August 1997 - Test - lists.nanog.org

NSI Bulletin 097-006 | New gtld server
by David H. Holtzman, Sr VP Engineering,Network Solutions,Inc. 07 Aug '97

07 Aug '97

As mentioned in the 5 year plan with the NSF and as has been discussed with IANA, there is now a gtld only DNS server that is serving com, net, and org. The name of the new machine is: j.gtld-servers.internic.net 198.41.0.21 It will be running in experimental mode while we ascertain operational impact. At some future point, we will be bringing up other machines to better distribute the load for .tld-related lookups. This machine will be temporarily housed at NSI till a suitable home is found. _____________________________________ David H. Holtzman Senior Vice President of Engineering Network Solutions, Inc.

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Re: UUNET - PSI - ?
by Alex Rubenstein 07 Aug '97

07 Aug '97

48455 network entries (66405/172812 paths) using 10852340 bytes of memory >Anyone else seeing weirdness ? > > Regards, > Andrew --- "Don't go with a spineless ISP; we have more backbone." Alex Rubenstein -- alex(a)nac.net -- KC2BUO -- www.nac.net net @ccess corporation, 201-983-0725 -- 201-983-0725

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Route Server Update
by Jake Khuon 07 Aug '97

07 Aug '97

Yesterday evening, a corruption occurred to the RADB's index files that caused the database to return incorrect data. As a result, the Route Server configuration files generated by the 8:30 pm EST config run were incorrect. The Route Server Next Generation project was able to restore correct peering to the Route Servers by using a four-hour-old config file. The IRR server on RADB has been shut down to prevent users from receiving incorrect data. We will notify you as soon as operations are back to normal. Our sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused by this outage. --- The RSng Team -- /*====================[ Jake Khuon <khuon(a)Merit.Net> ]=====================+ | Systems Research Programmer, IE Group /| /|[~|)|~|~ N E T W O R K | | Vox: (313) 763-4907 Fax: (313) 747-3185 / |/ |[_|\| | Incorporated | +==[ Suite C2122, Bldg. 1 4251 Plymouth Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105-2785 ]==*/

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by Gilles Torjman 07 Aug '97

07 Aug '97

thank you for wishing a happy birthday to my friend joel (jrobic(a)hotmail.com) tell your friends ;-)

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AlterNIC apology for nameserver corruption.
by Kevin Chambers 07 Aug '97

07 Aug '97

Hi, The DNS talk has abaited so apologies for the noise, but NANOG has drawn some hefty debate on this subject so for those who haven't seen it yet: http://www.alternic.net/apology.html Thanks. Kevin Chambers Hostmaster - PSINet UK Ltd/Tel: +44 1223 577577/Fax: +44 1223 577600

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Re: Implementing anti-abuse techniques on ISP networks....
by Andy Pitts 07 Aug '97

07 Aug '97

> From owner-nanog(a)merit.edu Wed Aug 6 19:10 EDT 1997 > Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 19:09:15 -0400 (EDT) > From: Jon Lewis <jlewis(a)inorganic5.fdt.net> > To: Andy Pitts <andy(a)rbdc.rbdc.com> > cc: nanog(a)merit.edu > Subject: Re: Implementing anti-abuse techniques on ISP networks.... > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Andy Pitts wrote: > > > I too, am a small Internet Service Provider, and I too, don't want > > to block sites that my users may want to access. But there seems > > to be a few domains that do nothing but generate spam. Am I not > > providing a service to my users if I prevent them from being > > smothered with spam from those sites? > > The issue is that there are ISPs that have filters such that their dialup > customers cannot talk to port 25/tcp of systems elsewhere on the net. > Customers have to use the provider's SMTP servers. The question is, is > this a good thing? I don't think anyone would argue against UUNet and PSI > doing this with the *.ms.uu.net dialups or the *.pub-isp.psi.net...but > would you do this on your own network? > > I've blocked 4 ms.uu.net /16's and 12 pub-isp.psi.net /24's from talking > directly to FDT's mail servers. Unfortunately, most of the junk from PSI > is relayed through other sites anyway. I'm not blocking anyone from port 25, *but* I have installed the ruleset in out sendmail to make it reject any mail that does not originale or terminate in our domain. This put a halt to the rash or relaying problems we had some months ago, but down not affect our users in any way. -- Andy Pitts : "Knowledge is a deadly friend andy(a)rbdc.rbdc.com : When no one sets the rules." http://www.rbdc.com : --King Crimson--

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more exchanges...
by bmanning＠ISI.EDU 07 Aug '97

07 Aug '97

Denver MAX Tokyo JPIX Panama (no web page yet) Greece Manchester MANAP E. Washington & Idaho Dominican Republic With news on sites in: Anchorage Egypt -- --bill

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Route servers down?
by dlr＠bungi.com 06 Aug '97

06 Aug '97

Anyone else notice that the route servers are completely down? Well, not exactly down. Just not passing routes. The PAIR tool seems to confirm this, for most everyone that I've checked... Dave Rand -- Dave Rand dlr(a)bungi.com http://www.bungi.com

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Which IGP ?
by Marcelo Manta 06 Aug '97

06 Aug '97

Hi, I would like to know which IGP (EIGRP, OSPF, ISIS) is used at large networks (MCI, Sprint, PSI, UUNET, ANS, etc.) and WHY ? What are the "real world" pros and cons of each IGP ? -- Marcelo Manta SAGA PGP fingerprint = E3 B8 AC AF 24 61 E7 E5 B8 38 01 D1 3C F4 32 5E PS: I will post a summary of the impressions.

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North and American type stuff
by Alex Rubenstein 06 Aug '97

06 Aug '97

For you operational folk, if you need an account on a box for tracerouting, whatever, they are freely available on heap.nac.net. You can check the box out at http://heap.nac.net, shoot a message to root(a)heap.nac.net if interested.

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