Re: Cloudflare Abuse Contact

2022-01-07 Thread Mike Hale
eport abuse > https://abuse.cloudflare.com/ > > - Nick > > On 1/7/2022 11:06 AM, Mike Hale wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Does anyone have a cloudflare abuse contact? The email address in the > > whois doesn't actually go to their abuse team, and their abus

Cloudflare Abuse Contact

2022-01-07 Thread Mike Hale
Hi all, Does anyone have a cloudflare abuse contact? The email address in the whois doesn't actually go to their abuse team, and their abuse form doesn't address the issue we're seeing (a massive DNS flood). Thank you much! - Mike -- 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

Re: [members-discuss] Update on legal case - Freeze of Bank accounts

2021-10-15 Thread Mike Hale
Great news! On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 7:42 AM Mark Tinka wrote: > FYI. > > Step by step, the tyrants shall be stripped. > > Mark. > > Forwarded Message > Subject: [members-discuss] Update on legal case - Freeze of Bank accounts > Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:53:03 +0400 > From: Eddy

Re: An update on the AfriNIC situation

2021-08-30 Thread Mike Hale
But to be clear, if this was a simple court case I don't think anyone on this list would have an issue with simply sitting back and letting the court decide. You have to remember though that CI in this case has essentially forced one of the major registrars to virtually shut down. That's a direct

Re: An update on the AfriNIC situation

2021-08-29 Thread Mike Hale
I feel like some IP troll literally being able to shutter a regional registrar as part of a lawsuit should be a much bigger deal on this group... On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 11:49 PM Masataka Ohta wrote: > > Mehmet Akcin wrote: > > > I am kind of curious of the ICANN/IANA position on this? > > https:

Re: atmark trading

2020-08-22 Thread Mike Hale
I've found it useful to email management if certain sales people refuse to stop contacting you. On Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 1:34 PM Bryan Holloway wrote: > Tired of receiving spam from these jamokes. > > https://www.atmarktrade.com/ > > Atmark Trading out of Chicago. > > Have tried unsubscribing numer

Re: Clever use of a decommissioned Datacenter

2020-07-24 Thread Mike Hale
I feel like real estate space in that part of the city is way over-valued to be used for MJ... On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 10:38 PM Norman Jester wrote: > > > > On Jul 23, 2020, at 7:52 PM, Matt Palmer wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 12:20:10PM -0500, Aaron Wendel wrote: > >> We decommission

Re: Friday Reminder: Web Site Security

2020-05-15 Thread Mike Hale
Big plus 1 to Bill's point. On Fri, May 15, 2020, 6:37 PM William Herrin wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 4:25 PM Valdis Klētnieks > wrote: > > On Fri, 15 May 2020 12:15:13 -0700, "Ronald F. Guilmette" said: > > > This is your helpful Friday reminder to always pay close attention to > > > the s

Re: Language evolution (was 24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ)

2020-04-16 Thread Mike Hale
What? On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 2:48 PM Bryan Fields wrote: > > On 4/16/20 4:48 PM, Ben Cannon wrote: > > Side note: What you describe is in-fact part of how languages change and > > evolve. (over time, sufficiently common incorrect use becomes. well. > > correct.) > > Top posting will never be

Re: 24x7 vs 24x7x365 Re: Constant Abuse Reports / Borderline Spamming from RiskIQ

2020-04-16 Thread Mike Hale
No. 24x7x365 is fine. Sheesh. On Wed, Apr 15, 2020, 10:10 PM Ben Cannon wrote: > So I’m taking this thread for a total test-drive and we’re going down this > random ally... > > I call our NOC “24x7x365” I hear that in my head as “twenty-four (hour) - > BY - Seven (days a week) - BY - 365 (day

Re: DARAZ.COM.BD

2019-09-20 Thread Mike Hale
Lovely Spam! Wonderful Spam! Lovely Spam! Wonderful Spam On Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 7:50 AM Mel Beckman wrote: > Maybe email them directly? Posting to the list just gets us all more spam. > > -mel via cell > > > On Sep 20, 2019, at 5:47 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: > > > > Can you please turn off your sal

Re: Cat 5 hurricane -- How are the Bahamas doing?

2019-09-05 Thread Mike Hale
Any further details? On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 4:10 PM J. Hellenthal via NANOG wrote: > > Bahamas are essentially flattened as per recent reports. Or in other words > BAAD > > -- > J. Hellenthal > > The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven says a > lot about

Re: PSA: change your fedex.com account logins

2019-05-30 Thread Mike Hale
Oh for fucks sake. Really? You two are questioning someone who subscribes to Nanog over Fedex? You really think it's more likely that someone is targeting Dan Hollis (whoever he is) instead of Fedex leaving something else exposed? On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:39 PM Scott Christopher wrote: > > Da

Re: BGP Experiment

2019-01-24 Thread Mike Hale
Or you could simply fix your gear rather than leaving a big hole in your infrastructure. *shrug* On Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 7:25 AM Ben Cooper Can you stop this? > > You caused again a massive prefix spike/flap, and as the internet is not > centered around NA (shock horror!) a number of operators in

Re: Contact for BART

2019-01-20 Thread Mike Hale
I mean, did anyone seriously ever confuse BART with Bart Simpson? Or ROW with row? Come on now. On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 1:53 AM Scott Christopher wrote: > > No :) > > BART is Bay Area Rapid Transit, a public transportation system with its own > bureaucracy and publicly elected board. > > Caltr

Re: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Mike Hale
If you're only talking about classified systems, sure. But it didn't sound to me like we were only talking exclusively about those kind of systems. On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:08 AM Naslund, Steve wrote: > > Remember we are talking about classified intelligence systems and large IT > organization

Re: bloomberg on supermicro: sky is falling

2018-10-10 Thread Mike Hale
To be fair, the idea that your security costs shouldn't outweigh potential harm really shouldn't be controversial. You don't spend a billion dollars to protect a million dollars worth of product. That's hardly trolling. On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 10:54 AM Naslund, Steve wrote: > > Mr Herrin, you ar

Re: Attn BrightCloud

2018-04-06 Thread Mike Hale
*cough* http://brightcloud.com/tools/url-ip-lookup.php You can request removals there. On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 9:28 AM, Kaiser, Erich wrote: > We are seeing false positives on NAt'd IPs on our customers networks, > please correct this issue. This started a few days ago... > > > Erich Kaiser > Th

Re: Anyone else blacklisted this morning by rbl.iprange.net?

2018-01-02 Thread Mike Hale
But what other people have rightfully pointed out is that his behavior is stupid and against the RFC that covers DNSBLs. And it's not simply MX admins here. You have firewalls that are also affected. If you're going to run a DNSBL to advertise your mail software, perhaps do so in a way that does

Re: Purchased IPv4 Woes

2017-03-10 Thread Mike Hale
It looks like Spamhaus has your entire /16. https://stat.ripe.net/163.182.192.0%2F18#tabId=anti-abuse On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:01 PM, Laurent Dumont wrote: > Out of curiosity, who were the previous owner(s), it seems that ARIN only > shows the current owner with any history? If it was a Chin

Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11

2016-10-24 Thread Mike Hale
Run it through Google translate? On Oct 24, 2016 9:40 PM, wrote: > > On October 23, 2016 at 22:56 j...@nuclearfallout.net (John Weekes) wrote: > > For the IoT botnets, most of the emails are ignored or rejected, because > > most go to providers who either quietly bitbucket them or flat-out >

Re: A perl script to convert Cisco IOS/Nexus/ASA configurations to HTML for easier comprehension

2016-10-06 Thread Mike Hale
Neat! On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Jesse McGraw wrote: > Nanog, > > (This is me scratching an itch of my own and hoping that sharing it > might be useful to others on this list. Apologies if it isn't) > > When I'm trying to comprehend a new or complicated Cisco router, switch or > firew

Re: carrier grade fax boards?

2016-04-28 Thread Mike Hale
Not really fax board, but there are ATA (analog telephony (?) adapters) that handle fax very well (and others that just suck at it). Certain versions of the Cisco ATA 180 series worked really well even over satellite; others were terrible. It's somewhat of a hit or miss area. How many users are

Re: SFP Cost Variation

2016-03-12 Thread Mike Hale
You also run into some quality issues on third party ones, so be aware and plan for it. I've had maybe one Cisco-branded SFP go bad that I can think, but I've got a crap ton of Axiom branded ones that were bad. Twinax ones were even worse...I got maybe two or three inserts out of a significant fr

Re: de-peering for security sake

2015-12-27 Thread Mike Hale
Also think of it from the perspective of the authenticating host. That SSH connection relies *only* on the key for authentication. It requires nothing else. How you protect that key is irrelevant. All that matters is that the host is accepting a single form of authentication. It's clearly sing

Re: de-peering for security sake

2015-12-27 Thread Mike Hale
d more apparent. patience." It is. Sony and Target were really useful in that regard. On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Mike Hale wrote: >> "done right the cost shouldn't be super much more." >> I d

Re: de-peering for security sake

2015-12-27 Thread Mike Hale
ow many do you need, full time, to provide acceptable coverage for your environment? The costs add up really fast without a corresponding return. On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Mike Hale wrote: >> "really isn't

Re: de-peering for security sake

2015-12-27 Thread Mike Hale
"really isn't a whole lot different from 'lock your damned doors and windows' brick/mortar security." Except it's *massively* more expensive. On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 1:59 PM, wrote: >> On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 05:35:19 +0100, Baldur Nord

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

2015-12-10 Thread Mike Hale
You already have the ability to pay for faster service. NN prevents the carrier from then going to the shipper and extorting further money to deliver the same package. On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Christopher Morrow said: >> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at

Re: Recent trouble with QUIC?

2015-09-26 Thread Mike Hale
OH SNAP! On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: > > > On 9/25/15 5:43 PM, Stephen Satchell wrote: >> >> On 09/25/2015 04:20 PM, Ca By wrote: >>> >>> RFO: Google unilaterally deployed a non-standard protocol to our >>> production >>> environment, driving up helpdesk calls x% >>>

Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it.

2015-09-11 Thread Mike Hale
I see black on white... On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote: > >> "Email Disclaimers: Legal Effect in American Courts" >> - http://www.rhlaw.com/blog/legal-effect-of-boilerplate-email-disclaimers/ > > Dark grey text on a black background is unreadable. > Plonk goes the website. >

Re: Residential VSAT experiences?

2015-06-22 Thread Mike Hale
I too have had customers in a previous life where the 500ms delay really didn't cause any big issue. Same with SSH and even heavier stuff like SMB. Sure, it was slower than expected, but I could still saturate the pipe pretty good. Thing is...the kind of setups where you're getting 500ms delay w

Re: Whats' a good product for a high-density Wireless network setup?

2015-06-20 Thread Mike Hale
A lot. It's a good point, but not very helpful to those engineers trying to design said infrastructure. On Jun 20, 2015 11:45 PM, "Randy Bush" wrote: > > Soultimately, what's the answer? A huge number of low cost, low > > power WAPs? Eager readers want to know. :) > > what was unclear

Re: Whats' a good product for a high-density Wireless network setup?

2015-06-20 Thread Mike Hale
Soultimately, what's the answer? A huge number of low cost, low power WAPs? Eager readers want to know. :) On Jun 20, 2015 10:30 PM, "Randy Bush" wrote: > > My understanding is that the most recent NANOG had issues with clients > > picking channels sequentially vs by signal strength. Th

Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...

2015-06-05 Thread Mike Hale
We need a pool on what percentage of readers just googled traceroute. On Jun 5, 2015 6:28 PM, wrote: > On 5 Jun 2015, at 17:45, Łukasz Bromirski wrote: > > On 06 Jun 2015, at 02:26, Jared Mauch wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Jun 5, 2015, at 7:13 PM, John Fraizer wrote: Head of line for CCIE

Re: Getting hit hard by CHINANET

2015-03-17 Thread Mike Hale
I null route those IPs that stand out above the background noise at our edge. Seems to work relatively well so far. I do have a request for Roland. Would you mind sharing more details on what you've seen regarding the various miscreants screwing with each others' devices? On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 a

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-27 Thread Mike Hale
"(3) when ISPs abuse their power, consumers can vote with their wallet to another access points." But they can't. That's the point. There is a massive dearth of legitimate competition in the broadband space for the vast majority of our population. And it's that lack of competition that has allo

Re: merry xmas

2014-12-24 Thread Mike Hale
*grumble grumble bah humbug grumble grumble splat* On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote: > On 2014-12-24 20:06, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >> On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 19:38:18 +0100, Jeroen Massar said: >> >>> Thank you for wasting IPv4 space btw, that way IPv6 has to be there >>>

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

2014-11-24 Thread Mike Hale
It's pretty easy to roll out a Nagios box that checks on your domains, NS results and SSL status. On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Jay Ashworth wrote: >> >> In light of the CL domain hijacking, it seems like a good time to ask >> if everyone has an inventory system that ke

Re: Kind of sad

2014-11-10 Thread Mike Hale
That's a far, far cry from hacking... On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Brian Henson wrote: > Generally speaking its a bad idea to show you hacking into a server. Makes > it to easy to prosecute those who do. -- 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

Re: Cisco CCNA Training

2014-11-02 Thread Mike Hale
Depends on how the techs in question learn best, but I've found that a good CCNA book (like the Lammle one) combined with either a network simulator (I like Boson, but packet tracer and GNS3 are both good too) or, better yet, physical hardware they can play with. Alternatively, if you have a local

Re: Marriott wifi blocking

2014-10-03 Thread Mike Hale
So does that mean the anti-rogue AP technologies by the various vendors are illegal if used in the US? On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Ricky Beam" > >> It doesn't. The DEAUTH management frame is not encrypted and carries no >> authenti

Re: Dealing with abuse complaints to non-existent contacts

2014-08-10 Thread Mike Hale
Well...is it really a problem though? I mean, a good password will require how many centuries of effort to brute force? I've never seen a single IP (or even a range of IPs) trying to brute force the same user account over more than a day, much less the huge amount of time required the crack the p

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-13 Thread Mike Hale
Dude. Netflix doesn't want you to do help its service. Your customers want you to do that. On Jul 13, 2014 4:03 PM, "Brett Glass" wrote: > At 10:25 AM 7/13/2014, Charles Gucker wrote: > > >ALL ISPs are in the business of providing access to > >the Internet.If you feel the need to rebel, the

Re: AOL Mail updates DMARC policy to 'reject'

2014-04-22 Thread Mike Hale
"We recognize that some legitimate senders will be challenged by this change and forced to update how they send mail and we sincerely regret the inconvenience to you." No they don't. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote: > On 4/23/2014 12:45 AM, Grant Ridder wrote: >> >> Thought

Re: Requirements for IPv6 Firewalls

2014-04-18 Thread Mike Hale
Many enterprises probably are in the same position, but a whole lot of them aren't. Maybe this comes down to "should" versus "must". I don't think all IPv6 firewalls "must" support NAT, but they should. On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Simon Perreault wrote: > Le 2014-04-18 13:35, William Herr

Re: Requirements for IPv6 Firewalls

2014-04-18 Thread Mike Hale
Depends on your definition of "behind the curve". You could make the argument that folks who aren't IPv6 ready now are behind the curve. A weak argument considering IPv4 works perfectly fine for those of 'behind the curve'. I agree with Bill. You can poopoo NAT all you want, but it's a fact of

Re: misunderstanding scale

2014-03-23 Thread Mike Hale
mountable. I'm not saying you shouldn't deploy v6 because of potential security holes. But to sound dismissive of those security considerations involved with deploying v6 is very counterproductive. On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Timothy Morizot wrote: > > On Mar 23, 2014 7:5

Re: misunderstanding scale

2014-03-23 Thread Mike Hale
ly accessible from everywhere. None of this isn't preventable, by the way. There are a myriad of solutions that can and do mitigate these risks. But to simply dismiss the security considerations is, I think, incredibly naïve and unrealistic. On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Timothy Morizot

Re: misunderstanding scale

2014-03-23 Thread Mike Hale
"I wasn't aware that calling out FUD was derisive, but whatever." It's derisive because you completely dismiss a huge security issue that, given the state of IPv6 adoption, a great majority of companies are facing. Calling it FUD is completely wrong because it *is* a legitimate security issue for

Re: L6-20P -> L6-30R

2014-03-18 Thread Mike Hale
They're different. You can't force them. On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Randy wrote: > I have a situation where a 208v/20A PDU (L6-20P) is supposedly hooked to a > 208v/30A circuit (L6-30R). Before I order the correct PDU's and whip > cords...sanity check...are connectors 'similar' enough t

Re: opensource tools for IP & DNS management [was: Opensource tools for inventory and troubleticketing]

2014-01-25 Thread Mike Hale
I've used IPPlan in the past to keep track of both internal and external assignments, and it worked really well. Super simple to use and setup. It's a bit of a dated project, but it'll still work pretty well. I also just saw this: http://phpipam.net/ It looks pretty slick. Haven't used it mys

Re: Juniper SSL VPN

2013-12-31 Thread Mike Hale
Wow. Thanks for posting this. I thought we were just going crazy yesterday. On Dec 31, 2013 7:45 AM, "Jamie Gwatkin" wrote: > Could be related to this? > http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=TSB16290 > > > On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Sharma, Kapeel < > kapeel.sha...@mc

Re: Best band for your buck router and switch (gigabit)

2013-11-16 Thread Mike Hale
We get ours from Network Hardware Resellers. It's Smartnet-contractable, which is important for us, and was pretty cheap. Shoot me a message offlist if you want our sales rep's info. He might be able to help you out. On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Nick Cameo wrote: > If anyone has one for sa

Re: Best band for your buck router and switch (gigabit)

2013-11-16 Thread Mike Hale
"As for the switch, is the 2960G have a proven track record?" We've deployed a lot of these in normal access-switch roles and they've worked flawlessly. You should be able to pick some up for relatively cheap from resellers. They'd be even cheaper if you get them from ebay. On Sat, Nov 16, 2013

Re: morning giggle

2013-08-17 Thread Mike Hale
Maybe he's trying to sell you some eCigars? http://support.shipstation.com/forums/126593-request-a-new-shipstation-feature/suggestions/3357095-print-second-page-of-packing-slip-when-printing-ha http://www.v2cigs.com/ On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > for your morning, or what

Re: Network Vendor suggestions/reviews, Arista Networks, Dell Force10, Juniper, Extreme Networks etc...

2013-06-18 Thread Mike Hale
I'm exact opposite of Phil. I love IOS and hate JunOSfor that single reason, I'm really against buying Juniper in our shop for pretty much anything. :) Still, to be fair, the hardware seems to be really, really stable and well built. I don't think we've had a failure across our Junipers in

Re: Prism continued

2013-06-12 Thread Mike Hale
It would make sense. It's a friggin' sick syslog analyzer. Expensive as hell, but awesome. On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Phil Fagan wrote: > Speaking of Splunk; is that really the tool of choice? > > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Bacon Zombie wrote: > >> There is no way they could of p

Re: What hath god wrought?

2013-05-20 Thread Mike Hale
ch is a huge > problem in and of itself, as that's really the only recourse. > > I mean they were using a shared hosting plan. Not exactly deep pocketed. > > My point is that the abuse of power is blatant and they are unafraid of any > kind of retaliation. They don't ne

Re: What hath god wrought?

2013-05-20 Thread Mike Hale
"Sue them?" Uhm...yes? That's why we have courts that we can sue federal agencies in. On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Charles Wyble wrote: > No proxy needed. No need to hide. > > While working for a very large hosting company, I once observed DHS hammering > an occupy related website. No atte

Re: Looking for Netflow analysis package

2013-05-14 Thread Mike Hale
Solarwinds netflow is also way, way overpriced for what you get...and their license model for Netflow is utterly ridiculous. I like Splunk plus Netflow integrator. With some custom lookup tables, you might be able to code up a view that'll show you the per-ASN stats. You can definitely do it by

Re: bind verbose logging

2013-05-09 Thread Mike Hale
I'll send over some info tomorrow. Shoot me a reminder if you don't get it by the later afternoon. I wouldn't really call it a schema...it's just a simple field extraction bash script that then generates the sql inserts. Like I said...quick and dirty. Afte coding it from scratch, I'm starting t

Re: bind verbose logging

2013-05-09 Thread Mike Hale
See this: https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-00434/0/What-do-EDC-and-other-letters-I-see-in-my-query-log-mean.html I've written a quick and dirty logging mechanism which stores the bind logs in a mysql database in various fields. It works well for the great majority of queries...happy to share the ba

Re: Andros Island Connectivity?

2013-04-30 Thread Mike Hale
weird stuff. We oversub to make the economics > work often. > > > Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device > > > > Original message > From: Mike Hale > Date: 04/30/2013 2:22 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: Warren Bailey > Cc: Mike Lyon ,"Aaron C. de Bruyn

Re: Andros Island Connectivity?

2013-04-30 Thread Mike Hale
Yeah, how many thousands is it per meg of space segment? On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Warren Bailey wrote: > Says.. Who? > > > Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device > > > > Original message ---- > From: Mike Hale > Date: 04/30/2013 2:19 PM (GMT-08

Re: Andros Island Connectivity?

2013-04-30 Thread Mike Hale
It's the quickest but certainly not the cheapest. On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Warren Bailey wrote: > I suggested VSAT. Probably the quickest and cheapest. > > > Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device > > > > Original message > From: Mike Lyon > Date: 04/30/2013 1:35 PM (GMT-0

Re: ScopServ questions

2013-04-15 Thread Mike Hale
If you're looking to hire someone to fix your asterisk install, your best bet would be the Asterisk User or Asterisk Business list. http://www.asterisk.org/community/discuss If this is an 0-day type scenario, you'd probably want to reach out to Digium directly. Can you expand a bit more on the d

Re: Fwd: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Huge attack on WordPress sites could spawn never-before-seen super botnet

2013-04-12 Thread Mike Hale
I don't know if it's related, but Linode sent out an email earlier that all account passwords (for all customers) must be reset. Apparently one of their customers was succesfully exploited, and out of an abundance of caution, they acting as if the attackers got the Linode password hashes. On Fri,

Re: TelePacific a good choice?

2013-02-19 Thread Mike Hale
I've used them at a previous employer, mainly for PRI termination but also for some transit and colo services. They were decent. Didn't have any major complaints. If IPv6 is important for you...per what Paul said, they probably wouldn't be your best choice. If IPv6 doesn't matter to you, they'r

Re: Suggestions for managed DNS provider?

2013-02-14 Thread Mike Hale
DynDNS was pretty decent for us. We had a fair amount of load with them and they handled it with no problem. On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:58 AM, David Hubbard wrote: > Hi all, anyone have suggestions for very stable/reliable managed DNS? > Neustar/UltraDNS is an obvious option to look at, just cur

Re: Equipment Shuffing Cart Recommendations

2013-01-21 Thread Mike Hale
What's your budget? I got some ad email from ServerLift (serverlift.com) a while back. It wasn't justified for my environment, but the units did look really cool. On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Michael Vallaly wrote: > > Anyone have any good recommendations for an equipment cart to shuffle

Re: IP Address Management IPAM software for small ISP

2012-12-24 Thread Mike Hale
> hardware we threw at it. > > > On Dec 24, 2012, at 10:48 PM, Mike Hale wrote: > > Very small shop with millions of data sources? > > lol? > > > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: > >> On Dec 20, 2012, at 9:26 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote: >&

Re: IP Address Management IPAM software for small ISP

2012-12-24 Thread Mike Hale
Very small shop with millions of data sources? lol? On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: > On Dec 20, 2012, at 9:26 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote: > > Zenoss works very well > > Um... you lost me after the first 4 words. Zenoss might work acceptably > for very, very small organization

Re: Advisory — D-root is changing its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January.

2012-12-14 Thread Mike Hale
Also, this appears to be par for the course for the last two IP Address changes on root-servers.net. That's why they keep the old address online for at least six months after the official change. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Matthew Newton wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 04:42:46PM +,

Re: IP Address Management IPAM software for small ISP

2012-12-13 Thread Mike Hale
I've used IPPlan in the past, and it's really useful as a web-based excel-sheet replacement. Plus, the price is right. We're also evaluating Solarwinds' IPAM, but that's way too expensive for the features. On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:31 AM, JP Viljoen wrote: > On 13 Dec 2012, at 12:25 PM, Nick

Re: MPLS acceptable latency?

2012-11-15 Thread Mike Hale
Acceptable from a technical standpoint (in that stuff works) or acceptable from an expected service standpoint? In the case of the former, MPLS can run over really high latencies, so you're nowhere near the limit. For the latter, 85ms would be highly unacceptable to me for a circuit to a site tha

Re: Looking for recommendation on 10G Ethernet switch

2012-11-02 Thread Mike Hale
If you're looking at sub 50k, the Nexus 5k isn't a terrible option. It gives you 32 10Gig SFP slots for ~$25,000 or less if you don't mind used from ebay. On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Andrew Latham wrote: > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Eric Germann wrote: >> Colleagues, >> >> I'm looking

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-18 Thread Mike Hale
You know what sucks worse than NAT? Memorizing an IPv6 address. ;) To everyone: Thanks for the clarifications. I don't necessarily agree with some of the arguments...but since I'm not fortunate enough to be in possession of a /8, that agreement (or lack thereof) is worth the electrons this em

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-18 Thread Mike Hale
So...why do you need publicly routable IP addresses if they aren't publicly routable? Maybe I'm being dense here, but I'm truly puzzled by this (other than the "this is how our network works and we're not changing it" argument). I can accept the legal argument (and I'm assuming that, in the origi

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-18 Thread Mike Hale
"this is the arin vigilante cultural view of the world. luckily, the disease does not propagate sufficiently to cross oceans." I'd love to hear the reasoning for this. Why would it be bad policy to force companies to use the resources they are assigned or give them back to the general pool? On

Re: Fiji Islands

2012-07-31 Thread Mike Hale
ka, Nadi. Skeeve can give more advise for all > the fun building in the resort Islands :) > > Zaid > > On Jul 31, 2012, at 6:05 PM, Mike Hale wrote: > >> VSAT *isn't* a waste of time if you're willing to spend the money. >> >> But that, of course, is

Re: Fiji Islands

2012-07-31 Thread Mike Hale
l does not do BGP out of the country (or didn't the last time I was > there). Forget VSAT, waste of time. > > Zaid > > On Jul 31, 2012, at 5:39 PM, Mike Hale wrote: > >> It looks like Fintel and TFL are both providers for Southern Cross >> cable. That would be

Re: Fiji Islands

2012-07-31 Thread Mike Hale
It looks like Fintel and TFL are both providers for Southern Cross cable. That would be your best bet if they can get lines out to you. Otherwise, there's always VSAT, but that brings a set of other issues with it. Ping me offlist if you want more detail on the VSAT stuff. On Tue, Jul 31, 2012

Re: job screening question

2012-07-05 Thread Mike Hale
Something tells me you're suddenly going to find yourself with an influx of correct answers... On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 3:18 PM, William Herrin wrote: > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Derek Andrew wrote: >>> > You implement a firewall on which you block all ICMP packets. What >>> > part of the TC

Re: Dear Linkedin,

2012-06-08 Thread Mike Hale
Are the bad guys winning though? Are they really? On Jun 8, 2012 9:43 PM, "Hal Murray" wrote: > > >> Does your bank request/require that you change the PIN > >> on your ATM card every few months? > > > ATM cards are not passwords, they are a coarse form of two-factor > > authentication - You hav

Re: VoIP vs POTS (was Re: Operation Ghost Click)

2012-05-03 Thread Mike Hale
i when sat phones were handed out and it took hours > to make calls. > > Sometimes two tin cans and a string are better > > Ralph Brandt > > > -----Original Message- > From: Mike Hale [mailto:eyeronic.des...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 12:32 PM >

Re: VoIP vs POTS (was Re: Operation Ghost Click)

2012-05-03 Thread Mike Hale
That's precisely where SatCom enters the picture. Cell companies aren't ever going to undersell their bandwidth...that simply isn't profitable. SatCom is one of the best ways to plan for communications outages during times of crisis, especially if you choose a provider that's outside of your area

Re: VoIP vs POTS (was Re: Operation Ghost Click)

2012-05-03 Thread Mike Hale
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Tei wrote: ** Perhaps cell towers can be made to fail sooner, and enter some ** emergency mode where only 911 calls get service. ** ** ** ** -- Don't cell companies already provide over-ride codes to various federal agencies to obtain emergency priority access to c

Re: CDNs should pay eyeball networks, too.

2012-05-01 Thread Mike Hale
what you're saying, but it's a silly argument because, while you're not going to bill the same "hours" (as a unit) twice, you sure as hell are going to bill over and over again for the same work...you'd be stupid not to. On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:20 PM, wrote: >

Re: CDNs should pay eyeball networks, too.

2012-05-01 Thread Mike Hale
hat the software's going to cost if you're not going to factor in development? On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:06 PM, William Herrin wrote: > On 5/1/12, Mike Hale wrote: >> "A customer pays you to build a piece of software by the hour. Another >> comes along and asks fo

Re: CDNs should pay eyeball networks, too.

2012-05-01 Thread Mike Hale
"A customer pays you to build a piece of software by the hour. Another comes along and asks for the same software. You bill both for each hour. Double billing. Unethical. Wrong. A customer pays you to deliver a packet to "the Internet." You talk to the packet's destination and say, "Hey, I'll deli

Re: VPN over satellite

2012-04-30 Thread Mike Hale
"You can then use traditional encryption to your satellite provider (or take Ethernet handoff at the satellite earth station with co-located equipment, if appropriate)." True...except for most audit/regulatory purposes, having the traffic unencrypted in any part of the chain is unacceptable. "Just

Re: Looking for some diversity in Alabama that does not involve ATT Fiber

2012-03-21 Thread Mike Hale
You can get Satellite service as well. It's really expensive, for the bandwidth, but worth a look if you don't have any other options. On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Joe Maimon wrote: > Hey All, > > I have a site in Alabama that could really use some additional diversity, > but apparently ATT

Re: Programmers with network engineering skills

2012-02-26 Thread Mike Hale
Isn't this what the entire DevOps movement is kinda trying to push? I see quite a few of these gigs pop up on Craigslist. If you've already invested some time in the search, perhaps it'd be better to hire someone good with C/PHP and train them in the art of networking. If you're located in a maj

Re: enterprise 802.11

2012-01-15 Thread Mike Hale
Cisco's wireless solutions are pretty badass. The APs I've used are absolutely rock solid. Set up will take a bit of time, but once you're done, maintenance is minimal. On Jan 15, 2012 11:54 AM, "Mike Lyon" wrote: > Ubiquity (www.ubnt.com) has their Unifi line of products. It's still > pretty n

Re: Microsoft JMRP (Mail) Admin Needed

2011-12-19 Thread Mike Hale
"I'm not sure why it's necessary to have all these individual "feedback loop" processes anyway. Why can't everyone just send spam reports to the Abuse handles on the relevant WHOIS record?" Because that only works for organizations who actually do the right thing when they get complaints. That's a

Re: Inaccessible network from Verizon, accessible elsewhere.

2011-12-10 Thread Mike Hale
Disable your firewall and run TCPDump on your host when you try to ping it. Does the ICMP packet get to your host? On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Stefan Bethke wrote: > Am 10.12.2011 um 20:49 schrieb NetSecGuy: > > > This does not work from FIOS: > > > > traceroute to 106.187.34.33 (106.187.34

Re: High latency/dropped packets on Mitel circuit in LA

2011-12-05 Thread Mike Hale
I've had some odd issues with Level 3 in LA, but that was due to an issue with their TWOceanic interconnect. Other than that, I haven't heard of anything. Do you see any errors on your interface? - Mike On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Paul Brown wrote: > I'm having some pretty bad connection i

Re: Posting for network engineers and operators...

2011-11-23 Thread Mike Hale
I've found craigslist to be a really good source, but be prepared for a terrible signal to noise ratio. The amount of ridiculous apps is crazy. Dice and Monster are good as well, depending on your budget. I've actually been pleasantly surprised by LinkedIn's job postings as well. Find a few goo

Re: Network device command line interfaces

2011-11-23 Thread Mike Hale
If only it were that simple. Try explaining the difference between the blinky lights on a 3750 and the netgear switch to a CFO who has little tech background. On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: > > On Nov 24, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Jonathon Exley wrote: > > > I have a personal

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