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Network Solutions is now in the wringer
by Michael Dillon 27 Mar '99

27 Mar '99

Best to be aware of what is now coming down on Network Solutions. The following is an excerpt from this article: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/990325/ny_asensio_1.html The following is being issued by Asensio & Company, a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers, CRD number 31742: Investors may be buying Network Solutions, Inc.'s (Nasdaq: NSOL - news) stock believing the company possesses some market advantage, recurring income or proprietary technology that has allowed it to create, and will allow it to grow, its Internet domain name registry and registrar business. We found no reasonable basis for these beliefs. NSOL's domain name business has been and remains totally reliant on a 7-year-old U.S. federal government contract, which is expiring and will not be renewed. We believe that NSOL's management has purposely disseminated misleading information, and failed to disclose material negative information, that has led investors to believe that the expiration of this contract will be postponed or that it cannot be entirely and easily terminated. Investors have also been led to believe that even if the contract is terminated, NSOL's business value will continue to grow. These expectations are baseless and false. If their house of cards collapses too quickly it could have some serious operational impacts. And we all do realize that it is a house of cards, don't we? -- Michael Dillon - E-mail: michael(a)memra.com Check the website for my Internet World articles - http://www.memra.com

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FUBAR in CHI
by Richard Irving 27 Mar '99

27 Mar '99

Dohhh... *All* Chicago based lines blew.... Not AADS fault, I think.... Still going.... Will be back to you soon..... :( :) Looks like the only things in common with these runs are MFS and CHI itself.... whoa... Bad night in Windy City. Have fun everyone. :\

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The Cidr Report
by Tony Bates 26 Mar '99

26 Mar '99

This is an auto-generated mail on Fri Mar 26 12:00:00 PST 1999 It is not checked before it leaves my workstation. However, hopefully you will find this report interesting and will take the time to look through this to see if you can improve the amount of aggregation you perform. The report is split into sections: 0) General Status List the route table history for the last week, list any possibly bogus routes seen and give some status on ASes. 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level This lists the "Top 30" players who if they decided to aggregate their announced classful prefixes at the origin AS level could make a significant difference in the reduction of the current size of the Internet routing table. This calculation does not take into account the inclusion of holes when forming an aggregate so it is possible even larger reduction should be possible. 2) Weekly Delta A summary of the last weeks changes in terms of withdrawn and added routes. Please note that this is only a snapshot but does give some indication of ASes participating in CIDR. Clearly, it is generally a good thing to see a large amont of withdrawls. 3) Interesting aggregates Interesting here means not an aggregate made as a set of classful routes. Thanks to xara.net for giving me access to their routing tables once a day. Please send any comments about this report directly to me. Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr-report.html for a daily update of this report. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CIDR REPORT for 26Mar99 0) General Status Table History ------------- Date Prefixes 190399 57539 200399 57531 210399 57555 220399 57592 230399 57780 240399 57729 250399 57967 260399 58170 Check http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr.plot.html for a plot of the table history. Possible Bogus Routes --------------------- *** Bogus 123.217.230.0/24 from AS174 AS Summary ---------- Number of ASes in routing system: 4735 Number of ASes announcing only one prefix: 2356 (1262 cidr, 1094 classful) Largest number of cidr routes: 389 announced by AS701 Largest number of classful routes: 834 announced by AS701 1) Gains by aggregating at the origin AS level --- 26Mar99 --- ASnum NetsNow NetsCIDR NetGain % Gain Description AS271 355 144 211 59.4% BCnet Backbone AS11305 184 10 174 94.6% UNKNOWN AS174 641 525 116 18.1% Performance Systems International AS2493 253 144 109 43.1% iSTAR Internet, Inc. AS226 205 98 107 52.2% USC/Information Sciences Institut AS4755 163 77 86 52.8% Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. India AS3749 140 63 77 55.0% TECNET AS1740 332 255 77 23.2% CERFnet AS4293 214 141 73 34.1% IMCI AS1267 94 24 70 74.5% IUNET-AS AS4200 166 98 68 41.0% AGIS (Apex Global Information Ser AS7545 109 45 64 58.7% TPG Internet Pty Ltd AS7046 272 208 64 23.5% UUNET-CUSTOMER AS4740 394 330 64 16.2% Ozemail Pty Ltd (ASN-OZEMAIL) AS1239 530 468 62 11.7% SprintLink Backbone AS1221 428 366 62 14.5% AARNET-AS AS7496 94 33 61 64.9% Power Up AS10928 108 50 58 53.7% UNKNOWN AS72 91 39 52 57.1% Schlumberger Information Network AS577 223 172 51 22.9% Bell Canada Backbone AS3493 232 181 51 22.0% INTERLINK AS7657 164 114 50 30.5% The Internet Group Limited AS719 461 412 49 10.6% LANLINK autonomous system AS5674 80 36 44 55.0% PBI-NET-BLK AS852 175 136 39 22.3% AGT Advance Communication AS803 72 36 36 50.0% SaskNet Backbone AS1 509 473 36 7.1% BBNPLANET AS7745 39 4 35 89.7% BIGSKY-AS AS7122 111 78 33 29.7% MTS ADVANCED Network Policy AS262 36 3 33 91.7% JVNC-II-AS For the rest of the previous weeks gain information please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html 2) Weekly Delta Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report 3) Interesting aggregates Please see http://www.employees.org:80/~tbates/cidr-report.html for this part of the report

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Re: New whois proxy - geektools
by Bill Woodcock 26 Mar '99

26 Mar '99

secure# whois -h whois.geektools.com 715 ipw: Invalid IP address: ... Searching for [715] secure# whois -h whois.geektools.com as715 Searching for [as715] Defaulting to whois.internic.net for query. No match found for as715. secure#

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Re: [NIC-990226.52da] Suggestion: Add contact entry to whois
by owen＠DeLong.SJ.CA.US 26 Mar '99

26 Mar '99

I don't know quite what to say to this, so I simply forward it to the list without further comment... Owen ----- Begin Included Message ----- >From creg(a)internic.net Thu Mar 25 20:59:15 1999 From: Contact Registration Account <creg(a)internic.net> Subject: Re: [NIC-990226.52da] Suggestion: Add contact entry to whois To: owen(a)dixon.DeLong.SJ.CA.US (Owen DeLong) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 23:59:16 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199903151618.IAA09244(a)irkutsk.delong.sj.ca.us> from "Owen DeLong" at Mar 15, 99 08:18:01 am X-MTS-Ticket: 990226.52da X-MTS-Type: POC X-MTS-Priority: Normal X-MTS-Mode: Unknown X-MTS-Status: Open X-MTS-Timestamp: 990315111628 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Lines: 124 > Thank you for contacting Network Solutions. We are unable to fulfill your request without the following information, as indicated below: Domain Name Registration Agreement ___ 1. Your request was not submitted on the appropriate form. Please submit your request on the Domain Name Registration Agreement. ___ 2. The NIC-tracking number (example: 990203.1a2d) associated with your request was either not provided or is invalid. ___ 2b The NIC-tracking number you referenced is not associated with your current request. If you are unable to locate the NIC-tracking number for your current request, please re-submit your Domain Name Registration Agreement to receive a new tracking number. ___ 2c The NIC-tracking number you have referenced, (), does not have a Domain Name Registration Agreement associated with it. Please check the number and resubmit your request. ___ 3. To ensure that we have the proper authorization to process your request, we require a faxed authorization letter. To create an authorization letter to modify a domain name record, please visit our web site at www.networksolutions.com. ___ 4. We did not receive your facsimile in its entirety or it was illegible. ___ 5. Your request is considered a transfer of a domain name registration, and must be submitted on a Registrant Name Change Agreement - Transfer form. The form is available at www.networksolutions.com. Select Make Changes, then choose Registrant Name Change Agreement. Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the Registrant Name Change Agreement are available on our Web site. From our home page, choose Help, Make Changes, Registrant Name Change Agreement FAQ. Contact Form ___ 1. To ensure that we have the proper authorization to process your request, we require a faxed authorization letter. To create an authorization letter to modify an individual contact record, please visit our web site at www.networksolutions.com. ___ 2. To ensure that we have the proper authorization to process your request, we require a faxed authorization letter. To create a letter of authorization to modify an role contact record, please visit our web site at www.networksolutions.com. ___ 3. Your Contact Form is incomplete. Please complete Section 1 in its entirety and re-submit the Form to HOSTMASTER(a)INTERNIC.NET Best Regards, Network Solutions Registration Services World Wide Web: http://www.networksolutions.com E-mail: hostmaster(a)internic.net Tax ID #: 52-1146119 cc 03/06/99 nsi_rp80 ========================================================================= > > > Well, I, and many other people on NANOG where this has been discussed > over the last several weeks would tend to disagree with you. While > your answer certainly reflects the current state of the database, it > appears that you may not have understood the intent of the message. > > I am suggesting that it may be time to consider the addition of those > fields as a change. I wanted to solicit input from InterNIC and ARIN, > as well as NANOG. At this point, I will probably attempt to put it > through the RFC process. The idea seemed to have substantial support > from the community. There were some voices of dissent, but most of > them revolved around the fact that it didn't solve all the problems > or didn't solve certain problems it wasn't intended to solve. > > There was one voice opposed on the basis that all contact information > for domains should be private, but this opinion doesn't appear to be > widely represented among the community. > > Owen > > > > > > Dear Customer, > > > > Thank you for contacting Network Solutions, Inc., InterNIC > > Registration Services. > > > > Please be advised, unfortunately three contacts are all that needed. > > > > > > Best Regards, > > Ed r > > Network Solutions, Inc. > > > > World Wide Web: http://rs.internic.net > > E-mail: hostmaster(a)internic.net > > Phone: 703-742-4777(Monday-Friday 7:00am to 9:00pm Eastern Time) > > Billing Fax: 703-318-9125 > > Regular Fax: 703-742-9552(For Modification & Delete Authorization) > > Postal: Network Solutions, Inc. > > ATTN: InterNIC > > 505 Huntmar Park Drive > > Herndon, VA 20170 > > Tax ID #: 52-1146119 crg 11/02/98 > > nsi_rp112 > > ========================================================================== > > > > > > > > > > > We already have Admin, Tech, and Billing. Would it be possible to consider > > > the addition of an Abuse contact in whois? > > > > > > Owen > > > > ----- End Included Message -----

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IPSec - info request
by Sunil.Vallamkonda 26 Mar '99

26 Mar '99

Hello, I am looking for recommendations on vendors with product offerings on: IPSec/IKE software toolkit/protocol suite. Any pointers, suggestions is welcome. Thx. Sunil.

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New whois proxy - geektools
by Rodney Joffe 25 Mar '99

25 Mar '99

You can now use www.geektools.com as a proxy for command line whois queries instead of just the web interface. It is the same 'smart' whois that will automagically parse the query, and get the data from the known authoritative whois server for that tld or domain. Currently queries for about 80 tld's. We've tried to optimize and fix the code to handle the current internic.net whois goings on - including taking care of retries for stuck requests. Use www.geektools.com or whois.geektools.com. so... whois -h whois.geektools.com 'query' or whois 'query'@whois.geektools.com Enjoy!

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Re: OUTAGE: TCG milwaukee and chicago - reason why...
by Sean Donelan 25 Mar '99

25 Mar '99

brianv(a)xnet.COM (Brian Vargyas) writes: >But the killer story here is that the cause of the fiber cut was >because someone got fired and the guy went cutting through fibers >left and right. I could not get information on whether this was a Ah, that does explain the strange responses I was getting when I asked about it. Usually when its a cut caused by a third-party, the customer service reps love to tell you. When it is a proceedural error on the part of on of their own techs, they use the passive voice that mistakes were made, and they've been fixed. But this time they wouldn't say anything, and wanted to know why I wanted to know. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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Govt is torqued at NetSOL too...
by John Fraizer 25 Mar '99

25 Mar '99

>In regard to the recent postings about internic, it seems the U.S. govt was >also taken by surprise. See: > >http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/24/net.management.ap/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ML.ORG is gone. Check out http://www.EZ-IP.Net - It's *FREE* ------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your *FREE* Parked Domain account at http://www.EZ-Hosting.Com ------------------------------------------------------------------ John Fraizer | __ _ | The System Administrator | / / (_)__ __ ____ __ | The choice mailto:John.Fraizer@EnterZone.Net | / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / | of a GNU http://www.EnterZone.Net/ | /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ | Generation PGP Key fingerprint = 7DB6 1CA2 DAA6 43DA 3AAF 44CD 258C 3D7E B425 81A8

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OUTAGE: TCG milwaukee and chicago
by Sean Donelan 25 Mar '99

25 Mar '99

I received a report of TCG being down between Milwaukee and Chicago starting at 4:00pm CST on March 24 (yesterday). Does anyone have more information on this one? Thanks, sean. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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