Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-17 Thread Steve Schultze
George Bonser wrote: > What would any provider think if a city said "sure, you can have access > to our residents' eyeballs. It will cost you $5 per subscriber per month". > Would Comcast or anyone go for that? Dave Temkin wrote: > These are exactly what Franchise Agreements are for. Yes, cit

Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks

2010-12-17 Thread Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo
I have been trying to get NASA TV in Uruguay for a long time, obviously to no avail. Even though it's probably free / very cheap. I do believe that video over the Internet is about to change the cable business in a very deep and possibly traumatic way. Even I only have 4 megs DSL at home and have

Fwd: Your email message was blocked

2010-12-17 Thread Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo
I just contributed to the thread called "Cable and Geeks", and (I now realize) included the word "crappy". Then, just like that, my Friday Moment of Fun just happened, like a brilliant ball of light in the sky. I received a bounce from something called r...@bellaliant.ca who rejected my email due

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-17 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 07:14:01PM -0500, Jon Lewis wrote: > On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > >That's rich, given the enormous quantity of spam sourced from Comcast's > >network over the last decade. (And yes, it's ongoing: 162 unique sources > >in the last hour noted at one small obse

OSPF convergence - WAN links

2010-12-17 Thread Rafael Ganascim
Hi all, I have a network with a lot of FastEthernet WAN connections (some metro-ethernet), and using the OSPF as IGP. Today, the OSPF timers are the defaults (hello 10s, dead 40s, SPF initial timer 5s, etc). When a link comes down, the convergence time takes ~45s (ok, it's right). There are a lot

RE: OSPF convergence - WAN links

2010-12-17 Thread Jeff Saxe
If your routers support Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD), then I would suggest using that. It doesn't actually modify the hello timers or any other timers of any protocol; it merely acts as a supplementary protocol running under (or alongside, I guess) the main routing protocol, and its

off topic "Help"

2010-12-17 Thread bill
Hello, I have a misconfigured postfix installation, I inherited. Does anybody know of anyone who would consider reconfiguring/fixing it. It seems that all mail presented to it appears to be from "localhost", when i reject unautorized destinations, it rejects all mail.

Re: off topic "Help"

2010-12-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
That's not postfix as such - you probably have a proxy of some sort (or a non transparent hardware NAT / port forwarder) in front The postfix faq should fix that for you. On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 7:16 PM, wrote: >   Hello, > >       I have a misconfigured postfix installation, I inherited. Does

Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks

2010-12-17 Thread JC Dill
On 17/12/10 4:54 AM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote: I do believe that video over the Internet is about to change the cable business in a very deep and possibly traumatic way. +1 It's clear that this is a major driving factor in the Comcast/L3/Netflix peering/transit issue. Comcast is obvio

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-17 Thread Jack Bates
On 12/17/2010 2:51 AM, Steve Schultze wrote: Negotiating these terms with each municipality was the price that companies had to pay for monopoly access to local markets. I've seen it apply to CLEC access into a market as well; running as a true CLEC and not just borrowing LEC lines. Deals ca

Re: Fwd: Your email message was blocked

2010-12-17 Thread Jack Bates
On 12/17/2010 7:11 AM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote: Notwithstanding the laugh and the fun, these are the times when I lose a bit of faith in mankind. Why there are always people out there pretending to know "what it's best for you" ? The keep for 5 days often means that they have a quarant

"potential new and different architectural approach" to solve the Comcast - L3 dispute

2010-12-17 Thread Loránd Jakab
Since it is Friday, maybe some of peering experts have some time to speculate what this new approach proposed by Comcast might be, as they assert it would represent "a significant shift of Internet infrastructure." http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=202121 http://blog.comcast.com/2010

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-17 Thread George Bonser
> What I think George's > comment > does not completely appreciate is that (ideally) cities are imposing > such requirements at the behest of and for the benefit of the (local) > public, whereas private constraints on local access are (by design) > motivated by profit. I wasn't really talking abou

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-17 Thread Dave Temkin
George Bonser wrote: What I think George's comment does not completely appreciate is that (ideally) cities are imposing such requirements at the behest of and for the benefit of the (local) public, whereas private constraints on local access are (by design) motivated by profit. I wasn't re

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-17 Thread George Bonser
> They do already. It's called HBO, Showtime, HDNet Sports, etc. - they > get charged per eyeball for those networks, and so they pass the charge > on per eyeball to the customer. > > Nothing is new here. The municipality charges the cable company per HBO subscriber?

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-17 Thread Steve Schultze
On Dec 17, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Dave Temkin wrote: > George Bonser wrote: >>> What I think George's >>> comment >>> does not completely appreciate is that (ideally) cities are imposing >>> such requirements at the behest of and for the benefit of the (local) >>> public, whereas private constraints o

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-17 Thread Dave Temkin
George Bonser wrote: They do already. It's called HBO, Showtime, HDNet Sports, etc. - they get charged per eyeball for those networks, and so they pass the charge on per eyeball to the customer. Nothing is new here. The municipality charges the cable company per HBO

Level 3 petitions FCC for conditions on Comcast/NBCU merger

2010-12-17 Thread Steve Schultze
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=6016064625

Re: "potential new and different architectural approach" to solve the Comcast - L3 dispute

2010-12-17 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Dec 17, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Loránd Jakab wrote: > Since it is Friday, maybe some of peering experts have some time to > speculate what this new approach proposed by Comcast might be, as they > assert it would represent "a significant shift of Internet infrastructure." > > http://www.lightreadin

Re: "potential new and different architectural approach" to solve the

2010-12-17 Thread Joe Greco
> On Dec 17, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Lor=E1nd Jakab wrote: > > Since it is Friday, maybe some of peering experts have some time to > > speculate what this new approach proposed by Comcast might be, as they > > assert it would represent "a significant shift of Internet = > infrastructure." > >=20 > > http

Re: "potential new and different architectural approach" to solve the

2010-12-17 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Dec 17, 2010, at 11:23 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > How effective have variations on hot potato routing been, historically? > I seem to recall Cogent made lots of noises early on about how they > could do hot potato routing to encourage peering, but over the years > that didn't seem to pan out that

Re: "potential new and different architectural approach" to solve the Comcast - L3 dispute

2010-12-17 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Benson Schliesser wrote: > I have no direct knowledge of the situation, but my guess:  I suspect the > proposal was along the lines of longest-path / best-exit routing by Level(3). >  In other words, if L(3) carries the traffic (most of the way) to the > custom

Re: "potential new and different architectural approach" to solve the Comcast - L3 dispute

2010-12-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:15:14AM -0600, Benson Schliesser wrote: > > I have no direct knowledge of the situation, but my guess: I suspect > the proposal was along the lines of longest-path / best-exit routing > by Level(3). In other words, if L(3) carries the traffic (most of the > way) to t

RE: "potential new and different architectural approach" to solve theComcast - L3 dispute

2010-12-17 Thread George Bonser
> Level3 must think that their business > would be better off with regulatory oversight of peering, or they > would not have taken this action. Comcast should realize that, of the > three potential motives for their recent actions I have previously > outlined, #1 and #3 are not just highly unlikel

Re: "potential new and different architectural approach" to solve the Comcast - L3 dispute

2010-12-17 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Dec 17, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Jeff Wheeler wrote: > ... Level3 must think that their business > would be better off with regulatory oversight of peering, or they > would not have taken this action. And they might be correct in thinking that, if we assume the peering ecosystem is changing i.e.

Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks

2010-12-17 Thread Jay Ashworth
Original Message - > From: "JC Dill" > On 17/12/10 4:54 AM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote: > > I do believe that video over the Internet is about to change the > > cable business in a very deep and possibly traumatic way. > > +1 > > It's clear that this is a major driving factor in th

Weekly Routing Table Report

2010-12-17 Thread Routing Analysis Role Account
This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Internet Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan. The posting is sent to APOPS, NANOG, AfNOG, AusNOG, SANOG, PacNOG, LacNOG, CaribNOG and the RIPE Routing Working Group. Daily listings are sent to bgp-st...@lists.apnic.net

Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks

2010-12-17 Thread Jon Lewis
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Jay Ashworth wrote: The more I look at this, the more it looks like "pharmaceuticals bought from Canada are cheaper than ones purchased in America -- and they will be *just as long* as only a minority of Americans buy them there. As soon as *everyone* in America is buying t

Re: "potential new and different architectural approach" to solve theComcast - L3 dispute

2010-12-17 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, December 17, 2010 12:51:02 pm George Bonser wrote: > What if instead of the end users paying for Internet service, the content > providers did. I've been following these threads with some interest, and even replying in a couple of places, but now it hits me that a sea change has alr

Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks

2010-12-17 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, December 17, 2010 01:27:44 pm Jon Lewis wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > and the cable > > networks themselves will have *no* way to collect revenue; > The people I see this being a problem for are > HBO/Showtime/Stars etc. HBO, et al == the cable networks thems

RE: "potential new and different architectural approach" to solve theComcast - L3 dispute

2010-12-17 Thread david raistrick
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, George Bonser wrote: What if instead of the end users paying for Internet service, the content providers did. Sort of like broadcast TV where the broadcasters Um. I'm a content provider. I pay a -lot- for internet service already. That's how my bits and bytes arrive

Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks

2010-12-17 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Jay Ashworth wrote: individual subscriber pushed the complexity up, in much the same way that flat rate telecom services are popular equally because customers prefer them, and because the *cost of keeping track* becomes >delta. Can someone then please explain me why the hell in many other count

Re: "potential new and different architectural approach" to solve the Comcast - L3 dispute

2010-12-17 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > advertising MEDs, or by sending inconsistent routes. The fact that the > existing Level3/Comcast routing DOESN'T make Level 3 haul all of the > bits to the best exit mean it's highly likely that Comcast agreeing to > haul the bits wa

Re: "potential new and different architectural approach" to solve theComcast - L3 dispute

2010-12-17 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Dec 17, 2010, at 1:59 PM, david raistrick wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, George Bonser wrote: > >> What if instead of the end users paying for Internet service, the content >> providers did. Sort of like broadcast TV where the broadcasters > > Um. > > I'm a content provider. > > I pay a -

Comcast routes seen from the cheap seats

2010-12-17 Thread Tim Howe
I apologize in advance if this information is uninteresting. Since there was talk about Comcast I thought I might share what I have been looking at for the last couple weeks with how I see Comcast route announcements from my network. On November 22nd (early morning US/Pacific time) we noticed a s

Re: Comcast routes seen from the cheap seats

2010-12-17 Thread Tony Tauber
This is part of normal cleaning up of more-specifics (lessening our routing table footprint). Apologies for any downstream effects. Please feel free to contact me if there’s a problem you’re seeing and need help with. Thanks, Tony (speaking on behalf of AS7922) On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:07 PM

Re: "potential new and different architectural approach" to solve the Comcast - L3 dispute

2010-12-17 Thread Steve Schultze
On Dec 17, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Jeff Wheeler wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Benson Schliesser > wrote: >> I have no direct knowledge of the situation, but my guess: I suspect the >> proposal was along the lines of longest-path / best-exit routing by >> Level(3). In other words, if L(

Bogons

2010-12-17 Thread John Payne
With the holiday freezes approaching, it might be worth making sure that the recently allocated /8s are not in your bogon list 23/8 100/8 5/8 37/8 Just sayin'

BGP Update Report

2010-12-17 Thread cidr-report
BGP Update Report Interval: 09-Dec-10 -to- 16-Dec-10 (7 days) Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS131072 TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS Rank ASNUpds % Upds/PfxAS-Name 1 - AS17974 48255 2.9% 54.5 -- TELKOMNET-AS2-AP PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia 2 - AS8452

The Cidr Report

2010-12-17 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Dec 17 21:11:44 2010 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of AS2.0 router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org for a current version of this report. Recent Table History Date

OT: used / refurb voip phones?

2010-12-17 Thread Shacolby Jackson
A little off topic but anyone have any recommendations for vendors selling used voip handsets, especially Polycom? Looking for some IP335 or better. There are only a couple used gear resellers I trust and none seem to carry Polycom, only Cisco and even those only seem to have low end handsets. -s

Re: Comcast routes seen from the cheap seats

2010-12-17 Thread Tim Howe
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:40:56 -0500 Tony Tauber wrote: > This is part of normal cleaning up of more-specifics (lessening our routing > table footprint). > > Apologies for any downstream effects. > > Please feel free to contact me if there’s a problem you’re seeing and need > help with. > > Than

Re: Bogons

2010-12-17 Thread mkarir
Also the 105/8 which was recently allocated to AfriNIC. -manish On Dec 17, 2010, at 5:01 PM, nanog-requ...@nanog.org wrote: Message: 1 Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:06:45 -0500 From: John Payne Subject: Bogons To: NANOG list Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii With the hol

Re: Bogons

2010-12-17 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 17/12/2010 22:51, mkarir wrote: Also the 105/8 which was recently allocated to AfriNIC. all things considered, it's almost time to declare the bogons list dead. Unless there are active updates installed, any new filtering should take place on the basis of the smaller martians list. Nick

Google/Deja backup

2010-12-17 Thread Jay Ashworth
This is entirely off topic, except that this is the audience who will know off hand. Now that 2TB costs $100, has anyone solicited Google for a copy of the Historical Usenet Archives that were assembled by they and Dejanews, such that this history lives in someplace... less commercial? Like the

Re: "potential new and different architectural approach" to solve theComcast - L3 dispute

2010-12-17 Thread Jack Bates
On 12/17/2010 12:45 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: But content providers already pay more for their 'service' than the typical asymmetric-towards-the-customer bandwidth user does. Agreed, though I think they pay less than most eyeball networks pay (the ISP, not the user), depending on where they ho

Comcast vs Level 3 - This time with video

2010-12-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
A simplified explanation of the situation between Level 3 and Comcast, from the perspective of a Comcast customer who is asking for the same thing Comcast is asking for. :) http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/8124137/ -- Richard A Steenbergenhttp://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12C

Re: Comcast vs Level 3 - This time with video

2010-12-17 Thread Jack Bates
On 12/17/2010 6:38 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: A simplified explanation of the situation between Level 3 and Comcast, from the perspective of a Comcast customer who is asking for the same thing Comcast is asking for. :) http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/8124137/ lol, now that's the way to

Re: "potential new and different architectural approach" to solve the Comcast - L3 dispute

2010-12-17 Thread Joly MacFie
http://fcc.gov/ NOTICE: The FCC website and related electronic filing systems and documents (except for NORS) will be unavailable beginning 6:00 p.m. (EST) Friday, December 17 through 6:00 a.m. (EST) Monday, December 20 for scheduled maintenance. :( On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Steve Schu

Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks

2010-12-17 Thread Jeffrey S. Young
On 17/12/2010, at 1:17 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Original Message - >> From: "JC Dill" > >> On 17/12/10 4:54 AM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote: >>> I do believe that video over the Internet is about to change the >>> cable business in a very deep and possibly traumatic way. >> >> +

Re: "potential new and different architectural approach" to solve the Comcast - L3 dispute

2010-12-17 Thread Steve Schultze
http://blog.comcast.com/2010/12/comcasts-responds-to-level-3s-fcc-filing.html On Dec 17, 2010, at 10:25 PM, Joly MacFie wrote: > http://fcc.gov/ > > NOTICE: The FCC website and related electronic filing systems and documents > (except for NORS) will be unavailable beginning 6:00 p.m. (EST) Frida

Re: "potential new and different architectural approach" to solve the Comcast - L3 dispute

2010-12-17 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
On 12/18/2010 12:38 AM, Steve Schultze wrote: > http://blog.comcast.com/2010/12/comcasts-responds-to-level-3s-fcc-filing.html > I very much doubt whether my comment on the blog will survive their moderation process, so here it is: === I am a Comcast residential HSI customer, and have many client

Re: "potential new and different architectural approach" to solve the Comcast - L3 dispute

2010-12-17 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 01:07:15AM -0500, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: > > Note that Comcast has never said that the Level3/Netflix issue is > about users exceeding their allotted bandwidth (currently at about > 250GB/month for residential); presumably, were a Comcast user to use > 249GB of bandwi