Re: OT? /dev/null 5.1.1 email

2005-07-06 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 7/6/2005 1:32 AM, Pekka Savola wrote: Make your secondary mx aware of all the valid recipient addresses. Are there mechanisms in postfix or sendmail to do this automatically, or should this be done out-of-band? I've tried looking for this feature, but found nothing; maybe I don't

Worldnic does TCP-before-UDP DNS tricks, breaking powerdns recursor and those w/o TCP connectivity

2005-07-06 Thread bert hubert
Hi Nanog people, The PowerDNS recursor has hit a snag resolving www.kde-look.org. It appears Worldnic has implemented 'TCP-before-UDP' on ns{9,10}.worldnic.com, whereby it sends out answers with the truncated bit set, and without an actual answer. Once the client has re-asked the query over TCP,

Re: OT? /dev/null 5.1.1 email

2005-07-06 Thread Owen DeLong
--On Tuesday, July 5, 2005 12:02 -1000 Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The principle purpose of the secondary mx, in this case, is to accept email for the primary mx during periods where the primary is down and the sending smtp server has no spool. i.e. no useful purpose. today, the

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

2005-07-06 Thread Michael . Dillon
So, if you're a content provider, why would you use anything other than a real ICANN-recognized domain? An example was given earlier of a site using xn-- encoding to use a non-Latin script in the TLD and domain name. If you are a business in a country which uses non-latin scripts then it is

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

2005-07-06 Thread Michael . Dillon
The reverse problem is more difficult to deal with -- that of people wanting to access Chinese (or whatever) sites that can only be found in the Chinese-owned alternative root. There was a time when email service was almost universally bundled with Internet access service. Nowadays it is

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse (was Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?)

2005-07-06 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Brad Knowles wrote: There's not much we can do to stop the alternate roots. They already exist, and at least two are currently in operation. However, I think we can look at what it is that they're offering in terms of i18n and see what we can do to address those

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

2005-07-06 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no reason why DNS resolution could not similarly be unbundled from access. Yes, there would be some latency issues to deal with, but they are not insurmountable. There are security problems too. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT? /dev/null 5.1.1 email

2005-07-06 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Jim Popovitch wrote: Presumably sending smtp servers do have spools, however given the range of things that send email these days... who really knows? Things that send email without having a spool cannot route email according to RFC 974, so they are not a problem for MXs.

Re: OT? /dev/null 5.1.1 email

2005-07-06 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Pekka Savola wrote: On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Adi Linden wrote: Make your secondary mx aware of all the valid recipient addresses. Are there mechanisms in postfix or sendmail to do this automatically, or should this be done out-of-band? I've tried looking for this feature,

Re: OT? /dev/null 5.1.1 email

2005-07-06 Thread Brad Knowles
At 1:27 AM -0400 2005-07-06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And in fact, given that most link hiccups *are* transitory, the chances are *good* that if our attempts at the first MX fail, the link will be back before we finish running through the MX's - at which point we find ourselves talking to

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

2005-07-06 Thread Todd Vierling
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reverse problem is more difficult to deal with -- that of people wanting to access Chinese (or whatever) sites that can only be found in the Chinese-owned alternative root. There was a time when email service was almost universally

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

2005-07-06 Thread Michael . Dillon
1. Security (man-in-the-middle). VPNs, SSH tunnels, etc. There are ways to solve this problem. 2. Common interoperability. We do not currently have common interoperability for a whole range of protocols. The most obvious examples are instant messaging and P2P file transfer but there are many

SORBs

2005-07-06 Thread Sanfilippo, Ted
Does anyone know of an easier way to remove IP blocks from a blacklist? We received a /16 from ARIN in May and have been trying to get SORB's to remove the blacklist association on these addresses. They seem to take forever to remove the blacklist association. Thanks Ted

Re: SORBs

2005-07-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 06/07/05, Sanfilippo, Ted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of an easier way to remove IP blocks from a blacklist? We received a /16 from ARIN in May and have been trying to get SORB's to remove the blacklist association on these addresses. They seem to take forever to remove the

RE: SORBs

2005-07-06 Thread Sanfilippo, Ted
We have been asking them to fix it for over a month now. -Original Message- From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 9:51 AM To: Sanfilippo, Ted Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: SORBs On 06/07/05, Sanfilippo, Ted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: SORBs

2005-07-06 Thread Jon Lewis
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Sanfilippo, Ted wrote: Does anyone know of an easier way to remove IP blocks from a blacklist? We received a /16 from ARIN in May and have been trying to get SORB's to remove the blacklist association on these addresses. They seem to take forever to remove the blacklist

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-06 Thread Scott McGrath
We are already behind in innovation as most networks these days are run by accountants instead of people with an entrepaneur's sprit. We need good business practices so that the network will stay afloat financially I do not miss the 'dot.com' days. But what we have now is an overemphasis on

RE: SORBs

2005-07-06 Thread Sanfilippo, Ted
It belonged to some Canadian ISP, I believe it was a cable company. Regarding the aggregation/deaggregation mess. This is due to the fact that ARIN is rather strict with IP assignements and how we route internally. Because ARIN wants us to use 80% of our ip blocks, before we can request new

Recall: SORBs

2005-07-06 Thread Sanfilippo, Ted
Sanfilippo, Ted would like to recall the message, SORBs.

Re: SORBs

2005-07-06 Thread Andre Oppermann
Sanfilippo, Ted wrote: It belonged to some Canadian ISP, I believe it was a cable company. Regarding the aggregation/deaggregation mess. This is due to the fact that ARIN is rather strict with IP assignements and how we route internally. Because ARIN wants us to use 80% of our ip blocks,

RE: SORBs

2005-07-06 Thread Jon Lewis
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Sanfilippo, Ted wrote: Regarding the aggregation/deaggregation mess. This is due to the fact that ARIN is rather strict with IP assignements and how we route internally. Because ARIN wants us to use 80% of our ip blocks, before we can request new assignments from them we

Re: Recall: SORBs

2005-07-06 Thread Alex Rubenstein
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Sanfilippo, Ted wrote: Sanfilippo, Ted would like to recall the message, SORBs. What is scarier -- a) microsoft providing this feature b) someone with the ability to type conf t, router bgp, connected to the global internet, and

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-06 Thread David Conrad
On Jul 6, 2005, at 7:57 AM, Scott McGrath wrote: IPv6 would have been adopted much sooner if the protocol had been written as an extension of IPv4 and in this case it could have slid in under the accounting departments radar since new equipment and applications would not be needed. IPv6

Re: SORBs

2005-07-06 Thread Alex Rubenstein
Perhaps the networks are disconnected? Perhaps there is insufficient bandwidth between the cities to carry inter-city traffic? Sounds somewhat familiar to http://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2004_5.html On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Andre Oppermann wrote: Sanfilippo, Ted wrote: It

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-06 Thread Scott McGrath
You do make some good points as IPv6 does not address routing scalability or multi-homing which would indeed make a contribution to lower OPEX and be easier to 'sell' to the financial people. As I read the spec it makes multi-homing more difficult since you are expected to receive space only

Re: Recall: SORBs

2005-07-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 06/07/05, Alex Rubenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is scarier -- a) microsoft providing this feature b) someone with the ability to type conf t, router bgp, connected to the global internet, and thinking that recalling a message

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-06 Thread Daniel Golding
There is an element of fear-mongering in this discussion - that's why many of us react poorly to the idea of IPv6. How so? - We are running out of IPv4 space! - We are falling behind #insert scary group to reinforce fear of Other! - We are not on the technical cutting edge! Fear is a

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-06 Thread Edward Lewis
At 10:57 -0400 7/6/05, Scott McGrath wrote: IPv6 would have been adopted much sooner if the protocol had been written as an extension of IPv4 and in this case it could have slid in under the accounting departments radar since new equipment and applications would not be needed. Sliding

Report: Major Newspaper Sites Hobbled by Power Woes

2005-07-06 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Netcraft reports that: [snip] A power outage at an Advance Internet hosting facility has hobbled the web sites for the company's chain of more than 30 newspapers, including many large metropolitan dailies. The Advance newspapers have switched to text-based sites to continue publishing, but are

Re: Report: Major Newspaper Sites Hobbled by Power Woes

2005-07-06 Thread MARLON BORBA
This leads us to the old fact that several ISPs and hosting providers protect their servers with every network perimeter security resource (firewalls, IPSs, virus-and-spam-appliances etc) but forget that availability as a security principle requires adequate physical and utility safeguards

Re: Recall: SORBs

2005-07-06 Thread Gregory Hicks
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 21:20:10 +0530 From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 06/07/05, Alex Rubenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is scarier -- a) microsoft providing this feature b) someone with the ability to type conf t, router bgp,

Re: Report: Major Newspaper Sites Hobbled by Power Woes

2005-07-06 Thread Steve Sobol
MARLON BORBA wrote: This leads us to the old fact that several ISPs and hosting providers protect their servers with every network perimeter security resource (firewalls, IPSs, virus-and-spam-appliances etc) but forget that availability as a security principle requires adequate physical and

[OT] Re: Recall: SORBs

2005-07-06 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:33 AM -0700 2005-07-06, Gregory Hicks wrote: Yeah BUT! A message can only be recalled if it has NOT been read. By a compatible Microsoft client. If the message goes to a 'list' of people, the ones that have NOT read the message will not see it. If they use a compatible

IANA IPv4 allocations and bogon updates: 89/8, 90/8 and 91/8

2005-07-06 Thread Rob Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- [ Apologies to those of you who receive this note in multiple forums. ] Hi, team. The numerous Team Cymru bogon projects have been updated as of 30 JUN 2005 to reflect the following IANA allocation made on 30 JUN 2005: 089/8 Jun 05 RIPE NCC

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-06 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 07:23:01PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: In any event, in the year 2020 we're NOT going to run IPv4 as we know it today. It's possible that the packets that travel over the wires still look like regular IPv4/TCP/UDP packets and all the complexity is pushed

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-06 Thread Edward Lewis
At 19:23 +0200 7/6/05, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: With the chicken little-ing again... You are approaching the problem at the wrong end by asking what's in it for me to adopt IPv6 now. The real question is is IPv6 inevitable in the long run. Pardon my skepticism, but I recall hearing about

Re: Report: Major Newspaper Sites Hobbled by Power Woes

2005-07-06 Thread Kevin
Fergie writes: A power outage at an Advance Internet hosting facility has hobbled the web sites for the company's chain of more than 30 newspapers, including many large metropolitan dailies. The Advance newspapers have switched to text-based sites to continue publishing, but are currently

Need BOGIES list

2005-07-06 Thread Geoff White
Hello All. I'm having trouble with Cracking Attempts and DoS attacks from a lot of places in China :) My client doesn't do any business in that region so they don't mind If I block the entire sub-continent :) Does anyone have a bad-guy list (or part of one) that I can use to get started?

Re: Need BOGIES list

2005-07-06 Thread trainier
You might start with blacklists. There's a lot of them out there. http://ahbl.org is one of them. Geoff White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/06/2005 02:49 PM To nanog@merit.edu cc Subject Need BOGIES list Hello All. I'm having trouble with Cracking

Re: Need BOGIES list

2005-07-06 Thread Jon Lewis
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Geoff White wrote: Hello All. I'm having trouble with Cracking Attempts and DoS attacks from a lot of places in China :) My client doesn't do any business in that region so they don't mind If I block the entire sub-continent :) Does anyone have a bad-guy list (or part

Re: Need BOGIES list

2005-07-06 Thread Mark Owen
On 7/6/05, Geoff White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All. I'm having trouble with Cracking Attempts and DoS attacks from a lot of places in China :) My client doesn't do any business in that region so they don't mind If I block the entire sub-continent :) Does anyone have a bad-guy list

Re: Need BOGIES list

2005-07-06 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Geoff White wrote: Hello All. I'm having trouble with Cracking Attempts and DoS attacks from a lot of places in China :) My client doesn't do any business in that region so they don't mind If I block the entire sub-continent :) Does anyone have a bad-guy list (or part

RE: Need BOGIES list

2005-07-06 Thread O'Neil,Kevin
I went to http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space and grep-ed for APNIC (Asia-Pacific Network Information Center) to get the following list. For the church email site that I support I block wholesale /8 IP address ranges. I assume that for our church we will never get email from an

Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID

2005-07-06 Thread Rich Kulawiec
[late followup, sorry] On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 05:42:17AM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote: The real fight is to find ANY techniques that have long-term, global benefit in reducing spam. We've already got them -- we've always had them. What we lack is the guts to *use* them. As we've seen over

Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID

2005-07-06 Thread Jason Frisvold
On 7/6/05, Rich Kulawiec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I grow rather tired of people whining about the spam (and abuse) problem on the one hand...while refusing to take simple, well-known, and proven steps to push the consequences back on those responsible for it. While we may no longer be in a

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-06 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 6-jul-2005, at 19:55, Edward Lewis wrote: At 19:23 +0200 7/6/05, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: With the chicken little-ing again... ? You are approaching the problem at the wrong end by asking what's in it for me to adopt IPv6 now. The real question is is IPv6 inevitable in

Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID

2005-07-06 Thread trainier
As we've seen over and over again, the one and only technique that has ever worked (and that I think ever *will* work) is the boycott -- whether enforced via the use of DNSBLs or RHSBLs or local blacklists or firewalls or whatever mechanism. It works for a simple reason: it makes the spam

Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID

2005-07-06 Thread Douglas Otis
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 15:23 -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote: [late followup, sorry] On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 05:42:17AM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote: The real fight is to find ANY techniques that have long-term, global benefit in reducing spam. We've already got them -- we've always had them.

Re: Enable BIND cache server to resolve chinese domain name?

2005-07-06 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 05:21:47PM +, Paul Vixie wrote: Every public root experiment that I have seen has always operated as a superset of the ICANN root zone. not www.orsn.net. Well, their website looks a lot better than the equivalent one. :-) But note that their site does *not*

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-06 Thread Joe Abley
On 6 Jul 2005, at 11:41, Scott McGrath wrote: You do make some good points as IPv6 does not address routing scalability or multi-homing which would indeed make a contribution to lower OPEX and be easier to 'sell' to the financial people. As I read the spec it makes multi-homing more

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-06 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 7-jul-2005, at 0:18, Joe Abley wrote: With great hindsight it would have been nice if the multi6/shim6 design exercise had come *during* the IPv6 design exercise, rather than afterwards: we might have ended up with a protocol/addressing model that accommodated both the address size

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-06 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 12:34:53AM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: But it certainly looks like a small DFZ table and portable address space are fundamentally incompatible. At least if you want all the advantages that real BGP multihoming has. Not surprising. :-) Best regards, Daniel --

SORBS deaggregation

2005-07-06 Thread David Barak
--- Alex Rubenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps the networks are disconnected? Perhaps there is insufficient bandwidth between the cities to carry inter-city traffic? So, why would GRE not be a reasonable (temporary) solution here? If the islands are going to remain

RE: SORBS deaggregation

2005-07-06 Thread Hannigan, Martin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Barak Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 6:51 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: SORBS deaggregation --- Alex Rubenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ SNIP ] I would've made this a

Re: SORBs

2005-07-06 Thread Matthew Sullivan
Sanfilippo, Ted wrote: We have been asking them to fix it for over a month now. Got a SORBS Ticket number? (If you've been asking us you should have) I suspect it might be related to some wrong ARIN records (I know there has been an issue with a Canadian ISP that doesn't exist

Re: SORBS deaggregation

2005-07-06 Thread Alex Rubenstein
Perhaps the networks are disconnected? Perhaps there is insufficient bandwidth between the cities to carry inter-city traffic? So, why would GRE not be a reasonable (temporary) solution here? If the islands are going to remain disconnected long term, why not get additional AS numbers?

Re: SORBS deaggregation

2005-07-06 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 6, 2005, at 6:51 PM, David Barak wrote: Perhaps the networks are disconnected? Perhaps there is insufficient bandwidth between the cities to carry inter-city traffic? So, why would GRE not be a reasonable (temporary) solution here? If the islands are going to remain disconnected

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-06 Thread David Conrad
On Jul 6, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Well, maybe I'm too optimistic here, but I believe that if a real solution to the DFZ problem presents itself, the IETF will bend over backwards and then some to shoehorn it into IP. I'd say yes. You are too optimistic. :-). But it

RE: Need BOGIES list

2005-07-06 Thread Mark Foster
I went to http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space and grep-ed for APNIC (Asia-Pacific Network Information Center) to get the following list. For the church email site that I support I block wholesale /8 IP address ranges. I assume that for our church we will never get email

RE: Need BOGIES list

2005-07-06 Thread Mark Foster
I went to http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space and grep-ed for APNIC (Asia-Pacific Network Information Center) to get the following list. For the church email site that I support I block wholesale /8 IP address ranges. I assume that for our church we will never get email

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-06 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Iljitsch van Beijn um writes: On 7-jul-2005, at 0:18, Joe Abley wrote: With great hindsight it would have been nice if the multi6/shim6 design exercise had come *during* the IPv6 design exercise, rather than afterwards: we might have ended up with a

DNS .US outage

2005-07-06 Thread Church, Chuck
Anyone else having issues with .US right now (~12AM EST)? NSlookup, etc show various .us destinations as unknown domains... Chuck ChurchLead Design EngineerCCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSENetco Government Services - Design Implementation Team1210 N. Parker Rd.Greenville, SC 29609Home office:

Re: DNS .US outage

2005-07-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 07/07/05, Church, Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else having issues with .US right now (~12AM EST)? NSlookup, etc show various .us destinations as unknown domains... nslookup is not the best tool to troubleshoot dns issues works for me though - [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10:02:22

Re: DNS .US outage

2005-07-06 Thread Randy Bush
Doc-2.2.3: doc -p -w us Doc-2.2.3: Starting test of us. parent is . Doc-2.2.3: Test date - Wed Jul 6 18:42:03 HST 2005 Note: Skipping parent domain testing Found 3 NS and 3 glue records for us. @a.root-servers.net. (non-AUTH) Using NSlist from parent domain server a.root-servers.net. NS list

RE: DNS .US outage

2005-07-06 Thread Church, Chuck
Thanks. Didn't have any *NIX boxes laying around to 'dig' any deeper. When I checked networksolutions' whois for neosystems.us and state.ny.us , both returned: We are unable to process your request at this time. Please try again later. Figured something was up. But when I tried nslookup with

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-06 Thread Alexei Roudnev
IPv6 is an excellent example of _second system_ (do you remember book, written by Brooks many years ago?) Happu engineers put all their crazy ideas together into the second version of first 9succesfull) thing, and they wonder why it do not work properly. OS/360 is one example, IPv6 will be

RE: DNS .US outage

2005-07-06 Thread Randy Bush
Thanks. Didn't have any *NIX boxes laying around to 'dig' any deeper. i believe even windoze has dig at the command line, though i don't know in what directory it lies. randy

Re: DNS .US outage

2005-07-06 Thread Rodney Joffe
Er. On 7/6/05 10:00 PM, Church, Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. Didn't have any *NIX boxes laying around to 'dig' any deeper. When I checked networksolutions' whois for neosystems.us and state.ny.us , both returned: We are unable to process your request at this time.