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NSI Bulletin 098-008 | New Registration Agreement
by Chuck Gomes 05 Apr '98

05 Apr '98

Effective immediately, Network Solutions is introducing Domain Name Registration Agreement version 4.0 that will replace version 3.5. The new agreement reflects fee changes for domain name registrations and renewals following the elimination of the Intellectual Infrastructure Fund portion of the fee on April 1, 1998, pursuant to an amendment to Network Solutions' Cooperative Agreement with the National Science Foundation. Registration and modification requests will be processed using either version of the agreement (3.5 and 4.0) through April 30, 1998, but the payment terms specified in version 4.0 will apply for registrations and re-registrations starting April 1, 1998. Effective May 1, 1998, only version 4.0 will be accepted for registrations and modifications. The new agreement can be found at: ftp://rs.internic.net/templates/domain-template.txt The main changes are found in Section B of the agreement. An explanation of these changes follows. For domain names with registration or anniversary dates on or before March 31, 1998, the fees are $100.00 U.S. and $50.00 U.S. respectively. These fees include a 30% Intellectual Infrastructure Fund contribution that Network Solutions is required to collect and deposit in an account through an agreement with the National Science Foundation. (Re-registrations of these names, in the future, will not include the 30% fee.) For domain names with registration or anniversary dates on or after April 1, 1998, the current fees are $70.00 U.S. and $35.00 U.S. respectively. These fees do not include the 30% Intellectual Infrastructure Fund contribution because this requirement ends midnight, March 31, 1998 Eastern Standard Time. Please note that the registration or anniversary date determines the fee amount, NOT the date paid. If you have any further questions, please call (703) 742-4777. Best Regards, Network Solutions _____________________________________ Chuck Gomes Director of Customer Programs Network Solutions, Inc.

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caida bgp workshop, 7 april 1998, san diego, CA
by k claffy 04 Apr '98

04 Apr '98

CAIDA is hosting a BGP workshop on april 7th in san diego, ca details at http://www.caida.org/Caida/bgp_980407.html. mbone details will be in sdr we will also be discussing the newly formed SD-NAP: http://www.caida.org/Caida/caidaix.html comments or questions about the workshop or SD-NAP should be directed to Amy Blanchard, amy(a)caida.org, 619/534-8338 tnx k

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Spam from sprint.ca
by Adam Rothschild 04 Apr '98

04 Apr '98

I'm being spammed by sprint.ca as I speak. Multiple mails to abuse(a)sprint.net have gone unanswered. Could someone please drop me a note? I'd like to see this jackass get the treatment he truely deserves. :) Regards, Adam

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Fwd: Quantum device brings end to the "World Wide Wait"
by avg＠pluris.com 04 Apr '98

04 Apr '98

Copied without permission from CNN web site. Time to close the shop? --vadim Quantum device brings end to the "World Wide Wait" April 1, 1998 Web posted at 1:02 a.m. EST (0602 GMT) NEW JERSEY (CNN) - A major technological breakthrough was announced today by the research division of the leading telecommunication equipment manufacturer, Lucent Technologies. The invention by Bell Laboratories scientist Dr. Mas Karud makes existing communication equipment obsolete by providing a technique for distance-insensitive instaneous communication. "The possibility of such instaneous communication was accepted by scientific community for a long time" says Dr. Karud. "The device we demonstrated today exploits the quantum phenomenon known as Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox". However, putting the quantum-based technique to practial use has proved elusive. Dr. Kurad spent more than 10 years in search of ways to compensate for the inherent unpredictability of quantum systems and slow down decay of the "wave function". The device demonstrated by Lucent allows simulatneous interference-free communication of at least ten billion of "stations" at speeds exceeding several billion bits per second, or at least a million times faster than the modems commonly used to access Internet. The most intriguing feature, however, is the absense of delays and dissipation of signal with the distance. Dr. Karud explains that the quantum wave functions "collapse" instaneously, seemingly violating one of the main postulates of Einstein's general theory of relativity. The paradoxial nature of such instaneous "collapse" discovered by Einstein made him to declare the quantum mechanics invalid. However, the later research confirmed the basic principles of quantum mechanics, making it one of the most important parts of the modern science. The announcement marks the beginning of the revolution in telecommunications, declares Lucent. The entire industries of fiber optic and radio communications are made obsolete by the amazing device. There's no longer any need to "route" data and voice packets through many "switches" or "routers', since the users will be able to communicate directly. "This is the end of the era of tyranny of telecom dinosaurs" says Don Huboldt, telecom analyst at Wessels, Arnold & Heiss. The shares of AT&T Corp. (T) were down 12-3/4, to 51-1/2, on the news of the announcement, promting highly volatile trading in the entire telecom sector. Vice President Al Gore congratulated the Bell Laboratories team in a telephone call following the annoncement. "This is the best example of how steadfast commitment of United States Goverment to supporting scientific research and education pays back by making American nation the leader in innovation and technology" said Mr. Gore. However, not everybody welcomed the news. The most outspoken was John Chambers, the CEO of the Internet routing equipment vendor, Cisco Systems (CSCO). At the hastily assembled press-conference he said that "it is time to close the shop" for Internet router vendors. Representatives of 3Com Corp, Accend Communications and Bay Networks declined to comment. Shares of Lucent Technologies (LU) finished up 25-3/8 to 150-1/4 at Tuesday's close.

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The Cidr Report
by Tony Bates 03 Apr '98

03 Apr '98

This is an auto-generated mail on Fri Apr 3 12:00:00 PST 1998 It is not checked before it leaves my workstation. However, hopefully you will find this report interesting and will take the time to look through this to see if you can improve the amount of aggregation you perform. The report is split into sections: 0) General Status List the route table history for the last week, list any possibly bogus routes seen and give some status on ASes. 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level This lists the "Top 30" players who if they decided to aggregate their announced classful prefixes at the origin AS level could make a significant difference in the reduction of the current size of the Internet routing table. This calculation does not take into account the inclusion of holes when forming an aggregate so it is possible even larger reduction should be possible. 2) Weekly Delta A summary of the last weeks changes in terms of withdrawn and added routes. Please note that this is only a snapshot but does give some indication of ASes participating in CIDR. Clearly, it is generally a good thing to see a large amont of withdrawls. 3) Interesting aggregates Interesting here means not an aggregate made as a set of classful routes. Thanks to xara.net for giving me access to their routing tables once a day. Please send any comments about this report directly to me. Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr-report.html for a daily update of this report. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CIDR REPORT for 03Apr98 0) General Status Table History ------------- Date Prefixes 270398 50071 280398 50139 290398 50082 300398 50063 310398 50599 010498 50557 020498 50527 030498 50479 Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr.plot.html for a plot of the table history. Possible Bogus Routes --------------------- AS Summary ---------- Number of ASes in routing system: 3404 Number of ASes announcing only one prefix: 1599 (840 cidr, 759 classful) Largest number of cidr routes: 418 announced by AS3561 Largest number of classful routes: 1043 announced by AS701 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level --- 03Apr98 --- ASnum NetsNow NetsCIDR NetGain % Gain Description AS4293 436 211 225 51.6% IMCI AS816 666 456 210 31.5% UUNET Canada (ASN-UUNETCA-AS4) AS2493 521 339 182 34.9% iSTAR Internet, Inc. AS3602 463 299 164 35.4% Sprint Canada Inc. AS174 778 619 159 20.4% Performance Systems International AS701 1043 887 156 15.0% Alternet AS3749 219 64 155 70.8% TECNET AS5668 117 45 72 61.5% Century Telephone Inc. AS11003 128 56 72 56.2% UNKNOWN AS3221 106 38 68 64.2% EENet Autonomous System AS2048 150 87 63 42.0% LaNet AS3804 202 142 60 29.7% Bell Solutions AS10928 100 42 58 58.0% UNKNOWN AS1239 550 493 57 10.4% SprintLink Backbone AS271 109 54 55 50.5% BCnet Backbone AS549 211 160 51 24.2% ONet Backbone AS1221 270 221 49 18.1% AARNET-AS AS72 84 36 48 57.1% Schlumberger Information Network AS6392 79 32 47 59.5% MidWest Communications, Inc. AS4763 122 76 46 37.7% Telstra New Zealand AS7046 150 106 44 29.3% UUNET-CUSTOMER AS4740 355 312 43 12.1% ASN-OZEMAIL (Ozemail Pty Ltd) AS4755 82 40 42 51.2% Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. India AS2711 98 56 42 42.9% SUNBELT-AS AS1982 157 115 42 26.8% Northwest Nexus, Inc. AS852 156 116 40 25.6% AGT Advance Communication AS684 91 52 39 42.9% Manitoba Regional Network Backbon AS4200 132 93 39 29.5% AGIS (Apex Global Information Ser AS3493 161 123 38 23.6% INTERLINK AS6335 63 27 36 57.1% NTRNET For the rest of the previous weeks gain information please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html 2) Weekly Delta Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report 3) Interesting aggregates Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report

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Dijkstra Simulator
by Alan Hannan 03 Apr '98

03 Apr '98

Could someone provide a reference for a Dijkstra simulator? Ideally this would take three sets of inputs (links, nodes, metrics) and produce edge-pair traffic flows. Any suggestions appreciated, especially for GPL stuff that has code. -a

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Re: Internal DNS for Private IP addresses
by shields＠crosslink.net 03 Apr '98

03 Apr '98

In article <MailDrop1.2d7fPPC.980403070842(a)macroyboy.ns.itd.umich.edu>, Roy Hockett <royboy(a)umich.edu> wrote: > We are looking to use Private ip address space (rfc 1918) for internal > networking equipment, and I thought I would check with this group to see if > anyone has used them for such a purpose, and if so, did you create DNS entries > (atleast forward, since reverse is not assigned by the internic) for them. I Maybe you should ask a DNS list, since you are asking about a private network, and this list is about the Internet. Seems like I said that just the other day. I guess time flies when you're having fun. -- Shields, CrossLink.

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Spam / Abuse
by Rehan Qureshi 03 Apr '98

03 Apr '98

Sprint Canada's Abuse address is abuse(a)sprint.ca. Please forward all spam with full mail headers to this address and it will be dealt with according to Sprint Canada's Abuse Policy. Regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rehan Qureshi | Technical Analyst | Sprint Canada rehan(a)sprint.ca | (416)496-1644 ext. 4739 | fax (416)498-3507 --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Internal DNS for Private IP addresses
by Roy Hockett 03 Apr '98

03 Apr '98

We are looking to use Private ip address space (rfc 1918) for internal networking equipment, and I thought I would check with this group to see if anyone has used them for such a purpose, and if so, did you create DNS entries (atleast forward, since reverse is not assigned by the internic) for them. I realize that only those attached to our network could access the devices at these DNS name, and resolved ip address, this is the desired result, and those that attempt to access them from the outside would connect either to device on their netowrk with resolved private ip address, or not connect to anything. This is really for ease of use and not having to remember the actual ip address, which is what DNS was designed to do. I welcome any and all input. Thanks, -Roy /********************************************************************/ /* Roy Hockett * Telephone: (313) 763-7325 */ /* Network Engineer, * FAX: (313) 763-2180 */ /* ITD, * Internet: royboy(a)umich.edu */ /* University of Michigan * */ /********************************************************************/

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Re: Lame RFC1918 delegations
by bmanning＠ISI.EDU 02 Apr '98

02 Apr '98

Thanks for the pointer Walt. Rodney, These delegations were being transitioned and there was a communication problem during the transition. That should be corrected (the last check earlier this morning had the correct servers in whois but the root zone may need to wait for tomorrows push) by no later than tomorrow. If this does not make it to the NANOG list, please feel free to forward as appropriate. --bill

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