Re: Need Contact at RoadRunner

2003-12-05 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
james wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 16:05, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: > > > Everything else was forged, spoofed, or unintelligble. > > > > I was probably not filtering off traffic from you (for any value of > > "you"), I was filtering off stuff with your IP address in it. > > I was not

Re: Need Contact at RoadRunner

2003-12-05 Thread james
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 21:20, just me wrote: > On 5 Dec 2003, james wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 16:05, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: > > > Everything else was forged, spoofed, or unintelligble. > > > > I was probably not filtering off traffic from you (for any value of > > "you")

Re: Need Contact at RoadRunner

2003-12-05 Thread just me
On 5 Dec 2003, james wrote: On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 16:05, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: > Everything else was forged, spoofed, or unintelligble. > > I was probably not filtering off traffic from you (for any value of > "you"), I was filtering off stuff with your IP address in it. I

Re: Need Contact at RoadRunner

2003-12-05 Thread james
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 16:05, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: > Everything else was forged, spoofed, or unintelligble. > > I was probably not filtering off traffic from you (for any value of > "you"), I was filtering off stuff with your IP address in it. I was not aware one can fake everything

Re: Evolution of the U.S. Peering Ecosystem v1.1

2003-12-05 Thread William B. Norton
At 06:23 PM 12/5/2003 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1) The Cable companies are peering (with Tier 2s and each other) in a > *big* way That's probably why ATDN depeered ~20 networks over last few months, while Comcast and Charter do not peer at all. I had not heard that. As for Comcast and Chart

Re: Need Contact at RoadRunner

2003-12-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 12/5/2003 7:24 PM: did not even record whey thy blocked him. Not only should they have recorded it but perhaps had a location where Tom could find that: 1. He's being blocked 2. Why he is being blocked with particular example of abuse that caused it 3. How long will

Re: Evolution of the U.S. Peering Ecosystem v1.1

2003-12-05 Thread alex
> 1) The Cable companies are peering (with Tier 2s and each other) in a > *big* way That's probably why ATDN depeered ~20 networks over last few months, while Comcast and Charter do not peer at all. > 2) The Large Network Savvy Content Companies are getting into peering in > a *big* way With tran

Re: Large Cable ISP Looking for a Roadrunner contact...

2003-12-05 Thread Micah McNelly
I have also had some blocking taking place. Mail was sent to spamblock @ rr.com two days ago without any response although we did have ticket generation. /m - Original Message - From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dan Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need Contact at RoadRunner

2003-12-05 Thread william
I think part of the problem is not only to notify but provide information for techs at another ISP to know what kind of problem they have (and if you block them, they may not be able to reach you to even ask). I would remind that this thread started from Tom telling us that roadrunner did not

RE: Large Cable ISP Looking for a Roadrunner contact...

2003-12-05 Thread Dan Ellis
As per their bounceback instructions, tried [EMAIL PROTECTED], it appears still blocked. -- Daniel Ellis, CTO, PenTeleData (610)826-9293 "The only way to predict the future is to invent it." --Alan Kay -Original Message- From: Sur

Re: Large Cable ISP Looking for a Roadrunner contact...

2003-12-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Dan Ellis writes on 12/5/2003 6:05 PM: Could someone from Roadrunner please contact me – you have blocked a large ISP’s mail server farm and are not responding to requests to unblock. We received no notification of a block. Thanks --Dan Doesn't [EMAIL PROTECTED] work? srs -- Daniel Ellis,

Large Cable ISP Looking for a Roadrunner contact...

2003-12-05 Thread Dan Ellis
Hello, Could someone from Roadrunner please contact me – you have blocked a large ISP’s mail server farm and are not responding to requests to unblock.  We received no notification of a block.   Thanks  --Dan   -- Daniel Ellis, CTO, PenTeleData (610)826-9293   "The only way

Re: Need Contact at RoadRunner

2003-12-05 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
james wrote: > > : > I may be reaching here but I think perl scripting can do this. > : > : I wish. I've been experimenting with doing exactly that for years. > > That is what I ment by "reaching", it was not intended to be a smart a** comment. > How about mailing to abuse/postmaster@ ? I real

Re: Need Contact at RoadRunner

2003-12-05 Thread Tom (UnitedLayer)
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, james wrote: > To me the important thing is at least trying to notify. > So the clueless miss out. Tuff. Those of us that care would like to know > there is a problem, so we can solve it. Thank you James, thats my point exactly :) The people who care or have a clue will have

Re: Need Contact at RoadRunner

2003-12-05 Thread james
: > I may be reaching here but I think perl scripting can do this. : : I wish. I've been experimenting with doing exactly that for years. That is what I ment by "reaching", it was not intended to be a smart a** comment. How about mailing to abuse/postmaster@ ? I realize that the postmaster/

Peering BOF VII at NANOG 30 in Miami

2003-12-05 Thread William B. Norton
Hi again - We have approval to run the Peering BOF again at the upcoming NANOG 30 in Miami ! Appropriate attire (Hawaiian Shirts) is required ;-) So, now my job is to draft Peering Coordinators to stand up, introduce themselves, say a few words about their peering requirements, why you should

Re: Need Contact at RoadRunner

2003-12-05 Thread Chris Lewis
james wrote: : When you're introducing thousands of IP blocks per day, it's pretty hard : to notify them all. I may be reaching here but I think perl scripting can do this. I wish. I've been experimenting with doing exactly that for years. Problems: - WHOIS data is often incomplete, w

Re: Need Contact at RoadRunner

2003-12-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 14:30:57 MST, james <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > : When you're introducing thousands of IP blocks per day, it's pretty hard > : to notify them all. > I may be reaching here but I think perl scripting can do this. Yes, a perl script can send thousands of warning e-mails to bogu

Evolution of the U.S. Peering Ecosystem v1.1

2003-12-05 Thread William B. Norton
Hi all - Thanks to those who provided comments to the last white paper draft of "The Evolution of the U.S. Peering Ecosystem". I've made most of the changes and added the data points as suggested, so I am now ready to send out the document more broadly. Lots of acknowledgements in the acknowled

Re: Need Contact at RoadRunner

2003-12-05 Thread Tom (UnitedLayer)
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: > A reasonable reaction to protect own-turf is to plug up holes as > you identify the local end of it and wait to see if anybody cares > about it after the fire-fight. So block a /30, not a /24 > The likelyhood of being able to contact anybody

Re: Need Contact at RoadRunner

2003-12-05 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
"Tom (UnitedLayer)" wrote: > > So, I got an e-mail back from RR after I posted here. > They claim to have no specific record of why we were blocked, so they > removed it. They said it was probably DOS or a Mailbomb, both of which we > would have squelched IMMEDIATELY. > > Frankly, I think that i

Re: Need Contact at RoadRunner

2003-12-05 Thread james
: When you're introducing thousands of IP blocks per day, it's pretty hard : to notify them all. I may be reaching here but I think perl scripting can do this. James Edwards Routing and Security [EMAIL PROTECTED] At the Santa Fe Office: Internet at Cyber Mesa Store hours: 9-6 Monday through F

Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?

2003-12-05 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Deepak Jain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [05/12/03 15:22]: > Is there a documented process for a new CA to get their certs > approved/added or is it a clandestine process? AFAIK, clandestine. cacert.org has been trying to get their CA included in Mozilla for some time now, but hasn't been abl

Re: Need Contact at RoadRunner

2003-12-05 Thread Chris Lewis
Tom (UnitedLayer) wrote: Frankly, I think that its pretty poor practice to block someone and not tell them, especially when contact information is clearly available everywhere. We've got e-mail, various phones, and INOC-DBA, so its not that hard to get ahold of us :) When you're introducing thou

Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?

2003-12-05 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Peter Galbavy" wr ites: > >Deepak Jain wrote: >> Is there a documented process for a new CA to get their certs >> approved/added or is it a clandestine process? > >"You are in a twisty little maze of corporate back scratching, all >political." > s/political/financ

Re: Need Contact at RoadRunner

2003-12-05 Thread Tom (UnitedLayer)
So, I got an e-mail back from RR after I posted here. They claim to have no specific record of why we were blocked, so they removed it. They said it was probably DOS or a Mailbomb, both of which we would have squelched IMMEDIATELY. Frankly, I think that its pretty poor practice to block someone a

Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?

2003-12-05 Thread Peter Galbavy
Deepak Jain wrote: > Is there a documented process for a new CA to get their certs > approved/added or is it a clandestine process? "You are in a twisty little maze of corporate back scratching, all political." Peter

Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?

2003-12-05 Thread Deepak Jain
Yes, it's a cartel, and yes, actions taken by said cartel are at least partially responsible for the pop-up happening. Is there a documented process for a new CA to get their certs approved/added or is it a clandestine process? Thanks, Deepak Jain AiNET

Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?

2003-12-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 12/5/2003 1:28 PM: The three ways to disable the popup: 1) Have the user accept a CA cert for your site. Help Desk Nightmare. 2) Have the user disable the popup. Help Desk Nightmare. 3) Get the top-level-CA cartel to accept your CA cert in the list of ones bundled int

Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?

2003-12-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:14:48 PST, Mark Foster said: > The CA does not popup a warning. It is the browser or client application > that does this. The three ways to disable the popup: 1) Have the user accept a CA cert for your site. Help Desk Nightmare. 2) Have the user disable the popup. Help De

Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?

2003-12-05 Thread Mark Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:26:33 CST, Adi Linden said: So what does the PKI actually buy you that using a throwaway self-signed cert doesn't provide? No popup box on the browser asking to accept the certificate. "Pay us $1,000 or we'll annoy your users with popups". The CA d

Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?

2003-12-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 5 Dec 2003, at 11:55, Bob Beck wrote: There is an expectation that URLs which do not produce "this certificate is not trusted" messages are safe for people to use to disclose sensitive information like credit card numbers. The average consumer has been educated to this effect at great length

Re: Always renew your domain names

2003-12-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 5 Dec 2003, at 12:20, Luca Filipozzi wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:07:24AM -0600, Mike Hyde wrote: Looks like someone forgot to renew there domain name and another party decided to do it for them, with some slight changes: host 206.108.102.93 93.102.108.206.in-addr.arpa domain name pointe

Re: Always renew your domain names

2003-12-05 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 12:29:49PM -0500, Matt Levine wrote: > It is absolutely a lapsed domain issue. The authoritive (arpa) > servers for the netblock in question (and several other bell blocks) > are taz and pluto.bell-nexxia.net My mistake; replied too hastily. > I registered it last year (

Re: Always renew your domain names

2003-12-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 09:20:04 PST, Luca Filipozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > 93.102.108.206.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer > > bells-network-has-lots-of-security-holes-to-exploit.bell-nexxia.net > > This isn't a lapsed domain registration issue; we're not talking about A > records. It doesn

Re: Always renew your domain names

2003-12-05 Thread Matt Levine
On Dec 5, 2003, at 12:20 PM, Luca Filipozzi wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:07:24AM -0600, Mike Hyde wrote: Looks like someone forgot to renew there domain name and another party decided to do it for them, with some slight changes: host 206.108.102.93 93.102.108.206.in-addr.arpa domain name po

Re: Always renew your domain names

2003-12-05 Thread Matt Levine
On Dec 5, 2003, at 12:20 PM, Luca Filipozzi wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:07:24AM -0600, Mike Hyde wrote: Looks like someone forgot to renew there domain name and another party decided to do it for them, with some slight changes: host 206.108.102.93 93.102.108.206.in-addr.arpa domain name po

New Statistics Format Released

2003-12-05 Thread Ginny Listman
ARIN has been working along with APNIC, LACNIC and RIPE NCC to provide number resource statistics in a unified format and location. The following changes will be made to the existing statistics reporting: - Addition of IPv6 allocations - Report generated daily - Summary lines are i

Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?

2003-12-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:26:33 CST, Adi Linden said: > > So what does the PKI actually buy you that using a throwaway self-signed cert > > doesn't provide? > > No popup box on the browser asking to accept the certificate. "Pay us $1,000 or we'll annoy your users with popups". Sounds suspiciously l

Re: Always renew your domain names

2003-12-05 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:07:24AM -0600, Mike Hyde wrote: > Looks like someone forgot to renew there domain name and another party > decided to do it for them, with some slight changes: > > host 206.108.102.93 > 93.102.108.206.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer > bells-network-has-lots-of-security

Always renew your domain names

2003-12-05 Thread Mike Hyde
Looks like someone forgot to renew there domain name and another party decided to do it for them, with some slight changes: host 206.108.102.93 93.102.108.206.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer bells-network-has-lots-of-security-holes-to-exploit.bell-nexxia.net

Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?

2003-12-05 Thread Bob Beck
>There is an expectation that URLs which do not produce "this >certificate is not trusted" messages are safe for people to use to >disclose sensitive information like credit card numbers. The average >consumer has been educated to this effect at great length by >commerce-oriented websites and

Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?

2003-12-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 5 Dec 2003, at 11:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 09:28:05 CST, Adi Linden said: While the ssl certificate is meant to verify the owners identity, as a consumer I would never trust a ssl certificate for that purpose. It does provide a reasonable effort to keep information be

Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?

2003-12-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 12/5/2003 11:01 AM: So what does the PKI actually buy you that using a throwaway self-signed cert doesn't provide? Less headaches handling hundreds of support tickets that basically say "browser displayed an alert about the cert being self signed", with or without 2

Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?

2003-12-05 Thread Adi Linden
> So what does the PKI actually buy you that using a throwaway self-signed cert > doesn't provide? No popup box on the browser asking to accept the certificate. Adi

Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?

2003-12-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 09:28:05 CST, Adi Linden said: > While the ssl certificate is meant to verify the owners identity, as a > consumer I would never trust a ssl certificate for that purpose. It does > provide a reasonable effort to keep information between me and the server > confidential. That'

Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?

2003-12-05 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
Matt Blaze said it well some years ago: "A CA will protect you against anyone from whom it won't take money." --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb

Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?

2003-12-05 Thread Bob Beck
>I would never trust a ssl certificate for that purpose. It does >provide a reasonable effort to keep information between me and the server >confidential. That's worth something, I guess. I agree with you, I just don't think this is reasonable. If the CA's aren't going to keep tabs on your

Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?

2003-12-05 Thread Adi Linden
While the ssl certificate is meant to verify the owners identity, as a consumer I would never trust a ssl certificate for that purpose. It does provide a reasonable effort to keep information between me and the server confidential. That's worth something, I guess. Adi

Re: Does your Certifying Authority have a clue who you are? Do they care?

2003-12-05 Thread Michael . Dillon
>So the long and the short of it is, our CA has *LOST* the >documents showing who we are, and wants new ones. Wow! Have you contacted http://www.geotrust.com about this? I'm sure they would fly people out to Calgary to personally inspect your identity at no charge just for a chan

Re: MTU path discovery and IPSec

2003-12-05 Thread Michael . Dillon
>Is there any discussion on better alternatives to PMTUD such as leaving >off DF and a new ICMP subtype, rate limited, to inform senders that >they've been fragged and at what (call it reverse PMTUD?) ? There is a better alternative that is already used in production. When a router receives pac

The Cidr Report

2003-12-05 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Dec 5 21:47:15 2003 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of an AS4637 (Reach) router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org/as4637 for a current version of this report. Recent Table Hist