Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power

2006-06-15 Thread Matthew Petach
On 6/14/06, Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since power consumption was a topic at the last NANOG meeting. subscription required, or buy a copy of the Wall Street Journal from a newstand http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115016534015978590.html Surge in Internet Use, Energy Costs Has Bi

Re: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.

2006-06-15 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, chuck goolsbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > * They lacked sufficient clue to grok name-based virtual hosting. Name-based virtual hosting is not a cure-all. Think about SSL and anonymous FTP uploads for starters. -- Chris Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Systems and Network Administra

Re: on topic?

2006-06-15 Thread Gadi Evron
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Scott Weeks wrote: > > - Original Message Follows - > From: Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Peter Dambier wrote: > > > Paul Vixie wrote: > > > > "The effect of Nanog is remarkable. All the hybrid > > > > cells became fully converted to embry

Re: on topic?

2006-06-15 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Peter Dambier wrote: > > Paul Vixie wrote: > > > "The effect of Nanog is remarkable. All the hybrid > > > cells became fully converted to embryonic stem cells," > > > said Jose Silva of the University

Re: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.

2006-06-15 Thread chuck goolsbee
At 2:35 PM -0400 6/15/06, Matt Buford wrote: But how could this possibly be IP abuse or evil (except perhaps in the eyes of the search engines)? What difference does it make to ARIN if I give a customer 30 IPs from a single /24 or 30 IPs from 30 different /24s? How is that customer using th

Re: on topic?

2006-06-15 Thread Gadi Evron
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Peter Dambier wrote: > Paul Vixie wrote: > > "The effect of Nanog is remarkable. All the hybrid cells became fully > > converted to embryonic stem cells," said Jose Silva of the University of > > Edinburgh, Scotland, who reported the findings in the journal Nature. > > > > ht

Re: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.

2006-06-15 Thread Richard Z
On 6/14/06, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are universal subscriber gateways that simply override all network configuration on the host, but they aren't marketed at datacenters AFAIK. After all, who would think that a datacenter needs a network security policy similar to that o

Re: on topic?

2006-06-15 Thread Keith Mitchell
Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > When the inevitable T-shirt is made with this on it, I want a copy. There's more ! At the risk of following the bad precedent set by my new employer for the on-topicness of postings here :-) ...having a geneticist in the house clued me into this one some time ago. Ap

RE: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.

2006-06-15 Thread andrew2
> At 7:03 PM -0400 6/14/06, Matt Buford wrote: > >There is also strong demand among web hosting customers to scatter > >sites across multiple /24's due to search engine optimization. > > I hear this line of thinking often, but to me it sounds like > bulls^X^X^X^X^X... um, "folklore". When our

Re: on topic?

2006-06-15 Thread Marshall Eubanks
When the inevitable T-shirt is made with this on it, I want a copy. On Jun 14, 2006, at 6:14 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: "The effect of Nanog is remarkable. All the hybrid cells became fully converted to embryonic stem cells," said Jose Silva of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, who reporte

Re: on topic?

2006-06-15 Thread Peter Dambier
Paul Vixie wrote: "The effect of Nanog is remarkable. All the hybrid cells became fully converted to embryonic stem cells," said Jose Silva of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, who reported the findings in the journal Nature. http://news.com.com/Gene+may+mean+adult+cells+can+be+reprogramme

Re: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.

2006-06-15 Thread Matt Buford
"chuck goolsbee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyway, if somebody could enlighten me to definitive proof, or stated policy by Goo... er "search engines", that confirms this "search engine result optimization by blatant abuse of IP addresses" I'd appreciate it. I for one believe it is bunk dreamt

Re: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.

2006-06-15 Thread chuck goolsbee
At 7:03 PM -0400 6/14/06, Matt Buford wrote: There is also strong demand among web hosting customers to scatter sites across multiple /24's due to search engine optimization. I hear this line of thinking often, but to me it sounds like bulls^X^X^X^X^X... um, "folklore". When our customers/sal

RE: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.

2006-06-15 Thread Peter Phaal
Has anyone considered using sFlow to detect this type of bad behavior? Many layer 2 switches vendors mentioned in the discussion support sFlow (see http://www.sflow.org/products/network.php for a list). sFlow operates at layer 2 (think of it as a kind of remote sampled mirror port capability that

Re: h.gtld-servers.net offline...

2006-06-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, william(at)elan.net wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > > On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Will Hargrave wrote: > >> > >> Joe Abley wrote: > >>> I think you're mistaken about the server being off-line, since I can see > >>> it just fine from many places. The

Re: h.gtld-servers.net offline...

2006-06-15 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Will Hargrave wrote: Joe Abley wrote: I think you're mistaken about the server being off-line, since I can see it just fine from many places. The RIPE NCC dnsmon tool can also see it from its various probes: I did (and

Re: h.gtld-servers.net offline...

2006-06-15 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Will Hargrave wrote: > > Joe Abley wrote: > > I think you're mistaken about the server being off-line, since I can see > > it just fine from many places. The RIPE NCC dnsmon tool can also see it > > from its various probes: > I did (and do) check on multiple ASs that I run and

Re: h.gtld-servers.net offline...

2006-06-15 Thread Will Hargrave
Joe Abley wrote: I think you're mistaken about the server being off-line, since I can see it just fine from many places. The RIPE NCC dnsmon tool can also see it from its various probes: http://dnsmon.ripe.net/dns-servmon/server/?server=h.gtld-servers.net&show=SHOW That's old data. This is a

Re: DNSSEC in Plain English

2006-06-15 Thread Edward Lewis
At 11:11 +0100 6/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "certificates", and so on. This is fine for a technical audience but it won't help explain the issue to the decision makers who spend the money. We should be clear on who the decision makers are. I've spent a long time trying to trick folks w

Re: h.gtld-servers.net offline...

2006-06-15 Thread Joe Abley
On 15-Jun-2006, at 09:41, Will Hargrave wrote: Unless I am mistaken, h.gtld-servers.net is offline and has been for an hour or two. I can't see the containing prefix, 192.54.112.0/24. I think you're mistaken about the server being off-line, since I can see it just fine from many places.

h.gtld-servers.net offline...

2006-06-15 Thread Will Hargrave
Unless I am mistaken, h.gtld-servers.net is offline and has been for an hour or two. I can't see the containing prefix, 192.54.112.0/24. http://www.ris.ripe.net/perl-risapp/prefixinuse.do?rrc_id=1000&Submit=Submit&.submit=type&sortby=time&outype=html&preftype=ematch&interval=1&prefix=192.54.1

RE: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.

2006-06-15 Thread Kristal, Jeremiah
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > advice when they first started to attempt to migrate), or supporting > super/sub-VLANs in an operational environment. Customers hated both, > but at least they saw better performance once the hosting network was > broken up per-customer VLANs.

RE: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.

2006-06-15 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Kristal, Jeremiah wrote: advice when they first started to attempt to migrate), or supporting super/sub-VLANs in an operational environment. Customers hated both, but at least they saw better performance once the hosting network was broken up per-customer VLANs. Why woul

RE: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.

2006-06-15 Thread Kristal, Jeremiah
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: Some ciscos can do this as well (recent IOS). IP unnumbered and static routes towards vlan interfaces means you can put customers in their own vlan and still have them be part of a larger IP subnet spanning several vlans. Since it was Extreme th

Re: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.

2006-06-15 Thread Mark Smith
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:59:51 -0700 Warren Kumari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jun 14, 2006, at 2:18 AM, John van Oppen wrote: > > > > That being said, I know at least one of our transit customers does > > hosting exactly how you are describing. Coincidentally, this > > customer is

Re: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.

2006-06-15 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Chris Hills wrote: Unless I am missing something obvious, it seems like rfc 3069 (sub/super vlans) provides an easy (interim?) solution to this dilemma. Some ciscos can do this as well (recent IOS). IP unnumbered and static routes towards vlan interfaces means you can pu

Re: IPv6 Transit?

2006-06-15 Thread Nicolas DEFFAYET
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 12:07 -0400, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: Hello, > Some information > is available at http://www.ipv6tf.org/guide/organizations/services/isp.php Can you add NDSoftware in the list ? Thank you Best Regards, -- Nicolas DEFFAYET NDSoftware http://www.ndsoftware.com/

Re: DNSSEC in Plain English

2006-06-15 Thread Michael . Dillon
> but it ain't the crypto. never has been. and it is not always > easy to explain math in plain english. so let's focus on where > work needs to be done. You and I are in violent agreement. The problem is in understanding whether or not the crypto under the hood really does provide a TRUSTABLE

Re: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.

2006-06-15 Thread Chris Hills
Bill Nash wrote: > Trying to migrate customers to their own vlan when they've been alloted > IPs, willy nilly, across one of the bajillion /24's secondaried on the > vlan interface drives me into an entire new dimension of pissed off. Unless I am missing something obvious, it seems like rfc 3069

Re: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular

2006-06-15 Thread Hank Nussbacher
* A spamware daemon is installed on the dedicated server, to keep the network interface in promiscuous mode * The daemon determines which IP addresses on the local subnet are not in use. It also determines the addresses of the network routers. One or more unused IP addresses are comman