Re: Galaxy S6 is IPv6 on all US National Mobile carriers

2015-04-14 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On 14 Apr 2015, at 01:59 , Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net wrote: For those wondering, nearly 62% of VZ Wireless traffic is IPv6. to a few select websites (not in term of overall traffic). http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Colin Johnston
Because looks strange especially if the traffic is 100% bad Best practice says avoid such info in records as does not aid debug since mix of dec and hex Colin On 14 Apr 2015, at 14:09, Nikolay Shopik sho...@inblock.ru wrote: How its weird? All these chars allowed in DNS records. On

RE: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Chuck Church
Comic Book Guy would probably declare: Worst Naming Convention Ever Chuck -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Colin Johnston Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:27 AM To: Nikolay Shopik Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: macomnet weird dns record

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 02:26:48PM +0100, Colin Johnston col...@gt86car.org.uk wrote a message of 19 lines which said: Best practice says avoid such info in records as does not aid debug since mix of dec and hex No. Pure imagination on your side. There is no such best practice. And it's not

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Nikolay Shopik
Then best practice, that naming should be helpful for owners of network in first place and only afterwards everyone else. On 14/04/15 16:26, Colin Johnston wrote: Because looks strange especially if the traffic is 100% bad Best practice says avoid such info in records as does not aid debug

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Pavel Odintsov pavel.odint...@gmail.com wrote: We use hexademical numbers in PTR for VPS/Servers because PTR's like host-87.118.199.240.domain.ru so often banned by weird antispam systems by mask \d+\.\d+\.\d+\d+ as home ISP subnets which produce bunch of

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread manning bill
perfectly legal… the octal records confuse me more than the hex. /bill PO Box 12317 Marina del Rey, CA 90295 310.322.8102 On 14April2015Tuesday, at 5:36, Colin Johnston col...@gt86car.org.uk wrote: never saw hex in host dns records before.

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Nikolay Shopik
Hi Colin, Well some people get creative when creating PTR records. Maybe they really want encode something like netmask as Stephane said to provide some additional info for their own helpdek? Chinese don't bother for multiply reasons, same probably apply to Russian part net, cheap Internet

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Nikolay Shopik
Transit traffic isn't issue, as upload/download ratio usually 1:2 or more. As I said before when you already on edge of your profits, you don't bother fixing these clients. Its not about best practice which I agree, but business you are running, which is suppose to be profitable. And fixing these

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Nikolay Shopik
This is probably worse then hexadecimal PTR records :). No traceroute actually convert punycode, so why bother? As it usually intended audience already know how to read English letters. On 14/04/15 17:00, Pavel Odintsov wrote: What about IDN encoded PTR records? I sure it's nice idea and I will

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Colin Johnston
so fix the spam hosts, don’t mask the problem and make more complicated for folks trying their best to solve Colin On 14 Apr 2015, at 15:09, Pavel Odintsov pavel.odint...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Colin! We use hexademical numbers in PTR for VPS/Servers because PTR's like

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Colin Johnston
costs more money in long term not fixing the bad traffic as have to spend more for transit doing the bother and fixing the problem is best practice Colin Chinese don't bother for multiply reasons, same probably apply to Russian part net, cheap Internet access. So when you asking them to

Re: Galaxy S6 is IPv6 on all US National Mobile carriers

2015-04-14 Thread Joel Esler (jesler)
So am I correct in assuming that unless you go 100Mb, and other than the N router to replace the G router, there isn’t anything beneficial? -- Joel Esler Open Source Manager Threat Intelligence Team Lead Talos Group I reserve the right to be wrong On Apr 14, 2015, at 11:11 AM, Matthew Huff

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:26:48 +0100, Colin Johnston said: Best practice says avoid such info in records as does not aid debug since mix of dec and hex Odd. All the hex and decimal have proper indicators (initial 1-9 or 0x), and should be easily understood by anybody who actually knows their

RE: Galaxy S6 is IPv6 on all US National Mobile carriers

2015-04-14 Thread Matthew Huff
The earlier generation of ONT has 100MB Ethernet and MOCA. If you upgrade to Quantum and order speeds 100MB you'll need an ONT with gig-E and switch from MOCA to wired Ethernet. The MOCA standard specifies up to 175MB, but I don't think MOCA vendors have made any adapters 100MB.

Re: Galaxy S6 is IPv6 on all US National Mobile carriers

2015-04-14 Thread Joel Esler (jesler)
I don't believe Quantum has any changes relative to the external of the house. Fios has been capable of pushing those speeds with the old modem for years. The difference between the old modem and the new one is that the wireless is 802.11n whereas the old one was only capable of g. -- Joel

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Colin Johnston
There becomes a point though that doing nothing allows larger problems which could have been nipped in the bud if sorted when issue was a smaller magnitude. Profit when there is known bad traffic as a percentage and you known ignore it is bad profit and does not help the greater good. most

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Nikolay Shopik
User complain that his network slow and reliable. Check if its saturated his link and tell him buy additional 10mbps/s, here is your profit. If you really want fight bots, you need to track down and fight CC in first place. Otherwise you are fighting windmills.

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Nikolay Shopik
Yep, last time I've checked and internet isn't running on communism. On 14/04/15 18:05, Rod Beck wrote: Private benefit is less than social (sum of private benefits across all affected parties) benefit.

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Pavel Odintsov
But I'm not a spam source. I banned for netmask which similar to ISP subnet. On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Colin Johnston col...@gt86car.org.uk wrote: so fix the spam hosts, don’t mask the problem and make more complicated for folks trying their best to solve Colin On 14 Apr 2015, at

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Rod Beck
Sounds like a textbook economics case of a network externality. The benefit to the provider is far less than the benefit to the entire affected community. Private benefit is less than social (sum of private benefits across all affected parties) benefit. Roderick Beck Sales Director/Europe and

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread William Waites
Colin, I understand that you would like everyone on the Internet to behave in a way that you consider normal and tailor their reverse DNS so as not to offend your aesthetic sense. It is frustrating when other people do things differently, my deepest sympathies. Also if you have ever used a BSD

RE: Galaxy S6 is IPv6 on all US National Mobile carriers

2015-04-14 Thread Matthew Huff
It's much smaller J Other than that, I don't know of anything else. I don't use their router anyway. Matthew Huff | 1 Manhattanville Rd Director of Operations | Purchase, NY 10577 OTA Management LLC | Phone: 914-460-4039 aim: matthewbhuff| Fax: 914-694-5669

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 14/04/15 06:26, Colin Johnston wrote: Best practice says avoid such info in records as does not aid debug since mix of dec and hex Can you please cite the best practice document where this is stated? Thanks.

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/14/2015 08:51, Colin Johnston wrote: Get real, why make is hard for others to debug abuse issues, another reason why blocks in place as no technical cooperation. Because others has a subset = dreaded anti-spammers. -- The unique Characteristics of System Administrators: The fact that

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/14/2015 08:26, Colin Johnston wrote: Because looks strange especially if the traffic is 100% bad Best practice says avoid such info in records as does not aid debug since mix of dec and hex Which is precisely why spammers have been doing it for years. -- The unique Characteristics of

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Colin Johnston
Get real, why make is hard for others to debug abuse issues, another reason why blocks in place as no technical cooperation. Colin On 14 Apr 2015, at 14:48, Nikolay Shopik sho...@inblock.ru wrote: Then best practice, that naming should be helpful for owners of network in first place and

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Nikolay Shopik
Are Roman numerals allowed in DNS? Because I know some people also do them. dig -x 217.199.208.190 On 14/04/15 16:45, Chuck Church wrote: Comic Book Guy would probably declare: Worst Naming Convention Ever Chuck -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org]

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Pavel Odintsov
Hello! What about IDN encoded PTR records? I sure it's nice idea and I will implement they in my network shortly. On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Nikolay Shopik sho...@inblock.ru wrote: Are Roman numerals allowed in DNS? Because I know some people also do them. dig -x 217.199.208.190 On

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Colin Johnston
Hi Nikolay, I have obvious hit a cultural nerve here, if so I am sorry. At least there is communication on some level, Chinese colleagues would not even bother to respond to aid debug. Be that as it may, why not use either normal decimal numbers or normal characters to show what a normal person

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Niels Bakker
* col...@gt86car.org.uk (Colin Johnston) [Tue 14 Apr 2015, 16:05 CEST]: Be that as it may, why not use either normal decimal numbers or normal characters to show what a normal person would understand instead of having to convert the shown output ? I actually thought it was quite clever and

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Pavel Odintsov
Hello, Colin! We use hexademical numbers in PTR for VPS/Servers because PTR's like host-87.118.199.240.domain.ru so often banned by weird antispam systems by mask \d+\.\d+\.\d+\d+ as home ISP subnets which produce bunch of spam. On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Colin Johnston

Re: Nonprofits - Office 365

2015-04-14 Thread Nicholas Harland
Hi, While I'm sure Ryan's intentions are good, I would like to point out that this is a standard offer available directly from Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/en-us/office365-for-nonprofits/ Nick Harland On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Ryan Finnesey

RE: Nonprofits - Office 365

2015-04-14 Thread Ryan Finnesey
Hi Nick The free licenses are a standard offer from Microsoft but what is not available is the onboarding and consulting services to migrate data and help the origination get started with Office 365 this is the value- add . Cheers Ryan From: Nicholas Harland [mailto:nharl...@gmail.com] Sent:

macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Colin Johnston
never saw hex in host dns records before. host-242.strgz.87.118.199.240.0xfff0.macomnet.net range is blocked non the less since bad traffic from Russia network ranges. Colin

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Nikolay Shopik
How its weird? All these chars allowed in DNS records. On 14/04/15 15:36, Colin Johnston wrote: never saw hex in host dns records before. host-242.strgz.87.118.199.240.0xfff0.macomnet.net range is blocked non the less since bad traffic from Russia network ranges. Colin

Re: Cisco Routers Vulnerability

2015-04-14 Thread Alain Hebert
Well, Its not like peoples are still using telnet/ssh/web with a password/enable on the net... anymore. We do PCI and it took the better part of 6 month for a Customer Network Engineer to get it right. ( The annoying part is that we cannot do the work for them, we can only hope

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 04:09:42PM +0300, Nikolay Shopik sho...@inblock.ru wrote a message of 10 lines which said: How its weird? All these chars allowed in DNS records. And they probably encode the netmask, which may be useful.