Re: Spamhaus ...

2010-02-18 Thread Matthew Black
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:33:00 -0700 Joel M Snyder joel.sny...@opus1.com wrote: I second the assertion that others have already made that this is worth the money. We do spam testing, and I can more-or-less guarantee that Spamhaus beats all of the free reputation services (and a number of the

Re: In wall switches

2010-02-18 Thread ML
On 2/16/2010 12:01 PM, Jeff Kell wrote: On 2/16/2010 11:45 AM, Douglas K. Rand wrote: Does anyone know of anything like a small, but managed in wall switch? We had looked at the 3com NJ90 for a deployment. We ended up pulling more wire instead, but it was a cool device. It isn't managed.

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-18 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Laczo, Louis wrote: Folks, I'm looking for comments / suggestions / opinions from any providers that have been contacted by spamhaus about excessive queries originating from their DNS resolvers, typically, as a proxy for customers. I know that certain large DNS providers (i.e. google and

50/8 and 107/8 allocated to ARIN

2010-02-18 Thread Leo Vegoda
Hi, The IANA IPv4 registry has been updated to reflect the allocation of two /8 IPv4 blocks to ARIN in February 2010: 50/8 and 107/8. You can find the IANA IPv4 registry at: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml

Re: austin eats

2010-02-18 Thread Ren Provo
Daniel I hope you'll be able to join us at Iron Cactus on Sunday night - http://renster.multiply.com/photos/album/553/Sunday_night_in_Austin On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Daniel Fox d...@smarsh.com wrote: Just ate at iron cactus on 6th and both the talapia and spicy shrimp tacos are

Re: austin eats

2010-02-18 Thread Chris Boyd
On Feb 17, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Randy Bush wrote: which raises the critical question, where is the nearest decent (i.e. not fourbucks) coffee to the venue? https://auth.lessnetworks.com/v099/app?service=direct/1/Home/hotList_col3sp=0sp=SDESC Has a list of some hotspots. The Schlotzky's across

Re: Spamhaus ...

2010-02-18 Thread Joel Snyder
Sharef Mustafa wrote: What is the title of the white paper you mentioned? Is it available for free? If not how can I get it? Sorry, I should have put the link to the Best Practices in Reputation Services white paper in. I meant to, but I got distracted writing the disclaimer and forgot to

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: Spamhaus ...

2010-02-18 Thread John R. Levine
We ADDED Spamhaus to our IronPort because it was inexpensive. I recall using MAPS RBL many years earlier with a lot of false positives and angry companies trying to reach our users. Yeah, I used to pay for MAPS but dropped them several years ago because of the false positives and the high

Re: austin eats

2010-02-18 Thread Will Clayton
The fish tacos at Hang Town down Capital of Texas are awesome too. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Daniel Fox d...@smarsh.com wrote: Just ate at iron cactus on 6th and both the talapia and spicy shrimp tacos are phenomonal! Margaritas are really good too... 90 plus tequillas to choose

Re: austin eats

2010-02-18 Thread Will Clayton
Now that you mention it, Might Fine burgers are some of the best I've had in town too. On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Randy

Re: austin eats

2010-02-18 Thread Adam Kujawski
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Will Clayton w.d.clay...@gmail.com wrote: Now that you mention it, Might Fine burgers are some of the best I've had in town too. I can't believe nobody has mentioned the burgers at Hut's or Casino El Camino yet. Casino is a bar that's walking distance from the

Re: austin eats

2010-02-18 Thread Byron Hicks
For good food/beer/atmosphere, I recommend Fado Irish Pub on 214 W. 4th. -- Byron L. Hicks University of Texas System 512-377-9857 AIM: byronhicks On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Adam Kujawski adam...@amplex.net wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Will Clayton w.d.clay...@gmail.com

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-18 Thread Crist Clark
On 2/18/2010 at 2:40 AM, Michelle Sullivan matt...@sorbs.net wrote: Laczo, Louis wrote: Folks, I'm looking for comments / suggestions / opinions from any providers that have been contacted by spamhaus about excessive queries originating from their DNS resolvers, typically, as a proxy for

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-18 Thread William Warren
On 2/18/2010 12:50 PM, Crist Clark wrote: On 2/18/2010 at 2:40 AM, Michelle Sullivanmatt...@sorbs.net wrote: Laczo, Louis wrote: Folks, I'm looking for comments / suggestions / opinions from any providers that have been contacted by spamhaus about excessive queries

Blocking private AS

2010-02-18 Thread Thomas Magill
I am thinking about implementing a filter to block all traffic with private AS numbers in the path. I see quite a few in my table though so I am concerned I might block some legitimate traffic. In some cases, these are just prefixes with the private appended to the end but a few have the private

Re: Latest Cisco for small dual homed ASN

2010-02-18 Thread Andy Davidson
On 11/02/2010 18:53, James Smallacombe wrote: I have a customer that is looking at using BGP for their network; one connection over a few bonded T1s, the other over a Comcast Enterprise connection (which supposedly will do BGP now). When I was dual homed a few years ago, a 7204VXR with 256MB

Re: several messages

2010-02-18 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Dean Anderson wrote: [Damn. spit out my coffee on keyboard.] Levine and Vixie are partners in Whitehat. Whitehat is a commercial bulk mailer that offers listwashing services (removing spam-traps). MAPS employees were involved in listwashing. MAPS, Spamhaus, SORBS do not block Whitehat,

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-18 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 18/02/2010 10:40, Michelle Sullivan wrote: They seem to be doing that a lot of late. They also contacted my employer and demanded $100k/yr(?) for having a Use Spamhaus RBL in our software. I sympathise. It's very frustrating when you try to deal with these anti-spam outfits in a

Re: several messages

2010-02-18 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 18, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Michelle Sullivan wrote: Dean Anderson wrote: [Damn. spit out my coffee on keyboard.] Levine and Vixie are partners in Whitehat. Whitehat is a commercial bulk mailer that offers listwashing services (removing spam-traps). MAPS employees were involved in

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-18 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 18/02/2010 10:40, Michelle Sullivan wrote: They seem to be doing that a lot of late.  They also contacted my employer and demanded $100k/yr(?) for having a Use Spamhaus RBL in our software. I sympathise.  It's very

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-18 Thread Crist Clark
On 2/18/2010 at 11:47 AM, Michelle Sullivan matt...@sorbs.net wrote: Crist Clark wrote: We received such a message from a Spamhaus Datafeed reseller and eventually had our DNS servers blocked. What angered me was that I analyzed our usage, and we were well below the thresholds and met the

Re: several messages

2010-02-18 Thread Ronald Cotoni
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore patr...@ianai.net wrote: On Feb 18, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Michelle Sullivan wrote: Dean Anderson wrote: [Damn. spit out my coffee on keyboard.] Levine and Vixie are partners in Whitehat. Whitehat is a commercial bulk mailer that offers

Re: several messages

2010-02-18 Thread Larry Sheldon
[bagged and tagged for hazmat disposal] Why is that everybody who is compelled to comment on how useless (or worse) a posting is is also compelled to quote the garbage at great length? -- Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. Remember:

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-18 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/18/2010 2:36 PM, Crist Clark wrote: *Definition: non-commercial use is use for any purpose other than as part or all of a product or service that is resold, or for use of which a fee is charged. For example, using our DNSBLs in a commercial spam filtering appliance that is then sold to

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-18 Thread John Levine
In article 4b7da21c.1060...@foobar.org you write: On 18/02/2010 10:40, Michelle Sullivan wrote: They seem to be doing that a lot of late. They also contacted my employer and demanded $100k/yr(?) for having a Use Spamhaus RBL in our software. I sympathise. It's very frustrating when you try

Austin

2010-02-18 Thread Larry Sheldon
Any of the Austin contingent near the IRS office? Everybody OK? -- Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. Remember: The Ark was built by amateurs, the Titanic by professionals. Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio

Re: Latest Cisco for small dual homed ASN

2010-02-18 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:53 PM, James Smallacombe u...@3.am wrote: I have a customer that is looking at using BGP for their network; one connection over a few bonded T1s, the other over a Comcast Enterprise connection (which supposedly will do BGP now). When I was dual homed a few years ago,

Tahiti's OPT ASN?

2010-02-18 Thread Scott Weeks
Anyone got the ASN of Office des Postes et Télécommunications in French Polynesia? I'm having a heck of a time looking for it in APNIC. scott

Please Ignore Re: Tahiti's OPT ASN?

2010-02-18 Thread Scott Weeks
--- sur...@mauigateway.com wrote: -- Anyone got the ASN of Office des Postes et Télécommunications in French Polynesia? I'm having a heck of a time looking for it in APNIC. --- Apologies for the noise. I found it at

RE: dns interceptors

2010-02-18 Thread Justin Krejci
While not covering all apps you may want to use, it does work for at least Firefox when web browsing (works on non-windows too) when using an ssh socks proxy Go to the address about:config filter for dns toggle network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to true and then firefox will send its own DNS

Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL

2010-02-18 Thread Dean Drako
With respect to Barracuda Networks and Spamhaus. I expect, but I do not know, that Spamhaus probes on port 25 in order to identify Barracuda Spam and Virus Firewalls and then block their access to their RBL. Many Barracuda customers have been cut off without warning causing them trouble and

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-18 Thread Jon Lewis
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, James Hess wrote: According to the Spamhaus web site, Your mail volume is automatically assumed to be very large, if you use a dedicated anti-spam server/appliance of any type. It would appear that the logic is: everyone who has a low volume of mail MUST perform all

Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL

2010-02-18 Thread Joel M Snyder
Dean Drako wrote: We make no claims about it being better or worse than any other RBL. I have some objective data based on our testing here. Over the past 18 months, Barracuda's block rate is 81.9%, while Spamhaus' is 83.3%. For whatever measurement error you want to include, that says that

RE: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL

2010-02-18 Thread John Souvestre
Hello Joel. I have some objective data based on our testing here. Over the past 18 months, Barracuda's block rate is 81.9%, while Spamhaus' is 83.3%. For whatever measurement error you want to include, that says that they are roughly equivalent. Over the past 6 months, BRBL is actually

MLFR Differential Delay Problems

2010-02-18 Thread R. Benjamin Kessler
Hello NANOGers - I'm working on a project to migrate a customer from one Tier 1 provider to another at 50+ locations (all domestic US sites). Most of these connections are 4xT1 multi-link bundles. The old router configuration was MLPPP which was rock-solid for 3 years (save for the

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-18 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Crist Clark wrote: On 2/18/2010 at 11:47 AM, Michelle Sullivan matt...@sorbs.net wrote: Crist Clark wrote: We received such a message from a Spamhaus Datafeed reseller and eventually had our DNS servers blocked. What angered me was that I analyzed our usage, and we were well

Re: several messages

2010-02-18 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Dean e-mails lots of people directly and CC's the list with his .. uh .. missives. The list members do not see it, just the people individual on the To or CC lines see it. When you reply to the list, /then/ people on the list see it. I am replying to the list

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-18 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Crist Clark wrote: We do not fit into that. We are not selling an appliance or service to others (the 'Cuda is for our internal corporate email only, not customers). If we were still using my home-built SpamAssassin system, it'd be OK to use Spamhaus. Now that we've purchased an appliance and