Re: Blocking mail from bad places

2007-04-08 Thread Paul Vixie
...and why aren't bounce messages standardized in content and formatting? Jiminy creepers, why can't people run software that implements standards from the last frikking *millenium*??!? because those are feel-good standards, with no selfishness hooks. emitting standardized bounce messages

Re: Abuse procedures... Reality Checks

2007-04-08 Thread Paul Vixie
Neither I nor J. Oquendo nor anyone else are required to spend our time, our money, and our resources figuring out which parts of X's network can be trusted and which can't. you should only spend resources on activities which will benefit you, of course. research into a /N to find out

Localized Root Servers in Europe?

2007-04-08 Thread Martin Hannigan
Furthermore, at least one large ISP in Europe is doing the same thing, redirecting root server traffic to their own servers. http://www.circleid.com/posts/submit_comment/splitting_root_too_late/ Furthermore, at least one large ISP in Europe is doing the same thing, redirecting root server

Re: Abuse procedures... Reality Checks

2007-04-08 Thread Leo Vegoda
On Apr 7, 2007, at 11:27 PM, John Levine wrote: [...] I can assure you from experience that any sort of automated RIR WHOIS lookups will quickly trip volume checks and get you blocked, Does this happen when you only query for the network information and not the full contact information?

Re: Localized Root Servers in Europe?

2007-04-08 Thread Matt Ghali
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Martin Hannigan wrote: http://www.circleid.com/posts/submit_comment/splitting_root_too_late/ I tried to look, but I can't seem to find circleid.com; perhaps bestbuy is intercepting my dns traffic :) Sun Apr 08 16:01:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dig +trace www.circleid.com

RE: Abuse procedures... Reality Checks

2007-04-08 Thread Barry Shein
Bingo. Read the note below again, it is the path to enlightenment, Shein's law of resources: Needs, no matter how dire or just, do not alone create the resources necessary to fulfill. On April 7, 2007 at 20:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Bonomi) wrote: From: Frank Bulk

IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-08 Thread J. Oquendo
On Thursday, 29 March 2007, a Cisco Systems router, flying in low Earth Orbit onboard the UK-DMC satellite built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), was successfully configured by NASA Glenn Research Center to use IPsec and IPv6 technologies in space. http://www.dmcii.com/news.htm Its

Re: Localized Root Servers in Europe?

2007-04-08 Thread Martin Hannigan
http://www.circleid.com/posts/submit_comment/splitting_root_too_late/ I tried to look, but I can't seem to find circleid.com; perhaps bestbuy is intercepting my dns traffic :) It's quite possible these days. :-) http://www.circleid.com/posts/splitting_root_too_late/ I gave you a better

Re: Slightly OT: Looking for an old domain for spam collection

2007-04-08 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 11:24 -0700, Douglas Otis wrote: On Mar 28, 2007, at 11:08 AM, william(at)elan.net wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Tony Finch wrote: completewhois has lists in various forms of bogon and hijacked networks. http://completewhois.com/bogons/bogons_usage.htm This

Re: Slightly OT: Looking for an old domain for spam collection

2007-04-08 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Jim Popovitch wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 11:24 -0700, Douglas Otis wrote: On Mar 28, 2007, at 11:08 AM, william(at)elan.net wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Tony Finch wrote: completewhois has lists in various forms of bogon and hijacked networks.

Re: Abuse procedures... Reality Checks

2007-04-08 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas Otis) writes: Good advise. For various reasons, a majority of IP addresses within a CIDR of any size being abusive is likely to cause the CIDR to be blocked. While a majority could be considered as being half right, the existence of the bad neighborhood

Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

2007-04-08 Thread Joel Jaeggli
J. Oquendo wrote: On Thursday, 29 March 2007, a Cisco Systems router, flying in low Earth Orbit onboard the UK-DMC satellite built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), was successfully configured by NASA Glenn Research Center to use IPsec and IPv6 technologies in space.

Re: Slightly OT: Looking for an old domain for spam collection

2007-04-08 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 21:59 -0700, william(at)elan.net wrote: Stupid bug but its not reproduceable every time and with little impact (ok it does open small window for abuse) except size of file (correct size of is about 117-120k). Stupid bugs severely impact automated processes. ;-) I'm

Re: Slightly OT: Looking for an old domain for spam collection

2007-04-08 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Jim Popovitch wrote: On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 21:59 -0700, william(at)elan.net wrote: Stupid bug but its not reproduceable every time and with little impact (ok it does open small window for abuse) except size of file (correct size of is about 117-120k). Stupid bugs