Re: Abuse response [Was: RE: Yahoo Mail Update]

William Herrin wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Martin Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Abuse desk is a $0 revenue operation. Is it not obvious what the issue is? Martin, So is marketing, yet marketing does have an impact on revenue. It can be useful to explain the abuse desk as

Re: Yahoo Mail Update

Frank Bulk - iNAME wrote: Yes, internet service providers and operators don't need to listen, but I can't see how Yahoo's e-mail and abuse handling history arises out of good business decisions. How would Yahoo benefit from better staffing of their abuse desk? What do they gain, besides th

Re: default routes question or any way to do the rebundant

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Inet-access used be a good place for finding that type of information, but that list seems to be on life-support these days. It's not dead yet! Ask a good question in inet-access and you will get a lot of answers, both on and off list. The reason the list isn'

Re: Customer-facing ACLs

Doesn't anyone RTFM before posting anymore? http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13287 # Configure your client to match the settings below: Incoming Mail (POP3) Server - requires SSL: pop.gmail.com Use SSL: Yes Port: 995 Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server - requires TLS: smtp

Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Haven't you noticed that the definition of "widely visited site" changes regularly, and often quite abruptly? How much traffic did YouTube get 3 years ago? Facebook? MySpace? There is no shortcut for eternal vigilance, i.e. manage your BGP relationships don't just con

Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Frank Bulk wrote: In other words, you're denying the reality that people download a 3 to 4 times more than they upload and penalizing every in trying to attain a 1:1 ratio. That might be your reality. My reality is that people with 8/1 ADSL d

Re: Colocation in the US.

Robert Sherrard wrote: Who's getting more than 10kW per cabinet and metered power from their colo provider? I had a data center tour on Sunday where they said that the way they provide space is by power requirements. You state your power requirements, they give you enough rack/cabinet spa

Re: Compromised machines liable for damage?

Here is the link again: Please spend some time reading that site to educate yourself about the facts and common misconceptions about this incident before you try any further analogies based on it. In *this* case the injured woman had done most[1] of

Re: Compromised machines liable for damage?

Jason Frisvold wrote: On 12/27/05, Marshall Eubanks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There was a lot of discussion about this in the music / technology / legal community at the time of the Sony root exploit CD's - which I and others thought fully opened Sony for liability for 2nd party attacks. (I

Re: Two Tiered Internet

Hannigan, Martin wrote: but do i get "the Internet"? ... your claim is that No, my claim is that "users" are not paying the full boat. Internet end-users are paying a larger share of the costs of the system than broadcast radio or TV end-users are paying (which here in the US is

Re: Let's talk about ICANN

Hannigan, Martin wrote: I would think that ICANN is off topic for NANOG? I strongly believe the WSIS news was disturbing and of significant operational interest - what would have happened if the UN simply "decided" that ICANN shouldn't keep the powers it now has and "decided" to create a n

Let's talk about ICANN

I'm surprised that I've yet to see any mention here on NANOG about the Internet Governance Forum discussions that were held at the WSIS / United Nations summit in Tunisia a few weeks ago. From my reading of the various articles, it appears that the EU together with some developing nations wanted

Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless anti-virus )

Douglas Otis wrote: On Dec 9, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Todd Vierling wrote: None of these are my problem. I am a non-involved third party to the malware detection software, so I should not be a party to its outgoing spew. I have not requested the virus "warnings" (unsolicited), they are being se

Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless anti-virus )

Leaving aside from the question of if virus-infected DSNs are UBE and thus "spam" or not... Todd Vierling wrote: If you want to notify someone about a filtered malware instance, notify the intended *recipient*, and provide that user with the email address of the alleged sender. If it's a fa

Re: What do we mean when we say "competition?"

David Barak wrote: --- Owen DeLong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is that still true if the "adequate" service is being provided at a price which is two to three times what it should be costing and the provider is enjoying the ability to do this because nobody else is in the market space? I'm

Re: cogent+ Level(3) are ok now

Christopher Woodfield wrote: "...the companies have agreed to the settlement-free exchange of traffic subject to specific payments if certain obligations are not met." So it does look like Cogent bent somwhat...I'm guessing they agreed to pay some sort of "traffic imbalance fee"? Ther

It's only a flesh wound (was Re: OT: Anyone here know what's up with inet-access.net)

Gerry Boudreaux emailed Avi and me about this on 9/30: > The server that has been hosting inet-access took a nose dive > yesterday. > > Hopefully we can have it rebuilt by tomorrow. Apparently rebuilding the server is taking a bit longer than anticipated. Well, maybe it's a pretty big flesh w

Re: Level 3's side of the story

Eric Louie wrote: DISCLAIMER: From one of the clueless As a disclaimer, I will point out that there are some in this debate who consider me clueless as well. However, I don't believe that any of the following is in error. During this entire debaucle, I never saw any mention of: I've

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

Alex Rubenstein wrote: Further, the internet has always been a best-effort medium. Can someone please explain how Level 3 is making a "best effort" to connect their customers to Cogent's customers? Various people have stated that uneven data flows (e.g. from mostly-content networks to mos

Re: Fw: Peering vs SFI (was Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. would the Internet be worse off if all traffic exchange was paid for and there was no settlement free interconnect at all? I.e. paid peering, paid full transit and paid partial transit on the menu? This assumes that one party wants to receive the bits more than

Re: Press Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

William Allen Simpson wrote: Finally, some press taking notice: http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4531 More at:

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

James Spenceley wrote: Then start your search for a replacement provider. If every Cogent and Level3 customer did this today, this problem would be solved by the end of the week, guaranteed. I tend to think this is oversimplification. The big picture risk, cogent will be judged now by

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

Matthew Crocker wrote: Ok, I *pay* Cogent for 'Direct Internet Access' which is IP Transit service. I *cannot* get to part of the internet via Cogent right now. I also *pay* Sprint and GNAPS for 'Direct Internet Access' and I can get to all parts of the internet via their networks. I

Re: (What If?) ccTLD Delegation Question

Joe Johnson wrote: Call it Monday Boredom, if you will, but a funny DNS question just popped into my head: if I were to, say, win the lotto and buy my own Island (which, of course, would technically be its own country), That's terribly hard to do: would

Re: 209.68.1.140 (209.68.1.0 /24) blocked by bellsouth.net for SMTP

Hannigan, Martin wrote: p.s. Speaking of "unreasonable requests" - I feel it is unreasonable for a member of the moderating committee to whine that he can't filter out "undesired" posts due to using a lame email client, and to then coerce a poster into "tagging" these posts. There are no

Why is it necessary to "tag" on-topic news cites?

Richard A Steenbergen wrote: I'm aware of quite a few people who have encouraged said poster to tag his off-topic posts for easy filtering, myself included. A brief cite and quote from a news article discussing the status of major networks (BellSouth Corp., SBC Communications, Cingular Wirel

Re: 209.68.1.140 (209.68.1.0 /24) blocked by bellsouth.net for SMTP

Sean Figgins wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: regular email forwarding IF you filter first And if the customer specifically requests that YOU do not filter his email, or set up a system that allows him to see ALL email, even if ti is tagged as spam? Then you simply

FWD: Explanation for the recent major downtime

My personal website is hosted with DreamHost. They sent this out to their customers today. Of interest to NANOG is the bit about the N+1 redundant genset system having 2 generators quickly fail, and in doing so having the UPS fail and the entire data center go dark. Something to consider i

Re: Replacing PSTN with VoIP wise? Was Re: Phone networks struggle in Hurricane Katrina's wake

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But then, people don't really care about this, as cell is in the exact same boat and huge numbers of people rely on just their cell phone and no longer have a fixed line (in Europe at least). I have read accounts that suggest that cellphone subscribers from New Orlea

Re: Phone networks struggle in Hurricane Katrina's wake

Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: Telephone companies struggled to restore service FYI - if you are trying to reach someone in the impacted area who has a cell phone but you can't get thru because "all circuits are busy" then give SMS a try. I exchanged 8 SMS messages[1] between 15:58 and 16:2

Re: List Phishing of e-mails from nanog

Steve Brown wrote: Sweet, got my first piece of phishing SPAM (to the address I use for this list) shortly after posting a couple of days ago. That's probably because the nanog list is gatewayed to a newsgroup. Your posting address (and everyone else's posting address) has been exposed to a

Re: Cisco and the tobacco industry

Roy Badami wrote: Geo> Gee, it must be nice to be in the top 10% of the smart Geo> people. Why don't you suggest Valdis aim for the top 5% and Geo> figure out how Mr. Jeffrey I. Schiller manages to post using Geo> debian PGP signed messages that don't appear as attachments? Havi

Re: Someone from Sprint security please contact me

Chip Mefford wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Off list? Thanks kindly. (Second NANOG list request for this). Have you tried the noc contact list? finds 3 email addresses and 4 phone numbers to reach various divisions wit

Re: London incidents

Mark Foster wrote: "Using phone company records, researchers assessed phone use immediately before the crash. There are 3 kinds of lies: lies damn lies statistics They found a third of calls in the 10 minutes before the crash were made on cellphones. This was assoc

Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?

Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: I think your argument is at best uninformed, at worst non-existent.. you need to provide some references, examples, figures, whatever.. else this is little more than trolling. Not only that... since there isn't anything operational in nature about the question or discus

Re: Jonathan Yarden @ TechRepublic: Disable DNS caching on workstations

Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Patrick W. Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Depends on what you call "caching". Does honoring a TTL qualify as caching? What other kind of DNS caching is there? There's an article on /. today about providers (apparently there are quite a lot of them

Re: Dear Linksys: Your broken WET54GS5 makes me sad.

Niels Bakker wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Tue 12 Apr 2005, 13:21 CEST]: In this case, I do. It's a consumer product. One way to solve this problem, and recognize that many IP network operators sell service to consumers as well as peering, would be to offer the inet-access mailing list to c

Re: public accessible snmp devices?

Jim Popovitch wrote: On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 17:18 +0200, Petri Helenius wrote: My RFC collection tells a different story. My experiences show that no complete segment of business, education, or government ever implements systems and networks according to holistic RFC thinking. YMMV. The imp

Re: More on Vonage service disruptions...

Patrick Muldoon wrote: What is more stable where you are, your broadband connection or your telephone line to your LEC? (if you still have one). I know in my case at home, the phone line was much more reliable, then my cable modem. I can count the times on 1 hand that I had been without Dial tone

Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?

J.D. Falk wrote: On 03/01/05, David Lesher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, I'm no player in this league and ask... Why will ISP's ""wise up"" and block 587? If 587 is always auth'ed; then there will be no spam splashback provoking calls to block it. (Individual customers may get zombie

Re: Proposed list charter/AUP change?

Bill Nash wrote: Discussion of functional spam control at the ISP level, I think, is absolutely on topic for a list of this scope. Please note, that I say 'functional'. Random complaints would obviously not fall into this category. Examples would include: Working enterprise-scale spam filteri

Re: [OT] Re: Banned on NANOG

Alex Rubenstein wrote: We're not in school, we don't need suspensions. We need to act like adults, use this list for it's intended purpose. If someone is a dodo for a message or two here or there, then, well, we tolerate it and move on, maybe someone on the list sends that person an email saying

Re: How to Blocking VoIP ( H.323) ?

Joe Shen wrote: How could it be done to block VoIP at access router? "I urge all my competitors to do this." jc

Re: Spamcop

At 12:09 PM 5/11/2004, Jared Mauch wrote: I've found that a number of people that are spamcop subscribers report messages as spam that are not when they don't know how to get removed from lists. It could also simply be a mistake. The inet-access list was once reported as a spam source by

Re: Lazy network operators

At 10:47 AM 4/14/2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 14-apr-04, at 17:45, JC Dill wrote: I understand your frustration, but the approach of blocking port 25 isn't the right one. It may be convenient for you, but ... Dood, this *exact* argument was made ~10 years ago against closing

Re: Lazy network operators

At 12:33 AM 4/14/2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: I understand your frustration, but the approach of blocking port 25 isn't the right one. It may be convenient for you, but ... Dood, this *exact* argument was made ~10 years ago against closing open relays. So, do you think that everyone should

Re: dealing with w32/bagle

At 07:39 PM 3/4/2004, Curtis Maurand wrote: Too many steps. Once it's installed and configured, this one is drag and drop: They also have a solution for dynamic addressing:

Re: Open, anonymous services and dealing with abuse

At 12:43 PM 2/17/2004, John Palmer wrote: I hate to see government get involved in anything, but perhaps some law holding PC owners responsible for SPAM that comes from their unpatched machines AS LONG AS there is ample notification to that user that their machine is compromised. We don't need mor

Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls

At 04:25 PM 2/10/2004, Paul Vixie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JC Dill) writes: > Just as Canter and Siegel's green card spam was a novel way to (ab)use > SMTP for Canter and Siegel's profit, ten years later Verisign develops > Sitefinder [1] - a novel way to (ab)use DNS requ

Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls

At 08:37 PM 2/9/2004, Paul Vixie wrote: the response you included... > > There's an easy way to kill sitefinder stone cold dead. > > ... > > It would be trivial to create a bot to start walking through every > > possible 20 letter domain name - and if ICANN held them to the rules, > > Verisign wo

Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls

At 08:51 PM 2/9/2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: till such time as resolver patches in existence are modified if necessary to cope with the new edition of sitefinder. Suresh, You clearly aren't having enough fun playing Whack-A-Mole with spammers, now you get to play Whack-A-Mole with Verisi

Re: Dumb users spread viruses

At 02:46 PM 2/8/2004, Paul Vixie wrote: In this past year's tour of my friends and family, I've taken to removing their antivirus software at the same time I remove their spyware, and I've taken to installing Mozilla (with its IMAP client) as a way to keep the machine from having any dependency on

Re: ISS X-Force Security Advisories on Checkpoint Firewall-1 and VPN-1

At 08:56 AM 2/5/2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Is there some really good "network security for dummies" book that I can point such people at? A "social" approach is often more effective than the "technical" approach i.e. it is often easier to hack into a secured system via "social hacking".

Re: antivirus in smtp, good or bad?

At 06:16 AM 2/3/2004, Daniel Senie wrote: Many viruses (most of the recent ones) forge the sender information. It seems to me that this can be replaced with "Today's viruses almost invariably forge the sender information." and that it no longer makes any sense whatsoever to send a virus alert not

Re: AOL web troubles.. New AOL speedup seems to be a slowdown

At 09:43 PM 1/29/2004, "Brian Bruns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Properly implemented watermarking won't be affected by the recompression. It may not be as clear to the program as it would be if it was in its old format, but its still legible. That's *visible* watermarking, not invisible *digital*

Re: GSR, 7600, Juniper M?, oh my!

At 12:39 AM 1/8/2004, Neil J. McRae wrote: > Hardware is probably cheaper on eBay than the maintenance fees anyway. You should be wary of purchasing second user Cisco equipment and their software license. Hardware is transferable but the Cisco software is not. If you are buying for replacement eq

Re: Internet law

At 11:01 AM 12/30/2003, you wrote: >> when will we see the FBI, and other local police in >> the other countries send the script kiddies to the >> JAILL so we can use the internet without too much The cost of tracking down and prosecuting them, and the difficulty in proving that what they are doi

4.5 magnitude earthquake in VA

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/uscdbf.htm

Re: RFI: Intrusion Detection Systems

At 03:29 AM 11/13/2003, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 11/13/2003 5:35 AM: My apologies to anyone that receives duplicates of this email stemming from it being cross posted. There was a recent network computing article that evaluated quite a lot of these. However, I'

Re: Nachi claims another college: Dartmouth November 7

At 08:10 AM 11/11/2003, Scott Weeks wrote: On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Sean Donelan wrote: : Almost half of all student computers on Dartmouth's campus have been : infected by the Nachi/Welchia worm. If student's do not fix their : Has anyone figured out a way to get computer users to fix their computer

Re: law enforcement contacts

At 11:23 PM 11/10/2003, Dave Stewart wrote: At 02:13 AM 11/11/2003, J. Oquendo wrote: Uhm... Correct me if I missed something, but LEO's get paid to uphold the law BY ACTING on crime in their expertise and if it's out of their range (juridstiction) an `LEO` should have better contacts than someone

Re: law enforcement contacts

At 06:17 AM 11/10/2003, Alex Yuriev wrote: Anyone has any good law enforcement contacts that have enough clue ( or could be educated in process ) to work on catching and nailing DOS originators? I have several clueful LEO contacts, but this information will be of no use to you unless the c

OT - list netiquette

At 08:16 AM 11/4/2003, Owen DeLong wrote: ignore the previous stuff they don't need for reference. If the previous stuff is ignorable, it doesn't need to be quoted. Top posting while quoting material that is ignorable is lazy and not appreciated by most participants on *this* forum. Please snip

Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest

At 07:32 PM 11/3/2003, John Fraizer wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Owen DeLong wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something, but, if you have the bolt cutters, I don't > see why you need the key to an adjacent lock or any of the locks. Um, cutting a lock out gets it out of the mix but, you still have to have

Re[2]: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest

At 12:30 PM 11/3/2003, Richard Welty wrote: how long do you think it'll take anyone to notice the extra locks? The link I posted showed a *latch* for a door (which could also be used on a gate if desired), not a series of locks on a chain to chain shut a gate. With a latch such as this one, you

Re: Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest

At 08:53 PM 11/2/2003, you wrote: I'm fairly certain that the telco huts or CO's have to accomodate multiple groups having access, so I'd bet that a padlock probably is a tough sell There are special latches that accommodate multiple padlocks, where unlocking any one padlock opens the latch. They

Re: Fascinating interview with Verisign CEO

At 01:17 AM 10/17/2003, Hank Nussbacher wrote: http://news.com.com/2008-7347-5092590.html "Sclavos also says it's time to transfer the responsibility for operating the root servers from volunteers to the commercial sector. " No, it's time for ICANN to transfer the responsibility for operating th

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

At 11:56 AM 10/16/2003, Chris Strandt wrote: Maybe a "vote" at the end of the presentation would be better. After Verisign has to say what they want, it would be interesting to see what the participants think of starting Site Finder again. Its not as press worthy... but it lets Verisign have th

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

afterwards. Great idea! Can we count on Dan for tomato acquisition and for Owen for post-protest dispersal to a foodbank? jc (I so wish I could be there!) -- JC Dill 370 Altair #353 Sunnyvale, CA 94086 650-669-1664 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: UltraJCDill Y!IM: jcdill

Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

Dan and Owen, I nominate you two for the tomato acquisition and distribution committee. To recap: At NANOG 29 in Chicago, on Monday October 20th at 9:15 am a session on "VeriSign's Wildcard Record: Effects and Responses" will be held, with Mark Kosters and Matt Larson from VeriSign and Suzanne

Re: [Fwd: [IP] VeriSign to revive redirect service]

At 02:56 AM 10/16/2003, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Ouch. http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5092133.html VeriSign to revive redirect service by Declan McCullagh VeriSign will give a 30- to 60-day notice before resuming a controversial and temporarily suspended feature that redirected many .com a

RE: VeriSign Capitulates

At 07:17 AM 10/4/2003, St. Clair, James wrote: I would add that what you perceive as a "diverse group" is still a realtively small sub-set of all the internet operations. Be that as it may, this group is *anything* but "close knit". This is as unified as I've seen nanog participants on any matte

Re: Any way to P-T-P Distribute the RBL lists?

At 07:08 AM 9/25/2003, Rich Braun wrote: But generating the blocklist requires real-time reporting back to a central server. Even if the server is decentralized, it will still require a relatively small handful of accessable IP addresses. I seem to recall a distributed server network, something c

California Spam-busting bill comes with $1 million penalty

At 10:54 AM 9/24/2003, Timo Janhunen wrote: The Do Not Call registry is on hold... http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/ftc/donotcall92303ord.pdf Meanwhile, on the good news front: jc

Re: Worst design decisions?

At 04:24 PM 9/18/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The US Congress. "can you say ADA - sure you can" - Fred Rodgers > Who thought it was a good idea to put braille on the drive up atms? While I don't know if the person in question was blind or not, I *have* seen someone use a drive-up ATM from the

RE: Fun new policy at AOL

At 12:45 PM 8/29/2003, Vivien M. wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Vivien M. wrote: > > > And what do you do if you're not the admin for the relay? And what > > about if the admin tells you "This is why we installed some webmail > > package. Use that instead."? > > You switch service provider or give

RE: Fun new policy at AOL

At 12:32 PM 8/29/2003, Vivien M. wrote: > Time to switch to SMTP AUTH and use the same relay always. And what do you do if you're not the admin for the relay? And what about if the admin tells you "This is why we installed some webmail package. Use that instead."? Either the webmail solution meet

Re: Fun new policy at AOL

At 08:37 AM 8/29/2003, Jack Bates wrote: Michel Py wrote: If ISPs don't want people to run SMTP servers on their DSL line theyshould provide a top-notch smarthost, which most don't. The one's that don't provide a top-notch smarthost usually don't handle abuse complaints either. Just what do the

Blaster author identified, about to be arrested...

(08-28) 20:31 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI has identified a teenager as the author of a damaging virus-like infection unleashed on the Internet and plans to arrest him early Friday, a U.S. official confirmed Thursday. The 18-year-old, whose name and hometown was not immediately available, w

RE: Measured Internet good v. "bad" traffic

At 02:45 AM 8/28/2003, David Schwartz wrote: > No that wouldnt work, that was be an analogy to non-usage based > eg I buy a 10Mb port from you and you dont charge me extra for > unwanted bandwidth across your network.. The point is that 'usage' is supposed to be 'what you use', not what so

RE: Fun new policy at AOL

At 12:53 PM 8/28/2003, Tony Hain wrote: Matthew Crocker wrote: > Shouldn't customers that purchase IP services from an ISP use > the ISPs mail server as a smart host for outbound mail? Look carefully at that question and find the logic error. ... In case you missed it, the customer purchased 'I

Re: Cross-country shipping of large network/computer gear?

At 08:32 PM 8/27/2003, Eric Kuhnke wrote: http://colofinder.net/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album18 Although this is a small item, I believe it wins the contest for "Most thoroughly damaged shipment". Oh dear! Yes, I do think you are the winner (so far). just me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

RE: Cross-country shipping of large network/computer gear?

At 11:19 AM 8/27/2003, Matthew Zito wrote: I was wondering if anyone could provide any advice or suggestions on shipping heavy/bulky equipment (~300 pounds, about a half-rack worth of gear) on short notice cross-country? We're obviously looking to minimize cost, but realistically it can't be in

Re: Microsoft distributes free CDs in Japan to patch Windows

At 04:03 PM 8/25/2003, Andy Walden wrote: On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Henry Linneweh wrote: > Microsoft has a task scheduler that people should learn to use to remind > them to check update to make sure their patches are current, it is > located in the control panel and labled Scheduled Tasks and has an

Re: email virus ==> over the top

At 08:10 AM 8/21/2003, neal rauhauser wrote: No one loves me and I don't get much email from the folks who tolerate me. I just got back from having lunch with some guys who tolerate me and I found scads of messages from all over -the funniest among the bunch for our Nanog readers: @cisco.com @ta

Re: www.ebay.com down?

At 10:12 PM 8/20/2003, Mehmet Akcin wrote: We were unable to process your request We are sorry, but we were unable to process your request. Please check the eBay Announcement Board for updates on recent and upcoming changes, major system issues, and other important eBay news. however I was unable

Re: Email virus protection

Warning, this is an off-topic rant about client software and the state of the world WRT Windows and Linux. There is zero operational content in this post. At 06:07 PM 8/20/2003, Lou Katz wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 03:46:48PM -0700, JC Dill wrote: > > At 02:07 PM 8/20/2003, Kar

Re: Email virus protection

At 02:07 PM 8/20/2003, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: There's quite a lot of usable stuff out there. Many Win32 users have switched to Mozilla which seems to solve 100% of the Outlook-specific attacks which account for... hmmm... 100% of the malicious email messages of the last 6 months. Unfortunately

Re: East Coast outage?

At 08:13 PM 8/14/2003, David Lesher wrote: Then run parts at 105-110% and it gets really hard. The power industry designs a grid that runs so close to capacity that if^W when something big fails, the whole grid shuts down in a cascade. They know it: "What happens if <$big_num_watts> power plan

Re: East Coast outage?

At 02:03 PM 8/14/2003, K. Scott Bethke wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/14/power.outage/index.html Looks like we lost the Niagara-Mohawk power grid This looks pretty much like the same thing that happened (one failure causes cascading switch failures as the power overloads adjacent switches,

RE: Microsoft to ship new versions with firewall enabled

At 10:00 AM 8/14/2003, Daniel Senie wrote: At 12:39 PM 8/14/2003, Matthew Watkins wrote: Apple have the right idea... I'd say all the vendors need to take a carefully balanced approach to security in the default configurations of their software. Leave services exposed to the network disabled by d

Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT)

At 12:53 PM 8/3/2003, Gerald wrote: I even went to the web page they suggested to try and give them a copy of the msg with full headers and none of their categories at the time matched: Good willed person trying to give you ammunition for a company abusing your name. I gave up, and left it as the

Re: Complaint of the week: Ebay abuse mail (slightly OT)

At 09:41 AM 8/3/2003, Paul Vixie wrote: > ... ebay now requires that you fill in their lovely little web form to > send them a note. Even if, say, you're trying to let them know about > another scam going around that tries to use the machine www.hnstech.co.kr > to extract people's credit card inf

Re: Its not just Spam and DDOS anymore (was Re: OT: Re: User negligence?)

At 01:00 AM 7/29/2003, Peter Gray wrote: For a laugh, take a look at this spammer site, www.ushplans.com, currently hosted by Net Access Corporation. It claims to be "US Health Plans Inc., The Nations (sic) Leading Dental Plan" but its head office appears to be a mail drop box in New Jersey an

Re: User negligence?

At 07:21 AM 7/27/2003, David Lesher wrote: Strip is your helper here. I have strip. Unfortunately, I don't always have my Palm at hand when I want to login to my bank, and I didn't have it at hand the *last* time, when I had to change the password, so the new

Re: User negligence?

At 01:03 AM 7/27/2003, Kandra Nygårds wrote: From: "Sean Donelan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Unfortunately there are a lot, and growing number, of self-infected PCs > on the net. As the banks point out, this is not a breach of the bank's > security. Nor is it a breach of the ISP's security. The user

Re: Cisco IOS Vulnerability now in the news

At 11:00 AM 7/17/2003, Henry Linneweh wrote: July 17, 2003 DoS Flaw in Cisco Router, Switches By Ryan Naraine http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/2236591 Cisco Admits Flaw in Networking Software By MATTHEW FORDAHL, AP Technology Writer

Re: Major E-mail Delivery for FTC DNCR Launch

Leo Bicknell wrote: * Make sure your mail servers are squeeky clean. Forward and reverse match, valid MX's, they report their own name in SMTP headers, no "untrusted sender used -f", etc. Valid abuse@ for the machine name, and the parent domain are essential. Valid contacts for the domai

Re: OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd)

Jack Bates wrote: Petri Helenius wrote: Isn´t "highlight and hit delete" exactly what has been implemented since Mozilla 1.3 and works with almost perfect accuracy after you give it a few dozen messages to build up the "good and bad" database with? Actually, I find that 1.3 and 1.4 still have is

Re: Looking for advice on datacenter electrical/generator

Bill Woodcock wrote: > Backhoes always so far. > - The gas gets cut off immediately in any fire situation, usually > affecting a few city blocks at a time When was the last time you saw a fire that affected a few city blocks? I'm sure gas would be cut off in the event of a fire of that mag

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