Re: Is NANOG off-topic Alive?

2006-07-06 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
I shut the last down a few days ago, actually: a piece of spam mail went through the list and one of the few remaining subscribers got trigger-happy and complained to _my_ isp about it. Since no other mail had gone over the list in months, I yanked it. It was a lovely idea, but never really gai

Re: Clueless service restrictions (was RE: Anti-spam System Idea)

2004-02-17 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Robert E. Seastrom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > and, if you want to see a particularly broken example, buy "internet > > service" from t-mobile gprs in the states, port 22 blocked, no smtp > > relay, ... "walled garden" mentality

Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-03 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Tim Wilde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > And they act like they're the victims. Amazing. > > "Without so much as a hearing, ICANN today formally asked us to shut down > the Site Finder service," said VeriSign spokesman Tom Galvin. "We will > accede to their request while we e

Re: NTP, possible solutions, and best implementation

2003-10-03 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Scott McGrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > 1 - Purchase a Cesium clock this is a Primary Time/Frequency standard > which does not require access to a reference standard to maintain > accuracy. > > This is a Stratum 0 source so once placed behind a Unix/Cisco/Ju

Re: Worst design decisions?

2003-09-18 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Justin Shore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > I can think of 6 different console cable pinouts and connectors that > Enterasys (Cabletron) has used over the years. No wait, make that 7. How > could I forget the inherited Fore ATM architecture and subsequent blades. >

Re: What *are* they smoking?

2003-09-15 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Wayne E. Bouchard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > So then now instead of mail to misspelled domains, instead of > bouncing, now goes to /dev/null and you have no idea that your > critically important piece of information didn't get through? You _hope_ it goes to /dev/null. It mig

Re: Fun new policy at AOL

2003-08-28 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Matthew Crocker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Shouldn't customers that purchase IP services from an ISP use the ISPs > mail server as a smart host for outbound mail? Given the way that most ISP "shared resource" machines (including but hardly limited to DNS caching/recursi

Re: relays.osirusoft.com

2003-08-27 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Richard Welty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:25:46 -0700 (PDT) "Gary E. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > returning 127.0.0.2 for everything would be an ugly way to bow out. > > yes, but it's been done before. And oddly enough, it was a terrible id

Re: [connie.davis@mail.internetseer.com: answerpointe.cctec.com]

2003-08-14 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Leo Bicknell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Has anyone else gotten one of these? Dozens, and have bitbucketed them on every single mail server I can get my hands on. > It appears they are trolling a Nanog archive on the web and sending > these out to posters. *sigh* They

Re: Server Redundancy

2003-08-14 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Austad, Jay wrote: > > As a side note, I've used Cisco's CSS, F5's stuff, Alteon, and Foundry. Out > > of all of them that I've used, the Foundry had the least problems and had a > > nicely structured config.

Re: Slow and Fast IP addresses on http ?

2003-06-17 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Paul Vixie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > It might also be port 113 -- some sites try to query your tcp port 113, > > and wait for a timeout if the port is firewalled. A better solution > > than blocking it is to send an immediate RST. > > people who depend on tcp/113 des

Re: NANOG Splinter List (Was: State Super-DMCA Too True)

2003-03-31 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Jack Bates ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Whats wrong with the nanog-offtopic list ? > > The legal issues are technical on-topic and nanog related. However, > there are some that want to know what's going on in the legal system, > and others that don't. At the same time, t

Remembers, Non-Op Topics Have a Home (was Re: State Super-DMCA Too True)

2003-03-31 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Avleen Vig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Look it's very simple. > If you steal something, you go to jail. That's really nto hard to > understand, and the reason it doesn't happen more often, is because > prison systems are already too full of people convicted of more serious >

Re: Curing the BIND pain

2003-03-27 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I suggest that an appropriate technique would be for the BIND server to > originate traffic on it's local subnet that would look suspicious and > possibly trigger intrusion alarms. Good lord. I'm a little stuck for a proper

Re: Root server error

2003-03-01 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Geo. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Can someone verify something for me? > Do an NSLOOKUP for www.stemtostern.com and stemtostern.com against the > i.gtld-servers.net > why would the www one resolve? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596001584/ Sheesh. --

Re: FYI: Anyone seen this?

2003-01-15 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of blitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > From ISN: > > >http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28842.html Wow. With one post to bugtraq, gobbles has now successfully trolled the register, slashdot, and now nanog. Somebody buy that turkey a beer. -n ---

Re: [nanog-offtopic] Re: Whitehouse Tackels Cybersecurity

2002-09-20 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Gregory Hicks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > There IS another list that goes to about the same group of people... > > NANOG-OT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Indeed. It's rather underutilized these days -- there was a spasm of activity right after 9/11, when I created it -- but it's still

Re: SPEWS?

2002-06-20 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Its used primarily by very small sstem operators and I don't > know any isp of any serious size (i.e. over 1000 users or domains) that is > using them Sprintlink, mail.com/iname/outblaze, and I believe possibly PacBell all us

Re: it's official

2002-06-06 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Sean M. Doran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > i hate spamarrest. i really do. i hate it. > you don't know who you are, but lots of the rest of us do. 64.39.29.161:allow,RBLSMTPD="-learn to filter on precedence headers, idiots" Adjust for local filtering methodology. -n

Re: Certification or College degrees? Was: RE: list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Paul Vixie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > The trouble is, often times I'd rather hire the world's smartest garbage > man. I never forget that when I got done interviewing for my first full > time programming job I went back to my job fixing cars and pumping gas, and > my fall

Re: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)

2002-05-21 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Mitch Halmu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > (Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945) Congratulations, Mitch, you have done what many of us would have considered impossible: you have surpassed your own previous high-water mark for tasteless, self-involved bullshit. (Which, for the short-

Re: e-postage yet again, was anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?

2002-05-05 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sun, 05 May 2002 18:15:15 EDT, "Nathan J. Mehl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > people that this had happened to? I'd file a class-action liability > > suit against Microsoft for sell

Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?

2002-05-05 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > So we have a choice: pay for the (very nice but expensive) commercial > > product, or add forty percent to our mail spool disk farm and extra > > cpus and ram in the mail server farm to deal with the additional > > influx.

Re: e-postage yet again, was anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?

2002-05-05 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of John R. Levine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > * It swaps the current set of problems for an all-new and quite > possibly worse set of problems, as bad guys come up with ways to > scam the per-message payment system. Just think, get infected with > e-payment klez via you

Re: is your host or dhcp server sending dns dynamic updates for rfc1918?

2002-04-20 Thread Nathan J. Mehl
In the immortal words of Simon Higgs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > SOAs with bogus.domain.names pointing to 127.0.0.1 appear to be causing > email to bounce (amongst other things). If there is actually an MTA out there so broken that it tries to connect to the server mentioned in the SOA MNAME fie