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Re: Internic doesn't care about valid contact information
by howland＠Priss.com 05 Mar '99

05 Mar '99

I know what you mean, Greg. A friend of mine tried to regester a domain. He filled out the forms, mailed them in, kept the reply. What he didn't notice that even though the domain name was correct in the body of the message, the SUBJECT line of the reply from Network Solutions had the domain name misspelled. They'd dropped a letter. The registration seemed to go through just fine, but after the burp two days ago the domain now shows up with the misspelling! Not only won't Network Solutions fix the problem, they will gladly accept his registering the *correct* domain, but will not refund the payment he made back when the first domain was correctly spelled. Of course, he's got to pay AGAIN if he wants to register the correctly spelled domain, again. So told by an aledged "manager", who said the next in the chain of command would be a VP, and Bobby-Ray was in a meeting and couldn't be disturbed. Curt-

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The Cidr Report
by Tony Bates 05 Mar '99

05 Mar '99

This is an auto-generated mail on Fri Mar 5 12:00:00 PST 1999 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is possible even larger reduction should be possible. 2) Weekly Delta A summary of the last weeks changes in terms of withdrawn and added routes.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 05Mar99 0) General Status Table History ------------- Date Prefixes 260299 56598 270299 56566 280299 56596 010399 56608 020399 56628 030399 56669 040399 56665 050399 56665 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: 4635 Number of ASes announcing only one prefix: 2312 (1238 cidr, 1074 classful) Largest number of cidr routes: 367 announced by AS701 Largest number of classful routes: 860 announced by AS701 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level --- 05Mar99 --- ASnum NetsNow NetsCIDR NetGain % Gain Description AS271 355 144 211 59.4% BCnet Backbone AS2493 270 152 118 43.7% iSTAR Internet, Inc. AS174 643 528 115 17.9% Performance Systems International AS11305 116 8 108 93.1% UNKNOWN AS4755 157 75 82 52.2% Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. India AS1267 107 29 78 72.9% IUNET-AS AS3749 138 62 76 55.1% TECNET AS4293 209 138 71 34.0% IMCI AS7496 95 31 64 67.4% Power Up AS4740 394 330 64 16.2% Ozemail Pty Ltd (ASN-OZEMAIL) AS4200 162 98 64 39.5% AGIS (Apex Global Information Ser AS7545 109 46 63 57.8% TPG Internet Pty Ltd AS1221 420 359 61 14.5% AARNET-AS AS7046 262 205 57 21.8% UUNET-CUSTOMER AS1239 518 461 57 11.0% SprintLink Backbone AS7657 140 88 52 37.1% The Internet Group Limited AS72 89 37 52 58.4% Schlumberger Information Network AS10928 104 52 52 50.0% UNKNOWN AS577 222 172 50 22.5% Bell Canada Backbone AS719 452 405 47 10.4% LANLINK autonomous system AS852 175 135 40 22.9% AGT Advance Communication AS5674 70 32 38 54.3% PBI-NET-BLK AS803 75 38 37 49.3% SaskNet Backbone AS701 860 824 36 4.2% Alternet AS7745 39 4 35 89.7% BIGSKY-AS AS7122 111 78 33 29.7% MTS ADVANCED Network Policy AS1785 248 216 32 12.9% NYSERNet Backbone AS1 496 464 32 6.5% BBNPLANET AS6332 94 63 31 33.0% TELNOR AS4307 32 1 31 96.9% SVINET-1 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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What not to put in your datacenter (Re: Datacenter discussion forum?)
by Sean Donelan 04 Mar '99

04 Mar '99

Massively off-topic, but I was doing a bit of research on another project and came across this fun-filled fact today. Between 1992 and 1996 there were 14 fires in electronic equipment rooms caused by COOKING EQUIPMENT! Today's duh-you've-got-to-be kidding-hint: do not put stoves, hot plates, ovens or rotisseries (that's correct, rotisseries) in your equipment rooms. If your network operations staff want some roasted chicken, may I suggest a good resturant or a seperate kitchen, not the computer room. The good news was dedicated computer and telecommunication facilities averaged less than $0.44 million in direct fire losses per year. Compared to $21 million in direct fire losses per year from electronic equipment fires in other structures (e.g. general businesses, hospitals, hotels, universities, etc). In case your marketing people don't get it, I just gave the folks building (good) co-locate facilities a huge gift for their salespeople in this paragraph. However, past performance is not a guarantee of future results :-) -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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Suggestion: Add contact entry to whois
by owen＠dixon.DeLong.SJ.CA.US 04 Mar '99

04 Mar '99

We already have Admin, Tech, and Billing. Would it be possible to consider the addition of an Abuse contact in whois? Owen

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InterNIC Weekend Outage?
by Gregory A. Carter 04 Mar '99

04 Mar '99

Have a guy that had this emailed from his ISP. If this is in fact true we all could have some very unhappy customers in the comming days. I haven't personally experienced any troubles yet form any customers but I plan to keep an eye out. I'd also be interested to see if anyone else can confirm this report or has further details. Greg ---------------------------------------------------------- Over the weekend the Internic, the registry that handles all .com, .org, and .net domain names, had a power outage. Allegedly, their backup generators actually made the situation worse, computers crashed, and data was lost. They won't officially admit to it, but word from some of the bigger ISPs is that approximately 18,000 domains were inadvertantly deleted. It seems to have mostly effected domains that were coming due for renewal in March. IF you have a domain name hosted with us, please check http://rs.internic.net/cgi-bin/whois to make sure it is still registered. If you have any questions, just reply to this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- +(Omni@Dynmc.Net)------------------------------------------------------+ | Dynamic Networking Solutions InterX Technologies | | Senior Network Administrator bits/keyID 1024/7DF9C285 | | omni(a)interx.net omni(a)itstudio.net omni(a)undernet.org omni(a)webpop3.com | +--------[ DC 50 57 59 C3 76 46 E8 EB 75 A8 94 FE 96 9E D3 ]----------+

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Definition for "unattended operation"
by Sean Donelan 04 Mar '99

04 Mar '99

Although some companies claim to "man" their POPs or NOCs 24 hours a day, seven days a week; I've found other industries have run into some problems with the definition of "unattended operation." It may not be in the Oxford English Dictionary, but it does show up in some safety standards and government regulations. Unattended Operation - A procedure or operation at which there is no person present who is knowledgeable regarding the operation and emergency shutdown procedures. Just having a warm body present isn't enough to claim an attended operation from a safety or government regulation perspective. And I suspect also from a network operations perspective. As far as listing additional contact information in the WHOIS database. I encourage providers to exchange contact information for the person(s) who is knowledgeable about the process and emergency shutdown procedures. However, I am beginning to think the WHOIS database operated by NSI no longer best serves the network operation community. I see little purpose in adding additional fields to a database which is so full of useless information already. Listing good contact information just results in those contacts becoming overwhelmed by spammers, vigilantes and UUNET telemarketing. The occasional appropriate message is likely to be lost, or not acted upon because of contact fatigue. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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Re: InterNIC Weekend Outage?
by Sean Donelan 04 Mar '99

04 Mar '99

omni(a)dynmc.NET (Gregory A. Carter) writes: >Have a guy that had this emailed from his ISP. If this is in fact true we >all could have some very unhappy customers in the comming days. I haven't I've been hearing similar things since Monday. I didn't see any news reporting, or operational bulletins from NSI early in the week. So I asked some individuals at NSI and other places. Without independently verifying the information, and without getting an "official" spokesperson's story, my understanding of what happened is - Severe storms in Herndon, VA on Sunday - Power outage(s) in the area of NSI's data/telecommunications center - One of the UPS busses failed - Telephone switch and some equipment lost power and rebooted Exactly how everything is connected internally may explain why somethings worked and somethings didn't work - The claim is no data was lost or corrupted due to the power problems But - At the beginning of the month (Monday) NSI was also changing how they cleared out, what they thought were people with large numbers of unpaid domains. Some people say the domain payments weren't due until later in the month, NSI says they can demand immediate payment from people with "lots" of unpaid domains. Since in the past NSI has had a poor track record of doing mass deletes of domains, saying they were unpaid, and then later evidence appearing they were paid or never billed correctly, some scepticism may be warranted. There may be multiple incidents. The fact the power problems came at the same time NSI was changing how they cleared out domains at the beginning of the month is so far just a coincidence. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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Re: 'nic whois warning
by Dean Anderson 04 Mar '99

04 Mar '99

At 10:04 PM 1/4/1999 -0800, bmanning(a)vacation.karoshi.com wrote: > >24.in-addr.arpa has never been delegated. What do you mean? Address space has been assigned by ARIN: > whois -h whois.arin.net 24.128 Continental Cablevision - North East (NETBLK-CVSN-CCNE) CVSN-CCNE 24.128.0.0 - 24.128.255.255 There appear to be registered nameservers for some blocks. And just now: > set type=soa > 24.in-addr.arpa. Server: starship.av8.com Address: 198.3.136.10 IN-ADDR.ARPA origin = A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET mail addr = hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET serial = 1999010400 --Dean ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Plain Aviation, Inc dean(a)av8.com LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP http://www.av8.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Re: FIBER CUTS: Northern California and Virginia
by Sean Donelan 03 Mar '99

03 Mar '99

Its a Hat Trick. Three fiber cuts in one day. There was a fiber cut earlier today between Texas and California (not a very specific description) which I missed. Who needs a groundhog to predict spring, just wait for annual digging up of the fiber festival. Also, I found out the fiber route map on America's Network web site has been removed. Advertisment: You can purchase the wall map from KMI Market Research of the North American fiber routes for $325. http://www.kmicorp.com/. No, I don't get a portion of the sales. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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FIBER CUTS: Northern California and Virginia
by Sean Donelan 03 Mar '99

03 Mar '99

Cool, double fiber cuts. Spring planting season must be starting. A fiber cut has been reported in the San Francisco/Santa Cruz California area. A fiber cut has been reported in the Fredricksburg Virginia area. No word on the implement of destruction. If you are a backhoe operator looking for fiber, America's Network has a nice nationwide fiber route map. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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