Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers

2011-10-27 Thread Bjørn Mork
Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org writes: In message 4ea8a021.9000...@blakjak.net, Mark Foster writes: Why? It's a reasonable position; end users in the generic sense are sending to whatever their client has set up for SMTP, fire-and-forget. Again, I feel like folks are taking their relatively

Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers

2011-10-27 Thread Bjørn Mork
Owen DeLong o...@delong.com writes: On Oct 26, 2011, at 8:07 PM, Scott Howard wrote: As much as some ISPs still resist blocking port 25 for residential customers, it does have a major impact on the volume of spam leaving your network. I've worked with numerous ISPs as they have gone through

Recommendation for customer monitoring network tool/portal for a large ISP

2011-10-27 Thread Alex Nderitu
Hello, What solutions do you guys in the fixed network business/ISPs use to provide customer portals for network KPI reporting to customers in a fixed network on real time basis. The KPI in question are network availability, utilization, memory/cpu of managed routers/firewall, jitter, packet

Re: Recommendation for customer monitoring network tool/portal for a large ISP

2011-10-27 Thread Leigh Porter
I looked at Statseeker a while back and it was very good. -- Leigh On 27 Oct 2011, at 09:47, Alex Nderitu nderitua...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, What solutions do you guys in the fixed network business/ISPs use to provide customer portals for network KPI reporting to customers in a fixed

RE: Outgoing SMTP Servers

2011-10-27 Thread Brian Johnson
I find that large network providers have less issues with this issue. As a small regional provider, implementing a sane port 25 filter has saved us a lot of money and customer headaches over the years. Our costs would be much higher if we could not save labor hours by implementing this.

Re: Colocation providers and ACL requests

2011-10-27 Thread Keegan Holley
2011/10/26 Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com - Original Message - From: Keegan Holley keegan.hol...@sungard.com - Original Message - From: Keegan Holley keegan.hol...@sungard.com I'm assuming colo means hosting, and the OP misspoke. Most colo providers don't

Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers

2011-10-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:53:34 -, Brian Johnson said: It is interesting that some people who fully understand that the Internet is composed of many networks run by people with different interests can say what is best for the Internet as a whole. How my organization (or yours or anybody

Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers

2011-10-27 Thread Robert Bonomi
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:53:34 -, Brian Johnson said: It is interesting that some people who fully understand that the Internet is composed of many networks run by people with different interests can say what is best for the Internet as a whole. How my organization (or yours or anybody

RE: Outgoing SMTP Servers

2011-10-27 Thread Brian Johnson
-Original Message- From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu [mailto:valdis.kletni...@vt.edu] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 10:24 AM To: Brian Johnson Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:53:34 -, Brian Johnson said: It is interesting that some people

RE: Outgoing SMTP Servers

2011-10-27 Thread Brian Johnson
-Original Message- From: Robert Bonomi [mailto:bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 12:50 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:53:34 -, Brian Johnson said: It is interesting that some people who fully understand that

Re: XSServer / Taking down a spam friendly provider

2011-10-27 Thread Richard Kulawiec
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 08:22:53PM -0400, Chris wrote: For folks who say hosting companies are not helpful: Linode, Amazon, BurstNET, Ubiquity Servers and others are extremely responsive to abuse complaints. Burstnet is one of the filthiest sewers on the entire Internet. Has been for many

BGP AS question

2011-10-27 Thread Cliff Bowles
Greetings. We have a few facilities within a 30 mile radius, and each has an ISP link. We use P2P links at the edge to make certain traffic sourcing from one facility, and destined to the Public IPs at another, stay on the dirty links rather than punting out to the ISP. All sites use the same

RE: Recommendation for customer monitoring network tool/portal for a large ISP

2011-10-27 Thread McCall, Gabriel
I'm getting ready to do an eval of Monolith Software's monitoring/management product. They have some very nice multi-tenant dashboarding and reporting capabilities and are extremely scalable. -Gabriel -Original Message- From: Alex Nderitu [mailto:nderitua...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday,

Need photographs of IT/Telecom gear/rooms

2011-10-27 Thread Mike
Greetings, I have been given the opportunity to teach the mechanics of the Internet to a group of 6 - 12'th grade students, and as an engineer and owner of an ISP I have it in mind to really get into this and show these kids how, really, all this stuff works and to make it fun and exciting.

Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers

2011-10-27 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:53:34 -, Brian Johnson said: As a small regional provider, implementing a sane port 25 filter has saved us a lot of money and customer headaches over the years. It is interesting that

Re: Need photographs of IT/Telecom gear/rooms

2011-10-27 Thread chip
Mike, You might be able to glean some interesting pictures from: http://www.reddit.com/r/cableporn http://www.reddit.com/r/datacenter http://www.flickr.com/groups/cableporn/ * That's actual cables and racks and such, not cinemax late night video =) --chip On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:30 PM,

Re: XSServer / Taking down a spam friendly provider

2011-10-27 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:52 AM, William Pitcock neno...@systeminplace.net wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:22:53 -0400 Chris cal...@gmail.com wrote: This is a huge business. Shady SEO companies are charging individuals at least $250 per month to use their spam tools of choice to spam forums and

Re: Recommendation for customer monitoring network tool/portal for a large ISP

2011-10-27 Thread Godonou Dossou
You can all so look at Zenoss Sent from my iPhone On 2011-10-27, at 4:47 AM, Leigh Porter leigh.por...@ukbroadband.com wrote: I looked at Statseeker a while back and it was very good. -- Leigh On 27 Oct 2011, at 09:47, Alex Nderitu nderitua...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, What

Re: Recommendation for customer monitoring network tool/portal for a large ISP

2011-10-27 Thread chip
Might want to check out NimSoft as well. Multitenancy built in. http://www.nimsoft.com/solutions On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Alex Nderitu nderitua...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, What solutions do you guys in the fixed network business/ISPs use to provide customer portals for network KPI

Re: Recommendation for customer monitoring network tool/portal for a large ISP

2011-10-27 Thread Jason Lixfeld
We've just deployed Intermapper to do all of our device polling, link status and topology mapping. Works very well and looks real pretty. For graphing, we use cacti with the Discovery and Autom8 plugins. For SNMP trap parsing, we use SNMPTT. We're currently evaluating Splunk to eat the SNMP

Fiber in Atlantic City, NJ

2011-10-27 Thread alex-lists-nanog
Hello, If anyone has/knows of contacts among the fiber providers in Atlantic City, NJ as close to the Broadwalk as possible ( especially those that might have a leg to Philadelphia, PA ), could you kindly reply off list? Thank you, Alex

Re: Fiber in Atlantic City, NJ

2011-10-27 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:16 PM, alex-lists-na...@yuriev.com wrote: Hello, If anyone has/knows of contacts among the fiber providers in Atlantic City, NJ as close to the Broadwalk as possible ( especially those that might have a leg to Philadelphia, PA ), could you kindly reply off list?

Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers

2011-10-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:17:22 -, Brian Johnson said: So... I'm in complete agreement with your statement, but The Wikipedia reference is not pertinent. So I point out the tragedy of the commons, you agree with it, but the Wikipedia reference that talks about the same exact thing isn't

Re: Need photographs of IT/Telecom gear/rooms

2011-10-27 Thread Drew Linsalata
I did this at career day last spring for my daughter's fifth grade class. They were a bit young to get too deep into the nitty gritty, but they completely ate up the presentation and it was really gratifying to get notes and emails (all voluntarily sent) from some of the kids talking about how

Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers

2011-10-27 Thread Pete Carah
On 10/27/2011 05:38 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:17:22 -, Brian Johnson said: So... I'm in complete agreement with your statement, but The Wikipedia reference is not pertinent. So I point out the tragedy of the commons, you agree with it, but the Wikipedia

Google+ now available for Google Apps domains

2011-10-27 Thread steve pirk [egrep]
Y'all ragged on me because Google+ was only available to gmail users... Well, now you can enable it for your users from the control panel on your Google Apps domains... Google Apps administrators can manually turn on Google+http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=1631744 for their

Re: Google+ now available for Google Apps domains

2011-10-27 Thread Justin Seabrook-Rocha
On Oct 27, 2011, at 6:32 PM, steve pirk [egrep] wrote: Y'all ragged on me because Google+ was only available to gmail users... Well, now you can enable it for your users from the control panel on your Google Apps domains... Google Apps administrators can manually turn on

Re: Colocation providers and ACL requests

2011-10-27 Thread James Ashton
Christopher, This is pretty common policy. Not many datacenters of any size is going to act differently. If you don't purchase this service then you will not get the service. They may be willing work work with you on black-holing problem IPs though. This is pretty common, but don't expect

Mexico?

2011-10-27 Thread Ryan Finnesey
If I want to get a block of IP's issued for a network within Mexico who do I talk with? I have been told arin does not cover Mexico. It was my understand arin covers North America. Cheers Ryan

Re: Mexico?

2011-10-27 Thread John Curran
On Oct 28, 2011, at 3:24 AM, Ryan Finnesey wrote: If I want to get a block of IP's issued for a network within Mexico who do I talk with? I have been told arin does not cover Mexico. It was my understand arin covers North America. Hi Ryan - ARIN used to cover the entire global minus

Re: Mexico?

2011-10-27 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 10/27/11 20:24 , Ryan Finnesey wrote: If I want to get a block of IP's issued for a network within Mexico who do I talk with? I have been told arin does not cover Mexico. It was my understand arin covers North America. mexico moved to the lacnic region with the formation of the lacnic

RE: Need photographs of IT/Telecom gear/rooms

2011-10-27 Thread Eric Germann
There are some fairly interesting photos of the Verizon CO that took a hit on 9/11 at http://www.slideshare.net/datacenters/verizon-contingency-planning-for-coop I recall far back in my memory some posts on this from a decade ago that pointed to some websites that had more photos. Was kind of

Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers

2011-10-27 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Pete Carah p...@altadena.net wrote: On 10/27/2011 05:38 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:17:22 -, Brian Johnson said: So... I'm in complete agreement with your statement, but The Wikipedia reference is not pertinent. For our

Update Bogon Lists

2011-10-27 Thread Ross Annetts
Hi, We have been allocated the IP range: 101.0.64.0/18 And have had issues with 2 networks in regards to bogon filtering. It would be appreciated if everyone can remove it from their bogon lists. Regards, Ross Annetts Systems Administrator Digital Pacific

Re: Update Bogon Lists

2011-10-27 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Ross Annetts ross.anne...@digitalpacific.com.au wrote: Hi, We have been allocated the IP range: 101.0.64.0/18 http://www.rfc-editor.org/queue.html#draft-ietf-grow-no-more-unallocated-slash8s (soon-to-be-released rfc about same) And have had issues

Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers

2011-10-27 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 10/28/2011 5:44 AM, William Herrin wrote: A commons is jointly owned, either by a non-trivial number of private owners or by all citizens of a government. The practical use of the term is a bit broader: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons As rule, the term gets applied to

Re: Mexico?

2011-10-27 Thread Daniel Espejel
Hi Ryan...well, a late response, but actually you should take a look in the www.lacnic.net (Latin-america's RIR) and www.nic.mx (Network Information Center of Mexico) webpages and contact someone there to get all the information you need in order to obtain a IP addresses block. Regards If

Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers

2011-10-27 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net wrote: On 10/28/2011 5:44 AM, William Herrin wrote: A commons is jointly owned, either by a non-trivial number of private owners or by all citizens of a government. The practical use of the term is a bit broader:  

Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers

2011-10-27 Thread Joel jaeggli
Email as facility is a public good whether it constitutes a commons or not... If wasn't you wouldn't bother putting up a server that would accept unsolicited incoming connections on behalf of yourself and others, doing so is generically non-rival and non-excludable although not perfectly so in