RE: improving the registrar transfer process

2005-01-20 Thread Thornton
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 10:28 +1100, Bruce Tonkin wrote: > Interestingly, the ICANN equivalent in Australia (auDA), does > pro-actively enforce policies, and even took Capital Networks to court > on the basis that they could be de-accredited as a registrar for .au, if > they continued not to allow

Re: improving the registrar transfer process

2005-01-19 Thread Thornton
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 01:13 -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote: > We know how to do 3-way handshakes. Rather a fundamental of the > Internet. So quickly folks forget > > We knew in advance that the VRSN/NetSol/whatever protocol was terrible, > and that the ICANN policy change was not going

Re: panix hijack press

2005-01-19 Thread Thornton
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 00:49 -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote: > William Allen Simpson wrote: > > > Not that I've ever noticed. Are you actually a network operator > > anywhere? Are you even _in_ North America? Your email isn't > > > To correct my own post, I saw Au, and assumed a shill f

Re: panix hijack press

2005-01-19 Thread Thornton
> Upon what verifiable facts do you base your endless speculation? > > (1) Stop blaming the victim! > > (2) Registrants can't "lock" domains, it's a registrar-lock. Users > can only ask that domains be locked. Stupid policy, bad results. > > (3) This is a red-herring issue anyway, since there

Re: panix hijack press

2005-01-19 Thread Thornton
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 15:51 -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Darrell Greenwood wrote: > > customers' domains. Panix.com says its domain name was locked, and > > that despite this, it was still transferred. Â > > I seem to recall someone saying it wasnt locked, now theyre saying it

Re: How many backbones here are filtering the makelovenotspam screensaver site?

2004-12-01 Thread Thornton
I dont know how many providers are blocking them but at home I have a cox cable connection and they are blocking them... On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 07:04 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > I've heard reports of traceroutes through several backbones timing out > or going !H after a few hops, and I

Re: Microsoft problems?

2004-10-11 Thread Thornton
I've been using MSN messenger all morning and it has been working fine for me. I havnt heard of anyone having problems with it either. On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:26, Chaim Fried wrote: > Anybody know of any prolonged outages at Microsoft (MSN messenger)today? > > Thornto

Re: Are AOL's MXs mass rejecting anyone else's emails?

2004-09-07 Thread Thornton
as spam is the same as delete. they dont want the email anymore so lets click report as spam > > G. > > So it's a nice idea -- but IMHO fails in practice. > > == > Chris Candreva -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (914) 967-7816 > WestNet Internet Services of Westchester > http://www.westnet.com/ Thornton Cierra Group www.cierragroup.com Efficient Licensing and Consulting

Re: 292 cellular towers out of service due to generator failure

2004-09-07 Thread Thornton
print switch serving the towers. > For that many towers to have power generator issues makes you wonder if they had power generators to begin w/. Maybe they just had a few hours worth of UPS power or something. Thornton Cierra Group www.cierragroup.com Efficient Licensing and Consulting

Re: Are AOL's MXs mass rejecting anyone else's emails?

2004-09-07 Thread Thornton
n AOL they can complain and if you really have a lot could get it removed. But for the most part your just SOL Thornton Cierra Group www.cierragroup.com Efficient Licensing and Consulting

RE: XP SP2 other than windows update

2004-09-07 Thread Thornton
elf not by clicking on a link provided by > > someone else, I would tend to trust it. OTOH, all P2P systems feature > > large amounts of illegal contents, including some that does not even > > exist (Norton utilities 2004, anyone?). > > > > - I never experienced nor heard an

Re: OT- need a new GSM provider

2004-09-02 Thread Thornton
> > > > > > (If you reply privately to me, I'll summarize back to the list.) > > -- > > Paul Vixie > > > > -- > > "No mowore webooting!!!" > > -Paul, 10-16-99, 10 PM > > ----Dan Mahoney > Techie, Sysadmin, Web

Re: XP SP2 other than windows update

2004-09-01 Thread Thornton
ople report they are getting a CD in the mail in about a week. > > Is distribution from all their worldwide offices, or will users outside > the USA have to wait for international delivery? Thornton Cierra Group www.cierragroup.com Efficient Licensing and Consulting

Re: XP SP2 other than windows update

2004-09-01 Thread Thornton
D's being distribued through > various consumer and business electronics stores. But I haven't seen > any yet. > > Thornton Cierra Group www.cierragroup.com Efficient Licensing and Consulting

Re: FBI bust DDoS 'Mafia'

2004-08-29 Thread Thornton
> proven guilty". What country are you from? > > The America is not what it used to be. Welcome to the 21st century. > > Have those guys rotting at Guantanamo been proven guilty? What was > the deal with Sklyarov (http://www.freesklyarov.org/)? Etc. Thornton Cierra Group www.cierragroup.com Efficient Licensing and Consulting

Re: Anybody at ATT.net email services?

2004-08-25 Thread Thornton
t; with email to att.net customers and slowing down. > > Our difficulty has been in finding someone at AT&T to speak with about > this. Can somebody from ATT.net help Netflix? > > Thanks > > Vish. Thornton Cierra Group www.cierragroup.com Efficient Licensing and Consulting

Streaming problem?

2003-02-10 Thread Paul Thornton
Is there something hoopy up with the streaming? Attempts to connect are eventually failing, complaing that: rtsp://198.108.1.36/broadcast/NANOG/encoder/nanog27.rm is not found. Any fixes at the far end welcome... -- Paul

Re: ISP responses to DOS/DDOS attacks for customers

2002-10-23 Thread Tony Thornton
We, respond within the hour. With regards to the scope/depth of the support. I, personally assist the customer up to the point of Auditing the suspected internal host(s). At, that point i recommend tools and websites to the customer. Best Regards, Tony Thornton The new electronic

Re[2]: gtld-servers returning multiple A records for a NS?

2002-04-04 Thread Paul Thornton
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Allan Liska wrote: > Yea, apparently in January Verisign changed their long standing policy of > allowing only one name server to be registered per IP Address. To > confuse matters even more, I don't think all of the registrars support > this, and I have not seen anything of