Re: iOS 7 update traffic

2013-09-22 Thread Colin Alston
That system by the way is annoying when your mobile network operator are so oversubscribed/old-fashioned that I had to wait over 6 months before I could update to Android ICS... I really don't want my ability to update the software on my phone to be controlled by a teleco, and these large teleco's

Re: BGP and Firewalls...

2011-12-16 Thread Colin Alston
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Gregory Croft gcr...@shoremortgage.com wrote: Does anyone have any experience with using firewalls as edge devices when BGP is concerned? Doing so very successfully with Fortigate devices.

Re: Advice regarding Cisco/Juniper/HP

2010-06-30 Thread Colin Alston
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Matthew Walster matt...@walster.org wrote: On 23 June 2010 08:54, Colin Alston karna...@karnaugh.za.net wrote: I dislike HP switches from a management point of view (and I think the VLAN config is nonsense), but they work fine. That's strange, I abhor

Re: Advice regarding Cisco/Juniper/HP

2010-06-23 Thread Colin Alston
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Greg Whynott greg.whyn...@oicr.on.ca wrote: 1.  Under heavy load (60% or more of 10Gbit interfaces at +80%) we have seen _all_ interfaces simultaneously  drop packets and generate interface errors.   this was on an early release of the firmware and I don't

FTC / Nexband

2010-03-30 Thread Colin Alston
Hi Wondering if anyone has some contact with FTC or Nexband or whoever. I can't find Someone without clue has decided it's a good idea to make almost all of 66.211.112.0/20 share the same PTR record. This has bad consequences, and is beginning to irritate me. [coffee ~]$ host 66.211.118.239

Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'

2009-09-22 Thread Colin Alston
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Scott Weeks sur...@mauigateway.com wrote: It would be nice to know what those recommendations were... Excuse the delayed reply from a SA person :) I'm guessing the recommendations were not to use an asymmetrical service for trying to upload large amounts of

Re: In a bit of bind...

2009-06-01 Thread Colin Alston
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Ben Matthew ben.matt...@timlradio.co.ukwrote: Anyway my company currently uses BIND for our DNS requirements (9.6.0). I'm always pretty keen on updating, when advised to, in order to patch vulnerabilities and so forth as we have a fairly popular website and

Re: glue record

2009-05-29 Thread Colin Alston
On 2009/05/29 09:48 AM Anton Zimm wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Florian Weimer fwei...@bfk.de wrote: * Anton Zimm: I did see the info from additional section, but: Afaik the additional section is not an answer, they're just additional info, not an authorized answer from the

Re: Why choose 120 volts?

2009-05-27 Thread Colin Alston
On 2009/05/26 10:46 PM Aaron Wendel wrote: Last time I looked at my bill I was being billed by the kWh P=V*I

Re: UCEProtect Level 3

2009-05-07 Thread Colin Alston
On 2009/05/07 08:34 PM Raleigh Apple wrote: Is anyone else out there aware that the UCEProtect Level 3 email blacklist blocks entire AS? Yes. We don't use them anymore.

Re: 大和一家[00279] ニコ動の私の動画が消される…!

2009-04-28 Thread Colin Alston
Yahoo!グループからの重要なお知らせがメール下部にございます。ご確認ください。 --- On 2009/04/28 02:50 PM Blake Pfankuch wrote: Yahoo!グループからの重要なお知らせがメール下部にございます。ご確認ください。 --- This idea pleases me. Beer. Oh tasty beer And chicken wings? Please tell me there are chicken wings. ヘルプページ: http://help.yahoo.co.jp/help/jp/groups/

Re: ????[00275] ?????? ???????

2009-04-28 Thread Colin Alston
On 2009/04/28 02:58 PM Steven Walker wrote: Sorry about that NANOG. I though it was more junk from the HK spammers. Don't NANOG people have far better ways to deal with spammers than yelling at them?

AS6079

2009-04-07 Thread Colin Alston
I've reported spam to this AS before, and I don't recall ever getting a response. I'm wondering how many others see spam from it? Is it worth while continuing or should I just stop accepting SMTP from there? They seem to have some dubious customers hosted on there, a large amount seems to

Re: AS6079

2009-04-07 Thread Colin Alston
On 2009/04/07 03:33 PM Chris Jackman wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:53:07AM +0200, Colin Alston wrote: I've reported spam to this AS before, and I don't recall ever getting a response. I'm wondering how many others see spam from it? Is it worth while continuing or should I just stop

Re: real hardware router VS linux router

2009-02-19 Thread Colin Alston
Deric Kwok wrote: Hi All Actually, what is the different hardware router VS linux router? Have you had experience to compare real router eg: cisco VS linux router? Archives have discussed this at extreme length. The most interesting thing I saw come out of it was this

Re: Network diagram software

2009-02-11 Thread Colin Alston
Mathias Wolkert wrote: I'd like to know what software people are using to document networks. Visio is obvious but feels like a straight jacket to me. I liked netviz but it seems owned by CA and unsupported nowadays. Omnigrafle and Dia are all I can add to your list

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-02 Thread Colin Alston
On 2009/02/02 07:16 PM mikelie...@gmail.com wrote: Some nitwits just grab one out of fat air. I've seen 192.169.xx and 192.254.xx randomly used before. Seen 198/8, 196.200/16 and 172.whatever the hell the admin felt like/16 And these people are shocked when I tell them to renumber before

Re: Shaping on a large scale

2009-01-31 Thread Colin Alston
On 2009/01/30 07:56 PM bert hubert wrote: In general, the Linux packet shaping infrastructure is overly powerful, if very weakly documented - despite the LARTC efforts. Overly powerful is a strong word. Sure it has countless poorly documented features, but then it fails at even the the most

Re: ISP Unbundling circuits

2009-01-29 Thread Colin Alston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jay Nugent wrote: *EVERY* ISP I have consulted for has failed to perform the simplest of Order Entry processes, including an item-by-item checklist of what to do when a customer disconnects. At each ISP we have found numerous circuits still

Re: Security team successfully cracks SSL using 200 PS3's and MD5

2009-01-05 Thread Colin Alston
On 2009/01/05 10:47 PM Randy Bush wrote: perhaps i am a bit slow. but could someone explain to me how trust in dns data transfers to trust in an http partner and other uses to which ssl is put? I must also be slow. Can someone tell me how DNSSEC is supposed to encrypt my TCP/IP traffic?

Re: Gigabit Linux Routers

2008-12-18 Thread Colin Alston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ingo Flaschberger wrote: cons: only 1 route for each network, vrrp failover is not easy to implement with quagga and ospf, no multipath routing Anyone cares about VRRPD when you have Heartbeat? Linux: pros: more than 1 route for each network

Re: postini contact?

2008-12-16 Thread Colin Alston
On 2008/12/16 11:53 PM Joe Abley wrote: On 2008-12-16, at 16:45, mike wrote: I have a serious problem with postini applying some rules that look like the work of a rouge engineer in their ranks, and I need an internal contact to discuss the problem with. What is it with those rouge

Re: routing around Sprint's depeering damage

2008-11-02 Thread Colin Alston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote: Dave Blaine wrote: There are at least three ways to address this Sprint / Cogent partition I'd be fairly reluctant to allow the government to get involved in peering relationships too deeply. Australia has some very

Re: routing around Sprint's depeering damage

2008-11-02 Thread Colin Alston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rod Beck wrote: I'll make one comment before 'Alex the Hammer' closes this discussion for straying into politics. Clearly regulating the incumbents to unbundle local loops has worked very well in some European countries (France and possibly

Comcast contact

2008-10-29 Thread Colin Alston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I know NANOG hates these mails but they happen anyway.. I need someone at Comcast who can help with why their server is detecting a host (that is not blacklisted, senderbased or anything) as spam. The URL Comcast gives with the spam block message

Re: The DDOS problem security BOF: Am i mistaken?

2008-10-16 Thread Colin Alston
On 2008/10/17 06:19 AM Scott Doty wrote: So please, if you have anything further to say, either email me directly, or I suggest trying the nanog-futures list. Thank you. Abandon all hope ye who enter this thread.

Network topology

2008-10-15 Thread Colin Alston
Hi all I'm considering trying to come up with some means to automatically detect a networks topology and draw pretty pictures. This is somewhat boring though if a network isn't well arranged with VLANs and q-tag trunk routers and so on (It will just look like a big cloud of junk connected

Re: Network topology

2008-10-15 Thread Colin Alston
On 2008/10/15 06:29 PM Bill Woodcock wrote: InterMapper. http://dartware.com/network_monitoring_products/intermapper/index.html -Bill Whoa, quite a serious looking piece of software. Will check it out. Was kinda hoping to write my own software though,

Re: Network topology [Solved]

2008-10-15 Thread Colin Alston
On 2008/10/15 06:29 PM Colin Alston wrote: Is there any kind of cunning trick to detect standard layer2 switches along a path without stuff like STP? Apparently there isn't. Lots of people mentioned other tools, the problem there is they have one thing in common which is polling SNMP. I

Re: Network topology [Solved]

2008-10-15 Thread Colin Alston
On 2008/10/15 08:49 PM Larry Sheldon wrote: Colin Alston wrote: Maybe there should be something (I mean like, someone should come up with a standard :P) to trace switches in a path... Problem is I think even then the simple devices won't bother to support it. I have been away from it for ma

Re: Hey ISC, thanks for providing free wifi to intercage!

2008-10-01 Thread Colin Alston
On 2008/10/02 05:25 AM Noel Butler wrote: They wouldn't have the guts to post under their real name, remember, IRC is for the gutless keyboard commandos... What a stupid generalisation

Re: MTA Survey

2008-09-25 Thread Colin Alston
Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: Or the highly likely scenario that the primary gateway accessible to the survey tool is some load balanced SPAM filtering cluster, and not the MTA in use as final delivery. Good point, real MTA in front of Excange is extremely common..

Re: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Colin Alston
Florian Weimer wrote: * Jason Frisvold: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Scott Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nice to see a wholesale DNSSEC rollout underway (I must confess to being a little surprised at the source, too!). Granted, it's a much more manageable problem set than, say, .com

Re: Anyone have experience with Alcatel 9500MXC?

2008-09-19 Thread Colin Alston
Tom Storey wrote: Hi all. I have several of these units deployed, they are all running fine, but I am looking for information about them, specifically SNMP related. Our Alcatel contacts have given us a collection of MIBs, from which I cant really get anything useful out of the radios.

Re: Creating a visual Map of a network?

2008-09-16 Thread Colin Alston
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am being tasked to map a network. In the past I have used nmap to find the systems on the local LAN and remote LANs (same enterprise). This time I want to create a visual map of the LAN. With cheops, I reasonably good results but cannot be documented for

Re: InterCage, Inc. (NOT Atrivo)

2008-09-11 Thread Colin Alston
Lamar Owen wrote: Lack of a defense in a civil case will virtually guarantee a favorable judgment for the plaintiff, however. Networks (at least in most countries) are 100% private entities who can de-peer whoever they want for whatever reason they want.

HurricaneElectric

2008-08-29 Thread Colin Alston
Is anyone from Hurricane Electric/TunnelBroker.net here?

Re: HurricaneElectric

2008-08-29 Thread Colin Alston
On 2008/08/29 07:45 PM Christian Koch wrote: you might want to check the obvious first :) http://www.tunnelbroker.net/forums/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, problem was my prefix was routed wrong.. so trying to get to the site was tedious and would have required turning off IPv6 only to turn it on

Re: interger to I P address

2008-08-27 Thread Colin Alston
kcc wrote: I search google but couldn't get any solution Can you send me information? Sure! http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: interger to I P address

2008-08-27 Thread Colin Alston
Robert D. Scott wrote: The harder way: Decimal: 1089055123 Hex (dashes inserted at octals): 40-E9-A9-93 Decimal (of each octet): 64-233-169-147 IP Address: 64.233.169.147 The Python way import socket, struct socket.inet_ntoa(struct.pack('l', 1089055123)) '64.233.169.147'

Re: interger to I P address

2008-08-27 Thread Colin Alston
On 2008/08/27 05:22 PM Dave Israel wrote: Normally, I don't participate in this sort of thing, but I'm a sucker for a there's more than one way to do it challenge. Aww come on, C gets way more fun than that ;) #define _u8 unsigned char #define _u32 unsigned long int main(void) { _u32

Re: interger to I P address

2008-08-27 Thread Colin Alston
On 2008/08/27 07:07 PM Robert Kisteleki wrote: (unsigned char)(((char*)i)[3]), Ahh yes, I was trying to remember that pattern. I saw it in an embedded device long ago :P

Re: Public shaming list for ISPs announcing other ISPs IP space by mistake

2008-08-13 Thread Colin Alston
On 2008/08/13 10:04 PM Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: The italian courts seem to have told ISPs there to block ThePirateBay (bittorrent tracker), and this evening (CET) LLNW (AS22822) originated 88.80.6.0/24 via 6762 (telecom italia) to what I presume is most of Europe. Basically same thing that

Re: maybe a dumb idea on how to fix the dns problems i don't know....

2008-08-11 Thread Colin Alston
Joe Greco wrote: Unix machines set up by anyone with half a brain run a local caching server, and use forwarders. IE, the nameserver process can establish a persistent TCP connection to its trusted forwarders, if we just let it. Organizations often choose not to do this because doing so

Re: Great Suggestion for the DNS problem...?

2008-07-28 Thread Colin Alston
On 2008/07/28 09:05 PM Jay R. Ashworth wrote: Is there any reason which I'm too far down the food chain to see why that's not a fantastic idea? Or at least, something inspired by it? If NS records pointed to IP's instead of names then this problem might not exist. The root holds glue going

Re: Great Suggestion for the DNS problem...?

2008-07-28 Thread Colin Alston
On 2008/07/28 09:52 PM Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:35:30PM -0700, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: As you pointed out, the protocol, if properly implemented, addresses this. There should always be Glue (A records for the NS) in a delegation. RFC 1034 even specifies this: 4.2.2

Re: So why don't US citizens get this?

2008-07-27 Thread Colin Alston
On 2008/07/27 10:18 AM Randy Bush wrote: the fact is that real 100m/100m is about USD30/mo in japan. in the states, i pay about USD90 for 256k/768k. as far as the internet is concerned, the united states is a third world country. I currently pay (converted from ZAR to USD) $40/m for

Re: AUTO: Robbie Woodley is out of the office (returning Mon 07/21/2008)

2008-07-17 Thread Colin Alston
to your message RE: Managed, cheap, DC power switches sent on 7/17/2008 8:58:08 AM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away. Who cares? Tim and Chris ? -- Colin Alston ~ http://syllogism.co.za/ To the world you may be one person, to one person you may

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-27 Thread Colin Alston
anymore. Free access to the internet won long ago, it's all about defending your self. -- Colin Alston ~ http://syllogism.co.za/ To the world you may be one person, to one person you may be the world ~ Rachel Ann Nunes.

Re: amazonaws.com?

2008-05-24 Thread Colin Alston
to take action on. You should not accept SMTP from the Amazon EC2 cloud at all. Amazon don't intend for anyone to use it as an email platform and tell their clients to use an external relay. -- Colin Alston ~ http://syllogism.co.za/ To the world you may be one person, to one person you may

Re: [NANOG] US DoD receives chunked IPv6 /13 (14x /22 but not totally consecutive)

2008-05-16 Thread Colin Alston
allocation? -- Colin Alston ~ http://www.karnaugh.za.net/ To the world you may be one person, to one person you may be the world ~ Rachel Ann Nunes. ___ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog

[NANOG] support.microsoft.com?

2008-04-24 Thread Colin Alston
Has anyone else noticed strange things with support.microsoft.com? If I wget it ('http://support.microsoft.com/') from anywhere, I get an index.html fine. If I use lynx, I get gibberish (gzipped content, without a correct header) If I use Firefox or IE behind some Squid proxies in certain