Re: What must one do to avoid Gmail's retarded non-spam filtering?

2010-09-29 Thread Benjamin Billon
Have you tried DKIM signing? All email sent from Gmail is DKIM signed, so they probably also support checking it and a valid signature may lower your spam score. DKIM is definitively a must have for gmail. At least this isn't Hotmail where mail is just silently deleted with no NDR after it's

Re: PCH.net down?

2010-07-21 Thread Benjamin Billon
Also ok from France. Lg also working fine (https://prefix.pch.net/applications/lg/), do you need to look through a specific glass? Loads from here (outside of Toronto, ON) - peered with them. Seemed slow to load though..

Re: IP Address Management Tool

2010-06-01 Thread Benjamin Billon
Please check out our Network Documentation Tool: http://netdot.uoregon.edu Is there any not-thumbnails screenshots available?

Re: [OT]Bounce Back

2010-05-19 Thread Benjamin BILLON
High and bad, the message says it all! http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx This is bad luck for you as you don't choose which IP address googlemail will use to contact Hotmail UK's servers. Le 19/05/2010 17:15, James Bensley a écrit : Got the below message back from Hotmail when

Re: Hotmail bouncing email

2010-04-24 Thread Benjamin Billon
fail or soft fail? Le 23/04/2010 19:50, Seth Mattinen a écrit : On 4/23/10 7:09 AM, Greg Estabrooks wrote: Is anyone else out there getting reports of hotmail randomly bouncing emails with just a message of failed? Over the last 2 weeks we've had a dozens of complaints of hosting

Re: .cn / china registrars in US/canada ?

2010-04-17 Thread Benjamin Billon
i saw a notice that CNNIC suspended non-chinese registrars, but i haven't found anything telling me they have recinded that. Where did you see that? From what I saw, registration is now limited to companies (not individuals anymore) providing business licences. As Lou said previously,

Re: BGP hijack from 23724 - 4134 China?

2010-04-09 Thread Benjamin BILLON
So basically, the idea is to disconnect China's Internet even more than what it inflicts to itself? How fun. What was the FCC/Comcast case about again? I'm totally against this practice, but if you (stupidly) want to apply it, do it for good.

Re: BGP hijack from 23724 - 4134 China?

2010-04-09 Thread Benjamin Billon
So basically, the idea is to disconnect China's Internet even more than what it inflicts to itself? And that is wrong why exactly? ;-) Nah, I'm not answering that =D Nice try, though. How fun. What was the FCC/Comcast case about again? It's only port 25, at least here:

Re: BGP hijack from 23724 - 4134 China?

2010-04-09 Thread Benjamin Billon
This is also blocking Sina, Netease, Yahoo.cn and other major Chinese ISP/ESP. Am I the only to think this is not very smart? It depends. I'am not a fan of country blocking. But in my case it can work for a home server. You could adapt the list and block port 22 only for production servers

Re: Spamcop Blocks Facebook?

2010-02-25 Thread Benjamin Billon
Maybe I'm wrong on this, and I'm not a mailadmin anywhere nor have I been or pretended to have been in the past. But I'm pretty sure FB only sends you mail based on the prefrences you choose, and I know this is the answer you where given so mostly a statement. How does that equal spam :)

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-12 Thread Benjamin Billon
Seems logical, after all. Considering the (bad) performances of Google search engine in China compared to Chinese competitors, and considering the fact that wouldn't change a bit in the future, closing offices wouldn't be a bad thing. That doesn't mean closing RD centers. Ben Le 13/01/2010

Re: Default Passwords for World Wide Packets/Lightning Edge Equipment

2010-01-06 Thread Benjamin BILLON
Did you try to get in touch with Ciena people? I'm sure they will be comprehensive about how you get their products (not being exactly a customer). You could maybe even get an access to products' documentation without providing S/N:

Re: Data Centre - Advice? (Shenzhen, China)

2009-12-12 Thread Benjamin Billon
1) Define tier one. NTT got some IDC in China (Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Suzhou), but not in Shenzhen. Chinanetcenter would be there: http://www.chinanetcenter.com/wangsu/english/co/Shenzhen_Banxuegang_IDC.htm Remember Hong Kong is well served in Datacenters and upstream

Re: Cool ISPs

2009-12-09 Thread Benjamin BILLON
Cocorico! Another way to measure coolness of ISPs is to check how they're engaged with common people. Several Free.fr managers (including Xavier Niel and Rani Assaf) participate personally on the FRnOG mailing-list (in addition to Free.fr newsgroups). Some SFR employees also read FRnOG. None

Re: Who has AS 1712?

2009-11-23 Thread Benjamin BILLON
The RENATER I'm peering with is AS2200. From my PoV, AS1712 is announced by as174 and as701, with all the respect do to them I doubt their announcing RENATER. From what I receive from as2200: * 137.194.0.0 194.68.129.102 0 2200 2200 2422 1712 i And from bgp table (sniped): sh ip bgp

Re: Bandwidth Monitoring per AS

2009-11-16 Thread Benjamin Billon
Depending on your needs: - https://neon1.net/as-stats/ (some patches here http://www.mail-archive.com/fr...@frnog.org/msg07257.html) - Arbor PeakflowSP - anything base on netflow Benjamin BILLON -- -- -- -- -- -- Splio eMarketing Services Babak Pasdar a écrit : Could some of you share your

Re: Interesting Point of view - Russian police and RIPE accused of aiding RBN

2009-10-24 Thread Benjamin Billon
Accusing RIPE of complicity is in my opinion abusive. So when a RBN member buys a burger at MacDonald's, should we consider MacDo accepts money from RBN while helping them to run their business as they feed the criminal member?

Re: Interesting Point of view - Russian police and RIPE accused of aiding RBN

2009-10-24 Thread Benjamin Billon
That's what I thought. I still see the author's point =)

Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

2009-10-21 Thread Benjamin Billon
Hi, if you're talking about Mainland China in general (not Hong Kong specifically), indeed IPSEC VPN may not provide desired level of service. During the time I spent there, we opted for: - CNC MPLS for 4 sites in China - Equant MPLS between Beijing and other worldwide sites - Then replaced at

Re: Any Google Mail admins on the list?

2009-10-20 Thread Benjamin Billon
Please tell me if you get any feedback, as far as I know Gmail admins are not more connected to the world than hotmail's. Still, Gmail relies on domainkey/dkim, which could save your day. Mike Lyon a écrit : Howdy All, Trying to resolve a possible Google Mail blockage from a certain domain.

Re: operations contact @ facebook?

2009-10-05 Thread Benjamin Billon
I guess the facebook app allows any FB user to check availability of domain names or to request Gandi's whois database. From what I saw, FB people do not check every applications neither before or after publication. And that could create some issues out there. Patrick W. Gilmore a écrit :

Re: hotmail admin

2009-09-24 Thread Benjamin Billon
Unfortunately, that doesn't work that way with hotmail. https://postmaster.live.com/ and https://support.msn.com/eform.aspx?productKey=edfsmsblct=eformts are the ways to go. Rens a écrit : Somebody here that is administrator of mails servers of hotmail? Or if anyone knows how to contact

Re: Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation

2009-09-10 Thread Benjamin Billon
Why don't we just blacklist everything and only whitelist those we know are good? snip Note we all could start using IPv6 and avoid this problem altogether. snip Yeah. When ISP will start receiving SMTP traffic in IPv6, they could start to accept whitelisted senders only. IPv6 emails ==

Re: Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation

2009-09-10 Thread Benjamin Billon
You're not Hotmail =)

Re: Datacenter recommendations - China and Latin America

2009-09-09 Thread Benjamin Billon
From a cost, operational, and routing perspective, the same would be true if you got a CT link in Los Angeles or San Francisco. I can't be sure (didn't try myself, sorry) but I think CT links are more filtered from outside PRC (HK being included in PRC) Since CT and CNC You mean China Unicom

Re: Datacenter recommendations - China and Latin America

2009-09-09 Thread Benjamin Billon
I've heard of several ISP available in Mainland China and offering IP transit services, but I when contacted they never confirmed they're providing the access to Mainland China Netizens, as, as far as I know, the only historical backbone in Mainland China is ChinaNet (owned by China Telecom),

Re: Datacenter recommendations - China and Latin America

2009-09-08 Thread Benjamin Billon
For Asia, I'd say Hong Kong (and personnaly Mega iAdvantage). Could be interesting thoughts on this previous thread: http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2009-July/012161.html Mainland China may be fine for very special needs, but I'd advise to go to HK 95% of the time. Michael K.

Re: Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation

2009-09-08 Thread Benjamin Billon
ISPs can be invited and there are specific meetings for them (closed to other members). There're also whitepapers for ISP (and others). But I agree, hoping ALL the ISPs join MAAWG or even hear about it is utopian. -- Benjamin William Astle a écrit : J.D. Falk wrote: Seth Mattinen wrote:

Re: Datacenter recommendations - China and Latin America

2009-09-08 Thread Benjamin Billon
You could get a China Telecom link in HK as well as many others: sit astride the Great Firewall! What is the Great Firewall relationship between Hong Kong and the mainland PRC, as compared to the mainland PRC vs. the rest of the world?

Re: Subnet Size for BGP peers.

2009-07-29 Thread Benjamin Billon
Imagine two of your clients are competitors, they probably don't want to be on the same IP range. And yes, when you sell your service to several customers, you don't want one of them blowing up all the other's SLA. IXs use /24, as far as I know, and peers connected there can usually use md5

Re: Recommendations for Hong Kong datacenter, and a sanity check for my geopolitical conclusions ?

2009-07-24 Thread Benjamin Billon
The process is good, I did the same excepted I also potentially needed good Mainland China connectivity (what are the obvious reasons?), otherway I think would have take the Singapore option. Getting things done there is not a problem either. I choose the Mega iAdvantage datacenters in HK.

Re: Recommendations for Hong Kong datacenter, and a sanity check for my geopolitical conclusions ?

2009-07-24 Thread Benjamin Billon
I'd say it depends, as always. Mostly of what your business is about. If you're a bank, you got to take many care about your datacenter(s) locations, but you'll have the money for it anyway. Same for health services and so on. Here is a short story: when I had to choose for my first

Re: Border routers

2009-07-17 Thread Benjamin Billon
Cisco routers performance comparison chart: http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/downloads/765/tools/quickreference/routerperformance.pdf If you're interested on 6500/7600 and their supervisors: http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/downloads/765/tools/quickreference/catalyst6000supervisors.pdf Our

Re: MGE UPS Systems

2009-07-13 Thread Benjamin Billon
Or are you talking about Eaton's? http://www.eaton.com/EatonCom/SearchResults/CT_136576 Dixon, Justin a écrit : I'm curious if anyone might know what the future of the MGE line of UPS systems are. My concern is that they're dead-end since being merged into APC, and APC

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification

2009-07-05 Thread Benjamin Billon
I agree. It seems (I didn't look for solid proofs of that) twitter went down when MJ's die was revealed. I don't want to know why (not enough cloud computing stuff?), but I still believe there is maybe not always an ultimate solution to all problems. Twitter and its friends may sometimes

Re: Flow Chart

2009-06-28 Thread Benjamin Billon
Hi, are you trying to draw per-AS charts? I'm using As-stats (https://neon1.net/as-stats/), this is not exactly the same thing because you'll see all AS' trafic even ASN you don't peer with, but it may still help. Good luck, Benjamin Alexandre Augusto Caramanti Coconesi a écrit : Hello