Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences

2016-04-14 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/14/2016 15:10, Larry Sheldon wrote: We wrote off a lot of revenue on calls that involved a company (if I remembered the name I still would not repeat it--ditto its location) which turn out to be pretty much one man who like to sell and install mobile radio telephone stations. And, it

Re: phone fun, was GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences

2016-04-26 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/20/2016 10:15, Owen DeLong wrote: On Apr 20, 2016, at 7:59 AM, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote: On 2016-04-20 10:52, Owen DeLong wrote: For the most part, “long distance” calls within the US are a thing of the past and at least one mobile carrier now treats US/CA/MX as a single local call

Re: rfc 1812 third party address on traceroute

2016-05-30 Thread Larry Sheldon
I am completely innocent of rfc1812, and have been out of the game for a long time, but I am pretty sure I was taught (and in turn taught) that a router would reply using the address of the interface that originated the reply unless that interface was unnumbered, in which case it would reply

Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

2016-06-04 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 6/4/2016 13:38, Owen DeLong wrote: If you’re wife is really worried about $100/year, give up your first 2 weeks of Starbucks each year in trade. My wife does very well in managing our sparse resources (in spite of the efforts of the government and the Jesuits) and (I suspect) would not p

Re: Do people even read these? Re: BGP Update Report

2016-06-18 Thread Larry Sheldon
You did. -- "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." --Albert Einstein From Larry's Cox account.

Re: NAT firewall for IPv6?

2016-07-05 Thread Larry Sheldon
My how the world has changed! On 7/1/2016 21:28, Edgar Carver wrote: Hello NANOG community. I was directed here by our network administrator since she is on vacation. I am Old School, I guess. In my day Step One would be "Fire the administrator." The job is by nature a 24 X 7 X 52 job and "

Re: NAT firewall for IPv6?

2016-07-05 Thread Larry Sheldon
My how the world has changed! On 7/1/2016 21:28, Edgar Carver wrote: Hello NANOG community. I was directed here by our network administrator since she is on vacation. I am Old School, I guess. In my day Step One would be "Fire the administrator." The job is by nature a 24 X 7 X 52 job and "

Re: NAT firewall for IPv6?

2016-07-05 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 7/5/2016 18:46, Matt Palmer wrote: On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 09:28:54PM -0500, Edgar Carver wrote: Hello NANOG community. I was directed here by our network administrator since she is on vacation. Luckily, I minored in Computer Science so I have some familiarity. Well played, Tay. Well pla

Re: cloudflare hosting a ddos service?

2016-07-26 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 7/26/2016 21:19, jim deleskie wrote: Back in the day didn't we refer to such hosting as bulletproof hosting? Not HERE! NANA-E, sure. -- "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." --Albert E

Re: Google.com redirecting to Google.co.in

2016-07-29 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 7/29/2016 10:02, Vikash Sorout via NANOG wrote: blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px #715FFA solid !important; padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white !important; } Hi All, When I am trying to hit Google.com it's redirecting me to Google.c

Re: Zayo Extortion

2016-08-15 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 8/15/2016 07:29, Mike Hammett wrote: Try more facts and less emotion. I remember a day when I was banned from NANOG of less emotion and lots more factual content. - Original Message - From: "HonorFirst Name Ethics via NANOG" Red-flag line. [much snippage has occurred] A Zay

Re: Zayo Extortion

2016-08-16 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 8/16/2016 21:13, William Herrin wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Jonathan Hall wrote: if I’m not mistaken (don’t worry, I’m not) - this doesn’t count as ‘slander’ in any way, shape or form. Jonathan, Technically you're right, but not for the reason you think. Slander is verbal d

Re: Handling of Abuse Complaints

2016-08-29 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 8/29/2016 11:47, Steve Atkins wrote: Unless your abuse / security desk is staffed by lawyers it's probably better to avoid words like "criminal" and "unlawfully" altogether and stick to "in violation of our ToS". Or "in violation of your contract (which includes, by reference, our TOS) w

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-30 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 8/30/2016 09:40, Keith Stokes wrote: At one point in one data center I dealt with a disgruntled employee hit the UPS disconnect button on the way out. Same story, procedures modified, cover put over switch with a hammer to break the glass, lessons learned, accounts credited. A very long ti

Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!

2016-08-30 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 8/30/2016 15:46, b...@theworld.com wrote: About the worst that ever happened to me was a security guy's walkie-talkie setting off an instant Halon drop. Cost about $10,000 to refill and was fairly exciting for those present. That also cut the machine room's power. At least it didn't set of

Re: One more thing to watch out for at data centers - fire drills

2016-09-17 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 9/17/2016 07:39, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-loud-sound-just-shut-down-a-banks-data-center-for-10-hours?utm_source=bbcfb Releasing inert gas from fire suppression units that were over pressurized resulted in an extremely loud noise My experience is on

Re: PlayStationNetwork blocking of CGNAT public addresses

2016-09-18 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 9/18/2016 08:19, Mike Hammett wrote: People love to hate incumbent telcos because of their arrogance (and frankly it's deserved), but people forget that big content can be just as arrogant and just as deserving of hatred. I never did see the benefit or the approach. To anybody. -- "Ever

Re: PlayStationNetwork blocking of CGNAT public addresses

2016-09-18 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 9/18/2016 16:26, Larry Sheldon wrote: On 9/18/2016 08:19, Mike Hammett wrote: People love to hate incumbent telcos because of their arrogance (and frankly it's deserved), but people forget that big content can be just as arrogant and just as deserving of hatred. I never did se

Re: Legislative proposal sent to my Congressman

2016-10-03 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 10/3/2016 13:58, Stephen Satchell wrote: In thinking over the last DDos involving IoT devices, I think we don't have a good technical solution to the problem. Cutting off people with defective devices they they don't understand, and have little control over, is an action that makes sense, b

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

2016-10-06 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 10/6/2016 15:26, Jesse McGraw wrote: (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 firewall configuration an old pet-peeve of

Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11

2016-10-23 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 10/23/2016 21:02, David Conrad wrote: Shut down subnets of your own customers? That was the problem I broke my pick on 20 years or more ago. ISPs absolute refusal to put in filters at no-revenue-expense since it would cost money to install and maintain, and worst of all MIGHT conceivab

Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11

2016-10-25 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 10/25/2016 08:26, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:53:42PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Recent events, like the Krebs DDoS and the even bigger OVH DDoS, and today's events make it perfectly clear to even the most blithering of blithering idiots that network operators, en

Re: CenturyLink in Advanced Talks to Merge With Level 3 Communications - Interweb is doomed

2016-10-27 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 10/27/2016 12:36, Nevin Gonsalves via NANOG wrote: :-) http://www.wsj.com/articles/centurylink-in-advanced-talks-to-merge-with-level-3-communications-1477589011 OH BOY! Omaha Taxpayers get to replace all the BGSs for their party venue boondoggle. Again. https://www.google.com/maps/pl

Re: Help interpret a strange traceroute?

2016-10-31 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 10/31/2016 14:42, William Herrin wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Randy wrote: Any idea how a traceroute (into my network) could end up this fubar'd? Discovered this wierd routing while investigating horrendously slow speeds (albeit no packet loss) to a particular ISP abroad. Hi R

Re: OT: "Read Receipts"

2016-11-09 Thread Larry Sheldon
I avoided the other off charter bait, but this is a red dot to me. On 11/6/2016 19:59, Patrick wrote: Over at Language Hat, they are trying to establish the common pronunciation of "read receipts" [1] To me, they've always just been "DSNs" or "MDNs", however, according to rfc2298, their history

Re: Wanted: volunteers with bandwidth/storage to help save climate data

2016-12-16 Thread Larry Sheldon
I guess at long last it is time for Larry to stop thinking there was a common interest here. NANOG has gone completely into the weeds (my email client treats it as political spam). Sad--once upon a time it was a home for science in an insane academic world. -- "Everybody is a genius. But if

Twinax trivia check (was Re: Is there such a thing as a 10GBase-T SFP+ transciever)

2014-02-02 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/1/2014 10:40 PM, Jima wrote: +1. Cisco calls them Twinax, HP calls them DACs. I don't know what anyone else calls them as it hasn't come up in conversation for me. I thought "Twinax" was an IBMish MILSPEC term. -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics

Re: TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

2014-02-02 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/2/2014 9:17 PM, ryang...@gmail.com wrote: I'd hate to think that NetOps would be so heavy handed in blocking all of UDP, as this would essentially halt quite a bit of audio/video traffic. That being said, there's still quite the need for protocol improvement when making use of UDP, but block

Re: Need trusted NTP Sources

2014-02-06 Thread Larry Sheldon
It has been a while since I have done anything with NTP, but I would start with ntp.org (which didn't exist when I WAS working with it) which I am led to believe has the stuff that used to be at U. Delaware, like the public servers lists: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/WebHome Where

Re: Need trusted NTP Sources

2014-02-06 Thread Larry Sheldon
After all these years I still can not get used to the non-standard NANOG response to "reply". I wonder if there is a way for ne to fix that locally. On 2/6/2014 8:49 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote: On 2/6/2014 4:43 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 06/02/2014 10:03, Notify Me wrote: I'm t

Re: Need trusted NTP Sources

2014-02-06 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/6/2014 9:02 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 06/02/2014 14:57, Larry Sheldon wrote: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Servers/PublicTimeServer79 bear in mind that due to the vagaries of african peering weirdness, the actual path from there to the OP's network could be over mul

Re: Need trusted NTP Sources

2014-02-06 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/6/2014 8:24 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: Mailing lists aren't *supposed* to set Reply-To, Larry; your mail client is supposed to have a Reply To List command. It does. And does not light up for most of the lists I am on (including one I "own"). I am apparently not bright enough to notice wh

Re: Why won't providers source-filter attacks? Simple.

2014-02-07 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/7/2014 1:26 PM, Livingood, Jason wrote: I do not know what is happening in other jurisdictions. I find that seriously scary, if wide-spread. -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics of System Administrators: Ex turpi c

Re: Why won't providers source-filter attacks? Simple.

2014-02-07 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/7/2014 1:44 PM, Livingood, Jason wrote: On 2/7/14, 2:30 PM, "Larry Sheldon" wrote: On 2/7/2014 1:26 PM, Livingood, Jason wrote: I do not know what is happening in other jurisdictions. I find that seriously scary, if wide-spread. Sorry - too many country-by-country reg

Re: Need trusted NTP Sources

2014-02-09 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/9/2014 2:45 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: Or do I understand NTP less well than I think? I am of the private opinion that if your name is not "David Mill" (and MAYBE if it IS) the answer is either "42" or "yes". -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics

Re: Need trusted NTP Sources

2014-02-09 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/9/2014 6:42 PM, James R Cutler wrote: On Feb 9, 2014, at 3:50 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote: On 2/9/2014 2:45 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: Or do I understand NTP less well than I think? I am of the private opinion that if your name is not "David Mill" (and MAYBE if it IS) the answer

Re: Need trusted NTP Sources

2014-02-09 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/9/2014 7:04 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote: In the 1990s I found myself administering a campus network for a University--the only people less prepared than I as everybody else. In the 1990s I found myself administering a campus network for a University--the only people less prepared than I Was

Re: Permitting spoofed traffic [Was: Re: ddos attack blog]

2014-02-14 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/14/2014 12:42 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote: Taken to the logical extreme, the "right thing" to do is to deny any spoofed traffic from abusing these services altogether. Since the 1990s I have argued (ineffectively, it turns out) a case that says that sentence can be edited down to good advanta

Re: "Everyone should be deploying BCP 38! Wait, they are …."

2014-02-18 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/18/2014 11:20 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: Here's a piece which uses the MIT ANA data to assert that the job is mostly done already. Unless I'm very much mistaken, it appears that a large percentage of the failed BCP 38 spoofing tests listed in that data are actually due to customer side NAT rou

Re: spamassassin

2014-02-18 Thread Larry Sheldon
tions are still updating? sa-update has run. and it runs cleanly randy From a posting on NANAE: On 2/18/2014 6:09 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote: Received: from [207.254.213.223] (helo=drone166.ral.icpbounce.com) Larry, icpbounce.com is IContact aka Vocus. I don't know whether the mana

Re: out of band management gear

2014-02-24 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 2/24/2014 7:59 AM, vinny_abe...@dell.com wrote: Dell - Internal Use - Confidential You sent me this by mistake. I have deleted all of the instances of it that know of. Why does the NANOG forwarder forward these things? -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characterist

Re: DNS Resolving issues. So for related just to Cox. But could be larger.

2014-03-07 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/7/2014 5:03 AM, Rob Seastrom wrote: for decades. i have a vague recollection of an rfc that said secondary nameservers ought not be connected to the same psn (remember those?) but my google fu fails me this early in the morning. Packet Switch Node? Not sure what would be in this context

Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?

2014-03-12 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/12/2014 5:41 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: TIINAL - The Internet Is Not A Lawyer. NANOGINTI There ARE rules in the environment, however. For example, there is one that I am too lazy to look-up that argues for the use of a .sig separator "-- ".

Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?

2014-03-13 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/13/2014 8:22 AM, Sholes, Joshua wrote: On 3/13/14, 12:35 AM, "shawn wilson" wrote: A note on terminology - whether you know what you're doing, actually break into a system, or obtain a thumb drive with data that you weren't supposed to have - it has the same end so I'd refer to it by the s

Re: US to relinquish control of Internet

2014-03-15 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/15/2014 7:39 AM, Bob Evans wrote: It's nice of the DoC to "relinquish" control, but I really don't see it changing much other than quieting down some hype from countries that were saying they were pissed at the US for "controlling" the Internet. And I couldn't really see those countries doin

Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?

2014-03-17 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/17/2014 9:10 PM, shawn wilson wrote: The point is that 'computer security' involves innovation as much as is done at hacker spaces (which can be geared to hardware or computer security or whatever). I think the difference you're trying to argue is the legality and not the task or process. I

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

2014-03-18 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/18/2014 2:24 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 that this is possible (with force) or am I going to find we'v

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

2014-03-19 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/19/2014 7:00 AM, Alex Rubenstein wrote: Go look at any standard household lamp. It has a 5-15P on the end of it, which could be plugged into an outlet rated for 20 amps (5-20R), with 16 gauge lamp cord rated for 10 amps or less. Mine all seem to be NEMA 1-15P, some (most?) with 18 AWG wire

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on ISPsâ EURO(tm) re fusal to upgrade networks | Ars Technica

2014-03-20 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/20/2014 9:51 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: The only way we will ever see real and true competition is if we prohibit Layer 2+ providers from playing in the Layer 1 space. As long as you have artificial impediments and restrictions, you will have what you have today. -- Requiescas in pace o ema

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-20 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/20/2014 10:47 PM, David Miller wrote: Unless I am reading the tea leaves wrong "competition" will require "regulation". "regulation" prevents "competition". That is why people want regulation. Look at this thread at the people who do not want to be competed-with at L1, for example. --

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-21 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/21/2014 9:13 AM, Sholes, Joshua wrote:> How do you get around the problem of natural monopolies, then? My strongly held belief is that if the "natural" monopoly* becomes oppressive somebody in their garage will find another way, and absent regulation and force of arms available to the "na

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-22 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/22/2014 12:24 PM, Frank Bulk wrote: It's my understanding and experience that most gov't jurisdictions will give CLECs and other telecommunication providers access to the RoW -- generally speaking it's not exclusive to ILECs or MSOs. Now the challenge may be finding room in the existing RoW

Re: arin representation

2014-03-25 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/25/2014 11:53 AM, Bob Evans wrote: I like term limits for every governing body - except when it's a company I built with my money. :-) I have absolutely no business jumping into this discussion, but it keeps hammering on a topic that interests me in other venues: "term limits". I am

Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP

2014-03-25 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/25/2014 10:31 PM, Cutler James R wrote: Wow, what a lot of NANOG traffic about IPv6 readiness for SMTP! Please explain my misunderstanding on the following: 1. IPv6 is a Routing Layer Protocol (with some associated helpers, like RA, ND, DHCP-PD, and the like). 2. SMTP is an Application

A little silly for IPv6

2014-03-25 Thread Larry Sheldon
According to the Ace of Spades HQ blog: IPv6 would allow every atom on the surface of the earth to have its own IP address, with enough spare to do Earth 100+ times. -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics of System Admin

Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP

2014-03-25 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/25/2014 11:18 PM, John Levine wrote: 3. Arguing about IPv6 in the context of requirements upon SMTP connections is playing that uncomfortable game with one’s own combat boots. And not particularly productive. If you can figure out how to do effective spam filtering without looking at th

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-26 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/26/2014 2:16 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote: to a paid service (e.g. "If you are not paying for a service, you are the product."). That needs to be engraved in the glass screens of every device, like the "G.O.A.L" at the bottom of the rear-view mirror of some semi-truck tractors. -- Requiescas

Re: Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco IOS Software SSL VPN Denial of Service Vulnerability

2014-03-27 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/27/2014 4:07 PM, Matt Palmer wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:52:42AM -0600, kendrick eastes wrote: The Full-disclosure mailing list was recently... retired, I guess cisco thought NANOG was the next best place. Nope, they've been sending these things here for as long as I can remember. I

Re: Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco IOS Software SSL VPN Denial of Service Vulnerability

2014-03-27 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/27/2014 11:57 PM, Randy Bush wrote: Alexander Neilson wrote: I wonder if they should be invited to only post a single message with the titles and links to the alerts so that people can follow it up. i would prefer that the header be in blue, the titles in green, and the urls in magenta,

Re: Cisco Security Advisory

2014-03-28 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/29/2014 12:43 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: But clearly, this is one of those issues where you have a good amount of folk on either side of the fence. I wonder what the ratio of "I don't want that info here" (for various values of "here") to "Geez! WHY didn't somebody tell me" is. -- Requ

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-29 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/29/2014 12:59 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: *Postage schemes as proposed with end users email clients 'attaching postage' simply not workable Not in IPv4. Not in IPv6. Not in IPng Not in any conceivable future version of IP. And I insist that we are all wasting our time trying to make SMTP

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-30 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/30/2014 11:17 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Mar 30, 2014, at 16:40 , Måns Nilsson wrote: Subject: Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition Date: Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 11:06:11AM -0400 Quoting Patrick W. Gilmore (patr...@ianai.net): On Mar 29, 2014, at 3:15, Måns Nilsson w

Anternet

2014-04-04 Thread Larry Sheldon
Offered for your amusement--no followup. http://kottke.org/14/04/the-anternet -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics of System Administrators: Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Infallibility, and the ability to

Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage

2014-04-09 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/9/2014 5:11 PM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 05:49:27PM -0400, Jeff Kell wrote: The most "sane" out-of-mind response should only be sent *if* the out-of-mind person is named explicitly as a recipient in the RFC822 header. Anything To: somelist@somehost does

Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage

2014-04-09 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/9/2014 7:02 PM, Jeff Kell wrote: On 4/9/2014 7:22 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote: On 4/9/2014 5:11 PM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 05:49:27PM -0400, Jeff Kell wrote: The most "sane" out-of-mind response should only be sent *if* the out-of-mind perso

ID10T out of office responders (was Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage)

2014-04-10 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/10/2014 6:29 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 05:15:59PM -0400, William Herrin wrote: Maybe this is a good thing - we can stop getting all the "sorry I'm out of the office" emails when posting to a list. I entirely support that goal, but my preferred solution is the comple

Re: ID10T out of office responders

2014-04-11 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/11/2014 2:16 AM, Tei wrote: So Suppose I configure my email to send a "Thanks, we have received your email, we will reply shortly in office hours.". Whats the Holy Headers so even poorly configured servers don't cause a AutoReply Storm? Googling, I found "Precedence", "X-Auto-Response-S

Heartbleed operational details

2014-04-11 Thread Larry Sheldon
FWIIW http://xkcd.com/1354/ -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics of System Administrators: Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Infallibility, and the ability to learn from their mis

Re: [[Infowarrior] - NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for Years]

2014-04-14 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/14/2014 9:38 AM, Matthew Black wrote: Shouldn't a decent OS scrub RAM and disk sectors before allocating them to processes, unless that process enters processor privileged mode and sets a call flag? I recall digging through disk sectors on RSTS/E to look for passwords and other interesting s

Re: [[Infowarrior] - NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for Years]

2014-04-14 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/14/2014 2:59 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Or we can flame anyone who tries, then wonder why no one is trying. Amen. I was just thinking, after reading the umpteenth message here about spam, about the times in the 1990's that I was literally driven away because I was trying to get ahe

Re: [[Infowarrior] - NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for Years]

2014-04-14 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/14/2014 3:05 PM, William Herrin wrote: I thought vendors existed primarily as a place to hang the blame when dealing with a manager or customer who just doesn't get it. Truth value very high. Humor value, less than none. -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characte

Re: [[Infowarrior] - NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for Years]

2014-04-14 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/14/2014 7:50 PM, John Levine wrote: In article <534c68f4@cox.net> you write: On 4/14/2014 9:38 AM, Matthew Black wrote: Shouldn't a decent OS scrub RAM and disk sectors before allocating them to processes, unless that process enters processor privileged mode and sets a call flag? I rec

Re: badly behaved subsciber

2014-04-16 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/16/2014 11:17 AM, Andrew Koch wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:43AM -0500, William Herrin wrote: By the way, can we do something about this joker? I'm tired of receiving his notice every time I post to NANOG. Hi Bill and the NANOG mailing list, The NANOG Communications Committee, reac

Re: [[Infowarrior] - NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for Years]

2014-04-16 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/16/2014 4:34 PM, Jason Iannone wrote: I can't cite chapter and verse but I seem to remember this zeroing problem was solved decades ago by just introducing a bit which said this chunk of memory or disk is new (to this process) and not zeroed but if there's any attempt to actually access it t

Re: DMARC -> CERT?

2014-04-16 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/16/2014 11:19 PM, Private Sender wrote: Does that raise any alarms? -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics of System Administrators: Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Infallibility, and the ability to

Re: AOL Mail updates DMARC policy to 'reject'

2014-04-22 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/23/2014 12:45 AM, Grant Ridder wrote: Thought i would throw this out there. http://postmaster-blog.aol.com/2014/04/22/aol-mail-updates-dmarc-policy-to-reject/ Bet THAT will get Yahoo's attention! -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics

Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could enshrine pay-for-play. - The Washington Post

2014-04-24 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/24/2014 10:23 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: The invisible hand of the market cannot fix problems when there is a monopoly. Put in economic terms, a player with Market Power is extracting Rents. (Capitalization is intentional.) Regulating monopolies allows a market to work, not the opposit

Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could enshrine pay-for-play. - The Washington Post

2014-04-24 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/24/2014 10:44 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Apr 24, 2014, at 23:38 , Larry Sheldon wrote: On 4/24/2014 10:23 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: The invisible hand of the market cannot fix problems when there is a monopoly. Put in economic terms, a player with Market Power is extracting

Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could enshrine pay-for-play. - The Washington Post

2014-04-24 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/24/2014 11:01 PM, Everton Marques wrote: On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Apr 24, 2014, at 23:38 , Larry Sheldon wrote: Regulating monopolies protects monopolies from competition. Monopolies can not persist without regulation. You are confused. I

Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could enshrine pay-for-play. - The Washington Post

2014-04-24 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/24/2014 11:37 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: The fact there are "regulated monopolies" does not mean regulation cannot be used to keep a monopoly from forming. And using a turn of phrase to prove a point of logic and/or history is a pretty sad argument. Yeah, the phrase "regulated monopoly" e

Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could enshrine pay-for-play. - The Washington Post

2014-04-24 Thread Larry Sheldon
I just posted a completely empty message for which I apologize. Larry is confused. He can claim he is not, but posting to NANOG does not change the facts. Then again, just because I posted to NANOG doesn't prove I'm right either. Worst of all, this thread is pretty non-operational now. In a pr

Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could enshrine pay-for-play. - The Washington Post

2014-04-25 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/25/2014 8:23 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Apr 25, 2014, at 00:57 , Larry Sheldon wrote: I just posted a completely empty message for which I apologize. Larry is confused. He can claim he is not, but posting to NANOG does not change the facts. Then again, just because I posted to

Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could enshrine pay-for-play. - The Washington Post

2014-04-25 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/25/2014 9:13 AM, Daniel Taylor wrote: DeBeers Diamond cartel, which operated internationally and held an effective monopoly on the diamond market for *decades* was apparently beyond the reach of regulation to either assist or hinder them, and has only recently faded somewhat in the face of

Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could enshrine pay-for-play. - The Washington Post

2014-04-26 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/26/2014 3:01 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Apr 24, 2014, at 8:38 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote: Monopolies can not persist without regulation. This is absolutely false. Regulating monopolies CAN protect monopolies, but that’s not always the outcome. Monopolies absolutely can persist without

Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could enshrine pay-for-play. - The Washington Post

2014-04-26 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/26/2014 3:11 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: In my neighborhood, Comcast has a monopoly on coax cable tv and HFC internet services. There are no regulations that support that monopoly. Another company could, theoretically, apply, receive permits, Wait! What? Like if I want to build a pipeline to

Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could enshrine pay-for-play. - The Washington Post

2014-04-26 Thread Larry Sheldon
h/t Suresh Ramasubramanian FCC throws in the towel on net neutrality http://www.zdnet.com/fcc-throws-in-the-towel-on-net-neutrality-728770/ Forward! On to the next windmill, Sancho! -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics

Re: NANOG 61 Bellevue - DNS Track

2014-04-26 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/26/2014 8:56 PM, James R Cutler wrote: To an engineer, that _IS_ attractive. Amen. Also to engineer wannabees. -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics of System Administrators: Ex turpi causa non oritur actio I

Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could enshrine pay-for-play. - The Washington Post

2014-04-27 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/27/2014 8:59 PM, goe...@anime.net wrote: If the carriers now get to play packet favoritism and pay-for-play, they should lose common carrier protections. I didn't think the Internet providers were common carriers. -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics

Re: The FCC is planning new net neutrality rules. And they could enshrine pay-for-play. - The Washington Post

2014-04-28 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/28/2014 12:32 PM, Barry Shein wrote: On April 27, 2014 at 21:56 larryshel...@cox.net (Larry Sheldon) wrote: > On 4/27/2014 8:59 PM, goe...@anime.net wrote: > > If the carriers now get to play packet favoritism and pay-for-play, they > > should lose common carr

Dealing with auditors (was Re: We hit half-million: The Cidr Report)

2014-04-30 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/30/2014 11:30 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:40:43 -, Jamie Bowden said: You're not funny. And if you're not joking, you're wrong. We just went over this on this very list two weeks ago. And in that discussion, we ascertained that what the PCI standard ac

Re: Getting pretty close to default IPv4 route maximum for 6500/7600 routers.

2014-05-06 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 5/6/2014 10:39 AM, Drew Weaver wrote: Just something to think about before it becomes a story the community talks about for the next decade. Like we have for the last two? -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics of Sy

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

2014-05-14 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 5/14/2014 4:27 AM, Roland Dobbins wrote: On May 14, 2014, at 3:11 PM, Matthew Petach wrote: I'm constantly amazed at how access networks think they can charge 2/3 the price of full transit for just their routes when they represent less than 1/10th of the overall traffic volume. My guess

Re: IANA IPv4 Recovered Address Space registry updated

2014-05-21 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 5/20/2014 9:30 AM, Leo Vegoda wrote: https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-recovered-address-space/ipv4-recovered -address-space.xhtml#ipv4-recovered-address-space-2 Comes up 404 here. -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics

Correction to 404 report (was Re: IANA IPv4 Recovered Address Space registry updated)

2014-05-21 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 5/21/2014 1:50 PM, Darryl Dunkin wrote: Did you just click the link? It got wrapped. Yes as a matter if fact I did--and noticed the truncation and cut and pasted it--and it still failed. http://bit.ly/1k5ROJW That works. As does a newly submitted cut-and-paste. Mystery. -- Requiesc

Re: NAT IP and Google

2014-05-21 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 5/21/2014 4:21 PM, Tony Wicks wrote: Deploy v6... yes its very easy ... The system is fully automated, and if you carefully follow instructions, life will be wonderful and nothing can possibly go wronand nothing can possibly go wronand nothing can possibly go wronand nothing can possib

Re: Large DDoS, small extortion

2014-05-23 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 5/23/2014 1:09 PM, Barry Shein wrote: On May 24, 2014 at 00:38 rdobb...@arbor.net (Roland Dobbins) wrote: > Never, under any circumstances, pay. Not even if you've persuaded > the Men from U.N.C.L.E. to help you, and they suggest you pay > because they think they can trace the money, d

Oddity

2014-05-23 Thread Larry Sheldon
Odd that "comics.com" is dead and "gocomics.com" is "down for Scheduled Maintenance" at 2000 Central USA time. No the Intertubes are not down--lots of stuff is working, but those and some others are not. (Cox customer out of Omaha). -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying cha

Re: Oddity

2014-05-23 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 5/23/2014 9:00 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote: Odd that "comics.com" is dead and "gocomics.com" is "down for Scheduled Maintenance" at 2000 Central USA time. No the Intertubes are not down--lots of stuff is working, but those and some others are not. (Cox cu

Re: Large DDoS, small extortion

2014-05-24 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 5/24/2014 11:29 AM, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. wrote: Law enforcement and victims have different objectives. Law enforcement wants to find the criminal, gather sufficient evidence to prove their guilt, then prosecute them. More attacks helps law enforcement. The victims, in general, want the

Re: Does anyone know Jared's birthday?

2014-06-04 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 6/4/2014 10:29 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: The answers you want are: 1) it was not worth the whole list 2) warren wants to hassle me on my birthday at IETF. If you are there, please do say hello in person. Everyone else, sorry for the noise and hope you are entertained. %^) -- Requiescas in

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