Re: request for help w/ ATT and terminology

2008-01-17 Thread Crist Clark
All of the arguments of whether ATT should do it or would do it aside, my guesses are that it is either (a) the people he is talking to really don't understand him, (b) do understand but don't know how to get it done, or (c) ATT only does things like that for customers buying such-and-such level

Re: DreamHost Contact?

2008-01-02 Thread Crist Clark
On 12/30/2007 at 8:27 PM, Gregory Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:42:21 -0500 From: Michael Greb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: DreamHost Contact? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've attempted to contact DreamHost NOC or

RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-22 Thread Crist Clark
On 10/22/2007 at 3:02 PM, Frank Bulk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder how quickly applications and network gear would implement QoS support if the major ISPs offered their subscribers two queues: a default queue, which handled regular internet traffic but squashed P2P, and then a separate

Re: Content Delivery Networks

2007-08-10 Thread Crist Clark
On 8/10/2007 at 11:55 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 10, 2007, at 12:46 PM, John Levine wrote: Very interesting. We've all heard and probably all passed along that little bromide at one time or another. Is it possible that at one time it was true (even

Re: Interesting new dns failures

2007-05-22 Thread Crist Clark
On 5/21/2007 at 2:09 PM, Edward Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 3:50 PM -0500 5/21/07, Gadi Evron wrote: As to NS fastflux, I think you are right. But it may also be an issue of policy. Is there a reason today to allow any domain to change NSs constantly? Although I rarely find

Re: Request for topic death on Cold War history (was RE: Every incident is an opportunity)

2007-02-12 Thread Crist Clark
On 2/12/2007 at 3:13 PM, Alexander Harrowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Causality? WW2=nukes, cold war=arpanet=internet, surely? Hitler=WW2=... Godwin! Please? Anyway, we all know Al Gore invented the Internet. On 2/12/07, micky coughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, let's see. Nukes =

RE: Google wants to be your Internet

2007-01-30 Thread Crist Clark
On 1/30/2007 at 12:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IPv6 makes NAT obsolete because IPv6 firewalls can provide all the useful features of IPv4 NAT without any of the downsides. IPv6 firewalls? Where? Good ones? Why good ones. NAT is a basic IPv4 firewall. All IPv6 needs to

SBC RBL

2006-12-05 Thread Crist Clark
We started getting these, for reasons unknown, for some pacbell.net email addresses, 550 5.0.0 ylpvm35.prodigy.net Access Denied. To request removal, send the complete error message, including your ip addresses, in an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With great trepidation, I went ahead and

Re: Spain was offline

2006-08-31 Thread Crist Clark
On 8/31/2006 at 8:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] An ISP could run a modified DNS relay that replicates all responses to a special cache server which does not time out the responses and which is only used to answer queries when specified domains are unreachable on the Internet.

Billing Humor

2006-08-25 Thread Crist Clark
New plan? We used to have similar contracts with MCI and ATT. http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51834 -- Crist J. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Globalstar Communications(408) 933-4387 BĀ¼information contained in this e-mail

Re: key change for TCP-MD5

2006-06-20 Thread Crist Clark
On 6/20/2006 at 12:33 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20-jun-2006, at 21:23, Randy Bush wrote: What if we agree to change the key on our BGP session, I add the new key on my side and start sending packets using the new key, while you don't have the new key in your

Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power

2006-06-16 Thread Crist Clark
On 6/16/2006 at 2:24 PM, Alex Rubenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Matthew Crocker wrote: I wonder just how much power it takes to cool 450,000 servers. 450,000 servers * 100 Watts/Server = 45,000,000 watts / 3.413 watts/BTU = 13.1 Million BTU / 12000 BTU/Ton = 1100

Re: Is your ISP Influenza-ready?

2006-04-18 Thread Crist Clark
Barry Shein wrote: [snip] So if you're really expecting something as macro as 40% of the population dropping dead I think one has to think much bigger and much more in the realm of unexpected consequences. Uhh... I think, I _hope_ that we are talking about 40% of your workforce NOT SHOWING

Re: Wifi SIP WPA/PSK Support

2006-01-26 Thread Crist Clark
Mike Leber wrote: [snip] I've had a few people say that there was some sort of conspiracy to keep US citizens from using secure phones, however I found that laughable because [snip] Because domestically the US gov't (or local LEOs) can just intercept the calls when they hit the PSTN. They

Sprint Problems?

2006-01-09 Thread Crist Clark
Having trouble getting anything out of our Sprint rep. Rumors of fiber whack. Problems out here in San Jose, California and in Texas, Waco vicinity. Hard to say whether some of our problems over the rest of North America are related to Texas and California or more widespread. Voice and data

Re: Receiving route with metric 0

2005-12-07 Thread Crist Clark
Glen Kent wrote: Am all the more confused now :) In pre-RFC1058 implementations the sender increments the metric, so a directly-connected route's metric is 1 on the wire. In post-RFC1058 implementations the receiver increments the metric, so a directly-connected route's metric is 0 on the

Re: Receiving route with metric 0

2005-12-06 Thread Crist Clark
Stephen Stuart wrote: I am a little confused here. You yourself say that a valid metric starts from 1, then how come 0 be valid for a directly connected route. Are you saying that seeing a RIP metric of 0 on the wire is valid? A metric of 0 from a host would mean that the host itself is the

Re: the iab simplifies internet architecture!

2005-11-11 Thread Crist Clark
Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 20:37 -1000, Randy Bush wrote: btw, for another great giggle (many thanks to brian candler for reporting it) From the documentation for Cisco's VPN client software for Linux:

Re: cogent+ Level(3) are ok now

2005-10-28 Thread Crist Clark
Eric Louie wrote: Now, one really needs to wonder why the agreement could not be reached *prior* to the depeering on 10/5 It's not rocket science. As people have pointed out repeatedly, this was surely not rocket science since it wasn't a technical problem at all. It was a business conflict.

Re: What is multihoming was (design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation)

2005-10-25 Thread Crist Clark
Robert Bonomi wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Oct 24 15:33:02 2005 Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:31:17 -0700 Subject: Re: What is multihoming was (design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation) Stephen Sprunk wrote: [snip] Other people use this term in very different ways. To some

Re: What is multihoming was (design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation)

2005-10-24 Thread Crist Clark
Stephen Sprunk wrote: [snip] Other people use this term in very different ways. To some people it means using having multiple IP addresses bound to a single network interface. To others it means multiple websites on one server. That is virtual hosting in a NANOG context. Some undereducated

IANA Blackhole Servers Ill?

2005-10-21 Thread Crist Clark
We got some very weird compaints about applications hanging. Tracked it down to reverse lookups timing out. Reverse lookups to RFC1918 space. Looks like the IANA blackhole servers for RFC1918 are not well? 1 0.0 207.88.152.10 - 192.175.48.6 DNS C 52.143.18.172.in-addr.arpa. Internet

Re: IANA Blackhole Servers Ill?

2005-10-21 Thread Crist Clark
;; SERVER: 192.175.48.42#53(blackhole-2.iana.org.) ;; WHEN: Fri Oct 21 23:15:49 2005 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 162 Regards, Peter and Karin Dambier Crist Clark wrote: We got some very weird compaints about applications hanging. Tracked it down to reverse lookups timing out. Reverse lookups to RFC1918

Re: IANA Blackhole Servers Ill?

2005-10-21 Thread Crist Clark
Looks like it was ISC? And they withdrewn their routes for a bit? For a while I got (from XO in CA), $ host -t txt -c chaos hostname.bind 192.175.48.6 Using domain server 192.175.48.6: hostname.bind CHAOS descriptive text black-1.sth.netnod.se Goin' transatlantic!

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Crist Clark
Daniel Roesen wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 07:27:37PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the kicker here is that the applications then need some serious smarts to do proper source address selection. Nope. The ULID is supposed to be static, globally unique. Just not globally

Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-14 Thread Crist Clark
Daniel Roesen wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 01:11:18PM -0700, Crist Clark wrote: Actually, doing multihoming and getting PI space are orthogonal in shim6 last I knew. That is, you could get address space from your N providers and have one of the providers, say Provider X, to be the ULID

Re: IPv6 news

2005-10-13 Thread Crist Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Percentage of available address space announced: 38.6 You misunderstand what IP addresse are. They have nothing whatsoever to do with the Internet. The address space announced on the Internet is an entirely separate issue. IP addresses were

Re: Weird DNS issues for domains

2005-09-30 Thread Crist Clark
Peter wrote: Crist Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The problem I've seen is when an SMTP server does not accept emails which have non-resolvable MAIL FROM domain. When the sender is a dumb SMTP client, not an MTA, this can cause problems. Well, that dumb SMTP client should stop

Re: Weird DNS issues for domains

2005-09-29 Thread Crist Clark
Todd Vierling wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, John Dupuy wrote: If you are talking about strictly http, then you are probably right. If you are hosting any email, then this isn't the case. A live DNS but dead mail server will cause your mail to queue up for a later resend on the originating mail

Re: mail service with no mx (was - Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?)

2005-09-13 Thread Crist Clark
Adam McKenna wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 04:31:05PM -0700, william(at)elan.net wrote: Telnet option negotiation is at Layer 7 after TCP connection has been established. Firewalls typically don't operate at this level (TCP session is Layer 4 if I remember right) and would refuse or reject

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-12 Thread Crist Clark
Igor Gashinsky wrote: [snip] Moving everything to the end-hosts is simply not a good idea imho. But isn't that what IP is supposed to be about? Smart endpoints, dumb network (a.k.a. the stupid network)? -- Crist J. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Globalstar

Re: Any issue with www.cisco.com

2005-09-06 Thread Crist Clark
Yet another Me too! response. We often use pings to www.cisco.com as a Internet connectivity test from globally dispersed sites. These are typical ploss for ICMP pings. The most likely answer, as others have pointed out, is throttling at the destination. The fact that so many people use

SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World

2005-09-06 Thread Crist Clark
As best I can tell from ARIN documents, ISP still are supposed to SWIP or use Rwhois for subassignments of /29 and greater. However, is this still widely practiced these days? Especially among smaller ISPs? I know the privacy pros and cons, so I don't seek to start those threads again. I'm

Re: LAN to LAN dial solution

2005-08-23 Thread Crist Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone suggest, other than using Cisco's a brand of UK-compliant boxes that effectively will perform a PSTN dial up function, so that when the two boxes are connected, the LAN's are effectively bridged together Basically what we want to be able to do is connect a

Re: Way OT: RE: @Home's 119 domain names up for sale

2005-08-11 Thread Crist Clark
[I know, I know, don't feed the trolls. But some are just too cute not to. Just this once.] Matthew Black wrote: It's kind of funny that people keep making these general claims as though the money is wasted or goes to some unproductive purpose. Personally, I don't consider subsidized housing

Re: You're all over thinking this

2005-07-22 Thread Crist Clark
Steve Sobol wrote: Crist Clark wrote: Gratuitous-Plug=Employer If you really want high reliability during and after a natural disaster, satellite phones are probably your best option. That's who I thought you worked for, but the only satellite phone provider whose name I consistently

Re: You're all over thinking this

2005-07-22 Thread Crist Clark
Sam Crooks wrote: Didn't the US Navy buy Iridium? Nope. http://www.iridium.com/corp/iri_corp-story.asp?storyid=2 In December 2000, a group of private investors led by Dan Colussy organized Iridium Satellite LLC which acquired the operating assets of the bankrupt Iridium LLC including

Re: You're all over thinking this

2005-07-21 Thread Crist Clark
Austin McKinley wrote: But a land line? If I pick up an analog phone anywhere, I expect a dial tone, and local calling. If I don't have access to emergency services after a blackout/natural disaster that knocks cell towers down (think hurricane season in Florida last year) then you'd never

Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed

2005-07-19 Thread Crist Clark
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 19-jul-2005, at 1:43, Crist Clark wrote: [snip] If almost none of the phishing emails I get now bother to play these kinds of games today, how much does this really help? And burglars also manage to get inside your house even though you lock the door. So

Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed

2005-07-19 Thread Crist Clark
Brad Knowles wrote: At 10:31 AM +0200 2005-07-19, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: And for 99% of the users out there, 4) the caching servers for their ISP/employer/other access provider Actually, you don't. If the DNS provides false information, the public key crypto will catch

Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed

2005-07-18 Thread Crist Clark
Isn't someone more eloquent than I going to point out that that spending a lot of effort eliminating homographs from DNS to stop phishing is a security measure on par with cutting cell service to underground trains to prevent bombings? It focuses on one small vulnerability that phishers exploit,

Re: Non-English Domain Names Likely Delayed

2005-07-18 Thread Crist Clark
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 18-jul-2005, at 23:43, Crist Clark wrote: Isn't someone more eloquent than I going to point out that that spending a lot of effort eliminating homographs from DNS to stop phishing is a security measure on par with cutting cell service to underground trains

Re: London incidents

2005-07-12 Thread Crist Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:26:33 +1200, Mark Foster said: Using phone company records, researchers assessed phone use immediately before the crash. They found a third of calls in the 10 minutes before the crash were made on cellphones. And the *other* 2/3rd of the

Re: mh (RE: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008)

2005-07-08 Thread Crist Clark
Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 01:15:42PM -0400, David Andersen wrote: On Jul 8, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:31:57PM -0700, Crist Clark wrote: And if you still want the protection of NAT, any stateful firewall will do

Re: mh (RE: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008)

2005-07-08 Thread Crist Clark
Fred Baker wrote: [snip] A NAT, in that context, is a stateful firewall that changes the addresses, which means that the end station cannot use IPSEC to ensure that it is still talking with the same system on the outside. [snip] No, you can't use AH, but yes, you can use IPsec through NAT.

Re: mh (RE: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008)

2005-07-07 Thread Crist Clark
Andre Oppermann wrote: Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: I'd have to counter with the assumption that NATs are going away with v6 is a rather risky assumption. Or perhaps I misunderstood your point... There is one thing often overlooked with regard to NAT. That is, it has prevented many

Re: mh (RE: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008)

2005-07-07 Thread Crist Clark
Petri Helenius wrote: Crist Clark wrote: And the counter point to that argument is that the sparse population of IPv6 space will make systematic scanning by worms an ineffective means of propagation. Any by connecting to one of the p2p overlay networks you'll have a few million in-use

Re: VerizonWireless.com Mail Blacklists

2005-05-27 Thread Crist Clark
. But as usual, once you penetrate the front line of help desk drones, the real technical people are professional and helpful. Crist Clark wrote: It appears VerizonWireless.com has some rather aggressive mail filters. Verizon.net's blocking of Europe, Asia, Africa... well, everything but North America

VerizonWireless.com Mail Blacklists

2005-05-19 Thread Crist Clark
It appears VerizonWireless.com has some rather aggressive mail filters. Verizon.net's blocking of Europe, Asia, Africa... well, everything but North America has made some headlines and even some lawsuits. Anyone know if VerizonWireless.com and Verizon.net are independent operations from an SMTP

Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?

2005-05-11 Thread Crist Clark
Jim Popovitch wrote: Wow! You can buy groceries at Kohls now? :-) (1) Kohls is/was a regional (Wisconsin) grocery store chain[0]. (2) Please do not feed the trolls. On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 11:08 -0700, Matt Bazan wrote: why in the world would anyone want to purchase dsl from a private reseller when

Re: Internet email performance study

2005-04-28 Thread Crist Clark
aljuhani wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 23:42, Robert Beverly [EMAIL PROTECTED] ..snip Yes, our SMTP greetings are valid and up to spec. Again, it's the non-deterministic loss that we're most concerned about. If there were a problem with the SMTP exchange, we would see our emails always

Re: Internet email performance study

2005-04-28 Thread Crist Clark
Brad Knowles wrote: At 3:05 PM -0700 2005-04-28, Crist Clark wrote: http://www.albury.net.au/netstatus/derouted.html No, it doesn't. Please read their paper. In the paper and as he stated again in the response above, their definition of a loss requires the message to be delivered successfully

Re: Slashdot: Providers Ignoring DNS TTL?

2005-04-20 Thread Crist Clark
for another thread? On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Crist Clark wrote: FWIW, I did some 'dig'ing on my Comcast home service. The DHCP is handing out 204.127.198.4 and 63.240.76.4 for DNS at the moment. I ran a query for a name in a zone I control that has a five minute TTL on 204.127.198.4. The first query

Re: Survey of interest ..

2005-01-11 Thread Crist Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I'll predict that if we *don't* have an attack on the power grid in the next 10 years, it's because the attackers have come up with something else they consider even more interesting as a target. A downed power line, even though it may have more economic impact,

Clueful DNS Contact at XO?

2005-01-04 Thread Crist Clark
We have some Direct Internet Access (DIA) through XO. We have several netblocks with them and would like to get the IN-ADDR.ARPA domains for these blocks delegated to us. Should be just a couple of NS records in the parent zone, right? No big deal, right? After several attempts over years and

Re: Anycast 101

2004-12-16 Thread Crist Clark
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Due to limitations in the DNS protocol, it's not possible to increase the number of authoritative DNS servers for a zone beyond around 13. I believe you misspelled, Due to people who do not understand the DNS protocol being allowed to configure firewalls... -- Crist

Re: Anycast 101

2004-12-16 Thread Crist Clark
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Crist Clark writes: Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Due to limitations in the DNS protocol, it's not possible to increase the number of authoritative DNS servers for a zone beyond around 13. I believe you misspelled, Due to people who do

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-10 Thread Crist Clark
Krzysztof Adamski wrote: On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Jeffrey I. Schiller wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 12:26:59PM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote: One thing that's not clear is whether or not Verizon caches any of this information. It appears that they do some amount of caching.

Re: ULA and RIR cost-recovery

2004-11-24 Thread Crist Clark
Owen DeLong wrote: I have never been a fan of the registered ULAs, and have argued against the IETF's attempts to state specific monetary values or lifetime practice as a directive to the RIRs; but I am equally bothered by the thought that the operator community would feel a need to fight against

Re: Stupid Ipv6 question...

2004-11-19 Thread Crist Clark
Lars Erik Gullerud wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 16:36, Stephen Sprunk wrote: /127 prefixes are assumed for point-to-point links, and presumably an organization will divide up a single /64 for all ptp links -- unless they have more than 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 of them. While that would seem

KAME on IPv4? (was: Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?)

2004-11-12 Thread Crist Clark
Daniel Roesen wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 05:19:36PM +0100, Simon Leinen wrote: specified the entire 128 bits... how do you specify only part of it? On Solaris, you would use the token option (see the extract from man ifconfig output below). You can simply put token ::1234:5678 into

Re: Slightly OT: Flannery VS RSA

2004-11-12 Thread Crist Clark
Mike Lyon wrote: I haven't heard much lately about Flannery. Have their been any implementations or benchmarks of the flannery Cayley-Purser algorithm in comparison to RSA in the real world? Non-starter. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Cayley-PurserAlgorithm.html -- Crist J. Clark

Re: ICMP weirdness

2004-10-18 Thread Crist Clark
Jim Popovitch wrote: From Comcast Cable, at my home in Atlanta, I can ping 10.10.1.1 which is pong'ed from a private client network hanging somewhere off of Insight Broadband's network in the North Central part of the US. Why on god's green earth do network operators allow such nonsense as

Re: Website contact for www.cisco.com

2004-09-23 Thread Crist Clark
Temkin, David wrote: Can someone responsible for either security or operations of www.cisco.com please contact me? We are seeing an issue where you may be blocking one of our source IP addresses from accessing the website. Hmmm... Weird. We're having a similar issue. If you are at liberty to,

Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

2004-08-30 Thread Crist Clark
Scott Call wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Mike Tancsa wrote: I recall even seeing posts about people claiming this meant original data being reconstructed from the checksum! That would be truly amazing since I could reconstruct a 680MB ISO from just 61d38fad42b4037970338636b5e72e5a. Wow!

Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

2004-08-30 Thread Crist Clark
Gregory Hicks wrote: Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:39:56 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 04:12 PM 30/08/2004, Dan Hollis wrote: yep md5 made the news recently because it's been cracked: http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-22-5314533.html

Re: SPF again (Re: XO Mail engineers?)

2004-08-04 Thread Crist Clark
Edward B. Dreger wrote: DAU Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 15:46:17 -0700 DAU From: David A. Ulevitch DAU SPF's use of TXT records doesn't bother me so much. It's Perhaps some other technology would like to use TXT RRs. If something hogs an entire RRTYPE at a given scope, it really should have its own

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-25 Thread Crist Clark
Jeff Shultz wrote: ** Reply to message from Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:14:43 +0200 At 8:44 AM -0700 2004-06-25, Jeff Shultz wrote: At least if someone in this clearing house sells it to the terrorists, they will have had to work for it a bit, instead of having us hand

Re: Can a customer take IP's with them?

2004-06-23 Thread Crist Clark
David Schwartz wrote: On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, David Schwartz wrote: [snip] For instance, if what you say were true, all an ISP would have to do in order to sell their IP space is to create a contract stating that they are doing so. Exactly. If they did that, a court would likely enjoin them

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Crist Clark
Richard Welty wrote: On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 17:51:00 -0400 (EDT) Scott McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But wouldn't an interocitor with electron sorter option give you much more reliable packet delivery... that works fine until someone reverse the polarity of the neutron flow. And for heaven's

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-10 Thread Crist Clark
Sean Donelan wrote: If you leave your lights on, the electric company will send you a bill. If the neighbor taps into your power lines after the meter...? If you leave your faucets running, the water company will send you a bill. If you leave your computer infected, ??? If you lose your credit

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-10 Thread Crist Clark
Andy Dills wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Jeff Shultz wrote: But ultimately, _you_ are responsible for your own systems. Even if the water company is sending me 85% TriChlorEthane? Right. Got it. The victim is always responsible. There you have it folks. Change

Re: IT security people sleep well

2004-06-03 Thread Crist Clark
Sean Donelan wrote: Survey: Despite dangers, IT personnel sleep well By Bill Brenner, News Writer 27 May 2004 | SearchSecurity.com I liked this quote, About 43% of respondents said they're using the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol to protect data, secure remote access, and perform network

Re: ntp config tech note

2004-05-21 Thread Crist Clark
C. Jon Larsen wrote: [snip] Its interesting to hear what other folks are doing. I had assumed folks normally don't run ntpd on each and every server and that ntpdate + cron was much preferred; maybe I am off-base. After the last big xntpd vulnerability a few years ago, I went through and made

Re: Secondary MX user list filter for Sendmail

2004-05-19 Thread Crist Clark
Todd Vierling wrote: A colleague asked me offlist about how to make a Sendmail secondary MX properly return 550 for invalid recipient addresses. [snip] For those with an LDAP directory containing mailbox information, I'd recommend using sendmail's built-in LDAP capabilities. I've found it a good

Re: TCP/BGP vulnerability - easier than you think

2004-04-22 Thread Crist Clark
David Luyer wrote: [snip] With ipsec, you have crypto overhead before you have any opportunity to do the basic sanity check. Minor point, but with IPsec, the 32-bit SPI and the 32-bit replay counter are very low cost ways to drop the majority of traffic from a flood of random junk with no crypto

Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama)

2004-04-21 Thread Crist Clark
E.B. Dreger wrote: PG Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 07:45:36 +0100 PG From: Peter Galbavy PG E.B. Dreger wrote: PG I don't think we're even that far along. If I'm reading FreeBSD PG 4.9 and NetBSD 1.6.2 source correctly, PG PG /usr/src/sys/netinet/in_pcb.c PG PG Should have stretched as far as

Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama)

2004-04-20 Thread Crist Clark
Patrick W.Gilmore wrote: On Apr 20, 2004, at 3:24 PM, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, James wrote: i can see this 'attack' operational against a multihop bgp session that's not md5'd. now the question is... would this also affect single-hop bgp sessions? my understanding would

Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama)

2004-04-20 Thread Crist Clark
Dan Hollis wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Crist Clark wrote: But it has limited effectiveness for multi-hop sessions. There is the appeal of a solution that does not depend of the physical layout of the BGP peers. Does MD5 open the door to cpu DOS attacks on routers though? Eg can someone craft

Re: Lazy network operators

2004-04-14 Thread Crist Clark
Chris Palmer wrote: When evaluating spam solutions, the first thing I ask is, Does this empower users? If the answer is no, it's probably the wrong solution. Spammers are users too. You can't spell abuser without user. You are inherently trying to diminish the power of the abuser users. No spam

Re: DNS requests for 1918 space

2004-03-16 Thread Crist Clark
Geo. wrote: Can anyone point me at any papers that talk about security issues raised by private networks passing dns requests for RFC 1918 private address space out to their ISP's dns servers? I've never seen the whole paper on the topic. Leaking the fact that you use 10.10.10.0/24 or whatever

Re: DNS requests for 1918 space

2004-03-16 Thread Crist Clark
Duane Wessels wrote: The IN-ADDR.ARPA delegations for RFC1918 space are just like any other block. You'll just end up hitting IANA's blackhole servers, and not all that much, the cache times are one week. In theory, yes. In reality there are quite a few resolvers that, apparently, do not

Re: Enterprise Multihoming

2004-03-11 Thread Crist Clark
Jay Ford wrote: [snip] Many/most of my external connectivity problems are provider-related rather than circuit-related. Having two circuits to a single provider doesn't help when that provider is broken. I'm not saying that multi-ISP BGP-based multi-homing is risk-free, but I don't see

Re: dealing with w32/bagle

2004-03-04 Thread Crist Clark
Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Jeff Shultz wrote: ** Reply to message from Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 03 Mar 2004 22:04:44 -0600 Curtis Maurand wrote: Until there's an easy way of getting a file to your friend down the street that's as easy as sending an email, we're

Re: How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged Network Threat)

2004-02-27 Thread Crist Clark
Sam Stickland wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. I think a solution lies in the general direction of converting the entire world to use 112 for emergency services and having the VoIP services set up an automated system that rings back whenever your phone connects using a different IP address

Re: Interesting BIND error

2004-02-12 Thread Crist Clark
Brian Bruns wrote: On Thu, February 12, 2004 4:52 pm, Brian Wallingford said: We've been seeing the following on all of our (9.2.1) authoritative nameservers since approximately 10am today. Googling has turned up nothing; I'm currently trying to glean some useful netflow data. Just wondering

Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1

2004-02-05 Thread Crist Clark
Martin Hepworth wrote: Alexei Roudnev wrote: Checkpoint is a very strange brand. On the one hand, it is _well known brand_, _many awards_, _editors choice_, etc etc. I know network consultant, who installed few hundred of them, and it works. On the other hand, every time, when I have a deal

Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1

2004-02-05 Thread Crist Clark
Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote: Checkpoint Firewall-1 HTTP Parsing Format String Vulnerabilities Vendor Notification Schedule: Vendor notified - 2/2/2004 Checkpoint patch developed and made available - 2/4/2004 ISS X-Force Advisory released - 2/4/2004 Checkpoint VPN-1/SecureClient ISAKMP Buffer Overflow

Re: sniffer/promisc detector

2004-01-21 Thread Crist Clark
Alexei Roudnev wrote: Please, do it: time nmap -p 0-65535 $target You will be surprised (and nmap will not report applications; to test a response, multiply time at 5 ). Yes. It will, http://www.insecure.org/nmap/versionscan.html -- Crist J. Clark

Re: Upcoming change to SOA values in .com and .net zones

2004-01-07 Thread Crist Clark
Matt Larson wrote: VeriSign Naming and Directory Services will change the serial number format and minimum value in the .com and .net zones' SOA records on or shortly after 9 February 2004. The current serial number format is MMDDNN. (The zones are generated twice per day, so NN is

Re: Trace and Ping with Record Option on Cisco Routers

2003-12-22 Thread Crist Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, Group. In my production network, I'm trying to do some extended traces and pings with the record option turned on to see what route my packets take going and returning. It's not working. If I do the extended traceroute or ping without the record option,

Re: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o reverse DNS ?

2003-12-04 Thread Crist Clark
Adam McKenna wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:53:37AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:48:44AM -0800, Randy Bush wrote: How can delegating in-addr.arpa on a per-ip basis be any different or worse than delegating it using an rfc2317 scheme? consider the

Re: MTU path discovery and IPSec

2003-12-04 Thread Crist Clark
Joe Maimon wrote: Tony Rall wrote: On Wednesday, 2003-12-03 at 09:38 PST, David Sinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipped (And note that frag 1 often is not the first fragment to arrive at downstream nodes. In my example in (1), frequently frag 2 will reach places before frag 1

Re: Router with 2 (or more) interfaces in same network

2003-11-11 Thread Crist Clark
Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 08:35:34AM +, Sugar, Sylvia wrote: I am curious to know if its possible to have a router with its two interfaces, say configured as, 1.1.1.1/16 and 1.1.1.2/16. Theoretically, i see nothing which can stop a router

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Crist Clark
Owen DeLong wrote: It's much the same problem as FTP. The reason FTP doesn't BORK is because most NAT gateways understand about the need to proxy FTP and because PASSIVE mode FTP doesn't have the same call-setup problems. Passive mode has the same problems that PORT FTP does. It just

Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)

2003-10-29 Thread Crist Clark
Jack Bates wrote: David Raistrick wrote: You seem to be arguing that NAT is the only way to prevent inbound access. While it's true that most commercial IPv4 firewalls bundle NAT with packet filtering, the NAT is not required..and less-so with IPv6. I think the point that was

Re: Heads-up: ATT apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail

2003-10-21 Thread Crist Clark
Jeff Wasilko wrote: What ATT is asking is for you to help ATT to restrict incoming mail to just our known and trusted sources (e.g., business partners, clients and customers). Therefore, we need to know which IP address(es) are used by your outbound e-mail service so we can selectively

Re: Fw: Re: Block all servers?

2003-10-15 Thread Crist Clark
Chris Brenton wrote: [snip] True this only works for one to one NAT. Many to one NAT will still break IPSec, even if ESP is used alone. This is a functionality issue however (IPSec using a fixed source port of 500), rather than a preventing packet modification to thwart man-in-the-middle

Re: Block all servers?

2003-10-14 Thread Crist Clark
Stefan Mink wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 08:28:11AM -0700, ken emery wrote: I use IPSEC and it works fine behind NAT. Yes, it does work, on a small scale. However what if your neighbor wants to IPSEC to the same place (say you work at the same place). If both of you are NAT'd

Why not UUNet too? (was Re: first Yahoo, now RoadRunner?)

2003-10-10 Thread Crist Clark
Since the topic is mysterious rejections from MTAs, I have one from UUNet. One of our business partners has UUNet for an ISP and is using UUNet for a tertiary MTA. Occasionally, mail ends up going to that MTA (quite often actually, their primary gets unresponsive from time to time and I've

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