March 1995 - ripe-list - mailman.ripe.net

RIPE NCC Staff Position: Junior Hostmaster
by Daniel Karrenberg 14 Mar '95

14 Mar '95

Please distribute this announcement to all possibly interested parties. Thank you RIPE: Coordinating the Internet in Europe. Due to the continuing explosive growth of the European Internet there is an immediate opening at the RIPE NCC for a Junior Hostmaster Every host directly connected to the Internet needs an address. NCC hostmasters play a key role in the distribution of the Internet address space throughout Europe. Duties The general duties NCC hostmasters comprise: - to handle all address space related requests - to help maintain the databases the RIPE NCC keeps - to propose new activities, where needed - to report to the RIPE NCC Manager The specific duties of the junior hostmaster are: - to allocate address space to local Internet registries - to support local registries where needed - to assign address space - to review assignments made by other registries - to answer address space related queries - to refer non-routine requests to appropriate senior staff Almost all communications with customers and other organisations involved in Internet address space assignment is via the Internet itself. The position provides an excellent opportunity to work at the very heart of the European Internet industry. Qualifications Essential - willingness to learn quickly about the Internet environment - ability to perform administrative tasks reliably - good knowledge of written and spoken English - good communication skills - ability to learn and use Unix and X-windows based computer tools Desirable - work experience in an international environment - previous exposure to the Internet - basic experience with Unix and X-windows based computer tools The position is suitable both for those with administrative skills willing to learn about the Internet and to recent graduates with Internet experience willing to do administrative work. Female applicants and applicants from all European countries are explicitly encouraged. Depending on their ambitions and abilities junior hostmasters can be promoted to senior positions at the NCC. R I P E RIPE (Reseaux IP Europeens) is a collaborative organisation open to all European Internet service providers. The objective of RIPE is to ensure the necessary administrative and technical coordination to allow the operation of a pan- European IP network. RIPE does not operate a network of its own. RIPE has been functioning since 1989. Currently more than 80 organisations participate in the work. The result of the RIPE coordination effort is that the individual end-user is presented on his desk top with a uniform IP service irrespective of the particular network his or her workstation is attached to. In January 1995 1197911 hosts were registered on RIPE coordinated networks. The total number of systems reachable on the Internet worldwide is estimated at almost five million. R I P E N C C The RIPE Network Coordination Centre supports all those RIPE activities which cannot be effectively performed by volunteers from the participating organisations. Besides supporting RIPE activities in general the NCC provides the following services to network operators: o NETWORK MANAGEMENT DATABASE containing information about address space, routing, DNS domains and contact persons o DELEGATED INTERNET REGISTRY a clearing house distributing IP address space o RIPE INTERNET ROUTING REGISTRY o RIPE DOCUMENT STORE o RIPE INTERACTIVE INFORMATION SERVICE A detailed description of these activities can be found in the RIPE NCC Activity Plan (document ripe-110). This document can be obtained from the RIPE document store. The RIPE NCC is currently staffed by 5 full time employees: one NCC manager three NCC technical staff one NCC administrative staff In addition there is a conscienscious objector performing administrative duties. The NCC is funded by all Internet service providers in Europe who operate local Internet registries. NCC staff are formally employed by TERENA. TERENA TERENA is the European Association of research networking organisations and their users. TERENA has been created by a merger of the RARE and EARN associations. TERENA carries out technical activities and provides a platform for discussion and education to encourage the development of a high-quality computer networking infrastructure for the European research community. Conditions RIPE NCC personnel is employed by the TERENA association under their standard employment conditions. The salary will depend on qualifications and experience. Costs of relocation to the Netherlands will be met. The appointment will be for one year with possible extension. Location The RIPE NCC is located at the Scientific Center Watergraafsmeer (WCW) in Amsterdam. The offices will be situated at NIKHEF, the Dutch National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics. Further Information For further information about the RIPE NCC, please see the RIPE document store at http://www.ripe.net/ ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ gopher://gopher.ripe.net/ telnet://info.ripe.net/ For further information about this position please contact: Daniel Karrenberg RIPE NCC Manager Kruislaan 409 NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam Netherlands Tel.: +31 20 592 5065 <Daniel.Karrenberg(a)ripe.net> How to Apply Applications, including a CV and references should be submitted in confidence to the address above and should be received no later than Friday March 24th 1994.

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First ENSS retired
by Elise Gerich 14 Mar '95

14 Mar '95

The first router of the NSFNET backbone service has been retired. ENSS 138 (in Atlanta, Georgia) was retired on March 11, 1995. It was a pleasure working with Georgia Tech and SURAnet to provide connectivity to the NSFNET Backbone for that part of the US. One down. --Elise ------------------------second message

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hostcount for .am
by Mirjam Kuehne 06 Mar '95

06 Mar '95

Dear all, I have missed the .am domain in the hostcount. It is not possible to recalculate the european hostcount for last month but I have included the output for .am in the ftp directory ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount. The result is attached below. Next month it will be included in the table. Regards, Mirjam CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ am 3 21 2 19 + 19

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Re: problems with 194.in-addr.arpa (update)
by Geert Jan de Groot 06 Mar '95

06 Mar '95

I have been in touch with the Internic and the problem has been resolved at the primary root nameserver. It looks like the secondaries have picked this up too. If your nameservers have bad NS records for 194.in-addr.arpa, please restart them. There is nothing more the RIPE NCC can do at this time. The bad records need to be timed out, which only time (and a few restarts!) can do. Again my apologies for the inconvienence caused by this problem, which is was out of our control. Kind regards, Geert Jan de Groot RIPE NCC staff ---- Old message: (Message outbox:4283) -- using template mhl.format -- Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1995 00:51:52 MET To: ripe-list(a)ripe.net, ripe-op(a)ripe.net From: Geert Jan de Groot <GeertJan.deGroot(a)ripe.net> Subject: Severe problems with 194.in-addr.arpa X-Organization: RIPE Network Coordination Centre X-Phone: +31 20 592 5065 Probably due to an administrative error, the Internic replaced the NS records for 194.in-addr.arpa with something incorrect. This means that reverse-lookups for netnumbers starting with 194.in-addr.arpa will fail, and anonymous ftp, etc, will likely not work. The RIPE NCC does not have means to reach the Internic people at home in the weekend. This means that the problem can only be fixed as soon as we can get in touch of someone. I have used all means available to me, but these do not include phone numbers of people at home so unless someone is monitoring his private mailbox, we will be stuck with this for Monday at least. What can you do? 1. Don't call the NCC ;-). The problem is known, but out of our control. I have done my utmost to get in touch with the Internic already. There is nothing more I can do now. 2. Don't call the Internic either ;-). They have been informed though private channels (which doesn't include home phone numbers. By calling them you would make their overload worse! 3. Check ns.internic.net for new zone information for this zone. As soon as it is updated, please reload your local nameservers to delete the old (bad) records in the cache. 4. In emergency cases, consider running a stealth secondary for 194.in-addr.arpa, primary is ns.ripe.net [193.0.0.193]. To avoid overload, please only consider this in emergency cases! We fully understand the consequences of this problem, but it is out of control of the RIPE NCC. We apologise for any inconvienence caused by (probably) a software error at the Internic. Kind regards, Geert Jan de Groot RIPE NCC --8<--nip-nip--------------------------------------------------------------- Geert Jan de Groot, 'Typos hapen' RIPE NCC, Kruislaan 409, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands Internet:GeertJan.deGroot@ripe.net Phone:+31 20 5925065 FAX:+31 20 5925090 (Message inbox:2308) -- using template mhl.format -- Date: Sun, 05 Mar 1995 15:18:04 MET To: nanog(a)merit.edu From: Per Gregers Bilse <bilse(a)EU.net> Subject: URGENT: ns.internic.net blown Replied: Mon, 06 Mar 1995 00:14:22 +0100 Replied: staff(a)ripe.net Replied: Per Gregers Bilse <bilse(a)eu.net> Replied: nanog(a)merit.edu Organization: EUnet Communications Services BV Sender: Per Gregers Bilse <bilse(a)EU.net> X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.2 4/12/91) Can somebody get in touch with the right people? ns.internic.net has blown 194.in-addr.arpa . Can't get anybody on the telephone. --- Forwarded mail from Stef Van Dessel <stef(a)INnet.net> From: Stef Van Dessel <stef(a)INnet.net> Subject: NS records for 194.in-addr.arpa To: ripe-op(a)ripe.net Date: Sun, 5 Mar 1995 14:31:12 +0100 (MET) hello, I'm thinking someone screwed up, somewhere.: NS records for 194.in-addr.arpa are $&"%. ; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> @ns.internic.net -x ns ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY , status: NOERROR, id: 10 ;; flags: qr rd ; Ques: 1, Ans: 2, Auth: 2, Addit: 2 ;; QUESTIONS: ;; 194.in-addr.arpa, type = NS, class = IN ;; ANSWERS: 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS DNS1.KEMA.NL. 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS NS1.SURFNET.NL. ;; AUTHORITY RECORDS: 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS DNS1.KEMA.NL. 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS NS1.SURFNET.NL. ;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS: DNS1.KEMA.NL. 68866 A 194.53.253.50 NS1.SURFNET.NL. 518400 A 192.87.106.101 ;; Sent 1 pkts, answer found in time: 739 msec ;; FROM: news.INbe.net to SERVER: ns.internic.net 198.41.0.4 ;; WHEN: Sun Mar 5 14:24:23 1995 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 34 rcvd: 146 - -- Stef Van Dessel stef(a)INbe.net INnet support Posthoflei 3, B-2600 Berchem, Belgium Office: +32-3-2814983 Fax: +32-3-2814985 - -- Stef Van Dessel stef(a)INbe.net INnet support Posthoflei 3, B-2600 Berchem, Belgium Office: +32-3-2814983 Fax: +32-3-2814985 --- End of forwarded message from Stef Van Dessel <stef(a)INnet.net> The correct list of nameservers is: ;; ANSWERS: 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS ns.uu.net. 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS layon.inria.fr. 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS sunic.sunet.se. 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS munnari.oz.au. 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS sparky.arl.mil. 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS ns.ripe.net. 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS ns.eu.net. This is causing bad problems for everybody in 194.* . Hummm ... as a side-issue, is it too much to ask that widely publicized 24hour emergency telephone numbers exist for root nameserver operations? -- bilse, EUnet NOC +31 20 592 5110; 24hr +31 20 592 5165 (emergencies only) EUnet Comm. Svcs. +31 20 623 3803; fax +31 20 622 4657 http://www.EU.net

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Severe problems with 194.in-addr.arpa
by Geert Jan de Groot 06 Mar '95

06 Mar '95

Probably due to an administrative error, the Internic replaced the NS records for 194.in-addr.arpa with something incorrect. This means that reverse-lookups for netnumbers starting with 194.in-addr.arpa will fail, and anonymous ftp, etc, will likely not work. The RIPE NCC does not have means to reach the Internic people at home in the weekend. This means that the problem can only be fixed as soon as we can get in touch of someone. I have used all means available to me, but these do not include phone numbers of people at home so unless someone is monitoring his private mailbox, we will be stuck with this for Monday at least. What can you do? 1. Don't call the NCC ;-). The problem is known, but out of our control. I have done my utmost to get in touch with the Internic already. There is nothing more I can do now. 2. Don't call the Internic either ;-). They have been informed though private channels (which doesn't include home phone numbers. By calling them you would make their overload worse! 3. Check ns.internic.net for new zone information for this zone. As soon as it is updated, please reload your local nameservers to delete the old (bad) records in the cache. 4. In emergency cases, consider running a stealth secondary for 194.in-addr.arpa, primary is ns.ripe.net [193.0.0.193]. To avoid overload, please only consider this in emergency cases! We fully understand the consequences of this problem, but it is out of control of the RIPE NCC. We apologise for any inconvienence caused by (probably) a software error at the Internic. Kind regards, Geert Jan de Groot RIPE NCC --8<--nip-nip--------------------------------------------------------------- Geert Jan de Groot, 'Typos hapen' RIPE NCC, Kruislaan 409, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands Internet:GeertJan.deGroot@ripe.net Phone:+31 20 5925065 FAX:+31 20 5925090 (Message inbox:2308) -- using template mhl.format -- Date: Sun, 05 Mar 1995 15:18:04 MET To: nanog(a)merit.edu From: Per Gregers Bilse <bilse(a)EU.net> Subject: URGENT: ns.internic.net blown Replied: Mon, 06 Mar 1995 00:14:22 +0100 Replied: staff(a)ripe.net Replied: Per Gregers Bilse <bilse(a)eu.net> Replied: nanog(a)merit.edu Organization: EUnet Communications Services BV Sender: Per Gregers Bilse <bilse(a)EU.net> X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.2 4/12/91) Can somebody get in touch with the right people? ns.internic.net has blown 194.in-addr.arpa . Can't get anybody on the telephone. --- Forwarded mail from Stef Van Dessel <stef(a)INnet.net> From: Stef Van Dessel <stef(a)INnet.net> Subject: NS records for 194.in-addr.arpa To: ripe-op(a)ripe.net Date: Sun, 5 Mar 1995 14:31:12 +0100 (MET) hello, I'm thinking someone screwed up, somewhere.: NS records for 194.in-addr.arpa are $&"%. ; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> @ns.internic.net -x ns ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY , status: NOERROR, id: 10 ;; flags: qr rd ; Ques: 1, Ans: 2, Auth: 2, Addit: 2 ;; QUESTIONS: ;; 194.in-addr.arpa, type = NS, class = IN ;; ANSWERS: 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS DNS1.KEMA.NL. 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS NS1.SURFNET.NL. ;; AUTHORITY RECORDS: 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS DNS1.KEMA.NL. 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS NS1.SURFNET.NL. ;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS: DNS1.KEMA.NL. 68866 A 194.53.253.50 NS1.SURFNET.NL. 518400 A 192.87.106.101 ;; Sent 1 pkts, answer found in time: 739 msec ;; FROM: news.INbe.net to SERVER: ns.internic.net 198.41.0.4 ;; WHEN: Sun Mar 5 14:24:23 1995 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 34 rcvd: 146 - -- Stef Van Dessel stef(a)INbe.net INnet support Posthoflei 3, B-2600 Berchem, Belgium Office: +32-3-2814983 Fax: +32-3-2814985 - -- Stef Van Dessel stef(a)INbe.net INnet support Posthoflei 3, B-2600 Berchem, Belgium Office: +32-3-2814983 Fax: +32-3-2814985 --- End of forwarded message from Stef Van Dessel <stef(a)INnet.net> The correct list of nameservers is: ;; ANSWERS: 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS ns.uu.net. 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS layon.inria.fr. 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS sunic.sunet.se. 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS munnari.oz.au. 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS sparky.arl.mil. 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS ns.ripe.net. 194.in-addr.arpa. 518400 NS ns.eu.net. This is causing bad problems for everybody in 194.* . Hummm ... as a side-issue, is it too much to ask that widely publicized 24hour emergency telephone numbers exist for root nameserver operations? -- bilse, EUnet NOC +31 20 592 5110; 24hr +31 20 592 5165 (emergencies only) EUnet Comm. Svcs. +31 20 623 3803; fax +31 20 622 4657 http://www.EU.net

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hostcount for February 1995
by Mirjam Kuehne 03 Mar '95

03 Mar '95

Dear all, Here is the hostcount for February 1995. The hosts in the following domains are now counted locally: at be cy cz de fr gr ie il it pt sk uk I made two hostcounts for February: one was calculated in the usual way and the other was calculated incorporating the local counts for the domains above. I made some comparisons between the two sets of data and have published only the latter. When the hosts are counted centrally a significant number of zones are missed and not included in the total numbers. It seems clear therefor that the results are more reliable if they are produced locally for each domain. A few countries have made big increases again, to a total increase since last month of over 91,000 (or 8.3%) to almost 1,200,000 machines in the DNS in Europe. There is one thing to note about the de domain: It shows an enormous increase since last month. The person responsible for the hostcount in Germany did some research on that and found a zone with the following kind of A RR's: host.x.y.z.1. a x.y.z.1 host.x.y.z.2. a x.y.z.2 host.x.y.z.3. a x.y.z.3 host.x.y.z.4. a x.y.z.4 host.x.y.z.5. a x.y.z.5 host.x.y.z.6. a x.y.z.6 host.x.y.z.7. a x.y.z.7 host.x.y.z.8. a x.y.z.8 [...] 65,000 A RR's. In the actual hostcount are only 25,000 A RR's included because the host command contains a limit for hosts per zone: *** maximum of 25000 hostnames reached This implies that you can add another 40,000 hosts to the figures for the de domain. This incident shows what the hostcount actually represents: Technically, it is a count of A records in all zones that could be retrieved. Heuristically, it gives an approximate overview of the current machine population. This should remind us to be careful with the objectivity of the hostcount and the purposes we use it for. The hostcount can also be found under ftp.ripe.net/ripe/hostcount If you have any comments or questions please do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards, Mirjam RIPE NCC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Tue Jan 31 1995 This Count : Tue Feb 28 1995 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 3 0 0 0 0 at 578 32052 319 31733 + 2805 az 3 16 0 0 - 16 be 330 19885 334 19551 + 486 bg 20 196 25 171 + 5 by 1 2 0 2 0 ch 380 54785 380 54405 + 2169 cy 4 8 3 5 - 82 cz 211 12750 185 12565 + 891 de 2839 251388 6508 244880 +35612 dk 323 28332 344 27988 + 640 dz 2 10 0 10 0 ee 63 1302 10 1292 - 124 eg 6 170 2 168 0 es 568 31905 533 31372 + 4332 fi 655 78914 1507 77407 + 5768 fo 13 438 0 438 + 436 fr 1281 99979 1300 98679 + 4567 gb 1 27 0 27 0 ge 1 0 0 0 0 gr 170 4015 221 3794 - 236 hr 73 1466 31 1435 - 21 hu 106 9003 52 8951 + 290 ie 67 6171 82 6089 - 238 il 255 14437 366 14071 + 429 is 87 5027 41 4986 + 229 it 1019 37432 1256 36176 + 3842 li 4 30 3 0 - 27 lt 17 166 2 164 + 9 lu 45 712 5 707 + 92 lv 20 642 6 636 + 18 ma 0 0 0 0 0 mk 1 0 0 0 0 mt 1 0 0 0 0 nl 739 93771 2482 91289 + 2010 no 891 54848 1626 53222 + 2960 pl 397 10952 854 10098 - 1255 pt 138 6380 70 6310 + 789 ro 24 536 37 499 + 1 ru 248 2713 271 2442 + 342 se 1077 89181 2691 86490 + 6832 si 115 2164 76 2088 + 255 sk 86 1712 32 1680 + 117 su 271 5784 297 5487 + 355 tn 3 64 7 57 0 tr 50 958 11 947 - 1174 ua 72 707 95 612 + 10 uk 3187 284070 25082 258988 +18689 va 0 0 0 0 0 yu 3 0 0 0 0 ============================================================ 16448 1245100 47146 1197911 +91807

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