Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch Site Finder -- calls

2004-02-10 Thread JC Dill
At 08:51 PM 2/9/2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: till such time as resolver patches in existence are modified if necessary to cope with the new edition of sitefinder. Suresh, You clearly aren't having enough fun playing Whack-A-Mole with spammers, now you get to play Whack-A-Mole with

Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch Site Finder -- calls

2004-02-10 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
[I'm sure that Paul Vixie knows the difference but others may not and the Washington Post paper, mentioned at the beginning of the thread, was quite confused.] On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 04:37:09AM +, Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 22 lines which said: why? that is, why

RE: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch Site Finder -- calls

2004-02-10 Thread David Luyer
(Yes, that's an operational issue - if they are harvesting and selling a list of known-good From: addresses on misrouted mail, this will eventually end up adding to spam - and that's operational) Site Finder on its own added to spam; spam volumes increased as the number of sender domain does

RE: Monumentous task of making a list of all DDoS Zombies.

2004-02-10 Thread Steve Birnbaum
Your staff will still get a ton of complaints. If these can be parsed by a script that looks for virus / trojan strings in the complaint,extracts the IP (or has your NOC dude just click the IP in his ticketing system, like in RT + IRTT) and the account just goes away - then fine. So you

Re: Monumentous task of making a list of all DDoS Zombies.

2004-02-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Steve Birnbaum wrote: So you want a major ISP to simply automatically disable accounts of its users based only on automated detection of an IP address and timestamp in something that APPEARS to be a complaint to an automated script? Hi You have two things confused from my previous mail. 1. Set

Re: Need some info on network management

2004-02-10 Thread Savitha Kumar
Thanks! What are the capabilities that are looked for, in a NMS for Internet?? --- Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, [iso-8859-1] Savitha Kumar wrote: them, accounting management which is one of the FCAPS functionality is not supported on any of the NMS's.

Re: Dumb users spread viruses

2004-02-10 Thread Michael . Dillon
So I guess my point is that after years of resistance to Outlook, even I am reconsidering due to high user demand and a void in the market for a robust group calendaring and task management application. Does anyone have any pointers for me. Something that fills the organizations needs and

Re: question on ptr rr

2004-02-10 Thread Michael . Dillon
We need to start with an Email Service Consortium with a code of email server practices in which the larger ISPs agree to stop accepting SMTP connections from anyone who is not in the consortium or a customer. This will get everyone implementing a set of well-known and consistent controls.

Re: Where can I find a list of IPs and their regions.

2004-02-10 Thread Matthew Crocker
Hmmm ... ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/stats/delegated-ripencc-latest exists and ftp://ftp.lacnic.net/pub/stats/lacnic/delegated-lacnic-latest as well ... Yep, my bad, I was only using ftp.arin.net to pull the data for all 4 RIRs. ARIN doesn't have the symlinks for ripe lacnic latest files.

IPv6 reverse lookup - lame delegation?

2004-02-10 Thread Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
if i try to log into my machines back in tokyo by IPv6 SSH, it takes very long time. i guess i found the reason - (possible) lame delegation of blah.ip6.int. ip6.arpa. query returns instantly. how could we fix it? itojun % dig

RE: IPv6 reverse lookup - lame delegation?

2004-02-10 Thread Jeroen Massar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote: if i try to log into my machines back in tokyo by IPv6 SSH, it takes very long time. i guess i found the reason - (possible) lame delegation of blah.ip6.int. ip6.arpa. query returns instantly. how

RE: IPv6 reverse lookup - lame delegation?

2004-02-10 Thread Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
if i try to log into my machines back in tokyo by IPv6 SSH, it takes very long time. i guess i found the reason - (possible) lame delegation of blah.ip6.int. ip6.arpa. query returns instantly. how could we fix it? By fixing the software as ip6.int was deprecated 2

RE: IPv6 reverse lookup - lame delegation?

2004-02-10 Thread Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
if i try to log into my machines back in tokyo by IPv6 SSH, it takes very long time. i guess i found the reason - (possible) lame delegation of blah.ip6.int. ip6.arpa. query returns instantly. how could we fix it? By fixing the software as ip6.int was deprecated 2 years+++

RE: IPv6 reverse lookup - lame delegation?

2004-02-10 Thread Jeroen Massar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote: if i try to log into my machines back in tokyo by IPv6 SSH, it takes very long time. i guess i found the reason - (possible) lame delegation of blah.ip6.int. ip6.arpa. query returns

Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch Site Finder -- calls

2004-02-10 Thread Brian Bruns
On Tuesday, February 10, 2004 1:02 AM [GMT-5=EST], Scott Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When NXDOMAIN returned, the issue disappeared and we haven't tested it again. I can confirm this same type of issue with several clients of mine that run microsoft networking stuff, suddenly were unable

Williams Telecom

2004-02-10 Thread Wesley Vaux
If there is someone on the list from Williams Telecom please contact me. Thanks, Wes Vaux, CCNA, CCDA Network Security Engineer, 9000 Regency Pkwy Ste 500 Cary, NC 27511 t 919.463.6782 f 919.463.1290 Global Knowledge Experts Teaching Experts http://www.globalknowledge.com

Re: IPv6 reverse lookup - lame delegation?

2004-02-10 Thread bill
if i try to log into my machines back in tokyo by IPv6 SSH, it takes very long time. i guess i found the reason - (possible) lame delegation of blah.ip6.int. ip6.arpa. query returns instantly. how could we fix it? the ip6.int entry times out, no servers

RE: IPv6 reverse lookup - lame delegation?

2004-02-10 Thread Randy Bush
if i try to log into my machines back in tokyo by IPv6 SSH, it takes very long time. i guess i found the reason - (possible) lame delegation of blah.ip6.int. ip6.arpa. query returns instantly. how could we fix it? By fixing the software as ip6.int was deprecated 2 years+++ ago as you

NTIA/DoC public comment period

2004-02-10 Thread Tony Hain
As I mentioned yesterday, the DoC is looking for public comment on IPv6. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports.html Specifically toward the end they ask: In some instances, government has responded to concerns over potential chicken and egg problems by playing an active role in the introduction of

Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch Site Finder -- calls

2004-02-10 Thread JC Dill
At 08:37 PM 2/9/2004, Paul Vixie wrote: the response you included... There's an easy way to kill sitefinder stone cold dead. ... It would be trivial to create a bot to start walking through every possible 20 letter domain name - and if ICANN held them to the rules, Verisign would be

Re: NTIA/DoC public comment period

2004-02-10 Thread Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
As I mentioned yesterday, the DoC is looking for public comment on IPv6. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports.html Specifically toward the end they ask: In some instances, government has responded to concerns over potential chicken and egg problems by playing an active role in the introduction

Re: Where can I find a list of IPs and their regions.

2004-02-10 Thread Cathy Murphy
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Matthew Crocker wrote: Hmmm ... ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/stats/delegated-ripencc-latest exists and ftp://ftp.lacnic.net/pub/stats/lacnic/delegated-lacnic-latest as well ... Yep, my bad, I was only using ftp.arin.net to pull the data for all 4 RIRs. ARIN doesn't

Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch Site Finder -- calls

2004-02-10 Thread Michael . Dillon
So, how do you explain that NIC France accepts the use of linux.fr to someone who pretends to be the author proprietary of the name linux and who IS NOT Linus Torvalds? This reminds me of the times when people on the list accused other list members of being closet spammers. At the end

Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch Site Finder -- calls

2004-02-10 Thread Wayne E. Bouchard
I still maintain that what sitefinder is trying to do is not really wrong but it's the wrong way to go about it. This is functionality that is strictly for web users. Why should every other protocol that relies on domain name service be subject to this garbage? If they want to partner with

RE: IPv6 reverse lookup - lame delegation?

2004-02-10 Thread Jeroen Massar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Randy Bush wrote: if i try to log into my machines back in tokyo by IPv6 SSH, it takes very long time. i guess i found the reason - (possible) lame delegation of blah.ip6.int. ip6.arpa. query returns instantly. how could we fix it? By fixing the

Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch Site Finder -- calls

2004-02-10 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Tuesday, February 10, 2004 08:58 -0700 Wayne E. Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still maintain that what sitefinder is trying to do is not really wrong but it's the wrong way to go about it. This is functionality that is strictly for web users. Why should every other protocol that

Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch Site Finder -- calls

2004-02-10 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Tuesday, February 10, 2004, at 11:24 AM, Michael Loftis wrote: --On Tuesday, February 10, 2004 08:58 -0700 Wayne E. Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still maintain that what sitefinder is trying to do is not really wrong but it's the wrong way to go about it. This is functionality

RE: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch Site Finder -- calls

2004-02-10 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, David Luyer wrote: Site Finder on its own added to spam; spam volumes increased as the number of sender domain does not resolve bounces dropped away. That is a myth: http://www.xtdnet.nl/paul/spam/graphs/versign.png If you want to blame spam on a single corporatin,

Re: question on ptr rr

2004-02-10 Thread Randy Bush
Now, from your logs, just how much legitimate mail do you get that comes from an IP without PTR RR, and how much is that expressed as a percentage of legitimate incoming mail to your lists? How much is that as a percentage of spam inbound to your list [to be fair, let's make it spam

Re: question on ptr rr

2004-02-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Randy Bush wrote: btw, i did give you a cursory answer to this. and i asked if you would provide some data. As I told you in another email, a good 40% of my mail on my personal colo comes from sources without rDNS - mostly within India, from and to some fairly large linux lists. regards

Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch Site Finder -- calls

2004-02-10 Thread Joshua Coombs
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, David Luyer wrote: Site Finder on its own added to spam; spam volumes increased as the number of sender domain does not resolve bounces dropped away. That is a myth: http://www.xtdnet.nl/paul/spam/graphs/versign.png If you want to blame spam on a single corporatin,

Re: question on ptr rr

2004-02-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Randy Bush wrote: btw, i did give you a cursory answer to this. and i asked if you would provide some data. After all the filters that I use were applied - 682 unique IP addresses, with no rDNS sent at least 6124 legitimate (assumed legitimate as not caught by my filters) emails in the period

Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch Site Finder -- calls

2004-02-10 Thread William Allen Simpson
Paul Wouters wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, David Luyer wrote: Site Finder on its own added to spam; spam volumes increased as the number of sender domain does not resolve bounces dropped away. That is a myth: http://www.xtdnet.nl/paul/spam/graphs/versign.png If you want to blame spam

Re: Root Servers Request

2004-02-10 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
2. isc already runs one (f-root). You should be the authority IMO. Do you have any particular reasons for requesting this, unless you can demonstrate a problem then why change anything. Also, if you spend some time thinking about this you will soon realise that its a bad idea for one

Re: Root Servers Request

2004-02-10 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:03:52 EST, Stephen J. Wilcox said: Also, if you spend some time thinking about this you will soon realise that its a bad idea for one organisation to control the roots. In fact it works nicely if you find 13 different organisations. I'll overlook the additional fact

Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch Site Finder -- calls

2004-02-10 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Tuesday, February 10, 2004, at 11:24 AM, Michael Loftis wrote: --On Tuesday, February 10, 2004 08:58 -0700 Wayne E. Bouchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still maintain that what sitefinder is trying to do is not really wrong but it's the wrong way to go about it. This is functionality

Re: Root^H^H^H^HGTLD Servers Request

2004-02-10 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
Most of the complaints seem centered around the management of the servers [a-m].gtld-servers.net, which is a totally different beast. So that would indeed be a different topic. Is the problem with the management of the servers of the administration of the com/net domains? .. detail

A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder

2004-02-10 Thread David Monosov
Sorry for barging in to this fine mailing list like this; long time reader, first time contributor. We, as the Internet engineering community, have made a great mistake. Actually, it wasn't even one large mistake, but a series of small ones. Engineers are busy people, and most us work under the

Re: Root^H^H^H^HGTLD Servers Request

2004-02-10 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:40:49 EST, Stephen J. Wilcox said: Is the problem with the management of the servers of the administration of the com/net domains? By all accounts I've heard, the servers reliably serve up the contents of the zones they have been given. The problem is that some people

Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder

2004-02-10 Thread Curtis Maurand
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, David Monosov wrote: where there is power, there are struggles to take control over that power, and exploit it. This is apparently one of the beauties of democratic capitalism (under which I will be so bold to presume many of us live). The United States is a republic,

Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder

2004-02-10 Thread williamatelan.net
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, David Monosov wrote: where there is power, there are struggles to take control over that power, and exploit it. This is apparently one of the beauties of democratic capitalism (under which I will be so bold to presume many of us live). The United States is a

RE: IPv6 reverse lookup - lame delegation?

2004-02-10 Thread Jeroen Massar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Mark Andrews wrote: The correct fix to this will be to just stop making IP6.INT queries. The best think that could be done is for the PTB to install IP6.INT. DNAME IP6.ARPA. *now*. This will allow the legacy resolvers to

Re: IPv6 reverse lookup - lame delegation?

2004-02-10 Thread Mark Andrews
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Mark Andrews wrote: The correct fix to this will be to just stop making IP6.INT queries. The best think that could be done is for the PTB to install IP6.INT. DNAME IP6.ARPA. *now*. This will

Re: IPv6 reverse lookup - lame delegation?

2004-02-10 Thread Paul Vixie
Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote: if i try to log into my machines back in tokyo by IPv6 SSH, it takes very long time. i guess i found the reason - (possible) lame delegation of blah.ip6.int. ip6.arpa. query returns instantly. how could we fix it? [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeroen Massar) writes:

Re: A few words on VeriSign's sitefinder

2004-02-10 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Monosov) writes: ... Root servers, and the .net, .com (as well as .org) domains belong to the world now; Welcome to the global democracy, brought to you by the ability to send packets across the globe at the speed of light. We all rely on them, and their management

Re: Where can I find a list of IPs and their regions.

2004-02-10 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Scott Weeks wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Matthew Crocker wrote: : I've look at IANA but it doesn't give enough detailed information. I : would like to find a list of /8 or /16s and what geographic region the : exist in. I know it isn't an exact science but something close would : be nice. I

SMTP authentication for broadband providers

2004-02-10 Thread Dan Ellis
Greetings, Were a medium sized regional MSO/broadband provider with 200k+ mailboxes, strongly considering enabling SMTP authentication on our customer-facing SMTP mail servers. We feel this is the next logical step to minimize our users UCE/virus impact (we already tarpit, virus scan, UCE

Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers

2004-02-10 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:42:29PM -0500, Dan Ellis wrote: I'm looking for comments on whether this is generally seen as a positive change or a waste of time (ie - will the next virus or worm gleam your SMTP username and password from Outlook Express and use it to replicate/SPAM)? I've

Re: Where can I find a list of IPs and their regions.

2004-02-10 Thread williamatelan.net
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Scott Weeks wrote: : exist in. I know it isn't an exact science but something close would : be nice. I know 210/8 211/8 are APNIC, I likes to know stuff like This only works for a certain percentage of networks. Most likely a higher percentage post tech bubble

Re: IPv6 reverse lookup - lame delegation?

2004-02-10 Thread Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote: if i try to log into my machines back in tokyo by IPv6 SSH, it takes very long time. i guess i found the reason - (possible) lame delegation of blah.ip6.int. ip6.arpa. query returns instantly. how could we fix it? [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeroen Massar)

Looking for someone who is very experienced with IPForwarding in Extreme switches

2004-02-10 Thread Drew Weaver
I figured I wouldn't bore the rest of you with this slight oddity I've come across in ExtremeWare that I am having an issue getting resolved, but if anyone knows a decent deal about how these switches really work, and doesn't mind giving me a hand, could you tag me off list? Thanks,

Re: question on ptr rr

2004-02-10 Thread Randy Bush
As I told you in another email, a good 40% of my mail on my personal colo comes from sources without rDNS - mostly within India, from and to some fairly large linux lists. After all the filters that I use were applied - 682 unique IP addresses, with no rDNS sent at least 6124 legitimate

Re: question on ptr rr

2004-02-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Randy Bush wrote: as your percentiles look worse than those here, do you think it is indian dns maintenance or politics, or linux list users, or both? DNS maintenance, and cluelessness at several ISPs - quite a few ISPs don't even have PTR RR for their smarthosts. Luckily most of the larger

Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers

2004-02-10 Thread Adi Linden
We're a medium sized regional MSO/broadband provider with 200k+ mailboxes, strongly considering enabling SMTP authentication on our customer-facing SMTP mail servers. We're relying exclusively on SMTP AUTH for SMTP relaying. The single biggest issue is that it requires ongoing user

IDS data.

2004-02-10 Thread Jamie Reid
We have built an experimental system that aggregates IDS alerts by sorting them into subnets, then associating them with routes from the a view of the global BGP table, and in turn associates them with their ASN. From there, we can create lists of security events as they are related to the

Re: IDS data.

2004-02-10 Thread Randy Bush
[ interesting work ] More to the point, should we consider using contact information in maintainer objects as security incident POCs? there is a related discussion about abuse-c: in route objects going on over in the ripe-db wg/mauling list. randy

Re: 7500 and DCEF

2004-02-10 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On Wed, 07 Jan 2004, I posted: They recently refreshed the platform with RSP16, VIP8, and MX. It's still a viable platform for many medium size providers. As an exercise see if you can determine when this 7513: http://noc.ilan.net.il/stats/ILAN-CPU/new-gp-cpu.html swapped from an RSP8 to an

[University at Buffalo] MAN/MEN Research

2004-02-10 Thread Enrico Riedel
Dear All! My name is Enrico Riedel, and I'm a Graduate Student in Management Information Systems at the University at Buffalo. Currently, I'm working on my Master's Thesis, and researching the Metro Area Networks and Metro Ethernet Networks from a technical, economical, and emerging practices

animations from Making Sense of BGP talk available

2004-02-10 Thread Van Jacobson
The animations from Tina Wong's Making Sense of BGP talk at NANOG-30 this morning are available at: http://www.packetdesign.com/technology/presentations/nanog-30/index.htm The animations are in SVG (a W3C graphics standard) and should be viewable in any web browser but you'll probably have to