Re: ISP port blocking practice

Hello all, On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Ricky Beam jfb...@gmail.com wrote: If I block port 25 on my network, no spam will originate from it. (probablly) The spammers will move on to a network that doesn't block their crap.  As long as there are such open networks, spam will be rampant.  

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

Day, does anyone see any issues with this? Please, I strongly urge you to consider the ergonomics in question. That name is REALLY hard to read, spell, pronounce, type, recognize, etc. Agreed that there are no technical roadblocks, but again, please use common sense and choose something that

DPI deployment use case

Hello all, We have had a number of DPI boxes (SCE8080) sitting in the access network for a while now, so far they served mainly for congestion management and such, and are wondering if there are some real use case in the fine-grained service control land (as the vendors keep whispering in out

Re: DPI deployment use case

Hello, On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Martin Millnert milln...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen tyrannical governments use Bluecoat's to crack down on their own population(*). Was this the sort of use-case you were looking for? :) Ummm, not really... :) Actually, we've been faced with proposals

DNS server software

Hello all, We are a mid-sized carrier (1.2M broadband subscribers) and we are looking for an upgrade in our public DNS resolver infrastructure, so we are interested in getting to know what are you guys using in your networks. Mainly what kind/brand of software and which architecture did you use

Re: PL/SQL CIDR?

Not in Oracle, but PostgreSQL has a very robust implementation for CIDR, including not only datatypes but also a host of operators to deal with them. Being opensource, it always seemed plausible to me to port the functionality into Oracle, learning from their implementation. Never got to actual

Mail Submission Protocol

Hello all, At our ISP operation, we are seeing increasing levels of traffic in our outgoing MTA's, presumably due to spammers abusing some of our subscribers' accounts. In fact, we are seeing connections from IPs outside of our network as many as ten times of that from inside IPs. Probably all of

Re: 23,000 IP addresses

Hello, On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: In the US, I believe that CALEA requires you to have those records for 7 years. FWIW, in Argentina there is a requirement to hold all records for a full ten years. A sweet bite for the storage folks here... regards,

Inmarsat contact

Hello people, Does anyone knows someone at Inmarsat? I need to get in contact with a tech over there. thanks in advance, cl.