Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?

2002-05-03 Thread Simon Higgs
At 05:25 PM 5/3/2002 +0100, you wrote: I got some of these a few weeks ago. I believe these test messages are sent to find the non-deliverables in their mailing list. Right after I got these test messages, they started sending quite a bit of spam. I filtered sohu.com and it went away. >Not m

Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?

2002-05-02 Thread Simon Higgs
At 01:20 AM 5/2/2002 -0700, Scott Francis wrote: >The average customer buying a "web-enabled" phone doesn't need a >publicly-routeable IP. I challenge anybody to demonstrate why a cell phone >needs a public IP. It's a PHONE, not a server. I'm not buying a phone I can't run ssh from. End of stor

RE: root zone file

2002-04-26 Thread Simon Higgs
At 05:32 PM 4/26/2002 -0400, Matt Zito wrote: Replacing the hints file with the top level zone speeds up lookups, and removes the burden from the root servers: zone "." { type master; file "root.db"; }; However, the best way to do this is to AXFR the root zone off of the root s

Re: root zone file

2002-04-26 Thread Simon Higgs
At 05:04 PM 4/26/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Anyone know where I can obtain the latest and greatest? I just tried >ftp.icann.org to no avail (host not found.) which is where I used to get >them. >Thanks in advance >Curtis For the USG/ICANN/IANA legacy root, try here: ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/n

Re: is your host or dhcp server sending dns dynamic updates for rfc1918?

2002-04-19 Thread Simon Higgs
At 06:41 PM 4/19/2002 -0700, Pete Ehlke wrote: >On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 06:32:58PM -0700, Simon Higgs wrote: > > > > SOAs with bogus.domain.names pointing to 127.0.0.1 appear to be causing > > email to bounce (amongst other things). > >Ermm... Do you have any actual

Re: is your host or dhcp server sending dns dynamic updates for rfc1918?

2002-04-19 Thread Simon Higgs
At 08:31 AM 4/19/2002 -0700, Paul A Vixie wrote: >this was sent personally, but i'm answering to the list. > > > It might help the A Root, at least, if the SOA record listed > > bogus.root-servers.net instead of A.root-servers.net, and then a record > > mapped bogus.root-servers.net to 127.0.0.1

Re: more on the ICANN saga

2002-03-14 Thread Simon Higgs
At 03:06 PM 3/14/2002 -0500, Jon King wrote: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,21100,00.html http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/08/05/DysonEntersPoliticalSpatOverDomain.shtml Dyson reiterated that point in her letter to Bliley and said that the ICANN board expects that Sims will communicate

Re: Telco's write best practices for packet switching networks

2002-03-06 Thread Simon Higgs
At 06:30 PM 3/6/2002 +, you wrote: >In most people's example networks they PROBABLY run all their 'services' >on virtual interfaces anyway so ssh doesn't have to listen on the same ip >as bind so perhaps it's a non-issue. Does anyone have a good reference for this particular solution? Most