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US NTIA Requests Comments on ".US"
by Robert Cannon 18 Aug '00

18 Aug '00

The National Telecom and Information Agency (an office in the US Dept of Commerce) has issued a request for comments on the ".US" ccTLD. Pasted below is the media advisory with the URL to the full federal register notice. Please distribute widely. -B www.cybertelecom.org ****M E D I A A D V I S O R Y**** WASHINGTON- The Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), in a notice to be published shortly in the Federal Register, announced a Notice and a Request for public comment on a draft statement of work that the department contemplates will be ultimately incorporated into a request for proposals to manage .us on behalf of the U.S. government. The .us domain is the "national" or "country code" top level domain (ccTLD) assigned to the United States for domain name registration and is currently managed as a locality-based hierarchy in which second-level domain space is allocated to States and U.S. territories. In its Federal Register notice, NTIA said the draft statement of work is part of an effort to develop a more concrete framework for the procurement of .us domain space administration services. The Federal Register notice requesting comments can be accessed at www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/usrfc2/dotusrfc2.htm Public comments are due no later than 45 days after the notice is published in the Federal Register. For more information on NTIA's work on the .us domain space issue, please visit the domain name web site, www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/domainhome.htm ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup

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RE: lame delegations
by Karyn Ulriksen 18 Aug '00

18 Aug '00

> RFC 1912, Sec 2.1: > > " Make sure your PTR and A records match. For every IP address, there > should be a matching PTR record in the in-addr.arpa domain. If a > host is multi-homed, (more than one IP address) make sure > that all IP > addresses have a corresponding PTR record (not just the first one). > Failure to have matching PTR and A records can cause loss > of Internet > services similar to not being registered in the DNS at all. Also, > PTR records must point back to a valid A record, not a > alias defined > by a CNAME. It is highly recommended that you use some software > which automates this checking, or generate your DNS data from a > database which automatically creates consistent data." > > I have yet to hear a convincing argument why this RFC should be > ignored. I have seen many problems when this is ignored. What about when you're setting up ARPA entries referring to CIDR allocations? as in ... 1.8.5.10.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN CNAME 1.0/24.8.5.10.in-addr.arpa. Somethings got to give there. I know that you could say well, just put the hostname instead of the target listed above, but the above is often used to delegate ARPA for subnets to downstreams... Karyn > > RGDS > GARY > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Ave, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 > gem(a)rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676 > > >

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The Cidr Report
by Tony Bates 18 Aug '00

18 Aug '00

This is an auto-generated mail on Fri Aug 18 12:00:00 PDT 2000 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 18Aug00 0) General Status Table History ------------- Date Prefixes 110800 83938 120800 83973 130800 83844 140800 84055 150800 84170 160800 84296 170800 84509 180800 85012 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: 6201 Number of ASes announcing only one prefix: 3042 (999 cidr, 2043 classful) Largest number of cidr routes: 553 announced by AS705 Largest number of classful routes: 1076 announced by AS701 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level --- 18Aug00 --- ASnum NetsNow NetsCIDR NetGain % Gain Description AS271 434 156 278 64.1% BCnet Backbone AS1221 596 437 159 26.7% TELSTRA-AS AS7046 435 295 140 32.2% COQUI-NET PRTC Internet AS9706 155 26 129 83.2% Pusan Metropolitan City Office of AS2609 126 15 111 88.1% EUnet-TN AS7657 303 195 108 35.6% The Internet Group Limited AS1785 472 364 108 22.9% AppliedTheory Communications AS9304 121 15 106 87.6% Hutchcity AS9269 160 57 103 64.4% Hong Kong CTI AS7545 156 57 99 63.5% TPG Internet Pty Ltd AS6429 209 118 91 43.5% FirstCom Internet AS7496 126 38 88 69.8% Power Up AS577 260 174 86 33.1% Bell Backbone AS174 552 466 86 15.6% Performance Systems International AS4293 331 246 85 25.7% Internal ASN for C&W AS1727 185 106 79 42.7% MRMS-WEST AS3908 260 182 78 30.0% Supernet, Inc. AS705 322 247 75 23.3% ALTERNET-AS AS724 225 154 71 31.6% DLA-ASNBLOCK-AS AS816 341 272 69 20.2% UUNET Canada (ASN-UUNETCA-AS4) AS6595 122 54 68 55.7% DODDSEUR AS4755 175 110 65 37.1% Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. India AS5106 98 36 62 63.3% AADS-COLUMBUS AS3749 122 60 62 50.8% TECNET AS7018 555 496 59 10.6% AT&T WorldNet Service Backbone AS701 1076 1018 58 5.4% Alternet AS3602 296 240 56 18.9% Sprint Canada Inc. AS11252 90 37 53 58.9% Idaho State University AS4740 318 266 52 16.4% Ozemail Pty Ltd (ASN-OZEMAIL) AS16758 62 10 52 83.9% UNKNOWN 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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lame delegations
by John O Comeau 18 Aug '00

18 Aug '00

I sent this last week but it seems to have gone to the bit-bucket... Does anyone know of a way to reclaim IPs left registered as hosts by former customers? Let's say Joe Blow moved to another service provider, but he still has ns.joeblow.dom and ns2.joeblow.dom registered using your IP numbers. Netsol gave me this very nice procedure using faxes and followup calls, but I just don't have hours to sit on the phone all day even if my company enjoyed paying the long distance. I would like to see an ISP having equal footing with the domain owner regarding host registrations; that is, the admin contacts and tech contacts OF THE DOMAIN OR OF THE NETBLOCK may delete a host registration. Pros and cons? Or a better forum for this discussion? jcomeau(a)world.std.com aka John Otis Lene Comeau Home page: http://world.std.com/~jcomeau/ Disclaimer: Don't risk anything of value based on free advice. "Anybody can do the difficult stuff. Call me when it's impossible."

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CWI/111 8th
by Jeffrey Meltzer 18 Aug '00

18 Aug '00

If anyone is experiencing high latency with CWI in NYC, they've got an OC12 down. No ETA. Nothings down, things are just running at 700ms. Jeff Jeffrey Meltzer VillageWorld.com, Inc.

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Re: reminder program wanted
by Tatsuya Kawasaki 16 Aug '00

16 Aug '00

John, It looks like it is only for window machine... Tatsuya /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Tatsuya Kawasaki Allegiance Telecom Unlock the Power of the Internet http://www.kivex.com Phone 301.215.6777 Fax 301.215.5991 Affiliation given for identification not representation /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, John Allspaw wrote: > > how about ical ? > can't remember where i got it, but you can set alarms that will pop up, > and you can snooze them if you want. > --john > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > John Allspaw allspaw(a)salon.com > Sr. Unix Sys Admin 415.254.7599 > Salon.com > Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. > > On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Tatsuya Kawasaki wrote: > > > > > > > nanog reader, > > > > I am not sure this is completely appropriate or not. > > I need a help/suggestion. Like the rest of us, I am busy troublshoot > > customer problem, I forget to do routine stuffs, like calling customers > > to update and calling vender to esclate, report to superviser. > > Unfortunately a program which was running along with > > ticketing system die, nobody knows why. I wonder anyone has any > > free program running on unix box does the following. > > > > -remind me when the time come to do some action. > > -able to snooze it if it is not appropriate time. > > -able to glace the subject field for future event. > > -able to edit/re-edit some comment field. > > > > any suggestion.. > > > > > > TIA, > > Tatsuya > > /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > > Tatsuya Kawasaki > > Allegiance Telecom > > Unlock the Power of the Internet > > http://www.kivex.com > > Phone 301.215.6777 Fax 301.215.5991 > > Affiliation given for identification not representation > > /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > > > > > >

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reminder program wanted
by Tatsuya Kawasaki 16 Aug '00

16 Aug '00

nanog reader, I am not sure this is completely appropriate or not. I need a help/suggestion. Like the rest of us, I am busy troublshoot customer problem, I forget to do routine stuffs, like calling customers to update and calling vender to esclate, report to superviser. Unfortunately a program which was running along with ticketing system die, nobody knows why. I wonder anyone has any free program running on unix box does the following. -remind me when the time come to do some action. -able to snooze it if it is not appropriate time. -able to glace the subject field for future event. -able to edit/re-edit some comment field. any suggestion.. TIA, Tatsuya /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Tatsuya Kawasaki Allegiance Telecom Unlock the Power of the Internet http://www.kivex.com Phone 301.215.6777 Fax 301.215.5991 Affiliation given for identification not representation /_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/

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MCI ticketing
by Joseph Birthisel 15 Aug '00

15 Aug '00

How is everyone enjoying MCI's ticketing system being down for three days so far? Right now they are actually printing and faxing tickets to their nodes. Anyone have an ETR or more detailed info? Joseph

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Re: Data Center
by Sean Donelan 15 Aug '00

15 Aug '00

On Mon, 14 August 2000, "HANSEN CHAN" wrote: > I am trying to understand more on the technical as well as operational > aspect of Data Center. Can someone point me to some useful URLs or > whitepaper? I only know of those on Exodus website. Many thanks. There is a world of knowledge which existed before the World Wide Web. Visit a major university or public library and ask the librarian for assistance researching those ancient tombes of knowledge. They may even have books you can't find on Amazon.com.

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IP alloc/mgmt software
by John Osmon 15 Aug '00

15 Aug '00

I'm interested in finding some IP address allocation/management software. Preferably something that uses a SQL back-end. I've seen similar requests on the list over the last few years, but there hasn't ever been an answer that points to any single piece of software with any great favor. I've looked into some of the commercially available products, but they seem to want to do *too* much. Most have integrated DHCP & DNS servers and other "features" I'm not interested in using. Examples include Lucent's QIP, and Check Point's MetaIP. Has anything of use appeared in the last year or so since this question was last posed? -- John Osmon josmon(a)rigozsaurus.com

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