Re: getting the memo, Out-of-Bailiwick DNS? (Was: HE.net problem)

See how little it has been necessary for me to pay attention to them since my net handle was assigned back in the early 90s or maybe late 80s? ;-) Cheers, -- jra3 On July 6, 2024 11:11:50 AM EDT, John Levine wrote: >According to Jay R. Ashworth : >>data I heard that that *was* a registry-side

Re: HE.net problem

I've been informed that the CEO of HE is on this as of 1512EDT. I approve of the scale of this response. :-) Cheers, -- jra On July 4, 2024 2:55:34 PM EDT, Jay Ashworth wrote: >We have a report on outages that he.net has been placed in ICANN client hold, >and people's DNS se

Re: HE.net problem

eir support when that outage thread came in, they're already aware >and taking a look now. > >Ryan Hamel > > >From: NANOG on behalf of Jay >Ashworth >Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2024 11:55 AM >To: nanog@nanog.org >Subject: HE.net problem

HE.net problem

We have a report on outages that he.net has been placed in ICANN client hold, and people's DNS service is falling over on this Independence day. If you work in DNS for HE, you might want to look into this. I have double checked the report, and I am seeing the status as well. Hurricane serves lo

Steve Bellovin retires

Steve Bellovin retires: https://mastodon.lawprofs.org/@SteveBellovin/112362015712050310 -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

RE: Meta outage

Yes: metastatus.com It isn't happy. On March 5, 2024 11:23:42 AM EST, "Kain, Becki (.)" wrote: >Does meta keep a board somewhere to tell the world it’s down? > >From: NANOG On Behalf Of Jay Ashworth >Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2024 11:06 AM >To: nanog@nanog.org &g

Meta outage

It's making the general press this hour so of course you already know about it but my question is this: who peers with meta and have you seen BGP sessions drop or the like? Do you operate meta CDN nodes in your network? Are they screaming for help? This doesn't sound like it's a network layer

RIP Dave Mills

The inventor of NTP, in the late 1970s, and recipient of the 2013 IEEE Internet Award “for significant leadership and sustained contributions in the research, development, standardization, and deployment of quality time synchronization capabilities for the Internet”, Dr. David Lennox Mills died

RE: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

iginal Message- >From: NANOG On Behalf Of Stephane >Bortzmeyer >Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 11:19 AM >To: Jay Ashworth >Cc: nanog@nanog.org >Subject: Re: IERS ponders reverse leapsecond... > >On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 11:09:25AM -0400, Jay Ashworth >wr

Re: Frontier Dark Fiber

I wouldn't have thought that Frontier was able to offer dark fiber, since air distribution fan out is all GPON, is it not? If their fanout was active ethernet it might be a different story but... Cheers, -- jra On July 13, 2022 7:40:47 AM EDT, Mike Hammett wrote: >I'm looking for a contact at

IERS ponders reverse leapsecond...

General press loses its *mind*: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-spinning-faster-than-usual-shortest-day-ever/#app Have you tested leap second handling, especially in reverse? How do you simulate it? Are there existing test harnesses for simulating it? Cheers, -- jra -- Sent from my Androi

Re: "Permanent" DST

And here's the NPR story which leads with "the Senate passed a bill": https://www.npr.org/2022/03/15/1086773840/daylight-saving-time-permanent-senate I really don't know why that site does not list it, because it certainly should. But here you are. On March 15, 2022 6:07:36 PM EDT, Matthew Peta

Re: "Permanent" DST

S.623 as amended, literally hundreds of Tweets in the last 2 hours tell me. Yeah, this just happened today. That would be why NPR lead with it on the 4 p.m. newscast. On March 15, 2022 6:07:36 PM EDT, Matthew Petach wrote: >Please provide a link documenting this claim. > >I have been reviewing

Re: "Permanent" DST

It has been bubbling under for some years-there are about I think it's 10 or 11 states which have already passed state laws changing it, pending that the federal law blocking those be dropped-that's the Uniform Time Act of 1966 if I have the title correct. And to reply to somebody else his comm

Re: "Permanent" DST

Sure, but you imply that the proposed alternative=-going to permanent DST--is only a trivial change to, and it is not. It violates the international rule determining what your time zone should be based on what your longitude is. That is not trivial. On March 15, 2022 4:25:21 PM EDT, "james.cut

Re: .bv ccTLD

s.com/article/us-sudan-independence-idUSTRE75S4A520110629 > >-Cynthia > >On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 12:17 PM Jaap Akkerhuis wrote: >> >> "Jay R. Ashworth" writes: >> >> > - Original Message - >> > > From: "David Conrad&qu

Re: .bv ccTLD

In general I could I understand that, but it is my understanding that the domain is still marked reserved at the Secretariat, which is to say they could not have assigned any domains in it yet, even if they were inclined to which we are told they are not. In short, I think this is a possibilit

Re: This DNS over HTTP thing

You might recommend that to me if running DNS tunnelled through another protocol was a thing I wanted to do. But it's not. I think it's horrible Internet engineering hygiene, and I don't just not want to do it myself, I don't think anybody else ought to do it either. And I think that if end-

RE: RFC 1918 network range choices

I have seen a number of versions of that in reading things people sent me and things I found myself, and all of them seem to depend on ASICs that didn't exist at the time the ranges were chosen, and probably also CIDR which also didn't exist. They sound good, but I'm not buying em. :-) On Octob

Re: I recommend dslreports.com/speedtest these days (was Speedtest.net not accessible in Chrome due to deceptive ads)

Just a quick clarifying reply, I have had DSL test give me an A for bufferbloat and a C for Speed on a 75 Meg line. On July 22, 2016 3:23:00 PM EDT, Jim Gettys wrote: >I don't read this list continually, but do archive it; your note was >flagged for me to comment on. > >On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 8

Re: New ICANN registrant change process

Seems to me that the proper thing to be done would have been for Registries to deauthorize registrars on the grounds of continuous streams of complaints. On July 4, 2016 2:35:37 PM EDT, Mel Beckman wrote: >I've worked behind the scenes for more than one of these outfits. I can >tell you that dom

RIP Marvin Minsky

Lauren Weinstein passes along that AI pioneer Minsky died Sunday night in New York. He was 88. Condolences to those who knew him. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/business/marvin-minsky-pioneer-in-artificial-intelligence-dies-at-88.html -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please exc

John McAfee: Massive DDoS attack on the internet was from smartphone botnet on popular app

Is McAfee just talking to dry his teeth here? This isn't actually practical, is it? Carriers would notice, right? http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/john-mcafee-massive-ddos-attack-internet-was-smartphone-botnet-popular-app-1532993 -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Gmail spam filtering

Bout a month ago, I had someone crack a POP password on my private mail server, and got a couple days of spam out through it before I caught it on Sunday afternoon. I locked it down, and am this weekend replacing that mail server with one of current vintage, serving the same domain from a linode

Re: Binge On! - And So This is Net Neutrality?

- Original Message - > From: "Scott Brim" > What I read was that as long as a video offerer marks its traffic and > is certified in a few other ways, anyone can send video content > cap-free. No I don't know what the criteria are. Does anyone here? I > also think I remember that there is

Binge On! - And So This is Net Neutrality?

According to: http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/20/fcc-chairman-gives-t-mobiles-binge-on-the-thumbs-up/ Chairman Wheeler thinks that T-mob's new "customers can get uncapped media stream data, but only from the people we like" service called Binge On is pro-competition. My take on this is that t

Is anyone tracking the "Fw: New Message" joe-job spammer?

Cause if so I got about 100 examples from last night I can send you if you think they'll help. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associat

Re: Google IMAP (with k9mail)

- Original Message - > From: "Christopher Morrow" > Incoming settings > IMAP server: imap.gmail.com > Port: 993 > Security type: SSL (always) > > Outgoing settings > SMTP server: smtp.gmail.com > Port: 465 > Security type: SSL (always) Hijack: to use k9mail with gmail IMAP, I have to en

Re: VPS in DC/VA on L3?

- Original Message - > From: "Christopher Morrow" > On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Jay Ashworth > wrote: > > We need to do host-mode IPSEC out of AWS to a company in the DC/VA area that > > is on L3; AWS apparently will only do network mode IPSEC, an

VPS in DC/VA on L3?

We need to do host-mode IPSEC out of AWS to a company in the DC/VA area that is on L3; AWS apparently will only do network mode IPSEC, and they won't take that, so we'll need to hop. Anyone got a VPS provider in that area they like so we can set up the bank-shot? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashwo

Re: [outages] Akamai Cert Issues today

- Original Message - > From: "coolhandluke via Outages" > > -We're wondering what happened yesterday to break all these > > disparate > > websites > note that this is *by design*, as sean pointed out. > > the "fix" is simple: don't use https on www.irs.gov. any ssl pages > served by the

Disregard: HTTP/2.0 to ship in weeks

Damnit. Apologies everyone; no clue why Ars was pushing that *now*, 6 months after its dateline. - Original Message - > From: "Jay Ashworth" > To: "NANOG" > Sent: Sunday, October 4, 2015 2:30:00 PM > Subject: HTTP/2.0 to ship in weeks > We al

HTTP/2.0 to ship in weeks

We all knew about this, right? http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/http2-finished-coming-to-browsers-within-weeks/ One - few - many - all? What's that? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer

Re: Quick Update on the North American BCOP Efforts

- Original Message - > From: "Chris Grundemann" > After receiving several off-line inquiries about the status of BCOP in > North America I think it's appropriate to send a general announcement > here. > > The biggest news here is that the current NANOG Board of Directors has > disbanded

Re: PCH.net questions and thoughts - Re: Prefix hijacking by AS20115

Well, there *is* outa...@outages.org... :-) - Original Message - > From: "Royce Williams" > To: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 11:31:54 AM > Subject: Re: PCH.net questions and thoughts - Re: Prefix hijacking by AS20115 > On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 7:12 AM, Job Snijders

Do you have INOC-DBA set up? (was: Re: PCH.net questions and thoughts - Re: Prefix hijacking by AS20115)

I entirely disagree, Job. The idea of a private tieline network that is connected, by SIP, to a line appearance in the NOC of each AS, and no one else is on it, seems like a fine idea to me. And that was INOC-DBA's original goal, as I understand it: You're having a problem? It's coming from so

Re: Data Center operations mail list?

Absolutely feel free to use it; I haven't seen a single message on it in... well, it was 3 years ago I was in datacenters regularly, so I'm goin with "3 years". :-) Cheers, -- jra - Original Message - > From: "Jared Mauch" > To: "Chris Boyd" > Cc: "NANOG" > Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2

Re: RES: Exploits start against flaw that could hamstring huge swaths of

- Original Message - > From: "Scott Helms" > On Aug 4, 2015 9:38 AM, "Christopher Morrow" > wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Scott Helms > > wrote: > > > With the (large) caveat that heterogenous networks are more > > > subject to human error in many cases. > > > > automat

Exploits start against flaw that could hamstring huge swaths of Internet | Ars Technica

Everyone got BIND updated? http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/08/exploits-start-against-flaw-that-could-hamstring-huge-swaths-of-internet/ -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Did *bufferbloat* cause the 2010 flashcrash?

This guy seems to think so, and his arguments seem pretty convincing to me, but I don't understand the financial system as well as I might. yarchive.net/blog/computers/flash_crash.html Gettys is namechecked in the piece. Cheers, -- jra -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse

RE: Windows 10 Release

An article in VARGuy said they'd booked 40 Tb/s of capacity from Akamai, Limelight, and four or five other CDNs that I did not recognize by name. I presume each machine will have to contact at least one machine at microsoft.com to confirm signatures on downloaded packages, et alia. - jra On Ju

RE: Bright House IMAP highwater warning real?

T, Frank Bulk wrote: >What do you think their message should say? We struggled over this, >too, and settled on some soft language, included information on how to >purchase more storage, and also provided our email address and phone >numbers. > >Frank > >-Original Message----

Bright House IMAP highwater warning real?

Any brighthouse email admins on the list? My sister got the following high water warning message, with the included headers which, since they appear to include no Received: headers, look like they actually came from brighthouse's email cluster. If this is a real Bright House warning message, s

Re: United Airlines is Down (!) due to network connectivity problems

UA, WSJ /and/ NYSE all in the same day? Once is an accident; twice is a coincidence... Three times is enemy action. On July 8, 2015 1:18:47 PM EDT, Paul Ferguson wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA256 > >Given that the Internet is held together with paper clips, bailing >twin

Fwd: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Windows 10 will share your Wi-Fi key with your friends' friends

>From Lauren, a new "feature" in Windows 10 I think this community probably wants to know about, to the extent you don't already. I *knew* I didn't like W10. :-) Cheers, -- jra - Forwarded Message - > From: "PRIVACY Forum mailing list" > To: privacy-l...@vortex.com > Sent: Wednesday, J

The Internet Is Now Officially Too Big as IP Addresses Run Out - NBC News

John Curran gets a quote; NBC gets the etymology of "IPv4" wrong. Just keep them away from Jim Fleming. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/internet-now-officially-too-big-ip-addresses-run-out-n386081 -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Leap Second Folo/After Action

Here's LWN's piece on the then-upcoming event from last week, presumably with comments trailing into today. http://lwn.net/Articles/648313/ How'd it go for everyone? Did the world end? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer

ICYMI: SSLv3 is now formally dead. MUST NOT.

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7568.txt -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

ARIN just subdivided their last /17, /18, /19, /20, /21 and /22. Down to only /23s and /24s now. : ipv6

And that's the ballgame. http://www.reddit.com/r/ipv6/comments/3b5p3i/arin_just_subdivided_their_last_1718192021_and_22/ -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

FOLO: Leap Seconds

Herewith, for your amusement in the copious free time I hope you have from having smoothly humming networks that don't demand your attention: Falsehoods programers believe about time: http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time and More Falsehoods progra

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

- Original Message - > From: "Harlan Stenn" > > You misunderstand the problem. :) The problem is not "clock skips > > backward one second," because most of the time that's not what > > happens. The problem is that most software does not handle it well > > when the clock ticks ... :59 :60

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

- Original Message - > From: "Jimmy Hess" > On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 1:06 AM, wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 19:06:29 -0400, Jay Ashworth said: > [snip] > > I'll let the perpetrator, Richard Stallman, explain. It was a > > kerfluffle > &g

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

- Original Message - > From: "Valdis Kletnieks" > On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 11:32:53 -0400, Jay Ashworth said: > > - Original Message - > > > > > - use the posix-right timezone files > > > > What; not posixly-correct? > > I won

Re: REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

- Original Message - > - use the posix-right timezone files What; not posixly-correct? Cheers, -- jr ':-)' a -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Assoc

REMINDER: LEAP SECOND

The IERS will be adding a second to time again on my birthday; 2015-06-30T23:59:59 2015-06-30T23:59:60 2015-07-01T00:00:00 Have fun, everyone. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Thin

Re: Hardware monitoring

> I know this is slightly off-topic, but since it's still related to the > list, I thought I'd give it a try. I am wondering what systems are out > there (open source, preferably) for data collection and processing of > hardware health data (temperature, CPU clock, fan speeds, etc). > Ideally brand

DC Circuit denies stay on Neutrality

Here is a delightful wacky weekend starter culture for you: a backgrounder on exactly what it means that the DC Circuit denied Verizon et alia a stay of execution on Title II reclassification. Complete with bonus brony references. http://www.wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/net-neutr

OT Fiber contractors?

I have a client needs a couple outside under-parkinglot runs installed*, and I'm so long out of that market I have no idea where to go. Offlist recs for Tampa metro cheerfully accepted. :-) Cheers, -- jra [ * Pulled and terminated; we'll supply the switches and do the interconnect ] -- Jay R.

Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...

- Original Message - > From: "Shane Ronan" > When I was asked the default BGP timers across three different vendor > platforms as measure of my networking ability during an interview, I > replied saying I'd look them up if needed them. > > I was told I didn't understand BGP in enough det

Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...

- Original Message - > From: "Larry Sheldon" > I find it interesting that I have not note a mention of people like > Radia Pearlman and [name advancing years have stolen from me] that wrote > a 3 volume set (I think it was) (that I can not find in the > post-great-downsizing-bookshelves-d

Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...

> Here's the topper: who was (is) Al Gore, and what part did he play in > the birth of the Internet as we know it today? Try not to howl as some > of the answers you will get. Advocated for the funding of NREN while in Congress; later misquoted as saying he'd "invented the Internet" at some length

Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...

- Original Message - > From: "Joe Hamelin" > Back in 2000 at Amazon, HR somehow decided to have me do the phone > interviews for neteng. I'd go through questions on routing and what not, > then at the end I would ask questions like, "Who was Jon Postel? Who > is Larry Wall? Who is Paul Vi

Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...

- Original Message - > From: "John Fraizer" > It's been over a decade since I was an active participant on NANOG. I > didn't know that the NANOG-JOBS list existed. Sometimes it's easier to > ask for forgiveness than permission though. I guess it's a good thing > Susan H. isn't here to thr

Should I Reboot, and Why? (was Re: [RDD] No Play out on Cart Wall)

- Original Message - > From: "Cowboy" > On Sunday 31 May 2015 03:49:10 pm Graham Wilman wrote: > > after getting the play out working on clienta terminal for the past > > 6 days > > the decision was taken today to get clientb terminal working which > > it now partially is > > unfortunate

Re: NANOG 64 recordings

- Original Message - > From: "Sadiq Saif" > For those that missed them: > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO8DR5ZGla8ju3ftZv_S6L12jBkZKEJVZ Oh, outstanding. Thanks. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer

Verizon FiOS outbound mail TLS problem - Superpages people here?

Anyone on the list who does outbound delivery for Verizon (which I think is actually Superpages)? A client has smart-hosted outbounds to *one* of his customers bouncing suddenly with Deferred: 403 4.7.0 TLS handshake failed. *My* inclination is to think that a cert expired somewhere, but his

Re: Peering and Network Cost

- Original Message - > From: "Dave Taht" > Two things I am curious about are 1) What is the measured benefit of > moving a netflix server into your local ISP network > > and 2) does anyone measure "cross town latency". If we lived in a > world where skype/voip/etc transited the local tow

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

I wasn't being funny. :-) That was about a quarter to a third of a /wonderful/ #takethat to the *AA... On April 23, 2015 10:17:51 AM EDT, Ray Soucy wrote: >Sorry, I know I get long-winded. That's why I don't post as much as I >used >to. ;-) > >On Thu, Apr 23,

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

that has made the younger generation care about their >upload >speed more than anything else. They now have a use case where their >limited upload is a real problem for them, and when they find out their >ISP >can't provide anything good enough they get pretty upset about it. >

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

- Original Message - > From: "Frank Bulk" > Those are measured at the campus boundary. I don't have visibility inside > the school's network to know who much intra-campus traffic there may be . > but we know that peer-to-peer is a small percentage of overall Internet > traffic flows, and

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

I thought you were just supposed to give your Geek License number. :-) #nothingScales - Original Message - > From: "Kevin McElearney" > To: "Peter Loron" , "John Brzozowski" > > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 9:16:37 AM > Subject: Re: Comcast Support (from NANOG

Re: Looking for a Consolidated Communications (AS5742) contact

- Original Message - > From: "Mike Hammett" > This is the third or fourth request I've seen lately. I'm assuming > they don't have anyone on here. Not necessarily. Some people reply privately, so as not to come out of the closet. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Bay

Re: Network ops lists.

- Original Message - > From: "Alex Brooks" > As has been mentioned, there are also a few special purpose > non-geographic lists around. Voiceops for VoIP > (http://www.voiceops.org/), DC-Ops for Data Centre operation > discussion (https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/dc-ops), Wouldn'

Re: Facebook outage?

- Original Message - > From: "Larry Sheldon" > On 1/27/2015 00:47, Damien Burke wrote: > > Facebook outage? Everyone panic! > > > > https://twitter.com/search?q=facebook&src=typd > > Let the record show that I noticed it quite a while ago, but did NOT > go for first NANOG mention. Proud

REMINDER: Leap Second

This June 30th, 235959UTC will be followed immediately by 235960UTC. What will /your/ devices do? http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/leap-second-deep-space-and-how-we-keep-time Cheers, -- jra -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Re: Charter ARP Leak

- Original Message - > From: "David Coulson" > We all knows it's easier to add another secondary IP to the interface > and add a new DHCP scope than to try to expand a subnet. >From an intermediate routing standpoint, though, it would be easier to add an *adjacent* block, not one halfwa

Re: Charter ARP Leak

- Original Message - > From: "Brett Frankenberger" > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 12:27:04PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > > > > > Valdis, you are correct. What your seeing is caused by multiple IP > > > blocks being assigned to the same CMTS in

Re: Charter ARP Leak

- Original Message - > From: "Rampley Jr, Jim F" > On 12/29/14, 10:49 AM, "valdis.kletni...@vt.edu" > > wrote: > > >On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 03:44:48 +, "Stephen R. Carter" said: > >> Here is a small excerpt I am seeing. > >> > >> 06:04:04.760869 In 00:21:a0:fb:53:d9 > ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff,

Re: OT - Verizon/ATT Cell/4G Signal Booster/Repeater

- Original Message - > From: "Stephen Sprunk" > On 16-Dec-14 12:27, John Schiel wrote: > > One thing you might also want to consider are any calls you make to > > 911 whilst using a repeater. > > > > I use a repeater supplied by T-Mobile and they made it very clear, > > and > > I had to s

They have the Internet in North Korea now?

Well, kind of: https://nknetobserver.github.io/ Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land

Ars breaks Misfortune Cookie vulnerability news to public

While the flaw is 12 years old and the fix 9, the article suggests that firmware for consumer routers may yet be being built with the vulnerable webserver code baked in. If you are responsible for lots of eyeballs you might want to look at this. http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/12/12-million-

Re: Relative cost of ONT and UPS for FTTP

- Original Message - > From: "Jean-Francois Mezei" > Thanks to everyone who provided some valuable info in my query. based > on a number of responses and some documents my buddy mr Google found > for me, the cost for the drop to home including CPE ranges between $650 to > $800. But most o

Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

- Original Message - > From: "Mark Andrews" > > Now, had Comcast pitched it as the Wi-Fi benefiting YOU because your > > freinds you use their Comcast credentials to access your Wi-Fi, then > > customers would not see this as Comcast using your hardware for its > > own > > benefit. > > T

Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

- Original Message - > From: "Owen DeLong" > Does an 802.11 transmitter that was already being used to support > their own WiFi network that they are paying for really consume vastly > more electricity to support a second SSID? In my experience, that > claim is hard to fathom. If popular

Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

- Original Message - > From: "Larry Sheldon" > On 12/11/2014 07:10, William Herrin wrote: > > > What Comcast is stealing is electricity. Pennies per customer times > > a boatload of customers. > > .and floorspace, physical security, air conditioning, and all > sorts of labor overhea

Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

- Original Message - > From: "Christopher Morrow" > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:11 PM, George, Wes > wrote: > > Their intended use is to give > > access to visitors in your house and/or yard without you needing to > > set up > > a dedicated guest network or giving them your wifi password.

Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

- Original Message - > From: "Valdis Kletnieks" > On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:04:20 +, "Livingood, Jason" said: > > > Right, so user name & password + MAC address. As more devices > > support things like Passpoint, this will get more sophisticated. > > OK, so it *does* do .1x authenticat

Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

- Original Message - > From: "Scott Helms" > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 9:24 AM, wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:11:07 -0500, Jay Ashworth said: > > > I will give them their props: I only had to sign in *once*, last > > > year; > > >

Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

- Original Message - > From: "Jeroen van Aart" > Comcast-supplied routers broadcast an encrypted, private wireless > network for people at home, plus a non-encrypted network called > XfinityWiFi that can be used by nearby subscribers. So if you're passing > by a fellow user's home, you ca

Re: ARIN's RPKI Relying agreement

- Original Message - > From: "Ca By" > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote: > > All the specific legal feedback I’ve heard is that this is a > > liability > > nightmare, and that everyone wants ARIN to take on all the > > liability, but > > nobody wants to pay for it. Ar

Re: Low-numbered ASes being hijacked? [Re: BGP Update Report]

- Original Message - > From: "Joe Provo" > On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 12:53:07AM +0900, Paul S. wrote: > > Do these people never check what exactly they end up originating > > outbound due to a config change, if that's really the case? > > Of course not because their neighbors are allowing

Re: Phasing out of telco TDM Backbones (was: Phasing out of copper)

- Original Message - > From: "Nathan Anderson" kbones (was: Phasing out of copper) > On Saturday, November 29, 2014 9:10 PM, Jay Ashworth <> wrote: > > But let us not conflate being ok with telcos replacing analog copper > > last-mile with being ok w

Phasing out of telco TDM Backbones (was: Phasing out of copper)

- Original Message - > From: "Måns Nilsson" > Maintaining copper plant is expensive. It will be retired as soon as > buy-in on FTTH is high enough. Telia Sonera is doing it in Sweden, > so the trend is global. (OTOH, in Sweden, young people moving out from > their parents, if they can fin

Re: Phasing out of copper

- Original Message - > From: "Chuck Anderson" > Verizon in MA removes copper upon FiOS installation. They do, and that's caused problems for some people who had competitive DSL on their Verizontal copper POTS: They've had FiOS installed, and had the DSL circuit mysteriously quit, only to

Re: Transparent hijacking of SMTP submission...

- Original Message - > From: "William Herrin" > I'm not sure I follow your complaint here. Are you saying that Comcast > or a > Comcast customer in Washington state stripped the STARTTLS verb from > the > IPv4 port 587 SMTP submission connection between you and a third > party? And, of c

Re: Transparent hijacking of SMTP submission...

- Original Message - > From: "William Herrin" > > that's essentially a downgrade attack on my ability to use > > encryption > > which seems to be in pretty poor taste frankly. > > I'm not sure I follow your complaint here. Are you saying that Comcast > or a > Comcast customer in Washing

It's 7pm. Do you know where *your* domains are? (was Re: Craigslist hacked?)

In light of the CL domain hijacking, it seems like a good time to ask if everyone has an inventory system that keeps track of all the details (including renewal dates) for their domain registy and SSL certificate accounts. If you use a tool to keep track of this, which one? Do you have things set

Anyone heard from Jared lately?

He generally provides same-day service on email, but... Hope all is well. Cheers, -- jra Moderator @ outages -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Re: Brian Krebs' new book is out.

- Original Message - > From: "Roland Dobbins" > This is an important book - well worth your time, and, more > importantly, accessible to non-specialists (such as BDMs): > > >

Fwd: Level 3 Acquires tw telecom

L3 announcement from this morning's mail. Cheers, -- jra Original Message From: Level 3 Communications Sent: November 3, 2014 12:15:41 PM EST To: j...@baylink.com Subject: Level 3 Acquires tw telecom View on Mobile Phone

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