Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-24 Thread Pete Kruckenberg
The upside to this is that if you are a hacker, you can now legitimize your activities and legally protect yourself by spending $30 to incorporate as a record company. On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:40:51 -0400 > From: Marshall Eubanks <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: AS286 effectively no more..

2002-07-24 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Huopio Kauto wrote: > Interesting how quietly one of the powerhouses in Europe has been shut > down yesterday evening. Any notes on increased latency / routing issues > wrt AS286 shutdown? Does anyone know what happened to the Ebone/KPNQWEST European-wide DWDM system? I fi

AS286 effectively no more..

2002-07-24 Thread Huopio Kauto
Interesting how quietly one of the powerhouses in Europe has been shut down yesterday evening. Any notes on increased latency / routing issues wrt AS286 shutdown? --kauto Kauto Huopio - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Security Adviser Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority / CERT-FI tel. +35

Re: PASSIVE [D]WDM... Like, Cisco 15216.

2002-07-24 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Simon Lockhart wrote: > I'm currently using the 15454 to wavelength convert OC48 signals, but have > not to date seen a black-box wavelength convertor - I would also be interested > to know if such a beast exists. I think if you want to do this, you're stuck > with the Metro

Re: PASSIVE [D]WDM... Like, Cisco 15216.

2002-07-24 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed Jul 24, 2002 at 11:02:21AM -0400, Alex Rubenstein wrote: > First, has anyone had experience with ITU Grid Optic GBICs? Do they even > exist? Cisco sell "CWDM" GBICs, which are sort of on ITU wavelengths, but with a wider spacing. I've not tried them to see if I can use them with the 15216

How secure should it be? (was RE: password stores?)

2002-07-24 Thread Sean Donelan
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Shawn Solomon wrote: > One common solution is a hash based on the cpe site name or some other > unique key provided by the cpe information (address, ph #, etc). > Changing the hash occasionally provides new passwords, and it is all > easily scripted.. Most burglar alarms in

Re: Sunspot Activity & Radio Blackouts

2002-07-24 Thread Scott Weeks
Does anyone know of work done (from a network operations point of view rather than from a solar science point of view) that correlates errors on the copper part of networks, and/or machines in datacenters, with sunspot activity? scott On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Andy Ellifson wrote: : : For an

Re: Sunspot Activity & Radio Blackouts

2002-07-24 Thread blitz
Also check http://www.maj.com/sun/ for current solar info...nice site.. >>There are many places to get more information about sunspots. Being an >>amateur radio operator who likes HF communications, I have a bit of an >>interest in the topic. >> >>The most succinct monitoring and information s

Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-24 Thread Ralph Doncaster
The BSA is even flexing it's muscles here in the GWN. http://www.istop.com/BSALetter.txt Although they seem to have lots of money for scanning services and lawyers, they expect ISPs to provide services (assisting them enforce their copyrights) for free. Ralph Doncaster principal, IStop.com

RE: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-24 Thread blitz
If it starts happening, just unplug whoever's doing it and treat them like a DDOSer...poof, you just lost your Internet connectivity. Something Sony or MCA would love to have happen...huh? Sorry, your'e causing malicious problems on the Internet, operational procedure requires us to disable you

Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-24 Thread Michael Smith
On 7/24/02 11:31 AM, "Adam Rothschild" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2002-07-24-14:10:00, James Thomason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If this legislation is passed, they certainly will earn Null0 on >> mine. > > Unless, of course, the RIAA, MPAA, and friends carry out their > cracking thr

Re: IGP metrics on WAN links

2002-07-24 Thread Jennifer Rexford
> Just curious as to what people are using for metrics in their IGP > and what their reasons are; bandwidth? geographical distance? latency? We have a survey paper on techniques for setting IGP weights http://www.research.att.com/~jrex/papers/ieeecomm02.ps http://www.research.att.com/~jrex/

Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-24 Thread Adam Rothschild
On 2002-07-24-14:10:00, James Thomason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If this legislation is passed, they certainly will earn Null0 on > mine. Unless, of course, the RIAA, MPAA, and friends carry out their cracking through throw-away dial and DSL accounts, like they purportedly use now to troll fo

RE: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-24 Thread Larry Rosenman
Agreed here. Has this even got a bill number yet? On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 13:15, Derek Samford wrote: > > > I second that. If I see any of my clients having any sort of malicious > activity directed at them, then there is no chance of me allowing their > traffic through. I would be more than

Re: Sunspot Activity & Radio Blackouts

2002-07-24 Thread Mike Lewinski
--On Tuesday, July 23, 2002 10:11 PM -0700 Andy Ellifson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ( CORRECTED ) MAJOR SUNSPOT ACTITVITY I passed this on to a neighbor for comment wrt 802.11b. His response appears below: > These blackouts generally affect communications in the HF (high frequenc

RE: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-24 Thread Derek Samford
I second that. If I see any of my clients having any sort of malicious activity directed at them, then there is no chance of me allowing their traffic through. I would be more than happy to send all their traffic to packet hell. Large corporations do not get any special consideration if it comes

Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-24 Thread James Thomason
Would malicious actions on the part of copyright holders violate the AUP of most networks? Or are service providers more willing to tolerate denial of service attacks by large corporations than say, spam? If this legislation is passed, they certainly will earn Null0 on mine. Regards, James T

RE: QoS/CoS in the real world?

2002-07-24 Thread Jeff Hancock
Steve, Hope this info helps answer your questions about QoS, implementations and customers. Forwarded from a product person person in our org... Sorry I didn't see this note earlier, but wanted to make you aware that Mase

Boston Qwest Issues?

2002-07-24 Thread Eric Gauthier
Heya... Anyone know if something is up on Qwest's run from Boston to NYC today? Eric :)

RE: Juniper security appnote + martians

2002-07-24 Thread Stephen Gill
So as not to cause confusion, the complete current JUNOS martian list is: 0.0.0.0/8 127.0.0.0/8 128.0.0.0/16 191.255.0.0/16 192.0.0.0/24 223.255.255.0/24 240.0.0.0/4 My questions were on a select portion of these, and a portion of the ones listed in the security appnote on their website.

Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

2002-07-24 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Thought this would be considered on-topic as guess who would have to clean up the resulting messes... Regards Marshall Eubanks - Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: FC: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes

Re: Juniper security appnote + martians

2002-07-24 Thread bmanning
> > > Gents, > I thought I would pose the martians question here as well... > > I'm trying to find out additional information on the reasoning behind > adding these martians to the Juniper's security appnote found on their > website: > > PrefixDescription > 19.255.0.0/16 Ford

Re: Juniper security appnote + martians

2002-07-24 Thread bmanning
> Now, on to some of Juniper default martians: > 128.0.0.0/16 > 191.255.0.0/16 > 192.0.0.0/24 > 223.255.255.0/24 > > These prefixes seem to be based on > www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iana-special-ipv4-03.txt. I'm > curious what the reasoning is behind selecting these prefixes only. > Also

Juniper security appnote + martians

2002-07-24 Thread Stephen Gill
Gents, I thought I would pose the martians question here as well... I'm trying to find out additional information on the reasoning behind adding these martians to the Juniper's security appnote found on their website: Prefix Description 19.255.0.0/16 Ford Motor Company 129.156.0.0/16

Re: effects of NYC power outage

2002-07-24 Thread cowie
[NANOG has been bouncing my attempts to reply to this thread for several days, possibly because I quoted the word "u n st a b l e" early on, apparently triggering the "un subs cribe" filter for words that start with "uns" and contain a "b".. If your posts to NANOG have been silently bo

PASSIVE [D]WDM... Like, Cisco 15216.

2002-07-24 Thread Alex Rubenstein
We're looking to get glass between three buildings, and looking closely at the 15216 (passive WDM, ie, a prism). A couple of rambling questions, that perhaps folks here have experience with. First, has anyone had experience with ITU Grid Optic GBICs? Do they even exist? Second, does anyone kn

Re: PSINet/Cogent Latency

2002-07-24 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 10:55:43AM -0400, Joe Loiacono wrote: > Actually RRDTool interpolates any late replys to the nearest specified > collection timepoint (e.g., every 5th minute.) It doesn't really resample. That particular document seems to refer to it as resampling, but yes, interpolation

Re: PSINet/Cogent Latency

2002-07-24 Thread Joe Loiacono
Actually RRDTool interpolates any late replys to the nearest specified collection timepoint (e.g., every 5th minute.) It doesn't really resample. Joe Matt

Cisco questions

2002-07-24 Thread Ralph Doncaster
A couple people pointed out cisco-nsp would be more appropriate for questions like the one I posted about packet loss. http://puck.nether.net/lists/ Ralph Doncaster principal, IStop.com

packet loss source

2002-07-24 Thread Ralph Doncaster
Thanks to those who suggested improper duplex negotiation between the 2621 and the 2900. Although "show int" on the 2621 (running 12.0.7T) indicates full-duplex, "sh controller" indicates BCR9 =0x (half-duplex). Ralph Doncaster principal, IStop.com

Re: Security of DNSBL spam block systems

2002-07-24 Thread Len Rose
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 10:20:58PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > > At 2:29 AM -0400 2002/07/23, Phil Rosenthal wrote: > > > IMHO Even the really large DNSBL's are barely used -- I think > > (much) less than 5% of total human mail recipients are behind > > a mailserver that uses one... > >