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Re: gTLD DNS RFP
by Sean Donelan 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

On Tue, 30 November 1999, "Newell, Tom" wrote: > NSI recently released an RFP seeking hosts for gTLD DNS > servers for COM/NET/ORG. As it likely reached the "sales" > people at the organizations many of you represent, I > thought it appropriate to send a "heads-up" to this list. Is NSI replacing the current root-servers being used with its own gTLD servers, or is this for the gTLD servers already installed by NSI? Since NSI already controls over 40% of the servers used for COM/NET/ORG, and 40% seems to be the magic number for continued reliable operation of the zones, I would be interested in how diversity will be maintained.

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Equal time among gamers?
by Sean Donelan 01 Dec '99

01 Dec '99

I keep a close eye on the game sites because serious gamers tend to be very serious about the quality of their network connections, and aren't shy about expressing their opinions. I've found them a usefull early warning of network problems. For the same reason I watch the on-line stock trading sites. However, I should have kept quiet about Everquest's network status page. Gamers hold some strong views. I was flooded with comments about Microsoft's Game Zone problems over the weekend. They had some network problems with their new Asheron's multi-player game. From what I could tell Microsoft's www.zone.com site was inaccessiable for part of Sunday Night. After my post about Everquest, several gamers asked what I knew about Microsofts's problems. The simple answer is not much. It didn't appear to be a general Internet problem, but specific to Microsoft's site. Yes, Randy, I did ask Microsoft's customer service and NOC. I got back answers either they didn't see a problem, or they saw a problem but their customer service people couldn't find out from their their technical staff what was happening either. Microsoft's Game Zone does have some status pages, but as far as I could tell, unlike Everquest, Microsoft doesn't actually update their status when there is a problem.

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gTLD DNS RFP
by Newell, Tom 30 Nov '99

30 Nov '99

NSI recently released an RFP seeking hosts for gTLD DNS servers for COM/NET/ORG. As it likely reached the "sales" people at the organizations many of you represent, I thought it appropriate to send a "heads-up" to this list. Those parties interested in receiving a copy of the RFP should send an email request to gTLD(a)nsiregistry.net. All requests for copies of the RFP should be received no later than December 2, 1999. The request should include a mailing address, technical point of contact, a contractual point of contact, and an e-mail address. A copy of the RFP and associated terms and conditions will be provided. thanks --Tom

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Does Teleglobe implements QoS ?
by Dmitry S. Esakov 30 Nov '99

30 Nov '99

Hello! Macomnet (ISP, AS8470, Moscow, Russia) uses world connectivity via Teleglobe. We have a router, managed by us, in NY. The interface pointing to America uses Teleglobe's address and another one, pointing to Moscow - ours. Regullary I see a quite strange heavy delays on Teleglobe to Alternet interconnect point. I traced the route to several destinations with SRC addresses from Teleglobe's and Macomnet's IP blocks. The problem is that packets with SRC from Teleglobe address space passes through with lower delays than packets with Macomnet's SRC addresses. The first thing what people expect is assymetric routing (i.e. route from Alternet goes another way back to us). But it's not possible. Our backup provider (AS8342) plugs into Teleglobe also. So Teleglobe advertises the right route to Alternet and it's quite impossible for Alternet to have another route to Macomnet. I believe it's not a routing problem. I contacted Teleglobe and they said that it could be a temporary congestion. I wonder how could congestion exist for Macomnet addresses and not to appear for Teleglobe itself!!! That is the question. Look at the traces below. The first one uses Teleglobe SRC address, the second - ours. ----------------------------------------- Trace with Teleglobe_SRC_ADDRESS : ----------------------------------------- nyy-1#trace Protocol [ip]: Target IP address: 204.71.127.3 Source address: 207.45.205.14 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Teleglobe's address Numeric display [n]: Timeout in seconds [3]: Probe count [3]: Minimum Time to Live [1]: Maximum Time to Live [30]: Port Number [33434]: Loose, Strict, Record, Timestamp, Verbose[none]: Type escape sequence to abort. Tracing the route to intrepid.net (204.71.127.3) 1 if-0-1-0.bb6.NewYork.Teleglobe.net (207.45.205.13) [AS 6453] 0 msec 4 msec 0 msec 2 if-6-0-0.bb1.NewYork.Teleglobe.net (207.45.221.67) [AS 6453] 0 msec 0 msec 4 msec 3 Serial0-1-0.GW2.NYC2.ALTER.NET (157.130.4.165) [AS 701] 0 msec 4 msec ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Teleglobe goes fine. 157.130.5.217 [AS 701] 4 msec 4 144.ATM2-0.XR2.NYC1.ALTER.NET (146.188.178.150) [AS 701] 4 msec 0 msec 4 msec 5 194.ATM3-0.TR2.NYC1.ALTER.NET (146.188.178.198) [AS 701] 0 msec 4 msec 0 msec 6 104.ATM7-0.TR2.DCA8.ALTER.NET (146.188.138.169) [AS 701] 8 msec 4 msec 12 msec 7 152.63.32.217 [AS 701] 4 msec 8 msec 8 msec 8 192.ATM6-0.GW5.TCO1.ALTER.NET (146.188.162.165) [AS 701] 8 msec 8 msec 8 msec 9 intrepid-gw2.customer.ALTER.NET (157.130.36.214) [AS 701] 20 msec 20 msec 32 msec 10 office-shep.intrepid.net (209.190.129.38) [AS 6359] 20 msec 20 msec 28 msec 11 intrepid.net (204.71.127.3) [AS 6359] 20 msec 16 msec 20 msec ---------------------------------------------------- AT THE SAME TIME Trace with Macomnet_SRC_ADDRESS : ---------------------------------------------------- nyy-1#trace Protocol [ip]: Target IP address: 204.71.127.3 Source address: 195.128.65.33 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Macomnet's address Numeric display [n]: Timeout in seconds [3]: Probe count [3]: Minimum Time to Live [1]: Maximum Time to Live [30]: Port Number [33434]: Loose, Strict, Record, Timestamp, Verbose[none]: Type escape sequence to abort. Tracing the route to intrepid.net (204.71.127.3) 1 if-0-1-0.bb6.NewYork.Teleglobe.net (207.45.205.13) [AS 6453] 0 msec 0 msec 4 msec 2 Teleglobe.net (207.45.221.99) [AS 6453] 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec 3 * Serial0-1-0.GW2.NYC2.ALTER.NET (157.130.4.165) [AS 701] 1248 msec ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ !!!!!! 157.130.5.217 [AS 701] 1276 msec 4 144.ATM2-0.XR1.EWR1.ALTER.NET (146.188.178.146) [AS 701] 1220 msec 1268 msec * 5 * * * 6 * * 105.ATM6-0.TR1.DCA8.ALTER.NET (146.188.138.121) [AS 701] 1272 msec 7 152.63.32.201 [AS 701] 1284 msec 1288 msec * 8 * 193.ATM6-0.GW5.TCO1.ALTER.NET (146.188.162.169) [AS 701] 2716 msec * 9 intrepid-gw2.customer.ALTER.NET (157.130.36.214) [AS 701] 1392 msec * 1356 msec 10 office-shep.intrepid.net (209.190.129.38) [AS 6359] 1244 msec 1244 msec 1328 msec 11 intrepid.net (204.71.127.3) [AS 6359] 1284 msec 1324 msec 1392 msec ---------------- Have a nice day! Esakov Dmitriy, Macomnet Internet Dpt.

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I like Patrick no longer have enable (read NSI is ok, I am broke)
by John M. Brown 30 Nov '99

30 Nov '99

Given the recent (10 minutes ago) making of a fool before my peers and several other (classified) stewpids, my network people tell me to go play business man and leave the real work to them. my enable.rights have been revoked. I am just a!@# manager. And a manager that can't spell. as sage and wise person said (in private) "I am doomed". Yours in spirit John Brown iHighway.net

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NSI's Biz parter dom reg broken??
by John M. Brown 30 Nov '99

30 Nov '99

We have not gotten a single reply from registerations(a)networksolutions.com since last wendesday. Anyone know whats up??? (please save the usual rant about NSI for later) tia jmbrown

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question about PLCP T3 ATM interface
by Zheng Chen 29 Nov '99

29 Nov '99

Is any ISP using PLCP T3 ATM interface in the router to connect to ATM backbone? Thanks. Jane

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Outage postings
by Ryan Bek 29 Nov '99

29 Nov '99

Hello all. Quick question - is there/are there mailing list(s) that I can join that will give me timely outage reports that may affect our network connectivity? Our ISP (Time Warner Telecom), as far as we know, doesn't offer any lists to their customers. Thanks for the help - -Ryan- Ryan Bek Help Desk Manager Office of Information Technology, Greensboro College Phone - (336) 272-7102 x354 FAX - (336) 271-6634

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ATT fiber cut in Sokie, IL
by Steve Gibbard 29 Nov '99

29 Nov '99

Frontier is telling us that there is an ATT (probably former TCG) fiber cut in Skokie, IL. This sounds like it might be the same TCG run between Chicago and Milwaukee that was getting cut a lot a year or so ago. Anybody have any more information? -Steve Gibbard WWNet

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Re: ARIN whois
by Dean Anderson 29 Nov '99

29 Nov '99

I'm all for working with the community. Each time I have, it has turned out that we need to operate relays. Possibly, SMTP AUTH will make unauthenticated relaying unnecessary. I'm still looking into how widely deployed it is on email clients. Its the foolish people who ASSUME that all of the internet is composed of cable modems and the company email server, and the internal company modem bank, all behind a firewall and a VPN who think we don't need to operate relays. Try to take relaying out of sendmail, and see what happens. I'm just foolish enough to tell the junior antispammer league that relaying has a legitimate purpose, and can't be removed. Most other people aren't willing to waste the time with them. I was also foolish enough to think they could think something through without resorting to abusing our servers, and making posts to alt.2600. Yep. I know when I did something wrong. --Dean Around 07:03 PM 11/22/1999 -0500, rumor has it that Greg A. Woods said: >[ On Monday, November 22, 1999 at 17:26:08 (-0500), Dean Anderson wrote: ] >> Subject: Re: ARIN whois >> >> We're up to 80K and rising. 2 big ones. Some smaller ones over >> 5K. Most the rest are under $500. Unless we can pin them to one or a >> small group of people. Then all their attacks are summed. A number of >> small attacks over a short period can then be criminal. This amount >> interests both lawyers and collections companies. > >Dean you're being a libellous idiot. When the judge finds out you left >your front doors wide open with a big flashing neon sign above them >he'll no doubt have a very hard time controlling his laughter; if you >can ever get your case that far, that is. The *real* costs are only >those associated with closing your relays -- not some inflated price >list for services you've invented. > >If you'd try working *with* the community, instead of against it, you'd >be one hell of a lot further along. > >-- > Greg A. Woods > >+1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <gwoods(a)acm.org> <robohack!woods> >Planix, Inc. <woods(a)planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods(a)weird.com> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Plain Aviation, Inc dean(a)av8.com LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP http://www.av8.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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