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

2010-09-29 Thread Erik L
Thanks John. This was a common question that was asked off-list. That edge MTA is not used and has never been used by anything/anyone other than us. No customer mail flows or has flowed in or out via it ever. As I mentioned in my follow-up post, the issue at this point is that the domain has

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

2010-09-29 Thread Erik L
such records. - Original Message - From: Jeroen van Aart jer...@mompl.net To: nanog nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 2:11:43 PM Subject: Re: What must one do to avoid Gmail's retarded non-spam filtering? Erik L wrote: Received-SPF: pass ... Authentication-Results

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

2010-09-29 Thread Erik L
Message - From: Joe Sniderman joseph.snider...@thoroquel.org To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 3:29:10 PM Subject: Re: What must one do to avoid Gmail's retarded non-spam filtering? On 09/29/2010 12:05 AM, Erik L wrote: Google appears to have blacklisted our domain. From

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

2010-09-29 Thread Erik L
No - Original Message - From: Seth Mattinen se...@rollernet.us To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 2:51:49 PM Subject: Re: What must one do to avoid Gmail's retarded non-spam filtering? On 9/29/2010 11:48, Erik L wrote: Thanks John. This was a common question

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

2010-09-28 Thread Erik L
I realize that this is somewhat OT, but I'm sure that others on the list encounter the same issues and that at least some folks might have useful comments. An increasingly large number of our customers are using Gmail or Google Apps and almost all of our OSS/BSS mail is getting spam filtered

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

2010-09-28 Thread Erik L
from a non-existant host Unlikely to be an IP repuation issue given the one message above did go through fine. Erik - Original Message - From: William Herrin b...@herrin.us To: Erik L erik_l...@caneris.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 4:44:24 PM Subject: Re

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

2010-09-28 Thread Erik L
Hi William, I do so for our entire IP space on a regular basis. The edge MTA I mentioned in the reply to Bill shows up as Neutral there. Thanks Erik - Original Message - From: William Pitcock neno...@systeminplace.net To: Erik L erik_l...@caneris.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday

RE: Seeking Amazon EC2 abuse contact

2010-04-12 Thread Erik L
, 2010 05:16 To: Erik L Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Seeking Amazon EC2 abuse contact Erik, We have several customers being attacked from the same EC2 instance on their network for 2 full days now. Contacted them at ec2-ab...@amazon.com and 25 hours later received a message

RE: Seeking Amazon EC2 abuse contact

2010-04-12 Thread Erik L
...@streamservice.nl] Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 9:39 AM To: Erik L; 'Michael J McCafferty' Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Seeking Amazon EC2 abuse contact Hello Erik, Do you care to share the IP address? So everyone could update their firewalls to block the attacks? Even only blocking known SIP

Seeking Amazon EC2 abuse contact

2010-04-11 Thread Erik L
Could someone from Amazon EC2 please contact me off-list regarding an abuse issue from one of their IPs? Alternatively, could someone please send me the contact details of someone there? E-mailing the abuse e-mail listed in WHOIS per their instructions, including all pertinent data, results in

RE: Network Naming Conventions

2010-03-13 Thread Erik L
On my last network I named all the routers after simpsons characters. scaled well? He wrote last instead of current...make your own conclusions ;)

PPP+RADIUS - routing subnets to end users - Framed-Route vs. Framed-IP-Netmask

2010-03-08 Thread Erik L
Scenario: with the help of RADIUS, routing subnets to end users connecting via PPP. Discussion: pros/cons of using Framed-IP-Address+Framed-Route versus Framed-IP-Address+Framed-IP-Netmask. We're talking here in generic terms, so as far as the behaviour of the LNS or access concentrator or

RE: Using /31 for router links

2010-01-23 Thread Erik L
As for ATM... The part that totally baffles me about the use of ATM on xDSL lines is that I have never, ever, ever seen an xDSL line carrying more than one ATM VC. OK, there may be someone out there who has set up a configuration like that just for fun, but 99.999% of all ATM'd xDSL

RE: Using /31 for router links

2010-01-22 Thread Erik L
rfc3021 is over 9 years old, so should be no suprise that it works well. :-) I'm never surprised anymore by something that should work turning out to have some obscure quirk about it, so I figured it was worth asking. ;) It's not a quirk, it's an implementation-specific feature ;)

RE: Enhancing automation with network growth

2010-01-20 Thread Erik L
I'm reaching the point where adding in a new piece of infrastructure hardware, connecting up a new cable, and/or assigning address space to a client is nearly 50% documentation and 50% technical. A common problem :) One thing that would take a major load off would be if my MRTG system

RE: Link capacity upgrade threshold

2009-08-30 Thread Erik L
If your 95th percentile utilization is at 80% capacity, it's time to start planning the upgrade. s/80/60/ the normal snmp and other averaging methods *really* miss the bursts. s/60/40/ What is this upgrade thing you all speak of? When your links become saturated,