Re: NANOG laptops (was Re: Customer-facing ACLs)

2008-03-09 Thread William Allen Simpson
Marshall Eubanks wrote: I used to count the proportion of Mac laptops in the room (or, at least, my row) to pass the time when I was bored. I remember at the 1999 Washington IETF I saw exactly one, and I could hear people whisper about it around me. I used to attend with various Power

Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox

2007-07-22 Thread William Allen Simpson
Brandon Galbraith wrote: On 7/22/07, *Sean Donelan* wrote: DNS is just another application protocol that runs over IP. You don't have to use those DNS servers to resolve names. Possibly, you do (based on experience). Agreed. If you're savvy enough to have a problem because of this,

AT&T $10 DSL plan

2007-06-22 Thread William Allen Simpson
Apparently, this has been in the news for a couple of days, but only just hit my hometown paper === AT&T Inc. has started offering a broadband Internet service for $10 a month, cheaper than any advertised plan. The DSL, or digital subscriber line, plan introduced Saturday is part of the con

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

2007-06-20 Thread William Allen Simpson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree, DNS should *reflect* reality, but I think it is very much misguided to say that DNS should be the place to have canonical information (i.e. source of all data). Canonical data is in routing/forwarding tables on routers/switches. That's the operational reality

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

2007-06-19 Thread William Allen Simpson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neither 'show ip route' or 'have a text file' scale beyond a hundred customers. Hogwash. Used text file allocation for ~3,000 customers. After all, it is *REQUIRED* to exist (for bind). You need *a* canonical place that is authoritative for all others. Existing to

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

2007-06-19 Thread William Allen Simpson
Drew Weaver 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 our Black D

Re: UK ISPs v. US ISPs (was RE: Network Level Content Blocking)

2007-06-09 Thread William Allen Simpson
Sean Donelan wrote: UK ISP associations have developed a centralized blocking solution with IWF providing the decision making of what to filter. 90% of the UK broadband users accept the same "voluntary" decisions about what to filter. I have not seen any evidence presented that *any* "UK br

Re: Network Level Content Blocking (UK)

2007-06-07 Thread William Allen Simpson
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Interestingly, nobody has mentioned on the list what the offending content is yet. Or why this would even remotely be a good idea. I would think that if the content in question is legal, ISPs and the government shouldn't touch it, and if it isn't, law enforcement sh

Re: ISP CALEA compliance

2007-05-11 Thread William Allen Simpson
David Lesher wrote: Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered: You work so hard to defend people that exploit children? Interesting. We are talking LEA here and not the latest in piracy law suits. The #1 request from a LEA in my experience concerns child exploitation. That

Re: ISP CALEA compliance

2007-05-10 Thread William Allen Simpson
Jon Lewis wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2007, William Allen Simpson wrote: Follow the usual best practices, and you may save time and money. 1. Ensure that your DHCP, RADIUS, SMTP, and other logs are always, ALWAYS, *ALWAYS* rolled over and deleted within 7 days without backup. I'd recommend 3

Re: ISP CALEA compliance

2007-05-10 Thread William Allen Simpson
Sean Donelan wrote: The DOJ/FBI has been pretty consistent. They want it all and if there is a technicality in the law that doesn't give it to them they have consistently tried to expand the laws, regulations and court cases to give it to them. ... Very true! But its also important to rem

Re: ISP CALEA compliance

2007-05-10 Thread William Allen Simpson
Jared Mauch wrote: You need to have a router or some appliances that will assist you in the required lawful-intercept capabilities that are necessary. But anything whatsoever is OK. Since you don't know of the capabilities required in advance, there's no reason that it be a fast route

Comcast blocking all Gmail!

2007-04-25 Thread William Allen Simpson
Heads up on operational problem! Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:56:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification Delivery to the following r

Re: Best Email Time

2006-12-05 Thread William Allen Simpson
Dennis Dayman wrote: Ok, so the question of when is the best time to "spam" has come up. I cited the ReturnPath 2004 study (http://returnpath.biz/pdf/time_deliverability_0704.pdf), but now the question of when we think the Net is most congested (more likely to see overloaded MX servers and deliv

Re: GBLX issues

2006-10-19 Thread William Allen Simpson
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:40:01PM -0400, J. Oquendo wrote: Anyone else seeing issues with GBLX, DC area? Yes. There appears to be a fibre cut of some kind either around Virginia or Washington DC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] may be a better place to discuss. No, the best plac

Re: Outages mailing list

2006-09-28 Thread William Allen Simpson
Don't forget to CC all the traffic to NANOG list. Major outages have always been an important part of NANOG list traffic going back to the days when we were network techs, and are one main reason that I'm a subscriber here. I have no intention of joining "yet another list" for the same informat

Re: Topicality perceptions

2006-09-25 Thread William Allen Simpson
J. Oquendo rambled incoherently, saying in relevant part: William Allen Simpson wrote: Especially as I'm not aware of any Network Operator worth their salt that doesn't have regular contact with their support call centers. Regular contact? As in finding the name of someone who actu

Re: recap of nanog-futures on "on topic" and proposed compromise

2006-09-24 Thread William Allen Simpson
Gadi Evron wrote: A compromise has now been suggested (by me). The only thing both sides agree on is that in fact, the replies and flame wars on what is on topic or isn't, and who should speak of what, are disruptive. Agreed. How about we, for now, only change one thing about NANOG - the sp

Re: Wikipedia/Cogent

2006-08-18 Thread William Allen Simpson
Christopher L. Morrow wrote: same location/facility doesn't mean that that place/people/thing still has authority to route the PA block... Like say the decided to stop having Cogent as a provider? or stopped payments to Cogent? or some other sort of snafu... According to the lead developer, br

Re: NANOG Spam?

2006-07-09 Thread William Allen Simpson
BTW, the site(s) is/are still up, 5 days and counting Now the original http://oarwind.info/ct/ redirects to http://oarwind.info/e/ct/

Re: NANOG Spam?

2006-07-09 Thread William Allen Simpson
Christian Seitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: oarwind.info. AS | IP | Registry | AS Name 6724| 81.169.143.178 | ripencc | STRATO Strato AG How did you resolve this? Is there something wrong with my DNS or did you make a mistake

Re: Cleaning up (was: NANOG Spam)?

2006-07-09 Thread William Allen Simpson
Impressive response from [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the Postfix program at host bran.de.cw.com. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For further assistance, please send mail to If you do so, please includ

Cleaning up (was: NANOG Spam)?

2006-07-09 Thread William Allen Simpson
P | AS Name 29119 | 84.232.124.32| SERVIHOSTING-AS ServiHosting N PEER_AS | IP | AS Name 6739| 84.232.124.32| ONO-AS Cableuropa - ONO [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==== William Allen Simpson wrote: Allen Parker wrote: Just my .02, emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (HA!

Re: NANOG Spam?

2006-07-05 Thread William Allen Simpson
Allen Parker wrote: Just my .02, emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (HA! like i'll get a response!) and [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not expecting a response from this one either) have been sent. Anybody else feel like telling these folks that they've got spammers on their networks? I sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NANOG Spam?

2006-07-05 Thread William Allen Simpson
Gregory Hicks wrote: Just a "joe-job" though. The headers are forged. See the IP address in thi FIRST "Received-by:" header. Came from Spain. [...snip later headers...] Received: from trapdoor.merit.edu (unknown [84.232.124.32]) by trapdoor.merit.edu (Postfix) with SMTP id AD0CF91265

Wikipedia watching (was: Tier 2 - Lease?)

2006-05-03 Thread William Allen Simpson
it's hard to help much, as the supporting documentation has not kept up with installation and operations. A problem I'm sure we all recognize! They are basically holding things together and bailing with both hands. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: New Rules On Internet Wiretapping Challenged

2005-10-27 Thread William Allen Simpson
t the same for the IETF, NANOG, or whomever else gets in the way. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Cogent move without renumbering

2005-10-09 Thread William Allen Simpson
27;t got quick renumbering in my pocket. but i do know that the IX's don't have it either. let's talk about this again every ten years until one of us dies, OK? Well, as it was 10 years from IPv4 to IPv6, it's been 12+ now, so maybe it's time to design the successor to IPv6 ;-) -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Cogent move without renumbering

2005-10-08 Thread William Allen Simpson
ly- homed users will just renumber in a few days or weeks? My experience hasn't been that sanguine. Your other posts seemed to be more realistic. Let's keep the eye on the operational ball. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Cogent move without renumbering

2005-10-08 Thread William Allen Simpson
regulated. And we're not going to like it! But that's another thread. This one is devoted to rapidly moving singly-homed Level(3) customers without renumbering and without destroying the routing table. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Cogent move without renumbering

2005-10-07 Thread William Allen Simpson
s that matter" are not the "vast majority of traffic"? Or do you have some other insight on how to do massive moves quickly, without renumbering and without damaging the routing tables? -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Cogent move without renumbering

2005-10-07 Thread William Allen Simpson
Bill Woodcock wrote: On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, William Allen Simpson wrote: > I remember presenting a paper at IETF over a decade ago about assigning > IP addresses to exchanges instead of carriers. Yes, that's been debunked many times over at this point. Still, it occurs

Re: Level 3's side of the story

2005-10-07 Thread William Allen Simpson
se depends on Cogent's willingness to maintain their side of the traffic exchange. At which time Level(3) will have had time to purchase transit, as it will be a "tier 2" hoisted on its own petard. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Cogent move without renumbering

2005-10-07 Thread William Allen Simpson
William Allen Simpson wrote: However, we should assist everybody without an AS and at least /24 to move to Cogent without renumbering. That means the blocks should be reassigned. That requires registry assistance. To avoid routing table explosion, we probably need to identify adjacent blocks

Cogent move without renumbering (was: Cogent/Level 3 depeering)

2005-10-07 Thread William Allen Simpson
n AS and at least /24 to move to Cogent without renumbering. That means the blocks should be reassigned. That requires registry assistance. To avoid routing table explosion, we probably need to identify adjacent blocks and encourage them to move to Cogent, too. -- William Allen Simpson Key

Re: Cogent/Level 3 Contracts (was: Cogent/Level 3 depeering)

2005-10-07 Thread William Allen Simpson
Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, William Allen Simpson wrote: Rather than speculation, it would be helpful to refer to the actual contracts. Please post the relevant sections, Mr Wilcox. the contract talks of on-net traffic, off-net traffic and excused outages excused outages

Cogent/Level 3 Contracts (was: Cogent/Level 3 depeering)

2005-10-07 Thread William Allen Simpson
s to have one with Cogent (and mine is with Merit), but I don't have ready access to that one, either. We'll need to see the contractual language before embarking on a concerted effort. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Regulatory intervention (Redux: Who is a Tier 1?)

2005-10-07 Thread William Allen Simpson
Erik Haagsman wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 14:51 -0400, William Allen Simpson wrote: Arguably a very good thing. IXs shouldn't be in the "enforcement" business. That's for governments. Exactly the reason I don't want governments anywhere near an IX. Every network

Re: Regulatory intervention (Redux: Who is a Tier 1?)

2005-10-06 Thread William Allen Simpson
Niels Bakker wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Allen Simpson) [Thu 06 Oct 2005, 19:10 CEST]: Following up on my own post, according to http://www.ams-ix.net/connected/ Useful page, isn't it? I wish that all IXs had one. Cogent, Open Level(3), Not public We Dare B.V.,

Re: Regulatory intervention (Redux: Who is a Tier 1?)

2005-10-06 Thread William Allen Simpson
William Allen Simpson wrote: How do you expect to enforce your "member" regulations? Again (to keep this on-topic), this partitioning is exactly what we predicted. And I don't see your member regulations having any effect. Following up on my own post, according to http:/

Re: Regulatory intervention (Redux: Who is a Tier 1?)

2005-10-06 Thread William Allen Simpson
Erik Haagsman wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 11:56 -0400, William Allen Simpson wrote: This partitioning is exactly what we predicted in many meetings when discussion the terms of the contracts. Markets are inefficient for infrastructure and tend toward monopoly. How does replacing non

Press Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-06 Thread William Allen Simpson
Finally, some press taking notice: http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4531 -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Regulatory intervention (Redux: Who is a Tier 1?)

2005-10-06 Thread William Allen Simpson
pseudo-libertarians forget that all markets require regulation and politics. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: PRIX - Puerto RIco Internet Exchange

2005-09-27 Thread William Allen Simpson
http://lists.uprr.pr/mailman/listinfo/prix so we don't interrupt here :-) good idea, too. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?

2005-09-13 Thread William Allen Simpson
For "contact us", I'm now getting a 403 error: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /feedback/ on this server. Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.fema.gov Port 80 -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS

2005-08-18 Thread William Allen Simpson
J. Oquendo wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, William Allen Simpson wrote: Funny thing though, they don't seem to call their sites "spam-king", but instead "opt-in-real-big", or the equivalent. So, we have to examine their binaries to find the sites. ... And ho

Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS

2005-08-18 Thread William Allen Simpson
. then why did you use emotionally loaded words such as "terrorist? and "porn", which is also clearly in the eye of the beholder ;-) -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-24 Thread William Allen Simpson
oliticians being difficult doesn't mean the end of free speech forever. Why not wait and see what happens? "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -- Edmund Burke -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-24 Thread William Allen Simpson
es -- none of which you'll get back even should you win. I've spent time in jail on principle. I'm glad to see others are still willing to stand up and be counted! For the rest of you, wouldn't it just be cheaper and more cost effective to send some money to CDT? -- William Allen

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-23 Thread William Allen Simpson
social life for you desk jockeys.) "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." or vice versa. "Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct." http://www.freedomkeys.com/vigil.htm And make sure your companies are funding CDT.org, EFF.org, and EPIC.org! -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-22 Thread William Allen Simpson
this law takes effect in January, 2006, the time to begin moving your company is Real Soon Now. Unless you just happen to have FELONY bail bond sitting around cash on hand -- typically $100,000 -- and plenty of funds for lawyers. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-22 Thread William Allen Simpson
corporation will need to move it's data and web presence out of state. (4) Every ISP will have to make sure they have fewer than 7500 customers, because that's the level at which you can charge them for the millions it's going to cost to defend your lawsuits. Presumably, you

Re: Utah considers law to mandate ISP's block "harmful" sites

2005-03-04 Thread William Allen Simpson
elf appointed moderator) Somebody not observing the NANOG rules on pseudonymous posting. Could a real moderator block this nitwit, please? -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32 -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Utah considers law to mandate ISP's block "harmful" sites

2005-03-04 Thread William Allen Simpson
s, and the legislature raised the fine from $300 to $1,000 a few years ago, in a 3 am lame duck session just before the Republican governor left and became the head lobbyist for the National Association of Manufacturers. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: NANOG Changes

2005-02-18 Thread William Allen Simpson
isqualified from serving in another postition for at least a year. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: panix hijack press

2005-01-20 Thread William Allen Simpson
hold: Another analogy might be to describe Panix as a bank. An analogy that is pretty far off, since the "bank" in this case would be the REGISTRAR, not Panix. And the registrar in this case is a victim as much as the domain holder. Stop blaming the victim! A personal responder wro

improving the registrar transfer process

2005-01-19 Thread William Allen Simpson
case, the peer being down means taking all their domains away and revoking their registrar status and the performance bond. Accountability. Responsibility. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: panix hijack press

2005-01-19 Thread William Allen Simpson
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 for Mel-IT. But it's Az, which is Arizona (still in North America

Re: Regarding registrar LOCK for panix.com

2005-01-19 Thread William Allen Simpson
I couldn't have ripped it off the hinges and gone in and raped her; it's the door company's fault.] Stop blaming the victim! Stop blaming anybody else. This was a Mel-IT error. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: panix hijack press

2005-01-19 Thread William Allen Simpson
Mark Jeftovic wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, William Allen Simpson wrote: (2) Registrants can't "lock" domains, it's a registrar-lock. Users can only ask that domains be locked. Stupid policy, bad results. under the new policy if the registrar employs it they must p

Re: panix hijack press

2005-01-19 Thread William Allen Simpson
(5) Mel-IT has an executive and a lawyer that were both notified about the problem, and refused to mitigate the damage. (6) Stop blaming the victim! -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Registrars serve no useful purpose

2005-01-19 Thread William Allen Simpson
ship-based NANOG. Everybody who joins NANOG is on this mailing list. Everybody who joins this mailing list is part of NANOG. We (in NANOG) have an interest in ensuring that the bureaucrats assess the penalty on behalf of our members -- that panix.com is made whole. Accountability. Responsibility. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Standard of Promptness

2005-01-17 Thread William Allen Simpson
r state. Oh, I'd be willing to specify 1 and 2 hours, respectively, but doubt the registry and registrars would -- 2 and 4 is conservative. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Association of Trustworthy Roots?

2005-01-17 Thread William Allen Simpson
trust can be associated, e.g., NeuStar, my former employeer, and registry operators to who's operational art more trust can be associated, e.g., SWITCH. I'm sorry you felt that citing Martians was responsive to Bill's comments. I don't think they were. I'm rather fond of Martians. Bogons too. Eric -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Panix.com should be back.

2005-01-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
another 17353 seconds (4 hours 49+ minutes) before we'll see it via Merit. But thanks. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Association of Trustworthy Roots?

2005-01-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
arly, this .com registry operator is not trustworthy. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

panix hijack press

2005-01-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
http://news.com.com/ISP+fights+for+return+of+hijacked+domain/2100-1025_3-5538227.html?tag=nefd.top -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Association of Trustworthy Roots?

2005-01-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
27;ve heard directly from the domain owner and operator, but the TLD servers are still pointing to the hijacker. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

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

2005-01-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
s opinion? Maybe there needs to some sort of emergency reversion where at least the nameservers can be rolled back immediately while the contesting parties sort it out. Might be interesting - what criteria would trigger the process? Unauthorized change in the DNS asserted by any previo

Re: panix.com hijacked (VeriSign refuses to help)

2005-01-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
n emergency anycast? === Alternatively, are people willing to block those name servers and/or the entire blocks they are located in, to prevent the distribution of the false panix.com addresses? -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: $50,000 reward for Verizon cable cutter

2005-01-14 Thread William Allen Simpson
ple of year ago: "Amazing, she knew what a CLEC was!" -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: $50,000 reward for Verizon cable cutter

2005-01-14 Thread William Allen Simpson
ike my SBC/Ameritech neighborhood in Ann Arbor). Sigh, not enough criminal instinct here. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Anycast 101

2004-12-17 Thread William Allen Simpson
uter -- otherwise, it wouldn't work. Plenty of experience. Has nothing to do with anycast. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Anycast 101

2004-12-17 Thread William Allen Simpson
leak. But you're not fixing that A redundant router should be where it would be doing some good -- on a diverse link to another upstream. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Anycast 101

2004-12-17 Thread William Allen Simpson
llSouth failures in the past, and I've tested dropping each of my links from time to time to ensure that routing works and I'm getting what I'm paying for.... Do you actually do any engineering, or just kibitzing? -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Anycast 101

2004-12-17 Thread William Allen Simpson
nd of the link bundle. More than 1 router at any end will lead to a lot more problems than anycast, including multicast and any stateful protocol (like TCP). For one thing, the load balancing will be only in 1 direction, and will lead to congestion in the reverse path Self defeating. -- Willi

Re: large multi-site enterprises and PI prefix [Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]]

2004-11-24 Thread William Allen Simpson
Png. It's been another decade, past time for IPngng, although IPv6 sure hasn't had the deployment success of IPv4, has it ;-) Have we learned anything in 10+ years? -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: anycast roots

2004-11-14 Thread William Allen Simpson
w when things are fixed there Even where it's really somebody else's job. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: ttl for ns

2004-08-13 Thread William Allen Simpson
et for network guys. Whereas I cut and pasted the .com references for the zones from their email addresses. Oops. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: ttl for ns

2004-08-13 Thread William Allen Simpson
4H IN A 147.28.0.39 _sip._tcp.psg.com. 4H IN SRV 0 0 5060 splat.psg.com. _sip._udp.psg.com. 4H IN SRV 0 0 5060 splat.psg.com. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: ttl for ns

2004-08-13 Thread William Allen Simpson
"Stephen J. Wilcox" wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, William Allen Simpson wrote: > > > I remain unenlightened. Should it be 2 days? Or 1 hour? And why the > > inconsistent results? Obsolete root glue records? > > I think your first answer is from the

ttl for ns

2004-08-12 Thread William Allen Simpson
a.vix.com. 1H IN 2001:4f8:3:bb::1 -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: That MIT paper

2004-08-12 Thread William Allen Simpson
I was reminded about rfc1537. Been a long time since I read that, so a good reminder. But it only deals with SOA records. And it's 11 years old (closer to 12). The topic at hand was NS records. Any other guidance? -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 2

Re: That MIT paper

2004-08-11 Thread William Allen Simpson
.net.1D IN A 12.168.164.2 ns3.ispc.org. 15h29m10s IN A 12.168.164.102 ns3.watervalley.net.1H IN A 64.49.16.2 -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Reporting the state of an apparatus to a remote computer patented

2004-08-05 Thread William Allen Simpson
er, as they weren't accessible to us on-line yet. Seems to me like a company of undergraduates without any real-time systems experience. And a patent office of ignorant monkeys. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: ARIN Comment

2004-07-01 Thread William Allen Simpson
to yet another partial renumber again next month as we change one of our upstreams. Just another cost of keeping the market competitive. :-( If nobody actually follows through on changing, there's no incentive to offer competetive rates.... -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint =

Re: E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible

2004-07-01 Thread William Allen Simpson
overnment could install taps at telephone company switching stations to monitor phone conversations that are temporarily "stored" in electronic routers during transmission. " [page 51-52] -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

abuse standards & consumer reports

2004-04-11 Thread William Allen Simpson
no single, compelling, honest ethical standard like "the good > housekeeping seal of approval" in our industry. A consumers' union for the Internet? Didn't ISP/C have some activities along this line, once upon a time? Heck, whatever happened to ISP/C? The website doe

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

2004-02-10 Thread William Allen Simpson
, and we had a tremendous increase in spam allowed through the servers. It receded as soon as we installed the BIND fix (as I've posted to the list at that time). -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Stopping open proxies and open relays

2004-02-09 Thread William Allen Simpson
user. I'm not sure this is the answer. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

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

2004-01-20 Thread William Allen Simpson
good fit to your own business environment. There are usually > several ways of getting them the data which they require to do their jobs. > Whatever they are willing to pay for -- a good fit for the business environment is the largest effort and highest cost, as the overhead and ad

Re: Out of office/vacation messages

2004-01-02 Thread William Allen Simpson
e that capability for the operationally challenged. - have NANOG-approved OOO messages, Folks running reasonable MTA/MUA don't have this problem, so why don't you check the message headers to see what clueful folks are using, rather than trolling the list? You can see all the message headers, can't you? -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: IANA down?

2003-12-21 Thread William Allen Simpson
-- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us??????

2003-11-25 Thread William Allen Simpson
hines just keep running that program all day, leading me to host on much slower W98 machines -- contrary to the usual instructions. So, I can personally attest to "actually WORKS reliably." -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us??????

2003-11-24 Thread William Allen Simpson
had problems with everything later. Unfortunately, I cannot keep my relatives and customers from buying new machines with XP, the worst thing I've seen yet. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us??????

2003-11-24 Thread William Allen Simpson
the display, flashes a big warning screen, and asks whether it should continue. That causes the startled niece to go running to momma to call uncle. Whatever we use has to be flashier than dancing hamsters Of course, anything that happens too often will just get the OK option selecte

Re: Harassment (was Re: ELAN.NET ...)

2003-11-02 Thread William Allen Simpson
s 75 ms 12 69.60.142.242 (69.60.142.242) 73 ms 75 ms 73 ms -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Harassment (was Re: ELAN.NET ...)

2003-11-02 Thread William Allen Simpson
s (from not very old postings) that this fellow didn't exist before August, and seems only to flame on isp-planet (and now here). As has been noted, his company is listed as a net hijacker and a spam friendly carrier. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: How long much advanced notice do ISPs need to deploy IPv6?

2003-10-21 Thread William Allen Simpson
advance notice? I wrote my first DNS implementation in 1987. I know it's still in use on a number of old routers and dialup access boxen. My guess would be another 16 years, or so, to clean up the entire mess. Easier to eliminate the problem at the source! -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread William Allen Simpson
e machine swapped out, lather, rinse, repeat until all machines are finished. (Since the VeriSign emergency went away, there was a lot less pressure to divert support from the jobs they are paid to do, or work overtime.) Really, no matter how you slice it, money is at least as important to

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