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2004-07-14 Thread Tycho Eggen
Hi! I'm looking for a working sltnet.lk contact. Please contact me off-list. Thanks! Tycho -- Tycho Eggen (Unix|Network) Engineer "I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me." - Hunter S. Thompson ( Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas ) p

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious (let's return to reality)

2004-07-14 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Ok, let.s return to reality (sorry for moving this thread into the OS related flame). First of all, even if OS have not any caveats, it will not protect it from spyware/adware. if I want to install my 'Cool-Search' into million of computers, all I need to do is to write fancy game, and offer it '

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-14 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004, Michel Py wrote: > - In exchange for his life, appoint Saddam Hussein to rid us of spyware > writers. As he's on a roll, let's put spammers in the deal, too. The guy > has a proven track record, problem is most of us live in a society that > oppose his methods, so this does

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-14 Thread Alexei Roudnev
-:) Excellent! == - Declare that using IE is illegal. This literally takes an act of congress. And, it would be almost impossible to enforce. Anyway, let's pretend for a moment that congress does outlaw IE _and_ can enforce it, it still does not do us much

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-14 Thread Alexei Roudnev
> > So MS has undocumented 'features', so what? When you install their software > you agree to a licence, and that you are using their software bound by their O, noo. You click a button 'I agree' which means nothing for 99.99% of people over the world. Here is a difference. Do not expect people to

RE: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-14 Thread Michel Py
> John Underhill wrote: > [snip long post] One of the best posts I have seen in a long time; thanks, John. > So the question remains, what do we do about it? That's where it gets tough. Let's begin with what we can't do about it: - Declare that using IE is illegal. This literally takes an act

RE: Crackdowns don't slow Internet piracy

2004-07-14 Thread Michel Py
>>> Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: >>> "The popularity of file-sharing is costing the largest >>> Internet service providers $10 million per year each >>> in bandwidth and network maintenance costs, CacheLogic >>> said." >> Michel Py wrote: >> $10 million a year for the largest ISPs is a drop in t

Re: Crackdowns don't slow Internet piracy

2004-07-14 Thread Patrick W Gilmore
On Jul 15, 2004, at 12:36 AM, Michel Py wrote: Fergie (Paul Ferguson) "The popularity of file-sharing is costing the largest Internet service providers $10 million per year each in bandwidth and network maintenance costs, CacheLogic said." $10 million a year for the largest ISPs is a drop in the se

RE: Crackdowns don't slow Internet piracy

2004-07-14 Thread Michel Py
> Fergie (Paul Ferguson) > "The popularity of file-sharing is costing the largest > Internet service providers $10 million per year each > in bandwidth and network maintenance costs, CacheLogic > said." $10 million a year for the largest ISPs is a drop in the sea; _if_ the figure is accurate (sou

Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net

2004-07-14 Thread Matt Larson
William, On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, william(at)elan.net wrote: > I reforward this email in hopes that it was by simple omission that nobody > from Verisign is yet to respond to it. Replying to your original message has been on my to-do list. > 1. Currently SLD deligation info for .com/.net TLDs seem

Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net

2004-07-14 Thread william(at)elan.net
I reforward this email in hopes that it was by simple omission that nobody from Verisign is yet to respond to it. All questions in sections 1 - 3 are valid and something that directly concerns proposed changes, none of that had been asked before here in brief nanog discussion after Verisign's

Re: Fwd: Crackdowns don't slow Internet piracy

2004-07-14 Thread Petri Helenius
Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: I was wondering if the NANOG readership-at-large had any experiences in this regard, concerning any of these statements, since I couldn't find anything of any real technical substance on CacheLogic's web page. If your aggregate traffic is for example 10Gbps and you

Fwd: Crackdowns don't slow Internet piracy

2004-07-14 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
This is an interesting article -- not necessarily off-topic, given snippets such as: "The popularity of file-sharing is costing the largest Internet service providers $10 million per year each in bandwidth and network maintenance costs, CacheLogic said." and "It estimates Internet users

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-14 Thread sthaug
> Ok.. but has BSD been attacked on the scale that MS code has? I would argue > no, not even close. Do you believe BSD is invulnerable to attack? Hardly.. I don't believe anybody is claiming that. However, the BSD code has been out *and* has been publicly scrutinized for quite a bit longer than W

Re: video distribution

2004-07-14 Thread Ben Crosby
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher, 1) Are your end users using TV's or PC's to view the streams ? 2) When you refer to "WAN" is the entire IP network under your control ? 3) Are there any restrictions on conditional access or bandwidth placed upon the implementation by th

RE: video distribution

2004-07-14 Thread John Ferriby
> I wanted to make a number of video streams available across an IP WAN > network, I have a couple of options. Unicast or Multicast. Unicast isn't > the most efficient method necessarily so my preference would be Multicast. Depends on the exact nature of what you are doing and the network(s) in

Re: video distribution

2004-07-14 Thread Marshall Eubanks
If you have control over the entire network, I would suggest native multicast. This is used operationally by a number of providers and is one candidate for the next generation of "cable" TV providers. If you want to reach arbitrary people across networks, then you will need to do either unicast or

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-14 Thread John Underhill
Ok.. but has BSD been attacked on the scale that MS code has? I would argue no, not even close. Do you believe BSD is invulnerable to attack? Hardly.. Unless you want to go back to text based browsers and kernals that fit on a floppy, it is extermely difficult to eliminate all vulnerabilities in t

video distribution

2004-07-14 Thread Christopher J. Wolff
Hello, I have a "state of the state" sort of question for you guru's out there. If I wanted to make a number of video streams available across an IP WAN network, I have a couple of options. Unicast or Multicast. Unicast isn't the most efficient method necessarily so my preference would be Mult

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-14 Thread Niels Bakker
>> Sorry, it was a _technical_ question - is MAC OS known as having pests >> and ad-ware in the comparable numbers (if any)? * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Underhill) [Wed 14 Jul 2004, 19:45 CEST]: > This is spurious logic. You are suggesting that Mac is a more secure > operating system, and I would s

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-14 Thread John Underhill
> MS do not publish full system specs, and they use undocumented features > themself. Ok, say MS puplished their code tomorow, what do you think would happen? All the crackers and virus writers of the world would join hands and sing 'joy to the world' and forgive MS for their tresspasses? I sug

Re: Off-Topic: N.Y. Buyout Firm Has Its Eye on MCI

2004-07-14 Thread Ben Browning
Jeff Aitken wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:15:43PM -0400, Patrick W Gilmore wrote: I forgot (and am not registered for the Washington Post). See www.bugmenot.com for help here. If you are using Firefox, there is a BugMeNot extension you can install which will add a BugMeNot option to a context

Re: Looking for historical BGP announcement information

2004-07-14 Thread Jared Mauch
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 03:57:26PM +0200, Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE NCC) wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Alex Rubenstein wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I am looking for a database that would have BGP inserts/withdrawals from > > mid 1999 time frame. > > www.ripe.net/ris, raw data from 10/1999

Re: Looking for historical BGP announcement information

2004-07-14 Thread Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE NCC)
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Alex Rubenstein wrote: > > > Hello, > > I am looking for a database that would have BGP inserts/withdrawals from > mid 1999 time frame. www.ripe.net/ris, raw data from 10/1999 onwards, Henk > > Any help is appreciated. > > > > -- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Off-Topic: N.Y. Buyout Firm Has Its Eye on MCI

2004-07-14 Thread Jeff Aitken
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:15:43PM -0400, Patrick W Gilmore wrote: > I forgot (and am not registered for the Washington Post). See www.bugmenot.com for help here. --Jeff

Re: OT: xDSL hardware

2004-07-14 Thread Sam Stickland
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Joe Maimon wrote: > > Sam Stickland wrote: > > >On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Eric Kagan wrote: > > > >>There is a WIC-1ADSL for 1700/2600. Not sure about an SDSL WIC. We have > >>done a few T1/ADSL and ADSL/ISDN setups and it seems to work fairly well. I > >>also spoke to a compute

Re: OT: xDSL hardware

2004-07-14 Thread Joe Maimon
Sam Stickland wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Eric Kagan wrote: Is anyone aware of a WIC card that will work with the lower end Cisco gear (1700 or 2600 series) that will allow me to terminate an ADSL or preferably an SDSL line directly on the router? The idea being that the router i

Re: OT: xDSL hardware

2004-07-14 Thread Sam Stickland
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Eric Kagan wrote: > > > > Is anyone aware of a WIC card that will work with the lower end Cisco > gear > > > (1700 or 2600 series) that will allow me to terminate an ADSL or > > > preferably an SDSL line directly on the router? The idea being that the > > > router is then a

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-14 Thread Alexei Roudnev
> Most of the lastest versions appear to install themselves using the > ByteCode Verifier vulnerability in the Microsoft Virtual Machine. MS do not publish full system specs, and they use undocumented features themself. So, what other companies are doing? Yes, correct, they are experimenting, se