Re: Scanning the Internet for Vulnerabilities

2022-06-21 Thread Daniel Seagraves
> On Jun 20, 2022, at 10:02 AM, Michael Butler via NANOG > wrote: > > I treat these folk with the same respect they afford me. Not once in 30 years > of having a connected network (v4 or v6) has any entity asked "is it OK if we > .. ?". Quite the opposite, I once had to endure significant

Re: Network visibility

2021-10-20 Thread Daniel Seagraves
> On Oct 20, 2021, at 4:59 PM, Mel Beckman wrote: > > For several years we had UCSB’s IMP control panel hanging in our office as a > wall decoration (it belonged to Larry Green, one of the UCSB IMPlementors). I > still have the manuals. The actual IMP with 56Kbps modem was in a huge rack >

Re: Never push the Big Red Button (New York City subway failure)

2021-09-17 Thread Daniel Seagraves
> On Sep 17, 2021, at 8:59 AM, Sean Donelan wrote: > > It is possible to design a data center WITHOUT using those electrical code > exceptions, and WITHOUT a "Big Red Button." > > You can check, because my data center ideas were copied by several tech > companies world-wide (you know who

Re: Never push the Big Red Button (New York City subway failure)

2021-09-15 Thread Daniel Seagraves
> On Sep 15, 2021, at 2:20 PM, Fred Baker wrote: > > One of the many stories that came out of 9/11 was a switching center in NY > City that had a diesel generator as a power backup - which of course acted as > primary when the city power is off. After a few days of operation, it needed > to

Re: Never push the Big Red Button (New York City subway failure)

2021-09-15 Thread Daniel Seagraves
> On Sep 15, 2021, at 10:58 AM, Adam Thompson wrote: > > Now I'm curious... in all of the DCs and COs I've worked in - to the best of > my knowledge, I haven't personally tested this! - the EPO button does not​ > switch to emergency power. It turns off ALL equipment power in the space - >

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-27 Thread Daniel Seagraves
> On Feb 26, 2021, at 7:50 PM, Mel Beckman wrote: > > IPv6. The protocol of the future, and always will be :) “Why be part of the solution when there’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem?”

Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data

2020-12-10 Thread Daniel Seagraves
> On Dec 10, 2020, at 7:27 AM, Mel Beckman wrote: > > This is either some kind of bizarre political maneuver, or bureaucrats at NWS > need to be seriously fired and replaced with competent people who‘s tech jobs > have been waylaid by Covid. Not bizarre at all. NWS directly competes with

Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-01-27 Thread Daniel Seagraves
> On Jan 24, 2020, at 5:26 PM, Ben Cannon wrote: > > I started what became 6x7 with a 64k ISDN line. And 9600 baud modems… Hayes Smartmodem here, 1200 baud. Local BBS offered PPP service. When I got my first sysadmin job, $work had a T1 and it felt like more speed than was fair…

Re: Cogent & FDCServers: Knowingly aiding and abetting fraud and theft?

2019-10-12 Thread Daniel Seagraves
> On Oct 12, 2019, at 12:22 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: > > How exactly is it punishment that BGP needs an AS number? It’s not. I was objecting to the implication that if someone announces a prefix that has not been transferred to their ownership it is fraudulent or shady, and as a

Re: Cogent & FDCServers: Knowingly aiding and abetting fraud and theft?

2019-10-11 Thread Daniel Seagraves
> On Oct 11, 2019, at 6:28 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > I nitpick, but "never transferred the block" is not the same thing as > "never authorized Cogent to announce it”. This should not be just a “nitpick". AT announces our extremely legacy ARIN allocation for us because we do not

Re: IPv6 Thought Experiment

2019-10-02 Thread Daniel Seagraves
> On Oct 2, 2019, at 4:04 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: > > Antonios Chariton wrote on 02/10/2019 17:33: >> What if, globally, and starting at January 1st, 2020, someone (imagine a >> government or similar, but with global reach) imposed an IPv4 tax. For every >> IPv4 address on the Global

Re: Spamming of NANOG list members

2019-05-24 Thread Daniel Seagraves
I just got one of these and have not posted in a long time. They must be crawling archives.

Re: Comcast Support (from NANOG Digest, Vol 84, Issue 23)

2015-02-25 Thread Daniel Seagraves
On Feb 24, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Kain, Rebecca (.) bka...@ford.com wrote: Ah, Comcast support. Those people who keep calling my Ford Motor Company phone, to threaten to shut off service to my home, which I don't have (I have uverse). They keep saying they will take my Ford number off the

Re: Marriott wifi blocking

2014-10-03 Thread Daniel Seagraves
On Oct 3, 2014, at 10:45 PM, Hugo Slabbert h...@slabnet.com wrote: Jay, Killing hotspots of completely discrete networks because $$$ is heinous. I had extended this to e.g.: It’s not just Marriott doing this; A friend of mine went to a convention near DC and found the venue was doing

Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads

2013-07-26 Thread Daniel Seagraves
On Jul 25, 2013, at 6:20 PM, Scott Weeks sur...@mauigateway.com wrote: I'd be interested in knowing who it is, so I can be sure to never buy from them. This is the way to go. Spammers and telemarketers don't do what they do for fun or malice, they do so because it's profitable. If people

Re: Comcast vs. Verizon for repair methodologies

2012-08-21 Thread Daniel Seagraves
Comcast annoys me. I never have any problems with the people you get when you call in, or the tech support people, but their contractors STINK. At home the Comcast line boxes serving the apartments aren't even closed. They just sit open and fill up with rain until things crap out. The

Re: Well Lookie Here, Barracuda Networks tries to get me to fall into their trap again...

2011-12-21 Thread Daniel Seagraves
On Dec 21, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Edward Dore wrote: On 21 Dec 2011, at 18:46, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: In fact, it's not. If you miss your renewal payment for, frex, Safari books, they actually slip your cycle date to when you renew -- since you don't *get* the service between the expire

Re: Cable standards question

2011-11-14 Thread Daniel Seagraves
On Nov 14, 2011, at 8:42 AM, Sam (Walter) Gailey wrote: The vendor will provide fiber connectivity between (building A) and (building B). Vendor will be responsible for all building penetrations and terminations. When installing the fiber-optic cable the vendor will follow the

Re: (OT) Firearms Was: UN declares Internet access a human right

2011-06-06 Thread Daniel Seagraves
On Jun 6, 2011, at 8:41 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: Nice try, but the human right you just made a case for is the right to rid yourself of criminals and despots. A fundamental right for citizens to have firearms does *not* automatically follow. Yes, despots usually need to be

Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase punishment for early adopters

2011-02-04 Thread Daniel Seagraves
On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Bill Woodcock wrote: No, and in fact, I believe all the RIRs will probably do a reasonably brisk business in reclamation and reallocation, albeit in ever smaller blocks. As holder of a small block, this scares and irritates me. It scares me that I might lose my

Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase punishment for early adopters

2011-02-04 Thread Daniel Seagraves
On Feb 4, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: I'm a little confused. Sounds like the things you are talking about all fall into the if you are using your block category, so he shouldn't worry. ARIN should not reclaim a block that is in use. Unless I am confused? (Happens a

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-16 Thread Daniel Seagraves
On Dec 16, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Backdoor Parrot wrote: Earlier this morning a Comcast peering manager had the following things to say about the recent NANOG thread, in a public IRC channel with many witnesses: (snip) With all due respect, logs or GTFO. I can find no mention of this outside

Re: Abuse@ contacts

2010-12-07 Thread Daniel Seagraves
On Dec 7, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Gavin Pearce wrote: After a weekend of heavy spam last month, we decided to fire some reports over to the abuse contacts for each relevant IP or domain - some US/Europe based, others from more obscure locations. We've not had a reply from any of the reports

Re: Interesting IPv6 viral video

2010-10-28 Thread Daniel Seagraves
On Oct 28, 2010, at 4:38 PM, Jack Bates wrote: On 10/28/2010 4:32 PM, Zaid Ali wrote: Yes it is. When do marketing people get it right? I actually think the fun hasn't begun yet. Wait till CNN/FOX etc makes this a big issue and claim the internet is going to come to an end then folks with

Re: Hey Leber - you think Melissa is going to issue that refund properly or do we need to escalate this into legal actions against HE

2010-10-12 Thread Daniel Seagraves
On Oct 12, 2010, at 10:47 AM, todd glassey wrote: Mike Leber - I have been waiting for a response from Melissa in your accounting department... I have a collection of stuffed bunnies and Hello Kitty paraphernalia, and I still think jokes about farts are funny, but even I'm not childish enough

Re: What must one do to avoid Gmail's overachieving spam filtering?

2010-09-29 Thread Daniel Seagraves
On Sep 29, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Ryan Hayes wrote: Can you please not use the word retarded in a pejorative sense? The word please is probably not required, since using that word in this manner is prosecutable hate speech in some jurisdictions.

Re: Micro-allocation needed?

2010-06-21 Thread Daniel Seagraves
ATT announces ours. It just took a little bit of prodding to get the sales people to ask the appropriate technical people. We have a very old ARIN-allocated /24 but we have only one upstream, so we have no AS number of our own. On Jun 21, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: On Jun 21,