Re: manhole covers

2003-02-22 Thread blitz
At a University I "consult" for, this is a common problem, their 34.5kv lines, which incidentally travel the same hole as their fiber optics, blow open about once a month, due to failing old power lines. Get used to it, and make money off of it, is all I can say At 20:59 2/21/03 -0500, yo

Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives

2003-02-22 Thread Doug Clements
I'll bite.. - Original Message - From: "William Allen Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 2:25 PM Subject: Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives [snip] > I'm of the technical opinion that everyone will need to filter outgoing > 1434 udp forever. [

Re: 223.255.255.0/24

2003-02-22 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
I can imagine there is some reason why this was originally reserved thats probably not valid any more.. However seems like a lot of effort to change documents and policies for a single /24 ! Steve On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 223.255.255.0/24 has historically been desig

Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives

2003-02-22 Thread William Allen Simpson
Doug Clements wrote: > Which is it? Where do you draw the line between something that's big enough > to block forever and something that's not worth tracking down? Where it causes a network meltdown. The objective reality is pretty clear to some (many? most?) of us. > You lambast > him for a

Re: [Re: [Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives]]

2003-02-22 Thread alex
> BB> DNS clients will eventually timeout and fall back to another > BB> server, so any problems would be transient, but the packets > BB> were legit, right? > > Stateful packet filters are nice. Properly written, they protect > both inbound and outbound traffic and need to track very little > s

Fast.Net / Netaxs down?

2003-02-22 Thread up
Our link to FastNet (formerly Netaxs) went down a while ago, and their phone lines are all busy. I can get to fast.net's website, but none of the netaxs servers, including NewsRead.com. They are at a somewhat low elevation, so I'm wondering if they're dealing with a flooding situation. Our cir

Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives

2003-02-22 Thread Doug Clements
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 09:25:24AM -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote: > Doug Clements wrote: > > Which is it? Where do you draw the line between something that's big enough > > to block forever and something that's not worth tracking down? > > Where it causes a network meltdown. The objective re

Reports of flooding in Tyson's Corner Virginia

2003-02-22 Thread Sean Donelan
The associated press is reporting that parts of Tyson's Corner is experiencing flooding, and officials are restricting access. As some folks are aware the Tyson's Corner area is/was a very dense colocation and peering center for the Internet.

Re: Reports of flooding in Tyson's Corner Virginia

2003-02-22 Thread David Lesher
Unnamed Administration sources reported that Sean Donelan said: > > > The associated press is reporting that parts of Tyson's Corner is > experiencing flooding, and officials are restricting access. > > As some folks are aware the Tyson's Corner area is/was a very > dense colocation and peering

SSL crack in the news

2003-02-22 Thread Mark Radabaugh
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/02/21/email.encryption.reut/index.html Very little real information... Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635

Re: SSL crack in the news

2003-02-22 Thread Lucy E. Lynch
more here: http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/memo_ssl.shtml Lucy E. Lynch Academic User Services Computing CenterUniversity of Oregon [EMAIL PROTECTED] (541) 346-1774/Cell: 912-7998 On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Mark Radabaugh wrote: > > http://www.

Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives

2003-02-22 Thread jlewis
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Doug Clements wrote: > The issue I had with your argument is "forever". You should realize as well > as anyone that the course of software development and implementation will > mitigate the threats of the slammer worm until it's nothing more than a bad > memory. Unlikely in

Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives

2003-02-22 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If your network is able to contain slammer infected boxes without > melting down, who cares if you have a few infected customers? You > don't need to filter, and they'll all be encouraged to fix their systems > sooner. As one hoster put it to me, DoS and worm tra

Re: SSL crack in the news

2003-02-22 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 03:55:14PM -0500, Mark Radabaugh wrote: > http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/02/21/email.encryption.reut/index.html > > Very little real information... Sounds like a CNN-digested version of CAN-2003-0078, which is a (relatively minor) bug in OpenSSL which allows for a

Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives

2003-02-22 Thread William Allen Simpson
Doug Clements wrote: > I see. So you're still filtering port 25 from the Morris sendmail worm. > Funny thing, I was a researcher visiting at Cornell, and had just left in the car for the 9.5 hour drive home when it struck. I've often wished I'd stuck around for a few more hours for the exciteme

RE: SSL crack in the news

2003-02-22 Thread St. Clair, James
Yeah, CNN screwed up the story more than they releaed anything.. Jim -Original Message- From: Matt Zimmerman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2/22/03 5:13 PM Subject: Re: SSL crack in the news On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 03:55:14PM -0500, Mark Radabaugh wrote: > http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/i

Re: Reports of flooding in Tyson's Corner Virginia

2003-02-22 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 03:41:19PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: > The associated press is reporting that parts of Tyson's Corner is > experiencing flooding, and officials are restricting access. > > As some folks are aware the Tyson's Corner area is/was a very > dense colocation

Re: Reports of flooding in Tyson's Corner Virginia

2003-02-22 Thread Steve Goldstein
Including our basement; we live a few miles from Tyson's. --Steve At 3:52 PM -0500 2/22/03, David Lesher wrote: You can expect flooding in the usual places in the next day or so.

Re: SSL crack in the news

2003-02-22 Thread Eric Rescorla
"Mark Radabaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/02/21/email.encryption.reut/index.html > > Very little real information... Here's the writeup I sent to the cryptography mailing list. -- Here's a fairly

Re: M$SQL cleanup incentives

2003-02-22 Thread jlewis
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Stephen Sprunk wrote: > As one hoster put it to me, DoS and worm traffic is billable so it's not in > the hoster's interests to protect customers -- quite the opposite in fact. Whether or not the traffic is billable is irrelevant if your network is effectively down. One in

Re: Reports of flooding in Tyson's Corner Virginia

2003-02-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 05:33:20PM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 03:41:19PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: > > The associated press is reporting that parts of Tyson's Corner is > > experiencing flooding, and officials are restricting access. > > > > As some

Re: Homeland Security Alert System

2003-02-22 Thread Sean Donelan
I'm certain the government folks working to protect us 24x7 are doing everything they can, but the fact of the matter is the public alert systems in the US suck. Some just suck less. http://www.nj.com/news/gloucester/index.ssf?/base/news-0/104590500555170.xml "Butts said he often finds out a

Re: Homeland Security Alert System

2003-02-22 Thread Johannes Ullrich
> ISPs and other communication providers should be prepared to share > information directly and quickly with each other. If you wait to hear > from government officials to decide what sanitized information to share, > it will be hours later. If ever. If anybody is interested here, I did put to

Re: Reports of flooding in Tyson's Corner Virginia

2003-02-22 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > Looks like 30 stores on the upper level were flooded (probably too strong > a word, "slightly moistened" would seem more appropriate) due to a roof > leak, and the mall was closed. > > Hardly a danger to the internet, unless there are more people

Re: Reports of flooding in Tyson's Corner Virginia

2003-02-22 Thread Jason Lewis
> > On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: >> Looks like 30 stores on the upper level were flooded (probably too >> strong a word, "slightly moistened" would seem more appropriate) due >> to a roof leak, and the mall was closed. >> >> Hardly a danger to the internet, unless there are mo

Operating Agreement

2003-02-22 Thread Christopher J. Wolff
Hello, I'm trying to track down a sample operating agreement, specifically when one network operator offers to manage another's telecommunications assets, in exchange for an IRU. Something close to this would be wonderful. Google lists many network operating agreements for power interconnection

Re: Reports of flooding in Tyson's Corner Virginia

2003-02-22 Thread Jeff Aitken
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 10:32:11PM -0500, Jason Lewis wrote: > AHHH!!! But they DO! Who is in the old Hechinger building a stones throw > from Tyson's II? Until just a couple of weeks ago it was an MFN data center. Unfortunately, it was one of the sites we elected to close down as part of the

ENUM/E.164 books

2003-02-22 Thread Pete Kruckenberg
Anyone have recommendations on good books (or similar resources) on ENUM/E.164 for education, planning, design, implementation and/or operation? Pete.

Re: Homeland Security Alert System

2003-02-22 Thread Michael Painter
- Original Message - From: "Sean Donelan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 1:47 PM Subject: Re: Homeland Security Alert System > > I'm certain the government folks working to protect us 24x7 are doing > everything they can, but the fact of the