Re: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps

2002-10-29 Thread dgold
Blocking ports 137-139 is of great benefit to the vast majority of their customers. It is also of benefit to ATT, as it cuts down on support calls. Of course, documenting this would be good. - Daniel Golding On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Joe wrote: I Second that. ATT blocks ports (depending where

Re: Sprint VS. Qwest

2002-10-22 Thread dgold
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, dgold wrote: What possible reason would the average small transit buyer have for knowing the details of a carrier's peering arrangements - especially carriers like Sprint and Qwest? Are you suggesting that small

Re: Sprint VS. Qwest

2002-10-18 Thread dgold
What possible reason would the average small transit buyer have for knowing the details of a carrier's peering arrangements - especially carriers like Sprint and Qwest? Both Sprint and Qwest are, most would agree, transit-free, tier 1 networks. They interconnect with all other similarly large

Re: BTN-network

2002-10-15 Thread dgold
Darrell, They appear to be a roll-up of several small ISPs, including CAIS and some Asian ISPs. I suspect they are bargain hunting, probably quite successfully. - Daniel Golding On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Darrell Carley wrote: All, I hope that this is an acceptable discussion. I am curious if

RE: IPv4 country of origin

2002-10-03 Thread dgold
I believe Akamai offers an IP address to location database for sale. I'm unsure of the accuracy, but Akamai folks claim it to be quite high. YMMV. - Daniel Golding On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Barry Raveendran Greene wrote: Is there a more accurate method to determine the country of origin for

Re: NANOG ISP Security BOF

2002-10-02 Thread dgold
Why would you want peering coordinators to speak at a Security BOF? I would think that you would want network engineers who are knowledgable in backbone security techniques to speak. The interaction of this set to the set of peering coordinators tends to be rather weak - not nonexistant, just