Re: 100g PCS Errors

2020-08-19 Thread Tom Beecher
It's not normal, no. On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 10:02 AM Nicholas Warren wrote: > We've got a 100g qsfp in an mx204 that has 1207 bit errors and 29666 > errored blocks after 24 hours of just being linked up... > I would assume this is not normal behavior, but I haven't used 100g > before. Do others

Re: RPKI for dummies

2020-08-20 Thread Tom Beecher
ROA = Route Origin Authorization . Origin is the key word. When you create an signed ROA and do all the publishing bits, RPKI validator software will retrieve that , validate the signature, and pass that up to routers, saying "This prefix range that originates from this ASN is valid." Then, any BG

Re: 00:aa:bb:01:23:45

2020-08-24 Thread Tom Hill
ected. Given that anyone can pick their own MAC addresses/spoof MAC addresses, the fastest resolution to this mystery will likely be to just ask. Let us know what you find out! :) -- Tom

Orange : Propagating Bogus Saudi Telecom Announcement

2020-08-24 Thread Tom Beecher
Saudi Telecom ( AS 39386 ) is currently announcing Equinix NY9's IX prefix, and Orange is gladly sharing that for the world to see. Zayo : You might want to not be using that either when you're directly connected to that exchange. :) *Router:* New York, NY *Command:* show route protocol bgp table

Re: Orange : Propagating Bogus Saudi Telecom Announcement

2020-08-24 Thread Tom Beecher
, Orange said they're not passing it along anymore. On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 4:04 PM Richard Porter wrote: > https://twitter.com/millionaire_xrp/status/1297952306357567488?s=10 > > Related? reports of outages at Chase? > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 2:13 PM Tom Beecher wrote: >

Re: TCP and UDP Port 0 - Should an ISP or ITP Block it?

2020-08-25 Thread Tom Beecher
I was just reading the same thing JTK. Of course this is followed by RFC8085 / BCP 145 , UDP Usage Guidelines : 5.1 Using UDP Ports A UDP sender SHOULD NOT use a source port value of zero. A source >port number that cannot be easily determined from the address or >payload type provid

Re: Ipv6 help

2020-08-25 Thread Tom Hill
toreanderson/clatd -- Tom

Re: Centurylink having a bad morning?

2020-08-30 Thread Tom Beecher
I am seeing some odd traffic deflections in the EU via 3356, but nothing in the US so far. Some scattershot oddball reports landing in our NOC, but nothing conclusive. On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 8:41 AM Mel Beckman wrote: > The CL portal loads for me, and I can log in, but it is slower than usual.

Re: Centurylink having a bad morning?

2020-08-30 Thread Tom Beecher
> > They’re not reachable so who knows if they’re even working on it. > Gonna go out on a limb here and assume that a lot of phones were ringing and people are in fact working on whatever it is. :) On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 8:34 AM David Hubbard wrote: > Same. Also, as reported on outages list,

Re: Centurylink having a bad morning?

2020-08-31 Thread Tom Beecher
> > https://blog.cloudflare.com/analysis-of-todays-centurylink-level-3-outage/ I definitely found Mr. Prince's writing about yesterday's events fascinating. Verizon makes a mistake with BGP filters that allows a secondary mistake from leaked "optimizer" routes to propagate, and Mr. Prince takes

Re: Does anyone actually like CenturyLink?

2020-08-31 Thread Tom Beecher
> > I've never heard a single positive word about them > There is rarely much in the way of emails/messages sent about things when they work well. On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 11:03 AM Ross Tajvar wrote: > I've never heard a single positive word about them, and I've had my fair > share of issues mys

Re: Centurylink having a bad morning?

2020-08-31 Thread Tom Beecher
t; close to implying that its Centurylink’s customers fault for not having >> multiple paths to Cloudflare that don’t touch Centurylink a bit puzzling. >> It could have just been poorly written. >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* NANOG *On >> Behalf Of

Re: Centurylink having a bad morning?

2020-08-31 Thread Tom Beecher
that with which you otherwise could not. It wouldn't be perfect, but options > no options. On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 5:08 PM Warren Kumari wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 4:36 PM Tom Beecher wrote: > > > > Hopefully those customers learned the difference between redundancy an

Re: [outages] Major Level3 (CenturyLink) Issues

2020-09-02 Thread Tom Beecher
Yeah. This actually would be a fascinating study to understand exactly what happened. The volume of BGP messages flying around because of the session churn must have been absolutely massive, especially in a complex internal infrastructure like 3356 has. I would say the scale of such an event has t

Re: BGP Community - AS0 is de-facto "no-export-to" marker - Any ASN reserved to "export-only-to"?'

2020-09-11 Thread Tom Beecher
I completely agree that there is value for people sharing different community structures that they have created for certain use cases. Such things are generally useful for both operators of any experience level. On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 8:08 AM wrote: > Reg the BCP38 vs RFC I guess is point in ca

Re: IP addresses on subnet edge (/24)

2020-09-14 Thread Tom Hill
wouldn't have been as easy to resolve without that - very few UK consumers were being assigned addresses with .255 in them at the time. -- Tom

Re: SPAM: Re: Cogent emails

2020-09-14 Thread Tom Hill
On 14/09/2020 18:13, Simon Lockhart wrote: > We gave in and just bought a small amount of transit from them. Aha! You're the reason they don't stop! :p -- Tom

Re: SRv6

2020-09-15 Thread Tom Hill
mething like that. "smartly divided"... Did someone else prepare these words for you? ;) -- Tom

Re: SRv6

2020-09-16 Thread Tom Hill
On 16/09/2020 01:31, aar...@gvtc.com wrote: > then, yes, I may have and didn't know it. Hey, was it you? LOL Very unlikely. You may do well to peruse some of the objections to the network-programming draft in the SPRING WG. There are many. :) -- Tom

Re: CenturyLink -> Lumen

2020-09-16 Thread Tom Hill
On 16/09/2020 11:18, Matt Hoppes wrote: > Quantum Fiber?  Sounds like a misbranding. I highly doubt they are using > Quantum technology.  Very prescient for when it becomes commercially possible though, eh? :) -- Tom

Re: SRv6

2020-09-21 Thread Tom Hill
r infer privacy. One may prefer an alternate history, but you may find more success in expelling that energy in pursuit of creating a better future. See/also: "broadband" "software defined networks" "the cloud" -- Tom

Re: SRv6

2020-09-21 Thread Tom Hill
On 21/09/2020 19:38, Randy Bush wrote: > newspeak -- 1984 colloquialism /kəˈləʊkwɪəlɪz(ə)m/ noun: a word or phrase that is not formal or literary and is used in ordinary or familiar conversation. -- Tom

Re: Apple moved from CDN, and ARIN whois

2020-09-24 Thread Tom Beecher
Apple started moving traffic off 3rd party CDNs to their own CDN six years ago. This is not a new development. Also, I see no issues with an ARIN whois lookup for that prefix. ~ % whois 17.0.0.0/8 % IANA WHOIS server % for more information on IANA, visit http://www.iana.org % This query returned

Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4

2020-09-28 Thread Tom Beecher
> > Why stray away from how PC games were 20 years ago where there was a > dedicated server and clients just spoke to servers? Much cheaper to just let all the game clients talk peer to peer than it is to maintain regional dedicated server infrastructure. On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 8:35 AM Mike Ham

Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4

2020-09-28 Thread Tom Beecher
gt; > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > -- > *From: *"Tom Beecher" > *To: *"Mike Hammett" > *Cc: *"Justin Wilson (Lists)" , "North Ameri

Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4

2020-09-28 Thread Tom Beecher
rs with all that implies. > > /Carlos > > On 28 Sep 2020, at 11:21, Tom Beecher wrote: > > Why stray away from how PC games were 20 years ago where there was a >> dedicated server and clients just spoke to servers? > > > Much cheaper to just let all the g

Re: IPv4 Mismanagement

2020-10-05 Thread Tom Hill
is a long-winded, laborious, thankless task (well, mostly thankless) and we should be writing software to do it for us. Of course, we all know how bad everyone is at that, ergo it isn't often done. On the other hand, perhaps these ISPs are worried that they might be audited by an RIR? -- Tom

Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

2020-10-06 Thread Tom Beecher
This is the same state that spend $60M-ish to revamp their entire unemployment system 6 years ago, only to have it completely collapse this year when 'rona landed. On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 4:19 PM Mike Hammett wrote: > I understand that there is underlying work that can't be sourced somewhere > el

Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch

2021-08-30 Thread Tom Beecher
> > There are usually redundancies built-in when it comes to safety. i.e. > what's the point of installing grounds on the upstream side if you have the > switch open? If the lines are de-energized, why wear gloves? If you're > doing all that, why carry an AED? > My uncle was a high tension line

Re: An update on the AfriNIC situation

2021-08-30 Thread Tom Beecher
> > After "consideration of the > affidavit" the court allowed "up to" $50 million to be frozen. Whatever the > merits of the affidavit are, it indicates that the court looked at the > facts, > made a determination and based on that ordered the asset freeze. > There's an important distinction to b

Re: An update on the AfriNIC situation

2021-08-30 Thread Tom Beecher
It strikes me that ( without pointing at anyone in particular ) that there's a bit of absolutism trending in this conversation. It's possible for many things in this list to be true. - It's possible that AFRINIC may have been following it's policies accurately at the time of the initial allocatio

Re: An update on the AfriNIC situation

2021-09-01 Thread Tom Beecher
> > AFRINIC has received clearance of enough money to cover their normal > expenses > for August and September. As such, there shouldn’t be any problems with > salaries > or “human cost” in those months. Hopefully given that reprieve, cooler > heads at > AFRINIC can prevail and some form of settlem

Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle! (geofeeds)

2021-09-01 Thread Tom Beecher
100% the Litter Robot is amazing. ( Except for my older cat, she's pushing 19, had to build a ramp for her. ) But I also agree there are limits to what needs IoTing. I don't live in a house large enough that I can't go see if the box needs cleaning within about 20s. I also sure as hell don't need

Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle! (geofeeds)

2021-09-01 Thread Tom Beecher
Televisions generally have a way smaller pixel density than a computer monitor. It is very noticeable. On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 2:27 PM wrote: > > Every time I've read a thread about using TVs for monitors several > people who'd tried would say don't do it. I think the gist was that > the image pr

Re: An update on the AfriNIC situation

2021-09-01 Thread Tom Beecher
o access to their money. On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 3:40 PM Owen DeLong wrote: > > > On Sep 1, 2021, at 04:21 , Tom Beecher wrote: > > AFRINIC has received clearance of enough money to cover their normal >> expenses >> for August and September. As such, there shouldn’t b

Re: Never push the Big Red Button (New York City subway failure)

2021-09-15 Thread Tom Beecher
> > If the generators are "emergency power", and you need to switch back to > "utility power", obviously the way to do this must be the big red button, > clearly marked as "EMERGENCY POWER OFF", no?! > The owner of my previous company did the same thing to us many years ago because there was a sma

Comcast Customer Owned Modem Firmware : WAS : Xfi Advances Security (comcast)

2021-09-16 Thread Tom Beecher
Jason- I have a sidebar question here. I came across the AQM paper you and others recently published. ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.13968.pdf ) In that paper, the following is stated : When a customer purchases their own cable modem, they are responsible for > administering it, updating the softw

Re: S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge

2021-10-01 Thread Tom Hill
imple as "why don't you peer???" Regards, -- Tom

Re: massive facebook outage presently

2021-10-04 Thread Tom Beecher
Curious if there is a malicious angle after the 60 Minutes story last night. On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 12:26 PM Dmitry Sherman wrote: > same problem in Israel > > > > > > *From:* NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+dmitry=interhost@nanog.org] *On > Behalf Of *Eric Kuhnke > *Sent:* Monday, 4 October 202

Re: massive facebook outage presently

2021-10-04 Thread Tom Beecher
I see the same. Still see those prefixes via direct peering, but DFZ doesn't have them. Their auths are not reachable even though I have routes for them. Some other weirdness I'm poking a bit on that doesn't seem like it could possibly be related to FB DNS though. On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 12:39 PM

Re: massive facebook outage presently

2021-10-04 Thread Tom Beecher
They haven't completely dropped off, but the big subnets certainly have. I'm only seeing 20-odd /24s from them via the DFZ, but everything larger still directly. On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 12:55 PM wrote: > Looks bigger than DNS. Some people are saying they’ve disappeared off the > DFZ. > > > > *Fro

Re: Facebook post-mortems...

2021-10-05 Thread Tom Beecher
> > Maybe withdrawing those routes to their NS could have been mitigated by > having NS in separate entities. > Assuming they had such a thing in place , it would not have helped. Facebook stopped announcing the vast majority of their IP space to the DFZ during this. So even they did have an offn

Re: Facebook post-mortems...

2021-10-05 Thread Tom Beecher
> > My speculative guess would be that OOB access to a few outbound-facing > routers per DC does not help much if a configuration error withdraws the > infrastructure prefixes down to the rack level while dedicated OOB to > each RSW would be prohibitive. > If your OOB has any dependence on the inb

Re: Facebook post-mortems...

2021-10-05 Thread Tom Beecher
> > People keep repeating this but I don't think it's true. > My comment is solely sourced on my direct observations on my network, maybe 30-45 minutes in. Everything except a few /24s disappeared from DFZ providers, but I still heard those prefixes from direct peerings. There was no disaggregati

Re: Better description of what happened

2021-10-06 Thread Tom Beecher
By what they have said publicly, the initial trigger point was that all of their datacenters were disconnected from their internal backbone, thus unreachable. Once that occurs, nothing else really matters. Even if the external announcements were not withdrawn, and the edge DNS servers could provid

Re: Better description of what happened

2021-10-06 Thread Tom Beecher
doesn't. I'm sure they'll learn from this and in the future have some better things in place to account for such a scenario. On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 12:21 PM Bjørn Mork wrote: > Tom Beecher writes: > > > Even if the external > > announcements were not withdraw

Re: DNS pulling BGP routes?

2021-10-07 Thread Tom Beecher
> > But, the reality is that it is impossible to correctly > recognize server is unavailable or to correctly withdraw > routes only when server is unavailable. > Not true at all. On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 9:50 AM Masataka Ohta < mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote: > William Herrin wrote: > > >

Re: DNS pulling BGP routes?

2021-10-08 Thread Tom Beecher
> > In facebook case, it was combined with poor understanding > on short/long expiration period to cause the disaster. > Still, no. The CAUSE of the outage was all of the FB datacenters being completely disconnected from their backbone, and thus the internet. DNS breaking was a direct RESULT of t

Re: What Eyeballs Did During The Facebook Nap

2021-10-08 Thread Tom Beecher
Yeah.. I mean people couldn't get stuck in the DoomScroll, so they chose to do something else. I'm sure plenty of people did something besides Netflix. On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 10:35 AM Steven Bakker via NANOG wrote: > Hi Mark, > > On Fri, 2021-10-08 at 16:18 +0200, Mark Tinka wrote: > > Could Net

Re: What Eyeballs Did During The Facebook Nap

2021-10-08 Thread Tom Beecher
> > Which they probably will, but it won't be labeled as dangerous or > leading to immediate mental harm. > There is already lots of published research on social media addiction that does call it out just that strongly. There is a reason why that company has started going to great lengths in rece

Re: What Eyeballs Did During The Facebook Nap

2021-10-08 Thread Tom Beecher
appen in the world that make me really wonder. I'm sure my therapist is sick of hearing about it by now. :p On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 11:40 AM Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 10/8/21 17:26, Tom Beecher wrote: > > > There is already lots of published research on social media addicti

Re: S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge

2021-10-12 Thread Tom Beecher
> > I think it would be absolutely *stunning* for content providers > to turn the model on its head; use a bittorrent like model for > caching and serving content out of subscribers homes at > recalcitrant ISPs, so that data doesn't come from outside, > it comes out of the mesh within the eyeball n

Re: S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge

2021-10-13 Thread Tom Beecher
t from the MPAA/RIAA/etc because there is a torrent stream emanating from their connection, and I have little faith that any provider would go out of their way to jump in front and say 'no no, that's our tech'. On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 5:15 PM Matthew Petach wrote: > > >

Re: DNS pulling BGP routes?

2021-10-13 Thread Tom Beecher
> > For network neutrality, backbone providers *MUST* be neutral > for contents they carry. > > However, CDN providers having their own backbone are using > their backbone for contents they prefer, which is *NOT* > neutral at all. > > As such, access/retail providers may pay for peering with > neut

Re: DNS pulling BGP routes?

2021-10-13 Thread Tom Beecher
rectly with the end user's ISP. Where is anything related to neutrality being 'violated', regardless of which path I choose to send the bits out? On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 10:36 AM Masataka Ohta < mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote: > Tom Beecher wrote: > > >

Re: DNS pulling BGP routes?

2021-10-18 Thread Tom Beecher
> > Otherwise, CDN providers with their own backbone are free riders > ignoring access costs. > I think the Pointy Hairs and Bean Counters would love it if they could ignore all the monthly bills for the access costs that we generate. On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 9:46 AM Masataka Ohta < mo...@necom830

Re: S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge

2021-10-19 Thread Tom Beecher
> > Vs. an ISP that is causing the problem or trying to run a protection > racket against content providers, I think it wouldn’t be hard for the > content > provider to supply appropriate messaging inserted at the front end of > playback to explain the situation to their mutual customers. Instead o

Re: PowerSwitch S4100 (S4148-ON) chipset

2021-10-20 Thread Tom Hill
ing in my head that said Extreme had one. Was it the X450-G2? -- Tom

Re: PowerSwitch S4100 (S4148-ON) chipset

2021-10-20 Thread Tom Hill
On 20/10/2021 16:50, Tom Hill wrote: > On 19/10/2021 14:50, Tim Jackson wrote: >> It's a lower bandwidth Trident2+ with some different I/O options iirc. >> Same featureset, but a mix of 10G and 25G serdes, targeted at like >> 48x10g+4x100G boxes. > > That was my

Re: IPv6 and CDN's

2021-10-26 Thread Tom Hill
GNAT state table. ... And that's before they call you, as Tim also rightly points out. -- Tom

Re: Validating multi-path in production?

2021-11-15 Thread Tom Beecher
It sounds like you want something like this: https://github.com/facebookarchive/fbtracert We have an internal tool that works on generally similar principles, works pretty well. ( I have no relationship with Facebook; I just always remember their presos on UDPinger and FBTracert from my first NA

Re: FERC releases final report on Texas power outages (2021)

2021-11-19 Thread Tom Beecher
Yeah, some additional specifics about this would be helpful. I see no new charges on my nat gas gas bills in my state (NY) going back 4 months that I still had laying around. On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 12:32 AM Haudy Kazemi via NANOG wrote: > Yet, in spite of claims of TX being an island, customer

Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast

2021-11-19 Thread Tom Beecher
> > It may help IPv6 deployment if more V4 addresses are eventually > released and allocated > No, it won't. The biggest impediment to IPv6 adoption is that too many people invest too much time and resources in finding ways to squeeze more blood from the IPv4 stone. If tomorrow, RFCs were change

Re: private 5G networks?

2021-11-30 Thread Tom Beecher
My assumption was that he meant GAA. On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 3:48 PM Shane Ronan wrote: > What do you mean 3rd Tier? > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 2:47 PM Michael Thomas wrote: > >> >> On 11/30/21 11:38 AM, Shane Ronan wrote: >> >> The spectrum is CBRS and there are MANY benefits to 5G over Wifi,

Re: private 5G networks?

2021-11-30 Thread Tom Beecher
> > In my view there is no practical difference. The owner has full control of > his warehouse and it would be very illegal for any outside party to install > any device at all including unauthorised wifi devices. > Nothing illegal about someone sitting in a parking lot next door with a pineapple

Re: private 5G networks?

2021-12-01 Thread Tom Beecher
es are much more likely to investigate and take action against intentional interference in these frequency ranges than they would be in the unlicensed wifi bands. On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 5:44 PM Baldur Norddahl wrote: > > > tir. 30. nov. 2021 23.19 skrev Tom Beecher : > >> In my view

Re: private 5G networks?

2021-12-01 Thread Tom Beecher
> > This should give a good overview: > > https://backend.orbit.dtu.dk/ws/files/128950142/COMST2661384.pdf > > It is in fact quite interesting. > Thanks for sharing that. Excellent read, really interesting stuff. Couple quick takeaways: - The design is clearly well thought out to account for the

Re: private 5G networks?

2021-12-06 Thread Tom Beecher
> > To come back on Private 5G networks. Can a private 5G network protect > against spyware like Pegazus? > No disrespect intended here, but you are essentially asking if going from 2.4GHz Wifi to 5GHz wifi will make things more secure. I'm sure you know the answer to that. Private 5G is just a

Assistance with Microsoft O365 Email Deliverability?

2021-12-10 Thread Tom Daly
Hi NANOG'ers, Reaching out for help - having troubles with email delivery into O365 inboxes. Have done the requisite PTRs, SPF+DKIM work, domain reputation, RBL checks, etc. For some reason, this one is vexxing me. Anyone from Microsoft on the list that could lend a helping hand? Thanks

Re: AWS and IPv6

2021-12-14 Thread Tom Hill
That sounds remarkably sensible given that the AWS customer base will be dipping their toes into the world of IPv6 very cautiously. (No good for a honeypot, but we have many other means for that.) -- Tom

Re: Class D addresses? was: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public

2021-12-14 Thread Tom Hill
those whom Jay refers to, had fewer addresses to buy & sell - definitely not more. There are ~4.3B addresses in the entire 32-bit IPv4 space, and there are ~4.3B /64s in every IPv6 /32. The D/E IPv4 space would make speculators rich, nothing else of note. -- Tom

Re: What do you think about this airline vs 5G brouhaha?

2022-01-19 Thread Tom Beecher
Altimeter Band : 4.2Ghz - 4.4Ghz VZ and AT&T agreed (long ago) to reduce power and stay inside 3.7Ghz - 3.98Ghz once the full deployment was done, staying 200MHz away from altimeters. In Japan, they have been running 5G for over a year now up to 4,1Ghz, and restarting again at 4.5Ghz. Only 100MHz

Re: What do you think about this airline vs 5G brouhaha?

2022-01-19 Thread Tom Beecher
d off. On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 11:13 AM Tom Beecher wrote: > Altimeter Band : 4.2Ghz - 4.4Ghz > > VZ and AT&T agreed (long ago) to reduce power and stay inside 3.7Ghz - > 3.98Ghz once the full deployment was done, staying 200MHz away from > altimeters. > > In Japan, t

Re: What do you think about this airline vs 5G brouhaha?

2022-01-19 Thread Tom Beecher
> Jay, one thing you’re missing is that a maximum of 2 (and almost always 1) radar altimeter will be in use per airfield, as one aircraft will be landing at a time. I believe that Lady Benjamin may have conflated the radar altimeter on aircraft with the instrument landing system transmitters. On

Re: Operator survey: Incrementally deployable secure Internet routing

2022-01-24 Thread Tom Beecher
This seems like Rube Goldberg Machine levels of complexity and overhead to try and solve for forged-origin , when good best practices already makes the risk of that almost negligible. On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 5:22 PM Yixin Sun wrote: > Dear Nanog, > > We appreciate that your time is very preciou

Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?

2022-01-26 Thread Tom Beecher
> > For some folk, the risk of money cost outweighs the risk of loss of > direct operational control. > Those folks also tend to learn hard lessons about what happens when the Magic Cloud provider fails in a way that isn't possible to anticipate because it's all black box. Saving 12 months of ope

Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?

2022-01-27 Thread Tom Beecher
> > I do disagree, if I understood the argument right. If the argument is > 'cloud makes no business sense to anyone'. > That wasn't the argument I intended to make, but I see how it could have been interpreted that way. There are absolutely a ton of use cases where cloud usage makes absolute sen

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Tom Beecher
> > Are there any authoritative resources from said organizations saying you > shouldn't use their servers for your persistent ping destinations? I'm not sure that an ' authoritative resource ' is really needed. It should be generally understood at this point in the internet's life that networks

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-09 Thread Tom Beecher
> > Side note, am I missing something obvious where I can’t just have hardware > routers strip ICMP, pipe it separately, put 500 VMs behind 4 vLBs and let > the world ping the brains out of it? > Seems like a lot of overhead for zero benefit. On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 2:11 PM Lady Benjamin Cannon of

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-09 Thread Tom Beecher
njamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE > 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC > CEO > b...@6by7.net > "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company > in the world.” > ANNOUNCING: 6x7 GLOBAL MARITIME > <https://alexmhoulton.wixsite.com/6x7network

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-10 Thread Tom Beecher
> > I'm not going to opinion on the quantity of benefits, but this thought > could lend a razor from Occam. > I always enjoy a good shave from ol' Occam,no worries. On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 2:54 AM Saku Ytti wrote: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 at 22:19, Tom Beecher wrot

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-10 Thread Tom Beecher
e only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company > in the world.” > ANNOUNCING: 6x7 GLOBAL MARITIME > <https://alexmhoulton.wixsite.com/6x7networks> > > FCC License KJ6FJJ > > > On Feb 9, 2022, at 12:15 PM, Tom Beecher wrote: > > Side note,

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Tom Beecher
> > (your license runs out, the box is a paper-weight) Should be a hard no for anyone purchasing network equipment anyways, but people have reasons I guess. On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 1:19 PM Shawn L via NANOG wrote: > Meraki MX series? > > > > I don't like the way they do their licensing (your l

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-11 Thread Tom Beecher
earn from our prior mistakes. On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 3:29 AM Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 2/10/22 20:27, Tom Beecher wrote: > > > > > I guess it depends on what the actual problem trying to be solved is. > > > > If I understand it correctly, the OG issue was s

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2022-02-11 Thread Tom Beecher
> > Can you provide examples? > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twe6uTwOyJo&ab_channel=NANOG Our good friend Jared could only get 1.5M DSL living just outside Ann Arbor, MI, so he had to start his own CLEC. I have friends in significantly more rural areas than he lives in ( Niagara and Orleans c

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-11 Thread Tom Beecher
#x27;s different. :) On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 9:51 AM james.cut...@consultant.com < james.cut...@consultant.com> wrote: > On Feb 11, 2022, at 8:33 AM, Tom Beecher wrote: > > > The prediciate assumption that "pinging one destination is a valid check > that my internet works

Re: LEC copper removal from commercial properties

2022-02-20 Thread Tom Beecher
I think this goes back to 2016. This explains it better than I could. https://publicknowledge.org/the-fccs-plan-to-gut-tech-transitions-rules-is-bad-for-consumers-small-businesses-and-competition/ Essentially Mr.Pai didn't change the rules, he pushed through the order ( FCC-16-90 ) that redefined

Re: BANDWIDTH and VONAGE lose FCC rules exemption for STIR/SHAKEN

2022-02-24 Thread Tom Mitchell
I've seen an uptick, but nothing too dramatic. Maybe 4-5 junk calls a day - mostly afternoon. -- Tom On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 9:57 AM Josh Luthman wrote: > Mine exploded since the requirement date. Some mornings I get a dozen > before lunch. > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 2:33

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2022-02-24 Thread Tom Mitchell
las, still only one choice. -- Tom On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 4:52 PM Mike Lyon wrote: > If they allow antennas on the roof, we can service them :) > > Your house, on the other hand, we already lucked out on that one! > > -Mike Lyon > Ridge Wireless > > On Feb 16, 2022, at 16:48

Re: BANDWIDTH and VONAGE lose FCC rules exemption for STIR/SHAKEN

2022-02-25 Thread Tom Beecher
on call waiting. :/ > > Moral of the story? > > If you retire and join AARP, put your most hated > enemy's phone number down instead of yours. :( > > Matt > > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 7:28 PM Tom Mitchell > wrote: > >> I've seen an uptick,

Re: Russian aligned ASNs?

2022-02-25 Thread Tom Beecher
> > Would it improve Internet health to refuse Russian ASN announcements? > This should never be a proposed solution. On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 7:42 PM William Allen Simpson < william.allen.simp...@gmail.com> wrote: > There have been reports of DDoS and new targeted malware attacks. > > There were

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-01 Thread Tom Beecher
> > Starlink however forgets that Russia does have anti satellite weapons and > they probably will not hesitate to use them which will make low earth orbit > a very dangerous place when Russia starts blowing up the Starlink birds. > I applaud the humanitarian aspect of providing Starlink service, >

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread Tom Beecher
> > So they’re going to offer the service to anyone in a denied area for free > somehow? How do you send someone a bill or how do they pay it if you can’t > do business in the country? > There is a difference between a country allowing SpaceX to install a ground station in their territory, and pro

Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia?

2022-03-04 Thread Tom Beecher
> > With the sanctions in place, how would Cogent get paid for providing > service? > As has been said previously, taking preemptive actions based on what MAY or MAY NOT occur is a slippery slope to be on. On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 6:47 PM William Herrin wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 1:15 PM B

Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia?

2022-03-07 Thread Tom Beecher
> > However, it could also be that given the quick rise in cyber warfare that > they do not want to be caught in the crossfire and carrying and dealing > with the loads of DDOS and pure hacking attempts going in both directions. > The burden of dealing with this as well as payment issues and maybe

Re: 202203071610.AYC Re: Making Use of 240/4 NetBlock

2022-03-08 Thread Tom Beecher
I recall reading the IETF draft some time ago. It seemed like an overly convoluted mechanism to tunnel 240/4. On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 8:50 AM Abraham Y. Chen wrote: > Dear Colleagues: > > 0)I was made aware of a recent discussion on this Forum that cited our > work on the 240/4 NetBlock, nick

Re: CC: s to Non List Members (was Re: 202203080924.AYC Re: 202203071610.AYC Re: Making Use of 240/4 NetBlock)

2022-03-08 Thread Tom Beecher
> > Is it not past time we admit that we have no real idea what the > schedule or level of effort will be for making IPv6 ubiquitous? This > year it was more than last year and next year it'll probably be more > than this year. The more precise predictions all seem to have fallen > flat. > The onl

Re: VoLTE and SRTP

2022-03-08 Thread Tom Beecher
Don't need to break phone to tower encryption when the vast majority of the call pathway is not encrypted. On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 4:59 PM Michael Thomas wrote: > > Hi, I was reading an article on why Russia hasn't taken out Ukraine's > mobile networks and one of the premises was that they could

Re: CC: s to Non List Members (was Re: 202203080924.AYC Re: 202203071610.AYC Re: Making Use of 240/4 NetBlock)

2022-03-09 Thread Tom Beecher
> > It doesn't take any OS upgrades for "getting everything to work on > IPv6". All the OS's and routers have supported IPv6 for more than a > decade. > There are lots of vendors, both inside and outside the networking space, that have consistently released products with non-existant or broken IP

Re: CC: s to Non List Members (was Re: 202203080924.AYC Re: 202203071610.AYC Re: Making Use of 240/4 NetBlock)

2022-03-09 Thread Tom Hill
On 09/03/2022 00:25, Tom Beecher wrote: The only way IPv6 will ever be ubiquitous is if there comes a time where there is some forcing event that requires it to be. In about two years time, IPv4 addresses will be worth on the order of $100/IP, assuming current trends hold. That's a l

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