Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 02:54:13AM -0500, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: gin-nto-icore1 is a Tata router at Equinix in NY. Whether or not that port belongs to Comcast is anyone's guess. From Tata's looking glass: 3 Vlan550.icore1.NTO-NewYork.as6453.net (209.58.26.78) 4 msec

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Tore Anderson
* Richard A Steenbergen FWIW these graphs pretty much reflect the massive congestion that I've been observing between Tata and Comcast. I've also seen some third party Smokeping graphs which visually show the rate of loss, and the pattern looks very very similar, but I'll let someone who

Re: TCP congestion control and large router buffers

2010-12-14 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Sam Stickland wrote: But there's no need for AQM, just smaller buffers would make a huge difference. Well, yes, buffering packets more than let's say 30-50ms on a 1 meg link doesn't make much sense. But doing some basic AQM would make things even better (some packets

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Rubens Kuhl
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Backdoor Santa backdoorsan...@hotmail.com wrote: Ever wonder what Comcast's connections to the Internet look like? In the tradition of WikiLeaks, someone stumbled upon these graphs of their TATA links. For reference, TATA is the only other IP transit provider

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Patrick Giagnocavo
Thanks for this, I think, as a residential customer of Comcast, the FCC and FTC will both be receiving a letter from me. Clearly Comcast is not making an effort to deliver their advertised service, and instead are actually degrading my service. Cordially Patrick

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Craig L Uebringer
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Rettke, Brian brian.ret...@cableone.bizwrote: I don't see anything listed that indicates operation that is at all different from any other service provider network. Yeah, the 30 day looks like a classic uptick in traffic toward the holidays. Some bellhead

RE: TCP congestion control and large router buffers

2010-12-14 Thread George Bonser
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Sam Stickland wrote: But there's no need for AQM, just smaller buffers would make a huge difference. Well, yes, buffering packets more than let's say 30-50ms on a 1 meg link doesn't make much sense. But doing some basic AQM would make things even better (some

RE: TCP congestion control and large router buffers

2010-12-14 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, George Bonser wrote: that sort of delay. Some form of AQM is probably a good thing as would be the wider use of ECN. Finding out that a buffer filled and a packet (or many packets) was dropped five seconds after the fact, isn't going ECN pretty much needs WRED, and then

DNS Fake Authority for hidden forwarders?

2010-12-14 Thread Leland Vandervort
Hi All, Apologies if off topic, but hoping that one of you gurus out there might have some tips on this. I have a rather unusual application for DNS which I need to figure out a way to make it work, but running into authority issues. Basically, I have a fake server running on a private

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2010-12-14 Thread Eugene Zola
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Re: DNS Fake Authority for hidden forwarders?

2010-12-14 Thread John Osmon
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 08:22:00PM +0100, Leland Vandervort wrote: Hi All, Apologies if off topic, but hoping that one of you gurus out there might have some tips on this. I have a rather unusual application for DNS which I need to figure out a way to make it work, but running into

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Backdoor Santa wrote: Ever wonder what Comcast's connections to the Internet look like? In the tradition of WikiLeaks, someone stumbled upon these graphs of their TATA links. For reference, TATA is the only other IP transit provider to Comcast after Level (3). Comcast is a customer of TATA

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:24:45 -0500, Craig L Uebringer cluebrin...@gmail.com wrote: Same crap I've seen on loads of provider networks. No ISP I've ever worked for or with has ever willingly ran their transit (or peering) links at capacity. (Granted, I've been responsible for saturating

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:24:45AM -0500, Craig L Uebringer wrote: Yeah, the 30 day looks like a classic uptick in traffic toward the holidays. Some bellhead beancounter maybe took out capacity in the summer lull and ignored the engineers. Or they just have stupidly-slow install

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Aaron Wendel
To what end? And who's calling the shots there these days? Comcast has been nothing but shady for the last couple years. Spoofing resets, The L3 issue, etc. What's the speculation on the end game? From: Richard A Steenbergen [mailto:r...@e-gerbil.net] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010

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Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 03:39:07PM -0600, Aaron Wendel wrote: To what end? And who's calling the shots there these days? Comcast has been nothing but shady for the last couple years. Spoofing resets, The L3 issue, etc. What's the speculation on the end game? I believe Comcast has made

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Scott Helms
Can you share any references on this? Everything I've seen has been typical lawyer double speak, i.e. the opposite of clear. On 12/14/2010 5:38 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: I believe Comcast has made clear their position that they feel content providers should be paying them for access to

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Douglas Otis
On 12/14/10 2:38 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 03:39:07PM -0600, Aaron Wendel wrote: To what end? And who's calling the shots there these days? Comcast has been nothing but shady for the last couple years. Spoofing resets, The L3 issue, etc. What's the

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 12/14/2010 15:23, Douglas Otis wrote: On 12/14/10 2:38 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 03:39:07PM -0600, Aaron Wendel wrote: To what end? And who's calling the shots there these days? Comcast has been nothing but shady for the last couple years. Spoofing

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Rettke, Brian
I'm surprised that no one seems to think that bandwidth is really just a series of interconnects. If indeed their links are saturated, they are probably either near an upgrade point (if their forecasting was correct) or trying to negotiate one (if their forecasting is bad or there is a sudden

Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

2010-12-14 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 12/8/10 6:30 AM, Drew Weaver wrote: Yes, but this obviously completes the 'DDoS attack' and sends the signal that the bully will win. it's part of a valid mitigation strategy. shifting the target out from underneath the blackholed address is also part of the activity. that's easier in some

TCP congestion control and large router buffers

2010-12-14 Thread Jim Gettys
As I'm attempting to lay out in my posts, there are are a plethora of problems, end-to-end in the network. Would that there was only one problem. Excessive, unmanaged buffers afflict the user's OS's (Windows, Mac and Linux alike), particularly on recent hardware. Home routers and the

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Alex Rubenstein
I just see this as a natural progression of what happens of a single player with a captive audience due to mergers and attrition. They know their customers aren't going anywhere. The only way to fix it would be to go back to the days when there were a bunch of competing local providers. Wait

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Jared Mauch
On Dec 14, 2010, at 6:59 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: I just see this as a natural progression of what happens of a single player with a captive audience due to mergers and attrition. They know their customers aren't going anywhere. The only way to fix it would be to go back to the days when

RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread George Bonser
From: Jared Mauch Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 6:24 PM Subject: Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style This requires one or more of the following: o regulatory action o last mile regulation or competitive access o subsidies for new players o massive capital outlays

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: George Bonser gbon...@seven.com If monopolies are needed in order to get service to an area, make them last mile wire monopolies that provide no content of their own and allow the content providers (Comcast, Verizon, ATT, etc.) provide service over the

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-14 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Alex Rubenstein a...@corp.nac.net -- Alex, remembering the days of 8000 ISP's with substantially better customer service than is available today In 1995, when I was the chief engineer for a teeny little ISP called Centurion Technologies, in Largo FL (we had

Net-Neutrality or Net-Neutered?

2010-12-14 Thread Beavis
I come across this interesting link. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=4828tag=nl.e036 Is ICANN really that susceptible to govt. pressure? I only see chaos ahead specially with ipv6 coming into the scene. -- ()  ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\  www.asciiribbon.org 

Re: Net-Neutrality or Net-Neutered?

2010-12-14 Thread Ken
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:20:17PM -0600, Beavis said: I come across this interesting link. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=4828tag=nl.e036 Is ICANN really that susceptible to govt. pressure? Funny, tho - being succeptible to govt pressure CREATES an alt root DNS

Re: Net-Neutrality or Net-Neutered?

2010-12-14 Thread David Conrad
On Dec 14, 2010, at 6:20 PM, Beavis wrote: I come across this interesting link. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=4828tag=nl.e036 http://domainincite.com/icann-had-no-role-in-seizing-torrent-domains/ Is ICANN really that susceptible to govt. pressure? Ignoring the fact that

Re: Net-Neutrality or Net-Neutered?

2010-12-14 Thread Beavis
we'll if ICANN't .. maybe HECANN (*trying out humor*). this idea of second internet doesn't make sense. icann alone is already a handful. On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Ken k...@sizone.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:20:17PM -0600, Beavis said:  I come across this interesting link.  

Alleged backdoor in OpenBSD's IPSEC implementation.

2010-12-14 Thread Wil Schultz
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/22557 This appears to be some serious FUD, but if true could have some serious implications for IPSEC stacks in all kinds of equipment. -wil

Re: Net-Neutrality or Net-Neutered?

2010-12-14 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Beavis pfu...@gmail.com wrote: I come across this interesting link. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=4828tag=nl.e036 Is ICANN really that susceptible to govt. pressure? I only see chaos ahead specially with ipv6 coming into the scene. ICANN is

Re: Alleged backdoor in OpenBSD's IPSEC implementation.

2010-12-14 Thread Chaim Rieger
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Wil Schultz wschu...@bsdboy.com wrote: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/22557 This appears to be some serious FUD, but if true could have some serious implications for IPSEC stacks in all kinds of equipment. -wil Does anyone remember the last

Re: Alleged backdoor in OpenBSD's IPSEC implementation.

2010-12-14 Thread Ken Chase
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:39:02PM -0800, Chaim Rieger said: Does anyone remember the last time a law enforcement agency had someone sign a 10 year NDA on a backdoor? Oh, times up, I can post it on Facebook now. Cool. 22:42 @smartboy curious what the guy's motives really are. pretty

Re: Net-Neutrality or Net-Neutered?

2010-12-14 Thread Joly MacFie
Earlier this evening ISOC-NY hosted a talk Nations and Networks by Milton Mueller http://www.livestream.com/isocny/video?clipId=pla_3df8a3b8-e2ee-489d-82d2-d5fb7fc432ef At one point, he said that he'd had conversations with government insiders about their cracking of the whip on ICANN on matters

Re: Windows Encryption Software

2010-12-14 Thread Nick Boyce
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Brandon Kim brandon@brandontek.com wrote: I want to know if there's software out there that will encrypt files on win2k3, winxp, win7, so that if someone decides to steal the computer and plug the harddrive into a USB external case, they won't be able to

Re: Alleged backdoor in OpenBSD's IPSEC implementation.

2010-12-14 Thread Michael J Wise
On Dec 14, 2010, at 9:56 PM, Ken Chase wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:39:02PM -0800, Chaim Rieger said: Does anyone remember the last time a law enforcement agency had someone sign a 10 year NDA on a backdoor? Oh, times up, I can post it on Facebook now. Cool. 22:42 @smartboy curious