Re: NOAA warning for rf communications

2003-10-23 Thread Roy
According to the notice "Satellite and other spacecraft operations, power systems, high frequency communications, and navigation systems may experience disruptions over this two-week period." I think you will find that 802.11b and other terrestrial microwave LOS links don't meet any of those c

RE: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings

2003-10-23 Thread Brian Wallingford
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Terry Baranski wrote: :The "without notice" part is perhaps somewhat unsettling. I can :appreciate that attempting to explain this type of change to the AOL :user base would be challenging, but I'd submit that third-party software :making OS changes like this without the use

Re: NOAA warning for rf communications

2003-10-23 Thread Chris Yarnell
my office experienced 802.11b weirdness (sudden bouts of 0% signal for no apparent reason) earlier this week. i'm fully expecting more tomorrow. :) > There is a high likelihood that things like 802.11, licensed and > unlicensed microwave links, and certainly satellite links will sustain > interfe

NOAA warning for rf communications

2003-10-23 Thread Rodney Joffe
I'm surprised that there has been no warning or discussion on NANOG... There is a high likelihood that things like 802.11, licensed and unlicensed microwave links, and certainly satellite links will sustain interference over the next few days. I assume that everyone on the list is both aware, and

Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings

2003-10-23 Thread chuck goolsbee
How many other ISPs intend to follow AOL's practice and use their connection support software to fix the defaults on their customer's Windows computers? Thankfully our focus is hosting & Colo, not access, so our pool is smaller and (theoretically) smarter. However this hasn't stopped us from doi

RE: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings

2003-10-23 Thread Terry Baranski
> > How many other ISPs intend to follow AOL's practice and use their > > connection support software to fix the defaults on their customer's > > Windows computers? > > Sounds good to me. The potential for these users > to be less-than-educated enough about the existance of > this "feature

Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings

2003-10-23 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Sean Donelan wrote: > > > Without notice AOL has been modifying the operating system settings of > users with AOL software installed on Windows computers. Although > complaints about Windows' Messenger pop-up spam continue to grow, few This is a nice thing, but I recall so

Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings

2003-10-23 Thread Michael Loftis
I fully approve, so long as there's a documented, opt-me-out process for those that may need that sort of thingbut I think the majority is pretty well served by this sort of thing. Unlike say changes proposed by some companies. I just don't know how far to draw the line, and it needs to be

Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings

2003-10-23 Thread Jared Mauch
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:13:59AM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: > http://www.securityfocus.com/news/7278 > > How many other ISPs intend to follow AOL's practice and use their > connection support software to fix the defaults on their customer's > Windows computers? Sounds good to me. The

AOL fixing Microsoft default settings

2003-10-23 Thread Sean Donelan
Without notice AOL has been modifying the operating system settings of users with AOL software installed on Windows computers. Although complaints about Windows' Messenger pop-up spam continue to grow, few users bother to turn off the Windows' Messenger service. Starting two weeks ago AOL used

Re: opinions on the com/net wildcard issue

2003-10-23 Thread Brian Bruns
Your results look a hell of alot more realistic then what Verisign tried to get people to swallow at SECSAC. Too bad they won't take it seriously because its 'obviously biased' :-/ -- Brian Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group Open Solutions For A Closed World

opinions on the com/net wildcard issue

2003-10-23 Thread Paul Vixie
my survey is over. see http://sa.vix.com/~vixie/comnetsurv/ for the results.

Contact for AS237 (You know... MERIT :)

2003-10-23 Thread Jeroen Massar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This might sound quite funny, but alas here it goes... I have been trying to contact AS237, and as the registry contains: OrgName:Merit Network Inc. OrgID: MICH ASNumber: 237 ASName: MERIT-AS-14 ASHandle: AS237 Comment: RegDate:1988-09

NANOG stats

2003-10-23 Thread Susan Harris
Greetings - here's some info about the last meeting, next meeting, and the list. NANOG 29 - Chicago 2nd joint meeting with ARIN Host: Server Central Network Total attendees:

BGP RFCs and BCPs - query

2003-10-23 Thread Peter Galbavy
Sorry, I know many are going to think I should go and scan rfc-index.txt etc., but there is no real better group of people to ask for definitive pointers. I am going to be *trying* to work on some (free) BGP code and stuff aftre I leave my day job (tomorrow!), and I will be spending my spare time

Re: China Telecom filtering nameservers

2003-10-23 Thread ren
actually no. Joe can probably tell you more but they are peering at both Equinix-Los Angeles & PAIX-Palo Alto in California in addition to the carrier hotel on One Wilshire. -ren At 04:28 AM 10/23/2003 -0700, Eric Kuhnke wrote: Gut instinct says that One Wilshire is their primary US PoP/peeri

Re: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail

2003-10-23 Thread Todd Vierling
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS wrote: : This was strictly for inbound email to AT&T's corporate mail servers at att.com, : which were getting pounded with much more spam than usual. "We all are." I certainly hope the block is temporary so that it is indeed possible to con

Re: China Telecom filtering nameservers

2003-10-23 Thread Eric Kuhnke
Gut instinct says that One Wilshire is their primary US PoP/peering/transit point: http://www.onewilshire.com/our_building/connectivity.htm >> China telecom has some US POPs, so they do have people in the US even. > >If I'm not mistaken, I think I even saw an office the other day on Herndon >Par

Re: China Telecom filtering nameservers

2003-10-23 Thread Andy Walden
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Tom (UnitedLayer) wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, John Kristoff wrote: > > This has been seen elsewhere too and contacting someone at chinanet > > has been difficult. > > I actually found two helpful individuals via posting to this list. > They both spoke english, and helped

RE: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mai l

2003-10-23 Thread Bowden, Terry
Title: RE: Heads-up: AT&T apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail When individual employees of a large corporation speak to the general public, they need to put in a disclaimer.  When a large corporation speaks to the general public, the disclaimer is not necessary. Bill was quite righ

Re: China Telecom filtering nameservers

2003-10-23 Thread John Kristoff
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:23:08PM -0700, Joe Zhu wrote: > well...if it's really problem, someone will help. But if it's smart a$$ > comment like this, not sure. I'm not sure what exactly you took offense too, but if I offended someone, particularly our international neighbors I apologize. In my