Searchable archives of the list?

IPv4 space through ipway? Thanks, jms --- Joel M Snyder - Opus One - j...@opus1.com

Re: Coverage of the .to internet outage

by providing satellite capacity on Horizons 3e and Intelsat18 at that time. -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1.comhttp://www.opus1.com/jms

Re: DMVPN via Internet or Private APN

o claim better pricing on big contracts, but rarely is this true, because of the sharp and continuous drop in costs for Internet worldwide. Go with vanilla. It's easier to pour syrup and nuts on top than it is to dig out those disgusting frozen marshmallow chunks from the rocky road someone committed

Re: 60ms cross continent

ing an incumbent provider, and the rationale for all that money and all that equipment and all that work is "the bits must flow." (Plus, there are also still many places outside of capital cities in the world where the Internet is truly awful and if you want bits, you have to bring your own) jms

Re: Colo in Africa

alent of NANOG) as information sources. Anyway: I can get more specific, but it's hard to really offer super-specific advice on a vague question because, you know, Africa. That's a big topic. jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opu

premiumcolo.net IP address rental

anyone has had any experience with them or knows the back story. Also, is there some reason that there is no official searchable archive of the nanog mailing list? (or dependable unofficial one...)? Best in the new year to you all, jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85

Re: OSPF vs ISIS - Which do you prefer & why?

ly. It's not ideal; that's just the way it is. jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1.comhttp://www.opus1.com/jms

Any recommendations for FXS/FXO hardware with Cisco Unified CME

with Sipura/Linksys. I have had good results with Audiocodes+Asterisk, but not in the Cisco PBX environment. Does anyone have boots-on-the-ground knowledge of good analog gateway choices that play very nicely with Cisco PBX? jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior

Re: Any recommendations for FXS/FXO hardware with Cisco Unified CME

authenticate each other with certificates) for both HTTPS provisioning and for SIP signalling. jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1.comhttp://www.opus1.com/jms

Re: Office 365 Expert

on spreadsheets. jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1.comhttp://www.opus1.com/jms

Re: Urgent

OP is a troll, best to ignore and block: Be nice. Randy can be abrasive, but calling him a troll seems out of line. I like to think of him as a hobbit with shorter temper than average. Not everyone here will agree with me :-) jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719

Re: Observations of an Internet Middleman (Level3) (was: RIP Network Neutrality)

Shouldn't there be a rule against using RIP in the subject line of a NANOG post? Every time I see that, a shudder goes down *my* spine. jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1.comhttp

Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

pretty much got to allow that NTP traffic in, although you're also probably, hopefully, clue-full enough not to let random hosts make you a DDoS accelerator. (the other) jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1

Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads

really wants to talk to you to get to you). How did our little capitalist industry suddenly become a you must have permission to contact me by any means no matter what industry? jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494

Re: huawei

M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1.comhttp://www.opus1.com/jms

Re: chargen is the new DDoS tool?

liters. Older systems of measuring security involving mass (pounds and kilos) have been deprecated, and you should not be using them anymore in serious evaluations, although some older CSOs will insist. jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One

Re: Andros Island Connectivity?

horrible ERP apps (*ahem* Oracle eBusiness *cough* *cough* *cough*) work a lot better as well, if you decide not to use Citrix. jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1.comhttp://www.opus1.com/jms

Re: Network Storage

and then look at NetWitness if you don't like Solera. This assumes you have budget. If this is a back-of-the-envelope hey, let's grab some packets and do something with them kind of exercise, then filter your tcpdumps a lot better. jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719

Re: Question about peering

and a leg (or maybe PCCW is screwing us over on the proposal). jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1.comhttp://www.opus1.com/jms

Cool IPs: 1.234.35.245 brute force SSHing

Normally I wouldn't say anything to anyone about anything so mundane as brute-force SSH attacks, but this one caught my eye just because of the IP address: 1.234.35.245 I wanna get a connection in Korea so I can have 1.234.56.78. jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson

Bluetooth-to-Serial (was: Re: Colo Vending Machine)

the serial port if available. You can dangle the RJ45 one from a Cisco router literally forever without a battery and it will BT-to-serial for 20 or 30 feet. If you can find one, buy it as it's the perfect compromise between the BluePort and the IOGear. jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road

Re: DNS Attacks

, BoFH-style. jms [1] 'em in this case is your customer service reps who will see a 'higher than normal call volume' should the FBI's warning mean anything. -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1.com

Re: time sink 42

anything done with it as the bottom-of-the-line $19.95 P-Touch that takes M tapes. Anyone got a solution for *that* particular problem? Should I get a better TZ-compatible labeler? jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324

Re: ASA log viewer

-- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1.comhttp://www.opus1.com/jms

Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to an Alternative

if it helps in your mail stream. (Every stream is different, so my results may not match your results.) jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1.comhttp://www.opus1.com/jms

Re: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to an Alternative?

your money where your mouth is regarding catch rate and false positive rate. Contact me off-list with a place where I can FTP a VM of one of your appliances. jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1.com

Random Port Blocking at Hotels (was: Re: quietly....)

: this is why they do it), but you could also have argued that they were giving out non-contiguous subnet masks or Class E addresses and it would have had the same effect. Try that next time and let us know how it works. jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner

Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?

version/model/device beats another in a particular small set of performance tests. Obligatory disclaimer: we don't compete directly with Tolly, but we do get paid by the magazines to do testing and there is some overlap, so we do compete indirectly. jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road

Re: Out-of-band paging

important to balance these things. (I should also note, if anyone had any doubts, that I'm also one of those mom-and-pop ISPs, not Time-Warner or Verizon, so my concept of alerting is a bit different from someone who is trying to keep tabs on 1300 POPs in 40 countries...) jms -- Joel M Snyder

RE: Strange practices?

balance (i.e., treats it as active/passive not true active/active), then it's not a bad solution. Ugly, but given the vast chalice of despair that is the global BGP table, hardly a drop in the bucket. jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One

Re: Niksun Probe

. But if you just want capture, Endace might be a good solution. jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1.comhttp://www.opus1.com/jms

Re: Niksun Probe

want flows, there's LOTS of great products for flow monitoring, starting with Cisco and moving your way out through both open source and commercial products. But if you are considering Niksun, then flows are not what you're after. Packets are what you're after. jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East

Re: Carrier class email security recommendation

-- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1.comhttp://www.opus1.com/jms

RE: Solar Flux

of sunglasses and some high-SPF sunblock would be good to have, plus make you look less like a nerd. Unless you use that zinc stuff on your nose, in which case you look more like a nerd. YMMV. jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone

RE: What is The Internet TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ? (Jim Mercer)

/diss.html) on it. And among the 848 references, this Antonov character (a...@hq.demos.su) even gets quoted three times (assuming you're not also V.S.Antonov who wrote Interfacing Tasks of Systems SM and ES Computers and Ways of Their Solution in 1983). jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson

Re: legacy /8

into the phone line over a 2500 set with a frayed cord... (you can go on this way for a long time... We now return you to your regularly scheduled IPv3 NANOG troll...) jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1

RE: Best VPN Appliance

like delegated and partitioned management, which are SP-critical but often ignored in the enterprise, weren't really part of my evaluation. jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1.comhttp

RE: Spamhaus

going to have false positives. jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1.comhttp://www.opus1.com/jms

Looking Glass software - what's the current state of the art?

done a better job and I should be just downloading and using an open source tool. What's the current thinking on a good standalone Looking Glass that can be opened to the Internet-at-large? jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1

Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL

could either say BRBL is better or BRBL is worse. It would generally depend on your sensitivity to FPs. jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1.comhttp://www.opus1.com/jms

RE: Spamhaus ...

of a typical reputation service. jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1.comhttp://www.opus1.com/jms

Re: How polluted is 1/8?

don't get a /8 unless a T3 is small potatoes to you, hence... jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1.comhttp://www.opus1.com/jms

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

of anti-spam appliances we have conducted for the past 5 years. For example, this month we are looking at 43 different appliances and 25 reputation sevices) jms -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Senior Partner, Opus One Phone: +1 520 324 0494 j...@opus1.com