Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine

2007-01-24 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, This seems a wee bit off topic, but definitely relates to network operations (somewhere below layer 1) and I can't think of a better place to ask. Upon leaving a router at telx and asking one of their techs to plug in the equipment for me, I came back to find all my cat5 cables nea

Re: [nanog] Re: wrt joao damas' DLV talk on wednesday

2006-06-14 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Randy Bush wrote: I don't profess to speak for ISC here, but it may be worth noting that ISC staff continue to spend a lot of time travelling to operator meetings, workshops, root server installations and RIR and ICANN meetings. Outreach and community participation is one

Troubles with HE's Tunnelbroker

2006-05-16 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
I know at least some people here (srs?) use HE.net's tunnelbroker service. Has anyone else been experiencing issues? I have three different tunnels that I've noticed are down (to various data centers), and calling their support department (and emailing) thusfar have proved to be less than he

Level3 Question

2005-10-23 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Okay, so I've been reading this thread on L3, and I'm a little curious as to what this potential de-peering means in one unique situation. A friend of mine has got a colo box sitting, single-homed, in a (3) data center. At the end of this, is this going to mean I can't reach Cogent? I've se

DNSSEC in public

2005-09-12 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
In response to a recent question I saw regarding DNSSEC on RIPE domains, I'd like to ask if there's any sort of draft or standard that anyone knows about for doing DNSSEC in the public, using either a "root" key and/or possibly having master keys pulished in WHOIS? I see a very experimental

Load Testing Util

2005-06-03 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, Does anyone know of a (preferably opensource) tool that can generate network loads of specific protocols and/or levels (for example, if I wanted to see how much loss I got on a 1 meg spike, over time). I'm hopefully looking for something client/server so I'm not necessarily depende

Hardware Vendor in NY

2005-03-04 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey Guys, I know this is a little off-topic, but would anyone close to the NYC/Long Island area know of somewhere local that would carry 1u-compatible power supplies? I need one on a fairly urgent basis, and I figure with all the infrastructure, someone *has* to have run into this issue before.

Re: ChinaNet Contacts

2005-02-17 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Dan Hollis wrote: From what I understand the answer is no. People I know who have attended asia-pacific regional network meetings described them as "clueless". Unfortunately the same goes for kornet. :-/ Clueless? Which is worse, ignorance or entropy? Who knows? Who cares? (an

Re: ChinaNet Contacts

2005-02-17 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Jon R. Kibler wrote: better still, has anyone ever come up with a bgp-distributed list of prefixes that trace back to such addresses? -Dan -- "Ca. Tas. Tro. Phy." -John Smedley, March 28th 1998, 3AM Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undern

Re: [nanog] RE: Stupid Ipv6 question...

2004-11-19 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Scott Morris wrote: No, nobody ever reads that tag. It says "not to be removed except by the consumer". Which with at least one severly drunk friend of mine, has meant that if you remove it, you have to eat it :) -Dan Does that mean if we rip them off that we may be prose

Re: Stupid Ipv6 question...

2004-11-19 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 03:06:43AM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 25 lines which said: I'm having trouble wrapping my head around ipv6 style suffixes -- does anyone have a chart handy? How b

Stupid Ipv6 question...

2004-11-19 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
In preparation for the upcoming advent of ipv6, I'm playing with a tunnel I've gotten from HE's cool tunnelbroker, and I'm plagued by the question that about an hour of google searching can't answer for me. I'm having trouble wrapping my head around ipv6 style suffixes -- does anyone have a cha

Stupid "where to find" question.

2004-11-17 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, I know it's slightly off topic but... If anyone can contact me off-list with suggestions as to where to find rackmount shelves (front and rear mount) for a specific brand of cabinet (chatsworth) for "relatively inexpensive" I'd appreciate it. -Dan Mahoney -- "I'm sorry, that is [EMAIL P

Re: Cable and Wireless partners with Reliance to set up datacenters in

2004-11-16 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Doesn't this in theory mean any isp who hands you any pipe that you can slap a linksys VPN router on is also liable? Where does it begin? When it's the ISP who provides the router? What about colo? Isn't a dedicated box (with KAME/Ipsec/Open

Re: [nanog] Rack + IP trading sites

2004-11-12 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Nathan Allen Stratton wrote: You may want to look at www.communitycolo.net, they're a great operation. Anyone know of good sites where you can trade rack space and IP bandwidth? I am looking for rack space and IP in London and trade if for space and IP in one of our US datacen

Re: [nanog] RE: I want my own IPs

2004-11-12 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Joe Johnson wrote: Learning the ins and outs of RWHOIS also tends to help, as it's a lot easier to set up in short notice than doing SWIP (and a bit easier to tie to a backend once you get the file formats nailed down). -Dan The biggest issue has always been timing. We've

Re: [nanog] RE: AOL tarpitting?

2004-11-06 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, James Ashton wrote: My own experiences with them went something like: Attempt to sign up for several address ranges. Realize the form doesn't understand complex ranges like 192.168.1-4.0-255, 192.168.1.0/20, so list the first block and include a note (because, you know, they

Re: [nanog] Re: short Botnet list and Cashing in on DoS

2004-10-09 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote: Then get yourself a personal colo (http://www.vix.com/personalcolo/) A dynamic ip is no place for a server of any kind. And it IS the isp's concern. Most of them would consider running a mail server on a home-user grade cable connection to be in violat

Re: [nanog] RE: short Botnet list and Cashing in on DoS

2004-10-07 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Hannigan, Martin wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of J. Oquendo Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 1:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: short Botnet list and Cashing in on DoS I've been slowly compiling a list of know

RE: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-23 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
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Re: Cisco moves even more to china.

2004-09-23 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Erik Haagsman wrote: I've always personally taken anyone who said "but I'm an MCSE" with a grain of salt. I've had equal respect for the A-plus and Net-Plus certifications, which are basically bought. I used to have more trust in the /CC../ certifications but I find I may b

Re: [nanog] Re: APNIC Privacy of customer assignment records - implementation update

2004-09-23 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Matt Ghali wrote: Oh look. http://rfc-ignorant.org/policy-ipwhois.php There you go. They do this, they're in violation of RFC 954. And there's already a blacklist ready and waiting. -Dan Does anyone else find this as offensive as I do? matt ghali On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:19:19

Re: [nanog] Re: APNIC Privacy of customer assignment records - implementation update

2004-09-23 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Matt Ghali wrote: Does anyone else find this as offensive as I do? matt ghali I think at this point it becomes a matter of "if they're not listed, blacklist them". It could potentially be a huge filter set, but there's so much crap coming from that corner of the globe anyway

Re: [nanog] Re: The worst abuse e-mail ever, sverige.net

2004-09-23 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Lars-Johan Liman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Correction, the world *can't* let you be a well functioning exception. People always scream 'no censorship', but there is only that many more mail servers and preprocessing machines you can throw at a $20/month account. Hmm. "You get w

Re: SkyCache/Cidera replacement?

2004-09-20 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Majdi Abbas wrote: I'll bite, and reveal my ultimate cluelessness here. Assuming I wanted to go about setting up an NNTP server, how would I go about getting and maintaining the feeds? There's no "central" authority AFAIK, but does anyone have any knowledge as to relative pr

Re: [nanog] Telehouse power outage

2004-09-20 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Tim Yocum wrote: Hrmmm, does anyone know offhand where NYIIX is fed from? -Dan FYI, There seems to have been a momentary power loss at Telehouse @ 25 Broadway. Initial reports indicate that there was some form of UPS failure that has since recovered, impacting some or all of

RE: Email Complexes

2004-09-14 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Vivien M. wrote: Personally, if it were me, running one of those major networks, I'd set him up with a free account, and then start bouncing it left and right. "Oh, we're bouncing it because of all this spam we keep getting from you. Is it your problem now?" -Dan -Ori

Re: "Intel calls for Internet overhaul"

2004-09-09 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Paul Vixie wrote: Adaptability, capacity, security. Wait, isn't that what ipv6 was supposed to do? -Dan update SAN FRANCISCO--The Internet needs to be upgraded with a new layer of abilities that will deal with imminent problems of capacity, security and reliability, Intel C

Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts

2004-09-08 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
om the DNSBL's, you need to remove your offending customers. You can't just say "these customers are spammers, block them, don't block anyone else" and keep collecting a check from them at the end of the month. "A los tontos no les dura el dinero." ---Ricardo

Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts

2004-09-08 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, vijay gill wrote: And randomgibberish.comcast.net will still be in all the dynamic blacklists. I'm subscribed to both the SpamAssassin list, and this one. This is getting seriously off-topic. If you like SPF, embrace it. If not, don't. This may very well be one of the things

Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts

2004-09-06 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Sean Donelan wrote: Hrmmm, perhaps this hasn't been thought of yet, but this is a serious idea for things like spamassassin, or the like. For this list of domains, a decent twofold effort could happen: 1) A decent push on the part of pobox.com (previously, their focus has b

Re: OT- need a new GSM provider

2004-09-02 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Paul Vixie wrote: Now that AT&T has followed T-Mobile's example by screwing the pooch on my cell phone billing, and I've flung yet another SIM-locked Motorola V600 out the window of yet another moving vehicle, and am about to enter into another year long "you violated the agreem

Re: Specialty Technical Publishers

2004-08-19 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Matt Ghali wrote: Aah, the wonders of dropping a site somewhere in China and forgetting about it. If spammers can do it If you put vague enough info into WHOIS, and host the site correctly (DNS on about seven free services ought to be enough, the actual site on a coupl

Re: DNS Blocking

2004-08-19 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Paul Vixie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Dan Mahoney, System Admin") writes: What I was basically asking for was a "silently drop queries for X-domain" option. But one doesn't exist in bind. take a look at www.as112.net to see what happens to queries fo

DNS Blocking

2004-08-19 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey guys, I was recently hammered by someone making a ton of requests for a non-existent subdomain of a domain that I host. The requests were coming in from forged ips, and presumably being used to flood other people. Because DNS is udp based, and the sender of the queries honestly didn't care