Re: .mil dns problems?

2010-05-27 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 21:55 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: Looks more like a routing issue. Looks like the .MIL operators put all their eggs into one basket. 8-( From .uk, the .pac and .con servers respond fine but the .eur servers don't. Go figure. Graeme

Re: Spamcop Blocks Facebook?

2010-03-05 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 23:27 -0800, Shon Elliott wrote: So really, my customers, and myself are victims of Spamcop's blocking of Facebook. I forget how far back in this thread someone said: Spamcop *listed* Facebook for valid reasons according to their published listing criteria. Other people

Re: Spamcop Blocks Facebook?

2010-03-05 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 09:08 -0600, David E. Smith wrote: As long as we're going off-topic, might as well go all the way :V Well, the conversation has continued here despite repeated mentions of mai...@mailop.org so unless the MLC deem it off-topic and squash the thread I guess it'll rumble on.

Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL

2010-02-22 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 14:40 -0500, Dave Sparro wrote: Their list, their rules; but it is indeed strange to me. Not too strange: Little Bobby probably does one or two jobs and goes away, leaving the system to run by itself. the SpamAssassin people receive nothing from his choice of software. If

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-21 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 06:27 +, John Levine wrote: In my experience, they're pretty reasonable. I would talk to them (or one of their datafeed sales agents) before assuming that they won't sell you the service you need. They are indeed. In my day job, a large group of related members of

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

2010-01-13 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 15:12 -0500, Steven Bellovin wrote: Lots of gear has a button/jumper/pop_the_CMOS battery/other_physical_presence_magic to reset things to factory state, including the default pw. The threat went on to why default passwords are bad, to passwords on the bottom of the

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-06 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 17:00 +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote: In that case, how do you run your current service: http://www.vialtus.com/en/Solutions/Hosting-and-Datacentre-Services/Security-Solutions/Distributed-Denial-of-Service-Protection.aspx It says how, right on that page. Not Arbor. Graeme

RE: SPF Configurations

2009-12-04 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 11:45 -0500, Jeffrey Negro wrote: Thanks for your input on this. My main concern is mail filters at the end users side thinking that our mail servers are spoofing our customer's domain. If you really feel that SPF is going to help, then keep all the mail in your domain's

Re: SORBS?

2009-08-25 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 09:35 -0500, Marc Powell wrote: I don't think they watch here; at least I've never seen Michelle post here. I've had confirmation from Michelle personally this morning (following a similar question elsewhere) that the SORBS systems are indeed relocating. From a previous

Are you an unpaid volunteer?

2009-07-22 Thread Graeme Fowler
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8163190.stm Some of it is right. Some of it is wrong. All of it makes for interesting reading from the point of view of a layperson. We are all, apparently, unsung heroes... Graeme PS Yes, there's plenty to tear apart in the article. Don't shoot the

Re: several messages

2009-07-14 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 10:12 -0500, Ronald Cotoni seti...@gmail.com wrote: And I still have yet to get someone from sorbs to contact me off list. I wonder if they actually read email (highly doubtful at this point) I can almost guarantee that they don't subscribe to NANOG, so posting here will

RE: In a bit of bind...

2009-06-02 Thread Graeme Fowler
Once upon a time, whilst working for a fairly well-known UK domain registration company, I put together a system built on an early version of the BIND-DLZ patchset against BIND 9.2.5 (If I recall correctly). It used MySQL as the backend database (because that's what the registration system used

Re: delays to google

2009-05-14 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 12:34 -0400, Justin M. Streiner wrote: I'm guessing whatever the issue is has been resolved, or the storm has passed? http://www.google.com/appsstatus#rm:1/di:1/do:1/ddo:0 Not that it would have been much use to you at the time. Graeme

Re: Charter.net email routing issues

2009-02-24 Thread Graeme Fowler
Meta: I'm one of the mailop list admins... On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 07:50 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Anybody actually on that list? Most of the serious mailops work is on some other, entirely different lists. There are almost 400 on the list now, and it grows with every single mention

Re: Tightened DNS security question re: DNS amplification attacks.

2009-01-28 Thread Graeme Fowler
Hi On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 13:16 +0100, fredrik danerklint wrote: At 12:07:16 local time here in sweden, I saw a new address 70.86.80.98. At 12:09:36 another new address 64.57.246.123 At 12:20:10 the address 70.86.80.98 started to ask for funny domain name like:

Re: isprime DOS in progress

2009-01-21 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 12:27 -0500, Phil Rosenthal wrote: Representing ISPrime here. Well... representing myself and nobody else, so if that stretches my credibility thin so be it. It's somewhat absurd to suggest that we are attacking our own nameservers, I assure you, we didn't spend many

Re: Are you getting Spam from Crossfire Media?

2009-01-14 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 17:19 -0800, JC Dill wrote: The particular email address ceased being used (by me) over a year ago, but suddenly 4 weeks ago I was subscribed to their mailing list. Apparently the common theme is that we all registered for the VON conference at one point. Aha, list

Re: Are you getting Spam from Crossfire Media?

2009-01-13 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 14:43 -0500, Reynold Guerrier wrote: My subscription to NANOG aged 3 months ago and I am receiving this spam too. And this is my first post. I effectively think that someone might have crack the email database of the Nanog list. Funny; I'm not in that sort of business and

Re: Exploit for DNS Cache Poisoning - RELEASED

2008-07-25 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 18:14 -0400, Pete Carah wrote: I saw much more than this *from the same address* starting two days ago, and from several other blocks belonging to the same university starting last week, to my home router and another server. So far my better connected servers haven't