Re: IPv6 uptake (was: The Reg does 240/4)

On Feb 17, 2024, at 11:27 AM, William Herrin wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 10:34?AM Michael Thomas wrote: > >> Funny, I don't recall Bellovin and Cheswick's Firewall book discussing >> NAT. > > And mine too, since I hadn't heard of "Firewalls and Internet > Security: Repelling the Wily

Re: jon postel

Jon Postel participated in many online forums such as the tcp-ip mailing list. To access them, I’ve been using the archives at ban.ai , but I can’t access them currently. They’re also available via Google Groups

Re: V6 still not supported

> On Mar 23, 2022, at 1:33 PM, John Curran wrote: > >Yes, indeed - although there was a fairly large contingent that > felt IPng would just suddenly take off at depletion of the IPv4 free pool if > vendors pushed it, and that it?s success was assured even if IPng had no > benefit over IP

Re: Making Use of 240/4 NetBlock Re: 202203151549.AYC

Someone comes up with an idea, spends zero > time researching the history of the problem or previous discussions,and > submits it to the IETF. People point out that it's been discussed before,and > they aren't interested,but the submitter stamps their feet because nobody is &g

Re: Making Use of 240/4 NetBlock Re: 202203151549.AYC

> On Mar 15, 2022, at 7:04 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > Firstly nobody uses mailing list digests as references. Secondly anyone can > post to the mailing list, you just need to subscribe. If you read the thread > you can see there is no interest in this. > > https://mailarchive.ietf.org

Re: CC: s to Non List Members (was Re: 202203080924.AYC Re: 202203071610.AYC Re: Making Use of 240/4 NetBlock)

ll. > > But frankly unless the proposal is even starting to move forward in the IETF > process such that a standards change is possible, it's just noise. ( I don't > predict that the draft being discussed ever gets that far anyways ; it has > serious deficiencies.) > &

Re: CC: s to Non List Members (was Re: 202203080924.AYC Re: 202203071610.AYC Re: Making Use of 240/4 NetBlock)

I agree. iMO, this 240/4 issue is another one of those tussles in cyberspace . But I don’t fault IETF people or anyone else who pursues technical solutions to these types of problems as long as they are open and honest about the

Re: Making Use of 240/4 NetBlock

> On Mar 10, 2022, at 8:44 PM, Masataka Ohta > wrote: > > IIRC, at some time, perhaps when CIDR was deployed widely and > having something other than IPv4 was a hot topic, there was a > discussion on releasing 240/4 in IETF. Reasonings against it were > that the released space will be consumed

Re: Class D addresses? was: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public

> On Nov 24, 2021, at 5:08 PM, William Herrin wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 4:36 PM David Conrad wrote: >>> I like research but what would the RIRs study? The percentage of the >> >> Lots of people said similar things when 1.0.0.0/8 was allocated to APNIC >> and they said similar things

Re: Class D addresses? was: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public

> On Nov 21, 2021, at 1:20 PM, William Herrin wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 4:16 AM Eliot Lear > wrote: >> In 2008, Vince Fuller, Dave Meyer, and I put together >> draft-fuller-240space, and we presented it to the IETF. There were >> definitely people who thought we should just try to get

Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public

For what it’s worth, it's also being discussed in a couple of subreddits. Total # of comments is about 500, so far. https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/qvuyor/new_rfc_to_redefine_loop_back_and_allow_127100_to/

Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public

It’s being discussed on Hacker News. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29246420 > On Nov 17, 2021, at 3:29 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > This seems like a really bad idea to me; am I really the only one who noticed? > > https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-schoen-intarea-unicast-127-00.html > >

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

Comments inline. > On Jul 14, 2020, at 3:35 PM, Andrey Khomyakov > wrote: > > I was once asked at a FANG interview how I would affect incoming traffic > using BGP. I listed the usual offenders like AS path and med. He kept asking > how else, to which after pondering I said that I cant think o

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

If you ever decide to revisit this subject, I recall it was covered here in this thread started by Bill Herrin . My general feelings on the subject of tech interviews are summarized in the “interview anti-loop” section of this art

Re: 240/4 (Re: 44/8)

> On Jul 22, 2019, at 9:15 PM, Ross Tajvar wrote: > >> Editor's note: This draft has not been submitted to any formal >> process. It may change significantly if it is ever submitted. >> You are reading it because we trust you and we value your >> opinions. *Please do not recirc

Re: Google search results leading to google "This site may harm your computer"

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 03:11:30PM -0800, Matthew Petach wrote: > On 1/31/09, aljuhani wrote: > > > > Now clicking search results forward to "service unavailable" page within > > google. > ... > > Yahoo! search engine seem to be working fine as looks have no affiliation > > with google > > Tha

Re: What to do when your ISP off-shores tech support

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 08:01:59PM +1300, Mark Foster wrote: > On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Martin Hannigan wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Frank Bulk - iName.com > > wrote: > > > >> I don't think there would be a concern about off-shore support if we > >> couldn't tell it was "off-shore". > >

Re: Looking for verification that Google and Akamai have the geo-ip for 96.31.0.0/20 set correctly

On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 01:31:28AM -0500, Martin Hannigan wrote: > Overall, geo location has turned out to be a somewhat valuable tool in terms > of language, fraud, and localization. I think that it's important to > continue to urge improvements in this technology, not divestment. I don't see how

Re: Paul Vixie: Re: [dns-operations] DNS issue accidentally leaked?

There was a discussion on the internet-history mailing list some time ago about old hosts.txt files. You might also check the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, where BTW Jake Feinler volunteers. http://www.postel.org/internet-history.htm --gregbo On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 03:54:23PM -0400

Re: OT: www.Amazon.com down?

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 11:24:18AM -0700, Lasher, Donn wrote: > Checked, and doublechecked, not just me > > www.amazon.com returns: > > Http/1.1 Service Unavailable > > Anyone have a URL for a network/etc status page, or info on the outage? > Been that way for a while this morning. c|net articl

Re: [OFFTOPIC] NANOG NYC Event

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 10:39:45AM -0400, Scott Berkman wrote: > For all the food everyone is listing you've missed the #1 NY food > (opinion) ... Hot Dogs! It's been years since I've lived in NYC, and I haven't visited in a few years. I'd love to get a really good knish or slice of Sicilian pizz