Re: opportunistic email encryption by the MTA (not MUA)

2021-01-15 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2021-01-15 at 10:26 -0500, Bryan Fields wrote: > > It's still stored unencrypted on the server, and the admin can see > all. This is true. I was just referring to transit leakage. > If > you want it secure, you have to run gpg and encrypt the body. Again, true. Cheers, b.

Re: opportunistic email encryption by the MTA (not MUA)

2021-01-15 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2021-01-15 at 03:33 -0800, Randy Bush wrote: > email from a friend who uses protonmail as their MTA suddenly started > to > be opportunistically encrypted with pgp; i.e. the sender's MUA did > nothing to cause the encryption. i believe this started when i > provided > my pgp public key

Re: netflix proxy/unblocker false detection

2020-06-26 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2020-06-26 at 12:45 -0500, Mike Hammett wrote: > I believe they're only blocking the HE v6 prefixes used for the VPN > service. I don't use any VPN service of HE but I still get errors from Netflix when my client chooses my HE tunnel prefix as it's source. Or I guess I should say I was,

Re: netflix proxy/unblocker false detection

2020-06-26 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2020-06-25 at 17:32 -0500, Mike Hammett wrote: > IPv6? I realize this list is for network operators, but as a user, when your ISP doesn't provide IPv6, this is not possible. Even with tunnelbrokers like HE as they are blocked at Netflix. I have to put rules in my firewall to force the

Re: Abuse Desks

2020-04-29 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2020-04-29 at 09:50 -0700, Stephen Satchell wrote: > > As I build up my new > firewall, I'll turn off public SSH access completely, and instead use > a > robust VPN implementation. (Which has its own issues.) How does that solve the problem at hand in any way? The abuse/probing just

Re: Phishing and telemarketing telephone calls

2020-04-26 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Sat, 2020-04-25 at 11:23 -0600, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. wrote: > > Well, while we are already engaged in the thread, some of you may be > interested to know (especially if you find yourself with time on your > hands these days), that you *can* actually get money from these > scum. In fact, it

Re: xplornet contact or any experience with their satellite service?

2020-04-23 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2020-04-21 at 18:54 +, Mel Beckman wrote: > It’s not really oversold bandwidth. It’s just that the turnaround > time for a bolus of data is too long for two-way video conferencing > to be smooth or reliable. It’s like video conferencing using post > cards :) Except that

Re: xplornet contact or any experience with their satellite service?

2020-04-21 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2020-04-21 at 11:11 -0700, Sabri Berisha wrote: > Hi, Hi, > Where I worked, phy transmissions are scheduled based on tokens. A UT > must have a token to transmit data. If there is no congestion, a > token will be available and the UT or ground station may transmit. > Congestion does not

xplornet contact or any experience with their satellite service?

2020-04-21 Thread Brian J. Murrell
A friend of mine just recently got Xplornet satellite service at his rural home. I'm well aware of the latency issues with satellite although frankly his latency is much better than I had feared it would be and is around 600-700ms. But what seems to be worse than the latency is the "burstiness"

Re: Chairman Pai Proposes Mandating STIR/SHAKEN To Combat Robocalls

2020-03-06 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2020-03-06 at 18:37 -0500, b...@theworld.com wrote: > > Why don't they just ask the phone companies who are billing these > robocallers who they are and we can arrest them. Exactly. I have always maintained that if my phone number were one of those "premium" numbers (1-976 -- maybe I am

Re: QUIC traffic throttled on AT residential

2020-02-19 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2020-02-19 at 13:54 -0600, Blake Hudson wrote: > > Isn't this exactly why Net Neutrality is a thing: Isn't it a "dead" thing in the USofA? > So that people (or > companies) are free to develop new applications or enhance existing > ones > without running into a quagmire of different

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2020-01-08 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Sat, 2020-01-04 at 16:32 +0200, Max Tulyev wrote: > > Also, we implemented immediate answer and voice menu option, it says > "Welcome, press ... to reach ...!" and circles. So me (as the telco > operator) receive the money for call termination, and real customer > do > not get a spam call.

Re: 5G roadblock: labor

2019-12-30 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Mon, 2019-12-30 at 16:52 -0800, Sabri Berisha wrote: > > Who needs more than 640Kb of memory? > > We don't know what the future holds. This is an interesting read, > featuring 5g to perform a "hologram" phone call: > https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45009458 While I appreciate that this is

Re: 5G roadblock: labor

2019-12-30 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Mon, 2019-12-30 at 09:50 -0500, Shane Ronan wrote: > > Also, keep in mind that 10 years ago, you didn't know you would want > or > need 25mbits to your phone, Who needs 25mbits to their phone? > but I'd bet that now you'd have a hard time > living without it. I already live without it (by a

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2019-12-19 at 11:02 -0800, William Herrin wrote: > > I call your phone number. > Your phone company compares my number against your whitelist. Ring > through on match. > If no match, "You have reached Name. Press 2 to leave a message. > Press > 3 to enter your code. Press 0 or stay on the

Re: Disney+ Streaming

2019-11-28 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2019-11-28 at 10:50 -0800, Owen DeLong wrote: > While I agree about the likely outcome, I will point out that > consumers have been > begging for unbundling for years. This is not the "unbundling" that consumers have been begging for. Rather I would submit that it's actually quite the

Re: Disney+ Streaming

2019-11-12 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2019-11-12 at 15:32 -0800, Matthew Petach wrote: > My point was that Disney has a lock on much of the content kids love. Which was, until Disney+, on Netflix. https://www.theverge.com/2012/12/4/3727688/netflix-streaming-rights-new-disney-marvel-pixar-movies > Netflix/HBO/AmazonPrime,

Re: Disney+ Streaming

2019-11-12 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2019-11-12 at 12:53 -0800, Matthew Petach wrote: > Different target audiences. That are already satisfied with existing services, so no new target audiences. > Now the parents can be watching "Good Omens" or "Game of Thrones" on > Netflix while the kids are streaming "The Lion King" on

Re: Disney+ Streaming

2019-11-12 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2019-11-13 at 08:17 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: > > People can really only watch one thing at a time. This is my thought also. > Net streaming of the last mile > is unlikely to change much. Just where that content is coming from > may change. Indeed. Cheers, b. signature.asc

Re: Disney+ Streaming

2019-11-12 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2019-11-12 at 15:26 -0500, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: > > I can foresee a lot of families subscribing to Netflix *and* Disney+ > because neither one has all the content the family wants to watch. Absolutely. But the time spent watching Disney would *replace* (not be in addition to, or

Re: Disney+ Streaming

2019-11-12 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2019-11-12 at 15:08 -0500, Clayton Zekelman wrote: > Netflix has done a great job deploying OC Appliances. A Netflix > user != Amazon, Hulu, etc... Fair enough, in the cases where operators are Netflix OC partners and might see a shift in network use from a Netflic OC appliance to

Re: Disney+ Streaming

2019-11-12 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2019-11-12 at 19:49 +, Justin Krejci wrote: > > As the service grows in popularity, and its breadth of content and > manageable price is likely to attract a lot of growth, I'd like to > plan for any necessary augmentations to the network. From the end-user/viewer network capacity

Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

2019-11-08 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 22:42 +, Chris Kimball via NANOG wrote: > Does anyone have any more information on this? Yeah, like who (in the private sector -- we all knew the NSA already are doing this) has access to and is archiving *everyone*s text messages? And why? Cheers, b. signature.asc

Re: Video Streaming Wars

2019-10-15 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2019-10-15 at 17:12 +, Rod Beck wrote: > https://www.lightreading.com/video/ott/whats-at-stake-as-the-streaming-battle-builds-/d/d-id/754841? > [ >

Re: DNS Recursive Operators: Please enable QNAME minimization (RFC7816) for the enhanced privacy of your users

2019-09-18 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2019-09-18 at 09:15 +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote: > Hi Folks, Hi. > While in the US soon all Firefox users will *NOT* use your DNS > Recursives configured using DHCP anymore > (NXDOMAIN use-application-dns.net to avoid that[1]). What am I misunderstanding? Isn't use-application-dns.net

Re: MAP-E

2019-08-02 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2019-08-02 at 15:37 +0200, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG wrote: > Ask the vendor to support RFC8585. > > > > Also, you can do it with OpenWRT. > > > > I think 464XLAT is a better option and both of them are supported by > OpenWRT. > > > > You can also use OpenSource (Jool) for

Re: really amazon?

2019-07-31 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2019-07-31 at 23:13 +0300, Scott Christopher wrote: > > Because it will get spammed if publicly listed in WHOIS. I will take that at *least* as ironic as you meant it. b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 11:59 -0400, Paul Timmins wrote: > Chris it would be trivial for this to be fixed, nearly overnight, by > creating some liability on the part of carriers for illicit use of > caller ID data on behalf of their customers. This 1000%. Once legal liability is in place, the

Re: any interesting/useful resources available to IPv6 only?

2019-05-06 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Mon, 2019-05-06 at 12:12 -0400, John Levine wrote: > > There are perfectly good reasons to use v6: no NAT in front of your > devices, Check. > every service gets its own IP, Roger. > better connections to devices > on mobile networks and home networks that are behind v4 NATs. Bingo! All

Re: any interesting/useful resources available to IPv6 only?

2019-05-06 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Mon, 2019-05-06 at 10:26 +1200, Pshem Kowalczyk wrote: > I've found a VPS provider (https://www.vultr.com/pricing/) that > offers > cheaper instances with IPv6 only. That's an interesting one. Neat to see. But it would probably be a stretch to try to use that as example of why my ISP needs

any interesting/useful resources available to IPv6 only?

2019-05-03 Thread Brian J. Murrell
Hi, I am trying to make a case (to old fuddy-duddies, which is why I even need to actually make a case) for IPv6 for my own selfish reasons. :-) I wonder if anyone has any references to interesting/useful/otherwise resources on are only available to IPv6 users that they can forward to me.

Re: plaintext email?

2019-01-15 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2019-01-15 at 00:24 -0500, b...@theworld.com wrote: > I'd like to go on record as saying that I PREFER top-posting. > > Why dig through what you've already read to see the new comments? Because in long discussion threads, you lose the context to exactly what a particular person is

Re: Facebook doesn't have a route to my ISP's (Cogeco) IPv6 space?

2018-12-20 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2018-12-20 at 17:28 -0600, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > Hi Brian, Hi, > But what's exactly at 2a03:2880:f012:3:face:b00c:0:1? It's one of the endpoints involved in Facebook's Messenger service. IIRC it's "graph.facebook.com", although I note that that address is currently answering

Re: Facebook doesn't have a route to my ISP's (Cogeco) IPv6 space?

2018-12-20 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2018-12-20 at 21:44 -0500, Harald Koch wrote: > > To OP: I believe that every last-mile provider in Canda is still > offering IPv6 as a best-effort, unsupported service. Yeah. I'm aware of this. But I want to give them the benefit of the doubt that this problem is simply ignorance and

Re: Facebook doesn't have a route to my ISP's (Cogeco) IPv6 space?

2018-12-20 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2018-12-20 at 21:48 +0200, Max Tulyev wrote: > Well known problem. Interesting. As in a general problem across the Internet or a well known problem with Cogeco specifically? > You can use our tunnel broker connection (tb.netassist.ua) as a > workaround. Thanks. But I actually already

Facebook doesn't have a route to my ISP's (Cogeco) IPv6 space?

2018-12-20 Thread Brian J. Murrell
I've been trying to figure out why I can reach an IPv6 address at Facebook (2a03:2880:f012:3:face:b00c:0:1) through (only) one of my two Internet connections as well as via an HE IPv6 tunnel but not the other of my two ISP connections At one point in time a traceroute was dying inside of he.net: