RE: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-06 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
I believe it's been said here many times before, but when in public venues, the only way to be sure about anything in regards to traffic filtering and manipulation is to VPN into your corporate network and bypass all that. Unfortuanately, it makes streaming the latest episode of Heroes a little

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-06 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 23:46:08 -0800 Christopher Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/5/07, Eliot Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cough. So, how much is that NXDOMAIN worth to you? So, here's the problem really... NXDOMAIN is being judged as a 'problem'. It's really only a 'problem'

[admin] Errors to NANOG list subscribers

2007-11-06 Thread Martin Hannigan
Dear Colleagues: We have an issue with bounce messages blowing back at NANOG subscribers. We are aware of this, and Merit, the folks who provide us the day to day technical support for the service, is working diligently to resolve the problem. Thank you to everyone that has let us know. Best

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-06 Thread Barry Shein
Since this is verizon, one wonders why this has never been tried on wrong, non-working phone numbers? Visit your local chevy dealer, no interest for 12 months! We're sorry, the number you have reached is it illegal? How long before they'll just make you sit thru a few seconds

DNS servers

2007-11-06 Thread J. Oquendo
Nice to get news third string... // Last week, ICANN setup a new IP address for one of the thirteen root name servers that oversee DNS queries across the net, and it plans on retiring the old address as soon as the late spring.

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-06 Thread Robert Bonomi
From: Barry Shein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:05:26 -0500 Subject: Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again... Since this is verizon, one wonders why this has never been tried on wrong, non-working phone numbers? Visit your local chevy dealer, no interest for 12 months!

Re: DNS servers

2007-11-06 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 6, 2007, at 3:06 PM, J. Oquendo wrote: Nice to get news third string... // Last week, ICANN setup a new IP address for one of the thirteen root name servers that oversee DNS queries across the net, and it plans on retiring the old address as soon as the late spring.

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-06 Thread Greg Skinner
Bill Stewart wrote: When Verisign hijacked the wildcard DNS space for .com/.net, they encoded the Evil Bit in the response by putting Sitefinder's IP address as the IP address. In theory you could interpret that as damage and route around it, or at least build ACLs to block any traffic to

Re: bgp protection

2007-11-06 Thread Randy Bush
at the end of nanog, i sent two messages. http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg03741.html was a minor side note re 204/4 , about which we can all really do nothing for many years. it engendered the thread from hell. http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg03735.html was regarding

AS 7018 BGP blackhole / ATT contact sought

2007-11-06 Thread Nathan Anderson/FSR
Hello, It seems that this question has been asked here in the past before... http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2006-02/msg00173.html ...but without a (public) reply. It has been suggested (both in the follow-ups to the above and elsewhere) that there are people involved with 7018

Re: DNS servers

2007-11-06 Thread Sean Donelan
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, J. Oquendo wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/06/icann_rolls_out_new_root_name_server_address/ Here is what I posted the last time. To: 'nanog@merit.edu' nanog@merit.edu Subject: Don't Panic II (Re: updated root hints file) From: Sean Donelan [EMAIL

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-06 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Nov 6, 2007 5:35 PM, Greg Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snip ] Hmmm. When using IE 7 on Windows Vista out of the box, and I give it a non-existent domain, it prompts me to connect to a network (even if I'm already connected to one). It also puts the browser in work offline mode.

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-06 Thread Steve Atkins
On Nov 6, 2007, at 12:20 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: From: Barry Shein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:05:26 -0500 Subject: Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again... Since this is verizon, one wonders why this has never been tried on wrong, non-working phone numbers? Visit your

Re: DNS servers

2007-11-06 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 6, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Nov 6, 2007, at 3:06 PM, J. Oquendo wrote: Nice to get news third string... // Last week, ICANN setup a new IP address for one of the thirteen root name servers that oversee DNS queries across the net, and it plans on retiring the

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-06 Thread Robert Bonomi
From: Steve Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again... Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:07:14 -0800 On Nov 6, 2007, at 12:20 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: From: Barry Shein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:05:26 -0500 Subject: Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back,

Re: AS 7018 BGP blackhole / ATT contact sought

2007-11-06 Thread Donald Stahl
...but without a (public) reply. It has been suggested (both in the follow-ups to the above and elsewhere) that there are people involved with 7018 that are frequent readers here; I'm really hoping one of them will take pity on us and either reply here or communicate with me off-list. We

local routing problem...

2007-11-06 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
Somewhat OT, but this audience will appreciate it more than most. This item appeared in RISKS Digest. Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 09:55:50 +0100 From: Stefan Alfredsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cellphone in USB charger became default route His cellphone charger was broken, so 17 year old