Re: Topicality and audiences [was Re: tech support being flooded due to IE 0day]

2006-09-23 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
It doesn't matter who wrote: If you don't find network operations to be relevant, then by all means STOP POSTING TO THE GOD DAMNED NETWORK OPERATIONS MAILING LIST. Some of those, particularly those who *gasp* run networks, still find it relevent. If there is this much disagreement about your p

Re: Have you really got clue?

2006-09-22 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if anyone else here thinks they know what is on topic, please tell us. I am getting bored by the flood of negative messages that say only "You can't say that here". Please stop telling us what you cannot say on NANOG. If you really must register your discontent wi

Re: fyi-- [dns-operations] early key rollover for dlv.isc.org

2006-09-21 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Paul Vixie wrote: fyi: My mail reader can sanitize HTML mail for me, but it was stymied by this one. What is it? -- Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio http://members.cox.net/larrysheldon/

Re: Removal of my brain

2006-09-20 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More to the point, why punish the entire list by bickering about a minority Because this is NANOG, and NANOG is very careful to limit the traffic to stuff that is On Topic. -- Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio http://members.cox.net/lar

Public service Rebroadcast: Re: Removal of my name]

2006-09-20 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
I too despise HTML, but in a failing effort to find email useful, I use a reader that converts HTML to text for me (it is amazing what computers can do these days). Here is the result of my reader's handiwork. Original Message Subject:Re: Removal of my name Date:

Re: Removal of my name

2006-09-20 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Don Welch, Merit Network wrote: This issue is unique and does not represent a blanket policy. Any request to modify the archive is a serious issue that requires consultation with the Steering Committee and must be balanced against the loss of archive integrity. Right here is the heart of the

Re: [Fwd: Kremen VS Arin Antitrust Lawsuit - Anyone have feedback?]

2006-09-13 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Johnny Eriksson wrote: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" wrote: If we were still calling central and asking "Hi Mabel, can you put me through to Doc," no one would give a rat's ass about phone number portability. Notice that no one is getting worked up about circuit number portability. ... or street n

Re: comast email issues, who else has them?

2006-09-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
william(at)elan.net wrote: You need to have protocol to map it from. HTTP is not a protocol but ^ type of transport of initial email submission data to a submission server. Really?! -- Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur acti

Re: Router / Protocol Problem

2006-09-07 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Yeah. Don't want any operational stuff here. Need to get back to who's got a free 300-baud dialup in Antwerp. Hank Nussbacher wrote: At 07:27 AM 07-09-06 -0400, Mike Walter wrote: Best moved to cisco-nsp. -Hank Nussbacher http://www.interall.co.il Good morning everyone. I just wanted

Re: Is it my imagination or are countless operations impacted today with mysql meltdowns

2006-08-26 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Henry Linneweh wrote: Every where I go that uses MySql is hozed and I can not access the pages -Henry Say! _There_ is an On Topic, Operationsal posting! -- Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio http://members.cox.net/larrysheldon/

Re: Wherefore art thou Qwest

2006-08-23 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Joseph S D Yao wrote: On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:51:34AM -0400, J. Oquendo wrote: Can someone from Qwest shoot me an email. I have a PSTN carrier routing VoIP now and they're telling me your routing tables became corrupt or something. Calls have been "a" dropping. =

Re: Qwest engineer

2006-08-14 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Can a Qwest engineer send me an offlist email pertaining to a DS3. Oh goody a genuine on-topic one liner, with 13 lines of .sig. -- Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio http://members.cox.net/larrysheldon/

Re: Blogger post failed

2006-08-14 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Derek J. Balling wrote: On Aug 14, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Who forwards NANOG posts to a blogger gateway? You, me, and a claw- hammer need to have a chat. Not me, but what is interesting is that I've not seen any evidence of that when I post. Are you

Re: Fwd: Blogger post failed

2006-08-14 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Derek J. Balling wrote: Who forwards NANOG posts to a blogger gateway? You, me, and a claw- hammer need to have a chat. Not me, but what is interesting is that I've not seen any evidence of that when I post. -- Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio http://members.cox

Re: SORBS Contact

2006-08-14 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: David Schwartz wrote: Nonsense. You have tort obligations as well as contractual obligations. Specifically, if you take custody of someone else's data, and you have no contract with that person, you have a tort obligation not to destroy it.

Re: SORBS Contact

2006-08-14 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
David Schwartz wrote: Nonsense. You have tort obligations as well as contractual obligations. Specifically, if you take custody of someone else's data, and you have no contract with that person, you have a tort obligation not to destroy it. The nonsense is here! I am not a lawyer, bu

Re: New Laptop Polices

2006-08-13 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Scott Morris wrote: "E-mail rest in peace? That is what I tried to indicate. An exchange somewhere (I can't now find it) went something like: God is dead - Nietzsche Nietzsche is dead - God Email is dead - Larry To which I added that it will someday be Larry is dead - Email

Re: New Laptop Polices

2006-08-13 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
joe mcguckin wrote: Why not put critical or proprietary files on a flash key? I carry a 4G flash key on my keyring. Airport security has never given it a second look. If the laptop ends up in the hands of a sticky-fingered baggage handler (or the TSA), there's nothing there for them to find.

Re: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless

2006-08-13 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Sean Donelan wrote: On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: This morning's Omaha Weird Harold has a front-page item about the City installing free wiffy hotspots around town. It may be time for you to reconsider the options on the buggy-whip plant. Any information abou

Re: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless

2006-08-13 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Danny McPherson wrote: On Aug 13, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Danny McPherson wrote: As importantly, broadband SPs are trying to move to triple (quad) play services, how tolerant do you think your average subscriber is to losing cable television services because

Re: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless

2006-08-13 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Danny McPherson wrote: As importantly, broadband SPs are trying to move to triple (quad) play services, how tolerant do you think your average subscriber is to losing cable television services because their kid downloaded some malware? At least one of us would applaud an effort to hold people

Re: New Laptop Polices

2006-08-12 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Michael Nicks wrote: Do we all really believe this laptop ban will last? I sure don't. I think there are two issues in this thread -- this must refer to the air travel bans. I don't know, but I'll bet it not only persists, it will get worse. The other issue has to do with the trend to th

Re: New Laptop Polices

2006-08-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Joseph S D Yao wrote: On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 02:28:33AM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Joseph S D Yao wrote: Do modern laptops have disk drives that are that hard to remove? one screw and 'pop' out comes all dell laptop harddrives... or boot from cd, usb->copy

Re: New Laptop Polices

2006-08-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (that is me) wrote: Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Joseph S D Yao wrote: Do modern laptops have disk drives that are that hard to remove? one screw and 'pop' out comes all dell laptop harddrives... or boot from cd, usb->copy all dat

Re: New Laptop Polices

2006-08-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Joseph S D Yao wrote: Do modern laptops have disk drives that are that hard to remove? one screw and 'pop' out comes all dell laptop harddrives... or boot from cd, usb->copy all data, slide back into case and move on to next. you have 2 hou

Re: New Laptop Polices

2006-08-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Joseph S D Yao wrote: Do modern laptops have disk drives that are that hard to remove? Let us say "No, they are not that hard to remove." Now what? (Recall that this thread started with a situation where it was said that carry-on was limited to passport, medicine in small quantities, and

Re: SORBS Contact

2006-08-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Steve Sobol wrote: Allan Poindexter wrote: Matthew> so would you consider as it is my network, that I should Matthew> not be allowed to impose these 'draconian' methods and Matthew> perhaps I shouldn't be allowed to censor traffic to and Matthew> from my networks? If you want to run a ne

Re: SORBS Contact

2006-08-09 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Michael Nicks wrote: Actually I think this thread progressed from someone getting dirty blocks, to complaining about liberal-listing-RBLs (yes SORBS is one), to RBLs defending themselves and their obviously broken practices. We should not have to jump through hoops to satisfy your requirement

Re: Detecting parked domains

2006-08-02 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: I doubt we're "famous". How are you going to be able to tell they aren't parked? Pull up the web page on a few domains to see what they look like? Check all 1000 manually? Half? Whose business is it. Who cares? -- Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa n

Re: Detecting parked domains

2006-08-02 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Randy Bush wrote: i know this will come as a shock, but there ar eother uses for domain names than web sites Surely you jest! Surely a domain with no listener on port 80 or 25 is not a legitimate domain. -- Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio http://members.cox.net

Re: AOL Mail Problem

2006-07-27 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Allen Parker wrote: I really wish more people would stand up to aol and explain to them that their spam filtering stuff is ineffective as well as annoying. I for one really wish the service providers of the world had been willing to deal with the spam problem when it first arose. That som

Re: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-25 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Brandon Galbraith wrote: My assumption is that it means "it isn't going to keep things cold, but it will keep the air flowing to prevent a 'server sauna'". On 7/25/06, Sam Stickland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Quick question about secondary addresses

2004-07-31 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Jon Lewis wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Jesper Skriver wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 10:21:06AM -0700, Dan Lockwood wrote: I'm in a debate with a guy over the use of 'ip address x.x.x.x s.s.s.s secondary' on Cisco gear. I seem to remember reading that the use of secondary addresses is a bad idea, b

Re: Convention networks and viruses

2004-07-29 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Scott Weeks wrote: On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Sean Donelan wrote: : As NANOG has experienced during the last several meetings, in any network : used by a large number of people, there will be a certain percentage of : people which bring infected computers into the network. : : http://www.nytimes.com/2004

Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS?

2004-07-27 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Paul Vixie wrote: on the other hand, if you do this for a nameserver that your customers depend on, then there is probably some liability for either trademark infringement, tortious interference with prospective economic advantage, and the gods alone know what else. if you do this, keep it to a s

Re: 2511 line break

2004-07-26 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Good, honest to ${D**ty} Operational Content? sadly not

Re: Google?

2004-07-26 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Randy Bush wrote: Sending a "break" to a 2511? Now _there_ is an operational issue! (Wonder if he knows you have to plug a VT52 in to make it work?) damned hard to do from big island when the machine is in the seattle westin What happened when you read the manual?

Re: Google?

2004-07-26 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Todd Mitchell - lists wrote: On 26/07/2004 11:28 AM Marco Davids (SARA) wrote: Google seems to fail on every search containing the word 'mail' ? hhmmm...is this somehow related to network operational issues? Have a problem with googleemail google not nanog. Perish forbid! Viruses? spam? D

Re: Looking for recommendations for Datacenter off CA Faultline

2004-07-16 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Nicole wrote: A company I work with (who's servers are located in the San Jose, CA) is looking to setup some backup servers at a datacenter whose connectivity and location is off any faultline, or away from other malady, that might effect its main servers datacenter or connectivity. Problem is, th

Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

2004-07-03 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Randy Bush wrote: no. in the first case, you're just hiding the incremental costs. eventually, some bean counter is gonna want to recover them, and then folk get quite unhappy. What costs are you referring to? You basically need a few hours time per

Re: Can a Customer take their IP's with them? (Court says yes!)

2004-06-29 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Johnny Eriksson wrote: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Regardless, this is not a telephony issue ("Can I take my cell number with me?"), as the courts as seem disposed to diagnose these days, but rather, a technical one insofar as the IP routing table efficiency. No, this is n

Re: real-time DDoS help?

2004-06-19 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Charles Sprickman wrote: "even though we null route the destination IP being attacked, this traffic will be billed".

Re: Travelling the backway to Google

2004-06-16 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Jared Mauch wrote: I think the question is truly this: some of the dns responses that i saw had low ttls, should they use a longer ttl? the problems i saw were related to the data expiring from the cache, some of this is to workaround broken clients/resolvers that will "lat

Re: Akamai DNS Issue?

2004-06-16 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Mark Radabaugh wrote: But you don't say how to avoid failures caused by massive confusion when maintaining a excessively complicated system I don't have much to offer for the "excessively complicated" case (which I think the instant case is an example of), but there are cases as complex and com

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-14 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Owen DeLong wrote: No... The negligent ISPs end up with all the abusing customers and have a hard time getting transit themselves. Eventually, you end up with two internets... One run by and for the abusers and negligent, one for everyone else. I have no problem with that. There should be a twelv

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Randy Bush wrote: I think unassigned ports should be dropped from routing tables your wish is the internet's comman. ports are no longer in routing tables. Thank you -- Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio http://members.cox.net/larrysheldon/

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Microsoft-SQL-Monitor ms-sql-m 1434/udp Microsoft-SQL-Monitor # 6851-6887 Unassigned monkeycom 9898/tcp MonkeyCom monkeycom 9898/udp MonkeyCom And I need a list that shows who or what owns Dynamic and/or Private Ports -Henry --- "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.&quo

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
/tcp Microsoft-SQL-Monitor ms-sql-m 1434/udp Microsoft-SQL-Monitor # 6851-6887 Unassigned monkeycom 9898/tcp MonkeyCom monkeycom 9898/udp MonkeyCom And I need a list that shows who or what owns Dynamic and/or Private Ports -Henry --- "Laurence F. Sheldo

Re: [OnTopic] common list sense and responsibility

2004-06-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
My last on the topic--maybe even the list. I take the responsibilty for a number of things, depending on the topic of the discussion. In the case of email conversations, particularly email converations on mailing lists, I think there are responsibilites on the author to: Delete all the baggage that

Re: [OnTopic] common list sense (Re: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Paul Jakma wrote: On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Really? My responsibility to make sure you control your outbound mail. Got it. You really think everyone on this list should remember the preference of every other poster as to whether they do or do not want a direct copy

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Andy Dills wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Jeff Shultz wrote: But ultimately, _you_ are responsible for your own systems. Even if the water company is sending me 85% TriChlorEthane? Right. Got it. The victim is always responsible. There you have it folks. Change

Re: [OnTopic] common list sense (Re: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Paul Jakma wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Why do I have to get two and three copies of each of these? Because you havn't set a Reply-To header? Eg with the list as address? I'm on the list folks, if you send it to the list I'll get it. I don'

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-10 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
David Schwartz wrote: On Jun 10, 2004, at 2:06 PM, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: The "victim" in the case Sean posted knew he had a worm, got some of his first bill forgiven, yet did nothing to correct it and acts surprised when the same thing happens the next month. YES, he i

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-10 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Andy Dills wrote: Keep in mind, this guy's ISP, like many (most?) ISPs would do, gave the guy a serious break on the first jaw-dropping bill. Why do I have to get two and three copies of each of these? I'm on the list folks, if you send it to the list I'll get it. I don't need a copy to the list

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-10 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Jeff Shultz wrote: But ultimately, _you_ are responsible for your own systems. Even if the water company is sending me 85% TriChlorEthane? Right. Got it. The victim is always responsible. There you have it folks.

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-10 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Sean Donelan wrote: Does the water company fix your toilet if it leaks water? Or do you call a plumber? On the other hand, if the water company was sending pollutants in the water you bought, there was a perceived responsibility upon the water company. Now, which broken metaphor (leaky toilet, pol

Re: Worst case worm damage estimates: Research

2004-06-05 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Michel Py wrote: SD> That's less than $400 per defective motherboard. SD> Your paper estimates it would cost more than double SD> to replace a scrambled BIOS. Edward B. Dreger Definitely sounds high, especially considering the cheap end with socketed a DIPP BIOS: Boot from "loaner" BIOS chip. Remo

nanog@merit.edu

2004-06-02 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Jon R. Kibler wrote: Why no filtering by ISPs? "Because it takes resources and only benefits the other guy" -- unless your network is the one under attack. There you have the "operational" issue in a nutshell. No dime, no do. -- Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio http://memb

Re: What HTTP exploit?

2004-05-31 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Vinny Abello wrote: At 11:07 AM 5/31/2004, Mike Nice wrote: >It seems to be another stupid Microsoft Exploit that just >causes annoyance for Unix Boxes. >The only side effect is they fill my dmesg logs with >signal 11's from apache crashing. Am I the only one that sees the irony that Apache seg

Re: best effort has economic problems

2004-05-31 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Neil J. McRae wrote: I've seen compelling evidence over the past two years that clearly shows some carriers who have sold well below cost who then also went into chapter 11. Fascinating discovery, that. What on earth will happen to us if _that_ word leaks out?!??! -- Requiescas in pace o email Ex

Re: [Fwd: [IP] New flaw takes Wi-Fi off the air]

2004-05-14 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: And someone would then start another thread about BCP 38 on nanog ... funny how several threads turn into a thread about spoofed source address filtering in no time at all :) Let the record reflect the fact that it was not I who did that this time. I forgot where

Re: Spamcop

2004-05-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Chris Brenton wrote: On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 18:15, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: As an ex-admin, I have some "serious issues" about the way Spamcop works, but this argument is similar to one that says a credit reporting company has to prove that you are a deadbeat before reporting th

Re: Spamcop

2004-05-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Chris Brenton wrote: Further, Spamcop should implement some form of check to verify that the e-mail is in fact spam before they go pointing the finger and/or blocking mail servers. The problem of end users leveraging Spamcop to get them off of mailing lists or a simple way of DoSsing a discussion

Re: Spamcop

2004-05-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
JC Dill wrote: It could also simply be a mistake. The inet-access list was once reported as a spam source by a happy subscriber who was busy reporting hundreds (or thousands?) of spams and clicked /included a list post by accident. -- p.s. Please do not cc me on replies to the list. Please

Re: ISP for Bangalore, India

2004-05-07 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Eric Gauthier wrote: Heya, I'm spec'ing out a project that involves some large-scale video conferencing and collaboration amoung several locations. The ones in the US are looking to use AccessGrid software, which we're anticipating will be about an 11Mbps peak load. Anyone know if its possible

Re: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk?

2004-05-05 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Jeff Shultz wrote: So instead of trying to determine what percentage of internet traffic is junk, why don't we set up categories (I saw someone make a start at it a couple of messages back) and figure out what percentage of traffic fits under each category. We can come up with our own opinions as t

Re: What percentage of the Internet Traffic is junk?

2004-05-05 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
William B. Norton wrote: With all the spam, infected e-mails, DOS attacks, ultimately blackholed traffic, etc. I wonder if there has been a study that quantifies What percentage of the Internet traffic is junk? I don't know the answer in any case, but I would need a definition for "Internet traff

Re: Worms versus Bots

2004-05-04 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: However, up to 90% of the users *are* stupid: Or is it possible there are other explanations? Don Norman has argued quite eloquently that it's a technology and human factors failure -- see, for example, http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/20031

Re: Worms versus Bots

2004-05-04 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
chuck goolsbee wrote: However, up to 90% of the users *are* stupid: Seriosuly though, the Internet might be a better place for it. After all, 90% of those "stupid" people just want email and HTTP. Do we have a pointer to a rigorous study that indicates either assertion? Or is it possible there ar

Re: TTY phone fraud and abuse

2004-04-15 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Sean Donelan wrote: On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Scott Call wrote: My point was that my $20 GE telephone cannot be made into a liability for my telephone provider without my explicit participation, whereas a $20 a month dialup (or $50 a month DSL, etc) customer can be a liability for me just by being tur

Re: Lazy network operators

2004-04-12 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Robert Blayzor wrote: Chris Boyd wrote: NTL World no longer accepts abuse@ email. You have to go to a web form that requires javascript be enabled and enter all of the information for them. I guess that they got tired of processing the the abuse@ mail load and just bit bucketed it. I'm late

Re: curious

2004-04-12 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Scott Stursa wrote: Two (possibly related?) phenomena: 1. Nothing from NANOG since yesterday. 2. .org TLD names not resolving Maybe a local (to here) problem, but I thought I'd inquire before I start looking into it. Interesting. Cox Central mail was dead from about 1300 Central yesterday unti

Re: Worm Triggers Attacks on File-Trading Services

2004-04-10 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Sean Donelan wrote: Why do people have the irresitable urge to click on things? Then he wrote: Click here to find out: What is wrong with this picture? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A349-2004Apr9.html The experts advised people not to click on strange attachments in e-mail

Re: Spam with no purpose?

2004-04-01 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for those who tire of the increasing complexity of email(*) may I recommend /usr/ucb/mail - a (relatively) small, lightweight MUA. (*) plus attachments, video/audio clips, goofy fonts, textured/scented "stationary", et.al. and/or POP/IMAP, procmail, spamassa

Re: the value of reverse address lookups?

2004-03-31 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Douglas F. Calvert wrote: On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 19:59, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Douglas F. Calvert wrote: I am interested in finding out what the motivation is for requiring valid reverse address lookups before connecting to a daemon. I have heard a number of different expla

Re: UPS and generator interaction?

2004-03-30 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
David Lesher wrote: Side thought, but not a NANOG topic. What in your data center really cares if your generator puts out 57 or 63 Hz, not 60.0? Why? Some clocks get a little nutso. Because they are powered by AC synchronous motors with gearing that assumes 60 Hz. (or 50 Hz, as the case might b

Re: UPS and generator interaction?

2004-03-29 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Doug Dever wrote: Previously, Daniel Senie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: An additional note: some of the small to mid-sized propane/natural gas units come as packaged systems with a generator and transfer switch. These can be a good value and work well too. Do some shopping. The obvious caveat

Re: UPS and generator interaction?

2004-03-29 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Patrick Muldoon wrote: On Monday 29 March 2004 01:26 pm, Brian (nanog-list) wrote: Does anyone know of a way to get a UPS to trigger a generator to start, and to switch over to the generator power automatically or does this type of thing just not exist? I think you are looking at it wrong, you n

Re: UPS and generator interaction?

2004-03-29 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Brian (nanog-list) wrote: Does anyone know of a way to get a UPS to trigger a generator to start, and to switch over to the generator power automatically or does this type of thing just not exist? Find somebody with Internet Access and a "browser--go to Google.com, enter "generator backup ups" i

Re: CCO goes down the tubes

2004-03-29 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: At 6:58 AM -0800 3/29/04, Michel Py wrote: > Maybe I'm the only one left who sees a need to be able to check on things from a vt100 at a remote site. You are not. A telnet version without all the fluffy bullshit would be more than welcome. I suppose it's trivial

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-26 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Golding writes: Slightly off-topic... Most technical fields have standard journals that they use to publish interesting findings and new ways of doing things. Everything from Nature to the JAMA. Here's the question for the group: Do

Re: Spamhaus Exposed

2004-03-18 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Paul Jakma wrote: America is undoubtedly the preeminent driving force today economically for technological/scientific progress, as once was the British Empire, as once was the Arab world, as once was the Roman Empire, as once was... etc.. etc.. etc.. Yes it is off topic (what ever that turns out

Re: Juniper "pepsi"

2004-03-18 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
W.D.McKinney wrote: On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 14:52, Eric Kuhnke wrote: I have heard rumors of a new low-end 1U Juniper router, aimed directly at replacing the 2600/3600 series. Supposedly its code name is "Pepsi"... Does anyone have more info on this? :-) No, but hope so. Dee I mention this

Re: Spamhaus Exposed

2004-03-18 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Peter Galbavy wrote: Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Peter Galbavy wrote: OK, it isn't secret - since I know about it for a start - but the terms are secret and also it is very under-advertised to the locals. Wonder what other countries have sold their souls to Satan ? How many dead sol

Re: Spamhaus Exposed

2004-03-18 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Peter Galbavy wrote: OK, it isn't secret - since I know about it for a start - but the terms are secret and also it is very under-advertised to the locals. Wonder what other countries have sold their souls to Satan ? How many dead soldiers from your country are buried here? -- Requiescas in pace

Re: Spamhaus Exposed

2004-03-18 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Peter Galbavy wrote: Alexei Roudnev wrote: Of course, not - he is not from USA (more likely), the end. Why people believe, that this acts means ANYTHING? In Internet, they (acts) means NOTHING. Unless they live in a country that has a "secret" treaty with the US, like the UK has had for some ye

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-16 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Curtis Maurand wrote: Then anyone can walk up to the machine and get onto the network simply by turning on the machine. The system you're looking for involve biometrics or smartcards. Firewalls between student and administration areas would be a good idea as well. It must be dreadful to wor

Curiosity

2004-03-15 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
People keep asking me "why don't you take that off list?" I have a suggestion: say instead "STFU"--it is easier to type. And that is the net effect, because every attempt to take an item off-list results in something like the following. I can not really figure out what the problem is.

Re: Cisco website www.cisco.com 403 forbidden?

2004-03-15 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Jay Hennigan wrote: Is it just me that they don't like? I've seen one or two other reports. Seems like a good opportunity for a round of Wild Speculation. -- Requiescas in pace o email

Re: Packet Kiddies Invade NANOG

2004-03-15 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
ren wrote: Stop it children. The thousands of people on this mailing list do not need to watch this road kill. -ren Some where it was ineffectively written that if you stop responding to them, and particularly, if you stop endorsing the crap by quoting it all verbatim over your signature, they

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Pete Templin wrote: Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Pete Templin wrote: There's a reason I've gotten out of small ISP consulting - I don't do Windows, and I'm getting overrun by Linux corrosion slowly. I route, I switch, I help with securing networks. And I do wear a lo

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. [3/15/2004 7:39 PM] : If you were willing to live in a place where an electrical overload caused a fire (as opposed to tripping a circuit-breaker or blowing a fuse), you have not correctly identified your worst problem, or the the

Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-15 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Pete Templin wrote: > Employee to PHB: "You hired me to provide core network engineering and lead the level 2 network ops staff. Tell me again why you want me to provide any server engineering, if you knew my strengths when you hired me?" There's a reason I've gotten out of small ISP consulti

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-15 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Ken Diliberto wrote: Something else I just remembered: Connecting so much equipment in our dorms creates a fire hazard. The are only two or three outlets (what I've been told) in a room shared by two or three students. Add to the computer equipment a TV, stereo, DVD player, alarm clocks, cor

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: And what is wrong with setting up a hub or something in a dormroom? I find it quite convenient to leave both my PC and a laptop running on my desk, for various reasons (too many open terminals and windows is one of them ...) I've been trying to figure out what is

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Stephen Sprunk wrote: Thus spake "Vivien M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Actually, you're forgetting what I think is the biggest reason for doing this: before the user registers via the web-based DHCP thing, they are shown the AUP and have to say they agree to it. If you just leave straight IP connection

Re: Enterprise Multihoming

2004-03-12 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: IMHO avoid multihoming. You will know when you are big enough and you *need* to do it, if you're not sure or you only want to do it cause you heard everyone else is and its real cool then I suggest you dont. There _is_ another element that I tried to point to yesterday.

Re: Counter DoS

2004-03-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
william(at)elan.net wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Petri Helenius wrote: Maybe there is a lesson to be learned from many RBL operators. To make sure, just send packets to the whole /24 or /16 you got an "attack" packet from. Which RBL operators flood /2

Re: Counter DoS

2004-03-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Petri Helenius wrote: Maybe there is a lesson to be learned from many RBL operators. To make sure, just send packets to the whole /24 or /16 you got an "attack" packet from. Which RBL operators flood /24's or /16's? What do they flood them with? -- Requiescas in pace o email

Re: Counter DoS

2004-03-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Eric Gauthier wrote: Most Universities have a large clueless.. um, I mean, student population sitting on 10 or 100 meg switched ports and several hundred meg's to the Internet You mis-spelled "faculty, researcher, and staff populations". Today's students (as well as non-trivial portions of t

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