Re: Disappointment at DENIC over Poor Rating in .net Procedure

2005-04-05 Thread Simon Waters
Have to admit to being surprised at DENIC poor placing. The only time I did a comparison, DENIC were by far and away the best European TLD maintainers. Okay there wasn't much competition, and I was looking at purely technical aspects of how the TLD were arranged, but the results were so good

Re: Reports or data on data centres without access to competitive fibre

2005-04-05 Thread Alex Bligh
--On 05 April 2005 10:43 +1000 Stephen Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was looking around for any reports, press releases or even yarns about the issues data centres face when they are built without access to competitive fibre optic cable. See MFS & MAE-East ad nauseam. Alex

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Simon Waters
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 9:56 pm, Sam Hayes Merritt, III wrote: > > AOL blocks outbound 25. In the UK they proxy outbound port 25, some of the time. Blocking it would be far simpler for us, but I suspect create more support calls.

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Simon Waters
On Monday 04 Apr 2005 11:06 am, Sean Donelan wrote: > > Although Microsoft probably did more to create the problem than > anyone else, they finally have stepped up to the plate. In the last > year they have been more successful than anyone else at fixing their > piece of the problem. Like any

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Dean Anderson wrote: > > Err, not likely. SPF came out, and now bots can find the ISPs "closed > relays" with very little trouble at all. AFAIK bots use the MX of a parent domain of the infected machine's hostname to find an outgoing relay, not SPF. This is based on an inciden

Arrest for cable sabotage

2005-04-05 Thread Sean Donelan
Police make an arrest in cable sabotage case on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=76510

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Apr 5, 2005 3:33 PM, Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > AFAIK bots use the MX of a parent domain of the infected machine's > hostname to find an outgoing relay, not SPF. This is based on an > incident I dealt with in September, and the Spamhaus article > http://www.spamhaus.org/news.las

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > Others just grab the smtp server (and AUTH settings if any) from your > MUA - easier if its Outlook / OE - and send using that smarthost. Has that actually been observed in the wild? Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Apr 5, 2005 5:56 PM, Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > > > Others just grab the smtp server (and AUTH settings if any) from your > > MUA - easier if its Outlook / OE - and send using that smarthost. > > Has that actually been observed

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Charles Cala
--- Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > > > Others just grab the smtp server (and AUTH settings if any) from your > > MUA - easier if its Outlook / OE - and send using that smarthost. > > Has that actually been observed in the wild? y

Re: so, how would you justify giving users security?

2005-04-05 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Florian Weimer) [Mon 04 Apr 2005, 22:25 CEST]: > * Gadi Evron: >> Lastly, I suppose that as a geek ISP, one might want to sell more >> bandwidth. After all, the more sh*t that goes through the tubes the >> bigger tubes people buy. > > Only if the end user market is ready fo

Re: so, how would you justify giving users security?

2005-04-05 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Stephen J. Wilcox: > > > On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Gadi Evron wrote: > > > >> Anyone ever considered just closing these ports? People will pay you > >> more and just for your ACL services! You can put all your troubles > > > > you would need to do this o

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Petri Helenius
Florian Weimer wrote: * Suresh Ramasubramanian: Find them, isolate them into what some providers call a "walled garden" - vlan them into their own segment from where all they can access are antivirus / service pack downloads Service pack downloads? Do you expect ISPs to pirate Windows (or

RIPE50: Peering BoF

2005-04-05 Thread Cara Mascini
North American Network Operators, Since quite a few of you are also attending the RIPE meetings Susan though it would be a good idea for me to mention that a (European) Peering BoF will take place in Stockholm at RIPE50 on Sunday 1st May 2005 and from 18.00 to around 21.00. The format will be

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Dean Anderson
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem arises when you are trying to push signal (spam) to a > non-cooperating recipient. I've seen spam that's so obfuscated that it's > unclear whether it's trying to sell me a R00leckss or medications. At > that point, it may be able to pass

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Dean Anderson
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Sam Hayes Merritt, III wrote: > > Unblocking on customer request is an expensive operation, for both the > > ISP and the customer. > > > And they frequently assume that network operations changes are > > free---Comcast reported that it would cost $58 million to implement po

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Dean Anderson
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Tony Finch wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Dean Anderson wrote: > > > > Err, not likely. SPF came out, and now bots can find the ISPs "closed > > relays" with very little trouble at all. > > AFAIK bots use the MX of a parent domain of the infected machine's > hostname to find an

ICANN's Questionable Deals Coming Under Attack

2005-04-05 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Scathing critisism building over ICANN policies: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20050405/1329204_F.shtml - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The Register: .net report speared a third time

2005-04-05 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
The Register: "The .net report has been speared a third time - by bidder Sentan." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/05/sentan_slams_dot_net_report/ - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Register: .net report speared a third time

2005-04-05 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fergie (Paul Ferguson)) [Wed 06 Apr 2005, 02:19 CEST]: > The Register: [..] Dear Paul, Would it belong to the realm of possibilities that you got yourself a deli.cio.us account and post a link to the RSS feed here, once? Very truly yours, -- Niels. --