New Team Cymru IP2ASN whois server

2003-09-26 Thread Stephen Gill
Fellow networkers,   Team Cymru is happy to announce the availability of a public whois server dedicated to mapping IP numbers to ASNs, located at whois.cymru.com.  You can find the link to this tool at:   http://www.cymru.com/BGP/whois.html   This link has been added to our main BGP data page

College increases fine for virus computers to $100

2003-09-26 Thread Sean Donelan
Rollins College in Florida has increased its fine for students with infected computers to $100. Despite repeated warnings, nearly 1/3 of the 1,100 students ignored instructions to install the patch and anti-virus software. The College sent teams door-to-door on campus looking for infected

Re: New Team Cymru IP2ASN whois server

2003-09-26 Thread Pekka Savola
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Stephen Gill wrote: $ whois -h whois.cymru.com 4.2.2.1     ASN |   IP | Name    3356 |  4.2.2.1 | LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications Do you plan to support IPv6 - ASN mappings as well, at some point? Another interesting feature related to that would be

Re: Increase in tcp traffic from spoofed source to bogon?

2003-09-26 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote: Is it all to 135 ? I drop lots of that at my border. Each time I traced it back to the customer, it was some infected machine that was not being natted for various reasons. e.g. Deny TCP 172.16.4.1:4616 192.100.103.4:135 We also see the odd

RE: New Team Cymru IP2ASN whois server

2003-09-26 Thread Jeroen Massar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Pekka Savola wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Stephen Gill wrote: $ whois -h whois.cymru.com 4.2.2.1 ASN | IP | Name 3356 | 4.2.2.1 | LEVEL3 Level 3 Communications Do you plan to support IPv6 - ASN mappings as well, at some

Re: Any way to P-T-P Distribute the RBL lists?

2003-09-26 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:41:07PM +0200, Sabri Berisha wrote: Whatever you come up with, it practically always has a downside: spammers can get the whole list as well. Image an open-proxy-dnsbl being distributed via peer to peer or via distributed means as usenet. Spammers would love it as

Re: AOL Proxy Servers not connecting via https - resolved

2003-09-26 Thread Ron da Silva
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:48:11PM -0700, Andy Ellifson wrote: Actually a /12. But the value of 172.16.0.0 0.15.255.255 has been burned into my head for some reason... yup... s/20/12/ typo...thanks Andy -ron

RE: New Team Cymru IP2ASN whois server

2003-09-26 Thread Stephen Gill
Hi Pekka, Yep, we'd like to. Stay tuned! Cheers, Steve, for Team Cymru -- Stephen Gill -Original Message- From: Pekka Savola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 3:30 AM To: Stephen Gill Cc: 'NANOG' Subject: Re: New Team Cymru IP2ASN whois server On Fri, 26 Sep

Re: Proposed changes to the AUP.

2003-09-26 Thread doug
Sure - why not; I have a letter in a safety deposit box in case of helicopters (of any color). I virtually never post and think (in retrospect) that a couple of my posting were probably in violation of the AUP. It does seem that a number of recent threads have wandered off topic (under any

Re: Proposed changes to the AUP.

2003-09-26 Thread bdragon
It would be great to add sending messages encoded in HTML is prohibited. My apologies for the self-followup. As several people have emailed pointing out that the original AUP email was not html (of which I'm aware since my client doesn't do MIME, I was merely following up to the original

FW: e-bay

2003-09-26 Thread Mike Tomasura
I guess e-bay had some problems? A few users got this message from them. Dear eBay user! At 09.24.2003 our company has lost a number of accounts in the system during the database maintenance. If you have an active account, please click on the link below to update your credit card

Re: FW: e-bay

2003-09-26 Thread Krzysztof Adamski
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Mike Tomasura wrote: I guess e-bay had some problems? A few users got this message from them. Dear eBay user! At 09.24.2003 our company has lost a number of accounts in the system during the database maintenance. If you have an active account, please click

Re: FW: e-bay

2003-09-26 Thread Gregory Hicks
From: Mike Tomasura [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: e-bay Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:25:52 -0400 I guess e-bay had some problems? A few users got this message from them. Dear eBay user! At 09.24.2003 our company has lost a number of accounts in the

RE: FW: e-bay

2003-09-26 Thread Mike Tomasura
Anyone that has a Spam filter should have ebay and e-bay in the list. That is how we caught it. -Original Message- From: Justin B. Newman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:30 PM To: Mike Tomasura Subject: Re: FW: e-bay I presume you've figured out that the

Re: FW: e-bay

2003-09-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
Its sad how many people get taken in by obvious and less obvious scams like this But I guess this is as old as the knock knock: Wallet inspector There was a similar paypal scam that had click here to go to www.paypal.com which looked and displayed nice and legit in the email, but

European and Far East Connectivity in the US

2003-09-26 Thread Timothy Brown
I'm looking for recommendations for providers who provide excellent European and/or Far East transit from multiple points in the southeastern United States. Specifically, i'm looking for people who have strong connectivity to Chinalink and DTAG. Sales droids need not reply. Send replies

Re: FW: e-bay

2003-09-26 Thread Ken Stubbs
this is most definitely a combination credit card ebay account scam.. this has happened numerous times over the last year and, in many cases the offender has also used the hijacked account information to offer items for sale setup phoney escrow companies to lull the purchaser into putting up

Re: FW: e-bay

2003-09-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:40 PM 26/09/2003, Ken Stubbs wrote: the scale of this fraud is, frankly, huge, but many companies like ebay paypal downplay it to avoid tainting the legitimacy of their respective businesses I went through the steps to report it to ebay and paypal via their web interface. I got an email

Re: FW: e-bay

2003-09-26 Thread Joe Abley
On Friday, Sep 26, 2003, at 14:06 Canada/Eastern, Mike Tancsa wrote: But 3 days later, I got another email with the same scam, this time to a different provider in Korea Next. Korea has a very large number of reliably- and permanently-connected windows boxes in comparison to most other

Re: FW: e-bay

2003-09-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:01 PM 26/09/2003, Joe Abley wrote: So, here's my point (and I know I'm rambling, come on, it's a Friday): when every other back trace leads to Korea, it's not necessarily because Korea is irresponsible or incompetent; in terms of the global distribution of windows-based worm factories,

[OT] question on NANOG meetings

2003-09-26 Thread William Caban
Are NANOG meetings webcasted? More specifically, Is NANOG29 going to be webcasted/multicasted/netcasted? Thanks, William -- William Caban [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Korean network problems, was FW: e-bay

2003-09-26 Thread John R. Levine
Yes, I should have clarified this. I dont think the folks in Korea are any more or less competent than their NA counter parts-- be that end user or operator. Unfortunately, my experience is that system managers in Korea are considerably less competent than their NA counterparts. The

Re: [OT] question on NANOG meetings

2003-09-26 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Petri Helenius wrote: William Caban wrote: Are NANOG meetings webcasted? More specifically, Is NANOG29 going to be webcasted/multicasted/netcasted? NANOG meetings have typically very narrowband realmedia stream sent. and 1 - 3 multicast sources... Pete

A list of (mostly) technical consequences of TLD wildcards

2003-09-26 Thread Duane Wessels
I've been collecting a list of things that are broken, or might break, now that the two most populated TLDs have A and MX record wildcards. You can find the list at http://www.packet-pushers.net/tld-wildcards/ I'll be happy to receive any additions or corrections that you might have. Duane W.

Re: [OT] question on NANOG meetings

2003-09-26 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:28:27AM +0300, Petri Helenius wrote: William Caban wrote: Are NANOG meetings webcasted? More specifically, Is NANOG29 going to be webcasted/multicasted/netcasted? NANOG meetings have typically very narrowband realmedia stream sent. And historically,

Re: Average case performance vs. Worst-case guarantee

2003-09-26 Thread Mark Rogaski
An entity claiming to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : :When an ISP buys a router does it want a worst-case guarantee about the : router's capabilities? Or will it buy a router which can give better : performance in the average case (it may drop some packets if the traffic