Re: enterprise change/configuration management and compliance software?

2008-04-15 Thread jamie
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Phil Regnauld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jamie (j) writes: ` device, and by 'device' i mean router and/or switch) configuration management (and (ideally) compliance-auditing_and_assurance) software. We currently use Voyence (now EMC) and are looking

enterprise change/configuration management and compliance software?

2008-04-14 Thread jamie
, so i thought it appropriate to ask here. Feel free to respond privately (and I will post summaries to the list), or direct. In any case, for the benefit of all, I will post in any case my/our findings. Thanks in advance, jamie rishaw

RE: spam wanted :)

2008-04-10 Thread Jamie Bowden
s/recently/ever/ I'd be happy if I could tell Gmail to delete anything in a non Roman character set. I don't read Hebrew, Arabic, Kanji, Hangul, Cyrillic, or any of the other various character sets I get spam in. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

noop Re: NXDOMAIN data needed for survey

2008-03-20 Thread jamie
I'm about as offended from this post as I was when Canter Siegel happened. The inevitable forced realization that the our little world is indeed filled with evil, evil people that want to abuse it (or in this case, those associated with its operation) for their own ventures. I suppose we've all

RE: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]

2008-03-13 Thread Jamie Bowden
MS, Apple, Linux, *BSD are ALL dual stack out of the box currently. The core is IPv6/dual stack capable, even if it's not enabled everywhere, and a large chunk of Asia and Europe are running IPv6 right now. The US Govt. is under mandate to transition to v6 by the end of the year. The only

RE: Tools to measure TCP connection speed

2008-03-10 Thread Jamie Bowden
Ttcp will give you what you're looking for, but it's not something you can run in the background and forget. You have to bring it up on both ends, and while it's running, it won't even pretend to try and be friendly about bandwidth usage. It'll give you a summary after it has finished

Comparing Bandwidth Economies

2008-01-26 Thread jamie baddeley
. Thanks for your time. Jamie

RE: v6 subnet size for DSL leased line customers

2008-01-03 Thread Jamie Bowden
in the following order! It has the same utility and simplicity that MX records do. Jamie

RE: unwise filtering policy from cox.net

2007-11-26 Thread Jamie Bowden
Just a more likely one. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adrian Chadd Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 7:45 AM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: unwise filtering policy from cox.net On Thu, Nov 22, 2007, Suresh

Damn:

2007-10-31 Thread Jamie Bowden
Some of you probably already know, but this just hit my inbox: From: Jun Murai [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Friends, I am regretful to pass along the sad news that Itojun (Dr. Junichiro Hagino) passed away on October 29, 2007. He was 37 years old. The WIDE community would like to send our

RE: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?

2007-10-26 Thread Jamie Bowden
. As a result, customers misled by the company's claims, enrolled in its Unlimited plans, only to have their accounts abruptly terminated for excessive use, leaving them without internet services and unable to obtain refunds. Jamie Bowden -- It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take

RE: wanted: offshore hosting

2007-10-10 Thread Jamie Bowden
Haven't you been paying attention? There's a whole thread dedicated to why Australia's horridly expensive. Jamie Bowden -- It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold Hunter S Tolkien Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur Iain Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message

RE: wanted: offshore hosting

2007-10-10 Thread Jamie Bowden
-Original Message- From: Adrian Chadd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 7:07 AM To: Jamie Bowden Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: wanted: offshore hosting On Wed, Oct 10, 2007, Jamie Bowden wrote: Haven't you been paying attention? There's a whole thread

RE: How Not to Multihome

2007-10-09 Thread Jamie Bowden
that even if you do have permission, you shouldn't announce space from another provider. Jamie Bowden -- It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold Hunter S Tolkien Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur Iain Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2007-03-15 Thread Jamie Bowden
Verizon. Jamie Bowden -- It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold Hunter S Tolkien Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur Iain Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Frank Bulk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:45 AM To: Jamie

RE: Google wants to be your Internet

2007-01-24 Thread Jamie Bowden
system to play with yet to confirm this. Jamie Bowden -- It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold Hunter S Tolkien Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur Iain Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Google wants to be your Internet

2007-01-23 Thread Jamie Bowden
Virginia Power replaced our meter over the summer with a new one that has wireless on it. The meter reader just drives a truck past the houses and grabs the data without him/her ever leaving the truck. I have no idea what protocol they're using, or if it's even remotely secure. Jamie Bowden

RE: Undersea fiber cut after Taiwan earthquake - PCCW / Singtel / KT e tc connectivity disrupted

2007-01-22 Thread Jamie Bowden
that railroad tunnel in Baltimore ? And I am pretty sure that Fairfax County isn't much better. We have a railroad tunnel in Fairfax? On the less snarky side, I suspect that one wrong move by a backhoe along the Dulles Toll Road would screw about half the east coast. Jamie Bowden -- It was half way

Re: comcast routing issue question

2006-11-29 Thread Jamie Dahl
http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | -- Jamie Dahl Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going

RE: OT: How to stop UltraDNS sales people calling

2006-11-28 Thread Jamie Bowden
curious, someone over at UltraDNS called and told me my own bind server is dropping 20% of queries. Can you please explain to me how did they log into my systems? Sendmail. Jamie

RE: Collocation Access

2006-10-25 Thread Jamie Bowden
I'd check with a Lawyer, but that statute contains an or, not an and. Jamie Bowden -- It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold Hunter S Tolkien Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur Iain Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

Any Cox.net ops in here?

2006-10-19 Thread Jamie Bowden
took 40ms. Of course, the huge jump in latency from one router in NoVA to another didn't used to happen either, and the interesting routing through Norfolk two different times is just a bonus, so I have no idea what you've done to your network. Do you? Jamie

RE: mitigating botnet CCs has become useless

2006-08-02 Thread Jamie Bowden
, it's in the real world now. Pardon the oddball formatting, as much as I loathe Outlook, it is our internal standard for corporate mail. I'd just like to point out Paul, that while we may rely on police to handle crimes in the real world, we still lock our doors. Jamie Bowden -- It was half way

Re: OT: Xen

2006-04-03 Thread Jamie Norwood
On 4/3/06, Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 04:51:09PM -0600, Chris Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 17 lines which said: unixshell.com claims more service (RAM, disk, monthly transfer) for less per month: http://www.unixshell.com/

Re: Clueless anti-virus products/vendors (was Re: Sober)

2005-12-04 Thread Jamie C. Pole
An even more cynical way would be to say that most antivirus companies aren't in the business of analyzing viruses - they are in the business of selling antivirus software. I believe that is the fundamental problem. Jamie -- Jamie C. Pole [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jcpa.com InfoSec

Re: UNITED.COM (United Airlines) has been down for days! Any info on this?

2005-09-01 Thread Jamie Norwood
On 9/1/05, John Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The United Airlines website appears to be down and has been down for days. Is this a network issue or are they out of business?? Works fine for me. What testing have you done and what exactly are you seeing? Jamie

Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance

2005-03-30 Thread Jamie Norwood
wrong? Heard of a little thing called 'spam'? Jamie -- Chris Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance

2005-03-30 Thread Jamie Norwood
was one ok, and the other not. The answer is because of spam. Jamie

Re: ABA to create standards for online authentication

2004-07-12 Thread Jamie C . Pole
that they have not been hacked is pure fantasy. Even in Australia. Jamie -- Jamie C. Pole Founder Principal Consultant J.C. Pole Associates, Inc. Office: 203-338-0901Fax: 203-576-1355 Cell: 203-395-7737 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purveyors of global threat management solutions

Re: botnets world and the FBI

2004-06-01 Thread Jamie C . Pole
these threads go off-topic... :-) Jamie -- Jamie C. Pole [EMAIL PROTECTED] Principal Consultant J.C. Pole Associates, Inc. Information Security / Information Warfare / Information Forensics Comprehensive Law Enforcement Litigation Support --

netsky issue.

2004-03-08 Thread Jamie Reid
If you have a look at http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_101083.htm There is a list of IP addresses that are nameservers which are hard-coded into the worm. It spreads by e-mail (currently) and thus it can be blocked using anti-virus filters. My concern is that these addrs are all for

IDS data.

2004-02-10 Thread Jamie Reid
We have built an experimental system that aggregates IDS alerts by sorting them into subnets, then associating them with routes from the a view of the global BGP table, and in turn associates them with their ASN. From there, we can create lists of security events as they are related to the

Control. (was Re: MS is vulnerable)

2004-01-29 Thread Jamie Reid
While acknowledging that I am falling for a troll does not excuse the act itself, I would like to float an idea I think is useful. If you look at security as control, then you can measure it as the ratio of controls to features. That is, for N in/egress points there are X active policy

network mapping and data viz.

2004-01-23 Thread Jamie Reid
I have been looking for a tool that will visualize traceroute data in a graph. Skitter looks ideal, but its availability is quite limited. I have tried Netmap (netmap.sourceforge.net) and have been mucking about with Graphviz (graphviz.org) in general. However, the problem of building a map

Re: Firewall stateful handling of ICMP packets

2003-12-03 Thread Jamie Reid
Personal view: This was a problem when filtering Nachi while it pinged networks to their knees. Sometimes I wonder if there is any legitimate reason to allow pings from users at all. If the user really needed to use ping, that is, if they were in a position to do anything about the results

Re: Cost of Worm Attack Protection

2003-11-13 Thread Jamie Reid
While I can't give you a fixed cost, I can confidently say that the value or cost/benefit over time resembled a bathtub curve. It starts high, drops sharply close to zero, then climbs slowly over time as the infection rate dissipates while a fixed mitigation strategy is applied, with

Re: The Internet's Immune System

2003-11-12 Thread Jamie Reid
It would be useful if these sites allowed you to query them with CIDR ranges to see if your site had originated any traffic that triggered their sensor arrays. The IDS community never seems to have wrapped its collective head around routing information. Looking up single IP addrs is just

Re: Hijacked IP space.

2003-11-04 Thread Jamie Reid
I must have missed the thread on this, but is there a good summary available of exactly _how_ these netblocks are getting hijacked? Are they taking advantage of sloppy redistribution configurations, 0wning routers, spoofing OSPF updates, taking advantage of default static routes, or is there

Re: Heads-up: ATT apparently going to whitelist-only inbound mail

2003-10-21 Thread Jamie Reid
I'm not sure whether shadenfreude is the right word, however, it seems that, regarding a previous conversation about cutting off users infected with viruses, ATT has decided that putting a bit of stick about is the right thing to do. It will be very interesting to see how this works out, as

Security v. Privacy (was Re: Is there anything that actuallygets users to fix their computers?)

2003-10-05 Thread Jamie Reid
While we were fighting blaster/nachi and others, we relied heavily on IDS's to generate alerts for the worms, then we disabled their network access and called them. Generic viruses are not an ISP's problem, but a worm is something that affects the prviders infrastructure, and is therefore a

Re: User negligence?

2003-07-27 Thread Jamie Reid
I wonder if this could just be solved by selling fraud insurance? It could be another ridiculous bank surcharge or service, but would negate the need for byzantine technology infrastructures to support it. All that user end security devices do is put more non-repudiable onus on the user, so

Re: Over three million computers 0wned?

2003-06-28 Thread Jamie Reid
Even if 3mil machines are actively and currently compromised, of all reachable hosts on the Internet, it would not be unreasonable to assume that %80 or more are vulnerable to remote compromise in some way. That number is speculative, but most estimates from consutling firms are much higher.

Re: Country of Origin for Malicious Attacks

2003-06-26 Thread Jamie Reid
I've found that country of origin is less relevant than route/subnet and ASN, as there is a link between the address and the people in a position to actually respond to the problem. I'd be interested in knowing how linking aggregated attack information to country of origin is actually

OT: Fast.net NOC contact

2002-10-30 Thread Jamie Norwood
OK, I normally try to avoid doing this, but could someone in Fast.net's NOC please drop me an email about a job you guys have posted there? Or just plain have a contact there they would be willing to set me up with? :) Thanks if you can help! Jamie