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Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net
by Matt Larson 10 Jul '04

10 Jul '04

On Fri, 09 Jul 2004, Robert Boyle wrote: > Does this also apply to domains with other registrars? I'm not sure what you mean by "other registrars". VeriSign sold the Network Solutions registrar in November 2003 (although it retains a 15% ownership). The rapid updates apply to all changes from all registrars. > Does this apply to authoritative name server changes as well? Do you mean, does it apply to glue records (i.e., A records for name servers) in the .com/.net zones? Yes, it does: a change to a name server's IP address will be reflected just as fast as a change to a domain's (er, zone's) NS records. > Also, does this apply to customers who have had their domains > suspended due to non-payment? I'm not sure what you mean here, but I think you're referring to something that's ultimately a registrar issue. A domain can be placed on hold status in the registry and its NS records will not appear in the .com/.net zones. There are several different hold statuses and they all prevent a domain's NS records from being published. It's possible a registrar could put a domain on hold for non-payment. Any changes to its name servers while it's on hold would be propagated quickly under this new system, as would changes to its hold status, so if it it was removed from hold, whatever changes that occurred while it was on hold would be visible quickly. One other issue: a few people have sent me private email asking if we're planning on changing the 48-hour TTL for NS records and A records in .com/.net. At this point we're not and the reason has a lot to do with a little-known DNS behavior called credibility. It's described in RFC 2181 ("Clarifications to the DNS Specification"), Section 5.4.1, although the concept pre-dates that RFC and has been in the BIND iterative resolver, for example, since version 4.9 (if memory serves). In a nutshell, DNS data has different levels of credibility or trustworthiness depending on where it's learned from. That's relevant here because the version of a zone's NS records from the zone's authoritative servers is more trustworthy than the version obtained from the zone's parent name servers. For example, the foo.com NS records received from a foo.com authoritative server are believed over the foo.com NS records received from a .com name server. Most "positive" responses include the zone's NS records along with the specific data requested (such as an A record). So in practice, here's what happens: - An iterative resolver chasing down, for example, A records for www.foo.com queries a .com name server and caches the foo.com NS records (with a 48-hour TTL) it receives. - The resolver then queries one of the foo.com name servers for the www.foo.com A records. - In the response the resolver receives the www.foo.com A records, along with foo.com's own version of the foo.com NS records--and this is the important part--which have the TTL set by the foo.com zone owner. - According to the credibility scale, the just-received foo.com NS records are more credible than the cached foo.com NS records from .com, so the just-received records displace the cached ones, new TTL and all. In other words, for all the iterative resolvers out there that have this credibility mechanism, the 48-hour TTL on data in .com/.net isn't particularly relevant. Matt

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Update on .iq, Elashi convicted of export violations (US)
by Eric Brunner-Williams 10 Jul '04

10 Jul '04

The Register has an article on the conviction of Bayan Elashi and his brothers (InfoCom). http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/09/iraq_domain_owner_convicted/

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RE: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]
by Michael Smith 10 Jul '04

10 Jul '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-nanog(a)merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of > Mikael Abrahamsson > Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 10:22 AM > To: nanog(a)merit.edu > Subject: Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed > publicly available?] > > > On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: > > > Does the person that sweeps the floor do so for free? And supply the > > broom? > > The marginal cost of half a rack being occupied by an IX switch in a > multi-hundred-rack facility is negiglabe. Yes, it should carry a cost of a > few hundred dollars per month in "rent", and the depreciation of the > equipment is also a factor, but all-in-all these costs are not high and if > an IX point rakes in $200k a year that should well compensate for these > costs. > > -- > Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike(a)swm.pp.se > > At the Seattle Internet Exchange a, granted, smaller peering exchange, you have to account for the following costs (and, mind you, this list is not exhaustive). 1) 1 Rack 2) Space for the rack in a secure facility 3) AC for the equipment 4) Power for the equipment (including line and UPS) 5) Fiber and Copper runs to the facility for cross-connects 6) Terminations of (5) 7) O&M of space and gear 8) Layer 8 and 9 negotiation of (1) through (7) to keep costs down. That's not a trivial set of expenses, particularly when there are limitations in place to recovering costs via non-cash methods, such as advertising the hosting of the exchange. Thankfully, there is some altruism on the behalf of several parties that allow the exchange to continue providing "zero cost" connections to participants. I hardly think the cost of their time and effort is "marginal". Mike NoaNet

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ICANN Panel Pans VeriSign Search Service
by Fergie (Paul Ferguson) 09 Jul '04

09 Jul '04

For anyone who cares: "A panel of experts convened by the nonprofit organization that manages the Internet's domain-name system today took aim at the company that controls the popular "dot-com" and "dot-net" domains, issuing a report concluding that a controversial search service designed to make money off Web-browser typos is a threat to the stability of the Internet and should remain offline indefinitely." Found on Yahoo! news. - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(a)netzero.net or fergdawg(a)sbcglobal.net

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Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net
by Eric Brunner-Williams 09 Jul '04

09 Jul '04

> Verisign doesn't get a refund from ICANN ... Deepak, First, the fee to ICANN is on the order of $0.20/per, as opposed to the fee we registrars pay to VGRS, which is on the order of $6.00. Second, the fees paid by both the registries and registrars is subject to some negociations, which is presently happening with much more energy and vigor than usual, since ICANN wants to really grow its budget this year, at the expense of the ... registrars and registries. Eric Oh, I just submitted a xfr on a hijacked domain ... sigh.

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Weekly Routing Table Report
by Routing Table Analysis 09 Jul '04

09 Jul '04

This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Internet Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan. Daily listings are sent to bgp-stats(a)lists.apnic.net If you have any comments please contact Philip Smith <pfs(a)cisco.com>. Routing Table Report 04:00 +10GMT Sat 10 Jul, 2004 Analysis Summary ---------------- BGP routing table entries examined: 142432 Prefixes after maximum aggregation: 85368 Unique aggregates announced to Internet: 68367 Total ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 17570 Origin-only ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 15228 Origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 7144 Transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 2342 Transit-only ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 75 Average AS path length visible in the Internet Routing Table: 4.8 Max AS path length visible: 26 Prefixes from unregistered ASNs in the Routing Table: 8 Special use prefixes present in the Routing Table: 0 Prefixes being announced from unallocated address space: 19 Number of addresses announced to Internet: 1301128680 Equivalent to 77 /8s, 141 /16s and 165 /24s Percentage of available address space announced: 35.1 Percentage of allocated address space announced: 57.6 Percentage of available address space allocated: 60.9 Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 65398 APNIC Region Analysis Summary ----------------------------- Prefixes being announced by APNIC Region ASes: 27304 Total APNIC prefixes after maximum aggregation: 14033 Prefixes being announced from the APNIC address blocks: 25525 Unique aggregates announced from the APNIC address blocks: 13976 APNIC Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 2069 APNIC Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 623 APNIC Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 333 Average APNIC Region AS path length visible: 4.8 Max APNIC Region AS path length visible: 16 Number of APNIC addresses announced to Internet: 151884992 Equivalent to 9 /8s, 13 /16s and 148 /24s Percentage of available APNIC address space announced: 69.3 APNIC AS Blocks 4608 - 4864, 7467 - 7722, 9216 - 10239 17408 - 18431, 23552 - 24575 APNIC Address Blocks 58/7, 60/7, 202/7, 210/7, 218/7, 220/7 and 222/8 ARIN Region Analysis Summary ---------------------------- Prefixes being announced by ARIN Region ASes: 81553 Total ARIN prefixes after maximum aggregation: 49875 Prefixes being announced from the ARIN address blocks: 63350 Unique aggregates announced from the ARIN address blocks: 21888 ARIN Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 9303 ARIN Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 3335 ARIN Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 909 Average ARIN Region AS path length visible: 4.6 Max ARIN Region AS path length visible: 17 Number of ARIN addresses announced to Internet: 227346464 Equivalent to 13 /8s, 141 /16s and 8 /24s Percentage of available ARIN address space announced: 75.3 ARIN AS Blocks 1 - 1876, 1902 - 2042, 2044 - 2046, 2048 - 2106 2138 - 2584, 2615 - 2772, 2823 - 2829, 2880 - 3153 3354 - 4607, 4865 - 5119, 5632 - 6655, 6912 - 7466 7723 - 8191, 10240 - 12287, 13312 - 15359 16384 - 17407, 18432 - 20479, 21504 - 23551 25600 - 26591, 26624 - 27647, 29695 - 30719 31744 - 33791 ARIN Address Blocks 24/8, 63/8, 64/6, 68/7, 70/8, 198/7, 204/6, 208/7 and 216/8 RIPE Region Analysis Summary ---------------------------- Prefixes being announced by RIPE Region ASes: 26205 Total RIPE prefixes after maximum aggregation: 18548 Prefixes being announced from the RIPE address blocks: 23016 Unique aggregates announced from the RIPE address blocks: 15243 RIPE Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 5652 RIPE Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 3051 RIPE Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 984 Average RIPE Region AS path length visible: 5.4 Max RIPE Region AS path length visible: 26 Number of RIPE addresses announced to Internet: 165957952 Equivalent to 9 /8s, 228 /16s and 81 /24s Percentage of available RIPE address space announced: 58.2 RIPE AS Blocks 1877 - 1901, 2043, 2047, 2107 - 2136, 2585 - 2614 2773 - 2822, 2830 - 2879, 3154 - 3353, 5377 - 5631 6656 - 6911, 8192 - 9215, 12288 - 13311, 15360 - 16383 20480 - 21503, 24576 - 25599, 28672 - 29695 30720 - 31743, 33792 - 34815 RIPE Address Blocks 62/8, 80/5, 88/8, 188/8, 193/8, 194/7, 212/7 and 217/8 LACNIC Region Analysis Summary ------------------------------ Prefixes being announced by LACNIC Region ASes: 6181 Total LACNIC prefixes after maximum aggregation: 2228 Prefixes being announced from the LACNIC address blocks: 5871 Unique aggregates announced from the LACNIC address blocks: 3609 LACNIC Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 379 LACNIC Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 111 LACNIC Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 71 Average LACNIC Region AS path length visible: 5.2 Max LACNIC Region AS path length visible: 16 Number of LACNIC addresses announced to Internet: 15293184 Equivalent to 0 /8s, 233 /16s and 91 /24s Percentage of available LACNIC address space announced: 45.6 LACNIC AS Blocks 26592 - 26623, 27648 - 28671 LACNIC Address Blocks 200/7 Emerging AfriNIC Region Analysis Summary ---------------------------------------- Prefixes being announced by AfriNIC Region ASes: 1186 Total AfriNIC prefixes after maximum aggregation: 684 Prefixes being announced from the AfriNIC address blocks: 783 Unique aggregates announced from the AfriNIC address blocks: 617 AfriNIC Region origin ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 92 AfriNIC Region origin ASes announcing only one prefix: 24 AfriNIC Region transit ASes present in the Internet Routing Table: 12 Average AfriNIC Region AS path length visible: 4.9 Max AfriNIC Region AS path length visible: 15 Number of AfriNIC addresses announced to Internet: 1892352 Equivalent to 0 /8s, 28 /16s and 224 /24s Percentage of available AfriNIC address space announced: 11.3 AfriNIC AS Blocks <none> AfriNIC Address Blocks 196/8 APNIC Region per AS prefix count summary ---------------------------------------- ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description 1221 824 1057 594 Telstra Pty Ltd 4134 806 3752 146 Data Communications Bureau 4766 497 2895 264 Korea Internet Exchange for " 9583 486 39 103 Satyam Infoway Ltd., 4755 399 133 61 Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. Aut 9443 353 69 78 Primus Telecommunications 2907 352 1840 326 SINET Japan 17676 341 5084 33 XTAGE CORPORATION 9929 327 157 32 China Netcom Corp. 17557 321 22 164 Pakistan Telecom 703 319 342 248 UUNET 2764 288 258 236 connect.com.au pty ltd 7474 267 269 207 Optus Communications Pty Ltd 9942 230 71 128 COMindico Australia 4802 226 25 141 Wantree Development 9800 224 369 62 CHINA UNICOM 9498 218 48 49 BHARTI BT INTERNET LTD. 10026 206 11 131 IXNet Hong Kong Limited 10036 198 18 179 C&M Communication Co. Ltd. 4837 189 2019 105 chinanet IDC center beijing n ARIN Region per AS prefix count summary --------------------------------------- ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description 7018 1443 6882 995 AT&T 701 1303 8440 935 UUNET Technologies, Inc. 6347 974 399 98 SAVVIS Communications Corpora 1239 936 2889 630 Sprint 3356 891 10916 673 Level 3 Communications, LLC 4323 738 569 206 Time Warner Communications, I 18566 725 192 8 Covad Communications 6197 710 526 278 BellSouth Network Solutions, 209 613 3453 505 Qwest 20115 563 374 289 Charter Communications 2548 549 899 131 Business Internet, Inc. 7843 515 669 130 Adelphia Corp. 6198 513 396 214 BellSouth Network Solutions, 852 511 1142 399 Telus Advanced Communications 721 469 15375 339 DLA Systems Automation Center 7132 466 7874 350 Southwestern Bell Internet Se 2386 406 549 225 AT&T Data Communications Serv 22909 398 826 22 Comcast Cable Corporation 4355 391 323 101 EarthLink, Inc. 705 389 128 265 UUNET Technologies, Inc. RIPE Region per AS prefix count summary --------------------------------------- ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description 702 648 2039 542 UUNET - Commercial IP service 3320 297 2463 237 Deutsche Telekom AG 3301 282 1098 271 TeliaNet Sweden 8220 275 429 263 COLT Internet - International 1257 248 498 196 SWIPnet Swedish IP Network 680 244 2025 239 DFN-IP service G-WiN 13083 216 51 8 Mannesmann Datenverarbeitung 3246 213 479 210 Song Networks 5515 200 842 146 Sonera Solution Autonomous Sy 8708 190 112 176 Romania Data Systems S.A. 719 181 288 103 LANLINK autonomous system 3215 180 895 71 France Telecom Transpac 786 174 1794 174 The JANET IP Service 25186 172 156 114 France Telecom Transpac's Tra 6746 157 29 128 Dynamic Network Technologies, 5400 145 205 120 BT Ignite European Backbone 3269 135 1099 64 TELECOM ITALIA 3303 130 609 129 Swisscom Ltd 8866 128 14 11 Bulgarian Telecommunication C 12302 128 18 32 MobiFon S.A. LACNIC Region per AS prefix count summary ----------------------------------------- ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description 6140 369 140 65 ImpSat 11172 356 96 58 Servicios Alestra S.A de C.V 8151 275 389 127 UniNet S.A. de C.V. 16814 219 14 8 NSS, S.A. 6147 187 86 20 Telefonica Del Peru 7303 148 54 27 Telecom Argentina Stet-France 6505 134 90 92 Global One Communicaoes Ltda 6503 131 202 89 AVANTEL, S.A. 11992 91 9 29 Integrated Systems 11556 87 57 24 Cable-Wireless Panama 6535 81 5 16 Chilesat Servicios Empresari 14420 78 5 28 ANDINATEL S.A. 15311 75 19 37 Telefonica Empresas 11311 72 7 17 Sinectis S.A. 14535 72 6 5 Techtel S.A. 5639 71 8 8 Telecommunications Services o 4270 70 18 9 Red de Interconexion Universi 14117 69 5 4 Telefonica del Sur S.A. 10292 67 6 26 TELECOMMUNICATIONS OF JAMAICA 14259 67 4 5 GTD Internet S.A. AfriNIC Region per AS prefix count summary ------------------------------------------ ASN No of nets /20 equiv MaxAgg Description 3741 253 632 220 The Internet Solution 5536 111 16 4 Internet Egypt Network 2018 94 297 92 Tertiary Education Network 2905 90 276 80 The Internetworking Company o 11845 39 9 11 Data Pro Business Online 20928 35 16 1 Noor Advanced Technologies AS 24835 31 18 6 RAYA Telecom - Egypt 16637 30 9 23 Johnnic e-Ventures 9129 28 3 4 UUNET Kenya 6713 26 38 9 Itissalat Al-MAGHRIB 5713 25 125 23 Telkom SA Ltd 14988 25 16 1 Botswana Telecommunications C 8524 24 2 7 AUCEGYPT Autonomous System 12455 23 4 2 Jambonet Autonomous system 10798 18 1 12 Standard Bank of South Africa 15706 16 2 3 Sudatel Internet Exchange Aut 12258 15 3 10 Vodacom Internet Company 8346 13 6 12 SONATEL-AS Autonomous System 17148 13 1 7 First National Bank 2609 12 26 4 Tunisia BackBone AS Global Per AS Maximum Aggr summary ---------------------------------- ASN No of nets Net Savings Description 6347 974 876 SAVVIS Communications Corpora 18566 725 717 Covad Communications 4134 806 660 Data Communications Bureau 4323 738 532 Time Warner Communications, I 6197 710 432 BellSouth Network Solutions, 2548 549 418 Business Internet, Inc. 7843 515 385 Adelphia Corp. 9583 486 383 Satyam Infoway Ltd., 22909 398 376 Comcast Cable Corporation 701 1303 368 UUNET Technologies, Inc. 5668 380 362 Century Telephone 27364 377 358 Armstrong Cable Services 4755 399 338 Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. Aut 22773 383 327 Cox Communications, Inc. Atla 17676 341 308 XTAGE CORPORATION 1239 936 306 Sprint 6467 337 305 E.Spire Communications, Inc. 6140 369 304 ImpSat 6198 513 299 BellSouth Network Solutions, 11172 356 298 Servicios Alestra S.A de C.V List of Unregistered ASNs (Global) ---------------------------------- Bad AS Designation Network Transit AS Description 18416 UNALLOCATED 61.56.96.0/24 9919 New Century InfoComm 18416 UNALLOCATED 61.56.96.0/20 9919 New Century InfoComm 18416 UNALLOCATED 61.56.97.0/24 9919 New Century InfoComm 18416 UNALLOCATED 61.56.98.0/24 9919 New Century InfoComm 1877 UNALLOCATED 192.108.199.0/24 1876 Southern Methodist U 18412 UNALLOCATED 211.77.0.0/19 9674 Far EastTone Telecom 63330 RESERVED 213.8.224.0/23 5486 Euronet Digital Comm 63330 RESERVED 213.8.226.0/23 5486 Euronet Digital Comm Advertised Unallocated Addresses -------------------------------- Network Origin AS Description 132.0.0.0/10 721 DLA Systems Automation Center 137.0.0.0/13 721 DLA Systems Automation Center 156.154.16.0/22 7786 Lockheed Martin IMS 158.0.0.0/13 721 DLA Systems Automation Center 164.234.0.0/18 721 DLA Systems Automation Center 164.234.0.0/16 721 DLA Systems Automation Center 192.43.230.0/24 4738 South Australian Academic Res 192.44.0.0/19 702 UUNET - Commercial IP service 192.70.164.0/24 25689 National Research Council of 192.83.16.0/20 5515 Sonera Solution Autonomous Sy 192.83.32.0/19 5515 Sonera Solution Autonomous Sy 192.83.96.0/22 5515 Sonera Solution Autonomous Sy 192.83.100.0/24 5515 Sonera Solution Autonomous Sy 192.84.205.0/24 719 LANLINK autonomous system 192.119.135.0/24 270 NASA 192.135.50.0/24 7018 AT&T 192.136.79.0/24 719 LANLINK autonomous system 192.172.0.0/19 721 DLA Systems Automation Center 192.172.11.0/24 721 DLA Systems Automation Center Number of prefixes announced per prefix length (Global) ------------------------------------------------------- /1:0 /2:0 /3:0 /4:0 /5:0 /6:0 /7:0 /8:18 /9:3 /10:6 /11:15 /12:59 /13:127 /14:302 /15:524 /16:7896 /17:2098 /18:3683 /19:9525 /20:10001 /21:7525 /22:10388 /23:11922 /24:77640 /25:216 /26:214 /27:155 /28:24 /29:15 /30:66 /31:0 /32:10 Advertised prefixes smaller than registry allocations ----------------------------------------------------- ASN No of nets Total ann. Description 6347 751 974 SAVVIS Communications Corpora 18566 708 725 Covad Communications 7018 558 1443 AT&T 6197 539 710 BellSouth Network Solutions, 3356 499 891 Level 3 Communications, LLC 702 396 648 UUNET - Commercial IP service 6198 382 513 BellSouth Network Solutions, 1239 372 936 Sprint 701 367 1303 UUNET Technologies, Inc. 27364 364 377 Armstrong Cable Services 5668 333 380 Century Telephone 9583 332 486 Satyam Infoway Ltd., 2548 330 549 Business Internet, Inc. 4766 316 497 Korea Internet Exchange for " 20115 297 563 Charter Communications 9929 259 327 China Netcom Corp. 14824 253 277 NewSouth Communications Corp. 3320 246 297 Deutsche Telekom AG 13609 244 287 Choice One Communications Inc 25844 244 244 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher Number of /24s announced per /8 block (Global) ---------------------------------------------- 4:3 12:829 13:1 15:5 16:2 17:3 20:8 24:763 32:65 33:2 38:73 40:54 44:4 55:1 56:3 57:15 61:456 62:508 63:1875 64:2037 65:2030 66:2664 67:339 68:500 69:623 70:64 80:564 81:337 82:184 83:98 84:5 128:148 129:175 130:80 131:187 132:23 134:177 135:17 136:178 137:54 138:168 139:35 140:166 141:122 142:118 143:60 144:100 145:41 146:288 147:77 148:417 149:107 150:94 151:71 152:162 153:64 154:2 155:145 156:60 157:55 158:140 159:148 160:52 161:64 162:381 163:77 164:186 165:164 166:105 167:219 168:228 169:111 170:286 171:8 192:5552 193:2808 194:2059 195:1385 196:553 198:3662 199:3112 200:3610 201:8 202:4731 203:5659 204:3133 205:2099 206:2270 207:2493 208:2196 209:3037 210:1448 211:571 212:994 213:1174 214:70 215:30 216:3722 217:974 218:171 219:118 220:233 221:31 222:62 End of report

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Critters
by David Lesher 09 Jul '04

09 Jul '04

>Here in the SE USA we have a variety of cockroach we refer to as >"palmetto bugs". These grow to about 2 inches (5cm) in length. Any >extended visit under the floor will likely include an encounter >with one. [you mean "with 1000's...."] ..with a special added treat. Unlike the smaller "German Cockroach"; the American one aka palmetto bug: a) Is noisy as all hell as they walk along your ceiling. b) When provoked, these bastards FLY at you. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz(a)nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

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"it appears a beaver picked it up and chewed it in half"
by Scot Bryhan 09 Jul '04

09 Jul '04

> Scot, > > Here's what we received from the Assocaited Press. > > > -- > Kendall P. Stanley > Managing editor > Petoskey News-Review > (231) 439-9349 > (231) 881-4349 (cell) > > > By JOHN FLESHER > Associated Press Writer > TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. _ Northeastern Michigan had a problem to chew on: > Long-distance phone service was interrupted for more than six hours after a > beaver apparently gnawed through a fiber optic cable. > > "In my 33 years with the company I've never heard of this happening," said > John VanWyck, spokesman for Verizon Communications. "I've heard of squirrels > chewing aerial cable, but not this." > > The outage began shortly after 8 a.m. Thursday [July 1st]. Service was completely > restored by 2:35 p.m. Some 62,000 customers were affected, including > long-distance, dial-up Internet and some cellular phone services, as well as > credit card and ATM machines. > > "This has had a huge impact on our business," Doug Morrison, owner of a > grocery store in Hillman, told The Alpena News. "Seventy percent of our > business pays by credit card. Because of this stupid thing, our machines > won't work. We've had a lot of customers leave $100 in groceries because > they couldn't pay for them." > > The affected area extended from Roscommon County north to Gaylord and east > to Alpena and Rogers City, VanWyck said. > > It took crews a while to locate the source of the problem because the cable > was stretched across a wetland area north of Houghton Lake, near the > headwaters of the Muskegon River, he said. > > The state Department of Natural Resources had lowered the water level in the > wetland by several feet because of heavy rain in recent months, VanWyck > said. The wetland drains into the lake and the river. > > "The lower water levels exposed the fiber optic cable," VanWyck said. "From > all indications, it appears a beaver picked it up and chewed it in half. By > the looks of the ends of the cable, it was obviously chewed." > > The outage was ill-timed for businesses in the area, particularly motels > taking reservations for the Fourth of July weekend. > > "It wasn't as bad as it could have been, because we were able to get some > incoming calls for some reason," said Tom Zamoyski, general manager of Best > Western Alpine Lodge in Gaylord. "But we couldn't call any of our customers > or suppliers, and we couldn't use e-mail. We had a lot of guests in house > and they were frustrated that they couldn't call out." > > Emergency dispatch centers in Alcona, Alpena, Montmorency and Presque Isle > counties maintained radio contact until long distance service was restored, > said Bruce Wozniak, 911 emergency services coordinator for Alpena County. > >

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WTF ---
by bmanning＠vacation.karoshi.com 09 Jul '04

09 Jul '04

stuff under the floor: wildlife: common in TX, fireants/bees/arachnids in the vaults cruft: the nite-shift dirty laundry (clothes & other stuff) and my personal fave: worked in a shop w/ MGs and a flywheel/genset -in the machine room-. One of the power leads was not properly mounted and had to be repaired. The electrician did -not- remove all his rings (guess he was still junior) and was knocked out - called the EMTs and he was transported & revivied. we found his finger (desicated) w/ the ring a year later when we pulled out the 3033's. not exactly under the floor: The most excitment was the bearings on the flywheel seizing up and the flywheel tearing loose, punching a hole in the wall and into the adjacent clean room. ah... the bad ol'days. :) --bill

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The Cidr Report
by cidr-report＠potaroo.net 09 Jul '04

09 Jul '04

This report has been generated at Fri Jul 9 21:43:38 2004 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of an AS4637 (Reach) router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org/as4637 for a current version of this report. Recent Table History Date Prefixes CIDR Agg 02-07-04 138157 95253 03-07-04 137906 95421 04-07-04 138230 95430 05-07-04 138351 95418 06-07-04 138246 95439 07-07-04 138312 95533 08-07-04 138436 95569 09-07-04 138898 95503 AS Summary 17473 Number of ASes in routing system 7117 Number of ASes announcing only one prefix 1414 Largest number of prefixes announced by an AS AS7018 : ATTW AT&T WorldNet Services 54247168 Largest address span announced by an AS (/32s) AS721 : DNIC DoD Network Information Center Aggregation Summary The algorithm used in this report proposes aggregation only when there is a precise match using the AS path, so as to preserve traffic transit policies. Aggregation is also proposed across non-advertised address space ('holes'). --- 09Jul04 --- ASnum NetsNow NetsAggr NetGain % Gain Description Table 138776 95525 43251 31.2% All ASes AS6347 975 201 774 79.4% SAVV SAVVIS Communications Corporation AS18566 725 8 717 98.9% CVAD Covad Communications AS4134 754 160 594 78.8% CHINANET-BACKBONE No.31,Jin-rong Street AS4323 737 206 531 72.0% TWTC Time Warner Telecom AS7018 1414 971 443 31.3% ATTW AT&T WorldNet Services AS2548 548 130 418 76.3% ATCW Allegiance Telecom Companies Worldwide AS7843 515 130 385 74.8% ADELPH-13 Adelphia Corp. AS6197 707 326 381 53.9% BNS-14 BellSouth Network Solutions, Inc AS22909 398 30 368 92.5% CMCS Comcast Cable Communications, Inc. AS701 1282 923 359 28.0% UU UUNET Technologies, Inc. AS9583 486 136 350 72.0% SATYAMNET-AS Satyam Infoway Ltd., AS27364 377 38 339 89.9% ARMC Armstrong Cable Services AS22773 383 60 323 84.3% CXAB Cox Communications Inc. Atlanta AS1239 945 637 308 32.6% SPRN Sprint AS6467 334 33 301 90.1% ACSI e.spire Communications, Inc. AS11172 351 55 296 84.3% Servicios Alestra S.A de C.V AS17676 339 50 289 85.3% JPNIC-JP-ASN-BLOCK Japan Network Information Center AS9929 320 32 288 90.0% CNCNET-CN China Netcom Corp. AS6198 508 223 285 56.1% BNS-14 BellSouth Network Solutions, Inc AS4355 381 99 282 74.0% ERSD EARTHLINK, INC AS6478 328 57 271 82.6% ATTW AT&T WorldNet Services AS14654 238 5 233 97.9% WAYPOR-3 Wayport AS25844 243 16 227 93.4% SASMFL-2 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP AS4766 486 265 221 45.5% KIXS-AS-KR Korea Telecom AS3356 890 672 218 24.5% LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications AS6140 369 157 212 57.5% IMPSA ImpSat AS9443 349 143 206 59.0% INTERNETPRIMUS-AS-AP Primus Telecommunications AS6327 231 32 199 86.1% SHAWC-2 Shaw Communications Inc. AS5668 380 196 184 48.4% CIH-12 CenturyTel Internet Holdings, Inc. AS2386 406 227 179 44.1% ADCS-1 AT&T Data Communications Services Total 16399 6218 10181 62.1% Top 30 total Possible Bogus Routes 24.138.80.0/20 AS11260 AHSICHCL Andara High Speed Internet c/o Halifax Cable Ltd. 24.246.0.0/17 AS7018 ATTW AT&T WorldNet Services 24.246.128.0/18 AS7018 ATTW AT&T WorldNet Services 64.46.4.0/22 AS11711 TULARO TULAROSA COMMUNICATIONS 64.46.12.0/24 AS7850 IHIGHW iHighway.net, Inc. 64.46.27.0/24 AS8674 NETNOD-IX Netnod Internet Exchange Sverige AB 64.46.34.0/24 AS3408 64.46.63.0/24 AS7850 IHIGHW iHighway.net, Inc. 66.114.0.0/19 AS16526 BIRCHT Birch Telecom, Inc. 69.26.32.0/19 AS17307 VIRTEL-15 Virtela Communications 132.0.0.0/10 AS568 DISOUN DISO-UNRRA 137.0.0.0/13 AS721 DNIC DoD Network Information Center 138.136.0.0/13 AS721 DNIC DoD Network Information Center 158.0.0.0/13 AS721 DNIC DoD Network Information Center 192.30.93.0/24 AS17757 HPAUS-AP HP Australia 192.30.94.0/24 AS17757 HPAUS-AP HP Australia 192.30.127.0/24 AS719 LANLINK Elisa Oyj 192.40.105.0/24 AS5515 SONERA-GLOBAL-IP Sonera Solution Autonomous System 192.43.230.0/24 AS4738 SAARDNET-AS South Australian Academic Research and Development Network 192.44.0.0/19 AS702 AS702 MCI EMEA - Commercial IP service provider in Europe 192.81.182.0/24 AS719 LANLINK Elisa Oyj 192.81.183.0/24 AS719 LANLINK Elisa Oyj 192.81.184.0/24 AS719 LANLINK Elisa Oyj 192.119.135.0/24 AS270 NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration 192.124.252.0/22 AS680 DFN-IP service G-WiN 192.133.6.0/24 AS4004 GLOBALONE-EQUANT-UK Equant UK & Greece Autonomous System 192.135.50.0/24 AS7018 ATTW AT&T WorldNet Services 192.136.71.0/24 AS719 LANLINK Elisa Oyj 192.136.79.0/24 AS719 LANLINK Elisa Oyj 192.153.144.0/21 AS721 DNIC DoD Network Information Center 192.172.0.0/19 AS568 DISOUN DISO-UNRRA 192.188.208.0/20 AS721 DNIC DoD Network Information Center 192.243.32.0/23 AS2044 PALINA Palin Aquisitions Inc. 198.23.26.0/24 AS4390 BELLAT-7 Bell Atlantic, Inc. 198.97.72.0/21 AS568 DISOUN DISO-UNRRA 198.97.80.0/20 AS568 DISOUN DISO-UNRRA 198.97.88.0/24 AS89 NUSC-1 Naval Underwater Systems Center 198.97.240.0/20 AS568 DISOUN DISO-UNRRA 198.97.247.0/24 AS3475 DEPART-52 Department of the Navy 198.101.4.0/22 AS568 DISOUN DISO-UNRRA 198.136.32.0/20 AS19329 MCBCC Martin County Board of County Commissioners 198.144.32.0/19 AS3998 CITY CityNet, Inc. 198.161.87.0/24 AS6539 GTGR GT Group Telecom Services Corp. 198.161.165.0/24 AS852 AGTA Telus Advanced Communications 198.163.155.0/24 AS684 MRN Manitoba Regional Network 198.167.0.0/16 AS7456 INS-51 Interhop Network SERVICES Inc. 198.167.163.0/24 AS15290 ACCA-2 Allstream Corp. Corporation Allstream 198.168.0.0/16 AS701 UU UUNET Technologies, Inc. 198.169.0.0/16 AS803 SASK SaskTel 198.232.133.0/24 AS23075 SKOTOS Skotos Tech, Inc 199.10.0.0/16 AS568 DISOUN DISO-UNRRA 199.60.0.0/20 AS271 UBC-3 University of British Columbia 199.114.0.0/18 AS568 DISOUN DISO-UNRRA 199.114.0.0/21 AS568 DISOUN DISO-UNRRA 199.114.128.0/18 AS568 DISOUN DISO-UNRRA 199.114.130.0/24 AS721 DNIC DoD Network Information Center 199.114.132.0/24 AS721 DNIC DoD Network Information Center 199.114.136.0/24 AS1913 DLA-8 Defense Logistics Agency 199.114.138.0/24 AS721 DNIC DoD Network Information Center 199.114.140.0/24 AS3544 DISAUN DISA/UNRRA 199.114.142.0/24 AS721 DNIC DoD Network Information Center 199.114.144.0/24 AS721 DNIC DoD Network Information Center 199.114.148.0/24 AS721 DNIC DoD Network Information Center 199.114.150.0/24 AS721 DNIC DoD Network Information Center 199.114.152.0/24 AS1913 DLA-8 Defense Logistics Agency 199.114.154.0/24 AS1733 ADP-41 AF DDN PMO 199.114.156.0/24 AS1913 DLA-8 Defense Logistics Agency 199.114.160.0/24 AS1733 ADP-41 AF DDN PMO 199.120.32.0/19 AS16582 NXLI NEXTLEVEL INTERNET, INC. 199.121.0.0/16 AS568 DISOUN DISO-UNRRA 199.123.0.0/18 AS568 DISOUN DISO-UNRRA 199.123.16.0/20 AS568 DISOUN DISO-UNRRA 199.123.80.0/21 AS568 DISOUN DISO-UNRRA 199.189.32.0/19 AS7332 IQUEST IQuest Internet 199.197.8.0/22 AS21814 PARSON-18 Parsons Corp. 199.202.0.0/16 AS701 UU UUNET Technologies, Inc. 202.47.1.0/24 AS7491 PI-PH-AS-AP PI-PHILIPINES 202.56.160.0/20 AS10199 DISHNET-AS-AP DishnetDSL Limited 202.70.0.0/20 AS4658 NETFRONT-AS NETFRONT I.T. LIMITED (HONG KONG) 202.70.28.0/24 AS4515 ERX-STAR Star Internet Services Ltd. 202.73.128.0/22 AS4058 LINKAGENET-AP CPCNet Hong Kong Ltd. 202.81.96.0/19 AS10113 DATAFAST-AP DATAFAST TELECOMMUNICATIONS LTD 202.81.109.0/24 AS7657 TIG-US-PAS-AP The Internet Group Limited 202.81.121.0/24 AS10113 DATAFAST-AP DATAFAST TELECOMMUNICATIONS LTD 202.93.0.0/20 AS4134 CHINANET-BACKBONE No.31,Jin-rong Street 202.123.96.0/20 AS9288 COMCEN-AS-AP Com-Cen Pty Ltd 202.133.3.0/24 AS9335 CIP-JAPAN-AS-AP ATT IPlus 202.136.128.0/20 AS10199 DISHNET-AS-AP DishnetDSL Limited 202.141.160.0/24 AS9237 HUTCHCA-AS BTN Access Limited 202.164.224.0/19 AS7599 IPXC-AS-AP IP Exchange 203.32.4.0/23 AS7617 203.62.0.0/17 AS7572 AARNET-ACT-RNO Australian Academic and Reasearch Network (AARNet) 203.84.145.0/24 AS4637 REACH Reach Network Border AS 203.84.146.0/24 AS4637 REACH Reach Network Border AS 203.188.16.0/21 AS4755 VSNL-AS Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. Autonomous System 203.210.69.0/24 AS17536 PRODIGY-AS-AP Prodidgy Telecommunications 204.154.125.0/24 AS3952 TELLAB-1 TELLABS Operations, Inc. 204.154.126.0/24 AS3952 TELLAB-1 TELLABS Operations, Inc. 204.154.127.0/24 AS3952 TELLAB-1 TELLABS Operations, Inc. 204.194.110.0/23 AS30653 EXOBI Exobit Networks Inc. 205.150.0.0/15 AS701 UU UUNET Technologies, Inc. 205.159.72.0/24 AS1660 ANSCOM-5 ANS Communications 206.81.187.0/24 AS19194 SNL-8 Sentris Network LLC 206.167.57.0/24 AS376 RISQR-3 Reseau Interordinateurs Scientique Quebecois (RISQ) 206.191.64.0/18 AS15290 ACCA-2 Allstream Corp. Corporation Allstream 206.251.69.0/24 AS27429 TIL-33 Telesat International Ltd. 206.253.190.0/23 AS8123 POLYBA Polybase 207.231.96.0/19 AS11194 NUNETI NuNet Inc 208.81.187.0/24 AS19194 SNL-8 Sentris Network LLC 209.172.0.0/18 AS7770 TRTI Triton Technologies, Inc. 209.205.69.0/24 AS21578 Universidad autonoma de Bucaramanga 209.205.70.0/24 AS21578 Universidad autonoma de Bucaramanga 209.205.81.0/24 AS15066 SkyNet de Colombia S.A. 209.205.82.0/24 AS15066 SkyNet de Colombia S.A. 209.205.84.0/24 AS15066 SkyNet de Colombia S.A. 209.213.32.0/19 AS10629 INS-52 Inter-Pacific Network Services 209.213.50.0/24 AS10629 INS-52 Inter-Pacific Network Services 209.213.51.0/24 AS10629 INS-52 Inter-Pacific Network Services 209.213.55.0/24 AS10629 INS-52 Inter-Pacific Network Services 209.213.56.0/24 AS10629 INS-52 Inter-Pacific Network Services 209.251.0.0/19 AS11036 SISCOM-1 SISCOM, Inc 216.37.110.0/23 AS4264 CERFN California Education and Research Federation Network 216.96.128.0/18 AS7018 ATTW AT&T WorldNet Services 216.145.130.0/24 AS11937 TRXI TRX Inc. 216.145.132.0/24 AS11937 TRXI TRX Inc. 216.145.133.0/24 AS11937 TRXI TRX Inc. 216.145.134.0/24 AS11937 TRXI TRX Inc. 216.145.135.0/24 AS11937 TRXI TRX Inc. 216.145.156.0/24 AS20304 JIS-32 JVLNET Internet Services 216.145.158.0/24 AS20304 JIS-32 JVLNET Internet Services 216.145.176.0/21 AS20304 JIS-32 JVLNET Internet Services 216.145.177.0/24 AS20304 JIS-32 JVLNET Internet Services 216.145.178.0/24 AS20304 JIS-32 JVLNET Internet Services 216.145.184.0/21 AS10758 INWAVE INWave Internet, Inc 216.145.200.0/21 AS20304 JIS-32 JVLNET Internet Services 216.186.151.0/24 AS3356 LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications 216.186.152.0/21 AS3356 LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications 216.186.160.0/23 AS3356 LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications 216.186.164.0/22 AS3356 LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications 216.186.192.0/22 AS3356 LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications 216.186.198.0/23 AS3356 LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications 216.186.248.0/23 AS3356 LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications Please see http://www.cidr-report.org for the full report ------------------------------------ Copies of this report are mailed to: nanog(a)merit.edu eof-list(a)ripe.net apops(a)apops.net routing-wg(a)ripe.net afnog(a)afnog.org swinog(a)swinog.ch

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