RE: OT: Re: Critters

2004-07-10 Thread Aaron Thomas
Since we are on the topic of animal encounters related to being 'on the job'... I once worked as a cable installer for the same company I work for today. I was running a new cable outlet for a customer in an older farm house in a rural part of our serving area. This big old farm house had a

Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net

2004-07-10 Thread David A . Ulevitch
On Jul 10, 2004, at 7:35 PM, Mike Lewinski wrote: David A.Ulevitch wrote: I'm appreciative of this change -- but fyi, they aren't the only TLD operators doing this, there are quite a few doing near-instant changes to their respective zones. I just registered a new .org and it had visibility from

Re: Telecom fraud on the rise

2004-07-10 Thread Scott Savage
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Sean Donelan wrote: : 10 percent of a carrier.s bottom line is lost to simple subscription fraud : and other low-tech scams, such as when criminals sign up for service using : fake names. If their sales personnel were not allowed to sign up accounts over the phone or online w

Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net

2004-07-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, David A.Ulevitch wrote: > It also means that changes can be made to host records quickly which is > important for people who don't plan well or have unexpected changes > that they want propagated. > > I'm appreciative of this change -- but fyi, they aren't the only TLD >

Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net

2004-07-10 Thread Mike Lewinski
David A.Ulevitch wrote: I'm appreciative of this change -- but fyi, they aren't the only TLD operators doing this, there are quite a few doing near-instant changes to their respective zones. I just registered a new .org and it had visibility from external NS not more than 15 minutes later (I wou

Telecom fraud on the rise

2004-07-10 Thread Sean Donelan
http://www.billingworld.com/archive-detail.cfm?archiveId=7575 Fraud continues to pound the U.S. telecom industry with little sign of letting up. Fraudulent use of networks and theft of services in all sectors of the telecom industry continue to grow between 10 percent and 12 percent annually. Th

Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net

2004-07-10 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Hmm... May be, you are correct - if you sell service to the 'consumers' (inexperienced customers), they do not expect any delays between 'payment completed' and 'I can see my brand new domain WWW.HOW-COOL-I-AM.COM. And TTL's/caches do not prevent you from this, because you did not requested this d

Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net

2004-07-10 Thread David A . Ulevitch
On Jul 10, 2004, at 1:19 PM, Alexei Roudnev wrote: It is cool, but where is any value in this (I mean - 5 minutes) rapid updates for .com and other base domains? I wish rapid DNS when running enterprise zone (with dynamic updates) or when running dynamic-dns service (for those who use dynalic IP

Re: VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com/.net

2004-07-10 Thread Alexei Roudnev
It is cool, but where is any value in this (I mean - 5 minutes) rapid updates for .com and other base domains? I wish rapid DNS when running enterprise zone (with dynamic updates) or when running dynamic-dns service (for those who use dynalic IP's); but for .com and .net, it is just a public rela

Re: DNS with Akamai

2004-07-10 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, joe wrote: > Anyone noticing issues with Akamai and their DNS stuff? > Just wondering because I'm seeing strange responses regarding > www.foxnews.com, in that one of the Cnames a20.g.akamai.com > is changing every 20 seconds, and sometimes no response at all. It's saturday,

Re: DNS with Akamai

2004-07-10 Thread joe
John, Thanks for the info/pointer to inet-access. As far as I can tell, only www.foxnews.com, but there may be others. Its the only one that was reported as an issue. Oddly, when I do a dig against it the response is as follows: (FYI this is from a linux system) [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# dig ww

Re: DNS with Akamai

2004-07-10 Thread Lloyd Taylor
Yup. Across the board from 8am to 8:15am EDT: http://web504.keynote.com/mykeynote/Post/KB40data_071004_081218.asp (Scroll down about 25% to see the error-by-time chart) Note that the time resolution of this chart is 15 minutes. Not an Akamai issue. --Lloyd On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Lloyd Tay

Update on .iq, Elashi convicted of export violations (US)

2004-07-10 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
The Register has an article on the conviction of Bayan Elashi and his brothers (InfoCom). http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/09/iraq_domain_owner_convicted/

Re: OT: Re: Critters

2004-07-10 Thread Mark Barker
On Jul 9, 2004, at 09:29, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: My first daughter's pet rabbit re-wired my apartment network, power and data. At SRI in Menlo Park, the squirrels were always keen for that tasty grey cable whenever it was run where they could get it. I wish I had a moose-and-cable story.

Re: DNS with Akamai

2004-07-10 Thread Lloyd Taylor
Keynote data shows a small spike in DNS errors for the KB40 index from 8am to 8:30am EDT this morning. Normally we see less than 1 error per 4000 datapoints per half hour. During this period, it was 22 errors. There was also a jump in "connection timed out" from less than one to 18 during this