Re: can we please postpone the ipv6 post-mortem?

2010-10-08 Thread Peter Dambier
Martin Rex wrote: most home users in Germany can not even get IPv6 from their ISP, even when they had an IPv6-capable DSL-router. Curiously enough, our biggest and almost monopoly because most others depend on them - dtag.de - released: first half of 2011 they will start upward and

Re: Last Call: draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns (Multicast DNS) to Informational RFC

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Dambier
Cullen Jennings wrote: Can someone walk me through the pro/cons of this being standards track vs informational? Apple supports it. Linux supports it (mostly). BSD supports it (mostly). So half the world supports it. When Microsoft too supports it, it is a standard. I do support it

Re: The IETF and the SmartGrid

2009-10-10 Thread Peter Dambier
Sorry if I misunderstand something, but I thought it was already working. e.g. chinese hackers successfully proofed they can switch off all power companies in Australia whenever they want. I remember some places in the world have forbidden to connect lethal devices like powerplants to the

Re: LORAN is making a comeback..

2009-02-13 Thread Peter Dambier
How about a workgroup and a mailinglist? Maybe it has nothing to do with IETF it definitely has to do with DTN, UDP, IPv6 and BEHAVE. I am interested. Peter Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: Take it off line. This has nothing to do with the IETF. ___ Ietf

Re: If you install Mail Filters how is the list integrity to be documented?

2009-02-13 Thread Peter Dambier
Sam Hartman wrote: TSG == TSG tglas...@earthlink.net writes: TSG There is a serious concern that when individuals are TSG 'filtered out of IETF lists' whether by official or TSG unofficial means, that their voices are prevented from being TSG included into the IETF

Re: How I deal with (false positive) IP-address blacklists...

2008-12-10 Thread Peter Dambier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like it or not, sample size reallly does matter. But if you really do prefer individual anecdotal evidence, I'll point out that in practically every bogus blocking incident I've seen of late, the fault lies not with an operation like Spamhaus, but with some local

Re: How I deal with (false positive) IP-address blacklists...

2008-12-09 Thread Peter Dambier
There is one thing I could proof when counting the emails going through the mailer I am responsible for. When we started blocking emails from dynamic addresses we reduced spam by 50%. The gurus would not believe but I could show thenm, when we blocked all but the dynamic addresses we could

Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to application developers

2008-11-24 Thread Peter Dambier
Hi Eric, I would like to be part of that group. My little network is connected to the internet via a NAT router and I could not live without it because daily renumbering wont do. On the other hand that NAT-box is the biggest obstacle between my network and IPv6. I would like to help design a

Detecting and disabling bad DNSBLs

2008-11-15 Thread Peter Dambier
Maybe I am a bit late with this idea. I remeber dns roots switching off and DNSBLs switching off. Users wont notice until broken - or not even then. The sysop has been fired. There should be a means for the DNSBL to tell its client 1) I am not a DNS-server 2) I am going to switch off soon

Re: uncooperative DNSBLs, was several messages

2008-11-13 Thread Peter Dambier
Windows is one of the most prominent users of DNS. I remember you could send them netbios packets and windows would put them into the DNS cache. Be asured they will put dnsbl into the cache and then the famous IE will look for cnn.com on 127.0.0.1 It makes sense after all because the spammers

Re: uncooperative DNSBLs, was several messages

2008-11-13 Thread Peter Dambier
e.g. the .local TLD. When microsoft introduced the .local TLD for rendezvous incompatibility, their windows boxes started to query the root-servers for nonsense like refrigerator.local When some hearty nameserver operators fighted back, loading a zone file for .local they brought campus networks

Re: several messages

2008-11-11 Thread Peter Dambier
Hi Steve, sorry to mention spamhaus again, but that is the reason why many german and especially austrian mailoperators had to give up blacklisting completely and turned to graylisting. Greylisting is mostly the same as blacklisting except you dont depend on somebody else to maintain the list.

Re: a modern-day SNMP use

2008-10-24 Thread Peter Dambier
David W. Hankins wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 09:41:49AM -0700, Randy Presuhn wrote: All very good reasons why doing blind, single-variable MIB walks makes no sense. Are there any commercial products that do this routinely? I'm not aware of any. Adding to David, IASON originally did a

Re: AutoCAD file transfer over WAN

2008-03-07 Thread Peter Dambier
The digital signature as a mens to check integrity of the file, same as the signature in emails. Disabling the digital signature brings the risk of corrupted files. Kind regards Peter symonds thompson wrote: Hi , Ever since our company has located servers at remote locations, I am

Re: Patents can be for good, not only evil

2007-10-29 Thread Peter Dambier
There are 2 people who own every right on computers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage and programming http://www.agnesscott.edu/Lriddle/women/love.htm All patents therafter are infringements of the work of these two people. Well even those two people built on the work of other

Re: IPv6 will never fly: ARIN continues to kill it

2007-09-22 Thread Peter Dambier
Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Keith Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] any relief for the Internet before IPv4 space is exhausted. I am so tired of this when IPv4 space runs out, civilization will fall vibe. I'm almost ready to suggest that we just hand out all the remaining IPv4 address space

Sorry double post: Representation of end-users at the IETF

2007-09-20 Thread Peter Dambier
Sorry for the double post. My mailer either sends it double - or nothing at all :( Cheers Peter and Karin -- Peter and Karin Dambier Cesidian Root - Radice Cesidiana Rimbacher Strasse 16 D-69509 Moerlenbach-Bonsweiher +49(6209)795-816 (Telekom) +49(6252)750-308 (VoIP: sipgate.de) mail:

Re: Representation of end-users at the IETF (Was: mini-cores (was Re: ULA-C)

2007-09-20 Thread Peter Dambier
Daniel Senie wrote: At 04:18 AM 9/20/2007, you wrote: Interesting discussion. I am envolved in two groups develloping around OpenWRT. One group (some 2000 members) is trying to TORify a dollar 150 router the other group (some 30 members) is trying to IPv6 that very same software. I dont

Re: Representation of end-users at the IETF (Was: mini-cores (was Re: ULA-C)

2007-09-20 Thread Peter Dambier
Daniel Senie wrote: At 04:18 AM 9/20/2007, you wrote: Interesting discussion. I am envolved in two groups develloping around OpenWRT. One group (some 2000 members) is trying to TORify a dollar 150 router the other group (some 30 members) is trying to IPv6 that very same software. I dont

Re: I18n of email addresses (Was: Representation of end-users at the IETF (Was: mini-cores (was Re: ULA-C)

2007-09-20 Thread Peter Dambier
How about http://xn--8pru44h.xn--55qx5d/ and their email can be found: ; DiG 9.4.0b4 -t any xn--8pru44h.xn--55qx5d @ns5.ce.net.cn. ; (1 server found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59227 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4,

Re: IPv6 addresses really are scarce after all

2007-08-27 Thread Peter Dambier
Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: Hallam-Baker, Phillip writes: I don't see how such an architectural limitation can be enforced. There is no way that the IETF can prevent an ISP issuing IPv6 customers a /128 if they choose. Not directly, but there's the indirect route: a) IETF designs IPv6

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-wilson-class-e-00.txt

2007-08-12 Thread Peter Dambier
Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2007-08-07 16:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title: Redesignation of 240/4 from 'Future Use to Limited Use for Large Private Internets' Author(s): P. Wilson, et

IPv6: Do you want to have more meetings outside US ?

2007-07-29 Thread Peter Dambier
Stewart Bryant wrote: Do we have any firm evidence that we would get more work done if we had more meetings outside the US? Stewart Is there any IPv6 activity inside the US? Or multilingual namespace? Kind regards Peter and Karin -- Peter and Karin Dambier Cesidian Root - Radice Cesidiana

Re: do it yourself roots, was Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread Peter Dambier
John Levine wrote: If they can suck down all the top level zone files then it is easy for them to publish an ALTERNATIVE DNS VIEW that contains their own additions. Anyone who uses their view will then see the so-called official DNS info as well as the overlay. When I see claims like this, I

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-23 Thread Peter Dambier
DNS is broken since people started disallowing AXFR transfers. DNS is no longer about publishing information about hostnames and numbers but about keeping this information a seecret. So not using DNS at all and distributing host files is much better than DNS and more reliable :) On the other

Re: IANA XML registries

2006-09-21 Thread Peter Dambier
Just as an idea, China has a single ccTLD '.CN'. I can see them experimenting with three others Status China Root soa(XN--55QX5D.,2006092104,CDNS3.CNNIC.NET.CN,210.52.214.86). soa(XN--55QX5D.,2006092104,CDNS4.CNNIC.NET.CN,61.145.114.120).

Re: IETF Chair tasks

2006-07-09 Thread Peter Dambier
Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: On Jul 8, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: I'm not completely convinced that beer is the appropriate choice in Montreal La Fin du Monde... or anything else by Unibroue. Just don't try ordering a Molson Canadian :-P You can try La Militante. Karin and me

Why not PDF: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-19 Thread Peter Dambier
Just try this good example: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/133654main_ESAS_charts.pdf It is a nice promotion for the successor to the space shuttle. Best store it localy before viewing. It is a nice document with wonderful pictures. But building the screens takes me hours. That is one of the reasons

Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-18 Thread Peter Dambier
Clement Cherlin wrote: On 6/17/06, Eliot Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do think that ASCII art has its limits, particularly when it comes to mathematics. But I think a more gradual evolution is called for in this case, with more consideration given to not only the normative issue but all

Re: ASCII is dead, long live ASCII (was: Image attachments to ASCII RFCs)

2006-06-16 Thread Peter Dambier
Michael Thomas wrote: Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: John, You mean that we should update the current medieval print format to take advantage of the best technology available to the Victorians? Why go to all that trouble to create infrastructure to support an obsolete document

Re: Image attachments to ASCII RFCs (was: Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats))

2006-06-16 Thread Peter Dambier
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] When I was 16 years old, I wrote a text editor in BASIC that would probably have allowed me to edit RFCs. I wrote a text editor in Basic for the ZxSpectrum that was published commercially when I was 15. I

Re: [Ietf-caldav] Last Call comment on Etag requirements in draft-dusseault-caldav-12

2006-06-15 Thread Peter Dambier
Julian Reschke wrote: I noticed that the ID tracker now has a comment from the authors (see https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi?command=view_commentid=52124), which I'd like to comment over here...: Author's response to Last Call comments on ETags 1) Best common practice

Re: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA actually useful?

2006-05-26 Thread Peter Dambier
Joel M. Halpern wrote: I have to disagree. Firstly, if many of us reading the document can not figure out what problem it is solving, then the framework is not doing its job. Secondly, if there are existing, viable, deployed solutions to the problem that the WG is attempting to solve then the

Re: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA partly useful?

2006-05-26 Thread Peter Dambier
Bernard Aboba wrote: My question is more why do they need EAP in situations where they are not running at the link layer than why do they want or not want PANA. The simple answer is that there are situations which IEEE 802.1X cannot handle on wired networks. As specified, IEEE 802.1X is

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-14 Thread Peter Dambier
Michel Py wrote: That being said, I do acknowledge that larger companies such as global ISPs do have a problem with the RFC1918 space being too small. This brings the debate of what to do with class E, either make it extended private space or make it global unicast. When develloping IASON,

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: PI addressing in IPv6 advances in ARIN]

2006-04-14 Thread Peter Dambier
Michel Py wrote: Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: However, geographic addressing could give us aggregation with provider independence. Brian E Carpenter wrote: You'll have to produce the BGP4 table for a pretty compelling simulation model of a worldwide Internet with a hundred million

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-12 Thread Peter Dambier
Cullen Jennings wrote: On 4/11/06 12:33 AM, John Loughney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In practice, I've needed to power-cycle these NAT boxes every few weeks, to clear out the garbage. I'm curios to understand more of what you mean by this? Are you running out of ports? Do you have any ideas

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-11 Thread Peter Dambier
John Loughney wrote: Lars-Erik, From: Michel Py [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately some protocol purity zealots still have to realize that Linksys, Netgear, Belkin and consorts don't sell NAT boxes because they think NAT is good, they sell NAT boxes because consumers want to buy them.

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-10 Thread Peter Dambier
Noel Chiappa wrote: Many years ago now, a funny thing happened on the way to complete exhaustion of the IPv4 address space (Version 1). Some clever people worked out this ugly hack, which the marketplace judged - despite its ugliness - to be a superior solution to the forklift upgrade to IPv6.

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-06 Thread Peter Dambier
Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: John Calcote writes: I'll just jump in here for a second and mention also that vendors offer what they have to, not what they can. They want to provide the most bang for the buck, so to speak. These companies don't offer the multiple-static-ip-address option today

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-30 Thread Peter Dambier
Austin Schutz wrote: On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 01:00:44AM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: 1996199719981999200020012002200320042005 2.7 1.2 1.6 1.2 2.1 2.4 1.9 2.4 3.4 4.5 (The numbers represent the number of addresses

Re: Why DNS sucks for referrals (was Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-03-29 Thread Peter Dambier
Francois Menard wrote: Are you saying that ENUM is a dead end? F. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 819 692 1383 ENUM is a dead born child. ENUM is supposed to be good for VoIP. Well, I do have VoIP but my VoIP does work allthough ENUM does not. My router could use ENUM - but which one should I ask,

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-21 Thread Peter Dambier
Simon Leinen wrote: Stephane Bortzmeyer writes: On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 12:42:17PM -0800, Ned Freed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 35 lines which said: The privileged port concept has some marginal utility on multiuser systems where you don't Joe-random-user to grab some port for a

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-20 Thread Peter Dambier
Ned Freed wrote: Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 12:42:17PM -0800, Ned Freed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 35 lines which said: The privileged port concept has some marginal utility on multiuser systems where you don't Joe-random-user to grab some port for a

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-20 Thread Peter Dambier
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: The idea of requiring a privillege to access certain ports can have utility. The idea of requiring root in a monolithic two level system like unix is a very bad one indeed. Http and smtp servers should not run as root. Forcing them to is bad o/s design. Bind is

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-20 Thread Peter Dambier
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:47:46 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Noel Chiappa) wrote: Another option, now that I think about it, though, is a TCP option which contained the service name - one well-known port would be the demux port, and which actual application you

Re: veni vidi exi

2006-03-19 Thread Peter Dambier
Harald Alvestrand wrote: Eduardo, if there is one person I know who is willing to say that he knows who you are, and that you are a different person from Jefsey Morfin, I'll stop thinking you're a Jefsey sock puppet. What difference does it make? King Harald from Norway, no other member of

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-18 Thread Peter Dambier
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:41:25 -0800, Christian Huitema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is a reserved range, then it is easy to start dynamic allocation outside the range. Yes -- this is my point. I don't care about Unix-style privileged ports (and have never

Re: Turkish secret service and a url to follow up Re: Could this be the next China Root

2006-03-10 Thread Peter Dambier
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: I fail to see how being infiltrated by the Turkish secret service is something to boast about. Not do boast about, but to warn - because the other roots are infiltrated as well. That is why China is running their own root in the first place and that is why Turkey

Re: Turkish secret service and a url to follow up Re: Could this be the next China Root

2006-03-09 Thread Peter Dambier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe Baptista wrote: Turkish secret service operative discovered in Public-Root. http://www.netkwesties.nl/editie140/artikel1.html Is there an English-language version? Ik spreek geen nederlands (aside from that), and search for engels came up empty. -Dave

Re: Beyond China's independent root-servers -- Expanding and Fixing Domain Notation

2006-03-05 Thread Peter Dambier
Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: On 3 mar 2006, at 18.15, Joe Baptista wrote: Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: To best of my knowledge, that there are no new Chinese root- servers - despite what the press says. And at least we have not seen a drop in queries to our anycast instance in Beijing yet

Re: Beyond China's independent root-servers -- Expanding and Fixing Domain Notation

2006-03-03 Thread Peter Dambier
Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: On 2 mar 2006, at 09.26, Mohsen BANAN wrote: More than 5 years ago I predicted what the Chinese government announced today. What happened today: http://english.people.com.cn/200602/28/eng20060228_246712.html

Re: [RFC 959] FTP in ASCII mode

2006-02-21 Thread Peter Dambier
Sandeep Srivastava wrote: Thanks John. Please see my response in-line... On 2/21/06, *John C Klensin* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Tuesday, 21 February, 2006 12:53 +0530 Sandeep Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First

Re: [RFC 959] FTP in ASCII mode

2006-02-20 Thread Peter Dambier
Once upon a time the used to be computers speaking ASCII or EBCDIC. The ASCII computers where unix mostly. The EBCDIC where mainframes. ASCII mode meant that EBCDIC card decks with fixed lenght of mostly 80 characters per line would be translated into variable lenght records terminated by CR/LF

Re: Questions for those in favor of CoS in general

2006-01-25 Thread Peter Dambier
To make a long debate short. When you no longer know what is real and what is imagination, that is a clear sign that the Church of Scientology might be involved. When you have facts in front of your eyes but people keep telling you different. When new facts start aperaring but you have no clue

Re: suggestion on distributed systems

2006-01-23 Thread Peter Dambier
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 12:44:11AM +0530, Neil Harwani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 128 lines which said: I am not sure whether this idea that I am about to write has been implemented before Operating Systems, Design and Implementation by Andrew S.

Re: FW: IETF Last Call under RFC 3683 concerning JFC (Jefsey) Mor fin

2006-01-22 Thread Peter Dambier
For the no-tv people like Karin and me: Harper Valley P.T.A USA / NBC/ 36x30m-e / 1981-82 First Episode: Friday 16 January 1981 / 8.00pm Last Episode: Saturday 14 August 1982 / 8.30pm Theme Music: Harper Valley P.T.A. by Tom T. Hall Sitcom starring Barbara Eden as Stella Johnson a widow

Re: IETF Last Call under RFC 3683 concerning JFC (Jefsey) Morfin

2006-01-21 Thread Peter Dambier
Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: This entire fiasco tells me that the people nominally participating in it have a lot of time on their hands and very little to do, and they choose to waste it bickering like preschoolers on a playground rather than spend it trying to do the actual work of the IETF.

Re: IETF Last Call under RFC 3683 concerning JFC (Jefsey) Morfin

2006-01-20 Thread Peter Dambier
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:03:52AM -0500, Margaret Wasserman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 155 lines which said: I also have found that Jefsey's posts have a higher signal-to-noise ratio than many peoples' posts, but I am willing to chalk some of that up

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-05 Thread Peter Dambier
John C Klensin wrote: --On Thursday, 05 January, 2006 06:57 +0200 Yaakov Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I have never had a problem opening an old file with an up-to-date version of the SW. The problems arise when you try to do the reverse. That makes sense of course, since if you could

Re: Troubles with UTF-8

2006-01-03 Thread Peter Dambier
Tim Bray wrote: On Dec 28, 2005, at 12:46 PM, Randy Presuhn wrote: Reserving NUL as a special terminator is a C library-ism. I think that history has shown that the use of this kind of mechanism, rather than explicitly tracking the string's length, was a mistake. I guess variably lenght

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-02 Thread Peter Dambier
Yaakov Stein wrote: It does not matter how many people can read MSWord. The only supported formats should be the ones where you know what the format is (and not the ones that depend on particular program). They are written to be readable by everybody. Sun-cenrtic, IBM-centric and real

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-02 Thread Peter Dambier
David B Harrington wrote: Lets go ahead and ask then - Does anyone else think that IETF should allow documents which format/structure is not publicly known as one of the ways to distribute IETF specifications? Not me (or not I, whichever) David Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not

Pro SPAM WG: How security could benefit from high volume spam

2005-12-16 Thread Peter Dambier
A WG? Karin and me are interested. JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: At 23:10 14/12/2005, Hadmut Danisch wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:46:42PM +0100, Frank Ellermann wrote: The best way to hide a signal is noise, is that's your idea ? Makes sense from my POV. Not necessarily the _best_

Re: How security could benefit from high volume spam

2005-12-14 Thread Peter Dambier
Hadmut Danisch wrote: How security could benefit from high volume spam The parliament of the European Union today has passed a law that electronical call detail records, such as phone numbers, e-mail addresses, web accesses of all 450 million EU citizens are to be recorded and stored for 6 to

Fwd: The Root has got an A record

2005-10-10 Thread Peter Dambier
. Which see below. Have tried to contact Paul Scheepers - our absent minded root operator - who now hovers very close to criminal conspiracy - to get him to fix this mistake. Noone is at home at the inn. Not good. See appened message to Peter Dambier and our public-root associates. I have no idea

Re: Anyone not in favor of a PR-Action against Jefsey Morfin

2005-10-06 Thread Peter Dambier
Randy.Dunlap wrote: Just for clarification, can you tell me who qualifies as Any IETF member ? Anyboy who has enough brains to share. Right now ICANN and IETF have to face their end comming in 2006 because the contract does end. There has been nothing that would suggest the contract

Re: Anyone not in favor of a PR-Action against Jefsey Morfin

2005-10-06 Thread Peter Dambier
Bill Manning wrote: i for one, am not in favor of a PR action against anyone. --bill Let Karin and me join your list, Bill. Peter and Karin -- Peter and Karin Dambier Public-Root Graeffstrasse 14 D-64646 Heppenheim +49-6252-671788 (Telekom) +49-179-108-3978 (O2 Genion) +49-6252-750308

Re: UN plans to take over our job!

2005-09-30 Thread Peter Dambier
Johan Henriksson wrote: Will McAfee writes: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/28/wsis_geneva/ This is not their place to be deciding as if they ever owned the Internet. They have no rights to the Internet, by the very nature of it's structure. Placing governments in charge of the

Re: UN

2005-09-29 Thread Peter Dambier
Alexis Turner wrote: I don't want to clutter up everyone's inboxes with dozens of rants that amount to hyperventilating and lots of Iiii's!, but if anyone would like to e-mail me off list with their thoughts on the UN's WSIS conference and why having them replace ICANN would be a good/bad

Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' toProposed Standard

2005-09-05 Thread Peter Dambier
JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: At 10:45 05/09/2005, Christian Huitema wrote: My greatest concern is that the document as it stands is likely to cause a large number of bogus DNS queries. If the protocol is widely adopted, it seems probable that many clients will have LLMNR enabled on an

Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' to Proposed Standard

2005-09-01 Thread Peter Dambier
FAKE A friend just called to teach me how to spell LLMNR. Sorry I can not do that without looking it up. And he told me not to be so harsh with it. Yes they need it. Their bot controler needs it. No, you dont need a windows for the controler, MAC or Linux does nicely. But the total cost of

Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' to Proposed Standard

2005-09-01 Thread Peter Dambier
Dave Singer wrote: I'm a by-stander on this discussion, maybe off-base or out of it -- but something other than the undesirable traffic struck me. Isn't it also true that I might *deliberately break* all sorts of things by introducing 'blocking' names into DNS responses, so that an LLMNR

Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' to Proposed Standard

2005-08-31 Thread Peter Dambier
Russ Allbery wrote: Margaret Wasserman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Other than a few minor issues that are being dealt with in a -43 update, I don't think that anyone has raised a blocking technical issue with the LLMNR specification during this IETF LC. If you (or anyone else) has intended to

Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' to Proposed Standard

2005-08-31 Thread Peter Dambier
Hi Bill, I am speaking of this root-server system: a.public-root.net. 900 IN A 205.189.71.2 b.public-root.net. 900 IN A 61.9.136.52 c.public-root.net. 900 IN A 68.255.182.111 d.public-root.net. 900 IN A

Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' to Proposed Standard

2005-08-31 Thread Peter Dambier
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Peter, Peter Dambier wrote: Russ Allbery wrote: Margaret Wasserman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Other than a few minor issues that are being dealt with in a -43 update, I don't think that anyone has raised a blocking technical issue with the LLMNR specification

Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' to Proposed Standard

2005-08-31 Thread Peter Dambier
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marc Manthey writes: i'm going to have to raise the point that Peters root-server system is his private walled-garden and not representative of the Internet's authoritative root servers. Just for clarification. --bill i

Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' to Proposed Standard

2005-08-31 Thread Peter Dambier
Paul Hoffman wrote: At 2:47 PM +0200 8/31/05, Brian E Carpenter wrote: That is about 1/3 of the total. It doesn't surprise me at all that so many bogus queries arrive - everybody who mistypes a TLD or misconfigures a default domain generates bogus queries, and this isn't going to change. The

Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' to Proposed Standard

2005-08-30 Thread Peter Dambier
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Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' to Proposed Standard

2005-08-30 Thread Peter Dambier
on your box why not try .com ? It might be fun. :) Peter Dambier wrote: Ian Jackson wrote: Brian E Carpenter writes (Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' toProposed Standard): Ian Jackson wrote: Sorry to be pejorative, but as a DNS implementor[1] I'm amazed to find

Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' to Proposed Standard

2005-08-30 Thread Peter Dambier
Yes, that is exactly what our unvolontary experiment has shown. And it makes 25% of our root server traffic. It is stealing resources from us. That is why we consider this protocol harmful to the internet society. Kind regards, Peter and Karin Stuart Cheshire wrote: As I understand it, one of

Re: NAT/Proxy combinations

2005-08-29 Thread Peter Dambier
on the NAT or somewhere else except when you proxy after the NAT you proxy after a proxy. You can replace several proxies by a tunnel through a low speed data line. In fact that will break SSH wordbook attacks. Just delay everything longer than the hacker probably waits Regards, Peter Dambier -- Peter

Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' to Proposed Standard

2005-08-29 Thread Peter Dambier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LLMNR has waded through the lengthy IETF standardization process to get to where it is. That Microsoft has been patient and spent the money needed to keep people on this task long enough to get it here should be rewarded with the IETF

[Re: regarding IETF lists using mailman: nodupes considered harmful]

2005-08-26 Thread Peter Dambier
Hi Jeroen, I forwared your message - not replying to show your headder: From: Jeroen Massar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith Moore moore@cs.utk.edu Cc: ietf@ietf.org So you had sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ietf@ietf.org received only a copy. Some people might have got nothing. My own

Re: [Re: regarding IETF lists using mailman: nodupes considered harmful]

2005-08-26 Thread Peter Dambier
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 26-aug-2005, at 10:33, Peter Dambier wrote: Hi Jeroen, I forwared your message - not replying to show your headder: From: Jeroen Massar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith Moore moore@cs.utk.edu Cc: ietf@ietf.org So you had sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ietf

Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' to Proposed Standard

2005-08-25 Thread Peter Dambier
Stuart Cheshire wrote: The IESG has received a request from the DNS Extensions WG to consider the following document: - 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) ' draft-ietf-dnsext-mdns-42.txt as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits

Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' to Proposed Standard

2005-08-25 Thread Peter Dambier
Stuart Cheshire wrote: Putting service discovery requirements aside for a moment, the other big difference between mDNS and LLMNR is that mDNS facilitates local-scoped names, analogous to RFC 1918 addresses. LLMNR lets you look up a host name without a DNS server, but it pre-supposes that

Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' to Proposed Standard

2005-08-25 Thread Peter Dambier
Keith Moore wrote: What is this document for? No one has implemented this LLMNR protocol. No one has any plans to implement this protocol. No company plans to ship products using this protocol. Even Microsoft has not even hinted at plans to use LLMNR in Longhorn/Vista. I don't see anything

Re: Stopping loss of transparency...

2005-08-17 Thread Peter Dambier
Roland Bless wrote: Hi, just yesterday a larger german DSL/Internet provider activated - without a real notice - a feature as field trial in my city, so that HTTP(S) requests of customers are redirected to their own web portal (apparently using some soft state timeout). I'm also aware of