Re: What's with all the long aspaths?

2008-10-23 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Jon Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You might consider something like bgp maxas-limit 75 to exchange that > log message for the less scarey > Oct 22 06:34:09: %BGP-6-ASPATH: Long AS path ... > > As an added bonus, you ignore their route while they're playing such > games. Which is exactly wh

RE: What's with all the long aspaths?

2008-10-23 Thread Church, Charles
Sounds like some automated scripts that didn't do any sanity checking. Process pulls the current BGP table, checks for the longest path, and then prepends the AS that many times to guarantee everyone takes the other path. But if two ISPs are doing this, well, the paths get longer and longer. I ju

Re: What's with all the long aspaths?

2008-10-23 Thread Philip Smith
Jon Lewis said the following on 23/10/08 12:39: > Is there something silly going around? I doubt I'm the only one > noticing these being triggered by our generous maxas-limit setting. > > Oct 9 23:01:46: %BGP-6-ASPATH: ... 27754 27754 27754 ... > Oct 17 11:10:40: %BGP-6-ASPATH: ... 43413 43413 4

RE: What's with all the long aspaths?

2008-10-23 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
Not using that prepended route is exactly what the point of the prepend is, so that's not "punishment". It may, in fact, be exactly what they're trying to get you to do. >-Original Message- >From: Jon Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:17 PM >To: Mike Le

Re: UDRP and ICANN / Input Requested

2008-10-23 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Ernie Rubi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > So I'm a network engineer and a law student and have decided to write a > short note for one of our International Law classes based on UDRP and ICANN > issues. > > I'd like to request input from the community as

Re: What's with all the long aspaths?

2008-10-23 Thread Jason Iannone
Except when their primary path goes away and relatively few networks install the prepended route. It's all conjecture, but I like the 'in effort to defeat local pref' option. On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Tomas L. Byrnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not using that prepended route is exactly w

Re: Kaminsky redux - libspf2 dns parsing bug

2008-10-23 Thread Florian Weimer
* Suresh Ramasubramanian: > For the "mailops is not operational" folks.. it involves parsing dns > txt records, so .. well, please grit your teeth and read on, this gets > interesting By the way, BIND 9 is supposed to throw away this type of malformed RDATA, so if you run BIND 9, this is only rel

Re: UDRP and ICANN / Input Requested

2008-10-23 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Ernie, Martin's suggestions (go rummage around the Berkman dump) is a good one. Not too far from you is someone who actually is a leading figure in this somewhat arcane field, Prof. Froomkin at Miami Law. There've been a couple of papers over the years that are good sources too. Drop a note t

Long haul Ethernet providers around?

2008-10-23 Thread Konstantin Bezruchenko
Hi, If there are any long haul Ethernet providers on the list, can you contact me offlist? I'm looking for 10GE from Dallas to Ashburn. Thanks. -Konstantin

Re: What's with all the long aspaths?

2008-10-23 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Philip Smith wrote: Jon Lewis said the following on 23/10/08 12:39: Is there something silly going around? I doubt I'm the only one noticing these being triggered by our generous maxas-limit setting. Oct 9 23:01:46: %BGP-6-ASPATH: ... 27754 27754 27754 ... Oct 17 11:10:4

Re: question on BGP aggregation

2008-10-23 Thread Kai Chen
Thanks, A further question, is it mandatory for all the aggregated information be appended at the AS path, is it possible for some aggregations do not propagate outside? By this, I mean some ASes completely conceal their aggregated ASes when propagation. thanks a lot. On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:3

RE: IPv6 Wow

2008-10-23 Thread Tony Hain
Nathan Ward wrote: ... > 2) If Teredo relays are deployed close to the service (ie. content, > etc.) then performance is almost equivalent to IPv4. 6to4 relies on > relays being close to both the client and the server, which requires > end users' ISPs to build at least *some* IPv6 infrastructure, m

Re: IPv6 Wow

2008-10-23 Thread Alain Durand
On 10/23/08 6:39 PM, "Tony Hain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A properly > implemented client will do the longest prefix match against that set, so a > 6to4 client will go directly to the content provider's 6to4 router, while a > native client will take the direct path. Not quite. Say the ser

Re: IPv6 Wow

2008-10-23 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alain Durand writes : > > > > On 10/23/08 6:39 PM, "Tony Hain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A properly > > implemented client will do the longest prefix match against that set, so a > > 6to4 client will go directly to the content provider's 6to4 router, whi

Re: IPv6 Wow

2008-10-23 Thread Joe Abley
On 23 Oct 2008, at 18:46, Alain Durand wrote: On 10/23/08 6:39 PM, "Tony Hain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A properly implemented client will do the longest prefix match against that set, so a 6to4 client will go directly to the content provider's 6to4 router, while a native client will t

Re: IPv6 Wow

2008-10-23 Thread Perry Lorier
Alain Durand wrote: On 10/23/08 6:39 PM, "Tony Hain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A properly implemented client will do the longest prefix match against that set, so a 6to4 client will go directly to the content provider's 6to4 router, while a native client will take the direct path.