February 2004 - NANOG - lists.nanog.org

REMINDER: ARIN to allocate from 70.0.0.0/8
by Leslie Nobile 24 Feb '04

24 Feb '04

Hello- This is a reminder that ARIN will begin allocating IP address space from 70.0.0.0/8 in the immediate future. This will include allocations of /20 and shorter prefixes, according to ARIN's minimum allocation policy. You may wish to adjust any filters you have in place accordingly. For informational purposes, a list of ARIN's currently administered IP blocks can be found under "CIDR Blocks" at: http://www.arin.net/statistics/index.html Regards, Leslie Nobile Director, Registration Services American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)

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Sprint and AT&T backbone engineer
by alex＠yuriev.com 24 Feb '04

24 Feb '04

Hello, If any Sprint and AT&T backbone engineer with visibility into live capacity issues in North East could drop me a message of list, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Alex

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Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls
by Paul Vixie 24 Feb '04

24 Feb '04

> > It's a module plug-in into bind and if you prefer to try and do this > > in a opt-in basis they have a client program that you download and > > it gets hooked into the users browser. > > This is the right way to do it, end user opt in, and browser only. i'm a little bit worried about the idea of doing this inside BIND, since DNS is supposed to be coherent, and answers are supposed to be based on fact rather than value. but the larger point of this reply is: > Unlaterally forcing it upon everyone and breaking non www based apps is > the wrong way to do it. if you have well founded views on this topic and you have not yet shared them with ICANN's SSAC, please do so. see <http://secsac.icann.org/>.

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T1 Customer CPE Replacement?
by Claydon, Tom 24 Feb '04

24 Feb '04

Hello, We're looking for a good replacement for fractional T1 customers with Cisco 1600- & 1700-series routers as their CPE. They are good routers, but the ongoing support costs are an issue, and we need to replace them ASAP. Someone had mentioned several CPE vendors, such as Adtran and Netopia. Are there any others, and does anyone have any pros/cons of what they're familiar with? Thanks, = TC -- Tom Claydon, IT/ATM Network Engineer Dobson Telephone Company phone: (405) 391-8201 cell: (405) 834-0341

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Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls
by Michael.Dillon＠radianz.com 24 Feb '04

24 Feb '04

>Okay, they are lying here. That's a bit strong. If you had looked at the Paxfire website it doesn't take long to realize they are completely clueless. They are an Internet traffic broker but the traffic that they deal in is web page views which illustrates a certain level of technical cluelessness. But then when you read their "about" pages and see the long lists of trivial accomplishments of the principals in the company, you have to wonder about their business acumen as well. Let's face it, these guys just don't really understand what they are doing. --Michael Dillon

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Proposal: De-boganising New Address Blocks
by Daniel Karrenberg 24 Feb '04

24 Feb '04

[Apologies for duplicate messages] This is of interet to all operators worldwide. Operators who do not participate in RIPE are invited to send comments and suggestions directly to the author. "De-Bogonising New Address Blocks" <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/draft-documents/deboganising-draft.html> Abstract "This document describes an improvement in the notification process about new blocks of address space being distributed by the RIRs. It is a draft at this stage and your comments are solicited. However to gain experience before finalising the procedures, the RIPE NCC will shortly start announcing the routes from 84/8 described in the document under "84/8 Pilot"."

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FCC rulemaking for mandatory outage reporting
by Sean Donelan 24 Feb '04

24 Feb '04

Communication providers of all sizes, which may include Internet service providers, may want to review http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-04-30A1.pdf This is the FCC's notice of proposed rulemaking concerning communication provider outage reporting. The definitions are very expansive.

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RE: BL of Compromised Hosts?
by Michel Py 24 Feb '04

24 Feb '04

>> Michel Py wrote: >> There is a regrouping of BGP feeds for various "questionable" >> hosts and networks around AS29467; > william(at)elan.net wrote: > That is actually not correct. The AS29467 will stay as being > used for BOGON and similar data. It is quite likely that other > ASNs would be used for other "questionable" hosts, possibly > one for various anti-spam lists and other for yet more > "questionable" hosts such as DoS sources, etc. My mistake, thanks for correcting me. > The draft is not about data sources the draft about the > changes that need to be done to the router software in > handing BGP that would actually allow for use of outside > BGP feed for filtering (or marking) routes Indeed. > The draft which was originally only for bogon filtering > during private discussions between authors it was changed > to be more general to be used for other situations, > unfortunetly it does still suffer from being too BOGON > specific and when draft was sent to IDR they immediately > complained about that too. Indeed; however after some face to face discussion and clarified by the presentation they did understand our intentions that the purpose was the mechanism and not the qualification of the bogon/bad sources. > It has been suggested that draft be rewritten and even > more be removed from it to be less bogon specific and > to only describe this kind of filtering in the concept > with non-specific examples if possible. Still on the table, although I would like have some beta code to grind prior to rewriting... The existing draft is not nearly as bad as the initial versions in terms of being tied to bogon filtering, but I agree that it would be better if it was more generic. Michel.

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RE: Genu/L3 Major Outage
by Chris Ranch 24 Feb '04

24 Feb '04

Gotta love email latencies, where the gasp for help is heard after the problem goes away. -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog(a)merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Chris Ranch Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 2:58 PM To: 'nanog(a)merit.edu' Subject: Genu/L3 Major Outage Hello, Anyone know what's going on with GENU/L3's failure? I have an OC-3 in South Florida up/up, but bgp peer not responding. 17:00 EST. Thanks, Chris ---------------------------------------------- Chris Ranch Director of Network Architecture Affinity Internet, Inc. Office: +1 415 764 1091 ext. 3 Cell: +1 925 683 5823

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Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls
by Dr. Jeffrey Race 24 Feb '04

24 Feb '04

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:41:34 -0500, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote: >Yup. This is the form I saw in the PRC, It's come to Thailand too: NIPA. Results in lots of puzzling hits, or you end up at Google if NIPA can't find anything. You also get this if there is a transient DNS lookup failure. Jeffrey Race

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