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by Sean Donelan 21 Sep '00

21 Sep '00

I know its, not just telco's who do this. But I've got to wonder, does the PPL's PR department really think no one will notice a 1300 megawatt plant vanishing from the grid? Was the reason so bad, its better for people to speculate reasons instead of saying what happened. "Industry sources said the outage was at the giant Colstrip power plant in Montana, where units 1, 2 and 3, totalling about 1,300 megawatts, tripped off line for unknown reasons. PPL Corp, Colstrip's owner, declined to comment on the plant's status for competitive reasons."

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Re: o/t: Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net
by Michael Shields 21 Sep '00

21 Sep '00

In article <39C9F363.2CCD6243(a)netmore.net>, Roland Dobbins <rdobbins(a)netmore.net> wrote: > It will be interesting to learn how their P.R. department respond to > questions concerning your penchant for injecting political commentary > into an unmistakably -technical- forum, all the while in your official > guise as an officer of said company. Did he say he was speaking for Verio? I must have missed that. -- Shields.

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RE: o/t: Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net
by Roeland M.J. Meyer 21 Sep '00

21 Sep '00

> > What's wrong with being U.S.-centric? > > jingism kinda went out of fashion shortly after the us's > defeat in viet nam > > randy In order to be defeated, one must first have been in a fight. We weren't there, just ask Casper, it never happened. We did send a bunch of cops though. [if anyone doesn't recognise the preceding as a joke, then they aren't old enough]

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Re: Renaissance Hotel full?
by David Charlap 21 Sep '00

21 Sep '00

"Robert M. Enger" wrote: > > You might wish to look at getting rooms in Bethesda, Md. It is > closer-in than Rockville, and has more restaurants than some western > states. Rosslyn (the part of Arlington VA closest to DC) is also very nice. There are many good pubs and restaurants there. And several hotels are close to Metro stops. You're also about a 1 mile walk from Georgetown, if night-life interests you. (I would recommend not driving into Georgetown - traffic is a real nightmare there.) -- David

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RE: o/t: Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net
by Tim Wolfe 21 Sep '00

21 Sep '00

I think the point isn't so much that being UScentric is ok/not ok but rather that for many providers, most of their DNS traffic is .com/.net related. That being the case, there seems to be a good case for changes to infrastructure for those TLDs being of interest to at least some NANOG recipients... I know that when I was still wearing my ISP hat, our DNS traffic was about 80% composed of either com or net queries.. --Tim ============================================= Timothy M. Wolfe CCNA, NSA Sr. Network Engineer timw(a)infogroupnw.com InfoGroup Northwest 541.485.0957 x108 ============================================= -----Original Message----- From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy@psg.com] Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 11:04 AM To: Roland Dobbins Cc: Austin Schutz; nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: Re: o/t: Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net > What's wrong with being U.S.-centric? jingism kinda went out of fashion shortly after the us's defeat in viet nam randy

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FW: ARIN's search for a new President is over!
by Richard Jimmerson 21 Sep '00

21 Sep '00

This forwarded message was posted to the arin-announce mailing list earlier today... Regards, Richard Jimmerson American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-arin-announce(a)arin.net >[mailto:owner-arin-announce@arin.net]On Behalf Of Member Services >Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 12:28 PM >To: arin-announce(a)arin.net >Subject: ARIN's search for a new President is over! > > > >Folks, > >I am pleased to announce the ARIN has completed its search and that Ray >Plzak will be joining ARIN as President on September 28, 2000. > >Ray is coming to ARIN from SAIC where he was an Assistant Vice >President. He worked at the DDN/DoDNIC since 1992 and managed it since >1995. Ray is also actively involved in the IETF and is co-chair of the >IETF DNS Operations Working Group. There is no doubt that Ray >will be an >exceptional President for ARIN, bringing both registry management >experience as well as an understanding of the technical and industry >issues surrounding address space administration. > >Please join me in welcoming Ray to ARIN! Of course, folks will have a >chance to welcome Ray in person at upcoming ARIN public policy >and member >meetings scheduled for October 2-4 in Herndon, Virginia. > >John > >John Curran >Chairman, Board of Trustees >American Registry for Internet Numbers

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RE: DNS Updates
by Sutantyo, Danny 21 Sep '00

21 Sep '00

you have to count the timeout for DNS cache, and you do a dig, there should be an expiration time. Usually the next day after you make a change. DD -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Harper [mailto:harperb@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 3:06 PM To: nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: DNS Updates Hi Everyone, I was wondering if anybody knew when most DNS servers update their records with regard to changes in DNS hosts for a domain. I've made changes to my domain, and it looks like only a handful of DNS servers (earthlink being one of them that I could find) have actually made the changes. I've heard that the turnaround time is normally 24-48 hours for the changes to take effect, yet it seems that it takes FOREVER for anything to ever happen when I have NSI update the records for the site. Is there a reference on the net somewhere containing when some of the major DNS servers update their records, or does anybody have any idea why it always takes so long? Many Thanks, Ben

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Re: Root zone change -- d.gtld-servers.net
by Michael Shields 21 Sep '00

21 Sep '00

In article <20000920224220.E2038(a)gblx.net>, Austin Schutz <tex(a)off.org> wrote: > Do you have statistics to back up the 'three most widely-used TLDs' > statement? > > According to www.netsizer.com, org isn't even in the top ten. > I'm not sure upon what they base their data, but I was unable to find > evidence to the contrary. They seem to be measuring number of hosts named under the zone, as measured by a recursive query. I think the best way to tell which TLD servers are most widely used would be to monitor the query traffic to the root nameservers; most operators will agree that the most actively trafficed domains are the most important to maintain reachability to. BIND's selection algorithm will bias this however, so you would need to take a sample across several or all. (Actually, this would be an interesting way to study the effects of BIND's selection algorithm and see if it's doing the right thing.) -- Shields.

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Renaissance Hotel full?
by Simon Lockhart 21 Sep '00

21 Sep '00

Hi, The Renaissance Hotel have told our travel department that they have no further rooms available in the NANOG room block, and the only remaining rooms are $279/night. Can anyone confirm this, before I book with the Marriott, who apparently do have availability for the whole week. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | Tel: +44 (0)1737 839676 Internet Engineering Manager | Fax: +44 (0)1737 839516 BBC Internet Services | Email: Simon.Lockhart(a)bbc.co.uk Kingswood Warren,Tadworth,Surrey,UK | URL: http://support.bbc.co.uk/

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Re: Renaissance Hotel full?
by Steven M. Bellovin 21 Sep '00

21 Sep '00

In message <11756.969547064@sunf25>, Simon Lockhart writes: > >Hi, > >The Renaissance Hotel have told our travel department that they have no >further rooms available in the NANOG room block, and the only remaining >rooms are $279/night. > >Can anyone confirm this, before I book with the Marriott, who apparently >do have availability for the whole week. While I can't confirm that, I do know that hotel rooms in D.C. are quite tight. I travel there a lot, and I've had a lot of trouble finding reasonably-priced rooms downtown. --Steve Bellovin

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