Sonicwall GEoIP Database

2020-12-22 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
Does anyone know what GEoIP database sonic wall uses? Their tech support has been horrid. We are not a customer but getting customers who are getting blocked by some sonic walls due to “unknot” country for GeoIP. I have checked the ips against the database providers listed at: https:/

AWS contact?

2021-01-26 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
What is the best avenue for contacting support for AWS? I have several ISPs experiencing reachability issues with AWS hosted sites. These are from different backbones, different gear, etc. The common denominator is AWS. Been googling around and can’t seem to find a contact.

Problems with newish IP block assignment issues from ARIN

2021-02-08 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
Folks, Have a gremlin we have been chasing around for several months now and it’s becoming a major issue as we are getting tighter on IPV4 and needing to give some provider assigned space back. In June we received a /22 from ARIN. As is my workflow I started announcing it but waited a month wh

Re: Problems with newish IP block assignment issues from ARIN

2021-02-08 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
M -0500, Justin Wilson (Lists) wrote: >> It acts like the IP block was blacklisted at some point and got on >> some bad lists but I don’t want ti limit myself to that theory. >> I have opened up a ticket with ARIN asking for any guidance. Has >> anyone ran into this with new s

Re: Famous operational issues

2021-02-17 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
I remember when the big carriers de-peered with Cogent in the early 2000s. The underestimated the amount of web-sites being hosted by people using cogent exclusively. Justin Wilson j...@j2sw.com — https://j2sw.com - All things jsw (AS209109) https://blog.j2sw.com - Podcast and Blog > On Feb

Re: Is there an established method for reporting/getting removed a company with 100% false peeringdb entries?

2021-03-05 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
I see from peering db: 2020-07-01T14:22:01Z According to the bg.he.net link AS18894 has not been visible in the global routing table since November 28, 2020 The information displayed is from that time. Are they causing you or someone issues Eric? Maybe they went out of business? Many businesses

Ip space Dilemma

2021-03-09 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
Folks, We have an IP block I have asked about help on a few times on here. This is a block we received from ARIN in June of 2020. We have several state networks here in Indiana dropping this traffic at their firewalls. I have been working with them since we discovered this issu

1950 Stemmons Meet me rooms?

2021-05-26 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
Who knows about the meet me rooms at 1950 Stemmons in Dallas? I need to get from the cologix meet me room to someone inside Equinix. Our Equnix rep has been less than helpful. I was told "We really don’t have a building meet me room there anymore since we bought the building. Also, I don’t th

DNS cache Validation

2020-05-18 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
What are you folk doing to validate your DNS cache server configs and operation? In other words, what are you doing to make sure they are performing well, not just alive. Justin — https://blog.j2sw.com

AS hijacking (Philosophy, rants, GeoMind)

2020-05-29 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
One of the companies I work for recently had an issue with AS 2 (University of Delaware) hijacking a prefix. Due to Origin AS, good upstreams, and the like this has not really affected the traffic to the legit blocks. However, GeoMind picked this up almost immediately it seems. The IP blocks

Re: [EXT] AS hijacking (Philosophy, rants, GeoMind)

2020-05-29 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
Anderson wrote: > > Go back to them and tell them that a hijacked prefix is different from a > hijacked AS. > > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 11:39:46AM -0400, Justin Wilson (Lists) wrote: >> One of the companies I work for recently had an issue with AS 2 (University >> o

Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4

2020-09-28 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
There are many things going on with gaming that makes natted IPv4 an issue when it comes to consoles and gaming in general. When you break it down it makes sense. -You have voice chat -You are receiving data from servers about other people in the game -You are sending data to servers about you

Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4

2020-09-28 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
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AT& T peering Contact?

2022-04-07 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
Folks, I need an ATT Wireless/ATT Mobility peering contact. The emails on their peeringdb entries bounce back as non existent. Have a problem with a prefix that works everywhere except when folks are on AT&T LTE. Justin Wilson j...@mtin.net — https://j2sw.com (AS3993

2 Byte ASNs??

2022-08-05 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
Whats the availability of two byte asns look like? Anyone able to obtain one recently? I have a network that is all Mikrotik and the route targets are messing with them. They can’t use communities with their 4 bytes asn. It’s one of those it really isn’t a big deal but I thought I would ask.

Smaller than a /24 for BGP?

2023-01-24 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
Have there been talks about the best practices to accept things smaller than a /24? I qm seeing more and more scenarios where folks need to participate in BGP but they do not need a full /24 of space. Seems wasteful. I know this would bloat the routing table immensely. I know of several folks

Lumen @ Nano. Need to meet

2023-02-14 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
If there anyone at NANOG from Lumen? I need to meet on a client of a client matter. ‘' Justin Wilson j...@mtin.net — https://j2sw.com (AS399332) https://blog.j2sw.com - Podcast and Blog

Re: Standard DC rack rail distance, front to back question

2023-04-27 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
I have not seen a standard on cabinets. I have gear in a wide variety of racks. Some of are real shallow. Some are deep. I use these to generically solve the sagging issue. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XXDJASY?ref=nb_sb_ss_w_as-reorder-t1_k1_1_11&=&crid=EFCM0EZP8BMA&=&sprefix=navpoint+ra N

Re: maximum ipv4 bgp prefix length of /24 ?

2023-10-03 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
I think it is going to have to happen. We have several folks on the IX and various consulting clients who only need 3-6 Ips but have to burn a full /24 to participate in BGP. I wrote a blog post awhile back on this topic https://blog.j2sw.com/data-center/unpopular-opinion-bgp-should-accept-smal

Re: ipv6 address management - documentation

2023-11-20 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
Netbox or PHPipam. Phpipam allows you to break down subnets easier IMHo. Justin Wilson j...@j2sw.com — https://j2sw.com (AS399332) https://blog.j2sw.com - Podcast and Blog > On Nov 16, 2023, at 1:09 PM, Jason Biel wrote: > > My recommendation: > > https://github.com/netbox-community > > >

Re: Fastly Peering Contact

2023-12-06 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
We have sent them some inquiries in markets we are with no reply. Just figured they weren’t interested. Justin Wilson j...@mtin.net jus...@fd-ix.com Https://www.fdi-ix.com > On Dec 5, 2023, at 4:14 PM, Peter Potvin via NANOG wrote: > > Looking for someone on the Fastly peering team to reac

Cogent BGP session more than 1 router ipv6

2024-06-10 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
I am trying to get our Cogent rep to give us a /124 to peer on a Cogent circuit with. We have multipl routers we want to peer to a cogent transit circuit with.on. Does anyone have the magic words or a circuit ID example you are doing multiple BGP conenctions on a single circuit? Justin

Re: Cogent BGP session more than 1 router ipv6

2024-06-11 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
nal cost. Now they expect you to pay > additional for this functionality, including for redundant sessions. > Unfortunately I have not heard of any success stories for people getting > around this as of yet. YMMV > > Kind regards, > Peter Potvin > > > On Mo

IPTV and Different markets

2024-11-20 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
Here is the Scenario. Several different IP blocks 2 different geodiverse exit points on the network (more but two for this scenario). This network has Google, Hulu and other Live tv providers complain about being in one market when it should be in another. The way this is being solved at th

Re: HBO / MAX Geolocation Contact

2025-01-09 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists)
https://thebrotherswisp.com/index.php/geo-and-vpn Near the bottom is info on HBO max. Justin Wilson j...@mtin.net — https://j2sw.com (AS399332) https://blog.j2sw.com - Podcast and Blog > On Jan 9, 2025, at 9:27 PM, Esteban Hernandez > wrote: > > Hello, > > Does anyone have contact inf

Re: Tips on dealing with illicit BGP announcements

2020-07-26 Thread Justin Wilson (Lists) via NANOG
I second the ease on contacting RADB. They are very easy to work with in cases like this. Have done it several times over the past few months. Justin Wilson j...@mtin.net — https://j2sw.com - All things jsw (AS209109) https://blog.j2sw.com - Podcast and Blog > On Jul 24, 2020, at 2:05 AM, Ra