Re: Connectivity to an IPv6-only site

2010-04-23 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/23/2010 03:26, Steve Bertrand wrote: On 2010.04.23 03:35, Larry Sheldon wrote: From my PC at home (Cox in Omaha) I can't even get a nameserver that knows the site. Larry... let me explain why. Although you might not understand, others will, and you may remember this as something when

Re: Connectivity to an IPv6-only site

2010-04-23 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/23/2010 04:49, Dave Hart wrote: On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 08:26 UTC, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: - in WHOIS, I have ns1 and ns2.onlyv6.com listed as the authoritative name servers - both of these servers *only* have IPv6 addresses Which seems a bit far afield from reality to

Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-22 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/22/2010 10:04, John Lightfoot wrote: That's Hedley. -Original Message- From: bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com [mailto:bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 10:34 AM To: Simon Perreault Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast

Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-22 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/22/2010 10:17, Charles Mills wrote: I think he was actually quoting the movie. They always called Harvey Korman's character Hedy and he'd always correct them with That's Hedley in a most disapproving tone. Oh. The only thing I watch less-of than TV is movies. Saydid they ever make

Re: Reverse DNS Question

2010-04-20 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/20/2010 15:26, Antonio Querubin wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, James Martin wrote: What is the purpose for this besides resolving name-based reverse lookups? Are there any definitive guides out there on how this works (besides the ARIN site)? It's for resolving address-based lookups.

Re: Senderbase is offbase, need some help

2010-04-18 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/18/2010 16:02, Matthew Petach wrote: On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:15 AM, gordon b slater gordsla...@ieee.org wrote: On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 16:45 -0400, William Herrin wrote: Interesting; I see similar results for my address space. Two addresses, one of which hasn't been attached to a

Re: Tracking down reverse for ip

2010-04-15 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/15/2010 15:07, Dennis Burgess wrote: I have a customer that has an IP of 12.43.95.126. Currently, I can not get any reverse on this IP. What is the best way to find out the responciable servers for this? Thanx in advance. CCNA, Mikrotik Certified Trainer, MTCNA, MTCRE, MTCWE,

Re: getting the hint

2010-04-15 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/15/2010 18:06, Dave CROCKER wrote: The only response that works -- and even this is not guaranteed -- is shunning. Drop the message. Do not respond. Ever. And for the love of Pete, when somebody (as I have) makes a mistake and does his bidding, tell the miscreant VIA PRIVATE EMAIL

Re: APNIC Allocated 14/8, 223/8 today

2010-04-14 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/14/2010 09:35, Vincent Hoffman wrote: On 14/04/2010 13:45, Dave Hart wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:20 UTC, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 14/04/2010 08:06, Srinivas Chendi su...@apnic.net wrote to SANOG: 014/8 223/8 Sunny, Please be careful about how you write

Re: Seeking Amazon EC2 abuse contact

2010-04-12 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/12/2010 11:51, Erik L wrote: Many thanks again to the large number of off-list responses. After making human contact, the issue was very promptly resolved by Amazon and a gentleman there has promised to look into the error on the abuse form as well. And people say talk of routing their

Re: OECD Reports on State of IPv6 Deployment for Policy Makers

2010-04-10 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/9/2010 23:23, Franck Martin wrote: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100409_oecd_reports_on_state_of_ipv6_deployment_for_policy_makers/ Nasty, degenerate, foot-dragging U.S. of A. does it again. -- Somebody should have said: A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have

Re: FCC dealt major blow in net neutrality ruling favoring Comcast

2010-04-10 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/10/2010 06:36, Roderick Beck wrote: I would characterize the US as a first rate military and economic power, but a third rate place to live. What are the net emigration rates by country? What are the net medical tourism rates by country? What are the net disaster charity rates by

Re: FCC dealt major blow in net neutrality ruling favoring Comcast

2010-04-10 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/10/2010 09:19, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: Larry Sheldon wrote: On 4/10/2010 06:36, Roderick Beck wrote: Please, let's keep this off the NANOG list! I am already on a politically oriented forum. Got it. It is OK to make accusations, but not OK to challenge them. My apologies

Re: FCC dealt major blow in net neutrality ruling favoring Comcast

2010-04-09 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/9/2010 16:22, joe mcguckin wrote: Let me see if I understand this correctly. People are defending the FCC? After looking at who they elect, why does that surprise? The same FCC that ruled that any data service over 200Kbits was broadband, not Information Service and thus came under

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-04-07 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/7/2010 13:39, Jeroen van Aart wrote: Lamar Owen wrote: companies, Official Title is used to determine salary (or even whether you're an exempt employee or not). And the company's bylaws may invest particular Unless I misread the laws regarding this, in CA at least you still have

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-04-07 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/7/2010 17:45, Gregory Hicks wrote: Actually, it doesn't matter how much you make per hour, the deciding factor between exempt and non-exempt is how many (if any) people you SUPERVISE. No supervision of others, then non-exempt. I don't think that is correct. Professionals do not

Re: What is The Internet TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?

2010-04-05 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/5/2010 10:21, Michael Sokolov wrote: Jim Mercer j...@reptiles.org wrote: if the script determined an email was X bytes (100k?), the message body was rewritten with: Contents removed at LSUC, email is not a file transport protocol. and the mail was left to continue on its path. i

Re: What is The Internet TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?

2010-04-04 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/3/2010 21:36, Joe Greco wrote: What if TCP is removed ? and IP is completely re-worked in the same 160-bit foot-print as IPv4 ? Would 64-bit Addressing last a few years ? I must have dozed off--what is the connection between the Subject: and the recent traffic under it. The Internet (Note

Re: What is The Internet TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?

2010-04-04 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/4/2010 00:29, Randy Bush wrote: UNIX-to-UNIX Service-Based solutions pre-date many ARPA DARPA DOD funding programs run by people who do not write code you're shocking lack of clue is showing As is the lack of access to any of a large collection of books, articles, and anecdotes.

Re: Was a 1956 Video Phone User - On the Internet ?

2010-04-04 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/4/2010 05:00, IPv3.com wrote: Based on these ASCII notes...(c. 1995 cave paintings)... http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1775.txt Was a 1956 Video Phone User - On the Internet ? http://www.porticus.org/bell/telephones-picturephone.html Is a 2010 HDTV (ATSC DLNA) viewer - On the Internet ?

Re: What is The Internet TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?

2010-04-04 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/4/2010 09:57, Jorge Amodio wrote: UUCP is not a descriptor of any kind of a network in any engineering sense that I know of. It is a point-to-point communications protocol. You should revise some of the history behind it. It was a descriptor for a very large network, it was even a TLD

Re: Was a 1956 Video Phone User - On the Internet ?

2010-04-04 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/4/2010 09:56, John Sage wrote: The degree to which people subscribed to this list, apparently having nothing better to do, will respond to a blatant troll is breathtaking. Mama taught me to be polite and forgiving, it takes me a while to give up on a persistent idiot--I want so badly to

Re: What is The Internet TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?

2010-04-04 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/4/2010 10:37, Jim Mercer wrote: On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 09:57:12AM -0500, Jorge Amodio wrote: You should revise some of the history behind it. It was a descriptor for a very large network, it was even a TLD in the mid eighties when the transition to DNS was taking place, the old bang

Re: What is The Internet TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?

2010-04-04 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/4/2010 09:02, Larry Sheldon wrote: This attribution line is wrong--I meant to leave only the two line below it--for my purposes it did matter who said it. On 4/3/2010 21:36, Joe Greco wrote: The line above should have been edited out leaving only these two. What if TCP is removed

Re: what about 48 bits?

2010-04-04 Thread Larry Sheldon
I keep seeing mention here of the permanent MAC address. Really? Permanent? Been a long time, but it seems like one of the fun things about having DECNet-phase IV on the network was its propensity for changing the MAC address to be the DECNet address. And it seems like the HP-UX machines

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/3/2010 10:34, Michael Dillon wrote: That adoption is so low at this point really says that it has failed. In the real world, there is no success or failure, only next steps. At this point, IPv4 has failed, Failed? Really?!!?! Not often you hear something that has changed just about

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-03 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/3/2010 12:31, George Bonser wrote: -Original Message- From: Larry Sheldon [mailto:larryshel...@cox.net] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 8:43 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: legacy /8 On 4/3/2010 10:34, Michael Dillon wrote: That adoption is so low at this point really

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/2/2010 08:39, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:48:48 BST, Michael Dillon said: So, what are you having your up-and-coming NOC staff read? In an attempt to wean them off of unmanageable PERL scripts There is not, and there never will be, a useful programming

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/2/2010 16:08, Charles N Wyble wrote: Hmmm... it is 2pm on a Friday afternoon. I guess it's the appropriate time for this thread. *grabs popcorn and sits back to watch the fun* While it is true that this is likely to be one of the less productive windmill jousts. I used to work for a

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-02 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/2/2010 19:25, Randy Bush wrote: IPv6 as effectively reindroduced classful addressing. but it's not gonna be a problem this time, right? after all, 32^h^h128^h^h^h64 bits is more than we will ever need, right? Just like last time. -- Democracy: Three wolves and a sheep voting on the

Re: 100% want IPv6 - Was: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?

2010-04-01 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/31/2010 22:12, Dan White wrote: On 31/03/10 22:14 -0300, jim deleskie wrote: I'm a real life user, I know the difference and I could careless about v6. most anything I want I is on v4 and will still be there long after ( when ever it is) we run out of v4 addresses. If I'm on a From

Re: 100% want IPv6 - Was: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?

2010-04-01 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/1/2010 09:13, Larry Sheldon wrote: Most care not a whit how the wallpaper does it, they just want when the plug a lamp into it to get light. A toaster, warmed bread. A computer, to be able to exchange email, read the news, watch pornography, or play games. Kindasorta related: http

Re: Time for a lounge mailing list

2010-03-31 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/31/2010 11:50, kris foster wrote: Everyone- this conversation should take place at nanog-futu...@nanog.org. That list is for meta-discussions like this. The irony is overwhelming.

Re: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?

2010-03-31 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/31/2010 19:05, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 01/04/2010 00:40, Michael Dillon wrote: In fact, consumer demand for IPv6 is close to 100%. Michael, I think you fat-fingered 0%. Just to be clear, I'm talking about the real world here. I wondered about that. I would have guess that nearly

Re: Useful URL for network operators

2010-03-30 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/30/2010 04:34, Jim Mercer wrote: he is invading other lists as well, looks like he is trying to become a net.kook. EXPN 'become' -- Democracy: Three wolves and a sheep voting on the dinner menu. Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Eppure si rinfresca ICBM

Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 26, Issue 142

2010-03-30 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/30/2010 08:09, Stephen Tandy wrote: Sent from my Windows® phone. -Original Message- From: nanog-requ...@nanog.org nanog-requ...@nanog.org Sent: 30 March 2010 13:00 To: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org Subject: NANOG Digest, Vol 26, Issue 142 Send NANOG mailing list

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-30 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/30/2010 22:35, Steve Bertrand wrote: The feedback that I've received off-list has led me to believe that I just need to scratch the title, and have my name and number. Who cares what I do. Those who want to call/email me will have a purpose for doing so anyway ;) Post University I

Re: Posting from freebie E-mail Accounts

2010-03-30 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/30/2010 22:42, Andrew D Kirch wrote: Is there anyone here who is legitimate using a freebie webmail account? I am proposing that the NANOG administration drop everything originating from commonly used webmail providers, and add further RHS filters as additional providers are identified

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-30 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/30/2010 22:44, Alastair Johnson wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: I did not mean to initiate a thread that turns into a joke. I'm quite serious. I guess I'm curious to get an understanding from others who work in a small environment that have no choice but to 'classify' themselves. When I

Blacklist entry

2010-03-28 Thread Larry Sheldon
For some reason I am getting a ton of DNR spam from blackberry.net with Subject: lines that imply that somebody here is the culprit. (Hence this message here.) I am blacklisting blackberry.net in an effort to reduce the spam load here. -- Democracy: Three wolves and a sheep voting on the dinner

Re: Blacklist entry

2010-03-28 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/28/2010 12:00, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:51:51 CDT, Larry Sheldon said: For some reason I am getting a ton of DNR spam from blackberry.net with Subject: lines that imply that somebody here is the culprit. (Hence this message here.) I figured it was just

Re: AOL Postmaster

2010-03-22 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/22/2010 14:03, Mark Keymer wrote: Hi, If at all possible can a AOL Postmaster please get a hold of me. I have a client that co-lo's with use and we do the support for them and we need some help on getting mail to be delivering again to AOL. Didn't I read that all of the AOL Postmasters

Open Security (was Re:[a string that stops delivery here])

2010-03-19 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/19/2010 08:44, William Pitcock wrote: On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 08:31 -0500, John Kristoff wrote: An ongoing area of work is to build better closed, trusted communities without leaks. Have you ever considered that public transparency might not be a bad thing? This seems to be the plight

Re: Latency quesstion

2010-03-18 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/18/2010 10:07, Larry Sheldon wrote: On 3/18/2010 09:56, Dennis Dayman wrote: have a friend who has 21 floors of a building in DFW, multiple switches, etc and they started to have latency issues this weekend where half if not all packet are being dropped to folder shares, printers, etc

Re: Latency question

2010-03-18 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/18/2010 11:00, Brandon Kim wrote: That was pretty quick. But what do you mean by spewing stuff? It would help the rest of us understand for possible future issues we may run into ourselves. Good question. Without thinking about it I saw in my mind's eye a situation we used to

Re: Using private APNIC range in US

2010-03-18 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/18/2010 11:22, Jaren Angerbauer wrote: It sounds like this range was just recently assigned -- is there any document (RFC?) or source I could look through to learn more about this, and/or provide evidence to my client? See related traffic on this list, for openers. -- Democracy: Three

Re: Latency quesstion

2010-03-18 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/18/2010 09:56, Dennis Dayman wrote: have a friend who has 21 floors of a building in DFW, multiple switches, etc and they started to have latency issues this weekend where half if not all packet are being dropped to folder shares, printers, etc. Suggestions on how they can troubleshoot

Re: Latency quesstion

2010-03-18 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/18/2010 10:07, Larry Sheldon wrote: On 3/18/2010 09:56, Dennis Dayman wrote: have a friend who has 21 floors of a building in DFW, multiple switches, etc and they started to have latency issues this weekend where half if not all packet are being dropped to folder shares, printers, etc

Re: Latency quesstion

2010-03-18 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/18/2010 12:06, Dan White wrote: On 18/03/10 11:48 -0500, Larry Sheldon wrote: On 3/18/2010 10:07, Larry Sheldon wrote: On 3/18/2010 09:56, Dennis Dayman wrote: have a friend who has 21 floors of a building in DFW, multiple switches, etc and they started to have latency issues

Re: Latency quesstion

2010-03-18 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/18/2010 12:12, Larry Sheldon wrote: On 3/18/2010 12:06, Dan White wrote: [previous comments and header display] That _is_ interesting! I wonder if there is a way to get to those headers from Thunderbird. Not much else works and I didn't even think to try. My bad. It does work

Re: Using private APNIC range in US

2010-03-18 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/18/2010 14:30, William Allen Simpson wrote: On 3/18/10 2:35 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: Does anyone know if the University of Michigan or Cisco are going be updating their systems and documentation to no longer use 1.2.3.4 ? http://www.google.com/search?q=1.2.3.4+site%3Acisco.com I know

Re: CSIRT - Backbone Security : Runtime Monitoring and Dynamic Reconfiguration for Intrusion Detection Systems

2010-03-17 Thread Larry Sheldon
[bagged and tagged] Yes the spam is annoying. It is annoying that the moderators have let go on a lot longer than they have some operational discussions. But what is REALLY annoying is the people who quote the crap around my filters after I have had to take local action to staunch the flow.

Re: Mail List Test

2010-03-16 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/16/2010 20:42, p8x wrote: I have been getting them fine... On 17/03/2010 9:23 AM, Chris Gotstein wrote: Haven't gotten a message through the NANOG mailing list for a week or so now. Seeing if this works. Well that is certainly helpful. He is not. -- Democracy: Three wolves

Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/12/2010 08:43, Joe Greco wrote: As such, the only real value I see the FCC tool offering is the potential for visibility into things such as DSL speed/distance limitations, but in order for that to be meaningful, you'd have to get a lot of people to run the test. Which brings us back

Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/12/2010 13:22, Steven Bellovin wrote: On Mar 12, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: --- t...@americafree.tv wrote: From: Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv This might be useful to some. Article : http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62B08720100312 site

Re: Qwest DNS Problems?

2010-03-10 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/10/2010 9:40 PM, Daniel wrote: Did anyone notice any issues with Qwest DNS the past hour or two? We've had users with intermittent issues and the weird thing is while they can't resolve certain domains within Qwest's network I can query the same DNS servers from outside of Qwest's network

Re: Spamcop Blocks Facebook?

2010-03-04 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/4/2010 1:16 PM, jim deleskie wrote: If I leave all boxes checked to send mail/notices/app requests to everyone in my list, or if I give FB my gmail password to pull all my contacts and send them an invite, its pure @ my request, sure FB is happy I do it, but it is no way spam. Its like

Re: Spamcop Blocks Facebook?

2010-03-04 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/4/2010 1:37 PM, jim deleskie wrote: I'm not going to both on this thread anymore.. waste of time. Sorry for the bulk mail/spam generated by my replies to nanog. I'll stop feeding the trolls now. Nice recovery attempt for a lost cause. -- Government big enough to supply everything you

Re: Spamcop Blocks Facebook?

2010-03-04 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/4/2010 2:35 PM, Dean Anderson wrote: When there are 100 million facebook organizations, perhaps your comparison will be appropriate. But even then, only if your friends participate in all 100 million. Getting the occasional facebook, linkedin, and plaxo invitation from your friends is

Re: Spamcop Blocks Facebook?

2010-03-04 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/4/2010 3:14 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:35:47 EST, Dean Anderson said: lots of whining about it's not a DDoS/spam elided. My To: list: To: jim deleskie deles...@gmail.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Your To: list: To: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu, Shon Elliott

Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

2010-03-01 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/1/2010 9:55 AM, Adam Waite wrote: Hm, I was under the impression that ARPANET was a government run network... Not since 1992..what you're looking for these days is NIPRnet and SIPRnet, and ESnet, etc, etc, etc. ARPANET only lives on in reverse dns. And that is only the

Re: [members-discuss] Re: RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group (fwd)

2010-03-01 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/1/2010 12:53 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:04:19 -0600 Larry Sheldon larryshel...@cox.net wrote: On 3/1/2010 9:55 AM, Adam Waite wrote: Hm, I was under the impression that ARPANET was a government run network... Not since 1992..what you're looking

Re: Chile (fyi)

2010-02-27 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/27/2010 1:20 AM, chaim.rie...@gmail.com wrote: Gettingreports of loss of connectivity to parts of chile They had an 8.5 a short while ago. At that magnitude, I don't know how significant .3 is, but from the USGS: == PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE REPORT == ***This event

Re: Chile (fyi)

2010-02-27 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/27/2010 6:47 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote: On 2/27/2010 1:20 AM, chaim.rie...@gmail.com wrote: Gettingreports of loss of connectivity to parts of chile They had an 8.5 a short while ago. At that magnitude, I don't know how significant .3 is, but from the USGS

Tsunami

2010-02-27 Thread Larry Sheldon
Al Gore was fake, the Chilean Earthquakes are real. If you have interests near the Pacific Ocean, read up on the Tsunami warnings for the area of your interest. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9E4DMIG0show_article=1 -- Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough

Re: Tsunami

2010-02-27 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/27/2010 12:52 PM, Antonio Querubin wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Kauto Huopio wrote: On 2/27/10 8:08 PM, Antonio Querubin wrote: Tsunami evacuation zone areas are being advised to evacuate. But of course the online maps are actually offline today for some reason. I'd guess HI civil

Re: Future timestamps in /var/log/secure

2010-02-26 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/26/2010 12:29 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: On 2/26/10 11:20 AM, Wade Peacock wrote: I found a while ago in /var/log/secure that for an invalid ssh login attempt the ssh Bye Bye line is in the future. I have searched the web and can not find a reason for the future time in the log. Here is a

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-23 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/22/2010 11:20 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 2/22/2010 8:42 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote: When Somebody calls one of my portable telephone numbers, they don't get a message telling them they have to call some other number. The get call progress tones. You are confusing what is presented

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-23 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/23/2010 4:39 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: Maybe politicians should just keep their nose out of things that they can't understand. Email addresses aren't phone numbers. It occurs to me that maybe there is a reason why political conservatives get so excited about minor, trivial erosions of

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-23 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/23/2010 4:43 AM, Cian Brennan wrote: As has been pointed out several times, they can easily be pretty close. Simply force them to send using the outgoing server of their new ISP, but allow them to still access their mailbox (which is really the only important bit the ISP hosts) over

Re: NANOG48 HD streams now active

2010-02-23 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/23/2010 9:26 AM, Anton Kapela wrote: Web browser embedded flash player: http://nanog.iristransport.net/nanog48/ VLC direct link: http://204.29.15.165:10001 Enjoy, -Tk Heh. This message may be a scam and Thunderbird thinks this message is a scam. The links in the

Re: Kill this thread: Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-23 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/23/2010 10:54 AM, John Sage wrote: Unquote I'd want to trade my email address for one that doesn't trigger empty responses. Or get me banned. But he's right, we should take the discussion of operational issues somewhere else. -- Government big enough to supply everything you need is big

Re: Messages in junk/spam box

2010-02-22 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/22/2010 4:09 AM, Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] wrote: On 02/22/2010 12:11 AM, Tarig Y. Adam wrote: Hi Messages we send from our mail sever always received at SPAM box in many Public Mail servers like hotmail, yahoo, and gmail. We made a revers dns lookup, and there is no spamming from our

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-22 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/22/2010 10:24 AM, Robert Brockway wrote: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, James Jones wrote: Why does this seem like a really bad idea? While I think the principal is noble there are operational problems: I dare say. I own example. I fire George for a long list of foul deeds. He goes to work

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-22 Thread Larry Sheldon
A thing being missed here is this: A telephone number does not have an obvious affinity with personal intellectual-property-like information. (402 332- is not obviously a Northwest Bell-USWest-Quest telephone number, but at least two of them are now served by Cox. A person using a 917

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-22 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/22/2010 11:19 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:30:53 CST, Larry Sheldon said: Unfortunately the links cited are in Hebrew so I'm only going on Gadi's report here. Why is that relevant? For the same reason that if I cited a link that lead to a page

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-22 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/22/2010 11:22 AM, Mustafa Golam - wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Larry Sheldon larryshel...@cox.netwrote: An email address that ends in example.com irrevocably ties the address user to the company Example and may in fact be affirmatively harmful beyond the technical

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-22 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/22/2010 11:28 AM, Joe Abley wrote: On 2010-02-22, at 10:09, Gadi Evron wrote: The email portability bill has just been approved by the Knesset's committee for legislation, sending it on its way for the full legislation process of the Israeli parliament. While many users own a free

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-22 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/22/2010 11:29 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Am I missing something? All the ISP has to do is to provision a pop3 / imap / webmail mailbox for that user and keep it around. And provide storage, support, .., mail-bomb cleanup. Whose TOS applies? -- Government big enough to supply

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-22 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/22/2010 12:34 PM, Barry Shein wrote: That said, what does occur to me is what happens when we've closed someone's account for email abuse (e.g., a spammer)? I've been thinking about that issue--spammer drop-boxes. But we are not supposed to talk about spammers here so I was going to take

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-22 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/22/2010 12:42 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:24:09 CST, Larry Sheldon said: You don't note when you are taking somebody's word when they write in English. Actually, we do. So tell me Larry - if I cited a Latvian web page, and gave a summary, would you

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-22 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/22/2010 1:16 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote: s...@cs.columbia.edu: I am seriously suggesting that a redirect mechanism -- perhaps the email equivalent of HTPP's 301/302 -- would be worth considering. We already have SMTP's 221 and 521 response codes for this. But because

Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL

2010-02-22 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/22/2010 1:40 PM, Dave Sparro wrote: On 2/22/2010 12:40 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Is it your position that, as a vendor of antispam services, nobody else should offer their services for a fee? That would be strange indeed Actually I can sympathize with Barracuda on this one:

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-22 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/22/2010 10:38 PM, John Levine wrote: In article fddc4e5f9aeda526d68b236708b0d...@yyc.orthanc.ca you write: s...@cs.columbia.edu: I am seriously suggesting that a redirect mechanism -- perhaps the email equivalent of HTPP's 301/302 -- would be worth considering. We already have SMTP's

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-21 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/21/2010 12:32 PM, Jon Lewis wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Michelle Sullivan wrote: To the best of my knowledge, MAPS was the first to do it. Uribl.com currently does it (and does the sort of query aggregation across your entire? network) that I mentioned. Can you access MAPS without a

Mail Best Practices and Documentation (was Re: Spamhaus...)

2010-02-20 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/20/2010 9:06 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:51:33 EST, Daniel Senie said: Instead of saying well, it's obvious to everyone, do something about it. *brrring... bring...brrriiing...* Cluephone. It's for you. 5321 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. J.

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-20 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/20/2010 10:36 AM, William Herrin wrote: They didn't exactly fix it. What they did is reinforce the importance of generating a bounce message by keeping the existing must language from 2821 but adding: A server MAY attempt to verify the return path before using its address for delivery

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-20 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/20/2010 11:41 AM, Michael Dillon wrote: We don't expose our selves with finger and .plan and a number of other things that work in a world of friends and neighbors--the world has changed It's changed all right. Finger is now called IM presence, and .plan is called Facebook. The

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-20 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/20/2010 11:53 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: So we've looked at it from 2 different aspects, and in both cases, the RFC says you shouldn't be bouncing spam to where it came from. Small nit, which is germane to the whole discussion; ...the RFC says you shouldn't be bouncing spam to

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-20 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/20/2010 4:57 PM, James Hess wrote: For the purpose of the following two paragraphs, pretend for the moment that you operate a business selling stuff via an email address sa...@example.com. For dramatic effect, assume your children will starve if you are not able to sell anything. Further,

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-20 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/20/2010 6:10 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: Larry Sheldon wrote: There is no way in the current universe to know where the item came from by inspecting it. You can only tell where you got it from...and if you can't reject it while you know that, you must discard it. s/mime detached

Re: Spamhaus...

2010-02-19 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/19/2010 7:20 PM, William Herrin wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: Barracuda's engineers apparently think that using SPF stops backscatter -- and it most emphatically does not. Reject good, bounce baaad. [1] Whine all you want about

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

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

Noise (was Re: in-addr.arpa server problems for europe?)

2010-02-15 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/15/2010 7:00 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. Done. I also erased the hard disk and reinstalled the OS. Given that many Network Operator managers require that that crap be appended to

Re: Noise (was Re: in-addr.arpa server problems for europe?)

2010-02-15 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/15/2010 1:19 PM, JC Dill wrote: I don't see the point you are trying to make in this discussion. I can see that. I don't have a clue bat big enough for the task. Are you saying Troll skat. I'm out. -- Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take

Re: dns interceptors

2010-02-14 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/14/2010 11:42 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Feb 14, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Jason Frisvold wrote: On Feb 13, 2010, at 4:58 PM, Randy Bush wrote: i am often on funky networks in funky places. e.g. the wireless in changi really sucked friday night. if i ssh tunneled, it would multiply the

Time out for a terminology check--resolver vs server.

2010-02-14 Thread Larry Sheldon
I thought I understood but from recent contexts here it is clear that I do not. I thought a resolver was code in your local machine that provide hostname (FQDN?), given address; or address, given host name (with assists to build FQDN). And I thought a server was a separate program, might be on

Re: Time out for a terminology check--resolver vs server.

2010-02-14 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/14/2010 6:10 PM, Rob Austein wrote: At Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:02:48 -0600, Laurence F Sheldon, Jr wrote: I thought I understood but from recent contexts here it is clear that I do not. I thought a resolver was code in your local machine that provide hostname (FQDN?), given address; or

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