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AS path length?
by bmanning＠isi.edu 19 Mar '96

19 Mar '96

And now for something completly different. What is the longest AS path that people see? -- --bill

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MCI/MAE-East/PSI losses unacceptable
by William Allen Simpson 18 Mar '96

18 Mar '96

What is going on out at MAE-East? From Michigan, I'm seeing a tremendous loss there, all day (since 10 am) between mae-east-plusplus.Washington.mci.net. and mae-east.psi.net. It is completely impossible to POP3 my email. SUNOS just times out the TCP connection after about 10KB in 1/2 hour. Pinging every 2 seconds for over 20 minutes: Recording Mon Mar 18 22:27:16 GMT 192.41.177.245 sent rcvd % rtt avg mdev max min 390 199 51 532 480 73 1185 291 391 200 51 317 460 96 1185 291 392 201 51 411 454 84 1185 291 396 202 51 453 454 63 1185 291 Recording Mon Mar 18 22:26:54 GMT 204.70.74.102 sent rcvd % rtt avg mdev max min 328 261 80 253 265 25 520 219 330 262 79 238 262 26 520 219 332 263 79 251 261 22 520 219 333 264 79 249 260 20 520 219 Of course, there is a 20% loss on MCI net alone. Seems to be after West Orange. 8: 204.70.2.81 core-fddi-0.Chicago.mci.net. (271 ms) (203 ms) (452 ms) 9: 204.70.1.94 core1-hssi-2.NorthRoyalton.mci.net. (216 ms) (209 ms) (232 ms) 10: 204.70.1.102 core1-hssi-3.WestOrange.mci.net. (226 ms) (273 ms) (214 ms) 11: 204.70.1.106 core2-hssi-2.Washington.mci.net. (243 ms) (379 ms) (240 ms) 12: 204.70.74.52 borderx1-fddi-1.Washington.mci.net. (325 ms) (281 ms) (250 ms) 13: 204.70.74.102 mae-east-plusplus.Washington.mci.net. (251 ms) *** (284 ms) 14: *** *** 192.41.177.245 mae-east.psi.net. (363 ms) Whatever happened to the Chicago NAP? What can we do to fix this problem? WSimpson(a)UMich.edu Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

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Addr: NET99 sabotages IGC's routes
by rwoundy＠vnet.IBM.COM 18 Mar '96

18 Mar '96

*** Resending note of 03/18/96 12:43 Folks, May I inject some list-relevant discussion to this cat-fight? >> Fortunately, MCI was able to reconfigure our access lists at their >>router to allow us to broadcast competing more specific routes for each >>individual class C in the CIDR block. Thus (more or less) restoring IGC's >>net connectivity. >More specifics aren't competing. They take precedence. Sometimes it's >better to be silent and thought dumb... I don't care to choose sides in this dispute. But as a consequence of this dispute, the size of the standard default-free route tables has grown as a result of the IGC/MCI de-aggregation of routes. This is a bad thing, right? Looking at IBM/Advantis's router at MAE-East, for example, I see 205.198/16 from (AS3830), 205.198.244/22 from (AS3561 AS5799), and 205.198.244/24 from (AS3561 AS5799). AS3830 == Net99, AS3561 == MCI, and AS5799 == IGC. Seems like the rest of the Internet is the long-term victim here... -- Richard Woundy, (not speaking for) IBM

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Re: Allocation of IP Addresses
by Robert Moskowitz 18 Mar '96

18 Mar '96

At 10:51 AM 3/15/96 +0900, David R. Conrad wrote: >Gordon: > >>Just a small quibble David: when you say "the IANA" decided, it gives >>the impression that an august group of people like the IESG took action. > >I certainly would not intend to, nor do I think I did, give the >impression that a group like the IESG took action. One of the >advantages (and arguable disadvantages) of the current registry system >is a lack of bureaucratic overhead of the type you thought I was >implying. > >>In reality "the IANA" is but a SINGLE person - John Postel. > >Actually, it is 2 people, Jon Postel and Joyce Reynolds. However, >note that the IANA is responsible to the IAB in the great Internet >organzation chart in the sky. > >>If some >>people are upset I suspect it might be because the power to make such a >>decision is vested in the hands of ONE person rather than in a group. > >My impression is that people are concerned that an organization with >no track record and no customers (at this time) was able to obtain a >highly coveted large block of space. Further, some people are >concerned with the allocation of a subnet of a class A where an >equivalently sized block in the class C space would have seemed >appropriate. As I seem to recall, the @Home proposal (at least what I saw of it after the fact) was for a potential 50 Million addresses. This definitely puts it out of the range of a registry decision and moved it to IANA. Those of us that were in the middle of the IPng address size debate had predicted a request like this and have not supprise of the outcome. BTW, there are 'rumours' floating around that China wants a couple of A's or so... Robert Moskowitz Chrysler Corporation (810) 758-8212

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NET99 sabotages IGC's routes
by Joel Katz 17 Mar '96

17 Mar '96

IGC (Internet Gateway Connections, an ISP in Florida that was multihomed between NET99 and MCI) just had an unexpected outage lasting in excess of an hour. This outage was deliberately engineered by AGIS/NET99. First, a little history: IGC's first 'Net T1 was to NET99. Instead of connecting us directly to their backbone (as we had expected) they connected us to Netrunner (one of our competitors). Netrunner/NET99 only has a single T1 out of Miami (to Atlanta) and as a result, our throughput was awful and we obtained an additional T1 to MCI. A few days ago, someone at Netrunner got upset with someone at NET99/AGIS and shut off _our_ service. For some reason (we strongly suspect a configuration error at NET99) our traffic failed to reroute over our MCI T1 for several hours. (They have a habit of broadcasting static routes to route around outages, thus completely screwing their multi-homed customers.) We asked AGIS for a one month refund to compensate us for our losses due to the sabotage. Instead, they issued us a _one_day_ credit. We got upset, both with the ability of our T to pass traffic, with NET99's continual routing problems, with NET99's backbone being disassembled from under us, and with NET99/AGIS's continual delays in migrating us to the AGIS network. We asked them to discontinue our service. They did. They also deliberately and maliciously began broadcasting more specific routes for the individual class C networks in our CIDR block. (We confirmed this with MCI.) When I spoke to AGIS about the outage, they told me I had to speak with Randy Epstein. Randy Epstein is the person at IGC who made the decision to discontinue our AGIS/NET99 service. I contacted MCI again and they contacted AGIS/NET99 with the ultimate threat being for MCI to stop carrying AGIS' traffic if they would not cease broadcasting the bogus routes. Shortly after being contacted by MCI, AGIS/NET99 stopped announcing the bogus routes to MCI, but continued advertising these routes to their other peers at the NAPs. Fortunately, MCI was able to reconfigure our access lists at their router to allow us to broadcast competing more specific routes for each individual class C in the CIDR block. Thus (more or less) restoring IGC's net connectivity. NET99's deliberate, malicious actions are contrary to the very spirit of the Internet. They resulted in DALnet (the third largest IRC network) being split to ribbons, depriving 2,500 people of the ability to converse with each other and cutting off DALnet's security and access control system which is hosted here. Please excuse me if this is not the appropriate forum for discussing this event. David Schwartz Director of Network Services Internet Gateway Connections (954)-430-3030

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RE: Allocation of IP Addresses
by Jim Fleming 17 Mar '96

17 Mar '96

On Sunday, March 17, 1996 5:56 AM, Ronald Barron Yokubaitis[SMTP:rony@texas.net] wrote: @On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, Barry Shein wrote: @ @> @> @> Would you claim there have been no anti-monopoly or anti-trust actions @> ever (successfully) prosecuted under Taft-Hartley? Or that @> Taft-Hartley itself is just entirely the product of deluded morons? @ @ @Howdy...........Taft-Hartley is Labor Legislation *not* Anti-Trust. Are you @referring to the Clayton Act? Sherman Antitrust laws?......Ron @ @ @ @Ronald Barron Yokubaitis A Texas NetWorking, Inc. @Texas Networking Inc. B TOTAL INTERNET SOLUTIONS @San Antonio 210-272 8111 5 $9.95 Internet Access @Austin 512-472 2532 L e-mail info(a)texas.net @ J http://www.texas.net @_.. . ._ _... ..... ._.. ._ _ _ ._ _... ..... ._.. ._ _ _ _._ @ @ @ I think that RICO (spelling) has the most teeth... Jim Fleming UNETY Systems, Inc. Naperville, IL 60563 e-mail: JimFleming(a)unety.net

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Re: Allocation of IP Addresses
by Paul Ferguson 17 Mar '96

17 Mar '96

At 12:45 PM 3/14/96 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > >In any case, so what? Economic allocation of resources is, if >anything, more important when there is significant scarcity. > >Perry > This also creates monopolies where, if this were to occur, would give Uncle Sugar plenty of reason to step in and arbitrate and/or reallocate. - paul

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RE: Sprint Peering Requirements? WAS More network problems (fwd)
by Jim Fleming 16 Mar '96

16 Mar '96

On Saturday, March 16, 1996 5:47 AM, Matthew Petach[SMTP:mpetach@falcon.netflight.com] wrote: @ @Recently, Paul Vixie wrote... @> @> > P.S. what is the deal with the Santa Clara POP anyway? I've seen gas @> > main explosions, circuits cut by a blowtorch (gee? maybe they're related), @> > "missing" fiber, "lost" circuits, and other shenangans. @> @> The story may be growing with the telling, but I was told that a gas main @> ruptured, with or without a small explosion (depends on who you ask), and @> the fire marshall came in, smelled natural fumes all over, and ordered that @> power be cut to the surrounding buildings, presumably to prevent explosions @> due to sparks and such. WilTel ultimately brought in a portable generator @> and put this wonderful new spark generator out in the parking lot, closer @> to the natural gas fumes than anything inside the building would have been. @ @*sigh* @ @I'd kinda hoped the issue would die down, but since it won't, I guess @I'll actually speak up. @ @I was driving to work, running a bit late at around 11:10 am, and turned @west on Walsh Avenue from San Tomas. I pulled into the left turn lane @leading into the business park, and noticed the driveway was blocked @with orange cones and a backhoe digging. A woman in a dark, Pennsylvania @green lincoln towncar pulled up into the left turn lane behind me. When @the left turn arrow turned green, I made a u-turn on Walsh, and entered @the business park via a secondary driveway closer to San Tomas. I glanced @in my rear-view mirror, and saw that the woman in the green car was @stopped midway through the intersection, blocking oncoming traffic, @waiting for the construction crew to move the cones to let her into @the parking lot via that driveway; I guess she figured the earth @rotated around her, so why shouldn't everyone else change to fit?\ So the moral of this story is that we all have to beware of people that drive Lincoln Town cars...making accomodations to them could cause the Internet to crash and burn...this is especially true if they have an out of state license...:-) I think that this criteria could be added to the IP Address Allocation and Domain Name policies...I can just see the RFC..."individuals that drive Lincoln Town cars will not be considered as qualified or able to become an ISP....only people with Berkinstocks and Bicycles will be considered for a /8 as long as you have $10 million in venture capital"... Just kidding...everyone should have equal access to Internet resources... although an official at the NSF told me that he did not think this was a goal, a given, or even a good thing... Jim Fleming UNETY Systems, Inc. Naperville, IL 60563 e-mail: JimFleming(a)unety.net

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Net news....
by Dave O'Leary 16 Mar '96

16 Mar '96

Thanks for the first hand gem on the outage. This Internet thing is pretty cool... :-) The ability to get first hand impressions/perspectives on news events is definitely a feature... Tian'anmen Square, the SCUD missiles, Milo's (that evil @home IP-addr hoarding guy) message about the NSS at NASA Ames during the earthquake... Anyway, enough ramblings.... Back to your regularly scheduled flamefest.... dave

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Re: Sprint Peering Requirements? WAS More network problems (fwd)
by Sean Donelan 16 Mar '96

16 Mar '96

>> In the meantime just dump the Sprintlink traffic through Sprint's T1 >> line at the CIX, and let Sprint backhaul it to the other coast. > >That link has been down for 19 hours. I'm not sure what the problem is; >the T1 IXC won't talk to me about it since it's not my circuit. Awsome, the sales people will love that :-). A policy against the use of available alternate paths results in a single failure turning into a prolonged outage. I love big providers, they make it so easy. At least Sprint has a policy. MCI's and AGIS's lawyers have been working on a policy for months. But haven't come up with a coherent one yet. P.S. what is the deal with the Santa Clara POP anyway? I've seen gas main explosions, circuits cut by a blowtorch (gee? maybe they're related), "missing" fiber, "lost" circuits, and other shenangans. This time I'm glad we followed WorldCom's (WilTel, whatevertheirnameisthisweek) site recommendation and used DC power for our equipment. But this POP is like working out of a telecommunications war zone. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation

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