Re: Current developments in the Internet field

2001-09-06 Thread James P. Salsman
I would like to have some info about the current Internet technologies that the IETF is working on, specific to the networking field. There is an IETF working group using networks to send voicemail messages. It is called Voice Profile for Internet Messages, or VPIM, and you can learn more at:

Microsoft, please protect your stacks (was Re: [ih] ... stack?)

2001-08-05 Thread James P. Salsman
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:32:45 -0400 From: David P. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I suspect that there are as many *possible* exploits that don't need to execute code in the stack as there are not So, Microsoft engineers, if half of all possible exploits might be eliminated by changing

multiple culpability (was: Any value in this list ?)

2001-07-31 Thread James P. Salsman
What is more important, figuring out who first exploited a vulnerability, or preventing the vulnerability from being exploited? The former is base quibbling, unsuited for thinking human beings. But then again, the popularly (mayby even legally) elected President of the U.S. is teaching a

Re: filtering active content

2001-07-29 Thread James P. Salsman
A patch has been available that would fix SirCam *and* most other address-book viruses for a *year*, and we're still getting hosed by it. I'm told SirCam doesn't look directly in the address book; instead it searches for email addresses in stored messages and web cache files. That is why the

Re: big DDoS worm

2001-07-20 Thread James P. Salsman
Those of you with IIS servers might want to keep a close eye on them and their traffic to 198.137.240.92... Sorry, the worm is attacking port 80 of 198.137.240.91, not .92 -- the target address apparently had a short enough time-to-live in its DNS cache settings, and they swaped the address

Re: Demise of the 'Internet Report'

2001-06-27 Thread James P. Salsman
Robert G. Ferrell writes: ... The U.S. government has decided that my Internet Report site, where I summarized the drafts and RFCs issued each week in tabular format, was inappropriate and even a political embarrassment because it had no direct bearing on the mission of my agency Untrue.

Re: J1

2001-06-06 Thread James P. Salsman
Who owns the J1 standard ? That is J.1 by the ITU-T ... get some more detail information about J1. See: http://www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-t/rec/j/index.html Cheers, James

RE: J1

2001-06-06 Thread James P. Salsman
are sure of that. What I mean is the notation E1/T1/J1 Sorry; those are time-division telephone trunk lines. J1 is the Japanese version of T1, with 23 telephone channels. I am sure it is cited in SS7, and belongs in ITU-T's Q-series, but there is a good chance that NTT Japan hasn't gone