Speedtest site accuracy [was: Bandwidth issues in the Sprint network]

2008-04-08 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try using the Java test on DSLReports rather than the Flash based test. I've found it to be much more accurate. I also receive the message about compression being used when I test with the flash test. I think it may be a bug. --

Re: Bandwidth issues in the Sprint network

2008-04-07 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- I would like to second the recommendation and go one further. Internet2 has released a performance toolkit that is run from CD. I would like to -- Robert D. Scott wrote: > See if you can find a nother connect

Re: Bandwidth issues in the Sprint network

2008-04-07 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently having problems get upload bandwidth on a Sprint circuit. I am using a full OC3 circuit. I am doing fine on downloading data, but uploading data I can only get about 5Mbps with ftp or a speedtest. I have tested against multiple networks and this

Re: NXDOMAIN data needed for survey

2008-03-28 Thread Scott Weeks
-- [...]the flaming, I'm sure a bunch of netops wrote back to the guy offering to sell NXDOMAIN data. -- Why would you assume this? That wouldn't be my first assumption after reading the thread. I would assume folks would Do

RE: Customer-facing ACLs

2008-03-12 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a two-dozen line long ACL applied to our CMTS and BRAS blocking Windows and "virus" ports and have never had a complaint or a problem. We do have a more sophisticated residential or large-biz customers ask, but --

RE: Customer-facing ACLs

2008-03-11 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a two-dozen line long ACL applied to our CMTS and BRAS blocking Windows and "virus" ports and have never had a complaint or a problem. We do have a more sophisticated residential or large-biz customers ask, but -

Re: Customer-facing ACLs

2008-03-11 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uunet dialup has blocked port25 in both directions since 2002... little to no complaints. (well, they may have received complaints since I left, but... thank John StClair for the work behind that filtering actually.) - I'd b

Re: Customer-facing ACLs

2008-03-11 Thread Scott Weeks
Apologies for the delay... --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Scott Weeks wrote: > The default policy is we allow eveything. It takes no explaining. If you don't bother to explain to the same customers who you believe couldn't figure out how to change the def

Re: Customer-facing ACLs

2008-03-10 Thread Scott Weeks
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Scott Weeks wrote: > The hard part is I now always take over networks that have been in > operation a long time and enabling these policies can be very painful > after the fact. Establishing them when the network

Re: Customer-facing ACLs

2008-03-10 Thread Scott Weeks
Long response with answers inline... --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:--- > Might as well do TCP 20, 21 and 23, too. Woah, that slope's getting slippery! Depends on how you ask the questions. How about: Should a statefull firewall be provided for casual broadband dynamic

RE: Customer-facing ACLs

2008-03-07 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's the problem isn't it? Who decides what can and cant go through. I think the tier approach is better, a basic user account where everything is blocked and a Sysadmin type account where everything is open. If the price is different enough then only people wh

Re: Customer-facing ACLs

2008-03-07 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To me there is no question of whether or not you filter traffic for > residential broadband customers. SBC in my area (Dallas) went from wide open to outbound 25 blocked by default/opened on request. I think doing the same thing with port 22 would hardly be an un

Re: Customer-facing ACLs

2008-03-07 Thread Scott Weeks
--- > What kind of customer-facing filtering do you do (ingress and > egress)? This of course is dependent on the type of customer, so > lets assume we're talking about an average residential customer. --- >From a por

RE: Power outages in Florida

2008-02-26 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Being in the lightning capital of the world systems are generally well protected from power issues. None of our peers have had any issues. --- There has been a lot of lightning there recently... http://flash.ess.washington.edu/

RE: IBM report reviews Internet crime

2008-02-12 Thread Scott Weeks
These statements (and others in it) are very telling about the type of report this is: "...percent of Internet content was classified as unwanted..." "...hosting source of adult, socially deviant and criminal content on the Internet" take with a grain of salt... scott

Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

2008-02-01 Thread Scott Weeks
: bubba driving his backhoe ship Now that'd make a great NANOG shirt! :-) scott --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Scott Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Another cable

Re: Using x.x.x.0 and x.x.x.255 host addresses in supernets.

2008-01-08 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Wayne E. Bouchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So my oppinion is don't hesistate to use it until you find a real, > reproducible problem. Tell that to your call center manager. :-) -- I've been using them for several ye

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-30 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jeroen Massar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Scott Weeks wrote: [..] > I have about 100K DSL customers at this time and most all are households. > 65K wouldn't cover that. At this point, I doubt that I'd require much > more than just asking and

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-29 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Mark Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:08:10 -0800 "Scott Weeks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am thinking of a /56 for everyone and a /48 on request. Out of curiosity, what in form would a request for a /48 need

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-27 Thread Scott Weeks
First, thanks everyone for the discussion. I learned more from this than a LOT of other discussions on IPv6. I now have a plan and I didn't before... It looks to me that one really has to know his customer's needs to plan out the allocation of IPv6 space. That leads me to believe that a /

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-21 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Mark Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'd also be interested to know what you'd *want* if you were asked how you'd like to structure IPv6 addressing, if you didn't have any history of having to be conservative with IPv4 addressing. IOW, imagine IPv4 didn't exist, and

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-20 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I work on a network with 100K+ DSL folks and 200+ leased line customers, plus some other stuff. The leased line customers are increasing dramatically. I should plan for a /64 for every DSL customer and a /48 for every leased line customer I expect over the next

Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-19 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I work on a network with 100K+ DSL folks and 200+ leased line > customers, plus some other stuff. The leased line customers are > increasing dramatically. I should plan for a /64 for every DSL > customer and a /48 for every leased line customer I expect ov

v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers

2007-12-19 Thread Scott Weeks
Disclaimer: I'm still very much an IPv6 wussie... :-) - But even in 2000 the policy was and still is: /128 for really a single device /64 if you know for sure that only one single subnet will ever be allocated. /48 for every other case (s

OT: Vendors Using NANOG for a Sales Channel

2007-10-26 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: David Ulevitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Often times when I get these (and it's pretty often) I just take their email address and add it to my list of people we send out RFQs to. The worst thing that happens is that they come back with a good price, good service

Re: 240/4

2007-10-18 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Anyone care to guess how much network gear is deployed that either won't or can't be upgraded? i.e. Old cisco gear without the RAM and/or flash to handle a newer code train...the old one in use long since unsupported, or gear from vendors that no longer exist?

Re: Upstreams blocking /24s? (was Re: How Not to Multihome)

2007-10-08 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 8, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: > However, if it's less than a /24 it won't get very far as most > upstreams block prefixes longer than a /24. I'm curious: a couple of people have indicated they do not believe this to be t

Re: How Not to Multihome

2007-10-08 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a client that wants us to advertise an IP block assigned by another ISP. I know that the best practice is to have them request an AS number from ARIN and peer with us, etc. However, I cannot find any information that states as law. Does anyone know of a

WG Action: Conclusion of IP Version 6 (ipv6)

2007-10-02 Thread Scott Weeks
From: David Conrad: : Older routers will indeed fall over, as they are going to : fall over when we go over 240K routes, so folks will upgrade. I see we're pretty close to that: www.cidr-report.org/as2.0 Date Prefixes 03-10-07 239049 scott

Re: New TransPacific Cable Projects:

2007-09-21 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - : Historically, representatives of these organizations : meet once a year on the golf course in Hawaii to : determine who to sell to. Which course would that be? I'd pay the $200+ to play at the same time... ;-) scott --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Good Stuff [was] Re: shameful-cabling gallery of infamy - does anybody know

2007-09-12 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Leigh Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That is certainly very pretty cabling and most people usually start out with things very pretty. What happens then is that things evolve, you run out of space and have to put kit in other racks, run loads of cabling there and t

Re: Good Stuff [was] Re: shameful-cabling gallery of infamy - does anybody know

2007-09-12 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: David Lesher <[EMAIL PROTECTED] I couldn't get pictures of Ethernet wiring, but it's the same. Except the last photo, it's all wax string done very neatly. This is the goal. ;-) > http://mauigateway.com/~surfer/wiring.html > > scott > ---

Re: Good Stuff [was] Re: shameful-cabling gallery of infamy - does anybody know where it went?

2007-09-11 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some of the local old-school Bell Atlantic/Verizon techs also did very clean work, but most of them took the early retirement packages that were offered 4-5 years ago. - That's what's happening here. A lot of the old-schoo

Good Stuff [was] Re: shameful-cabling gallery of infamy - does anybody know where it went?

2007-09-11 Thread Scott Weeks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Weeks wrote: > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - > Note that telcos are not immune to shoddy cabling/installation work. > > http://www.cluebyfour.org/~streiner/mbr-pop-2000-ladder.JPG >

Re: shameful-cabling gallery of infamy - does anybody know where it went?

2007-09-06 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - From: "Justin M. Streiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Note that telcos are not immune to shoddy cabling/installation work. http://www.cluebyfour.org/~streiner/mbr-pop-2000-ladder.JPG Do that at the telco

Re: inter-domain link recovery

2007-08-15 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:--- On Aug 14, 2007, at 9:06 PM, Chengchen Hu wrote: > 1. Why BGP-like protocol failed to recover the path sometimes? Is > it mainly because the policy setting by the ISP and network operators? There are an infinitude of possible answers to thes

Re: Client information?

2007-08-10 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: "Paul Atkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am a network researcher. One question I want to ask the ISPs here are that if they have a choice of finding more information about the hosts that connect to them, is it something they will like to spend money on? For example

nanog@merit.edu

2007-08-08 Thread Scott Weeks
Does anyone else see the irony in all this if it does turn out to be cisco's fault? High Availability, multiple upstream providers, backup generators and all that? scott

small correction Re: Content Delivery Networks

2007-08-06 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : While Level 3 (who owns Digital Island, which they : bought from Savvis, who got that when they : acquired Exodus, who bought way DI back when) A clarification, just for a historical note and fun. Hello former

Re: Routing public traffic across county boundaries in Europe

2007-07-27 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What (if any) are the legal implications of taking internet destined > traffic in one country and egressing it in another (with an ip block > correctly marked for the correct country). > > Somebody mentioned to me the other day that they thought the Dutch > governme

Re: Routing public traffic across county boundaries in Europe

2007-07-26 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What (if any) are the legal implications of taking internet destined traffic in one country and egressing it in another (with an ip block correctly marked for the correct country). Somebody mentioned to me the other day that they thought the Dutch government didn't

Re: peter lothberg's mother slashdotted

2007-07-12 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: "micky coughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I can see that *everybody* is missing the point on Peter's exercise. Clearly this is to show to the telcos of the world that you can upgrade to a native IP infrastructure and absorb the existing transport into the router with

Re: Software or PHP/PERL scripts for simple network management?

2007-06-18 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation of any software products either commercial or freeware which will import the ip routing table from one of my routers/switches and display it in a sorted manner? We just need an easier distributed method than logging into

Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help

2007-06-16 Thread Scott Weeks
* From: Joe Greco * Date: Sat Jun 16 07:58:20 2007 : Further, in the context of the discussion, I don't : really know if any ISP is recommending Windows, but : I know that some major ones won't even lift a finger : if you're using UNIX. The conversation wasn't they were recommendin

Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help

2007-06-16 Thread Scott Weeks
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:--- From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Scott Weeks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : Most ISPs recommend using Microsoft software or > : provide software for the Microsoft platform, and

Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help

2007-06-15 Thread Scott Weeks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:-- On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:42:04 PDT, Scott Weeks said: > No I've never heard of that except, possibly, from non-clued phone monkeys. > It's easy to get past them to more clued folks, though... Maybe it's easy for you. It&#

OT RE: 24x7 Support Strategies

2007-06-14 Thread Scott Weeks
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: "Farrell,Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Agreed, but apples and oranges to me in that example. I had an engineer that worked for me, then left our org. He spent over 70K in equipment and training out of his own pocket. He failed the CCIE lab 3

RE: 24x7 Support Strategies

2007-06-14 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:- From: Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 14-Jun-2007, at 02:32, Sam Stickland wrote: > Does anyone have any CCIE (or equivalent technical ability) staff > on a 24x7 shift? What about CCIE level staff on an on-call rota > with a garantee

Re: 24x7 Support Strategies

2007-06-14 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:- From: Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 14-Jun-2007, at 02:32, Sam Stickland wrote: > Does anyone have any CCIE (or equivalent technical ability) staff > on a 24x7 shift? What about CCIE level staff on an on-call rota > with a garantee

Re: Interesting new dns failures

2007-05-25 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 5/26/07, Scott Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > the bits of governments that deal with online crime, spam, etc., > > I c

Re: Interesting new dns failures

2007-05-25 Thread Scott Weeks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the bits of governments that deal with online crime, spam, etc., > I can report that pretty much all of the countries that matter > realize there's a problem, and a lot of them have passed or will > pass laws whether we like it or not. So it b

Re: Slate Podcast on Estonian DOS atatck

2007-05-23 Thread Scott Weeks
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, 23 May 2007, Bill Woodcock wrote: >> http://www.slate.com/id/2166749/fr/podcast/ > John Markoff just called me for the NYT piece. Odd that it's just hitting > the news now, two we

Stop! Please! Re: Broadband routers and botnets - being proactive

2007-05-16 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > try to educate those people. Write CEOs/CTOs/CSOs > educating them and push the security teams for these : I am unsure of where else to go with this, and if Are you reading and thinking before responding? scott Please stop this on nanog. Please continue

Re: Juniper M10i sufficient for BGP, or go with M20?

2007-05-14 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I don't know much about Juniper but I'm about to learn : with a new job. If your experience is like mine, you'll fall in love with the M-series and absolutely despise the E-series (Unisphere) : If I'm going to take full routes from a couple of upstreams : and

RE: barak-online.net icmp performance vs. traceroute/tcptraceroute, ssh, ipsec

2007-05-07 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: "Lincoln Dale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Joe Maimon'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The standard control plane arguments dont apply > when the pattern holds all the way through to > equipment under your {remote-}control. : : it most certainly does. lets use an exampl

Re: cisco ios bug...?

2007-05-02 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Payam chiachi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : A bit off topic here but I was wondering if anyone else out there has : experienced the same thing as I have in regards to a layer3 gig switches : from cisco. You'll probably have better luck on the cisco-nsp list: p

Re: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing

2007-05-02 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/2/07 2:58 PM, "Scott Weeks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I gotta admit it's a really big .sig that's utterly useless. It *IS* being > disseminated, distributed and copied and on a global basis. It's "unlawful" &

Re: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing

2007-05-02 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/1/07 7:19 PM, "Scott Weeks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : Randy's MUA automatically deletes email sent directly to him... > > Probably because you have a 12+ line .sig full of lawyer-speak. Both practices

Re: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing

2007-05-01 Thread Scott Weeks
: Randy's MUA automatically deletes email sent directly to him... Probably because you have a 12+ line .sig full of lawyer-speak. scott --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ron da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Subject: 96.0.0.0/6 reachability testing Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 09:21:17 -040

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-24 Thread Scott Weeks
-Marcus H. Sachs wrote: > Mr. Oquendo (I presume "Mr." but if it's "Ms." please accept my > apologies...), it appears that there is little common ground between you and > me. So, rather than stringing this out for the next several days and boring > everybody else to tear

Re: Abuse procedures... Reality Checks

2007-04-11 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 03:44:01PM -0400, Warren Kumari wrote: > The same thing happens with things like abuse -- it is easy to deal > with abuse on a small scale. It is somewhat harder on a medium scale > and harder still on a large scale -- the progression fro

Re: Abuse procedures... Reality Checks

2007-04-11 Thread Scott Weeks
: if someone cannot get out somewhere, they're obviously : going to get in touch with me as to why. Once this is : done, it is explained : I've always contacted someone : after about 3 attempts at getting someone to assess : their network I know from experience this doesn't scale into th

Re: Blocking mail from bad places

2007-04-05 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:18:36 PDT, Scott Weeks said: >> What I meant was: when only a few folks use email, the spammers will go >>away. > > They won't go away, they'll just go infes

RE: Blocking mail from bad places

2007-04-03 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey, you've just described the FUSSP! :-( Solution!? Since when is a description of one aspect of the problem, considered to be the solution. In a nutshell I said that the email SPAM problem is getting worse, not just measured by SPAM volumes or

Re: Blocking mail from bad places

2007-04-03 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Soon Internet email will be like IRC, a quaint : service for Internet enthusiasts and oldtimers, : but not a useful tool for businesses or ordinary : individuals. Hey, you've just described the FUSSP! :-( scott --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: <[EMA

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Scott Weeks
-- > > > On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Chris L. Morrow wrote: > > > > > > > what business drivers are there to put more bits on the wire to > > > > the end user? > > > > For us in Hawaii IPTV will drive that. > >> for the service from the

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Scott Weeks wrote: > > On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Chris L. Morrow wrote: > > > > > what business drivers are there to put more bits on the wire to > > > the end user? > > For us in Hawaii IPTV will d

Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)

2007-03-13 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Chris L. Morrow wrote: > > > what business drivers are there to put more bits on the wire to > > the end user? Getting in late here... For us in Hawaii IPTV will drive that. scott

RE: Where are static bogon filters appropriate? was: 96.2.0.0/16 Bogons

2007-03-02 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:-- > I think this really goes to the heart of the matter - the inability/ > unwillingness to prioritize and allocate resources to properly > implement 'good neighbor' policies which are not perceived as having > any financial benefit to the

Re: DNS: Definitely Not Safe?

2007-02-14 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: "Chris L. Morrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > listen your opinions. i promise not to post porn, ops, FUD material to > nanog again. no one said anything about porn... - router porn? Ohh, I never thought

Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11

2007-02-12 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... A recent report from Deloitte said 2007 could be the year the internet approaches capacity, with demand outstripping supply. It predicted bottlenecks in some of the net's backbones as the amount of data overwhelms the size of the pipes. ... Beware, the end is

Re: what the heck do i do now?

2007-02-01 Thread Scott Weeks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:--- From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> As an, ahem, lawyer, I think what you do and how you do it matter a lot ... Pulling a plug after reasonable/lots of warnings (did you miss anyone? how do you know for sure?) i

A side-note Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-09 Thread Scott Weeks
: ...My view on this subject is U.S.-centric...this : is NANOG, not AFNOG or EuroNOG or SANOG. The 'internet' is generally boundary-less. I would hope that one day our discussions will be likewise. Otherwise, the forces of the boundary-creators will segment everthing we are working on and

Re: NATting a whole country?

2007-01-03 Thread Scott Weeks
> I wonder what they use the other 241663 addresses for. > > +-+-+--+--++ > | rir | country | type | descr| num| > +-+-+--+--++ > | ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 81.29.160.0 | 4096 | > | ripencc | QA

Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-03 Thread Scott Weeks
: It also says 'If you are not the intended recipient...' : Since the post is being made to NANOG, : ... so I fail to see why a big deal should be made out of it Because it's bad manners in a public forum. It's impolite in the same way SHOUTING! is. scott --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot

Re: Security of National Infrastructure

2006-12-29 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it that every company out there allows connections through their firewalls to their web and mail infrastructure from countries that they don't even do business in. Shouldn't it be our default to only allow US based IP addresses and then allow others as needed?

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-27 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 8, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Scott Weeks wrote: > Lawful in which country? What is this group's name? Oh yeah. So that means you have one of two choices ;-) I was speaking about 'the inte

Re: Bogon Filter - Please check for 77/8 78/8 79/8

2006-12-14 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: David Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > One wonders whether it might not be more effective in the > long run to sue ICANN/IANA rather than suing completewhois.com. Sigh. What is the IOS command to disable lawyers again?

RE: Curious question on hop identity...

2006-12-14 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nanog list. But I do have to say that when I speak to the designers and such at larger companies and I mention NANOG most of them brush it off and say "The NANOG people are the past and what they have to say doesn't matter anymore". That's the general feel I get f

nanog revelancy to newcomers [was Re: Curious question on hop identity...]

2006-12-14 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : In fact, most people making network architectural : decisions about Internet networks don't participate : in NANOG any more. Most people making network : operational decisions also do not participate : in NANOG anymore. It's not just that many : people have lef

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-08 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Petri Helenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Geo. wrote: > I know this is kind of a crazy idea but how about making cleaning up > all these infected machines the priority as a solution instead of > defending your dns from your infected clients. They not only affect

Re: advise on network security report

2006-10-30 Thread Scott Weeks
Rick Wesson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : I would appreciate a bit of advise on : a service I am about to deploy. Thank you for asking rather than just doing! :-) : I'm expecting to post a weekly report once a : month to nanog, would this be disruptive? Only if you don't tag the subject l

Re: RFC2468

2006-10-16 Thread Scott Weeks
: 8 years ago today was the beginning of the end. Not to disagree as many of you knew him, but the RFC says, "He would remind us that there is still much work to be done and that we now have the responsibility and the opportunity to do our part. Let's keep getting busy with it... ;-) sco

Re: Outages mailing list

2006-09-29 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: virendra rode // <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Scott Weeks wrote: > > - Original Message Follows - > > From: virendra rode // <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >> Ideally (if I have better luck) I would like to get

Re: Outages mailing list

2006-09-29 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: virendra rode // <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ideally (if I have better luck) I would like to get > providers to direct outage notices to this list. All that That's not going to happen. Providers don't want that stuff public. Makes 'em look bad... scott

Re: Zimbabwe satellite service shutdown for non-payment

2006-09-20 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Does any fiber run into Zimbabwe? Or is everything via > > satellite? > Remember the (proposed? built?) circum-Africa oceanic > cable, with drops to each (coastal) country? Avoid the > politics and inst

Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-13 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:46:11PM -0400, > Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > to dissect a core dump, or how BGP works, but who at the > > same time are not interested in reading the ARIN policy > manual

allocations from ARIN was Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-13 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: Richard A Steenbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ever notice the only folks happy with the status quo are > the few who have already have an intimate knowledge of > the ARIN allocation process, and/or have the right > political connections to resolve the "i

Re: ip reclamation was Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-13 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: "william(at)elan.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> The fact that there is a lot of space > assigned/allocated >> and not used in any easily > observable way is well known >> to those who track the > address exhaustion issue, I >> think. > > How much, th

ip reclamation was Re: Kremen's Buddy?

2006-09-12 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Le 2006-09-12 à 15:10, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > a écrit : > > > It makes me wonder just how much space like that there > > is out there artifically increasing IP scarcity. > > The fact that there is a lot

Re: SORBS Contact

2006-08-10 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: Allan Poindexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > this is fine. If you have agreed to participate in the > Internet you have an obligation to deliver your traffic. No you don't. They're your property. You bought them and you can do anything you want with them

Re: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless

2006-08-08 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > arrest people for mail fraud. Where are the Internet > inspectors with the authority to arrest people? Thankfully, they're nowhere around! We need to figure this out without the creation of such, also. scott

Re: small group seeks european IPv6 sceptic for good time

2006-08-04 Thread Scott Weeks
> > Afaik, the reasons for "Lack Of Demand for IPv6" > consists of: [...] > - Unwillingness of enterprise operators to pay the cost of > migrating while remaining under the "you must renumber > if you change providers" rule. yes. > - No _accepted_ Multihoming Solution yes. scott

RE: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless

2006-08-03 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: "Barry Greene (bgreene)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > What? That's what I'm trying to find out, but I'm not > > as smart as most, so I can only point out the things > > that I believe definitely won't work and why I think > > that. Hopefully by the applic

Re: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless

2006-08-02 Thread Scott Weeks
bject: Re: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless Date: 02 Aug 2006 06:29:55 + > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Scott Weeks") writes: > > > ... I'm just saying that there has to be a better way > > than police-type actions on a global scale. ... > > no, the

Re: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless

2006-08-01 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: "Fergie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >mentioned haven't worked at all. I'm just saying that > there >has to be a better way than police-type actions on > a global >scale. Also, I'm sure many more smart people > Personally, I think there is wiggle-room betwe

Re: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless

2006-08-01 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: Barry Shein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On August 1, 2006 at 11:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott > Weeks) wrote: > >... > > there has to be a technical way to do this, rather > > than a diplomatic way as the diplomatic ways >

Re: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless

2006-08-01 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: Barry Shein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > That's all fine and dandy until you consider the > > international base of these things. I'd like to see > a meeting at the Massachussets state house probably around > 1998 and being shouted down by this reasoning

Re: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless

2006-07-31 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Today it has become (close to) completely useless. ... > > i wish that the value of this activity were zero. instead > , it's negative. see > for details. -- Tha

Re: Is NANOG off-topic Alive?

2006-06-28 Thread Scott Weeks
- Original Message Follows - From: Josh Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:57:56AM -1000, Scott Weeks > wrote: > >> Is the NANOG Off-Topic list still alive? At > >> nanog.org/listfaq.html#topic

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