Re: most accurate geo-IP source to build country-based access lists

2015-06-10 Thread Dave Sparro
Years ago when meeting with the lawyers to talk about the need to block access to a list of websites I was coming from the technical side and talking about how all of our possible solutions were incomplete and easily circumvented by our users. The lawyers' response was to explain the concept of

Re: How big is the Internet?

2013-08-16 Thread Dave Sparro
On 8/16/2013 12:46 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Aug 16, 2013, at 00:37 , Sean Donelan s...@donelan.com wrote: On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Seth Mattinen wrote: We'll also need this data in units of number of Libraries of Congress. The researchers at the Library of Congress are more than happy to

Re: How big is the Internet?

2013-08-15 Thread Dave Sparro
On 8/14/2013 3:00 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: I should have remembered, NANOG prefers to correct things. So here are several estimates about how much IP/Internet traffic is downloaded I had always assumed that Bytes were like photons, and had no mass. -- Dave

Re: 204.17.16.0/20 Unreachable via Comcast ASN 7992; Looking for Help or Contacts

2013-08-05 Thread Dave Sparro
On 8/4/2013 10:41 AM, Chad Reid wrote: Is anyone from Comcast on the list that can assist or know of a contact? This message is private and confidential. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. I may, but it appears that you don't want me

Re: Paetec PI space?

2013-06-27 Thread Dave Sparro
. I hope that doesn't make it even harder for you to find answers to your questions from the service provider, but I suspect that it will. -- Dave Sparro

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-02-01 Thread Dave Sparro
On 1/30/2013 5:03 PM, John Levine wrote: The muni power companies around here provide service every bit as good as NYSEG, the private power company, at literally half the price. The muni providers have a bunch of cost advantages that help them keep the price lower. municipal utilities: -

Re: [SHAME] Spam Rats

2013-01-10 Thread Dave Sparro
On 1/9/2013 10:06 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Who uses it? Or did you see your IP listed in one of those multiple dnsbl query sites and contacted them on general principles even though you didn't see any actual bounced email that could be traced to a spam rats listing? That said, it is

Re: [SHAME] Spam Rats

2013-01-10 Thread Dave Sparro
On 1/10/2013 9:53 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Unused space generally gets a $generate type generic scripted runs which could be whatever, like ip-ad-dr-ess.example.com http://ip-ad-dr-ess.example.com If the IP address hasn't been assigned to example.com, why would make a DNS entry that

Re: ARIN Fraud Reporting Form ... Don't waste your time

2010-10-01 Thread Dave Sparro
On 10/1/2010 5:22 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: really too much to ask? They could say, to everyone involved, and to the community as a whole, ``This ain't right. *We* maintain the official allocation records. In most cases, *we* made the allocations, and that guy should NOT be announcing

Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic?

2010-09-14 Thread Dave Sparro
On 9/13/2010 12:05 PM, William Herrin wrote: It's a question of double-billing. I've already paid you to send and receive packets on my behalf. Detuning my packets because a second party hasn't also paid you is cheating, maybe fraudulent. Would you object to an ISP model where a content

Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic?

2010-09-14 Thread Dave Sparro
On 9/14/2010 1:08 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Sep 14, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Dave Sparro wrote: On 9/13/2010 12:05 PM, William Herrin wrote: It's a question of double-billing. I've already paid you to send and receive packets on my behalf. Detuning my packets because a second party hasn't also

Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic?

2010-09-14 Thread Dave Sparro
On 9/14/2010 4:02 PM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: The consumers are saying I want faster, as long as I don't have to pay more. Content providers are saying, If consumers had faster, I'd be able to invent 'Killer App'. I sure wish the ISPs would upgrade their networks. ISPs are saying, Why should we

Re: Contacts re email deliverability problem to tmomail.net?

2010-05-17 Thread Dave Sparro
On 5/15/2010 6:38 PM, Graham Freeman wrote: That may be, but it would surprise me. The carriers still get paid by virtue of charging the recipients for the SMSes, and in this particular case cutting off this line of communication is leaving money on the table, as email-SMS deliverability

Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-21 Thread Dave Sparro
On 4/21/2010 8:46 AM, Jim Burwell wrote: Despite it doing the job it was intended to do, I've always seen NAT as a bit of an ugly hack, with potential to get even uglier with LSN and multi-level NAT in the future. I personally welcome a return to a NAT-less world with IPv6. :) Don't you

Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL

2010-02-22 Thread Dave Sparro
On 2/22/2010 12:40 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Is it your position that, as a vendor of antispam services, nobody else should offer their services for a fee? That would be strange indeed Actually I can sympathize with Barracuda on this one: Bob's Widgets is running thier own mail

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-18 Thread Dave Sparro
On 2/17/2010 7:35 PM, John Levine wrote: We no longer use Spamhaus, relying instead upon Sender Base Reputation Scores (IronPort). How does the price compare Price comparisons would be difficult; with Ironport (Cisco now) you get hardware to go along with the service. -- Dave

Re: DNS question, null MX records

2009-12-15 Thread Dave Sparro
On 12/15/2009 10:17 AM, Eric J Esslinger wrote: I found a reference to a null MX proposal, constructed so: example.comINMX 0 . Question: Is this a valid dns construct or did the proposal die? I don't want to cause people problems but at the same time, I don't want any of this crap to