Standalone Stratum 1 NTP Server

2002-08-27 Thread Mike Leber
I was wondering if anybody has any suggestions for a low priced, off the shelf, complete (includes any necessary receivers), standalone (as in you just plug it in and connect ethernet), stratum 1 NTP server? Please also mention where to buy it. Mike. +- H U R R I C A N E - E

Re: Standalone Stratum 1 NTP Server

2002-08-27 Thread Mike Lyon
http://www.truetime.com/index.html Not exactly stand alone because you have to place the antenna somwhere where it can see the GPS satellites as is the case with any any Stratum 1 NTP device. Then you have to program the IP into it and plug the ethernet into it. They are really simple to

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at

2002-08-27 Thread Paul Vixie
...and, occasionally, your ISP's abuse desk. If this function of your ISP costs less than 1 FTE per 10,000 dialups or 1,000 T1's or 100 T3's, then your ISP is a slacker and probably a magnet for professional spammers as well. Not to try to undercut the general point, but that would

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal atsmtpng.org)

2002-08-27 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote: Well, you might be able to pay your ISP for that kind of service, but not all ISPs need supply such service and certainly not many users really _need_ such a level of service. So now I have to justify the kind of services I want to use?

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org)

2002-08-27 Thread michael . dillon
Filters are static things, that have to be updated, and can't see every case that comes thru. It might be possible to make filters that don't need to be updated that often if you apply AI techniques to recognizing SPAM. For instance, check out this new approach:

Re: Standalone Stratum 1 NTP Server

2002-08-27 Thread CARL . P . HIRSCH
If GPS visibility is not an option (GPS can be very finicky about being able to see an open percentage of the sky), then CDMA signals are also an option in the states. Handy if the installation is going to be in a highrise. Prices seem to vary greatly between manufacturers, I've gotten quotes

SWIP weirdness

2002-08-27 Thread matthew zeier
The new ARIN SWIP template confuses me. The reassign-simple I sent in lastnight came back with: Fail to Pass Validation. Error Message: *PUBLIC COMMENTS can not be removed I had: 9. Customer Country Code: US 10. Public Comments: NONE END OF TEMPLATE And the docs say: PUBLIC

198.41.0.0/22 ? whois-servers.net

2002-08-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
Anyone know whats up with 198.41.0.0/22 ? I am seeing all sorts of whois lookup failures as a result. route-views.oregon-ix.netshow ip bgp 198.41.0.0/22 % Network not in table route-views.oregon-ix.net net.whois-servers.net ---Mike

IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

2002-08-27 Thread Joe Baptista
Hi: I'm doing an article on IPv6 and am looking for comments - here is a portion on IPv6 which relates to the privacy issue ... any comments, crtics or interviews welcomed. -- snip As you know IPv6 is a suite of protocols for the network layer of the Internet which uses IPv4 gateways. It's

Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

2002-08-27 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
ooh how exciting, you can tell who uses 3Com network cards :) Most networks eg P2P will use /127 and not use MAC anyway so I cant see this being a privacy on issue on anything but end devices and you can override if yuo feel the need... On end devices by default yes it uses mac, I cant see

Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

2002-08-27 Thread John Palmer
- Original Message - From: Joe Baptista [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 09:41 Subject: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic Hi: I'm doing an article on IPv6 and am looking for comments - here is a portion on IPv6 which relates to the privacy

Re: SWIP weirdness

2002-08-27 Thread ginny listman
Mr. Zeier, I have just review the template you submitted. The error listed below was generated because the template you submitted was a NEW. The NONE feature is used to remove existing public comments. We will modify our software to be more forgiving in the future. BTW, Registration Services

Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

2002-08-27 Thread Eric Gauthier
Joe, Ipv6 uses 128 bits to provide addressing, routing and identification information on a computer. The 128-bits are divided into the left-64 and the right-64. Ipv6 uses the right 64 bits to store an IEEE defined global identifier (EUI64). This identifier is composed of company id value

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at

2002-08-27 Thread Paul Vixie
I still think that it causes problems for mailing lists. I understand the proposal to be based on the envelope sender, not the sender in the body. Hence, mailing lists work, because they are the envelope sender, not the person who submitted the mail to the mailing list. numerically

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at

2002-08-27 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Vixie) writes: whenever you get spammed, it's because some isp somewhere is a slacker, what i meant to say was whenever you're getting repeat spam from the same place, day after week after month, it's because some isp somewhere is a slacker. any given isp can be

Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

2002-08-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:41:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Baptista [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi: I'm doing an article on IPv6 and am looking for comments - here is a portion on IPv6 which relates to the privacy issue ... any comments, crtics or interviews welcomed.

60 Hudson peering

2002-08-27 Thread Ralph Doncaster
I have a POP in 60 Hudson, 19th floor. The only peering exchange I'm aware of in the building is Stealth's IPV6 exchange in Tel-X (23rd floor). If there's any interest in IPV4 peering from any networks with a presence on the 19th, I'd be willing to provide free 100baseTx ports on a peering

Re: Standalone Stratum 1 NTP Server

2002-08-27 Thread Mike Lyon
Here is your base pricing from Truetime: NTS-150 $2395 NTS-200 $3595 -Mike On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, John Todd wrote: Happen to know what the base price is for these? Low price is a relative term when dealing with clock makers. :) JT http://www.truetime.com/index.html Not exactly

[OT] Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

2002-08-27 Thread William Waites
Kevin == Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kevin This is really pretty silly. Not really, Joe may actually have a point here. Kevin Only end nodes will auto-configure with the MAC address Kevin used for 48 bits of the IPv6 address. Exactly how this is a Kevin

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org)

2002-08-27 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
So what's so bad about forwarding all tcp/25 traffic over that relay and letting that relay decide if the MAIL FROM: is allowed to be relayed? Because I want to send mail through my own SMTP server that speaks STARTTLS and uses certificates that are under my control. Maybe I don't want my

Re: wcom issues in SF Bay area?

2002-08-27 Thread Mark Kent
So, is there a significant Worldcom operational issue that has not yet been reported to nanog? To answer my own question: Yes, there was a problem on the MFS ring between S63 and S77 (a BZ ring problem). Fixed with a card swap yesterday near mid-day. -mark

Re: 60 Hudson peering

2002-08-27 Thread Jeffrey Meltzer
$750 is not unreasonable for 2 strand dark fiber in 60 Hudson. And if you work hard, you can get this down to $500. Check 111 8th Ave, it costs well into the $3,000/mo range generally. In addition, we're already working on (in progress) cat5 xcon's between TelX and suite 1505 in 60 Hudson.

Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

2002-08-27 Thread Peter John Hill
On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 10:41 AM, Joe Baptista wrote: Ipv6 uses 128 bits to provide addressing, routing and identification information on a computer. The 128-bits are divided into the left-64 and the right-64. Ipv6 uses the right 64 bits to store an IEEE defined global

Re: Standalone Stratum 1 NTP Server

2002-08-27 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Mike Leber([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2002.08.26 23:52:08 +: I was wondering if anybody has any suggestions for a low priced, off the shelf, complete (includes any necessary receivers), standalone (as in you just plug it in and connect ethernet), stratum 1 NTP server? some years ago, i migrated

RE: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org)

2002-08-27 Thread Barry Shein
From: JC Dill [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess you haven't read RFC 3098 yet then. http://www.geektools.com/rfc/rfc3098.txt Wow, I missed that. It's really quite good. So good, in fact, that I just sent copies of it out to the 300 MILLION ADDRESSES I have on this CD here... No, seriously, it's good

OC-48 failure last night

2002-08-27 Thread Roy
There was a major OC-48 failure somewhere near Salinas, California about 2AM PDT today which resulted in loss of connectivity to a lot of the ISPS in that LATA. Anyone have any details?

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working GroupProposal at smtpng.org)

2002-08-27 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:02 PM -0400 2002/08/26, Scott Gifford wrote: The proposal suggests that you get all of the A records for all of the accepted names, then make sure that one of the A records matches the address that the connection came from. See sec. 2.3. Right. And when they add a new mail

Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

2002-08-27 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:43:38 -0400 Peter John Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 10:41 AM, Joe Baptista wrote: Ipv6 uses 128 bits to provide addressing, routing and identification information on a computer. The 128-bits are divided into the left-64 and

Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

2002-08-27 Thread Kurtis Lindqvist
However IPv6 has many privacy issues. IPv6 address space uses an ID (indentifier) derived from your hardware or phone. That allows your packets to be traced back to your PC or cell-phone said censored. censored fears abuse as a hardware ID wired into the ipv6 protocol can be used to

Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

2002-08-27 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Since it so easy for a host (relative to ipv4) to have multiple ip addresses, I like what Microsoft has done. If told by a router, a Win XP box will assign itself a global unicast address using EUI-64. It will also create a global unicast

Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

2002-08-27 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Kurtis Lindqvist wrote: censored fears abuse as a hardware ID wired into the ipv6 protocol can be used to determine the manufacturer, make and model number, and value of the hardware equipment being used by the end user. ...uhm, and? What is the real difference with

Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

2002-08-27 Thread Peter John Hill
On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 05:07 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:43:38 -0400 Peter John Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 10:41 AM, Joe Baptista wrote: Since it so easy for a host (relative to ipv4) to have multiple ip addresses, I

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at

2002-08-27 Thread Barry Shein
On August 27, 2002 at 03:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Vixie) wrote: Every single purely technical approach to stopping spam has been a complete loser. In the fullness of time, the universe itself will die of heat. So what? How come this makes me want to raise the issue of our

Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

2002-08-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:33:40 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum said: How can I recognize someone by doing a portscan? http://www.insecure.org/nmap It slices, it dices, it makes julienne fries. (I'm assuming you mean in the same sense as you can identify a machine's vendor based on the EUI-64... -

Re: IPv6 Interview Questions and critic

2002-08-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 17:48:24 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: (I'm assuming you mean in the same sense as you can identify a machine's vendor based on the EUI-64... - neither a portscan or a MAC address will tell you who's machine it is, as far as I know (although doing an nmap to find ports

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at

2002-08-27 Thread Paul Vixie
In the fullness of time, the universe itself will die of heat. So what? How come this makes me want to raise the issue of our immortal souls? spammers have souls? So for example saying this or that filter appears to have repelled 1M spam msgs per day doesn't really prove much unless

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at

2002-08-27 Thread Barry Shein
Oh to some extent even the first time it's because they're slackers. If instead of a brainless rush to sign up dial-up accts and check credentials later they demanded a credit card or other verifiable information (a phone number we can call you back at to activate) then they'd burn up about

Re: 60 Hudson peering

2002-08-27 Thread Ralph Doncaster
$750/mth is once you get to MetCom. For the cx on the 19th to their FDP is another $300/mth. Now you're at $1050/mth. For $1K/mth I can get 100M from the 19th floor to 25 Broadway, + $100/mth for the cat5 cx. So if I were going to spend a grand a month to connect to an exchange point, it

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working GroupProposal at smtpng.org)

2002-08-27 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:14 PM +1000 2002/08/27, Martin wrote: but surely an MTA derives it's usefulness by running on port 25. i don't remember reading about where in the DNS MX RR you could specify what port the MTA would be listening on... Proper support of SRV records would allow you to put the

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working GroupProposal at smtpng.org)

2002-08-27 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:19 PM -0700 2002/08/26, David Schwartz wrote: Every ISP I have ever worked for and every ISP I have ever used has eventually been convinced by me to come around to this policy. Do whatever you want by default, but let trusted/clueful people opt out of it and just get their IP

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working GroupProposal at

2002-08-27 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:45 PM -0600 2002/08/26, David Van Duzer wrote: Not to try to undercut the general point, but that would imply that Earthlink, AOL, and MSN (for examples) should have a combined abuse department of roughly 1500 employees. Last I checked, AOL itself had over 6000 employees, of

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working GroupProposal at

2002-08-27 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:43 AM + 2002/08/27, Paul Vixie wrote: i doubt they will comment in detail here, since the actual numbers are likely to be some kind of internal secret. i know i get far less spam from AOL than i used to, and i've assumed that this is because they

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working GroupProposal at smtpng.org)

2002-08-27 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:58 PM +0100 2002/08/27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It might be possible to make filters that don't need to be updated that often if you apply AI techniques to recognizing SPAM. For instance, check out this new approach: http://www.paulgraham.com/paulgraham/spam.html

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working GroupProposal at smtpng.org)

2002-08-27 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:16 PM +0200 2002/08/27, Bruce Campbell wrote: I understand the proposal to be based on the envelope sender, not the sender in the body. Hence, mailing lists work, because they are the envelope sender, not the person who submitted the mail to the mailing list. Read my

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at

2002-08-27 Thread Paul Vixie
... (http://dcc.rhyolite.com/) ... Indeed, that is a cool idea. I definitely want to look into that a lot more closely. Perhaps we can combine this with deep blacklist checking (beyond just the first hop), tagging, and Bayesian content filtering. Perhaps then we will have a

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working GroupProposal at

2002-08-27 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:59 PM + 2002/08/27, Paul Vixie wrote: My point is that I think we really need to start focusing on solutions which aren't primarily or solely technical. the folks at http://spam.abuse.net/ and http://www.cauce.org/ and even http://www.spamcon.org/ would be alarmed to hear you

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working GroupProposal at smtpng.org)

2002-08-27 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:37 PM -0400 2002/08/27, Dean Anderson wrote: You worked at AOL? This happens quite often. I've known of several admins who started reading email, checking terminal servers, and disrupting users who complained about the admins performance. One admin wrote a script that reset the

[apops] The Cidr Report

2002-08-27 Thread CIDR Report
This is an auto-generated mail on Fri Aug 23 23:00:00 PDT 2002 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. Check

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org)

2002-08-27 Thread David Schwartz
Maybe I don't want my email sitting around in your MTA queue for your sysadmins to read. Given the volumes of mail that pass through these kinds of things, that's not likely to be a problem. More likely to be a problem would be the fact that the mail might sit there for a week before it

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal atsmtpng.org)

2002-08-27 Thread Jim Hickstein
--On Monday, August 26, 2002 10:34 PM +0200 Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a user, I pay my ISP to forward IP packets. If there happen to be TCP segments in those packets, that's something between me and the person the packet is addressed to, whether the destination port

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal atsmtpng.org)

2002-08-27 Thread Jim Hickstein
--On Tuesday, August 27, 2002 6:13 PM -0700 David Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm afraid the technology to rapidly sift through large volumes of information to search for specific areas of interest is widely available. It is totally reasonable to not want to send mail through

Will Canada's Internet providers become spies?

2002-08-27 Thread Joe Baptista
enjoy ... and i'm curious if there are any small or large system admins in canada here that this affects and their opinions. regards joe baptista - Original Message - From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 6:43 PM Subject: FC:

RE: Will Canada's Internet providers become spies?

2002-08-27 Thread Phil Rosenthal
Is news.com.com run by news.com ? http://news.com/2100-1023-955595.html?tag=politech == 404 --Phil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Joe Baptista Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 10:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Will Canada's

Re: Standalone Stratum 1 NTP Server

2002-08-27 Thread John Todd
Hmm... $2400 is still in the pricey range to be throwing out bunches of these across a network in wide distribution. (Pardon me if some of you on the list snicker at my reluctance at the $2400 price - for some of us the new, new Econcomy is making things like NTP Stratum 1 clocks a luxury

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org)

2002-08-27 Thread David Schwartz
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 19:40:16 -0700, Jim Hickstein wrote: --On Tuesday, August 27, 2002 6:13 PM -0700 David Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm afraid the technology to rapidly sift through large volumes of information to search for specific areas of interest is widely available. It is

Re: Standalone Stratum 1 NTP Server

2002-08-27 Thread bmanning
I will go out on a limb and say that a reduction in the cost of stratum-1 servers will increase their use across the Internet. The results of such an increase would be arguably visible, as the current multi-layer timekeeping system seems to be more-or-less keeping clocks correct to the

Re: Standalone Stratum 1 NTP Server

2002-08-27 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 11:57:39PM -0400, John Todd wrote: Hmm... $2400 is still in the pricey range to be throwing out bunches of these across a network in wide distribution. (Pardon me if some of you on the list snicker at my reluctance at the $2400 price - for some of us the new, new

Re: Standalone Stratum 1 NTP Server

2002-08-27 Thread David G. Andersen
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 11:57:39PM -0400, John Todd mooed: Hmm... $2400 is still in the pricey range to be throwing out bunches of these across a network in wide distribution. (Pardon me [...] One would think that a vendor could come up with a 1u rackmount box with a GPS and

Re: Paul's Mailfrom (Was: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal atsmtpng.org)

2002-08-27 Thread Jim Hickstein
--On Tuesday, August 27, 2002 9:01 PM -0700 David Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your secure mail server (i.e. me) just has to be named in a MAIL-FROM MX record. We do DNS for some of our customers, and can add this trivially; the others control their own zones. Works for me.