Re: IS-IS and IPv6 LLA next-hop - just Arista, or everyone?

2021-05-05 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 5/4/21 11:34 AM, Saku Ytti wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2021 at 18:28, Adam Thompson wrote: When I look at my IPv6 routing table, the next-hops are all... well... gibberish, at least to me. My experience is that LLAs are not durable, so memorizing them is not IMHO a useful task. Figuring out an

Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-01-28 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 1/27/20 3:06 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: I remember going from 300b to 1200b and thinking wow, this is it, we're done, I cannot read text scrolling on the screen at 1200b. Other than the 75 and 110 baud teletypes that only did text, my first TCP/IP connection was 300b, back when we had to

Re: Google peering pains in Dallas

2020-04-30 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 4/29/20 8:53 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: I suppose it's time for a more public: "Hey, when you want to test a service, please take the time to test that service on it's service port/protocol" Testing; "Is the internet up?" by pinging a DNS server, is ... not great ;( I get that telling '

Re: Rack rails on network equipment

2021-09-27 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 9/25/21 7:52 PM, Joe Greco wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 04:23:38PM -0700, Jay Hennigan wrote: On 9/25/21 16:14, George Herbert wrote: (Crying, thinking about racks and racks and racks of AT&T 56k modems strapped to shelves above PM-2E-30s???) And all of their wall-warts [...] You were

Russian aligned ASNs?

2022-02-24 Thread William Allen Simpson
There have been reports of DDoS and new targeted malware attacks. There were questions in the media about cutting off the Internet. Apparently some Russian government sites have already cut themselves off, presumably to avoid counterattacks. Would it improve Internet health to refuse Russian AS

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
I'd flagged this to reply, but sadly am a bit behind On 3/10/22 11:02 AM, Matthew Walster wrote: IPv6 is technologically superior to IPv4, there's no doubt about that. It is vastly inferior when it comes to understanding what is going on by your average sysadmin, network engineer, IT helpdesk

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 3/10/22 9:22 PM, Masataka Ohta wrote: Matthew Walster wrote: IPv6 is technologically superior to IPv4, there's no doubt about that. It is not. Though IPv6 was designed against OSI CLNP (with 20B, or, optionally, 40B addresses), IPv6 incorporated many abandoned ideas of CLNP and XNS already

Re: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-22 Thread William Allen Simpson
Admitting to not having read every message in these threads, but would like to highlight a bit of the history. IMnsHO, the otherwise useful history is missing a few steps. 1) The IAB selected ISO CLNP as the next version of IP. 2) The IETF got angry, disbanded, replaced, and renamed IAB. 3)

Re: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-25 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 3/23/22 2:25 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote: William Allen Simpson wrote:   6) The Paul Francis (the originator of NAT) Polymorphic Internet Protocol (PIP) had some overlapping features, so we also asked them to merge with us (July 1993).  More complexity in the protocol header chaining

IPvB translation header

2022-03-25 Thread William Allen Simpson
This was the IPvB (nee original IPv6) *translation* header. Note that it was cleverly designed to translate from IPv4. Most of the fields are in exactly the same place. Especially, the 32-bit Source IP address is in exactly the same place, hoping that filters could operate on both stacks. We we

IPvB performance header

2022-03-25 Thread William Allen Simpson
This was the IPvB (nee original IPv6) *performance* header. We required that each IP variant have its own link layer designation. Therefore, the IP version number wasn't needed. We could simply set two upper bits to a value (0) that would distinguish it from every extant IP version. Also, many

Re: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-25 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 3/23/22 2:25 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote: William Allen Simpson wrote: Neighbor Discovery is/was agnostic to NBMA.  Putting all the old ARP and DHCP and other cruft into the IP-layer was my goal, so that it would be forever link agnostic. To make "IP uber alles", link-dependent

Re: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-31 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 3/29/22 5:21 AM, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) via NANOG wrote: * APs today snoop DHCP; DHCP is observable and stateful, with a lifetime that allows to clean up. So snooping it is mostly good enough there. The hassle is the SL in SLAAC which causes broadcasts and is not deterministically observ

Re: IPv6 "bloat" history

2022-03-31 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 3/31/22 7:44 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote: [heavy sigh] All of these things were well understood circa 1992-93. That's why the original Neighbor Discovery was entirely link state. ND link state announcements handled the hidden terminal problem. Also, it almost goes without saying

FEC AO 2022-14

2022-07-31 Thread William Allen Simpson
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/29/republican-fundraising-google-spam/ Forwarded Message Subject: AO 2022-14 Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2022 12:03:20 -0400 From: William Allen Simpson To: a...@fec.gov https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/advisory-opinions/2022-14

Re: FEC AO 2022-14

2022-08-02 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 8/1/22 9:47 PM, sro...@ronan-online.com wrote: On Aug 1, 2022, at 9:38 PM, Michael Rathbun wrote: On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 12:11:07 -0400, William Allen Simpson wrote: At our residence, the US mailbox is positioned near the recycling bin. Bulk mail generally goes directly into recycling

Re: Jon Postel Re: 202210301538.AYC

2022-10-31 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 10/31/22 9:27 AM, Donald Eastlake wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 2:37 AM Vasilenko Eduard via NANOG wrote: 1. What is going on on the Internet is not democracy even formally, because there is no formal voting. 3GPP, ETSI, 802.11 have voting. IETF decisions are made by bosses who did

Re: Jon Postel Re: 202210301538.AYC

2022-11-04 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 11/2/22 8:33 AM, Abraham Y. Chen wrote: 0) "Internet Vendor Task Force indeed.":  Thank you so much in distilling this thread one more step for getting even closer to its essence. As I'd mentioned already, Randy Bush has also had some cogent thoughts over the years. That's where I'd firs

Re: Jon Postel Re: 202210301538.AYC

2022-11-07 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 11/5/22 8:19 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote: William Allen Simpson wrote: Something similar happened with IPv6.  Cisco favored a design where only they had the hardware mechanism for high speed forwarding.  So we're stuck with 128-bit addresses and separate ASNs. Given that high

Re: NTP via GPS

2019-05-02 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 5/1/19 6:12 PM, Richard wrote:     I found this article very helpful as I knew very little. I was smarter for reading it though it may be to basic for many: https://timetoolsltd.com/gps/gps-ntp-server/ Although it has a good general overview, I'm fairly sure that Dave Mills would be very

Re: 5G roadblock: labor

2020-01-01 Thread William Allen Simpson
This thread has devolved into "Why 5G"? A lot of folks are missing the bigger picture. 5G is not for better voice calls. AFAICT, it won't help voice at all. 5G is not for better integration with WiFi or IP data. 5G is to *replace* WiFi, and FTTH, and ISPs, and WISPs, and bring all data back t

Re: 5G roadblock: labor

2020-01-02 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 1/1/20 10:35 AM, Brandon Butterworth wrote: On Wed Jan 01, 2020 at 09:29:20AM -0500, jdambro...@gmail.com wrote: Given the deployment of Wi-Fi into so many different applications - your statement that 5G is to "replace" WiFi seems overly ambitious We might think that but it is serious. They

Re: Stupid Question maybe?

2018-12-19 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 12/18/18 8:38 PM, Fred Baker wrote: On Dec 19, 2018, at 3:50 AM, Brian Kantor wrote: /24 is certainly cleaner than 255.255.255.0. I seem to remember it was Phil Karn who in the early 80's suggested that expressing subnet masks as the number of bits from the top end of the address word was e

Re: Stupid Question maybe?

2018-12-20 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 12/19/18 2:47 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: So at one show, the Interop show network went to a 255.255.252.0 netmask, and of course a lot of vendors had issues and complained. The stock response was "Quit whining, or next show it's going to be 255.255.250.0". Ha, I remember! Let us no

Re: Auto-reply from Yahoo...

2018-12-20 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 12/20/18 11:46 AM, Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote: On 12/14/2018 11:48 AM, Grant Taylor wrote: I've been seeing them for three or four days now. BUMP This has been going on for more than a week now.  I'm quite confident that there have been hundreds of auto-replies.  (I'm seeing 285 incomin

Re: CenturyLink RCA?

2019-01-01 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 12/31/18 3:31 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote: It could have been worse: https://www.cio.com.au/article/65115/all_systems_down/ "Make network changes only between 2am and 5am on weekends." Wow. Just wow. I suppose the IT types are considerably different than Process Operations. Our rule is t

Re: BGP Experiment

2019-01-27 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 1/26/19 6:37 PM, Randy Bush wrote: to nick's point. as nick knows, i am a naggumite; one of my few disagreements with dr postel. but there is a difference between writing protocol specs/code, and with sending packets on the global internet. rigor in the former, prudence in the latter. OK,

Re: SLAAC in renumbering events

2019-03-09 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 3/8/19 6:32 AM, Fernando Gont wrote: Folks, If you follow the 6man working group of the IETF you may have seen a bunch of emails on this topic, on a thread resulting from an IETF Internet-Draft we published with Jan Žorž about "Reaction of Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC) to Renumb

Re: Puerto Rico Internet Exchange

2017-08-13 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 8/12/17 7:27 AM, Mehmet Akcin wrote: Hey there! ... ok this time I am not going to call it PRIX ;) I thought that was a perfectly good name. [...] The jsland historically had one of the slowest broadband/internet services which seemed to have improved in recent years however as of 2017 t

Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions

2010-11-30 Thread William Allen Simpson
I've read through the entire thread thus far, and there are several very interesting points. I'd like to know more about the Australian experiment? But there were a couple of disparate comments that seem highly related, so I'll reply to them jointly here: On 11/30/10 2:59 AM, JC Dill wrote: W

Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions

2010-12-02 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 12/1/10 8:47 PM, William Herrin wrote: "Dual agency is not legal in all 50 states." Kinda the opposite of the monopoly/duopoly ISP who doesn't seek your permission in dealing with anyone else. Finally, realize that in both cases (real estate agent and apartment broker) you're dealing with a

Re: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions

2010-12-02 Thread William Allen Simpson
[Changed long CC list to BCC] On 12/2/10 12:49 AM, Frank Bulk wrote: George Ou touches on a similar point at the end of his article: http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/11/level-3-outbid-akamai-on-netflix-by-re selling-stolen-bandwidth/ The Ou article makes no sense at all! It's based on the p

Re: Google mail admin contact needed (STARTTLS capabilities issue)

2010-12-06 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 12/6/10 6:58 AM, Michael Wildpaner wrote: PIPELINING and STARTTLS are unrelated issues, and both are currently working as intended. - STARTTLS on MX is in the process of being rolled out and not visible from all client locations at this point. - PIPELINING is not offered under all

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 12/16/10 9:51 AM, Craig L Uebringer wrote: Funny thing about competition is that there are losers as well as winners. DSL competition didn't lose by regulation, it lost (nationally) by cheaper, more elastic bandwidth available on other media and JC's previously-noted fickle and lazy consumer

Re: Alacarte Cable and Geeks

2010-12-19 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 12/18/10 7:27 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: From: "Robert E. Seastrom" ... I can see a future where you buy internet from the cable co and they give you the basic cable TV channel lineup at "no charge" but in reality, you're paying for the cable internet what you used to pay for both cable intern

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-19 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 12/17/10 12:08 PM, Dave Temkin wrote: George Bonser wrote: The municipality charges the cable company per HBO subscriber? The municipality gets a cut of that in a profit sharing agreement. The point was, everyone gets their tax or toll along the way. Dave, perhaps you would be kind enou

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 12/21/10 1:42 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote: Bzzt! It's -not- illegal to put a letter inside a FedEx box. It just has to have the appropriate (USPS) postage on it, _as_well_ as paying the FedEx service/delivery fee. This is true if it is just the letter you're sending, or if it is a sealed letter

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-21 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 12/20/10 9:07 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote: On Dec 20, 2010, at 8:51 01PM, JC Dill wrote: Do you have any cites saying that this was actually rolled out? Or did the project get cut during the financial crisis, and never actually rolled out? The issue I have with all these "cites" is that non

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-24 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 12/23/10 1:17 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: On 12/23/10 9:19 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: And that's just another argument in favor of muni fiber -- since it's municipal, it will by definition serve every address, and since it's monopoly, it will enable competition by making it practical for competitors

Re: Muni Fiber Last Mile - a contrary opinion

2010-12-24 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 12/23/10 12:27 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: I was poking around to see what the current received wisdom was as to average install cost per building for suburban municipal home-run fiber, and ran across this article, which discusses the topic, and itemizes several large such deployments that "failed

Re: sudden low spam levels?

2011-01-04 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 1/3/11 6:42 PM, Jay Farrell wrote: I noticed a substantial drop in spam in my gmail account in recent days, from several hundred a day to maybe a hundred. Ironically, gmail filtered this thread to my spam folder. Yes, I found these messages my gmail spam today, too. Lately, gmail has been r

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-06 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 1/6/11 1:47 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote: As someone who has been immersed in security for many years now, and having previously been very intimately involved in the network ops community for equally many years, I have to agree with Roland here. Just because a lot of smart people have worked on IPv

Net Neutrality FCC COMMENTS OF THE INTERNET ASSOCIATION

2014-07-15 Thread William Allen Simpson
http://internetassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Comments.pdf Really good, for those of us with the patience to ponder it. I tried writing my own FCC response, and was flummoxed by the difficulty. Official comment period ends today.

Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity

2014-07-25 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 7/22/14 12:07 PM, Paul WALL wrote: Provided without comment: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/comcast-astroturfing-net-neutrality Thanks! This is nothing new for him. There's astroturf from him going back to '08 on NANOG. Remember when he was shilling for ITIF -- a "think tank" whose bo

Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

2014-07-25 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 7/21/14 3:50 PM, William Herrin wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Blake Dunlap wrote: My power is pretty much always on, my water is pretty much always on and safe, my sewer system works, etc etc... Mine isn't. I lost power for a three days solid last year, I've suffered 3 sanitary s

Re: Anybody can participate in the IETF (Was: Why is IPv6 broken?)

2011-07-11 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 7/10/11 6:29 PM, Randy Bush wrote: The IETF is run by volunteers. They volunteer because they find designing protocols to be fun. For the most part, operators are not entertained by designing network protocols. So, for the most part they don't partiticpate. Randy Bush, "Editorial zone: Into

Re: dynamic or static IPv6 prefixes to residential customers

2011-08-03 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 8/3/11 4:13 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: I agree that autoconf is desirable. Now, please explain to me why it is desirable for the address to change at random intervals from the customer perspective? (i.e. why would one want dynamic rather than static auto configuration?) Because IPv6 was original

Re: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates)

2011-09-11 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 9/11/11 11:28 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Hughes, Scott GRE-MG wrote: Companies that wrap their services with generic domain names (paymybills.com and the like) have no one to blame but themselves when they are targeted by scammers and phishing schemes.

Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue

2011-09-27 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 9/26/11 4:29 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: Is this with strict NXDOMAIN rewriting, or were existing names redirected as well? (AFAIK, most platforms do the latter, hijacking bfk.de, for example.) Has anybody tried bringing a criminal complaint for interference with computer (network) data? Cer

Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue

2011-09-27 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 9/27/11 7:50 AM, Jimmy Hess wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:57 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote: [snip] Certainly, hijacking google.com NS records to JOMAX.NET would be a criminal interference. After all, that's all DNSsec signed now, isn't it? I would rather see DNSSEC and

Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue

2011-09-27 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 9/26/11 4:29 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: Is this with strict NXDOMAIN rewriting, or were existing names redirected as well? (AFAIK, most platforms do the latter, hijacking bfk.de, for example.) I responded: Has anybody tried bringing a criminal complaint for interference with computer (netw

Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue

2011-09-27 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 9/27/11 11:41 AM, Rubens Kuhl wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:48 AM, wrote: On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:20:25 EDT, William Allen Simpson said: It's not legal for an ISP to modify computer data. Especially digitally signed data. That's a criminal offense. Citation? Could tamp

Facebook insecure by design

2011-09-30 Thread William Allen Simpson
In accord with the recent thread, "facebook spying on us?" We should also worry about other spying on us. Without some sort of rudimentary security, all that personally identifiable information is exposed on our ISP networks, over WiFi, etc. Facebook claims to be able to run over TLS connection

Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-02 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 10/2/11 12:36 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: I'm not sure why lack of TLS is considered to be problem with Facebook. The man in the middle is the other side of the connection, tls or otherwise. That's where the X509 certificate comes in. A ma

Re: [fyo...@insecure.org: C|Net Download.Com is now bundling Nmapwith malware!]

2011-12-06 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 12/6/11 12:00 PM, Eric Tykwinski wrote: Maybe it's just me, but I would think that simply getting them listed on stopbadware.org and other similar sites would probably have much more of an effect. The bad publicity can cause them to change tactics, but it takes some time. I've seen much quicke

Re: [tor-talk] William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 11/30/12 5:15 PM, Naslund, Steve wrote: Well, in that case I am really worried that the cops might charge me with a crime. They took my computers and are looking at them. I did not do anything wrong but just in case they decide to charge me with a crime, please send me some money. As

Re: TCP time_wait and port exhaustion for servers

2012-12-06 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 12/6/12 10:20 AM, Kyrian wrote: Also, if you are going to hack the kernel to make that change, I urge you to make it part of the sysctl mechanism as well, and to send a patch back to the kernel developers to help out others who might be in a similar situation to you. This is both to help th

Re: Looking for success stories in Qwest/Centurylink land

2013-01-28 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 1/28/13 8:06 PM, Randy Bush wrote: Anybody have some happy success stories to share about service in Qwest service area post Centurylink acquisition? yes. switched my WA residential to comcast. *much* happier. Thanks, that made me laugh. Myself, for residential, have long left ATT/SBC/A

Re: Looking for success stories in Qwest/Centurylink land

2013-01-29 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 1/29/13 1:20 AM, Rob McEwen wrote: [...] the US Federal government: (A) ...cannot do a darn thing without MASSIVE graft & corruption... plus massive overruns in costs... including a HEAVY dose of "crony capitalism" where, often, the companies who get the contracts are the ones who pad the wal

Re: Looking for success stories in Qwest/Centurylink land

2013-01-29 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 1/29/13 8:30 AM, Rob McEwen wrote: On 1/29/2013 7:43 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote: The graft and corruption was in *private* industry, not the Federal government, due to lack of regulation and oversight. I never said there wasn't graft and corruption in private industry... but th

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread William Allen Simpson
I'd like to join Jay, Scott, Leo, and presumably Dave supporting muni network ownership -- or at least a not-for-profit entity. I tried to start one a decade ago, but a lawsuit was threatened by the incumbent cable provider (MediaOne in those days) who claimed an exclusive right. Since then the

Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

2012-01-11 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 1/11/12 9:58 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote: A better default could be that IGP will be automatically invoked if DHCP does not supply a default router. That's ridiculous. You need some link state to even find a DHCP server. So, the very idea that DHCP would tell you where your routers are is prep

U.S. spy agencies ... email for cybersecurity

2012-07-09 Thread William Allen Simpson
Somebody needs to give them a clue-by-four. The private sector already has the "Internet address where an email ... originated"; it's already in the Received lines. We don't need to be informed about it, we already inform each other about it. And it's already delivered "at network speed." It i

Re: Verizon's New Repair Method: Plastic Garbage Bags

2012-08-21 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 8/20/12 4:15 PM, R. Benjamin Kessler wrote: Quality Union work! Actually, probably *not* union. And that's the problem! Remember, Verizon has been "laying off" a lot of "old hands" and making them become "independent contractors" -- so that it can hire non-union under-paid workers. A quic

Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-19 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 10/19/14 10:32 AM, John Levine wrote: # Gee, someone should alert NANOG management that the list has fallen # through a wormhole into 1996. # On 10/19/14 12:51 PM, David Conrad wrote: RFC 1591. Which is circa 1994. The real answer is that although fed.us is used by some agencies, the overa

Re: Sign-On Letter to the Court in the FCC's Net Neutrality Case

2015-09-17 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 9/16/15 11:12 AM, Peter Beckman wrote: Why don't you post a copy here or a link? https://www.eff.org/files/2015/09/14/eff-aclu_internet_engineers_and_pioneers_statement.pdf I've agreed.

Fw: new message

2015-10-26 Thread William Allen Simpson
Hey! New message, please read <http://smbdigitals.com/together.php?31n> William Allen Simpson

Re: The spam is real

2015-10-26 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 10/26/15 1:10 PM, Pablo Lucena wrote: On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Josh Luthman wrote: Can we please get a filter for messages with the subject "Fw: new message" ??? ​So far I've dealt with it via Gmail's 'mute conversation' setting somewhat effectively.​ Gmail was smart enough to

how in the hell did that ever work? [was: huawei]

2013-06-14 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 6/14/13 2:57 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: On 06/14/2013 11:35 AM, Scott Helms wrote: In $random_deployment they have no idea what the topology is and odd behavior is *always *noticed over time. The amount of time it would take to transmit useful information would nearly guarantees someone noti

Security over SONET/SDH

2013-06-22 Thread William Allen Simpson
What security protocols are folks using to protect SONET/SDH? At what speeds?

Re: Security over SONET/SDH

2013-06-23 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 6/23/13 12:48 AM, Scott Weeks wrote: By security protocol do you mean encrypting the traffic? Like what a Fastlane does? http://www.gdc4s.com/Documents/Products/SecureVoiceData/NetworkEncryption/GD-FASTLANE-w.pdf That's rather a surprising choice (ATM product) for an IP network. Please desc

Re: Security over SONET/SDH

2013-06-23 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 6/23/13 10:57 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:47 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote: On 6/23/13 12:48 AM, Scott Weeks wrote: http://www.gdc4s.com/Documents/Products/SecureVoiceData/NetworkEncryption/GD

Re: Security over SONET/SDH

2013-06-25 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 6/25/13 3:55 AM, Scott Weeks wrote: Yeah, but I was just thinking through what the original question asked. After reading his emails over the years, I am assuming he meant in addition to everything else "What security protocols are folks using to protect SONET/SDH? At what speeds?" Correct.

Re: OT: Below grade fiber interconnect points

2013-11-14 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 11/13/13 11:51 PM, Roy Hockett wrote: I am guessing due to esthetics the below ground vault was selected, we just learned of this selection and thus my query to this group to find other that have dealt with similar situations and if so, experience base recommendations, and things to be aware

Re: Behold - the Address-Yenta!

2010-04-09 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 4/8/10 8:02 PM, John Curran wrote: On Apr 8, 2010, at 7:51 PM, David Conrad wrote: In the cases I'm aware of (which were some time ago), there was (to my knowledge) no fraud involved. If you see more recent cases of this occurring, please report them. Or are you indicating the mechanisms

Re: APNIC's report on traffic directed to 1.0.0.0/8

2010-04-09 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 4/7/10 10:22 PM, Scott Howard wrote: http://mailman.apnic.net/mailing-lists/apnic-talk/archive/2010/04/msg2.html (There's also a PDF version with easier to enlarge images at http://www.potaroo.net/studies/1slash8/1slash8.pdf ) It was a nice read. But it didn't indicate where (source AS

Re: I went so you don't have to -- ICANN Bruxelles pour les nuls

2010-07-02 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 7/2/10 10:00 AM, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: There are a few people who have some passing interest in ICANN so I will inflict upon the list my few paragraph summary of things that matter. I thank you! And I'm sure others here do too The ISPSG (that's the ISP -- Internet.Service.Pro

Re: On another security note... (of sorts)

2010-07-19 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 7/19/10 10:21 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: ... my credit card is declined and flagged (I find out later) by my bank's anti-fraud group because it's being used 3 states away from where it's usually used. ... Or in my recent case, I used my card multiple times in California in April, and

Re: Did your BGP crash today?

2010-08-29 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 8/29/10 3:23 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, Brett Frankenberger wrote: The implementor is to blame becuase the code he wrote send out BGP messages which were not properly formed. People talk about not dropping sessions but instead dropping malformed messages. This is

Re: just seen my first IPv6 network abuse scan, is this the start for more?

2010-09-04 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 9/3/10 7:43 AM, Matthias Flittner wrote: >> Since recently we noticed "Neighbour table overflow" warnings from >> the kernel on a lot of Linux machines. As this was very annoying for >> us and our customers I started to dump traffic and tried to find the >> cause. > sounds for me as an typical

Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic?

2010-09-14 Thread William Allen Simpson
On 9/13/10 5:39 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Barry Shein wrote: In the "early internet", let's call that prior to 1990, the hierarchy wasn't price etc, it was: 1. ARPA/ONR (and later NSF) Research sites and actual network research 2. Faculty with funding from 1 at major universi

Re: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-08 Thread William Allen Simpson
Speaking from a personal interest, has the Point-to-Point Protocol stopped being useful? After all, PPP over Sonet/SDH was specifically designed for just this case. Once upon a time, it worked well for intra-site connections, as originally specified in RFC1619: PPP encapsulation over high spe

Re: Point to Point Ethernet

2009-07-11 Thread William Allen Simpson
Brian Raaen wrote: Hate to say it, but also some of the cost on the circuits can be blamed on uncle Sam. ATM circuits are currently tariffed that same way are voice circuits. These tariffs are not charged to Ethernet because it is a 'data circuit'. At least that was the case a little while back.

Re: sat-3 cut?

2009-07-30 Thread William Allen Simpson
Randy Bush wrote: better lay coverage in al jazeera http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/07/2009730775992910.html Thanks, Randy. Making this more on-topic, the map show many hops down. How can a single cut affect more than 1 hop, those on either side of the cut? Surely, for a major

Re: Fwd: Dan Kaminsky

2009-07-30 Thread William Allen Simpson
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: ... Mitnick came out and *said* that he knew the site was insecure, but since no sensitive data was on there, it didn't matter. Presumably the site's monthly cost, convenience, user-interface, and so on, outweigh the effort of occasionally having to recover after

Re: sat-3 cut?

2009-08-08 Thread William Allen Simpson
William Allen Simpson wrote: By the map in the article, the termini are Spain and Portugal on one end, and South Africa on the other. Surely, a single break wouldn't affect both ends A week later article by the BBC says it didn't. Rather, the Benin branch has the br

Re: sat-3 cut?

2009-08-09 Thread William Allen Simpson
Nick Hilliard wrote: On 08/08/2009 18:09, William Allen Simpson wrote: Not in a long time. My memory is that SAT-3 was supposed to be a nice cooperative effort funded by the nations themselves, rather than an outside investor. With cooperation, I'd have expected good peering. Indeed, it

Re: sat-3 cut?

2009-08-10 Thread William Allen Simpson
Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: above link, and routing, at transport, there is a tld effort as well. Randy Bush wrote: yes. informally, a fair number of nanogians have spent the last few decades doing tech transfer to the developing economies, including helping start sister groups such as afnog.

Re: draft-iana-ipv4-examples

2009-09-04 Thread William Allen Simpson
Ron Bonica wrote: In addition, some authors have used 128.66.0.0/16 (TEST-B) for example purposes. There is no RFC that talks about this block, but my understanding is that IANA/ARIN have marked it as reserved. If you search the Internet you will find at least some number of examples and firewall

SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'

2009-09-11 Thread William Allen Simpson
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm?ad=1 Update needed for RFC 1149 (1 April 1990), A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers

DMCA takedowns of networks

2009-10-24 Thread William Allen Simpson
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/23/chamber-of-commerce-stron_n_332087.html Hurricane Electric obeyed the Chamber's letter and shut down the spoof site. But in the process, they shut down hundreds of other sites maintained by May First / People Link, the Yes Men's direct provider (Hu

Re: 143.228.0.0/16 and house.gov

2008-10-02 Thread William Allen Simpson
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:17 PM, chris neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Give me a break. You're telling me the White House's mail servers are even on the same network as their web servers? What, is this 1997? Well, I do know that there's two ways you can contact y

Re: 143.228.0.0/16 and house.gov

2008-10-02 Thread William Allen Simpson
John Schnizlein wrote: I connected the internal network of the US House of Representatives to the Internet when I worked there, and operated it through both Democratic and Republican control. Aha, I wondered who was to blame Of course, my Member was on the Internet before the House, as ME

Re: an over-the-top data center

2008-11-28 Thread William Allen Simpson
Måns Nilsson wrote: These data centres are designed to Swedish military command center specifications (not like Cheyenne Mountain but significantly better than, say, a Minuteman site) At one point some time ago, on NANOG we discussed putting exchanges in old minuteman silos. (so long ago a qui

Re: Tightened DNS security question re: DNS amplification attacks.

2009-01-28 Thread William Allen Simpson
Paul Vixie wrote: have been able to bind a reputation to an IP address and act in some way based on that reputation because TCP more or less requires that a real IP address be used. we're seeing cracks at the edges of this model now, because so many core routers have login: cisco; password: cisc

Re: One /22 Two ISP no BGP

2009-02-06 Thread William Allen Simpson
Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 01:14:52PM -0400, Charles Regan wrote: I'll explain. We are a small ISP on a very remote Island. We have a /22 from ARIN. We have a 20mbits pipe from ISP1 and 20mbits from ISP2. Perhaps you could post the IP addresses on your en

Re: L3: Google from DC via the Netherlands?

2009-02-06 Thread William Allen Simpson
Peter Beckman wrote: SO. Who's problem is this to fix? Is it: 1. Me? Am I a dope for using a very reliable but anycasted resolving name service? Clearly, I could just use the handy dandy easy to remember because I worked there 198.6.1.x, or is that an Internet faux

Re: Dynamic IP log retention = 0?

2009-03-11 Thread William Allen Simpson
Brett Charbeneau wrote: I've been nudging an operator at Covad about a handful of hosts from his DHCP pool that have been attacking - relentlessly port scanning - our assets. Port scanning is rather common, and shouldn't be considered "attacking" -- unless it's taking a significant amount

Re: Dynamic IP log retention = 0?

2009-03-12 Thread William Allen Simpson
J. Oquendo wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Glen Turner wrote: William Allen Simpson wrote: A telecommunications carrier releasing a customer's details without their permission, to a non-investigatory third party, without a court order. Hmmm. It's certainly illegal here in Australia.

Re: Dynamic IP log retention = 0?

2009-03-15 Thread William Allen Simpson
Marshall Eubanks wrote: Maybe we should start the nanog-law mailing list. Maybe we should stick to the operational "Subject" at hand: log retention? Is there any disagreement that everybody SHOULD keep dynamic assignment logs for at least 36 hours as a Best Current Practice? Is there any evi

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