Re: [swinog] FOTD -- Fun of the day

2004-11-29 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Pascal Gloor wrote: http://www.sco.com Look at the top banner... look at it in details... :-) Some other interesting information from a full-disclosure posting [1]: The hacked picture shows a similar pattern as JPEGs which track the GDI+ Bug. [1]

Re: [swinog] Full unbundling in Switzerland

2004-10-08 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Andre Andre Oppermann wrote: The only information I was able to get was a snippet of the discussion where they were talking about the 'responsibility' of the ISPs regarding SPAM. Doesn't sound good for us I'm afraid. I guess the ISP will be required to 'block' SPAM for customers. If he

[swinog] System-Administrator Linux/BSD at ETH Zuerich

2004-09-08 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello This is in the same team where I work. bye Fabian --- - Do you like to work daily with Linux and FreeBSD? - Do you like to use the right tool whether it's free or proprietary software? - Are you excited by the task to

Re: AW: [swinog] S.HDSL modem

2004-08-12 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Willy Willy van Gulik wrote: I was curious to know if there was products (or technologies) capable of more that 2Mb on a copper pair ? There are some Modems, i guess Blackbox has them, they are going up to 10Mbit/s on 2 wire copper, but only on short distances. bye Fabian

Re: [swinog] Implementing SPF

2004-08-04 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Daniel Daniel Lorch wrote: The main reason, I guess, for slow SPF adaption is the fear of breaking something. As a hosting-only-provider we were facing the additional problem that many customers are not using our SMTP-server (even though they are advised to do so) but their ISP's. Forcing

[swinog] Open Job Position for a System Administrator

2004-06-02 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello In the team I work we are looking for another System Administrator, if you are interested please see http://www.phys.ethz.ch/phys/dep/openpos (in german). The position is at the Department of Physics at ETH Zuerich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich). bye Fabian

Re: [swinog] ISP's share Anti-Spam rules ?

2004-05-31 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Fredy Fredy Kuenzler wrote: Matthias Leisi wrote: [Sharing SpamAssassin-Rules] Probably we should open a closed mailing list like we did for LI and BBCS... ACK. Yes, and I guess it would be a good idea if everbody on the list knows who else is also subscribed to it. What are

Re: [swinog] ISP's share Anti-Spam rules ?

2004-05-31 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Markus Markus Wild wrote: Could a spammer take legal actions if he finds out that his business horizon mails are getting blocked ? I think about websites and faxnumbers. If you make blocking behavior customizable per customer, ie. the customer can deliberately decide he doesn't want

Re: [swinog] ns1.ip-plus.net

2004-04-30 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Daniel Lorch wrote: Now's the part I don't quite understand: 4. Because [someone] wants to stop this domain from working, the DNS servers for this Domain will be attacked (DDoS, whatever). I know that RBL servers are quite a popular target among black hats, but

Re: [swinog] FW: Kassensturz

2004-03-03 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Felix Felix Rauch wrote: What if providers would block access from the outside to the ports most often used by viri, worms, script kiddies and spammers? Wouldn't So all the 65536 ports soon will be blocked. In the beginning of this year I had the chance to analyze several hacked windows

Re: [swinog] Microsoft Internet Explorer Patch 834489

2004-02-10 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Matthias Matthias Hertzog wrote: Microsoft has released a IE patch Number 834489. This patch makes URLs like http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED] unusable. Since we have a few The Patch is named KB832894 (or Q832894 in the IE Help/About Internet Explorer Screen), see here:

Re: [swinog] Should IDN (äöüé etc.)domains be postponed?

2004-01-30 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello There has also started a discussion on http://www.symlink.ch/ (the german speeking slashdot like news ticker). Check it out at http://www.symlink.ch/article.pl?sid=04/01/30/0759236mode=nested bye Fabian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive:

Re: SPF and spammers (Re: [swinog] New worm is spreading fast...)

2004-01-29 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Andy Andy Smith wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 11:40:53PM +0100, Fabian Wenk wrote: They will do, as they make enough money from one run of sending out spam. It would still be incomparably better to how it is now, where DNSBLs must list IP addresses because all domain names

SPF and spammers (Re: [swinog] New worm is spreading fast...)

2004-01-28 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Andy Andy Smith wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:15:05PM +0100, Fabian Wenk wrote: It won't work. What if the spamer just registers a domain to only use for spaming, an configures IP ranges (worst case 0.0.0.0/0) for spf which he is using to relay his mails out in the DNS

Re: [swinog] New worm is spreading fast...

2004-01-27 Thread Fabian Wenk
Hello Peter Peter Baumann wrote: What do you think about this system here? http://spf.pobox.com/ It won't work. What if the spamer just registers a domain to only use for spaming, an configures IP ranges (worst case 0.0.0.0/0) for spf which he is using to relay his mails out in the DNS for