Re: ISP phishing

2005-06-28 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Brad Knowles wrote: At 5:17 PM -0400 2005-06-28, Mark Tombaugh wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 09:54 -0400, Robert Boyle wrote: we enabled a global rule which blocks any email from accounts such as billing, root, postmaster, antivirus, abuse, security, etc. which don't

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-09 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: Just wondering how many have transitioned to djbdns from bind If transitioning from BIND, why go to the non-free and non-compliant djbdns instead of nsd (http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/nsd/)? I couldn't agree more. At least BIND9 and NSD both support RFC 4035

Heathrow scanner experiences?

2004-11-19 Thread Paul Wouters
[ It is a bit off topic, but I am looking for people who have travelled through Heathrow lately with the new x-ray scanner, and nanog people are generally engaged in a lot of traveling ] I was just pointed out to this article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/18/blunkett_xray_blank/ It says:

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

2004-09-23 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Randy Bush wrote: The problem is that the world *won't let me* be a well functioning exception. Correction, the world *can't* let you be a well functioning exception. not true. it can but many have decided not to. Just like I also 'chose' to not read messages tagged by softwar

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

2004-09-23 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Lars-Johan Liman wrote: I *understand* that I'm a rare exception. The problem is that the world *won't let me* be a well functioning exception. Correction, the world *can't* let you be a well functioning exception. People always scream 'no censorship', but there is only that ma

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

2004-09-22 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Lars-Johan Liman wrote: It's too d---ned cheap to send out spam, and it'll be too d---ned cheap to sell your stuff over VOIP in the future. But we've fixed that! We added a ENUM layer with DNSSEC on top of it. So now we can decide what to tell our potential callers without them

Re: Problem with whois.ripe.net?

2004-09-15 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Greg Schwimer wrote: whois -h whois.ripe.net % This is the RIPE Whois secondary server. % The objects are in RPSL format. % % Rights restricted by copyright. % See http://www.ripe.net/db/copyright.html inetnum: 0.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255 netname: IANA-BLK descr:

Re: Verisign vs. ICANN

2004-08-16 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Paul Vixie wrote: > (and if the idea that kc or woolf could be depended upon to parrot > somebody else's point of view caused you to laugh so hard you spewed > coffee all over your keyboard while reading the above tidbits, then > send the repair bill to verisign, not me. i'm

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

2004-06-30 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Alex Rubenstein wrote: > What I AM looking for is a commentary from the internet community, > strictly relating to the fact that a judge has issued a TRO that forces an > ISP (NAC) to allow a third-party, who WILL NOT be a Customer of NAC, to be > able to use IP Space allocat

Re: Can a customer take IP's with them?

2004-06-29 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Alex Rubenstein wrote: > No. This is a clear situation where the customer has canceled his service > with us in writing. Ok, important point. > b) In regards to your passage, "because the customer just appears to be > another multi-homed customer of yours", this is a key p

Re: [cee4@packet-pushers.com: Slides for NANOG31 IPsec tutorial]

2004-05-24 Thread Paul Wouters
> Subject: Slides for NANOG31 IPsec tutorial > > If you plan to attend Sunday's hands-on tutorial for using the IPsec > server at NANOG, you may want to have a look at the slides in > advance. You can find them at: http://www.packet-pushers.net/NANOG/ipsec/ Unfortunately, I won't be there. But

Looking for bandwidth around Penn Station NYC

2004-03-03 Thread Paul Wouters
Hi guys, Is there anyone with a fiber drop or something around Penn Station in NYC? Or some non T-Mobile wireless presence? We're trying to get some bandwidth in the Pennsylvania Hotel in july, and I had hoped to do this through T-Mobile's wireless, but that doesn't seem to be an option they'

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

2004-02-10 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, David Luyer wrote: > Site Finder on its own added to spam; spam volumes increased as the number > of "sender domain does not resolve" bounces dropped away. That is a myth: http://www.xtdnet.nl/paul/spam/graphs/versign.png If you want to blame spam on a single corporatin,

Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network?

2004-01-21 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, William Allen Simpson wrote: > This is a feature, not a bug. Law enforcement is required to pay -- > up front -- all costs of tapping. No pay, no play. Oh, I wish, I wish In NL, law dictates any telecommunicatins device (as defined amongst things as "anything with

Looking for T-Mobile contact, pref. NYC area, (not urgent)

2004-01-11 Thread Paul Wouters
Hi people, Is there anyone from T-Mobile on this list? I'd like to talk to someone about the New York City network for an event in July. Cheers, Paul

Re: bind 9.2.3rc3 successful

2003-09-23 Thread Paul Wouters
On 23 Sep 2003, Paul Vixie wrote: > > Thought I'd mention that I helped setup BIND 9.2.3rc3 on a yellowdog > > linux powercomputing machine tonight. It worked. And the mail queues > > began clearing out. Just for an oddball success report. > > oh hell. thanks for the kind words, but we ju

Re: Did Sean Gorman's maps show the cascading vulnerability in Ohio?

2003-08-18 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Scott McGrath wrote: > Remember when you go to a library to study rare manuscripts you generally > need to prove to the curator that you have a legitimate scholarly interest > in the documents not simply random curiousity. That's because those old manuscripts are fragile, no

Re: Cascading Failures Could Crash the Global Internet

2003-02-06 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, N. Richard Solis wrote: > There are some states that operate their own grids. Texas, for example. Didn't know those chairs took that many megawats :) Paul

Re: OT: Re: FW: Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflective attacks?

2003-01-23 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > Something I'm surprised no one has commented on considering the > > direction of this thread has been should ISPs be responsible for > > customer actions if they are not allowed to refuse service to customers? > > ISP's can't refuse service t

Re: NYT on Thing.net (fwd)

2003-01-14 Thread Paul Wouters
(Some more background on the Flashback censorship issue) Paul -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 01:08:20 +0100 From: Zenon Panoussis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, batz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: NYT on Thing.net (fwd)

2003-01-14 Thread Paul Wouters
(Zenon isn't on Nanog and asked me to forward this) Paul -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:59:06 +0100 From: Zenon Panoussis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, batz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROT

Re: NYT on Thing.net

2003-01-13 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: > Just for the record, your story above is far from complete and not true > on all accounts. It is also a quite simplified version of what > happened. Perhaps Zenon (Whom I cc:ed just because he knows the details) can shed some more light on th

Re: NYT on Thing.net

2003-01-13 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: > This has been a discussion item in the Swedish ISP business for quite > some time (for a reason). > The matter is actually a lot more complex than what you say above. How ironic, would that be because of Flashback magazine? :) For those who do

RE: fast Ethernet limits

2003-01-10 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Stephen Fisher wrote: > I've seen people use shielded CAT5 to protect it from interference but > they didn't bother grounding the shielding on either end In the "me too" category, I've seen a company install wireless on top of the Netherland's highest building (The Rembr

Re: NYT on Thing.net

2003-01-10 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, batz wrote: > I suppose that any ISP can turn off a connection they deem > a threat to the rest of their operations, but I think this > incident can serve as an example of how ISP's can get dragged > into political spats. It shows how Verio was manipulated > by Dow to squelc

Re: Network Routing without Cisco or Juniper?

2002-09-04 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Peter van Dijk wrote: > One Dutch ISP that shall remain unnamed (and is not one I work for or > have worked for) deployed Extreme on AMS-IX, with Extreme's BGP > implementation. > > It broke horribly. Then again, AMSIX and their Foundry's break every other day as well :) In

Re: European packet loss average increasing

2002-07-03 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Sabri Berisha wrote: > > AMS-IX graphs seem to have a glitch, or one heck of a DDOS. > > http://www.ams-ix.net/hugegraph.html > > This was a power outage. I doubt the dip in the graph, which looks to me like about 1G missing between 12:00-19:00 was just from that 3 second p

Re: Postmasters Anonymous

2002-06-30 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Sean Donelan wrote: > Sorry for interrupting our quarterly peering debate, but I'd like to > ask if there are any groups for people who are Postmasters (abuse, spam, > dmca, etc)? I know there are many groups for people who want to complain > about those subjects, but I was

Re: OT: Changing NIC handle info

2002-05-10 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Adam McKenna wrote: > They've begun making the templates harder and harder to find. I don't know > if this is on purpose (although I suspect it is). Ofcourse it is. Only ask the admin-c (clueless client) for approval to transfer (not the tech-c, whose email address actuall

Re: bulk email

2002-04-22 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, J.D. Falk wrote: > Spam has reached such epic porportions Indeed. I recently plotted my entire spam collection from 1997-now, and it looks like an exponential problem :( See http://www.xtdnet.nl/paul/spam/ Paul -- "One liners are no liners." --- Fenrir

Brain registry or Host registry?

2002-03-11 Thread Paul Wouters
Three weeks, seven tickets, and nine operators later it looks like I might actually have my host records NSG4447-HST and NSJ4375-HST updated in the next 48 hours. That's only 20 days after I've sent the first form, and 11 days since that old IP has been disconnected. In short my problem was tha