According to the article, somebody maanged to patent the selling of
www.something.somethng.com. Which seems a bit assanine to me, since the
ISP I worked for in 1993 offered custoemrs www.customer.ccnet.com.
Uh, no, that's not what the article said and it's not what the patent,
which is linked
trick thrown into the mix
along with zombie proxies and such.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
http://www.taugh.com
What is wrong with MTAMARK?
MTAMARK tags the reverse entries of IP addresses where SMTP servers
are. Fixes this problem very fast, efficient and with little effort
(script magic to regenerate the reverse DNS entries).
In priciple, nothing. In practice, the rDNS is a mess and I don't know
. I've done
that, too, and haven't had any problems other than educating the
occasional too-clever user who thinks my setup instructions must be
wrong, substitutes the MX server for the SUBMIT server, and then
complains that it doesn't work.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator
, or perhaps the packet loss within my NSP (Sprint)
was too much for it.
I switched to Lingo which works fine. Its box uses NTP to set the
time, then http to configure.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
http://www.taugh.com
What caused that issue was file transfers and other bursty traffic
overwhelming queues, resulting in vonage traffic being stomped.
My router is a BSD/OS box and I see no evidence that it's losing
packets. Keep in mind that the trouble was on inbound traffic, and my
internal network, a 100Mb
(two providers) I called Vonage tech support who have recommended
a comprehensive channel test
Wow! You got someone on the phone!
(using a utility they recommend)
I'd be interested, even though my Vonage ATA is about to go back. Tnx.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary
can't say that I'm overly impressed with how well it's working, but
it's better than nothing.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for
Dummies,
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor
I dropped the toothpaste, said Tom
their list mail
went. Sigh. I tell them that if they want to resubscribe, they're
welcome to do so, and when they hit the spam button again they'll be
off the list again.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for
Dummies,
Information Superhighwayman wanna
of VoIP going that route.
Since you first have to admit you're a phone company to apply for the
USF gravy train, you can see why parasitic VoIP providers might feel a
little conflicted.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for
Dummies,
Information
level of service people are paying for vs.
what level they think they are paying for.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for
Dummies,
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor
I dropped the toothpaste, said Tom, crestfallenly.
access to the zone files for most
gTLDs. I arranged to get com, org, net, edu, biz, and info.
In each case you have to sign and fax back an agreement to the
registry in which you promise not to do naughty things with the data.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator
I don't undertand is why everyone else seems to
believe it. VoIP is mostly a regulatory arbitrage play, not a
technological miracle.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for
Dummies,
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor
25, 80, 110, 443, ... are blocked. so no ssh or other vpns.
i.e. YOU FORCE WIRELESS USERS TO BE INSECURE. so, if i was
so inclined, i could sit there and tap everyone's email etc.
I thought everyone ran an ssh server on port 443 by now. It's
the easiest way to get through these overbearing
The report that this week decided the ownership of
the second most important directory on the Internet
has been called into question with the claim that a
fundamental element of it is factually incorrect.
Apparently, the main criticism is that DENIC developed the core of its
operations (the
. Without those symptoms, it's not a
problem. I'm sure I'm not the only person who's added explicit routes
to his MTA to bypass Postini and mail to the customer's real MTA.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for
Dummies,
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http
that
they provide real E911 (at extra cost, about the same as the mandatory
911 fee on a POTS line) in most of the U.S. now.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
http://www.taugh.com
with different management and separate
infrastructure. VZW is a joint venture between VZ and Vodaphone.
VZW recently confirmed that their mail system is separate from VZ's,
and whatever mistakes they may make, they're not VZ's.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet
with whether
its mail is desired.
Shameless plug: over in the anti-spam research group at asrg.sp.am I
sure would like it if people were working on reputation systems to
plug the gaping hole left by all these authentication schemes.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator
I therefore assert there is no technical solution to spam.
I think you're preaching to the choir here.
What will stop it is some sort of new economic model, billing for
e-mail (yeah yeah some reasonable amt included),
Unfortunately, that's a technical solution, because it requires that
we
We've been here before, but to recap.
1. If a particular billing/business model presents difficulties then
we might have to consider a different model, others are possible
(hence, straw man of e-postage etc.)
I look forward to hearing about a design for an email billing system
that does
to make people change their existing working mail setups,
there's little point in going through the vast cost of a widespread
change for such a marginal benefit. Read archives of SPF mailing
lists for endless flamage on this topic, since SPF has the same
problem.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL
This has the same problem as all of the other duct tape authorization
schemes -- it breaks a lot of valid e-mail, ...
In this particular case, the biggest issue is forwarders, ...
This gets into the discussion of what percentage of mail a user gets that
is like this. It varies widely.
to the Haiti redelegation in the Postel era.
The DOC is merely saying don't hold your breath. Given ICANN's less
than stellar record, nobody should be surprised.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for
Dummies,
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http
Is ICANN actually going to come up with a set of guidelines ?
ICANN? No. The SSAC who wrote the report and are a bunch of people
who actually have some clues about running networks? Definitely.
I don't know if it is the repeated ICANN can't be trusted / is corrupt
messaging, or the sensitivity of the .NET rebid (aka VGRS deregulation)
that got the prompt action --
It's more that ICANN has figured out that registrars are where all
their revenue comes from, and if they dragged their feet
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 ...
I sat in on some of the discussion at ICANN in Lux, and I simultaneously
heard that the problem is fundamentally insoluble, but ICANN has to do
something
world-wide, so that if you're an American in Europe, you can still
call 911 and have that work as expected.
Given that there are UK telephone numbers starting 911, this seems
rather unlikely.
Given that we're talking about cell phones, it seems completely
likely. Cell phones present the
$subj says it pretty much all :) Does anybody use anything like this
in the US?
I doubt it. Europe is all calling party pays, so if you can sneak
your calls into the cell network and avoid the termination fees, you
can save vast amounts of money. North America is all mobile party pays,
so
North America is all mobile party pays,
so calls to mobile cost the same as calls to landline.
... not inside the [same provider's] mobile network, cell phone to
cell phone. See T-Mobile's Unlimited Mobile-to-Mobile component of
their services, as an example. This (unlimited, for a flat,
Homographs are a classical example of a PR attack. It's a complete
non-issue.
I am inclined to agree.
But since the TLD registry operators can, and do, control the delegation
of their TLDs, they have de-facto control over the sets of labels that
can be used for second-level domain labels
There's an article by John Levine SUBJ: line is the title)
over on CircleID that might be intersting some folks in the
e-mail authentication jihad:
http://www.circleid.com/article/1157_0_1_0_C/
For your perusal.
Don't miss the comments from Suresh (the postmaster at Outblaze, who
yanked his
I'm tempted to try making one of the authoritative name servers for a
toy domain www.domain to see what happens. Anyone tried it?
$ dnsqr ns abuse.net
2 abuse.net:
78 bytes, 1+2+0+0 records, response, noerror
query: 2 abuse.net
answer: abuse.net 251793 NS light.lightlink.com
answer: abuse.net
Face it, 7D is dead; and even if overlays had not arrived, cell
phones would have killed it. Once you learn to think 10D, it's
trivial.
Oh, you ignorant rednecks.* Even my cell phone has 7D dialing and
it'll be a century before overlays arrive where I live.
The reason that it makes sense
That's why some states (e.g. Texas) require that all toll calls be
dialed as 1+ _regardless of area code_, and local calls cannot be
dialed as 1+. If you dial a number wrong, you get a message
telling you how to do it properly (and why).
In some places that solution is _not_practical_. As
I once spoke to a construction manager at comcast for their
network buildouts. With my local township, they need to have 20 homes
per linear mile along the route to justify a build.
Given it is Comcast, it appears that they are not interested. I know that
some companies will do it if
So, of the 11 countries that the OECD thinks have greater broadband
penetration than the USA, 6 are more densely-populated than the USA
and 5 are not.
I wonder how they figure population density... Is it just a matter of
land area divided by the number of residents, or something more
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
John Levine writes over on CircleID:
Actually I wrote it in my own blog at http://weblog.taugh.com which CircleID
mirrors with permission.
If you want to comment, put them in my blog so people will see it.
R's,
John
The United Airlines website appears to be down and has been down for =
days.
Is this a network issue or are they out of business??
Darn those pesky alternate root servers.
R's,
John
I saw this evening that CentralNic had added *.uk.com to point to
itself.
Why should anyone care? It's just one of ten million dot-com domains.
So will ICANN act on this?
Of course not.
CentralNIC also runs the uk.com, us.com, eu.com and de.com domains.
Well, OK, they run four out of ten
be that the phone system is robust and the Internet
is fragile. The phone network reroutes pretty well when the switching
equipment that does the routing hasn't been smashed.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for
Dummies,
Information Superhighwayman
I don't understand what VeriSign receives in return for their kowtow
(under the agreement, they basically waive any right to criticize
ICANN's role).
As someone else noted, a perpetual cash cow in .COM with 7%/year
escalator clause.
* ICANN signalled a positive outcome of a future Sitefinder
Moving sshd from port 22 to port 137, 138 or 139. Nasty eh?
don't do that! Lots of (access) isps around the world (esp here in
Europe) block those ports
If you're going to move sshd somewhere else, port 443 is a fine
choice. Rarely blocked, rarely probed by ssh kiddies. It's probed
all the
News of this case has been sent here before (by [EMAIL PROTECTED] back
in July). Is anything really happening with the case?
It's case number 5:06-cv-02554-JW
They're still skirmishing about whether this is the right court to
file such a suit and stuff like that. Most recent order was on
This may be a nit, but, you will _NEVER_ see AC power at any, let
alone all of the seats. Seat power that works with the iGo system is
DC and is not conventional 110 AC.
Perhaps I was hallucinating, but when I flew from Auckland to LAX on
Air New Zealand earlier this year, I had a 110V outlet
In addition to all of the offered AC services others have mentioned,
some planes have power outlets for vacuum cleaners, typically behind a
small panel next to a door.
ISTR, these AC sockets are airplane flavour 115VAC @ 400Hz.
No. it's 60 Hz. See this picture of one of the outlets.
Don't neglect the border crossing delay.
I just drove back from Toronto this morning, with about a 20 minute
delay into the US. It's hard to predict, some times it takes 30
seconds, on really bad times like the end of a holiday weekend it can
take two hours.
Flying into Buffalo is an entirely
He told me he would still calling until he got through to the right
person. I am the right person.
Next time, try asking for the name and phone number of his boss, so
you can call and report what an excellent job he's doing.
R's,
John
that
abuse.net is a blacklist, and no matter what I do (try looking up
2.0.0.127.abuse.net) they keep hammering on it. I also see lookups to
names with http// in them and just about any other idiotic mistake you
can imagine, again no set of responses seems to get their attention.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL
In many places (based on a quick scan of the telegeography map from 200
posts ago...) it seems like cable landings are all very much centrally
located in any one geographic area. There are like 5 on the east coast
near NYC, with many of the cables coming into the same landing place.
That's true,
, but their
clue level is probably typical.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for
Dummies,
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor
More Wiener schnitzel, please, said Tom, revealingly.
A universal service charge could be applied to all bills, with the
funds going to subsidize rural areas.
This is already done in the U.S., to no discernible effect.
I dunno. My rural ILEC which is up to its armpits in USF money, sells
me a T1 for $190/mo plus tax. (Plus what their captive
,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for
Dummies,
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor
More Wiener schnitzel, please, said Tom, revealingly.
the more general problem is hard to agree about. i think it's that every
day neustar and afilias and verisign and the other TLD registries handle
many millions of new-domain transactions, most of which will never be paid
for (domain tasting)
Right.
and most of which are being held with
I rarely post, but that is clearly a problem. The Americans seem to
believe in the presumption of guilt and the infallibility of
accusation. As an American born and bred I can hardly be accused of
bias.
Clearly spam is a serious problem in terms of draining network
resources, but organizations
created domains and discriminate between the ones that were created for good
and the ones created for ill. How would one do this?
A good start would be to forbid the delegation of newly-registered
domains that have not yet been paid for.
I am not aware of any registrars that extend credit
I think the shutdown of seclists.org by GoDaddy is a perfect example of
exactly why the registrars should NOT be making these decisions.
I know the head abuse guy at Godaddy. He is a reasonable person. He
turns off large numbers of domains but he is human and makes the
occasional mistake.
We cite this one because it was such an unbelievable cock-up it wasn't
funny. Fyodor a blackhat? Seclists.org a malicious site? Honest to god did
the guy do even the teensiest little bit of due diligence before shutting
the site down?
He screwed up, we all know that. My point is that human
This is the costly bit that a domain registrar isn't going to be
likely to do.
Well, you're not likely to get it for the $8.95 that Godaddy charges.
Their abuse department does a remarkably good job, considering their
volume and margins.
Perhaps the message here is that you get what you pay
While its a pretty brute force approach, one method Iâm trying is to
curtail the source of email. In otherwords, if smtp traffic comes from an
unknown source it gets directed to a sendmail server that intentionally
rejects the email message (550 with a informational message/url).
1) You
you in one, you need a better ISP.
That's life.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for
Dummies,
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
More Wiener schnitzel, please, said Tom, revealingly.
and their friends mass merchandise domains as a fashion
accessory, but it's much too late to put that genie back in the
bottle.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of The Internet for
Dummies,
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
More Wiener
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