RE: Want to move to all 208V for server racks

> > GFCI breakers are often required on large services, most large (new) > > 480v services I have seen (1000A and larger) a have Ground fault > > breakers, > > Actually, my recollection is that large new services include arc suppression > rather than ground fault (480V service may be floating in a

RE: Want to move to all 208V for server racks

> btw, one thing I do not recall seeing on this thread is that 208v avoids one > of > the common problems with 120v, which is the third harmonic issue. > > With the cheaper switching power supplies, one will often see significant 3rd > harmonics in the waveforms(*). The 3rd harmonic, across a 3

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

competing local > providers. Wait -- you mean competition that is healthy and fair?! The FCC would not hear of this. -- Alex, remembering the days of 8000 ISP's with substantially better customer service than is available today

What sflow software - Manage Engine Net flow analyzer or Plixer Scrutinizer with Analyzer

using another commercial solution, which they would recommend. Thanks in advance Alex

RE: How are you aggregating WAN customers these days?

Cheap and reliable. Cisco 7507, RSP4 or RSP8 or whatever, with ChanDS3 cards, running 12.0S. > -Original Message- > From: Chris [mailto:behrnetwo...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 9:52 AM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: How are you aggregating WAN customers these days? >

Re: Software DNS hghi availability and load balancer solution [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

/www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/carp.html) -Alex IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Department of Defence and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email.

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

roof who is the legitimate holder of Internet resources. I fear that by not offering a hosted certification solution, real world adoption rates will rival those of IPv6 and DNSSEC. Can the Internet community afford that? Alex Band Product Manager, RIPE NCC P.S. For those interested in which prefixes and

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

hijacking is not the *only* reason the Internet community needs better routing security, the accidental route leaking that happens every day is reason enough. -Alex On 29 Jan 2011, at 23:00, Paul Vixie wrote: >> From: Alex Band >> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:26:55 +0100 >> >

Re: Level 3's IRR Database

rigin AS. Pakistan Telecom also can't create a valid ROA, because they are not the holder of the address space. -Alex

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

of all sizes demonstrate capability for up/down). > if so, can you share the reasoning behind that business decision? We're building and maintaining this with membership fees. Why would we keep something operational our members no longer want and need using their money? I sincerely do

Re: A top-down RPKI model a threat to human freedom? (was Re: Level 3's IRR Database)

ROA and drop the route, it would be effective. So *both* these things would have to happen before there is an operational issue. Like you've seen in Egypt, pulling the plug is easier... YMMV on your side of the pond. Alex Band Product Manager, RIPE NCC smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

RE: L6-20P -> L6-30R

Strictly speaking, no, you cannot do this. The diameter of the pattern of the pins are different 20 to 30 amps. If no electrical inspectors are looking, yes, you can bend the pins and "make it work." I've done it, others have done it, but you shouldn't do it and it is a clear electrical code vi

RE: L6-20P -> L6-30R

Go look at any standard household lamp. It has a 5-15P on the end of it, which could be plugged into an outlet rated for 20 amps (5-20R), with 16 gauge lamp cord rated for 10 amps or less. It all depends on the connected load. > * w...@typo.org (Wayne E Bouchard) [Tue 18 Mar 2014, 23:53 CET]:

RE: L6-20P -> L6-30R

> > Go look at any standard household lamp. It has a 5-15P on the end of > > it, which could be plugged into an outlet rated for 20 amps (5-20R), > > with 16 gauge lamp cord rated for 10 amps or less. > > Mine all seem to be NEMA 1-15P, some (most?) with 18 AWG wire. > > Have I been shortchanged?

RE: L6-20P -> L6-30R

Just because you say the debate should be ended doesn't mean it's true, or that you are even correct. > To end the debate, my staff master electrician says just replace the breaker. Your staff electrician missed half the answer, which would be to replace the breaker AND the receptacle. But you

Re: WISP or other options

e who specialises in this stuff and they'll be able to navigate "What is the least fucked up way to solve this for the event?". HTH, -Alex

Re: WISP or other options

I think the AF5 should be legal over here, at least, the lower bands are license free up to 1W transmit power. Not used the AF5 at all yet, it's quite new, and the only AF24 experience I have is only ~1000m worth of distance so comparatively easy to make work. Either way you latched onto the poin

Re: WISP or other options

On 27 March 2014 05:09, Warren Bailey < wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> wrote: > I think the real problem here is the event is for 2 days and he requires > a metric shxt ton of data (for wireless anyways..). Sure you could get all > kinds of COOL solutions together, but do you think the (

North NJ LATA 224

Anyone selling IP over ATM / Frame Relay in North NJ Verizon LATA 224 that could carve a PVC real fast?

Re: Getting pretty close to default IPv4 route maximum for 6500/7600 routers.

www.pssclabs.com > On May 7, 2014, at 6:47 PM, "Shawn L" wrote: > > Do the ASR1k routers have this issue as well? I searched around but > couldn't find any information. > > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Irwin, Kevin > Date: Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:39 AM > Subject:

RE: Muni Fiber and Politics

What timing. I live in 07874. Out here, only 50 miles from New York City, we have a problem. Verizon's network in this area is older than most people who are subscribed to this list. The copper is literally falling off the telephone poles, and in conversations with linemen, they are instructed

RE: Wacky Weekend: NERC to relax power grid frequency strictures

> It ismy understanding also that most commercial grade gensets have > built into the ATS logic that when utility power comesback online, that > the transfer back to utility power is coordinated with the ATS driving > the generator until both frequency and phases are within a user > specified rang

RE: Wacky Weekend: NERC to relax power grid frequency strictures

> It makes little sense to sync to the grid when the generator is only > used when the grid is down - and unless you run your generators 24/7 > your UPS will have to make up for the comparatively long time it takes > for the generator to start, so it's rather useless to sync the > generator when th

RE: Wacky Weekend: NERC to relax power grid frequency strictures

> I think we're missing something, which is where these ATS's are > installed. > > I don't think most utilities allow (largeish) ATS's to do a closed > transition from a genset to the utility grid, but I may be wrong. > There may be other ATS's in your facility that do a closed transition > though

Re: Announcing Project BISMark: ISP Performance Measurements from Home Routers

hat is being run by Sam Knows at http://www.samknows.com/broadband/test_my_isp and http://www.samknows.com/broadband/broadband_performance ? I'd be quite interested to know the difference between them. Alex

RE: Wacky Weekend: NERC to relax power grid frequency strictures

> More to the point, as I note in another reply, you don't want to be *the > lineman > down the road with his hands on a "dead" wire*. > > Pretty much the *first paragraph* in NEC 700 (700.6) says this: > > """ > Transfer equipment shall be designed and installed to prevent the inadvertent > int

Re: NANOG List Update - Moving Forward

That issue can be resolved by changing email addresses for multiple language support by using announce...@example.com, anounce...@example.com ? Alex On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Ben McGinnes wrote: > On 13/07/11 11:37 PM, Richard Kulawiec wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 04:13:1

Re: 3Com Total Control documentation

We recently dumped about 40 into a dumpster. I shed a tear. Sent via Blackberry while presumably driving with one hand - Original Message - From: Matthew Black To: hect...@pobox.com ; NANOG list Sent: Thu Jul 28 11:19:11 2011 Subject: Re: 3Com Total Control documentation My sympath

Re: 3Com Total Control documentation

Yeah, you are correct. But it was still a dumpster. We recycle a lot of metal around here :) Sent via Blackberry while presumably driving with one hand From: Matt Taber To: Alex Rubenstein Cc: 'bl...@csulb.edu' ; 'hect...@pobox.com' ; &#x

RE: DNS DoS ???

Dns anycast can in addition to acl help distribute load. On Jul 30, 2011 9:44 PM, "Jon Lewis" wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jul 2011, Drew Weaver wrote: > >>> my DNS servers were getting slow so I blocked recursive queries for all >>> but my own network. >> >> This should be the standard practice. By opera

RE: Home computer rooms

I am in the process of building a house. I designed a room that can accommodate three 24 x 36 inch cabinets or four post racks. I will likely install a APC 2200 watt UPS in the bottom of two of the racks, and the third will be a cross-connect field, patch panels, etc. The room will have a small

RE: NANOG Digest, Vol 43, Issue 53

> Damn, and people claim I'm nuts! I know I am, thanks. > You know, you could go whole hog and multihome. Trust me, if I could, I would certainly do dark to my house. > I've got 1 cabinet and 1 two-post rack in the basement. I'm also > building out a small patch panel in a closet on the sec

RE: personal backup

> > My home backups are somewhat large and not yet offsite due to their size. > > (~4.7TB). > > We (NAC) run a rather large ZFS thing to sell cheap 'scratch space.' When I say large, I think it surpasses well over 100 TB at this point. So for me, it was easy. At home, my stuff spins on disk (n

RE: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

> Of course, if he had local AC power available, it would kinda defeat one of > the points of having PoE, which is to be able to put switches where there > isn't a convenient AC drop to begin with. But wait, there is more... Maybe you want your POE devices (like phones) to stay alive during a pow

RE: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

> All the actual EE's I know are most impressed with the PowerWare (now > Eaton Power) designs. For insance their 5110 is a line-interactive > design built with quality components. The last I looked APC did not > have a line-interactive design in this price range; they were all the > "standby" de

Re: Any Facebook / Blogspot security contacts?

elp/contact.php?show_form=report_tos_violation might help . Blogger abuse is at http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/request.py?hl=en&contact_type=main_tos . HTH Alex

Re: What do you do when your Home ISP is down?

rom the exchange to our house. This ISP has 4.2 million residential subscribers, so is fairly sizable. I'm going to be interested in how long it takes to get to their routing guys. It's going to be enlightening to see what happens. Alex

Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

I don't know that is true. I believe voice network was overwhelmed. Wireless data and sms had no issue or interruption whatsoever. Sent via Blackberry while presumably driving with one hand - Original Message - From: chris To: Sule, Mohammed Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tue Aug 23 14:3

Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011

Switch las vegas makes the same claim. KY is def prone to the affects of a hurricane. But if you have a roof and reasonable drainage, you will be ok. Sent via Blackberry while presumably driving with one hand - Original Message - From: Jay Ashworth To: NANOG Sent: Wed Aug 24 17:46:

RE: New Natural Disaster! 8/27/2011 Hurricane Irene

Yeah, I was going to respond to the original post but can't find it. The statement made by Mr. Wallace borders on insulting. The devastation in my county alone is something I have never seen. Thousands of houses destroyed, tens of thousands displaced. Businesses completely wiped out. A major th

Re: iCloud - Is it going to hurt access providers?

I think is would be short term. The home user is not going to continuously upload data. They will do an initial sync, then incrementals. People are doing this today with success. This is not a new thing. Sent via Blackberry while presumably driving with one hand - Original Message -

RE: Mailing list/group for datacenter facilities folks

Perhaps there should be a DC track at NANOG? One of the reasons I have not gone in years. I have much knowledge and experience to share, but no one to share it with. > > I would love to be a part of this list if there is one!!! > > Cooling is not as easy as just pumping cold air into a room...

Re: Hurricane Katia

much as 50-100mm possible over parts of western Scotland. So not too bad really in the overall scheme of things. Alex

RE: Environmental monitoring options

> I'd like to ask the list what products people are using to monitor > their environments. www.controlbyweb.com has some nifty stuff that we use extensively.

Re: Mails to Google being blocked for illegal attachments

27;re not an Apps customer; they have a link to reporting problems at the bottom. Though if you're not an Apps customer (or can't find one to report the issue on your behalf as not receiving e-mails from you), I wouldn't hold out too much hope for a response from it. Do let us know how you solve the problem in the end. Alex

Steve Jobs has died

Not entirely on-list-topic, but still relevant. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20116336-37/apple-co-founder-chairman-steve-jobs-dies/?tag=cnetRiver

NeuStar locality .us domains.

Does anyone know the actual status of the locality .us structure? Are they trying to push people to the .us pay domains? Isn't NeuStar up for renewal on their last 1 year extension? -- Alex Romanauskas ZipLink / GNAPs

RE: meeting network

Years ago, on my own, when I used to attend, I used to call the venue about a month in advance and explain to them what was about to happen. Sort of a warning, per say. I explained, in detail, who NANOG was comprised of (I often would use the term "operators of the internet"). I explained even i

Re: How Skype uses the network [was: News item: Blackberry services down worldwide]

ncentrating on how to stop supernodes happening if you have no control of the client) at http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/security/universities/. Anybody who might end up with Skyoe clients on their network might want to give it a gander, as it has some useful info on things like network impact (along with a lot of stuff that nobody cares about and you can skip). HTH, Alex

Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers

Ricky Beam wrote: >Works perfectly even in networks where a VPN doesn't and the idiot >hotel >intercepts port 25 (not blocks, redirects to *their* server.) > >--Ricky Why do they do that? -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Recommendation for customer monitoring network tool/portal for a large ISP

but would wish to move to something more scalable for SP environment. Regards, Alex.

Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?

know is content/web filtering especially for corporates wishing to block inappropriate/time wasting content like facebook. Addition of this would place it a par with the best like Sonicwall and Fortinet. Alex

Re: Network device command line interfaces

Ray Soucy wrote: >One of the biggest benefits to a CLI is the ability to easily script >tasks. > In a Cisco environment I can roll out major changes to hundreds of >switches in seconds, for example. > >A lot of network vendors have been trying to make network devices more >simple and easier to us

RE: Online/double-conversion UPS economy/high efficiency modes?

nsive testing on this. I don't know if anyone does this at the very-small level. I know GE's smallest unit is 300 kva for eBoost. "Question everything, assume nothing, discuss all, and resolve quickly." -- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, a...@nac.net, latency, Al Reuben -- --Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net --

RE: Online/double-conversion UPS economy/high efficiency modes?

> I have a 700VA 9130 rackmount that I recently bought to give it an eval run > (although the first was a dud). There is a 3kVA model. For my small load it > reports a PF of 0.91 online. PF, as in power factor? That has nothing to do with UPS efficiency.

Re: SSL on Juniper.net

er.net and https://sslcheck.globalsign.com/en_GB/sslcheck?host=support.juniper.net if anyone wants to have a look Alex

Re: Join my network on LinkedIn

ls from LinkedIn or their members though LinkedIn. If anyone from NANOG management doesn't like this, LinkedIn confirmed that this block can be revered if required. Hopefully that will solve the issue and let everyone go back to running the Intertubes. Alex

Re: Notice: Fradulent RIPE ASNs

lt of a post here. I hope this helps get you in touch with the right people to help. Best wishes, Alex

RE: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade?

> Would you rather your ISP not maintain their devices? Are the > consequences "so bad" of a 30 minute outage that your business > is severely impacted? > > - Jared You had me up until that line. That should be expanded a little ... First, I'd say, yes - many businesses would be severely impa

RE: Level3 worldwide emergency upgrade?

> Yeah, perhaps not as elegantly worded as I would have hoped, but there are > many reasons things "go down". Just one of those elements is the internet > part, there's also transport, power, and other elements that combine to > make this complex system called the internet. If you N+N or N+1 your

Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

On 03/02/13 05:55, Frank Bulk wrote: Yes, but IP TV is not profitable on stand-alone basis -- it's just a necessary part of the triple play. A lot of the discussion has been about Internet and network design, but not much about the other two "plays". I've certainly heard FTTH deployers mention

Re: Anyone know of a good InfiniBand vendor in the US?

Hi Landon: We deliver Infiniband based servers and switches. We have been working with Infiniband for many years already. What are you looking for? Alex www.pssclabs.com On 2/19/2013 2:11 PM, Landon Stewart wrote: Hello NANOG, We are thinking of utilizing some InfiniBand stuff for some

Re: Speedtest Results speedtest.net vs Mikrotik bandwidth test

just use a web > browser and the only caveat is they need to have Java working. > > Here's one to get a feeling of what your customers will see: > http://ndt.anl.gov:7123 > > scott > -- Alex Presse "How much net work could a network work if a network could net work?"

RE: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

> > Has fingers directly in servers of top Internet content companies, > > dates to 2007. Happily, none of the companies listed are transport > > networks: > > I've always just assumed that if it's in electronic form, someone else is > either > reading it now, has already read it, or will read i

Re: Speed Test Results

ic at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/diagnostics (think Hulu, but in the UK). It tests to all their CDNs (Akami, Limelight etc) using different streaming methods and gives the results. Only useful as an overview, but a decent first guide nevertheless . > > I only use them to get a generic overview of the link. > Heck yes! Alex

Re: Trouble accessing www.nanog.org

Turing-complete ? Is Ogg-Vorbis ? (It seems like those are > > the two reasonable open standard choices.)) > > Okay by me.  Just no "Flash Video Streams" if you please. > FWIW many of the big video hosting sites have this option now, and many send an appropriate format for the browser being used: http://www.youtube.com/html5 http://www.dailymotion.com/html5 http://vimeo.com/blog:268 http://blip.tv/html5/ http://www.archive.org/details/Html5DemoVideo Alex

Re: Possible New Zero Day Microsoft Windows 3389 vulnerability - outbound traffic 3389

option. Whatever you do, do let everyone know what the problem turns out to be. Alex

Re: Whois 172/12

vices are subject to the Terms of Use # available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html # Also, when you check BGP routing table, it is not routed at all. route-server.as3257.net>sh ip bgp 172.0.1.216 % Network not in table route-server.as3257.net> So it seems like forged IP address. A

Re: Whois 172/12

Similar to 1.0.0.0/8 case, which was allocated to APNIC last year or so... On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:47 AM, wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 06:36:12AM -0600, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> > From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi@nanog.org  Sun Jan 15 02:02:00 >> > 2012 >> > Subject: Re: Whois

Re: Why not to use RPKI (Was Re: Argus: a hijacking alarm system)

also log into a public RPKI-capable Juniper here: 193.34.50.25, 193.34.50.26 telnet username: rpki password: testbed With additional documentation available here: http://rpki01.fra2.de.euro-transit.net/documentation.html Have fun, Alex On 20 Jan 2012, at 13:08, Arturo Servin wrote: > >

Re: Hijacked Network Ranges

nes: https://www.ripe.net/certification/router-configuration and talk to the RIPE NCC RPKI Validator service available here: https://www.ripe.net/certification/tools-and-resources Try it out, and give feedback! Cheers, Alex P.S. RFCs 6480-6493 have been published. A big thank you goes out

Re: Customer Notification System.

Billing software that caters to smaller web hosts and ISPs like WHMCS can send out mass mailings, and you can drill down which customers should receive the email based on the services they have with you. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:58 PM, James Wininger wrote: > We are a smaller ISP in Indiana. W

Re: Reliable Cloud host ?

a 100% up-time guarantee if you want. A review of them regarding availability is at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/31/why_i_use_easydns/ Do let us know who you end up picking and how it goes. Alex

Re: is 74.218.84.10 a road runner IP address?

According to Whois that's a commercial roadrunner connection, and it falls in one of their netblocks. Plenty of info here: http://bgp.he.net/ip/74.218.84.10 goe...@anime.net March 3, 2012 9:45 PM ab...@rr.com doesn't seem to think so. -Dan

Re: Global Naps?

Bankruptcy liquidation. - Original Message - From: Mark Stevens To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Mon Mar 05 13:46:15 2012 Subject: Global Naps? Global NAPs seemingly shutdown all tandem services last week and it is causing major congestion issues with routing calls. Anyone have more infor

Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US

Less, and less people keep using Usenet... A lot of people just use Search Engine, Web download, P2P... I guess given the traffic and data too stored, it may not be useful for the effort to keep Usenet service running. Alex On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Henry Yen wrote: > uunet/vzb &q

Re: CCDP (Was: April fools joke?)

tails we'll have to wait for the Queen's Speech on the 9th of May (and the following white / command papers and other guff) when it looks like she'll announce it with all the other legislation her government will try to pass over the next year. Alex

RPKI field experiences

Validator requires no configuration and has no dependencies other than Java 1.6 and rsync available on your system. Simply unzip the package, run ./bin/rpki-validator from the base directory and browse to http://localhost:8080 Cheers, Alex

Re: Colocation in New York for a POP

25 B'way is in the process of being shuttered. - Original Message - From: Pierce Lynch To: Abdelkader Chikh Daho Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thu Apr 19 11:22:17 2012 Subject: RE: Colocation in New York for a POP Abdelkader, I have had good experiences with TeleHouse America and their

RPKI production support on Cisco, also EFT

s-and-resources Here are instructions on how to hook up our Validator toolset to one of the Ciscos above: https://www.ripe.net/certification/router-configuration Cheers, Alex Band RIPE NCC -- This message has been scanned by Kaspersky Anti-Virus. For more information about data security please visit

Re: rpki vs. secure dns?

On 28 Apr 2012, at 11:56, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Paul Vixie: > >> this seems late, compared to the various commitments made to rpki in >> recent years. is anybody taking it seriously? > > The idea as such isn't new, this has been floating around for four > years or more, including at least o

Re: rpki vs. secure dns?

. Have a look here for a public example: http://rpki.netsign.net:8080/ Or install and try it yourself: http://www.ripe.net/certification/tools-and-resources Cheers, Alex On 28 Apr 2012, at 13:35, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Alex Band: > >>> I don't know if we can get RPKI to

Re: rpki vs. secure dns?

On 28 Apr 2012, at 14:57, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:34:52PM +0200, > Alex Band wrote > a message of 41 lines which said: > >> In reality, since the RIRs launched an RPKI production service on 1 >> Jan 2011, adoption has been incredibly go

Re: Need spamcop/ironport security contact

w3m?action=ispsignupform or http://www.spamcop.net/fom-serve/cache/75.html if you have time to learn all about how they work. Alex

Re: rpki vs. secure dns?

On 28 Apr 2012, at 19:45, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 28/04/2012 18:27, Phil Regnauld wrote: >> To me that seems like the most obvious problem, but as Alex put it, >> "Everyone has the ability to apply an override on data they do not >> trust, >> or

Re: rpki vs. secure dns?

per with the Registry, inject a false ROA authorizing another AS to make the announcement look like a hijack All in all, for an RPKI-specific court order to be effective in taking a network offline, the RIR would have to tamper with the registry, inject false data and try to make sure it's not detected so nobody applies a local override. -Alex smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: rpki vs. secure dns?

On 29 Apr 2012, at 22:03, David Conrad wrote: > Alex, > > On Apr 29, 2012, at 8:16 AM, Alex Band wrote: >> All in all, for an RPKI-specific court order to be effective in taking a >> network offline, the RIR would have to tamper with the registry, inject >> fals

Re: rpki vs. secure dns?

On 29 Apr 2012, at 22:50, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 28/04/2012 14:04, Alex Band wrote: >> At RIPE 63, six months ago, the RIPE NCC membership got a chance to vote >> on RPKI at the general meeting. The result was that the RIPE NCC has the >> green light to continue

Re: CDNs should pay eyeball networks, too.

I can't agree with this. You are assuming a cost-plus model. Many things are market-priced. If you are the only game in town, and you have a great product, you sell it for the most you can. You aren't a charity. The customer always has the option to not buy your product. - Original

Re: Looking for W7 whois freeware

else a whois server will accept, like: "-B -G as378". It's not a GUI, but whois under Cygwin has always worked well for me. -Alex

RPKI performance metrics; your help requested

the prompt. If you have any questions or feedback, please let me know. Many thanks, Alex Band RIPE NCC

Re: YouTube Video Streaming

le aren't doing much with this, they are usually quite obsessive when it comes to reducing latency and other issues over their peering connections. Alex

Re: Industry practice for BGP costs - one time or fixed/monthly?

ber - "industry standards" are different! The UK and Ireland are also pretty good places geographically for server locations, with lots of fat pipes to mainland Europe and across the Atlantic to North America; there is a reason people like Amazon put their data centers there. HTH, Alex

Re: rpki vs. secure dns?

sn't work like that. You can make a positive statement about a Prefix+AS combination, but that doesn't mark the origination from another AS 'unauthorized' or 'invalid', there merely isn't a statement for it. (Someone please confirm. I may be wrong.) -Alex

Re: rpki vs. secure dns?

; Of course, there's a reason that an announcement that contradicts a > ROA is marked as invalid [RFC6483]. Such announcements are hijacks, > the attacks that the RPKI is designed to prevent. If ROVER doesn't > provide a hard fail here, then it would seem to not be providing much > security benefit. That does seem the case. I don't think ROVER provides a hard fail. Can someone confirm? > I agree with the person higher up the thread that ROVER seems like > just another distribution mechanism for what is essentially RPKI data. But does that distribution method easily allow you to get the full set of available data? -Alex

Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

On 02/07/12 16:47, AP NANOG wrote: Do you happen to know all the kernels and versions affected by this? 2.6.26 to 3.3 inclusive per news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4183122

APIs galore: All RIPE NCC Developer Docs

iew of all invalid assignments that require your attention. Lastly, there are APIs for RIPE Stat and RIPE Atlas data, giving you access to a wealth of Internet measurements, data analysis and statistics. Have a look at http://ripe.net/developers Cheers, Alex Band Product Manager RIPE NCC

Re: [arin-announce] Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Now Available to ARIN Customers

.fra2.de.euro-transit.net:8080 Public testbed info at the bottom of this page: http://www.ripe.net/certification/tools-and-resources -Alex On 17 Sep 2012, at 17:51, Mark Kosters wrote: > Hi > > This announcement may be of interest to many of you. > > Regards, > Mark >

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

Government's Intranet, if you are so inclined. It is currently being transformed into the "Public Services Network": http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/content/public-services-network. Alex

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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Paul Thornton wrote: > On 18/09/2012 15:07, Eugen Leitl wrote: >> >> >> >> http://paritynews.com/network/item/325-department-of-work-and-pensions-uk-in-possession-of-169-million-unused-ipv4-addresses >> >> Department of Work and Pensions UK in Possession of 16.9 Mi

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