NANOG Mailing List & More

Valerie Wittkop NANOG Program Director

The NANOG Mailing List §  What is the NANOG Mailing List – Where to find it

•  https://www.nanog.org/list

– Who is on it •  Network operators from around North America

– Who can join? •  The list is open to anyone and everyone

The NANOG Mailing List §  What is the NANOG Mailing List – Why Join?

•  The NANOG Mailing list gives you access to network operators across North America

– Topics Discussed •  Network issues •  Policy discussions •  Configuration questions •  Route leaks

The NANOG Mailing List §  Some statistics for this year – NANOG Mail List has 13,158 subscribers

–  Average of 76 individual threads per month in first quarter

– Average of 580 messages per month

The NANOG Mailing List §  Some of the Top Threads by month – January

•  Binge On! - get your umbrellas out, stuff's hitting the fan – Discussion centered around net neutrality

•  IPv6 Travesty that is Cogent's refusal to peer with Hurricane Electric - and how to solve it – Discussed full route table provided by transit

providers due to differing peering policies for IPv6 vs IPv4

•  Another Big day for IPv6 - 10% native penetration – Discussed the statistics of IPv6 penetration at end of

2015 compared to 2012

The NANOG Mailing List §  Some of the Top Threads by month –  February

•  Cable Operator List –  Looking for a mailing list for Cable Operators, resulting

in discussion on NANOG list as no other list was widely known/used

•  Thank you, Comcast –  Discussion around the company suspending subscriber

connections used for DNS amplification •  sFlow vs netFlow/IPFIX

–  Discussion comparing sFlow and netFlow technologies, applications, and recommendations for operators

The NANOG Mailing List §  Some of the Top Threads by month – March

•  Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames? –  Discussion about adoption of jumbo frames in IPv6 vs

IPv4 and reaching agreement on a max MTU setting •  Why the US Government has so many data

centers –  Discussion on what actually qualifies as a data center

and what types of equipment need what levels of support (production, development, test, etc)

•  Cogent - Google - HE Fun –  More discussion about IPv6 peering, and what

operators are seeing on their networks

The NANOG Mailing List §  Other Mailing Lists – Attendee

•  http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/attendee – Mailing List for registered attendees of NANOG

conferences

– Announce •  http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/

nanog-announce – Mailing list for notifications of upcoming NANOG

events.

The NANOG Mailing List §  Social Media – Facebook

•  https://www.facebook.com/NANOG.org/

– Twitter •  @nanog

– Linkedin •  https://www.linkedin.com/company/nanog