Re: Historical info on how 'x.com' came to be registered

2023-07-27 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 12:42:43PM +, Drew Weaver wrote: > Does anyone have any historical information on how 'x.com' came to be > registered even though single letters were reserved? > > Is there a story or is it as simple as it was registered prior to the > reservation? > > Just

Re: email spam

2022-08-24 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 10:50:22PM -0700, Jay Hennigan wrote: > On 8/23/22 18:33, William Herrin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > To folks at places like Google and Godaddy which have gotten, shall we > > say, overzealous about preventing spam from entering their systems, > > Sigh. They are

Re: Question re prevention of enumeration with DNSSEC (NSEC3, etc.)

2022-05-06 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 08:58:51PM -0400, Amir Herzberg wrote: > Hi NANOGers, > > I have a small question re DNSSEC `proof of non-existence' records: NSEC, > NSEC3 and the (dead?) NSEC5 proposal. > > NSEC3 was motivated as a > method to prevent Zone enumeration, then Berenstein showed its

Hetzner having issues

2022-04-28 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
Hetzner is having outage issues with UDP traffic due to attacks: https://status.hetzner.com/incident/129728ce-ba25-49b6-96cc-aafcd39ab0b7 Wireguard UDP port 51820 falls in that range, and at least our Wireguard links are down. Ongoing for upwards of an hour now:

Undersea cable damages in the Atlantic?

2022-01-18 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
We received the following email today from our upstream (in India): > Our transit traffic partners have reported multiple sub-sea cable > damages on the Atlantic route towards Europe and US east coast. Users > might face additional latency and occasional packet loss towards these > destinations.

Re: setting ntp with dhcp

2021-10-01 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
Hi Giovane On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 04:12:15PM +0200, Giovane C. M. Moura via NANOG wrote: > hello folks, > > So DHCP can also be used to set NTP servers on clients, for both > IPv4[rfc2132] and IPv6[rfc5908]. > > I'm looking for statistics on setting NTP servers on clients using DHCP, > in the

Re: Need someone with clue @ Network Solutions.

2020-12-15 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 04:43:08PM +, Matthew Crocker wrote: > I need to get Network Solutions to remove glue records for hosts in my > domain. My domain isn’t registered with Network Solutions and they refuse > to speak with me as I’m not a customer. > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > > .com.

Re: DNS cache Validation

2020-05-19 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 11:46:24PM -0400, Justin Wilson (Lists) wrote: > What are you folk doing to validate your DNS cache server > configs and operation? In other words, what are you doing to > make sure they are performing well, not just alive. There are various things you

Re: Abuse Desks

2020-04-29 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 01:49:14PM -0400, Tom Beecher wrote: > What if I am at home, and while working on a project, fire off a wide > ranging nmap against say a /19 work network to validate something > externally? Should my ISP detect that and make a decision that I shouldn't > be doing that,

Re: Abuse Desks

2020-04-29 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 09:50:42AM -0700, Stephen Satchell wrote: > On 4/29/20 9:24 AM, Mukund Sivaraman wrote: > > If there's a lock on my door, and someone tries to pick it, you can call > > me at fault for having a lock on my door facing outside all you > > want. But the

Re: Abuse Desks

2020-04-29 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 03:41:06PM +, Mel Beckman wrote: > Joe, > > Is there any reason to have a root-enabled (or any) ssh server exposed > to the bare Internet? Any at all? Can you name one? I can’t. That’s > basically pilot error. The last time (a couple of weeks ago) when I installed a

Re: Abuse Desks

2020-04-29 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:12:29AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Mukund Sivaraman said: > > If an abuse report is incorrect, then it is fair to complain. > > The thing is: are 3 failed SSH logins from an IP legitimately "abuse"? It is configurable. Anyw

Re: Abuse Desks

2020-04-29 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:40:16PM -0700, Matt Corallo wrote: > Sadly dumb kids are plentiful. If you have to nag an abuse desk every > time they sell a server to a kid who’s experimenting with nmap for the > first time then we’ll end up exactly where we are - abuse contacts > are not a

Re: Abuse Desks

2020-04-29 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
Hi Matt On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:02:04PM -0700, Matt Corallo wrote: > DDoS, hijacker, botnet C, compromised hosts, > sufficiently-hard-to-deal-with phishing, etc are all things that carry > real risk to services that are otherwise well-maintained (primarily in > that many of the latter lead to

Re: Abuse Desks

2020-04-28 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 08:45:12PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Tue, 28 Apr 2020, Matt Corallo via NANOG wrote: > > Please don't use this kind of crap to send automated "we received 3 login > > attempts on our SSH box..wa" emails. > > This is why folks don't have abuse contacts that are

Re: GPS Sync Outage

2020-01-06 Thread Mukund Sivaraman
The following is from one ntpd instance in Chennai, India. We use Garmin GPS 18x LVC receivers with our ntpd instances. ntpd interfaces directly to the receiver using its NMEA driver and also receives a PPS signal from the GPS receiver. During last night, the ntpd process suddenly dropped its GPS