RE: [swinog] Tiscali-ADSL blocking outbound SNMP traffic?

2003-02-05 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
Blocking SNMP really makes sense. I'm glad I'm with Tiscali and not with Balcab, which block all useful ports (such as 80, ..). Sorry? Without the explicit request by a customer the ISP should not block _any_ ports at all. Nope! Feel free to check out your CPE for vulnerabilities and default

RE: [swinog] Provider Class Backbone Routers

2003-02-14 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
P, Voting is ending usually in laws and regulations, control, blaming... Don't think this is what's required here. Please stay with the basics. Agreed? -Kurt. PS. For the other case use http://world.altavista.com/tr ... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [swinog] Provider Class Backbone Routers

2003-02-14 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
P, Highly appreciating what you are doing with SwiNOG and therefore the community, please don't take me wrong, guess all here _are_ respecting those rules and those persons. Just trying to avoid the unnecessary, nothing else. Other problems are waiting to become solutions... -Kurt. -Original

RE: [swinog] Friday like questions.....

2003-02-14 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
-Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]De la part de Fredy Kuenzler Envoye : vendredi, 14. fevrier 2003 14:21 A : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: [swinog] 8-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [swinog] Swinog-6 - Too many participants, IS: Call for Beer :)

2003-03-28 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
ACK -Kurt. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Glogger Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WAS: [swinog] Swinog-6 - Too many participants, IS: Call for Beer :) hi all involved. Unless it's

RE: [swinog] SNOW!!!!!!

2003-10-23 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
Hm, Après-ski apero? Skiing, apero, skiing, apero, skiing, apero... - or for those making the day later Apero, skiing, apero... Peter, when do you prefer to start? -Kurt. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter A. Preuss Sent:

RE: [swinog] Mailempfang wegen SPAM blockiert / Mail receipt because of Spam blocks

2003-10-29 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
Have not seen the small print saying ...you are not allowed to send direct e-mails by SMTP, TCP port 25, to other servers or recipients other then the ISP designated SMTP server... ;-) Tend to suggest the implementation of mac based machines (e.g. Nomadix Service Engine) for dial-up customers -

RE: [swinog] Mailempfang wegen SPAM blockiert / Mail receipt because of Spam blocks

2003-10-29 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
Feel free and rent your fixed IP address or even better some rack space and bandwidth at your favorite ISP (bet most of the peoples on this list have plenty...) - and you can perfectly run your private mail server - and even block SPAM coming in over 100Mb/1G Ethernet long before traveling the

RE: [swinog] Mailempfang wegen SPAM blockiert / Mail receipt becauseof Spam blocks

2003-10-29 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 8:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [swinog] Mailempfang wegen SPAM blockiert / Mail receipt becauseof Spam blocks Kurt A. Schumacher wrote: PS. Looking forward: When do we start implementing RMX (Reverse Mail Exchange) records in DNS, following the IETF proposal

RE: [swinog] Mailempfang wegen SPAM blockiert / Mail receipt becauseof Spam blocks

2003-10-29 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
] Mailempfang wegen SPAM blockiert / Mail receipt becauseof Spam blocks Kurt A. Schumacher wrote: Tend to suggest the implementation of mac based machines (e.g. Nomadix Service Engine) for dial-up customers - hey, no problems with DHCP, accidentally fixed IP addresses ...and every SMTP port 25 traffic

RE: [swinog] Mailempfang wegen SPAM blockiert / Mail receipt because of Spam blocks

2003-10-29 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
/ Mail receipt becauseof Spam blocks Kurt A. Schumacher wrote: SMTP-AUTH (plain text and preferably CRAM-MD5), SMTPafterPOP or similar are highly encouraged for any SMTP server - otherwise another dial-up IP will be listed on the RBLs very soon and the value of your private server becomes

[swinog] RE: [swinog] Security à la SWITCH - nic.ch

2003-11-12 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
Ciao Manuel, Just follow the link provided in the mail(s) - those with the Payment information for domain names (Zahlungsinformation für Domain-Namen) you receive about two weeks bevor Switch snail mails the invoice: __ To:

RE: [swinog] Easynet dynablock

2003-11-12 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
John, Suggest every SOHO running own mail servers out of dynamic address range to configure the associated ISP SMTP server as a nexthop/smarthost/relay/default-path as discussed here before. On a short to medium term addresses listed on dynablock.easynet.nl (see

[swinog] RE: [swinog] Re: [swinog] Security à la SWITCH - nic.ch

2003-11-12 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
- nic.ch On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:04:38 +0100, Kurt A. Schumacher wrote: I consider this a MAJOR security breach. This has been repeatedly reported to nic.ch - including their legal and compliance department (SWITCH security responsible) - over the last 12 months: Well, I would call

RE: [swinog] Cablecom Tummy Troubles?

2003-12-16 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
John, Even as a webcom customer - read: for the same high price and a very moderate up- and downstream rate compared to the hispeed offers - you have to be happy if you get 45% of the proposed bandwidth at the major usage times... A lot of promises of infrastructure will be updated as soon as

[swinog] RE: [swinog] Forward: SPAM mit Werbung für Schneeballsystem

2004-01-04 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
There are a lot of similar Schenk-Kreise around, trying to grow. All covered with nice stories on rituals and topped with some esoteric and new-age elements. There is more money involved then in the SPAM example, and they hide under spend-game, giveaway and similar wordings. Neither the less,

RE: [swinog] Whats the Reason why Access Provider not Close the rpc in/out of his Customers ?

2004-01-17 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
Marcel, First, it can't be in the responsibility of a Transit Carrier to block any traffic, unless it is misrouted or black holed traffic to protect their or the Access Carrier allocated IP ranges. A good Swiss ISP does take care - either by calling up their customers or just cut the line if

RE: [swinog] Problems with Cablecom MX

2004-01-21 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
i'm a very small fish, so i'm sorry that i can't help more. :) We will try to rescue you, Nemo ;-) Greetz, -Kurt. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonas Staempfli Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 5:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: R: [swinog] MX Swissonline Down?

2004-01-21 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
Raffy, $ nslookup 217.118.195.58 Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 *** localhost can't find 217.118.195.58: Non-existent host/domain So let's see: $ nslookup Default Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 set type=soa 195.118.217.in-addr.arpa Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1

[swinog] While talking cablecom: cablecom.biz mails stay in the queues, too...

2004-01-21 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
Received some business cards from some Cablecom business employees this week, and, after sending a bunch of complaints: ... Recipient #1: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Route=cablecom.biz Error count=22 Last error: %MX-W-NOCONTACT, could not establish contact with any mail servers for

RE: [swinog] Cablecom Personal Firewall

2004-01-27 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
Perfect - another personal firewall. Let's whistle a fax ;-) -Kurt. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Baumann Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [swinog] Cablecom Personal Firewall Steven

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

2004-01-27 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
Full support from our side (once more) - don't hesitate - this is the way to go! Go my friends - but don't forget to document it properly first. There is NO reason using a different SMTP server then the ISP for outgoing mails for this type of connection. Anyone who is really enforced to use a

[swinog] Bravo Cablecom!

2004-01-29 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
gefunden haben. --- KCS Engineering Consulting Kurt A. Schumacher Härdlenstrasse 116 CH-8302 Kloten E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +41 1 881 37 80 Fax +41 1 881 37 88 Mobile +41 79 330 45 15

RE: [swinog] [JOB] Onaras is looking for a senior security engineer

2004-02-19 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
Harry, Thank you for the notification. Very interesting: To qualify for the position of Senior Security Engineer, a candidate must have at least 4 years of IT security experience. 4 years == senior? Uups. -Kurt. Senior Security Engineer @42 20+ years in IT systems management, security and

RE: [swinog] [ots.emailservice@newsaktuell.ch: Erfolgreicher IDN-Start bei SWITCH - bereits 2'700 neue ...]

2004-03-01 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
What do you expect? Any reasonable midrange server infrastructure handles 2700 web transactions in minutes. Looks like an excellent project planning and systems management...and perfectly reminds me to the ...no, we don't have any security problem... bs. Anyone on the list received a IDN

RE: [swinog] [ots.emailservice@newsaktuell.ch: Erfolgreicher IDN-Start bei SWITCH - bereits 2'700 neue ...]

2004-03-01 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
For energy saving reasons the light at the end of the tunnel has been switched off. Some normality seems to come back, at least web registrations start to work again - sometimes. -Kurt. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Candid Aeby Sent:

RE: [swinog] Question regarding law for used swiss domains

2004-03-09 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
Hello Michael If you, your company or your customer has any rights on a name (e.g. company name [not Einzelfirma, because such names are only protected at the organizations legal , registered product name, registered trade name, patents...) there is any chance to gain control of a (.ch or .li)

RE: [swinog] Cablecom customer spammin again

2004-04-18 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fredy Kuenzler Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 6:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [swinog] Cablecom customer spammin again Kurt A. Schumacher wrote: A good abuse policy must include a reaction time of a maximum of 15

RE: [swinog] Cablecom customer spammin again

2004-04-18 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
Daniel, We're not arguing on the ISP direct responsibility here. It's each ISP infrastructure, bandwidth, traffic volume, backup tapes and additional required by law loaded with 65%++ of the e-mail traffic and increasing every day. Looks like each ISP can easily afford this part. But it proofs

RE: [swinog] Implementing SPF

2004-08-04 Thread Kurt A. Schumacher
SPF. Not convinced, yet? NO. Microsoft has a patent pending on something like spf. There are millions of pending patents pending out there which are never. SPF or something (very) similar should become RFC (think this in the queue anyway) and the patents discussion will be closed. -Kurt.