Re: Disappointment at DENIC over Poor Rating in .net Procedure

2005-04-05 Thread Simon Waters
Have to admit to being surprised at DENIC poor placing. The only time I did a comparison, DENIC were by far and away the best European TLD maintainers. Okay there wasn't much competition, and I was looking at purely technical aspects of how the TLD were arranged, but the results were so good

Re: Reports or data on data centres without access to competitive fibre

2005-04-05 Thread Alex Bligh
--On 05 April 2005 10:43 +1000 Stephen Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking around for any reports, press releases or even yarns about the issues data centres face when they are built without access to competitive fibre optic cable. See MFS MAE-East ad nauseam. Alex

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Simon Waters
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 9:56 pm, Sam Hayes Merritt, III wrote: AOL blocks outbound 25. In the UK they proxy outbound port 25, some of the time. Blocking it would be far simpler for us, but I suspect create more support calls.

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Simon Waters
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 11:06 am, Sean Donelan wrote: Although Microsoft probably did more to create the problem than anyone else, they finally have stepped up to the plate. In the last year they have been more successful than anyone else at fixing their piece of the problem. Like anyone

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Dean Anderson wrote: Err, not likely. SPF came out, and now bots can find the ISPs closed relays with very little trouble at all. AFAIK bots use the MX of a parent domain of the infected machine's hostname to find an outgoing relay, not SPF. This is based on an incident I

Arrest for cable sabotage

2005-04-05 Thread Sean Donelan
Police make an arrest in cable sabotage case on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=76510

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Apr 5, 2005 3:33 PM, Tony Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK bots use the MX of a parent domain of the infected machine's hostname to find an outgoing relay, not SPF. This is based on an incident I dealt with in September, and the Spamhaus article

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Others just grab the smtp server (and AUTH settings if any) from your MUA - easier if its Outlook / OE - and send using that smarthost. Has that actually been observed in the wild? Tony. -- f.a.n.finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dotat.at/

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Apr 5, 2005 5:56 PM, Tony Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Others just grab the smtp server (and AUTH settings if any) from your MUA - easier if its Outlook / OE - and send using that smarthost. Has that actually been observed in the

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Charles Cala
--- Tony Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Others just grab the smtp server (and AUTH settings if any) from your MUA - easier if its Outlook / OE - and send using that smarthost. Has that actually been observed in the wild? yes

Re: so, how would you justify giving users security?

2005-04-05 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Florian Weimer) [Mon 04 Apr 2005, 22:25 CEST]: * Gadi Evron: Lastly, I suppose that as a geek ISP, one might want to sell more bandwidth. After all, the more sh*t that goes through the tubes the bigger tubes people buy. Only if the end user market is ready for volume

Re: so, how would you justify giving users security?

2005-04-05 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Florian Weimer wrote: * Stephen J. Wilcox: On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Gadi Evron wrote: Anyone ever considered just closing these ports? People will pay you more and just for your ACL services! You can put all your troubles you would need to do this on a per

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Petri Helenius
Florian Weimer wrote: * Suresh Ramasubramanian: Find them, isolate them into what some providers call a walled garden - vlan them into their own segment from where all they can access are antivirus / service pack downloads Service pack downloads? Do you expect ISPs to pirate Windows (or

RIPE50: Peering BoF

2005-04-05 Thread Cara Mascini
North American Network Operators, Since quite a few of you are also attending the RIPE meetings Susan though it would be a good idea for me to mention that a (European) Peering BoF will take place in Stockholm at RIPE50 on Sunday 1st May 2005 and from 18.00 to around 21.00. The format will be

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Dean Anderson
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem arises when you are trying to push signal (spam) to a non-cooperating recipient. I've seen spam that's so obfuscated that it's unclear whether it's trying to sell me a R00leckss or medications. At that point, it may be able to pass

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Dean Anderson
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Sam Hayes Merritt, III wrote: Unblocking on customer request is an expensive operation, for both the ISP and the customer. And they frequently assume that network operations changes are free---Comcast reported that it would cost $58 million to implement port 25

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Dean Anderson
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Tony Finch wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Dean Anderson wrote: Err, not likely. SPF came out, and now bots can find the ISPs closed relays with very little trouble at all. AFAIK bots use the MX of a parent domain of the infected machine's hostname to find an outgoing

ICANN's Questionable Deals Coming Under Attack

2005-04-05 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Scathing critisism building over ICANN policies: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20050405/1329204_F.shtml - ferg -- Fergie, a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The Register: .net report speared a third time

2005-04-05 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
The Register: The .net report has been speared a third time - by bidder Sentan. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/05/sentan_slams_dot_net_report/ - ferg -- Fergie, a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Register: .net report speared a third time

2005-04-05 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fergie (Paul Ferguson)) [Wed 06 Apr 2005, 02:19 CEST]: The Register: [..] Dear Paul, Would it belong to the realm of possibilities that you got yourself a deli.cio.us account and post a link to the RSS feed here, once? Very truly yours, -- Niels. --