Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: How about state-of-the-art routing security? The problem is what is the actual trust model? Are you trusting some authority to not be malicious or never make a

photo: transatlantic cables coming ashore

Ran across this at Wired today, and it seemed apropos to recent events: http://www.wired.com/culture/art/multimedia/2008/01/gallery_simon?slide=10slideView=10 I particularly liked the photographer's observation: There's a humor because the cables are so important, yet they look so unguarded and

Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

On Feb 1, 2008 6:37 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/third-undersea-cable-reportedly-cut/story.aspx?guid={1AAB2A79-E983-4E0E-BC39-68A120DC16D9} We had another cut today between Dubai and Muscat three hours back. The cable was about

Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

On Feb 1, 2008 2:35 PM, Rod Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not at all, there have been cables in the water since 1858 (first TransAtlantic cable - telegraph). Right now there are 80 major cables out there. Give yourself 170 years of undersea cables and calculate the odds. :) hm. I

Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal

On Jan 24, 2008 6:10 AM, Scott McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a similar system based around Cisco's CNR which is a popular DHCP/DNS system used by large ISP's and other large organization and it is the IP+Timestamp coupled with the owner to MAC relationship which allows unique

Re: IPv6 tracking assignments (OSS recommendations)

On Jan 2, 2008 12:32 PM, Deepak Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have any experience with software that will track both IPv4 and IPv6 assignments in the OSS world? Any recommendations? we've been using IPPlan http://iptrack.sf.net/ recently and have been pretty satisfied with it

Re: IPv6 tracking assignments (OSS recommendations)

On Jan 4, 2008 1:31 PM, Deepak Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Francis wrote: On Jan 2, 2008 12:32 PM, Deepak Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have any experience with software that will track both IPv4 and IPv6 assignments in the OSS world? Any recommendations? we've been

L3 outage details?

looks like across the board availability problems (from keynote's POV anyway) ... anybody have details? master ticket? ETA? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],darkuncle.net} || 0x5537F527 http://darkuncle.net/pubkey.asc for public key

Re: [ppml] IPv6 Information Wiki

On 9/25/07, Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ARIN has set up a wiki at http://www.getipv6.info to publish information that will help ISPs, large and small in implementing IPv6 and migrating to an IPv6 Internet. It might be worth syncing up with the people who are working on

Re: Power, Data Centres ,and Iceland

On 8/16/07, Rod Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How much is power as a percent of data centre operating expense? What sort of a range do you see? We are building a high capacity cable to Iceland, which has already become a major aluminum smelting centre due to its cheap geothermal and

Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan

On 7/29/07, Peter Dambier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ways have been found to drill holes into NAT-routers and firewalls, but they are working only as long as it is only you who wants to break out of the NAT. As soon as the mainstream has only left rfc 1918 addresses p2p will stop. really?

Cogent outage details?

am receiving word that Cogent has been the victim of hardware problems on our backbone causing latency and packet loss to customers on the east coast. I did manage to get a master ticket number (608503), but I'm curious if anybody out there (perhaps an actual Cogent customer) has more details -

Re: Routing public traffic across county boundaries in Europe

good luck with that :) On 7/26/07, Scott Weeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What (if any) are the legal implications of taking internet destined traffic in one country and egressing it in another (with an ip block correctly marked for the correct country).

Re: P2P Darknets to eclipse bandwidth management?

On 9/2/05, Stephen J. Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] packet inspection will just evolve, thats the nature of this problem.. there are things you can find out from encrypted flows - what the endpoints and ports are, who the CA is. then you can look at the characteristics of the

Re: Your router/switch may be less secure than you think

On 8/3/05, Robert E. Seastrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We should all be looking to the security auditing work done by the OpenBSD team for an example of how systems can be cleaned up, fixed, and locked down if there is a will to do so. Beer, unsupported

Re: isn't ...isn't perfect, but it's something now

elsewhere (and I'm sure the points on both sides have already been beaten to death.) respectfully, -- Scott Francis | darkuncle(at)darkuncle(dot)net | 0x5537F527 CaffeineHead We have enough youth. What we need is a fountain of smart. -- http://bash.org/?70562 pgp0wcB3T051G.pgp Description

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

surveilance capabilities, they get ripped up, down and sideways for asking... they don't need more surveillance capabilities as much as they need to better utilize what they've already got. More laws aren't the answer to lack of success enforcing what's already on the books. -- Scott Francis

Re: Buying and selling root certificates

... (that said, I absolutely agree that more crypto everywhere, for both important and trivial traffic, is essential to reducing the unusual nature of such traffic. Crypto should be the default, not the exception.) /wishful thinking -- Scott Francis | darkuncle(at)darkuncle(dot)net

Level3 LA issues?

page at level3.com so far ... thanks, -- Scott Francis | darkuncle(at)darkuncle(dot)net | 0x5537F527 Less and less is done until non-action is achieved when nothing is done, nothing is left undone

Re: Level3 LA issues?

than to mysteriously fix itself ...) -- Scott Francis | darkuncle(at)darkuncle(dot)net | 0x5537F527 Less and less is done until non-action is achieved when nothing is done, nothing is left undone

Re: possible L3 issues

to be running fine. I'm seeing packet loss at LAX and SJC both (seems to be one and then the other, back and forth). -- Scott Francis | darkuncle(at)darkuncle(dot)net | 0x5537F527 I gave you the chance of aiding me willingly, but you have elected the way of pain! -- Saruman, speaking

Level3 issues?

. -- Scott Francis | darkuncle(at)darkuncle(dot)net | 0x5537F527 I gave you the chance of aiding me willingly, but you have elected the way of pain! -- Saruman, speaking for sysadmins everywhere pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: MS is vulnerable

. And if she's like my mom, she'll be in the aisle in the computer store (well, the big box electronics store, more realistically) and be like Why should I pay $2000 for this one when I can get 'a computer' for $500? [1] Buy her an eMac. $700. -- Scott Francis | darkuncle(at)darkuncle(dot

Re: in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released today

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 07:37:09PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Scott Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been wondering lately, after about 10 years of email worms spreading in exactly the same manner with every incarnation ... why do you think people haven't learned not to open

Re: in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released today

financial cost to business, and I heard this latest one mentioned at least 3 times from various non-Internet media outlets yesterday, so public awareness isn't the probem either.) -- Scott Francis | darkuncle(at)darkuncle(dot)net | 0x5537F527 I gave you the chance of aiding me willingly

Re: Santa Fe city government computers knocked out by worm

until I found somebody that used more reliable tools. -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Santa Fe city government computers knocked out by worm

are exacerbated by lack of knowledge and experience). This is not what I would qualify as a level of damage too little to bother with. Shoulda bought them a Mac last year ... -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: ISPs' willingness to take action

at MS, who are really the only people with the ability to make this happen. Without their compliance, the problem will never improve (not as long as they're as dominant as they currently are). -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui

Re: ISPs' willingness to take action

Top posting self-reply: looks like a lot of what I've suggested may have finally been acknowledged by MS, according to a recent Register.co.uk article. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/56/33599.html We can only hope ... -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum

Re: abuse from a user of this list

This kind of vitriol on a public list is immature at best. Please take it elsewhere. -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 08:46:43AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [snip] What aliases? Unless the aliases

Re: Class A Data Center

.). This ringing a bell for anyone else? -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Class A Data Center

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:06:30PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Scott Francis wrote: I don't know if it qualifies as an established standard, but ISTR that Steve Bellovin had a paper about various levels of reliability in data centers ... [searches] argh. I can't

Re: On the back of other 'security' posts....

a partial attempt is better than none at all. -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How much longer..

, month after month, without seeming to realize it.) -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How much longer..

://darkuncle.net/microsoft_rant.html -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How much longer..

:$2.6 Billion Klez: $9 Billion SirCAM: $1 Billion Estimated Total TCO:$16.2 - 28.6 billion -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: North America not interested in IP V6

will only frustrate end-users or bog down the network or both. -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions

. There is no tool sufficiently safe as to prevent abuse, and yet still be useful. Or more succinctly, Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool. -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: North America not interested in IP V6

would eliminate a _huge_ chunk of wasted bandwidth and much of the administrative hassle of operating an SMTP server. *sigh* -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Postini's network.

that disappeared a few minutes ago, and then reappeared after about 7 minutes or so. *shrug* -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: has anyone notice this ?

at work is, A browser is not much of a diagnostic tool. Use something that generates a meaningful error message. (use dig(1), `telnet host 80`, traceroute, etc.) If you have already used these tools, my apologies; your first post was a little short on details. -- Scott Francis || darkuncle

Re: anyone has netrange - cidr conversion script to share?

that it was 557 lines, so I'll just post an url: http://www.darkuncle.net/aggis ) -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Fast TCP?

being a customer and sharing an office with a beta tester. :)) -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

RFC3514

Comments? (Nice to see Mr. Bellovin keeping up the holiday tradition ... :)) -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Issue with 208.192.0.0/8 - 208.196.93.0/24?

especially with some of the recent posts. Perhaps clueful folk should sneak off and form nanog-clueful mailing list ;) Please don't; there are many of us lurking who are learning a great deal from listening in on the conversations of the clueful. -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot

Re: OpenSSL

Schneier had to say in the most recent crypto-gram regarding this hole. http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0303.html -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OpenSSL

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:55:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Francis writes: Fun is about all it comes to. See what Schneier had to say in the most recent crypto-gram regarding this hole. http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0303.html

Re: Symantec detected Slammer worm hours before

finds little else in marketing. :) -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT: Re: WANAL (Re: What could have been done differently?)

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:27:46AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: --On Tuesday, January 28, 2003 18:06:47 -0800 Scott Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure they'll move to a newer version when somebody on the team gets a chance to give it a thorough code audit, and run

Re: What could have been done differently?

...) Koji -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg08756/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What could have been done differently?

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:47:30AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Scott Francis wrote: He argued instead that OSes should be redesigned to implement the principle of least privilege from the ground up, down to the architecture they run on. [...] The problem

Re: What could have been done differently?

correlation, AT ALL, between the ssh key admin model and the principle of least privilege. They were two separate topics that just happened to be discussed in the same posting. This is my last post in this thread; further flames should be directed offlist. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle

Re: What could have been done differently?

at least prevent casual/automated network scans. Of course, if one was implementing proper filtering, 1434/udp wouldn't be accepting connections from outside sources, whether directly or through NAT/port forwarding. But then, this observation has been made many times already ... -- -= Scott Francis

Re: What could have been done differently?

in this area before, but that doesn't make it any less pertinent. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg08631/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What could have been done differently?

year after year. /rant -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg08638/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What could have been done differently?

, of MANY large software vendors with regards to security. It just doesn't matter to them, and that will not change until they have a reason to care about it. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet

Re: OT: Re: WANAL (Re: What could have been done differently?)

on the team gets a chance to give it a thorough code audit, and run it through sufficient testing prior to release. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg08641/pgp0.pgp

Re: What could have been done differently?

to have an answer to that question. :) -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg08646/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What could have been done differently?

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:00:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Francis writes: There's a difference between having the occasional bug in one's software (Apache, OpenSSH) and having a track record of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in virtually

Re: Merits of purpose-built (appliance) vs. FreeBSD+ipfw firewalls

to distribute the load, rather than look for a more expensive single point of failure. Of course, this is not currently backed up by much personal operational experience, so take that with a grain of salt. :) Thank you very much. cheers, -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net

Re: Merits of purpose-built (appliance) vs. FreeBSD+ipfw firewalls

matching rule decides what action is taken. Does this not constitute rule-based filtering? Or am I misunderstanding you? -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg08084

Re: The magic security CD disc Re: HTTP proxies

On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 05:53:28PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: --On 09 December 2002 08:39 -0800 Scott Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *cough*OpenBSD*cough* I've had lots of people off-list me to say how wonderfully secure X Y or Z OS distribution is. I am quite sure

Re: What? : Delivery Status Notification (Failure) (fwd)

, and still coming. Rather annoying. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg06800/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Good quotes on importance of good network addressing

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:49:28AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thursday 3 October 2002, at 12 h 23, Scott Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure how applicable it may be, but the OpenBSD FAQ has referenced (since at least 2.7) a paper called Understanding IP Addressing that I

Re: Security Practices question

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:48:16PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Scott Francis wrote: Can you back up that statement in /any/ way? What exactly are your reasons why sudo is a worse solution (or even a bad idea)? In an environment where every sysadmin

Re: Security Practices question

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:57:10AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Scott Francis wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:48:16PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In an environment where every sysadmin is interchangable, and any one of them can be woken up at 3am to fix

Re: Security Practices question

very easily get to a point where it is hard to know just who currently has the password to the username root account. (Fundamentally, all the arguments agains normal users sharing passwords apply with even more force to passwords for privileged accounts.) Kent -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle

Re: Security Practices question

on anybody encouraging it. See (mail client sent message while I was editing it; full reply on its way.) -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg05726/pgp0.pgp

Re: Security Practices question

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 02:43:41PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [snip] On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 02:44:34PM -0700, Scott Francis wrote: On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 03:22:11PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have question for the security community on NANOG. What is your learned

Re: Security Practices question

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 04:06:00PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [ On Wednesday, October 2, 2002 at 11:47:12 (-0700), Scott Francis wrote: ] Subject: Re: Security Practices question Absolutely so - which is why no account should have multiple equally valid passwords, which is what

Re: Security Practices question

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:08:05PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [ On Wednesday, October 2, 2002 at 13:26:15 (-0700), Scott Francis wrote: ] Subject: Re: Security Practices question grr. Please read Barb's post about exactly why multiple aliases for the UID 0 account is a Bad Idea. It's

Re: Security Practices question

-- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg05570/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

% of things required to stop spam. If people would just take even the most basic of steps required to block spam, the picture would improve drastically for all of us. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

this discussion is proving useful to the OP. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg05423/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

a certain threshold, it will run much more smoothly than if it's examining the contents of each packet. However, I also like the idea of doing a bandwidth budget on a per machine basis, with short term bursts allowing for most normal activity. *nod* -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

has numbers on this, I'd be interested in hearing them one way or the other. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg05427/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT: If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits

like they took down the hate mail page, which was hysterical. *sigh* They target clueful users only, and seem to be getting by just fine. http://www.flex.com/adsl/ has a bit more of the intelligent users only pitch. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has

PGP: learn it, use it, love it

stop protesting about those that make the effort to do so. There are a great many good reasons to do so, and no good reasons not to. Broken software and laziness don't count. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527

Re: PGP: learn it, use it, love it

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 03:43:12PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Scott Francis wrote: There are a great many good reasons to do so, and no good reasons not to. Broken software and laziness don't count. Sure there are. Non-repudiation is not always a good thing. Do you get every

Re: Question regarding web hosting ip addressing

. Otherwise, there are no problems (well, very few anyway) that I am aware of in using a single IP to host as many vhosts as physical resources will allow. I'm quite certain somebody will correct me if I've missed something. :) -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key

Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in ATT attachments. Its annoying and no one can see your message

MIME standards. I'm willing to accept a bit of annoyance in order to promote standards compliance. If only Microsoft was thus motivated. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui

Re: Just an FYI - Apache Worm on the loose

(and was it _really_ necessary to post a hex dump of the entire thing? The actual source is available linked from the BUGTRAQ post above ...) -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui

Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in my MUA OT

- | /usr/local/bin/formail \ -i Content-Type: application/pgp; format=text; x-action=sign } -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg03563/pgp0.pgp Description

Re: How important is IM? was RE: How important is the PSTN

to be worth the ill will garnered. Just my opinion, of course. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg03060/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How important is IM? was RE: How important is the PSTN

, and there is an irc-like encrypted chat called silc. You may also want to examine one of the several IRC hacks that incorporate SSL. The one I occasionally visit is suidnet http://www.suidnet.org. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked

Re: How important is the PSTN

. That last may be bsd only, but the first two ... ugh. I haven't done this much patching in a week in memory. Beats the alternative, I suppose. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem

Re: Bet on with my boss

. If the phone network is down too, a cell phone may also be important. There's no substitute for an actual face-to-face conversation, either. -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:] t o n o s . c o m GPG

Re: OT: Re: Bogon list

) to read Email on MS OutLook from an Exchange server :-( The MUA someone may have to use has nothing to do with whether or not that person possesses experience with UNIX and standard UNIX utilities. -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network

Re: OT: Re: Bogon list

list E-mail on machines that have procmail on them ? So because it is not applicable in all situations, it's not worth mentioning? Procmail works for a good share of those reading this list, I'd wager. -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network

Re: Automated Reply: OT: Re: Bogon list

-) wasted bandwidth; I have no other way to contact the person in question. Yes, I realize this just generated another auto-reply. *sigh* -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:] t o n o s . c o m GPG

Re: China's cable firms fight deadly turf war

you senseless. (awaiting stories to the contrary now ...) -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:] t o n o s . c o m GPG public key 0xCB33CCA7 illum oportet crescere me autem minui

Re: Abuse Contact at NuVox

:30 EDT. -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:] t o n o s . c o m GPG public key 0xCB33CCA7 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg02309/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Who posts to the nanog list -- The top 59 players (Was not: Re: list problems?)

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:16:14PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [snip] Nice list. Can we sort by helpful/clueful/relevant postings, and ask the top 10 to post more frequently? :) (OTOH, suspect I would quickly drop down out of the top 100 ... =\ ) -- Scott Francis darkuncle

Re: Certification or College degrees?

to be interdisciplinary, but I suspect it will take some time before it becomes known and trusted. http://www.sagecert.org Of course, if you're not really a systems administrator, it may not apply to you ... -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems

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

On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 11:46:21PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [ On Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 20:15:10 (-0700), Scott Francis wrote: ] Subject: Re: portscans (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product) Apologies; my finger was a bit too quick on the 'g'. As this message came

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

by far. This is what I have been (unsuccessfully) attempting to state. I apparently need more practice in being coherent. :) -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:] t o n o s . c o m GPG public key

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

into idolaters? What is it that turns the decision of an individual network operator into a rant about political ideology? -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:] t o n o s . c o m GPG public key 0xCB33CCA7

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

Niemoller, 1945) --Mitch NetSide -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:] t o n o s . c o m GPG public key 0xCB33CCA7 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg01971/pgp0.pgp

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

On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 05:25:27PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [ On Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 13:48:27 (-0700), Scott Francis wrote: ] Subject: Re: portscans (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product) However a portscan is not an attack. Precursor to an attack, certainly. B.S

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

And why, pray tell, would some stranger be carrying a concealed gun if they were not planning on shooting someone? /sarcasm Show me how to defend myself from attack by portscanning the networks of random strangers, and I will concede the point. :) -- Scott Francis darkuncle

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