Re: Routing Table Jump caused by AS4151

2005-11-10 Thread james edwards
I send a message to my transits (Qwest and Global Crossing) and ATT. Here is the message I got back from ATT. James, We're looking into the situation. We'll get back with you shortly. Regards, Angie Eborn ATT IP COE (866) 397-7309, option 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-

Re: Routing Table Jump caused by AS4151

2005-11-10 Thread james edwards
I am seeing 171K routes from my transits and looks like this has been fixed. James Routing and Security Administrator At the Santa Fe Office: Cyber Mesa Telecom [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cybermesa.com/ContactCM

Re: Don't Cache that check

2005-09-21 Thread james edwards
# 29 says Google plans to make the texts searchable and only allow excerpts to be viewed. This should be legal under Fair Use doctrine. Some seem to assume the full text will be available, that seems not the case: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/google-print-and-authors-guild.html Let's

Re: CAT5 surge/lightning strike protection recommendations?

2005-09-13 Thread james edwards
Fiber would be my choice. Not only will it solve the lightening strike problem; you will not have to worry about ground potentials being different on each side of the cable run. James Routing and Security Administrator At the Santa Fe Office: Cyber Mesa Telecom [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google (Please change subject to what is discussed)

2005-09-12 Thread james edwards

Re: Katrina could inundate New Orleans

2005-08-28 Thread james edwards
I grew up in the Baton Rouge New Orleans area; mom and my brother live in BR. Katrina is playing out the dooms day senerio that is well known to people living in this area. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/K/KATRINA_THE_BIG_ONE_LAOL-?SITE=LABATSECTION=HOMETEMPLATE=DEFAULT James

Re: Cisco cover up

2005-07-28 Thread james edwards
And the list of vulnerable IOS versions is where? I am not sure if this is the correct doc, but it is recent (April/May 05) and does indicate what IOS versions are being dropped and what IOS one should migrate to.

RE: Cisco cover up

2005-07-28 Thread James Edwards
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 12:58, Robert Crowe wrote: This has nothing to do with the recent events. - RC james edwards wrote: I am not sure if this is the correct doc, but it is recent (April/May 05) and does indicate what IOS versions are being dropped and what IOS one should migrate

Re: AOL and mail-accepting rules

2005-07-22 Thread james edwards
First, thanks, all, for the quick replies with regards to the AOL email situation. The update I got from my client's email provider is that they have been blacklisted by AOL (reason not given), and have asked for our assistance in solving the blacklist problem. You **really** have to look

Telephone pedestals

2005-06-17 Thread james edwards
I am looking for a seller of outdoor Telephone pedestals. I plan to install a DSLAM, post splitters and associated cross connect gear in this enclosure. Can anyone suggest a dealer for this sort of gear ? James H. Edwards Routing and Security Administrator At the Santa Fe Office: Internet at

Re: Acceptable DSL Speeds (ms based)

2005-05-04 Thread james edwards
Expect ~20% less than rated speed for ATM overhead. Expect 20-40 ms on first hop due to DSLAM interweaving. James H. Edwards Routing and Security Administrator At the Santa Fe Office: Internet at Cyber Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cybermesa.com/ContactCM (505) 795-7101

Re: Multihoming for the small ISP ( search engine) ala 2005

2005-03-01 Thread james edwards
As long as they have a /24 that they can announce, two or more upstreams that are able and willing to establish BGP sessions with them and a router with enough memory to hold at least 2 full views (for a Cisco, you probably want 256MB or more these days), they can multi (or dual) home. They

Re: AOL scomp

2005-02-24 Thread james edwards
- Original Message - From: Matt Taber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 2:15 PM Subject: Re: AOL scomp Postini is my friend too. But the more we can do to get rid of spam on our own, the less we have to pay Postini each month. Postini's

Re: Association of Trustworthy Roots?

2005-01-16 Thread James Edwards
On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 13:31, Elmar K. Bins wrote: By chance - how is the press coverage of this incident? Has anybody read anything in the (online) papers? Unfortunately I haven't been able to follow the newsboards intensely this week-end, but Germany seems very quiet about this. Yours,

Re: Any net disruptions from Indonesia quake / Tsunami?

2004-12-26 Thread James Edwards
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/usslav.htm http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Maps/region/Asia_eqs.html -- James H. Edwards Routing and Security Administrator At the Santa Fe Office: Internet at Cyber Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (505) 795-7101

Re: Make love, not spam....

2004-11-29 Thread james edwards
I am not saying that the proposal is intrinsically right or wrong, I am saying it could have merit if just in waking up a brain-dead co-lo facility operator to deal with spamming clients. -mm How would this method be more effective than the e-mails, faxes, blocklists, and phonecalls that

Re: Energy consumption vs % utilization?

2004-10-26 Thread james edwards
Thats an insane statement. Are you saying, You are only wasting money on things if you aren't profitable ? /action shakes head. No, I am not but my statement did sure sound like that was what I was saying. I do think it is apples or oranges comparing CPU % to total power used and coming up

Routers for CO OOB management network

2004-10-22 Thread james edwards
I need to select a router to install in each of our CO's to bring together a network of T-1 between our colos. This will be the primary network for management of our CBX'es, routers, 5ESS switches, and other gear. This network will be totally separate from our existing network. Here are my

Re: Internet Connectivity

2004-10-01 Thread james edwards
Investigation is still ongoing, but from what they can tell, majority of the attempted connections have been going over TCP port 22. -jack Agressive SSH scans have been well reported on the internet in the last month or so. James H. Edwards Routing and Security Administrator At the Santa

Re: Bogus Root DNS server Traffic.

2004-09-27 Thread james edwards
They do, did you test as Florian asked you? Regards, Daniel Looks like someone did: --- Additional Comment #5 From Carlos Morgado on 2004-09-27 15:05 --- A tcpdump on queries from FC3t2 gave me host host.subdomain A host A host.subdomain

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

2004-09-23 Thread james edwards
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: The solution I am working toward is quickly identifying user infections. We are almost there. I collect and record all traffic Umm ... you mean you wire-tap all my email messages? (Anyone still wonders why I don't trust my ISP?) I wonder if my Teclo listens in on

The worst abuse e-mail ever, sverige.net

2004-09-21 Thread james edwards
This is the rudest, most arrogant abuse complaint I have seen. It is a frigging dial up user. james - Original Message - From: RBL To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 12:32 PM Subject:

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

2004-09-21 Thread james edwards
Sheesh. Get over /yourself/. Your network is rude by its very existence, if it lets spammers relay crud by way of it. Your own arrogance in thinking it's not your problem to fix is astounding. I did no say it is not my problem, we have a 10 year history of being very pro-active for all abuse

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

2004-09-21 Thread james edwards
Listed where? I don't see it jumping out anywhere on your web site or in any common/free DNSBL and the way your rDNS is setup isn't doing anyone any favors. We were a MAPS customer/user for a number of years and were listed then and I see we are not now. We will be listed again, shortly.

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

2004-09-21 Thread james edwards
The port 25 blocking seemed like a real good idea. -M I disagree. Port blocking does not change user behavior it is user behavior that is causing this problem. Blocking just hides it. I used to believe in port blocking as the solution to many user problems but now I have 3 and 4 page ACL's

Re: Multi-link Frame Relay OR Load Balancing

2004-09-16 Thread james edwards
FWIW, I asked about MLFR on the cisco-nsp and one person responded indicating he worked for some time with Cisco on trying to get MLFR to work but never resolved out of order and dropped packet issues. What hardware are you considering using to do MLFR ? Please let me know how things go as MLFR

Re: Email Complexes

2004-09-14 Thread james edwards
Why can't you already tell if you aren't getting through to major providers? Wouldn't your queues backup, or are you being blocked and the messages are being rejected and you are trying to track that? It is all in the mail logs. Here is a quick hack to take a peak at your mail queue (for

Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

2004-08-30 Thread james edwards
Not true. For those of us who host Akamai servers, we could download SP2 with no problems. We did not need P2P, or MSDN. In fact, I would be very reluctant to trust a Windows update downloaded via P2P. Have you heard of MD5 sum ? -- James H. Edwards Routing and Security Administrator At

Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

2004-08-30 Thread james edwards
Thats SHA0. Still a checksum is a checksum, cracked or not. - Original Message - From: Dan Hollis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: james edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Byron L. Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jeff Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Henry Linneweh [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday

Re: E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible

2004-07-01 Thread James Edwards
It seems to me all the court said is you cannot use the Wire Tap Act in a case that the communication is not on the wire. The court did note the they felt this Act needs updating. They indicated the Act was very specific and they did not feel extending the Act to cover e-mail in the conditions

Re: E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible

2004-07-01 Thread james edwards
Can someone point out, please, that CPUs have kilometers of 'wires', ram have 'wires', and if anybody does any copying of data, its on the WIRES of the motherboard (or whatever applies) 'data (WIRE) BUS' ? :) You should read the entire courts desicion, this issue is addressed. The Wire Tap

Re: Companies that sell NEBS x86 servers

2004-07-01 Thread james edwards
Kinda depends on what you mean by NEBS DC powered box. Literally, a DC powered box that is NEBS certified.

Re: ultradns reachability

2004-07-01 Thread James Edwards
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Companies that sell NEBS x86 servers

2004-06-30 Thread james edwards
I have gotten quotes from alliancesystems crystalpc for a x86 NEBS DC powered server. Can anyone suggest some other companies that sell x86 NEBS servers ? -- James H. Edwards Routing and Security At the Santa Fe Office: Internet at Cyber Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (505) 795-7101

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-10 Thread james edwards
Sean Donelan wrote: If you leave your lights on, the electric company will send you a bill. If the neighbor taps into your power lines after the meter...? Not a reasonable argument. It is expected that unpatched hosts will get infected and it has been well reported on how users should

Re: ntp config tech note

2004-05-21 Thread james edwards
My personal feeling was that for most systems its better to not have the daemon running - i.e. the benefit of smaller more frequent clock adjustments does not outweigh the cost of another service running, especially as root or even as a jailed non-root user. Well, present NTP drops to a

Re: ntp config tech note

2004-05-20 Thread James Edwards
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 15:33, Jared Mauch wrote: I'm also wondering, how many people are using the ntp.mcast.net messages to sync their clocks? what about providing ntp to your customers via the ntp broadcast command on serial links, etc..? - jared I have used NTP mcast for

Re: Juniper fails to change keys (More MD5 fun: Cisco uses wrongMD5key for old session after key change)

2004-04-25 Thread James Edwards
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 04:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It certainly doesn't work between Cisco and Juniper, because the Juniper always resets the session when you configure a new MD5 key. Ah, that explains way I flapped sessions that were juniper/cisco and not ones that were cisco/cisco when

Re: Ordering Windows Security Update CD (was Re: Microsoft XP SP2)

2004-04-20 Thread James Edwards
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 00:21, Alexei Roudnev wrote: Hmnm, if you: -- are in Russia or other East Europe country - got Windows with a computer (so it is 90% pirated one) - have not credit card geez, they are giving the CD away for free ! james signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: A TCP Replacement protocol 6000 times faster than DSL?

2004-03-15 Thread James Edwards
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Re: Will your cisco have the FBI's IOS?

2004-03-13 Thread James Edwards
They have access into the TDM network at present. Now they want VoIP. -- James H. Edwards Routing and Security At the Santa Fe Office: Internet at Cyber Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FW: hey had eric sent you

2004-03-12 Thread James Edwards
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 21:17, Riley, Marty wrote: 10:17:16.416222 IP 192.168.1.1.1900 239.255.255.250.1900: udp 278 This is UPnP discovery. Take a look here: http://www.nthelp.com/upnpscrewup.htm http://www.linuxsa.org.au/mailing-list/2002-11/1134.html I see a lot of unicast UPnP traffic

Re: Verification required for steve@blueyonder.co.uk, protected by 0Spam.com.

2004-03-08 Thread James Edwards
NO ! On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 05:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATTENTION! A message you recently sent to a 0Spam.com user with the subject Re: Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer... was not delivered because they are using the 0Spam.com anti-spam service. Please click the link

Re: Source address validation (was Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS)

2004-03-07 Thread James Edwards
On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 11:08, fingers wrote: just a question why is DDoS the only issue mentioned wrt source address validation? uRPF, strict mode, is how I control 1000+ DSL pvc's from leaking private address space via broken NAT. Also, all other customer facing interfaces run uRPF, strict

Re: Did Wanadoo, French ISP, block access to SCO?

2004-02-01 Thread James Edwards
Here is a view from the west coast, This is via Opentransit, which is my limited understanding of French indicates is owned/part of FranceTelecom: trace 216.250.128.12 Type escape sequence to abort. Tracing the route to www.sco.com (216.250.128.12) 1 P12-0.PALBB2.Palo-alto.opentransit.net