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Re: NOC communications
From: Michael Dillon <michael () memra com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 14:17:18 -0700 (PDT)
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Sean Donelan wrote:
The contact information which I only give out directly to other NOCs has NEVER been abused.
Here is the key to this problem. How can you publish contact information in such a way that it only goes to other NOCs. And conversely, how can you ensure that you have access to the contact information of all other NOCs. I suspect that there may be a way for the IP registries (ARIN, RIPE and APNIC) to facilitate this with some kind of replicated database in which change notifications only go out to entities listed in the database. That way every NOC could maintain their own complete copy of a global NOC contacts database and the only need for queries would be to process update notifications and do the occasional resync with the master copy.
Yeah, right. Dear Sprint, Vab is gone. Since you have not updated your contact information in a prompt fashion, your AS numbers will be withdrawn at Midnight. Have a nice day.
This *WILL* be happening in the near future. Not maintaining up to date contact info is tantamount to aiding and abetting DoS attacks. It won't be long now before there is some government scrutiny of operational practices which are related to finding and fixing failures fast.
That is until they read about themselves on the front-page of the New York Times. Then the managers start yelling at the engineers "Why didn't you tell us it was a problem."
Smart engineers are proactive and warn their managers of the dangers of not following prudent operational practices.
Maybe we can have this discussion again in another six months.
Please do. I know that your regular rehashing of these issues has had a positive impact on a lot of providers. -- Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Communications Inc. - E-mail: michael () memra com Check the website for my Internet World articles - http://www.memra.com
Current thread:
- Re: NOC communications Sean Donelan (Jul 13)
- Re: NOC communications Michael Dillon (Jul 13)
- RE: NOC communications Derek Elder (Jul 13)
- Re: NOC communications Alex P. Rudnev (Jul 14)
- Re: NOC communications Steven J. Sobol (Jul 14)
- Re: NOC communications Dean Robb (Jul 14)
- Re: NOC communications Sarah Garfinkel (Jul 14)
- Re: NOC communications Mark Prior (Jul 17)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: NOC communications Sean Donelan (Jul 14)
- RE: NOC communications Derek Elder (Jul 14)
- Re: NOC communications Studded (Jul 16)
- RE: NOC communications Derek Elder (Jul 14)
- RE: NOC communications Derek Elder (Jul 14)
(Thread continues...)
- Re: NOC communications Michael Dillon (Jul 13)