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

2008-04-15 Thread Lou Katz
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:56:02AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Paul Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I mentioned in my presentation at NANOG 42 in San Jose, the biggest barrier we face in shrinking the time-to-exploit window with regards

Re: Contact at mfa.gov.cn?

2008-04-02 Thread Lou Katz
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 12:13:29PM -0400, Christina Klam wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does someone have a contact name at mfa.gov.cn? When one of our users tried to send an email to a host at mail.mfa.gov.cn, we discovered that we are being blocked by mfa.gov.cn.

Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

2008-02-04 Thread Lou Katz
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:25:44AM -0600, Frank Coluccio wrote: This will be my only post on this subject after biting my tongue for several days:) Some members will appreciate this item I came across earlier, I'm sure. As always, caveat emptor. Another paranoid suggestion I have seen

Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal

2008-01-23 Thread Lou Katz
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:52:41PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Florian Weimer wrote: If IP addresses don't identify anything, why do they collect and keep them? In the US, folks are fighting the RIAA claiming that an IP address isn't enough to identify a person. In

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL leased line customers

2007-12-21 Thread Lou Katz
I am having trouble understanding why I cannot get an allocation of any size, only an assignment. Unless I didn't read the documentation correctly, there seems to be no way in hell that I can get PI v6 space of any size, which of course leads me to be disinterested in v6. -- -=[L]=- Water

Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls

2005-08-19 Thread Lou Katz
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 02:20:59PM -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Thus spake Robert Bonomi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ attribution to me missing ] That's why some states (e.g. Texas) require that all toll calls be dialed as 1+ _regardless of area code_, and local calls cannot be dialed as 1+. If

Re: Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers

2005-02-03 Thread Lou Katz
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 05:29:15PM +0200, Gadi Evron wrote: You will never be sure you have picked up all, only the known ones. For a compromised system, unless running tripwire or something, reinstall! You can never be sure, that's why it's a backdoor/Trojan horse. Its a nice start,

Re: fwd: Re: [registrars] Re: panix.com hijacked

2005-01-16 Thread Lou Katz
Is there anything that us folks out in the peanut gallery can do to help, other than locally serving the panix.net zone for panix.com? -- -=[L]=-

Re: domain hijacking - what do you do to prepared?

2005-01-16 Thread Lou Katz
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 09:57:08PM +, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine wrote: Gadi, The question that comes to mind is - what do you do to be prepared? Well, for a start you can put a comment into the ICANN comments on the new xfr policy. I did earler today. Next, you can,

Re: [OT] Re: Banned on NANOG

2004-12-03 Thread Lou Katz
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 08:31:10AM -0800, nanog gonan wrote: I ask that the methodology of bannishment be posted to the list, so we're all aware of the consequences of too much OT. Is it permanent banishment or a procedure similar to the one that William suggests? How many warnings get

Re: OT: Politics

2004-08-31 Thread Lou Katz
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:42:25PM -0400, Gary King wrote: Quick show of hands, of the American citizens in here (of legal voting age), how many of you will be going to the polls to cast a vote for president this November? And which candidate are you voting for? Mail me in private and

Re: OT - 3 Free Gmail invites

2004-08-19 Thread Lou Katz
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 10:13:29PM -0700, Jonathan Nichols wrote: Joshua Brady wrote: I've got 2 Gmail invites up for grabs for the first 2 to email me offlist. You know, I'm having trouble finding people that *don't* have gmail.com accounts already. :P Because G-mail scans INCOMING

Re: Lazy network operators - NOT

2004-04-18 Thread Lou Katz
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 02:01:45PM -0400, Jerry Eyers wrote: Spamming is pervasive mainly due to the inattention or failure to enforce acceptable use policies by the service provider. I must point out that this statement is just flat wrong. Spamming exists because spamming works. Why

Re: OT: Determining toll free # ownership

2004-04-07 Thread Lou Katz
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:16:09AM -0400, David Lesher wrote: Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered: Hi, I know this is somewhat off topic, but I am hoping someone here has previously dealt with this problem and has an answer. For some reason, the

Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers

2004-02-12 Thread Lou Katz
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:48:06PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lou Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:13:30PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:15:20 PST, Dave

Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers

2004-02-11 Thread Lou Katz
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:13:30PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:15:20 PST, Dave Crocker said: what about port 25 blocking that is now done by many access providers? this makes it impossible for mobile users, coming from

Re: question on ptr rr

2004-02-08 Thread Lou Katz
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 08:29:17PM +, Paul Vixie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Donelan) writes: A Google search turned up http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/pacbell-rdns.html Or do we actually want a Fortune 1000 network. Direct communications are prohibited between most users.

Re: Misplaced flamewar... WAS: RE: in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released today

2004-01-28 Thread Lou Katz
Unfortunately, Microsoft products seem to have a default which is set to hide file extensions and to make it very difficult to see 'multiple extensions' like the '.docmany spaces.pif' in the current worm, it is somewhat easier to dress a vampire in gerbil clothing in these systems than in others.

Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes

2003-10-09 Thread Lou Katz
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:20:10PM -0700, Margie Arbon wrote: --On Thursday, October 09, 2003 7:54 PM -0400 Susan Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, let's move this discussion onto one of the many lists that focuses on spam: http://www.claws-and-paws.com/spam-l/spam-l.html --

Unauthorized DNS updates

2003-09-28 Thread Lou Katz
Is there a way to configure bind so that when an **unauthorized** update comes in it enstates an address of the owner's choice? -- -=[L]=-

Route failures to behosting.com

2003-09-17 Thread Lou Katz
I am unable to reach them via several different ISPs. It looks to my naive eyes like routes to them have vanished. Can anyone shed any light on this? -- -=[L]=-

route to behosting.com

2003-09-17 Thread Lou Katz
Actually, me bad. It is the nameservers they use for their clients: ns5.behosting.com 208.56.139.155 ns6.behosting.com 208.56.138.142 I cannot reach either from many nets on the west coast, and the traceroutes die very early: From usenix.org: 12-% traceroute -n 208.56.139.155 traceroute to

Re: Route failures to behosting.com

2003-09-17 Thread Lou Katz
Thanks for the help. Apologies for keeping it going so long. End thread. -- -=[L]=-

Earthquake in the East Bay

2003-09-04 Thread Lou Katz
Probably 3.9, probably Orinda. No damage or injury reports. Nothing to see ... move along -- -=[L]=-

Re: Email virus protection

2003-08-20 Thread Lou Katz
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 03:46:48PM -0700, JC Dill wrote: 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%

Re: spamcop.net?

2003-03-04 Thread Lou Katz
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:52:06PM -0500, blitz wrote: The only disadvantage I see, is a single point of failure, and a point for concentration of attacks. Marc Also, it centralizes POWER! There are many different lists with different policies and criteria. Some are based on technically

Re: UDP 1432

2003-01-25 Thread Lou Katz
Another data point - I get connectivity through sonic.net (Santa Rosa). This vanished between Fri Jan 24 21:30:00 PST 2003 and Fri Jan 24 21:35:00 PST 2003. At that time, connectivity on other circuits through ALTER.NET, megapath.net and mfnx.net were still ok. All circuits seem to be up now

Re: SPEWS?

2002-06-20 Thread Lou Katz
It seems to me that this issue is being highly obfuscated. SPEWS publishes a list. It is the ISP of your MAIL RECIPIENT that CHOOSES to use it. Take up the issue with them. It was their choice to use it - no one forced them to. I recently pointed out to the sendmail folks that their blacklist

ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS?

2002-06-18 Thread Lou Katz
A client of mine just discovered that he could no longer do ftp transfers to my machine. His IP address had changed to one in 12.240.20 and there is no reverse DNS for that block. His previous assignment was in a totally different block which did have reverse DNS. Calls to ATTBI got the answer