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Re: Statistics for Public Peering Points
by Paul Thornton 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

For the LINX in the UK, you can visit http://ochre.linx.net for publically available statistics. The total traffic acorss the MAEs always used to be available - don't know what the url is though, or even if its still there - sorry. -- Paul = = Paul Thornton (currently down-under) = =

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Statistics for Public Peering Points
by Devon True 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

All: Does anyone know of an online resource where one can see daily statistics for the various public peering points? E.g. MAE-East, MAE-West, etc. Anything I found online was either out-of-date or required a username/password. Thanks! ----- Devon

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Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play
by Scott Gifford 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

> Another stated rationale is that ICANN UDRP is "flawed". I'm not sure > how adding pirate domains improves the UDRP. The pirate has publically > stated that it will follow the UDRP. > > Several folks suggested examples of "reverse-hijacked" domain > decisions. I've taken a bit of time to look at the most frequently > cited. Here's two that are exemplar: [ ... ] We've probably strayed way off-topic, but I think that it speaks volumes about how well the UDRP works that research had to be done to find two cases where it made a reasonable ruling. -------ScottG.

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RE: Little survey: What do people use to backup configurations ?
by Irwin Lazar 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

> put into rcs. Now before I am resurecting those scripts again for my > current job, what are people using to backup equipment, things such > as Cisco routers (26xx, 36xx, 72xx, 75xx, MSFC, RSM) and Cisco Catalyst > switches (2924XL, 3548XL, 4000, 5000, 6500) ? I use a small program called disco that sends an SNMP write request to the router to initiate a 'write net' then receives the file via tftp. It's available at http://web.mit.edu/ktools/ and works for at least linux and solaris. --- I've seen lots of homegrown scripts like the above. A lot of our customers use element managers such as CiscoWorks. The nice thing about the element managers is that they will flag any changes that might have been made and not recorded. Irwin

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Re: Namespaces (was: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play)
by Scott Gifford 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

Joshua Goodall <joshua(a)roughtrade.net> writes: [ ... ] > A better method for addressing data would be based on source-brokered, > signed, distributed caches of keywords that can be search and, more > importantly, bookmarked in the context of each signer. I'm not sure I want something that elaborate to ftp a file from my laptop to my desktop. And I certainly don't want to have to remember IP addresses for both of them. I think DNS works pretty well. You just have to think of it like an 800 number --- 800 numbers are ambiguous (1-800-CONTACTS could provide information about how to contact people, information about aliens contacting the earth, or information about the old PBS show 3-2-1 Contact!, but it in fact sells contact lenses), but they're still easier to remember than the digits. ------ScottG.

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The .SUCKS TLD saga continues
by Karyn Ulriksen 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

Okay. You guys all asked for it. Robert Sexton over at ORSC will be adding it to his fold and dns will be served out of here. I will be setting up a "registration" page this weekend to request domains probably out of my www.valkaryn.net site. No fees planned. I would just like to be able to email anyone about changes. If it grows very large, I will set up a whois server for it and an availability check. Since there has been some commercial interest in .sucks domains, I will probably be changing the password access by next Monday and lock down the domain indexing a little further. In the meantime, you can introduce the following lines in your cache file if you don't use ORSC: sucks. 86400 IN NS dns-01-002.root-dns.com. sucks. 86400 IN NS dns-01-001.root-dns.com. If you would like a ".suck" or ".sucks" domain in the meantime, email me with your request and contact information. If you want the domain to point to your own nameservers, please be sure to provide the nameserver information. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Best regards, Karyn Ulriksen Network Operations Manager PublicHost, A VitalStream Company 1 Jenner, Suite 100 Irvine, California 92618 USA Phone: (949) 743-2000 email: kulriksen(a)publichost.com URL: http://www.publichost.com ===========================================

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Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play
by Scott Gifford 08 Mar '01

08 Mar '01

"David Schwartz" <davids(a)webmaster.com> writes: > > Personally, I would hope that the rules would be the same as if you were > > trying to start a new business or magazine with the name in the domain > > name (I am making no judgement on how close UDRP is to that ideal). By > > that criteria, I am sure that if you tried to start a company or magazine > > named "Walmart Sucks" you would hear from their lawyers and they would be > > equally successful. > > Surely owning a domain is more like naming a book or magazine article > than naming a business. After all, businesses are not the only Internet > sites. I agree. In fact, during the heydey of "Beverly Hills 90210", I remember a monthly newsletter called "The I Hate Brenda Newsletter" or some such thing, which was a parody fanzine for Shannon Doherty, the actress who played Brenda. It was a quite funny piece of pop-culture parody, and I'm sure the magazine would have been shut down if copyright law allowed Fox Networks to. -----ScottG.

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Little survey: What do people use to backup configurations ?
by Ulf Zimmermann 08 Mar '01

08 Mar '01

A while back when I was at SGI, I wrote my own scripts, using expect and tftp to backup configurations of Cisco routers. Configs then were put into rcs. Now before I am resurecting those scripts again for my current job, what are people using to backup equipment, things such as Cisco routers (26xx, 36xx, 72xx, 75xx, MSFC, RSM) and Cisco Catalyst switches (2924XL, 3548XL, 4000, 5000, 6500) ? What I am trying to archive is at least a daily backup, with again some version control to be able what changed between days. -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-769-2936 Alameda Networks, Inc. | http://www.Alameda.net | Fax#: 510-521-5073

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external issues in dns scalability (1995) (was Re: Namespaces)
by Paul Vixie 08 Mar '01

08 Mar '01

avg(a)kotovnik.com (Vadim Antonov) writes: > Just stop issuing alhpanumeric domain names and use numerals only. In 1995, Brian Kahin invited a bunch of folks to come to DC and talk about DNS ("a policy wonk's dream"). Not understanding that the whole thing was a sham, I wrote a paper and presented it. The audience (hi Vint!) reacted in stunned silence, and probably had a good laugh about it later at the bar. I found the postscript files and converted them to PDF and put them online: http://www.vix.com/~vixie/bad-dns-paper.pdf http://www.vix.com/~vixie/bad-dns-slides.pdf All I can really say is: "I told y'all so." Vadim, thanks for reminding me that there was a time when these problems were still soluble.

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Re: new.net
by richb＠pioneer.ci.net 08 Mar '01

08 Mar '01

Adrian Chadd wrote: > Whats international trademark+patent arrangements say about this? > See, .com is not all US-registered, and so if you were going to do > something like this, where do non-US people fit in here? I think that's precisely the issue at hand. How does one administer a global flat name-space, given the lack of any global entity with the authority to do so? Right now, lawyers get paid big bucks by international firms to protect a trademark or company name in a multitude of jurisdictions. -rich

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