Re: mail service with no mx (was - Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?)

2005-09-14 Thread Dave Crocker
Application layer firewalls have existed for at least 6 years. Make that 15 I suspect that claiming to that they existed farther back than 1990 would require careful debate about the functionality. Taking it at its most general: a boundary barrier service that mediated particular

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-14 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 02:08 AM 14-09-05 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And reported Oct 2004: http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/?fs=www7.nationalgeographic.com -Hank threat models for huricanes are different that earthquakes. (or is that one of those disaster+geography

Re: mail service with no mx (was - Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?)

2005-09-14 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Roy Badami wrote: Perhaps because most telnet clients will attempt telnet option negotiation? No they won't. I don't have any copies of BSD to hand from before 1987, but even then Berkeley Telnet would not do unsolicited option negotiation if you specified a port number.

Load Balancing between multiple BGP peer connections

2005-09-14 Thread Joe Shen
Hi, How could load on multiple BGP peer links be balanced automatically? The situation we are facing: ---| | Service provider| | | --R1R2--- |\

Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?

2005-09-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 9/14/05, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Port 587? Not everyone implements that. You would make a large part of the internet unreachable via email vinyl# telnet mx2.mail.yahoo.com 587 Trying 67.28.114.36... telnet: connect to address 67.28.114.36: Connection refused Trying

Re: CAT5 surge/lightning strike protection recommendations?

2005-09-14 Thread Jerry Eyers
As everyone else has said, fiber is best, but if that is not an option... We have had good luck using these: http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/hgln_cat6.php Trancievers will work as well, but that is a more expensive option. Nothing is going to protect you from a direct strike. Jerry

Re: CAT5 surge/lightning strike protection recommendations?

2005-09-14 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Todd Vierling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Seriously, though, that's exactly what you're describing, and about what I'd suggest in a no-other-option scenario -- but if it's possible to pull fiber through the conduits, it would probably be far less expensive long term, or even medium term if

SHIM6 (Was: Multi-6)

2005-09-14 Thread Michael . Dillon
anyway, this has been some good discussion, and 2 more people are now on shim6 :) I've always wondered why NANOGers refer to Internet resources in this way. Do NANOG members not know what a URL is? Perhaps it is because the WWW was invented long after the Internet was and, as you know, there

Re: CAT5 surge/lightning strike protection recommendations?

2005-09-14 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert E.Seastrom writes: Todd Vierling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Seriously, though, that's exactly what you're describing, and about what I'd suggest in a no-other-option scenario -- but if it's possible to pull fiber through the conduits, it would probably be

Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?

2005-09-14 Thread Michael . Dillon
does anyone else find it highly odd and worrisome that they're sending emails to alert FEMA of a crisis, instead of, I don't know - phone calls? if I'm a federal agency and I require FEMA's resources immediately, I'm going to pick up the phone and call them; not fire off an email marked

Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?

2005-09-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:28 AM 14/09/2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: On 9/14/05, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Port 587? Not everyone implements that. You would make a large part of the internet unreachable via email vinyl# telnet mx2.mail.yahoo.com 587 Trying 67.28.114.36... telnet: connect to

Re: CAT5 surge/lightning strike protection recommendations?

2005-09-14 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:44:16 -0400 Steven M. Bellovin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert E.Seastrom writes: Todd Vierling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Seriously, though, that's exactly what you're describing, and about what I'd suggest in a

Re: CAT5 surge/lightning strike protection recommendations?

2005-09-14 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marshall Eubanks writes: My direct experience with running long-distance underground cable is dated -- let's put it like this; we were dealing with RS-232 -- but the countermeasures to a direct strike on copper cables don't seem to have improved nearly

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-14 Thread Michael . Dillon
threat models for huricanes are different that earthquakes. (or is that one of those disaster+geography equations?) For one thing, if you use natural-gas powered gensets, you are virtually guaranteed to go off-line after an earthquake. For another, after an earthquake you will have to be

Re: CAT5 surge/lightning strike protection recommendations?

2005-09-14 Thread Frank Coluccio
There's not much left to interpretation and preferences here, aside from the choice of medium to be used. I should also add that some of the advice that has been posted in this thread, as well-meaning and thoughtful as it has been, has been downright dangerous to follow. If one is going to run

Re: CAT5 surge/lightning strike protection recommendations?

2005-09-14 Thread Frank Coluccio
re: what did your electricians say ... Back to lurking in a moment, but I should note that fire and safety code issues are so shrouded in matters of locality and jurisdiction, at times, and bound up in industry and governmental standards that are so esotric in nature, that the typical electrical

Re: CAT5 surge/lightning strike protection recommendations?

2005-09-14 Thread David Lesher
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered: re: what did your electricians say ... Back to lurking in a moment, but I should note that fire and safety code issues are so shrouded in matters of locality and jurisdiction, at times, and bound up in industry and

Re: CAT5 surge/lightning strike protection recommendations?

2005-09-14 Thread Bryan Fields
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 03:24 pm, R.P. Aditya wrote: Anyone have recommendations (tested/practical is best :-)? First bond the cable shield to earth at the entry point in both buildings. Second use a Tripplite DNET-1 at both buildings. make sure you have a single point ground terminal

cogent and level3

2005-09-14 Thread Joseph Nuara
Does anyone know what the story is with Cogent and L3? I noticed that my Cogent site (IN NY) is using a path to one of my providers (IN NJ) via asia as opposed to the local and preferred L3 peer. After several days I was finally told that L3 and Cogent are working through some peering

Re: Load Balancing between multiple BGP peer connections

2005-09-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
[Wow, operational content - thank you!] On Sep 14, 2005, at 6:24 AM, Joe Shen wrote: How could load on multiple BGP peer links be balanced automatically? The situation we are facing: ---| | Service provider| |

Re: Load Balancing between multiple BGP peer connections

2005-09-14 Thread Tom Sands
Is the connectivity with 1 provider or 3 separate provider? The diagram and wording would seem like its the same. Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: [Wow, operational content - thank you!] On Sep 14, 2005, at 6:24 AM, Joe Shen wrote: How could load on multiple BGP peer links be balanced

Re: cogent and level3

2005-09-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 01:41:32PM -0400, Joseph Nuara wrote: Does anyone know what the story is with Cogent and L3? I noticed that my Cogent site (IN NY) is using a path to one of my providers (IN NJ) via asia as opposed to the local and preferred L3 peer. After several days I was finally

Re: CAT5 surge/lightning strike protection recommendations?

2005-09-14 Thread Aditya
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:24:51 +, R.P. Aditya [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have a bunch of cat5 buried about 1 ft below the surface connecting multiple buildings on a campus (short runs) and lightning strikes nearby have caused surges along one or more of the cables and burnt out switch

commonly blocked ISP ports

2005-09-14 Thread Luke Parrish
Everyone, Does anyone have a reference point for commonly blocked ports? We have a list, some reactive and some proactive, however we need to remove ports that are no longer a threat and add new ones as they are published. Thanks luke

Re: commonly blocked ISP ports

2005-09-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:42:56 CDT, Luke Parrish said: We have a list, some reactive and some proactive, however we need to remove ports that are no longer a threat and add new ones as they are published. All ports that are open are threats, at least potentially. What you *should* be doing is:

Re: commonly blocked ISP ports

2005-09-14 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: Luke Parrish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: commonly blocked ISP ports Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:42:56 -0500 Everyone, Does anyone have a reference point for commonly blocked ports? We have a list, some reactive and some

Re: commonly blocked ISP ports

2005-09-14 Thread Luke Parrish
Not quite looking for tips to manage my network and ACL's or if should or should not be blocking, more looking for actual ports that other ISP's are blocking and why. For example: port 5 worm 2.5 port 67 virus 8.2 At 03:12 PM 9/14/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2005

Re: commonly blocked ISP ports

2005-09-14 Thread Larry Smith
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 15:41, Luke Parrish wrote: Not quite looking for tips to manage my network and ACL's or if should or should not be blocking, more looking for actual ports that other ISP's are blocking and why. For example: port 5 worm 2.5 port 67 virus 8.2 Probably not

Re: commonly blocked ISP ports

2005-09-14 Thread brett watson
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 15:41, Luke Parrish wrote: Not quite looking for tips to manage my network and ACL's or if should or should not be blocking, more looking for actual ports that other ISP's are blocking and why. seems to me this is the wrong question... a default

Re: CAT5 surge/lightning strike protection recommendations?

2005-09-14 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aditya writes: The short-term solution seems to be using the APC PNET1s/Tripplite DNET1/etc. in each unit and tying them to the water main as an inexpensive, immediate step while funds are allocated for conduit, labor etc.. If I recall correctly, the National

Re: commonly blocked ISP ports

2005-09-14 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
A couple of decent barometers: http://www.dshield.org/topports.php and: http://www.mynetwatchman.com/default.asp - ferg -- Luke Parrish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not quite looking for tips to manage my network and ACL's or if should or should not be blocking, more looking for actual

Re: commonly blocked ISP ports

2005-09-14 Thread Peter Dambier
There is only one port worth blocking: Block port 80 (http) All other ports might be in use for redirected ssh, telnet, ftp, ... Blocking port 80 will keep windows people from accidently clicking nonsense. :) Kind regards, Peter and Karin Dambier Luke Parrish wrote: Everyone, Does

Re: CAT5 surge/lightning strike protection recommendations?

2005-09-14 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aditya writes: The short-term solution seems to be using the APC PNET1s/Tripplite DNET1/etc. in each unit and tying them to the water main as an inexpensive, immediate step while funds are allocated for conduit, labor etc..

re: commonly blocked ports (but not on backbones)

2005-09-14 Thread brett watson
seems to me this is the wrong question... a default security posture (network or system, isp or enterprise or any type of entity) should be: if it's not explicitly allowed, it's denied. apologies, i see the original poster was talking about a *backbone*... my mind was on

Re: mail service with no mx (was - Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?)

2005-09-14 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:09:54PM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote: Application layer firewalls have existed for at least 6 years. Make that 15 I suspect that claiming to that they existed farther back than 1990 would require careful debate about the functionality. Taking it at its most

Re: mail service with no mx (was - Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?)

2005-09-14 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
Joseph S D Yao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave, I think the mail gateways back when the various networks were being put together into an internet had as their functional purpose unifying disparate networks. On the contrary, a firewall has as its purpose partitioning a network that

Re: mail service with no mx (was - Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?)

2005-09-14 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joseph S D Yao writes : On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:09:54PM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote: I think the mail gateways back when the various networks were being put together into an internet had as their functional purpose unifying disparate networks. On the contrary, a

The return of the wildcard domain...

2005-09-14 Thread Jim McBurnett
All, I saw this evening that CentralNic had added *.uk.com to point to itself. I thought this was of operational interest considering the effect Verisign sitefinder had. (Sorry Martin, no offence intended) So I guess the question to us all is: how will this affect our networks as a whole? Or

Re: The return of the wildcard domain...

2005-09-14 Thread John Levine
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

Re: The return of the wildcard domain...

2005-09-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 14, 2005, at 10:50 PM, John Levine wrote: 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. Perhaps the original poster is thinking of .co.uk? BTW: I have a * on a couple of my personal

Re: The return of the wildcard domain...

2005-09-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 15/09/05, Jim McBurnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw this evening that CentralNic had added *.uk.com to point to itself. uk.com is just another consumer ISP, it is not a second level TLD like co.uk is. So I guess the question to us all is: how will this affect our networks as a