Re: ALT-DB Question

2010-12-08 Thread Charles Gucker
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Chadwick Sorrell wrote: > Hello, > > I'm sending a new MAINT-AS object to the db-ad...@altdb.net, but it > doesn't appear to be in the database after a few weeks.  Are there any > requirements that I may be missing on my new request, or some sort of > way I can help

Re: AltDB? (IRR support & direction at ARIN)

2011-01-09 Thread Charles Gucker
> I had a vague concept of IRR before this thread, and have researched > them as a result of it. They seem quite useful. I didn't know anything > about RPKI before this thread. I'm looking into that now. > > So I don't think ARIN should spend it's limited resources on anything to > do with it's cop

Re: Cogent <-> Verizon peering congestion

2014-02-04 Thread Charles Gucker
Just to make something clear.I do not own any stock, interest or have any official relationship with Verizon or Cogent. The opinions expressed are mine and mine alone as I have come to understand some of the relationship without the aid of any privileged information. On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at

Re: We hit half-million: The Cidr Report

2014-04-28 Thread Charles Gucker
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:39 PM, wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 21:59:43 -0400, "Patrick W. Gilmore" said: > > > On Apr 28, 2014, at 19:41, Chris Boyd wrote: > > > I'm in the middle of a physical move. I promise I'll take the 3 > deagg'd > > > /24s out as soon as I can. > > Do not laugh. If ever

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Charles Gucker
> If Netflix continues on its current course, ALL ISPs -- not just rural ones, > will eventually be forced to rebel. And it will not be pretty. I call hogwash.ALL ISPs are in the business of providing access to the Internet.If you feel the need to rebel, then I suggest you look at creative

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-14 Thread Charles Gucker
> But regardless of the financial arrangements, such a connection doesn't > require an ASN or BGP. In fact, it doesn't even require a registered IP > address at either end! A simple Ethernet connection (or a leased line of any > kind, in fact; it could just as well be a virtual circuit) and a stati

Re: Inevitable death, was Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-14 Thread Charles Gucker
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Brett Glass wrote: > Perhaps it's best to think of it this way: I'm outsourcing some backbone > routing functions to my upstreams, which (generously) aren't charging me > anything extra to do it. In my opinion, that's a good business move. Last comment on the thr

Re: Google Public DNS Problems?

2013-05-02 Thread Charles Gucker
Joe, That's not entirely true.You can easily do lookup for whoami.akamai.net and it will return the unicast address for the node in question (provided the local resolver is able to do the resolution).This is a frequent lookup that I do when I don't know what actual anycast node I'm us

Re: Question regarding anycasting in CDN setup

2012-02-01 Thread Charles Gucker
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Anurag Bhatia wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I have a small question and was wondering if someone could help me with > that. > > Question is - why companies like Google, Amazon are having partial > anycasting in CDN setups? E.g if we pick a random hostname from url of

Re: Muni Fiber

2012-03-27 Thread Charles Gucker
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Frank Bulk wrote: > I don't think a muni can prevent the ILEC from installing fiber in their > RoW First off, IANAL, Secondly, I've had a reasonable amount of experience with Village and Municipal Law.In short, the statement above is incorrect, in so muc

Re: Comcast vs. Verizon for repair methodologies

2012-08-21 Thread Charles Gucker
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Eric Wieling wrote: > This is an example of what is really wrong. The install tech usually does a > good job (there are exceptions, of course), but then the outside plant people > drop the ball. > > I appreciate it when a repair or install tech does whatever is

Re: RADB

2014-10-08 Thread Charles Gucker
You can also verify the object configurations from another IRRd, such as Level(3) whois -h filtergen.level3.net "RADB::YOUR-AS-SET -searchpath=RIPE;ARIN;RADB -recurseok -warnonly" You can limit the searchpath to just include RADB if you wish, but it's good to know what else is out there. charles

Re: RADB

2014-10-08 Thread Charles Gucker
Take a look: https://www.arin.net/resources/routing/ charles On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Brandon Wade wrote: > > >>> For a newbie, how does one go about learning the basic's of IRRd. > > That pretty much sums it up. I feel like I'm stuck reading RFC's that are too > overly complex for so

Re: Small IX IP Blocks

2015-04-04 Thread Charles Gucker
I've been involved in IX renumbering efforts because exchange(s) decided to use /25's instead of /24's.It's painful because troubleshooting can be a little difficult as differing subnetmasks are in play. If you have the address space, use a /24.ARIN has IPv4 address space specifically res

Re: DE-CIX vs Equinix

2015-07-22 Thread Charles Gucker
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Colton Conor wrote: > What are the main difference between these two peering companies, > exchanges, and overall operating model? The market in question would be > Dallas Texas where Equinix already has the only established peering > exchange with over 100 members,

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-03 Thread Charles Gucker
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:29 PM, LEdouard Louis wrote: > Optimum Online business only offer 5 static IP address. Correct, this is a business grade cable modem service, where the only allocation they will provide is a /29. But what do you expect for a triple play residential product for ~150/mont

Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity & facts

2008-11-03 Thread Charles Gucker
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:35 AM, Paul Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 1. Neither Sprint nor Cogent have transit >> Both Sprint & Cogent are transit-free networks. (Notice how I carefully >> avoided saying "tier one"?

Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity & facts

2008-11-03 Thread Charles Gucker
>> Does Akamai have peering arrangements with Cogent directly? > > Akamai are self declared peering sluts. So, yes, they have direct > peering arrangements with Cogent. Hrm, so after I posted this, I looked a bit deeper into it and found: 3 vl3493.mpd03.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.5.22

Re: AT&T routing issue

2008-11-04 Thread Charles Gucker
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Campbell, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > We have recently brought up some BGP sessions with a new provider, and > have found that we can get end to end connectivity through the new > provider to pretty much everywhere except networks behind AT&T (A

Re: Comprehensive community Guideline and Policies for an AS

2009-02-20 Thread Charles Gucker
> What I am looking for is a best practice guide on community policy setup. > > Barring that, I plan to continue examining every publicly published > guideline to try to produce one, but likely as not it will suffer from the > all to common human failing of shortsightedness. Feel free to look at o

Re: iBGP Scaling

2009-03-28 Thread Charles Gucker
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 1:13 PM, tt tt wrote: > > Hi List, > > We are looking to move our non infrastructure routes into iBGP to help with > our IGP scalability (OSPF).  We already run full BGP tables on our core where > we connect to multiple upstream and downstream customers.  Most of our > a

Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?

2007-10-22 Thread Charles Gucker
On 10/22/07, Alexander Harrowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >MSO's typically understand this as eyeball heavy content > >retrieval, not content generation > > I was under the impression Comcast advertised Internet access, which > is read/write. Clearly I was mistaken... This is correct,

Sprint Looking Glass

2008-08-01 Thread Charles Gucker
Greetings, Earlier today, I was tying to determine what local preferences Sprint uses within their network for peers vs customers ... Long story short, their Looking Glass only allows for: ping traceroute bgp dampened bgp flap-statistics But not 'bgp X.X.X.X' which can be quite fr

Re: BGP Failover Question

2011-02-21 Thread Charles Gucker
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Chris Wallace wrote: >This isn't the first time we have seen this issue with our various providers, >how can I prevent issues like this from happening in the future? Quick question, are you running with a default route from your provider? If so, you're better o