bill
unch-hour.
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Forwarded to the maintainers.
-Bill
> On Feb 4, 2023, at 6:44 PM, David Bass wrote:
>
> Anyone on here run it? The URL to sign up on the website doesn’t seem to
> work at the moment.
> On Oct 14, 2022, at 12:40 AM, George Toma wrote:
> Does anybody know if it possible to create ARIN ORG ID for non-ARIN region
> company?
I just forwarded this to an appropriate person at ARIN to give you an official
answer.
-Bill
sign
> On Apr 1, 2022, at 12:15 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
> …in a run-of-the-mill web hoster?
> I’m happy to take private replies and summarize/anonymize back to the list,
> if people prefer.
I asked the same question on Twitter, and got quite a lot of answers in both
places pretty qu
what ratio do people in that business think is reasonable?
10:1? 100:1? 1,000:1?
I’m happy to take private replies and summarize/anonymize back to the list, if
people prefer.
Thanks!
-Bill
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disrupt civilian communication
within Russia. Not a good idea.
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things work better than I do. Perhaps you can
explain it to us.
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ours are the same. Pulling the plug
on countries is inappropriate, because it has a lot of unintended consequences
and harms people.
-Bill
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lar.
With a principled constraint that only military and propaganda networks will be
included in the feed, I’m not too worried about this turning into fascism.
-Bill
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No, that was the original source of the disinformation. I guess she didn’t
actually read it, or didn’t understand it, and in any case, failed to
fact-check. Ask Russian network operators or government IT folks, or a lawyer…
there’s no ambiguity here.
-Bill
> On Ma
> On Mar 7, 2022, at 9:02 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 06, 2022 at 11:49:54PM +0100,
> Bill Woodcock wrote
> a message of 62 lines which said:
>
>> This applies exclusively to Russian federal government networks, not
>> ISPs or telecom opera
nd “strategic autonomy,” as the EU is calling it. And everything it
says has been the law since 2019 anyway.
If I were the administrator in charge of getting government agency IT folks to
clean up their work, I’d sure as hell jump on this opportunity to remind them
that they’re three year
A with such an offer...
Yep. DANE is the correct answer. CAs are not. But that’s been true for a
very long time, and people are still trying to pretend that CAs know what’s
what.
-Bill
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-yet-delegated pool, but
not in the other four RIRs.
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eed to find a chip that does that in
the size/power budget of an SFP, and it seemed like the easiest way to do that
would be to find an SFP28 that did what I needed and bust it open to see what
chip they were using.
I’m sure you can guess why, given recent threads. :-)
Hey, does anyone know of an SFP28 capable of rate-adapting down from 25G on the
cage side down to 1G on the line side? Can be copper or fiber on the line
side, I don’t care, my interest is in the chip inside.
Thanks,
-Bill
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> On Nov 13, 2021, at 5:02 PM, Glenn McGurrin via NANOG wrote:
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> I had a bit of an odd one this morning
It’s this:
https://www.engadget.com/fbi-email-server-hack-221052368.html
-Bill
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> On Oct 29, 2021, at 6:55 PM, Denis Fondras wrote:
> Le Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 01:47:37PM +0200, Bill Woodcock a écrit :
>> If you’re peering with an MLPA route-server, you’re welcome to include just
>> the route-server’s ASN, if that’s easiest, rather than trying to include e
d to returning the results to the community.
-Bill Woodcock
Executive Director
Packet Clearing House
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consequence is, as you can see, mass disaster.
Yep. I think we even had a NANOG talk on exactly that specific topic a long
time ago.
https://www.pch.net/resources/Papers/dns-service-architecture/dns-service-architecture-v10.pdf
-Bill
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o it all themselves, so when they shot themselves in the foot,
they only had the one foot, and nothing left to stand on. Whereas other folks
shoot themselves in the foot all the time, and nobody notices, because they
paid attention to the spirit of RFC 2182.
-
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> On Oct 5, 2021, at 12:16 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
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>
>
>> On Oct 4, 2021, at 11:41 PM, Baldur Norddahl
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> man. 4. okt. 2021 23.33 skrev Bill Woodcock :
>>
>>
>>> On Oct 4, 2021, at 11:21 PM,
> On Oct 4, 2021, at 11:41 PM, Baldur Norddahl
> wrote:
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>
>
> man. 4. okt. 2021 23.33 skrev Bill Woodcock :
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> > On Oct 4, 2021, at 11:21 PM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
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> >
> >
> >> On Oct 4, 2021, at 11:10 PM, Bill Woodcock
ut the basket.
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> On Oct 4, 2021, at 11:21 PM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
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>
>
>> On Oct 4, 2021, at 11:10 PM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>>
>> They’re starting to pick themselves back up off the floor in the last two or
>> three minutes. A few answers getting out. I imagine
> On Oct 4, 2021, at 11:10 PM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
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> They’re starting to pick themselves back up off the floor in the last two or
> three minutes. A few answers getting out. I imagine it’ll take a while
> before things stabilize, though.
nd we’re back:
WoodyNet-2:
They’re starting to pick themselves back up off the floor in the last two or
three minutes. A few answers getting out. I imagine it’ll take a while before
things stabilize, though.
-Bill
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We did not use an NTA, but we did flush our cache immediately once Slack had
fixed their problem. I think that’s the right balance of carrot and stick.
-Bill
> On Oct 2, 2021, at 7:30 AM, Mark Tinka wrote:
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> So, that wasn't fun, yesterday:
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an equivalent official part.
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>
> The application is an ISP upgrading from Nx10G, where one of their fiber
> paths is ~35km and the other is ~60km.
>
>
>
> thanks,
> -Randy
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Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.
erk-for-no/vedlegg-f/
Ugh. Policy from 2018. Has anyone reached out to them to get this fixed? .NO
is one of the few ccTLDs we don’t have a relationship with. Looks like they’re
using NetNod and Neustar.
-Bill
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lustrator.
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cquired _more_ than 6.3M IPv4
addresses, and is profiting from their being used in contravention of RIR
policy, I very much encourage you to request that your RIR perform a compliance
audit.
Since, after all, that’s what the RIR’s job is.
-Bill
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ing lists, and they’re all
beneficiaries of something called the “Larus Foundation.” So, if you’re not
getting paid to copy and paste that, you might want to look into it:
https://www.larus.foundation
I hear it pays pretty well.
-Bill
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e addresses from AfriNIC, and you need to
be prepared to comply with AfriNIC policy.
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the African Internet community has really
pulled together to defend themselves, and they’ve got a lot less resources than
most of us do.
-Bill
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[IPs,
> FQDNs, and Web Services, for a start] for his/her own purpose without asking
> permission.
Sounds like you’re going to be writing a lot of shell scripts and cron jobs.
Welcome to security. Remember to test your backups, that’s always the most
important thing in any security regime.
-Bill
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> On Jul 28, 2021, at 3:21 AM, Mark Tinka wrote:
> On 7/28/21 01:16, Daniel Corbe wrote:
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>>> This is interesting... I wonder whether Anycast will still have some
>>> failure modes and break TCP connections if routing (configuration) were to
>>> chang
ting slots, and content routing tricks often don’t play well together.
-Bill
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ains in some detail… Things haven’t really changed since
then:
https://www.pch.net/resources/Tutorials/anycast/Anycast-v10.pdf
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ur home network?
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ailable?
>
> e.nic.so seems to be responding (hosted behind PCH, thanks Woody!).
Our staff contacted AfriNIC staff and got an acknowledgement that they were in
process of resolving it at the time.
-Bill
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house_ that concerns me.
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> On Feb 17, 2021, at 7:41 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Statistics suck, until you attempt to produce your own.
I don’t even know what word you replace “suck” with, when you’re doing it
yourself. What’s suck cubed?
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Are all y’all allergic to Wikipedia or something?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_recursive_name_server
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/2019/10/25/772325133/as-president-trump-tweets-and-deletes-the-historical-record-takes-shape
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with, and which it listens to.
> So has Twitter now blocked government communication?
Sure. No problem with that. An unregulated, non-monopoly, private party isn’t
required to provide a forum for anyone, government or individual.
-Bill
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> On Jan 7, 2021, at 7:31 PM, Christopher Morrow
> wrote:
> NOC tours seem like a very 1990's thing
Cough, cough *Terremark* cough, cough *disco lights* cough cough.
-Bill
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ght, you’re wrong. 10G home service is great. Everybody I know here
in Paris has it. There’s just no particularly reason to drop down to 1G, for
the EUR 10/month difference.
-Bill
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d in March of this year.
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> without any luck. We also tried reaching out to Paul Emmons via LinkedIn mail
> and never received a response.
Paul is the correct person.
-Bill
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ation isn’t the cleanest way to build a network.
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> On Jun 18, 2020, at 2:28 PM, Saku Ytti wrote:
> No one needs strict priority queues anymore, which was absolutely
> needed at one point in time.
What time was that?
-Bill
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anecdotes, or any
statistics, that would help illustrate or quantify the issue, would make this
easier.
-Bill
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e’s no provable causality chain here, but it was a concern, we spoke, they
listened, and the problem we were concerned with did not become an issue, so
that’s a success. If only we could do that with public health, we’d be in
great shape.
-Bill
fortunately because there are now a
smaller number of really wealthy people who need places to shove all their
extra money. Not how I’d have liked to get here.
-Bill
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> On May 1, 2020, at 1:19 PM, Lee wrote:
> On 5/1/20, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>>
>>> On May 1, 2020, at 6:19 AM, Andy Ringsmuth wrote:
>>> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/01/icann_stops_dot_org_sale/
>>> I know this has been bantered about on the li
oment, a hard requirement in the 2002
criteria. Feverish eleventh-hour work by beltway lobbyists got that
restriction removed, last time. It doesn’t need to be removed this time.
-Bill
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ht. Now that we
know who won’t be acting AGAINST non-profits, we need ICANN to run the
competitive process again to find who will act FOR non-profits.
-Bill
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balanced position and I was wondering what is
> the communities position on this topic?
>
>
> Scott
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r in satellite
bandwidth costs.
UUCP kicks ass.
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G broadband flying along at
an actual, measurable, 10G.
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> On Mar 14, 2020, at 7:05 AM, Brielle wrote:
> I personally like Dokuwiki a lot.
Dokuwiki is definitely my favorite as well. The UI is appropriate to the task,
so you get work done quickly and without a lot of fuss.
-Bill
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and floor 20, to keep L3 hop-sounds down and provide some redundancy?
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Last I knew it had pretty much devolved into intra-campus and local A/R&E
interconnection, but our contacts here have retired as well.
-Bill
> On Feb 10, 2020, at 21:15, Matt Peterson wrote:
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>
> Wondering if SD-NAP is still functional? PeeringDB en
quot;, almost all the other content was
> not available in Africa.
I foresee a new business model:
VPN / streaming bundle. Get all your streaming services bundled together,
proxied and VPNd from their native regions.
-Bill
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Thank you for the authoritative answer. I think we can now consider the
question closed.
-Bill
> On Nov 22, 2019, at 03:36, Che-Hoo CHENG wrote:
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>
> Some clarifications:
>
> The 2 HKIX core sites (hosting the spine switches and the major leaf
These are all about as far apart as it’s possible
to get in Hong Kong.
-Bill
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users. I’ve never observed a cable landing site in
the downtown core of a metro area.
-Bill
than other routing
techniques. We and others have published on many or most of the potential
issues and their solutions over the years. That RFC has never actually been a
comprehensive source of information on the topic, and it contains a lot of
scare-mongering.
-Bill
between 6:00 p.m. and
12:00 a.m. local time) for such tests.”
Anybody have a reference for the “FCC-designated IXPs?” And what distinguishes
them from the actual set of IXPs?
-Bill
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