Re: ICMP Vulnerability

2005-04-13 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Too much noice on too small problem. The only use of this - BOT wars in IRC world (mopre likely, with a very low success rate). - Original Message - From: Alex Bligh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gwendolynn ferch Elydyr [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Hannigan, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: nanog@merit.edu;

Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)

2005-04-13 Thread Jeroen Massar
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 23:42 -0300, Doug Barton wrote: This is to inform you that the IANA has allocated the following one (1) IPv4 /8 block to AfriNIC: 41/8 AfriNIC Would you (read: IANA) also be so kind and give them a nice chunk out of:

Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)

2005-04-13 Thread Doug Barton
Jeroen Massar wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 23:42 -0300, Doug Barton wrote: This is to inform you that the IANA has allocated the following one (1) IPv4 /8 block to AfriNIC: 41/8 AfriNIC Would you (read: IANA) also be so kind and give them a nice chunk out of:

Re: Auerbach Accuses ICANN Board of Dereliction of Duty on IP Allocation

2005-04-13 Thread Michael . Dillon
...and hilarity ensued. Not. http://www.icannwatch.org/articles/05/04/11/132201.shtml Sigh. I am certainly not happy to see this and I must confess dismay that the subject rears its ugly head. My life has been better since i stopped paying attention to these people hoping that they

Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)

2005-04-13 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:14:05AM +0200, Jeroen Massar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 49 lines which said: Btw, is there going to be an LACNIC-alike system for transfering RIPE/ARIN resources to AfriNIC? AFAIK, all inetnums belonging to Africa in the RIPE-NCC database have already

New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

2005-04-13 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
BetaNews: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers http://www.betanews.com/article/New_Outage_Hits_Comcast_Subscribers/1113367699 - ferg -- Fergie, a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ferg's tech blog:

Re: Hotmail-- Again??

2005-04-13 Thread Matthew Black
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 07:18:41 +0530 Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/12/05, Matthew Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. After given a numeric SMTP error response code between 500 and 599 (also known as a permanent non-delivery response), the sender must not

Comcast Contact

2005-04-13 Thread Ross Hosman
Could someone from Comcast please email me off list. Ross Hosman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Auerbach Accuses ICANN Board of Dereliction of Duty on IP Allocation

2005-04-13 Thread Eric A. Hall
I thought you were doing these on a blog now On 4/12/2005 8:25 PM, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: ...and hilarity ensued. Not. http://www.icannwatch.org/articles/05/04/11/132201.shtml - ferg -- Fergie, a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet [EMAIL

Re: Auerbach Accuses ICANN Board of Dereliction of Duty on IP Allocati on

2005-04-13 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
I am. - ferg -- Eric A. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought you were doing these on a blog now -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: Auerbach Accuses ICANN Board of Dereliction of Duty on IP Allocation

2005-04-13 Thread Dave Crocker
This is all a tempest in a teapot and it is all caused by a poor choice of headings and seems to be a knee jerk reaction to several possible ways in which the heading can be misunderstood. Auerbach complains about ICANN. He challenges process rather than outcomes. He even cites the

RE: Auerbach Accuses ICANN Board of Dereliction of Duty on IP Allocation

2005-04-13 Thread Hannigan, Martin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gordon Cook Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:22 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Auerbach Accuses ICANN Board of Dereliction of Duty on IP Allocation ...and hilarity ensued. Not.

Re: Auerbach Accuses ICANN Board of Dereliction of Duty on IP Allocation

2005-04-13 Thread Randy Bush
Why is it anyone thinks this sort of icann-bashing-as-usual, is somehow significant and worthy of burdening nanog? we should return to fergie's endless news items? procmail is your friend randy

Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

2005-04-13 Thread Irwin Lazar
During the first outage this week I used Bluetooth DUN via my Treo to dial-up from home and check Comcast's customer support web page. There was a note on the network health page stating that Internet access was down for all cable modem subscribers. Uh no, it wasn't down - just their DNS was

Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

2005-04-13 Thread Peter John Hill
Dear Comcast, Let me inform you of an exciting new concept... Anycast DNS... It is not difficult... Get with the freaking program... Peter On Apr 13, 2005, at 7:15 AM, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: BetaNews: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

Re: Comcast Contact

2005-04-13 Thread Scott Grayban
On Wednesday April 13 2005 08:04, Ross Hosman wrote: Could someone from Comcast please email me off list. Ross Hosman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nanog.org/email.html Follow directions.. -- Scott Grayban Security/Abuse Engineer FCT Enterprises -- www.fctsupport.com

Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

2005-04-13 Thread Brandon Ross
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Peter John Hill wrote: Let me inform you of an exciting new concept... Anycast DNS... It is not difficult... Get with the freaking program... I attempted to get DNS deployed under anycast when I worked there. As you can see, I don't work there any more. Draw your own

Re: Auerbach Accuses ICANN Board of Dereliction of Duty on IP Allocation

2005-04-13 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 4/13/2005 6:20 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ICANN is not perfect but it is hard to see anything wrong with this particular action. what's got to be wrong about it? ICANNwatch is the unelected opposition party to ICANN's unelected majority party. Whatever ICANN does, ICANNwatch finds

Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)

2005-04-13 Thread John Palmer
Thank you for that information. I can leave 41/8 in my router bogon list and hopefully eliminate the Nigerian 419 problem somewhat. - Original Message - From: Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 21:42 Subject: New IANA IPv4 allocation to

Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)

2005-04-13 Thread Steve Meuse
On 4/13/05, John Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for that information. I can leave 41/8 in my router bogon list and hopefully eliminate the Nigerian 419 problem somewhat. Personally, I believe we should give them the chance to fail before we cut them off from the rest of the

Re: Auerbach Accuses ICANN Board of Dereliction of Duty on IP Allocation

2005-04-13 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:24:13 PDT, Dave Crocker said: (citing out of order to make a point...) The input turns out to be markedly minimal, where he comprises 25% of it. Whether Karl is in fact right or a raving net.loon, there is indeed something very wrong with the process if he's 25% of the

Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)

2005-04-13 Thread Gary E. Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yo Steve! On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Steve Meuse wrote: Personally, I believe we should give them the chance to fail before we cut them off from the rest of the world. I don't think the majority of 419 email comes from addresses actually sourced in

Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)

2005-04-13 Thread Scott Weeks
This is to inform you that the IANA has allocated the following one (1) IPv4 /8 block to AfriNIC: 41/8 AfriNIC To those suggesting a block of 41/8 to stop the Nigerian 419 problem or any other percieved problem: C'mon Africa != Nigeria. It's an entire friggin' continent with 53 other

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-13 Thread Dean Anderson
Thanks for the clarification. I agree, it is very unusual to transfer a trademark without transferring the product it identifies. I didn't know it was impossible. Since you are an expert on the subject, I would like to have your opinion regarding how ISC can claim a trademark on BIND, assuming

RE: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-13 Thread Neil J. McRae
I'd prefer it if you gave an opinion on how this was operationally relevant? Thanks for the clarification. I agree, it is very unusual to transfer a trademark without transferring the product it identifies. I didn't know it was impossible. Since you are an expert on the subject, I

Re: Auerbach Accuses ICANN Board of Dereliction of Duty on IP Allocation

2005-04-13 Thread Doug Barton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whether Karl is in fact right or a raving net.loon, there is indeed something very wrong with the process if he's 25% of the input. It may be useful to keep in mind that this is the tail end of a long process that we're talking about here. There was already a lot of

Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)

2005-04-13 Thread John Palmer
You do know that I was joking, don't you?? Sorry, I didn't know that NANOG has a humor filter on it. - Original Message - From: Scott Weeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nanog@merit.edu Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 16:26 Subject: Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8) This is

Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)

2005-04-13 Thread Scott Weeks
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, John Palmer wrote: : To those suggesting a block of 41/8 to stop the Nigerian 419 problem or : any other percieved problem: : You do know that I was joking, don't you?? : Sorry, I didn't know that NANOG has a humor filter on it. You weren't the only one suggesting it

Re: Auerbach Accuses ICANN Board of Dereliction of Duty on IP Allocation

2005-04-13 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
Not so. The idea of an opposition party suggests the editors of ICW have some desire to be in control. Not at all. Further, we run a slash server. Most of the content is contributed. We don't have to go hunt for it. If ICANN ran decent discussion boards, it would put us out o business.

Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)

2005-04-13 Thread Richard Cox
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 20:38:44 UTC Steve Meuse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/13/05, John Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for that information. I can leave 41/8 in my router bogon list and hopefully eliminate the Nigerian 419 problem somewhat. Personally, I believe we should give

where 419 scams come from (was: Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8))

2005-04-13 Thread Steven Champeon
on Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:38:44PM -0600, Steve Meuse wrote: On 4/13/05, John Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for that information. I can leave 41/8 in my router bogon list and hopefully eliminate the Nigerian 419 problem somewhat. Personally, I believe we should give them

Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)

2005-04-13 Thread Randy Bush
The largest part (90%) does originate in Nigeria. The remainder comes from countries adjacent to Nigeria such as Togo, Senegal, etc (~6%) or from the Netherlands (~4%) would love to see the cite for this, please randy

Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)

2005-04-13 Thread Steve Meuse
On 4/13/05, Richard Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The largest part (90%) does originate in Nigeria. The remainder comes from countries adjacent to Nigeria such as Togo, Senegal, etc (~6%) or from the Netherlands (~4%) So we should spank the rest of the *continent* for one countries issues?

Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)

2005-04-13 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Randy Bush wrote: The largest part (90%) does originate in Nigeria. The remainder comes from countries adjacent to Nigeria such as Togo, Senegal, etc (~6%) or from the Netherlands (~4%) would love to see the cite for this, please randy I have a collected archive of

Today's tech news highlights

2005-04-13 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
For your perusal: Fed Panel Approves Tyco's Sale of Undersea Cable To India's Tata Microsoft Worm Cleaner Goes Rootkit Hunting Standards and specs: Naturally occurring standards Senators pledge action on data brokers Anti-spyware group collapses Florida Wins First Injunction Against

Re: Comcast Contact

2005-04-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 4/13/05, Ross Hosman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone from Comcast please email me off list. Ross Hosman [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have an AS, get yourself an inoc-dba phone. Easiest way to contact network operators that I know of. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

NOC-DBA Phone (was Re: Comcast Contact)

2005-04-13 Thread Jeffrey I. Schiller
I have one, and its cool. However the time I *really* needed it was because I couldn't reach a particular AS... and of course neither could my INOC-DBA phone (sigh...). -Jeff On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 23:12, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: On 4/13/05, Ross Hosman [EMAIL

Re: INOC-DBA Phone (was Re: Comcast Contact)

2005-04-13 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Jeffrey I. Schiller wrote: I have one, and its cool. However the time I *really* needed it was because I couldn't reach a particular AS... and of course neither could my INOC-DBA phone (sigh...). There are several ways around that... Probably the

Re: Router choice for medium size hosting provider

2005-04-13 Thread Bill Stewart
Cisco's web site has a Miercom report http://www.cisco.com/application/pdf/en/us/guest/products/ps5854/c1244/cdccont_0900aecd8017382b.pdf that tested a bidirectional UDP flow between two 10/100 ports, with big IP packets, firewall and NAT running and logging turned on, and they got 130 Mbps.