Re: Hi (fwd)

2004-03-18 Thread Arnold Nipper
On 18.03.2004 05:47 Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: william(at)elan.net writes on 3/18/2004 11:03 AM: Me thinks somebody has found a trapdoor in nanog mailsetup and is in general out to get us ... Have you, by any chance, heard of bcc? That isn't a bug, that's a feature. Have you, by any

Re: Spamhaus Exposed

2004-03-18 Thread Peter Galbavy
Alexei Roudnev wrote: Of course, not - he is not from USA (more likely), the end. Why people believe, that this acts means ANYTHING? In Internet, they (acts) means NOTHING. Unless they live in a country that has a secret treaty with the US, like the UK has had for some years, where any US

Re: Firewall opinions wanted please

2004-03-18 Thread Peter Galbavy
Rachael Treu wrote: Guys...firewall is as generic a term as any. Saying grandma needs a router does not mean that an M20 is interchangeable with her Linksys. You're preaching to a list with people on it who invented the terms you are using *and* wrote the books. Stop lecturing and *listen*.

Re: Personal Co-location Registry

2004-03-18 Thread Sean Donelan
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Paul Vixie wrote: http://www.vix.com/personalcolo/ http://www.vix.com/personalcolo/ http://www.vix.com/personalcolo/ As of March 17 2004 Total personal colo listings: 36 Total providers with one or more addresses block listed: 18 The eighteen providers are sometimes

Re: Firewall opinions wanted please

2004-03-18 Thread Chris Brenton
OK, I've tried to stay out of this, but... On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 01:17, Alexei Roudnev wrote: No. let's imagine, that I have 4 hosts, without ANY security problems in software, Exactly how do you *prove* there are zero security problems with any of this software? I hate to say it, but a lot

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-18 Thread Michael . Dillon
Restrict it to people you've met or spoken to enough to think you know them.. ^ That is the problem. Password access to a members-only looking glass can prevent temptation and grief. And nobody needs shell access per se because we are talking about people who have root on their own

Customers squeezed as ISPs close in on viruses

2004-03-18 Thread Sean Donelan
By Jim Hu Staff Writer, CNET News.com High-speed Internet service providers are increasingly putting their customers in the security hot seat, as they try to fight recent virus attacks that turn computers into spam factories. [...] Still, the question remains whether the techniques broadband

Re: Hi

2004-03-18 Thread milton

Re: Personal Co-location Registry

2004-03-18 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Vixie writes: I agree, lack of interactive access to a system prior to a functional OS being loaded always seemed like a potential problem area to me, particularly for something based on common PC architecture. http://www.realweasel.com/ is your friend.

Re: Spamhaus Exposed

2004-03-18 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Peter Galbavy wrote: Alexei Roudnev wrote: Of course, not - he is not from USA (more likely), the end. Why people believe, that this acts means ANYTHING? In Internet, they (acts) means NOTHING. Unless they live in a country that has a secret treaty with the US, like the UK has had for some

Re: Spamhaus Exposed

2004-03-18 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Peter Galbavy wrote: OK, it isn't secret - since I know about it for a start - but the terms are secret and also it is very under-advertised to the locals. Wonder what other countries have sold their souls to Satan ? How many dead soldiers from your country are buried here? -- Requiescas in pace

US Extradition rights (was Re: Spamhaus Exposed)

2004-03-18 Thread Joshua Brady
- Original Message - From: Dave Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Email List: nanog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:53 AM Subject: Re: Spamhaus Exposed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, the US gov't is Satan going after innocent hackers in Wales? No, but the US government

Re: Spamhaus Exposed

2004-03-18 Thread Peter Galbavy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: Without Satan, there would be no Internet for you to express your considered opions on. So the work at the University of London was just incidental ? Peter

Re: Spamhaus Exposed

2004-03-18 Thread Peter Galbavy
Dave Howe wrote: cause - which is *not* true in reverse, or for any other country. Up until recently, the US authorities would have had to make a case for extradition and/or arrest to a UK judge before the local plod would even be informed that there was an interest in the kid Not that

Re: US Extradition rights (was Re: Spamhaus Exposed)

2004-03-18 Thread Peter Galbavy
Joshua Brady wrote: The Child you speak of caused destruction over a network, the same applied for the 2 hackers here who were sent over without even questioning the UK. If the US Government is Satan then I suppose I am going to hell, because I sure as hell support it. Do you support the

Re: Spamhaus Exposed

2004-03-18 Thread Peter Galbavy
Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Peter Galbavy wrote: OK, it isn't secret - since I know about it for a start - but the terms are secret and also it is very under-advertised to the locals. Wonder what other countries have sold their souls to Satan ? How many dead soldiers from your country

Re: Spamhaus Exposed

2004-03-18 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
This thread is making the script-kiddie name-calling look on-topic and mature. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb

Re: Spamhaus Exposed

2004-03-18 Thread Dr. Jeffrey Race
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:54:00 -, Peter Galbavy wrote: Wonder what other countries have sold their souls to Satan ? Are any leases on offer? :)

Re: Spamhaus Exposed

2004-03-18 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Peter Galbavy wrote: Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Peter Galbavy wrote: OK, it isn't secret - since I know about it for a start - but the terms are secret and also it is very under-advertised to the locals. Wonder what other countries have sold their souls to Satan ? How many dead soldiers

RE: US Extradition rights (was Re: Spamhaus Exposed)

2004-03-18 Thread cproctor
Joshua Brady wrote: The Child you speak of caused destruction over a network, the same applied for the 2 hackers here who were sent over without even questioning the UK. If the US Government is Satan then I suppose I am going to hell, because I sure as hell support it. Do you

Re: Personal Co-location Registry

2004-03-18 Thread Kelly Setzer
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:07:31AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Vixie writes: I agree, lack of interactive access to a system prior to a functional OS being loaded always seemed like a potential problem area to me, particularly for something

So, What Now, NANOG? Was: Request response [important]

2004-03-18 Thread Daniel Golding
On 3/17/04 9:51 PM, Brian Bruns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erm, something is definately up tonight. Message is below, for those of you who didn't want to touch this message. I can't get to the site listed in the message, so I have no idea what its trying to deliver exactly. Anyone care

Re: Spamhaus Exposed

2004-03-18 Thread Bill Woodcock
No, it isn't particularly evil (just more evidence the american government thinks their laws should apply worldwide). Well, like any tool, it's not inherently evil, it just depends how it's used. And in all likelihood, if it's used with respect to England, in all likelihood it'll be

AS3215 in the house?

2004-03-18 Thread Christopher Chin
If anyone from AS3215 (France Telecom Transpac) lurks here, I'd appreciate it if they'd contact me off list. Thanks, - Christopher AS25 -- UCB ==

RE: US Extradition rights (was Re: Spamhaus Exposed)

2004-03-18 Thread McBurnett, Jim
-Joshua Brady wrote: - The Child you speak of caused destruction over a network, the same - applied for the 2 hackers here who were sent over without even - questioning the UK. If the US Government is Satan then I -suppose I am - going to hell, because I sure as hell support it. - -Do you

Re: So, What Now, NANOG? Was: Request response [important]

2004-03-18 Thread Joshua Brady
- Original Message - From: Daniel Golding [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brian Bruns [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Susan Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 11:11 AM Subject: So, What Now, NANOG? Was: Request response [important] On 3/17/04 9:51 PM, Brian Bruns

Sprint Help

2004-03-18 Thread Joe Marr
I was wondering if the wonderful members of this list could provide their opinions regarding the traceroute below. I have contacted sprint several times regarding this issue and their noc keeps coming back with no trouble found. Am I barking up the wrong up the wrong tree? Im

Re: Spamhaus Exposed

2004-03-18 Thread Sam Stickland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, the US gov't is Satan going after innocent hackers in Wales? It still boggles my mind how prevelant this shallow, trendy attitude is in Europe, even among supposedly educated people. Why think when you can just join the crowd spewing ignorance, as long as it

Re: Sprint Help

2004-03-18 Thread Daniel Golding
Joe, You are, in fact, barking up the wrong tree. The question should be ³when I test against my destination, am I seeing packet loss and latency?². Traceroute is not a useful tool for determining the state of an intermediate router on a path. ICMP TTL-Exceeded messages are rate limited and not

Re: So, What Now, NANOG? Was: Request response [important]

2004-03-18 Thread Adam Rothschild
On 2004-03-18-11:11:14, Daniel Golding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Its time to figure out what to do about this, employing a proactive stance. The answer is not start a new mailing list. Names have power, as they say, and NANOG has the juice. So, a few simple proposals for people to chew

RE: Sprint Help

2004-03-18 Thread Joe Marr
I should have provided more information. :) I have a customer with a large citrix farm at hop 15. The customer has several remote offices, one as far away as Japan. One of their offices has been experiencing slow performance with their citrix connections. It's not an issue of congestion on

Re: Personal Co-location Registry

2004-03-18 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Kelly Setzer wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:07:31AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Vixie writes: I agree, lack of interactive access to a system prior to a functional OS being loaded always seemed like a potential

RE: Sprint Help

2004-03-18 Thread Michel Py
Joe Marr wrote: the only thing I can find wrong is packetloss and latency between hops 7 and 8. It has nothing to do with your issue. The very fact that the next hops do not exhibit the same problem shows that the router is processing packets fine. This is not uncommon, might be caused by our

Re: Customers squeezed as ISPs close in on viruses

2004-03-18 Thread Rachael Treu
Heh. How appropos. I feel it to be worth it to take pause and recognize a particular testament to the industry proven by the abundance of network professionals (namely in this group) speaking ardently against expropriation of network controls by providers in the name of security. That

Spamhaus Exposed

2004-03-18 Thread Susan Harris
Folks, let's end this thread and the renamed US Extradition rights follow-up. They're politics, not operations.

Re: Juniper pepsi

2004-03-18 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
W.D.McKinney wrote: On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 14:52, Eric Kuhnke wrote: I have heard rumors of a new low-end 1U Juniper router, aimed directly at replacing the 2600/3600 series. Supposedly its code name is Pepsi... Does anyone have more info on this? :-) No, but hope so. Dee I mention this

Re: US Extradition rights (was Re: Spamhaus Exposed)

2004-03-18 Thread Dave Howe
Joshua Brady wrote: The Child you speak of caused destruction over a network, the same applied for the 2 hackers here who were sent over without even questioning the UK. If the US Government is Satan then I suppose I am going to hell, because I sure as hell support it. Oh, so do I - I just

Re: Personal Co-location Registry

2004-03-18 Thread Paul Vixie
i've already removed one that was seen on ROKSO (23 listings). i don't consider the lists you gave to be credible, but if any of the entries in the personal colo registry show up on ROKSO or SBL or MAPS or SORBS, you can bet i'll remove them instantly. re: SPEWS: 7 BLARS: 5

Re: Personal Co-location Registry

2004-03-18 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello All , On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Joel Jaeggli wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Kelly Setzer wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:07:31AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: ...snip... Is there an effective alternative? All the intel servers these days seem to have one of those handy-dandy

Re: Personal Co-location Registry

2004-03-18 Thread Paul Vixie
Realweasel is a great idea if you can afford it -- but the PCI version lists for $350, which is as expensive as some used 1U servers on EBay. my bet is that if you refer to nanog and www.vix.com/personalcolo when you contact them, they'll cut you a deal. (note: i have no affiliation w/

Re: Personal Co-location Registry

2004-03-18 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! i've already removed one that was seen on ROKSO (23 listings). i don't consider the lists you gave to be credible, but if any of the entries in the personal colo registry show up on ROKSO or SBL or MAPS or SORBS, you can bet i'll remove them instantly. SPEWS: 7 BLARS: 5

Re: Personal Co-location Registry

2004-03-18 Thread jlewis
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: Tyan ( another I can't remember now) have console forwarding to the com1 port . This MB is available in PenguinComputing's 1u 2u systems . They run *BSD just fine as well . Hth , JimL Many of Intel's server boards

Re: US Extradition rights (was Re: Spamhaus Exposed)

2004-03-18 Thread William Warren
could this be taken offlist please? Dave Howe wrote: Joshua Brady wrote: The Child you speak of caused destruction over a network, the same applied for the 2 hackers here who were sent over without even questioning the UK. If the US Government is Satan then I suppose I am going to hell, because

Re: Personal Co-location Registry

2004-03-18 Thread John Todd
At 9:51 AM -0600 on 3/18/04, Kelly Setzer wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:07:31AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Vixie writes: I agree, lack of interactive access to a system prior to a functional OS being loaded always seemed like a potential problem

Re: So, What Now, NANOG? Was: Request response [important]

2004-03-18 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Daniel Golding wrote: Its time to figure out what to do about this, employing a proactive stance. The answer is not start a new mailing list. Names have power, as they say, and NANOG has the juice. So, a few simple proposals for people to chew over... 1) Turn on list

Re: Sprint Help

2004-03-18 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:15:19PM -0500, Joe Marr wrote: I have a customer with a large citrix farm at hop 15. The customer has several remote offices, one as far away as Japan. One of their offices has been experiencing slow performance with their citrix connections. It's

Re: US Extradition rights (was Re: Spamhaus Exposed)

2004-03-18 Thread Henry Linneweh
This entire fiasco needs to migrate off line, please -HenryWilliam Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could this be taken offlist please?Dave Howe wrote: Joshua Brady wrote: The "Child" you speak of caused destruction over a network, the sameapplied for the 2 hackers here who were sent over

Re: Personal Co-location Registry

2004-03-18 Thread Paul Vixie
i've already removed one that was seen on ROKSO (23 listings). i don't consider the lists you gave to be credible, but if any of the entries in the personal colo registry show up on ROKSO or SBL or MAPS or SORBS, you can bet i'll remove them instantly. ... Even if the COLO space might

RE: Personal Co-location Registry

2004-03-18 Thread Matt Bazan
sorry for off-topic post, but.. hey paul, why are you blocking mail from 12.129.199.61 and 65.160.228.34? The following recipient(s) could not be reached: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 3/18/2004 10:45 AM mail39-haw-R.bigfish.com #5.0.0 X-Postfix; host sa.vix.com[204.152.187.1] said: 553 Service

RE: Sprint Help

2004-03-18 Thread Michel Py
Leo Bicknell wrote Your problem is right here: 14 urish-pitts-gw.centrepc.net (67.97.250.166) 100 msec * 100 msec NT in many configs defaults to a TCP Window size of 8k, other NT and Server 2000 default to 16k. This seems premature as a conclusion to me. If they don't have issues with Japan

Re: Sprint Help

2004-03-18 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:08:21AM -0800, Michel Py wrote: Leo Bicknell wrote Your problem is right here: 14 urish-pitts-gw.centrepc.net (67.97.250.166) 100 msec * 100 msec NT in many configs defaults to a TCP Window size of 8k, other NT and Server 2000 default to

Re: net-co-op (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-18 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:28:24 PST, Jay Hennigan said: Oh come on, what was .coop for if not this? :) People in the poultry business? :-) Actually, a somewhat reasonable conclusion for a non-native speaker of English, and a concern that *does* have to be addressed by many of the plethora of

Re: Firewall opinions wanted please

2004-03-18 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Firewall protects other services from outside access. A good firewall *should* be doing a whole lot more than that. It should Do not overestimate. Firewall can make a little more than just restrict access and inspect few (very limited) protocols. It can not protect you from slow scans; it

Re: Personal Co-location Registry

2004-03-18 Thread Paul Vixie
hey paul, why are you blocking mail from 12.129.199.61 and because att's abuse desk ignored me for too long. 65.160.228.34? because sprint's abuse desk ignored me for too long. i'll give sprint a second chance (i've removed that /16 from my personal blackhole list and see what happens) but

Looking for glue (BIA network partition work-around for schools)

2004-03-18 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Howdy folks, One of the hats I wear is owner of the triballaw mailing list, and with that comes other things. The BIA's network got shut down again for profoundly bad operational practice, which of course can't be fixed by the application of clue, as that would imply wrongdoing, lack of clue,

Re: Personal Co-location Registry

2004-03-18 Thread Avleen Vig
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 06:20:51PM +, Paul Vixie wrote: Realweasel is a great idea if you can afford it -- but the PCI version lists for $350, which is as expensive as some used 1U servers on EBay. my bet is that if you refer to nanog and www.vix.com/personalcolo when you contact

Re: Looking for glue (BIA network partition work-around for schools)

2004-03-18 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Add Haskell Indian Nations University (and all other BIA schools) to the list. [1] http://www.ljworld.com/section/haskellnews/story/164640

Re: Personal Co-location Registry

2004-03-18 Thread Paul Vixie
People seem to be forgetting the obvious. Buy a 1U SPARC box. That'll do full console as you're talking about. They're simple to connect up to your Cisco console too. Ebay for 'netra'. 1U Alphas (DS10L) are also quite nice.

Re: Spamhaus Exposed

2004-03-18 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: Without Satan, there would be no Internet for you to express your considered opions on. Oh ye gods.. Without a certain anglo-irishman (George Boole) and a certain other englishman (Alan Turing) (and doubtless many other people from a whole

Re: Spamhaus Exposed

2004-03-18 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 16:33, Paul Jakma wrote: Oh ye gods.. Without a certain anglo-irishman (George Boole) and a certain other englishman (Alan Turing) (and doubtless many other people from a whole bunch of places), there would be no computers or electronics for you to have built an

Re: Hi (fwd)

2004-03-18 Thread Matthew Sullivan
william(at)elan.net wrote: FYI - if you're on windows machine DON'T TRY TO FOLLOW URL in that post Somebody sent me a copy of the content and its vbscript that downloads an image converts it into executable and then probably uses some bug in microshit products to have it executed. I'm not that

Re: Spamhaus Exposed

2004-03-18 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Jim Popovitch wrote: Hog wash. You assume that only those two men could do what they did. I dont assume anything, history merely records they did. If you wish to assume advances are inevitable, fine. It would apply equally to the advance that started this silly thread,

Re: Spamhaus Exposed

2004-03-18 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Paul Jakma wrote: America is undoubtedly the preeminent driving force today economically for technological/scientific progress, as once was the British Empire, as once was the Arab world, as once was the Roman Empire, as once was... etc.. etc.. etc.. Yes it is off topic (what ever that turns

Re: US Extradition rights (was Re: Spamhaus Exposed)

2004-03-18 Thread Jason Slagle
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Dave Howe wrote: Oh, so do I - I just think on general principles it really should require a judge in the serving country to rubberstamp it before the snatch and grab takes place - or more appropriately that the case be made to a UK judge, the child tried here and

RE: Hi (fwd)

2004-03-18 Thread Thor Larholm
From: Matthew Sullivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It's another varient of Bagle... My analysis of it is at: http://www.au.sorbs.net/virus.explain.txt - since then Symantec has release it's more detailed explaination under the headings for Bagle.r and Bagle.s This variant tries to

Re: Personal Co-location Registry

2004-03-18 Thread TxRx Lists
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: Realweasel is a great idea if you can afford it -- but the PCI version lists for $350, which is as expensive as some used 1U servers on EBay. It'd be better if it had an ethernet port on it and allowed ssh access to the console, like the remote ILO stuff on compaq

Re: Personal Co-location Registry

2004-03-18 Thread just me
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Kelly Setzer wrote: This is relevant, if tangential, to the current discussion on 1U colo for remote ops/looking glass/etc. [...] 4) One nanog member indicated that I am an idiot. Personally, I recently priced intel server systems from a variety of major vendors

Re: Firewall opinions wanted please

2004-03-18 Thread Chris Brenton
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 15:26, Alexei Roudnev wrote: A good firewall *should* be doing a whole lot more than that. It should Do not overestimate. Firewall can make a little more than just restrict access and inspect few (very limited) protocols. If this concerns you, just use a proxy instead

Incoming message

2004-03-18 Thread gherbert

need a network/ip guru from uunet

2004-03-18 Thread Drew Weaver
Please contact me offllist asap! -Drew

Re: Spamhaus Exposed

2004-03-18 Thread John Payne
--On Thursday, March 18, 2004 8:12 AM -0800 Bill Woodcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, like any tool, it's not inherently evil, it just depends how it's used. And in all likelihood, if it's used with respect to England, in all likelihood it'll be used in moderation, since England has some

any xo engineers around?

2004-03-18 Thread Drew Weaver
-Drew

Re: any xo engineers around?

2004-03-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Drew Weaver writes on 3/19/2004 10:05 AM: -Drew The first one you posted was UUNET I think ... May I suggest getting yourself an inoc-dba phone and checking the inoc-dba directory first, before posting a paging $TIER-1 on nanog? http://www.pch.net/inoc-dba/ srs -- srs

Re: any xo engineers around?

2004-03-18 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
we are assisting :) I'll rustle up someone from his other problem also (hopefully) On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Drew Weaver writes on 3/19/2004 10:05 AM: -Drew The first one you posted was UUNET I think ... May I suggest getting yourself an inoc-dba phone and

RE: any xo engineers around?

2004-03-18 Thread Drew Weaver
I apologize for using Nanog as my personal phone directory, however I attempted to contact both companies using their published contact vectors and was unsuccessful in preventing damage being done to my network. I deeply apologize for wasting your bits. -Drew -Original Message- From: