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Re: SORBS?!
by Chris Conn 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

On 2012-04-04 17:33: > > Hi, > > Actually knowing Chris, and his outfit, that 18k request seems unwarranted :( > > As for SORBS, they have a ticket system at http://support.sorbs.net/ which use the same username/password as https://www.us.sorbs.net. You can follow up there with your ticket #, if their robot is being a bit too fascist. > ( ecarbonel was the guy that help us in our case ) > > PS: The ticketing system is not that fast, so be patient. > > /wave Chris > Hi Alain! The 18K thing was another operator, but we have not had much luck. I will give my attention to the ticket for now and wait until something happens. Its not a crucial issue since from what I can tell its mostly a cosmetic thing (and a bit of a managerial pain to have to explain the implications to a customer). I have no beef with SORBS, we even rsync their zone on our DNS servers so we can provide faster access to it to our customers that might use it. However recently, getting listing action seems to fall into a void. Cheers, Chris

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Re: DNS issues with tools.ietf.org
by Stephane Bortzmeyer 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 10:35:34PM +0200, Marco Davids (Prive) <mdavids(a)forfun.net> wrote a message of 15 lines which said: > And what about this: But two name servers, gamay and shiraz still work. So the domain works, so you can email the hostmaster :-)

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DNS issues with tools.ietf.org
by Marco Davids (Prive) 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

Hi, Something seems wrong with the DNS of 'tools.ietf.org'. Can anyone conform? -- Marco

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Re: DNS issues with tools.ietf.org
by Stephane Bortzmeyer 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 10:26:11PM +0200, Marco Davids (Prive) <mdavids(a)forfun.net> wrote a message of 8 lines which said: > Something seems wrong with the DNS of 'tools.ietf.org'. Can you be more specific? It works for me except that one name server does not actually exist (but it does not prevent the domain from working). % zonecheck tools.ietf.org ERROR: Unable to find nameserver IP address(es) for grenache.levkowetz.com (NXDOMAIN, indeed)

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Distributed DNS/etc checking
by Todd Snyder 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

Good day all, There have been a few instances where we've wanted to check our external DNS servers from various external networks, so we've utilized the existing looking glass tools provided by many of you. However, it's a very manual process, given that all LG's I've found say no automating/scripting. If we want to check from a couple dozen sites around the world, it's a lot of clicking and typing and collecting. If we wanted to create an tool that our NOC could use to verify our services, we would need something we could script. Ideally, we'd be able to run this constantly to do health checks on our services, but one step at a time. I've been googling, but so far I'm unable to find any larger scale projects/toolsets that we could use to simplify this process. Is anyone aware of something that would allow for me to submit a "job" to some sort of distributed service (I care about DNS, but others may care about traceroutes, pings, bgp information, etc), that will then run run the "job" and give me back an answer? Similarly, but perhaps differently, those of you who may run large anycast DNS services, how do you gather "external" stats about routing, response time, availability, and so on? It seems like this sort of thing would be a fairly common requirement (lets see how my network looks to those outside of it) but everything I can find is very manual at this point. This looks like a somewhat promising option, however I don't think I could get buy-in to run a node in our network, so it's not on the table for now: https://ring.nlnog.net/ This same functionality would likely be very helpful internal to large networks as well. I would love to know if I'm missing something obvious, or pieces of something obvious we could work with. Failing something already existing, I'd value any information people care to share about how they do this now, either on or off list. I can summarize any findings if the community is interested. Cheers, Todd.

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Telia issues?
by Welch, Bryan 04 Apr '12

04 Apr '12

Anyone having issues with routes through Telia? We are having reachability issues getting to some Charter netblocks in the South Eastern US which route through Telia. TIA, Bryan

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Charter regional(nationwide?) flapping/multi outages
by jamie rishaw 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

[ This email takes place and context between 0817 GMT and 0910 GMT ] Charter is/was/has been/may still be hit by regional to national outages, starting ~ 0817 GMT Not only is my home ofc (100mb, quad doc3/rg6, hangs off chi) down (dying well within the network and not at cpe-adjacent gear), Charter NOC and Eng's cant even get to their ticketing and status/testing systems. They're dead in the water. (Voice service aside) ... : Three thoughts come to mind. 1) Tech says Charter (according to internal talk) has no v6 deploy plans until 2013. Someone stop me from pulling out my hair on this -- Does 3q '13 align with others' plans for v6 deployment ? 2) Eating your own dogfood is awesome, but where is a backup plan? My traces out during the ~30 mins on the horn had me routing thru Chi, Cle, and MO, dying at border/cores every time. Tethering my laptop to my android, I saw similarly-stopping routes inbound. (BGPlay disagrees, but thats another issue). Does it not behoove call centers and NOCs to have local access to replicated ticket and status dbs, failing over to alt carriers during severe outages (or any outage that takes down primary support)? 3) The first line tech suggested "it's DNS" (yet I run two of my own nameservers @ home, and roll neustar for global) -- Are we (senior types) just trying to get nocs off the phone with whatever answer, even if it involves lies that (we're naive to think) there /aren't/ those without clue that will challenge this, from premise to organization, sometimes *(cough)*. bringing these issues to a national stage? Thoughts, comments, insults, jokes, bring it. Anonymization assured should you want to go OTR and have me repost.

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Step-by-step procedure for doing IPv6 subnetting
by Mukom Akong T. 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Hello all I often get lots of people who want to know the procedure for doing IPv6 subnetting like we are used to in IPv4. Before using tools and utilities to make things easy, I always like to know the general principles. I've put up a post about a general and quick procedure on how to subnet in IPv6 which I believe gives anyone an good theoretical framework for how to do it. Please do check it out and let me feedback. [a] General procedure for IPv6 Subnetting http://techxcellence.net/2012/04/03/ipv6-subnetting-general-procedure/ [b] Quick procedure ('in your head') http://techxcellence.net/2011/05/09/v6-subnetting-made-easy/ Regards -- Mukom Akong [Tamon] ______________ “We don't LIVE in order to BREATH. Similarly WORKING in order to make MONEY puts us on a one way street to irrelevance.“ [In Search of Excellence & Perfection] - http://perfexcellence.org [Moments of TechXcellence] - http://techexcellence.net [ICT Business Integration] - http://ibiztech.wordpress.com [About Me] - http://about.me/perfexcellence

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Re: [outages] XO Outages
by Jay Ashworth 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Darren Cusano" <dcusano(a)gmail.com> > Anyone experiencing any XO Outages? In the Philadelphia area our lines > are straight to busy. We have some direct PRIs from XO in Tampa FL, and I have no reports from the office of circuit problems at this time. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra(a)baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274

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uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
by Henry Yen 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

uunet/vzb "will terminate its United States Newsreader and Newsfeed services on March 31, 2012, with no plans to offer a replacement, and any content/data remaining after that date will be unrecoverably deleted". does anyone on NANOG have any thoughtful comments on this? -- Henry Yen <Henry.Yen(a)Aegis00.com> Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York 1-800-AEGIS-00 (800-234-4700)

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