Lots of bandwidth coming into India by next year

2004-12-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Article about how lots of new undersea cables - SEA-ME-WE 4 (VSNL and Bharti), Falcon (which I think is FLAG as Reliance is bringing it in), and at least one new VSNL link to Singapore - are going to lead to about 541 gigs more bandwidth coming into India, so that costs will be lowered What I c

Sincerely requesting help for my Doctoral Research

2004-12-10 Thread Ananth
Dear Respected Participants of Nanog Greetings! I introduce myself as Ananth Chiravuri, a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. As part of my doctoral dissertation, I am working on how best to come to a consensus when capturing knowledge, and am studying the effectiveness of

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-10 Thread Jeffrey I. Schiller
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 06:03:11PM -0500, Krzysztof Adamski wrote: > It does not appear that they are caching it, here is a sample from my log > file: > ... Well when I tested it (3 hours ago) I connected to them manually while watching my incoming milter log. Indeed they visited immediate and ve

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-10 Thread Crist Clark
Krzysztof Adamski wrote: On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Jeffrey I. Schiller wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 12:26:59PM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote: One thing that's not clear is whether or not Verizon caches any of this information. It appears that they do some amount of caching. -Jeff

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-10 Thread Krzysztof Adamski
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Jeffrey I. Schiller wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 12:26:59PM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > > One thing that's not clear is whether or not Verizon caches any of > > this information. > > It appears that they do some amount of caching. > > -Jeff > It

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-10 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:36:12 PST, "william(at)elan.net" said: > They are correct in this case. The address entered in RFC2821 MAIL FROM > is "Bounces-To" address and it must accept bounced email and as such it > must accept incoming emails. If the address does not accept traffic as > you indicate

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-10 Thread Steven Champeon
on Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 12:36:12PM -0800, william(at)elan.net wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > > > Verizon has put in place an exceedingly stupid "anti-spam" system which > > does not work, which facilitates DoS attacks, and which provides active > > assistance to spammers. >

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-10 Thread Peter Corlett
Paul G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] they also have what they call 'callout verification', which is > equivalent to what is being discussed, but the documentation makes > the drawbacks painfully clear and suggests that it only be used > against hosts within the same organization. No, that ca

RE: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-10 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: > That would be 1000's of other people's servers getting traffic from you > because someone forged their address in the spam. You are effectively > doubleing the total load spam places on the net. That is already what happens when spammer fo

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-10 Thread Paul G
- Original Message - From: "Paul Trebilco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 3:30 PM Subject: Re: verizon.net and other email grief > How so? Are you maybe confusing reject with bounce? If address > verification takes place while the SMTP connec

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-10 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Friday, December 10, 2004 15:38 -0500 Paul G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message - From: "Paul Trebilco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 3:30 PM Subject: Re: verizon.net and other email grief How so? Are you maybe confusing reject

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-10 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Friday, December 10, 2004 12:30 -0800 Paul Trebilco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Christopher X. Candreva wrote: That would be 1000's of other people's servers getting traffic from you because someone forged their address in the spam. You are effectively doubleing the total load spam places on

(newbie) BGP For Dummies?

2004-12-10 Thread David E. Smith
"Hi, long-time listener, first-time caller..." Can anyone recommend a good forum for BGP questions? I've got my copy of the O'Reilly book handy, but having never really worked with BGP before, I find it's not really the best novice-level work. (Or, if questions about weird inter-AS routing scen

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-10 Thread Paul Trebilco
Christopher X. Candreva wrote: That would be 1000's of other people's servers getting traffic from you because someone forged their address in the spam. You are effectively doubleing the total load spam places on the net. This doesn't scale. How so? Are you maybe confusing reject with bounce? If

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-10 Thread Paul G
- Original Message - From: "Roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rich Kulawiec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 2:23 PM Subject: RE: verizon.net and other email grief > > > While I can't speak to what Verizon is using, Both Exim and Postfix have the >

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-10 Thread Jeffrey I. Schiller
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 12:26:59PM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > One thing that's not clear is whether or not Verizon caches any of > this information. It appears that they do some amount of caching. -Jeff

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-10 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > Verizon has put in place an exceedingly stupid "anti-spam" system which > does not work, which facilitates DoS attacks, and which provides active > assistance to spammers. The technique discussed is called callback verification and I do not agree tha

RE: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-10 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Roy wrote: > While I can't speak to what Verizon is using, Both Exim and Postfix have the > very same feature called "address verification". Its in use at a number of > ISPs. My systems reject 1000's of messages every day because of > verification failures. That would be 1

RE: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-10 Thread Roy
While I can't speak to what Verizon is using, Both Exim and Postfix have the very same feature called "address verification". Its in use at a number of ISPs. My systems reject 1000's of messages every day because of verification failures. Roy Engehausen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Weekly Routing Table Report

2004-12-10 Thread Routing Table Analysis
This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Internet Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan. Daily listings are sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any comments please contact Philip Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Routing Table Report 04:00 +10GMT Sat 11 Dec, 2004

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-10 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 02:43:21PM +, Simon Waters wrote: > The most obvious is none of the three UK ISPs I have ready access to can > connect to port 25 on relay.verizon.net. (MX for all the verizon.net email > addresses). We can ping it (I'm sure it isn't singular?), but we have no more >

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, kent crispin wrote: > > I disagree, I think this may be ok, but its specifically because its > > for .com/.net whois (not ok for general TLD). Reasons are: > > 1. Internic.net / CRSNIC whois has no limit set on number of queries > > client from particular ip can make be

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
In an earlier episode I pointed out to the list-resident VGRS person that the dynamic properties introduced for one marketing purpose would have a consequence in another problem domain, but no point revisiting that issue. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Corlett) wrote: > There's some awful tinpot domai

normally CFP's are off-topic for NANOG but this one's *about* us

2004-12-10 Thread Paul Vixie
Speaking for the program committee, I hope to see submissions from this crowd, as well as faces from this crowd at MIT in July. 'nuf said; read on: SRUTI 2005 Workshop Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet Sponsored by USENIX http://www.research.att.

verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-10 Thread Simon Waters
Hi, trying to pin down why so much email isn't making it recently. We see issues with various big ISPs. The most obvious is none of the three UK ISPs I have ready access to can connect to port 25 on relay.verizon.net. (MX for all the verizon.net email addresses). We can ping it (I'm sure it i

test please disregard

2004-12-10 Thread rwcrowe
    --Rob Crowe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Peter Corlett wrote: There's some awful tinpot domain registrars out there where you have to wonder if their whois server is on the end of a dialup link, but fortunately I'm not attempting to access those. Connectivity from here to the CRSNIC server is good and no worse than to any other server I m

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread Peter Corlett
Elmar K. Bins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Corlett) wrote: [...] >> This tempts me to hack something into Exim that does a whois on >> previously-unseen sender domains, and give a deferral if the whois >> denies existence of the domain. Is this likely to have any >> meanin

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Elmar K. Bins wrote: > > william(at)elan.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within > > > about 10 minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz) > > > while whois data is still updated once or t

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread Ken Gilmour
Captain's Log, stardate Thu, 09 Dec 2004 15:10:14 -0500, from the fingers of Daniel Senie came the words: > We have clients complaining about the junk email, junk faxes and > junk postal mail that results from these listings. I agree, Even the .ie domain registry doesn't add personal informat

The Cidr Report

2004-12-10 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Dec 10 21:40:00 2004 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

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread Elmar K. Bins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Corlett) wrote: > > william(at)elan.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within > > about 10 minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz) > > while whois data is still updated once or twice a da

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread Peter Corlett
william(at)elan.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within > about 10 minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz) > while whois data is still updated once or twice a day. That means if > spammer registers new domain he'll b