Re: Is NANOG off-topic Alive?

2006-07-06 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
I shut the last down a few days ago, actually: a piece of spam mail went through the list and one of the few remaining subscribers got trigger-happy and complained to _my_ isp about it. Since no other mail had gone over the list in months, I yanked it. It was a lovely idea, but never really

Re: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea)

2004-02-17 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Robert E. Seastrom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and, if you want to see a particularly broken example, buy internet service from t-mobile gprs in the states, port 22 blocked, no smtp relay, ... walled garden mentality from the get

Re: NTP, possible solutions, and best implementation

2003-10-03 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Scott McGrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 1 - Purchase a Cesium clock this is a Primary Time/Frequency standard which does not require access to a reference standard to maintain accuracy. This is a Stratum 0 source so once placed behind a Unix/Cisco/Juniper

Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Tim Wilde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): And they act like they're the victims. Amazing. Without so much as a hearing, ICANN today formally asked us to shut down the Site Finder service, said VeriSign spokesman Tom Galvin. We will accede to their request while we explore

Re: Worst design decisions?

2003-09-18 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Justin Shore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Applause I can think of 6 different console cable pinouts and connectors that Enterasys (Cabletron) has used over the years. No wait, make that 7. How could I forget the inherited Fore ATM architecture and subsequent blades.

Re: What *are* they smoking?

2003-09-16 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Wayne E. Bouchard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): So then now instead of mail to misspelled domains, instead of bouncing, now goes to /dev/null and you have no idea that your critically important piece of information didn't get through? You _hope_ it goes to /dev/null. It might

Re: Fun new policy at AOL

2003-08-29 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Matthew Crocker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Shouldn't customers that purchase IP services from an ISP use the ISPs mail server as a smart host for outbound mail? Given the way that most ISP shared resource machines (including but hardly limited to DNS caching/recursive

Re: relays.osirusoft.com

2003-08-27 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Richard Welty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:25:46 -0700 (PDT) Gary E. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: returning 127.0.0.2 for everything would be an ugly way to bow out. yes, but it's been done before. And oddly enough, it was a terrible idea the

Re: [connie.davis@mail.internetseer.com: answerpointe.cctec.com]

2003-08-14 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Leo Bicknell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Has anyone else gotten one of these? Dozens, and have bitbucketed them on every single mail server I can get my hands on. It appears they are trolling a Nanog archive on the web and sending these out to posters. *sigh* They may

Re: Server Redundancy

2003-08-14 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Austad, Jay wrote: As a side note, I've used Cisco's CSS, F5's stuff, Alteon, and Foundry. Out of all of them that I've used, the Foundry had the least problems and had a nicely structured config.

Remembers, Non-Op Topics Have a Home (was Re: State Super-DMCA Too True)

2003-03-31 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Avleen Vig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Look it's very simple. If you steal something, you go to jail. That's really nto hard to understand, and the reason it doesn't happen more often, is because prison systems are already too full of people convicted of more serious

Re: NANOG Splinter List (Was: State Super-DMCA Too True)

2003-03-31 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Jack Bates ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Whats wrong with the nanog-offtopic list ? The legal issues are technical on-topic and nanog related. However, there are some that want to know what's going on in the legal system, and others that don't. At the same time, those

Re: Curing the BIND pain

2003-03-27 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I suggest that an appropriate technique would be for the BIND server to originate traffic on it's local subnet that would look suspicious and possibly trigger intrusion alarms. Good lord. I'm a little stuck for a proper

Re: Root server error

2003-03-01 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Geo. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Can someone verify something for me? Do an NSLOOKUP for www.stemtostern.com and stemtostern.com against the i.gtld-servers.net why would the www one resolve? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596001584/ Sheesh.

Re: FYI: Anyone seen this?

2003-01-15 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of blitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): From ISN: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28842.html Wow. With one post to bugtraq, gobbles has now successfully trolled the register, slashdot, and now nanog. Somebody buy that turkey a beer. -n

Re: [nanog-offtopic] Re: Whitehouse Tackels Cybersecurity

2002-09-20 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Gregory Hicks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): There IS another list that goes to about the same group of people... NANOG-OT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Indeed. It's rather underutilized these days -- there was a spasm of activity right after 9/11, when I created it -- but it's still

Re: SPEWS?

2002-06-20 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Its used primarily by very small sstem operators and I don't know any isp of any serious size (i.e. over 1000 users or domains) that is using them Sprintlink, mail.com/iname/outblaze, and I believe possibly PacBell all use

Re: it's official

2002-06-06 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Sean M. Doran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): i hate spamarrest. i really do. i hate it. you don't know who you are, but lots of the rest of us do. 64.39.29.161:allow,RBLSMTPD=-learn to filter on precedence headers, idiots Adjust for local filtering methodology. -n

Re: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Paul Vixie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The trouble is, often times I'd rather hire the world's smartest garbage man. I never forget that when I got done interviewing for my first full time programming job I went back to my job fixing cars and pumping gas, and my fallback

Re: portscans (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)

2002-05-21 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Mitch Halmu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): (Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945) Congratulations, Mitch, you have done what many of us would have considered impossible: you have surpassed your own previous high-water mark for tasteless, self-involved bullshit. (Which, for the

Re: e-postage yet again, was anybody else been spammed by no-ip.com yet?

2002-05-05 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sun, 05 May 2002 18:15:15 EDT, Nathan J. Mehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: people that this had happened to? I'd file a class-action liability suit against Microsoft for selling a defective product that lost my clients

Re: is your host or dhcp server sending dns dynamic updates for rfc1918?

2002-04-20 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Simon Higgs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): SOAs with bogus.domain.names pointing to 127.0.0.1 appear to be causing email to bounce (amongst other things). If there is actually an MTA out there so broken that it tries to connect to the server mentioned in the SOA MNAME field