Re: Thailand Internet firewall?

2010-05-05 Thread Randy Bush
> Is anyone aware whether or not Thailand has a centralized firewall on > Internet access? think of it as more like a monopoly telco with ties to the government > We've had reports from several folks in Thailand that they are unable > to get to some IP addresses in our network (this problem is >

Re: Thailand Internet firewall?

2010-05-05 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 5 May 2010, Randy Bush wrote: Does anyone know how to contact whoever is responsible for this firewall system to find out at the very least why this block is in place? read your newspaper It's not only now, they've been blocking badtalking the king for quite a while. I was also und

Re: Thailand Internet firewall?

2010-05-05 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On May 5, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > I was also under the impression that it wasn't by IP but that they could > block specific youtube videos etc. They use a combination of IP blocking, DNS poisoning, and transparent HTTP proxy-based URL filtering.

Re: Interesting combination of SPAM + Phishing + stupidity

2010-05-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 04 May 2010 19:38:15 CDT, Jorge Amodio said: > Are spammers getting smarter ? or users getting dumber ? http://uxmag.com/short-news/these-are-your-users-read-and-be-horrified Remember that statistically speaking, roughly half of all people are below average on the IQ bell curve. A stupe

DNS performance...

2010-05-05 Thread Donald Eastlake
Hi, There are a large number of DNS servers available. See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DNS_server_software Does anyone know of good performance comparisons, especially for high end applications with lots of data/zones and/or high query/update rates? Thanks, Donald

Re: DNS performance...

2010-05-05 Thread Richard Barnes
OARC did a performance study of a few name servers in the context of root zone scaling, but it should be generalizable: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Donald Eastlake wrote: > Hi, > > There are a large number of DN

Re: DNS performance...

2010-05-05 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2010-05-05 10:41, Donald Eastlake wrote: Does anyone know of good performance comparisons, especially for high end applications with lots of data/zones and/or high query/update rates? Recursive or authoritative? For recursive, there are pretty good graphs here: http://unbound.net/documentat

Re: DNS performance...

2010-05-05 Thread Alex Kamiru
Not sure of any comparison but I know BIND is widely used in the ISP space and they tend to have lots of zones as expected. -Original Message- From: Donald Eastlake To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: DNS performance... Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 10:41:24 -0400 Hi, There are a large number of DNS

Re: DNS performance...

2010-05-05 Thread Donald Eastlake
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Simon Perreault wrote: > On 2010-05-05 10:41, Donald Eastlake wrote: >> >> Does anyone know of good performance comparisons, especially for high >> end applications with lots of data/zones and/or high query/update >> rates? > > Recursive or authoritative? I'm actu

Re: DNS performance...

2010-05-05 Thread Richard Barnes
... and here's the direct link to the full report: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Richard Barnes wrote: > OARC did a performance study of a few name servers in the context of > root zone scaling, but it should be generalizable: >

Re: Thailand Internet firewall?

2010-05-05 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Wed, 5 May 2010, Randy Bush wrote: > >>> Does anyone know how to contact whoever is responsible for this firewall >>> system to find out at the very least why this block is in place? >> >> read your newspaper > > It's not only now, the

Internationalized domain names in the root

2010-05-05 Thread David Conrad
Perhaps a bit off-topic, but some folks might get support calls... http://وزارة-الأتصالات.مصر/ (that's Arabic for .) Regards, -drc

RE: DNS performance...

2010-05-05 Thread Mark Scholten
> -Original Message- > From: Donald Eastlake [mailto:d3e...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 4:41 PM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: DNS performance... > > Hi, > > There are a large number of DNS servers available. See for example > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_

Re: Internationalized domain names in the root

2010-05-05 Thread Jorge Amodio
Great progress and interesting addition to the root, only issue is that after all the work with IDNs you land on a page written in english (web browser lang does not matter, name resolves to the same IP as the original URL). Hope they soon take advantage of the new name ... Cheers Jorge On Wed, M

Re: DNS performance...

2010-05-05 Thread Geoffrey Sisson
richard.bar...@gmail.com (Richard Barnes) wrote: > OARC did a performance study of a few name servers in the context of > root zone scaling, but it should be generalizable: > Note this study compares BIND and NSD only

Re: DNS performance...

2010-05-05 Thread Donald Eastlake
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Mark Scholten wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Donald Eastlake [mailto:d3e...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 4:41 PM >> ... >> >> Hi, >> >> There are a large number of DNS servers available. See for example >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C

Root Zone DNSSEC Deployment Technical Status Update

2010-05-05 Thread Joe Abley
Root Zone DNSSEC Deployment Technical Status Update 2010-05-05 This is the sixth of a series of technical status updates intended to inform a technical audience on progress in signing the root zone of the DNS. ** The final transition to a signed root zone took place today ** on J-Root, between

[NANOG-announce] Update: NANOG 49 CFP

2010-05-05 Thread Tom Daly
Hello Fellow NANOG'ers, TLDR: The PC is still looking for great content for NANOG 49. Go upload abstracts and tutorials at https://pc.nanog.org. Just a quick note on behalf of the NANOG Program Committee that our next PC call will be next Tuesday, May 11th. Shortly after this meeting, we hope t