RE: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-02-02 Thread Sam James
r; Albert D. Cahalan; >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN > > >On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:55:00PM -0500, Steven N. Hirsch wrote: >> >> Adelphia Communications just blew off my proble

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-31 Thread Alan Cox
> > mean that hotmail doesn't get ECN packets and the connection gets established > > just as if you were talking to a plain non-ECN server without a firewall. > > gozer IS my firewall. :) beyond it is a modem and a dailup point, my ISPs > LAN and then the innanet. and I tried from it and from a

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-30 Thread Michael B. Trausch
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > I don't know if that's true. The headers I've seen from hotmail users -- > and Netcraft seem to agree -- indicate that they have migrated over to > Win2K. I do understand this was a forced migration for non-technical > reasons, and that they had qu

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
"Michael B. Trausch" wrote: > > On 29 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > He's keeping in mind who owns Hotmail. However, I think that's unfair > > to the Hotmail guys; all the ones I have ever spoken with have been > > very professional and genuinely concerned with standards compliance. > >

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-30 Thread Michael B. Trausch
On 29 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > He's keeping in mind who owns Hotmail. However, I think that's unfair > to the Hotmail guys; all the ones I have ever spoken with have been > very professional and genuinely concerned with standards compliance. > I would also keep in mind, that Microso

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-29 Thread David S. Miller
H. Peter Anvin writes: > He's keeping in mind who owns Hotmail. However, I think that's unfair > to the Hotmail guys; all the ones I have ever spoken with have been > very professional and genuinely concerned with standards compliance. Yes, I also think this has nothing to do with who owns H

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-29 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:"Michael B. Trausch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Thunder from the hill wrote: > > > > > Don't they understand that Linux is actually a system that is growing to > > > be very popular? > > > > That's why

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-27 Thread Thunder from the hill
> Don't they understand that Linux is actually a system that is growing to > be very popular? That's why they ignore and don't support it. Thunder --- Woah... I did a "cat /boot/vmlinuz >> /dev/audio" - and I think I heard god... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-27 Thread Thunder from the hill
"David S. Miller" wrote: > > Chris Wedgwood writes: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:34:47AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > > > That's it, in 4 weeks time I am putting a kernel onto > > vger.kernel.org that speaks ECN. This is my official and only > > warning. > > > > Why wai

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-26 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:15:45PM +1300, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:55:00PM -0500, Steven N. Hirsch wrote: > > Adelphia Communications just blew off my problem complaint (they > have a router between me and the POP server that DENY's ECN), > telling me that th

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-26 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:14:14PM +1300, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:50:57AM +1100, CaT wrote: >> *screatches head* >> >> I'm not sure as to what the problem with hotmail may be. I have ECN >> turned on: >> >> gozer:~# more /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_e

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-26 Thread Steven N. Hirsch
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:55:00PM -0500, Steven N. Hirsch wrote: > > Adelphia Communications just blew off my problem complaint (they > have a router between me and the POP server that DENY's ECN), > telling me that they "..won't upgrade

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-26 Thread David S. Miller
Chris Wedgwood writes: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:34:47AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > That's it, in 4 weeks time I am putting a kernel onto > vger.kernel.org that speaks ECN. This is my official and only > warning. > > Why wait 4 weeks at all? You seem to be very cle

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-26 Thread James Sutherland
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > Some of the MX records that show up for hotmail.com go > to different machines, such as INKY.SOLINUS.COM which seems > to let ECN connections through just fine. Ahh.. In which case, *@hotmail.com list subscribers should still get their mail OK - it w

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-26 Thread Helge Hafting
"David S. Miller" wrote: > [...] > That's it, in 4 weeks time I am putting a kernel onto vger.kernel.org > that speaks ECN. This is my official and only warning. Fine. Those who get their mail at hotmail can get a free yahoo account for the list (and possibly other uses as well.) Yahoo have no

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-26 Thread Helge Hafting
mirabilos wrote: > Correct - and additionally: what's about Win 95-ME, NT, W2K; *BSD? > When I'm end user they don't block an ECN connection I thought, or do they? > Idea: some1 makes up a web server. > - If I can connect ECN is working > - On the site I can enter my mail addy and get a mail th

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread Michael B. Trausch
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Steven N. Hirsch wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > > Adelphia Communications just blew off my problem complaint (they have a > router between me and the POP server that DENY's ECN), telling me that > they "..won't upgrade the router on the basis of one c

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread Steven N. Hirsch
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > "test"? I know exactly whats going to happen, and unless folks like > hotmail.com and others get their act together I'll certainly end up > removing *@*hotmail.com from the lists by the end of that day. > > That is the whole point of this experiment

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread CaT
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:04:23PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > CaT writes: > > gozer:~# more /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn > > 1 > > > > and I can contact hotmail just fine. > ... > > where should I go to on hotmail to see it fail? > > Try telnetting to port 25 on one of their > "*.ho

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
CaT writes: > gozer:~# more /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn > 1 > > and I can contact hotmail just fine. ... > where should I go to on hotmail to see it fail? Try telnetting to port 25 on one of their "*.hotmail.com" MX records. For example: ? host -a hostmail.com ... hostmail.com651 IN

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread CaT
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:59:01AM +0100, Jan Niehusmann wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:50:57AM +1100, CaT wrote: > > gozer:~# more /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn > > 1 > > > > and I can contact hotmail just fine. I also can ftp to your site > > non-passively. where should I go to on hotmail to

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread Jan Niehusmann
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:50:57AM +1100, CaT wrote: > I'm not sure as to what the problem with hotmail may be. I have ECN > turned on: > > gozer:~# more /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn > 1 > > and I can contact hotmail just fine. I also can ftp to your site > non-passively. where should I go to on

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread CaT
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 04:37:37PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > James H. Cloos Jr. writes: > > Are there any well know sites using ECN we can test against? > > Use non-passive FTP to my workstation and just do a directory listing > which will make the FTP server create a TCP connection bac

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
James H. Cloos Jr. writes: > Are there any well know sites using ECN we can test against? Use non-passive FTP to my workstation and just do a directory listing which will make the FTP server create a TCP connection back to your machine for the transfer of the directory listing. My workstation

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
> "alex" == alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: alex> I think the point of a test address is that this could alex> conceivably affect more providers than just Hotmail, and it alex> would be useful for people to be able to check to make sure alex> their own provider isn't also ECN brain damaged

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread mirabilos
Alex wrote: > Regarding Hotmail.. has anybody actually tried informing them that Cisco has a > stable patch available? It's possible they're just misinformed about its > status. I do think they should at least be given credit for: Hotmail actually, as whole M$, is unreachable, so no1 could te

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread alex
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:13:03AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > Albert D. Cahalan writes: > > How about some way to test before you do this? > > Example: an ecn.kernel.org host that replys to mail. > > "test"? I know exactly whats going to happen, and unless folks like > hotmail.com and

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread Jeremy Hansen
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > > Albert D. Cahalan writes: > > How about some way to test before you do this? > > Example: an ecn.kernel.org host that replys to mail. > > "test"? I know exactly whats going to happen, and unless folks like > hotmail.com and others get their act

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread mirabilos
Intolerable, that's right. Isn't ECN a good new technology? Isn't there an open implementation on the `net? - So why don't they at least _start_ converting to it? mirabilos - favouring security, too -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12+custom(^=href;C-style-comments) GO/S dx@ s--: a--->

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
Albert D. Cahalan writes: > How about some way to test before you do this? > Example: an ecn.kernel.org host that replys to mail. "test"? I know exactly whats going to happen, and unless folks like hotmail.com and others get their act together I'll certainly end up removing *@*hotmail.com fro

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
> That's it, in 4 weeks time I am putting a kernel onto vger.kernel.org > that speaks ECN. This is my official and only warning. How about some way to test before you do this? Example: an ecn.kernel.org host that replys to mail. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread David S. Miller
Jeremy Hansen writes: > > After mentioning ECN, this is the response I received from hotmail. Hmmm... > From: MSN Hotmail Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: CST23725481ID - Ban on Ecropolis ... > There are firmware updates being planned by our vendor, b