Re: 240/4

2007-10-19 Thread Andreas Ott

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 12:35:52PM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote:
 Interestingly, my unpatched Ubuntu 7.04 notebook would let me install 
 routes for networks in 240/4, but would not let me configure an interface 
 IP in 240/4.

although this is not linux-l@ , here is a hint for those who keep
trying:

# /sbin/ifconfig eth1 240.1.2.3 netmask 255.255.255.0
SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid argument
SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address
SIOCGIFADDR: Cannot assign requested address
SIOCSIFBROADCAST: Cannot assign requested address
# /sbin/ip add add  240.1.2.3/24 dev eth1
# /sbin/ip add show eth1
3: eth1: NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
link/ether 00:30:48:5d:0a:af brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 240.1.2.3/24 scope global eth1

Now using this IP with the binaries that are of the same vintage as
ifconfig(), that's really a discussion for linux-l@ .

-andreas
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Andreas Ott  K6OTT   [EMAIL PROTECTED]


ASN database files from LACNIC or AFRINIC?

2005-10-28 Thread Andreas Ott

Hello,

I am currently looking for ASN databases from LACNIC and AFRINIC
the same way they are provided at

ftp://ftp.arin.net/pub/rr/arin.db
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/ripe.db.gz
ftp://ftp.apnic.net/apnic/whois-data/APNIC/apnic.RPSL.db.gz

I've traversed their respective ftp.[lacnic|afrinic].net servers
to no avail. I would appreciate any hints where to download this 
data if it exists.

NB: we do know that looking up from a dowloaded file might
not be up-to-date anymore the older the file gets. However, the
application usually does more lookups than the online queries
permit us to do. We will keep this updated asynchronously.

Thanks, andreas
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Andreas Ott[EMAIL PROTECTED]


Re: ASN database files from LACNIC or AFRINIC?

2005-10-28 Thread Andreas Ott

Hi,
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 01:30:23AM -0200, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote:
 ftp://ftp.lacnic.net/pub/stats/lacnic/delegated-lacnic-latest has IP
 space and ASN allocations. ASN lines look like this:
 
 lacnic|MX|asn|278|1|19890331|allocated
...

I found that one, but this is less helpful for what I need. I'd like 
to get a db record that has the AS number and the AS name. You know, 
for pretty printing things to screen in reports I was asked to name 
things with a name and not a number.

If they instead had 
  lacnic|MX|asn|278|1|19890331|EXAMPLE-CORPORATION
that would be great and I could adjust the parser. Well, we might have 
to settle for telling in which country the AS is allocated.

-andreas
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Andreas Ott[EMAIL PROTECTED]


Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls

2005-08-18 Thread Andreas Ott

Hi,
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:54:38AM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
 To quote the original pasted article:
 
  Consumers, however, must act on the warning that Internet providers must 
  soon post by contacting their phone companies to find out whether a 
  number is truly local.

It used to be standard practice until last year that SBC (dial-up and DSL
provider here in this area, as well as the 'Bell' phone company) let you
look up dial-in numbers for 'your' local area code and exchange. However,
the results only came back without any numbers in your own area code,
just the ones from other area codes where they had dial-in numbers. If you
did not know how to work the system, you would be using one of the numbers
that are truly a toll call for you. And you'd pay to SBC-the_phone_company
to get to SBC-the_ISP because the ISP withheld the local numbers from you.
The way how to work the system was to enter another valid area code and
exchange, then look for dial-in numbers in your area code and finally
determine (e.g. by checking in the listing in the local phone book front
pages or by inquiring from the 'dial zero' operator) which of the numbers 
are inside your toll free calling area.

Since then (I can't tell exactly when, because I only used this lookup
feature when I was about to travel out of town) SBC has changed this
practice and you can get all numbers listed from their search page at
http://sbcyahoo.prodigy.net/openPhone/ . Note the disclaimer explanations
right on that page Long Distance Charges and Finding the Best Exchange
for You.

-andreas
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Andreas Ott[EMAIL PROTECTED]


IBM to offer service to bounce unwanted e-mail back to the computers that sent them

2005-03-22 Thread Andreas Ott

http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/22/technology/ibm_spam/

And I thought they knew better by now that a hijacked windows pc won't
accept mail. I still consider it silly to absorb the sender's bandwidth
like this (and all transits' bandwidth until someone is smart enough to
put a filter up). -andreas
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Andreas Ott[EMAIL PROTECTED]


Re: what's a good way to annoy the hell out of somebody at chello.be?

2004-11-05 Thread Andreas Ott

Hi,
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 05:54:03PM +, Paul Vixie wrote:

compose a 'written-by-a-lawyer' looking letter in plain text and print
it out. I bet 515/udp is open as well and most printers can handle
plain ASCII.

   515/tcp   open printer

-andreas