Re: unwise filtering policy from cox.net

2007-11-21 Thread Eliot Lear
Hey Paul, -- Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (reason: 552 5.2.0 F77u1Y00B2ccxfT000 Message Refused. A URL in the content of your message was found on...uribl.com. For resolution do not contact Cox

Re: unwise filtering policy from cox.net

2007-11-21 Thread Eliot Lear
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Most mailservers do allow you to exempt specific addresses from filtering. On the LHS of the @ of a remote address? I think that was Sean's point. Eliot

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

2007-11-05 Thread Eliot Lear
David Conrad wrote: On Nov 5, 2007, at 2:13 PM, Bora Akyol wrote: Do common endpoints (Windows Vista/XP, MacOS X 10.4/5) support DNSSEC Validation? If not, then do people have a choice? Yes and no. Of course, nobody supports the Evil bit today, so some change would be necessary one way or

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

2007-11-04 Thread Eliot Lear
Sean Donelan wrote: I just wish the IETF would acknowledge this and go ahead and define a DNS bit for artificial DNS answers for all these address correction and domain parking and domain tasting people to use for their keen Web 2.0 ideas. Yes, it sounds like the evil bit. Why would anyone

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

2007-11-04 Thread Eliot Lear
Sean, Yes, it sounds like the evil bit. Why would anyone bother to set it? Two reasons 1) By standardizing the process, it removes the excuse for using various hacks and duct tape. 2) Because the villian in Bond movies don't view themselves as evil. Google is happy to pre-check the box

Re: Access to the IPv4 net for IPv6-only systems, was: Re: WG Action: Conclusion of IP Version 6 (ipv6)

2007-10-04 Thread Eliot Lear
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: That isn't actually true. I could move to IPv6 and deploy a NAT-PT box to give my customers access to the v4 Internet regardless of whatever the rest of the community thinks. And then you'll see your active FTP sessions, SIP calls, RTSP sessions, etc fail.

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-06 Thread Eliot Lear
Stephen Sprunk wrote: Shim6 is an answer to what kind of multihoming can we offer to sites without PI space?; it is yet to be seen if anyone cares about the answer to that question. This argument is circular. The only real way to test demand is to offer a service and see if customers bite.

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-06 Thread Eliot Lear
Stephen, I'm not a fan of build it and they will come engineering. I suppose a reasonable question one could ask is this: who's the customer? Is the customer the ISP? I tend to actually it's the end enterprise. But that's just me. Eliot

Re: ISMS working group and charter problems

2005-09-06 Thread Eliot Lear
Daniel, All solutions will use a different SSH port as part of the standard just so that firewall administrators have the ability to block. Eliot Daniel Senie wrote: At 02:00 PM 9/6/2005, Dave Crocker wrote: Eliot, I need your help to correct for an impending mistake by the ISMS

yahoo abuse contact please

2004-10-12 Thread Eliot Lear
Anyone got one? Amusingly, the search engine these guys run can't seem to provide me this small bit of information. Thanks in advance, Eliot

Re: yahoo abuse contact please

2004-10-12 Thread Eliot Lear
Josh Duffek wrote: http://abuse.yahoo.com/ ? josh Ok, I have a response. Thanks all.

NETCONF checkpoint

2003-12-03 Thread Eliot Lear
[replies to either the netconf list if you are a member or to me, and I will forward them *directly* to the netconf list unless instructed NOT to do so.] Dear NANOG folk, The NETCONF working group of the IETF is currently developing a collection of protocol specifications for the

Re: Cisco, Anti-virus Vendors Team on Network Security

2003-11-18 Thread Eliot Lear
According to the marketing folk, it's a phased approach. This translates to two things: 1. There is a plan for an open API. 2. *NIX is not where the problem lies, right now. Eliot

IETF needs a new Ops Aarea Director

2003-11-17 Thread Eliot Lear
As some of you may already know, Randy Bush has resigned as Ops Area Director for the IETF. The community was well served by Randy, particularly because he has a good head on his shoulders and strong ties with the operational community. If you or someone you know would like to have broad

Re: IPv6 NAT

2003-10-31 Thread Eliot Lear
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: NAT is harmful to many protocols. Stateful inspection is not. Possibly. But Joe User will never use those many protocols. Plus the overwhelming majority of protocols are not harmed by NAT. Of course NAT causes all sorts of damage to all sorts of protocols, as the

Re: IAB concerns against permanent deployment of edge-based filtering

2003-10-18 Thread Eliot Lear
Valdis hits the nail on the head. And this boils down to something that I believe is attributable to someone commenting on the old FSP protocol, perhaps Erik Fair: The Internet routes around damage. Damage can take the form of a broken link, or it can take the form of an access-list. In

Re: News coverage, Verisign etc.

2003-10-08 Thread Eliot Lear
Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: I have gotten a reasoned response from the technology editor of the Washington Post, and we are discussing things. While I wouldn't have done it that way, he had a rational explanation of why the story was written the way it was, and definitely indicating there will

Re: NTP, possible solutions, and best implementation

2003-10-02 Thread Eliot Lear
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Beware the single point of failure. If all your clocks come from GPS, then GPS is the SPOF. Can you describe what would be involved to cause this sort of single point of failure to fail? Eliot

Re: NTP, possible solutions, and best implementation

2003-10-02 Thread Eliot Lear
okay. two valid cases to be concerned about: The most valid case is when we all go and buy GPS receivers from the same vendor who turns out to have a bug or a vulnerability of some form. The other valid case is if the defense department brought down the sattelite system for some odd reason.

Re: Verisign Responds

2003-09-24 Thread Eliot Lear
Jim Segrave wrote: And the usual US-centric view... Which congress person does Demon Netherlands, T-dialin, Wanadoo France, Tiscali etc. go to? I recognize it sounds U.S.-centric, but quite frankly since the U.S. Department of Commerce claims ownership here, I don't have a any grand more

Re: williams spamhaus blacklist

2003-09-24 Thread Eliot Lear
Andy Walden wrote: Godwin's Law should probably be extended to September 11 references. Walden's Corollary? ;-) Eliot

Re: Verisign Responds

2003-09-23 Thread Eliot Lear
Randy Bush wrote: it would ust make wildcards illegal in top level domains, not subdomains. there are tlds with top level wildcards that are needed and in legitimate use. verisign has not done anything strictly against spec. this is a social and business issue. And this in itself indicates a

[resend] OT: operators script writers' experience wanted

2003-09-10 Thread Eliot Lear
[For some reason, the first message ended up in the bit bucket] Dear all, Over the last few years, a bunch of us from the vendor community have sought your opinion about doing programmatic configuration to routers, switches, and the like. Over the last few months, the NETCONF working group was

Re: Internet Monitoring Center

2003-01-31 Thread Eliot Lear
I say to that... http://www.ofcourseimright.com/~lear/fishbowl.jpg

Re: Remote email access

2003-01-30 Thread Eliot Lear
It's a rare day when I differ with Dave over mail standards, so something's weird. Dave Crocker wrote: Some current choices: Email standards provide for posting of email to the usual port 25 or to port 773 for the newer submit service. (Submit is a clone of SMTP that operates on a different

Re: Risk of Internet collapse grows

2002-11-27 Thread Eliot Lear
Yah, the abstract indicates what most of us already know. Good coverage and redundancy options in urban areas; less so for rural areas. Why should this shock anyone? Imminent death of the 'net is *not predicted ;-) Eliot

Re: Breaking Stuff by Fixing NAT

2002-11-11 Thread Eliot Lear
Crist J. Clark wrote: But there are still management reservations, the only reservation we do not have a good answer for is the (arbitrary) claim that turning off NAT may break stuff for customers who depend on it. Now we have customers that do some pretty messed up stuff, and everybody knows

Trying to understand network operator management requirements

2002-09-30 Thread Eliot Lear
Hi, I've put a stake in the ground regarding network management. Below is a URL that discusses the problem. I'm wondering if you would like to send me comments (off list) on what I've gotten right and what I've gotten wrong. This draft compliment's Bill Woodcock's draft, in as much as I'm

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-10 Thread Eliot Lear
Tony Hain wrote: Public executions would be much more effective than preventing legitimate customers from getting their job done. A proposed activity for Portland? Network engineer assisted homocide? ;-)

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-09 Thread Eliot Lear
Paul Vixie wrote: per-destination host AND port egress rate shaping. if someone tries to send more than 1Kbit/sec to all port 80's, or more than 1Kbit/sec to any single IP address, then you can safely RED their overage. this violates the whole peer-to-peer model but there's no help for

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-09 Thread Eliot Lear
Rafi Sadowsky wrote: Maybe I'm missing something obvious but do how you get rate-limiting per TCP *flow* with Cisco IOS ? There is something called flow-based RED (FRED) but it consumes a whole lot of memory because you have to keep track of lots more state. I don't know about that code.

Re: Traffic Threshold monitoring?

2002-08-26 Thread Eliot Lear
Rob Mitzel wrote: So my question is...what's out there that will allow us to check thresholds on traffic, and notify us if needed? RMON alarms and events for one. These are available on pretty much all recent versions of IOS. You can set a rising or falling threshhold on any MIB variable

an itty bitty survey...

2002-08-16 Thread Eliot Lear
Hi all, [This may sound like a perennial question.] I'm curious as to how you configure your routers (whatever they may be). In particular, what tools do you use? Home grown? Rancid? Vendor provided? I'll summarize. Thanks in advance, Eliot

Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?

2002-05-01 Thread Eliot Lear
I don't know if this is an annual argument yet, but the frog is in the pot, and the flame is on. Guess who's playing the part of the frog? Answer: ISPs who do this sort of thing. Value added security is a nice thing. Crippling Internet connections will turn the Internet into the phone