Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 03:48:02PM -0600, David Siegel wrote: > We already have a group on Facebook, and it has it's uses. Like sharing > group pictures from events and other social-y stuff. yeah, that's all i need, is to get reprimanded at work while reading up on NANOG things, because Wish injected an ad for some plausibly NSFW item. no thanks. -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?
On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 10:54:57AM -0500, Mike Hammett wrote: > That seems like a reasonable proposal. NANOG-OffTopic, NANOG-Discuss, > NANOG-BizDev, NANOG-xyz, something (more more than one something). there used to be a thing called USENET. it facilitated a forum-like interface to mailing-lists, with the ability for anyone to create their own sub-forums. it was quite popular for a while. --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
Re: gofundme Medical Expenses - Ed Hew
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 01:41:35PM -0500, Tom Beecher wrote: > I just don't want to see this devolve into a pissing match that ends up > requiring a rule to be created about such things. if we created rules for everything on this list that turned into a pissing match, we would have a lot of rules. :-) that being said, it was not my intent to start a deluge of requests for money, or in memorial posts. and, even if it did, those threads would soon die off, as with all the other threads. --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
Re: gofundme Medical Expenses - Ed Hew
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:04:02AM -0800, Sabri Berisha wrote: > - On Jan 25, 2021, at 8:37 AM, Jim Mercer j...@reptiles.org wrote: > > https://www.gofundme.com/f/ed-hew-medical-expenses > > Just a headsup for those outside of Canada. My transaction was processed > in CAD instead of USD. Not that I care as amex doesn't charge foreign fees > on my card, but if you have a choice of creditcards, pick the right one. i could be wrong, but i think gofundme selects the currency based on who sets up the fund, which in my case, is canada. --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
Re: gofundme Medical Expenses - Ed Hew
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 09:23:11AM -0800, William Herrin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 8:40 AM Jim Mercer wrote: > > unsure if this is allowed or not, but, here goes. > > This is a lie. there are a myriad of lists focused on free speech issues, and domestic and international politics of all kinds. how relative those are to the NANOG focus is pretty much up in the air. there have been any number of threads, short, or overly long about the deaths of contributors, so, i don't feel the least bit guilty for starting this one about someone not quite there. to each his own. --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
David Tilbrook / QEF - Re: gofundme Medical Expenses - Ed Hew
unrelated, but, David Tilbrook, an early Unix pioneer, passed away a week or so ago. due to COVID. https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2021/01/remembering-the-work-of-david-m-tilbrook-and-the-qed-editor.html --jim On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 04:59:27PM +, Mel Beckman wrote: > So often we report here on nanog the passing of major Internet contributors, > it seems even more fitting that we support these contributors when they???re > in need through no fault of their own. Thanks for posting this, Jim. > > -mel > > > On Jan 25, 2021, at 8:40 AM, Jim Mercer wrote: > > > > ??? > > unsure if this is allowed or not, but, here goes. > > > > https://www.gofundme.com/f/ed-hew-medical-expenses > > > > some of you may remember ed. > > > > some, maybe not. > > > > but, as the uucp maps maintainer for canada, he was quite influential in > > the rise of email, and to some degree, the internet, in canada. > > > > --jim > > > > -- > > Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 > > > > Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of > > arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather > > to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, > > totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" > > -- Hunter S. Thompson -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
gofundme Medical Expenses - Ed Hew
unsure if this is allowed or not, but, here goes. https://www.gofundme.com/f/ed-hew-medical-expenses some of you may remember ed. some, maybe not. but, as the uucp maps maintainer for canada, he was quite influential in the rise of email, and to some degree, the internet, in canada. --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
Re: Parler
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 06:15:21PM -0500, Izaac wrote: > Got links? bot. -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
Re: Parler
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 09:08:12AM -0500, sro...@ronan-online.com wrote: > less the Internet content become moderated by a small group of private > platform owners. it already is. it is just that it is moderated in their favour, to create more ad impressions and re-sellable data points. --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
Re: Proof of ownership; when someone demands you remove a prefix
i have been the requestor of such actions before, and i generally sent the take-down request with a referral to the ARIN entry with the netblock, which shows the appropriate contacts. i always sent the request from the account listed as ADMIN contact for the netblock or OrgID. in the request i noted that ARIN is the ultimate arbitor of who "owns" a block, and as such you can validate my request for takedown by contacting me through the details listed on their site. (i then provide the arin.net link). anyone receiving such a request, who validated it through the ARIN data, should probably act on it. if the request is coming from anyone other than the ARIN ADMIN contact, the response should be "we only accept such requests from parties what we can authenticate through ARIN". if the renter, et al, have not updated the ARIN data, then, that is their problem, not yours, as you would have done your due diligence. if they are not authorized by ARIN to speak on behalf of the block, i would be very cautious about proceeding. if they are unable to get the request sent on behalf of the ARIN ADMINs, then, also, i would be very cautious about proceeding. (i suspect that all of this could also apply to RIPE/etc/etc, but i have not had to do so). --jim On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 04:18:48PM -0400, William Herrin wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:46 PM, Sean Pedersen > <spedersen.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was just curious what others have experienced. Since so much of the > > Internet is "best effort" in terms of validation, I wasn't sure if there > > was much else that could be done. > > Hi Sean, > > The best practice is to go for the status quo while you figure it out. > How long have you been announcing the prefix? If only briefly, stop. > If you've been announcing it for a long time, keep doing so. > > The RIR is the arbiter of who controls the address space. That's the > purpose of a registry. Reach out to the published POC by email, by > phone and if necessary by postal mail. Until you get a response to the > query YOU initiated to the POC, stick with the status quo. > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > > > > -- > William Herrin ........ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us > Dirtside Systems . Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/> -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
someone at chef.io ?
hi, can someone from chef.io reach out to me? seems we got blocked for downloads somehow. --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
Re: Canadian Legacy Subnets & ARIN - Looking for feedback
On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 03:23:54PM -0500, Alain Hebert wrote: > Yes that is the harder part, and that they date back from the > UToronto days (93-96 or about). > > I do not think any of those faxes survived (or someone bothered > archiving them on micro fiche) =D open a dialogue with the folks at ARIN. my guess is they have a cache of documents that were forwarded to them by the likes of herb kugel and others, when the transition happened. they may not be complete, but they will likely have enough info to get you authorized to fix things up. when it comes to the legacy stuff, i've found ARIN to be fair, but thorough. --jim > > In any case, thx for the follow up. > > - > Alain Hebertaheb...@pubnix.net > PubNIX Inc. > 50 boul. St-Charles > P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7 > Tel: 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.netFax: 514-990-9443 > > On 12/09/16 12:31, John Curran wrote: > > Alain - > > > > It shouldn't be difficult to resolve, presuming that changes were > > made in error. > > > > Are you the best person to work with on this, or someone else in > > your organization? > > > > /John > > > > John Curran > > President and CEO > > ARIN > > > >> On Dec 9, 2016, at 11:32 AM, Alain Hebert <aheb...@pubnix.net> wrote: > >> > >>Hi, > >> > >>How easy is it to resolve? > >> > >>We have 4-5 subnets which where erroneously assigned to our > >> customers when ARIN took over all the NA smaller registries like UToronto. > >> > >>All the paperwork refer to US legalese, which we have some > >> difficulties meshing with Canadian resources at our disposal. > >> > >>( And some level of form-phobia from my part =D ) > >> > >>Beside that, good friday. > >> > >> -- > >> - > >> Alain Hebertaheb...@pubnix.net > >> PubNIX Inc. > >> 50 boul. St-Charles > >> P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7 > >> Tel: 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.netFax: 514-990-9443 > >> -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
Re: ARIN legacy block transfer process
On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 08:57:01AM -0700, Randy Bush wrote: > fwiw, i did a transfer with the source in arin. i found arin's folk > very very helpful, and the process navigable, even for someone who is > administratively impaired such as i. yep, i agree. i recently was the source of a pile of transfers from /24's to a /16, both inside ARIN, as well as a couple out of ARIN into RIPE. also did some with brokers (iptrading.com), as well as direct deals. as long as all the documentation is straight, the process seems to move along cleanly. --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
Re: ARIN legacy block transfer process
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 01:22:19PM -0400, William Herrin wrote: > 1. Buyer gets approved by ARIN for a specified transfer in the amount > to be purchased. Signs RSA. > 2. Legacy registrant (seller) signs the LRSA, proves identity and > authority to ARIN, places legacy block under the LRSA. i don't recall having to sign an LRSA, but they certainly do need proof that you are the entity that holds the block. > 3. Buyer requests specified transfer from ARIN, seller authorizes it. > 4. ARIN transfers registration to buyer, now under the RSA. if you are a legacy holder, and you want a dead simple way to sell off your rights to blocks, register for the STLS, and get your blocks added to the list. https://www.arin.net/public/secure/downloads/index.xhtml (at the bottom) this is also a good place to go if you want to buy rights to a block. you can also solicit offers to buy from anyone on the list. works well, and less dodgy-ness, since everyone on the list has been vetted (to some degree) by ARIN. --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
Re: Domain renawals
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:43:50AM -0700, james machado wrote: > so who would you quantify as secure and reliable? who does not require > additional "services" besides registration or spend all their time trying > to upsell you? i'm good with easydns.com --jim > > james > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Jim Mercer <j...@reptiles.org> wrote: > > > > > cheap, secure, reliable > > > > pick two. > > > > --jim > > > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Jeff Jones <jeff.jjo...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > Sorry if this is low level. But are people sick of registrars jacking up > > > prices? Who is the cheapest and most reliable? I have been using > > whois.com, > > > networksolutions.com and am looking for input on who is cheap, secure, > > > reliable registrar. Thanks for your input. > > > > -- > > Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 > > > > Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of > > arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather > > to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, > > totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" > > -- Hunter S. Thompson > > -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
Re: Domain renawals
cheap, secure, reliable pick two. --jim On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Jeff Jones <jeff.jjo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry if this is low level. But are people sick of registrars jacking up > prices? Who is the cheapest and most reliable? I have been using whois.com, > networksolutions.com and am looking for input on who is cheap, secure, > reliable registrar. Thanks for your input. -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
Re: Any large IPv4 space brokers?
On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 05:32:44PM -0500, Paras Jha wrote: > Does anyone know of any IP space brokers other than Hilco Streambank? I'm > looking to get a feel for the market a little bit. register with the ARIN STLS, there are some blocks available there too. --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
Re: Best Source for ARIN Region /24
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:54:49AM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote: > As an end user, you can get an IPv6 /48 and still qualify for the /24 of > transitional space as well. did ARIN hold back some blocks to service the 'transitional space', or would that be going to the STLS list? --jim > > Owen > > > On Jan 11, 2016, at 18:35 , Matthew D. Hardeman <mharde...@ipifony.com> > > wrote: > > > > I???m aware of the /24 block for facilitation concept, but my client???s > > use case can qualify as an end-user rather than as an ISP, thus their > > annual operating cost is smaller than even the X-SMALL ISP category, which > > they???d land in ??? if they opted for the smaller /36 initial IPv6 direct > > allocation, rather than the default /32 direct allocation. > > > > That seems to balance toward buying an existing /24. > > > >> On Jan 11, 2016, at 8:00 PM, Rafael Possamai <rafaelpo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> If you apply for an IPv6 block, as an ISP, and you have the intention of > >> truly utilizing it, then you can apply for a /24 to facilitate that > >> transition. > >> > >> It will cost you about $1500 or so, which is about half of what a /24 is > >> going for in the transfer market. > >> > >> Thing is, if you take the IPv6 block just to use the /24 they give you, > >> then one could argue you are cheating the system. > >> > >> > >> > >> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Matthew D. Hardeman > >> <mharde...@ipifony.com <mailto:mharde...@ipifony.com>> wrote: > >> I???m looking to buy a /24 of space for a new multi-homed network in the > >> ARIN region. Can anyone out there speak to going rates for a /24 and best > >> places to shop? > >> > >> > > -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
Re: Does no one monitor the list on weekends?
On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 09:59:40PM -0400, Robert Webb wrote: > This spam is ridiculous! it should be noted that it has been flowing all weekend, and nobody really complained or even commented on it until this morning. so, yeah, maybe the list is on auto-pilot, which is totally understandable. however, all the members seemed to be on auto-pilot as well. (or maybe enjoying their weekend) --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
thank you Re: spam smackdown?
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 03:03:26PM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > 3) Anyone who feels this is so frickin??? bad it is unbearable, and knows > they could do SO MUCH BETTER themselves, should volunteer for the > Communications Committee. Otherwise, everyone should thank the unpaid > volunteers for their gracious and excellent work day after day, year after > year. Or just STFU. > > For my part, I would just like to thank the CC members. I think they do a > most amazing job, and deserve of humblest gratitude. hear hear! -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
old message
as opposed to the new message, which is getting old. --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
ultradns / neustar outage?
hi, we are hosting some domains at ultradns, and they all seem to be dead. anyone else seeing issues? --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" -- Hunter S. Thompson
Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]
after watching this discussion for a while, i have decided that i am in favour of systemd. i encourage its development, and widespread adoption. it will hasten the demise of linux in the server enviroment, which can only be a good thing. if people really want to run their servers on the *nix equivilent of Windows/XP, i say let them go ahead. every day that i have to work with linux, is another day i spend holding my nose. --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead
Re: Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch [OT]
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:41:39AM -0400, Barry Shein wrote: All those init.d scripts do about 95% the same thing, all hacked together in shell. Most of them are probably just slightly edited versions of some few paleo-scripts. in FreeBSD, the bulk of the rc.d scripts are basically the same format, inhaling a standardized library of functions, populating some variables, maybe adding a few custom functions, then jumping to main. all largely driven off variables which have preset defaults in /etc/default/rc.conf, and over-ridden by /etc/rc.conf. something i saw in various linux systems, which i now see moving into FreeBSD, is the concept of the .d config directory, where the files in /etc/myapp.d are effectively concatenated to /etc/myapp.conf. this is quite nice from a sysadmin perspective, as you can set defaults in /etc/myapp.conf, and then over-ride them with server/environmental specific (and appropriately named) files in /etc/myapp.d/ --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead
Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 09:48:51PM -0500, Jimmy Hess wrote: Optimizing reboot time down from 20 minutes to 1 minute is a significantly meaningful improvement; it's literally a 85% reduction in time spent during each boot process from the original time. if reducing boot time from 20 minutes down to 1 minute, in a server environment, is a serious issue for you, maybe you should be looking at why you need to reboot so often? i'm somewhat puzzled by the fanboi mantra of i've been running whizzy weasel and have 1574 days of uptime, which has now been supplanted by geez, i have to wait 3 minutes every time i reboot this thing. running ntp, dhcp, dns, smtp, imap, http, that's what we do in serverland. and in addition to that, we need to run whatever the latest and greatest piece of crap that's being touted on slashdot (redis, mongo, couchbase, elasticsearch, anything that uses ruby/forever). we generally don't have alot of say in what we have to run because the fanboi's run the media, and management tends to give media more credence than the decades of experience they have in-house. that's how linux made it into the server environment in the first place. systemd sounds like a really useful thing if you are running a desktop system. as far as booting up a server, to run services, and to keep those services running, the init.d/rc.d/etc systems do a good job, and its generally not that hard to add/modify if you are half-assed competent. before criticizing people for being afraid of new technology, make sure that you yourself are not afraid of existing technology. --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead
Re: Andros Island Connectivity?
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 09:20:59AM -0400, Joe Abley wrote: On 2013-05-01, at 01:23, joseph.sny...@gmail.com wrote: Doesn't cable Bahamas sell in andros BaTelCo has five retail stores on Andros too, which suggests they offer some kind of service there (whether wireline or wireless). its been a long time since i've done much in the caribbean, but i'd be quite surprised if the bahamas didn't have some decent amount of terrestrial connectivity by this time. back in the day when Cable and Wireless controlled everything, it was a pretty costly environment to work in. don't know if that's still the case. -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead
Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 01:19:19PM -0600, Naslund, Steve wrote: I think the best analogy I would use in defense is something like the pre-paid cellular phones that are sold. That is about the only anonymous communications service I can think of off the top of my head. Problem is that most people are not licensed carriers and may not be able to hide behind that protection. if your phone is stolen and used by a drug dealer, i'm pretty sure the cops would not be after you for anything the dealer did. if you stand on the corner with a sign saying free cell phone airtime, just ask me, they might take a different view on things. now, whether you are guilty of anything or not, by standing there with a sign you are certainly opening yourself to legal inquiry, delay and hassle. i wouldn't be surprised if the cops didn't accept your i'm just letting people use my phone, i've got nothing to do with their activities defence, at least not without poking about for a bit, which might include looking at your cellphone, your home phone, your bank records, and anything else they think (and a judge agrees) might need viewing to clear you. -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead
authority to route?
Hi, Is there a common practice of providers to vet / validate requests to advertise blocks? Who is the authority when it comes to determining if a request for routing is valid? Is it the WHOIS data maintained by the various RIR? It seems I'm playing whack-a-mole to get some routes shut down for some blocks I've taken over admin for. If I email the contacts for the AS in WHOIS, and get no response, or a negative response, should I start going to their peers? Some practical advice would be appreciated. -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead
Re: RFC becomes Visio
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:22:14AM -0700, Mike Lyon wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Seth Mattinen se...@rollernet.us wrote: On 9/28/12 11:08 AM, Joe Maimon wrote: Just got told by a Lightpath person that in order to do BGP on a customer gig circuit to them they would need a visio diagram (of what I dont know). Hand draw two squares, label them our AS and your AS with a line between them labeled GigE. Bonus points for pencil. And super duper bonus points is you draw pigeons carrying packets between the two blocks and stating that you are RFC 1149 compliant. on a napkin. -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead
Re: really nasty attacks
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:12:50PM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Sep 27, 2012, at 11:34 , Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzme...@nic.fr wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 08:55:58AM -0600, Miguel Mata mm...@intercom.com.sv wrote No gals on NANOG? Many. Although in fairness, some people use guys in a gender-neutral manner. heh. some people use it in a globally-neutral manner. those guys over there pointing at a rack full of servers. -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead
Re: URGENT - ISP/Telecom
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 05:49:24PM +0200, Olivier CALVANO wrote: I am looking for an operator that can build a ADSL or SDSL in record time. i used to pursue leads like this. now i get on all my boarding passes. -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead
Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 04:43:16PM -1000, Paul Graydon wrote: On 6/30/2012 3:16 PM, Paul WALL wrote: Comments? Not very well if you have a modern box (RHES/CentOS 6) and Java apps running on them. RHES/CentOS 5 merrily ignored it. Worse, just bouncing the Java stack didn't fix it, it required the box to be rebooted. i didn't reboot: /etc/init.d/ntp stop date `date +%m%d%H%M%C%y.%S` /etc/init.d/ntp start seems to calm things right back to normal. --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead
Re: economic value of low AS numbers
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:21:59AM -0800, David Conrad wrote: On Nov 17, 2011, at 8:16 AM, Keegan Holley wrote: Besides standing at the water cooler at 1:23PM on 12/3 telling AS123 jokes I'm not sure a particular AS number has any relevance or any monetary value unless there is scarcity. You are discounting (pun intended) vanity and marketing. I am no longer surprised at what people will be willing to pay (sometimes astonishing amounts of) money for. UAE license plate auctions, 1 sold for $14 million http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchivesid=aJ8EZTdrItjs Lebanon phone number auction, 71-44 went for $68,000 http://www.ameinfo.com/207677.html -- [ Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org +1 416 410-5633 ] [ stressed spelled backwards is desserts.] [coincidence? i think not. ]
Verisign Internet Defence Network
Heyo, So, I asked to look into the viability and usefullness of the Verisign Internet Defence Network service. I don't claim to be any kind of expert in DDoS mitigation, but some of the claims made by the product descriptions seem suspect to me. it claims to be Carrier-agnostic and ISP-neutral, yet When an event is detected, Verisign will work with the customer to redirect Internet traffic destined for the protected service to a Verisign Internet Defense Network site. anyone here have any comments on how this works, and how effective it will be vs. dealing directly with your upstream providers and getting them to assist in shutting down the attack? -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 You are more likely to be arrested as a terrorist than you are to be blown up by one. -- Dianora
mail admin contacts within gc.ca ?
anyone have a method of determining who to contact about DNS/email issues within gc.ca? i tried emailing postmas...@pco.gc.ca, but got a bounce back saying i was not on the 'approved list'. (pco.gc.ca being the group i need to contact) -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 You are more likely to be arrested as a terrorist than you are to be blown up by one. -- Dianora
transit providers via FLAG fiber?
I have been asked to investigate the costs of adding transit capacity for a national ISP in the middle east/asia. they have access to a FLAG landing station. can someone provide pointers as to where to start? private emails would be good, and i'll summarize. thanx. -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 You are more likely to be arrested as a terrorist than you are to be blown up by one. -- Dianora
SDSL circuits in UK?
in the spirit of globalization, i've now added the UK to north america. 8^) now, can anyone suggest a source for SDSL links, for private networks in the UK? -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 You are more likely to be arrested as a terrorist than you are to be blown up by one. -- Dianora
Re: Mastercard problems
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 11:11:49AM -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote: There is an interesting analysis in today's New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/technology/09net.html?_r=1 about the attacks on Mastercard, Visa and Ebay, how they were coordinated over Twitter and Facebook, and the free speech issues that that raises for the latter two organizations. paypal has relaxed its restrictions on Wikileaks funds: https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2010/12/updated-statement-about-wikileaks-from-paypal-general-counsel-john-muller/ amazon is selling a Kindle version of the Wikileaks released cables: http://www.amazon.co.uk/WikiLeaks-documents-expose-foreign-conspiracies/dp/B004EEOLIU/ this is all becoming quite surreal. -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 You are more likely to be arrested as a terrorist than you are to be blown up by one. -- Dianora
Re: Mastercard problems
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 05:18:39PM +, Roland Perry wrote: In article 20101209162936.ga9...@reptiles.org, Jim Mercer j...@reptiles.org writes amazon is selling a Kindle version of the Wikileaks released cables: http://www.amazon.co.uk/WikiLeaks-documents-expose-foreign-conspiracies/dp/B004EEOLIU/ this is all becoming quite surreal. Please note: This book contains commentary and analysis regarding recent WikiLeaks disclosures, not the original material disclosed via the WikiLeaks website. i don't have a cache, but i'm pretty sure those comments were added after i posted. fortunately, google's cache has a better memory: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GGCo9vYxnHUJ:www.amazon.co.uk/WikiLeaks-documents-expose-foreign-conspiracies/dp/B004EEOLIU+WikiLeaks+documents+expose+US+foreign+policy+conspiracies.+All+cables+with+tags+from+1-+5000+www.amazon.co.ukcd=1hl=enct=clnkgl=ca -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 You are more likely to be arrested as a terrorist than you are to be blown up by one. -- Dianora
Re: Co-Lo and Connectivity options in Kuwait
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 07:34:18PM +0100, Rod Beck wrote: Good luck. }The Middle East is generally a horror. Prices are sky high. i was generally happy with my co-lo with etisalat in Dubai. that would also provide connectivity to kuwait and other places in the region as etisalat/emix seem to be pretty core to the connectivity in the middle east. email me if you need help working yoru way throught their maze. --jim Roderick S. Beck Director of European Sales Hibernia Atlantic Budapest, New York, and Paris -Original Message- From: Dylan Ebner [mailto:dylan.eb...@crlmed.com] Sent: Thu 10/14/2010 3:53 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Co-Lo and Connectivity options in Kuwait Does anyone have any experience with Co-lo and connectivity in Kuwait. This would be my first time depolying in the middle east. Any advice, experiences anyone wishes to share is welcome. Thanks Dylan Ebner -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 You are more likely to be arrested as a terrorist than you are to be blown up by one. -- Dianora
Re: Reverse DNS Question
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:26:17AM -1000, 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. When ARIN allocates address space to you, you now become responsible for the reverse-lookups for that allocated address range. with forward DNS, anyone can map a domain to any arbitrary IP address, such as mapping www.example.com to the same IP address as big-popular-bank.com. there is nothing to prevent this, and in some cases it is acceptable, and in some cases, possibly nefarious. when the registeries (ARIN/RIPE/APNIC/etc) require the owner of an ip block to define name servers for reverse maps, it provides a mechanism to double check if a domain/ip-addr map is valid. it isn't 100%, for sure, but, it is substantially better than nothing. in this sense, www.example.com can have an A record of 192.168.1.1 and, through the reverse map, 1.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa will have a PTR record of www.example.com in fact, there can be multiple PTR records, in case you have multiple domains pointing at the same IP address. on many unix(-ish) systems, the host command will show you the reverse PTR record, if you run: host 192.168.1.1 , it might show: u...@hostname% host 192.168.1.1 1.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer www.example.com. keep in mind, this will only work if the name servers registered for the ip block actually contain data. check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_DNS_lookup and, go to Guide to reverse zones in: http://www.apnic.net/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/9792/Reverse-DNS-manual.pdf hope this is helpful -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+92 336 520-4504 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going?
.cn / china registrars in US/canada ?
i am looking for a referral to a registrar who can get me a .cn domain, without registering it on my behalf then extorting me. i saw a notice that CNNIC suspended non-chinese registrars, but i haven't found anything telling me they have recinded that. can anyone give me clarification? thanx. -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+92 336 520-4504 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going?
speedtest suite like NDT that runs on FreeBSD?
i'm looking for a speedtest server suite, like NDT http://netspeed.stanford.edu/ which can be run using a FreeBSD server. any leads? thanx -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+92 336 520-4504
Re: What is The Internet TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?
i remember implementing quasi-QoS on uucp. after having our modem pool hogged too many times by a select few users, i put a script into our mail system. 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 kinda feel like adding the same script back into my servers. 8^) -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+92 336 520-4504 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going?
Re: What is The Internet TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?
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 style addresses like mine original seismo!atina!pete transitioned for a while to p...@atina.uucp and later to p...@atina.ar. i don't recall .uucp making it into the actual DNS, but i remember our mail system used it as a trigger to do a uucp-maps lookup. For several years until we've got a more decent telecommunications infrastructure UUCP was all we had in Argentina to let the academic and science community reach out and communicate with their colleagues around the world, we had an adapted version of the UUCP implementation for DOS (some called it UUPC) that became very popular and enabled our UUCP network to reach over 800 nodes in the early 90's when we later were able to get a direct (IP) connection to the rest of the world. uucp introduced a far-flung group of hosts, academic and otherwise, to things that were popular on the internet, namely email and USENET. i'm sure its an open debate as to if being in the UUCP maps also meant that you were on the Internet, but many people seemed or seem to think this way. i recall seeing uucp going into not only south america, but the caribbean, south pacific and many other regions, much the same way that you describe it. there were several organizations who were quite dedicated to using uucp over (dialup/X.25/carrier-pigeon) in order to extend email and USENET deep into the third world. -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+92 336 520-4504
Re: Finding content in your job title
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:34:58PM -0500, Jorge Amodio wrote: Ok, let see. In several countries the use of the title engineer applies to people that achieved a certain technical degree, I'm not sure that applies uniformly but in Latin America using the engineer title without having achieved that degree is illegal. when i worked for LSUC, the equivilent of a state bar association, i think, i was asked to dream up a new title for my role, and asked for Network Architect. it was rejected for the reason that it bestowes upon you a professional designation for which you are not qualified. i think my title ended up being Systems and Network Engineering Manager. -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+92 336 520-4504 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going?
Re: Useful URL for network operators
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:36:52AM -0700, Randy Bush wrote: could you please keep a constant email address so we don't have to keep adding to our mail filters? thanks. he is invading other lists as well, looks like he is trying to become a net.kook. -- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:10:32 +0200 From: Guillaume FORTAINE gforta...@live.com To: me...@menog.net Subject: Re: [menog] Useful URL for network operators Dear all, Once again, please ignore Jim Mercer. He should do more homeworks too. a) I have never heard of Randy Bush b) I didn't coin the term EDoS : ... c) I have never heard of him Really, I am a bit tired from quick and poor replies from NANOGers. Simply mediocre engineers. Best Regards, Guillaume FORTAINE -- -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+92 336 520-4504 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going?
Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:08:54AM -0500, James Jones wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Gadi Evron g...@linuxbox.org wrote: According to this proposed bill, when a client transfers to a different ISP the email address will optionally be his to take along, just like mobile providers do today with phone numbers. Why does this seem like a really bad idea? actually, i think its a great idea. now the ISPs will have an actual interest in shutting down and eliminating SPAM, as it would make little economic sense to be forwarding huge amounts of email around when the bulk of it is just gonna be discarded anyways. ( i'm half joking ) -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+92 336 520-4504 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going?
Re: google contact? why is google hosting/supporting/encouraging spammers?
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 05:35:23PM -0600, Tony Varriale wrote: From: Jim Mercer j...@reptiles.org we have recently started getting alot of spam, out of dubai, from ecampaigners@gmail.com all of the spam comes from/through google and google groups. Not that I can point you in the correct direction, but Google Groups is a haven for spammers. In fact, I stopped using it a while ago for this reason. the issue for me is not that they are spamming groups within google groups, but that they are signing up the victim email addresses as members of the group, then using google groups to distribute the content. -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+92 336 520-4504 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going?
google contact? why is google hosting/supporting/encouraging spammers?
we have recently started getting alot of spam, out of dubai, from ecampaigners@gmail.com all of the spam comes from/through google and google groups. is this accepted/supported activity on google? if not, where might i find a contact who can cluefully respond? -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+92 336 520-4504 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going?
Re: google contact? why is google hosting/supporting/encouraging spammers?
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 12:35:06PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: ab...@gmail.com maybe? Looks like some random spammer based in Dubai judging by the airport code. yeah, tried that several times. seems to go to a black hole. i've engaged the spammer, and they are telling me that they feel it is ok to subscribe people to their group, because it sends out a subscription notice, as well as an unsubscribe link. they seem to be quite happy to use an @gmail account, and use google groups to propagate their spam. most recently, i got from them: Yes you are right, you can complain to Google, but to complain, you have a right email address, because this address we don't have listed. so, they are not concerned about being reported to google. very odd. is this a legitimate google groups activity? someone can set up and say well, yeah, he musta gone to one of our websites or something, how else would he get on our list? and google is ok with that? geez, do no harm really? --jim On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Jim Mercer j...@reptiles.org wrote: we have recently started getting alot of spam, out of dubai, from ecampaigners@gmail.com all of the spam comes from/through google and google groups. is this accepted/supported activity on google? if not, where might i find a contact who can cluefully respond? -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com) -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+92 336 520-4504 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going?
Re: google contact? why is google hosting/supporting/encouraging spammers?
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 02:49:42AM -0500, David Ford wrote: Google groups cautions you about pre-emptively adding people if you choose this method of subscribing them. here, have some free guns. oh, by the way, its probably bad if you go around shooting people, so don't do that. it is starting too look to me like google is quite happy to host spammers. or, at best, doesn't care if spammers use them to host their services. On 02/04/10 02:12, Jim Mercer wrote: [...] and google is ok with that? geez, do no harm really? --jim -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+92 336 520-4504 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going?
Re: policies for 24.0.0.0/8 ?
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:07:35AM +, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 22/01/2010 05:07, Jim Mercer wrote: i'm just wandering what happened to 24.0.0.0/8 and what policies govern who and what can use the address space there. Not quite sure why you'd want to use 24/8. It became a normal address block a very long time ago . RFC3330 sez: 24.0.0.0/8 - This block was allocated in early 1996 for use in ... Numbers (ARIN) in May 2001. Addresses within this block are assigned in the normal manner and should be treated as such. So, it's just regular IP address space, available for assignment if you live in ARIN-land. hrm, somehow i missed that. Incidentally, Pakistan is serviced by APNIC, not RIPE: http://www.apnic.net/about-APNIC/organization/apnics-region wow, musta been sleeping that day. any how, it is what it is. -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+92 336 520-4504 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going?
policies for 24.0.0.0/8 ?
i'm doing some consulting work for a cable operator in Pakistan. while i'm guessing that realistically we will be approaching RIPE for address space, i'm just wandering what happened to 24.0.0.0/8 and what policies govern who and what can use the address space there. -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+92 336 520-4504 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going?
Re: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:30:52AM +, gordon b slater wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 17:42 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: Could the comment actually have been about pay telephones, which were once common in cities? Good point Bill, which, if so, would place the comment at or about the start of the cellfone introduction. @Jim, maybe it's more a telco/2600 thing? found it, actually was once in my .signature: The telephone, for those of you who have forgotten, was a commonly used communications technology in the days before electronic mail. They're still easy to find in most large cities. -- Nathaniel Borenstein i'm guessing this is before the mobile phone explosion. -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+92 336 520-4504 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going?
Re: Idiotic Newstar Networking Equipment Sales Droid
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:43:27AM -0800, Scott Weeks wrote: If they see all of us saying we won't buy from them when they do idiotic things like spamming nanog folks (I can't think of too many groups it world be worse to spam... ;-) they will realize that doing this will not only not generate sales, it will actually prevent future sales from occurring. you are assuming they actually read the list. -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+92 336 520-4504 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going?
Re: ASR1002
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 05:20:59PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: Who knows how to unsubscribe the mail list? look at the headers i still read most of my mail with mutt, but in my experience, many modern interfaces (gmail/thunderrbird/etc) don't make it intuative to find and/or read the headers. i'm just sayin' List-Unsubscribe: http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog, mailto:nanog-requ...@nanog.org?subject=unsubscribe List-Archive: http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/nanog List-Post: mailto:nanog@nanog.org List-Help: mailto:nanog-requ...@nanog.org?subject=help List-Subscribe: http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog, mailto:nanog-requ...@nanog.org?subject=subscribe randy -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+92 336 520-4504 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going?
Re: New netblock Geolocate wrong (Google)
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:23:41PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: surely, with its vast talents, the ietf can make this more complex. after all, look at the inflate-and-embellish stupidity that made the simple idea of bgp communities for data collecion, completely ueless, draft-meyer-collection-communities-00.txt /sarcasm sorta like how RFC1530, over the course of 10 years, plus some ITU fiddling, became RFC3761 its interesting how many wheels seem to need re-inventing. 8^) -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+92 336 520-4504 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going?
OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002
for days now, i've been trying to remember a quotation, which i vaguely seem to remember popping up in trn/nn or some USENET newsreader of old, along the lines of: the telephone, once commonly available in cities, or something like that. ring a bell for anyone? -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+92 336 520-4504 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going?
kaspersky anti-virus tech, with a clue?
it seems that kaspersky anti-virus is detecting our hotspot captive portal login as a Trojan-Downloader.Script.Generic. my googling on this seems to indicate that it isn't finding so much a signature, but something in the url that is suspicious. unfortunately, this is causing some fairly unhappy, panicing calls to our support people from customers. can anyone point me at a Kaspersky tech with a clue? maybe we can re-craft our login url to not offend the Kaspersky suite. note: this hotspot suite has been in operation for 4+ years, and is based on the chillispot portal. note: these reports only started recently, so i suspect something was added to Kaspersky's virus database recently that kicked this off. -- Jim Mercerj...@reptiles.org+92 336 520-4504 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going?
Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S.
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 06:11:28AM +0530, Murtaza wrote: Nothing if the reason isn't to avoid the US to prevent interception. ie. my point was the people are doing this for engineering reasons not political ones as was implied by that article. I don't see it sinister even if someone wants to avoid US due to interception. But, yes I agree people are doing for engineering reasons. But, it still is impossible in many asses, as ISPs in many countries are still not cooperating with each other. speaking from the middle east, i have been advising my clients against co-location/hosting in the US due to potential political issues. the current US policy of detain first, question later has the potential for serious customer relations issues, should one of the TLAs become interested in your data. oddly enough, the ISP's in the region have not caught on to the potential winfall of providing cost effective hosting locally, so therefore, the bulk of the hosting for companies in the region is primarily done in the US, then in EU, then, maybe locally. if you drive down Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai, and check where the hosting is for 90% of the URL's on the billboards (even those with .ae domains), you will find that they follow the above pattern. a primary example is that of du.ae, one of the only two incumbent/dual-opoly providers for the UAE, hosts its own website and customer portal in Canada, even though it has a perfectly fine data center (if not more than one) in Dubai. UAE/Dubai is a major landing point for many asian/indian ocean fibers, but there is no equivilent of One Wilshire/60 Hudson/etc. so, as the data finds more and better direct routes to the end user, reducing the need to route through the US, there is still a penchant for hosting the primary data there. -- Jim Mercer[EMAIL PROTECTED]+971 55 410-5633 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going?
Re: Coop Peering Fabric??
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:15:49PM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote: A coop, best-effort switch fabric colo'd at a few sites would allow participants to peer off traffic at a price of the order of a single cross-connect (~$500/month per 10G port is possible, maybe less), private-VLANs all-around, or to only-mutually approved peers (e.g. via an automated web interface, prior art) to avoid many of the /old/ issues. No requirement for multi-lateral peering. You could peer, sell transit, buy transit, multicast, etc. This has been working for years at http://www.torix.net , and on a smaller scale at http://www.ottix.net -- Jim Mercer[EMAIL PROTECTED]+971 55 410-5633 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going?
Re: Coop Peering Fabric??
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:11:13AM -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Several small IXes have grown quite a bit with no or very small membership fees. Look at the ones I mentioned. I think SIX is the largest, but they're all not that tiny. TorIX, for many years, was financed by announcing an upcoming expediture, and waiting to see if one of the members stepped up (or usually, the member suggesting the expenditure, also covering its cost), and if no-one was willing to foot the entire bill, the hat was passed around until it filled sufficiently. they have since formalized into a not-for-profit (i stepped away, physically and involvement-wise), but my understanding is that financially, it is using the same funding model. TorIX was initially founded by driving a stake (a single Cisco 2900 as i recall) in the ground and inviting all-comers (each having to simply pay to drag connectivity to the stake). the initial membership was small to medium (quasi-large) ISP's, the largest of which were finding they were locked out of the incumbent IX (CanIX) for various financial and political reasons. (that CanIX appears to have vaporized, and its name now taken by some colo provider) some joined for monetary reasons, some for the fun of it, others because it became a cost effective way to shunt packets (even when weighed against the best-effort management) TorIX is now sustaining 10Gbps across some 90+ peers, with a decent spectrum of eyeballs, content-only providers and transit providers. i would bet that if someone analyzed the data, that it has maintained 5 9's reliability too, or pretty damn close for a best-effort facility. -- Jim Mercer[EMAIL PROTECTED]+971 55 410-5633 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going?
Re: [NANOG] [Nanog] attempt to capture nominet board
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 03:01:31PM +0100, Neil J. McRae wrote: Yes strongly agreed and Randy thanks for raising this here. as i recall, CIRA, the Canadian equivilent of Nominet, a few years ago, made some serious changes to its structure/by-laws/etc in order to prevent/reduce the possibility of a similar take-over. other registries might want to take note. -Original Message- From: Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 April 2008 11:30 To: North American Network Operators Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Nanog] attempt to capture nominet board dear uk sisters, brothers, and undecideds, if you are a nomintet voting member or know someone who is, i strongly encourage you to read these two documents, http://www.nominet.org.uk/governance/board/election/ and particularly http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAssets/28780_call_to_action_letter_web.pdf, and to vote the candidates running against the greedy domainer slime trying to capture nominet. thanks for listening. randy ___ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog ___ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog -- Jim Mercer[EMAIL PROTECTED]+971 55 410-5633 I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak. - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over Pearson's cottage retreat. At one point, a Johnson guard asked Pearson, Who are you and where are you going? ___ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog
