Re: [NANOG] OSPF minutia, and, technote publication venues

2008-05-05 Thread Nathan Ward
On 6/05/2008, at 1:21 PM, Joe Abley wrote: > On 5 May 2008, at 20:50, Nathan Ward wrote: > >> Perhaps what would make more sense here is Foundry (F5, etc.) >> building >> an anycast feature - anycast prefixes are withdrawn when a cluster >> relying on that anycast

Re: [NANOG] Alcatel-Lucent

2008-05-13 Thread Nathan Ward
ent things to what you're used to - mostly as a function of that paradigm change. Ask for a v6 roadmap. Last time I looked (~ a year ago) there were some strange limitations, for example, a surprisingly small max v6 routing table. -- Nathan Ward [1] Admittedly, my experience with othe

Re: [NANOG] peering between ASes

2008-05-16 Thread Nathan Ward
d opex) is worth it, I imagine. RE. your original question (2) - yes a single router in each AS and a link between them is the simplest. Add more routers and more links as required to meet capacity and resiliency requirements, where cost permits. -- Nathan Ward ___

Re: [NANOG] peering between ASes

2008-05-16 Thread Nathan Ward
e ASes you don't want those prefixes hitting. Similar, not identical, so may not work for you how you want. Googling around finds some explanation of it here: http://ispcolumn.isoc.org/2005-08/as1.html Nothing really about how it works in a MLPA IXP th

Re: [NANOG] peering between ASes

2008-05-16 Thread Nathan Ward
f the foreign AS really wants to send you routes that way, they can do it regardless of how you stop your advertisements being accepted by/ reaching them. We're hardly talking high security here. ip route 1.1.1.1 works a treat. -- Nathan Ward ___ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog

Re: [NANOG] peering between ASes

2008-05-17 Thread Nathan Ward
On 17/05/2008, at 5:53 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote: > Nathan Ward wrote: >> If the foreign AS really wants to send you routes that way, they >> can do it regardless of how you stop your advertisements being >> accepted by/ reaching them. We're hardly talking hi

Re: [NANOG] Unique v6 (video) content

2008-05-20 Thread Nathan Ward
igured I'd give > this a shot, only to be greeted with: > > The application VLC quit unexpectedly > > Mac OS X and other applications are not affected. Works fine on VLC/OS X for me - but not with flip4mac - flip4mac does IPv4 only it seems. -- Nathan Ward ___ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog

Re: [NANOG] Multihoming for small frys?

2008-05-20 Thread Nathan Ward
allocation size (/ 21), you may find it more economical to become an APNIC member and apply for a portable allocation using the APNIC IPv4 ISP request form. Note that you must be the end user of the space, as it is assigned not allocated. -- Nathan Ward

Re: DNS problems to RoadRunner - tcp vs udp

2008-06-14 Thread Nathan Ward
flush negative caches, but that might be fixed. YMMV, etc. Usual common sense warnings apply. -- Nathan Ward

Re: DNS problems to RoadRunner - tcp vs udp

2008-06-14 Thread Nathan Ward
ack and figure out how to filter it more precisely if possible, instead of simply dropping all TCP. Obviously, you'd want to make sure TCP from your other name servers always goes to the UDP one, etc. etc. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Cable Colors

2008-06-16 Thread Nathan Ward
ickly. -- Nathan Ward

Re: SMTP no-such-user issues

2008-06-17 Thread Nathan Ward
ssing? Wireshark reads pcap files. Spit them out with this option on the tcpdump commandline. -w file -- Nathan Ward

Re: P2P agents for software distribution - saving the WAN from meltdown?!?

2008-06-18 Thread Nathan Ward
etworks move less traffic off-net. .. this is the part where someone bustles off and makes it go. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Cable Colors - A Standard

2008-06-19 Thread Nathan Ward
left in the rack just in case it attached to some other host and you fear causing an unplanned outage. You whack on one of these things when there's still active gear on the end? -- Nathan Ward

Re: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)

2008-06-22 Thread Nathan Ward
rvice for, but these seem to be the obvious ones that are easy to limit without big disruptions. Do 'normal' web hosting providers allow customer created scripts to create TCP sessions out to arbitrary things? - -- Nathan Ward -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- V

Re: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)

2008-06-22 Thread Nathan Ward
hosting customer (i.e. $10/mo php+mysql service) open outgoing TCP sessions to ports other than 80 and 443. I'm sure there are exceptions to the rule, and they should be exactly that - exceptions. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Techniques for passive traffic capturing

2008-06-23 Thread Nathan Ward
modity GE cards. They can do 10GE monitoring, so if you need several 10GE's per chassis I'd recommend these. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Software router state of the art

2008-07-23 Thread Naveen Nathan
> The Endace DAG cards claim they can move 7 gbps over a PCI-X bus from > the NIC to main DRAM. They claim a full 10gbps on a PCIE bus. I wonder, has anyone heard of this used for IDS? I've been looking at building a commodity SNORT solution, and wondering if a powerful network card will help, or

Re: Paul Vixie: Re: [dns-operations] DNS issue accidentally leaked?

2008-07-25 Thread Nathan Ward
download over HTTPS with a key that was generated by the vendor and signed by well trusted root CAs on a boxes with OpenSSL versions not released by Debian? PATCH NOW PATCH NOW seems like a fantastic way to get nefarious code deployed in really, really interesting places. :-) -- Nathan

Re: Out of Date Bogon Prefix

2008-08-05 Thread Nathan Ward
would be useful? -- Nathan Ward

Re: RouterOS performance?

2008-08-17 Thread Nathan Ward
nfig image. Not really wanting to give it away publicly as I don't want to have to deal with supporting it, but if anyone wants it as a basis for your own thing drop me an email ([EMAIL PROTECTED] please). ps. before someone accuses me of trying to sell stuff, I mean free as in beer. Cheers, -- Nathan Ward

Re: RouterOS performance?

2008-08-17 Thread Nathan Ward
n a border router or something though, but doesn't work for me in a complex network. One cool thing about OpenBGPd is bgpctl irrfilter, which pulls in RPSL and does the business with it, and stuffs it in to your live BGP daemon. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Is it time to abandon bogon prefix filters?

2008-08-18 Thread Nathan Ward
the guilty party, in the case of a hacked router for example. I agree that bogon filtering with a Team Cymru BGP feed is good - it will do the job most of the time. However, it cannot be considered a complete solution. -- Nathan Ward

uTorrent, IPv6

2008-08-18 Thread Nathan Ward
at packet dumps of things right now, captured from torrent clients from the last wee while. I'll be rambling about this and pointing at pretty graphs in about a week at APNIC26. -- Nathan Ward

Re: uTorrent, IPv6

2008-08-18 Thread Nathan Ward
On 19/08/2008, at 6:28 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Nathan Ward wrote: uTorrent actively enables IPv6 on XP SP2 and Vista machines in the install process (by default, it can be turned off). IPv6 is turned on, on lots of PCs. We looked into this, and IPv6 is not

Re: uTorrent, IPv6

2008-08-18 Thread Nathan Ward
On 19/08/2008, at 6:34 PM, Nathan Ward wrote: On 19/08/2008, at 6:28 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Nathan Ward wrote: uTorrent actively enables IPv6 on XP SP2 and Vista machines in the install process (by default, it can be turned off). IPv6 is turned on, on lots of

Re: RouterOS performance?

2008-08-19 Thread Nathan Ward
f files - 1 kernel, 1 filesystem image. Filesystem images are good. That way, you can mount your CF card somewhere, and 'reflash' from a live system. Just like, for example, a Cisco router. Upgrades are easy, just copy a new root FS+kernel on there. -- Nathan Ward

Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

2008-08-19 Thread Nathan Ward
here is nothing, anywhere, that says that the first 64 bits is for routing. -- Nathan Ward

Re: uTorrent, IPv6

2008-08-19 Thread Nathan Ward
On 20/08/2008, at 6:39 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 04:56:33PM +1200, Nathan Ward wrote: Sit up and pay attention, even if you don't now run IPv6, or even if you don't ever intend to run IPv6. Your off-net bandwidth is going to increase, unless you put some relay

Re: uTorrent, IPv6

2008-08-19 Thread Nathan Ward
counted twice - once when encapsulated, once when native. -- Nathan Ward

Re: uTorrent, IPv6

2008-08-20 Thread Nathan Ward
On 20/08/2008, at 4:42 PM, Nathan Ward wrote: Teredo uses 3544/UDP to for Client<->Server communication. That is for relay discovery when needed, and the qualification procedure - not much traffic. Client<->Relay communication MAY use 3544/UDP, Client<->Client communicatio

Re: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior

2008-08-29 Thread Nathan Ward
o use this trick for non-malicious day-to-day traffic engineering. The technique of path stuffing ASes who you do not want to receive an announcement is called AS PATH poisoning. It's a fairly well known trick. -- Nathan Ward

Re: why not AS number based prefixes aggregation

2008-09-08 Thread Nathan Ward
now - anyone have anything more recent. Anyway, enjoy: http://www.apricot2016.info/apricot2007/presentation/apia-future-routing/apia-future-routing-vince-fuller.pdf -- Nathan Ward

Re: community real-time BGP hijack notification service

2008-09-12 Thread Nathan Ward
network though. I'm sure there's a way to do this, and I suspect having BGP feeds from many many places is the most reliable way for it to happen, I just haven't figured out why yet. This seems like a service that Renesys etc. could/should (or maybe do?) offer, they seem well placed with all their BGP feeds.. -- Nathan Ward

Re: community real-time BGP hijack notification service

2008-09-12 Thread Nathan Ward
though. -- Nathan Ward

Re: community real-time BGP hijack notification service

2008-09-12 Thread Nathan Ward
ewer networks. Put collection points in say 10 networks, and the attack becomes pretty useless. Unless of course you are announcing a more specific prefix than the authentic one. -- Nathan Ward

Re: community real-time BGP hijack notification service

2008-09-13 Thread Nathan Ward
then reference to longer optional text for those that care about why, people will get a false sense of security. -- Nathan Ward

Re: confusing packet data

2008-09-15 Thread Nathan Ward
240/4 in your pictures. -- Nathan Ward

Re: confusing packet data

2008-09-15 Thread Nathan Ward
not going to his IP address, but to AND from addresses that are not his. That, plus the fact that there 'is' traffic on 240/4 and 224/4, and it sounds like a bug. -- Nathan Ward

Re: DNS query analyzer

2009-11-30 Thread Nathan Ward
wireshark's Lua extension system to write a plugin to do this for you right within wireshark. The wireshark/Lua stuff is quite powerful (though not super super fast), it's a really useful tool to have on hand. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Nathan Ward
on the outside? He is confused, and means 6to4. Also the airport extreme does not do DHCPv6-PD or anything (as far as I know, they certainly did not last time I tried), so I don't know that we'd really call them an IPv6 CPE in the way that I suspect Wade means. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-08 Thread Nathan Ward
's nice to have.) Yes it will break auto MDI/MDI-X. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 allocations, deaggregation, etc.

2009-12-22 Thread Nathan Ward
uting table explosion religious war here, with snipes from people saying that we need a new routing system, etc. etc. So with that in mind, do your concerns from your original post still make sense? -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 allocations, deaggregation, etc.

2009-12-22 Thread Nathan Ward
/48 portable assignment. In APNIC world anyway, I'm not sure of the terms and policies used in other regions. -- Nathan Ward

Re: IPv6 allocations, deaggregation, etc.

2009-12-22 Thread Nathan Ward
lse though. This happens all the time with IPv4 space and AS #'s today, why would it be any different with v6? It's not. -- Nathan Ward

Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment

2010-01-06 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
the way, the default username/password for the LightningEdge 47 and other WWP CPEs is su/pureethernet. Hopefully that will save someone else some pain. :-) Best Regards, Nathan Eisenberg

RE: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment

2010-01-06 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> One should think the fact that there are default passwords at all > should be a cause for alarm, in and of itself. I must not have been very clear. I'm resetting these switches to factory defaults using the hardware reset button, and attempting to log in using whatever the factory default pas

RE: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment

2010-01-06 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
change this prior to deployment! Best Regards, Nathan Eisenberg

RE: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment

2010-01-06 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
be I'm missing something? Best Regards, Nathan Eisenberg

RE: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment

2010-01-07 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
the WWP gear is still manufactured. Thank you all again for helping me sort out what the factory default WWP passwords are so that I can now have a secure and documented deployment out here! I've received a couple offers of technical assistance from WWP veterans that I may well take up moving forward. Best Regards, Nathan Eisenberg

RE: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment

2010-01-13 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
o I'm not sure there's a huge difference. Best Regards, Nathan Eisenberg

RE: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment

2010-01-13 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
Not if you change the default password like any sane admin does... -Original Message- From: Steven Bellovin [mailto:s...@cs.columbia.edu] Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 11:26 AM To: Barry Shein Cc: nanog@nanog.org; nonobvi...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Pack

RE: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment

2010-01-13 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> From: Graeme Fowler [mailto:gra...@graemef.net] > And somewhere in the dim and distant past (Jan 6th), Nathan announced > that he'd sorted out his original problem and now had the defaults. > > What a peculiar bunch we are. And this from the group lauded as > anonym

RE: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
that far less questionable means are being utilized. Perhaps there are a sufficient number of pro-free-speech'ers at Google.cn (which is presumably largely composed of Chinese nationals) that are privy to such information. It only takes one guy going "hey! I know some of these email addresses!"... Nathan

RE: um... human generated requests

2010-01-15 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
osed > to someone elses) > prefix be added to SORBS? e.g. > > whois 192.0.2.0 Slightly confused - it sounds like you're asking if you can list yourself on a blacklist? Is that a self-immolating form of protest, or did I misread? Best Regards, Nathan Eisenberg

RE: Katrina response, private and public

2010-01-17 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
Isn't there a US destroyer taskforce off the coast now? One would think they'd have a supply of diesel available. Best Regards, Nathan Eisenberg From: Eric Brunner-Williams [brun...@nic-naa.net] Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 3:02 PM To: nanog

Re: 10Gbps Traffic Test Systems

2010-01-20 Thread Nathan Ward
I have used Ixia, Spirent AX/4000, Spirent Testcenter and Spirent Smartbits for 1-10GE testing, they've all been able to do the things you ask for - they are quite basic features and any 10GE "router tester" unit will do what you want. In addition, you should demand much higher than 10Kpps, you

Re: Using /31 for router links

2010-01-22 Thread Nathan Ward
still required on ethernet links, so that the MAC address can be discovered for use in the ethernet frame header. /31 does not change the behavior of ARP at all. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-24 Thread Nathan Ward
to worry about problems coming from re-use. A single /64 full of /112s gives you 281 trillion. For links to customers and other networks, I like /64s, because they are right now the standard so you're not going to run in to compatibility problems. If you've got links to customers you should have a /32, so setting aside a /48 or a /44 or something for those customer links is no huge drama. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-25 Thread Nathan Ward
translate between the two, rather than burn networks in order to fudge some kind of human readability out of it and sacrificing your address space to get it. % printf "%04x\n" 4095 0fff % printf "%d\n" 0x0fff 4095 -- Nathan Ward

Re: Using /126 for IPv6 router links

2010-01-27 Thread Nathan Ward
ace is /56s? Then we have 675,000 networks per person. If we botch that up then we've done amazingly badly. Then we'll move on to 4000::/3. -- Nathan Ward

Re: ip address management

2010-02-03 Thread Nathan Ward
I'm actually writing some IP management code. Web based, it knows about the difference between IPv4 and IPv6 in maybe 3 or 4 places. Intention is to release it publicly when it's good to go. On 3/02/2010, at 10:14 AM, Scott Berkman wrote: > I was about to suggest IPPlan, but it is lacking the V6

Re: How polluted is 1/8?

2010-02-03 Thread Nathan Ward
t; is likely contained on many internal networks for now because a corresponding > route doesn't show up in the global routing table at the moment. Once that > changes 1.1.1/24 and 1.2.3/24 are assigned to APNIC. Unless they release them, the general public will not get addresses in these. -- Nathan Ward

Re: .ve WHOIS Down?

2010-02-08 Thread Nathan Ward
, puede hacerla al correo electronico wh...@nic.ve ... etc. I get a proper response, anyway. There is no A record in the DNS for ve.whois-servers.net, which is what my client tries first. Perhaps this is where the confusion lies. -- Nathan Ward

Re: BIRD vs Quagga

2010-02-12 Thread Nathan Ward
no experience with it yet. XORP is also interesting, it's a more JunOS like interface. It's also some quite heavy C++, so running it on the tiny Soekris boxes that I had meant it wouldn't work for me. If you can spare the CPU and RAM then give XORP a go. -- Nathan Ward

Re: CYMRU Bogon Peering

2010-02-12 Thread Nathan Ward
too, but my uptime is less. Are > you using increased hold times? Nevermind BGP timers, do you normally do well holding TCP connections open for weeks on end across the Internet? -- Nathan Ward

Re: Denic (.de) blocking 6to4 nameservers (since begin feb 2010)

2010-02-15 Thread Nathan Ward
d something with the pmtud stuff in the next week or so, and I'll also push the code to github. You'll probably want to make you own changes based on what you're interested in, also. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Denic (.de) blocking 6to4 nameservers (since begin feb 2010)

2010-02-15 Thread Nathan Ward
On 16/02/2010, at 7:34 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Nathan Ward wrote: > >> You are very unlikely to get traffic from Teredo, because: >> 1) Windows only asks for if it has non-Teredo IPv6 connectivity > > Please don't just say "win

Re: Denic (.de) blocking 6to4 nameservers (since begin feb 2010)

2010-02-15 Thread Nathan Ward
On 16/02/2010, at 7:47 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Nathan Ward wrote: > >> XP won't ask for unless it has non-Teredo connectivity though I don't >> think. > > That doesn't compute considering all the XP machines with Teredo a

Re: AT&T resolvers

2010-02-16 Thread Nathan Ward
me other reason thought you wanted them to be authoritative for some zone you control. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Security Guideance

2010-02-23 Thread Nathan Ward
It's much more lightweight on your data storage, and probably doesn't involve you putting in a new server - but a bit heavier on your network kit. -- Nathan Ward

Re: 4bytes ASn and RFC1745

2010-03-14 Thread Nathan Ward
ernet, and would require significant implementation complexity. Since this mechanism has never been in use in the public internet, it is proposed to reclassify it to Historic. -- Nathan Ward

Re: Network Naming Conventions

2010-03-15 Thread Nathan Ward
is common. Juniper boxes have re0-hostname.domain and re1-hostname.domain, and also re-hostname.domain if I've got a moving master IP address configured. That's about all I can think of to write, I hope it's useful to someone, YMMV, etc. -- Nathan Ward

Re: OBESEUS - A new type of DDOS protector

2010-03-15 Thread Nathan Ward
If only there were other security experts on this list with a proven ability to make this thread even more absurd. On 16/03/2010, at 4:47 PM, Guillaume FORTAINE wrote: > Misters, > > Thank you for your reply. > > 1) First of all, I am absolutely not related to the Obeseus project. From my > p

Re: AARNet AS7575 announcing 1.0.0.0/24, 1.1.1.0/24 and 1.2.3.0/24 soon

2010-03-17 Thread Nathan Ward
localpref 100, valid, external % whois -a AS36561 | grep -i name OrgName:YouTube, Inc. :-) -- Nathan Ward

Re: anti-ddos test solutions ?

2010-03-17 Thread Nathan Ward
was a bit masochistic. Then we got a router tester and did exactly the same thing, but in a whole lot less space with a whole lot less effort. Both worked great, naturally I recommend a router tester. -- Nathan Ward

AS36561 to announce 27.128.0.0/12

2010-03-17 Thread Nathan Hickson
u all know anyway. :) Cheers. -- Nathan Hickson AS36561 - YouTube AS15169 - Google

Re: Youtube CSIRT - Backbone Security : Runtime Monitoring and Dynamic Reconfiguration for Intrusion Detection Systems

2010-03-17 Thread Nathan Hickson
r the purposes prohibited above. I also don't appreciate 7136k of attachment spam. Sincerely, Mister Pissed. P.S. Nanog consists of females too. Stop calling us all Mister, please. On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Guillaume FORTAINE wrote: > Dear Nathan, > > Let me introduce m

Re: CSIRT - Backbone Security : Runtime Monitoring and DynamicReconfiguration for Intrusion Detection Systems

2010-03-17 Thread Nathan Ward
Dig up. On 18/03/2010, at 2:32 PM, Guillaume FORTAINE wrote: > Misses, Misters, > > I have read with interest what everybody told in this thread and it seems > that they consider everything new as spam. > > My conclusion is that they fear what it is new. > > Best Regards, > > Guillaume FORTA

Re: IP4 Space

2010-03-22 Thread Nathan Ward
erminating a PPPoATM connection, not a bridge or anything. -- Nathan Ward

Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 26, Issue 122

2010-03-24 Thread Nathan Ward
o the floor to ceiling glass about 2 feet from the bottom of the ladder you're at the top of a 50RU rack with. Plus the swaying building. You get over your vertigo pretty quickly, or you just don't go up the tower more than once. -- Nathan Ward

Recommendations for small (5-10 port) IGMP switch

2010-03-27 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
Hello List, I'm looking for recommendations for switches between 5 and 10 ports that meet the following specifications: 1) Sub-$150 USD 2) Can untag vlans 3) Multicast capable a. Capable of 30+ multicast groups Best Regards, Nathan Eisenberg

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-30 Thread Nathan Ward
. > > I'd put 'janitor' on my business card for all I really care. I'm pretty sure Jonny Martin was Chief Internet Janitor in his previous role. He cleaned the tubes so the sewage could flow. -- Nathan Ward

RE: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-02-05 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> Still, that is a considerable number of bits we'll have left when the dust > settles and the RIR allocation rate drastically slows. Like it did for IPv4? ;) -Nathan

RE: Random Port Blocking at Hotels (was: Re: quietly....)

2011-02-05 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> Sure. Bet you ten bucks that no hotel in North America offers IPv6 this year > in the wifi they provide to customers. (Conference networks don't > count.) John - I happen to know with absolute certainty that the above statement is false. But I'd be happy to take your money! :-) Nathan

RE: Telco style routing, was What's really needed is a routing slot market

2011-02-08 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
s; it's far more compelling to send them to the destination PBX directly over UDP/IP. Sadly, the best mechanism anyone has come up with is manual number publishing in an rDNS style database, and the results are less than stellar... Nathan

RE: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-09 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
he next couple years as very small ISPs struggle to implement native IPv6 over those aging DSLAMs and GPON systems that don't and won't support it. Nathan

RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-09 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> Most IPv4 space is unused anyway, but it's not being reclaimed much despite > that. (How many IP addresses does the US federal government need? Few > people would think ~ 10 /8s. Especially since many of them aren't even lit > up.) What do you mean, lit up? You mean they're not in the routing t

RE: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-09 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
omes that actually use them - mostly homes that have webcams on them. But most homes go the overloaded NAT route and just translate different ports to different RFC1918 addresses... But at least in theory, what you're saying you haven't seen, is done up to some limit already at some ISPs. Nathan

RE: Christchurch New Zealand

2011-02-24 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> The problem with this is that both ARES and RACES hams have gotten there > first (orange lights and strobes flashing) and are now engaged in small-arms > fire over who gets to set their repeater up. You're now hiding under your > vehicle. What is your next move? Larger-arms fire?

Contact for the Microsoft Teredo Cloud?

2011-02-25 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
Does anyone know who to ping at Microsoft about their teredo platform? Their relay(s) doesn't/don't seem to have reachability to some bits of IPv6 space. Nathan

RE: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
Some provider woes: FAX over VOIP is a PITA. I've not yet seen an ATA or softswitch that handled it reliably. E911 for mobile devices sucks. Regulations, and the E911 system, do not seem to have the flexibility for handling this in a seamless way. Call routing (on a more global scale) sucks.

RE: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
n ALG agent installed that's trying to proxy the SIP traffic? (Yes, I hate ALGs. They are evil.) Nathan > -Original Message- > From: Owen DeLong [mailto:o...@delong.com] > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 11:26 AM > To: Bret Palsson > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subjec

RE: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
are still relevant, and certainly the number of users can be said to count. The number of hops doesn't matter one iota. Is it not email if you're only 1 hop away from your SMTP server? Nathan

RE: IPv4 address shortage? Really?

2011-03-07 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> And I fully expect that to be done at some point or another. Country > takes the entire 32bit address space for itself. You want to serve > that > country? Fine, apply for an allocation out of their /0 and route to it > over v6. What happens when countries are formed from secession? Does one

RE: SP's and v4 block assignments

2011-03-19 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
uit, there has to be some long term ROI because that work probably takes the margin out of the service for months. Nathan As always, these are my own views, and not that of my employer.

Google Geolocation

2011-03-24 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
fix this, and I missed it, then I apologize for the useless post!) Nathan

RE: IPv6 SEO implecations?

2011-03-28 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> Why is native IPv6 needed? I'd have thought a tunnel would be fine, too. I believe the concern is that the higher latency of a tunnel would impact SEO rankings.

RE: IPv6 SEO implecations?

2011-03-28 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
e not to index v6.bobdole.com. Use an .htaccess rule to rewrite requests for robots.txt based on the host header, so v4 requests get the v4.robots.txt, and v6 requests get the v6.robots.txt, which tells Google not to index things. Nathan

Contact for City of Panama City Beach, FL?

2011-04-14 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
Could someone from the IT department for the City of Panama City Beach, Florida please contact me off-list? Best Regards, Nathan Eisenberg

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