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reporting physical plant damage to AT&T?
by Paul Vixie 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

there's a pacific telephone j-box at the edge of a parking lot in san mateo california that's been hit by a car hard enough to spring the door open. the copper punchdowns are now freely and publically accessible. i think it's not pac tel or pac bell or sbc any more, so what i need is to know how to tell AT&T that they've got a physical plant problem that will soon be customer affecting, especially with the weather like it is. there was a call-before- you-dig sticker on it so i called that number and they said it wasn't their problem. i'm trying to do the right thing by asking AT&T to make it so if i google for "report damage to at&t" it will give a useful result. meanwhile if someone from at&t asks me i will tell them the road address of the box. (i am not an at&t customer and calling 1-800-CALL-ATT did me no good at all.)

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2010 IPv4 (and IPv6) Address Use Report
by Iljitsch van Beijnum 05 Jan '11

05 Jan '11

[ (Non-cross)posted to NANOG, PPML, RIPE IPv6 wg, Dutch IPv6 TF. ] On the web: IPv4: http://www.bgpexpert.com/addrspace2010.php IPv6: http://www.bgpexpert.com/addrspace-ipv6-2010.php The IPv4 one is included below: 2010 IPv4 Address Use Report As of January 1, 2011, the number of unused IPv4 addresses is 495.66 million. Exactly a year earlier, the number of available addresses was 721.06 million. So we collectively used up 225.4 million addresses in 2010. 35 of the 256 the /8s that make up the IPv4 address space have the status "reserved". 0 and 127 have special meaning and can't be used for normal purposes. 224 - 239 are used for multicast and 240 - 255 are "reserved for future use". With only about two years worth of IPv4 addresses remaining on the shelves, it would seem that that future is here now, but unfortunately, pretty much all operating systems balk at using a "reserved" address. So unreserving those addresses means upgrading EVERY system connected to the Internet. If we're going to do that, we may as well skip those reserved IPv4 addresses and upgrade to IPv6. Last but not least, there's block 10, which is the largest of the three address blocks set aside for private use. The others, 172.16.0.0/12 and 192.168.0.0/16, don't show up as reserved, but are obviously not available for regular use. This makes the total number of usable IPv4 addresses is (256 - 35) * 2^24 - 2^20 - 2^16 = 3706.65 million addresses. The "IANA global pool" consists of 7 /8s (117.44 million) are still unused (unallocated): 39/8, 102/8, 103/8, 104/8, 106/8, 179/8 and 185/8. But there's also a lot of unused space hiding in the "allocated" and "legacy" categories. Each RIR publishes a list of address blocks further delegated to ISPs or end users every day on their FTP servers. If we add up all those blocks, this comes out to 3210.99 million addresses. So the total number of usable-but-unused IPv4 addresses is 3706.65 - 3210.99 = 495.66 million. Going back to the IANA global pool, these are the changes over the past year: Delegated Blocks +/- 2010 to/status AfriNIC 3 +1 APNIC 42 +8 ARIN 35 +4 LACNIC 8 +2 RIPE NCC 34 +4 LEGACY 92 UNALLOCATED 7 -19 There is an agreement between IANA and the RIRs that each RIR will get one of the last five /8s. APNIC has been getting two /8s every three months like clockwork in 2010. If this continues, they'll be getting numbers 7 and 6 later this month, and then the final distribution will look like this: Delegated Blocks +/- 2010 to/status AfriNIC 4 APNIC 45 ARIN 36 LACNIC 9 RIPE NCC 35 LEGACY 92 UNALLOCATED - At this point, it becomes very interesting what the status of the legacy space is, exactly. The legacy blocks are each "administered" by one of the RIRs, but does that mean that that RIR is free to further delegate that space to ISPs and end users? There are 146.92 million unused addresses in legacy space, including 16.65 million returned by Interop a few months ago. This is the used versus unused address space administered by each RIR: Legacy Allocated total unused total unused AfriNIC 33.55 24.85 50.33 27.06 APNIC 100.66 22.32 704.64 44.38 ARIN 654.31 60.55 587.20 56.21 LACNIC - - 134.22 37.39 RIPE NCC 67.11 5.77 570.43 67.38 IANA 671.09 16.65 - - AfriNIC used up 8.95 million addresses last year. So their current unused allocated space is good for another three years (if nothing changes) and their final /8 is worth another almost two years. If they get to use their legacy space, that buys them another 2.5 years. So unless IPv4 address use <em>really</em> takes off in Africa, AfriNIC will be handing out addresses for at least three or four years. APNIC is at the opposite end of the spectrum, using up no less than 126.22 million new IPv4 addresses last year. Even if they get to use the legacy space they administer on top of three of the last seven /8s and, it's hard to see how APNIC can avoid having to tell people "no" before the year is out. However, there is a caveat: in the 2010 APNIC records, there is 6.65 million addresses worth of space that isn't in the 2011 records. Part of this is address space returned to APNIC. In other cases, an address block delegated in a previous year expands or shrinks retroactively. Depending on what the underlying reason for these changes is, the actual rate at which APNIC and the other RIRs are giving out address space may be different from what it seems to be at first glance. ARIN, LACNIC, and the RIPE NCC used up 54.55, 17.29, and 75.45 million addresses, respectively, in 2010. However, ARIN saw 27.24 million addresses returned, including the 16.65 million from Interop, which is administered in the ARIN records even though the IANA list doesn't reflect this. For AfriNIC, LACNIC and the RIPE NCC the numbers of addresses that came back were 0.31, 0.22, and 22.62 million, respectively. With respect to running out of addresses, it's important to realize that the Pareto principle (the 80/20 rule) applies: out of the 7686 address blocks given out last year, only 392 (5 percent) were blocks larger than 100,000 addresses, but those were responsible for 82 percent of the address <em>space</em> given out. Even when the RIRs are no longer able to give out those large blocks, they may still be able to fulfill the requests for address blocks smaller than 10,000 addresses. Last year, 6425 such blocks were given out, totaling 14.03 million addresses. It really only takes a single address to be in the content business; it's the ISPs that need a continuous supply of new addresses to connect new customers. So the address shortages looming beyond the summer will hit ISPs and their broadband/mobile customers first and foremost, and the content industry to a much lesser degree. The top 15 IPv4 address holding countries: 2011-01-01 2010-01-01 Increase Country 1 - US 1519.53 M 1495.13 M 1.6% United States 2 - CN 277.64 M 232.45 M 19.4% China 3 - JP 186.82 M 177.15 M 5.5% Japan 4 - EU 151.80 M 149.48 M 1.6% Multi-country in Europe 5 (6) KR 103.50 M 77.77 M 33.1% Korea 6 (5) DE 91.61 M 86.51 M 5.9% Germany 7 (9) GB 82.25 M 74.18 M 10.9% United Kingdom 8 - CA 79.53 M 76.96 M 3.3% Canada 9 - FR 79.29 M 75.54 M 5.0% France 10 - AU 49.10 M 39.77 M 23.5% Australia 11 - BR 40.24 M 33.95 M 18.5% Brazil 12 - IT 37.14 M 33.50 M 10.9% Italy 13 - RU 34.66 M 28.47 M 21.7% Russia 14 - TW 31.93 M 27.10 M 17.8% Taiwan 15 (19) IN 28.70 M 19.42 M 47.8% India Because the US holds so much space, the increase of 25 million addresses seems small, but that's still more than 10% of the address space given out in 2010. China's growth is slowing down a little at 45 million addresses last year compared to 50 million in 2009. But other countries in Asia are picking up the slack and then some: Korea keeps using up large amounts of address space, and India is now also picking up the pace. The US now has 47.3% of the address space in use, down from 50.1% a year ago. The other countries in the top 15 collectively hold 39.7%, up from 38%. That leaves 13% for the rest of the world, up from 12%. Note that I slightly changed the way addresses are counted: previously, all the legacy blocks that didn't have an RIR listed were assumed to be used 100%. But with the return of most of the Interop block this is no longer the case: although ARIN isn't listed as administering the 45/8 block, they actually are and only have 45.0.0.0/15 listed as in use.

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Three blocks of AS Numbers allocated to the RIPE NCC
by Leo Vegoda 05 Jan '11

05 Jan '11

Hi, The IANA AS Numbers registry has been updated to reflect the allocation of three blocks to the RIPE NCC in January 2011. 56320-57343 Assigned by RIPE NCC whois.ripe.net 2011-01-04 57344-58367 Assigned by RIPE NCC whois.ripe.net 2011-01-04 197632-198655 Assigned by RIPE NCC whois.ripe.net 2011-01-04 You can find the registry at: http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers/as-numbers.xml http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers/as-numbers.xhtml http://www.iana.org/assignments/as-numbers/as-numbers.txt Regards, Leo Vegoda Number Resources Manager, IANA ICANN

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sudden low spam levels?
by Ken Chase 05 Jan '11

05 Jan '11

I have two independent mailservers, and two other customers that run their own servers, all largely unrelated infrastructures and target domains, suddenly experiencing low levels of spam. Total emails/day dropping from some 175,000-250,000ish to 50-75,000ish (legit mail in the 2-5,000 per day, yes I have some high spam:legit customers...). 3 days in a row now at least, at quick glance. Did someone set up them the bomb? /kc -- Ken Chase - ken(a)heavycomputing.ca - +1 416 897 6284 - Toronto CANADA Heavy Computing - Clued bandwidth, colocation and managed linux VPS @151 Front St. W.

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online backup software vendor
by Richard Zheng 05 Jan '11

05 Jan '11

Hi, We are looking at providing backup services for our customers. It should have software running on our servers with SAN attached to it and client software running on windows or mac. Anyone knows some good vendors? Thanks! Richard

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Re: online backup software vendor
by Randy Carpenter 05 Jan '11

05 Jan '11

Does anyone have any comments on any of these solutions being easily managed for end users? We need something that is easy for the customers to install and configure, and is centrally managed. It would also be very nice if it could be fully branded (the one thing that Vembu does well) thanks, -Randy -- | Randy Carpenter | Vice President, IT Services | Red Hat Certified Engineer | First Network Group, Inc. | (419)739-9240, x1 ---- ----- Original Message ----- > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Neil Robst <Neil.Robst(a)ioko.com> > wrote: > > > > Asigra? > > > > http://www.asigra.com/ > > > > Regards, > > Neil > > > > I have hands on experience with Asigra and would recommend it. > > JP

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vmware recover a 4.0 boot with a 4.1 cd
by Randy Bush 05 Jan '11

05 Jan '11

borked vmware boot, reset says no opsys found. it's a 4.0 system. can i do recovery (saving vmfs) using 4.1 cd, or must i use 4.0? randy

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IRSCP
by harbor235 05 Jan '11

05 Jan '11

I was curious if anyone has heard off or is playing around with Intelligent Route Service Control Point? Looks like there are some trials going on and it has potential to centralize routing descsions as well as a DDOS mitigation tool, thoughts? harbor235 ;}

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Experiences with Comcast Ethernet
by Dylan Ebner 05 Jan '11

05 Jan '11

My company has about 2 dozen Comcast business cable accounts at satellite offices around the Midwest. We are looking at adding an additional ISP to the mix and we are thinking of purchasing an Ethernet circuit from Comcast in an attempt to increase performance on those connections by keeping all the traffic within Comcast's network. Comcast, of course, has assured us this will result in "noticeable" speed increases for those accounts. I am more weary. Does anyone have any experience with Comcast's ethernet offerings? How reliable are they? Do Comcast cable connections see a significant performance improvement? Dylan Ebner, Network Engineer Consulting Radiologists, Ltd. 1221 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403 ph. 612.573.2236 fax. 612.573.2250 dylan.ebner(a)crlmed.com<mailto:dylan.ebner@crlmed.com> www.consultingradiologists.com<http://www.consultingradiologists.com>

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RE: Experiences with Comcast Ethernet
by David Hubbard 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

With the way their peering is these days, that probably would result in a huge improvement; we have complaints all over the northeast from comcast users who are getting poor connectivity to websites we host as a result of the overloaded Comcast->Level3 links and nothing we can do about it even though we both share a non-Level3 provider since Comcast wants the traffic to head out the bad links. David > -----Original Message----- > From: Dylan Ebner [mailto:dylan.ebner@crlmed.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 4:05 PM > To: North American Network Operators Group > Subject: Experiences with Comcast Ethernet > > My company has about 2 dozen Comcast business cable accounts > at satellite offices around the Midwest. We are looking at > adding an additional ISP to the mix and we are thinking of > purchasing an Ethernet circuit from Comcast in an attempt to > increase performance on those connections by keeping all the > traffic within Comcast's network. Comcast, of course, has > assured us this will result in "noticeable" speed increases > for those accounts. I am more weary. Does anyone have any > experience with Comcast's ethernet offerings? How reliable > are they? Do Comcast cable connections see a significant > performance improvement? > > Dylan Ebner, Network Engineer > Consulting Radiologists, Ltd. > 1221 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403 > ph. 612.573.2236 fax. 612.573.2250 > dylan.ebner(a)crlmed.com<mailto:dylan.ebner@crlmed.com> > www.consultingradiologists.com<http://www.consultingradiologists.com> > > >

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