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

2006-06-14 Thread Church, Chuck
Since this technique requires a IPinIP or GRE tunnel, wouldn't blocking these two protocols to/from the hosts be sufficient? Assuming of course the customer's host isn't using that normally. Chuck Netco Government Services has recently acquired Multimax and is changing its name to Multimax I

RE: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism

2006-04-08 Thread Church, Chuck
"Service Area: Networks BGP-announced on the DIX" Since the intended (and announced) use of this server is just for DIX networks, blocking NTP from any other networks should be trivial. That IP address will still be hit by D-Link devices looking for a suitable server, but with no response, the

RE: The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat?

2006-01-21 Thread Church, Chuck
It seems a terrorist would benefit from obtaining fiber map information from the source, rather than googling for outages, and trying to find needles in haystacks. How well are the internal databases with fiber path details protected? How hard would it be for Al-Qaeda to social-engineer

RE: WMF Microsoft Patch is out

2006-01-05 Thread Church, Chuck
So rather than finish the testing they wanted to do, they rushed it out? Hmmm. Sounds a little scary to me Chuck From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Dixon Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 3:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Clueless anti-virus products/vendors (was Re: Sober)

2005-12-04 Thread Church, Chuck
What about all the viruses out there that don't forge addresses? Sending a warning message makes sense for these. Unless someone has done the research to determine the majority of viruses forge addresses, you really can't complain about the fact that the default is to warn. Calling vendors 'cluel

RE: QoS for ADSL customers

2005-12-01 Thread Church, Chuck
But be careful about the CPU usage and platform support for NBAR. I don't think the sup720 will do NBAR, at least that's what I heard. Chuck Church Lead Design Engineer CCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSE Netco Government Services - Design & Implementation Team 1210 N. Parker Rd. Greenville, SC 29609 Home

RE: a record?

2005-11-15 Thread Church, Chuck
Isn't it just good security practice to limit telnet/SSH access to only a few choice hosts/subnets? I know I'd never allow the 0/0 net access to a signon screen, even if it is SSH. If you're on vacation and need to access something, call your NOC, and have them temporarily allow your dynamic add

RE: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

2005-10-18 Thread Church, Chuck
Nanog, I've been thinking a bunch about this IPv6 multihoming issue. It seems that the method of hierarchical summarization will keep the global tables small for all single-homed end user blocks. But the multihomed ones will be the problem. The possible solution I've been thinking about

RE: IPv6 news

2005-10-13 Thread Church, Chuck
> If that is devising some sort of NAT for the large percentage of >customers that don't care, then that may be the direction we need to take. Doesn't NAT-PT do just this? If I'm an ISP with a million customers, if I can use NAT-PT along with a IPV4 block of say /13, that seems like a win. V4-m

RE: Very funny: While Bush fiddles, New Orleans dies

2005-09-07 Thread Church, Chuck
Wednesday, September 07, 2005 10:23 AM To: Church, Chuck Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Very funny: While Bush fiddles, New Orleans dies On 7-Sep-2005, at 17:09, Church, Chuck wrote: > So how did this newspaper server end up with NANOG posting rights > anyway??? Servers don't get

RE: Very funny: While Bush fiddles, New Orleans dies

2005-09-07 Thread Church, Chuck
So how did this newspaper server end up with NANOG posting rights anyway??? Chuck Church -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew - Supernews Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 9:51 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Very funny: While

RE: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-16 Thread Church, Chuck
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Church, Chuck wrote: > > > >'enterprise security folks' are probably not the issue... The fact > remains > >that lots of folks DO do this :( There are quite a few folks between > >'consumer' and 'enterprise' tha

RE: zotob - blocking tcp/445

2005-08-15 Thread Church, Chuck
>'enterprise security folks' are probably not the issue... The fact remains >that lots of folks DO do this :( There are quite a few folks between >'consumer' and 'enterprise' that do all manner of dumb things on the >Internet (where 'dumb' is equivalent to running smb shares across the >public n

RE: OT: Cisco.com password reset.

2005-08-03 Thread Church, Chuck
I eventually got an email stating it couldn't associate my email address with an active CCO ID. I'm guessing their system is getting backed up because it's affecting lots of people. Next step: "Please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] to have your correct email address associated with your User ID. To e

More info on the Exploit from Black Hat conference

2005-07-29 Thread Church, Chuck
http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article131.php   Chuck ChurchLead Design EngineerCCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSENetco Government Services - Design & Implementation Team1210 N. Parker Rd.Greenville, SC 29609Home office: 864-335-9473Cell: 864-266-3978[EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:1

RE: Vonage Selects TCS For VoIP E911 Service

2005-07-20 Thread Church, Chuck
I think this can work. Put a battery backup in the ATA, to power the GPS and real time clock. The ATA will maintain the internet-routable address it's using (not necessarily it's own IP address) indefinitely. If the ATA determines it's routable address (or /23 or whatever subnet) has changed sin

FW: DNS .US outage

2005-07-11 Thread Church, Chuck
: 864-335-9473 Cell: 703-819-3495 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x4371A48D -Original Message- From: Mark Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 7:17 PM To: Church, Chuck Subject: Re: DNS .US outage Hi. I don't h

RE: DNS .US outage

2005-07-07 Thread Church, Chuck
ge- From: Jeroen Massar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 4:10 AM To: Randy Bush Cc: Church, Chuck; nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: DNS .US outage On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 19:19 -1000, Randy Bush wrote: > > Thanks. Didn't have any *NIX boxes laying around to 'd

RE: DNS .US outage

2005-07-06 Thread Church, Chuck
up. But when I tried nslookup with a server on yet a 4th ISP just now, it worked ok. Thanks again. Chuck -Original Message- From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 12:34 AM To: Church, Chuck Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: DNS .US outa

DNS .US outage

2005-07-06 Thread Church, Chuck
Anyone else having issues with .US right now  (~12AM EST)?  NSlookup, etc show various .us destinations as unknown domains...    Chuck ChurchLead Design EngineerCCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSENetco Government Services - Design & Implementation Team1210 N. Parker Rd.Greenville, SC 29609Home office:

RE: Document Action: 'BGP Wedgies' to Informational RFC

2005-06-15 Thread Church, Chuck
Will sharply 'pulling up' the MED on a rear-facing peer clear the wedgie, or make it worse??? Sorry, couldn't resist... Chuck -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fergie (Paul Ferguson) Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 1:29 PM To: nanog@merit

RE: Cisco to merge with Nabisco

2005-04-01 Thread Church, Chuck
CTED] PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x4371A48D -Original Message- From: Bill Nash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 1:09 PM To: Church, Chuck Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: Cisco to merge with Nabisco On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Church, Chu

RE: Cisco to merge with Nabisco

2005-04-01 Thread Church, Chuck
Incorrectly chosen switching path can now result in lost packets AND indigestion. Chuck -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Hilton Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 12:44 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: Cisco to merge with Nabisco Ru

Vonage Hits ISP Resistance

2005-03-31 Thread Church, Chuck
For what it's worth - I monitored my Vonage call today, which lasted 54 minutes: Ethernet0/1 Input Output Protocol Packet Count Packet Count Byte Count Byte Count

RE: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-02 Thread Church, Chuck
Yeah, I forgot about the regulation thing. I suppose I'd give the ISP a call first, but I'd expect it to be working within a few hours. But now that cable modem providers themselves are providing VoIP/dialtone, wouldn't those be regulated by the FCC? I know that my cable modem ISP (Charter) has

RE: More on Vonage service disruptions...

2005-03-02 Thread Church, Chuck
Those are good points. Someone last week mentioned what I thought was a great list of priorities for an ISP: 1. Keep the network running 2. Remove those violating policies 3. Route packets (or something along those lines) A 30/50/90 kbps unicast stream isn't going to affect #1. I don

RE: $50,000 reward for Verizon cable cutter

2005-01-15 Thread Church, Chuck
Maybe a current Verizon employee looking for extra OT... Chuck Church Lead Design Engineer CCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSE Netco Government Services - Design & Implementation Team 1210 N. Parker Rd. Greenville, SC 29609 Home office: 864-335-9473 Cell: 703-819-3495 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://pgp.m

RE: Bogon filtering (don't ban me)

2004-12-05 Thread Church, Chuck
Rob, Just thinking out loud, but is there any reason that this route-server methodology couldn't be applied to other 'undesirable' destinations, such as the world's top spammers, phishing web sites, etc? Maybe break them up into different communities, so subscribers can pick which ones th

RE: [Insight?] OutPut Drops Cisco 7206VXR

2004-10-26 Thread Church, Chuck
Isn't weighted fair queueing generally a bad idea on a LAN interface? Chuck Church Lead Design Engineer CCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSE Netco Government Services - Design & Implementation Team 1210 N. Parker Rd. Greenville, SC 29609 Home office: 864-335-9473 Cell: 703-819-3495 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key:

RE: OT: Looking for Ethernt/Optical Device

2004-06-01 Thread Church, Chuck
You need to check the switches to make sure they support the xWDM GBICs though. The older Cisco switches don't support them. Last time I checked, 3500XLs didn't support them, but 3550s did... Chuck Church Lead Design Engineer CCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSE Wam!Net Government Services - Design & Imple