Re: Contact at archive.org

2018-02-07 Thread Ben McGinnes
On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 01:23:26PM +1100, Ben McGinnes wrote: > Hello, > If there's anyone involved with archive.org's systems team > lurking around here, I'd appreciate being contacted off list. I knew there was a reason I stayed on this list even after departing the ISP

Contact at archive.org

2018-02-06 Thread Ben McGinnes
Hello, If there's anyone involved with archive.org's systems team lurking around here, I'd appreciate being contacted off list. Regards, Ben -- | GPG Made Easy (GPGME) Python 3 API Maintainer, GNU Privacy Guard | | GPG key: 0x321E4E2373590E5D http://www.adversary.org/ben-key.asc | |

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

2017-06-02 Thread Ben McGinnes
On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 05:52:43PM +0300, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: > > https://www.nanog.org/list > 6. Postings of political, philosophical, and legal nature are prohibited. > It is quite clear. That's a fair point. The crypto dev world does have a tendency to veer into two of those three

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

2017-06-02 Thread Ben McGinnes
On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 10:28:38AM +0300, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: > > American diplomats are doing also all sort of nasty stuff in > Russia(and not only), Yes they have and for a very long time. > but that's a concern of the equivalent of FBI/NSA/etc, not operators > public discussion

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

2017-06-01 Thread Ben McGinnes
On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 07:15:12PM -0700, Joe Hamelin wrote: > > The Seattle Russian Embassy is in the Westin Building just 4 floors > above the fiber meet-me-room and five floors above the NRO tap room. > They use to come ask us (an ISP) for IT help back in '96 when they > would drag an icon too

Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences

2016-04-13 Thread Ben McGinnes
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 08:08:29AM +0300, Hank Nussbacher wrote: > On 12/04/2016 00:41, Ricky Beam wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 12:55:11 -0400, Chris Boyd > > wrote: > >> Interesting article. > >> > >> http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/

Re: How to begin making my own ISP?

2011-09-16 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 17/09/11 7:34 AM, Charles N Wyble wrote: On 09/16/2011 04:28 PM, hass...@hushmail.com wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:02:39 -0400 Markus unive...@truemetal.org wrote: I didn't receive any such email, sorry. Try resending it if you still have it ? Maybe hushmail blocked it? :) That's

Re: NANOG List Update - Moving Forward

2011-07-14 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 13/07/11 11:37 PM, Richard Kulawiec wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 04:13:10PM +0200, Mattias Ahnberg wrote: I might have missed some discussion; but why are we moving away from mailman, and what software is in the new system? Seconded. Mailman is presently the gold standard for mailing

Re: NANOG List Update - Moving Forward

2011-07-14 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 15/07/11 12:24 AM, Alex Ryu wrote: That issue can be resolved by changing email addresses for multiple language support by using announce...@example.com, anounce...@example.com ? Yeah, that's how I'd get around it. I think the Document Foundation had some other issues, like wanting

Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses

2011-01-28 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 28/01/11 7:03 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: Let me clarify: The original question was (so far as I could see): Was Fox making up the quote where Vint took the blame for IPv4 exhaustion? The answer, of course, was no, they didn't; lots of people have the quote. If you want to see and hear

Re: Mastercard problems

2010-12-09 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 9/12/10 7:49 PM, William Pitcock wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 18:34 +1100, Ben McGinnes wrote: On 9/12/10 8:04 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Philip Dorr tagn...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is that they were also slashdotted. The logs would also have

Re: Mastercard problems

2010-12-08 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 9/12/10 8:04 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Philip Dorr tagn...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is that they were also slashdotted. The logs would also have a large number of unrelated. pro-tip: the tool has a pretty easy to spot signature. What is that

Re: wikileaks dns (was Re: Blocking International DNS)

2010-12-02 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 3/12/10 3:05 PM, Ken Chase wrote: All our topics of discussion are merging... (soon: does Wikileaks run on 208V? :) http://www.everydns.com/ right hand side. (sorry to shift the discussion off of uucp... long live sizone.uucp...) There is a list of mirror sites here:

Re: wikileaks unreachable

2010-11-28 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 29/11/10 1:06 PM, kmedc...@dessus.com wrote: Uh... huh? Just so we are all straight and clear - wikileaks hit is not a 'Distributed' DoS, its a simple DoS - I dont use intermediaries or botnets. Sun Nov 16 - 15:28 EST That would be just about 2 weeks ago. Actually, the last time

Re: Tools for teaching users online safety

2010-10-27 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 27/10/10 3:01 PM, Joly MacFie wrote: Also the FTC has set up a comprehensive site to protect kids, including a guide for parents on kid's use of social networks. http://www.onguardonline.gov/ The Australian version has kids, parents and libraries as the primary focus:

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 24/10/10 5:44 PM, Peter Lothberg wrote: How do you knew that your local NTP server knew what time it is? (for sure) By polling as many stratum 1 and 2 time servers as possible. Having your own stratum 2 server(s) beats nebulous NTP servers out in the big bad Internet every time.

Re: New hijacking - Done via via good old-fashioned Identity Theft

2010-10-07 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 8/10/10 10:00 AM, Leen Besselink wrote: k...@domain.tld for when you have a personal domain key-u...@domain.tld for when you have a server which understand address extensions Actually I think it's user+...@domain.tld for the second one. At least that's what I've seen for Postfix. Not so

Re: New hijacking - Done via via good old-fashioned Identity Theft

2010-10-06 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 7/10/10 12:08 AM, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: so ... should domains associated with asn(s) and addr block allocations be subject to some expiry policy other than it goes into the drop pool and one of {enom,pool,...} acquire it (and the associated non-traffic assets) for any interested

Re: New hijacking - Done via via good old-fashioned Identity Theft

2010-10-06 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 7/10/10 6:28 AM, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: On 10/6/10 10:34 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: Number resources are not and should not be associated with domain resources at the policy level. This would make absolutely no sense whatsoever. hmm. ... are not ... so the event complained of ...