Re: Seeking UUNET/Level3 help re packet loss between Comcast Onvoy customers

2007-08-29 Thread Rich Graves
This is resolved, though no one knows exactly why. If someone at Global Crossing has relevant logs of route flaps or somesuch, that might be interesting, but I can live with the mystery. Comcast advertises a specific route for the problem space, 71.63.128.0/17. Don't ask me why. Early

Re: Seeking UUNET/Level3 help re packet loss between Comcast Onvoy customers

2007-08-25 Thread Chris L. Morrow
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Rich Graves wrote: Wild card: It might be relevant that Carleton was previously a UUNET customer, and that 137.22.69.254 was an IP address known to UUNET as a demarc point to be monitored. Maybe someone at UUNET failed to clear some filters some years ago, when we

Seeking UUNET/Level3 help re packet loss between Comcast Onvoy customers

2007-08-24 Thread Rich Graves
) always seem to go through ATT. 137.22.69.254 137.22.69.253 71.63.168.1good (level3) BAD (level3) 71.63.244.1good (level3) BAD (level3) 74.19.4.1good (ATT)good (ATT) Wild card: It might be relevant that Carleton was previously a UUNET

Re: UUNET issues?

2006-11-05 Thread bmanning
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 03:39:57AM +, Chris L. Morrow wrote: On Nov 4, 2006, at 7:54 PM, Herb Leong wrote: Hi, Anyone being impacted by UUNET? I'm fairly sure I'm not the only one who's said this in the last (pick a months long period of time, I'll guess 6): Could you

Re: UUNET issues?

2006-11-05 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Nov 5, 2006, at 1:51 AM, Randy Bush wrote: Could you be any less descriptive of the problem you are seeing? the internet is broken. anyone know why? Did you ping it? is that what broke it? I'm sure it just needs to be rebooted.

Re: UUNET issues?

2006-11-05 Thread David Lesher
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered: On Nov 5, 2006, at 1:51 AM, Randy Bush wrote: Could you be any less descriptive of the problem you are seeing? the internet is broken. anyone know why? Did you ping it? is that what broke it? I'm sure it just

Re: UUNET issues?

2006-11-05 Thread Stephen Satchell
David Lesher wrote: Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered: On Nov 5, 2006, at 1:51 AM, Randy Bush wrote: Could you be any less descriptive of the problem you are seeing? the internet is broken. anyone know why? Did you ping it? is that what broke it? I'm sure it just

Re: UUNET issues?

2006-11-05 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 07:16:07 -0800, Stephen Satchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Lesher wrote: Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered: On Nov 5, 2006, at 1:51 AM, Randy Bush wrote: Could you be any less descriptive of the problem you are seeing? the internet is

Re: UUNET issues?

2006-11-05 Thread Donald Stahl
Anyway, I don't think that would have helped if you're talking about the same incident I'm thinking of. There were application-level retransmissions of (corrupted) packets, complete with building new bad packets from bad data structures, all over the net The problem is documented in RFC 789

Re: UUNET issues?

2006-11-05 Thread Donald Stahl
As for the LSA issue- rebooting would have fixed the problem, assuming it was done by all nodes at the same time. All of the Link State tables would have been rebuilt from scratch by the IMPs and the corrupt announcements would have been gone. Turns out this is actually mentioned on page 14

RE: UUNET issues?

2006-11-05 Thread Ed Ray
Perhaps he should see a dentist? I just had my impacted Cogent taken care of last week with a Sprint... :) - This mail was scanned by BitDefender For more informations please visit http://www.bitdefender.com

UUNET issues?

2006-11-04 Thread Herb Leong
Hi, Anyone being impacted by UUNET? /herb

Re: UUNET issues?

2006-11-04 Thread Jay Hennigan
Herb Leong wrote: Hi, Anyone being impacted by UUNET? Nothing unusual here, we are AS4927 connecting to AS701 in Los Angeles. -- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Administration - [EMAIL PROTECTED] NetLojix Communications, Inc. - http://www.netlojix.com/ WestNet: Connecting you

Re: UUNET issues?

2006-11-04 Thread Elijah Savage
| The Information Technology News Center - http://www.digitalrage.org/?page_id=46 for pgp public key On Nov 4, 2006, at 7:54 PM, Herb Leong wrote: Hi, Anyone being impacted by UUNET? /herb

Re: UUNET issues?

2006-11-04 Thread Chris L. Morrow
On Nov 4, 2006, at 7:54 PM, Herb Leong wrote: Hi, Anyone being impacted by UUNET? I'm fairly sure I'm not the only one who's said this in the last (pick a months long period of time, I'll guess 6): Could you be any less descriptive of the problem you are seeing? Also, did you

Re: UUNET issues?

2006-11-04 Thread Randy Bush
Chris L. Morrow wrote: Could you be any less descriptive of the problem you are seeing? the internet is broken. anyone know why?

Re: UUNET issues?

2006-11-04 Thread Matthew Petach
On 11/4/06, Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris L. Morrow wrote: Could you be any less descriptive of the problem you are seeing? the internet is broken. anyone know why? Because we didn't deploy IPv6 quickly enough? ;P Matt

Re: UUNET issues?

2006-11-04 Thread nealr
I'm fairly sure I'm not the only one who's said this in the last (pick a months long period of time, I'll guess 6): Could you be any less descriptive of the problem you are seeing? Ya know ... this whole descriptiveness thing has to be my biggest pet peeve. I have a couple of things

Re: UUNET issues?

2006-11-04 Thread Mark Smith
the internet is broken. anyone know why? No.

Re: UUNET issues?

2006-11-04 Thread Michael Smith
On Nov 4, 2006, at 7:45 PM, Randy Bush wrote: Chris L. Morrow wrote: Could you be any less descriptive of the problem you are seeing? the internet is broken. anyone know why? Did you ping it? Mike

Re: UUNET issues?

2006-11-04 Thread Randy Bush
Could you be any less descriptive of the problem you are seeing? the internet is broken. anyone know why? Did you ping it? is that what broke it?

Re: UUNET issues?

2006-11-04 Thread Michael Smith
On Nov 4, 2006, at 10:51 PM, Randy Bush wrote: Could you be any less descriptive of the problem you are seeing? the internet is broken. anyone know why? Did you ping it? is that what broke it? Please. That's how you *know* it's broken.

Re: UUNET issues?

2006-11-04 Thread Mark Smith
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 22:55:46 -0800 Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 4, 2006, at 10:51 PM, Randy Bush wrote: Could you be any less descriptive of the problem you are seeing? the internet is broken. anyone know why? Did you ping it? is that what broke it? Please.

Re: Abovenet vs UUnet

2006-03-29 Thread Bill Stewart
Even if you decide you don't need to use a formal RFP process to make your purchasing decision from the dozens of Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 ISPs that can handle your locations, you might want to do a draft of an RFP to identify what requirements are important to you and what requirements are

Re: Abovenet vs UUnet

2006-03-28 Thread Peter Cohen
On 3/27/06, andrew matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So here is the deal, I've delt with both uunet and abovenet (mfn now) in the past. And a long time ago i switched from abovenet to uunet when i was with a different company. Now i'm with a company that has level 3 and Abovenet. Currently

Re: Abovenet vs UUnet

2006-03-28 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Mar 28, 2006, at 8:42 AM, Peter Cohen wrote: On 3/27/06, andrew matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So here is the deal, I've delt with both uunet and abovenet (mfn now) in the past. And a long time ago i switched from abovenet to uunet when i was with a different company. Now i'm

Re: Abovenet vs UUnet

2006-03-28 Thread Peter Cohen
On 3/28/06, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 28, 2006, at 8:42 AM, Peter Cohen wrote: On 3/27/06, andrew matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So here is the deal, I've delt with both uunet and abovenet (mfn now) in the past. And a long time ago i switched from abovenet

Re: Abovenet vs UUnet

2006-03-28 Thread Daniel Golding
On 3/28/06 8:58 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would someone believe what the networks tell them over what other _users'_ experiences are? You say it is a good basis for comparison, but I have trouble believing that - unless you mean: A good basis to see which

Sales contact at MCI/UUNET?

2006-03-08 Thread Drew Weaver
I realize this is most likely off topic and is likely to get me flamed but I am in desperate need of the contact information for someone in sales or management at MCI/UUNET. We have been paying a reseller for a UUNET circuit for about 6 months and I guess he hasn't been paying MCI/UUNET

Re: Sales contact at MCI/UUNET?

2006-03-08 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
pong I'll try to find you a sales-ish-person. On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Drew Weaver wrote: I realize this is most likely off topic and is likely to get me flamed but I am in desperate need of the contact information for someone in sales or management at MCI/UUNET. We have been paying

Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

2005-08-12 Thread Michael . Dillon
Not sure I understand how on earth something like this happens... power is not that confusing to make sure it does not stop working. Is that so? Have you read the report on the Northeast blackout of 2003? https://reports.energy.gov/ --Michael Dillon

Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

2005-08-12 Thread James D. Butt
I certainly understand why utility power goes out and that is the reason why MCI loosing power confuses me. I am pretty sure that someone at MCI also realizes why the blackout happens and how fragile things are. It is irresponsible for a Tier 1 infrastructure provider to not be able to

RE: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

2005-08-12 Thread Geo.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James D. Butt Unless there is some sort of crazy story related to why a service provider could not keep the lights on, this should have not been an issue with proper operations and engineering. The

RE: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

2005-08-12 Thread James D. Butt
Yes that is an exception... not what happened in this case You can come up with a lot of valid exceptions... There are many reasons why a Tier 1 provider does not stick all its eggs in multi-tenant buildings... smart things can be done with site selection. I am not saying ever customer

Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

2005-08-12 Thread Michael . Dillon
Unless there is some sort of crazy story related to why a service provider could not keep the lights on, this should have not been an issue with proper operations and engineering. I'll let others tell you about the rat that caused a short circuit when Stanford attempted to switch to backup

RE: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

2005-08-12 Thread Charles Cala
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James D. Butt Unless there is some sort of crazy story related to why a service provider could not keep the lights on, this should have not been an issue with proper operations and engineering. 6 stories from the

Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

2005-08-12 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 06:50:47 CDT, James D. Butt said: Unless there is some sort of crazy story related to why a service provider could not keep the lights on, this should have not been an issue with proper operations and engineering. So a while ago, we're in the middle of some major

Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

2005-08-12 Thread Warren Kumari
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So I am standing in a datacenter fiddling with some fiber and listening to an electrician explaining to the datacenter owner how he has just finished auditing all of the backup power systems and that the transfer switch will work this time

Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

2005-08-12 Thread Bob Vaughan
[ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] During the Northridge earthquake (the one during the world series in sf.ba.ca.us) there was a BUNCH of disruption of the infrastructure, drives were shaken til they crashed, power wend down all over the area, Telco lines got

Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

2005-08-11 Thread Hyunseog Ryu
Hi Chris, It seems all 800 numbers I have is busy. I heard that there was fire around home depot in Down Grove area, and it did hit the power grid, so UUNET/MCI POP lost the power. UUNET/MCI tech - Fortunately, our Network management center tech has the number for him - said he is waiting

Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

2005-08-11 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we had a loss of comercial power(coned) in the downers grove terminal. terminal is up on generator power now. that seems to map to the internal firedrill as well, anyone else hit by this event?

Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

2005-08-11 Thread Robert Bonomi
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:06:05 + (GMT) From: Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we had a loss of comercial power(coned) in the downers grove terminal. terminal is up on generator

RE: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

2005-08-11 Thread Erik Sundberg
Of Robert Bonomi Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 11:17 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:06:05 + (GMT) From: Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN On Thu, 11 Aug

Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

2005-08-11 Thread James D. Butt
we had a loss of comercial power(coned) in the downers grove terminal. terminal is up on generator power now. that seems to map to the internal firedrill as well, anyone else hit by this event? Electric utility had a sub-station burn up. resulting in a medium-sized geographic area without

UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

2005-08-10 Thread Erik Amundson
Anyone else having issues with UUNET connectivity in MSP? We were seeing slowness, now we see no traffic flow at all...we make it one hop, then nothin'. Erik AmundsonA+, N+, CCNA, CCNPIT and NetworkManagerOpen Access Technology Int'l, Inc.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFIDENTIAL

Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

2005-08-10 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
traceroute or ping or end-node ip on your end... or did you call the customer support crew and ask them? --Chris (formerly [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ### ## UUNET Technologies, Inc. ## ## Some Security Engineering Group

Re: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

2005-08-10 Thread Mike Sawicki
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:42:58AM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: traceroute or ping or end-node ip on your end... or did you call the customer support crew and ask them? There was apparently a very serious fire at one or more of the Chicago area hubs MCI manages. They have a ticket

UUNET peering policy

2005-01-03 Thread Tom Vest
Hey, did anyone notice when UU peering policy explicitly incorporated a requirement for number of transit customers served, measured by unique AS? Thanks, Tom

Re: UUNET peering policy

2005-01-03 Thread Joe Provo
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 07:35:20PM -0500, Tom Vest wrote: Hey, did anyone notice when UU peering policy explicitly incorporated a requirement for number of transit customers served, measured by unique AS? It was between 18 and 28 August 2004. I believe it was on Friday the 27th but my

MCU/UUNet routing issues / packet loss this morning?

2004-07-01 Thread Erik Amundson
Hello NANOG! Is anyone having routing issues or packet loss with MCI/UUNet today? I have an AS701 connection at my orginization, and we've had thousands of customer calls starting at about 2:13AM CDT. We've shutdown 701 as a peer because traceroutes seem to expose some packet loss

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-29 Thread Ben Browning
Steve Linford wrote: The statement by Ben Browning: I know several businesses who have, and a great many people who have blocked UUNet space from sending them email ... by using ... the SBL is false, the SBL has never blocked UUNet/MCI IP space that wasn't directly in the control of spammers

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-29 Thread Steve Linford
From Ben Browning, received 29/6/04, 9:56 am -0700 (GMT): Steve Linford wrote: The statement by Ben Browning: I know several businesses who have, and a great many people who have blocked UUNet space from sending them email ... by using ... the SBL is false, the SBL has never blocked UUNet/MCI

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-27 Thread Tom (UnitedLayer)
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Richard Welty wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 10:50:12 -0700 (PDT) Tom (UnitedLayer) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The big deal is that spam complaining/etc is not operational content, and there are several other lists to handle that sort of thing. but then, individuals get 1

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-27 Thread Doug White
: : A simple these statements are untrue, please contact me off list for the : truth is hardly unreasonable. : : : Unfortunately a restriction such as that on this list defeats the atmosphere of openness and education for those who may be reading, but not necessarily posting to the list.

RE: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-26 Thread Steve Linford
At 9:43 am -0700 (GMT) 25/6/04, Ben Browning wrote: At 04:00 PM 6/24/2004, Hannigan, Martin wrote: [ Operations content: ] Do you know of any ISP's null routing AS701? ISPs? Not of the top of my head. I know several businesses who have, and a great many people who have blocked UUNet space from

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-26 Thread Jon R. Kibler
Steve Linford wrote: I seldom post here because the couple of times I have followed-up to correct wrong statements in nanog regarding Spamhaus, such as the above, I have each time been told by nanog's admin that I will be removed from the nanog list if I respond to any question in nanog

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-26 Thread Tom (UnitedLayer)
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Jon R. Kibler wrote: I seldom post here because the couple of times I have followed-up to correct wrong statements in nanog regarding Spamhaus, such as the above, I have each time been told by nanog's admin that I will be removed from the nanog list if I respond to

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-26 Thread Richard Welty
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 10:50:12 -0700 (PDT) Tom (UnitedLayer) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The big deal is that spam complaining/etc is not operational content, and there are several other lists to handle that sort of thing. but then, individuals get 1 free shot at saying things that are in some

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-25 Thread Dr. Jeffrey Race
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:27:32 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: It is the same way credit reporting works: you mess up, you get no credit. Except then you can generate yet another fake credit card and go on with your life. Do that a few thousand times a day, even -- no problem. The

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-25 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: Dr. Jeffrey Race [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Smith, Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 6:22 PM Subject: RE: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:39:26 -0600, Smith, Donald wrote: I am

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-25 Thread Michael . Dillon
From the AOL theft article: The revelations come as AOL and other Internet providers have ramped up their efforts to track down the purveyors of spam, which has grown into a maddening scourge that costs consumers and businesses billions of dollars a year. Interesting. An insider at a

RE: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-25 Thread Smith, Donald
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Painter Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 4:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network - Original Message - From: Dr. Jeffrey Race [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Smith, Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-25 Thread Scott McGrath
Well said sir! Scott C. McGrath On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the AOL theft article: The revelations come as AOL and other Internet providers have ramped up their efforts to track down the purveyors of spam, which has grown into a

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-25 Thread Jeff Shultz
Has anyone noticed that the DHS plan is probably closer to the current status of things than the FCC one is? AFAIK, Currently this information _isn't_ required to be publicly reported. The FCC wants it to be. DHS would prefer that it be semi-public at best - just like Michael Dillion wants.

RE: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-25 Thread Ben Browning
At 04:00 PM 6/24/2004, Hannigan, Martin wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Ben Browning wrote: this discussion anyways, is access to the internet. When the actions of a downstream damage that product(IE more and more networks nullroute UUNet traffic), [ Operations content: ] Do you know of any

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-25 Thread Jeff Shultz
** Reply to message from Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:14:43 +0200 At 8:44 AM -0700 2004-06-25, Jeff Shultz wrote: At least if someone in this clearing house sells it to the terrorists, they will have had to work for it a bit, instead of having us hand it to

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-25 Thread Michael . Dillon
Food for thought: Could an analyst, looking at outage reports over a period of time, build a schematic that would demonstrate that if you took out n points, you'd kill x% of data traffic in and out of $pickyourmetropolitanarea? If this analyst were working for Bin Ladin Yes an

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-25 Thread Jeff Shultz
** Reply to message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:12:45 +0100 Remember, that packet switched networking originated with the desire to build a telecom network that could survive massive destruction on the scale of a nuclear war, but continue to function. If we apply that

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-25 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote something like: Some ad hoc terrorists, in a country crawling with US troops, with a communications infrastructure nowhere as advanced as the USA just managed to coordinate a multiple bomb attack simultaneously. I just got back from lunch at the Wok Inn (Morrill's

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-25 Thread Crist Clark
Jeff Shultz wrote: ** Reply to message from Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:14:43 +0200 At 8:44 AM -0700 2004-06-25, Jeff Shultz wrote: At least if someone in this clearing house sells it to the terrorists, they will have had to work for it a bit, instead of having us hand

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-25 Thread Jerry Eyers
Do you really think that if we publish all the insecurities of the Internet infrastructure that anyone is gonna stop using it, or business, government, and private citizens are going to quit depending on it? That is a totally foolish statement in today's world. The incentive for fixing the

RE: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-25 Thread Tom (UnitedLayer)
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Ben Browning wrote: At 04:00 PM 6/24/2004, Hannigan, Martin wrote: [ Operations content: ] Do you know of any ISP's null routing AS701? ISPs? Not of the top of my head. I know several businesses who have, and a great many people who have blocked UUNet space from sending

RE: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-25 Thread Henry Linneweh
several businesses who have, and a great many people who have blocked UUNet space from sending them email, either by using SPEWS, the SBL, or mci.blackholes.us . Do these people know how much legitimate email they're missing, for every spam message that's blocked? I noticed that from

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:47:07 PDT, Jeff Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The problem with being totally open about infrastructure is that there are some vulnerabilities that simply cannot or will not be fixed - wires sometimes have to run across bridges, redundant pumping stations are too

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Dr. Jeffrey Race wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:05:41 + (GMT), Christopher L. Morrow wrote: Sure, customer of a customer we got emailtools.com kicked from their original 'home' now they've moved off (probably several times since 2000) to another customer. This

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Dr. Jeffrey Race
Chris why do you give me such easy ones? :) This situation has been known for years and it is I repeat trivially easy to solve. 1-There are relatively small numbers of serious spammers and of ISPs. 2-In your contract you require all your customers to know the true identities of their

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread George Roettger
This process happens repeatedly, spammers know they can get about a month of time (or more, depending on upstreams and hosting providers in question) of life, either way it's just 50 bucks forgive my question, but why does it take a month? If you had a bad route causing an outage for the

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Curtis Maurand wrote: spamhaus has gotten too agressive. Its now preventing too much legitimate email. Spammers have gotten too agressive. If you don't filter you would not see any legitimate email. -- William Leibzon Elan Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
spamhaus has gotten too agressive. Its now preventing too much legitimate email. Spammers have gotten too agressive. If you don't filter you would not see any legitimate email. a couple of days before my primary email server crashed, so i configured a backup machine.

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Dr. Jeffrey Race [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Poof! MCI spam problem goes away in 30 days. http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html I think the discussion is over. ---Rob

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Stephen Perciballi
signups of serial abusers. This is trivially easy to do and your firm's failure to do so and to enforce this rule on your contracting parties definitively proves your management's decision to profit from spam rather than to stop spam. I think you may be missing a major point. UUNET/MCI

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Dr. Jeffrey Race
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 09:20:30 -0400, Stephen Perciballi wrote: I think you may be missing a major point. UUNET/MCI provides dedicated internet services to so many downstreams that it is impossible to stop spammers from signing up to those downstreams. Preventing spammers from signing up

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Brian W. Gemberling
Is it possible for some people to chime in on backbone scaling issues that have a linksys cable modem router to test on? On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: Dr. Jeffrey Race [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Poof! MCI spam problem goes away in 30 days.

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Michael . Dillon
It is the same way credit reporting works: you mess up, you get no credit. Come on guys, you are all smart engineers. This is not rocket science. If anyone really cared about SPAM, then the credit reporting companies would already be collecting information about SPAMmers and network

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, George Roettger wrote: This process happens repeatedly, spammers know they can get about a month of time (or more, depending on upstreams and hosting providers in question) of life, either way it's just 50 bucks forgive my question, but why does it take a

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:22:02 +0700, Dr. Jeffrey Race [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Not at all. You can terminate for actions prejudicial to the safety and security of the system. Has nothing to do with anti-trust. I suspect that the spammer can find a lawyer who is willing to argue the idea that

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Paul G
- Original Message - From: Dr. Jeffrey Race [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert E. Seastrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 9:59 AM Subject: Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network On 24 Jun 2004 09

Boston UUNET Issue(s)

2004-06-24 Thread Williams, Ken
Did anyone notice any network related issues on the Boston UUNET network earlier this morning (4:00AM PST - 8:30 AM PST). What we observed was high latency for the following network 208.254.32.0/20? Regards, Ken Williams

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Ben Browning
At 11:16 AM 6/24/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:22:02 +0700, Dr. Jeffrey Race [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Not at all. You can terminate for actions prejudicial to the safety and security of the system. Has nothing to do with anti-trust. I suspect that the spammer can

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Ben Browning
not even know who emailtools is, if that ISP is a uunet/mci customer then we'll have to deal with them as well, just like their current home. you must realize you can't just snap your fingers and make these things go away. Omaha Steaks has been there for 3+ weeks (since being added to the SBL

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Ben Browning
At 11:34 PM 6/23/2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: I'd also point out someting that any provider will tell you: Spammers never pay their bills. Yes, but this is not a problem for a large carrier, as the people that receive it sure do. In other words, the money you lose on the spammer is

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Ben Browning wrote: like showing that the spammer was actually sending enough of a volume to swamp their core routers Likewise, I imagine MCI could argue that the damage is to their core product; namely, the trust of other ISPs and their willingness to exchange

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Grant A. Kirkwood
Ben Browning said: snip A lengthy timeline for action to be taken, from the viewpoint of the attacked, is indistinguishable from tacit approval of the attacks. I don't imagine MCI has a lengthy timeline when replying to sales email or billing issues. You ARE kidding, right? -- Grant A.

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Ben Browning wrote: At 11:34 PM 6/23/2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: I'd also point out someting that any provider will tell you: Spammers never pay their bills. Yes, but this is not a problem for a large carrier, as the people that receive it sure do. In other

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Grant A. Kirkwood wrote: Ben Browning said: snip A lengthy timeline for action to be taken, from the viewpoint of the attacked, is indistinguishable from tacit approval of the attacks. I don't imagine MCI has a lengthy timeline when replying to sales email or

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Paul G
- Original Message - From: Christopher L. Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ben Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Dr. Jeffrey Race [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 5:55 PM Subject: Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network --- snipped

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Tom (UnitedLayer)
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But most people are happy with things the way they are. They love SPAM because it gives them something to complain about and get emotional about. I unfortunately have to agree there. There's a large portion of the internet who has nothing better to

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Tom (UnitedLayer)
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Ben Browning wrote: This is, in fact (for you nanae watchers), the reason that most of them get canceled by us FASTER... Sadly, non-payment is often a quicker and easier method to term a customer than 'abuse', less checks since there is no 'percieved revenue' :( A

Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Ben Browning
more and more networks nullroute UUNet traffic), I would assume that you have appropriate privilege to toss them overboard in the contracts. IANAL, though. ~Ben --- Ben Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] The River Internet Access Co. WA Operations Manager 1-877-88-RIVER http

RE: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network

2004-06-24 Thread Hannigan, Martin
At 02:36 PM 6/24/2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Ben Browning wrote: [ SNIP ] this discussion anyways, is access to the internet. When the actions of a downstream damage that product(IE more and more networks nullroute UUNet traffic), [ Operations

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