Contact for "The World"

2004-12-13 Thread David A. Ulevitch
Does anyone have a contact @ The World? They are not listed in Jared's NOC list nor do postmaster@ or mailer-daemon@ seem to have a human behind the wheel. As an aside, they send one of the most annoying spam-receipt-auto-ack's I've ever seen and the fact that you can't even reply to it is even

CBX-500 question, FRF.8

2004-12-13 Thread james
I am working on a solution that will require my CBX-500 to do transparent mode and not translation mode. I've grepped the docs I have and looked on the web and can't find reference to which mode the CBX uses. This cross connect would be between the FR 3/1 card to the ATM DS3 card. Does anyone know

Re: China: Spam capital of the world?

2004-12-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:54:36 GMT, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Slightly off-topic, but some operational relevance. > > Taking a cue from a snippet on /. > > http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FL14Ad02.html > You might want to take a look at the APCAUCE track at APR

Re: sarbanes-oxley email archiving

2004-12-13 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:58:37 -0500, Mike Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So, has anyone used the GFI email archiver for exchange server? Does > > anyone have thoughts as to other software that is similar to this > > product? What abo

Re: sarbanes-oxley email archiving

2004-12-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:58:37 -0500, Mike Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, has anyone used the GFI email archiver for exchange server? Does > anyone have thoughts as to other software that is similar to this > product? What about software for linux email archiving? We are > starting to

Re: Contact for 'The World'

2004-12-13 Thread David A. Ulevitch
> > On Monday, 2004-12-13 at 22:51 PST, "David A. Ulevitch" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does anyone have a contact @ The World? > > Have you tried http://www.theworld.com/about/contact.shtml ? (I haven't.) My abuse desk was simply trying to reply to their email. It's not our job to hunt d

Re: Contact for "The World"

2004-12-13 Thread Tony Rall
On Monday, 2004-12-13 at 22:51 PST, "David A. Ulevitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have a contact @ The World? Have you tried http://www.theworld.com/about/contact.shtml ? (I haven't.) Tony Rall

sarbanes-oxley email archiving

2004-12-13 Thread Mike Walter
So, has anyone used the GFI email archiver for exchange server? Does anyone have thoughts as to other software that is similar to this product? What about software for linux email archiving? We are starting to look at this for some clients and thought the NANOGers might have some input. Feel f

Re: [Fwd: zone transfers, a spammer's dream?]

2004-12-13 Thread Todd Vierling
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > 171 uk.zone > > Everything is in subdomains like co.uk, so there is no point in > blocking zone transfers for the TLD. For the same reason, it is perfectly normal to $ dig @.root-servers.net. . axfr -- -- Todd Vierling <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The Cidr Report

2004-12-13 Thread Michael . Dillon
> Correct on 'knee' but for crying out loud, follow the pointy clicky > references to the website. Of course there isn't going to be a curve > in email [you want ascii plots? how 1980s], but the email quite > clearly points you the way to the site where there is some analysis > of the raw data.

Re: Contact for "The World"

2004-12-13 Thread Hannigan, Martin
ISP's aren't required to register in Puck's database. How about trying abuse@ ? -M --- Martin Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verisign, Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mon Dec 13 22:51:56 2004 Subject:

Re: "User Unknown" errors related to DNS issues?

2004-12-13 Thread Jørgen Hovland
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > Hi all, > > I see a periodic problem with some email servers that report "User > Unknown" for valid users. The most recognizable problematic host is > hotmail.com, but there usually are others mixed in (today's additional > problematic hosts included

"User Unknown" errors related to DNS issues?

2004-12-13 Thread Jim Popovitch
Hi all, I see a periodic problem with some email servers that report "User Unknown" for valid users. The most recognizable problematic host is hotmail.com, but there usually are others mixed in (today's additional problematic hosts included msn.com, verizon.net, and incentre.net). Here is one o

Re: Anycast reliability (was: Re: verizon.net and other email grief)

2004-12-13 Thread Joe Abley
On 13 Dec 2004, at 15:27, Steve Gibbard wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Simon Waters wrote: Inspection suggests that the anycast announcements in the UK were pointing to a server that wasn't accepting email. I believe here the problem is using anycast, and not providing a backup system not using anyc

Re: China: Spam capital of the world?

2004-12-13 Thread sgorman1
The article reinforces the empirical findings from some spam mapping work we've been doing. Part of that work has been putting together a spammer social network based on collaborations and partnerships between different spammers. While the vast majority of spammers are based in the US there

RE: [Fwd: zone transfers, a spammer's dream?]

2004-12-13 Thread Matt Ryan
www.bl.uk? Matt. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephane Bortzmeyer Sent: 14 December 2004 09:52 To: Gadi Evron Cc: nanog list Subject: Re: [Fwd: zone transfers, a spammer's dream?] On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:52:38AM +0200, Gadi Evron

RE: [Fwd: zone transfers, a spammer's dream?]

2004-12-13 Thread Alex Bligh
--On 14 December 2004 10:17 + Matt Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 171 uk.zone www.bl.uk? All bar the 171 lines :-) (.uk itself contains some legacy including bl.uk, govt.uk etc.). Alex

Anycast reliability (was: Re: verizon.net and other email grief)

2004-12-13 Thread Steve Gibbard
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Simon Waters wrote: > Inspection suggests that the anycast announcements in the UK were > pointing to a server that wasn't accepting email. > > I believe here the problem is using anycast, and not providing a backup > system not using anycast. The previous case I'm aware of w

Re: [Fwd: zone transfers, a spammer's dream?]

2004-12-13 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:52:38AM +0200, Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 174 lines which said: > 171 uk.zone Everything is in subdomains like co.uk, so there is no point in blocking zone transfers for the TLD.

Juniper TX Matrix.

2004-12-13 Thread Deepak Jain
[I'm wearing my asbestos gloves.] Is anyone out there in need of a 4-way interconnect between T640 nodes for production IP networks? Is this a silly question? A few months back, we all discussed how the CRS-1 from Cisco was largely aimed at folks who were spending other people's money -- resear

China: Spam capital of the world?

2004-12-13 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Slightly off-topic, but some operational relevance. Taking a cue from a snippet on /. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FL14Ad02.html - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Cidr Report

2004-12-13 Thread Joe Provo
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 01:08:39PM -0500, Patrick W Gilmore wrote: > On Dec 13, 2004, at 6:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [my attribution clipped -jzp] > >>- this month, another knee was at 150k [Dec 4th] and similarly > >> garbled results came out. Again, no response. > >>...in this one year

RE: (newbie) BGP For Dummies?

2004-12-13 Thread Kashif Salam
Nice resource from Cisco for BGP http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ics/icsbgp4.htm Kashif Salam -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Irwin Lazar Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 11:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Cidr Report

2004-12-13 Thread Patrick W Gilmore
On Dec 13, 2004, at 6:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - this month, another knee was at 150k [Dec 4th] and similarly garbled results came out. Again, no response. ...in this one year we've seen the shape of the climb return to the curve characterized by two years 99-01. Going for e? I'm not quit

Re: New Edge Brokenness?

2004-12-13 Thread Pablo's Gmail
What kind of issues have you guys seen? On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:59:04 -0500, Eric Kagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We have seen a few strange drop outs, nothing I could put my finger on but > enough to be annoying. > > Eric > > Eric Kagan > Access Northeast > 508-281-7600 x204 > [EMAIL PRO

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-13 Thread Jack Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The network itself is the primary contact information for a domain. Every nameserver has an IP address whose connectivity can be tracked through the network. Same thing for mail servers and anything else with an A record. This means that operationally it is far more importa

Re: The Cidr Report

2004-12-13 Thread Michael . Dillon
More on BGP table size and the number of fragmentary announcements in the Internet http://www.tm.uka.de/idrws/2004/contributions2004/IDRWS2004--04--Huston_Geoff--Allocations_and_Advertisements.pdf This is Geoff Huston's presentation at the Inter-Domain Routing Workshop in May 2004. Slides for all

Re: how could I find out the problem source on broadband connection?

2004-12-13 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Thomas Graham wrote: hey all, my connection is 10mbit VDSL line, during these two months, my upload speed to EU and US are very damn slow, average speed is around 7KBytes/sec, does anyone feel free to try to find out what's going on ? at first, I was suspect that problem might

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-13 Thread Robert E . Seastrom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Interesting how many companies are "parked" at a lawyers office, > i.e. the official address of the company is that of it's legal > firm. One wonders why an abuse organization would not use this same > tactic and register a legal firm as the administrative contact. H

Re: Affects of rate-limiting at the far end of links

2004-12-13 Thread Sam Stickland
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Alex Bligh wrote: --On 13 December 2004 13:18 + Sam Stickland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: doesn't lock out traffic for such long periods of time. Could it be that buffers and flow-control over the 14ms third party leg are causing the rate-limiting leaky bucket to continue

Re: how could I find out the problem source on broadband connecti on?

2004-12-13 Thread Hannigan, Martin
What did your isp say? --- Martin Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verisign, Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mon Dec 13 01:55:56 2004 Subject: how could I find out the problem source on broadband connection?

Re: how could I find out the problem source on broadband connection?

2004-12-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Thomas Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hey all, my connection is 10mbit VDSL line, during these two months, > my upload speed to EU and US are very damn slow, average speed is > around 7KBytes/sec, does anyone feel free to try to find out what's > going on ? at first, I was suspect that pro

Re: Affects of rate-limiting at the far end of links

2004-12-13 Thread Alex Bligh
--On 13 December 2004 13:18 + Sam Stickland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: doesn't lock out traffic for such long periods of time. Could it be that buffers and flow-control over the 14ms third party leg are causing the rate-limiting leaky bucket to continue to overflow long after it's full? Or y

Affects of rate-limiting at the far end of links

2004-12-13 Thread Sam Stickland
Hi, Just a quicky. We've got leased line out to a remote site that's pretty much at capacity for remote to local site traffic, and from time to time it appears to lock up for periods of 30 seconds or more. Investigating it appears we outbound traffic shape, and ingress rate-limit at the 'local'

Re: Affects of rate-limiting at the far end of links

2004-12-13 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
Completely possible. - ferg -- Sam Stickland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Could it be that buffers and flow-control over the 14ms third party leg are causing the rate-limiting leaky bucket to continue to overflow long after it's full? Sam -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Archit

Re: The Cidr Report

2004-12-13 Thread Michael . Dillon
> - this month, another knee was at 150k [Dec 4th] and similarly > garbled results came out. Again, no response. > ...in this one year we've seen the shape of the climb return to the > curve characterized by two years 99-01. Going for e? I'm not quite > sure what the current point of the rep

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-13 Thread Michael . Dillon
> So my view of it is the same as current practice and laws (at least in US) > which require business (including DBA) registrations in county/state > registrar and requirying and making public corporate records, including > address of the company and list of its officers. Interesting how many

how could I find out the problem source on broadband connection?

2004-12-13 Thread Thomas Graham
hey all, my connection is 10mbit VDSL line, during these two months, my upload speed to EU and US are very damn slow, average speed is around 7KBytes/sec, does anyone feel free to try to find out what's going on ? at first, I was suspect that problem might caused by GBLX, but after one of the engi

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:50:20 +, Simon Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Inspection suggests that the anycast announcements in the UK were pointing to > a server that wasn't accepting email. > First I've heard of Verizon using anycast Or do you mean anycast lookups of .net were broken f

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-13 Thread Simon Waters
On Friday 10 Dec 2004 5:26 pm, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > > When an incoming SMTP connection is made to one of Verizon's MX's, they > allow it to proceed until the putative sender is specified, i.e. they > wait for this part of the SMTP transaction: I don't think this is the issue, as we aren't getti