Whow, just whow
After years of this mailing list slowly rotting away, someone takes an
approach and tries to give back life to the group.
And now suddenly, people are crawling from beneath their rocks and have
much better ideas, on how this could have been done all along.
Crawl back under
Dear SwiNOGers
Thank you for all the off-list answers.
Problem is solved. PEBKAC.
Kind regards,
Viktor
On 30.01.2019 14:43, Viktor Steinmann wrote:
Dear SwiNOGers
I'm new to JunOS. I like this OS so far, but I'm having a hard time,
securing this stuff...
Something's wrong in my JunOS
Dear SwiNOGers
I'm new to JunOS. I like this OS so far, but I'm having a hard time,
securing this stuff...
Something's wrong in my JunOS filters... Basically I want to block
everyone from accessing the interface on the router itself, but I want
to allow traffic to pass the interface.
Dear SwiNOGers,
Due to scheduling conflicts, I'll have to cancel the announced Beer
Event on Monday, 3rd December 2018.
It seems, the Beer Events have come to an end. If someone would like to
take the lead for 2019, please let me and/or Steven know off-list.
Kind regards,
Viktor (aka
Dear SwiNOGers,
The last Beer Event featuring Candid. Let's join in the Schlachthof to
wish him all the best for his future.
Details for the next event:
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Event: SwiNOG-BE168 - Beer Event 168 - The Farewell Event
When? Monday, 1st October
Dear SwiNOGers,
After the bad news about the end of the SWITCH mirror, everyone needs some good
news.
Let's have some beer and food.
And because of its central (pun intended) location, we're again descending into
the cave. The King's Cave.
Details for the next event:
Thanks for bringing this to our attention Fredy. Most of us would have
missed it probably.
It's a pity, they're shutting down this service. This has been an
institution. Reliable and trusted.
Unfortunately, there is no real explanation, why they're discontinuing
the service. Care to
/
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Since we have to make reservations, I need to know who's coming and who not.
If you can't attend and you're registered please inform me ASAP (078 602 95 18).
Kind regards,
Viktor Steinmann (aka Stony)
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Kind regards,
Viktor Steinmann (aka Stony)
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Dear fellow SwiNOGers
I have decided, to organize some Beer Events in the Zurich area for 2018, as
the tradition must live on...
Here are the dates for 2018:
Monday, 9. April 2018
Monday, 4. June 2018
Monday, 3. September 2018
Monday, 1. October 2018
Monday, 3. December 2018
As you can see,
Hi Michael
It seems, there's quite an interest in this, as the training in Zurich
is already fully booked. Any chance for a 2nd training in Zurich?
Kind regards,
Viktor
On 27.02.2018 16:13, Michael Hausding wrote:
Dear all
SWITCH is organising a one day DNSSEC training together with
How about the Enigmail-Plugin for Thunderbird?
On 15.02.2018 15:35, Benoit Panizzon wrote:
Well, I know no clients which support RFC4880 when generating or decoding PGP
encrypted emails. How about the SWINOG Community?
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Mimimi? Seriously?
If you chose to configure TLS mandatory, you'll have to live with the
fact, that some servers will not offer this service.
Don't try to force others to apply your policy, instead relax your own
policy. You can still monitor your maillog for non-TLS connections and
from
Guys... is there any news on this topic?
Regards,
Viktor
On 23.05.2017 20:18, Steven Glogger wrote:
Emanuel & Co.
Is there still any beer event?
gruss
-steven
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On 04.01.2017 08:54, Per Jessen wrote:
Is there any point in greylisting genuine mailservers? We only greylist
dodgy-looking setups.
/Per
I don't see how this approach would scale. We greylist everything. If
some mail servers appear to have a problem with that and are legit, they
are
On 22.12.2016 13:22, jerome.tissie...@swisscom.com wrote:
I work sometimes in Zurich but unfortunately my German is a disaster, is there
any non-german speaking people coming sometimes?
We've had non-german speaking joiners from time to time. As long as you
don't expect anyone to speak french,
On 20.12.2016 15:37, Gregor Riepl wrote:
How about Bern, Lausanne, Basel, St. Gallen, or somewhere else once in
a while?
The original idea of the beer event was, to meet with a smaller group of
geeks more often than during the "official" SwiNOG meetings, locally. We
started our "chapter" in
Dear André
Ignore this crap. Really.
We do 1-2 external security audits per year and I’ve seen incredible crap in
those reports. My favorites are things like “Hostname mail.domain.com suggests
this is a mail server. Consider changing it to something not so obvious.” and a
few lines
There was another german ruling, that pornography does not fulfill the
requirements to be protected under copyright law...
See this article (German only):
http://www.chip.de/news/Urteil-Raubkopien-primitiver-Pornos-nicht-strafbar_62826633.html
Might be an angle to approach this case ;-)
Curious however about recommendations for VoIP providers in .ch there
aren't that many around unfortunately. would love to hear some
suggestions (backed by experiece).
We have a redundant SIP uplink (2 different datacenters) to
upc-cablecom. Pricing is OK, quality is OK, support is very
Is it 1960?
One of the mail positive points of a mailing list is, that others can
profit from knowledge shared.
So if you have that knowledge, please share it here and some poor
googling person might find the answer to this exact question in this
very mailing-list archive at some point in
Since this is a smartass list in general, I'll retort:
A 100 km circle area is wrong in general, because areas are described
in square meters or square kilometers. Your description contains a
distance unit, and it's very logical to assume the distance from the
center of the area, also called
Hi all
I have some 19 racks to give away for free:
2 x Compaq rack
1 x HP rack (basically the same as the 2 Compaq racks, but with HP logo)
1 x whatever rack... but 19 (see Picture)
Pickup Location: Zug
Those racks are in perfect condition, just not used anymore. Please
contact me off-list,
Dear Lukas
I guess it's not a coincidence, that you're trying to sell something to
this list, just after the call for sponsors for SwiNOG 25 has gone out.
It's just that: Next time, please send your sponsoring application to
swinog-core, not to the technical discussion lists.
Kind regards,
I'm really not into IPv6, but routing Prefixes from an AS which has no
peering or transit relationship with you has never been a good idea in
the IPv4 world.
I'd be also interested if that's still true in the IPv6 world.
Kind regards,
Viktor
On 27.04.2012 10:09, john.coll...@bit.admin.ch
Hi Matthias
This depends on your customer base. Fact is, that you'll never have a
window where no customer is affected. However you'll have that certain
spot in your RRDs, where the usage is the lowest. This would probably
your preferred maintenance window.
In my recent jobs, the sweet spot
Hi Olivier
If Applied Science doesn't include building and maintenance of server
rooms, I'd rent one. Building and maintaining a server room for just
120m2 doesn't make sense IMHO.
Cheers,
Viktor
On 05.03.2012 13:38, Olivier Beytrison wrote:
Hello,
The University of Applied Science in
Hi Thomas
First of all - it might be a place to ask for help, if it was a Swiss
peering or routing problem. Given the traceroute you posted, it doesn't
look like there's much that can be done in Switzerland.
On 2nd thought... as VDSL customer, you're on best effort and have no
guarantees
We have a SwiNOG list for anti-spam, for lawful interception and now for
jobs...? What's next? Lists for hardware offerings, IPv6, events...?
I'm a little concerned, that we'll lose overview. Care to explain, why
the board thinks, that this is necessary? A job offer once in a while
doesn't
Uhh... I've had bad experiences with cheap racks. Not exactly this
brand, but nevertheless...
I've experiened...
...rack front mount rails started to bend, after putting in some
front-only mounted equipment (such as switches)
...only 50% of all industry standard log nuts fitted into the log
Dear all
As promised, I uploaded the video from the train ride @ SwiNOG 22. ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I6My2QY87k
Kind regards,
Viktor
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Dear Philip
While we're not a hosting provider, we still do have a lot of experience
with virtualization platforms. We are currently running ~150 vSphere and
Citrix XenServer servers and we've played around with Xen, KVM and others.
Two things I would like to give as advice:
- Storge is
On 01.03.2011 5:34, Philip Iezzi wrote:
What other solutions are small hosting providers using next to ClamAV? What are
you using?
We're using Kaspersky on Linux. The scanning engine doesn't add much to
the CPU load and it integrates into postfix like a charm. Actually, the
setup script
On 10.12.2010 15:02, Stanislav Sinyagin wrote:
why not using a Siemens GSM terminal?
It has the same RS232 port and AT command set, and you don't
need a copper line (you would of course need a SIM card).
We use that one too, and it works like a charm. However it's not
possible to operate a GSM
Wouldn't that do it?
!
route-map bar deny 10
match invalid
!
Cheers,
Viktor
On 15.11.2010 11:06, tim wrote:
Hi all,
About the talk BGP Origin ASN Validation from Roque Gagliano at SwiNOG
#21 I talked afterwards with him with the following remark:
Roque showed a route-map like this one:
Hey Stan
Great idea. One feature I've been missing in rancid for a long time is
the possibility to have a one-stop-shop for emergency recovery. While
the configuration is saved to CVS, the IOS and other important files
such as vlan.dat are missing. It would be great, if this new tool
would
Hallo zusammen
Wir suchen einen Linux System Engineer, der gerne auch an anderen Dingen
rumschrauben darf, falls Interesse besteht (z.B. Router,
SwissIX-Peerings, Switches, Firewalls, Datenbanken, Windows... you name it).
Die Person soll fliessend *DEUTSCH* sprechen und schreiben, weshalb
Soll natürlich off-list, nicht offline heissen ;-)
On 30.09.2010 13:33, Viktor Steinmann wrote:
Hallo zusammen
Wir suchen einen Linux System Engineer, der gerne auch an anderen Dingen
rumschrauben darf, falls Interesse besteht (z.B. Router,
SwissIX-Peerings, Switches, Firewalls, Datenbanken
We probably all followed the discussion in Germany about the
Bundestrojaner and how it failed.
And of course, a trojan spying on citizens is a major impact in privacy,
which is not acceptable.
However I don't think, that it's possible to create such a trojan and
use it, because of the
IMHO the time for moderation has arrived...
On 10.08.2010 08:59, swinog@lists.swinog.ch wrote:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ytukovp/message
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Um... after only surfing their webpage for 30 seconds I found this:
Aus den Statuten:
Die Stiftung bezweckt, die nötigen Grundlagen für den wirksamen
Gebrauch moderner Methoden der Teleinformatik im Dienste der Lehre und
Forschung in der Schweiz zu schaffen, zu fördern, anzubieten, sich an
You might be right about that:
http://www.inside-channels.ch/frontend/insidechannels?_d=_articlesite=icnews.id=21706
Btw ... AFAIK the WEKO is currently investigating this issue.
--
Martin
I agree, that SWITCH should not have included this switchplus part in
their info mail, as it's completely unrelated to the rest of the
information. Also the banner on their website doesn't belong there, as
no other entity can buy banner space there.
The best reaction might be a letter to the
You might want to search for layer 2 problems such as MTU problems e.g.
imagine Jumbo Frames on a network, where one switch/router doesn't
support them. I once had a lng headache because of such a silly
misconfiguration...
Cheers,
Viktor
On 06.07.2010 11:13, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
Despite the joy of seeing Arnold on TV (and in the last issue of c't
b.t.w), this is probably the worst movie about how the internet/mail
works *ever*. Actually it's so bad, that it has some entertainment
value. Examples: Internet traffic is split into packets at the
provider's permises, not
Dear Stefan
One possible source of that problem could be outdated databases of a
geolocation service provider.
There are some commercial providers (e.g. ip2location.com) which offer
geolocation of IPs as a serivce. This makes sense sometimes, when e.g. a
network spans multiple regions and/or
We do all our checks with Hobbit http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/
It has been renamed to Xymon lately, but you'll find more scripts and stuff
on the net if you google for Hobbit.
While it doesn't have a very nice interface, it scales very good and you can
so your own checks very easily.
We have
The concept is flawed.
If I want you to get rid of all your ADSL-customers, I'll send fake
child-porn proof to the EJPD associated with your IP range. Sounds like a
business model...
Cheers,
Viktor
Koennte man nicht ernsthaft in diese Richtung arbeiten?
Echtzeitueberwachungen wird es,
I cannot speak for all, but as for us, we want to manage ALL IPs in one tool
- even the RFC1918 IPs for internal use.
Kind regards,
Viktor
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Theurl
Sent: Donnerstag, 13. November 2008 11:43
To:
Hi all
In the last months we've seen more and more end-user questions,
vacation-bounces, off-topic and spam-like mails on the list.
Any suggestions how to keep the noise level low in the future?
Kind regards,
Viktor
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of
As an ISP, you do...
- what a customers pays for
- what the law requires
Is either the case here? Nope. If anybody wants you to do work for them
- and forwarding messages to people, who's IP you'll have to grep out of
Logfiles first (in the worst case) *is* work - this entity should pay
for
In my old ISP days, I used JFFNMS for this (http://www.jffnms.org/)
It was very easy to configure and besides its stupid name, that thingy was
quite useful. Time has gone by (4 years or so) and it might have become more
useful since then.
As usual, YMMV
Cheers,
Viktor
Original Message
We use the HP solution, because it adds only one more Cat5 Cable per Server
to the racks, whereas other solutions are just a nightmare to keep your
cabling decent looking.
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/rack-options/scs/
index-kvm.html
Pricing is OK IMHO, YMMV
Sorry, just found out, that they're EOL. But maybe there's one on Ebay ;-)
Cheers,
Viktor
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/rac
k-options/scs/
index-kvm.html
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The Link was on http://www.heise.de. So this is some sort of
Slashdot-Effect. In German: Die Seite wurde geheised ;-)
Cheers,
Viktor
Andre Keller wrote:
Hi Fredy
I don't believe the DDOS story. Yes, some DDOS may have occurred, but
it's not the real reason.
Is blogg.ch under DDOS at the
http://www.heise.de/security/news/foren/go.shtml?read=1msg_id=13937832forum_id=127692
Moritz Kobel wrote:
Am Thursday den 22. November 2007 schrieb Andre Keller:
I don't believe the DDOS story. Yes, some DDOS may have occurred, but
it's not the real reason.
Is blogg.ch under DDOS
I hope this link works:
http://www.sf.tv/var/videoplayer.php?catid=schweizaktuelldocid=20071010nr=4videourl=http%3A%2F%2Freal.xobix.ch%2Framgen%2Fsfdrs%2Fvod%2Fchak%2F2007%2F10%2Fchak_20071010.rm%3Fstart%3D0%3A08%3A17.989%26amp%3Bend%3D0%3A13%3A23.211
Otherwise go to http://www.sf.tv - SF
I hope this link works:
http://www.sf.tv/var/videoplayer.php?catid=schweizaktuelldocid=20071010nr=4videourl=http%3A%2F%2Freal.xobix.ch%2Framgen%2Fsfdrs%2Fvod%2Fchak%2F2007%2F10%2Fchak_20071010.rm%3Fstart%3D0%3A08%3A17.989%26amp%3Bend%3D0%3A13%3A23.211
Otherwise to to http://www.sf.tv - SF
Sorry for sending this twice... the mailserver gave an error but
obviously the mail was still delivered... and I already had deleted the
text *grmbl*
Viktor Steinmann wrote:
I hope this link works:
http://www.sf.tv/var/videoplayer.php?catid=schweizaktuelldocid=20071010nr=4videourl=http%3A%2F
That's the reason, why I started using my private mail address for
mailing-lists. Others use special accounts on their private domain (such
as [EMAIL PROTECTED]). No hassle with braindead mail
servers and equally challenged mail admins. Furthermore it's easier, if
Christian's assumption is
Well, obviously the judges didn't know, that the usual opt-out links are
used to verify mail addresses. This should have been pointed out
clearly. Maybe next time...
Cheers,
Viktor
Xaver Aerni wrote:
Hallo,
Der Kanton Zug hat das erste Urteil gegen das Antispamgesetz
verkündet. Dabei
Nowadays, every sicko can buy a .com domain for 9$ or even less.
Spammers buy domains, put correct SPF records in their zonefiles and
throw the domain away afterwards... (just like you did with hotmail
accounts a few years back :-))
So IMHO DNS based spam fighting doesn't work. At least not
No one had the guts to write some numbers until now? Let's heat up that
discussion a little with meat on the bone...
It depends on the location, age and company size.
In Zuerich, mid-sized company I'd say:
Age 25+ minimum 95'000 per year
Age 30+ minimum 105'000 per year
etc.
I guess it's
Hi all
The company I'm working for (20 employees) is looking for an IT techie.
Here are the needs:
MUST
- Oracle experience
- Linux/Unix experience
- English language skills
- Willing to work in Zug
OPTIONAL (Bonus points)
- Networking experience with Cisco devices (BGP, switching)
- Windows
About that lynx discussion...
I don't think you're losing a single customer because your websites
don't support lynx. Usually people want to see a picture of the product
they're buying. And then there's the aspect, of who your target-market
is. Usually it's not the Linux-Geek (and even if it
Hi Matthias et al
Out-of-Office notifications are not just nonsense as you state in your
mail. In a very service-oriented business, where the person-to-person
relationship is important, it makes sense for the customer to know, that
his personal contact is not available.
Please Remember:
At least that would finally enable Bluewin-TV ;-)))
SCNR
Viktor
Xaver Aerni wrote:
/Presence-pc at reports that France Telecom just announced they are
//offering 2.5 Gb/s internet connection/
http://www.presence-pc.com/actualite/ftth-experience-18331// to select
cities in the Paris region.
It's not only allowed but recommended ;-)
Cheers,
Viktor
Marcel Leuenberger wrote:
HiYa!
Just want to ask you if it is allowed to reset the IP-PRECEDENCE/DSCP-Field to
Zero (or any other value) at the border of an ISP network?
Means there is no problem if an IP-Transit provider reset the
I agree with Steven.
Just one addition: The hardware should be in Switzerland. We don't want
to pay a fortune for shipping, duty and taxes.
Cheers,
Viktor
Steven Glogger wrote:
i personally think that if you're not a professional hardware dealer who
wants to use swinog as a new market
Hello all
We're looking for some space (somewhere between 1-3 racks) in a
datacenter in the Zurich area.
It should offer at least the following features:
- UPS and Diesel generator to operate during longer power outages
- Security such as the possibilty to get a separate cage for our racks
-
sorry for this kind of spam..
You know that it's spam and you still do it?
Sorry, but you're a moron.
(I said sorry, so it doesn't matter)
Let's ban this guy and get back to busines...
Thanks,
Viktor
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No offense, but did you ever call the helpdesk of your company? I had
the joy to
do so, and I'd rather have sex with a cheese grater, than calling that number
again.
Cheers,
Viktor
Zitat von Marc Ammann [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
There are some ways you can go, to get in touch with a company
[1] via
Well, Fredy
Looks like you'll have to generate a huge loss, before you can sell Init7 ;-)
I can help spending some useless money, if you want...
Cheers,
Viktor
Zitat von Fredy Kuenzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It's somewhat OT here (not technical), but I guess a general interest:
Swisscom Fixnet
Well - don't know, how many of your read the jobs.ch jobmail, but if
you do, you
have probably noticed, that sunrise is looking for experienced network
engineers for a long time now... I guess, they don't have a technical, but a
HR problem ;-)
Too bad, their offices are in the totally wrong
Uh... maybe that's true for the players. Try to buy a Region-1 DVD in CH...
(yes, I know that Amazon.com etc. are shipping from the US, but that's not the
point)
Cheers,
Viktor
Zitat von Attila Kinali [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The regio protection is already declared illegal in Switzerland.
Or why
As you might or might not know, most ISPs are strongly agains blocking websites
and will only do so, if ordered by court. AFAIK it only happened once until
now, by a judge in Vaud (we all remember the trouble this caused).
The problem with blocking pages is, that it doesn't work and/or scale. If
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