Re: ASN Name of the week

2007-07-25 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Carlos Friacas wrote: We'll probably run out of v4 addresses sooner than 2 byte ASN, No. however, globally it seems more pieces of the puzzle are in place for the latter revolution. Depends on what you define as in place but I would disagree that world is ready to

Re: Dead Thread (Re: Security gain from NAT)

2007-06-06 Thread william(at)elan.net
Was this message sent because one or more members of mail admin team expressed their own opinion and wanted thread to end or because others (presumably more then one person to act on it) have complained? On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think at this point, everything that could

Re: IPv6 transition work was RE: NANOG 40 agenda posted

2007-06-04 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, matthew zeier wrote: John Curran wrote: Best of luck with it; load-balancers aren't generally hiding in ISP's backbones and it hasn't been major revenue for the traditional router crowd. Net result is there hasn't been much IPv6 attention in that market... I suppose,

Re: Policy of Dial-up session processing

2007-05-11 Thread william(at)elan.net
Radius can and should report both on and off times, look into your configuration. As far as 1st of the month, consider it virtually closed open at midnight on 30th/31st in accounting. Example how to do it could be to write a script that when processes radius log at the end of the month and

RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8

2007-04-15 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why doesn't IANA operate a whois server? In fact they do operate whois server at whois.iana.org. However that has domain data for .arpa and .int and not IPv4 whois data which IANA has historically provided using flat file pointer while having RIR

Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8

2007-04-14 Thread william(at)elan.net
it refers to and if the block should or should not still be in use I don't know. Unfortunately all of this does not mean you should allow (or deny) traffic from 7.0.0.0/8, but it also does not mean that if you do see any traffic that its necessarily unauthorized. william(at)elan.net wrote

Re: Question on 7.0.0.0/8

2007-04-14 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, David Conrad wrote: Hi, On Apr 14, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Rob Thomas wrote: We checked with IANA, ARIN, and the US DoD regarding 7.0.0.0/8. We were told that this netblock should not see the light of day, Right. Packets sourced out of 7.0.0.0/8 should never be seen on

RE: Question on 7.0.0.0/8

2007-04-14 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Huizinga, Rene wrote: BTW, on the same line what's going on with 180.190.0.0/16 actually ? It's within the 176.0.0.0/5 registered as Bogon. Is it a typo (thai-po ? :P ) from an Asian guy (AS24003 originated) or did I miss something lately...? :P I already dealt with

Question on 7.0.0.0/8

2007-04-13 Thread william(at)elan.net
Anybody know if 7.0.0.0/8 is or is not allocated to DoD? The data at IANA and ARIN is kind-of confusing... --- 7.1.1.0/24 ## AS1239 : SPRINTLINK : Sprint 7.0.0.0 - 7.255.255.255 ## Bogon (unallocated) ip range

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. http://completewhois.com

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

Re: Abuse procedures... Reality Checks

2007-04-07 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Fergie wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Rich Kulawiec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. There's nothing indiscriminate about it. I often block /24's and larger because I'm holding the *network* operators responsible for what comes out of their

RE: Abuse procedures... Reality Checks

2007-04-07 Thread william(at)elan.net
of every one of those subblocks did not lead to any results. Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of william(at)elan.net Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 5:58 PM To: Fergie Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Abuse procedures

RE: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names

2007-03-31 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Fergie wrote: Amen. The Registry policies, as they stand today, enable criminals. Registry or Registrar? -- William Leibzon Elan Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names

2007-03-31 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Fergie wrote: Amen. The Registry policies, as they stand today, enable criminals. Registry or Registrar? Good question. It is my understanding that the various domain registries answer to ICANN policy -- if ICANN policy allows them to operate in a manner which is

Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names (kill this thread)

2007-03-31 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Steve Atkins wrote: I'm prepared to concede, despite your previous history, that there may well be an actual issue (as there are an awful lot of hideously ugly corners with both DNS the protocol and domain reigsitration the policy), but you're being incredibly bad at

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

2007-03-28 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Tony Finch wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Ken Simpson wrote: What is particularly missing IMHO is a spoofed-BGP-route blacklist. Anyone making any progress on that sort of thing? completewhois has lists in various forms of bogon and hijacked networks.

Re: SLA monitoring and reporting to customers

2007-03-19 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote: What open-source or low-budget tools are operators using for SLA monitoring when the reports (current state and historical) should be available to customers ? Please define SLA in terms of monitoring. - 99.x% availability (defined by packet

Re: SLA monitoring and reporting to customers

2007-03-19 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, virendra rode // wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 william(at)elan.net wrote: On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote: What open-source or low-budget tools are operators using for SLA monitoring when the reports (current state and historical

Re: SLA monitoring and reporting to customers

2007-03-18 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote: What open-source or low-budget tools are operators using for SLA monitoring when the reports (current state and historical) should be available to customers ? Please define SLA in terms of monitoring. Looking at NANOG archives, NAGIOS is the

123.0.0.0/8 from AS7643 (was - Re: Where are static bogon filters appropriate? was: 96.2.0.0/16 Bogons)

2007-03-02 Thread william(at)elan.net
Speaking of bogons and more practical daily operation issues, perhaps you guys can help reaching the fine folks at AS7643 or maybe their upstream provider can be kind enough to filter out the following: BGP routing table entry for 123.0.0.0/8, version 14613827 Paths: (1 available, best #1, not

Re: Is there another NANOG somewhere?

2007-02-15 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Martin Hannigan wrote: http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg45167.html is about volume. for me, it's not the volume, per se. it is the shameless and (should be) embarrassing self-promotion, the copying and reposting of others' ideas and work, ... and

RE: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11

2007-02-11 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Joseph Jackson wrote: My CIO is convinced that Google is going to take over the internet and everyone will pay google for access. He also believes that google will release their own protocol some sort of Google IP which everyone will have to pay for also. You mean like

Re: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)

2007-01-24 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Mark Boolootian wrote: I see a reference in the response to RTG. RTG's claim to fame looks like speed. In comparison to RRDTOOL-based applications, RTG stores raw values rather than cooked averages, allowing for a great deal more flexibility in analysis. And you aren't

Re: Google wants to be your Internet

2007-01-22 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Travis H. wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 06:41:19AM -0800, Lucy Lynch wrote: sensor nets anyone? The bridge-monitoring stuff sounds a lot like SCADA. //drift IIRC, someone representing the electrical companies approached someone representing network providers,

RE: FW: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)

2007-01-18 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Berkman, Scott wrote: NMS Software should not be placed in the public domain/internet. By the time anyone who would like to attack Cacti itself can access the server and malform an HTTP request to run this attack, then can also go see your entire topology and access your

RE: Bogon Filter - Please check for 77/8 78/8 79/8

2006-12-13 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not just incorrect data. The design of the system used by completewhois is flawed at the core. No more so that other systems that rely on automation with some human involvement but see below as I generally agree with what you meant. They

need utillity that can do complex tcp replay

2006-12-12 Thread william(at)elan.net
I need to find utility for testing of application debugging issue that can replay captured ip traffic, something similar to description at: http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/trac/wiki/flowreplay Basicly what I want is to capture data for several hours on the server (preferably with tcpdump) and

Re: Bogon Filter - Please check for 77/8 78/8 79/8

2006-12-11 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Allan Houston wrote: Florian Lohoff wrote: Hi *, in august IANA handed 77/8 78/8 79/8 to RIPE which started handing out those ranges 2 months ago. We (Telefonica Deutschland AS6805) are seeing a lot of reachability problems most likely caused by not updated bogon

Re: Bogon Filter - Please check for 77/8 78/8 79/8

2006-12-11 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Chris L. Morrow wrote: On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, william(at)elan.net wrote: Completewhois email server is down right now and needs to be rebuilt. what no backup MX? now postmaster/abuse/root working emails at that domain? did you put the domain also on 'rfc ignorant

Re: repair zombie machines (was: DNS - connection limit)

2006-12-09 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Jim Popovitch wrote: On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 19:56 +0200, Petri Helenius wrote: Has anyone figured out a remote but lawful way to repair zombie machines? Very interesting question. I personally believe that OS EULAs and ISP ToS guidelines provide for an ISP or an OS mfg

Re: anycasting behind different ASNs?

2006-12-06 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, matthew zeier wrote: Are there any practical issues with announcing the same route behind different ASNs? Shortly I'll have two seperate sites (EU, US) announcing their own space behind their own ASNs but have a desire to anycast a particular network out of both

Re: BCP38 thread 93,871,738,435 (was Re: register.com down sev0?)

2006-10-26 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Don wrote: Has anyone put together a centralized system where you can send in a list of attacking bots, let it automatically sort by allocation, and then let it notify the appropriate admin with a list of [potentially] compromised hosts? mynetwatchman [1] comes to mind

Re: that 4byte ASN you were considering...

2006-10-10 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Kevin Loch wrote: Randy Bush wrote: - 'Canonical representation of 4-byte AS numbers ' draft-michaelson-4byte-as-representation-01.txt as an Informational RFC and what is good or bad about this representation? seems simple to me. and having one notation seems

Re: AOL Lameness

2006-10-02 Thread william(at)elan.net
Anybody more familiar with setup at AOL - is this true? If so you're going to do disservice to the community as in practice this will cause lots of places to go to per-ip virtual hosting and more ip usage from hosting companies like it was 5-7 years ago when browsers did not yet support

Re: icmp rpf

2006-09-25 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Mark Kent [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I think this is an important point to make because of my interaction with small.net. When I pointed out the timeouts they said that it was because they don't announce the router IP addresses, which

Re: IPv6 PI block is announced - update your filters 2620:0000::/23

2006-09-15 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Randy Bush wrote: Call me naive, but could somebody enlighten me as to what tangible benefit filtering out bogon space actually achieves? It strikes me that it causes more headaches than it solves. the theory is that it means you have no route to send responses back to

Re: renumbering IPv6

2006-09-14 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, david raistrick wrote: On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, kloch wrote: http://www.arin.net/registration/templates/v6-end-user.txt An org that already has IPv4 space from ARIN will find it trivial to complete. I wonder how well this would apply to orgs with pre-ARIN allocations,

Q on what IGP routing protocol to use for supplying only gateway address

2006-09-14 Thread william(at)elan.net
I need to implement a sort-of failover-loadbalancing where systems would receive gateway address from at least two routers (including metric preference if possible). This needs to be done so that no special additional config is required on routers for each new system and for each system all

Re: Q on what IGP routing protocol to use for supplying only gateway address

2006-09-14 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Roland Dobbins wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 10:35 AM, william(at)elan.net wrote: Any suggestion as to what IGP protocol is best for this scenario? This is more of a cisco-nsp question, but probably OSPF, as it's supported by the routing daemons on most *NIXes out

Re: ip reclamation was Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-12 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Scott Weeks wrote: - Original Message Follows - From: Joe Abley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Le 2006-09-12 à 15:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : It makes me wonder just how much space like that there is out there artifically increasing IP scarcity.

Re: ip reclamation was Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-12 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, william(at)elan.net wrote: How much, though, is used, but not routed publically? --- TOTAL FOR IPV4 BLOCKS: Allocated: 9302367 (/24 blocks) - 63% Not Allocated: 5377697 (/24 blocks) - 37% Currently Routed: 6183529 (/24 blocks) - 42% Not Routed

Re: comast email issues, who else has them?

2006-09-11 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Tony Finch wrote: On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Fergie wrote: Ack: X-Originating-From should be mandatory. Far better to use a Received: header stating HTTP in the with protocol field. (And the IANA registry should be updated to include that as one of the standard values.)

Re: comast email issues, who else has them?

2006-09-11 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Tony Finch wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, william(at)elan.net wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Tony Finch wrote: Far better to use a Received: header stating HTTP in the with protocol field. (And the IANA registry should be updated to include that as one of the standard values

Re: comast email issues, who else has them?

2006-09-11 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: william(at)elan.net wrote: You need to have protocol to map it from. HTTP is not a protocol but type of transport of initial email submission data to a submission server. Really?! Yes. Since we're talking text messaging protocols

Re: Kremen VS Arin Antitrust Lawsuit - Anyone have feedback?

2006-09-08 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Mark Kent wrote: Joe McGuckin typed: 2) Why does ARIN believe that it can ignore a court order? Maybe because ARIN wasn't a party to the original proceedings that generated that order? Let's say you're eating lunch one day, minding your own business, and a sheriff

Re: Earthlink playing Sitefinder

2006-08-28 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, David Lesher wrote: FYI: I see discussion on DSLReports that Earthlink is deploying a Sitefinder-ish DNS scheme. It bounces people to a barefruit.com that then sprays ads back at you. Doesn't surprise me that Earthlink has been bought off yet again to break dns for

Re: SORBS Contact

2006-08-10 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Allan Poindexter wrote: william In the way you describe it any spam filter is bad any spam william filter manufacturer should go to jail... Manufacturer? No. It is perfectly permissible for a recipient to run a filter over his own mail if he wishes. An RBL is in

Re: SORBS Contact

2006-08-10 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Aug 9, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Matthew Sullivan wrote: This is also why I took the time to create: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-msullivan-dnsop-generic-naming-schemes-00.txt The reason I do not like RDNS naming scheme is because it forces one particular policy as part of

Re: SORBS Contact

2006-08-09 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Michael Nicks wrote: themselves and their obviously broken practices. We should not have to jump through hoops to satisfy your requirements. We were hit by the requirement to include the word static in our DNS names to

Re: SORBS Contact

2006-08-09 Thread william(at)elan.net
In the way you describe it any spam filter is bad any spam filter manufacturer should go to jail... On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Allan Poindexter wrote: Todd There are simple solutions to this. They do work in spite of Todd the moanings of the few who have been mistakenly blocked. So it is OK so

Re: SORBS Contact

2006-08-08 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Matthew Sullivan wrote: Brian Boles wrote: Can someone from SORBS contact me offlist if they are on here My most recent allocation from ARIN turned out to be dirty IP's, and I'm having trouble getting them removed following the steps on their website (no action on

Re: Detecting parked domains

2006-08-02 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Rick Wesson wrote: Parked: A domain hosted by a middle-man for the sole purpose of generating revenue from pay-per-click advertising. Characterized by having no content of value. this needs to be no original content of value BTW - for those who are still wondering

Re: Detecting parked domains

2006-08-02 Thread william(at)elan.net
. But in my opinion this still qualifies domain as parked because common use of parked domain term has to do with content of its website and does not imply that domain is or is not being used in some unique way for email or some other traffic. william(at)elan.net wrote: On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Rick

Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power

2006-06-16 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Alex Rubenstein wrote: more like 154,000,000 BTU, /12000 or 12,798 tons. Well, the bigger problem here is that a watt is a measure of power (engergy/time) and a BTU is a unit of energy. There is no dimensionless conversion factor between the two. Huh? A Watt has no

Re: h.gtld-servers.net offline...

2006-06-15 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Will Hargrave wrote: Joe Abley wrote: I think you're mistaken about the server being off-line, since I can see it just fine from many places. The RIPE NCC dnsmon tool can also see it from its various probes: I did (and

Re: re howto deploy DNSSEC [was: Re: wrt joao damas' DLV talk on wednesday]

2006-06-13 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Martin Hannigan wrote: I'm not. Consensus usually comes after the party, not before. I guess you've never been to IETF ... -- William Leibzon Elan Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wrt joao damas' DLV talk on wednesday

2006-06-12 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Randy Bush wrote: what is the security policy that isc plans to use over the content of the isc dlv registry? and how will the dvl trust key roll-over and revocation be handled? if the above can not be very clearly answered (by isc?), then this proposal is

Re: Zebra/linux device production networking?

2006-06-07 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, a little background.. My CTO made my stomach curdle today when he announced that he wanted to do away with all our cisco [routers] and instead use Linux/zebra boxen. We are a small company, so naturally penny pinching is the primary

Re: Fwd: 41/8 announcement

2006-05-26 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 26 May 2006, Bill Woodcock wrote: On Fri, 26 May 2006, Mikisa Richard wrote: Can't be sure what they did, but I received an e-mail asking me to check on my connectivity to them and well, it worked. Presumably they're double-natting. I had to do that once for Y2K

Re: Black Frog - the botnets keep coming

2006-05-25 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Sean Donelan wrote: Regardless of the numbers, I think we are currently stuck in a very nasty spot 1. Reduce the cost of fixing/protecting a computer 2. or increase the losses from compromised computers Either way, the consumer will eventually end up

Re: Fwd: 41/8 announcement

2006-05-25 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 24 May 2006, Richard Mikisa wrote: Well, the noise helped some. We now have connectivity to fastweb net. How was that achieved if their users still are within 41/8 locally? -- William Leibzon Elan Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-12 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Jim Popovitch wrote: Fred Baker wrote: On May 11, 2006, at 8:42 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote: Why not just plain ole hostnames like nanog, www.nanog, mail.nanog For the same reason DNS was created in the first place. You will recall that we actually HAD a hostname file

MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread william(at)elan.net
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-10may06.htm -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 08:46:40 -0400 From: David Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ip@v2.listbox.com Subject: [IP] ICANN rejects .xxx domain Begin forwarded message: As reported in:

MISC/EMAIL: AOL Starts to Charge for Receiving eMail, DearAOL responds

2006-05-11 Thread william(at)elan.net
Begin forwarded message: From: Dewayne Hendricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 10, 2006 6:59:52 PM EDT To: Dewayne-Net Technology List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Dewayne-Net] AOL Starts to Charge for Receiving eMail, DearAOL responds Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Note: Posted on the behalf

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 11 May 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 11 May 2006 13:40:22 EDT, Alain Hebert said: If we can coral them in it and legislate to have no porn anywhere else than on .xxx ... should fix the issue for the prudes out there. The problem is that it's a TLD, not .xxx.us. What

Re: Multi ISP DDOS

2006-05-05 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Martin Hannigan wrote: I hate to be the bearer of bad news to spammers :) but based on bluesecurity's tactics I can make a guess about attitude of their people and its such that DoS attack on them will only cause them more determination to continue and I suspect to

Re: Multi ISP DDOS

2006-05-04 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Martin Hannigan wrote: At 11:15 AM 5/3/2006, John Levine wrote: Uh. Who let the Frog out? http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,70798-0.html?tw=rss .technology It's all explained here: http://weblog.johnlevine.com/2006/05/03 And this just hit wires with

Re: Google AdSense Crash

2006-04-22 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote: Google Adsense has been down for several hours now. This is the interface that partners use to manage their advertising settings. And this is reported on nanog because...? -- William Leibzon Elan Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: com/net Whois format change notice

2006-03-24 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Jon Lewis wrote: Slightly? I think they are going to add EPP Status fields. A sample of the revised output is included at the end of this message. Domain Name: VERISIGN.COM Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC. Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral

Re: Time for IPv8? (was Re: shim6 @ NANOG)

2006-03-06 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Roland Dobbins wrote: Given the manifold difficulties we're facing today as a result of these two design decisions (#2 is a 'hidden' reason behind untold amounts of capex and opex being spent in frustratingly nonproductive ways), perhaps it is time to consider declaring

Notes on design of IPv6 BGP multihoming with special subroute attributes (was - Re: Shim6 vs PI addressing)

2006-03-02 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Owen DeLong wrote: I think that is overly pessimistic. I would say that SHIM6 _MAY_ Yes, I am well aware of 32bit ASNs. However, some things to consider: 1. Just because ASNs are 32 bits doesn't mean we'll instantly issue all 4 billion of them. The

Re: Notes on design of IPv6 BGP multihoming with special subroute attributes (was - Re: Shim6 vs PI addressing)

2006-03-02 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: My thinking was that its a big waste of memory (in the global bgp table) to announce every IPv6 route in full in particular for cases when its sub-allocation and aggregate is already being announced. Yes, it would be cool if the routers or

FYI - China To Launch Alternate Country Code Domains

2006-02-28 Thread william(at)elan.net
From: Michael Geist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: February 28, 2006 9:24:09 AM EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: China To Launch Alternate Country Code Domains Dave, China is preparing to launch what appears to be an alternate root. Starting tomorrow, they will establish four country-code

Re: DNS deluge for x.p.ctrc.cc

2006-02-24 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Estes, Paul wrote: We have recently noticed a deluge of DNS requests for ANY ANY records They are trying to abuse similar holes that caused most of us add no ip redirects and no ip directed broadcast to routers, but this time its about dns of x.p.ctrc.cc. The requests

Re: a radical proposal (Re: protocols that don't meet the need...)

2006-02-16 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, David Meyer wrote: One of the first things I ever learned from Yakov (at the first IETF I ever attended): Addressing can follow topology or topology can follow addressing. Choose one. So which one was it when you guys were

Re: reg-ops now becoming fully operational

2006-02-14 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Gadi Evron wrote: As originally sent to the registrars list by Rick Wesson... Through 2005, the reg-ops (Registrar Operations) mailing list which was established after the first Panix incident, was working by trial and error, learning from past mistakes, formalizing

Re: reg-ops now becoming fully operational

2006-02-14 Thread william(at)elan.net
Sorry for last message that was supposed to be offline - forgot to remove list address. -- William Leibzon Elan Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: protocols that don't meet the need...

2006-02-14 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Tony Hain wrote: A thought I had on the plane last night about the disconnect between the NANOG and IETF community which leaves protocol development to run open-loop. [Hm, what happened last night that I missed] I rather thought today's talk (last one in morning) by

Re: ASNumber Extension for Firefox available

2006-02-13 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Richard Cox wrote: Another thing I want to do is to show the number of RBL (Spamhaus, etc) listed IPs per AS. That sounds useful. As would be the possibility to block access to sites that are so listed (in the same way that software installation by unauthorised sites

Re: Middle Eastern Exchange Points

2006-02-08 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, william(at)elan.net wrote: And when ISP A buys access from ISP B for purpose of getting to ISP C is that peering or transit? I thought it was generally accepted that peering is the exhange of routes that are not re-sent

FYI - RFC 4367 on What\'s in a Name: False Assumptions about DNS Names

2006-02-07 Thread william(at)elan.net
I think some of the people here may want to read this new RFC: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4367.txt RFC 4367 Title: What\'s in a Name: False Assumptions about DNS Names Author: J. Rosenberg, Ed., IAB

Re: FYI - RFC 4367 on What\'s in a Name: False Assumptions about DNS Names

2006-02-07 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, william(at)elan.net wrote: I think some of the people here may want to read this new RFC: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4367.txt Small comment - its probably not the people here that need to read it but people at http://www.icann.org But then again it doesnt

Re: Middle Eastern Exchange Points

2006-02-07 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Bill Woodcock wrote: different definitions. If you say transit is peering, just not by our definitions, then you're into 1984 territory. So what exactly is definition of transit that does not make it peering? And when ISP A buys access from ISP B for purpose of getting

Re: So -- what did happen to Panix?

2006-01-27 Thread william(at)elan.net
All these explanations can only go so far as to show that ConEd and its upstreams may have had these prefixes as something that is allowed (due to previous transit relationships) to be annnounced. However presumably all these were transit arrangements with ConEd and ip blocks would have

Re: GoDaddy.com shuts down entire data center?

2006-01-27 Thread william(at)elan.net
I'm not sure how on-topic this is/was, but considering long thread and different opinions that were expressed before, I believe some here may want to have additional information I recently read: http://www.emailbattles.com/archive/battles/phish_aacgebeeje_hc/ The article author talked to both

Re: So -- what did happen to Panix?

2006-01-25 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: It's now been 2.5 business days since Panix was taken out. Do we know what the root cause was? It's hard to engineer a solution until we know what the problem was. Is it really that hard to engineer this solution? We do have several of them

Re: Martin Hannigan

2006-01-25 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Gadi Evron wrote: Martin Hannigan wrote: Admins: Clearly, a personal attack and I'd like the AUP enforced please. Clearly, exactly what you've been trying to get me to do for a long time, to get me off NANOG, well... I finally decided to comply. Admins: I will

Re: cctld server traffic

2006-01-23 Thread william(at)elan.net
Maybe I'm ignorant, but isn't there [cc]tld operations mail list somewhere? On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Gustavo Lozano wrote: At 10:42 AM 1/22/2006 +0900, Randy Bush wrote: any cctld ops seeing unusual traffic in the last hours? Nope at .mx. Gustavo randy gus

Re: oof. panix sidelined by incompetence... again.

2006-01-22 Thread william(at)elan.net
Can there be a confirmation of this? I see no such MOTD at http://www.panix.com/panix/help/Announcements/ and my connection to panix is fine and route I see is 166.84.0.0/17 with origin in 2033. I also checked at routeviews.org and similarly all their peers see origin in in 2033. Is there some

[afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC to start allocating from 41/8 (fwd)

2006-01-18 Thread william(at)elan.net
FYI: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:59:15 +0200 From: Ernest, B.M (AfriNIC - ZA) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: AfriNIC Discuss afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net To: afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], afnog@afnog.org Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC

Re: GoDaddy.com shuts down entire data center?

2006-01-16 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Joe McGuckin wrote: Richard, On the other hand , I'm not comfortable with the idea that an organization that provides network infrastructure services under the aegis of the US Government could unilaterally revoke those services for something that is not illegal. It

Re: DOS attack against DNS?

2006-01-16 Thread william(at)elan.net
Did you notice that it was class ANY and not type ANY that Paul noted? I've never ever heard of it being used anywhere As for ANY query type, what do you think will happen when you query with ANY to a host in a domain that is not in your local dns server cache? And btw if it is in your

Re: AW: Odd policy question.

2006-01-13 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Joe Abley wrote: It seems to me that if someone else chooses to insert 32- or 128-bit integers of their choice into their zone files, then there's properly very little I can or should be able to do about it. But that's just me. So I'm sure you would not mind (and would

Re: Cisco, haven't we learned anything? (technician reset)

2006-01-12 Thread william(at)elan.net
Actually, and fairly recently, this IS a default password in IOS. New out-of-box 28xx series routers have cisco/cisco installed as the default password with privilege 15 (full access). This is a recent development. This is hardly only cisco's problem. Most office routers I've dealt with

Re: Cisco, haven't we learned anything? (technician reset)

2006-01-12 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Jay Hennigan wrote: What should really be done (BCP for manufactures ???) is have default password based on unit's serial number. Since most routers provide this information (i.e. its preset on the chip's eprom) I don't understand why its so hard to just create simple

Re: do bogon filters still help?

2006-01-11 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Edward Lewis wrote: No data, but I thought I should add...RFC 3330 Special-Use IPv4 Addresses lists the obvious stuff. I just went through an exercise in de-bogonizing and needed that reference. [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3330.txt] Be careful though. It lists

Re: do bogon filters still help?

2006-01-11 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Florian Weimer wrote: Thank you for your suggestions. * william elan net: For those doing similar exercise, you might want to look at rephrased version of rfc330 listed blocks: http://www.completewhois.com/iana-ipv4-specialuse.txt You should move 192.88.99.0/24 from

Re: do bogon filters still help?

2006-01-11 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Edward Lewis wrote: At 20:28 +0100 1/11/06, Florian Weimer wrote: * Martin Hannigan: You should move 192.88.99.0/24 from SPECIAL to YES (although you shouldn't see source addresses from that prefix, no matter what the folks at bit.nl think). 169.254.0.0/16 should

Re: do bogon filters still help?

2006-01-11 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Florian Weimer wrote: You should move 192.88.99.0/24 from SPECIAL to YES (although you shouldn't see source addresses from that prefix, no matter what the folks at bit.nl think). 169.254.0.0/16 should be NO (otherwise it wouldn't be link-local). I think you just

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