RE: Trouble accessing www.nanog.org

2012-01-05 Thread Keith Medcalf
--- ()  ascii ribbon campaign against html e-mail /\  www.asciiribbon.org On Thursday, 05 January, 2012 08:30, Marshall Eubanks said: On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Keith Medcalf kmedc...@dessus.com wrote: There is video hosting web sites on the intertubes? Now where would those

RE: Outgoing SMTP Servers

2011-10-31 Thread Keith Medcalf
Dave CROCKER [mailto:d...@dcrocker.net] said on Sunday, 30 October, 2011 22:41 On 10/30/2011 8:36 PM, Brian Johnson wrote: So you support filtering end-user outbound SMTP sessions as this is a means to prevent misuse of the Commons*. Correct? If it is acceptable to have the receiving SMTP

RE: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates

2011-09-11 Thread Keith Medcalf
no actual security benefit whatsoever. Anyone believing otherwise is operating under a delusion. --- Keith Medcalf () ascii ribbon campaign against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org

RE: $ 90 million fine for cutting Internet services

2011-05-29 Thread Keith Medcalf
and oppressive governments. I believe the United States was the first with that idea. --- Keith Medcalf ()  ascii ribbon campaign against html e-mail /\  www.asciiribbon.org

RE: 23,000 IP addresses

2011-05-11 Thread Keith Medcalf
big time. After all, it is the Network Operators who are the accusers -- not the media mafia. Each member state creates its own law, according to the directive. In Portugal, you have to retain the data for one year. Best Regards, Luís Marta. --- Keith Medcalf ()  ascii ribbon campaign

RE: RBN and it's spin-offs

2009-12-30 Thread Keith Medcalf
Reportedly started by someone operating under the name Flyman, RBN is known as the mother of cybercrime among online investigators. François Paget, senior expert for the McAfee company, says that RBN began as an Internet provider and offered impenetrable hosting for $600 a month. This meant

RE: RBN and it's spin-offs

2009-12-30 Thread Keith Medcalf
Reportedly started by someone operating under the name Flyman, RBN is known as the mother of cybercrime among online investigators. François Paget, senior expert for the McAfee company, says that RBN began as an Internet provider and offered impenetrable hosting for $600 a month. This

RE: Linux shaping packet loss

2009-12-10 Thread Keith Medcalf
Autoneg is a required part of the gig E specification so you'd only be causing yourself trouble by turning it off. (I don't know if it'll also break automatic MDI/MDI-X (crossover) configuration, for an example of something that's nice to have.) At least on 450x series enhanced linecards,

RE: ISP port blocking practice/Free Speech

2009-10-25 Thread Keith Medcalf
Your scholar is wrong -- or he is giving the simplified explanation for children and others incapable of rational though and understanding, and you are believing the summary because it is simpler for you than understanding the underlying rational. Notice that in both cases your presumption of

RE: ISP port blocking practice

2009-10-24 Thread Keith Medcalf
Free speech doesn't include the freedom to shout fire in a crowded theatre. It most certainly does! There is absolutely nothing to prevent one from shouting FIRE in a crowded theatre. In fact, any attempt to legislate a prohibition against such behaviour would, in all civilized countries

OT: Any PALM e-mail administrators

2009-10-18 Thread Keith Medcalf
I have tried contacting PALM through their listed contact phone numbers and by email to their postmaster, all to no avail. I am having problems with their SMTP servers being unable to communicate with my domain configured SMTP server using Mxed addessing (ie, to kmedc...@dessus.com) although

RE: Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation

2009-09-12 Thread Keith Medcalf
and then that's PART of the MTA. Otherwise, it's an add-on of some sort. Given that the point I was making was about capabilities *included* in the MTA, and given that I *said* you could add on such functions, it's kind of silly to try to confuse the issue in this manner. CommuniGate Pro

RE: Follow up to previous post regarding SAAVIS

2009-08-14 Thread Keith Medcalf
... Dont know what web 2.0 is but the new portal is a web based object management system complete with recommended changes and inconsistency lists. We just added prefix allocation check with backend information from PCH (prefix checker tool). Web 2.0 is marketroid drivel-speak for a method

RE: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Keith Medcalf
Correct, you need a validating, security-aware stub resolver, or the ISP needs to validate the records for you. That would defeat the entire purpose of using DNSSEC. In order for DNSSEC to actually provide any improvement in security whatsoever, the ROOT ZONE (.) needs to be signed, and

RE: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Keith Medcalf
That would defeat the entire purpose of using DNSSEC. In order for DNSSEC to actually provide any improvement in security whatsoever, the ROOT ZONE (.) needs to be signed, and every delegation up the chain needs to be signed. And EVERY resolver (whether recursive or local on host) needs

RE: hat tip to .gov hostmasters

2008-09-22 Thread Keith Medcalf
Just because YOU check the digital signature on an email and forward that email to me (either with or without the signature data), if I do not have the capability to verify the signature myself, I sure as hell am not going to trust your mere say-so that the signature is valid! If I

ingress SMTP

2008-09-03 Thread Keith Medcalf
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 12:58:53PM -0400, Nicholas Suan wrote: On Sep 3, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: You're forgetting that 587 *is authenticated, always*. I'm not sure how that makes much of a difference since the usual spam vector is malware that has (almost) complete

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