Re: IP Delegations for Forum Spammers and Invalid Whois info

2006-07-03 Thread Simon Waters
On Monday 03 Jul 2006 06:16, you wrote: Forgive the relative noobishness of the question, but I've not had to deal with this sort of situation before. Should I be forwarding to RIPE? I don't think RIPE will be that interested. The address range gets connectivity from someone. I suggest

Re: IP Delegations for Forum Spammers and Invalid Whois info

2006-07-03 Thread Gadi Evron
This is a known problem with known solutions. There are RBL's, bayesian filters, behaviour filters, and what not. For a phpbb forum I'd suggest a captcha, although that's extremely annoying. This is becoming the next (last) spamvertising medium and Google poisoning medium. I and others spend

Huawei Routers in the Core

2006-07-03 Thread Kim Onnel
Hello, We have been looking at Huawei line of routers recently and i was kind of surprised to see they have Core stuff, that are able to handle Gigs of traffic and MPLS, i cant seem to find anyone around that have used any of these, i wonder if anyone here has, i'd love to hear what he/she has to

Huawei Routers in the Core

2006-07-03 Thread Kim Onnel
Hello, We have been looking at Huawei line of routers recently and i was kind of surprised to see they have Core stuff, that are able to handle Gigs of traffic and MPLS, i cant seem to find anyone around that have used any of these, i wonder if anyone here has, i'd love to hear what he/she has to

Re: IP Delegations for Forum Spammers and Invalid Whois info

2006-07-03 Thread Phil Rosenthal
Hello, On Jul 3, 2006, at 3:53 AM, Simon Waters wrote: On Monday 03 Jul 2006 06:16, you wrote: Forgive the relative noobishness of the question, but I've not had to deal with this sort of situation before. Should I be forwarding to RIPE? I don't think RIPE will be that interested.

Re: DNS Based Load Balancers

2006-07-03 Thread John Payne
On Jul 3, 2006, at 12:09 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: well, i see that fezhead is dead. but 3-party TCP is alive and well: http://www.cs.bu.edu/~best/res/projects/DPRClusterLoadBalancing/. see also http://www.tenereillo.com/GSLBPageOfShame.htm and

RE: DNS Based Load Balancers

2006-07-03 Thread David Temkin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Vixie Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 12:09 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: DNS Based Load Balancers The problem being that most of what you linked to below is either A) out of

Call for Volunteers for Mailing List Administration Panel

2006-07-03 Thread Randy Bush
There is an opening on the NANOG Mail List Administration Panel. According to the draft charter[1]: ... The NANOG list will be administered and minimally moderated by a panel selected by the Steering Committee. Accordingly, the Steering Committee is soliciting nominations for this

Re: DNS Based Load Balancers

2006-07-03 Thread Paul Vixie
Without getting into a massive back and forth, I just want to make 3 points: as long as the back-and-forth remains informative and constructive, i'll play: 1) Websphere is proprietary to IBM and requires their servers. It's not scalable to other applications. It's also not targeted to the

ICANN at risk

2006-07-03 Thread Jeremy Kister
With three days left and no mention of it from the folks that matter, I'm referring NANOG readers to: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/frnotices/2006/NOI_DNS_Transition_0506.htm From the article: SUMMARY: The United States Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and

RE: DNS Based Load Balancers

2006-07-03 Thread David Temkin
just as one can always find an example that supports one's preconceptions, one can always find a single counterexample that will support one's prejudices. i'm sure that any technology can be successfully demo'd or successfully counter-demo'd. this conversation started out as what DNS