Re: [WISPA] ntop

2009-07-10 Thread Matt Liotta
Just to follow up, IP SLA via SNMP gets me most of the way there. For  
Netflow I am having to write a Java daemon, but I am having some  
initial success. Looks like a couple more days of programming and I  
will be there. I did find that not every Cisco supports IP SLA.  
Luckily, every voice customer of ours has a Cisco that does.

-Matt

On Jul 8, 2009, at 11:55 AM, Matt Liotta wrote:

 Good call... I forgot all about IP SLA. We can easily query that via
 SNMP.

 -Matt

 On Jul 8, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Rutis, Cameron wrote:

 I haven't worked with it yet but cisco's IP SLA feature can generate
 a MOS score
 http://www.cisco.com/en/US/technologies/tk648/tk362/tk920/technologies_white_paper0900aecd801752ec.html


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 Subject: Re: [WISPA] ntop


 On Jun 29, 2009, at 7:02 PM, Jeff Broadwick wrote:

 Matt,

 Are you looking for specific specs like latency and jitter?

 I was hoping for something better. I can get latency and jitter
 information at layer3 from our Ciscos as well as latency and jitter  
 of
 RTP itself from our soft switches. However, it is hard to correlate
 that into something high level and useful. Clearly thresholding
 latency and jitter is useful, but assuming neither are too high how
 does one know about the quality of a call. A MOS score would be more
 ideal.

 -Matt



 
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Re: [WISPA] OT Hotmail email black hole

2009-07-10 Thread Ryan Ghering
Marlon,

  That is a weekly ordeal for ourselves. Customers that don't update
Anti-virus or goto questionable sites
get botnets that spam the world. Hotmail/MSN/LIVE is the first to block you.
Getting off their blacklists is nearly impossible
unless you follow thier rules even then it takes weeks. They have no
postmaster contacts to speak of anymore.

We had to subscribe to the Smart Network Data Services Program.
https://postmaster.live.com/snds/

Then follow the rules listed. I hated doing it but we actually started
loosing customers due to not being able to send to the largest spam host in
the world...

Sorry I can't be any better help just know that others feel your pain...

Thanks
Ryan


On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Marlon K. Schafer o...@odessaoffice.comwrote:

 Hi All,

 Hotmail has put us on some kind of black list.  Messages from my servers to
 anyone with a hotmail (or affiliate) address is being sent into oblivion.

 Contacting Hotmail has been nearly useless.  They've simply told me to go
 join a special program that they have and that'll get my system ok'd again.

 Sorry, but I'm NOT giving them customer information or money in order to
 fix
 this.

 Does anyone know anyone that doesn't have his head up his wazzoo at that
 org?  Anyone else been successful at getting off of the black list there?

 Thanks,
 marlon




 
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Re: [WISPA] OT Hotmail email black hole

2009-07-10 Thread David E. Smith
Marlon K. Schafer wrote:


 Contacting Hotmail has been nearly useless.  They've simply told me to go 
 join a special program that they have and that'll get my system ok'd again.

Which one? They probably want you to sign up for Smart Network Data 
Services, which is free and has decent automated tools if you're into 
that sort of thing.

If you're running all your email stuff in-house, it's a good idea to 
sign up for that, and AOL's Feedback Loop. The latter is prone to 
false-positives (basically any time an AOL user hits the spam button, 
you get notified, and it turns out many AOL users hit that button for 
literally every email they receive) but it can be a valuable tool.

David Smith
MVN.net



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Re: [WISPA] NTIA Seeks Volunteers to Review Broadband Applications

2009-07-10 Thread David Hulsebus
I've got a friend who reviews applications on a contract basis for the 
federal Dept of Education.  Very common practice when so many 
applications come in at once.  Their process is to have three reviewers 
look at each application. They average the three scores and then only a 
percentage move to the next round. The first review process is typically 
looking for T's to be crossed and I's to be dotted ensuring you met all 
the requirements of the grant, and then their scoring metric is used.  
She told me it's not uncommon for upwards of 50 percent to be dropped 
during this round. YMMV.

Dave Hulsebus



Israel Lopez-LISTS wrote:
 Did you guys hear about this?
 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070909-ntia-seeks-volunteers-to-review.html?page=1

 Some people think its scary, but I think if done with enough guidance 
 Volunteer Reviewers could cull a lot of crap out of this program 
 applications.

 -Israel


 
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Re: [WISPA] OT Hotmail email black hole

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin Neal
I think they confuse the delete button with the spam button over
there at AOL.

-Kevin


On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 8:29 AM, David E. Smithd...@mvn.net wrote:
 Marlon K. Schafer wrote:


 Contacting Hotmail has been nearly useless.  They've simply told me to go
 join a special program that they have and that'll get my system ok'd again.

 Which one? They probably want you to sign up for Smart Network Data
 Services, which is free and has decent automated tools if you're into
 that sort of thing.

 If you're running all your email stuff in-house, it's a good idea to
 sign up for that, and AOL's Feedback Loop. The latter is prone to
 false-positives (basically any time an AOL user hits the spam button,
 you get notified, and it turns out many AOL users hit that button for
 literally every email they receive) but it can be a valuable tool.

 David Smith
 MVN.net


 
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[WISPA] Broadband Mapping NOFA

2009-07-10 Thread Joe Miller

Brian,

Have you had a chance to see this yet? Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) 
for the State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program. It is on the 
following link, http://broadbandusa.sc.egov.usda.gov/index.htm



  



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Re: [WISPA] Broadband Mapping NOFA

2009-07-10 Thread Brian Webster
I haven't had a chance to read this NOFA yet but have seen some of the
summaries. I won't be applying for anything directly but may get involved
with a few projects around the county through others. One of the difficult
issues will be for those who want to provide service in underserved areas.
Finding an acceptable method for determining a 40% market penetration rate
can be labor intensive and costly.



Thank You,
Brian Webster

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Subject: [WISPA] Broadband Mapping NOFA



Brian,

Have you had a chance to see this yet? Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA)
for the State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program. It is on the
following link, http://broadbandusa.sc.egov.usda.gov/index.htm








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Re: [WISPA] OT Hotmail email black hole

2009-07-10 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
OK, I held my nose and signed up.  We'll see what happens.

thanks,
marlon

- Original Message - 
From: Ryan Ghering rgher...@gmail.com
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 7:12 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] OT Hotmail email black hole


 Marlon,

  That is a weekly ordeal for ourselves. Customers that don't update
 Anti-virus or goto questionable sites
 get botnets that spam the world. Hotmail/MSN/LIVE is the first to block 
 you.
 Getting off their blacklists is nearly impossible
 unless you follow thier rules even then it takes weeks. They have no
 postmaster contacts to speak of anymore.

 We had to subscribe to the Smart Network Data Services Program.
 https://postmaster.live.com/snds/

 Then follow the rules listed. I hated doing it but we actually started
 loosing customers due to not being able to send to the largest spam host 
 in
 the world...

 Sorry I can't be any better help just know that others feel your pain...

 Thanks
 Ryan


 On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Marlon K. Schafer 
 o...@odessaoffice.comwrote:

 Hi All,

 Hotmail has put us on some kind of black list.  Messages from my servers 
 to
 anyone with a hotmail (or affiliate) address is being sent into oblivion.

 Contacting Hotmail has been nearly useless.  They've simply told me to go
 join a special program that they have and that'll get my system ok'd 
 again.

 Sorry, but I'm NOT giving them customer information or money in order to
 fix
 this.

 Does anyone know anyone that doesn't have his head up his wazzoo at that
 org?  Anyone else been successful at getting off of the black list there?

 Thanks,
 marlon




 
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Re: [WISPA] OT Hotmail email black hole

2009-07-10 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
I just did the snds signup.  What a joke though.  We're an ISP, it's easy to 
see that.  We don't do spam unless a customer gets a virus or something like 
it, that's also easy to see.

sigh
marlon

- Original Message - 
From: David E. Smith d...@mvn.net
To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] OT Hotmail email black hole


 Marlon K. Schafer wrote:


 Contacting Hotmail has been nearly useless.  They've simply told me to go
 join a special program that they have and that'll get my system ok'd 
 again.

 Which one? They probably want you to sign up for Smart Network Data
 Services, which is free and has decent automated tools if you're into
 that sort of thing.

 If you're running all your email stuff in-house, it's a good idea to
 sign up for that, and AOL's Feedback Loop. The latter is prone to
 false-positives (basically any time an AOL user hits the spam button,
 you get notified, and it turns out many AOL users hit that button for
 literally every email they receive) but it can be a valuable tool.

 David Smith
 MVN.net


 
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[WISPA] http://www.ilient.com/

2009-07-10 Thread Jerry Richardson
thought this might be useful for some.



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Re: [WISPA] OT Hotmail email black hole

2009-07-10 Thread Scott Lambert
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 09:23:56AM -0700, Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
 I just did the snds signup.  What a joke though.  We're an ISP, it's
 easy to see that.  We don't do spam unless a customer gets a virus or
 something like it, that's also easy to see.

Easy for a human to see.  Not so easy for an automated computer program.
As far as I could tell, the people answering the abuse desk e-mails
over there are software.

Sign up for all the feedback loops you can and read the mail that comes
in from them as often as possible.  Blocking a compromised account in
1 to 4 hours is much better than 48 hours in terms of keeping you off
the blacklists.  In one hour, hotmail probably sees more spam from your
one compromised account than they normaly see from your mail server in a
month.  That is what gets you listed, automatically.

-- 
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Re: [WISPA] OT Hotmail email black hole

2009-07-10 Thread D. Ryan Spott
Can you give more detail as to what requirements were placed on you?

With more details I might be able to help you. I was tier-4 at 
MSN/Hotmail/Passport for a bit. (these services are now called Live, or 
Bing, or whatever they call them this week!)

ryan

Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
 Hi All,

 Hotmail has put us on some kind of black list.  Messages from my servers to 
 anyone with a hotmail (or affiliate) address is being sent into oblivion.

 Contacting Hotmail has been nearly useless.  They've simply told me to go 
 join a special program that they have and that'll get my system ok'd again.

 Sorry, but I'm NOT giving them customer information or money in order to fix 
 this.

 Does anyone know anyone that doesn't have his head up his wazzoo at that 
 org?  Anyone else been successful at getting off of the black list there?

 Thanks,
 marlon



 
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Re: [WISPA] NTIA Seeks Volunteers to Review Broadband Applications

2009-07-10 Thread Charles Wu
Well...it's better than the idea of reassigning people from the fish and 
wildlife to read BTOP applications (we've been talking to NTIA, and I kid you 
not, this was one of the ideas thrown out)

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Of Israel Lopez-LISTS
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 4:20 PM
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Subject: [WISPA] NTIA Seeks Volunteers to Review Broadband Applications

Did you guys hear about this?
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070909-ntia-seeks-volunteers-to-review.html?page=1

Some people think its scary, but I think if done with enough guidance 
Volunteer Reviewers could cull a lot of crap out of this program 
applications.

-Israel



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Re: [WISPA] http://www.ilient.com/

2009-07-10 Thread RickG
Actually, more helpful would be their prciing :)
-RickG

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Jerry
Richardsonjrichard...@aircloud.com wrote:
 thought this might be useful for some.


 
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Re: [WISPA] NTIA Seeks Volunteers to Review Broadband Applications

2009-07-10 Thread Eric Merkel (Mail Lists)
Sounds like a good job for ACORN. They've done very well at finding 
volunteers for election fraud and such. ;)

===
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 On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Israel
 Lopez-LISTSilopezli...@sandboxitsolutions.com wrote:
 Did you guys hear about this?
 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070909-ntia-seeks-volunteers-to-review.html?page=1

 Some people think its scary, but I think if done with enough guidance
 Volunteer Reviewers could cull a lot of crap out of this program
 applications.

 -Israel


 
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Re: [WISPA] NTIA Seeks Volunteers to Review Broadband Applications

2009-07-10 Thread RickG
Then they could call it PECAN. Phone Exchange Carriers Against Wireless. -RickG

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Eric Merkel (Mail
Lists)ejmerkel.li...@gmail.com wrote:
 Sounds like a good job for ACORN. They've done very well at finding
 volunteers for election fraud and such. ;)

 ===
 Eric Merkel
 ejmerkel.li...@gmail.com

 On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Israel
 Lopez-LISTSilopezli...@sandboxitsolutions.com wrote:
 Did you guys hear about this?
 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070909-ntia-seeks-volunteers-to-review.html?page=1

 Some people think its scary, but I think if done with enough guidance
 Volunteer Reviewers could cull a lot of crap out of this program
 applications.

 -Israel


 
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Re: [WISPA] OT Hotmail email black hole

2009-07-10 Thread Bradley D. Thornton
Hi Ryan, I don't know if hotmail ranks as #1 anymore. I get a lot of 
trash from gmail nowadays ;)

pls see additional comments below...

Ryan Ghering wrote:
 We had to subscribe to the Smart Network Data Services Program.
 https://postmaster.live.com/snds/

 Then follow the rules listed. I hated doing it but we actually started
 loosing customers due to not being able to send to the largest spam host in
 the world...
   


As a result of abuses which more often than not occur from these 
anonymous and free email services funded by advertising blitzes and 
such, there is actually a very active movement tied to databases that 
block access from services such as hotmail or yahoo type addresses, 
including blocking all incoming SMTP traffic originating from these 
providers.

I'm sure all of us have received SPAM from gmail, hotmail, yahoo, and a 
wealth of other so-called free email services, and these sort of, 
reverse RBL services are very effective in blocking emails from these 
providers - categorically.

It's controversial, for obvious reasons, but no more than the 
controversy originally surrounding the regular RBL databases out there, 
and even ARIN, a couple of years ago, forced everyone to change their 
email addresses if they used a hotmail or some other free email service.

These types of email accounts are dubbed, DEAs, or Disposable Email 
Addresses, and one plugin that I used quite successfully at one point 
for a client is located here for Joomla! sites with the Community 
Builder extension: 
http://interactiveonline.com/joomla/block-disposable-email-addresses

If someone is serious about their online presence, aside from some 
conveniences of using an anonymous email provider service such as yahoo, 
hotmail, gmail, mail.com, etc., the suspicion that is raised by the 
recipient of someone sending through those services is often raised and 
one has to wonder why they don't brand themselves with their own 
company's domain name in their emails or for the average joe, why they 
don't just use their ISP's mail account provided to them by virtue of 
their subscription with the ISP.

In certain applications, I too, block users of these services, 
especially with respect to registering for services I provide or 
websites that require user registration for access. I maintain a small 
database of the most popular DEAs and block them, adding new ones as 
they popup on my radar as hosting problematic bots and SPAMmers. Much of 
this has been alleviated now via the use of 'captcha'  schemes, that 
bots can't readily read, yet one of the biggest problems of blocking 
DEAs is the irony that the same folks who are trying to avoid getting 
SPAMmed from bots and Pr0n people are also migrating toward DEAs to 
secure their privacy and avoid SPAM - or at least, so they can identify 
who sold their email alias to the SPAMmers ;)

Here's a short list of services intended to empower and protect the user 
for these purposes, although SPAMmers love them too!: 
http://email.about.com/od/disposableemailservices/tp/disposable.htm

Years ago we all ran open relays, there wasn't any discernible amount of 
SPAM. then SPAMmers started using open relays and nowadays we all 
configure our MTAs to just simply refuse mail from open relays. It's 
really a shame.

Bottom line, if you're paying me for a service, I already have your 
credit card and address info so there's no reason to obfuscate your 
origin by using an anonymous email service. You can usually do it, since 
I don't block DEAs myself (yet) as a matter of standard practice, but it 
always seems to raise my eyebrow just a bit.

About the only two things I use DEAs for personally, nowadays, are job 
search engines while I'm looking for new contracts and such, because 
that can generate a lot of traffic and also has the potential for 
getting your private address out there where it can be sold to SPAM 
databases.

The other is a couple of pseudonyms I use when I have to go into a 
support forum and ask the very occasional extremely stupid question - 
coz I don't want people googling my name and seeing those questions on 
an email archive ten years from now LOL!

There is intense (spelled w/all caps) pressure upon these DEA RBL 
services from the SPAM Community too, as these databases are perceived 
as a direct threat by the professional SPAMmers. One such service at 
http://undisposable.net doesn't seem to be operable anymore, the domain 
forwards somewhere else.

But when an RIR such as ARIN.net refuses DEAs, it's a sign of security 
issues extending beyond simple SPAM related matters.

I'm not really 'quick' to block someone, but it is much easier to simply 
block a /11 or /16 from some remote ISP on the other side of the planet 
where I'm not seeking business than to go through todays n00bie admins 
who don't understand that the Tech Contact record in WHOIS, or the 
address ab...@sld.tld is meant to accept incoming requests from other 
admins who are being scanned,