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about nonaccess to com, net, org zone files from f.root-servers.net
by Paul A Vixie 12 Aug '99

12 Aug '99

if you're having trouble getting these files from nsi (who is supposed to be providing them during the nonaccess experiment) please let me know in e-mail, with all details including who you talked to at nsi, what they said, and what they did (if anything).

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Not sure if this is on topic but any help would be appreciated
by Larry Birch 12 Aug '99

12 Aug '99

I am trying to register a domain in the uk. I have been to the UK Domain Registration page and just have one question that I could not get answered. What is a gTLD domain and do I need one? Responses off list are fine. mailto:lbirch@wans.net

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was in-addr.arpa question, now BBN
by Craig Partridge 12 Aug '99

12 Aug '99

In message <01JEMIE2WJS691XASM(a)ACES.COM>, Ehud Gavron writes: > BBN still thinks they invented tcp/ip. And we have a pretty good claim. If you go back and look at the history of networking in the 1970s, BBN was a very active participant -- probably more active than any other corporation. And BBNers figure prominently on early drafts of many of the major protocols we know today, including TELNET, FTP, email, the New ARPAnet routing protocol (the protocol that OSPF and IS-IS are based on) and EGP (predecessor to BGP). We've occasionally tooted the horn a bit too strongly (there's a famous report c. 1980 that some Internet pioneers periodically bring up :-)) but we're certainly entitled to toot it. Thanks! Craig Partridge Chief Scientist, BBN Technologies (part of GTE) PS: BBN Technologies does research. What was BBN Planet is now GTE Internetworking. So sending me day-to-day operational questions is generally a waste of time. (I'm on this list to track issues in future operations...)

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Software Started MCI Outage
by Henry R. Linneweh 12 Aug '99

12 Aug '99

http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2312942,00.html According to MCI WorldCom spokeswoman Linda Laughlin, the carrier was upgrading a switch somewhere on the frame relay network when the device began to "experience congestion" and the initial outage began. Laughlin was unable to say where the faulty upgrade occurred or what the upgrade was for. Henry

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OUTAGE: AT&T Local Service (TCG) in Needham, MA
by Sean Donelan 11 Aug '99

11 Aug '99

TCG/ATT Local Service took out their local fiber ring in Needham, MA around 1pm EDT. Apparently they made a change to the STS-1 programming, and something went wrong. Techs are now being dispatched to various points around the fiber ring to try to resolve the problem. Notice, I don't just pick on MCI/Worldcom. Last word we had from our "one-to-one" MCI/Worldcom contacts is they hope to have the frame-relay problem fixed by Friday or Monday at the latest. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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MCI-Worldcom in the news
by Patrick Greenwell 11 Aug '99

11 Aug '99

Well, someone picked the outage story up(sort of...) http://www.excite.com/computers_and_internet/tech_news/zdnet/?article=zdnew… /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Patrick Greenwell "This is our time. It will not come again." \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/

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WEATHER: tornado and power outages in salt lake city utah
by Sean Donelan 11 Aug '99

11 Aug '99

There was a tornado in Salt Lake City Utah which caused a lot of damage in the downtown area and power outages throughout the area. Several local ISPs in the area seem to be down. One ISP I was able to reach is on backup power. Traceroutes seem to reach the POPs of backbone providers, so they seem to be up. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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Register.com (followup - suckage removed)
by Ehud Gavron 11 Aug '99

11 Aug '99

Following my NANOG posting, one individual was kind enough to forward my posting to the CEO of Register.com, Richard Forman. Soon I had a first-level support rep who couldn't "ping my domain." When I started talking words like SOA and NS and MX she transfered me to Morris Djouejati, who knew those words. Morris explained they're still working on making the web front-end be able to remove those extra MXs, but since my NSs were both offsite it wouldn't make a difference. This morning I got a followup call from Richard Forman, who wanted to ensure everything had been taken care of. I am, in fact, satisfied. Register.com has, in fact, successfully registered a working domain name for me. While they did make mistakes, and they didn't respond immediately, I never sat on hold for two hours ;-) Ehud (futurely gavron(a)wetwork.net)

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in-addr.arpa question
by Hank Nussbacher 11 Aug '99

11 Aug '99

I have a client who is now peering with BBN. BBN supplied a /30 as follows: 207.112.240.113 is their side via a company they purchased called Nap.Net. The DNS shows: NChicago2-core0.nap.net Thats ok. The other side is the customer colo router and the IP of 207.112.240.114 shows: chi2-vts.ianet.net Now I claim that the domain ianet.net (based on Internic data) is some company in WV and has nothing to do with us (ianet is the customer name we were assigned by BBN). BBN claims that is this their "standard naming convention" for assigning customer interface names. Traceroutes will show up with ianet.net in the path. I claim this is in violation of some RFC. Am I wrong? There may be many such PTR records within BBN for "customername.net". Thanks, Hank

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RE: What frame relay switch is causing MCI/Worldcom such grief?
by Martin Cooper 11 Aug '99

11 Aug '99

Joel Halpern <joel(a)mcquillan.com> wrote: > Martin Cooper said something similar to: > > But the reason ISPs adopted NBMA L2 networks in the first place is > > because the telcos convinced them that L2/L3 integration was going > > to happen. > > Actually, that turns out not to be the case. The adoption of layer 2 > switching technology into the internet core set of tools predates any of > the ATM hype. It was done with frame relay. Oh absolutely - I wasn't just referring to ATM in the context of NBMA L2 switching. > It was not done on the > basis of L2/L3 integration, but because it gave the ISPs something more > useful than just a fixed size (DS3) set of pipes between places. Well ok, but if you follow that marketing pitch (making nailed up L2 links more useful to extremely popular overlayed L3 networks like the Internet) to its logical conclusion, it ends up there, because the motivation behind it is to be seen to add value to the product (shifting unspecified data from A to B) to stave off commoditisation. M.

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