Re: Virginia voter registration down due to cable cut

2020-10-13 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 17:11:53 -0400, Christopher Morrow said: > sorry I meant that: 1) yes clearly it's still the middle of > roadwork/backhoe season, 2) i'm surprised that a single path failure > for their production datacenter was enough to take the system offline. > 'spof' there meant: "Wow, a s

Re: Telia Not Withdrawing v6 Routes

2020-11-16 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 17:36:58 -0800, Sabri Berisha said: > Also, in the case that I described it wasn't a Junos device. Makes me wonder > how bugs > like that get introduced. One would expect that after 20+ years of writing > BGP code, > handling a withdrawl would be easy-peasy. Handling a withd

Re: AFRINIC IP Block Thefts -- The Saga Continues

2020-11-16 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 09:22:33 +, Elad Cohen said: > Did I start legal proceedings with AfriNIC with conspiracy theories or with > facts and data? OK.. I'll probably end up regretting this, but... Is there any actual independently verifiable proof that legal proceeding have been started? p

Re: AFRINIC IP Block Thefts -- The Saga Continues

2020-11-17 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 10:02:01 -0800, Jay Hennigan said: > In the old days on the NANAE newsgroup, such bogus threats of legal > action were categorized as one calling their "cartooney". People who > huff and puff and threaten to sue rarely do so. If someone actually > plans on suing you, your first

Re: The Real AI Threat?

2020-12-10 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:56:04 -0500, Max Harmony via NANOG said: > Programs have never done what you *want* them to do, only what you = > *tell* them to do. Amen to that - there was the time many moons ago when we launched a copy of a vendor's network monitoring system, and told it to auto-discover

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-26 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 00:32:49 -0500, b...@theworld.com said: > I suppose that depends a lot on what the actual prices of a flat-rate > 1gb vs a fully saturated 10gb. If it's $50 vs $100/mo perhaps some > would say ok I'll risk the $50 overage, if it's $50 vs $500/mo maybe > not. > > And today we ha

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-26 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 17:50:28 +, Mel Beckman said: > If vendors saw a 10GbE CPE market, they would serve it. Obviously they don’t > see a market. Why don’t people insisting vendors build their hobby horse see > that? It’s like they’re being deliberately obtuse :) The number of people th

Re: [External] Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-26 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 12:58:42 -0800, Michael Thomas said: > can go on for days. We have a generator because of this, but everybody > getting a generator in the middle of the Berkeley Hills would be > something of its own horror show, but it will probably come down to that. Egads. Especially if a l

Re: [External] Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-27 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 17:57:17 +0100, Baldur Norddahl said: > Here in the civilised world we bury the wires ;-) Even the long-haul 765kv and up connections across the power grid? In the US, they're out on towers for a reason - you can fly along them in a helicopter and easily spot parts of cable t

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-28 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 20:02:36 +, Mel Beckman said: > This means your staffing must be large enough to never have any queuing, or > you’re giving away your paying customers' time to non-paying customers. > Neither > approach is scalable in a competitive business environment, because SOMEBODY

Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study

2021-01-01 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Fri, 01 Jan 2021 17:12:40 -0500, Matt Hoppes said: > How would that even work? Force a pop up into web traffic? That's not going to play nicely at all in a world of https:// > What if the end users is using an app on a phone? I'm having a hard time thinking of what app I could *possibly* be

Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study

2021-01-03 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sun, 03 Jan 2021 18:59:37 +1300, Mark Foster said: > In my mind it's simple.� The streaming companies need to have a channel > within their streaming system to get a message to a 'currently active > customer' (emergency popup notification that appears when their app is > open or their websit

Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study

2021-01-03 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sun, 03 Jan 2021 09:26:07 +, Mark Foster said:' > Yeah my family got a PS4 for Christmas. But we've had an Xbox One for > the last few years. There are quite a few streaming apps, true. But a > lot fewer of those than worldwide telcos, or jurisdictions, or emergency > services. You missed

Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study

2021-01-03 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sun, 03 Jan 2021 18:00:22 -0700, "Keith Medcalf" said: > This is the same thing I tell shithead politicians and pollsters that cause > my phone to ring. If you wish to speak with me then you can pay to install > your own communications equipment at your own expense. Um... Keith? Pretty much a

Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study

2021-01-04 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Mon, 04 Jan 2021 15:33:10 -0500, b...@theworld.com said: > Why wouldn't we just build this into 10-year battery smoke alarms, a > simple radio receiver? First, that means your smoke alarm batteries run down faster, which is a major issue. I didn't bother thinking past that show-stopper, others

Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study

2021-01-05 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Tue, 05 Jan 2021 15:48:47 -0500, b...@theworld.com said: > How much faster? If it took one minute of battery life off a 10 year > battery would that be a problem? 30 minutes? I suspect the proper time units are closer to months rather than minutes. > How much power would a bit of circuitry wa

Re: Show NOCs: OIG report: Should you charge extra for NOC tours?

2021-01-07 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Thu, 07 Jan 2021 23:35:06 +, "Jay R. Ashworth" said: > > From: "Brandon Svec" > > It is not really different than most other tourist attractions. Some are > > amazed > > and curious to see the largest ball of twine > Those would be people who *don't* do this for a living, mostly... > >

Re: WhatsApp's New Policy Has...

2021-01-08 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:10:41 -0600, Richard Porter said: > I missed that... *he says as he deletes Keybase* Hopefully not before you told your Keybase contacts where you were going. :) pgpytCcsAjPkH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 18:08:24 -0500, Izaac said: > demonstrated consistently different behavior between them, i.e. the > @potus account is used for official communications and @realdonaldtrump > for personal communications with the public. The former is indeed How does that square with the White

Re: Parler

2021-01-13 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:41:55 -0500, Matt Corallo said: > In case anyone thought Amazon was being particularly *careful* around their > enforcement of Parler's ban...this is from > today on parler's new host: > > $ dig parler.com ns > ... > parler.com. 300 IN NS ns4.epik.com

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-22 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:07:42 -0800, Sabri Berisha said: > Financial incentives also work. Perhaps we can convince Mr. Biden to give a > .5% > tax cut to corporations that fully implement v6. That will create some bonus > targets. And how would you define "fully implement v6", anyhow? Case in poi

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-05 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Fri, 05 Feb 2021 17:25:34 -0800, Doug Barton said: > I am genuinely curious, how would you explain the problem, and describe > a solution, to an almost exclusively non-technical audience who just > wants to get the bits flowing again? "The people who did Disney's software wrote it for the Inter

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-10 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 04:04:43 -0800, Owen DeLong said: > Please explain to me how you uniquely number 40M endpoints with RFC-1918 > without running out of > addresses and without creating partitioned networks. OK.. I'll bite. What network design needs 40M endpoints and can't tolerate partitioned

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-15 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 22:25:56 -0800, William Herrin said: > This particular problem could be quickly resolved if the OSes still > getting updates were updated to default name resolution to prioritize > the IPv4 addresses instead. That would allow broken IPv6 > configurations to exist without breaki

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-15 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 10:51:51 -0800, Sabri Berisha said: > Well, considering this RIPE article that talked about IPv7 already.. > > https://lists.ripe.net/pipermail/ripe-org-closed/1993/msg00024.html Bonus points for those who remember/know where v5 and v8 were from :) pgpdrYkPJgCF0.pgp Descript

Re: Famous operational issues

2021-02-23 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:46:38 -0800, Randy Bush said: > maybe late '60s or so, we had a few 2314 dasd monsters[0]. think maybe > 4m x 2m with 9 drives with removable disk packs. > > a grave shift operator gets errors on a drive and wonders if maybe they > swap it into another spindle. no luck, so

Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

2021-03-20 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 14:13:04 +0100, Niels Bakker said: > * r...@gsp.org (Rich Kulawiec) [Sat 20 Mar 2021, 14:03 CET]: > >2. This is a low-traffic list, so even without appropriate mail client > >support it's really not a big deal. > > The volume isn't the point, the S:N ratio is. Mails like this th

Re: Peering and Caching for Epic Games, Fortnite, et al

2021-03-22 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 20:13:46 -0600, Jose Luis Rodriguez said: > experience when downloading the neverending > Fortnite/Spacequest/Blizzard/DigDug updates that run down our pipes. Would > know who they are ) and would really like to link to the source even if it > means trenching through the core

Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

2021-03-23 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 15:39:49 -, Emil Pfeffer said: > The generational gap is not an issue it is how things need to be. The network > engineering the younger generation deals with is not the same networking the > old > generation deals with but built upon this old networks. This two generation

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-23 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 17:34:37 -0600, Grant Taylor via NANOG said: > On 3/23/21 4:16 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: > > But they still have the originating domain's From: address. > > My opinion is that messages from the mailing list should not have the > originating domain in the From: address. The mess

Re: 10 years from now... (was: internet futures)

2021-03-27 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 12:42:20 -0700, Michael Thomas said: > dishwasher will probably be common, but that's hardly exciting. LEO > internet providers will be coming online which might make a difference > in the corners of the world where it's hard to get access, but will it > allow internet access t

Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

2021-03-27 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:51:28 -0400, "Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail)" said: > how I am called on by younger peers and can remember things that the kids > haven’t had time to learn. > > Now that last one has no real network application .. but it makes me feel > good. Oh, there are *tons* of stu

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-30 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sun, 30 May 2021 15:56:52 -0500, Blake Dunlap said: > The co op electric serving my families house in bfe tn that doesn't have > either sewer or cable managed to run hard fiber for dirt cheap to all their > subscribers. Its clear from that the problem isnt can't, it's won't. Are you able to sha

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-06-01 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Tue, 01 Jun 2021 10:10:17 -, scott said: > $10400 / $125 = 84 months or 7 years. > On the high side: 14 years. Plus ongoing monthly costs that drags out the break-even. The big question is how to get a CFO to buy into stuff with a long break-even schedule when short-term profits get empha

Re: aggregation tool that allows a bit of fuzz to aggregating ?

2021-06-13 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 14:47:01 -0800, "babydr DBA James W. Laferriere" said: > But now I am seeing a new trick fro some entities that are transmitting > from every other ipv4 address such as (*) below . And the trust (& crusty) > ol'tool just doesn't allow for a bitt of fuzz in its aggrega

Re: Can somebody explain these ransomwear attacks?

2021-06-25 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:55:12 -0700, JoeSox said: > It gets tricky when 'your' company will lose money $$$ while you wait a > month to restore from your cloud backups. If that's a concern, you've *already* totally screwed the pooch regarding DR planning. pgphow4jPrnvf.pgp Description: PGP sign

Re: IANA 6to4 assignment status

2021-08-02 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Mon, 02 Aug 2021 11:57:54 +0200, Lars Prehn said: > Is there a reason why the status of 2002::/16 in IANA's IPv6 unicast > assignments list [1] is ALLOCATED (with '6to4' as designation and the > note field indicating reservation) rather than RESERVED? It can probably be moved back to 'reserved

Re: Newbie Questions: How-to monitor/control unauthorized uses of our IPs and DNS zones?

2021-08-20 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 01:32:16 +0700, Pirawat WATANAPONGSE via NANOG said: > 1. How-to monitor whether some outsiders are putting our IP addresses into > their A/ records without me knowing about it? So some bozo sticks an entry in their DNS that says bozo-entry.example.com A your.ip.addres

Re: An update on the AfriNIC situation

2021-08-27 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Fri, 27 Aug 2021 09:50:01 -0700, Owen DeLong via NANOG said: > > Cloud innovation accounts for 80% of all AFRINIC whois updates in 2021 > > to date and in AFRINIC whois, over 10 million (roughly 10% of all > > AFRINIC space) IP addresses whois information has not been updated in > > more than

Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-01-23 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:13:15 +0100, Bryan Holloway said: > Game releases are hardly a new thing, but these last two events seem to > be almost an order of magnitude higher than what we're used to (at least > on our predominantly eyeball network.) > > Any thoughts from the community? We're taking s

Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-01-24 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 08:55:12 -0600, "Aaron Gould" said: > Thanks Jared, When I reminisce with my boss he reminds me that this telco/ISP > here initially started with a 56kbps internet uplink , lol I remember when a "gateway" was a Microvax II with an ethernet card and a bisync card, and fuzzballs

Re: Prominent horse racing identities (was Re: Elad Cohen)

2020-01-27 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 07:10:02 +, Large Hadron Collider said: > As much as Mr Cohen's minor libel of Spamhaus and ARIN exposes him as perhaps > having something to hide on this subject, Mr Guilmette's message here, among > the other screeds of his I have read, seems to leak anti-Semitism from its

Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-02-14 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 09:39:09 -0800, Ahmed Borno said: > The thread started with bandwidth surges and now power hogging is > mentioned, I wonder what else might happen as a side effect to a small > number of console/gaming companies not taking a direct responsibility in > how they release large upd

Re: ATT Microcell in Austin, TX

2020-02-16 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 16:57:24 -0600, Chris Boyd said: > Since people on here like to talk about the generatorn run time on cell > towers, I thought y’all might like to see an ATT microcell in downtown > Austin, > TX. No apparent generator or battery on it. > https://imgur.com/a/RY9Tg7h Looks

Re: China’s Slow Transnational Network

2020-03-02 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sun, 01 Mar 2020 21:00:05 -0800, Pengxiong Zhu said: > There are a few things noteworthy regarding the phenomenon. First of all, > all traffic types are treated equally, HTTP(S), VPN, etc., which means it > is discriminating or differentiating any specific kinds of traffic. This sentence is mi

Re: Chairman Pai Proposes Mandating STIR/SHAKEN To Combat Robocalls

2020-03-08 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sun, 08 Mar 2020 17:17:37 -0400, b...@theworld.com said: > Which primarily leaves the question of why this Kabuki theater by the > FCC et al pretending as if it's some vast, uncontrollable evil like > the corona virus etc.? Because even in today's climate of regulatory capture posing as proper

Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks

2020-03-12 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:08:05 -0600, "Keith Medcalf" said: > I don't know but we just issued travel restrictions to the United States > as it is now a Hot Spot for the unrestricted spread of the coronavirus > which causes COVID-19. Hopefully they're more sensible restrictions than the US policy th

Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks

2020-03-17 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 11:43:45 -0600, "Keith Medcalf" said: > And before you ask, I get "important news" directly. I'm glad to hear you're someplace on the planet where covid-19 doesn't count as important news. Hopefully the news will arrive to you directly before the virus does. pgp1W4vwcfEXk.p

Re: Sunday traffic curiosity

2020-03-22 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 13:17:59 -0600, Grant Taylor via NANOG said: > As someone who 1) wasn't around during the last Internet scale foray > into multicast and 2) working with multicast in a closed environment, > I'm curios: > > What was wrong with Internet scale multicast? Why did it get abandoned?

Re: The Cost of Paid Peering with Chinese ISPs

2020-04-01 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 01 Apr 2020 12:47:22 -0700, Matt Corallo said: > No one suggested it isn’t censorship, you’re bating here. Not deploying > enough international capacity is absolutely a form or censorship deployed to > great avail - if international sites load too slow, you can skimp on GF > appliances

Re: The Cost of Paid Peering with Chinese ISPs

2020-04-01 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 01 Apr 2020 20:58:17 -0700, Matt Corallo said: > If your goal is to force companies the world over to host domestically, where > they follow local licensing regimes (yes, including censorship, as well as > data > access), it’s highly effective. You missed the point. There's a distincti

Re: 24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ

2020-04-16 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 22:06:52 -0700, Ben Cannon said: > I call our NOC “24x7x365” I hear that in my head as “twenty-four > (hour) - BY > - Seven (days a week) - BY - 365 (days a year, indicating we don’t close on > any holidays). x365 is fine, to distinguish from 24x7x360 operations tha

Re: Abuse Desks

2020-04-29 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:25:19 -0400, sro...@ronan-online.com said: > Perhaps some organization of Network Operators should come up with an > objective standard of what constitutes “abuse” and a standard format for > reporting it. > If only there was such an organization. A different organizat

Re: An appeal for more bandwidth to the Internet Archive

2020-05-13 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 13 May 2020 10:40:36 +0300, Denys Fedoryshchenko said: > What about introducing some cache offloading, like CDN doing? (Google, > Facebook, Netflix, Akamai, etc) > I think it can be rolled pretty quickly, with minimum labor efforts, at > least for heavy content. The thing is that if you'

Re: RIPE NCC Executive Board election

2020-05-13 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 13 May 2020 17:00:14 -0400, Jon Lewis said: > When you've convinced Cisco, Juniper, Arista, and a few other router > vendors to implement, and have submitted patches for the Linux kernel and > userspace to implement IPv4+ (good luck with all that...and expect to be > met with "Can we have

Re: RIPE NCC Executive Board election

2020-05-13 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 13 May 2020 17:17:07 -, David Hubbard said: > LOL the IPv4+ thing was a pretty entertaining read. You clearly don’t have > even a basic understanding of the v4 packet structure, or that the octet > display concept is simply for human benefit. IPv6 can be implemented with > ‘softw

Re: Friday Reminder: Web Site Security

2020-05-15 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Fri, 15 May 2020 12:15:13 -0700, "Ronald F. Guilmette" said: > This is your helpful Friday reminder to always pay close attention to > the security settings of all of the web sites under your administration. > Otherwise, anonymous skript kiddiez could show up at any moment and > deface one or mo

Re: Contact at Ubiquiti Networks?

2020-05-27 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Tue, 26 May 2020 21:53:55 +0200, Baldur Norddahl said: > Even the big guys like Juniper fail at basic functionality. Our brand new > MX204 fails to select the correct source address when doing ARP requests > and apparently that is a known will not fix. 1987 called and wants their bug back. Se

Re: netflix proxy/unblocker false detection

2020-06-28 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 10:21:47 +0200, Mark Tinka said: > Sadly, PlayStation still don't support IPv6. Hopefully, it comes with > the PS5, although I see no reason why the PS4 and PS3 can't. The PS/4 will in fact dhcpv6 at startup, and it will answer pings from both on subnet and from elsewhere, and

Re: L2VPN/L2transport, Cumulus Linux & hardware suggestion

2020-07-08 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
(re-adding Adam's text that didn't get quoted, but matters) On Wed, 08 Jul 2020 13:49:56 +0300, Saku Ytti said: > On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 13:46, Radu-Adrian Feurdean > wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2020, at 00:09, Adam Thompson wrote: > > > Good luck with tunnelling LACP, no matter what boxes you have -

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

2020-07-21 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 23:04:30 +0200, Robert Raszuk said: > attempt to open innovation into networking ... allowing one to invent > protocols at will as well as setup forwarding tables with arbitrary All of which either get layered onto port 443 or you have to wait for your CGNAT vendor to provide

Re: questions asked during network engineer interview

2020-07-23 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 10:03:15 +0100, adamv0...@netconsultings.com said: > Hopefully well end up in a world where all checks one can do to figure out > why iBGP session is down along with suggested corrective actions will be coded > in some network self-healing workflow. /me places bets this concep

Re: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G?

2020-08-08 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Fri, 07 Aug 2020 07:29:49 +0200, Mark Tinka said: > On 6/Aug/20 21:05, Christopher Morrow wrote: > > Isn't this just, really: > > 1) some network gear with SDN bits that live on the next-rack over > > servers/kubes > > 2) services (microservices!) that do the SDN functions AND NFV > > functi

Re: Ipv6 help

2020-08-26 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:42:14 +0200, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG said: > The crazy thing is that PSN doesn't (up to my knowledge) yet work with IPv6 . Has anybody heard if they plan to fix that with the imminent Playstation 5? The PS4 OS will actually talk IPV6 far enough to DHCPv6 and answer pi

Re: SRv6

2020-09-19 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 18:24:36 +0200, Mark Tinka said: > On 17/Sep/20 17:56, mark seery wrote: > > Perhaps all the more reason why end-to-end encryption should be part of the > > buyer beware conversation (not arguing against operator encryption in saying > > that - privacy is something everyone in I

Re: Gaming Consoles and IPv4

2020-09-28 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 21:33:56 -0400, Daniel Sterling said: > It is true that I've yet to see any FPS game use ipv6. I assume that's cuz > they can't count on users having v6, so they have to support v4, and it > wouldn't be worth their while to have their gaming host support dual-stack. > just a gu

Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

2020-10-09 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 07 Oct 2020 22:10:07 -0700, "Constantine A. Murenin" said: > People act like 1.1 million requests per hour is a huge number. > > That's only 305 requests per second! > > Cheapest NVMe SSDs are capable of 160k+ IOPS. > > You can literally serve the whole thing from a single server on a > 10

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-08 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 08 Sep 2021 11:39:50 -0700, Owen DeLong via NANOG said: > The reality is that if we get content dual-stacked and stop requiring IPv4 > for new eyeball installations, that’s the biggest initial win. The problem is "get content dual-stacked". Somebody made this handy page of the IPv6 sta

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-14 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 15 Sep 2021 13:38:21 +0900, Masataka Ohta said: > Not. With geographical aggregation, you may route a call > *anywhere* in the destination country. The *real* fun starts when my provider is able to connect calls to my +1 540 etcetc phone number to my phone even if I'm in +371 or +81 or si

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-25 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sat, 25 Sep 2021 23:20:26 +0200, Baldur Norddahl said: > We should remember there are also multiple ways to print IPv4 addresses. > You can zero extend the addresses and on some ancient systems you could > also use the integer value. 19:17:38 0 [~] ping 2130706433 PING 2130706433 (127.0.0.1) 5

Re: [External] Re: uPRF strict more

2021-09-30 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:12:51 +0200, Mark Tinka said: > I should have said "If you don't plan to run a full BGP table on a > device without a default a route as well, Am I insufficently caffienated, or is uRPF the least of your problems if you don't have a full table *and* don't have a default rou

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-30 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 16:09:26 -0400, Victor Kuarsingh said: > - Both providers provide IPv6 and delegate a prefix to the router (let's > pretend the retail staff knew enough to sell this person a consumer box > with 2x WAN interfaces) So... do such boxes exist in any great quantity? Do consumers

Re: Anyone seeing ping corruption?

2021-12-20 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 22:45:06 +, Steven Champeon said: > Are there even enough dialup connections and ancient modems left that POD > is a thing anyone needs to worry about? It wasn't just dialup and modems. The Ping of Death had to do with sending a packet that was already 64K in size, that w

Re: VPN recommendations?

2022-02-10 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:55:40 -0800, William Herrin said: > My understanding is that Wireguard is software available for general > purpose operating systems. I specifically need a set of hardware > network appliances. Take a general purpose OS, strip down the userspace a bit, stick the whole thin

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 02 Mar 2022 08:51:05 -0500, Dorn Hetzel said: > Yeah, if Russia needs one 1st stage booster for every bird they kill, and > SpaceX needs one 1st stage booster for every 50 they put up Yes, > Russia is bigger than SpaceX, but that's a tremendous ratio. Plus the asymmetry is even wors

Re: Is soliciting money/rewards for 'responsible' security disclosures when none is stated a thing now?

2022-03-02 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 02 Mar 2022 15:30:29 -0700, Brie said: > I just got this in my e-mail... > I am a web app security hunter. I spent some time on your website and found > some vulnerabilities. I see on your website you take security very > passionately. I've gotten similar spam a number of times over the y

Re: sending again in case Zoom didn't email it correctly

2019-03-15 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 13:56:35 -0500, Casey Russell said: > SIP failover call. It's 2019. Surely we have better ways to have SIP fail over than manually sending an e-mail alert redirecting the person to a phone number?

Re: sending again in case Zoom didn't email it correctly

2019-03-15 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:34:51 -0500, Ishmael Rufus said: > I didn't get an outlook notification for this. That's because Outlook would only send a "engineer stopped for a beer" notification when it was most embarassing. :)

Re: Help on setting up a new block

2019-03-20 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:22:34 -0400, Pete Baldwin said: > ��� It's potentially more difficult now than in the past because there > are some hosting providers that are simply a few people that own VMs on > some other infrastructure that they do not control or have visibility > into.� The VM host

Re: Help on setting up a new block

2019-03-20 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:45:35 -0400, Bryan Fields said: > On 3/20/19 12:32 PM, william manning wrote: > > of course at the end of the day, there is ZERO requirement for anyone to > > accept traffic from any prefix. to paraphrase an old greybeard, > > "my network, my rulez" > > Wouldn't this be in co

Re: residential/smb internet access in 2019 - help?

2019-03-27 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 17:18:02 -0400, Bradley Burch said: > Wisp here. > > Our subscribers can get 100mbps bi directional. > > But we also know what we are doing. And being honest here - what percent of WISP operators out there are in your category, as opposed to the under-capitalized and RF experi

Re: Did IPv6 between HE and Google ever get resolved?

2019-03-31 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 18:10:09 -0700, Christopher Morrow said: > Apologies, I do actually see a path from 174 -> 6939 (well 28 paths): > 174 6939 > > it's clearly not all of HE -> Cogent, and it's clearly not supposed to > be working (I would think). Wait, what? Are you saying that they refuse

Re: modeling residential subscriber bandwidth demand

2019-04-03 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Tue, 02 Apr 2019 23:53:06 -0700, Ben Cannon said: > A 100/100 enterprise connection can easily support hundreds of desktop users > if not more. It’s a lot of bandwidth even today. And what happens when a significant fraction of those users fire up Netflix with an HD stream? We're discussin

Re: Purchasing IPv4 space - due diligence homework

2019-04-03 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 03 Apr 2019 15:20:17 -, "Torres, Matt via NANOG" said: > 3. Check SORBS blacklisting. It should not show up except maybe the DUHL > list(?). If it does, walk away. SORBS isn't the only place to check. As an example, if Spamhaus doesn't have nice things to say about the block, it's

Re: Purchasing IPv4 space - due diligence homework

2019-04-03 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 03 Apr 2019 11:58:23 -0400, Jared Mauch said: > Mostly curious if you are doing IPv6 if you see that slowing your need for v4 > or if they are growing at the same rate. And remember kids - the more you can push off to native IPv6, the longer you can push off an upgrade to your CGNAT box.

Re: Disney+ CDN

2019-04-12 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:23:29 -0700, "Scott Weeks" said: > 2004 - "Patent awarded for GeoLocation" > > I'd be interested in learning about how well that one works! Under US law, ideas submitted for patent need be "non-obvious". There's no requirement they actually be a good idea. Though I guess th

Re: OffTopic: Telecom Fraud

2019-04-23 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:55:43 -0400, Dovid Bender said: > day). but at the very least why can't Verizon drop these calls at their > edge. If they see the B-Number as being their client and the A number being > theirs but coming from elsewhere why can't they just drop the call? Probably for the sam

Re: Comcast storing WiFi passwords in cleartext?

2019-04-24 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:04:22 -0700, William Herrin said: > I take no position on what risk the comcast wifi passwords issue carries. > I'm posting only to point out that an absolutist model which says, "stuff > of type X must always be encrypted," is probably not well tuned to the > customer's act

Re: Comcast storing WiFi passwords in cleartext?

2019-04-25 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 21:42:25 +0300, T�ma Gavrichenkov said: > Isn't it just better to have it always displayed, in a 40pt sized font, on > some LAN-accessible Web page, reachable without authentication by default, This assumes that the customer has a spare CAT-5 cable and knows how to use it. And

Re: Bing news feeds stale for 5 days (api.cognitive.microsoft.com)

2019-04-29 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 12:35:23 -0400, John Von Essen said: > I work with a major search affiliate partner, and starting this morning news > feeds from api.cognitive.microsoft.com > were coming in stale, nothing new in the past 5 days. Wait, what? So yesterday

Re: looking for hostname router identifier validation

2019-04-29 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 16:16:06 -0500, Bryan Holloway said: > I still see references to UUNet in some reverse PTRs. > > So, uh, yeah. I wonder what year we'll get to a point where less than half of NANOG's membership was around when UUNet was. We're probably there already. And likely coming up on wh

Re: looking for hostname router identifier validation

2019-05-01 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 22:12:12 -0700, Large Hadron Collider said: > How much did it cost? :-) I'm willing to guess US$6digits/mo. 5 digits if you qualified for the quantity discount. :) pgpgvdL3ozP2_.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: NTP question

2019-05-01 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Thu, 02 May 2019 00:29:32 -0400, Keith Wallace said: > Good stuff, never had an issue with rollovers, software was upgradable. Did the vendor ever ship an actual software upgrade? pgpn6eFWHI5i6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: NTP question

2019-05-02 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Thu, 02 May 2019 08:59:19 -0400, Tom Beecher said: > Passes the backhoe test, but might have an issue with the Die Hard Elevator > Shaft Fight Scene checks. If your data center is suffering from both backhoe face and a Die Hard Fight Scene, the *real* question is whether you're going to care

Re: is dnswl dead?

2019-05-03 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Fri, 03 May 2019 00:55:17 -0500, Jose Manuel Vazquez Castro said: > And check first connectivity ping and telnet tcp ports 22 , 873 to ips > destination's from your linuxbox: > > Record A rsync2.dnswl.org > 139.162.192.198 > 142.44.243.216 > > Or use in the command directly the ip. > You are be

Re: Looking for audiovisual resources on Clos topologies

2019-05-03 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Fri, 03 May 2019 13:08:55 -0400, Sadiq Saif said: > I recently read a APNIC blog post about LINE's network redesign [0] into > a Clos topology. That lead to me RFC7938 [1] which has a fairly minimal > explanation of the topology design itself. >From the APNIC blog: "In the case of LINE's net

Re: [EXT] RE: Widespread Firefox issues

2019-05-04 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sat, 04 May 2019 13:02:56 -, Charles Bronson said: > On Fri, 03 May 2019 21:14:53 -0600, "Keith Medcalf" said: >> HTTPS: has nothing to do with the website being "secure". https: means that >> transport layer security (encryption) is in effect. https: is a PRIVACY >> measure, not a SECURITY

Re: Widespread Firefox issues

2019-05-04 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Sat, 04 May 2019 10:46:41 -0700, Randy Bush said: > >> to do it, i have to start ffox.��and 100 tabs will open and > >> javascript will flood in. > > recipe > - turn off internet connectivity > - start firefox > - `kill -s sigkill` it > - restart it, do not restore sesstion > - turn in

Re: Access to raw network data

2019-05-05 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Mon, 06 May 2019 03:59:18 -, lobna gouda said: > Does anyone know if there is public sources for network data that can be use > to train model? What data, and what model? What problem are you trying to solve by training a model? Hint: A model trained on data from Comcast's network is prob

Re: any interesting/useful resources available to IPv6 only?

2019-05-06 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Mon, 06 May 2019 14:51:50 -0400, Tom Beecher said: > PHB? Then make it a cost argument. > > "If you plan an implement V6 today, will will cost N. If you delay until > you discover V6 only services, it will cost 3-5xN to implement quickly, > with additional risk of additional costs because quick

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